Dakota pipeline protests met with surveillance, militarized response as activists shut down tar sands pipelines and Texas pipeline protests expand...--read about the pipeline shutdowns here and here
--at Vice, Jason Leopold reports on Inspector General investigations showing that surveillance contractors watch porn and do sex chats with minors
--former FBI agents criticize FBI for outsourcing handling of classified materials to contractor
--FBI is investigating suspicious crash of small plane in Connecticut
--in recent editorial, NY Times notes that the presidential campaigns aren't talking about surveillance, and debate moderators don't bring it up
--leaked emails show Clinton sucked up to banksters in paid speeches, and explained Dodd-Frank as just politics
--Shadowproof focuses on Podesta emails that show Dem party leaders conspiring to damage Sanders
--Wells Fargo, the safe target for political opportunists, knew about the creation of fake account to meet sales quotas in 2005
--Trump sent Peter B. another letter
--Pentagon seems unprepared for threats from tiny Daesh drones
--NY Times continues excellent series profiling the PTSD of innocent men who were subjected to torture in US custody
--in California, violent crime has dropped, but deaths of suspects and convicts in jail have jumped in last 10 years
--California Scholars for Academic Freedom slam UC Berkeley for caving to pressure from Jewish groups to cancel course on Palestine
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