ta harmony here on the news you need to know this florida governor rick scott's
democratic voter purge is ramping up although he's now meeting some
resistance from local elections supervisors
in view fit with the center for american progress palm beach county supervisor of
elections susan poker
said that her office received a list of one hundred fifty names from governor
scott's office identifying registered voters
scott believed to be undocumented immigrants
thereby reviewing a list poker concluded it was quote not
horrible unquote refuse to send out letters asking for voters to verify
their citizenship status
booker also noted the governor scouts voter purges lists are relying on
information that is a decade or more all
back to catherine paris is dead
one florida voter identified as a non citizen by governor scott was a ninety
one-year-old world war two veteran
said he was flabbergasted last to prove that he was a u_s_ citizen
now up to president obama and the justice department to and this illegal
voter purge by foot by governor scott in florida
before the election is stolen in florida for the second time in twelve years
in screwed is c_e_o_'s are illegally stealing workers' wages
as c_n_n_ reports wage that's complains that complaints have increased over four
hundred percent
over the last decade with over seven thousand lawsuits alleging wages and our
violations against employers file just in two thousand eleven
complaint center on workers accusing their employers of not paying them for
all the hours they work
are not paid overtime that they were entitled to it
some of the companies that have had suits filed against them in a wal-mart
starbucks and bank of america
yet another consequence of our corporate capitalism model
executives a reward for squeezing whatever profits they can out of a
company
including nicole and i mean their workers or outright stealing from them
just in a quarterly profit goals
time to bring back business in the public interest
in the best for the rest of the news this morning the first circuit court of
appeals ruled that the defense of marriage act
she dies same-sex couples federal benefits is unconstitutional
social of the judges to whom were
republican appointees
ruled that by definition
america trim and a woman
discriminates against gay and lesbian couples
since the law was passed in nineteen ninety six this is the first time a
federal appeals court has ruled against it
last year president obama announced his justice department would no longer
defend online court
prompting speaker that's john bainer republicans
to hire their own high-priced lawyer
to defend the discriminatory law and paid him with you're my tax dollars
ultimately supreme court will likely have a final say on this matter just as
they have the final say in approving interracial marriage and decriminalizing
homosexuality stay tuned
echo brother funded american legislative exchange council alec just wants one of
its biggest fish
wal-mart the world's largest retailer is now the nineteen th organization to drop
its alec membership
following public outrage over alex written shoot first laws
that's what the country in a responsible for the death of trade by martin florida
as the nation's biggest gonna retailer wal-mart was instrumental in writing
alex shoot first law
it is now fleeing the organization as more and more americans wake up to the
fact the corporations are writing our laws
at these twice a year alec conventions
from alec to governor rick steiner style called so-called financial managers in
michigan corporate america's pledged to spend over a billion dollars in this
election
do elective romney
our democracy has never been in more danger
what started as a student student protest in quebec is now turning into a
mass movement all across annida
on wednesday night in cities all across canada thousands gathered to show
solidarity was striking students in quebec
and push back against austerity measures being pushed by the conservative making
government
this began when the quebec government passed wishing nights and cuts to
education
prompting tens of thousands of students to take to the streets
for months now
move it is now broad bean is one of the lead organizer stearic o'keefe said
we need to have an open and democratic discussion about the direction of our
society to current model
governor governments give billions in tax cuts too profitable corporations and
high-income earners
and then plead poverty is they slash our social programs
is broken
the global anti austerity movement picking up steam
univ concern sciences is out with a new report exposing big loyal strategy to
pull the wool over our eyes
when it comes to global climate change
looking at twenty eight u_s_ companies and the s_ and p_ five hundred data
publicly x expressed concern over climate change in carbon emissions
you see esperanza at the same time
bcn companies behind the scenes
funneling huge amounts of money into causes an organizations devoted to
discrediting climate change
june two thousand seven and two thousand nine
justice congress is debating crucial climate change legislation
the energy sector increase their lobbying by ninety two percent
just enough to get a minority of republicans in the senate to filibuster
of legislation
it would applaud put in place a cap and trade system to reduce carbon emissions
corporations using their massive financial war chests
influence lawmakers used to be called bribery
now it's business as usual those citizens united world
a world that is getting harder and harder with carbon dioxide now passing
the ana mohammed has four hundred parts per million milestone
and finally a new report by aljazeera finds the detainees at guantanamo bay
were forced to listen
to sesame street music during interrogation is that hoped it would
break down prisoners
scone sides of the two thousand three report that says mistry music was also
used to soften up a rakhi p_o_w_s
not only can big bird teach kids the a_b_c_'s salsa america's secret weapon
of the war on terror
and that's the way it is today thursday may thirty first twenty twelve
i'm tom hartman