The plutocratist extremists of "Fix the Debt" are now trying to use the government shutdown (engineered by plutocratist extremists) to justify their attack on Americans' retirement funds.

Plutocratist extremists in Congress are attacking them too.

The US is harassing the friends of Ibragim Todashev, who was shot dead by an FBI agent while several agents were interrogating him in his home.

The false accusation that he tried to attack them (he'd have to have been crazy to try, under the circumstances, unless he had super powers) is standard practice for thugs.

We have no way of knowing whether Todashev really confessed to involvement in murder. It might be true, or it might be another lie. If it's true, he deserved a trial, not summary execution.

The US had no obligation to extend his girlfriend's visa; deporting her straightaway for overstaying would have been legitimate. However, to extend the visa, then cancel it because she gave an interview to a magazine, is dangerous injustice. Never mind whether it is fair to her: it attacks journalism, and that threatens all Americans,

Perhaps Todashev revealed, when interrogated, some sort of knowledge that the US government did not want us to find out, and killing him was a way to suppress it. Perhaps an FBI agent felt insulted, lost his head, and shot Todashev in the heat of anger. Perhaps the agents wanted to pin a murder on him and did not want him around to deny it. We have no way of knowing, but it's clear that that agent must be prosecuted.

The FBI has a "time-tested" procedure for investigating shootings by its agents, which always concludes they were justified.

US citizens: tell your senators to oppose CISPA.

Yes, that monster has come back to life. Politicians such as Senator Feinstein, that want total surveillance, are pushing it again.

In the US: demand that US fast food chains pay their workers $15 an hour.

Unregulated US chemical plants keep exploding, sometimes killing bystanders. There are 500 plants in which one accident could threaten 100,000 people.

This dwarfs the danger of terrorism. So why does the US spend so much on the Committee for Public Safety (better known as the Department of Homeland Security), and hardly anything on inspecting and regulating chemical plants? I suspect a few reasons:

1. It is more political useful to make people hyper-afraid of certain minority groups than hyper-afraid of factories.
2. Spending on "security" is profitable for companies while regulating their plants is inconvenient for them.