Greece is now officially a ward of the international community.
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A new book makes the persuasive case that Mark Felt’s Watergate leaks, which demonstrated his classic counterintelligence training, were only meant to push Richard Nixon into making him FBI director. Patriotism wasn’t really part of it.
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You’re not paying the tax rate you think you are
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Raiding the future of the Internet
To save itself the content industry needs to embrace a pricing model more attuned to our digital times. Instead it's mainly seeking laws that allow intrusive interrogations by state agents -- the kind one would expect to find in a totalitarian society, not an open one.
My tweets refuse to be subpoenaed
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