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--Sen. Feinstein passes NSA "reform" bill that legalizes bulk collection of phone records, adds penalties for whistleblowers
--Britain's Guardian reports that European governments coordinate their own electronic surveillance programs
--internet giants like Google, Yahoo and Facebook seem genuinely outraged at latest NSA data center spying, enhance their encryption
--Ed Snowden asks for clemency in eloquent appeal
--activist appeals court not only yanks judge from NYC's stop-n-frisk case, but puts her rulings on hold
--another activist appeals court, in New Orleans, reactivates most parts of unconstitutional Texas anti-abortion law
--Iraq's Maliki speaks at US Institute for Peace, where he demanded more weapons to kill Sunnis
--in rare move, Oracle shareholders rejected lavish pay package for billionaire CEO Larry Ellison
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