California Bill to Help End Unchecked Police Surveillance, Establish More Local Control Clears Another Hurdle

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (June 27, 2018) –  Yesterday, a second California Assembly committee passed a bill that would increase oversight and transparency of law enforcement surveillance technology. Passage of the bill would take the first step toward limiting the unchecked use of surveillance technologies that violate basic privacy rights and feed into a broader national surveillance…

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At Least Eight AT&T Facilities Help NSA Spy on Everybody

The NSA uses AT&T facilities in at least eight cities to warrantlessly monitor and collect billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across the United States. According to a report published by The Intercept based on documents it obtained, the NSA has direct access to network hubs that run through buildings known as “backbone” and…

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

"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."

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Oil Spikes Higher After Trump Threatens Allies With Sanctions For Buying Iranian Oil

"The U.S. government is calling on its allies to zero out imports of oil from Iran by November 4, or else face sanctions, and Washington is leaning towards granting no waivers at all. An official from the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that it had plans to follow up on the matter with Turkey, India and China, even as the U.S. is trying not to 'adversely impact' these countries, Bloomberg reports."

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Retaliatory Tariffs Push Harley Offshore; Enraged Trump Threatens Punitive Taxes

"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."

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Congress Won’t Cut a Penny: Refuses to Cut Even 0.08 Percent of Federal Budget

There was a recent move to cut a pittance out of the federal budget and the Republicans in Congress couldn’t even get that done.  The GOP talks a good game when it’s not in power. For eight years, Republicans promised they were going to repeal Obamacare. After controlling both houses of Congress and the White…

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