From the Supreme Court of Kenya
Petitioner: My lords and my ladies, it is my submission before this court that the election was shambolic and not carried out according to the law
1st Respondent: It is possible we carried out the elections according to the law, but we are not sure and we can’t let you see the evidence
2nd Respondent: My hands were tied, I could only read what I was given.
3rd Respondent: I won fair and square, processes be damned.
My friends, the above, is the executive summary of the court proceedings, but in case you have time in your hands, are a lawyer, or just curious, you can start from
and play backwards. I promise you two things. You will be entertained. You will be enraged.
Having dispensed with that, Kenya has approved a complete ban on plastics, no plastic bags. I can safely say it is at this point in time safer to be found in possession of weed than a plastic bag.
Anyone planning on visiting our good country, don’t carry plastic bags. But you can carry plastic bottles, these are good. You can invest in coal, this is good. You can, if you have the funds, build on a riparian reserve, this is good. You can harvest sand from the rivers without a care for the environment as long as you have a license, this is good. You can build a railway through the national park, this, too is good. Plastic bags, bad bad bad.
Keep it right here, we will bring you more updates as they arrive on our news desk.
Random thoughts 
You’re starting to sound almost as positive as me! Excellent!!! 😀
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Yeah. That is catchy . Gotta touch of m’self.
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People need to be cheered up, my friend.
Only you and I will do it.
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Enraged is good.
Have these guys no self-awareness? I mean, really!!????
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It’s unbelievable the theatre of the absurd that we have been treated to.
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Damn, I just sent you a free lifetime supply of plastic bags. Sorry if this causes you any legal trouble. 🙂 Your country is a fucking nuts as mine.
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With this, the inspectors will be waiting for the shipment to arrive so they can arrest me. Why are you putting me in trouble? What happened to friendship?
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I’m very sorry. 🙂
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Apology accepted.
Only request is you come visit me once I am thrown in jail.
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Will do.
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I knew I can’t count on you to offer support after creating a situation for me😁😁
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Ugh… what a mess! A “theatre of the absurd,” indeed. These proceedings remind me of a sci-fi story where a society was deliberately kept in the dark about the true nature of its world. An old man near the end of his days finally finds the courage to speak the forbidden truth only to pay the ultimate price. His last words: “For the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky!”
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It’s a theatre of the absurd my friend. And unfortunately, we think elements in some governments in Europe and US of A are complicit in all this mess just in the name of contracts. To them, democracy is a high sounding word, but only good in Europe and the Americas.
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Democracy is dying a slow painful death in the U.S. and elsewhere, Noel, because various authoritarian forces hate that high-sounding word (e.g. Christofascists and the neoliberal Establishment).
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You are right
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Almost as productive as continuing to allow private ownership of firearms in the USA. These governments who think of themselves as divinely ordained are, in reality, nothing more than whores for the kingdom of their divine inspiration!
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Guns will make you safe, no?
You should keep a gun my friend, an automatic is good. 🙂
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My Kenyan brother, I’d shoot my stupid head off! LOL! Naked hugs!
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That would be better than being killed by a stray bullet 🙂
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I think I’ll postpone either fate just a little bit longer. 🙂
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Haha
That you must
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Spot on.
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Son of a… I used to keep my weed in PLASTIC BAGS!
Mak every time I feel like shit can’t possibly get any worse here, you remind me of how bad it is there. I don’t know how the world became so batshit crazy but I do hope it retreats back towards sanity sometime soon.
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Our is a tragi-comedy. So we can find moments of hilarity amidst the noise.
If you lived here, it would be better to have the week wrapped in an old newspaper than to be found with weed and plastic bag
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I don’t smoke weed enough anymore to be concerned with paper or plastic. 🙂
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Haha
Lucky you
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