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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Corporate Complexity Versus Corruption

There is a difference between corporate complexity and corruption. Yes, software is extraordinarily complex—software defeat devices✈ are corrupt. Boeing has been doing extraordinarily "complex" products, including software for decades, using talented engineers and risk analysis—not rent-seeking behavior or shameless calls by its chief executive officer.

✈ How They [VW Engineers] Did It: An Analysis of Emission Defeat Devices in Modern Automobiles

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 UPDATED 04/08/2019 Boeing 737 Technical Site
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation; “The State of Airline Safety: Federal Oversight of Commercial Aviation,” at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27, 2019

The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, DeFazio, Larsen Letter Requesting DOT IG Investigate FAA Certifying Boeing 737 MAX

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UPDATED 09/16/2020 UPI, Final report: Boeing, FAA made 'serious' flaws, 'missteps' with 737 Max,
 House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,  Nearly One Year After Launching Its Boeing 737 MAX Investigation, House Transportation Committee Issues Preliminary Investigative Findings 
UPDATED 12/23/2019 Boeing, Boeing Announces Leadership Changes
UPDATED 12/17/2019 CNA, Boeing's Halt to 737 MAX Production Could Ding US Economy, Jobs
UPDATED 11/27/2019 NYT, Problems Pile Up for Boeing as 737 Max Delays Continue
UPDATED 11/06/2019 Reuters, Regulators Find Gaps in Boeing's 737 MAX Software Documentation - Sources and Regulators Want Revised Boeing 737 MAX Software Documentation: Company and
UPDATED 10/29/2019 C-SPAN3, Boeing CEO and Government Officials Testify on 737 MAX Safety


UPDATED 10/21/2019 Barrons, Boeing Stock Tumbles Because the FAA Just Dropped a Bombshell and Boeing Responded To The 737 MAX Email Controversy. Here’s What They Said.

UPDATED 10/08/2019 Reuters, Boeing Gets First 737 MAX Order Since Crash; Deliveries Halve

UPDATED 08/19/2019 WSJ, The Four-Second Catastrophe: How Boeing Doomed the 737 MAX

UPDATED 07/28/2019 NYT, The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight
UPDATED 06/29/2019 Reuters, U.S. Prosecutors Subpoena Records on Boeing 787 Production: Seattle Times
UPDATED 06/19/2019 C-SPAN, House Transportation [2nd] Hearing on Boeing 737 Max Aircraft (June 2019)
UPDATED 06/17/2019 CBSNews, Boeing CEO Admits "Mistake" in Handling 737 Max Warnings
UPDATED 06/08/2019 Reuters, Boeing Delayed Fix of Defective 737 MAX Warning Light for Three Years: U.S. Lawmakers

UPDATED 05/15/2019 TransportationInfrastructureCommittee, “Status of the Boeing 737 MAX”


UPDATED 05/14/2019 Reuters, FAA Convenes Multi-Agency  Board to Review Boeing Software Fix


UPDATED 05/06/2019 NYT, Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard. It Wasn’t.
UPDATED 04/15/2019 Vox, The Real Reason Boeing's New Plane Crashed Twice


UPDATED 04/08/2019 Boeing, Statement from Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg: We Own Safety - 737 MAX Software, Production and Process Update
UPDATED 03/21/2019 NYT, Doomed Boeing Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Company Sold Only as Extras...really!, a commercial passenger airliner is experiencing an accelerating pitching oscillation because you did not buy a "disagree" light and real AoA readings...

UPDATED 03/21/2019 AP, European, Canadian Regulators to do Own Review of Boeing Jet and USAToday, FBI Joins Criminal Probe into Boeing 737 Max 8 Safety Certification in Wake of Crashes and NYT, Pentagon Opens Internal Inquiry of Acting Defense Chief’s Ties to Boeing and NPR, Boeing Brings 100 Years Of History To Its Fight To Restore Its Reputation and Reuters, U.S. Prosecutors, Transportation Department Scrutinizing Boeing 737 MAX Development -Sources and WP, Federal Investigators Looking into Boeing 737 Max Following 2 Crashes in Less Than Five Months and Reuters, U.S. Senate to Hold Crash Hearing as Lawmakers Urge Grounding Boeing 737 MAX 8














