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The web browser. Even in the later-stage “appification” of the internet that we’re presently experiencing, the web browser is still the centerpiece of much of how we interact with the digital world and digital economy. Unfortunately, on mobile devices, most people are using a web browser that is incredibly insecure, and incredibly basic compared to what their desktop browser counterparts can do. Browser’s like Google’s Chrome may be the most extensible and “secure” (though not private) on your desktop or laptop, but on mobile it’s nearly the exact opposite. It doesn’t have add-ons or extensions (and Google has stated it …read more

On January 26, U.S. District Court Yvette Kane will hear Benezet Consulting v Cortes, m.d., 1:16cv-74. The hearing is at 9:30 a.m. in Harrisburg. The issues are whether the Pennsylvania ballot access laws that were struck down last year for minor party and independent candidates should also be struck down for petitions to get on a primary ballot.
The three laws struck down last year in Green Party of Pennsylvania v Aichele were: (1) the ban on out-of-state circulators; (2) the ban on a voter signing two petitions for the same office; (3) the requirement that each petition …read more

On January 20, the Federal Election Commission released $846,365 in primary season matching funds to Martin O’Malley, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. The previous month, he had received $100,000. See this FEC press release. …read more

In the Land of the Free, one-quarter of the entire planet’s prison population, some 2.2 million people, currently languish behind bars; yet, an astonishing number of them — around 2 million — have never been to trial. Indeed, these figures categorically debunk the notion the criminal justice system in the United States maintains any semblance of its formation’s original intent: to ensure the guilty suffer punishment befitting their crimes, while the innocent avoid false conviction.
As the fundamental basis for the justice system in the United States, the Sixth Amendment states: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the …read more

Miami, FL — In 2012, a 50-year-old mentally ill prison inmate named Darren Rainey died while locked in a scalding hot shower, rigged to inflict retribution on prisoners, by guards at Dade Correctional Institution.
Guards put the schizophrenic man in the shower as punishment for defecating in his cell. Instead of getting Rainey the help that he obviously needed, guards took it upon themselves to inflict torturous punishment for hours.
When guards finally checked on prisoner 060954, he was on his back and dead. According to the original documents involving his death, investigators noted that he’d been left in the hot steam …read more

Although Arkansas law generally won’t let qualified minor parties nominate anyone for the November 2016 election later than November 2015, the Arkansas Governor has given permission for the Libertarian Party to nominate a new candidate for US House, 3rd district. See this story. Permission was given because the party’s original nominee for US House unexpectedly moved out of the state after he was nominated. …read more

This news story lists the ten Republicans and six Democrats who are circulating petitions to get on the major party presidential primaries in Rhode Island. Scroll down to the bottom. Apparently no one is seeking to run in the presidential primary of the Moderate Party, which is also ballot-qualified and which could have a presidential primary if at least two candidates qualified to run. …read more

(RT) — Donald Trump’s self-confidence in his drive to secure the Republican presidential nomination is pushing through the roof. In his latest speech he claimed that his voters are smart enough to not abandon him even if he was to kill somebody in broad daylight.

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Trump said in his campaign speech at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa.
Trump has been leading national polls of Republican voters for months and now holds a lead in the early voting in Iowa caucuses that will …read more

While publicly condemning a scant portion of the human rights violations routinely committed by the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the U.S. government has secretly been colluding with the brutal regime, which is currently funding the CIA’s covert operations in Syria. Instead of answering to the American people, the CIA has become the Saudi government’s obedient lapdog after accepting massive bribes for over three decades with total impunity.
According to a recent New York Times investigation, President Obama covertly authorized the CIA to begin arming the Syrian rebels in 2013, with funding and weapons from Saudi Arabia and a few other countries. …read more