Focus. Surprise. Kando. Sony CEO Kaz Hirai has thrown these words around like crazy since he set out to revive the company with a three-year plan, and he’s been coming up short ever since. Now he’s pushing ahead with a new and improved strategy, one …
If you’ve ever known someone with dementia — a family member, friend, or acquaintance — you know just how devastating conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, can be for patients and their loved ones. And yet, there are equally unnerving societal and economic impacts resulting from dementia that we must address — now.
Dementia has been around since before we had a name for it, so why address it with such fervor now? Many countries around the world are experiencing significant growth in their senior populations — a happy effect of advances in medicine, lifestyle, and scientific advances. But this trend takes an ominous turn when one imagines a world in which the number of people living with dementia suddenly jumps to unprecedented levels.
And yet, despite this threat, global understanding and awareness of dementia lags behind many other diseases. With this in mind, I address two common myths surrounding dementia, as well as point to solutions that have the potential to turn around this rising tide of concern. We can tackle this challenge head on, but it must be done collectively, with the tools of science, policy, advocacy, and innovation.
Myth: Dementia is a normal part of aging.
Reality: Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are devastating neurological disorders. However, despite many years of research, there is still much to be learned about what causes dementia. What we do know quite clearly: dementia is projected to affect 115 million people by 2050 if we do nothing to change the course of disease today.
Solutions: Publicize the need for evidence-based research to uncover features of healthy brain aging versus disease processes that lead to dementia. And support innovations that make this research easier and more effective, such as shareable patient registries that researchers from typically competitive organizations can use to identify appropriate patient populations for studies.
Myth: There are drugs available to slow the progression of dementia.
Reality: While there are a few drugs aimed at treating symptoms associated with diseases like Alzheimer’s, there are no drugs on the market to target the underlying cause. Billions have been spent on drugs that failed during the drug development process; since 1998, there have been 101 unsuccessful attempts to develop drugs to treat Alzheimer’s, with no new drugs approved in over a decade. The large financial risk of developing AD drugs and other therapeutics aimed at dementia deters pharmaceutical companies and other potential investors from this high-risk scenario. Additionally, spending on dementia research from all sources, including government, does not keep pace with disease costs; in the U.S. funding for HIV/AIDS research is more than five times the level of that for dementia research, despite the fact there are five times as many Americans with Dementia than with HIV.
Solutions: Develop new funding mechanisms for high-risk research, as well as new approaches that mitigate the financial risks of executing clinical trials. Examples discussed in a new report include crowdfunding and crowd equity, accessing funds from the traditional middle class; venture capital models with government or philanthropy taking first loss (and thus allowing a competitive return on investment to attract limited partners from capital markets), and social impact investing, as well as specific policy changes such as patent life extension and market protections.
The takeaway? By addressing not only the myths associated with dementia, but the challenges associated with the reality of our current situation, we have a golden opportunity to proactively tackle dementia. But it will take the involvement of people in all sectors — government leaders,policy makers, academic and industry researchers, nonprofits, philanthropists, healthcare practitioners and caregivers.
The development of many national Alzheimer’s plans, as well as G7, WHO and OECD leadership and commitments to more effectively address dementia, are promising. Let’s hold on to that promise by activating the solutions we know will make a difference, to individuals, societies, and economies.
You may have read somewhere that the Founders of our country rebelled against a government that regarded individual rights as mere privileges. You may have been under the impression that the Framers of our Constitution designed a system of checks and balances to ensure that government in America would protect, rather than pay lip service to, individual rights. You may even have heard that the Framers established an independent judiciary to ensure that the political branches stayed within constitutional limits.
Forget all that, argues political science professor Greg Weiner. At Law & Liberty, Weiner argues for reflexive judicial restraint in the face of government restrictions on liberty, on the grounds that “(i)t might be healthier and, crucially, ultimately better for liberty if rights claims were to be politically resolved.” His case is flatly inconsistent with the judicial power established by the Constitution, the lessons of history, and what we know about how that kind of judicial restraint works out for ordinary Americans in real life.
