don arken here on the news you need to know thus
today in over one hundred cities across america demonstrators a rally in front
of federal courthouses
and are being from the supreme court here in washington d_c_ in protest of
the two year anniversary of citizens united decision
which is tomorrow
grassroots organization move to a men dot org
spearheading state action
to raise awareness and courage and encourage people
to fight back against that radical ruling of the supreme court to declare
the corporations are people in money his speech
and put our democracy up for sale for the highest bidder
this week portland maine became the latest city in america to pass a
resolution calling on congress to amend the constitution to overturn citizens
united an declare the corporations are not people
we saw the effects a citizen i did in the twenty ten midterms went over a
three hundred million dollars in secret corporate cash was dumped into our
elections that's four times more money that was spent in the last midterms in
two thousand six
and and that's why the wave of multimillionaire corporate shells who
say they represent the tea party
were elected to the house of representatives
if we don't do something about this twenty twelve will be even worse to get
out there get active and occupy the courts
to move to a man dot org for more information
another day another republican debate last night c_n_n_ hosting debate in
south carolina giving the republican candidates one last chance to appeal to
voters before saturday's primary
but the most contentious part of the debate did not involve any of the
candidates attacking each other but instead newt gingrich attacking
the media
on the same night a_b_c_ aired an interview with his ex-wife allegedly
gingrich doesn't have a character to be president
and that he had wanted open marriage
asked about this gingrich unloaded on c_n_n_ debate moderator john king in the
rest of the media calling them
destructive and vicious
went on to flatly denied the allegations made by his ex-wife marianne gingrich
meanwhile mit romney continues to struggle down the stretch in the
palmetto state
frontrunner was booed by the audience when he walked will begin on whether or
not he's going to release his tax returns
and ronnie's gaps this week it left the door open for a possible surprise
gingrich victory in south carolina
stay tuned
in the best of the rest of the is one day after the largest online protest in
the history of the internet on the largest file-sharing sites on the web
megaupload it was shot down by the justice department seven people were
charged with illegally sharing over a half
billion dollars in copyrighted material
the justice department and other government to try to recover over a
hundred and seventy five million dollars
banks aka bank accounts of the people owned at the megaupload website as well
as a two thousand time as positron t
at least one mansion in new zealand twenty are two dozen eight rolls royce
and number of mercedes-benz is missus industrial strength piracy involving
theft in redistribution of massive amounts of copyrighted material
anti-u_s_ and several other governments including new zealand china brought it
down
it proves that the laws on copywriter strong enough right now
and there's no need to rediculous overkill like soap but and hypo
perry redone ounce this morning by the way that
the senate will not be voting on hyper victory for internet activism
is more evidence today the president obama's auto bailout was a success
just three years removed from the near bankruptcy of general motors
employees once again to be the top car seller in the world selling more than
nine million cars
time to remember the republicans including presidential front-runner
vomit wondering just what the u_s_ auto industry go bankrupt
between president obama didn't listen to them
george w_ bush is war crimes now have the attention of the united nations
the center for constitutional rights here in the united states in the
european center for constitutional in human rights in germany
well the complete this week with the u_n_
alleging that the government of the united states and spain colluding
together to block an international investigation
into people within the bush administration who condoned or
authorized torture
any complaint is based on information uncovered and fourteen state department
cables that were leaked by wiki leaks and the center for constitutional rights
says
wiki leaks cables revealed that the united states will go to extreme
measures
to ensure the u_s_ officials are not called before a quart of walk
dance of the torture allegations against the unquote
claims of torture will continue to dog the united states indefinitely angelos
like rumsfeld bushing chini
who committed these war crimes
are held accountable thrown in jail
last year was a tragic here for our soldiers not just on the battlefield but
here at home too
according to a new report from the army suicides among active-duty soldiers hit
a record high of twenty eleven
i laid out there was a near thirty percent increase in violent sex crimes
reported last year as well
we're sending our young men and women often died
in the middle east in a remnant of george bush is desired to be a wartime
president war requiring them to serve tour after tour with little regard to
the mental told it takes on them
this is a tragedy
and another strong recently and our wars
more good news for elizabeth warrant senate campaign in massachusetts wall
streeter former untuk advocate for the middle class raised more than a million
bucks in just one day on thursday
promising to take the people's seat back
from wall street
huge all bio warren came on the two year anniversary of opponents scott brown
winning a special election to claim ted kennedy's deleted kennedy seat in the
senate
two years later though
pity party go on and i nine percent movement in full force
the mood is different in america
people want someone to take on wall street rather than terry wall street's
water
there's still an uphill battle for warren though scott brown still holds a
two-to-one advantage in money raised with huge donations from the bank strips
let's help warren send a message to wall street
collector
for the united states uh...
and that's the way it is today
january twentieth
twenty twelve
i'm john hartman