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Today's lead stories:
Rich and Poor Gap at 70 Year High
Texas Re-districting Measure Passed
Everything for Sale in Iraq… Except Oil
Bush Admin. Complicate Water Battles in Klamath Falls
Professor Edward Said Dies
FSRN Headlines by Randi Zimmerman
Nigerian woman, to be stoned to death, acquitted. -- Sam
Olukoya
More than a million women sue Wal-Mart. -- Kellia Ramares
Massachusetts says drug companies fraudulent. -- Chuck Rosina
Global gag rule spreads AIDS. -- Chris Gorman
Environmentalists say too much shit from dairy industry. --
Sally Watt
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Rich and Poor Gap at 70 Year High - (4:34)
A new study indicates the economic gap between the top 1
percent wage earners and the bottom 40 percent is at a 70
year high. The study, by the Center for Budget and Policy
Priorities shows that the incomes for people who earn on 1.3
million dollars a year has tripled in the last 20 years while
the bottom 40% of wage earners have seen an increase of just
11 percent. Meanwhile, since 1979 the federal tax rate on
the top 1 percent has dropped. Mitch Jeserich has more from
Washington D.C.
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Texas Re-districting Measure Passed - (3:05)
The California recall election and the redistricting battle
in Texas are two of the most closely watched stories in politics
today. And while Californians remain divided over whether
they want a recall election, a cross-section of Texans remains
against a re-districting measure already approved by the state
house, and passed yesterday by the Texas Senate. Opponents
say the GOP-led redistricting map will disenfranchise low
income and communities and communities of color in the state.
From KPFT in Houston, Texas, Robert Cardenas has more.
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Everything for Sale in Iraq… Except Oil
- (3:40)
In an unexpected move announced at the meeting in Dubai
for Group of Seven rich nations, the US-appointed Iraqi Governing
Council announced radical reforms to allow total foreign ownership
without the need for prior approval. Analysts in the region
believe the initiative carries all the hallmarks of Washington's
neo- conservative lobby, complete with tax cuts and trade
tariff reductions. It will apply to everything from industry
to health and water, although not oil. Oula Farawati in Jordan,
has the story.
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Bush Admin. Complicate Water Battles in Klamath Falls
- (4:05)
In 1903 President Roosevelt created the Low Klamath national
wildlife refuge in the high desert of southern Oregon. It
was the countries first waterfowl refuge, home to the bald
eagle, pelicans, herons and countless other rare and endangered
birds. But there were already farmers squatting on much of
the land that FDR designated as a refuge. Thus began the political
fighting over precious wetland and a water supply that gets
to farms through a complex irrigation system. Over the last
two years, the controversy has been heating up as many of
the Klamath basin farms are located in wildlife refuges and
lakebeds. In 2001 a California district court ordered water
supply to farmers would be shut off. In 2002 the bush administration
turned the water back on and over 30,00 endangered fish died.
Now Bush’s top aid, Carl Rove, is being investigated
by the Interior Dept inspector general, for illegally using
the administration influence. For the local Native Americans
that have treaty rights to fish and for the farmers and fish
advocates, the national political circus is politicizing and
complicating their problems, at a time when just sitting down
to communicate is hard enough. FSRN correspondent, Andrew
Stelzer, brings us more on how the community of Klamath Falls
is try to work together to get through water shortages that
seemingly will never end.
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Professor Edward Said Dies - (4:54)
After struggling for over a decade with Leukemia, last night
Columbia University Professor and Palestinian Activist-Scholar
Edward Said passed away. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem,
then part of British-ruled Palestine, but he spent most of
his life in the United States. He was a prominent member of
the Palestinian parliament-in-exile for 14 years and he wrote
extensively and passionately about the plight of the Palestinian
people, as well as on a variety of other subjects, from English
literature, to music and culture. Deepa Fernandes brings us
this memory of Professor Said’s life.
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