You have no choice than to flee. No one wants to receive refugees. It is a reaeal nightmare. E. Amy as secrcretary of state jon kerry 60 saudi arabia, we will speak with angie coburn of Andrew Cockburn of harpers magazine and then a new expose, charged with murder, but they did not kill Anyone Police did. The chicago reader has exposed 10 pieces since 2011 where police kill a civilian in chicago but charge an accomplice with the murder. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In louisiana, more than 100,000 people have applied for federal assistance as cleanup begins from last weeks historic flooding. At least 13 people died in what the red cross has called the worst Natural Disaster in the u. S. Since hurricane sandy. President obama is scheduled to tour flooddamaged areas on tuesday. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says more help is needed for the recovery effort. Typically by this point in a storm, i t
Controlled commission on president ial debates has that rules that will likely prevent any thirdparty candidate from participating. We will speak with ring Party Nominee dr. Jill stein and her running mate longtitime human rights activist ajamu baraka. The green party was to bring something very different from the traditional parties. We want to engage the mac and people in an honest conversation about democracy, power, and the electoral process. Amy plus we will go to north dakota where the Standing Rock sioux tribe is leading a weeklong protest against the Dakota Access pipeline. We will speak with the former green eyes president ial nominee Winona Laduke. All of that anand more, coming. Welcome to democracy nowow , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The American Red Cross is calling this weeks flooding in louisiana the worst disaster in the u. S. Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. At least 13 people were killed after historic rainfall submerged parts of baton r
There is such a conversation about universal prek, that is something that is not possible in japan. Why . Ellen there is this big shortage of women in the workplace and the Prime Minister is hoping to get more women actually working, and more women would like to work but there is a huge childcare issue. There are not enough Nursery Schools and the Nursery Schools are just sort of mired in regulation, and the teachers are paid very poorly so the teachers are constantly dealing with paperwork, etc. They do not want to do it anymore so they are trying to recruit more teachers and they in fact are building more Nursery Schools, but it is tough to make it all come together. David high yield investment programs, something i have not heard of before, talk about what they are. Ellen they are basically online programs that invest in various things and promise really outrageous returns. Really many of them are ponzi schemes so they are paying old investors with new investors money. A lot of inve
Take stock of what jackson hole will bring with janet yellen. Tom weve been doing this all week. Equities weaker yesterday. Not a shock, but just off the boredom, a very difficult afternoon for markets in the u. S. Janet yellen front and center. 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow, francine, eastern time. You wont hear her speak. It is in a closed room. Embargoedgets an speech and we will have all the headlines out at 10 00 a. M. Exactly. Francine that is what the markets are watching. Today we look at geopolitics with the deal in columbia between the government and the guerillas. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. The death toll is rising in italy. The government says at least 257 people were killed when the quake rocked central italy. Three mountain towns were leveled. Rescue crews are trying to find survivors. Many of the buildings were built centuries ago. In kabul, Authorities Say at least 12 people were killed in an attack on the American University of afghanistan. The assault began wit
This time it was sony or the dnc by former secretary of state colin powell whose digital dumpster was made public by wikileaks. He doesnt have a shiny collection of smoking guns or Anthony Weiner and prescience in his outbox that we know of at least a lack of linkage politics and through these emails we have seen many signs of the same or start points the jet setting colin who in one letter described grabbing the dash from being pulled into Hillary Clintons private server hell. Hrc could have killed his two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not bring into. I told her staff three times not to try to ambit. I had to throw many tantrums to get their attention. Then theres mean girls as financier jeff leeds wrote to hillary and she hates the president. That man is the clintons all him kicked her out in 2008 3g cant believe it for except a gift. No one likes us. Powell chimed in with she is working yourself to death. Then they agreed hillary could never be