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ACTION ITEM

Senator Rand Paul has introduced and “fast-tracked” S.2232, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015. But…
We must act fast — BEFORE JAN. 12, 2016! — to demand of Congress: Audit the Fed! I sent a letter to my “representatives” in Congress using Downsize DC’s “Audit the Fed” campaign. I’m going to share my letter with you, so you can copy and paste it.
But you shouldn’t act alone. We need others to join us in sending a letter to Congress. Numbers matter. So, reach out to five people who will passionately agree and ask them to join you.
This is doubly …read more

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has this article about the January 8 announcement by Dennis Hof that he will seek the Libertarian nomination for State Senate from the 15th district, which consists of western Reno. The paper felt the news about Hof was more prominent than the simultaneous announcement that a Republican assemblyman from Las Vegas, John Moore, was switching his registration from “Republican” to “Libertarian.” The article covers both subjects but puts the news about Hof foremost.
The story quotes a spokesman for the Libertarian Party as saying Moore is the party’s first legislator since 1992. That is …read more

U.S. District Court Judge M. Hannah Louck has expedited the case Parson v Alcorn. This is the case over whether the Virginia State Board of Elections should comply with the Republican Party’s request that voters who ask for a Republican presidential primary ballot in March 1 must sign a statement that says the signer is a Republican. The statement says, “My signature below indicates that I am a Republican.”
Here is a newspaper editorial in opposition to the sign-in statement. In my opinion, the newspaper’s use of the word “oath” is not good language usage. “Oath” is …read more

The biggest fireworks on New Year’s Eve weren’t any glowing in the night sky above millions of giddy revelers worldwide, but instead came tucked away in another batch of Hillary’s infamous emails made public — and the contents are so explosive, she could be charged with war crimes.
Buried in the former Secretary of State’s emails are evidence of extrajudicial killings by U.S.-allied rebels, the embedding of al-Qaeda affiliated fighters amongst those same rebel forces, and even substantiation that Western motives for warring with Libya had more to do with gold, silver, and oil than anything else. Most crucially, because this …read more

Queens, NY – Three NYPD cops were recently busted extorting $1,000 per week from the owner of a pizza shop in Queens. Besnik Llakatura, Denis Nikolla and Redinel Dervishaj, all New York police officers, were involved a scheme where “protection” money was coerced out of business owners under the threat of having their businesses shut down. This week, Llakatura pleaded guilty to the charges against him. Denis Nikolla and Redinel Dervishaj are scheduled to appear in court in March, and it has been reported that Llakatura will not testify against them.
It is not clear how widespread the scheme was or …read more

Before the shitstorm of emails and bitmessages hits me that says something to the effect of: “What?! You’re talking about Windows Phone/Windows 10 Mobile on the Dark Android Project’s blog?!” Relax, I’ve done this before (READ: Dark Windows Phone?). And I’ve made it a side mission of the Dark Android Project to talk about securing any mobile platform (iOS, Windows 10 Mobile, and Blackberry…thought Blackberry 10 is officially dead now). Of course, at the time that I wrote about it, there wasn’t much on the horizon other than a couple of coming Microsoft Lumia phones (the 950 and 950XL), …read more

A new survey conducted by the Centre for Addictions Research of BC helps explain why Big Pharma is so afraid of cannabis legalization. The pharmaceutical and alcohol industries, both powerful influences in Washington, have long lobbied against cannabis legalization in order to protect their profits.
However, the tide has turned as decriminalization of medical and recreational cannabis sweeps the nation and the continent. With legalization, more and more people are discovering how this plant can provide a safe alternative to the dangerous effects of prescription pills.
The survey of 473 adult therapeutic cannabis users found that 87% of respondents gave up prescription …read more

The Jill Stein campaign believes it qualified for primary season matching funds on Wednesday, January 6. In 2012, when Stein also qualified for primary season matching funds, she didn’t do that until August. She received her first check from the FEC on August 28, 2012, for $100,000.
By qualifying this early, Stein will probably receive her first check in early February 2016. The money can be used to pay for general election petitioning. …read more

The Bangor Daily News has this story about the Maine Libertarian Party ballot access lawsuit. …read more

Studies on drug use show that almost every single person, 99% of all illicit drug users have tried marijuana before they did any other drugs. This insubstantial fact is used by reefer madness folks across the globe to bolster their claims that “marijuana is a gateway drug.”
But when one looks past the surface of this claim, it becomes downright silly. It just so happens that 99% of these so-called illicit drug users could have also tried coffee, soft drinks, candy, or milk before moving on to harsher substances.
As the Washington Post reports,
New research out this month in the Journal of …read more