Canada holds its parliamentary election on Monday, October 19. Polls indicate the Liberal Party will win the greatest number of seats. See the poll results here. Canada this year has three very powerful parties, and the Liberal Party can be thought of as the centrist party.
See this article on all the various possible outcomes. …read more
The Philippines holds an election on May 9, 2016, for President, Vice-President, and both houses of the national legislature. Filing has now closed. Candidates file by declaration of candidacy. No fee or petition is needed. Then, starting on October 18 and ending on December 10, the national Election Commission evaluates each candidate for each office and determines which candidates are serious and have the capacity to run a meaningful campaign. See this story. Thanks to Walter Ziobro for this information.
President and Vice-President are elected separately. …read more
Chicago, IL — A lawsuit filed on behalf of the Guardian revealed a mind-blowingly high number of people who were effectively ‘disappeared’ at the secret warehouse prison used by Chicago cops.
As Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel blames the “YouTube Effect” for the animosity towards police, more than 7,000 people were secretly detained and held without due process in his town. Apparently, none of the victims, their friends, or their family members resent police for holding their loved ones without due process.
The Guardian reports:
According to an analysis of data disclosed to the Guardian in late September, police allowed lawyers access to Homan …read more
The vast majority of Americans, Prohibition Party members excluded, will admit alcohol prohibition was a dismal failure. The so-called noble experiment, which lasted from January 16, 1920 until December 5, …
Leesburg, VA – Leesburg Police Chief Joseph Price is a model of virtue among cops. After becoming fed up seeing police brutality happening all over the country, he decided to retrain his entire force with “de-escalation” tactics.
The cold-blooded murder of Walter Scott was the tipping point for Price.
“The North Charleston (S.C.) shooting, clearly, was the last straw. There was no weapon anywhere near Mr. Scott.”
Price is using that video, along with others from Seattle and Albuquerque, in five-hour training sessions for his nearly-100 officer force. Many were upset over the actions of their colleagues, with one officer saying their egregious …read more
(RT) — Guilt-ridden American drone pilots continue to quit in unprecedented numbers. One former secret mission operator, Brandon Bryant, who’s received a whistleblower award, spoke to R of the horrors of indiscriminate killing from a safe distance.
“The people that are giving the order to kill – they don’t care who gets killed as long as their target gets attacked… they’ll take out however many people they can in order to get their results,” Bryant says.
The former pilot received the German Whistleblower Award for revealing details of operations taking place at the Ramstein base, specifically, its role in transferring information between …read more
On October 17, the Socialist Party, meeting in Milwaukee, nominated Mimi Soltysik for President and Angela Walker for Vice-President. Thanks to Matt Erard for this news. …read more
On October 16, the Ohio Libertarian Party filed this 10-page brief, explaining that the Ohio Republican Party was the true actor in keeping the Libertarian gubernatorial candidate off the ballot in 2014. This part of the case now centers on whether the process that kept the candidate off the ballot was an example of selective prosecution of the law. …read more
“You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control.”—John Lennon (1969)
The Rutherford Institute
John Lennon, born 75 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon.
He was also a vocal peace protester and anti-war activist and a high-profile example of the lengths to which the U.S. government will go to persecute those who dare to challenge its authority.
Long before Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden were being castigated for blowing the whistle on …read more
Honolulu, HI — A former police officer was sentenced to prison on Friday after a surveillance video caught him brutally beating two innocent men and hospitalizing one of them. The two officers who witnessed the assault have also been charged with trying to conceal the crime and lying to FBI investigators.
On September 5, 2014, officers Vincent Morre, Nelson Tamayori, and former reserve officer Joseph Becera arrived at a Honolulu game room to serve a warrant. In an unprovoked attack, Morre suddenly kicked Jordan Topinio in the head while the innocent man was sitting on a stool. After failing to locate …read more
