Canada election officials will print “ZNone of the Above” on the ballot in an upcoming provincial election in Ontario. See this story. An individual, who is running, had changed his name so that will be printed. Because candidates go on the ballot in alphabetical order, the “z” guarantees that he will be at the bottom of the list, which of course he desires. …read more
Former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel has virtually endorsed Michael Bloomberg as an independent presidential candidate, even though Bloomberg has not declared. See this New York Times story. Hagel was a Republican from Nebraska, but he was also President Obama’s Defense Secretary. …read more
(RT) — Facebook and its acquired service, Instagram, no longer allow users to make arrangements to buy or sell firearms, gun parts, or ammunition. The new rule has given users a hot topic to share and post about, whether they “Like” it or not.
“Over the last two years, more and more people have been using Facebook to discover products and to buy and sell things to one another. We are continuing to develop, test, and launch new products to make this experience even better for people and are updating our regulated goods policies to reflect this evolution,” Monika Bickert, head …read more
Oklahoma City, OK — Notorious serial rapist and former Oklahoma City Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw has effectively vanished after being convicted of various sexual offenses and assaults of eight African American women and sentenced to 263 years in prison.
Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections spokesperson Terri Watkins assured local NBC affiliate KFOR that Holtzclaw remains incarcerated, but told the station only, “We are not going to comment, it is a matter of security.”
That statement is, in itself, problematic — it is the security and peace of mind of the victims which the system is obligated to protect. As KFOR reported, none of …read more
Why are you even clicking on this article, go get Tails 2.0 downloaded now!
Okay, but seriously (well, I was serious in the first sentence), you may be wondering why I’m talking about Tails–the Tor-based operating system–on the Dark Android Blog. Isn’t this supposed to only be about Android? Mainly it is, but sometimes things happen in the desktop/laptop world that bear that affect the overall goal of the Dark Android Project, which is to regain anonymity and privacy (or what I call: DAPS). And Tails 2.0 certainly falls under that. Consider it the desktop/laptop compliment to your Dark Android device.
So …read more
URGENT! Don’t let Mitch McConnell give Obama a blank-check for war. Retweet
Congress gave George W. Bush a blank check for war in 2001. That blank check was called the AUMF — Authorization for Military Force. It led directly to the debacle in Iraq and the cascade of events that created ISIS. The AUMF is one of the great dark spots in U.S. history, and its still on the books as an active law. Now, compounding the problem…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) just introduced a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force. It would permit the President to make …read more
Marion County, FL — In August of 2014, multiple deputies with the Marion County Sheriff’s office conducted a drug bust. During the bust, Derrick Price ran from deputies Jesse Terrell, Trevor Fitzgerald, James Amideo, Cody Hoppel and Adam Crawford. However, once he realized he could not outrun the pickup truck, he quickly stopped, put his hands up, and laid face down on the ground — completely surrendering.
Upon reaching the unarmed, nonviolent, completely compliant, and prostrate man, the deputies proceeded to unleash a furious beating composed of kicks to the head, knees to the body, and countless blows from fists.
Price was …read more
New York Assemblymember Michael Cusick (D-Staten Island) has introduced AB 9108. It moves the primary for state and local office from September to June, to match the date of the congressional primary. Unfortunately it would also move the deadline for independent candidate petitions from August 23 to June 7. This would give New York the nation’s second earliest deadline for independent presidential candidate petitions.
Courts have invalidated June petition deadlines for independent candidates in Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Nevada, and South Dakota. The New York bill will be heard in the Assembly Elections Committee during the week of …read more
In 2007, Raymond Burrington died and left the Libertarian Party $217,000. The Federal Election Commission would not let the party have the money all at once. Instead, because the McCain-Feingold law limits the amount of money an individual can give to a party (whether the donor is alive or dead), the money had to be parceled out in chunks of about $30,000. The Libertarian Party sued the FEC to get a ruling that this part of the McCain-Feingold law, as applied to bequests, is unconstitutional. But the court proceedings took so long, by the time the …read more
A few days ago, Perception Point announced a zero-day vulnerability found in the Linux Kernel…which means that it affects the most popular OS and devices in the world: Android. The exploit–registered as CVE-2016-0728–is being claimed by Perception Point to affect 66% of Android devices around the world. That’s definitely a high number, and is worthy of concern, regardless of whether or not it’s off by a bit.
Particularly since CVE-2016-0728 can potentially give a would-be attacker root access of a computer or device, and that’s the “keys to the kingdom” that every bad actor wants to get their hands on since …read more
