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talk right here on the news you need to know that's that romney's elected
president of the states the only plans to represent about half of us as the
gist of some of the off-the-cuff remarks promenade a multi millionaire fundraiser
putting tui recently to video
lydia ronnie can be heard saying there are forty seven percent of the people
who vote for the president the matter wat there are forty seven percent or
within or depended upon government
who believe that they're big them as a believe the government has
responsibility care for them
who believe they're entitled to health care to food to housing do you know it
you name it
these are people who pay no taxes by job is not to worry about these people
and of course
the tape leaked yesterday the running campaign went into full damage control
mode immediately holding a press conference in which romney doubled down
and stood by his statement
although conceding it was in elegantly said
commies faxer wrong here
uta forty seven percent of the nation doesn't pay federal income taxes all of
them do pay state taxes sales taxes payroll taxes or a variety of other
taxes
and if there's one person who shouldn't criticize others for not paying their
taxes
it's quarter billionaire mit romney basil lower tax rate than most
working-class americans
you obama administration fired back saying it's hard to serve as president
when you disdainful e written off half the nation
as this is a gap of
epic proportions but never on me
it's also bigger than that
it's a reflection of the sort of nation
that romney and the republican party want to create
one in which were all alone
army society in other ways society
in the richest nation on earth americans should feel entitled to the basic
necessities of health care
food alice
i was the message of franklin roosevelt
try to pass a second bill of rights in nineteen forty four
figure in thier right to all of those things romney mention
or roosevelt understood is what we all need to understand today
necessitates men are not freemen
free requires that your basic essentials are met
only then are you free chase down your dreams open a business to raise a family
irani thanks forty seven percent of americans can take care of themselves
reality many of these are the working people this nation depends on
rubin screwed over by the last three decades by reaganomics and the breaking
of the social contract
if you do it you're supposed to do in america keep your nose clean then you
can achieve the american dream
we need a president willing to uphold that social contract
and not ridiculous like metromedia
in scrutiny as occupiers back and so is the police repression of the movement
yesterday occupy celebrated its one year anniversary with demonstrations in new
york city
and more than thirty other cities nationwide
but in new york the police were in full force to crack down on the movement
than a hundred eighty people were arrested by the n_y_p_d_'s monday
including some journalists
mostly for disorderly conduct or behavior that used to be allowed under
the first amendment
coincidentally this police crackdown against free speech and free association
also occurred on constitution day the two hundred twenty fifth anniversary of
the signing of the u_s_ constitution
and like thomas jefferson and james madison who understood the importance of
dissent
and periodic revolutionary change america would be four or five at the way
peaceful americans have been treated
since the occupied movement began a year ago
it's time to throw banks tuza jail activists
in the best for the rest of the news environmental activism
works
in a statement released on monday shallow announced it is abandoning its
drilling efforts in the arctic for the remainder of the year
at announcement comes after weeks of demonstrations by environmental
activists around
plus evidence proving that shell oil is incapable
of preventing a massive spill in the arctic
greenpeace responded shells announcement saying it is vindication
the millions of joint in on this effort to keep the arctic free from drilling
shell plans to resume drilling next year so it stay organized to keep pressure on
the well there
speaking of the planet
we could just be a few years from eight global disaster
that's the warning coming from one of the world's leading ice experts
professor peter water mtcn
cambridge university
bottoms is predicting the by twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen
all the world's arctic sea ice will completely disappear in the summer
months
triggering massive methane leaks into the atmosphere
and rapidly accelerating global climate change
estate into the guardian newspaper wat unsworn
climate change is no longer something we can aimed to do something about in a few
decades time
and that we must not only urgently reduce eager to a missions
them aspersion plea examined other ways of slowing global warming
such as the various geo engineering ideas that have been put forward end
quote
other words well-funded scientists
and politicians
at pushed us past the tipping point
and now it's time to start preparing
from life on a new plan
and finally
meet the new oligarchy wants to buy
your elections
joel ricketts fodder t_v_ ameritrade is planning to spend millions this election
season to defeat president obama and progressives around the nation
bring the wall street journal ricketts is using his own silver package even
self created
the final ten million dollars to the ravi campaign and another two million
dollars to republicans in congress
these aren't campaign chacha
rickets knows what follow oligarchy sexually adelson now
in mit romney presidency means huge tax breaks for rich guys like
to giving ten million bucks to republicans to make hundreds of millions
of bucks in future tax cuts
esata contribution
as an investment
thank you citizens united in our
brilliance report
and that's the way it is today tuesday
september eighteenth
i'm john hartman