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nashville_brook

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9. there's so much here...but this really leapt out at me:

Sun Jul 28, 2013, 02:19 PM

Jul 2013

"Edward Snowden, you rebelled because you were outraged; so many others are rebelling because their lives are impossible now. These days when we revolt, the new technologies become our friends as well as our enemies. If you imagine those technologies as the fire Prometheus stole from the gods, then it works both ways, for us and for them, to create and to destroy. "

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Worthy read, Aljazeera-opinion piece on Edward Snowden [View all] kpete Jul 2013 OP

K&R Cleita Jul 2013 #1

K&R 1-Old-Man Jul 2013 #2

OMG that's powerful. " Privacy is a kind of power as well as a right..." chimpymustgo Jul 2013 #3

Will the sockpuppets even read it? Ichingcarpenter Jul 2013 #4

Well, actually, probably not done throwing up yet. railsback Jul 2013 #6

I doubt they read very far. They are afraid that it might rock their tightly rhett o rick Jul 2013 #7

+100 n/t ChazII Jul 2013 #8

READ THIS POINT PEOPLE Ichingcarpenter Jul 2013 #5

there's so much here...but this really leapt out at me: nashville_brook Jul 2013 #9

Headline is incorrect, this is not Al Jazeera at all, it's from Tom's Dispatch flamingdem Jul 2013 #10

The link is from Al Jazeera - by this author who writes for TomDispatch kpete Jul 2013 #12

'You are accused of spying on the spies felix_numinous Jul 2013 #11

There are many misguided people that can write eloquently. This author is one of them. nt AllINeedIsCoffee Jul 2013 #13

Why? whttevrr Jul 2013 #17

knr forestpath Jul 2013 #14

He lost me at Billions...n/t Scurrilous Jul 2013 #15

lost me at 'like Anne Frank'... Whisp Jul 2013 #16