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Thom Hartmann hear on the news
you need to know this the Department of Homeland Security was to keep a record
where you drive your car
according to The Washington Post that agency wants a nationwide database
license plate readers already as private traffic camera companies for access to
their data
person DHS spokesman so that the license plate data could only be accessed in
conjunction with ongoing criminal investigations
that sounds a lot like the same online we've been fed about other surveillance
programs
as a 2011 about three-quarters a police departments use these license plate
readers and eighty-five percent planned to install
even more cameras is systems are snapping photos of our cars
and keeping track of almost every place we travel even before the recent
announced from DHS the American Civil Liberties Union said that constantly
monitoring our movements
can quote Chile exercise our church rights to free speech
and Association end quote giving dhea
at the giving DH as the power to mine this data
and track your movements only solidifies the ACLU's warning
we've seen our civil rights whittled away under the guise of national
security and now we are being tracked
online on the phone and even on our public roadways
national security state has become intrusive
and the constant monitoring poses a serious risk to our privacy our free
speech
and our fundamental right to speak out against our government we should not be
giving these agencies more power to track as
we should be raining the men and demanding that are civil rights be
protected
in scrutiny as well many states around our nation are moving closer to equality
Indiana is pushing toward discrimination on Monday lawmakers in indiana approved
a proposed
amendment to that state's constitution to ban same-sex marriage
thankfully state lawmakers can't make that it full of official on their own
in indiana state legislators will have to vote on it again just to get the
measure before voters in 2016
anti-gay marriage groups want to put the issue on this year's ballot
but their efforts to discriminate were derailed when
lawmakers change that legislation to allow civil unions in India
similar same-sex marriage bans have been ruled unconstitutional in Utah
Virginia and Oklahoma legal challenges are in the works in other states
everyone in our nation should have the right to marry the person they love in
indiana should not be pushing
a platform up 8 invest the rest the news get ready for the Republican talking
points
Gordon Congressional Budget Office raising the federal minimum wage to $10
dollars in 10 cents an hour could
decrease jobs for low weight wage workers bought
all Republicans insist that 500,000 workers will lose their jobs because
higher wages the CBL report actually stated
that there may be only a quote very slight decrease in total
I employment report also found that higher pay would look more than a
million people out of poverty
and wage hike would have a positive effect for 95 percent the people
affected
other CB owes is that there could be job losses many economists argue that higher
wages
would actually result in job growth Economic Policy Institute says higher
wages can provide a boost to our economy
the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said a wage increase can actually lead to
more jobs
and economists David mid madeleine and Keith Miller found no clear evidence
that higher wages lead to job losses
after studying two decades of economic data there's no debate
higher pay will benefit the vast majority a low-wage workers and
stimulate our economy
don't believe the Republican hype greater adcast out or radiation levels
have been stains stable recently in most areas
are not reporting any I spikes term North Carolina's reporting 30 counts per
minute with spikes 245 in Mason OH pennsylvania is averaging 28 with highs
a 45 counts per minute
Lafayette Indiana's city if 29 counts per minute with spikes 246
and Rapid City South Dakota 747 with highs of 70 counts per minute
chico california is reporting thirty counts per minute with spikes 258
and Oahu Hawaii is are averaging 22
with highs 35 counts per minute readcasts
alert level as a hundred counts per minute however they remind us there's no
such thing as a safe level
a radiation last week workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga
Tennessee voted
against joining the %ah United Automobile automobile workers
Union all that but was likely to heated by intimidation and lies Republican
politicians
workers that plant may still get a chance to have their voices heard by
management
box I can has announced that the company plans to create a european-style
works council that would allow workers to participate in management's
discussions on finances and business plans
their goal be challenging because employment law the US for bids an
employer
from dominating or supporting a labor organization
but giving workers a voice is not impossible famous
Thomas spoken up the MIT Sloan School of Management says that the company can
pursue
informal employee involvement groups like quality circles our team base
workplace
systems volkswagens determine to give workers more power at the Tennessee
plant
and other corporations could learn a thing or two from this successful
company
and finally chevron says let them eat pizza according to the website no
fracking way
.us the oil giant had a unique way of apologizing to residents affected by a
massive natural gas drilling explosion that happened last week
share button chevron representatives allegedly went door-to-door handing out
apology letters
and coupons for a large free pizza and a two liter soda
Billy dot com says they contacted the pizza shop in verified that
Chevron gave out about a hundred pizza coupons multiple outlets are mocking the
oil company further actions
Philly dot com says it could be the beginning of a new marketing campaign
for Chevron
they suggest the new slogan we guarantee or fracking rigwan explode
why the pizza is free yes the pollution earthquakes inflammable tap water just
thrown in as about us and that's the way it is today Wednesday
February 19th 2014 I'm Thom Hartmann
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