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It is no secret that “terror” is once again asserting its stranglehold on American Culture. Due to the recent attacks in Paris and the tragic shooting in San Bernardino, Americans are once again demonstrating that they are still increasingly susceptible to the same problem, reaction, solution narrative we have seen play out time and again.
In response to these attacks, many Americans are responding with jingoism laden with hatred. In the last month alone, we have witnessed more than half of the nation’s governors refuse to accept refugees from Syria, a Muslim store owner in New York City being assaulted, vandals …read more

Sparta, MO — Police Chief Andrew Spencer resigned this week after it was revealed that he shot and killed an innocent dog that was in a cage and meant no one any harm. To make matters even worse, he took the puppy to a firing range and killed it there because he did not want to deal with finding its home.
Spencer found the dog and managed to get it into a cage using a catcher pole. He then wrote in his report that he had planned to take the dog to a shelter where it would be “destroyed,” but then …read more

The American Independent Party, which is on the ballot in California but no other state, will let independent voters vote in its presidential primary in 2016. California law lets each qualified party decide whether or not to invite independents to vote in its presidential primary. The AIP also let independents vote in its presidential primary in 2004 and 2008, but did not do so in 2012.
The AIP will soon finalize the list of presidential primary candidates who will appear on the ballot. Already the party has decided to list Donald Trump and J. R. Myers. Myers …read more

Illinois Representative La Shawn Ford has introduced HB 4356 into the legislature. It provides a method for recall of the Mayor of Chicago. The legislature convenes on January 13, 2016. See this story.
Currently there are no procedures for recall of state officials in Illinois, except there is a procedure to recall a Governor, passed by the voters in 2010.
The bill is prompted by ongoing protests against the current Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who was re-elected in the spring of 2015. The bill would require the signatures of 15% of the last Mayoral vote, which at …read more

Seattle, WA — An innocent man has died this week after being in a coma and on life support since he was brutally attacked by a Seattle cop.
On May 10, 2009, Christopher Harris was walking down the street when he noticed 2 men, dressed in all black, running after him. As anyone would do when threatened by two maniacs chasing after you, Harris ran.
When the maniacs, who happened to be King County sheriff’s deputies, caught up to Harris, one of them, Deputy Matthew Paul, threw the entire weight of his body into Harris, sending Harris’ head smashing into the concrete. …read more

Wichita, KS – If you’re a homeless person in Wichita, Kansas, City Councilman Pete Meitzner and his associates at The Lord’s Diner will feed you. If you’re caught with a joint and locked up at the Sedgwick County Detention Facility, Meitzner and his political associates will feast on you – and any relatives who try to call you while you’re incarcerated.
Three decades ago, recalls the investigative website Kansas Exposed, Meitzner co-founded a telecommunications company now known as Securus Technologies, which provides telephone and video visitation service — at extortionate rates. Sedgwick County “receives a 71% commission on the gross sales …read more

Historically, our engineering team at Coinbase has been entirely based in San Francisco, CA. We’ve gotten a lot done and kept a high bar over the past three years.

But in the past year we’ve had a few engineers who needed to move (due to various life events). We didn’t want to lose them, so they became remote employees on our team. In some cases it worked really well.

This caused us to reconsider the idea of remote engineers and we’ve now decided to reach out to a wider pool of applicants around the world.

Working with remote engineers has gotten easier with …read more

The Mississippi Secretary of State has approved the Prohibition Party’s request to be a qualified party in that state. The 2016 election will be the first election since 1896 in which the Prohibition Party’s presidential candidate has appeared on the Mississippi ballot.
The party has also finished its New Jersey petition. Assuming it is approved, 2016 will be the first election since 1976 that the party’s presidential nominee has been on in that state. …read more

The battle for privacy has been lost and mass surveillance is here to stay, according to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Speaking as part of a panel discussion during RT’s 10th-anniversary conference via live feed, Assange, who has been imprisoned within the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the past three years, stunned the audience with his sobering assessment.
The panel discussion was titled: Security or Surveillance: Can the right to privacy and effective anti-terror security coexist in the digital age?
The WikiLeaks founder wasted no time in revealing his thoughts when asked by the moderator about the right of privacy, how that is …read more