Reddit on July 14, 2013: Top Posts and Discussions

Sunday, Jul. 14th 2013

News on 7/14/13

Snowden: I did not seek to enrich myself. I did not seek to sell US secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.
r/worldnews · 3n7r0py · 3200 pts
Reykjavík to end sister cities relationship with Moscow because of gay rights violations in Russia
r/worldnews · greatapeloller · 3003 pts
19 year-old Hacker Reveals How Brazil's Elections Were Rigged
r/worldnews · rib9985 · 2754 pts
Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has warned that the fear of terrorism is being exploited by the Government to erode civil liberties and risks creating a police state.
r/worldnews · cavehobbit · 2750 pts
Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy - the language, called Warlpiri rampaku, created by children, is spoken only by people under 35 in Lajamanu, an isolated village in Northern Australia
r/worldnews · oshunsmall · 2597 pts
Contradicting a statement by ex-vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday that warrantless domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11, 2007 court records indicate that the Bush-Cheney administration began such surveillance at least 7 months prior to 9/11.
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Swedish professor urges the Nobel peace prize commitee to give Snowden the Nobel peace prize.
r/worldnews · happeloy · 2464 pts
South Fires Back At US Bully: "Repeated US attempts by the Bush and Obama administrations to bully the rest of the world into compliance, using a combination of military might and economic blackmail, are beginning to backfire and meet with moral resistance."
r/worldnews · trot-trot · 2016 pts

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Follow up to yesterday's "send pizza" post. The 4th floor of the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles had a pizza party thanks to Reddit.

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Miss America 1924

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The most satisfying pressure wash...ahhh. (xpost /r/powerwashingporn)

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Rarely seen, an old bull elephant stands on his back legs to grab some grub

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What I find when searching for a job...

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When I saw "Obama considering ending NSA surveillance"

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I told my girlfriend the garbage disposal was broken and she said "Maybe there's a spoon in there."

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After 1.5 years in Europe.

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Hey printer companies.

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China completes the largest building in the world

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Clouds over Geneve look like a giant tsunami

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El beso de la muerte (The Kiss of Death)

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I'm colorblind, and after 23 years of being questioned about it, maybe this will clear it up.

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Just want to take a moment to celebrate #1.

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After going on a George Carlin stand-up bender...

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In response to Obama considering ending NSA surveillance

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For the confession bear who reported the underage girl on /r/gonewild

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My friend told me this today...

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Reddit on July 14, 2013

Sunday, Jul. 14th 2013

News on 7/14/13

Snowden: I did not seek to enrich myself. I did not seek to sell US secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

Reykjavík to end sister cities relationship with Moscow because of gay rights violations in Russia

19 year-old Hacker Reveals How Brazil's Elections Were Rigged

Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has warned that the fear of terrorism is being exploited by the Government to erode civil liberties and risks creating a police state.

Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy - the language, called Warlpiri rampaku, created by children, is spoken only by people under 35 in Lajamanu, an isolated village in Northern Australia

Contradicting a statement by ex-vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday that warrantless domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11, 2007 court records indicate that the Bush-Cheney administration began such surveillance at least 7 months prior to 9/11.

Swedish professor urges the Nobel peace prize commitee to give Snowden the Nobel peace prize.

South Fires Back At US Bully: "Repeated US attempts by the Bush and Obama administrations to bully the rest of the world into compliance, using a combination of military might and economic blackmail, are beginning to backfire and meet with moral resistance."

Politics on 7/14/13

Let’s Applaud Elizabeth Warren And John McCain For Their Bank Bill Before Lobbyists Murder It To Death

An Indianapolis high school student, who was bullied relentlessly for being gay and expelled for trying to defend himself against 6 attackers, has won a $65,000 settlement in a suit against the negligent school. School officials had blamed him for being "too flamboyant"

The U.S. government should immediately drop the most serious charges against Pvt. Bradley Manning, Amnesty International said today after the conclusion of all testimony in the case.

Ninety Percent of Pennsylvanians Want Fracking Companies to Reveal Toxic Chemicals

Congress is less popular than North Korea, cockroaches, lice, root canals, colonoscopies, traffic jams, used car salesmen, Genghis Khan, communism, BP during the gulf oil spill, Nixon during Watergate or King George during the American Revolution.

Sports on 7/14/13

Tyson Gay reportedly caught doping, pulls out of World Championships

Carly Rae Jepsen's First Pitch is awful

My friend is a minor league pitcher, and he was pitching while a monkey was riding a dog, herding goats around the field

"Yay, second place! ... Oops."

Is it a fight or is it a sport? With this 500 year old event, the answer is Both.

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