they knew it was andre edwards.ext, a young woman is dead and the neighbor says the killer is a window peeper. >> she was uncomfortable about that. she did not feel it was a very safe place. >> i had no idea how this could happen. >> despite the evidence, the case can't be solved. >> we're working on it, but we don't have any viable leads at this time. >> until police found evidence their suspect had killed before. >> i don't think he was finished. i don't think he would have stopped.

. >> as revelations by edward snowden about u.s. surveillance continued to shake germany, we speak to his european lawyer, wolfgang kaleck. as the german government cancels a key contract with verizon, some lawmakers are now calling for the german chancellor to grant snowden asylum. then we speak to the director of news at al-jazeera english about the sentencing of the networks through reporters jump to 10 years and in egyptian prison. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from bonn, germany. president obama is asking congress for fast-track authority and additional funding to speed the deportation of migrant children fleeing violence and poverty in central america. the white house says obama will submit an emergency request to waive anti-trafficking rules that prevent children from being immediately deported. if approved, the government could avoid regulations mandating the children's transfer to the care of the department of health a

edwards' luck holds out.ras that capture the entire incident, including the pickup license plate, help police identify the shooter and issue a warrant. unfortunately, the shooter stays one step ahead. police believe the man escapes across the mexican border. surviving this brush with death motivates edward to act on his long-held desire to become a stand-up comic. >> he actually was a pretty funny guy and he cracked jokes left and right, always had something smart to say. >> i'm calling the cops on all y'all drunk asses. >> edward right now, the last-known whereabouts about him, he was in california and he's fulfilling his desire to become an actor/comedian. >> so sometimes a very bad day can give us the push we need to leave a steady gig and embrace a dream. >>> coming up, a different kind of towing drama. this time, it's the towed vehicle threatening the worker. >> i thought he was dead, i really did. i thought the man was dead. >> when "caught on camera: very bad day" continues. r ] why can't powerful suns

of course edward snowden. i do have an adversarial question for you. >> at the moment favorite kind. i'd be a mac -- and how does that blur the lines between not in traditional journalism or more importantly what does that mean to your protection as a journalist? >> well, there's this interesting dilemma because what ends up happening is if you are in possession of top-secret document, the justice department believes that any kind of publication is a crime, is a felony, even if you are a journalist. that is their position. and the protection you have is that there is a superseded love called the constitution -- for example, when i worked with ulcerative media outlet around the world in order to do the reporting in the places where the people were or were most affected by the disclosure i wanted to nsa spying on spain with spanish journalists in nsa spying on sweden and sweden with spanish journalists. i had to enter into context about the organizations before i could give them documents saying they were hiring

but i like the revelations keep coming global privacy champion edward snowden marks a year now since he fled to russia seeking a haven from american intelligence avenge a. final batch of syria's declared toxic gas been handed over it is now out of the country the global chemical weapons watchdog confirms they will now be destroyed. cranium deputies admit to forty children killed in the government's military offensive while the new president goes ignored by state forces and opponents alike . also this hour to poland's foreign minister allegedly gets called out by a leaked foul mouthed conversation suggesting his nation paths to world merica. live from moscow eight pm says r t international with me kevin zero in on our top story his revelation shook some of the fundamental bonds between citizens of the state but instead of a nobel prize is efforts earned him a top place of america's most wanted list yes it is now a year since former n.s.a. employee edward snowden landed here in russia his asylum ends next month and still not clear what's next for him then while his whereabouts remain s

context of the world of monetary policy domination of who and in honor of the one year anniversary of edward snowden the n.s.a. revelations we have lived our lives and on the show today i sat down with those our earlier today to discuss how the government bullied him into installing surveillance equipment on his servers which also met with force of the shutdown is company not cool you won't want to miss a moment and it all starts right now. we've been anticipating this all week and it's now finally happened the european central bank has introduced a number of different measures aimed at stimulating the eurozone economy measures like negative interest rates and cheap long term loans to banks now these secrets deposit rate for banks from zero to negative zero point one percent all in an effort to encourage banks to lend to households and businesses european policymakers are trying to counter the chance of deflation in the eurozone the negative deposit rate makes the e.c.b. the first major central bank to use a negative rate so it's pretty dramatic stuff now policymakers also lowered the benchm

