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According to documents published by Wikileaks this week, the NSA spied on multiple world leaders on behalf of oil companies. The documents revealed that the NSA spied on the private meetings of world leaders such as UN chief Ban Ki-Moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and other European politicians.
The discussion between Ban Ki-Moon and Merkel was involving environmental pollution and the impact that fossil fuels had on the environment, and according to the WikiLeaks release, the NSA was listening in for the purpose of collecting information for oil companies.
“Today we showed that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s private meetings over how …read more

We have another strategic opportunity to file an amicus brief in a crucial case — Wikimedia v. NSA. It is being considered by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. We …

You can expose the circular logic of District Courts

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

In America today, police officers kill more people every in a day than most countries kill in years. In America today, parents face being locked in a cage for trying to treat their sick child with a plant. In America today, presidential candidates on both sides of the two-party system are cheered on as they call for an end to your rights.
Has America gone insane? By any rational measure, the answer to that question is yes.
Thanks to decades of meddling in the Middle East by …read more

The American Conservative has this article by Brian Robertson and Rob Wasinger, in defense of the National Popular Vote Plan. …read more

For some time I’ve been talking about my desire–not just with the Dark Android Project, but in also general–for a mobile solution that can truly replace your desktop. As closed-source and app-lacking as Windows Phone is, it’s recent introduction of Continuum technology has in many ways been the closest thing to fulfilling that desire (though the Android-based Remix OS 2.0 for x86 processors is now out of its alpha stage, and in beta). Continuum allows you to connect a Windows 10 Mobile device into a dock that has USB ports, perhaps even HDMI or Ethernet ports, as well, and hook …read more

Both the Democratic Party of Nebraska and the Libertarian Party of Nebraska have told the Secretary of State that independent voters should be allowed to vote in their primaries for all partisan office. See this story. The law in Nebraska already requires that all parties let independents vote in their congressional primaries, but the parties need not permit independents to vote in their presidential primary or their primary for state and local partisan office.
The Libertarian Party has a contested primary this year for U.S. House, 2nd district. The list of presidential primary candidates in all three Nebraska …read more

Hattiesburg, MS — The Mississippi Alchohol Beverage Control (ABC) board is being met with backlash from across the country this month after alleged threats of shutting down a rap concert for anticipated ‘twerking.’
Big Freedia, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and star of the reality TV show, “Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce,” had her show cancelled in Mississippi this month after an officer from the ABC threatened to shut down, not only the concert, but the entire venue where it would be held, for a year.
According to Nola.com, club owner Ben Shemper said that roughly two weeks ago, he got a phone …read more

Mobile World Congress 2016 is upon us and the announcements and releases already have me buried here at the Dark Android Project. So much to sift through. One of the early (and likely most interesting) things to be announced at Mobile World Congress this year is something I’ve talked about before here: The LG G5 smartphone (pictured above).
LG’s “G” flagship phone series has been interesting the past couple of years since it is the only flagship line that still offers a removable battery (something not just rare in flagships anymore), as well as a MicroSD card slot. In fact, the …read more

The Birmingham News has this detailed account of ballot access restrictions in Alabama for new or small political parties. It is by Leigh LaChine, chair of the state’s Libertarian Party. The second half of the article explains the unfair practices this year, as the party tries to obtain political party status in Jefferson County (which includes Birmingham). The petition signature validity-checking procedures are very faulty. …read more