August 31, 2012: Morning
- South African miners charged in murder of colleagues shot by police.
- Trial of Bradley Manning to begin in February—three years after he was arrested.
- This is the last time that any party will try to win an election with just the white vote.
- Egyptian leader backs Syrian rebels at Iran's non-aligned conference.
- Drone-tracking app rejected by Apple for being objectionable, not entertaining.
- Software developed to track crime is being used to track dissidents, activists in Turkmenistan, Bahrain.
- TMN's Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones's ebook on Agenda 21 conspiracists who link sustainability with the gulag.
- Related: Hinkes-Jones introduces Agenda 21, explaining the property-rights roots of the movement.
- What it's like living in one of China's megapolises: dreary, toxic, unlivable.
- Chinese city gives civic leaders right to give out traffic tickets and keep 80% of the fine for themselves.
- The doping question in cycling is a game in itself, a prisoner dilemma of high strategy.