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It is illegal for the CIA or NSA to target US citizens for surveillance unless there is probable cause to believe they are involved in criminal activity. That rule was circumvented when the Obama administration authorized intelligence gathering against foreigners who were thought to be in communication with the Trump transition team. The goal was to spy on the Trump team. [...]
Neuenhaus, Germany: An 18-year-old Somali ‘asylum seeker’ has been charged with raping two disabled men before murdering the second victim’s elderly wife. The attack occurred in October 2016, but the press has refused to report the crimes until now. The killer is being given special treatment by prosecutors because of his youth. [...]
St. Petersburg, Russia: A homemade bomb killed at least 11 people on a subway train and left more than 50 injured. A second, larger explosive device disguised as a fire extinguisher was found at another subway station. A suspect who was filmed at the scene turned himself in to police, claiming he is innocent. A second man, also captured on CCTV, is suspected of being a suicide bomber with links to radical Islam. [...]
Obama's BRAIN initiative of 2013 now includes technology to create Navy Seal 'super soldiers' through transcranial electrical stimulation for 'cognitive enhancement' and superhuman performance. It is an extension of the mind-control technology developed by the CIA in the 1950s called MK-ULTRA, which was used to create obedient assassins. [...]
Idlib, Syria: Media outlets, backed by the US, UK, and EU, are claiming that Syrian and Russian Air forces launched a chemical airstrike, killing civilians, just ahead of the Brussels peace talks. The BBC admits that the source of the projectile was not clear. [...]
CNN is attempting to kill the story about Susan Rice coordinating the illegal 'wiretapping' of international conversations of Trump's transition team. The network refuses to report the story except to say that it is ‘fake news’ created by the Trump administration and his right-wing supporters. [...]
US: Women working for Senator Elizabeth Warren were paid 71 cents for every dollar paid to men during the 2016 fiscal year. Warren says that the gender pay gap in America is because the workplace is "rigged against women”. [The word hypocrite comes to mind.] [...]