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Horsey on Snowden...toon...Where in The World.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-snowdens-spying-revelations-20130624,0,4326150.storyBy David Horsey
June 25, 2013, 5:00 a.m.
On Monday morning, I strolled from the East India Club – my temporary address while working from London – and went to watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Little did I know I would come away from the event with a novel insight into the controversial cyber-spying operations being run by British and American intelligence agencies.
Navigating through the tourist throng, I took a position near the front gate of the palace with a decent view of marching red-coated soldiers in their towering bearskin hats. Near the end of the ceremony, the troops stood at attention while the military band formed a circle to perform a couple of numbers. I expected to hear a martial tune or maybe "Rule Britannia." Instead, as if they were part of a Monty Python parody, the bandsmen played a medley of Stevie Wonder songs. If they weren’t such fine and serious musicians, it would have seemed a bit goofy.
