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tommorrow in here on the news you need to know this despite three weeks
arriving in the streets greek prime minister george papandreou is eat the in
his job anne nero narrowly survived a no confidence vote victory parliament
yesterday
the worldwatch low closely as greece is on the edge of defaulting on its debts
must pass austerity measures
likes death like spending cuts and stay privatization to receive a bailout from
the european union and the international monetary fund
if greece defaults it could trigger a financial crisis all across europe
degree people have expressed outrage an austerity gender the targets mostly
working class families unless the banks truce would cause the financial mess off
the hook altogether
an austerity measure i net gender and my dad that's already been put in place in
the u_k_
is shrinking the british economy
that's how the i_m_f_ does business if you're not willing to pressure on
economy
and i a m f mostly made up of banks trees will step up and do it for ya
after of course goldman sachs runs your connie business off billions
corporations paying their c_e_o_s way too much money
and corporations dodging taxes
are two issues that are angering a lot of americans but when you put them
together
anymore even even and even more outrageous result
last year thirty two corporation spent more money on their c_e_o_s and they
spent paying taxes
according to a recent report by an independent research firm
executive compensation increase by fourteen percent last year and today
depending on the industry c_e_o_'s make a run two hundred thirty three times
more than their average worker
up from thirty times back in nineteen seventies to more than five thousand
times their average worker
and during that same period corporate taxes have dropped
from the more than a fifth of our nation's revenue to less than ten
sos our nation struggling financially executive pay check checks are getting
bigger and bigger
yet another sign of how unchecked corporate power
ravaging our country and destroying the middle class
investor the rest of the news
visioning governor rick snyder's financial managers will fast past
will face their first legal test
as the sugar loss for economic and social justice filed suit today
arguing
that snyder's financial law banning here's law violates the state's
constitution
earlier this year republican governor snyder passed a bill that allows him to
take over of city in michigan struggling financially
fire all the local officials
and put in place cronies of his own personal choosing
what's called a financial manager handles his finances at financial
manager as a part of pretty much do anything
voiding union contracts cutting local government services even selling off
huge chunks of the city ike part parks in power plants
is bodies in private corporations
at fire sale prices
as a sugar law center says in a press release about the law
it's a power grab by lansing politicians ideologically committed to rewarding the
private sector
at the expense of the common good
it's an attack very or of democracy
other things like rick steiner scott walker john casick
didn't campaign on a pledge to destroy democracy that's exactly what they're
doing
patients suffering from severe case of voter's remorse
whenever just seen a mass extinction years allusions
as a group of top ocean scientist worn in a new report released this week by
the international program on the state of the ocean
as a pollution and global warming
the oceans are losing oxygen to become a more acidic
threatening to trigger a mass extinction not seen or fifty million years
and half of all life the oceans was wiped out
side is daniel le folly
and a co-author of the report said
we now face losing marine species and entire marine ecosystem such as coral
reefs
within a single generation
and we are also probably the last generation that has enough time deal
with the problem
i'll have to realize soon we can't live above and beyond our environment anymore
if the ocean dies we die too
while republicans allows representatives work to privatize medicare and screw
over senior citizens
democratic senator bernie sanders is fighting on behalf of senior citizens
yelled a senate committee hearing yesterday released a twelve-page report
on the dire situation of many seniors
currently there are five million senior citizens in america threatened by a
hunger
that information comes on the heels of another report
it showed today people must work until their in their eighties just have a
chance to retiring
other words it is they have to work until their debt
at some point the united states went from being a country that bare of its
elders the ones throwing cram off the cliff
we can thank the republican party in their tax cuts for millionaires and
billionaires that'd bankrupted our social safety net
more trouble for republican senator david better and know what and know it
has nothing to do with prostitutes this time
watchdog organization citizens for responsibility an ethics in washington
also known as peru
bali complaint with the senate ethics committee yesterday
alleging the sender vitara tempted to bribed the secretary of interior ken
salazar
reports on a letter of that our road to cell is our last month saying that he
would oppose any increase in cells are salary
as secretary of the interior
until salazar opens up the gulf of mexico for more drilling the benefits
will corporations in louisiana
there some state
now there are ads are give you more money if you give me what you want
crew is recommending that the committee refer the complaint to the u_s_ justice
department
first the justice department probably still has a file on therefor back the
days when he was busted calling for prostitutes
from the for the senate
now can we add bribery debaters rap sheet
can someone please tell me how this guy still has his job
and i remember
he's a republican they kinda circle the wagons and protect their own
and that's the way it is today
wednesday
june twenty second
funny a lot
i'm from harvard