World-News

Gerry Bello, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Free Press: The Romneys have a direct financial interest in notoriously faulty voting machines that could decide this fall s election in the swing state of Ohio.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12204-does-the-romney-family-now-own-your-e-vote



The Romneys Don t Make Money; Their Money Makes Money

Salvatore Babones, Truthout: Entrepreneurs do create new value in the world and keep some portion of that value as a reward for their originality, risk-taking and hard work. But the Romneys are not entrepreneurs: They are rentiers, people ''who siphon off wealth created elsewhere in the economy.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12201-the-romneys-dont-make-money-their-money-makes-money



America s Media Just Made Vote-Rigging Easier

Victoria Collier, Truthout: Stealing your vote is easier than ever now that the media has decided it can t afford the exit polling that helped track irregular ballot counts in more than a third of the states. Here's why it s important, and what you can do.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12213-americas-media-just-made-vote-rigging-easier



e-Voting Company Could Intercept and Change Ballots Without a Trace

Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press: Scytl, a new company based in Barcelona, will be used to count votes from absentee ballots in 26 states this election, including those from military personnel serving overseas, but there is something you should know about its investors.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12256-e-voting-company-could-intercept-and-change-ballots-without-a-trace

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Lessons from the Early History of the Church of Latter Day Saints

Beware the Mormon in the Grass

By Christopher Ketcham

The Mormon sect grows throughout the 1830s and 1840s, and so do the scams: Land theft, bank fraud, cattle rustling.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32806.htm



Romney s ties with voting machines makers raise alarms

Producers and investors of voting machines that have previously shown susceptibility to fraud in Ohio have been found to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Romney campaign, raising concern about a dangerous bias in a major swing state.

https://rt.com/usa/news/voting-machines-romney-found-975/


From Information Clearing House

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Meet Romney s Economic Hit Man
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/19-0



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Dina Rasor, Truthout: Our defense spending threatens to overwhelm the rest of our budget and threaten the health of our country. Charles M. Smith, a bureaucratic Army hero who tried to keep defense procurement sane and sensible, says that we should welcome the upcoming sequestration as a way to get control of defense spending madness.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12194-allowing-sequestration-defense-cuts-may-right-our-listing-ship-of-state

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Does government debt burden our grandkids?

The American Conservative
by Robert P. Murphy

10/18/12

Explaining the fallacy of 'we owe it to ourselves'...
http://tinyurl.com/9alr5ve


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Zachary Bell, Truthout: Occupy held a spirited one-year anniversary over the September 15-17 weekend that tallied the movement s real accomplishments, demonstrated its evolution and anticipated a dynamic and effective future.

http://truth-out.org/video/item/12183-alive-and-kicking-it-up-a-notch-occupy-celebrates-evolution-revolution-and-plans-for-an-expanded-mission-in-its-second-year



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Arlene Ash and John Lamperti, Truthout: Whether we make voting harder or easier, and whether or not we invest in improving our elections, reflects our values as a nation. Serious reforms must address the nation s actual electoral problems, not the mythical ones that photo-ID laws purport to solve.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12173-two-steps-backward-suppressing-the-vote-in-2012



Rove s American Crossroads Shares Address, Legal Firm with GOP Operative Sproul s Firm

Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG: Nathan Sproul, the paid Mitt Romney political consultant and the man at the center of the GOP voter registration fraud scandal, shares addresses and a legal firm with the infamous Karl Rove. The RNC claimed they fired Sproul after fraudulent registration forms were recently discovered in some 12 Florida counties.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12186-roves-american-crossroads-shares-address-legal-firm-with-shady-gop-operatives-firm

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Romney: International Man of Mystery
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/campaign-2012-1/binders-full-of-flim-flam.html

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Karl Rove s Permanent Republican Presidency

By Steven Jonas, MD

With Obama s strong performance in the second debate, the GOP may have to fall back on cheating to secure victory.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32802.htm



US civil rights groups ask international election monitors for assistance

NAACP and others say voter restrictions and ID laws ahead of 2012 US election require planned observer mission to expand.

http://is.gd/DfMHx4


From Information Clearing House



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Pity Poor America: Obama, Romney, and Foreign Policy
http://lewrockwell.com/scheuer/scheuer16.1.html

War, Terror, and Banking
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/10/19/315-war-terror-and-banking/

Will Obama Paint Mitt as Warmonger?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan272.html

Trotskyites for Romney
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo190.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e250.html



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http://www.ufppc.org/ufppc-statements-mainmenu-29/11236/

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CIA Chiefs Face Arrest Over Horrific Evidence of Bloody 'Video-Game' Sorties by Drone Pilots
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/video-game-drones.html

U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes for Using 9/11 as a False Justification for the Iraq War
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/false-justification-iraq-war.html

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CIA drones spur radical movements in Pakistan and Yemen

Far from quelling Islamist insurgencies in places such as Pakistan and Yemen, however, the US spy agency s move to escalate its aerial campaign is likely to further radicalise civilian populations, driving otherwise peaceful people into the arms of militant groups, say observers.

http://is.gd/aF07Mw


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/18-4

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Selective Rage: The Malalas You Will Not Hear About

