Johns Creek, Georgia, held run-off elections for city council on December 1. Chris Coughlin, a Libertarian Party member, won the race for the special term, for city council post 2. But he lost the race for the full term. He won the special election with 59.1% of the vote but was defeated for the full term seat with 47.5%. See this story. Thanks to IndependentPoliticalReport for this news. …read more
The Tennessee Secretary of State says 14 Republicans and 3 Democrats will be on the presidential primary ballot. See this story for a list of the names. Presidential candidates get on the primary ballot either by being discussed in major news media, or by submitting 2,500 signatures of registered voters. No candidate submitted a petition.
The 2016 Republican presidential primary will have more names than any past Tennessee presidential primary. Before 2016, the most crowded presidential primary ballot in Tennessee had been the 2004 Democratic ballot, which had eleven names. The Republican presidential primary ballots had …read more
According to this story, a new party, the Green Mountain Party, has been organized in Vermont and it expects to be on the ballot in 2016. …read more
Coweta County, GA — American police have once against demonstrated that their agenda is not to protect and serve, but to dominate and control by any means necessary. On November 20th, sheriff deputies in Coweta County, Georgia were summoned to help subdue a man having a psychotic breakdown and ended up tasing him to death.
Thirty-two-year-old Chase Sherman, together with his fiancée, Patti Galloway and his parents, Kevin and Mary Ann Sherman, were returning from a vacation. During a layover at the Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta, Chase started having hallucinations and acting agitated. According to his father, he “got nervous … …read more
Much has been said about the most notorious dictatorship in the Middle East and close ally of the United States. Saudi Arabia, the number 1 beheader, carries out tasks such as bombing Yemen targets, including hospitals, and helping to stamp out rebellions for neighboring US-allied dictators. In exchange for this thuggery (and the flow of oil), the Saudis receive access to some of the best weapons in the world and guarantees of the monarchy’s continued existence in the face of massive discontent.
This resentment against Western puppets that rule Gulf nations is a contributing factor in the support for terrorism. Saudi …read more
Ooooh! Grabbing headline! Did I trick you into clicking on the link because of the way I phrased it? Honestly, I hope I didn’t. “Click bait” is the first digital plague, and I really don’t care to help it spread. But with any luck you’re more the type that just reads my daily content on the various sections of this site (and I never share more than one piece of content per day, as I really have no desire to inundate you).
And today is not a long piece at all. It’s merely a heads-up on a matter that is near …read more
On November 25, a 3-judge U.S. District Court declined to postpone the North Carolina primary election, which will be held March 15, 2016. The postponement of the primary had been requested by the plaintiffs in Covington v State. They argue that the legislative districts are invalid. The decision says that the federal court will keep jurisdiction of the case (even though the State Supreme Court has a similar case pending), but the federal court is unwilling to disrupt the upcoming primary. Here is the decision. …read more
Montreal, CA — A man is facing charges after a police officer was seen ramming his SUV into his car for attempting to report his dangerous driving.
According to Jeffery Pokora, he was driving down the street earlier this year when he was nearly hit by a reckless SUV that came barrelling through a stop sign. The driver of the SUV was SPVM Police Officer, Roberto Tomarelli.
Pokora then followed the driver to report his unsafe driving. The rest of the scene is caught on video after Tomarelli pulls into a parking spot.
As the video begins, the two men get out of …read more
Boston, MA — A violent cop, who beat an innocent man in front of fellow officers, and then charged him with assault, pleaded guilty to battery last week, but only after video of the incident surfaced.
Officer Felix Rivera, Jr. 34, of the Chelsea police department, responded, along with several officers, to a call about a man with a gun on September 26, 2014. The victim, who was 20-years-old at the time, was not the man with a gun.
When multiple officers showed up at the victim’s location, he is dragged from the doorway, and the supervisor on the scene told his …read more
There are businesses that I like seeing shutter their doors (I would love it if Alphabet/Google shut down indefinitely), and then there are businesses that I really want to succeed. I’m going to talk about the latter here. Whiteout.io is a suggestion I’ve made on my own tech podcast–Sovryn Tech–if you were looking for a really easy-to-use PGP email encryption solution. It allowed you to encrypt the email address you already had by very simply creating a PGP key pair for you, and eventually they even became their own email hosting service where you could have your own “yourname@whiteout.io” address. …read more
