ECM WORLD WATCH: GLOBAL AND NATIONAL NEWS

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November 16, 2011 (San Diego's East County)--ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflecting all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views.  
 
Top world and U.S. headlines include:
  
 
 
U.S.
  • Bipartisan pair push jobs plan (The Hill)
  • Congress ready to pass bill for vets, contractors (San Diego Union-Tribune)
  • Boehmer backs super committee tax hikes  (CBS News)
  • Supreme Court takes up challenge to healthcare law (CNN)
  • Occupy Wall Street: Judge backs city, ends camping in park (Los Angeles Times)
  • ‘Secret farm bill’ primed for passage in debt deal (The Hill)
  • Rick Perry, Herman Cain try to do damage control (Washington Post)
WORLD
  • Europe to Israel: Military strike on Iran nuclear program not an option (Christian Science Monitor)
  • Syria boycotts Arab meeting, pursues crackdowns (Reuters)
  • Monti due to present new Italian government (Reuters)
  • East Africa drought: cholera outbreak in Kenya camp (BBC)

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Bipartisan pair push jobs plan (The Hill)

November 11, 2011 -- A bipartisan pair of senators are pushing a series of tax, immigration and other proposals that they say can both gain broad congressional support and spark growth in the job market.
 

Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said at a Tuesday event that their proposals drew on ideas from Republicans, Democrats, the private sector and the Obama administration.
 
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/193679-bipartisan-pair-push-jobs-plan

Congress ready to pass bill for vets, contractors (San Diego Union-Tribune)

November 16, 2011 -- Congress is getting ready to send President Barack Obama a bill helping government contractors and unemployed veterans that contains the first shred of his jobs plan likely to reach his desk for his signature.
The House planned to vote on the legislation Wednesday and seemed likely to give it overwhelming support. Last Thursday, the Senate voted its approval by 95-0.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/nov/16/congress-ready-to-pass-bill-for-vets-contractors/?ap

Boehmer backs super committee tax hikes  (CBS News)

November 16, 2011 -- House Speaker John Boehner publicly blessed a Republican deficit-reduction plan Tuesday that would raise $300 billion in additional tax revenue while overhauling the IRS code, bucking opposition by some GOP presidential hopefuls and colleagues wary of violating a longstanding point of party orthodoxy.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57325587/boehner-backs-supercommittee-tax-hikes/?tag=stack

Supreme Court takes up challenge to healthcare law (CNN)
November 15, 2011 -- As expected, the Supreme Court has agreed to decide the constitutionality of the sweeping health care reform law championed by President Barack Obama.
The justices made their announcement in a brief order issued Monday.
Oral arguments are likely to be held in late February or March, with a ruling by June, assuring the blockbuster issue will become a hot-button political debate in a presidential election year.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/14/politics/health-care/index.html

Occupy Wall Street: Judge backs city, ends camping in park (Los Angeles Times)

November 15, 2011 -- Hours after New York officials raided Zuccotti Park, emptying it of the nation’s first Occupy Wall Street protest camp, a New York judge ruled in favor of the city and said that protesters may not return to the area with their tents.
The ruling was handed down by State Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman. The judge held that the city could indeed block protesters from returning to their full-time protest, which included tents and generators, and that the public should be able to use the site.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/court-orders-zuccotti-park-.html

‘Secret farm bill’ primed for passage in debt deal (The Hill)
November 15, 2011 -- Lawmakers on the House and Senate Agriculture committees are trying to write a new five-year farm bill through the supercommittee process. 
The legislators are using the supercommittee to avoid what would be a more public, election-year debate in 2012, when the current farm bill expires and new legislation would be scheduled for writing, according to critics of the effort.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/193581-secret-farm-bill-primed-for-passage-in-debt-deal

Rick Perry, Herman Cain try to do damage control (Washington Post)

November 15, 2011 -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry tried to salvage his presidential campaign on Tuesday with an
 unconventional plan to “uproot, tear down and rebuild Washington,” while businessman Herman Cain tried to project a new command of foreign policy one day after giving a response to a question about Libya that suggested he had no grasp of the issues involved.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rick-perry-herman-cain-try-to-do-campaign-damage-control/2011/11/15/gIQAH0jZPN_story.html

WORLD

Europe to Israel: Military strike on Iran nuclear program not an option (Christian Science Monitor)

November 15, 2011 -- A week after world leaders urged Israel to tone down its heated rhetoric on Iran, European leaders are again urging caution as Iran begins to react to the international community's stern words and threats, led by Israel.  
The International Atomic Energy Agency last week released a report on Iran's nuclear program that said intelligence indicated that the intentions of the program may not be entirely peaceful. The leak of the report was followed by a flurry of threats and warnings from Israel – and a concerted effort from world leaders to dial down the conversation. 
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/1115/Europe-to-Israel-Military-strike-on-Iran-nuclear-program-not-an-option
 
Syria boycotts Arab meeting, pursues crackdowns (Reuters)

November 16, 2011 -- The Arab League moved a step closer to imposing economic sanctions on Syria on Wednesday and signaled it was running out of patience with President Bashar al-Assad's failure to halt an eight-month-old crackdown on protests.

Syrian army defectors attacked an intelligence complex on the edge of Damascus in a high-profile assault that showed how close the popular uprising against Assad's rule now is to sliding into armed conflict.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/16/us-syria-idUSL5E7MD0GZ20111116

Monti due to present new Italian government (Reuters)

November 16, 2011 -- Prime Minister Mario Monti is expected to outline austerity measures aimed at restoring confidence in Italy's strained public finances on Thursday when he goes before the Senate to seek a vote of confidence in his new government.

The former European Commissioner, who took office on Wednesday, will present his program in the Senate at around 1200 GMT before a confidence vote in the evening. He will seek a separate vote of confidence in the lower house on Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/16/us-italy-idUSTRE7AA2GC20111116

East Africa drought: cholera outbreak in Kenya camp (BBC)

November 15, 2011 -- There has been an outbreak of cholera in the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, home to Somalis fleeing famine and conflict, the UN has said.
It may have started among new arrivals at the camp where one person has died and there are now 60 cases, it says.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15742664 


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