Originally Published March 19, 2019; Last Updated September 16, 2020; Last Republished September 16, 2020:

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Monday, August 31, 2020

Fear Never Builds The Future

 

"Fear Never Builds The Future"

Biden's Pittsburgh Speech, Today

It is highly likely that the ancestors of American slaves will rescue our democracy from destruction by the ancestors of American slave owners...irony's beauty is boundless.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Is Georgia's Secretary Of State Criminally Suppressing Voters Updated08112020

..Is Georgia's secretary of state criminally suppressing voters...former President Carter has called on Brian Kemp to resign...not only must Kemp resign...the DOJ must launch an inquiry...

...the upside of gerrymandering is the possibility of gaining more seats than your expected fair allocation of seats...to get this unfair allocation a party must distribute "their" finite number of precious partisan voters across many districts in "just enough numbers" to win, but no more (i. e. "waste" a precious partisan voter)...to determine what is "just enough" the gerrymanders generally use "historical voting patterns and turnout"...
...now the downside of a gerrymander...enter an ultra qualified charismatic politician who is able to "energize" their voters to turnout in numbers far exceeding the expected historical averages (i.e. Stacey Abrams)...the "just enough" allocation of the precious partisan voters in a particular gerrymandered district is "swamped"...and the opposition wins the gerrymandered district... 

...this may be why Georgia's Secretary of State is very, very, very, concerned with the Democratic turnout...there are not enough reliably Republican voters in the gerrymandered district to cover the huge turnout...enter voter suppression (i.e a method of reducing the excessive turnout to the expected historical averages and those used when drawing the gerrymandered map)...

Web:

UPDATED 08/11/2020 AP, 'If not now, when?': Black women seize political spotlight

UPDATED 07/27/2020 AP, expert: Georgia election server showed signs of tampering and Coalition for Good Governance

Reidout, Abrams: Republicans Intend To Use Voter Suppression In The Upcoming Election

UPDATED 05/23/2020 LAT, Georgia reopened first. What the data show is a matter of fierce debate


...Georgia's governor extends electoral ruses, artifices and gimmicks to critical healthcare data and information...sacrificing Georgians to Republican Party dogma and deception...

UPDATED 12/14/2019 RiggedTheMovie, Have Your Been Purged [from the Voter Rolls],1



UPDATED 10/26/2019 EconomistPodcast, Where Does Power Lie In America? and FacingSouth, The Long Fight Over Using Student IDs To Vote in North Carolina and NYT, The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It and WP, Civil Rights Group Challenges Rejection of George Mason Student Voter Registrations

EconomistPodcast, Where Does Power Lie In America?

UPDATED 09/09/2019 NYT, In North Carolina Do-Over Vote, a Reliable Republican District Is Up for Grabs
UPDATED 08/30/2019 WP, It Seems Clear That Stacey Abrams’s Next Political Move Is Pursuing An Executive Role, Not A Legislative One


UPDATED 08/19/2019 WP, Stacey Abrams to Launch Voter Protection Program in Battleground States Ahead of the 2020 Election

...the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party's antiquated political platform necessitates use of Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks (RAG)...lately, their use of Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks is transparently flagrant...

...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Demands Facebook Investigate Why Obama’s Post Got So Many Likes


LastWeek, Bias In Medicine



LateShow, Donald Trump Acts Like A Villain To Energize His Base

UPDATED 07/13/2019 NYT, Dear Candidates: Here Is What Black People Want and Black Census Project


Commonwealth, Black Futures Lab and Black Census Project

UPDATED 02/23/2019 NYT, Republican Cries Against Voter Fraud Go Mostly Quiet After Scheme Tied to Party

...just in case you're tempted to think Georgia is the only [southern?] state the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party is actively using in ruse, artifice, and gimmickry to win elections...

...don't forget to laugh...

