Alleged Toronto G20 Starbucks vandal extradited from U.S. – Toronto – CBC News

CBS News confirms Sharyl Attkisson’s computer hacked – CBS News

America’s Private Prison System Is a National Disgrace

Car-tracking devices spark privacy concerns – Canada – CBC News

Should Canadians worry about data snooping? – Canada – CBC News

Secret NSA Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah – Galleries | Real Clear Politics

Canadian relief for Moore tornado victims denied at border – Windsor – CBC News

Engineering Empire: An Introduction to the Intellectuals and Institutions of American Imperialism

NYC and NYPD Criticized

Jon Stewart Tears Apart Obama, DOJ For Prosecuting Whistleblowers And Pot…

What’s at Stake When the Government Seizes Phone Records

Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country — Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores

When Governments Go Bad – NYTimes.com – David Brooks

Emptywheel: Dzhokhar’s Sharpie Manifesto

[on Boston PD refusing to give up their cell phones to the FBI at the boat scene] there’s something funny about the story. Why would cell phone pictures of the manifesto matter if the FBI had properly documented photos taken immediately after the arrest when the chain of custody was intact? I mean, I could see worrying about tainting the jury pool, but the leaked content of the interrogations already said all this stuff anyway ... [and then this from the comments] "It’s like they’re testing public credulity: scenery-chewing ham actor[s]; victims stomping around with their clothes blown off like a Sid Ceasar skit; stories changing with laugh-out-loud contradictions. They're making it cornier and cornier, but the media is just too gullible for them. They should reveal that Osama bin Laden is alive, and he did it, and let him escape on a jetpack with his evil laughter enchoing triple-tracked over Faneuil Hall"

Death is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo | Global Research

Democracy Now: Are the FBI and IRS Secretly Reading Your Email Without a Warrant? [Um.. Yes]

Did the Authorities’ Lockdown of Boston Give Us a Taste of the Police State Culture to Come?

Kristen Gwynnne: Why Cops Bust Down Doors of Medical Pot Growers, But Ignore Men Who Keep Naked Girls on Leashes

Strange, isn’t it, that hunches and vague tips about potential marijuana growing (in a state that recently legalized the drug!) is motivation enough to send a SWAT team busting down a door? Compare that to recent reports that police in Cleveland, Ohio ignored years of tips and calls about strange things going on in the home of the three Cleveland men suspected of holding captive, brutally raping and beating three women for nearly a decade. Before the big break on Monday, neighbors say they knew something was up and claim that they repeatedly called the cops. The police did not appear concerned; they certainly lacked the enthusiasm many law enforcement officers display when going after drug crimes (and non-crimes)

Q&A: The FBI’s role in ‘manufacturing’ terrorism – World – CBC News

Act of Terror: arrested for filming police officers – video | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Political Opportunism. The Boston Marathon Tragedy Used as a Pretext To Extend the “Global War on Terrorism” | Global Research

A Door to Door Search in Watertown MA

FOCUS | Our Failed Security-State

How the NRA Impeded the Boston Bomber Investigation

Lambert Strether: About the Official Boston Narrative and Whether You Should Trust It

So, about that official narrative and whether you should trust it. In a word, no. Especially you should not trust it when the nice folks from our organs of state security are involved, for the good and sufficient reason that they have a track record of manufacturing the raw materials of narrative — we might call these “events” — to suit their purposes ... [quoting Mother Jones study: FBI terrorist] "Sting operations resulted in prosecutions against 158 defendants. Of that total, 49 defendants participated in plots led by an agent provocateur—an FBI operative instigating terrorist action" ... I retain, perhaps naively, the idea that truth is important[]. We are enmeshed in a fabulously complex system of bullshit and lies, and it’s not possible to combat that system with lies of our own, or bullshit, no matter how good we may be at it; we simply don’t have the budget, or the institutions .. But the truth, at least for “the news,” seems quite difficult to discern. Events are manufactured by state or corporate actors; our famously free press promotes narratives that have at best a discounted relation with reality []. We ourselves, digerati, crowd-source ourselves into witch hunts or go down the Conspiracy Theory rabbit hole .. Leaving aside the human tragedy, in historic terms, the Boston Marathon bombing was not the Battle of the Somme, the Blitz, or the IRA bombings in London. Somewhere in their withered, austere souls, the powers that be must know this, and sense the shoddiness of their performance