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Louis J. Marinelli of San Diego, California, wants California to become a semi-independent nation within the United States, much as Scotland’s status in the United Kingdom. He recently filed paperwork to make the California National Party a qualified party. The Secretary of State of California will now ask county election officials to keep track of how many people register into it. If it has at least 60,000 registered members by January 2018, it will become ballot-qualified.
Marinelli is also circulating an initiative to change California’s status. Here is a Los Angeles Times article about his initiative, from …read more

Oh man. If you had any idea how long I have waited for this day. One of the things I’ve been hoping for at the Dark Android Project was for Android to have the possibility to be used as a desktop/laptop OS. And in a recent blog post I wrote about Remix OS, we saw serious potential for that to happen, and for what exactly that would look like. I recommend you read that article to get the idea and the full lowdown on what Remix OS is.
In brief, though Remix OS is a custom Android ROM made by …read more

On Saturday, the Saudi Arabian government beheaded 47 people, one of whom was prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a senior opposition figure. He and the others were all killed for their charges of “undermining the national security” of the kingdom.
Immediately following the beheadings, countries across the globe–except for the United States– denounced the barbaric move.
Rightfully outraged with the beheadings, Shiite Muslims in Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon and Bahrain angrily condemned the executions, and Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
These inhumane acts of murder on the part of the Saudis have forced the hands of those who sell them …read more

On January 7, former U.S. Senator Jim Webb sent out a press release, saying his campaign has hired Sam Jones as a fundraiser for his potential independent presidential campaign. Jones was formerly Finance Director for the committee to draft Joe Biden to run for president in 2016. The Hill has this story. …read more

Baltimore, MD — Baltimore City police sergeant Francisco Hopkins sent Maryland State Troopers on a high-speed chase early in the morning hours of New Years day. Hopkins was reportedly off duty at the time and was pulled over around 3 a.m for not having a front tag on his vehicle.
Allegedly frustrated by the fact that he was pulled over, Hopkins became belligerent with the officer who stopped him, and demanded special treatment. When it seemed like the trooper may treat him like anyone else and give him a ticket, Hopkins sped off and started a high-speed chase.
According to the trooper’s …read more

Tens of millions of people probably agree with you that Congress should read its legislation, before they vote on it. That’s more than enough support to compel Congress to pass our “Read the Bills Act” (RTBA) — a bill sponsored by in the Senate by Rand Paul. As we described in our previous message, we’ve modeled other successful movements and organizations to determine that we could…
Compel Congress to pass bills like RTBA with support from as few as 3 million people (getting them co-sponsored and advanced would take even less)
Achieve escape velocity towards recruiting that level of support if we …read more

Virginia law says the nominees of qualified parties always appear first on general election ballots. The only qualified parties in Virginia for the past 18 years have been the Democratic and Republican Parties. In 2014 the Virginia Libertarian Party and Rob Sarvis filed a lawsuit against that policy. The U.S. District Court acknowledged that being listed first on the ballot is advantageous, but he said the state may legitimately have election laws that help the Democratic and Republican Parties relative to other parties.
The case has been appealed to the Fourth Circuit. The opening brief was filed …read more

On April 8, 2013, the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, Inc., filed a New Drug Application claiming to be able to cure hepatitis C. They received the FDA’s coveted Breakthrough Therapy Designation, which is is given to drugs that show significant treatment advantages to existing options.
In an incredibly fast review process, the FDA approved Gilead Sciences’ Sovaldi for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in December of the same year.
The efficacy rate of Sovaldi, when combined with NS5A inhibitors, is nothing short of astonishing, sitting between 94% and 97%. This rate is far better and far safer than any previous treatments …read more

Android tablets often seem like an endangered species. Not as endangered as, say, Windows 10 Mobile tablets (these will exist, more on that in a future post), but they do seem to be rarely developed unless you’re Samsung or Alphabet/Google. Interestingly, though, the endangered species that are Android tablets are taking one of the few steps an endangered species can take to survive in the changing of an ecosystem: They are evolving unique abilities.
The Pixel C is certainly a strange animal that is attempting to mimic the wild success of Microsoft’s Surface series. Samsung is trying out the “bigger is …read more

Darrell Castle, the Constitution Party’s vice-presidential nominee in 2008, had been seeking the party’s 2016 presidential nomination. However, he has withdrawn from the race because of health concerns. …read more