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didn't have been skiing for tom harkin here on the news you need to know this
for the second time in two weeks the nation is reeling from a mass shooting
this time it was in the pope
creek was started work gunman walked into a seat
armed to the teeth and opened fire killing six people
we may never know the shooters motivation since he was killed as well
according to her earlier reports the shooter was an army veteran who was or
may have been a white supremacist
i witness reports that the shooter had a nine one one tax who on his arm
the brady campaign to prevent gun violence releasing a statement reminding
americans just how common mass shootings are now in america saying quote there
have now been sixty one dash shootings since the tragedy last year in tucson
one hundred shootings in schools sense the wanted
columbine high school
tomorrow another thirty two americans will be murdered by guns and float
but beyond gun violence this latest mass shooting may also be a result of growing
islam a phobia in america the shooting occurred
just weeks after congressional republicans led by michelle bachman
warned of an infiltration of the u_s_ government by the moslem brotherhood
all sikhs are not moslems that's been chan is often lost on the frightened and
naive people
who are whipped into action by his l'alma folds and encouraged to take
their country back
keep an eye on this story
when you hear republicans tell about
powell president dole bomber is expanding the size of government
there either wine or their uninformed
boarding to new numbers released by the labor department government employment
is now at its lowest level since nineteen sixty eight
in other words government is smaller than it's ever been in nearly a
half-century and has a lot to do with republicans pushing austerity at both
the state and federal level playing off hundreds of thousands of public workers
since president obama took office in twenty oh nine
just last month nine thousand government workers lost their jobs in addition to
the six hundred eighty thousand government workers
laid off over the last three years
three years for government unemployment
in history
unlike presidents bush and reagan who increased government employment
and fight back a recession president obama has been forced by republicans to
cut government employees
which is hampering any sort of
robust recovery
and the best of the rest of the new speaking up public sector layoffs the
u_s_ has become no place for teachers
poured into research done by the hamilton project
our nation has lost more than two hundred thousand teaching jobs and
perhaps as many as three hundred thousand since twenty oh nine
he's lay-offs are occurring at the state level were cash-strapped states don't
have enough money to fund education budgets
republican governors are pushing for tax cuts for the rich rather than
investments in the future
no nation has ever achieve prosperity by investing in more billionaires
and school teachers
seven minutes of terror turned into seven minutes public accomplishment last
night as the mars curiosity rover touchdown on the red planet beginning to
years of the experimentation into whether or not the planet once held
light
mars science laboratory as it's officially called lifted off from earth
last november
edited several hundred million mile journey roughly one thirty p_m_ eastern
time today
touching down wallace three of the martian surface
gary unknown as gail crater
unfortunately this may be tassels last-ditch effort space exploration
as the future of space travel includes budget cuts at a new partnership with
the private sector focusing on the
commercial space exploration rather than scientific discovery
space will soon be a place where billionaires
arafat jack
take a ride in orbit
this by the supreme court ruling in twenty oh two that executing the
mentally disabled violates the eighth amendment of the constitution
texas is poised to execute a mentally disabled man on tuesday
before your old marvyn wilson till the police informant in nineteen ninety two
he is mentally disabled
and has a reading and writing level from
terrible to seventh-graders
with an i_q_ of sixty one
despite a scientific consensus proving that
the state of texas has its own criteria to determine mental disabilities
wilson doesn't pass the test
according to the american association on intellectual and developmental
disabilities
the factors texas used to determine mental disability are
based on false stereo types about mental retardation
that effectively exclude all but the most severely incapacitated
results of man is going to die tomorrow
texas governor rick perry
it's to put another notch
his belt
and finally the nation of iceland is taking the lead when it comes to
breaking up the big banks
icelandic lawmakers are pushing legislation to force banks to split up
their business separating commercial
banking practices from the risky investment banking practices
and that's similar to what the glass steagle act of nineteen thirty three did
in this country
creating an unprecedented five decades of economic growth
without a serious financial prac
an act was officially repealed in nineteen ninety nine setting up the
financial disasters of twenty oh seven
at twenty owing
if iceland succeeds in breaking up its big banks
and according to bloomberg news it will be the first western nations as the
global economic crisis
to take these
necessary steps
and that's the way it is today monday august sixth twenty twelve
i'm judy linski infer thom hartmann