US Trade Rep: ‘For Countless Americans, NAFTA Has Failed.’ Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. U.S. demands steep concessions, not ‘mere tweaking’ in NAFTA talks
“U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer made clear Wednesday that Trump is seeking far more than a TPP clone. Instead, the administration will push to win back the jobs and manufacturing capacity the U.S. lost under Nafta. ‘For countless Americans, this agreement has failed,’ said Lighthizer. “We cannot ignore the huge trade deficits, the lost manufacturing jobs, the businesses that have closed.””
2. Trump just ended his business advisory councils because the CEOs keep quitting
“President Trump’s main council of top corporate leaders disbanded on Wednesday following the president’s controversial remarks in which he equated white nationalist hate groups with the protesters opposing them. Soon after, the president announced on Twitter that he would end his executive councils, rather than put ‘pressure’ on executives.”
+1: The world trusts Putin more than Trump on foreign affairs, Pew says – Bloomberg
3. Ontario Indigenous education agreement hailed as step towards self-governance
“An historic education agreement signed on Wednesday between 23 First Nations and the province is being hailed as a step towards self-governance as it gives full educational authority to Indigenous communities.”
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“Being online is really bad, and the way we interact with information on the web is a type of sickness unique to this moment in time. The news, as filtered through Twitter or Nuzzel or Linkedin, comes in incremental microbursts, so instead of looking at aggregate events over time, we react to each bit of micro-news as if it is the worst thing that has ever happened. And since our president is likely on industrial-strength amphetamines, we exist online at his peril. I’m not sure if you’ve ever taken an Adderall and surfed the net, but the last time I did I played 167 games of Solitaire in a row and posted some truly bad tweets for which I apologize to my 10 sentient followers. It would have been bad if I were president at that time, not to excuse Trump or anything.”
5. Three days at the Microsoft Office world championships
“Once a year, kids from around the world gather to compete at high-speed spreadsheets”
