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tom nardone here on the news
good morning flu tracker c wisconsin recall election was the first major test
of the new era in american politics
a new era began in january two thousand ten when the u_s_ supreme court ruled in
citizens united vs f_e_c_
but the political voice of we the people is no longer as important as the voices
of billionaires and transnational corporations
now we know the results
and a bhosale throughout twenty twelve and for the tattered future of small d_
democracy
in our republic
a few americans mostly torrez oligarchy including the cloak kennedy boasts
families
uh... billionaires
as well as untraceable millions from donors who could is easily the chinese
government run corporations
as giant american companies who do most of the business and keep most of the
profits outside the u_s_
applied apparently played big in this election
i say apparently
his bring court has ruled the we no longer have the right to know who is
really fun in our election commercials
or even our candidates themselves
thanks to an irrational and likely illegal super in court ruling
it moved into an area of all a dark run
politics
as much as forty million dollars of allah guards money was spent wisconsin
in a handful of local races a testing laboratory for strategies that will now
be used against democrats nationwide in twenty twelve
and so now we enter the battle of the aligarh over the next fifteen or so
months america is now demonstrably disproven by wisconsin just a few weir's
away from the possibility of a totally corrupted totally billionaire in
corporate controlled political system
political scientists call it holla ghar ki
citizens united election experiment is over
aligarh one in wisconsin
a fourth night of rioting gripped the u_k_ yesterday announced turned deadly
three muslim men were killed last night and birmingham when they confronted
riders who were closing in on their mosk
witnesses say the men were protecting the area when they were run over by a
car
unrest is also spread to the cities of liverpool were a fire station was bond
and manchester with the chief of the manchester police describe the levels of
violence in the city as unprecedented
prime minister david cameron is government passed last year's austerity
measures the trigger these riots said
nothing is off the table for police to confront the writers
elsa spoke to the british people today vowing to clamp down on the unrest so
far eleven hundred people have been arrested since the key yesterday
saturday
be well other parts of the world are descending into riot spain greece
portugal and israel are all suffering from civil unrest as more and more
people believe the government's are only looking out for the wealthy allah guards
and not the working class not to mention the continued unrest in china and the
middle east
aligarh are clamping down
all over the world
in the best of the rest of the news after downgrading our nation's credit
because republicans refuse to raise taxes
the s_ and p_ credit rating agency has more bad news republicans yesterday
in an interview with c_n_n_ the director of s_ and p_ john chambers test of the
republican balanced budget amendment could save our triple a rating
chambers immediately through water on the idea saying it would just reduce
your flexibility in a crisis
speaker the house john bainer boasted that he got ninety percent of what he
wanted to the debt limit
deal last week
it downgraded or credit
and he didn't get was a balanced budget amendment
who knows how bad things would be if he got all of one hundred percent of what
he wanted
pity party is going to extinct yesterday the coke funded as to turkey party
organization americans for prosperity
held a bigger that in jacksonville florida call for greater offshore oil
drilling in that state
something that will directly benefit the quot brothers
turns out though only fifteen people showed up for the rally just fifteen
people
board of director of americans for prosperity call the turnout shocking
last weekend in saint louis only three people showed up for tea party event
through the tea party disappearing around the country
who exactly are these all-powerful tea party years in congress wrist prep
residing
just a couple of years
and other billionaire oligarchy san america
it's a third party made strictly out of corporate cash
soren student loans may be driving our economy often x cliff
at screening movies a credit rating agency
that hasn't downgraded our government that at least not yet
and europe or by moody suggest a record number of college students in america
going deeper and deeper into student loan debt
and can't find a job to pay it off
all other forms of lenin have declined during the recession
soon loans urs increasingly space increasing steadily
it's more more students choose to stay in school rather than compete in a week
job market
for youth unemployment is above fifteen percent
as a result student loan debt now outweighs credit card debt in america
make matters worse the republicans definite plan last week chopped off pell
grants forces students to take even more for student loans beginning next year
republicans that small sacrifice to make sure billionaire corporate jet owners
don't have to pay a few more taxes
we now know three members of the gang a twelve
yesterday he reread announced his picks for the super congress the gain of
twelve senators and representatives will decide the fate of the middle class in
an odd senators john kerry
eddie murray annex max baucus
let's hope that the senators and listen to you c_n_n_ poll shows two thirds of
america bows cuts to entitlement programs
and two-thirds of americans
american support increasing taxes for the bridge
we've heard we'll see if the people's voices are heard this time around
or if once again
in america
the oligarchy hijacked the debate like they did with the health care debate
but they did with the taxes
and that's the way it is today
wednesday
august ten twenty eleven
i'm tom harkin