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The Virginia deadline for candidates petitioning to get on a presidential primary ballot is Thursday, December 10. On December 4, Bernie Sanders became the first Democrat to submit a petition. This story says he submitted 17,882. The requirement is 5,000. …read more

On December 4, the new Canadian government set its agenda before Parliament. See this story. The new government pledged that the election system will be revamped in time for the next election. The government will study whether proportional representation or Instant Runoff Voting should be used.
Although the speech was written by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in accordance with custom, the speech was delivered by the representative of Queen Elizabeth. …read more

While American bureaucrats claim that heavy interventions in the Middle East are somehow beneficial for the increasingly volatile region, the US military continues its decades-old tradition of creating more terrorists than it kills.
In the 1980s the CIA armed and trained mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan during America’s cold war with Russia, and these Islamic militants went on to become al-Qaida, the premier terror threat to the US.
Several years ago, the Pentagon began supporting opposition forces in Syria, including a group known as the Salafists, to further the US goal of taking out the Assad government. The Pentagon expressed its desire for …read more

Atlanta, GA — A clearly confused and racist Georgia cop was caught on dashcam telling a driver during a traffic stop, “I don’t care about your people,” and then threatening him.
On November, 16, officer Maurice Lawson of the Cobb County police department pulled over 33-year-old middle school teacher, Brian Baker for allegedly speeding.
During the stop, three officers would surround Baker’s car to issue him a citation.
After Baker received the citation, he merely asked officer Lawson if he could leave, to which Lawson replied, “Leave. Go away. Go to Fulton County. I don’t care about your people, man, go.”
When Baker questioned …read more

Filing for the Louisiana presidential primaries closes on Friday, December 4, at 4:30 p.m. With a little more than four hours to go, already nine Democrats and fourteen Republicans have filed. See the list here, via the Secretary of State’s web page. So far, neither Jim Gilmore nor George Pataki have filed.
Candidates get on the ballot by paying a filing fee of $1,125. $750 goes to the government and $375 goes to the state party.
The highest number of candidates in a past Republican presidential primary in Louisiana was 2008, when there were eleven. For the …read more

Rapid City, SD – In August of 2014, Rebecca M. Sotherland, a police officer formerly employed for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, was videotaped tazering a citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe 17 times while he laid unresponsive on the ground on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Sotherland was indicted by a federal grand jury only days after the brutal incident and charged with violating the constitutional rights of 33-year-old Jeff Eagle Bull, by repeatedly using her Taser on him.
The federal trial for the indicted former officer began earlier this week. If found guilty, Sotherland faces a maximum of 10 years in prison …read more

Three presidential candidates have filed to be on the Idaho Constitution Party’s presidential primary ballot: Scott Copeland, Patrick Anthony Ockander, and J. R. Myers. They each paid $1,000 to be on the ballot. The primary will be March 8. Past Idaho presidential primaries were always in May, and no party had presidential primaries in Idaho in 2012; they used caucuses.
This will be the first minor party presidential primary in Idaho history. Idaho did not have presidential primaries until 1976, and the state won’t print up primary ballots for parties unless they have at least two …read more

Upper Marlboro, MD — William Cunningham and Kennieth Smith were doing nothing wrong, had committed no crime, and were attempting to go about their daily routine when they were nearly killed by a power tripping cop.
On Wednesday, that power tripping cop, Prince George’s County Police officer Jenchesky Santiago, was remarkably found guilty for 1st and 2nd-degree assault, use of a firearm in violence, and misconduct in office – only after cellphone footage survived and was given to prosecutors.
#BREAKING: PGPD officer GUILTY of 1st & 2nd deg assault, use of firearm in crime of violence, misconduct in office
https://t.co/7JhL7JgyyS
— Mike Carter-Conneen (@ABC7Mike) …read more

Alphabet/Google has just taken one of the most insidious advertisement systems, repackaged it, and made it widespread on the Android platform. So what is this insidious advertisement system?
Let’s go back to the internet of the late 90’s. I know what you’re thinking, it was a very different place then. I agree. At the time, the major discussion about the internet wasn’t, “Hey, how can we make these networks more resilient?” Shocked? Ah, well, perhaps you thought this was the major discussion: “Hey, how can we put an unbreakable encryption layer over the internet?” Nope, wrong again. I wish those were …read more