The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 13th October 2016
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https://www.rt.com/viral/360986-kim-dotcom-extradition-us/
…”Dotcom faces copyright infringement and money laundering charges over his now defunct file sharing website Megaupload. New Zealand’s High Court in Auckland has heard the extradition appeal over the last four weeks.
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and
‘Kim Dotcom runs ‘Trump vs Clinton vs Putin’ Twitter poll, result is something you’d expect’
https://www.rt.com/viral/362353-putin-clinton-trump-kimdotcom-poll/
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‘CrossTalk on US election: Final stretch’
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/362454-us-election-final-stretch/
” ‘With less than a month to go, one of America’s nastiest political campaigns enters the final stretch. With both major candidates intensely unpopular with many in the electorate, is it a choice of the lesser evil?
CrossTalking with Michael Flanagan, George Szamuely, and Mac Zilber.”