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Sally Kohn: Increasing the Debt Is a Good Idea, Don't Believe the Hype About U.S. Debt |
| Uploaded by democracynow on 14 Jun 2011 DemocracyNow.org - Vice President Joe Biden met with congressional negotiators last Thursday to discuss ways to curb the federal deficit and permit new borrowing after August 2, the day the U.S. government is expected to reach its $14.3 trillion borrowing limit. Democrats want to curb the federal deficit by pushing for new taxes and eliminating many tax loopholes, while Republicans have called for steep spending reductions but no new taxes. To discuss the ongoing debate over how to curb the federal deficit, Democracy Now! recently spoke with Sally Kohn, author of a May 24, USA Today op-ed titled, "Don't Believe the Hype About U.S. Debt." |
| Date: 2011-06-15 06:06:39 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 799 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 4 |
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Mike German & Scott Crow Discuss FBI's Expanded Domestic Surveillance Program |
| Uploaded by democracynow on 14 Jun 2011 DemocracyNow.org - Civil liberties advocates are raising alarm over news the FBI is giving agents more leeway to conduct domestic surveillance. According to the New York Times, new guidelines will allow FBI agents to investigate people and organizations "pro-actively" without firm evidence for suspecting criminal activity. Democracy Now! interviews former FBI agent Mike German, who now works at the American Civil Liberties Union. Also interviewed is Texas activist Scott Crow, who has been the focus on intense FBI surveillance from 2001 until at least 2008. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Crow received 440 pages of heavily-redacted documents revealing the FBI had set up a video camera outside his house, traced the license plates of cars parked in front of his home, recorded the arrival and departure of his guests and observed gatherings that Crow attended at bookstores and cafes. The agency also tracked Crow's emails and phone conversations and picked through his trash to identify his bank and mortgage companies. "It definitely has been traumatizing at different points," says Crow. "But if we don't come out and be open about this, then they've already won, and the surveillance and the 'War on Terror' wins against us." Watch Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DChfdfb8di0 |
| Date: 2011-06-15 06:01:32 - Added by: KMC |
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Fred who?: Accusations of Mitt Romney Voter Fraud |
| Uploaded by SuchIsLifeVideos on 15 Jun 2011 Did Mitt Romney commit voter fraud when he cast a ballot for Scott Brown in last year's special election in Massachusetts? On Monday, one of his lesser known opponents for the GOP presidential nomination, Fred Karger, filed a complaint with Massachusetts state election officials alleging that he voted for Brown, as well as in other Massachusetts elections, when he was not in fact a resident of the Bay State. In his complaint, Karger lays out a chronology of Romney's real estate moves since his failed presidential bid in 2008. According to Karger's timetable, Romney and his wife, Ann, bought a $12.5 million home in La Jolla, California, in May 2008. ( |
| Date: 2011-06-15 05:49:01 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 839 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 |
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Naomi Klein Vs Andrew Sullivan on Disaster Capitalism |
| A prescient dialogue on the kind of social program cuts the GOP are proposing now. |
| Date: 2011-06-14 17:44:32 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 785 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 |
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Bachmann: Repeal The 'Job-Killing' Environmental Protection Agency |
| 6/13/11: GOP presidential contender Michele Bachmann (R-MN) calls for the elimination of the Environmental Protection Agency at a New Hampshire debate. |
| Date: 2011-06-14 10:49:10 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 809 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 3 |
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TEPCO Press Release: Additional 23 workers exposed to high radiation |
| 14 Jun 2011 Additional 23 workers exposed to high radiation The health ministry says that another 23 workers at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant may have been exposed internally to over 100 millisieverts of radiation. The ministry on Tuesday told plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company to immediately release the workers from duty. The ministry said keeping the employees at the plant may push their exposure over the temporary-set limit of 250 millisieverts. The government relaxed the limit for plant workers from 100 millisieverts after the nuclear accident in March as an emergency measure. The ministry also instructed TEPCO to have the 23 workers undergo medical exams. TEPCO previously announced that 2 employees were exposed to over 600 millisieverts. On Monday, the firm said that 6 more workers were thought to have been exposed to up to about 500 millisieverts. TEPCO is screening about 3,700 workers at the plant for exposure. The tests for about 600 have not been completed. The ministry is urging the firm to finish the tests by June 20th and submit the results. Tuesday, June 14, 2011 13:37 +0900 (JST) Copyright NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Category: |
