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What is dopamine? Love, lust, sex, addiction, gambling, motivation, reward.

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Forget the NSA: This MIT Website Just Needs Your Gmail to Track You | TIME.com

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Coca-Cola’s New Bottle Is Made of Ice | TIME.com

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El-Sisi: The General at the Heart of Events | ASHARQ AL-AWSAT

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Guantánamo authorities 'planning Ramadan force-feeding factory'

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Revelations on the French Big Brother

It appears that the US surveillance programs aren't exactly one of a kind. In an article entitled "Revelations on the French Big Brother," the French daily Le Monde alleges that France's external intelligence services have been spying on French communications in a vast surveillance program akin to those used by the NSA and exposed byEdward Snowden.

According to the report, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) collects transmissions from phones and computers in France and between France and other countries, including phone records, text messages, e-mails, and Facebook and Twitter activity, and stores the information for years.

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Rather than monitoring the content of the intercepted messages, the French surveillance program – like those of the NSA – tracks metadata: who is speaking to whom, when and where they are doing it, and how often. This information "allows [DGSE] to draw huge maps of the connections between people based on their digital activity." The article claims all this activity is illegal.

Le Monde alleges that the other branches of France's intelligence services have access to this information as well. The data is stockpiled underground at the DGSE headquarters in Paris, on Boulevard Mortier, taking up three entire floors.

DGSE is the second-largest intelligence agency in Europe, second only to Britian's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), according to the report.

Last month, a Guardian article revealed that GCHQ was also snooping on vast amounts of Internet metadata. Their program, called Tempora, may have been started as early as 2007.

The office of French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has denied the allegations, calling them "inexact" and claiming that "all these interceptions are governed by the [law]," reports Le Monde. Other French officials have been quick to note that these programs are different from the NSA's, but Le Monde has called DGSE "the little brother of America's [intelligence] services."

The allegations come in the wake of a scandal surrounding US spying activities in Europe. Last week, German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the NSA had been spying on both European citizens andEuropean Union institutions.

European leaders were outraged. "If the allegations prove to be true, it would be an extremely serious matter which will have a severe impact on EU-US relations," European Parliament President Martin Schulzwarned, according to CNN. France even called for the suspension of US-EU free trade talks, writes the Associated Press.

The report was based on documents revealed by Mr. Snowden, the former NSA-contractor-turned-leaker who is now reported to be hiding in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. Yesterday, France officially deniedSnowden asylum, one day after Germany rejected his request, reports France's the Local.

Le Monde contends that, while Europe has been in an uproar over the NSA spying revelations, France has protested only slightly for two reasons: "Paris already knew. And it does the same thing."

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An Elected President Has Been Deposed: Egypt’s Party Looks Premature | TIME.com

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Tunisian Tamarod

Tunisian opposition activists have launched their own version of Egypt's Tamarod protest movement, whose campaign to remove President Mohamed Mursi drew millions onto the streets and led to an army ultimatum for the Islamist leader to share power.

The youthful, little known leaders of Tunisian Tamarod (Rebel) hope to galvanise opposition to their own Islamist-led government which, like Mursi, came to power after an uprising in 2011 swept an autocratic leader from office.

Like its Egyptian namesake, the Tunisian group accuses the Islamists of trying to usher in a religious state that smothers personal freedoms and failing to drag the economy out of crisis.

Its members said they planned to call for mass protests after quickly gathering the signatures of about 200,000 people opposing the government.

That is a fraction of the 22 million signatures their Egyptian counterparts said they collected against Mursi, but the Tunisian activists believe they can acquire comparable momentum.

Tamarod spokesman Mohamed Bennour said the group aimed to overturn a Constituent Assembly charged with drafting a new constitution, accusing the body of preparing the ground for a religious state. It also wants a new caretaker government.

"Tunisia's young are following in the footsteps of young Egyptians.. We are not satisfied with what is happening in the country, from an attack on freedoms to a bad economic and social situation," Bennour told reporters.

The struggle for power has deepened animosity between Tunisia's Islamists and liberals since the ousting of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the first Arab Spring uprising.

But the protest group may struggle to have the same impact as Egyptian Tamarod.

Egyptian liberals and secularists accuse Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood of spurning any form of political compromise and forcing through a new constitution to further a project of Islamic rule.

The Brotherhood denies this and accuses its opponents of violating democracy by supporting a military coup against an elected head of state.

But the scale of this week's protests suggests its failure to share real power has helped alienate millions of ordinary Egyptians suffering from the government's economic mismanagement.

In contrast, Tunisia's governing Islamist party Ennahda managed to head off growing street protests and appease secular-minded parties by ushering in a coalition government in March that included several independent ministers.

Ennahda has also accepted that sharia (Islamic law) is not mentioned in Tunisia's new constitution, a demand of secular politicians.