conspiracy theory turned reality it's a year since edward snowden revealed america's spy network to the world we report on how the revelations change global politics and society. strikes carports supplies in eastern ukraine and forced tens of thousands of people to flee to neighboring russia where refugee camps are being swarmed. also it's an overwhelming victory for bashar assad in syria as the war torn country holds its first multi candidate presidential race in decades. britain's queen elizabeth announces a government bill that would allow fracking on private land without permission. thanks for watching a with r.t. international. now the national security agency collected phone records of millions of u.s. citizens daily the n.s.a. prism program taps into user data of apple google and others such were the headlines a year ago and the revelations by n.s.a. employee edward snowden remain a reality today thursday marks a years since he leaked classified documents on america's world spanning espionage program goal thing everyone from a u.s. citizen to a foreign president. looks back at th

now has the word that edward snowden has left hong kong there are many questions about why snowden is able to stay one step ahead of american authorities snowden is reported to be on a flight to moscow the arrivals hall of moscow's airport sector a terminal on june twenty third two thousand and thirteen this is where that flight from hong kong with edward snowden on board arrived. these doors were surrounded by a whole army of journalists with cameras and microphones broadcasting the life pictures of everything that was going on here but when the last passenger finally came out and there was still no sign of them became clear the next most probable place there could be if not here then inside the transit zone. the american whistleblower edward snowden is thought to be in moscow airport it looks like snowden is spending the night in the transit area of moscow's sheremetyevo airport all the indications are that he's about one hundred meters away from where i'm standing it journalists photographers t.v. radio press agencies you name it and everyone was looking for snowden everywhere in e

a year since his escape from the hands of washington and a dramatic flight to russia edward snowden remains in hiding but the revelations people coming we report on the latest. russian trains derailed in eastern ukraine after a blast rocks the tracks meanwhile r.t. attains a video apparently showing the crimean artillery fire close to russia's border. and his job is to interact and their advance to the west the country taking control of four more towns and border checkpoints we report in the collapsing state. it's nice to have you company you're watching r.t. international that this man alone has managed to change the vision of the world he's a number one on the list of whistleblowers the u.s. wants behind bars this day a year ago former n.s.a. employee edward snowden landed in russia his asylum ends next month and it's still not clear what's next for him but for now his whereabouts are shrouded in mystery he's worried that the white house won't let him go so easily. looks at how he managed to slip through washington sphinx. c.n.n. now has word that edward snowden has left hong kong there a

a year since his escape from the hands of washington and the dramatic flight to russia edward snowden remains in hiding but the revelations keep coming we report on the latest. russia ukraine is the road in eastern ukraine after a blast rocks the tracks meanwhile artillery obtains a video apparently showing ukrainian artillery fire close to russia's border. and as jihad is seen around vans to the west the country taking control of four more towns and border checkpoints we were caught in the collapsing state. and watching our international now he's a man who's exchanged our vision of the world and he's among america's most wanted this day a year ago former n.s.a. employee edward snowden landed in russia his asylum ends next month and it's still not clear what's next for him but for now his whereabouts is shrouded in mystery worried that the white house won't let him go so easily. looks at how he managed to slip through washington sphinx. c.n.n. now has the word that edward snowden has left hong kong there are many questions about why snowden is able to stay one step ahead of american a

a year since his escape from the hands of washington and the dramatic flight to russia edward snowden remains in hiding but the revelations keep coming we report on the latest. a russian train has derailed in eastern ukraine after a blast rocks the tracks meanwhile r.t. tains a video apparently showing ukrainian artillery fire close to russia's border. plus poland's foreign minister apparently gets caught up in a snowballing leaks case as an alleged conversation saying the nation's been pandering to america is published by a magazine and the office was raided by israeli defense forces as part of a crackdown on the palestinian terror. i welcome you with r.t. international now here's a man who's changed the vision of the world and he's among america's most wanted this day a year ago former n.s.a. employee edward snowden landed in russia his asylum ends next month and it's still not clear what is next for him but for now his whereabouts shrouded in mystery as he's worried that the white house won't let him go so easily r.t. as your piece kind of looks at how he managed to slip through wa

