December 11, 2013 (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 reflect 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.
- Budget deal is sealed (The Hill)
- Major tech companies want government to ease up on the spying (APM Marketplace)
- Wash. Judge Rules Towns Failed Poor Defendents (NPR)
- The Googlization of the Far Right: Why is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC? (PR Watch)
- NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (Washington Post)
- Government pensions no longer sacred (UT San Diego)
WORLD
- Obama, world leaders praise ‘giant of history’ at Mandela funeral (CNN)
- Mexico's dilemma: How do you safely transport radioactive cobalt? (CS Monitor)
- Stolen radioactive pellets abandoned in Mexico rural area; gov't says no risk to nearby town (AP)
- Researchers discover massive freshwater reserves beneath the oceans (Science Recorder)
- Insight - Fukushima water tanks: leaky and built with illegal labor (Reuters)
- Al-Qaida-claimed attack in Yemeni capital kills 52 (UT San Diego)
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