Washington state gets rid of sexist language

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Road Map

The Egyptian Army Draft Road Map

ERV 3.0 - Egypt Revolution 3.0

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ERV-01 Suspend the constitution | ايقاف العمل بالدستور الحالي

ERV-02 Dissolve parliament | حل مجلس النواب

ERV-03 Interim council to rule until constitution changed | مجلس رئاسي مؤقت لحين الانتهاء من كتابة الدستور

ERV-04 Presidential election | انتخابات رئاسية

Royal Baby: PATRIOTISM, CONSUMERISM

 

Mian Ridge 1 hour agoCelebritiesPrince Harry of Wales

Raj Solomon, proprietor of Piccadilly Cards, a thin sliver of a store flogging souvenirs opposite the Royal Academy of Arts in central London, is expecting a lucrative summer.

During the Jubilee celebrations last year he could barely keep pace with the demand for Queen Elizabeth II key rings and tea towels. Next month, with the expected birth of Britain's heir to the throne, it will be coats of arms pacifiers and "I love my Uncle Harry" bibs. "Everyone's waiting for that baby," says Mr. Solomon happily.

The firstborn of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge is due in July. During that month and until the end of August, British retail sales will get a £243 million ($376 million) boost, predicts the Centre for Retail Research (CRR). Its report, published last month estimated that Brits will spend an extra £62 million ($94 million) on alcohol and £80 million ($121 million) on souvenirs and toys in two months.

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Even weeks before the baby's due date, barely an opportunity has been missed to cash in on his or her imminence.

Butter London, a high-end cosmetics brand, has put out a $20 nail varnish called Pitter Patter. Across the country, hotels and restaurants are offering Royal Baby showers designed to make pregnant women feel like duchesses. The shop at Highgrove, Prince Charles's home, is selling handmade leather baby shoes at $34 a pair.

"We didn't experience such excitement when William was born in 1982 and certainly not when Prince Charles was born in 1948," says Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine. "I think it's the great immediacy it all has now, thanks to the Internet."

Indeed Joshua Barnfield, director of CRR, says he estimates Brits "will spend three or four times more than at the births of Prince William and Harry."

PATRIOTISM, CONSUMERISM

The Internet, with its speedy dissemination of information and selling power is one reason for the big spending. Another is a resurgence of interest in the royal family following the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011. Their low-level glamor and evident happiness has made them – along with Prince Harry, who has shown a surprising flair for international diplomacy – the most popular royals in years.

The wedding, and the following summer's celebrations for Elizabeth's 60 years on the throne, showed off the spectacular pomp at which Britain still excels.

Months later the 2012 Summer Olympics, followed by the most watched Paralympics in history, heightened the patriotic mood. At a time when post-empire Britain has little to distinguish it from other countries, patriotism and support for the royal family are easily conflated in the popular imagination.

But changing behavior of consumers has also played its part.

"We do a lot of research into consumer behavior and there is an increasing tendency to celebrate things these days," says Mr. Barnfield. "If someone had a party to mark a royal baby's birth in the '70s or '80s people would say, 'Er, why are you doing that?'"

Pauline Maclaren, professor of marketing and consumer research at Royal Holloway College at the University of London, is writing a book on consumers and the branding of the royal family which will be published by California University Press next year.

She says while serious collectors of memorabilia are probably royalists, "a lot of people are just buying these things for fun. It's seen as part of being British rather than any more serious support of the monarchy."

CASHING IN?

One company likely to do well out of the birth is Party Pieces, owned by Kate's parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, which has revamped its website, adding a "baby arrival" range with blue and pink balloons and rattles.

This has prompted many newspaper headlines suggesting the Middletons are exploiting their grandchild's bloodline.

But with both Highgrove and the Royal Collection – which pumps profits into the upkeep of the royal palaces and is offering a $20 guardsman onesie – also selling baby paraphernalia, it would be unfair to lay all the blame for commercializing the birth at the doors of the Middletons.

"The Royal Collection does things in a rather more subtle style than some sellers," says Mr. Little of Majesty magazine. "It will, I am sure, produce commemorative china, but using coats of arms rather than the faces of William and Kate."

But any suggestion that the royal family feels the Middleton family is overstepping the mark he attributes to "media mischief. There will always be people who wish to remind us of Kate's middle-class background."

Partying and commemorative china aside, the royal birth is likely to impact sales in other sectors. Just as dresses, especially maternity dresses, have sold out as Kate Middleton has been snapped wearing them, so sales of whatever buggy the third in line to the throne goes out in are expected to soar.

The betting business, which tends to do well at big national events, has a protracted selling window with a royal birth, thanks to bets placed on names. Alexandra and George are currently in the lead, while bets are also being placed on the baby's hair color (brown, unsurprisingly, is ahead).

