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donna hartman here on the news you need to know this teachers and students are
back at school today in the windy city as the chicago teachers union voter to
call off their seven day strike on tuesday
in the coming weeks the union will approve a new contract that will
guarantee a double-digit
increase for teachers
roll back in new teacher evaluation system
on his side mero manual got a lot of what he wanted to including longer
school days
ortho ready for principles to hire teachers
annual valuation system based on student performance
chicago teachers union president karen lewis of the u_n_'s
union feels very positive moving forward
the big winner in this whole dispute is none other than
box so called names
as media matters reveals foxnews devoted eighty-nine segments to the teacher's
strike in the last week
elsa criticizing the union
what was not revealed in any of those eighty-nine segment so that the
financial ties the fox news is parent company newscorp ads
the chicago public school system are deep
in twenty ten newscorp acquired the company wireless generation
which just last may contract that its services to the chicago public schools
the two to four point seven
million dollars
the services which is uh... student performance
we're sticking point for striking teachers who are upset with the new
heavily weighted
standardized testing system
you would think a so-called news channel would disclose its financial ties to a
story that's covering but
box is not really news it's just g_o_p_ t_v_
in screwed me is that it running campaign is still in crisis after leaked
video showed romney deriding forty seven percent of americans
we claims are victims who don't pay taxes
and who are dependent upon the government for everything
on the argued that he doesn't need to worry about these people
and bay represent the president's bates
but a new study by the tax foundation shows that those americans romney was
referring to don't pay federal income taxes are from blue states and also from
red states
the top ten states of the highest percentage of residents who pay no
federal income taxes at all
are in the south
plus idaho h one of those states with the exception of florida has
consistently voted for republicans
irani of thought he was writing of president obama's electorate but in
reality he was writing off his own
amazingly republicans have succeeded in using racist dog whistle politics in the
south
ever since richard nixon called his southern strategy to convince tens of
millions of americans
devote against their best interests
and to try to do the same thing today to convince poor and working class white
americans
a priority number one has to be to get that black president out of the white
house
does the rest of the news this week the occupy wall street movement celebrated
its one year anniversary in now
one of the moments main demands as gays in attention on capitol hill
democratic congressman keith allison introduced the inclusive prosperity act
which would let me a half percent tax on all wall street transactions
forty countries around the planet already have a similar tax in place
battling with such a tax raise hundreds of billions of dollars in much-needed
gravity at but it will also curb risky behavior on wall street tickle a very
dangerous in destabilizing high-frequency trading robots
this is a no-brainer it makes our financial system safer enforces those
who can afford it the most
to get your it a little more to the prosperity of our nation
let's put pressure on our law makers to get this bill passed
voting rights advocates are calling tuesday's decision by the pennsylvania
state supreme court a big step in the right direction
despite a lower court upholding the state's radical voter suppression ideal
all last month
state supreme court yesterday sent the case back to that lower court
determine whether or not the law allows voters who he's lee obtain the necessary
identification
now after the state group but it does
urls lower court will have to strike down the law
all this ruling is the date death blow for the pennsylvania the voter
suppression ideologue
it could be the first step in taking that law off the books before the
november elections stated
pcl you wants to know about president obama's drawn wars
after the c_i_a_ refused to comply with several freedom of information act
request regarding president obama's argun killings drone program
the american civil liberties union is taking the issue to court on wednesday
arguing that the c_i_a_ could no longer a denied the existence of a program it's
been widely reported on in the media and in official briefings by the obama
administration
fear of investigative journalism reports that
rohan strikes in pakistan alone
if killed more than
three thousand people including nearly nine hundred innocent civilians
since two thousand two
constructs of also occur afghanistan yemen somalia and many other nations
and finally supreme court justice antonin scalia is losing it
and used to be impeached
interviews writers on monday scalia claimed he was enraged
charges that the high court has become too politicized
scalia said neither hide our any one of my colleagues rose a certain way because
he or she likes this president
within thirty seconds after saying that
scalia wet unni hinged in a partisan or aunt accusing democrats may mean the
party
i've tried to appoint judicial activists
for years
it's just the latest bizarre and self contradictory rampant scalia
most recently he openly criticized the president during his dissent makers only
immigration law case earlier this year
so from politicizing the court
routinely ruling in favor of his hunting buddies like *** cheney unico brothers
sculley has proven himself to be in unethical judge
it's time for congress to assert its constitution mandated our
and future
that's the way it is today wednesday
amor nineteenth
went well
i'm tom harkin