RealTime, New Rule: Prime Real Estate

UPDATED 02/06/2019 ABCNews, Stacey Abrams Delivers Democratic Response to Trump's State of the Union

ABCNews, Stacey Abrams Delivers Democratic Response to Trump's State of the Union

UPDATED 12/26/2018 Reuters, North Carolina Affidavits Released in Alleged Election Fraud Case and DCCC, Chairwoman Cheri Bustos Responds to Reports of Alleged Election Fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District and DCCC, Chairwoman Cheri Bustos Announces First Round of Senior Staff Hires
"...The DCCC did amazing work in 2018 to win 40 seats. Our challenge is to build on that progress, to fortify and expand our majority...America’s strength has always come from our diversity. That’s why I’m committed to building a leadership team that reflects the tremendous diversity of our House Democrats and our nation..."
UPDATED 12/12/2018 NYT, With Power Grabs in the Midwest, G.O.P. Risks a 2020 Backlash
"...The more fundamental risk for Republicans is that voters are increasingly savvy about issues like gerrymandering, voting rights and campaign finance, which were once thought to be of great interest to elites but of little relevance to most citizens..."--NYT, With Power Grabs--
UPDATED 12/13/2018 TED, Three Questions to Ask Yourself About Everything You Do and CBS46, Fair Fight Georgia Files Lawsuit Against State of Georgia and Fair Fight Georgia

TED, Three Questions to Ask Yourself About Everything You Do
Fair Fight Georgia

...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Iraq Offers to Help Establish Democracy in North Carolina...


FullFrontal, This American Trash: Voter Suppression in Georgia

FullFrontal, Medicare for All UFC Fighters


FullFrontal, Stacey Abrams V. Everybody

UPDATED 11/29/2018 AP, Candidate-Backed Group Challenges Georgia Election Process and CHNews, Abrams Supporters Seek Wide-Reaching Election Reform in Georgia and  Complaint, Fair Fight Action and Care in Action v. Robyn A. Crittenden (acting Georgia Secretary of State)

UPDATED 11/19/2018 AP, Abrams Says She Can’t Win Georgia Governor’s Race

...Georgia's electoral processes are a long way from inspiring confidence...the Republican Party has degenerated to a party of whiteface☂ ruse, artifice, and gimmick (i.e. GOP ⇒ RAG) across the United States...




☂...BBC, What's Killing America's White Men? and USAToday, Stepping Back from The Edge...


UPDATED 11/13/2018 NYT, Georgia’s Shaky Voting System

...the NYT opinion has enough information to order a run-off based on Secretary of State, Bryan Kemp's gross negligence...a scandalous farce where a state's secretary of state "oversees" his own candidacy for governor is not an election...




UPDATED 11/08/2018 WP, Stacey Abrams Legal Team Holds News Conference


UPDATED 11/04/2018 USAToday, Georgia's GOP Secretary of State Alleges [w/o Evidence] State Democrats Tried To Hack Registration
UPDATED 11/03/2018 Reuters, U.S. Courts Rule Against Georgia On Voter Suppression Cases and NYT, Fired Up’ Voters in 22 States Are Outpacing [by 80%] 2014 Early Ballot Counts
UPDATED 11/03/2018 Vox, Why American Voter Registrations Are Disappearing and NewYorker, Are Police Targeting Get-Out-the-Vote Efforts in Georgia?

Vox, Why American Voter Registrations Are Disappearing

...don't forget to laugh...WP, The GOP Has A Preexisting Condition: Bigotry

RealTime, New Rule: Win or Go Home
...the caravan is "marching" like a bunch of D-0 Army recruits...better send Seal Team Six-Red and the 3rd Airborne Group to stop this "invading force"...(AP, Fact Check: President Trump’s Rhetoric and The Truth About Migrant Caravans)...make sure you pack the C-130s with extra MREs, doctors, and medical supplies...the "threat" will welcome offers of nourishment and medical attention...because the "threat" will likely mistake soldiers for border agents be ready to tell the surrendering "threat", in Spanish directions to the nearest border patrol agent... (WP, Trump’s Border Deployments Could Cost $200 Million by Year-End)

LateNight, Trump's Racist Fearmongering Is His Latest Scam
(WP, In 649 days, President Trump Has Made 6,420  False or Misleading Claims)










-----notes-----

1. UPDATED 01/03/2020 Charlotte Observer,  NC Voter ID Law Written with ‘Discriminatory Intent,’ Says Judge Who Just Blocked It and ABCNews, Memorandum Opinion, Order, And Preliminary Injunction Loretta C. Biggs, District Judge (pdf)

...evidence continues to accumulate for requiring a form of the 1965 Voting Rights Act §5 preclearance rules, which the Supreme Court's ideologues invalidated in Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), leaving the "gods" to sort  out our nation's entrenched partisan regional racism...

