Source: US Pirate Party (from e-mail sent to Ryan Brennan, editor & webmaster of www.ThirdPartyPolitics.us, July 23, 2011) The United States Pirate Party (USPP) has finalized the election of Party officers in an open election held July 14, 2011. The election was delayed due to several reasons including a recent malware attack on the webservers [...]
Entries from July 2011
United States Pirate Party: The Current State of Affairs
July 23rd, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Lee Wrights: The manufacture and manipulation of fear
July 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Oregon City Commissioner James Nicita, a registered Green, ‘faces recall effort’ over opposition to a new mall
July 22nd, 2011 · 5 Comments
The full story can be read here, below is an excerpt. Parks has 90 days to collect 1,742 valid signatures from registered voters. If the recall petition is certified, a special election would be held by the end of the year. CenterCal Properties, which had worked on the mall project and was negotiating an agreement [...]
Tags: Green Party
NY: Suffolk County Independence Party ignores local choice
July 21st, 2011 · 8 Comments
In a move the chairwoman of its East Hampton chapter characterized as a “back room deal,” Zachary Cohen [non-Democrat/non-Republican] has been replaced by Bill Wilkinson [registered Republican] as the Independence Party candidate for East Hampton Town Supervisor.
Tags: Independents · Non-left/right parties
LP Blog: Freedom Fest Recap 2011
July 21st, 2011 · 61 Comments
See the article here
Tags: Libertarian Party
Carlos A Rodriguez-Freedom Fest: Does it live up to the hype?
July 21st, 2011 · 5 Comments
FREEDOM FEST: Does it live up to the hype? This was my second year in a row attending Freedomfest in Las Vegas, Nevada.. The conference which bills itself as the “world’s largest gathering of free minds” is held yearly in mid July in Bally’s on the strip. Last year, I attended as candidate for Congress [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Constitution Party National Conference Call on 21 July 11
July 20th, 2011 · No Comments
Topic: 2012 National Convention Date: Thursday, July 21 Time: 8:30 PM Eastern Time Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 862-1000 Participant Access Code: (e-mail me at redphillipsmd@yahoo.com if you want the code) Please join us on the evening of July 21, 2011 for an informative presentation concerning the 2012 Constitution Party National Convention which will be held [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
In NY: Socialist Workers Party submits signatures for special election for Congress
July 20th, 2011 · 3 Comments
On July 13, the Socialist Workers Party submitted signatures to place its nominee for House on the ballot in New York’s special election set for September 13. No other group or independent candidate submitted a petition. There is still the potential for a Green Party candidate to enter the race through their party processes.
Tags: Green Party · Socialist/left parties
Former Libertarian VP Candidate Art Olivier Calls for New Approach to 9/11
July 20th, 2011 · 112 Comments
This letter was sent to me by Art Olivier for the purpose of posting it here on IPR. Discussing foreign policy at Case Western University during the 2000 presidential campaign, I said, “It is not a question of if America would suffer a major terrorist attack because of our intervention in foreign affairs, but when [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Press Release: A3P Demands More Action Against “Flash Mobs”
July 19th, 2011 · 14 Comments
I came across this press release at the site that is hosting the Max Riekse interview. July 19, 2011 For Immediate Release Contact: William D. Johnson, Chairman American Third Position Political Party Tel: (561) 351-4424 Email: admin@american3p.org Web site: American3P.org American Third Position Demands More Action Against “Flash Mobs” Vicious Mob Assaults Targeting White Americans [...]
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Interview With Max Riekse: the First Declared Presidential Candidate of the Citizens Party
July 19th, 2011 · 5 Comments
Robert Stark interviews Max Riekse [pronounced RICK-see], the first declared Presidential candidate of the Citizens Party. This bio is from the broadcast web site: Max Rieske is an American nationalist, populist, and America-Firster from Western Michigan. He served as a military intelligence officer in the US Army in Vietnam, and later as a public school [...]
Tags: Constitution Party · Non-left/right parties
At state meeting, nuclear expert piques Illinois Greens’ concerns about nuclear power
July 19th, 2011 · 2 Comments
From the NBC affiliate WREX: ROCKFORD (WREX) -The Illinois Green Party wants people to be more aware of the dangers of nuclear energy. Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service Chicago Dave Kraft says residents and lawmakers should be concerned because Illinois has four reactors the same type and vintage as the ones in Japan’s Fukushima [...]
Tags: Green Party
