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“I hear you loud and clear Merkel…trust me, we’re recording this call”

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#WAT?
This is batshit! Based on Edward Snowden’s revelations, we figured that Joe and Jill Schmoe’s conversations were being listened to, but Chancellor Angela Merkel? As in the leader of one of America’s closest allies?!

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Chancellor Angela Merkel responds to revelations that President Barack Obama is having the U.S. government surveilling her cell phone

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This really shouldn’t be that hard for the U.S. in remote areas like the North Waziristan border region Pakistan. In more urban combat terrains like Iraq, it would prove much harder.

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Australia has apparently been colluding with the US by providing intelligence, reportedly through the top-secret Pine Gap spy base near Alice Springs, Australia.

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McClatchy has done a lot of reporting on Pakistani intelligence agencies' collaboration with US forces on drone strikes. Simbal Khan, the director of research at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, recently said, “The signs are that the U.S. has revisited intelligence cooperation with Pakistan, and the two sides have returned to the early stages, when drone attacks were initiated under a covert joint mandate.”

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Authorities at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre asked Rihanna to leave the site of their Abu Dhabi mosque after she posted provocative Instagram pictures of herself posing in areas of the mosque that are off-limit to visitors on Saturday.

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The many bugs and error messages on Healthcare.gov are the reason Obama’s giving this speech in the first place – to reassure Americans that ObamaCare is working

For some analysis of why the website wasn’t ready to handle the traffic it’s received, read The New York Times

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This idea of signing up healthy under-and un-employed young citizens for health insurance in order to lower the cost of care for the sick and old actually originated with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who implemented a version of the health care marketplace idea in his home state in 2006 before denouncing the whole idea when he ran for President in 2012. He actually worked with Ted Kennedy on the plan! Imagine that happening now…

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