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On Monday morning roundup:

Fake interpreter at Mandela funeral: In the strangest news leftover from Mandela’s funeral, the story about the faux interpreter continues to get stranger. Turns out that the sign language interpreter—the guy standing feet from some of the most powerful and protected people in the world—was a fake. Well, now, turns out he also has a criminal past.

NSA Handed Defeat: After a year of revelations about the scope of NSA’s invasion on regular citizens phone calls (not to mention foreign leaders), a federal judge on Monday morning stated what we already knew – it probably violates constitutional protections!

NFL playoff picture: With millions of male egos hanging in the balance, the NFL moved into its final two weeks, and with a playoff picture completely scrambled.

This article appears in Dec 12-18, 2013.

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What in the World?

by Phil Busse, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 16, 2013

<h1>What in the World?</h1> <p class="byline">by Phil Busse, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 16, 2013</p> <p>On Monday morning roundup:</p> <p><strong>Fake interpreter at Mandela funeral</strong>: In the strangest news leftover from Mandela's funeral, the story about the faux interpreter continues to get stranger. Turns out that the sign language interpreter—the guy standing feet from some of the most powerful and protected people in the world—was a fake. Well, now, turns out he also <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/relative-mandela-signer-group-burned-men-131624843.html" target="_blank">has a criminal past</a>. </p> <p><strong>NSA Handed Defeat</strong>: After a year of revelations about the scope of NSA's invasion on regular citizens phone calls (not to mention foreign leaders), a federal judge on Monday morning stated what we already knew - it probably <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/us/politics/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-data-program.html?hp&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">violates constitutional protections</a>! </p> <p><strong>NFL playoff picture</strong>: With millions of male egos hanging in the balance, the NFL moved into its final two weeks, and with a <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1890872-nfl-playoff-picture-2013-week-16-standings-super-bowl-odds-and-wild-card-hunt" target="_blank">playoff picture completely scrambled. </a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/what-in-the-world-2304525/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=25390&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/what-in-the-world-2304525/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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