Judge: White Nationalist Can't Hide Identity
Taking names is kinda CHINESE TOTALITARIAN CORPORATIST TYRANNY, wouldn't you say? In spite of the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amd, "due process" and all that wtf.

The woman, who filed her motion to quash under the pseudonym Jane Doe, argued that revealing her identity would chill her First Amendment right of association and right to engage in anonymous political speech.

archived gags
Does a non-disclosure agreement apply to court hearings?

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o, la-dee-da
Many Cameroonians skeptical as elections approach

In exactly two months, Cameroonians will be going to the polls to elect their president. 28 candidates are in the running, including 86-year-old incumbent Paul Biya, who has been in power for 36 years. He is Africa's second longest serving leader after his neighbor Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea.

Do you ever wonder how Cameroon came to be divided into anglo- and francophone constituencies? Of course you don't! It's an interesting story though, ripe for "post-colonial" mischief today.

But there are doubts inside and outside Cameroon that this election will be free and fair, especially in the Anglophone regions in the west, bordering Nigeria, which have been in turmoil for the past two years, when residents started to press their claims for more autonomy or even independence. According to the United Nations, 200,000 people have been internally displaced and 40,000 have sought refuge in neighboring countries.

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EU elections mission DENOUNCES Zimbabwe poll amid new delays
Lutte contre Boko Haram: le satisfecit des Etats-Unis

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VIPS Asks Twitter to Restore Van Buren's Account

We at Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) are greatly disturbed by the recent decision of your management to permanently suspend the Twitter account @WeMeantWell of our colleague Peter Van Buren. Peter is a highly respected former Foreign Service Officer possessing impeccable credentials for critiquing current developments that might lead to a new war in Eastern Europe or Asia, something which we Americans presumably all would like to avoid.

In 2011 our colleague Peter published a book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, about the poor [?] decision- making by both civilians and military

There still lingers a belief that government "policy" purposes, or intention, are good, yet their executions therefore are bad, or incompetent. Why? If indeed conclusion follow from premises, the evidence, which "decisions," or errors, are rewarded and which punished, is all around us.

that led to the disastrous occupation and faux-democracy development in Iraq. It is Peter's concern that our country may well be proceeding down that same path again -- possibly with Iran, Syria and other countries in the Middle East region. ...

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Who are you accusing of having good intentions?

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US Senate Intel Committee Urges Assange to Testify in Russia Probe - WikiLeaks, illustrated

archived cesspool
So, yeah: Assange's fear ... is reasonable.
habeas corpus REVIVAL
LQD: Censorship
Free Speech

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Upside Down World
This Week: El Salvador, Honduras, Canada

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Argentine Senate Rejects Legalizing Elective Abortion

Lawmakers debated for more than 15 hours and voted 38-31 against the measure that would have legalized abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. The decision could echo across Latin America, where anti-abortion forces remains strong even if the Roman Catholic Church has lost influence and moral authority due to secularization, an out-of-touch clerical caste and an avalanche of sex abuse scandals.

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passed by the lower house Chamber of Deputies in June
It's not all particular bonds.
Many battles won but the war continues...

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One story, two versions

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Seattle Airport Security Failure ...

Halfway down the runway on Alaska airlines out of Seattle and the pilot slams on the brakes and shares we must go back to the gate. Quite a scary experience. Not entirely sure what's happening. Someone sneak on board?

— Ben Schaechter (@Bensign) August 11, 2018

Okay this insane. A pilot on the plane in front of us just went rogue and took off on an empty plane bypassing orders from the tower. The tower ordered a full stop and they're trying to communicate with that pilot. Whaaaaaat!

— Ben Schaechter (@Bensign) August 11, 2018

Some dude stole a plane from #Seatac (Allegedly), did a loop-the-loop, ALMOST crashed into #ChambersBay, then crossed in front of our party, chased by fighter jets and subsequently crashed. Weird times. pic.twitter.com/Ra4LcIhwfU

— bmbdgty (@drbmbdgty) August 11, 2018

Update
Reports of the unauthorized/stolen plane has crash near Ketron island south of Seattle Sea-Tac Airport. Pierce County Sheriffs' Cessna 206 doing orbits over the island. Reports indicate it's a Horizon Dash 8 Q400 stolen by an employee.

Suicidal Mechanic Steals Plane In Seattle, Crashes | The Australian |

'Sapere aude'

What's news in the Koreas?
(despite anglophone press reporting on um comingled human remains in boxes, unverified nuclear facility decommission, effects of economic sanctions compliance, foreign military occupation, and rejected terms of peace)

South and North Korea agree to hold third inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang within Sept.

irony
text of Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula

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South Korean exports expected to take big hit as a result of tariff increases
S. Korea "annexes" DPRK as agreed by referendum of N. Korean constituents

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