November 20, 2012 --  (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.

• Home prices rise in 81% of U.S. cities as markets recover (Bloomberg)
• How the U.S. mortgage settlement can help military members (U-T San Diego)
• BP settles with U.S. for $4.5 billion in Gulf spill (Sacramento Bee)
• 2 BP workers indicted on manslaughter counts (Sacramento Bee)
• Obama insists on tax hike in “fiscal cliff” deal (Reuters)
• Secession petitions now filed in all 50 states (Yahoo News)
• Rick Perry does not support secession (CNN)
• Federal Wildlife Services makes a killing in animal-control business(Sacramento Bee)
• Obama vows action on climate change for future generations (RawStory)
• Toxic flame retardant detected in popular soda (Rodale Press, publisher of Prevention Magazine)
• Judge approves FTC's $22.5M fine of Google  (Politico)
• Jindahl: End ‘dumbed down conservatism’ (Politico)
• Petraeus case shows ease of government email snooping (Reuters)

WORLD

Israel-Palestine conflict:

• Obama: Israel has ‘every right’ to defend itself from Gaza missile attacks (U.S. News)
• Israeli official:Truce to begin in hours; IDF drops warning leaflets in Gaza (Haaretz)
• After rockets hit Tel Aviv area, IDF renews aerial assault on Gaza   (Haaretz)
• US Senate expresses firm support of Israel (YNet news)
• Turkish PM in Cairo vows support for Gaza (U-T San Diego)
• Gunmen kill six alleged collaborators in Gaza  (Reuters)
• IAF strikes 4 terrorists hiding in media building (Jerusalem Post)
• Lebanese army dismantles rockets aimed at Israel (UT-San Diego)
• Israel assassinates Hamas military chief in Gaza (Sacramento Bee)

Other world news:

• Scandal in Ireland as woman dies in Galway ‘after being denied an abortion’ (The Guardian)    
• Egyptian jihadist urges demolition of Sphinx, pyramids  (Jerusalem Post)
• Iran ready to double nuclear work in bunker: IAEA (Reuters)

HEALTH

• Cells reverse paralysis in dogs (BBC)
• Vegetative patient: “I’m not in pain” – breakthrough research (BBC News)

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November 8, 2012 --  (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.

• Obama makes history, again (CNN)
• After election, overtures from Republicans on debt (Washington Post)
• House Speaker says he’ll consider tax increase (SF Gate)
• Big gains for women in 2012 (CNN)
• Obama to weigh energy boom, climate change in second term (Reuters)
• After Romney losses, GOP soul searching begins (CBS)
• Hope and change part II (NY Times opinion)
• Marijuana legalization victories could be short-lived
• New York City crime down by a third in wake of superstorm  (Reuters)
• Study: Stem cells from strangers can repair hearts (Sacramento Bee) 

WORLD

• Russia set to redefine treason, sparking fears (NPR)
• Insight: Putin's Russia - more fragile than it looks (Reuters)
• Day of the Dead takes on new meaning for families of Mexico's disappeared (Christian Science Monitor)
• Islamists protest in Cairo, call for Sharia law (Jerusalem Post)
  

October 25, 2012 --  (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.

• Mystery in Gulf of Mexico: Why is oil leaking from Deepwater disaster site? (Christian Science Monitor)
• Obama predicts deals on debt, immigration in his second term (The Hill)
• Obama, Romney begin swing state tour in home stretch (LA Times)
• K Street ready for sequestration battle (The Hill)
• CDC: Meningitis mold in tainted drug can incubate for months (NPR)
• Equal pay for equal work: Not even college helps women (NPR)
• Nearly 30% of vets treated by V.A. have PTSD (Newsweek/Daily Beast)
• Drought areas shrink, wheat states see improvement (Reuters)
• Campaigns spar over ‘Romnesia’ charge (The Hill)
• George McGovern, Nixon’s challenger, dies (BBC)

WORLD

• Fatah claims Palestinian election victory (Telegraph UK)
• Putin flexes muscle in big test of Russia’s nuclear arsenal (Reuters)
• At least 28,000 Syrians forcibly disappeared (Jerusalem Post)
• Gazans blast Israel with rockets, draw air strikes (UT San Diego)

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October 11, 2012 --  (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.

