Category Archives: Mainstream News

American held in ICE custody for 1,273 days just one of many

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“Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations, according to a Times review of federal lawsuits, internal ICE documents and interviews.”

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html

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Retaliatory Tariffs Push Harley Offshore; Enraged Trump Threatens Punitive Taxes

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“A day earlier, Harley-Davidson announced that it would shift some of its production overseas in response to the European Union’s new 31 percent tariff on its imported bikes, which was imposed in retaliation for Mr. Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/business/trump-harley-davidson-tariffs.html

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The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions

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“Private polls—and a timely ‘concession’ from the face of Leave—allowed the funds to make millions off the pound’s collapse.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-25/brexit-big-short-how-pollsters-helped-hedge-funds-beat-the-crash

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US military plans migrant internment camps amid crackdown

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“The memo says the camps would be built on abandoned airfields in California, Alabama, and Arizona.”

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44585716

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CEO makes $1.5 million warehousing immigrant kids

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“About 2,000 children have been separated from their parents over two months.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/23/housing-immigrant-children-big-business-southwest-key-programs/727980002/

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Jogger imprisoned for 2 weeks after accidentally entering U.S.

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“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

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Canada using massive US anti-terrorist database at borders

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“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

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A Ghost Army of Workers Is Paid to Do Nothing in the Gulf

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“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.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/workers-paid-to-do-nothing-a-ghost-army-that-haunts-gulf-rulers

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Supreme Court: Warrants Are Generally Needed to Collect Cellphone Location Data

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“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

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Tax Cuts Feed China’s Consuming Passion

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“The tax reduction will stimulate growth — but it also will stretch the government finances in a slowing, debt-burdened economy.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-21/tax-cuts-feed-china-s-consuming-passion

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