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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 5th, 2014. The In the Cloud.

No one knows your dog edition. I'm David Plotts, the editor at Larger Slate. On this week's

show, the world is a mess. Even more of a mess than it was last week. We will try to resolve

the crisis in Ukraine and if we have five minutes to spare, we will develop the ISIS strategy

that Obama is looking for. The droids he's been looking for. Then, Fall is here, which means

that the 2014 campaign is now officially in full swing. John Dickerson has shed his winter

coat or he's grown his winter coat in excitement out of this. We are going to handicap the 2014

election. We'll talk about where things stand. Then, naked pictures of celebrity,

although not, not apparently of any of us, stolen from the cloud, uploaded to the internet.

Do we need new laws to stop this? Or should we just stop fretting about it? Plus, we

have cocktail chatter and we're going to have a Slate Plus bonus segment for Slate Plus

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