a year since he escaped from the hands of washington and a dramatic flight to russia edward snowden remains in hiding but the revelations keep coming we report on the latest. argued scenes of video apparently showing ukrainian artillery fire close to russia's border meanwhile authorities say forty children have been killed since the conflict began in the east. it was foreign minister gets cut off leaks scandal as an alleged conversation saying the nation's been pounded ring to america is published by a magazine. and in our office is rated by israeli defense forces this part of a crackdown on the palestinian territory. which are due to national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing he is a man who has changed our vision of the world and is among america's most wanted this day and a year ago for in the same chloe edward snowden landed in russia he's asylum and next month and is still not clear what's next for him but for now his whereabouts are shrouded in mystery as he's worried that the white house won't let him go so easily argues a gorgeous going off looks at how he managed to

around the world have called it a death to privacy conspiracy theory turned reality it's a year since edward snowden revealed america's spy network to the world we report on how the revelations changed global politics and society. stop airstrikes cold water supplies in eastern ukraine and forced tens of thousands of people to flee to neighboring russia where refugee camps are being swarmed. but it's an overwhelming victory for bashar assad in syria as the war torn country holds its first multi candidate presidential race in decades. and it seems an englishman's home is no longer his castle was the government uses the queen's speech to outline plans for fracking on private land with that the news permission . hello there it's nice to have you company you're watching international. the national security agency collects phone records of millions of u.s. citizens daily and taps into user data of. britain's intelligence listens in on the leaders g. twenty these are the headlines from a year ago following the revelations by n.s.a. employee edward snowden thursday marks a year since he leaked class

well to the first part of your question certainly we owe edward snowden. the fact that. in any in no time before has has been such an intense public discussion on the value of privacy worldwide and especially in germany so data protection has come to the forefront of the public debate whereas secondly the governments apparently do not really seem to take take this very seriously and that is to be deplored because there is urgent action necessary to limits the actions of secret services especially in democratic states . while snowden's asylum in russia and pretty soon what will happen them well that isn't a question which obviously i cannot answer you have to ask the russian authorities . but ok snowden also promised more revelations what can we expect very briefly if you could speculate on this one again that is difficult to say but what he has already revealed is ground enough for any of us and for the governments especially to act immediately. write. an index thank you so much. thank you. and coming up our teams west bank bureau salvages what's left after an israeli mi

. >> edward snowden has called you an inspiration. do you view him as an inspiration as well. >> i certainly do. i think he's -- i was very pleased to hear that i had been in his mind at all when i saw th that on the news just yesterday. i called my wife to take a look at the computer. she said, you should take a picture of that. i'm proud of that because edward snowden is a man that makes me

revelations keep coming global privacy champion edward snowden marks a year since he fled to russia seeking a haven from american intelligence vengeance. ukrainian deputies admits to forty children killed in the government's military offensives while the new president's troops goes of nor advice to forces and opponents alike. poland's foreign minister allegedly gets caught out by a leaked foul mouth conversation suggesting his nation panders to america. and artie's office in the west bank salvage is what's left after an israeli military raid but still not adequately explained why we were searched nor why it confiscated materials have not yet been returned. because for being a mosque it watching our to international when we were in a josh now his revelation shook some of the fundamental bonds between citizens and the state but instead of a nobel prize his efforts earned him a top place on america's most wanted list it's a year to the day since forman the same player we had snowden landed in russia is asylum man's next month and it's still not clear what's next for him while his whereabouts r

we all know, last week marked the one-year anniversary of the first leak of classified material by edward snowden, a criminal betrayal of his country and arguably the most significant leak in u.s. history. over the past year, the house judiciary committee conducted aggressive oversight of the nsa bulk collection program and spearheaded house passage of the usa freedom act. this bipartisan legislation reforms controversial national security programs and provides expanded oversight and transparency of america's intelligence gathering. although the leaks by edward snowden may have been the impetus for congressional reforms, the passage of this bipartisan legislation in no way condones or excuses his actions. the detrimental consequences of what he did may not yet be fully

one ye after edward snowden exposed spying, can the internet be reset. >>> egypt and one of the bestnown bloggers is a convicted criminal looking at 15 years in jail. there. it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you. keeping up with the beautiful game. a nice little video to help kick off the world cup in brazil. on june 6th, the world's second biggest mobile phone company, vodaphone produced a detailed report on governments in 29 countries spying on its customers' phones. >> happened the day after the one-year anniversary of the first edward snowden nasa story. he -- nsa story. he blew the whistle on the appetite for spying on phones and e-mails. his revelations outrage many americans, including members of congress who drew up a law designed on rather than in intelligence agencies. america has 18 of them. but pushback from the security establishment meant the bill that eventually passed was watered down to such an extents the privacy advocates dismissed it as a sham. google and football are among the heavy hitters now in on this debate. there is a campaign called "reset th