• Mitt Romney's Climate Change Remarks On 'Meet The Press' Outrage Environmental Activists 
• Meningitis-linked steroid may have been responsible for 13,000 cases in US (Reuters)
• Meningitis outbreak: steroid maker recalls all shots (Med Page Today)
• NY 9/11 judge okays$6 billion vs. Iran, Taliban, Al Qaeda (UT San Diego)
• Should TV stations refuse to air political ads that make false claims? (NPR)
• Supreme Court to hear Monsanto seed dispute (Huffington Post)
• Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril (Wall Street Journal Market Watch)

WORLD

• Drug ‘may’ prevent stroke damage (BBC)
• Libyan leader passes vote of no confidence dismissing leader (Reuters)
• Egypt’s hard-line Islamist party unravels (UT San Diego)
• Gauging poverty from Appalachia to Africa (Christian Science Monitor)
• Hamas election boycott leaves Palestinians with only one choice (Christian Science Monitor)
• Israel strikes Gaza after exchange of air strikes (Christian Science Monitor)
• France’s Hollande vows more security to allay Jewish fears (Reuters)

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September 27, 2012 --  (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.

• Judge rules Arizona can enforce strict provision to immigration law (Reuters)
• Worrisome levels of arsenic in rice (Consumer Reports)
• Massive tumors in rats fed genetically modified corn (CA Right to Know blog)
• More than 1,000 pastors plan to challenge IRS by endorsing candidates (Fox)
• As tax credit wanes, jobs vanish in wind power industry (New York Times)
• Tesla offers free solar travel with new super-charged tech (RawStory)
• Senators to Hilary: Show us the ambassador’s cables (ForeignPolicy)
• Mormons want to expel Romney critic (Daily Beast)
• Whose next in line for a kidney transplant? The answer is changing (NPR)

WORLD

• Out with color: Islamists force Timbuktu women to wear black veils or face corporal punishment (Observers)
• Fake Italian pilot traveled in cockpit, police say (Reuters)
• Marijuana and cancer: Researchers find cannabis stops metastasis in aggressive forms of cancer (Huffington Post)
•  Report: restrictions on religious views rise worldwide (Jerusalem Post)
• Second day of anti-Japan attacks rock China (NPR)
• Man held in revenge plot over Muslim cartoons (Christian Science Monitor)
• Russia reveals shiny state secret: It’s awash in diamonds (Christian Science Monitor)
• Pakistani TV stations air a real ‘made in USA’ video. Will it calm violence? (Christian Science Monitor)
• The terrorist veto (City Journal)

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September 13, 2012 --  (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:   

WORLD

• US Ambassador murdered as extremists on all sides win, again (CSMonitor)
• There may be no anti-Islamic movie at all (CSMonitor)
• Obama vows to “bring justice” to ambassador’s killers (Reuters)
• Another protest turns violent outside U.S. embassy in Cairo (CNN)
• Global drought causes concerns around the world (CNN)
• Syrian troops storm Damascus refugee area, chase rebels (Reuters)

US

• 4 years later, auto industry rebounds (CBS News)
• Federal court will review marijuana’s classification as a dangerous drug with no health benefits (Think Progress)
• New York City hit by tornadoes (BBC)
• Administration urges terror surveillance renewal  (UT San Diego)
• U.S. Policy in Mideast challenged by assaults (Wall Street Journal)
• Romney camp tries to manage fallout from Libya response (CNN)
• New report warns of smart meter failures due to temperature and weather extremes (StopSmartMeters.org UK)
• Disillusioned Obama supporter in RNC ad is actually Republican staffer (Talking Points Memo)

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August 30, 2012 --  (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. economy expands more than anticipated  (BBC)
• Isaac reduces to tropical storm, lashes Louisiana (USA Today)
• Do wind turbines cause forest fires? (Bangor Daily News)
• Army issues multi-billion dollar solicitation for large scale renewable and alternative energy production for federal installations (Foley) 

• Republicans highlight Romney nomination, but poll shows low popularity (ABC News) 
• Romney: I’d cut PBS, Obamacare, arts subsidies (CBS News)
• McCain: America “can’t afford” another Obama WH (CBS News) 
• President Obama answers questions on Reddit-AMA; read his full answers (CBS News) 
• publicans hate Obama’s defense cuts. The trouble is, they voted for them (Washington Post wonk bl
• Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on abortion: Rape is just another “method of conception”(RawStory)
  