Let’s start with the judicial power. The judiciary was established to serve as an intermediary between the political branches and the people. The duty of judicial review obliges judges to ensure that the political branches do not act exceed the scope of the powers delegated to them. The Framers were well aware that what James Madison referred to in Federalist 10 as the “mischiefs of faction” could lead overbearing majorities and entrenched special interests to use government power to oppress minorities and further their own, private ends. Thus, Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 78 that constitutional limitations “can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
The system devised by the Framers contemplated that the states would act as faithful guardians of individuals’ rights. This premise proved to be false, and the failure of the original Constitution to expressly secure individual rights against state encroachment gave rise to brutal majoritarian tyranny. Southern legislators intent on perpetuating the institution of slavery aggressively enacted laws restricting freedom of speech and the press in an effort to suppress antislavery ideas, and systematically denied both procedural and substantive rights to blacks. State constitutional guarantees proved empty, as legislators devised ingenious ways to work around them and state courts often refused to protect the individual rights of free blacks and white abolitionists, among others. After the Civil War, the southern states adopted “black codes” that ensured that former slaves were kept in a state of constructive servitude, denying them the rights to contract or own and exchange property, and leaving them at the mercy of mob violence.
That is what it looks like from the perspective of the politically powerless and socially marginalized when rights claims are “politically resolved,” to borrow Professor Weiner’s language.
The Reconstruction Amendments were designed to end these state-sanctioned deprivations of liberty and re-affirm the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence. Experience having shown that the states could not be fully trusted to respect individual rights, those who ratified the Fourteenth Amendment explicitly empowered the federal government, including particularly the federal judiciary, to ensure that those rights remained secure against both federal and state deprivations.
Unfortunately, most constitutional rights today do not receive meaningful judicial review and thus continue to be resolved politically. The result? Ordinary Americans’ peaceful pursuit of happiness is impeded by innumerable arbitrary restraints that serve only the interests of those with the lobbying power to secure their passage. This status quo is in substantial part the product of the “rational basis test,” the default standard of review in constitutional cases that do not involve one of a handful of rights that the Supreme Court has arbitrarily pronounced “fundamental.” Under the rational basis test, courts do not seek the actual reasons for laws and do not require the government to submit any evidence in support of their legitimacy. To apply rational basis review is, in practical effect, to allow the asserted right to be “politically resolved,” as Professor Weiner urges.
But, just as we were reminded during Reconstruction, political resolution of rights is a disaster for those who lack the money, clout, or connections to influence policy. In the case of Meadows v. Odom (2005), for example, a federal judge left Sandy Meadows’ constitutionally guaranteed right to earn honest living to be “politically resolved,” accepting patently bogus claims about the supposed physical dangers of unlicensed floristry and upholding a licensing scheme that plainly did not protect the interests of anyone but established florists. Sandy, who had been fired from her job managing the floral department of an Albertsons grocery store because she was unable to secure a license, died shortly thereafter– alone, unemployed, and in poverty. Her case is not exceptional–it is representative of the experiences of countless Americans across the nation who are subjected to protectionist schemes that they are in no position to undo politically.
Proponents of constitutionally limited government must reject the false choice Weiner offers between elective despotism on the one hand and government-by-judiciary on the other. Judicial engagement offers a third way. By requiring the government in every case to demonstrate, with record evidence, that it is pursuing a constitutionally valid end through constitutionally legitimate means, judicial engagement ensures that the government offers us a sufficient reason when it restricts our liberty. If we seek to restore the rule of law established by the Constitution, we need judges to consistently hold the political branches accountable to itv– not leave our rights to be voted up or down.
The cinematic adaptation of the bestselling novel Fifty Shades of Grey makes me think that the next venture for the franchise might be a ride at Disneyworld.
In attempting to explain the sexual dynamics between a dominant and a submissive, Fifty Shades of Grey renders sadomasochism as a hybrid of popular genres. The initial meeting of Christian Grey, the dashing if socially awkward, dominant millionaire, and Anastasia Steele, the scrappy ingénue who is on the cusp of graduating from college, feels like Cinderella. Christian takes Anastasia on a helicopter date to another city; he turns her frumpy VW into a brand new sports car; he magically sends his elves to fix her computer and to buy her new clothes.
