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tom harkin here on the news
you need to know that's even though bin laden is dead the warning afghanistan
continues on
rather than a rapid brought down our troops in july as many as hope for u_s_
officials as saying the president likely only pull a lot about five thousand of
the hundred thousand soldiers currently fighting in afghanistan
at five thousand troops to be sent home at the end of the year
a small dent in our massive force meanwhile things are going to well for
our troops u_s_ casualties in afghanistan err on the rise as
insurgents a rapid ramping up their use of improvised explosive devices right
deeds
so far this year eighty soldiers have been killed bike roadside heidi's and
since the war began back in two thousand one nearly a thousand soldiers died by
way of these primitive explosives
to be a military commander in charge of the utter i_e_ d campaign admitted he
expects casualties to continue
to increase over the next few months
as u_s_ soldiers move increasingly deeply
into tel aviv's strongholds
so far twenty billion dollars spent on default technology defend against i_e_
d's
is not working
after ten years of war the fighting is worse now than it's ever been
so should we expect any difference all some ten years from now if we're still
there
after bin laden's doubt the president has a small window to take a bold step
in and our wars and he should take it advanced advantage of it
it's time to bring our troops home now
whose screwed
impoverished for
now it is the republican budget plan privatized medicare screwed over senior
seniors
tells us reserve report people by cutting really into dollars out of
medicaid
it shows up in states his health care report people under various state
branded names
a new report by the kaiser family foundation reveals just how harmful the
republican ideas for medicaid
will be for low-income americans
early there are more than fifty two million americans without health
insurance it under the republican plan that number will grow to nearly one
hundred million by dropping forty four million people off state dreadful
as nearly one-third of americans unable to access to health care system
from a third world countries here
public and say someone has to make sacrifices to allow for billionaires
billionaires to get another message x cuts
so what a lot of the poor people
meanwhile florida wisconsin
exceedingly well flora wisconsin and a dozen other republican controlled states
of past or are trying to pass
legislation make it harder for for people to vote
in the best of the rest of the news there's another push for single-payer
healthcare underway in congress in the senate bernie sanders induce the
american health security act of twenty eleven a bill to create a medicare for
all program to ensure every single american
and congressman jim mcdermott of physician interviews to companion bill
in the house
two bills especially the one in the house are unlikely go anywhere
if you raise the debate again over why america is the only nation the developed
world
it doesn't consider healthcare a basic right
tennessee republican trembling in fear over moslems
x_y_ state lawmakers are poised to as a bill outlined sunni islamic laws similar
to jewish kosher laws if two people are practicing them together
the bill preserves an individual's personal personal right to practice is
religion
but as soon as two or more people join in
than any law says that it sure real organization has been created
andy's to muslims could face a minimum of fifteen years in prison
for the way leaky or consult religious leader to resolve a family dispute
or just one wacky republican legislator away from banning islam altogether in
america
a land founded on religious freedom by people escaping right wing religious
crazies
in england in the sixteen hundreds
promised jefferson george washington
and a whole bunch must be rolling over in their grades
republicans in florida are so obsessed with privatization they're not
privatizing their union-busting efforts
severe winter park just hired a firm of right wing political consultants the
fight one hundred and fifty city workers or try to form a union
consulting firm has ties to far-right organizations like the eye and rand
institute and the federalist society and routinely boasts on their website that
the labor mobility is dead
and a third world sweatshops
uh... good things
motive here is pretty clear the city is hiring intel union bugs to screw the
public workers please and scott walker was doing in wisconsin who's doing
himself and i think piles of money to some sketchy right wing yahoos who claim
they can bust unions
this week the french national assembly will likely pass a ban on hydraulic
fracturing also known as frackie nc a method of getting oil by shooting toxic
waste chemicals deep underground the break-up oil inside shale rock
begets gas
and saves money and disposing of chemicals that used to be expensive to
incinerate
often when the toxic waste is pumped into the ground though and the gas
liberates seeps into the ground water contamination groundwater nearby
communities
oil companies the u_s_ of infraction since the nineties
person should see shots from the movie gas land where people can
actually like their tap water and fire or discover pockets of cancers in rural
areas
that's usually thanks to frackie
which is why the friends of iron metal minister said
it's not something we want to use in france
to keep the oil companies in line to protect the safety of their citizens
that must be what a government that isn't completely bought and paid for by
bakewell actually does
and we should give it a try
crazy alert doing important work in maine
so what's the more pressing issue for a republican state legislators in maine
health care for the citizens
or will be five
sadly
who will be pious have one
guest at the republicans on the stand fifty jude's nearly seven times longer
than they debated health care
debating whether or not the whoopie pies should be evening official state tree
and that's the way it is today wednesday may eleven twenty eleven
and tom harkin
on them