...kudos to the local judges who are stepping in to fill the insidiously discriminatory gaps created by the Supreme Court ideologues' Shelby ruling...


UPDATED 12/14/2019 USAToday, Judge Orders 234,000 Purged from Wisconsin Voter Rolls and Texas Settles Lawsuit Over Attempt To Purge Thousands From Voter Rolls

...Georgia is not the only state where the RNC-GOP cum RAG Party is conducting bulk voter roll purge programs...unsurprisingly these bulk programs, disproportionately impact the economically disadvantaged and minority groups...

...everybody concerned about fair (i.e. credible) elections must actively intervene to make sure these "voter roll purges" do not remove a single legitimate...expect these ruses, artifices, and gimmicks (RAGs) to continue into the foreseeable future...

...combining an aggressive "voter roll purge" oversight program, which must receive a copy of any purge letter with an equally aggressive voter registration program is ideal...

...here is a statement from Wisconsin's Elections Commission on Judge Malloy's oral ruling:
Statement regarding decision in voter list case
Date:Fri, 12/13/2019 - 17:30

The Wisconsin Elections Commission issued the following statement in response to Judge Malloy's ruling today in Timothy Zignego et al vs. Wisconsin Election Commission et al:

"We will be analyzing the judge’s oral decision and consulting with the six members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission on next steps. A written order has not been issued yet."
For more information, contact

Reid Magney, public information officer, 608-267-7887, reid.magney@wi.gov.
...the statement should say "We will be overruling Judge Malloy's oral ruling"...




 Originally Published October 31, 2018; Last Updated August 11, 2020; Last Republished August 11, 2020:​

 

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Monday, July 27, 2020

Is Georgia's Secretary Of State Criminally Suppressing Voters Updated08112020

..Is Georgia's secretary of state criminally suppressing voters...former President Carter has called on Brian Kemp to resign...not only must Kemp resign...the DOJ must launch an inquiry...

...the upside of gerrymandering is the possibility of gaining more seats than your expected fair allocation of seats...to get this unfair allocation a party must distribute "their" finite number of precious partisan voters across many districts in "just enough numbers" to win, but no more (i. e. "waste" a precious partisan voter)...to determine what is "just enough" the gerrymanders generally use "historical voting patterns and turnout"...
...now the downside of a gerrymander...enter an ultra qualified charismatic politician who is able to "energize" their voters to turnout in numbers far exceeding the expected historical averages (i.e. Stacey Abrams)...the "just enough" allocation of the precious partisan voters in a particular gerrymandered district is "swamped"...and the opposition wins the gerrymandered district... 

...this may be why Georgia's Secretary of State is very, very, very, concerned with the Democratic turnout...there are not enough reliably Republican voters in the gerrymandered district to cover the huge turnout...enter voter suppression (i.e a method of reducing the excessive turnout to the expected historical averages and those used when drawing the gerrymandered map)...

Web:

UPDATED 08/11/2020 AP, 'If not now, when?': Black women seize political spotlight

UPDATED 07/27/2020 AP, expert: Georgia election server showed signs of tampering and Coalition for Good Governance

Reidout, Abrams: Republicans Intend To Use Voter Suppression In The Upcoming Election

UPDATED 05/23/2020 LAT, Georgia reopened first. What the data show is a matter of fierce debate


...Georgia's governor extends electoral ruses, artifices and gimmicks to critical healthcare data and information...sacrificing Georgians to Republican Party dogma and deception...

UPDATED 12/14/2019 RiggedTheMovie, Have Your Been Purged [from the Voter Rolls],1



UPDATED 10/26/2019 EconomistPodcast, Where Does Power Lie In America? and FacingSouth, The Long Fight Over Using Student IDs To Vote in North Carolina and NYT, The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It and WP, Civil Rights Group Challenges Rejection of George Mason Student Voter Registrations

EconomistPodcast, Where Does Power Lie In America?