Christian then mentors Anastasia in the art of sadomasochism like Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel self-defense in The Karate Kid.
The film then attempts to illustrate Christian’s dominance over Anastasia by turning him into a superhero; he appears at a late-night bar faster than a speeding bullet; he intuits what she is drinking at a hotel bar across the country; he teaches her how to fly. His dominance outside of the bedroom comes into sharp focus only when he stalks her; he shows up at her workplace or appears in her apartment uninvited. The film portrays sadomasochism more like a scene from Sleeping with the Enemy rather than as a sexual performance, which according to literary theorist Lynda Hart, lies “between the body and the flesh.”
In an effort to spell out the practices of sadomasochism, Christian asks Anastasia to sign a written contract. They met in a boardroom. They sit across from each other. Mr. Grey’s obsequious assistants serve sushi. Anastasia strikes out the use of nipple clips, and questions the use of butt plugs. A xylophone-inflected soundtrack plays in the background making the codes of sadomasochism feel more like an episode of the game show Let’s Make a Deal than an erotic negotiation of power predicated on dominance and submission.
Yet the scene that sends the most problematic cultural message is when Anastasia asks to be whipped to experience the limits of the relationship, not because such punishment will give her pleasure. Mr. Grey obliges and whips her naked body as she sobs on a leather bed. Beyond triggering the 1970s feminist critiques of sadomasochism, this scene plays into a more contemporary cinematic context. The last time that filmgoers witnessed the brutal whipping of a female character was in last year’s blockbuster hit 12 Years a Slave. The film featured the violent, sadistic master whipping a partially naked enslaved woman. In the 19th century such depictions attempted to arouse the sympathy of Northern audiences to join the abolitionist movement. In the 21st century, such depictions aimed to inform audiences of the brutal history of enslavement in the United States.
The whipping of an enslaved woman in 12 Years of a Slave and of an ingénue in a Fifty Shades of Grey raises many questions. First, how are the films connected? How has the history of chattel slavery helped to provide the language used in sadomasochism? What does it mean that the dominant and submissive are often synonymous with master and slave? For instance, Anastasia asks Christian if he wants her to be his slave? Also, what does it mean that the whips, handcuffs, ropes, and hangings, often used to discipline enslaved people, serve as the tools of sadomasochism? How has the history of slavery provided a phantom backdrop to sadomasochism?
While I realize that there might be technical answers to these questions in the broader history of sadomasochism, I am more curious to think about how these images of whipping in both Fifty Shades of Grey and 12 Years a Slave become legible in the culture. Does it matter that Christian and Anastasia are white? What would it mean if they were black? Consider, for example, another cultural moment: in 2001, in order to shred her sexy schoolgirl image, pop icon Britney Spears sung, “I’m a Slave 4 U.” As a white woman, Spears used the language of sadomasochism in order to facilitate her transition into a more sexualized, mature persona. Conversely, Beyoncé, for all her theatrical dazzle, could never pull that off without triggering the troubled history of slavery, but Spears, like Anastasia in Fifty Shades can, because for white women of power and privilege, being whipped or someone’s slave is a fantasy or, at least to them, the pathway to a more sexualized self.
Further, it is not a surprise that there are no Black characters in Fifty Shades of Grey, because of the ways which such characters may unwittingly trigger the violent and sexualized history of slavery. Beyoncé, however, does make a cameo in Fifty Shades, however covertly. Her popular song, Crazy in Love, forms the soundtrack of one of the first consensual scenes in the film when Anastasia agrees to be tied up and humped like a barn animal in the plantation South. On the surface, Beyoncé’s sultry, breathless voice sanctions the act, serving as a lubricant into the unknown subterranean world of pleasure and pain. On a more profound level, Beyoncé cautions Anastasia. She does not sing of girl power nor does she even tell Christian “to put a ring on it”, instead she whispers a warning to Anastasia about the consequences of being “crazy in love.”
According to the logic of the song “Crazy in Love”, only foolishness would cause Anastasia, a romantic, not a pledged submissive, to actually agree to be undressed, bound, and whipped. Only Hollywood would turn sadomasochism, a complicated sexual performance, into a white college girl’s extracurricular activity. And only whiteness would allow for the whipping to be seen as elective in a coming-of-age narrative rather than as unavoidable in the violent history of slavery.
