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tom harmon here on the news you need to know this welcome to the double date
housing recession
new data released yesterday home prices in america have reached a new love
dropping two two thousand two levels
which was before the housing bubble started inflating
so the biggest cities in america protecting new lows in the real estate
market including atlanta las vegas chicago and new york city
as the s_ and p_ credit rating agency noted
this month's report is marked by the confirmation of a double bed and home
prices across much of the nation
on prices continue on a downward spiral with the relief in sight
benchers inflating the housing bubble is what caused the financial crisis of two
thousand aid as long as home prices continue to falter will never escape the
damage soda helping homeowners stay in their homes are politicians shows to
help bank stirs stay in the grocery jobs
and us down millions of people are still being foreclosed on and the banks tuza
raking in millions in profits
so let's not only thank the banks torsten their predatory lending for the
housing market failures ust thank our bought off politicians too
rome is burning
time to drop the fiddle
whose strength
minimum-wage workers the minimum wage is no longer enough to make a person's
minimum needs in michigan according to a new report the organization wider
opportunities for women published a report
and finds a single michigan resident needs to make more than twelve bucks an
hour just a house clothe and feed him or herself
the minimum wage emissions well short of that just seven forty eight hours
when you throw children and the equation the pictures even grammar
a mother of two children needs to make about twenty four dollars an hour to
meet their basic needs
has more than three times higher than the minimum wage and that's working a
forty hour week
ending each and every month someone is trying to raise their kids on the
minimum wage has to forego dinner or rent electricity for deeper shoes just
to get by in america
the richest nation on the planet
i guess republicans will argue they just need to get a credit card
expects the war ronald reagan started against the working class thirty years
ago
tragically
is a resounding success today
in the best of the rest of the news our our cell phones killing us
or to the world health organization the answer may just be
yes yesterday the world health organization's international agency for
research on cancer
include the cellphone radiation of the shoe right into our brain several times
a day is
possibly card a carcinogen to humans and quote
increasing the risk of malignant brain tumors
cell phones have been classified as a level to be carcinogen
in unit they share the same cancer inducing risks as dvd pesticides an
engine exhaust
and i don't think any of us go out and drink a glass of d_d_t_ or hang out
there it carl
cartel pipes all day long
but using a cellphone carries the same rats
so wire which is now learning about this risk here the united states
rational ssrs of health have yet to issue a warning about cell phones and
cancer risk but they did recently released a report explaining how self we
used to speed up your brain activity and other studies point to the roland
honeybee hive collapse so have corporate telecom giant bought off scientists for
politicians to cover up the risk of cell phones they can keep feeding them to us
with their monthly calling plans
yet another example of corporate capture of our government
battle air millions and billions in america contributing to the massive
wealth any quality with the in our borders girls of the plane their part in
the wealthy quality
inequality around the planet
bring to a new study by the boston consulting group around one percent of
the world's population controls forty percent of the world's
and the u_s_ holes alliance sure that wealth with over five thousand
multimillionaires
and thanks to the global meltdown in two thousand eight in the subsequent
bailouts round the world followed by austerity measures the working class the
richard richer
increasing their well sure about two percent since last year
this is a result of thomas friedman's so-called free trade policy an ideology
swept the planet in recent decades turning the third world and a slave
shots for transnational corporations
c_e_o_s get richer and richer
workers to poor and or
rather than figuring out a wind down our foreign wars the pentagon is coming up
with new ways to get into war
yesterday the pentagon said that the u_s_ was hit by a cyber attack then all
options would be on the table for retaliation
on military official was quoted as saying if you shut down our part bread
made will put a missile down when you're smokestacks
however our nation's approach to cyberspace dominance doesn't jive with
reality reserved for for the center for the new american society noted barriers
to getting to hacking are extraordinarily low that all person is a
computer which cost less than four hundred dollars in united states an
internet connection unlimited technical know-how
so it looks like the pentagon is setting this up for a war against a tactic again
just like the war on terrorism
at least a lot learned anything
republicans played a little fun little game of political theater yesterday with
our nation's debt-ceiling
speaker the house john boehner brought a clean bill the floor yesterday a razor
nations debt-ceiling
exactly what most economists and say needs to be done
republicans had no intention of passing a voting nearly unanimously against
their own bill
one of the vote was to force democrats to put their money where their mouth was
in support of debt limit
without any spending cuts attached to it
and as you might expect the democrats phiri negative campaign ads next year
caved in
but about half of them joining republicans to vote on the bill
once again another important issue democratic party is split in half on
what to do
public unzip shot themselves in the foot all year but if democrats can capitalize
it and get their messaging right and tight
and republican blunders won't pay off at polls
crazy alerted me the not so great minds last night donald trump in survey on
that new york city they have dinner
related to discussed our nation's trade balance
it with china over pizza times square
illicit sheehan trump have a lot in common
celebrities rich
that's the way it is today wednesday june first twenty eleven i'm tom harkin