MT: US High Court Says Police Need A Warrant For Most Cellphone Searches http://t.co/BGkA4UEWOe :Via @nprnews:
— neditsimple (@neditssimple) June 25, 2014
___________________________________________________The advance of ISIS in Iraq has continued . So has the talk in Washington and in the US media about Iraq and Syria. There was news of another huge bomb in Beirut. Dexter Filkins, now of The New Yorker was on Fresh Air with Terry Gross today giving a view on the state of things there. A long hour. In addition, a strong case against 'action' and for more humanitarian aid has been put forward by Andrew Bacevich, and in a longer interview with Billl Moyers.
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Human rights advocate Salwa Bugaighis was killed in Libya.
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These men were sentenced to seven years, and one to a ten year term in an Egyptian prison for being journalists.
Journalists in cages. http://t.co/jbZi7hTceH via @mashable & @GettyImages pic.twitter.com/a541xg9Jit
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) June 23, 2014
___________________________________________________The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals just released a document listing the justifications, in legal terms, that were used to kill Americans overseas with drones.
Court releases secret memo providing legal justification for using drones to kill Americans: http://t.co/QSA7PCo7la pic.twitter.com/IN7hMFy6pX
— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) June 23, 2014
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Here's looking at some of the relative US economies in a great series of graphs with the NY Times.
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Was Goldman Sachs implicated in mortgage security failure in 2008?
Goldman Sachs Involved in Fraudulent Activities in Toxic Mortgage-backed Securities http://t.co/ODn3Ki05dS via @grtvnews
— neditsimple (@neditssimple) June 24, 2014
____________________________________________________The 2014 World Cup in Brasil has been threatening to suck the oxygen out of rooms all over the world for a couple weeks now. Much time expended, many views expressed both revolving around the actual games and the people and countries involved, even the stadiums across the country accomodating the games. A nice view on local Brasilians who cheer for other futbol teams, because their ancestors immigrated from Japan, Italy was on npr. 4 min audio
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Horace Silver died a week ago. This may be his most well known song.
Horace Silver 5tet - Song For My Father [1968]: http://t.co/lAxtog1bh4 via @YouTube
— neditsimple (@neditssimple) June 19, 2014
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