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Crazy Randy Quaid And His Nutso Wife Won’t Be Extradited To US
6:12AM Brian Moylan | The State Department announced today that it won’t seek extradition from Canada for Randy Quaid and his bonkers wife Evi so that they can stand trial for vandalism in Santa Barbara. Think of it this way: we traded Canada one Bieber for two Quaids! More »
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U.S. Will Briefly Stop Persecuting Reporters To Host World Press Freedom Day
6:14AM John Cook | The State Department just announced that Washington, D.C., will host the United Nations’ 2011 World Press Freedom Day celebration, which honors the capacity for states to criminally prosecute and relentlessly seek to silence web sites that publish illegal information. More »
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Julian Assange Calls For Hillary Clinton’s Resignation
10:38AM Jim Newell | Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told an interviewer today that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should resign if she had her diplomats “engage in espionage in the United Nations.” Hillary Clinton, however, is unlikely to listen to Julian Assange. More »
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Wikileaks Release To Cause Mad Drama Between U.S. And Allies
4:07AM Max Read | Document-sharing website Wikileaks is preparing to release a trove of damaging diplomatic cables from the U.S. State Department. So the U.S. is calling all its friends to warn them. They’re going to be in so much trouble! More »
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Pentagon ‘Hunting’ Wikileaks Founder?
2:28AM Jim Newell | Pentagon investigators are supposedly “desperately searching” for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian paranoiac who’s always putting government secrets online and is allegedly sitting on a big batch of intercepted State Department cables. We think we know where he is! More »
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