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Hawaiian Natives Move One Step Closer to Declaring Sovereignty from U.S. Government Nov 17, 2015

Honolulu, HI — This week, Native Hawaiians initiated an historical election that may grant them sovereignty from the United States and the state of Hawaii, itself, after well over a century of colonial rule. More than 95,000 indigenous people will elect delegates to a constitutional convention, scheduled for this winter, when they will work to create a government that serves and represents Native Hawaiians — the only group of indigenous people in the United States currently restricted from forming their own government. In the 19th century, European and American missionaries and traders began settling in Hawaii. They quickly formed a political...

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If You Think Donald Trump Sounds Like a 4th Grader, It’s Because He Does Nov 3, 2015

“How stupid are our leaders?” Donald Trump asked when he announced his campaign for the presidency. “How stupid are they?” His sentiment was received with raucous enthusiasm and he has since enjoyed fervent faith from supporters that he alone can save the country. A new analysis, however, found Trump may not be much brighter than the average politician — at least not in his speeches to the electorate. The Boston Globe recently used a common algorithm called the Flesch-Kincaid readability test to examine 19 speeches of presidential hopefuls announcing their campaigns. The test calculates a “grade-level” based on the complexity...

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Whistleblower Fired from Whistleblower Protection Program for…Blowing the Whistle Oct 20, 2015

San Francisco, California — A former employee of the Whistleblower Protection Program claims he was fired for blowing the whistle on misconduct within the agency. The accusations highlight the government’s past and present attitudes towards those who inform the public of corruption within the system. Darrell Whitman worked for five years as an investigator for “Region 9” of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which administers the Whistleblower Protection Program. Region 9 encompasses California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, and Guam, a U.S. territory. Whitman says he attempted to expose “bureaucratic dysfunction” within the agency that led to a failure to...

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Watch Activists Airdrop Flyers onto an NSA Base Urging Agents to Quit Their Jobs Oct 13, 2015

Darmstadt, Germany — On Friday, a drone-like device dropped flyers over a key NSA intelligence facility that advised employees to quit their jobs on ethical grounds. The effort is the most recent attempt by privacy advocates to chip away at the power of the surveillance state using direct action campaigns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v2z7KwThIg Peng!, a tactical media and activist group, used a remote-controlled plane to drop flyers over a U.S. military base in Germany that serves as the NSA’s European hub of signals intelligence known as the Dagger Complex. The flyers were designed by Intelexit, the specific campaign Peng! launched to encourage security agency employees...

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Newly Published Clinton Email Reveals How Government Manipulates Media Oct 6, 2015

Washington D.C. — A Hillary Clinton staffer planted questions in a CBS 60 Minutes interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, according to email records released this week. At the time of the interview in early 2011, Assange had already leaked sensitive, embarrassing information from the State Department. The unclassified staff email to Clinton, released amid her ongoing email scandal, demonstrates not only that the former Secretary of State and her staff were out to discredit Assange, but that the government manipulates media and wields heavy influence over it. In an email from January 28, 2011, Philip J. Crowley, then Assistant Secretary of...

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Taking Selfies Officially More Dangerous than Using Cannabis Sep 28, 2015

As the “selfie” has pushed its way to the forefront of popular culture — even earning recognition as an official word in the English language — it is still viewed with skepticism and is often considered dangerous for the societal egocentrism and superficiality it has come to represent. One study even found selfies are associated with higher rates of narcissism, psychopathy, and self-objectification. A new examination suggests they are dangerous in another regard: selfies are more lethal than cannabis. Mashable’s original death-by-selfie analysis actually compared the number of people who died while taking selfies in 2015 to the number of people killed by sharks...

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#PassTHIS to Carly Fiorina Sep 23, 2015

In lieu of Carly Fiorina’s recent anti-science rhetoric against cannabis in the second Republican presidential debate, we are encouraging our readers to “#PassTHIS” article directly to her (see instructions below). For those not subjected to the drug warrior propaganda on live TV, the clip in question is provided for your reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXkS3UqA864 As cannabis legalization becomes increasingly popular, a new study suggests not only that the plant is effective at soothing pain, but that it may actually help reduce America’s widespread addiction to painkillers. The study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that states with legal medical cannabis dispensaries saw admissions...

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50 Defense Dept. Whistleblowers Slam “Stalinist” Pentagon Officials For Lying About ISIS Sep 18, 2015

The Pentagon has erupted in “revolt” amid claims from 50 intelligence analysts that senior defense officials manipulated intelligence reports to downplay the severity of the Islamic State’s increasing upper-hand in the Middle East. According to allegations made in an official complaint with the Department of Defense Inspector General, the officers in question doctored reports — among other things — in order to maintain the Pentagon and president’s narrative that the war against the Islamic State, as well as Al Qaeda in Syria, is succeeding. To the contrary, the dissenting analysts — now effectively whistleblowers — have repeatedly attempted to warn that the...

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Ridiculous: Lawsuit Against Secret NSA Spying Loses Because the Evidence is Secret Sep 9, 2015

A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that a lawsuit challenging the NSA’s warrant-less, bulk collection of Americans’ data cannot move forward. Ironically, the reasoning behind the ruling is that the plaintiff cannot prove his information was specifically collected — even as the suit’s fundamental premise challenges the extraordinary secrecy under which the NSA has operated for years. The ruling constitutes the latest back-and-forth development in a variety of ongoing court battles on the subject. Public interest lawyer, founder of Freedom Watch, and Verizon customer Larry Klayman filed the lawsuit. Lower court judge, U.S. District...

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UN Privacy Chief Says Government Surveillance Already Worse Than Orwell’s 1984 Aug 27, 2015

According to the United Nation’s first privacy chief, government surveillance has reached heights worse than imagined in George Orwell’s iconic book 1984. The situation is so dire, in fact, that while speaking to the Guardian this week, Privacy Chief Joseph Cannataci even called for a “Geneva Convention-style” law to protect internet security. The fact that he alluded to a law created to avenge Nazi war crimes in order to exemplify the severity of privacy violations, highlights how egregious the problem has become. Cannataci was appointed to the position in July amid concerns that the first-choice candidate would not be tough enough...

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