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it took edward snowden almost a few year to be interviewed by a major american news outlet.bc news went to him in moscow because snowden is tracked in exile. >> it's important for people to for people to see not just the documents but the person who made the decision to leak them. >> if we want to be free we can't give away privacy. >> he doesn't come off as stride event or self aggrandizing. he is humble. you get the feeling he faced a moral dilemma? >> there are some things worth fighting for. the country is one. >> he has helped the media understand the role that leaks and whistle blowers can have in our political process. >> before edward snowden dropped his bombshell last year, if mobile phone companies were uneasy about the nsa and other intelligence agencies sweeping up their data, they kept those concerns to themselves that's over. vodafone wrote at 4028 word report, publishing it online and exposing 29 governments that are wired to ease drop on anyone using vodafon's report. >> it refers to the snowden leak. there is no doubt they have timed the release of it to mee

the revelations keep coming global privacy champion edward snowden marks a year now since he fled to russia seeking a haven from american intelligence vengeance. on the final batch of syria's declared toxic assholes been handed over it is now out of the country the global chemical weapons watchdog confirms they will be destroyed. this news even very good even if you just joined us is kevin oh and here it r t h q first as mentioned developments in ukraine to tell you about that just coming in the last few minutes antigovernment forces in the east have agreed to the ceasefire with the kiev military but they also accused the government of violating its hold with fresh offensive you have in turn blames the rebels for the failure of the proposed to cotton we hope to bring you the latest on this fast moving story tonight roman culture of our correspondent in about five ten minutes time in fact we just hear it now we've got the connection with roman cost or if either roman. very good to get you in this early stage in the program bring us up to speed on what's just been announced here this b

and this is just a first step so here's the question is this move a good thing well my colleague edward harrison says no not at all now for one thing the negative deposit rate is a tax but he also wrote in a post on his blog credit write downs this morning quote the z.b. has been forced into this course of action by circumstance the policy stance in europe is backloaded austerity and internal devaluation is deflationary by design with fiscal forward his hands tied monetary policy is the only. game in town and the mandate compels them to act because the u.c.b. wants to prevent a debt deflation and has been forced to act preemptively with prices falling near deflationary levels eurozone wide so bottom line the crisis in europe is not over not by a long shot. with the e.c.b. announcement thursday it seems like monetary policy is the only game in town the u.k. and japan are maintaining their quantitative easing programs and only the u.s. seems to be pulling back from these unconventional methods now the e.c.b. announcement is historic negative interest rates four hundred billion euros of a

employee edward snowden landed in russia his asylum ends next month and it's still not clear what is next for him but for now his whereabouts shrouded in mystery and he's worried that the white house won't let him go so we see the pieces of looked at how he managed to slip through washington sphinx. c.n.n. now has the word that edward snowden has left hong kong there are many questions about why snowden is able to stay one step ahead of american authorities snowden is reported to be on a flight to moscow in the arrivals hall of moscow's sheremetyevo airport sector a terminal on june twenty third two thousand and thirteen this is where that flight from hong kong with edward snowden on board arrived these doors were surrounded by a whole army of journalists with cameras and microphones some broadcasting live pictures of everything that was going on here but when the last passenger finally came out and there was still no sign of them became clear the next most probable place there could be if not here then inside the transit zone. this whole place was swarming with journalists photograp