Jim Downs is the author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction. (Oxford U.P., 2012)
By David B. Shapiro, President and CEO, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership and Nancy Altobello, Global Vice Chair, Talent, EY
Sixteen million American youth — one in three — will reach the age of 19 without ever having had a mentor of any kind, according to The Mentoring Effect. Youth with mentors are more likely to be successful in school, leaders in their communities and to enter young adulthood with opportunities for ongoing education and career choices.
Yet public investment in mentoring has plateaued for many years. In addition, the seemingly endless parade of grim statistics about the current and future prospects of the nation’s youth serve as a constant reminder that the mentoring movement’s efforts are more critical than ever before. For mentoring to scale, we must seek greater investments, constant innovation and improvement.
At the National Mentoring Summit held last month in Washington, DC, we issued a call to action for more companies to start or enhance mentoring programs for our nation’s youth. The business case for more corporate engagement in youth mentoring is clear. It builds business acumen for employees, including experience in managing and developing talent, improving communication and customer service skills and fostering better understanding and deeper appreciation for the cultural, ethnic and racial diversity of both the youth mentors serve and their co-workers. Mentoring also provides companies with improved employee engagement and retention, enhances recruiting, strengthens the communities where businesses operate and develops the talent pipeline by preparing young people for college and careers.
EY professionals who mentor in the community improve performance, increase leadership skills and are able to build better relationships with our clients. Rich Pashkin, a College MAP Program Director in New York, says, “I’ve found that even though a College MAP session means a longer work day for me, working with our students reinvigorates me. After meeting with scholars, I always come back to work re-energized, excited and I’m even more productive. I can relate more easily to teammates, propose better ideas and feel more confident when facing challenges.”
To provide a roadmap for activation, we released a joint report, Mentoring: at the crossroads of education, business and community, featuring best practices and case studies from both local businesses and Fortune 500 companies. The EY and MENTOR report examines how top US businesses collaborate with the public and non-profit sectors to provide mentorship opportunities to youth in their communities. It also provides the following strategies to start a mentoring effort or enhance the results of an existing program.
The investments in quality youth mentoring made by companies are direct contributions to the future strength of our communities and our country. They connect young people to the powerful asset that is mentoring, to opportunity and to success.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) is a key Democrat whom Republicans want on their side in their quest to grant President Barack Obama the authority to fast-track secretive trade deals. But a new poll released Thursday by a progressive group indicates that if Wyden gets on the trade train, he could face backlash from his constituents.
Half of the Oregon voters polled said they would be less likely to vote for Wyden in 2016 if he joins Republicans to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal between the United States and countries in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as fast-track authority, which President Barack Obama is seeking in order to get TPP and other trade deals through Congress without amendments or filibusters.
The poll was conducted earlier this week by Public Policy Polling on behalf of Democracy for America, a progressive political action committee, and included 537 Oregon voters.
Seventy-three percent of respondents indicated that they oppose “Congress giving the president fast-track authority for the NAFTA-style trade agreements like the TPP.” If fast-track authority is in place, lawmakers can vote only “yes” or “no” on final trade packages.
Wyden, who is up for re-election next year, hasn’t faced major re-election problems in the past, but Republicans are considered very competitive in the state.
The TPP could put Wyden, who is ranking member of the powerful Senate Finance Committee and is considered friendly to trade advocates, in a tough political position. The president is urging Congress to pass fast-track legislation, but many Democrats say the TPP includes provisions that are harmful to labor and environmental rights and should receive closer congressional scrutiny.
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) told The Huffington Post that there are other Senate Democrats more likely to “toe the Chamber of Commerce ‘free trade’ line than Wyden.” But he said he certainly believes there will be fallout for Democrats who support fast-track authority and the TPP.
“Middle-class voters recognize that these trade giveaways destroy U.S. jobs,” he said. “Even a dog knows when it’s being kicked.”
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has contended that “TPP will be the most progressive trade agreement in history, breaking new ground on labor and environmental protections.”
