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Huawei Pushes Ahead With Trademarks for Own OS in Europe Amid US Crackdown

Huawei Technologies  Co is pressing ahead with a top-notch propriety operating system (OS) for smartphones and computers, after the Chinese telecom titan is reported by Global Times to have applied for its OS and other software trademarks on European soil, with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), weeks after the US proceeded with its all-embracing ban.

The EUIPO's website suggests that Huawei filed at least three different trademark application - the Huawei Ark Compiler, Huawei Ark and the Huawei Ark OS as recently as Friday with their descriptions stating that the company is seeking trademarks for compiler software and OS for electronic devices.

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Neurotics to Norms: So many logical fallacies, so little time

Swedish Sex Pistol [?!] Aimed at Assange

If, per the Guardian, the UK really has the ethical obligation [?!] to defend Assange from US prosecution, then it must carry that defense through any process of extradition to Sweden. And it can. The Swedish Prosecutorial Authority tells us so:

Once the British authorities enforce the UK Supreme Court's decision to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden, Sweden is bound by the so-called "Doctrine of Speciality" which means that Sweden cannot extradite him further to a third country, for example the USA, without permission [?!] from the UK. This means that Julian Assange would be in the same position in Sweden as he would be in the UK with regard to further extradition to a third country.

Did you know [?!] about this rather significant point of law, which is publicly posted on the internet? Did the 70+ British MPs, and the entire editorial staff of the Guardian and of liberal politicians and media organizations crying for extradition to Sweden not know about this? Or did they just ignore it? Which is more damning?

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PUBLIC PROPERTY BULLETIN:...

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Mexican police ["]revolt["] against plans to join National Guard

The protests came as the government officially began deploying the National Guard to try to seal the country's porous southern border and control immigration and crime. The demonstrations threatened to complicate the formation of the new force, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has bet Mexico's future security on.
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[President Andrés Manuel López Obrador] has been dismissive of the federal police, characterizing them as a failed security force. He gave military officers the bulk of the responsibility for the National Guard. The new agency is also seeking new recruits. Protesting police at the command center in the capital's Iztapalapa borough said their seniority, rank and benefits would not be recognized within the National Guard.
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"I am federal police. I respect the principles of my institution, and I want to have a dialogue," [National Guard Commandant Patricia Rosalinda] Trujillo [Mariel] shouted over the crowd.

Police officer Alejandra Baez Villanueva said the police need their jobs to support their families.

"We aren't protesting. We're just demanding our rights," she said. "We just want them to respect our seniority, because for (members of) the army and the navy, they respect it, and for us as federal police they don't."

Mexico has offered to send up to 6,000 members of its national guard, 6 June
Mexico To Send 15,000 National Guard Troops To Border In Tijuana , 28 June

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