>> your perspective of edward snowden.f you think he is a hero you felt it was a wide-ranging interview that talked about what he did with nasa but showed his human side. if you think he is a a traitor u are begging brian williams not to treat a foul as a foreign concept when he said he was trained to be a c.i.a. operative, a spy, that deserves some follow-up or he said he was not in community with the russian government tax deserved a follow-up and he said most importantly he went to his bosses to complain the way they were doing business, can you show us e-mails that indicate that? the n.s.a. says it does not exist. it was five hours and it is not like there imtime restrains. it depends on your perspective. >> no, no, no, whether you love or hate edward snowden this is a rare opportunity to pin him down and brian williams, asked why was he in russia and was he breaking the law and would he come back, the follow-up is key because he let edward snowden go on and on and does not interrupt and would move on to the next quest

i am mark r in. -- barton. >> i am an edwards. -- anna edwards. let's talk about the markets. you and india? with ane holding firm ovary in india. >> you got in before? >> we did. this looks like a good idea. the market has been strong. lot -- hee has got a has got a lot going for him. he has taken a lot of personal control over the government. it is a good thing. there is so much corruption in the government. we think the market will take a breather. it will digest some of its gains and adjust to the fact that the next six months are not going to be much in terms of economic growth. a good central-bank governor, the long-term looks brighter. >> how can we expose ourselves to indian stock's? what would you suggest? what types of companies should we be buying? you would be a little contrarian. you would buy the private banks and buying the software companies. they haven't rallied as much. >> because they're less about the domestic story? -- theand the market economy is structured in son -- such a way it would be week. >> the chinese currency has fallen in recent days. tinkering

revelations keep coming blow bill previously champion edward snowden moxy year now since he fled to russia seeking a haven from american intelligence for vengeance. on the final bunch of syria's declared toxic arsenals been handed over it's now out of the country the global chemical weapons watchdog confirms they will now be destroyed. near moscow my name is kevin owen you're watching r.t. international it's good to have you with us with our top story this hour coming through in the last few hours anti-government activists in eastern ukraine have decided to join the cease fire proposed by kiev promising to lay down arms now until friday let's get more from acosta is on the line from the nets roman hi there what exactly is being decided to put more meat on the bones of this for us. well happy to say that we witnessed a first attempt at an actual dialogue between the warring sides no guns or artillery fire this time around and yes indeed the anti-government activists peoples republic of the gonski holds a republic have agreed to a cease fire which will last until it's wednesday seventh of ju

it's the second win of the year for edwards. >> turn 11 is a turn in which you can make a mistake if you feel somebody put that being much pressure on you -- putting that much pressure on you. did you realize he was within half a car length? >> i realized he was close and knew he was going to be aggressive. fortunately it worked out. i didn't look in my mirror. i did not want to know how close he was. i looked the last second into len and blocked a little bit -- 11 and blocked a little bit. >>> great finish no. 3, top of the 1st pride of petaluma jonny gomes gets the red sox on the board with a two- run base hit. boston with a 6-1 lead. in the 9th a two-run lead, solo home run to right 6-5. two batters later it's one of the other catchers, one into the right field to tie the game. seventh home run of the year for jaso. david ortiz, no stranger to late inning heroics, big papi and that is the solo shot and they hang on to win 7-6 and avoid the four-game sweep to the a's. >>> giants joe panic getting his first career start at second base in arizona. madison baumgartner had seven strike

citizens alexander resigned nine months after edward snowden spilled the beans. but instead of punishing the. perpetrator's u.s. president barack obama has promised to reform not end the surveillance now let me be clear our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments as opposed to ordinary citizens around the world. in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. we will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective one year ago snowden exposed those so-called services pulling the curtain aside so that citizens can see the reality of america's spy matrix the greatest fear that i have regarding the outcome. for america of these disclosures is that nothing will change marina port r.t. new york it was a result of what he did average snowden has become one of washington's most wanted man but he's also enjoying skyrocketing public approval in america well the two past month support for him has grown by twenty percent which is over half of those polled and all that amid stead

missing member russia the life of the party plus it's been a year of revelations one year today since edward snowden changed the world or did he and with a mere sabang political adviser to syrian president bashar assad is in the now with us tonight. the g eight i mean the g. seven has wrapped up in brussels where sending messages to a missing member of the club top the agenda if russia's provocations continue russia. destabilize ukraine destabilized. and just in case you missed the point the continuing destabilization of eastern ukraine must still. russia's continuous destabilization of eastern ukraine i'm sure you meant something by that shell hospital in slavyansk. i'm pretty sure it was the ukrainian army who gave no other choice of the parents of this eight month old baby but to flee the child is very sick and on a ventilator they fled to russia by the way. maybe they meant these lines of tanks heading towards eastern ukraine. no those are ukrainian tanks ok forget the tanks maybe cameron and obama are talking about a fighter jet that bomb civilians in the eastern city of lugansk. ukrain

