Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
started here on the news you need to know that's jane is now poised to be the
first state to move legislation forward which you rigged the electoral college
to benefit republican presidential candidates in the future
on wednesday legislation to do a lot of electoral college but it's based on
gerrymandered congressional districts
and so the current winner take all system
advanced out of a state senate subcommittee
it now heads of
full committee work will likely be approved before heading to the full
state senate
which is controlled by republicans
so republicans and actually taking
taken redeemed the next presidential election serious
with efforts also underway in pennsylvania michigan and ohio
do the same thing
dresses auto equally aggressive push for national popular vote
nine states have already passed national popular vote laws to commit their
electors to vote for whichever candidate wins the national popular vote even if
the candidate lost
the state electoral college for
those nine states that past national popular vote laws including california
maryland
on the way
currently account for a hundred and thirty two electoral votes among them
half of the two hundred seventy needed in the electoral college to win the
white house
that trend continues in enough states sign up to bring their combined
electoral college goes two hundred and seventy
electoral college
which the republicans are currently trying to read
di is just like that
let's get active and fight fire with fire
in screwed it's welcome to america where you have the right
to go to jail
to receive the health care unit
sun-sentinel oughta florida's reporting on a man who threatened to kill
president obama just so he could be arrested thrown in jail
receive much need medical care
fifty seven-year-old steven epsilon
told a judge last week that he quote
would have no intention to hurt the president
end quote but he knew federal agents would arrive in quotes because yeah
esplanade the threat against the president after he was kicked out of a
hospital for giving a false name in line about having health insurance
wars governor rick scott is a critical of obama kiran is unlikely to adopt
supervision in the law expands medicaid coverage in his state
which would help
people i capsule
but now they have solicited jail he's gonna get the carey needs
he's already receiving chemotherapy and once he begins his four-year prison
sentence is scheduled at heart surgery
this is a cautionary tale of what happens to a nation that doesn't provide
basic medical care to its citizens either we take
make health care is basic human rights in america sort is elsewhere in the
developed world
are we commit ourselves to unrest desperation
sick population
in the best of the rest of the news robin hood is coming to europe
on tuesday eleven european nations agreed to put in place a financial
transaction taxol snows the robin hood tax on the banks
such attacks could generate
billions much needed revenue for the cash strapped continent
tax which will range from one percent two one one hundredth of one percent
be applied to all trading in stocks bonds into rivets
bring to a statement from the european council two purposes new taxes boat
or the financial industry to make a fair contribution to tax revenues
pulsed also creating a disincentive
the transactions that do not enhance the efficiency of financial markets
participating nations in this robin hood text makeup ninety percent of the year
minutes estimated that tax will bring in roughly thirty seven billion euros
annual
or european commissioner in charge of tax policy tuesday's agreement was eight
major milestone in tax history
now let's kick start the movement here in the united states to create are own
product
follows a lease one place now that women will soon see workplace equality
in the military
today the pentagon officially announced that its lifted its ban on women in
combat potentially opening up more than two hundred thousand new combat
positions in the military to win
this decision will pave the way women
for women to serve on the front lines for the first time in the history of our
armed services
military will have until may come up with plans to implement these changes
each branch of the service will have until twenty sixteen again official
exemptions for certain combat roles
reform an exclusive to men
from allowing gays to openly serves now allowing women in combat president obama
has taken significant steps
bring equality to our military
should be applauded
beware of online surveillance this week google released its transparency report
repealing a massive increase in government surveillance
bring to the report google received over twenty one thousand request for data
from governments in courts worldwide
just in the second half of twenty twelve
as a seventy percent increase in two thousand nine
during that same period the united states government made the most requests
that more than eight
thousand demands for online
protecting your online privacy for project
prying government
okra pods is the new frontier
we the people are currently blues
and finally ali reports that a drone strike in yemen mistakenly killed two
children
united nations is launching official investigations into public gallery and
death toll withdrawn warfare
investigational focus on twenty five different drawn straits carried out by
the u_s_ u_k_ an israeli forces in afghanistan pakistan yemen and somali
where you've been amor sandhya and special upwards for your on human rights
counter-terrorism this investigation is quote a response to eight a fact that
there's international concern
rising exponentially surrounding the issue of remote targeted feelings to the
use of unmanned vehicles
to be president obama's biggest foreign policy challenge
second term
winding down
deadly overthrown
sup just push
that's the way it is today thursday
ken twenty-fourth
twenty t
i'm tom hartman