World-News: 08 Januar 2012

Joseph Varga, Labor Notes: ''An unexpected alliance is blooming seven weeks into a hard winter strike by 50 Millworkers at the Indiana Limestone Company: The participants of Occupy Bloomington in that nearby college town are rallying to their cause. The millworkers, members of Local 8093 of the Carpenters Industrial Council in Oolitic, Indiana, rejected a concessionary contract and by unanimous vote went on strike November 15.''

http://www.truth-out.org/right-work-law-looms-indiana-occupiers-join-limestone-strikers/1326032629

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Starmail - 8. Jan, 22:25

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The Lasting Damage of Iraq

Shlomo Ben-Ami, Project Syndicate: ''After ten years of war, more than a hundred thousand casualties, mostly Iraqis, and an astronomical cost of almost $1 trillion, the US leaves behind an Iraq that is neither more secure nor especially democratic.... Violently torn by religious and ethnic rivalries, Iraq is in no condition to play its part in America s vision of an Arab wall of containment of Iran.''

http://www.truth-out.org/lasting-damage-iraq/1326043606

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Starmail - 8. Jan, 22:21

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Mitt Romney, Son of ''Citizen United''

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''In the last weeks before the just-completed Iowa caucuses, Romney spent over $3 million relentlessly torpedoing Newt Gingrich with negative ads, cutting Gingrich s support by half and hurtling him from first place to fourth. But Romney kept his fingerprints off the torpedo. Technically the money didn t even come from his campaign. It came from a Super PAC called 'Restore Our Future,' which can sop up unlimited amounts from a few hugely wealthy donors without even disclosing their names.''

http://www.truth-out.org/mitt-son-citizens-united/1326031467

Why the Tea Party Need Mitt

Thomas Frank, Tom Dispatch: ''Dear Tea Party Movement, for the last few months, the world has been fascinated by your frenzied search for a presidential candidate who is not Mitt Romney.... It was quite a spectacle, your quest for the non-Romney - and I think we all know why you undertook it. In ways that matter, Romney is clearly a problem for you.... [He s] said that he approved of the TARP bank bailout, the abomination that ignited the Tea Party uprising in the first place.''

http://www.truth-out.org/why-tea-party-need-mitt/1326045170

Hawk in a Clown-Car Field

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: ''It s quite difficult for a president to change the nation s culture. It s quite easy for a president to start a war. Yes, the GOP s clown-car nomination battle is a source of amusement. The prospect of a Santorum presidency, though, is a source of alarm.''

http://www.truth-out.org/hawk-clown-car-field/1326035437

Will Romney Lie His Way to the White House?

Dean Baker, Truthout: ''Mitt Romney seems ready to wield his version of birthirism as a major weapon in the fall campaign against President Obama. In his standard stump speech, he tells audiences that President Obama wants, 'to replace our merit-based society with an entitlement society.''

http://www.truth-out.org/will-romney-lie-his-way-white-house/1326122881

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Will New Hampshire Pick the Orwellian ?Conservative,? Willard Mitt Romney?
http://lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz37.1.html

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Mitt Romney embraces the Neocons

Mitt Romney s newfound relations with the neocons could spell disaster for the United States, as the war drums begin.

http://bit.ly/wPfBgt

From Information Clearing House

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Mitt Romney, vulture capitalist

Our Future
by Terrance Heath

01/09/12

One of the benefits of the seemingly endless Republican primaries, aside from the entertainment value, is the opportunity to discover how right the candidates are ... about each other. ... What s more striking than the intensity of the candidates' obligatory attacks, however, is the accuracy of their worst accusations against one another. The most recent, and perhaps most striking example, is Newt Gingrich s latest attack on Mitt Romney...

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Mitt Romney: Extremist in pinstripes

The Nation
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

01/10/12

Mitt Romney s dead heat with Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses bolstered the media narrative that Mitt Romney may not be conservative enough for Republican primary voters. This characterization serves Romney well. His rivals carve up each other, hoping to emerge as the conservative 'alternative' to Romney. And vast swaths of the media discount his reactionary views, anticipating his 'pivot' to more moderate positions once the nomination is secured. In reality, Romney is a remarkably reactionary candidate, camouflaged in corporate pinstripes...

http://tinyurl.com/6mojnx6

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 8. Jan, 22:05

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The Cost of Trickle-Down Government Job Creation: $1.5 Million Per Worker

Ravi Batra, Truthout: ''Suppose I were to tell you that for the past two years the federal government has been spending nearly $1.5 million to create one job.... The trillion dollar question is this: where is it all going, when the annual average wage is no higher than $50,000? Obviously, it must be going to the so-called 1 percent group or what the Republican Party calls the job creators, i.e., the mostly male CEOs and other executives of large corporations.''

http://www.truth-out.org/cost-government-job-creation-15-million-worker/1325800265

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Starmail - 8. Jan, 21:59

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Das Land Berlin will Ein-Euro-Jobber als Wachschützer an Problemschulen einsetzen

Nach dem Willen des Berliner rot-schwarzen Senates sollen künftig Hartz IV Bezieher als sogenannte Wachschützer in ''Problemschulen'' eingesetzt werden. Hierzu sollen nach Angaben der Senatsverwaltung erwerbsfähige Arbeitslosengeld II Bezieher ausgebildet werden, die im Anschluss allerdings keinen regulären sozialversicherungspflichtigen Arbeitsplatz erhalten, sondern als Ein-Euro-Jobber (Arbeitsgelegenheit mit Mehraufwandsentschädigung) zum Dumpingpreis entlohnt werden. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-bezieher-als-wachschuetzer-90084.php

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Starmail - 8. Jan, 17:34

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