UPDATED 09/09/2019 NYT, In North Carolina Do-Over Vote, a Reliable Republican District Is Up for Grabs
UPDATED 08/30/2019 WP, It Seems Clear That Stacey Abrams’s Next Political Move Is Pursuing An Executive Role, Not A Legislative One


UPDATED 08/19/2019 WP, Stacey Abrams to Launch Voter Protection Program in Battleground States Ahead of the 2020 Election

...the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party's antiquated political platform necessitates use of Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks (RAG)...lately, their use of Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks is transparently flagrant...

...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Demands Facebook Investigate Why Obama’s Post Got So Many Likes


LastWeek, Bias In Medicine



LateShow, Donald Trump Acts Like A Villain To Energize His Base

UPDATED 07/13/2019 NYT, Dear Candidates: Here Is What Black People Want and Black Census Project


Commonwealth, Black Futures Lab and Black Census Project

UPDATED 02/23/2019 NYT, Republican Cries Against Voter Fraud Go Mostly Quiet After Scheme Tied to Party

...just in case you're tempted to think Georgia is the only [southern?] state the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party is actively using in ruse, artifice, and gimmickry to win elections...

...don't forget to laugh...

RealTime, New Rule: Prime Real Estate

UPDATED 02/06/2019 ABCNews, Stacey Abrams Delivers Democratic Response to Trump's State of the Union

ABCNews, Stacey Abrams Delivers Democratic Response to Trump's State of the Union

UPDATED 12/26/2018 Reuters, North Carolina Affidavits Released in Alleged Election Fraud Case and DCCC, Chairwoman Cheri Bustos Responds to Reports of Alleged Election Fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District and DCCC, Chairwoman Cheri Bustos Announces First Round of Senior Staff Hires
"...The DCCC did amazing work in 2018 to win 40 seats. Our challenge is to build on that progress, to fortify and expand our majority...America’s strength has always come from our diversity. That’s why I’m committed to building a leadership team that reflects the tremendous diversity of our House Democrats and our nation..."
UPDATED 12/12/2018 NYT, With Power Grabs in the Midwest, G.O.P. Risks a 2020 Backlash
"...The more fundamental risk for Republicans is that voters are increasingly savvy about issues like gerrymandering, voting rights and campaign finance, which were once thought to be of great interest to elites but of little relevance to most citizens..."--NYT, With Power Grabs--
UPDATED 12/13/2018 TED, Three Questions to Ask Yourself About Everything You Do and CBS46, Fair Fight Georgia Files Lawsuit Against State of Georgia and Fair Fight Georgia

TED, Three Questions to Ask Yourself About Everything You Do
Fair Fight Georgia

...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Iraq Offers to Help Establish Democracy in North Carolina...


FullFrontal, This American Trash: Voter Suppression in Georgia

FullFrontal, Medicare for All UFC Fighters


FullFrontal, Stacey Abrams V. Everybody

UPDATED 11/29/2018 AP, Candidate-Backed Group Challenges Georgia Election Process and CHNews, Abrams Supporters Seek Wide-Reaching Election Reform in Georgia and  Complaint, Fair Fight Action and Care in Action v. Robyn A. Crittenden (acting Georgia Secretary of State)

UPDATED 11/19/2018 AP, Abrams Says She Can’t Win Georgia Governor’s Race

...Georgia's electoral processes are a long way from inspiring confidence...the Republican Party has degenerated to a party of whiteface☂ ruse, artifice, and gimmick (i.e. GOP ⇒ RAG) across the United States...




☂...BBC, What's Killing America's White Men? and USAToday, Stepping Back from The Edge...


UPDATED 11/13/2018 NYT, Georgia’s Shaky Voting System

...the NYT opinion has enough information to order a run-off based on Secretary of State, Bryan Kemp's gross negligence...a scandalous farce where a state's secretary of state "oversees" his own candidacy for governor is not an election...




UPDATED 11/08/2018 WP, Stacey Abrams Legal Team Holds News Conference


UPDATED 11/04/2018 USAToday, Georgia's GOP Secretary of State Alleges [w/o Evidence] State Democrats Tried To Hack Registration
UPDATED 11/03/2018 Reuters, U.S. Courts Rule Against Georgia On Voter Suppression Cases and NYT, Fired Up’ Voters in 22 States Are Outpacing [by 80%] 2014 Early Ballot Counts
UPDATED 11/03/2018 Vox, Why American Voter Registrations Are Disappearing and NewYorker, Are Police Targeting Get-Out-the-Vote Efforts in Georgia?

