By: RT.com, 07/02/2013

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden’s father has published an open letter praising his son’s contributions in exposing the United States’ vast surveillance operations. According to the Associated Press, Lonnie Snowden celebrated his son’s work "summoning the American people to confront the growing danger of tyranny." The letter was reportedly penned by the leaker’s dad and Bruce Fein, a Washington, DC-based attorney who has represented CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou.

Publishing of the open letter comes less than 24 hours after Edward Snowden issued a statement through the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks from Moscow, where he has spent eight days so far awaiting potential asylum from one of more than a dozen countries he’s pleaded with for assistance. President Barack Obama has asked for Snowden to be extradited to the US, and the Department of Justice has indicted him on counts of espionage for disclosing state secrets involving the NSA’s clandestine surveillance programs.

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Guardian.co.uk, By: Jack Shenker, 07/02/2013

New arrivals at Cairo airport are greeted with advertising billboards bearing the rhetoric of a concluded revolution: grainy images of people power overwritten with congratulatory quotes from foreign leaders, sealed with the logos of mobile phone networks and commercial banks. Yet to the dismay of politicians and corporate executives, it seems that Egypt's grassroots revolt refuses to remain in its neatly packaged box. Millions are once again on the streets of the Arab world's most populous country. Walking among them on Sunday – for hours and hours, down road after road, all of them filled with human energy – it was easy to forget that there had ever been talk of protest fatigue.

Amid the cacophony, commentators have struggled to draw the battle lines in a political landscape that stubbornly resists simple explication. To understand what's happening in Egypt, it's important to distinguish between at least two separate struggles that are playing out, the outcomes of which will shape Egypt's ongoing revolution for some time to come.

Newson6, By: LaShauna Sewell, 07/01/2013

ENID, Oklahoma - Residents near Enid were rattled out of their beds twice early Monday morning when back-to-back earthquakes struck the area. A 2.9 magnitude quake struck about 11 miles northeast of Enid around 3:20 a.m. Less than an hour later, a stronger, 3.3 magnitude quake was centered 16 miles northeast of Enid, about 75 miles north of Oklahoma City.

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Naturalnews, By: Sandeep Godiyal, 07/01/2013

Allergies are indeed bothersome. But instead of reaching out to the usual medications, individuals can now seek relief from various foods. Among the known foods that help fight off spring allergies are citrus fruits, red grapes, broccoli, collard greens, nuts, apples, fish, onions and garlic.

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Naturalsociety, By: Christina Sarich, 07/01/2013

While science is always developing, the western world is slow to alter its ways in the face of evidence pointing to the dangers or inefficiency of new medicine and realizations that old treatments could replace current medicines. As ludicrous as this sounds, it is no different than some of the decisions we make with our health. Everyone could make some beneficial changes, and a woman’s well-being is often neglected due to these hard-sticking myths about our health. Here are 5 ‘medicines’ that can easily be replaced with more natural alternatives.

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