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dot arvind here on the news you need to know if this european economy is to
thank you
trickle-down austerity is to blame
new unemployment numbers show the seventy nation heroes sound now has its
highest unemployment rate every ten point nine percent
and two nations of the highest unemployment rates spain and greece just
i happen to be the ones
most booked austerity
in spain budget cuts in massive government layoffs
have driven up the unemployment rate of the year ozone high of twenty four
percent
and spanish youth unemployment even worse as staggering fifty one percent
and grease the poster child a european austerity employment rate stands at
nearly twenty two percent but more than half of all greeks under twenty five
years old
unemployed
another austerity bitten nation united kingdom just officially sank into
another recession
clearly austerity which involves taking money out of working people's pockets
forcing them to spend less and contribute less revenue to the
government
snake in the economic situation in europe
far worse
but the banks torsten billionaires pushing austerity don't care
just long as they can squeeze the last little bit of wealth left in europe into
their own pockets
with nicolas sarkozy going down in france
the dutch government collapsing and civil unrest in the streets from the
trip to london athens an austerity might be breathing its last gasp
and screwed news
darn it feels good to be a fortune one hundred c_e_o_
daniel executive excess report by the institute for policy studies
finds that twenty five major u_s_ corporations in the fortune one hundred
list
paid their c_e_o_s more money than they paid in taxes in twenty eleven
which means you and i picked up the slack
i might add c_e_o_s in america's top one hundred firms
pay is up nearly twenty-eight percent since two thousand nine meanwhile
workers pay during that same time only ticked up three percent
barely enough to keep up with inflating gas prices
in two thousand nine c_e_o_'s made two hundred sixty three times
more than their average worker
twenty eleven i made three hundred twenty five times more
aligarh got richer
although flask of pork
numbers like these reminders all why we need global days of action like yes
please may day
to bring attention the plight of working people around the world
and the abuse of power
by the romney's super-rich
investor the rest of the news president obama is returning from an unmarked
unannounced trip to afghanistan yesterday
three marks the one-year anniversary or some of the lawns depth
while in afghanistan the president signed a strategic partnership agreement
with afghan president hamid karzai affirming plans to hand over full
control of security to the afghan government by twenty fourteen
but allowing for thousands of u_s_ troops to remain in the country until as
late as twenty twenty four
speech tuesday night to the american and afghan people
the president promised a full twenty three thousand u_s_ troops out of
afghanistan
by the end of the summer
surprise visit by the president didn't please taliban insurgents who detonated
a bomb killing seven afghans in kabul
less than two hours after the president pot
the most radical supreme court decision in recent memory might get another
hearing
high court is considering a reiki set of montana
for that state's supreme court upheld a state law banning corporate spending and
their elections
at ruling runs against the twenty ten high court's decision citizens united
job in the floodgates a corporate spending in our elections earlier this
year the supreme court rejected the montana court's ruling force in the
state to temporarily allow corporate election spending
now the supreme court may take up the case again
essentially giving citizens united a retrial
republicans fear that their best hope to win elections lotsa lotsa corporate
money might go away
so they're version the supreme court to double down on citizens united
chamber of commerce and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell
both filed briefs with a high court
calling on the justices to uphold citizens united without even here in the
montana arguments
in twenty ten the first election since citizens united
when three hundred million outside corporate spending catapulted
republicans into power in the house representatives and already this year
we're seeing the outsized influence a pro ropes corporate super pets
stein for the supreme court to correct its wrongs
and give democracy back to the people
by saying corporations are not people in money as property not speech
the best chance to do that their real and lasting way though is to amend the
constitution
check out more at move to amend dot or
a new radical voter i_d_ laws going to court pennsylvania
he still you and several other organizations filed suit on behalf of
pennsylvania voters
saying that the new law requiring i_d_
voters to show photo i_d_ at the polls will deny citizens their most
fundamental constitutional right the right to vote
when the lead plaintiffs in the cases ninety three-year-old prove that apple
white
an african-american great-grandmother
who marched alongside doctor martin luther king junior
yet can't vote now
because she doesn't have a birth certificate her driver's license
voter i_d_ laws like the one of pennsylvania were written by the coke
brothers funded
right wing think-tank ape-like
and will kick millions of minority elderly young and poor voters off the
rolls
people who tend to vote for democrats
let sophie courtside to voters
puts an end to this conservative war on democracy
stay tuned
and finally
saw on newt gingrich today newt gingrich will suspend his campaign for president
reneging on his promise to take his campaign all the way to the republican
convention in tampa
only two primary wins under his belt and no hope for any more
gingrich had no other choice but to drop out
but not only that is campaign is bouncing checks all over the country
as long is a speaking fees in book sales go up after all this
that news failed campaign will be a major personal success
newt the hoc stir
rides on
and that's the way it is today wednesday
mark may second
twenty twelve
i'm tom harkin