'FREE PUBLICITY FOR BRITAIN'

Tourism, too, will get a big boost from overseas visitors curious about the kinds of people who inhabit castles. "The royal family generates free worldwide publicity for Britain – you can't put a value on that," says Patricia Yates, director of Strategy at VisitBritain, the tourism agency.

Then there is the more general boost that the birth is likely to give the economy, boosting the confidence of consumers and investors.

A government study published this month suggested last summer delivered £2.5 billion ($3.9 billion) in foreign direct investment resulting from business events launched during the Olympics.

"The economy is already improving," says Barnfield. "The birth will be another uptick in the right direction."

Mursi and Army

 

Noah RaymanPoliticsEgyptMuslim Brotherhood

The Egyptian military issued a 48-hour ultimatum for President Mohamed Morsi to put an end to the massive showdown ongoing in the streets of Egypt between the opposition and Morsi's supporters. The move was interpreted by many as the first stage of a coup, with the country's military intervening against an elected Islamist government that has controversially held sway during Egypt's current short fling with democracy. Here is what experts, journalists and local bloggers are saying about the situation.

Steven Cook, Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, says the military has always been angling to retain power.

Despite [authoritarian former President Hosni] Mubarak's departure and all that has changed in Egypt, the military remains the ultimate source of power and authority in a system that was not actually overturned when Mubarak sought refuge in Sharm el Sheikh during what seems like another era. If anyone doubts this, events of the last few days should convince him or her otherwise …

The tone the military has struck up until this moment is perfectly suited for the officers' ultimate goal which is, and has been, to salvage what they can from the wreckage of the January 25 uprising and preserve their place in Egyptian society.

Evan Hill, a Cairo-based journalist, details the rise of the opposition forces that culminated in this weekend's massive protests against Morsi:

Egypt is more polarized than at any point since the revolution. Figures from the old regime — Omar Suleiman's aide, the son of one of the Nile Delta's longtime Mubarak power brokers — have re-emerged to rally supporters against the Brotherhood. The irony is not lost on many of the most dedicated revolutionaries, who wonder whether their causes have been hijacked and their voices marginalized once again. Others have set aside such concerns, saying the Brotherhood represents the more clear and present danger. The enduring legacy of Mr. Morsi's presidency, if he does not survive his four-year term, may be his inadvertent facilitation of the counter-revolution.

Juan Cole, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, calls out Morsi's "arrogant and high-handed style of governing" on Truthdig.

Morsi, from the Muslim Brotherhood, represents the equivalent of the American Tea Party in Egyptian politics — captive to the religious right, invested in austerity and smaller government, and contemptuous of workers and the political left. In his first year in office, the nation's first freely elected head of state has squandered Egyptians' willingness to give him the benefit of the doubt. He has acted like the President of the somewhat cultish Muslim Brotherhood, rather than like the President of the whole country.

Middle East–based journalist Patrick Galey writes in his blog post "The Day the Revolution Died" that the military's ultimatum is a step backward for democrats.

I've learned a basic and terrifying truth today: That many would rather see a military junta rule with impunity and autocracy than see a democratic [administration] govern with fecklessness and error. That many people who call themselves revolutionaries and advocates of democracy simply hate Islamism more than they love freedom. That people are fully prepared to welcome the army back to political life, cheerily, with a cheer, two fingers up to those killed since 2011, and a good riddance to Egypt's first experiment with democracy.

H.A. Hellyer, a nonresident fellow at Brookings Institute, writes on Foreign Policy that the military's ultimatum is effectively a coup to ensure stability.

The Egyptian military is not, and never has been, an ideological institution. Its main concerns have been to maintain its independence vis-à-vis the rest of the state, and to ensure the stability of Egypt — without which it would be forced to involve itself in the mess of governing tens of millions of Egyptians…

The statement today can be summed up, perhaps a bit unkindly, as: "We've chosen no one's side but our own in this mess, and we're rather annoyed that you (the political elite) could not sort out things on your own."

Mahmoud Salem, an Egyptian blogger and political activist, writes that Sunday's showing in the streets was sufficient to discredit Morsi's legitimacy.

While we are at it, dear Western analysts and pundits: please don't tell us that we shouldn't take to the streets and overthrow a regime that violates our rights, kills us, places itself above all accountability (popular or judicial) and fails at providing even the most basic functions of the state due to its insistence on resorting to nepotism over efficiency and experience. You have institutions, we don't.

Caroline Freund, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank, writes in Bloomberg View that beneath the protests and beyond the politicking, it's the economy, stupid.

The need for reform is growing more urgent by the day. Unemployment is above 13 percent, from 9 percent in 2010. The most recent data show that one-quarter of the population is living in poverty, and the share is rising. Foreign reserves had plummeted from $36 billion before the revolution to about $13 billion in March of this year before funds from Qatar arrived. The black markets for dollars and fuel are thriving.

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