A recent appearance by the crew of AKPF #1 to the Black Sheep Rising dialogue program has been reduxed down to 29 minutes to air in this week’s Aqua Keene timeslot. Check out this insightful episode where we discuss the Robin Hood saga, DPRK, and canines instilled with a fear of cats.
Bitcoin-accepting, activist-run businesses are making more headlines in New Hampshire! Not long after the Union Leader’s feature story, the Concord Monitor follows-suit with a similar story that features Fitzwilliam’s “Stone Farm” Bed & Breakfast!
Here’s the piece from the Monitor’s Annmarie Timmins:
Several weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal carried news of a couple who tried to live off bitcoin, a digital currency in its infancy, for 101 days across three continents. The duo may have struggled less had they confined their experiment to New Hampshire.
Here, bitcoin will buy you gas in Twin Mountain, lunch at a Newmarket cafe, martial arts lessons in Derry and a night’s stay in Fitzwilliam. (more…)
In the last update on Graham Colson’s case where he was arrested for violating an illegal “no trespass” order banning him from Central Sq., attorney Jon Meyer had trounced the people calling themselves the “City of Keene” in district court as judge Edward J. Burke sided with the defense and found “the City” had violated Graham’s right to due process. Burke delayed dismissing the case, however, to give the city attorney time to file a motion to reconsider.
Here is the motion to reconsider that they subsequently filed. In it, KPD prosecutor Jean Kilham argues that the court should reconsider dismissal because Graham previously had not challenged the validity of the no trespass order until now. Kilham is essentially arguing that because Graham was ignorant of his rights and the process until heroic free speech attorney Jon Meyer took his case, that therefore Graham should not be protected from the illegal order. Here’s Jon Meyer’s excellent response to their motion. Now the judge has asked the parties for opinion on if he should wait on a ruling from the US Supreme Court on an apparently unrelated case.
More as it develops. Stay tuned here to Free Keene.
Multiple Free State Project participants are interviewed for this feature story in the Union Leader all about businesses in NH that are accepting bitcoin!
A stone foundry in Rochester, a martial arts studio in Derry, a chiropractor and a cafe in Newmarket and law firms in Concord and Manchester have something in common.
They’ve joined the growing number of New Hampshire businesses that accept Bitcoin, a virtual currency that exists only on the Internet, as a form of payment.
The Granite State’s reputation as a hotbed of activity for the digital currency was enhanced last week, as visitors to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas got a peek at the first Bitcoin ATM, created in Manchester by brothers Zach and Josh Harvey. (more…)
Last year Keene voters had two options to choose from regarding the Keene School District operating budget. Either a budget increase of .86% (5.8% tax increase) or a budget increase of 3%. The year before that was the same “lesser of two evils” option. The other six warrants on the ballot included various schemes geared toward allocating more money into the district’s hands. The voter turnout was a dismal 10% of registered voters. But can you blame them. After all who would want to waste their lunch break voting on a crappy, bloated budget and a bunch of money grabbing warrants? Vote: you lose. Don’t vote: still lose. This year, if everything works as planned, will be very different for Keene voters. With the assistance of Darryl Perry, I have drafted 7 very different petition warrants aimed at reducing the budget and removing certain authorities from the school board. They are as follows: (more…)
The Laconia police prosecutor has dropped the DUI and drug possession charges, meaning Amanda Billyrock is now only facing class B misdemeanors. Here’s her post from her Facebook page where she announces the news:
UPDATE on the false crusade against me by a few individuals who call themselves “the state of New Hampshire”:
1) The “possession of controlled substances” charge has been DROPPED. That accusation was truly embarrassing on the part of Michael Armstrong.
2) The DUI charge has been DROPPED. Oh yeah. . . that’s because I WASN’T DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. (more…)
This week: Intellectual property and why you don’t need it, the inefficiency of local government, how to fix the parking debacle in Keene and extreme activists and how they hurt the cause. Marcus joins. Show notes, archives, and audio at BlackSheepRising.org
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