Vox, Why American Voter Registrations Are Disappearing

...don't forget to laugh...WP, The GOP Has A Preexisting Condition: Bigotry

RealTime, New Rule: Win or Go Home
...the caravan is "marching" like a bunch of D-0 Army recruits...better send Seal Team Six-Red and the 3rd Airborne Group to stop this "invading force"...(AP, Fact Check: President Trump’s Rhetoric and The Truth About Migrant Caravans)...make sure you pack the C-130s with extra MREs, doctors, and medical supplies...the "threat" will welcome offers of nourishment and medical attention...because the "threat" will likely mistake soldiers for border agents be ready to tell the surrendering "threat", in Spanish directions to the nearest border patrol agent... (WP, Trump’s Border Deployments Could Cost $200 Million by Year-End)

LateNight, Trump's Racist Fearmongering Is His Latest Scam
(WP, In 649 days, President Trump Has Made 6,420  False or Misleading Claims)










-----notes-----

1. UPDATED 01/03/2020 Charlotte Observer,  NC Voter ID Law Written with ‘Discriminatory Intent,’ Says Judge Who Just Blocked It and ABCNews, Memorandum Opinion, Order, And Preliminary Injunction Loretta C. Biggs, District Judge (pdf)

...evidence continues to accumulate for requiring a form of the 1965 Voting Rights Act §5 preclearance rules, which the Supreme Court's ideologues invalidated in Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), leaving the "gods" to sort  out our nation's entrenched partisan regional racism...

...kudos to the local judges who are stepping in to fill the insidiously discriminatory gaps created by the Supreme Court ideologues' Shelby ruling...


UPDATED 12/14/2019 USAToday, Judge Orders 234,000 Purged from Wisconsin Voter Rolls and Texas Settles Lawsuit Over Attempt To Purge Thousands From Voter Rolls

...Georgia is not the only state where the RNC-GOP cum RAG Party is conducting bulk voter roll purge programs...unsurprisingly these bulk programs, disproportionately impact the economically disadvantaged and minority groups...

...everybody concerned about fair (i.e. credible) elections must actively intervene to make sure these "voter roll purges" do not remove a single legitimate...expect these ruses, artifices, and gimmicks (RAGs) to continue into the foreseeable future...

...combining an aggressive "voter roll purge" oversight program, which must receive a copy of any purge letter with an equally aggressive voter registration program is ideal...

...here is a statement from Wisconsin's Elections Commission on Judge Malloy's oral ruling:
Statement regarding decision in voter list case
Date:Fri, 12/13/2019 - 17:30

The Wisconsin Elections Commission issued the following statement in response to Judge Malloy's ruling today in Timothy Zignego et al vs. Wisconsin Election Commission et al:

"We will be analyzing the judge’s oral decision and consulting with the six members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission on next steps. A written order has not been issued yet."
For more information, contact

Reid Magney, public information officer, 608-267-7887, reid.magney@wi.gov.
...the statement should say "We will be overruling Judge Malloy's oral ruling"...




 Originally Published October 31, 2018; Last Updated August 11, 2020; Last Republished August 11, 2020:
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

The Great American Turning Updated

 A Bipartisan Commission Must Follow The Final Report
...our nation still has a lot to understand and learn about this category 3 ordeal shit show...

The Great American Turning

UPDATED 07/09/2020 AP, Trump’s leadership is tested in time of fear, pandemic and WP, Trump has taken up residence in an alternate political reality





...don't forget to laugh...while you're voting...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

The Least Secretive Of Nations Is The Strongest Of Nations Update-4 Updated 08162020

Originally Published October 28, 2013; Last Updated  August 16, 2020; Last Republished August 11, 2020: 

Our government's unmeasured and unconstrained psychotic pursuit of secret surveillance initiatives undermines and threatens both our democracy and its foundational First Amendment.

Only after the intervention of a courageous young whistleblower-leaker, competitive China and cantankerous Russia has some of our government's representatives begun to acknowledge that our government's secret surveillance initiatives require constraints.

