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tom nardone here on the news you need to know this it's official the tea party is
now the political wing of wall street
despite running up platform against the bailouts in against wall street
corruption all fifteen freshmen republicans in the house tea party
caucus are snugly in the pockets of wall street
a study by the center for american progress shows it every single one of
the fifteen g party freshmen republicans
has received campaign cash you either banks they got bailed out or from wall
street's biggest interest group the american bankers association or bulk
in total is members of congress have collected more than six hundred thousand
dollars from wall street a return they're voting in line with the bank srs
supporting more deregulation and cutting funding to the dot frank wall street
reform law
in twenty ten american voters were duped into voting for these corporate shells
with a massive
astroturf effort staged by millionaires in billionaires like *** armey in the
cup brothers
a cc to it but it doesn't happen again this year
in screwed muse
meet wall street's billionaire pete peterson
man trying to destroy social security medicare and medicaid as we know it
pretty attacks documents between two thousand seven and twenty eleven
peterson had given nearly a half
billion dollars
to is peter g peterson foundation to run ads and lobby congress
warning that that the federal safety net programs are going broke and need to be
drastically carter privatized
and last tuesday peterson house today
fiscal summit
with power players like bill clinton treasury secretary tim geithner pauline
and john bainer on reducing the deficit by cutting social security and medicare
senator bernie sanders is also at the meeting though he wasn't invited here is
there a protest and we should all be doing the same to stop the peterson from
destroying our social safety net
in the best of the rest of the news the organization for economic cooperation
and development
but we cd issued a warning to the seventeen nation euro zone today say
that there's a good chance
of a severe recession this year
it governments in the european central bank don't act quickly
to promote economic growth
as the same message the i_m_f_ had for the u_k_ today
falling on the british government to slow down on the austerity and past
stimulus measures
to boost demanding grow the economy
europe is sinking under the weight of
vicious austerity measures
in places like the u_k_ spain and greece
that led to content economies contracting
unemployment surging at deficits growing and suicide rates spiking
here in the united states
the paul ryan republican budget would have similar affects despite ryan
arguing that his budget isn't austerity analysis by the economic policy
institute found that people ryan budget the republican budget
we kill four point one million american jobs
the ryan is calf right
his budget isn't total austerity it's only austerity for working people as the
ronnie level super-rich make off like bandits under ryan's plan with the three
trillion dollar tax cut
may well increase democracy could put an end to the bank stirs austerity
experiment
on monday leftists are is a party later alexis tsa
there s
traveled to france where anti austerity socialist false walk along was recently
elected
and called on european allies to join together to fight back against austerity
speak in a news conference spear s who is arguably the most important
politician greece today said
priest gave humanity amok receipt and today the greek people will bring
democracy
back to europe
where we are fighting europe is not between people our nation's is between
the forces of work and the invisible forces of finance and banks unquote
greece is headed for another round of elections in june
sippy rice's zero party
is expected to win big at the polls meaning austerity might be breeding its
last gasp sp
in greece
newark mayor cory booker raise some eyebrows over the weekend when he
slammed the obama campaigns ads against mitt romney in bain capital
bookers comments have been picked by conservatives to criticize the obon a
campaign strategy
now think progresses out was a new information explaining why i booker was
so quick to defend pain
going as far back as two thousand one book refers free and for men are
he's collected tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from
you guessed it
bain capital executives he's also receive more than a half million dollars
in the wall street
and financial industry during his political career
bookers a savvy politician and he knows rule number one of politics in the post
citizens united age
and that's don't bite the hand that feeds you
the methane time bomb israel and you survey of sub arctic regions in alaska
in green land by the university of alaska
discovered approx when one hundred fifty thousand different sites or methane gas
as c seeping out of the frozen permafrost
and into the atmosphere
methane is a greenhouse gas has been blocked blocked under ice for hundreds
of thousands of years but is the plan it warms due to human factors the methane
leaks out then rapidly accelerates greenhouse gas chin gas emissions around
the world
since nineteen seventy eight methane concentrations in our atmosphere have
increased dramatically
ordinary climate change tipping point on this planet and unfortunately oil barons
are held back on dragging all of us across it
regardless of the catastrophic consequences for our planet
and finally florida's at it again kicking minorities after voting rolls
state election officials are currently working to throw hundreds of thousands
of non-citizens
off the voting rolls at a twenty twelve election
a supervisor's looking a preliminary elissa found numerous errors that could
lead to legal citizens
losing their right to vote the sunshine state
similar effort two thousand of purge convicted felons off voter rolls
led to thousands of innocent african americans in florida being turned away
at the polls
republicans though that's where they can win elections is to keep americans
boating
that explains these recent actions in florida and the numerous voter i_d_ laws
intestinal around the nation it will keep millions of minority elderly and
young voters
off the rolls
and that's the way it is today tuesday may twenty second
twenty twelve
i'm john hartman