In January, Wyden raised concerns that a fast-track bill would prevent a public debate on TPP. “The American people have made it very clear that they will not accept secretly written agreements that don’t see the light of day until the very last minute,” he said at a congressional hearing.
Wyden is reportedly seeking some changes to fast-track legislation and is working with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to make them, The Hill reported earlier this month.
Keith Chu, a spokesman for Wyden, told The Huffington Post that the senator has “for many years pushed for trade policies that benefit middle class Oregonians.”
“That means more transparency and oversight in trade negotiations, much stronger enforcement of the rules to hold trade cheats accountable, strong protections for labor and the environment, and new rules that are fundamental to preserving free speech and the exchange of ideas over the Internet,” he added.
But fast-track skeptics say Wyden should take a stronger stance against secretive trade deals.
“Senator Ron Wyden can either stand with the Republicans who want to pass the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership or he can stand with the people of Oregon who oppose it, but he can’t do both,” Charles Chamberlain, executive director for Democracy for America, said in a statement.
It started with a bump on the inside of my palm underneath my ring finger. A week or so later, that same bump appeared underneath my other ring finger. I kept thinking that the bumps were actually calluses, since I had been lifting weights more often. That was almost 17 years ago.
At the time, I had a 2-year-old and a sometimes-colicky newborn. I was juggling everything. In one hand I would be holding the crying baby while stirring a pot of simmering oatmeal in the other. Often, the 2-year-old was attached to my leg. Meanwhile, I was starting to feel some discomfort in my hands.
As time went on, that discomfort began to move to my right ankle and then to both knees. What was going on? I finally decided that something wasn’t quite right and that I should see my doctor. My husband agreed it was time for someone with a medical background to take a look at me.
I will not bore you with every detail. The short version of this very long story was complicated, to say the least. My husband was friendly with a hand surgeon, so I went to see him first. After examining my hands, he decided I should see my regular doctor. Weeks passed. I eventually saw my general practitioner. She did a thorough physical exam and then ran a plethora of blood tests.
A week or so later, the test results were in. I was told I needed to see a rheumatologist. What? I’m only 28! I thought a rheumatologist was only for older people.
It took awhile to get in to see the rheumatologist. She did another thorough physical exam, ran a ridiculous number of blood tests and asked an unfathomable amount of questions. Everyone was trying to rule out whatever was possible. The diagnosis: Arthritis.
During this 10-month-period, I was in a great deal of pain with everyday “nothings.” It hurt to sign a check. It hurt to steer my steering wheel. It hurt to tie my children’s shoes. Everything was hurting and, at the time, I saw no end in sight. It was extremely depressing.
I tried countless different medicines. Too many to mention with too many uncomfortable side effects to explain. I kept a medicine log (along with a feeding log for my newborn) to remember everything.
Nobody could help me. My husband was in the middle of his surgical residency and was at the hospital all day every day. He would sleep there every third night depending on the service he was on. At times, he would need to sleep there every other night.
We did not live near family, were new to the area and had few friends. I felt very alone. I was trying my best to take care of my beautiful babies and take care of our little house. Grocery shopping for the average Mom of two young children is challenging in and of itself. How could I do this when I could barely walk, drive my car or even lift my kids to put them in the shopping cart? Something had to change.
Finding the right medicine at the right time saved me. I had to muster more patience than ever as it took a full four months to notice any difference in my pain level. By six months I felt like a new person. It was an absolute miracle!
Being in so much pain and having such difficulty walking around had put 20 pounds on my petite frame. I did not recognize myself in clothing and shuttered when I would see myself naked in the mirror. Immobility had caused this weight gain, but my drive and determination would banish it.
Within a month, I lost five pounds just by walking around doing my everyday “stay-at-home-Mom” chores. Yes, finally! Now, I had to make some additional changes. It was time to start moving even more. It was time to start going on walks with my double stroller. It was time to play ball with my kids at the local park. It was time to join a gym!
Getting Arthritis at 28 was not going to break me. In fact, in many ways, I feel it saved me. Because of this disease, I am always careful when I work out. Nothing is done in sheer haste. Well… most of the time. I’m not perfect, you know.
