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“Wij vinden dat verkiezingsuitslagen gecontroleerd moeten kunnen worden. We accepteren niet dat een handjevol techneuten stilletjes de plek van vele tienduizenden stemburoleden heeft ingenomen.”
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“Richard Dorment is surprised - and captivated - by a heartbreaking exhibition of works by conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who was mysteriously lost at sea”
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“Verkoopshow content 2006: bestikkerde genummerde en gesigneerde eurobiljetten tijdens champagnetherapie @ Het Wilde Weten. Prijzen varierende van 2 tot 75 euro.”
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“I have already explained why NSA-style wholesale surveillance data-mining systems are useless for finding terrorists. Here’s a more formal explanation: (…)”
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“TWO years ago, the world’s leading dramatic soprano, Deborah Voigt, was sacked by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from her role in Richard Strauss’s opera Ariadne on Naxos.”
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July 10th, 2006 · Comments Off
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June 10th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.” - Nooit meer slapen.
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“Italian artist Marco Boggio Sella travelled to Burkina Faso in search of people who had never heard about the moon landing. “
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“The rainmaking army uses rockets, artillery and aircraft to sow chemicals and artificially induce rain in times of need, said an official with the bureau’s Department of Forecasting Services and Disaster Mitigation.”
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“Rockets launched with chemicals to trigger rain after huge storm”
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“Contextual integrity ties adequate protection for privacy to norms of specific contexts, demanding that information gathering and dissemination be appropriate to that context and obey the governing norms of distribution within it.”
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“New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.”
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