the billboards from the company read "why edward snowden wishes he sought asylum in poland."a man in son california saw it and tweeted this photo, russia granted edward snowden ai let after being charged with espionage in the united states for leaking thousands of classified documents. the ads are part of a multimillion dollar marketing campaign. >>> meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with the forecast. >>> summer is starting tomorrow. >> beautiful. >> and starbucks, heats up the meets against. how much more will you now be paying for your favorite drinks? >> plus, a doggy dog prize up for grabs for the dog with the ugly of the >>> covering santa clara, san francisco, east bay and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> starbucks is raising prices original some drinks, start next week increasing prices on some by five cents to 0 cents. you can expect to pay dollar more for packaged coffee in super markets saying many factors go into the division including competitive dynamics and the cost structure. they raised prices last year on some of the drinks. >>> and now competitive dyn

you started the book before we knew who edward snowden was. hackers. cyber terrorism, warfare. how big a change will this be for the c.i.a. in the future? >> intelligence, meaning the information that the c.i.a. gathers and analyses is now all digital. i mean every document that you get, every image that you record, every voice captured through surveillance is digital information. as such, is subject to being hacked. i became fascinated at the beginning of 2012 bit the way in which the world of hackers, the world of cyber espionage, cyber work is colliding like in spy novels. it seems all the spy novels, penetration of the agency, deception. they were going digital. they were going into zero, and ones. i set out to write a novel capturing this colleagues of two worlds i saw happening. and that is the novel "the director." >>> you started at a death con hacker's conference, some of the information is incredible. you wrote that you don't consider edward snowden a hero, we don't know how much damage he caused u.s. intelligence. whatever one thing

man behind the blog to fed watch mr kim he's on the show to discuss all things and it's a big deal edward harrison and i are discussing government intrusion into our digital privacy and how that threatens our fundamental civil rights you want to miss a moment and it all starts right now. with . our lead story today financial disclosure now a new national database is being assembled by the federal housing finance agency and the consumer financial protection bureau that will compel as many as two hundred twenty seven million americans to disclose intimate details about their family's financial help now in a reversal of previously stated policy the f.h. f.a. and the c f p b are together expanding their joint mortgage database program to include personally identifiable information the f h f a claims that the database is essential to conducting monthly mortgage surveys and to helping to prepare its annual report to congress however this vast database isn't lacking in critics detractors question the agency's authority to collect such information and also fear that the new database will be vulne

. -- he offer any more case insight into the case of edward snowden? >> yes, he did.his is the first time he said that with a television interview. this is on the heels of the interview that snowden gave that aired last week. he had a number of things to say including the fact that he thought that snowden was intelligent, articulate, but he did question of course fundamentally what snowden was trying to achieve. intelligent individual, articulate. he seems fairly arrogant to me. he believes in what he is doing. i don't question it, i don't agree with it. i fundamentally disagree with what he did. i believe it was wrong and illegal. >> it wasn't just edward snowden admiral talk about with rodgers. what did he talk about in terms of the nsa posco as he? we know more about facial recognition. >> we got reports over the weekend that the nsa had the -- toy to use think of use facial recognition technology. i pressed him on this and he said, i cannot talk about it. they use it to target foreigners. listen to this. once we use facial recognition is a tool to help us understa

economy today and in today's big deal edward harrison and i are discussing next neutrality the supreme court and the future of the technology industry that's a lot to get in there you want to miss a moment and it all starts right now. our lead story today detroit now the latest sign of the city's rapid decline comes from detroit's water department many residents in detroit have stopped paying their water utility bill and the city is combat in the issue by shutting off water to more than three thousand homes and businesses per week in an effort to stop utilities from sliding even further into debt this however has sparked outrage and i mean outrage among activist groups including the united nations a u.n. team of experts says that detroit's decision to shut off water is enough front to human rights those are pretty tough words now detroit's water and sewage department is a q. charging exorbitant lehi rates to local residents and placing the burden of the city's fleeing tax base upon the shoulders of its poorest citizens now as detroit struggles to shed some of its eight hundred billion