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


From Information Clearing House



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http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano31.1.html

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What if the Constitution doesn t exist anymore?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/government-corruption/what-if-the-constitution-doesnt-exist-anymore.html



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Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: 'Rep. Jan Schakowsky's (D-Illinois) attempt to end the multimillion dollar business of outsourcing in Iraq and Afghanistan doesn't sit well with the former CEO of the notorious Blackwater company, Erik Prince, who sent a hand-delivered cease-and-desist letter to the Congresswoman threatening legal action if she continued to make 'false and defamatory' statements about him.'

http://www.truth-out.org/representative-schakowsky-receives-letter-intimidation/1322766527

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Congresswoman accuses Blackwater founder of "intimidation" over Indy article

The good citizens of Baghdad aren t the only ones who know what it s like to feel intimidated by representatives of Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, the trigger-happy private security firm which was recently re-named 'Xe Services.'

http://ind.pn/vGiw2F


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/01-7



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/12/01-2

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Spying scandal: FBI surveilling Muslims

According to recent documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the FBI has misused its outreach program by running background checks on people at Muslim-related events, The Washington Post reported.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/213449.html



WikiLeaks: The Spy Files

Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries

http://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/01-0

Occupy Montreal Protesters Branded by Police
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/01-5

'The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/01-9

Occupy Wall Street: December 6: Occupy Wall Street 'Goes Home'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/12/01-8

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Occupy Demands: Let s Radicalize Our Analysis of Empire, Economics, Ecology

Robert Jensen, Truthout: 'There s one question that pundits and politicians keep posing to the Occupy gatherings around the country: What are your demands?... We demand that you stop demanding a list of demands. The demand for demands is an attempt to shoehorn the Occupy gatherings into conventional politics, to force the energy of these gatherings into a form that people in power recognize, so that they can roll out strategies to divert, co-opt, buy off, or - if those tactics fail - squash any challenge to business as usual.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-demands/1321639335

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Occupying Wall Street and Tahrir Square: Feathers of the Same Bird

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: 'As images rolled in this week of the Egyptian authorities' assault on protesters in Tahrir Square, observers in the United States could not escape thoughts of the official violence that had very recently been wrought on Wall Street occupiers ... around the country. Civilians beaten with clubs, dragged by their hair, subject to tear gas, watching their tents demolished ... all that spoke well of and distinguished American police was their death toll of zero.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupying-wall-street-and-tahrir-square-feathers-same-bird/1322763754



The 99 Percent Takes Office: Lessons From a Rhode Island Special Election

Amy Dean, Truthout: 'If labor and other progressive groups are going to rebuild an economy that works for the 99 percent in America, they need to do great organizing in workplaces and communities and they also need to build deep coalitions among themselves. But that s not enough. They also need to translate their organizing muscle into political power. And that means looking at electoral strategies in a new way.'

http://www.truth-out.org/99-percent-takes-office-lessons-rhode-island-special-election/1322754310



Occupy Your Life

Jan Hart, Truthout: 'People have found that they cannot get help from government. Government s way of dealing with the national debt and economic crisis is to reduce taxes on the rich and reduce benefits to the poor. The focus is still on 'trickle-down' economics, which simply doesn t work.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-your-life/1322595056



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Amnesty says Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia have an 'obligation' to bring former US president 'to justice'.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/12/2011121171023774738.html


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
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'Sie wollen die Wall Street von den lästigen Demonstranten befreien - für 850.000 Dollar: Eine US-Lobbyfirma bietet amerikanischen Banken an, die Occupy-Bewegung zu zersetzen. Dazu haben sie einen detaillierten Zwei-Monats-Plan vorgelegt?' Artikel von Nadja Erb in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 24.11.2011 http://www.fr-online.de/politik/fuer-850-000-dollar-lobbyisten-wollen-occupy-bewegung-zerschlagen,1472596,11212908.html


Wie weiter mit der Occupy-Bewegung? Der nächste Schritt für Occupy Wall Street: Häuser besetzen, Betriebe besetzen

'Um ihr zweimonatiges Bestehen zu demonstrieren, hatte die ?Occupy Wall Street'-Bewegung für Donnerstag, den 17. November 2011, zu einem Aktionstag in New York und landesweit aufgerufen. Trotz der Räumung des Camps im Zuccotti Park zwei Tage vorher, hielt die Bewegung am Aktionstag fest und einige Tausend beteiligten sich an verschiedenen Aktionen, unter anderem an einer Versammlung zur Unterstützung von ArbeiterInnen im Kampf um Arbeitsplätze am Foley Square. Das linke Online-Magazin »Insurgent Notes« um Loren Goldner verteilte bei den Protesten das nachstehend übersetzte Flugblatt, das nach der Bedeutung der Proteste und der möglichen weiteren Entwicklung fragt?.' Übersetzung von FAU Moers vom 23.11.11 http://www.fau.org/artikel/art_111123-051855


We Are the 99.9%

'We are the 99 percent' is a great slogan. It correctly defines the issue as being the middle class versus the elite (as opposed to the middle class versus the poor). And it also gets past the common but wrong establishment notion that rising inequality is mainly about the well educated doing better than the less educated; the big winners in this new Gilded Age have been a handful of very wealthy people, not college graduates in general? Artikel von Paul Krugman in der New York Times vom 24.11.2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/opinion/we-are-the-99-9.html?_r=2


Occupy

Comic von Michael Meier in der aktuellen Ausgabe von LE MONDE diplomatique vom 11.11.2011 (pdf) http://www.monde-diplomatique.de/pdf/comics/2011-11.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 1. Dezember 2011



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