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August 18, 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.
• Obama to issue new proposals on job creation, debt reduction (Washington Post)
• Study: 1 in 5 U.S. children live in poverty (CBS)
• GOP debate: Hitting hard at Obama and each other (Sacramento Bee)
• Sharp jabs thrown in Minnesota debate—and not all at Obama (USA Today)
WORLD
• 7 pulled from Iraqi mosque, killed execution style (USA Today/AP)
• London riots: more than 1,000 people charged (BBC)
• Hamas bans Gaza students studying abroad (MSNBC News)
• France, Germany propose ‘true European economic summit’ (NPR)
• Gobachev criticizes Putin’s Russia as backsliding on democracy (CS Monitor)
U.S.
OBAMA TO ISSUE NEW PROPOSALS ON JOB CREATION, DEBT REDUCTION
August 16, 2011 (Washington Post) -- President Obama has decided to press Congress for a new round of stimulus spending and tax cuts as he seeks to address the great domestic policy quandary of his tenure: how to spur job growth in an age of austerity.
Obama will lay out a series of ideas in a major address right after Labor Day, when he anda largely antagonistic Congress will return from vacation, the White House said Wednesday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-issue-new-proposals-on-j...
STUDY: 1 IN 5 U.S. CHILDREN LIVE IN POVERTY
August 16, 2011 (CBS News) -- Karla Washington worries how she will afford new school uniforms for her five-year-old daughter.
Washington, an undergraduate student, earns less than $11,000 a year from a part-time university job. The salary must cover food, rent, health care, child care and the occasional splurge on a Blue's Clues item for her only child.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/16/national/main20093300.shtml?ta...
GOP DEBATE: HITTING HARD AT EACH OTHER AND OBAMA
August 11, 2011 (Sacramento Bee) Ames, Iowa--Minnesota rivals Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann sparred bitterly Thursday night during an eight-candidate Republican debate, trying to break out of the GOP presidential pack ahead of an Iowa test vote with huge consequences. Each seeks to become the main challenger to Republican front-runner Mitt Romney.
Their efforts were newly complicated by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who stole some of the spotlight from afar by making it known hours before the debate that he was running for the GOP nomination.
Romney, a multimillionaire businessman who casts himself as a jobs creator, made his own stir earlier in the day when, at the Iowa State Fair, he declared that "corporations are people," drawing ridicule from Democrats.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/11/3830529/gop-hopefuls-look-to-debate-for...
SHARP JABS THROWN IN MINNESOTA DEBATE—AND NOT ALL AT OBAMA
August 11, 2011 (USA Today)-- It was not an evening that displayed that famous "Minnesota nice."
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty sparred heatedly in a high-stakes Republican presidential debate Thursday over their records and their ability to lead the GOP against President Obama in 2012.
Pawlenty said Bachmann had a "non-existent" record of accomplishment in Congress. Bachmann countered that Pawlenty's positions as governor on issues such as cap-and-trade and health insurance looked "a lot more like Barack Obama," prompting Pawlenty to accuse her of having a history of "making false statements."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-08-11-Republican-debate-Iowa_...
WORLD
7 PULLED FROM IRAQI MOSQUE, KILLED EXECUTIVE- STYLE
August 18, 2011 USA TODAY/AP)— Gunmen wearing military uniforms pulled seven people from a Sunni mosque south of Baghdad and then shot and killed them execution-style, officials said Tuesday, raising the death toll to 70 in Iraq's deadliest day this year.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2011-08-16-iraq-violence_n.htm
LONDON RIOTS: MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE CHARGED
August 18, 2011 (BBC)-- More than 1,000 people have been charged over the rioting in London, the Metropolitan Police has said.
Acting commissioner for the force Tim Godwin hailed a "significant milestone" as he said a total of 1,010 suspects had been charged after 1,744 arrests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14558465
HAMAS BANS GAZA STUDENTS STUDYING ABROAD
August 17, 2011 (AP/MSNBC)-- Gaza's militant Hamas rulers have banned eight teenage students with scholarships to study in the U.S. from leaving the territory, a Palestinian rights group said Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44179843/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/#.Tk...
FRANCE, GERMANY PROPOSE ‘ TRUE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC GOVERNMENT’
August 16, 2011 (NPR)— French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who met in France after a turbulent week in the world markets, also want the 17 nations to make a balanced budget part of their constitutions.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/16/139673843/france-germany-...
GORBACHEV CRITICIZES PUTIN’S RUSSIA AS BACKSLIDING ON DEMOCRACY
August 16, 2011 (CS Monitor World) -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev chose a painful anniversary – that of the 1991 August Coup, which tried to reverse his democratic reforms – to criticize Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2011/0816/Gorbachev-criticizes-Putin-s-Russia-as-backsliding-on-democracy?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fworld+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+World%29
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