I am convinced that keeping my weight down feels better on my tender joints. I am sure that eating well has positively impacted my life, my husband’s life and my children’s lives. Additionally, I am certain that regular exercise has saved me. It is this healthy combination that has become my daily life and routine.
Perhaps I would not care about eating well or exercise had I not received my diagnosis. Maybe I would not care about reading the nutrition labels on every product I buy. Maybe I would not be as appreciative as I am for having my quality of life back.
Here I am, 17 years later, with two amazing teenagers and a 20-plus-year happy marriage.
Getting arthritis was not the worst thing and it did not break me. I am positive that it not only saved me but that it has truly strengthened me. It’s not that I have arthritis and I live with it. It’s that I live with arthritis and I am really fine with that.
Residents of Harlan, Kentucky, should be on alert for a slippery criminal with an icy heart.
Her name is Queen Elsa of Arandelle, and the Harlan Police Department issued an all points bulletin for the suspect yesterday on Facebook, seeking her arrest on charges of creating dangerously cold weather.
“Suspect is a blonde female last seen wearing a long blue dress and is known to burst into song ‘Let it Go!'” The notice on Facebook reads. “As you can see by the weather she is very dangerous. Do not attempt to apprehend her alone.”
If the “suspect” HPD describes sounds like a Disney character, that’s because she is. Queen Elsa, the “Snow Queen” in Disney’s hit movie, “Frozen,” has the ability to control winter weather, conjuring snow and ice at will. The Internet loves her:
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Kentucky has experienced a severe cold snap this week, with the Lexington Herald-Leader reporting Thursday wind chill temps could be as low as 30 degrees below zero.
Police followed up the humorous bulletin with a more serious Facebook post, asking residents “take the precautions you need to keep you, your friends, family, neighbors and pets safe during the snow queen’s mad spell.”
We need to get a grip on this yoga pants mania.
First, we had some Christian blogger declaring she wasn’t going to wear yoga pants anymore in public because they created “a stronger attraction for a man to look at a woman’s body and may cause them to think lustful thoughts.” (Well, sister, I’m not a man and I’m looking at your body and I might be thinking lustful thoughts. How’s that make you feel? Yeah, I thought so. Go pack those puppies away!)
But, really, I lost interest in her quickly for two reasons: 1) she struck me as the kind of gal who would wear undies with her yoga pants (and we all know that’s a sin) and 2) what do I care if some married blogger somewhere doesn’t wear yoga pants? Not my loss. Not my concern.
And now we have some Neanderthal in Montana trying to ban yoga pants in public.
Sweet Jesus. Dude, stop messing with my hobby. In case you didn’t notice, yoga pants might be the most wonderful thing invented in the past twenty years. The yoga pant alone has delighted more people than the iPhone and perhaps provided more joy than chocolate or your Aunt Edna. (It has, however, probably caused more car accidents and possibly some divorces. And babies. Many, many babies.)
Why are yoga pants so wonderful? Two simple reasons: yoga pants look fantastic and they feel AMAZING.
Seriously. I’m not sure that anyone who has not tried on yoga pants can really appreciate what I’m talking about. When I wear yoga pants, my ass feels so fantastic that I’m amazed I can speak or drive or even function at all. The same goes for when a woman walks by wearing yoga pants. And if there’s a gym nearby? Warm up the paddles and yell “CLEAR!” because there might be heart attacks… by the onlookers.
Yoga pants wrap and support my posterior in such a way that I feel bad for my ancestors on that farm in Lithuania because those women never got to wear yoga pants. Imagine how much happier they would have been, even with that dirt floor in their house.
In this messed-up world where people get shot for looking different, and way too many people are without jobs or food or shelter, we’re really going to worry about a piece of clothing that looks and feels fantastic? Balderdash!
Before this gets any crazier, back off my yoga pants! And ladies, remember two things: 1) no one has to do yoga when they’re wearing yoga pants (I’ve been CrossFitting in my yoga pants for seven years now), and 2) NO UNDIES! You look fantastic just as you are in those pants!
And excuse me while I go all Braveheart on you here: They may take our lives but they’ll never take… OUR YOGA PANTS!
America and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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