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This week’s top video picks include naked citizens and how to nail a dictator (though, unfortunately, not in the same film).For a first look at more stories like these, please take a moment to subscribe to The I Files, your carefully curated and lovingly updated one-stop news source. We thoroughly scour YouTube for the best videos so you don’t have to. Subscribing is totally free and takes just two clicks.And just so you know, while you are watching the first video, “Naked Citizens,” The I Files would never bareback with Big Brother.“Naked Citizens,” ORF (Austrian Public Broadcasting)There is one surveillance camera for every 14 people in London, giving it the dubious distinction of being the most monitored city in the world. In the wake of the images of the Boston Marathon bombers captured by fixed cameras, such video surveillance might be considered a social good. But as “Naked Citizens” asks, in the name of security, are we losing our most basic freedoms?Continue Reading

The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.

For any city controller in Philadelphia there is a conflict between the ideal job specifications and the political reality of getting yourself elected.

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