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Welcome to 2014! Some of the fun things our government has been up to in the past decade include: mass torture, detention without trial, assassinating citizens with remote-control robots, and mass surveillance of every American’s phone calls and Internet use. Not spooky at all, nope.Pretty often I find myself wondering: Do the president and military…

Tim Jones

Jul 28, 2014

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