Make a Salad Instead

"Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself" by Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/uk-government-independent-military-base
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"NSA Bugged the United Nations" by Christina Warren, Mashable (via Der Spiegel)
http://mashable.com/2013/08/25/nsa-bugged-un/
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Diversions, nudges, and distractions are more preferable to the U.S. government than controlling its behavior.
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They told him Blagoveshchensk to Springfield was 1% walkable. He tried it, and they were right.
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This just in:
The U.S. government says there is very little doubt it is too early to make assumptions. So it will make a salad instead.