FBI threatened associates of Todashev, slayed friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect

FBI threatened associates of Todashev, slayed friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect – CAIRIbragim Todashev The FBI has harassed, threatened and even denied Fifth Amendment rights to friends of an Orlando man agents killed in May who was close to alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Wednesday.

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Common Core: A Lesson Plan for Raising Up Compliant, Non-Thinking Citizens

Activist Post“A fool with a tool is still a fool. A fool with a powerful tool is a dangerous fool.”-Michael Fullan, international school reform authority, on the powerful “tool” that is Common Core. As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State , there are several methods for controlling a population.

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Brazilian president: US surveillance a ‘breach of international law’

Brazilian president: US surveillance a ‘breach of international law’Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, has launched a blistering attack on US espionage at the UN general assembly, accusing the NSA of violating international law by its indiscriminate collection of personal information of Brazilian citizens and economic espionage targeted on the country’s strategic industries.

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Bank of America goes to trial over U.S. mortgage fraud charges

Bank of America goes to trial over U.S. mortgage fraud chargesCredit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid Customers use ATMs at a Bank of America banking center in New York’s financial district January 17, 2013. In what would be the government’s first financial crisis case to go to trial against a major bank over defective mortgages, jury selection is set to begin in federal court in New York on Tuesday, barring a last-minute settlement.

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Destroying the Right to Be Left Alone

Destroying the Right to Be Left AloneFor at least the last six years, government agents have been exploiting an AT&T database filled with the records of billions of American phone calls from as far back as 1987. The rationale behind this dragnet intrusion, codenamed Hemisphere, is to find suspicious links between people with “burner” phones (prepaid mobile phones easy to buy, use, and quickly dispose of), which are popular with drug dealers.

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Saudi Arabia Threatens to “End Career” of AP Reporter Over Chemical Weapons Story

Saudi Arabia Threatens to “End Career” of AP Reporter Over Chemical Weapons StoryJournalist who exposed how rebels were behind August 21st attack faces intimidation Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com September 23, 2013 Associated Press reporter Dale Gavlak has been threatened over her involvement in a story which exposed how Syrian rebels were responsible for the August 21st chemical weapons attack after being handed the weapons by Saudi intelligence agents.

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Pope attacks global economics for worshipping ‘god of money’

Pope attacks global economics for worshipping ‘god of money’Credit: Reuters/Giampiero Sposito 1 of 5. Pope Francis looks on as he leads a mass outside the Shrine of Our Lady of Bonaria in Cagliari September 22, 2013. Francis, at the start of a day-long trip to the Sardinian capital, Cagliari, put aside his prepared text at a meeting with unemployed workers, including miners in hard hats who told him of their situation, and improvised for nearly 20 minutes.

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Years after recession, many in U.S. still struggling, polls show

Years after recession, many in U.S. still struggling, polls showCredit: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson A girl looks at a food stand at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, California September 4, 2013. Twenty percent of U.S. adults – one in five – polled last month said that at times in the past year they did not have enough money to buy food for themselves or their families, according to Gallup’s findings.

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The Ten Most Disturbing Things You Should Know About the FBI Since 9/11

The Ten Most Disturbing Things You Should Know About the FBI Since 9/11On September 4, 2013, James Comey became the 7th director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The first change in leadership at the bureau since the 9/11 attacks provides Congress, the president, and the attorney general the opportunity to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the FBI’s post-9/11 policies and programs.

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Financial Armageddon is Building in the Shadows, And You Bear the Risk

Financial Armageddon is Building in the Shadows, And You Bear the RiskIncreased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. The shadow banks, although free of government regulation, are propped up by a hidden government guarantee in the form of safe harbor status under the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act pushed through by Wall Street.

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Another Mass Shooting, Another Psychiatric Drug? Federal Investigation Long Overdue

CCHR InternationalThere is overwhelming evidence that psychiatric drugs cause violence. 22 International drug regulatory warnings cite violence, mania, hostility, aggression, psychosis and even homicidal ideation. Fact: Despite 22 international drug regulatory warnings on psychiatric drugs citing effects of mania, hostility, violence and even homicidal ideation, and dozens of high profile shootings/killings tied to psychiatric drug use, there has yet to be a federal investigation on the link between psychiatric drugs and acts of senseless violence.

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