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Today's lead stories:
CIA v White House on Prewar Intelligence
What is to blame for CA fires?
Senate Passes Healthy Forest Using CA Fire as Fuel
Meat Packers Strike in Wisconsin
Global Power Exposed: Part 5: Domestic Workers to Convene
in NY
CIA v White House on Prewar Intelligence
(4:06)
The Bush administration did not meet today's Senate Intelligence
Committee deadline to hand over documents concerning prewar
information on Iraq. Sources say though the C.I.A. has begun
handing over some documents, the committee has yet to receive
requested documents from Secretary of State Collin Powell,
National Security Advisor Condaleeza Rice, and Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The committee's requests have gone
unanswered since July. The Senate Intelligence Committee says
it is lacking information to finish a report on the intelligence
failure of prewar Iraq. Partisan wrangling has begun in the
committee as Democrats accuse the Republicans of soley focusing
on the failures of the C.I.A. and not examining whether the
Bush administration manipulated the intelligence to support
its Iraq policies. And, as Mitch Jeserich reports, Democrats
on the committee are considering whether the Bush administration
manipulated the intelligence to support its Iraq policies.
And, as Mitch Jeserich reports, Democrats on the committee
are considering whether to start their own investigation into
the White House.
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What is to blame for CA fires? (2:47)
Fire fighters are finally controlling the ten wildfires
in Southern California that have claimed well over two thousand
homes and hundreds of thousands of acres. 20 lives, including
that of a firefighter, were lost in blazes that scorched five
counties and parts of Baja California. But as Teresa Wierzbianska
reports from Los Angeles, this year’s blazes aren’t
anomalous to the region, leaving ecologists and urban planners
to wonder that maybe it’s planning and not nature ravaging
homes and neighborhoods.
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Senate Passes Healthy Forest Using CA Fire as Fuel
(4:39)
Meanwhile, lawmakers used the fires to push through the
Bush Administration’s Healthy Forest Initiative which
was passed the Senate last night. Professor Mike Davis, author
of Ecology of Fear wrote this week from his San Diego home
that “the climate, ecology, and stupid urbanization
have conspired to create the ingredients for one of the most
perfect firestorms in California history.” He speaks
with host Deepa Fernandes.
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Meat Packers Strike in Wisconsin (4:34)
This week, a strike of meat packers at a Tyson Foods plant
in Jefferson, Wisconsin entered its ninth month, with no end
in sight. Four hundred and seventy members of United Food
and Commercial Workers Local 538 called the walkout last February,
after the world's largest meat producer refused to budge from
a proposal that would dramatically reduce wages and benefits
for new hires at the plant. As John Hamilton reports, the
outcome of the strike will go a long way toward determining
the future living standards of workers in the meat packing
industry.
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Global Power Exposed: Part 5: Domestic Workers to
Convene in NY (4:21)
Tomorrow the first ever national Convention of nannies,
housekeepers and home attendants, among other domestic workers,
will gather in NYC. Domestic workers have been labeled one
of the most exploited sectors in US society, and tomorrow’s
convention aims to bring the largely immigrant and women of
color workforce together to testify to and document the level
of employer abuse, while strategizing on how to regulate and
provide basic worker rights for all domestic workers, a task
made increasingly more difficult by Bush Administration policy
after the September 11 attacks. Deepa Fernandes brings us
Part 5 of our special 15 part series Global Power Exposed.
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