• Paul Ryan’s speech in 3 words (FoxNews.com) 

• Al Qaeda followers call for death of Seal who wrote Osama bin Ladin capture book (Washington Post) 
• Venezuela investigates alleged massacre in Amazon village (Reuters) 
• Romney: Nuclear Iran “unacceptable” (CBS) 

August 17, 2012 --  (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:   

• Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney’s pick for Vice Presidential nominee (Washington Post)
• A brief introduction to the potential second lady:
• Flood won’t delay start of solar farm near Blythe:
• New homes burn faster, but states resist sprinklers (Reuters)
• For unpaid college loans, Feds doc Social Security (Smart Money)
• Right wing extremism terrorism as deadly a threat as Al Qaeda? (CNN)
• Blind mice given sight after device cracks retinal code (Bloomberg)

• Thousands rally in Tunisia for women’s rights(Reuters)
• Magnitude 7.3 quake hits eastern Russia (UT San Diego
• China’s ghost towns and shopping malls (BBC)
• Sewage-munching microbes may generate electricity (Reuters)   

U.S.

• Romney would let wind energy tax credits expire, campaign says (Denver Post)
• Leaders have agreement to avoid pre-election government shut-down (The Hill)
• Scathing report on for-profit colleges and their $32 billion in tax dollars (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
• Congress warned that Al Qaeda in Iraq is coming to America (Jewish World Review)
• Scalia: Guns may be regulated (National Journal)
• More worries for the wealthy? Inheritance taxes to jump unless Congress acts (Christian Science Monitor)
• U.S. raises taxes on Chinese wind turbine makers (NY Times)
• 14 reasons why this is the worst Congress ever (Wonkblog)

• India blackout affects millions, grid failure among world’s worst power outage (Reuters)
• Japan utility gets $12.8B nuclear crisis bailout (UT San Diego)
• Cuba broadens economic reforms, plans new measures (Reuters)
• In pictures: Olympics opening ceremonies (BBC)
• Thousands flee amid growing ethnic violence in India (NPR)

• Drug trial offers hope for Alzheimer’s treatment (USA Today)
• Worst drought in decades grips nation (Los Angeles Times)
• Why Democrats are willing to walk off the “fiscal cliff” (Washington Post)
• Can Obama save manufacturing? (Washington Post)
• Controversial GOP spending bill released (The Hill)
• Romney attacks on Bain questioned: Obama campaign accuses Romney of lying about Bain tenure (Boston Globe)
• Could Obama’s negative attacks on Mitt Romney backfire? (USA Today)
• NAACP crowd boos Romney for voting to repeal health reform (NBC)
• Condi Rice a possible VP pick for Romney: pros and cons (CNN)
• Supreme Court rejects ‘Stolen Valor’ law, says lying about military honors isn’t a crime (McClatchy News)

• Google searching for human traffickers, drug cartels  (Fox)
• Olympics security shambles is a “humiliating shambles”, boss concedes (CNN)
• Dutch, U.S. authorities investigating needles in airline sandwiches (CNN)
• Central Damascus hit by clashes (Reuters) 

• Al Jazeera: tests suggest Arafat died of radioactive polonium poisoning (USA Today)
• Mexico’s president-elect may double security spending – aide (Reuters)
• Iran long range missiles attack ‘mock’enemy  bases (ABC news)
• Report describes brutal torture centers in Syria (CNN)

• Obama, Romney campaign to square off over energy (The Hill)
• Congress passes student loan bill (Huffington Post)
• The bomb buried in Obamacare explodes today – Hallelujah! (Forbes)
• More state leaders considering opting out of Medicare expansion (Washington Post)
• Romney campaign enters ‘message mayhem’ on insurance mandate (USA Today)
• The Nation: Guns blamed for started wildfires in parched west  (North County Times)
• This summer is ‘what global warming looks like’ (AP/Associated Press)
• Deadly land hurricane strikes Midwest, Atlantic states  (Accuweather)
• A health care Judas recounts his conversion  (CNN)

