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Today's lead stories:
Debate Ignores African American Community
New Stats Says Whistleblower Reports Go Un-investigated
Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary: Voting for Empire
Election Countdown: Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement
Counter Summit at NAB Meeting
FSRN Headlines
Financial strategists around the world are concerned that
today’s economic news may indicate a much weaker U.S.
economy than previously thought. The U.S. trade deficit is
at its second highest in history, mostly due the purchase
of foreign oil at ever rising prices. Combined with non-oil
imports, the trade deficit is even larger than predicted by
U.S. Commerce Department officials. Last year’s trade
deficit is the highest in history to date. Bush Administration
officials say the deficit shows a stronger U.S. economy because
it means that people are buying more. Also, the Department
of Labor Statistics released first time unemployment claims
higher than those forecasted. 352-thousand people filed for
benefits last week.
Shell Petroleum has cut down oil export from Nigeria following
a fire on one of its main pipelines. Sam Olukoya reports from
Lagos.
Today General Motors spokespersons announced plans to cut
12-thousand jobs at its car plants across Europe as part of
a massive cost-cutting drive. Most of them in Germany. From
Bonn, Guy Degan reports.
28 U.S. soldiers face possible criminal charges in connection
with the deaths of two prisoners at an American run prison
in Afghanistan 2 years ago. Kelly Cole reports from D.C.
Six U.S. soldiers have been found guilty this week of abusing
ethnic Albanian detainees during a search operation in the
UN controlled protectorate of Kosovo last April. Melik Keramian
(Ma-leak Ker-am-ian) with the Kosovo Radio Collective reports
from Kosovo’s capital, Pristina.
The Food and Drug Adminstration has approved use of a radio
frequency microchip that, once implanted in a person's arm,
can provide access to the person's medical records. Kellia
Ramares has the story.
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Debate Ignores African American Community
Last night during the final Presidential debate Senator
John Kerry and President George W. Bush were asked whether
they see a need for affirmative action. Kerry said the country
hasn’t gone far enough and finished up his response
by stating that Bush is the first president not to meet with
the NAACP, adding that nor has Bush met with the Black Congressional
Caucus or the civil rights leadership. FSRN host Deepa Fernandes
looks at what the Massachusetts senator is doing for African
Americans across the country.
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New Stats Says Whistleblower Reports Go Un-investigated
New federal statistics released today show that whistleblower
complaints of waste, fraud, and abuse in the government have
significantly increased in the last three years. But, as Mitch
Jeserich reports, fewer and fewer of them are being investigated.
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Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary: Voting for Empire
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Election Countdown: Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement
Almost five million Americans will not be able to vote in
this year’s election because they are currently or have
in the past been incarcerated on a felony conviction. That
includes 13 percent of African-American men in this country.
While the trend is to ease voting restrictions on this population,
progress is slow and uneven. As we continue our month long
countdown coverage to the Presidential election, Melinda Tuhus
reports from New Haven, Connecticut, on the current state
of felon disenfranchisement and its historical roots.
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Counter Summit at NAB Meeting
The National Association of Broadcasters, or N.A.B. is the
industry group representing commercial radio and TV stations
in the US. Some say it is perhaps the most influential lobbying
body on Capitol Hill. Last week, as the N.A.B. held their
annual "Radio Road Show" convention in San Diego,
CA, while local organizers with the Independent Media Center
held an alternative gathering to assess the impact of increasing
media consolidation, and to open up a dialogue about the successes
and failures of the media democracy movement. FSRN's Vinny
Lombardo attended, and brings us this report.
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