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Monday, March 10, 2014

Cheat Sheet - The Perfect 'True Detective' Finale

Today: Inside The EuroMaidan's Circle Of Trust , Snowden to Speak at SXSW , U.S. Hid Own Risks After Fukushima
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

March 10, 2014
ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT

Sunday's season finale of True Detective was the perfect conclusion to the series that has come close to perfection. The first season ended just in time—any longer and it would have broken the spell over the audience. Andrew Romano writes about the finale so good it broke HBO Go.

ON THE GROUND

As the dust settles, Kiev's revolutionaries realize they lack the political prowess to run a country. They're fighters, not politicians, reports Jamie Dettmer, and after tossing out kleptocrat Viktor Yanukovych, they're now having trouble adapting to the new political reality of an occupied Crimea.

LIVE FROM MOSCOW

Appearing in front of the image of the U.S. Constitution, Edward Snowden addressed a crowd at South by Southwest to great fanfare Monday. Via Google Hangout, Snowden responded to questions from his legal adviser, Ben Wizner of the ACLU. "We need a watchdog that watches Congress," he said. He believes "every society has benefitted" from his NSA leaks and that he was acting in the name of the Constitution. "I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, and I saw that the Constitution was being violated on a massive scale," he said. He also stressed the importance of encryption and said that it should be a "basic protection" rather than a "black art." That seemed to be part of his larger goal of calling upon the tech community to be more vigilante. "They're setting fire to the global Internet, and you guys in the room are the global firefighters," he said.

SECRET FEARS

After the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in March 2011, the U.S. went out of its way to downplay the likelihood of a similar crisis occurring at home. Emails within the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission released Monday via the Freedom of Information Act reveal a campaign to assuage American fears of a nuclear meltdown, even as the agency was unsure of the safety of U.S. plants. NRC emails show that the agency declined to address reporters' questions about a worst-case scenario and tried to dissuade the press from using its own data on earthquake risks. It even actively hid Japanese engineers from reporters visiting the NRC's operations center in Maryland to distance itself from Fukushima.

WTF

In what is probably totally par for the course at a Central Florida gun show, George Zimmerman made a happy appearance and signed autographs. The killer of teenager Trayvon Martin was seen smiling and shaking hands with visitors. The New Orlando Gun Show was originally supposed to be held at a larger venue, but the location's managers canceled after the backlash over Zimmerman's appearance. Show organizer Mike Piwowarski plans to sue for an estimated $330,000 in lost gun sales. #Florida.


ONE-MAN BRATPACK
Biebs Goes Nuclear at Deposition
Performance of a lifetime.
REVENGE
Tatar Leader Threatens Insurgency
If Crimea votes to join Russia.
LAST SLICE
Sbarro Files for Bankruptcy
Get it while it's hot.
REGRET
Lanza's Dad Wishes Son Wasn't Born
"Adam would have killed me in a heartbeat."

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