By Wendy McElroy

American lives matter; Pakistani children s lives do not ... unless, of course, their lives and deaths can contribute to the narrative of terrorism and war being spun out of the White House.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32807.htm



Children Under Attack in Pakistan and Afghanistan

By Dave Lindorff

In the US, most people don t even know that their own military just blew away three young Afghan children.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32812.htm



US kills at least five people in Pakistan

Two missiles hit the house and one struck a vehicle resulting in the death of four suspected militants. A woman was also killed in the strike, sources added. The official sources also said that three cows have also been killed as the house was completely destroyed.

http://is.gd/e2UHEZ



US Kills 3 People In Pakistan

According to sources, the drone fired two missiles which targeted a vehicle in the Barmal area of the agency and foreigners were among those killed.

http://is.gd/AeCV2N



US Attack Kills 4 people in Pakistan

Four militants, including a senior al-Qaeda cadre, were killed and three others injured when a US drone targeted a compound in the South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan today.

http://is.gd/FByitE



US Kills 3 People in Pakistan

A US drone has fired a pair of missiles at a house in Pakistan s northwest tribal region near the Afghan border, killing three suspected fighters, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

http://is.gd/U3n8vS



PM demands an end to US drone attacks in Pakistan

PM Ashraf expressed his concerns regarding the drone attacks and said that the attacks were harmful and ineffective. He demanded that the US end its drone attacks on Pakistani soil.

http://is.gd/kxBPae



From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/18-2



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/18-1

Obama and Romney 'Climate Change Silence' Deafening, say Environmental Groups
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/18-0

How Romney and Vulture Funds Milked the Auto Bailout
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/18-4

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Election 2012: 'A Pox on Both Their Houses'
http://lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j179.html

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The Dirty Dozen: The Top 12 Election Issues Nobody Is Talking About

Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice: I am sick of endless pontificating about body language at debates, who ''connects'' with voters, or any other nonsense that diverts us from discussing crucially import issues. Here are 12 issues that should be central to political debates and discussions but are being ignored or fatally downplayed by our media and politicians.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12209-the-dirty-dozen-the-top-12-election-issues-nobody-is-talking-about



Mitt Romney s Bailout Bonanza

Greg Palast, The Nation: Mitt Romney may indeed have wanted to let Detroit die. But if the auto industry was going to be bailed out after all, the Romneys apparently couldn t resist getting in on a piece of the action, to the tune of a $15.3 million personal gain.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12210-greg-palast-mitt-romneys-bailout-bonanza



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Letztes Jahr stieg die Zahl der Betroffenen um 5,9 Prozent an.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/153009



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Minijobber dürfen nicht schlechter behandelt werden als Vollzeitkräfte. Es zeigt sich jedoch, dass das Antidiskriminierungsgebot massiv unterlaufen wird.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37820/1.html

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Minijobs: Bundesregierung weitet Niedriglohnsektor aus

''Die schwarz-gelbe Koalition hat die Einkommensgrenze für Minijobs auf 450 Euro ab 1.Januar 2013 angehoben. ''Statt den Niedriglohnsektor einzudämmen, will die Koalition ihn auch noch ausweiten'', kritisierte DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Annelie Buntenbach. MinijobberInnen gehören zu den Hauptrisikogruppen für spätere Altersarmut?'' DGB-Pressemitteilung vom 25.10.2012 http://www.dgb.de/themen/++co++8a5f5cbe-19d5-11e2-977d-00188b4dc422


Problem verschärft. Koalition erhöht Minijob-Verdienstgrenze

''Es gehört zu den wichtigsten Einsichten der Bundesregierung, daß die Etablierung des Niedriglohnsektors die Grundlage für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolgskurs Deutschlands ist. Von dieser Warte aus betrachtet ist die am gestrigen Donnerstag vom Bundestag beschlossene Anhebung der Geringfügigkeitsgrenze und damit der Abgabenfreiheit für den Beschäftigten bei sogenannten Minijobs von 400 auf 450 Euro nur konsequent: Die Unternehmen, die Millionen von Billigjobbern eingesetzt haben, dürften durch die Änderung kaum mehr belastet werden. Statt dessen könnte sie sich sogar als willkommene Marketingmaßnahme erweisen. Beim momentan sehr hohen Beschäftigungsgrad der Bevölkerung wird es immer schwieriger, Leute mit miesen Löhnen zur Arbeit zu motivieren. Die Aussicht auf 50 Euro mehr im Monat könnte einen zusätzlichen Anreiz bieten?'' Artikel von Johannes Schulten in junge Welt vom 26.10.2012 http://www.jungewelt.de/2012/10-26/024.php


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Oktober 2012

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Preiswerte Ausbeutung in Deutschland: Flexibel, billig und noch willig

Rund 7,5 Millionen ''Minijobber'' in Deutschland. Unternehmer schätzen ''Minijobber'' und Armutsrentner. Kommentierte Zusammenfassung der IAB-Studie von Reinhold Schramm vom 11.12.2012 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/kombilohn/minijob_rs.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Dezember 2012



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Die bisherigen Bemühungen, afghanische Sicherheitskräfte aufzubauen, die nach Abzug der Isaf-Truppen für Stabilität sorgen sollen, scheinen nicht vielversprechend zu sein.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37833/1.html



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