Leid Stories - 12/02/13

Detroit Braces for A Hard Fall: An Insider’s View;

This Land’s Not Your Land: Aggressive Targeting of ‘Undesirables’

 

A bankruptcy judge is expected to deliver his decision tomorrow on the City of Detroit’s application to declare bankruptcy in order to restructure its reported $18 billion in debt and cover ongoing operating costs. If granted, it will be the largest municipal collapse in U.S. history.

Leid Stories’ guest Tom Barrow, former chairman of the state’s Board of Accountancy, says the city’s numbers simply don’t add up.

Israel’s Prawer-Begin plan to forcibly remove as many as 70,000 Arab Bedouins from their ancestral land in the Negev desert and corral them in “unrecognized” villages and towns triggered international protests over the weekend.

Leid Stories notes a disturbing global trend -- aggressive targeting of “undesirables” through displacement and deportation.