World-News

John Nichols, The Nation: 'Mitt Romney can attack public-employee unions all he wants. Rick Perry can attack collective-bargaining rights. Newt Gingrich can call for eliminating child labor laws so that school janitors can be replaced with adolescents. But those are not winning positions in mainstream America, where polling suggests Americans recognize the value of labor unions and of laws that maintain the right to organize and bargain for better wages, better benefits and better services for children and communities.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unions-beat-gop-candidates-new-hampshire-blocks-anti-labor-law/1322750650



Pro-Walker Ads, Courtesy of Koch Industries

Mary Bottari, PRWatch: 'The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has teamed up with Wisconsin s right-wing John K. MacIver Institute on a website and TV ad to support Governor Scott Walker as he faces recall. AFP and MacIver are aiming to convince residents that Walker s fiscal policies have been good for the state.'

http://www.truth-out.org/pro-walker-ads-courtesy-koch-industries/1322764032



Romney s Billionaire Threatens BBC Investigative Reporter

Greg Palast, Truthout: 'Last Monday, a call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office of Mitt Romney s billionaire backer and 'advisor' Paul Singer. Singer, top donor to the Republican Senate Campaign Committee had a message for the news chiefs at the prestigious broadcaster: 'We have a file on Greg Palast.' I bet they do.'

http://www.truth-out.org/romneys-billionaire-threatens-bbc-investigative-reporter/1322851521



Scott Walker s New Policy May Result in Protesters Being Charged for the Pepper Spray Used Against Them

Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress: 'Under a new policy unveiled late this week by the Walker administration, protesters who apply for permits to protest outside government buildings in Wisconsin may be charged for clean-up costs and the presence of police officers. 'Governor Scott Walker now wants to charge protesters for the time that the police that will monitor them and presumably pepper spray them,' Current TV s Keith Olbermann observed last night.'

http://www.truth-out.org/scott-walkers-new-policy-may-result-protesters-being-charged-pepper-spray-used-against-them/1322940

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Back to Bush s big-government conservatism

Michael D. Tanner Cato Institute
by Michael D. Tanner

11/30/11

[I]n 2010, the Tea Party led a return to conservatism s traditional small-government roots, resulting in the biggest Republican landslide in 70 years. One would think that settled the matter. Yet, just five weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, both of the front-runners for the Republican nomination are strong advocates for a bigger, more activist government...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13896


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The GOP Is Useless
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gottfried/gottfried121.html

Newt Gingrich: Copying Off the Smart Kid s Paper
http://lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem55.1.html

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Perry: I don't have problem with drug-testing welfare recipients

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday he wouldn t be opposed to welfare recipients also being drug tested, joining fellow candidate Newt Gingrich in suggesting that federal aid should be tied to substance use.

http://bit.ly/tSnpDd


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