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When President Barack Obama said ‘no one is listening to your phone calls,’ he was either misinformed or was being disingenuous. The British are at least gathering up the voice signals of your phone calls, and sharing 200 million of them a day with the US National Security Agency via a joint database. According to […]

Almost all of the segment is in English except the first half-minute. Jon Stewart makes an appearance in Cairo on Bassem Youssef’s comedy show. He is introduced as a prominent spy, and comes in and says ‘thank you,’ ‘enough’ (the the applause) and ‘I am a simple man.’ This is the show:

Sanjeev Bhaskar and the Ministry of Silly Walks bring you the daily India-Pakistan border closing ceremony: Here is the video:

As a one-time guest of the Colbert Report, let me express my condolences to Stephen Colbert on his mother’s death. Here is his poignant eulogy:

Channel 4 News interviews a journalist who has been with the Free Syria Army for the past 6 months on what motivates them. He says that 60% want an Islamic state. Inigo Gilmore interviews Bilal Abdul Karim:

Brazilians in the hundreds of thousands have been protesting the high cost of city bus tickets, diversion of government funds to international projects like the world cup, and ‘poor public services, police violence and government corruption.’ Michel De Souza’s video of events on the ground:

A massacre of Shiite militiamen and other villagers by al-Qaeda in Hatla, Deir al-Zor, Syria, is sending shock waves through the Middle East, which has already witnessed a sharpening of conflict between Sunni Muslims and their Shiite neighbors in recent years. This video of the al-Qaeda types exulting over the cadavers of the dead Shiites […]