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Last week was my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary. Quite an accomplishment in this day and age. It was a beautiful ceremony and fun party afterwards with dancing and mariachi's. In addition to time spent with the in-laws, we had a nice visit and enjoyed a week of family time and activities, including a day trip to see my sister and nieces in Oregon on the way back home. However, now that we are back I feel glad to be home, but at the same time have come to realize how boring my life is once I am back into routine again.

Source for the Guardian's NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation – and what happens next

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Republican Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions calls the special interests behind the

LONDON (AP) — The Guardian newspaper says the British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails when the U.K.

Veteran CBS anchor Bob Schieffer told viewers on Face The Nation on Sunday: ''I think what we have in Edward Snowden is just a narcissistic young man who has decided he is smarter than the rest of us.'...

Officers were told a single gunman, a Hispanic male wearing a blue hat, was connected to all four shooting scenes.

Lauren Grey didn't think much about the gender recorded on her Illinois driver's license until she went to test-drive a new car.

Whew. Good news for those of you who were concerned about the billions of bullets the DHS was purchasing for domestic usage.

Elbert Guillory, an African-American state senator from Louisiana, recently became a Republican. And one week later, he released a video explaining his move -- and urging others to join him in

The whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in NSA history answered your questions about the NSA surveillance revelations

11.17am ET

Question:

You have said HERE that you admire both Ellsberg and Manning, but have argued that there is one important distinction between yourself and the army private...

"I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest," he said. "There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is."

Are you suggesting that Manning indiscriminately dumped secrets into the hands of Wikileaks and that he intended to harm people?

Answer:

No, I'm not. Wikileaks is a legitimate journalistic outlet and they carefully redacted all of their releases in accordance with a judgment of public interest. The unredacted release of cables was due to the failure of a partner journalist to control a passphrase. However, I understand that many media outlets used the argument that "documents were dumped" to smear Manning, and want to make it clear that it is not a valid assertion here.

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Question:

US officials say terrorists already altering TTPs because of your leaks, & calling you traitor. Respond?http://t.co/WlK2qpYJki #AskSnowden

— Kimberly Dozier (@KimberlyDozier) June 17, 2013

Answer:

US officials say this every time there's a public discussion that could limit their authority. US officials also provide misleading or directly false assertions about the value of these programs, as they did just recently with the Zazi case, which court documents clearly show was not unveiled by PRISM.

Journalists should ask a specific question: since these programs began operation shortly after September 11th, how many terrorist attacks were prevented SOLELY by information derived from this suspicionless surveillance that could not be gained via any other source? Then ask how many individual communications were ingested to acheive that, and ask yourself if it was worth it. Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

Further, it's important to bear in mind I'm being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I w

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John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800, the son of a gypsy type family, having moved from place to place throughout New England. However, he spent most of his youth in Ohio, where the schools taught him to take exception to mandatory education. At the same time, his parents taught him to worship the Bible and hate slavery. During the War of 1812, he assisted General William Hull by herding cattle for him. In later years he worked at his family's tannery (tanning is that process of turning animal hide into leather). At the age of twenty, he married Dianthe Lusk, and together they had seven children. Tied of working at his family's business, he and his wife moved to Pennsylvania and operated a tannery of their own. In 1831, Dianthe died, and within a year of her death, Brown married the sixteen-year-old Mary Anne Day. With Mary, they had thirteen children, giving Brown a total of twenty children between his two wives.

Over the next twenty-four years, Brown was not very successful in business, having built and sold several tanneries. Additionally, he was a land speculator, raised sheep, and started a brokerage house for wool growers, all of which did not fair well. Being a bad businessman, he experienced financial difficulties, but rather than improve his situation, his visionary thinking went toward the plight of the weak and persecuted. Always seeking the friendship and company of blacks, he ended up living in a freedman's community in North Elba, New York for two years. Soon he was obsessed in his thinking and became a militant abolitionist, as well as one of the "conductors" on the Underground Railroad. As well, he was the organizer of the Self-protection League for free blacks and fugitive slaves.

At the age of fifty, Brown now envisioned slave uprisings, and regarded himself as a person commissioned by God to make his visions a reality. In 1855, five of his sons went to Kansas to form a haven for anti slavery settlers, and Brown went along. Following the raids on Lawrence, Kansas, whereby the town was burned and pillaged, Brown's hostility toward slave states accelerated. Seeking revenge, Brown, along with the militia he had formed, went on a mission on the evening of May 23, 1856. With six militia members, as well as four of his sons, they went to the homes of pro-slavery men who lived along the Pottawatomie Creek, dragged them from their homes, and cut them to death with swords. As a result, Brown was known as "Old Brown of Osawatomie," and was feared by those men who were pro-slavery.

By the fall of 1856, Brown had been defeated, for the moment, and returned to Ohio, but still held his vision of a slave rebellion. To accomplish this, Brown traveled back and forth to Kansas several times, now processing a grandiose plan to free the slaves throughout the South. With financial help from abolitionists in New England, Brown started his plan by raiding plantations in Missouri, but accomplished very little by it.

Continuing his plan, in the summer of 1859, he decided to concentrate his mission to western Virginia. So, on the evening of October 16, with an army of twenty-one men that included five blacks, they raided the government armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). It was Brown's plan to steal the arsenal's weapons, then arm thousands of slaves, who he believed would flock to him upon learning of his raid. However, Brown's plan did not work as he had hoped. Instead, groups of the militia as well as the United States Marines under the command of Colonel Robert E. Lee, converged on Harpers Ferry, trapping Brown and his men in a fire house on October 18. Storming the building, Lee and his men killed ten of Brown's men and captured seven, including Brown.

Later tried and found guilty of treason, John Brown was hanged at Charleston, on December 2, 1859. As a result of Brown's last speech, and his fearless demeanor on the gallows, he became a martyr in sections of the North.

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An airport employee found the round inside an airport gate and believed it was an explosive.