• Supreme Court says Montana cannot ignore Citizens United ruling (NPR)
• Supreme Court rules juvenile life without parole is cruel and unusual punishment (Chicago Tribune)
• GM Grass linked to Texas cattle deaths; fields found toxic with cyanide produced by crop (CBS)
• E-mail change angers Facebook users (CNN)
• Thousands evacuated as wildfire nears Colorado towns (USA Today)
• With no vote, taxpayers stuck with tab on bonds (New York Times)

• Issa: No evidence White House covered up `Fast and Furious’ fallout (Los Angeles Times)
• Obama invokes executive privilege over ‘Fast and Furious’ documents (Los Angeles Times)
• Rubio sticks to GOP doctrine over immigration (The Hill)
• Cash rules at Romney retreat while Condoleeza Rice steals the show (Yahoo news)

• Analysis: Mexican ruling party faces defeat but may back reforms (Reuters)
• Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi named Egyptian president (CBS)
• Morsi quits Muslim brother hood, vows to unite country (NBC)

• Iberdrola to explore sale of U.S. wind plants and projects (Recharge News)
• Quatar takes state in Iberdrola (The National)
• Texas wind energy fails again (National Review)
• Presidential projects on wind power flawed according to new book (KXXV)
• The trouble with turbines: an ill wind (Nature) 

• Corporate political efforts don’t guarantee results—study (Reuters)
• Romney energy plan includes drilling virtually every part of U.S. – no protections even for national parks (Think Progress)
• Issa demands documents on green energy loans (Fox News)
• Presidential projections on wind power flawed according to new book (KXXV)
• Justice Department sues Florida over voter purge (Huffington Post)
• Mojave desert: Military wants to limit wind development (Riverside Press Enterprise)
• Sebelius:  Medicare stronger than ever due to healthcare law (The Hill)
• Family net worth drops to level of early ‘90s (NY Times)
• Colorado wildfire moving fast, not contained (BBC)
• California tribes suing to halt construction of wind factory on sacred land (Indian Country Today)
• Open letter asks Obama to meet with Tribal leaders on Ocotillo Express wind project (Indian Country Today)

• Russian protesters demand Putin resignation (CNN)
• U.N.: Syria children tortured, used as human shields (CNN)
• Syria in Civil War, says U.N. official (BBC)
• Solar-powered “super trees” breathe life into Sinagapore urban oasis (CNN)
• Scottish Power (a division of Iberdrola, developer of Tule Wind) tests U.S. tax breaks on interest (Reuters)
• Ruling on wind farm says countryside as important as climate change targets (UK Telegraph)

• Almost half of new vets seek disability (AP)
• Romney tells vets dangerous world demands powerful military (Reuters)
• Op-ed by President Obama: Keeping faith with our veterans (White House)
• How Memorial Day glosses over the real horrors of war (AlterNet)

• Iberdrola drops two wind projects  (Tribune-Democrat)
• Help wanted, but not for mid-level jobs (NPR)
• More relatives, friends caring for kids (Reuters)
• Democrats to offer a ‘lifeline’ for single payer healthcare (ThinkProgress)
• Romney hits magic number for GOP nomination (CNN)
• Military campaign money favors Obama (USA Today)

• Official: 160 girls poisoned at Afghan school (CNN)
• U.S. officials among the targets of Iran-aimed assassination plots (Washington Post)
• Syria condemned for massacre (BBC)
• Iran hit by new cyber-weapon “Flame” (Jerusalem Post)
• Sudyei dispute, Sudan to ‘withdraw troops’ (BBC)

• Forty-nine headless corpses found in Mexico (Reuters)
• Merkel’s conservative party routed in Germany (Reuters)
• France’s “Monsieur Normal” takes office…unmarried (NBC)
• Surfer recognized for riding biggest wave ever (Los Angeles Times-video)
  
• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has explosive family secret (Business Insider)
• One in six cancers worldwide are caused by infections (BBC)

• Gouged by the wind: Renewable fuel mandates are raising electricity costs  (Wall Street Journal)
• Court rejects Iraq-Afghanistan veterans demand for better VA care
• Navy to demonstrate great green fleet (10 News)
• Bush convicted of war crimes in absentia (Foreign Policy Journal)
• The unbelievable brutality released on kids in for-profit prison (Alternet)
• Humane Society calls for reform of federal wildlife agency (Sacramento Bee)
• The killing agency:  wildlife services’ brutal methods leaves a trail of animal deaths (Sacramento Bee)
• Game over for the climate (New York Times)