You've Been Trumped (#1)

Series on "You've been Trumped" : #1 - #2 - #3 - #4 - #5 - #6

Dans Fox News - Feb 13, 2017
The White House has riled the country's civil libertarian wing after President Trump enthusiastically voiced support for a controversial law enforcement tool that allows an individual’s property or assets to be seized without a guilty verdict. The president weighed in on what's known as "civil asset forfeiture" during an Oval Office meeting last week with sheriffs. (..) While laws differ across the country, most states allow law enforcement to seize an individual’s assets or property on the suspicion they have been involved in criminal activity. Even if a person is found to be innocent, some jurisdictions allow the government to keep their property.

Dans CNN - Feb 11, 2017
Across the United States, some unauthorized immigrants are keeping their children home from school. Others have suspended after-school visits to the public library. They have given up coffee shop trips and weekend restaurant dinners with family. Some don't answer knocks on their doors. They're taping bedsheets over windows and staying off social media. Nervous parents and their children constantly exchange text messages and phone calls. From New York to Los Angeles, a series of immigration arrests this week have unleashed waves of fear and uncertainly across immigrant communities. "There are people that I work with who essentially want to go dark ... Kids ... are clearly traumatized by this."

Dans The Independent UK - Feb 6, 2017
Donald Trump will not be allowed to address Parliament on UK state visit, says Speaker John Bercow. “... our opposition to racism and to sexism and our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations in the House of Commons.” (..) Nearly two million people signed a petition calling for Mr Trump's state visit to be cancelled in just days after it was announced.

Dans Madagascar Tribune - Feb 6, 2017
Ce volet (loi Dodd-Franck) obligeait les compagnies cotées à la bourse américaine à publier toutes les sommes qu’elles versent aux gouvernements des pays producteurs : taxes, royalties, droits de production, primes, etc. Cette disposition anti-corruption qui imposait une meilleure transparence dans la délivrance et dans la gestion des concessions, est maintenant abrogée par le nouveau pouvoir américain.

Dans Radio-Canada - Feb 5, 2017
Depuis l'arrivée de Trump, la haine explose sur le web au Canada. Selon une étude réalisée par la compagnie Cision pour le compte de l’émission Marketplace de CBC, la tenue de propos racistes par les Canadiens sur les médias sociaux, les blogues et les sections de commentaires en ligne a grimpé de 600 % entre octobre 2015 et novembre 2016. Selon l’analyste médiatique de Cision, James Rubec, plus Donald Trump gagnait en popularité, plus les commentaires offensants et racistes augmentaient au Canada.

(Dans Fox News - Feb 5, 2017
Despite White House warning... Over 40 families were forced from their homes, putting pressure on the government to respond. Proponents of the new legislation are bent on passing it to prevent similar scenes from taking place. The bill would retroactively legalize several thousand homes built illegally on private Palestinian land. (..) But a vote remained scheduled...)

Dans CNN - Feb 3, 2017
He'll also force the delay of an Obama-era rule (called the "Fiduciary Rule") that required retirement advisers to act in their clients' best interests.
(..) "This is not an attempt to undo Dodd-Frank" -- but identified areas where Trump could make unilateral changes, like placing his own directors at key regulatory bodies. The official demurred if that meant Trump planned to fire the current head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau... The official said the rule was "protecting (consumers) from something they don't need protection from,"

Dans CNN - Feb 3, 2017
After the election, researchers from the Southern Poverty Law Center found that 80% of educators they surveyed reported "heightened anxiety on the part of marginalized students, including immigrants, Muslims, African Americans and LGBT students." While 40% said they heard derogatory language directed at these students. The long-term effects of this racial, ethnic and religious discrimination can be debilitating, experts said.

Dans CNN - Feb 2, 2017
The House passed a resolution, 228-194, that would repeal the "Stream Protection Rule," a measure issued recently that barred mining companies from putting any of their waste in local waterways. (..) The House also approved another resolution on Wednesday that eliminates a rule that required oil and gas companies from disclosing payments to foreign governments for gaining access to their energy resources.

Dans Washington Post - Feb 2, 2017
In his address at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, President Trump made one clear policy declaration: “I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment.” What is that? Is it in Trump’s power to destroy it? And who would want him to do that? What the Johnson Amendment is: It’s named for Lyndon B. Johnson, who introduced it in the Senate in 1954, nine years before he became president. It bans all tax-exempt nonprofits — which includes churches and other houses of worship, as well as charities — from “directly or indirectly” participating in any political candidate’s campaign.

Dans CNN - Feb 2, 2017
The Republican-led House voted Thursday to repeal an Obama-era Social Security Administration regulation to keep people with severe mental illnesses from buying guns.

Dans CNN - Feb 2, 2017
Milo Yiannopoulos is trying to convince colleges that hate speech is cool... 'It's almost cool to be Republican now'... Spencer, the white nationalist, told Mother Jones that watching one of Yiannopoulos's speeches at the University of Houston in September was a "huge inspiration"...

Dans The Guardian - Jan 23, 2017
Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order banning international NGOs from providing abortion services or offering information about abortions if they receive US funding.

• Dans La Presse - Mar 2, 2017
• Les représentants de près de 50 pays ont promis jeudi à Bruxelles de débloquer plus de 250 millions (quelque 181 millions d'euros ou 190 millions de $US) en faveur des droits des femmes dans le monde, afin de compenser la politique anti-avortement du président américain Donald Trump. (..) Des femmes originaires du Pakistan, de Colombie et du Mali ont expliqué les conséquences d'être privées d'accès aux soins de santé sexuelle et reproductive...

Dans CNN - Dec 28, 2017
... middle school students chanting "build a wall" on Latino students in the city of Royal Oak, Michigan. (..) "People would see me in the hallways, turn around and walk the other way."

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