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On November 6, independent candidate Mark Moore asked the 8th circuit to reverse the decision of the U.S. District Court that upheld Arkansas’s non-presidential independent candidate petition deadline. Arkansas law says independent candidate petitions (for office other than President) are due on the same day that major party candidates file a declaration of candidacy to run in a primary. The U.S. District Court decision said early deadlines are only unconstitutional if the number of signatures is very large. However, this conclusion is plainly wrong, because in Anderson v Celebrezze, the U.S. Supreme Court said early petition deadlines …read more

Vermont State Senator David Zuckerman, a Progressive, has intervened in the lawsuit Corren v Sorrell, a campaign finance lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court. Vermont law prohibits anyone who plans to qualify for public funding from announcing candidacy for a 2016 race earlier than February 15, 2016. Zuckerman’s motion says he intends to run for Lieutenant Governor in 2016, as both a Progressive and a Democrat, and he wants to campaign now. Therefore, he is intervening in the case to argue that the time limit is unconstitutional.
No incumbent is running for Lieutenant Governor. Several Democrats, a …read more

The wait is over.
I know, I know…you heard me mention my “Life 4.0” talk on my podcast Sovryn Tech over and over again for a couple of months…and now you get to see it LIVE and IN COLOR! WOO!
This talk is from the phenomenal (and I think, unparalleled) Bitcoin Investor Conference in Las Vegas, and it covers topics from the importance of creating digital spaces with Virtual Reality (particularly for all kinds of levels of freedom), the ease of getting into Virtual Reality today, the history and future of Virtual Reality, and how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and others are tailor-made …read more

Leesburg, GA — After setting up a GoFundMe page for the family of a police officer who died earlier this year, an ex-cop was recently arrested for stealing over $17,000 in donations. Although the contributions were intended to cover the officer’s medical and funeral expenses, his widow and their two young children never received the money.
Challenged with health problems for a year, Pelham Police Officer John Mucci, 29, passed away on April 3, leaving behind a wife, a young daughter, and a newly born son. Offering to help the family, former police officer David Hans Smith, 43, created a GoFundMe …read more

Austin, TX — A group of friends, Jeremy Kingg, Lou Glen, Matt Wallace, and Rolando Ramiro were walking home Early Friday morning when they crossed the street in a manner unfit for a police state.
“We were walking across the street, the sign said ‘do not walk,’ but lights were already turning yellow and streets were blocked off, so we kept walking,” Ramiro says.
“[Police] flashed their flashlights at us, asked us to show them our IDs. Matt and Jeremy said to f— off,” noting that the street was barricaded so the ‘crime’ of Jaywalking was a moot point when cars …read more

Recently I had the pleasure of gracing the American radio waves once again on the show that really gave me my show hosting chops over the two years that I spent as a co-host (really, there would likely be no Sovryn Tech and no Dark Android Project if I never spent time with it): Free Talk Live. As I made three appearances over the past few days, I thought it would be good to make those appearances available here.
The importance of Free Talk Live to the world overall could never be overstated. When I lived in New York, the fact …read more

Bitcoin trading activity has increased significantly over the past few weeks, and we’re hearing from more users who want to monitor the activity on the go. We recently made some updates to our mobile apps that will help you monitor bitcoin trading activity wherever you are in the world:

Bitcoin price charts: You can now easily track bitcoin price on mobile. The price charts allow you to view bitcoin price on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and all-time basis.

International translations: We translated our mobile apps into 5 new languages: Chinese (traditional and simplified), Korean, Russian, and Japanese.
Consolidated account …read more

Glen Ellyn, IL — Slammed to the ground and manhandled on video, a former student filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court Thursday against two campus police officers for using excessive force and threatening to fire a Taser at another student recording the arrest. Warned for smoking a cigarette outside, the student was followed into the class and arrested for trespassing after showing the cops her student ID.
On December 7, 2014, Jaclyn Pazera stepped outside during a break between classes with several of her classmates from the College of DuPage to smoke cigarettes. According to Pazera’s lawsuit, Officer Vallardes …read more