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The idea for the Dark Android Project was started in 2013, not longer after the world-changing “Snowden Revelations”, and certainly the idea of having a mobile device that allows for security, anonymity, and privacy (what I call “DAPS“), is a direct response to what Ed Snowden had revealed.
And that’s the whole goal of the Dark Android Project: Give people the baseline recommendations for how individuals can have an actual secure and private mobile device (phone or tablet). But you’d be surprised at how much pushback and insults have come my way because of my recommendations. While most people recognize that …read more

15 Principles in response to Trump, Obama, and the Fearful Retweet
by Jim Babka

Terrorism is a political tool. Politicians and other statists use it to their benefit. They cry, “That group, over there, is to blame for your troubles.”

Group demonization is discrimination. Partisans divide-and-conquer by suggesting that people can be judged in broad groups.
If you accept their division, their political power expands.
Willing accomplices in the regime media run “fear propaganda,” hour after hour. They bring on guests and ask…
Politicians, “What are you going to do so solve our hyped-up problem?”
Experts, “Can we really afford liberty?”
It’s been about three months since the …read more

On February 26, the Attorney General of South Dakota wrote a letter to attorneys for the Libertarian and Constitution Parties. Those two parties are currently suing South Dakota over the March 29 deadline to submit a petition for party status. The letter says the parties, or any parties, don’t need a petition if they just want to be on the general election ballot for President and for statewide state executive positions other than Governor (i.e., Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Public Utilities Commissioner, etc.)
Until this letter arrived, virtually everyone had believed that a group could not …read more

An anonymous group of Republican Party donors has asked a Republican political consulting firm to research how an independent presidential candidate can get on state ballots. See this document. Here is a Politico story about the report. The authors of the report seem to miss the fact that procedures for a new party in Delaware, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas, are far easier than the requirements to be an independent presidential candidate. The firm is Data Targeting. …read more

I used to do news round-ups for the Dark Android Blog in the past, but for the past few months, each story has had so much to cover that it …

On February 24, the Utah Senate passed SJR 2, which asks Congress to pass a proposed constitutional amendment to repeal the 17th Amendment. The 17th Amendment, which went into effect in 1913, provides that voters choose U.S. Senators. Utah SJR 2 asks that the state legislature regain the power to choose U.S. Senators.
The vote was 20-6, with three Senators not voting. All Democrats voted “No.” All Republicans voted “Yes”, except that Republican Senator Brian Shiozawa voted “No”. The three Senators who didn’t vote are Republicans: Curtis Bramble, Lyle Hillyard, and Stephen Urquhart.
Supporters of this …read more

(RT) — Fish found in Washington’s Puget Sound are tripping on cocaine, Prozac, Advil, Benadryl, and Lipitor. Unfortunately, there is no aquatic drug dealer responsible for it. Instead, the intoxication is the result of tainted discharge water.

Pharmaceutical pollution could be to blame for the many drugs showing up in the tissues of juvenile Chinook salmon. Estuary waters near the sewage treatment plants were found to contain a cocktail of up to 81 different drugs, according to a new study out of the National Oceanie and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
There are several plausible theories about the Puget Sound’s high concentration of drug-infused …read more

On February 25, U.S. District Court Judge James M. Moody, Jr., refused to enjoin the 2015 Arkansas law that says newly-qualifying parties must choose all their nominees (except President and Vice-President) an entire year before the election. The order does not mention any state interest except to “prevent voter confusion by limiting ballot access to serious candidates.” The case is Libertarian Party of Arkansas v Martin, e.d., 4:15cv-635.
The law’s constitutionality is still not decided. …read more

Media accounts of the Kalamazoo murder rampage have focused heavily on the fact that suspect Jason Brian Dalton was employed as an Uber driver. Scant attention has been paid to the fact that Dalton had aspired to become a law enforcement officer. According to CNN, Dalton earned an associate’s degree in law enforcement from Kalamazoo Valley Community College in 1992.
The New York Daily News, typifying much press coverage of the killing spree, reported that Dalton had been hired as an Uber driver despite having “at least nine driving violations in his past – but they may not have come up …read more

15 Principles in response to Trump, Obama, and the Fearful Retweet by Jim Babka Terrorism is a political tool. Politicians and other statists use it to their benefit. They cry, …