THE HEADLINES

THE COLD DATA OF GLOBALIZATION HITS AMERICAN WORKERS; HARD.

(Huffington Post)

A government report finds that American multinational corporations, which employ a significant chunk of the American workforce and for years have been the engine behind job growth in the United States, have made a dramatic shift in employment patterns that is shipping a massive percentage of jobs oversea. In the last decade, driven by the propensity of “free trade” agreements and other policies aimed at promoting globalization and outsourcing, multinationals created 2.4 million new jobs overseas, while eliminating almost 3 million jobs in the U.S. It’s a disturbing trend that has led to low-wage jobs becoming the standard for employment in America while the middle-class rapidly shrinks.

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BRADLEY MANNING MOVED FROM QUANTICO TO KANSAS FOR HIS “BEST INTEREST.”

(BBC)

A new chapter in the Bradley Manning unfolds as the U.S. military has announced it is moving the solider accused of leaking documents to “WikiLeaks” from the infamous Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia to a military cell at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. A week after a UN torture inspector was denies access to Manning at Quantico, the Defense Department said that they have “assessed” that the shift to Kansas “is in Pte Manning’s best interest…” Fort Leavenworth is a much more remote facility than the Marine base at Quantico, just outside Washington D.C.

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AMERICA’S FIRST OFFSHORE WIND FARM GETS FEDERAL APPROVAL, BUT ROADBLOCKS REMAIN.

(Boston Globe)

Cape Wind would be America’s first major offshore wind energy project, and a significant step in the process of making the planned wind farm off of Massachusetts’ Cape Cod shore a reality was attained on Tuesday when the federal government gave the official green light. Construction for the project that has the support of the Obama administration, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and clean energy advocates, could begin this fall. But local opponents of the massive wind farm call say that it will tun Nantucket Sound into an “industrialized” waterway and are preparing another round of lawsuits to put the development on hold.

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ABORTION HYPOCRISY IN TENNESSEE: “THIS RESOLUTION IS ONLY ABOUT LETTING THE PEOPLE DECIDE…”

(The Tennessean)

Discussion in the Tennessee state legislature over a proposed constitutional amendment to allow tighter restrictions on abortion was framed as a means to let “elected representatives to make the laws on abortion.” In other words, the amendment is designed to allow the conservative legislature to get around a state supreme court ruling that granted greater protections for abortion rights in the Volunteer State. Now state lawmakers are rushing through a constitutional amendment that would appear on the ballot in 2014 and quite possibly leave it up to votes whether nearly all instances of abortion, including those for rape or the health of the mother, will be banned. But the kicker is that voters may not realize they are “deciding” anything, because the language of the amendment only states that abortion is not protected by Tennessee’s constitution, thus overturning the earlier court ruling. No specifics of legislation are tied to the amendment, but the direction the legislature is headed was made clear when additions to the amendment that would protect abortions after rape or for health reasons were shot down.

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RICK SCOTT’S “UTOPIA” IS NO LAWSUIT OVER BP GULF SPILL.

(Miami Herald)

One year after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion spewed an untold amount of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the economic recovery for the communities and states affected by the disaster is an ongoing process. Part if that process is a slew of legal claims and lawsuits aimed at recouping some of the fiscal damage done by the negligence of BP and rig operator Transocean. One state that will have nothing to do with a key lawsuit aimed at Transocean is Florida, where Gov. Rick Scott has decided to stay out of a federal suit joined by at least one other state impacted by last year’s spill. Traveling to the Panhandle region of the state where tourism and livelihoods were devastated by the oil that filled the Gulf, Scott sad that staying out of litigation with Transocean over damages ““would be utopia.” Instead, the state will follow a controversial plan to seek financial restitution with both BP and the rig operator outside of legal action, a process that could save the state money but shortchange residents and communities affected by the spill.

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