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Mike Nova: Buses In US Capitol Thank Edward Snowden For Expos...: Buses In US Capitol Thank Edward Snowden For Exposing The Truth  - 11/30/2013  - Kevin Zeese

• Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: Edward Snowden is a hero - Belfast Telegraph - 11/29/2013 - 

M.N.: And who is behind this "mania", I wonder; and who is paying for this? 

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• Russia: Why is Putin always late? - BBC News - 11/30/2013 - 

Sometimes it bears the hallmarks of a calculated snub. In 2012, Putin was running late for gas talks with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Crimea. But he stopped for a chat with a biker friend, and eventually arrived nearly four hours late.

Political commentator Dmitriy Abramov says Putin's "affected lateness" is "born of a desire to demonstrate that he occupies a 'tsar's place' in world politics, as in the heyday of the Russian empire".

His estranged wife Lyudmila says he regularly kept her waiting when they were dating. Putin recollects of his school days: "I did not have time to dress and flew like a bullet to school without my coat."

As Rostovskiy notes, lateness is now Putin's "calling card" and he's unlikely to change. "In all probability he will be late for his own funeral,"says opposition blogger Andrey Malgin.


Arriving for the G8 "family photo"

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