tomorrow here on the news you need to know the sp rejected
democrats who say yesterday feedback an attempt by republicans to have the
keystone excel pipeline automatically approve
despite eleven democrats crossing the island voting with republicans to
approve keystone
in a min fell short of the sixty votes needed to pass after the vote
environmentalist bill mckibben issued a statement saying it
given that this might line was a no brainer a year ago it's pretty
remarkable that people power was able to keep working even in the oil soaked
senate
his grassroots activism and more than twelve hundred patriotic americans
willing to get arrested and from the white house last year
the kill the keystone pipeline and of the boiled parents anywhere political
defeat
and it will be grassroots activism that ultimately i was too big oil from their
privileged position in our economy
and gets us on the right track embracing twenty-first century energy sources
wind and solar power
our democracy is screwed
the largest corporate lobbying organizations in the world or in the
nation probably in the world the chamber of commerce
is ramping up to up its election spending targeting to democrats
including progressive ohio senator shirt brown
with millions of dollars in negative ads
this is just a side of things to come as the chambers plans to spend
fifty million dollars this election year defeat democrats in at least a dozen
senate seats more than thirty house seats
is by republicans getting the nation a case of voter's remorse after just two
years in power in the house
the oligarchy want to make sure they're lap dog survive the next vote
consider the chambers contributions as investments to keep taxpayer oil
subsidies and tax breaks for bank srs
in place
investor the rest of the news
the twenty fourth month in a row president obama created private-sector
jobs
pretty new jobs numbers labor department
economy out of two hundred twenty seven thousand new jobs in february
denim plenary remained unchanged eight point three percent
this is the third straight month of two hundred thousand plus jobs being created
so what is an improving economy mean for republicans trying to win the white
house in twenty twelve
most likely will be more more debates about contraceptives abortions in
president obama's birth certificate
as americans try to claw their way out of the bush great recession aki lifeline
they're using his food stamps
new analysis by the center on budget and policy priorities shows that food
assistance programs
reduce the number of american households living in extreme poverty by abt last
year
from one point six
one point four six million to a hundred thousand on top of their food stamps
also cut the number of children living in extreme poverty and have to
for two point eight billion to one point four million
toward republicans talk about cutting food stamps they're really talking about
condemning more american children
too extreme poverty
democrats are trying to save the constitution to members of congress
senators mark udall and representative span adam smith
offered legislation on thursday to repeal the indefinite detention
provision was recently signed into law by president obama
at provision is the president broad new powers to indefinitely detain people in
the military custody
including americans if they're suspected of being terrorists president george w
bush is sort of these powers back in two thousand one after nine eleven
they were finally codified into law with the most recent national defense
authorization act
indefinite detention provision sparked outrage not just from progresses
libertarians like ron paul as well
and just because president bala say wouldn't want to use these powers to
detain american citizens
doesn't mean a future president wouldn't as representative smith said defending
his legislation we have to make these changes our constitution as status in
good stead
it's where the rest of the world looks at us as a role model
let's not give in to fear in sullaway our civil liberties
let's be that the land of the free and the home of the brave
once again
if republicans why continue their war against unions they're doing so at their
own political peril
as republican governors around the nation like scott walker strip public
sector workers the rights to collectively bargain
a new bloomberg news poll shows that two out of every three americans
believe the public workers should have collective bargaining rights finally
that a plurality of republican support collective bargaining to
as because not as the that's because as not just americans but as humans
were wired for democracy
and unions are a form of democracy in the workplace
newt gingrich's last and will be in the south
with the louisiana mississippi and alabama primary schedule for this month
the gingrich campaign is going to all in
a southern strategy to stay on the race
buckley for him he already has the dog whistle racism strategy worked
working that helped him win south carolina
forty one percent of ur americans say that the republican primary has given
them a less favorable view of the republican party
mainly because primaries force republicans to tell the truth
about the plutocrats engendered a prophet eyes medicare and social
security and give tax breaks away to millionaires and billionaires
to the water that newt incident or and stay in the racing continued primary the
better for progressives around the nation
and finally pay no attention to the pinks line
a former u_s_ department of agriculture scientist has come forward feeling that
about seventy percent of all ground beef sold in america contains what he calls
thinks line
inc's line is made up mostly of connective tissue
used to be outlawed for human consumption and used only in dog foods
but ever since former undersecretary of agriculture joined smith
really fine thanks line as meet during the last months of the george herbert
walker bush administration
then when bill clinton came into office in she lost her job promptly took a job
as a beef industry lobbyist
americans have been unknowingly eating pink slime
where's the beef industry calls it
lean finely textured the
it's allegedly even being used in school lunches
first the future when he discovered in-vitro in laboratory
thinks line east of our problem
and that's the way it is today friday march ninth
twenty twelve
thom hartmann