| Date: 2011-06-14 10:41:33 - Added by: KMC |
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Jennifer Sass & Joaquin Sapien on Formaldehyde Carcinogen Listing, Despite Industry Lobby |
| Uploaded by democracynow on 14 Jun 2011 DemocracyNow.org - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has added formaldehyde to a list of known carcinogens, despite years of lobbying by the chemical industry. Formaldehyde is found in plastics and often used in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons. The conservative billionaire Koch brothers have led the lobbying effort against labeling formaldehyde as a carcinogen, and Georgia-Pacific, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is one of the country's top producers of formaldehyde. Democracy Now! interviews Jennifer Sass, the senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Joaquin Sapien, reporter at ProPublica. The government also said Friday that styrene, which is used in boats, bathtubs and in disposable foam plastic cups and plates, may cause cancer. |
| Date: 2011-06-14 10:15:38 - Added by: KMC |
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GOP Candidates Call For Massive Deregulation, Dismantling Of Health, Worker and Consumer Protections |
| From: thinkprogress5 |VIDEO: GOP Candidates Call For Massive Deregulation, Dismantling Of Health, Worker and Consumer Protections By Pat Garofalo on Jun 14, 2011 at 10:30 am Last night, seven of the Republican 2012 presidential hopefuls participated in a debate in New Hampshire, and as the Wall Street Journal noted, the candidates used the occasion to ?[press] for the dismantling of government regulations drawn up over 40 years.? Indeed, the candidates unveiled a deregulatory zeal, proposing to repeal everything from environmental and labor protections to the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and regulations included in the Affordable Care Act. Here are some highlights: NEWT GINGRICH: The Congress this year, this week, ought to repeal the Dodd-Frank bill, they ought to repeal the Sarbanes-Oxley bill. REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R-MN): What we need to do is pass the mother of all repeal bills?and I would begin with the EPA, because there is no other agency like the EPA. It should really be called the job-killing organization of America. RICK SANTORUM: This president has put a stop sign against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska and that is depressing. We need to drill. GINGRICH: And one of the things Congress should do immediately is defund the National Labor Relations Board. HERMAN CAIN: If the federal government continues to do the kind of things that this administration is trying to do through the backdoor, through the National Labor Relations Board, that?s killing our free-market system. Watch a compilation: Despite a financial crisis caused in large part by deregulation, climate change wreaking havoc on the country, and plummeting unionization coupled with plummeting incomes, the GOP still seems to believe that the government has no role in setting rules of the road or enforcing any sort of standard to guard against corporate greed or environmental devastation. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) even seemed to imply that the government should privatize disaster relief, responding to a question about FEMA by saying, ?Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that?s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that?s even better.? But not every statement uttered by the candidates was anti-regulation. Cain replied to a question about whether the government has a role in food safety by saying, ?The federal government should be doing food safety, yes.? |
| Date: 2011-06-14 09:00:53 - Added by: KMC |
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Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser: Have Cities Become America's Ugly Stepchildren? |
| Uploaded by videonation on 14 Jun 2011 Massive subsidization of highways, a fetish for home ownership and the decentralized American school system have turned our cities into "ugly stepchildren," Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser argues in this interview recorded by On The Earth Productions at this year's Congress for New Urbanism in Madison, Wisconsin. Despite America's anti-urban policy bias, Glaeser says, cities play a unique role in promoting social justice. Importantly, many of the problems associated with poverty that often plague cities are not caused by the urban environment itself, but are instead signs that cities are succeeding: that they are attracting people with economic and educational opportunities that they could not find elsewhere. Instead of demonizing and neglecting urban areas, this country should promote policies that create a "level playing field" between our cities and the outlying suburban and rural areas. |
| Date: 2011-06-14 07:23:50 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 817 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 5 |
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David Swanson & George Galloway: Fed up with U.S. & U.K's wars |
| Uploaded by davidcnswanson on 13 Jun 2011 David Swanson George Galloway |
| Date: 2011-06-13 21:53:24 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 787 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 |
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