Our government representatives' acknowledgement that its secret surveillance initiatives require constraints is a good beginning. However, the acknowledgement must be coupled with government transparency, significant whistleblower-leaker reforms and inviolable reporter shields, but that will require the intervention of our increasingly concerned citizenry.

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The Least Secretive Of Nations Is The Strongest Of Nations Update-3

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UPDATED 08/16/2020 Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman, Penguin Press 2020

"...Google accelerated plans to encrypt all its services for consumer and business customers, and it tightened up security inside its cloud, too...The year after our Google cloud exploitation story, Grosse’s team released the source code for a new software library called End-to-End. It was a free tool that other software developers could use for encryption of email. Google security engineers left a blunt fuck-you for the NSA in a comment embedded in the source code, harking back to the smiley face in the cloud cartoon: --ssl-added-and-removed-here-;-)..."--Dark Mirror--

...Gellman's latest book is a timely reminder that our nation must replace its national security paradigm...a replacement paradigm1 that does not need infinite intercept capacity, weak encryption, government accessible keys or policymakers that think surveillance can cut the probability of a surprise to near zero...

 

1...name the replacement paradigm ("PEAD")...People for the Elimination of Authoritarian Dictates)...especially ones that operate with secrecy...

"...Here’s the thing about whistle-blowers: They tend to be flawed messengers. Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden — each of them was dismissed as selfish, damaged, reckless and crazy. Yet all of them, regardless of motivation, used secret documents to change the course of history.

For more than five years, Val Broeksmit has been dangling his Deutsche Bank files in front of journalists and government investigators, dreaming of becoming the next great American whistle-blower. He wants to expose what he sees as corporate wrongdoing, give some meaning to his father’s death — and maybe get famous along the way. Inside newsrooms and investigative bodies around the world, Mr. Broeksmit’s documents have become something of an open secret, and so are the psychological strings that come attached. I pulled them more than anyone, as part of my reporting on Deutsche Bank for The New York Times and for a book, Dark Towers, published next year. It has been the most intense source relationship of my career... " --David Enrich, October 2019--

Unsurprisingly, the sociopath and pathological liar occupying our White House has told our  Supreme Court, such as it is, that he has an absolute right to ignore congressional subpoenas for Deutsche Bank documents. The Court is cogitating the crazy case!
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020

A Wacky Wake And Prayer for the Republican Party Updated



A Wacky Wake And Prayer for the Republican Party

UPDATED 06/02/2020:

...A Wacky Walk And Prayer...

...fortunately, the novice effort by the sociopath, pathological liar and propagandist et al. occupying our White House does not match Helene Bertha Amalie (Leni) Riefenstahl's propaganda effort...however, if the Republican Party continues its silent abetting of their nascent authoritarian's (Speaker Pelosi letter demanding information on increased militarization of DC) effort that may change..

...here's the part just before the C-SPAN video begins...and the "finished propaganda"...



...pay the peaceful protester SAG rates as "extras" in a propaganda short?..

President Trump [Wacky] Statement on Senate Acquittal

...the above "wacky wake" follows an appearance at a morning prayer breakfast...the meaning and purpose of his "prayer" is uncertain and unclear...


...if your party's platform requires an ignominious pathological lying sociopath and bulldozer to carry out, your party and platform are not helpful to most, if any of our citizenry...and by extension America...(NYT, On Trump’s To-Do List: Take Back The Suburbs. Court Black Voters. Expand the Electoral Map. Win.)...

...additionally, sorting out fact and fiction of an ignominious pathological lying sociopath is not a "growth" activity although it is very "disruptive"...

...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Trump Spends National Prayer Breakfast Attacking God For Allowing Impeachment To Ever Happen and Rush Limbaugh Admits Presidential Medal Of Freedom Less Of An Honor Knowing That Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou Also Received It and Senate Republicans Say One Mistake Should Not Ruin The Life Of A Naive, Promising Young Man Like Trump and Justice Roberts Sternly Admonishes Impeachment Participants To Remember They’re At Complete Farce Of A Trial and Trump Makes Powerful Pro-Life Case By Speaking About The Joys Of Neglecting A Child and Report: The Nation Has Healed And It’s Time To Rejoice!




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