“The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company’s ‘extreme willingness to help.'”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/
“The accession of both India and Pakistan to the SCO is also a stunning repudiation of the United States.”
Read more: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/06/22/world-transformed-and-no-one-america-noticed.html
“At the end of the Korean War, both North and South Korea were poverty-ridden hellholes. But they took different routes. And got very different results.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/trumps-trade-deals-are-a-futile-conceit/
“Millions of Americans are falling for a dangerous and destructive argument about the need for tariffs and other trade barriers.”
Read more: https://banyanhill.com/corporate-foreign-income/
“A visitor from France says she was jogging along the beach south of White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it. So began a two-week nightmare that landed her in a prison jumpsuit.”
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4717060
“The Canadian government has worked for the past three years to expand its involvement in Tuscan, without public acknowledgment or public consultation.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/canada-us-tuscan-anti-terrorist-database-at-borders
“A company that developed a massive database for police body cameras has joined forces with the world’s biggest manufacturer of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles to sell surveillance drones to police departments.”
“Government is the employer of first resort — even when it has nothing much for its employees to do. That’s part of a tacit agreement between ruling families and citizens.”
“The key issue here: pension plans are almost universally toast.”
Read more: https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-latest-casualty-in-the-global-pension-catastrophe-is-23795/
“The Constitution must take account of vast technological changes, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, noting that digital data can provide a comprehensive, detailed — and intrusive — overview of private affairs that would have been impossible to imagine not long ago.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/supreme-court-warrants-cell-phone-privacy.html