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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Consumer prices flat for 2nd straight month
[unable to retrieve full-text content]WASHINGTON (AP) ? Consumer prices were unchanged last month, the latest sign that inflation remains tame. Lower gas prices offset rising costs for food, medical care and housing.
Reuters brings its own stars to new YouTube channel (Reuters)
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) ? Reuters has launched ReutersTV, a new YouTube channel that will cover hard news, finance, politics and technology, the company announced Tuesday.
The new channel is part of YouTube's programming initiative, announced in October of 2011, which unites YouTube and almost 100 partners to create Internet-based programming.
Reuters, with which TheWrap has a content syndication partnership, is the biggest news provider of YouTube's partners.
Among the shows that will air are "Felix TV," featuring finance blogger Felix Salmon, "Tech Tonic," hosted by social media editor Anthony De Rosa and "Fast Forward" a show hosted by Chrystia Freeland and featuring guests like Pulitzer-Prize winner David Rohde, a Reuters columnist, and investigative reporter David Cay Johnston, another Pulitzer Prize recipient.
"This deal with YouTube gives Reuters a way to showcase our collection of talented journalists and compelling video from around the world," Dan Colarusso, Reuters' global head of programming, said in a statement. "It will offer unique insights and images that other media companies simply can't match."
The programming will air both on Reuters' YouTube Channel and its own website, where it already hosts video.
(Editing by Chris Michaud)
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
International Development - Communications/Dissemination Advisor
Devex-UN Foundation ?innovative finance? campaign wraps up
Over the past month, in a collaboration with the United Nations Foundation, Devex has featured ideas from some of the world?s top thinkers on innovative financing. These guest opinions were full of insight, passion and optimism for a future without extreme poverty and hunger. Here's a look at what we call "Busannovate: Making the Money go Further."
Source: http://www.devex.com/en/jobs/communications-dissemination-advisor-4059
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Ohio Sen. Rob Portman Will Endorse Romney (ContributorNetwork)
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that he plans to endorse Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the near future, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Although Portman insists he is not interested in garnering the vice presidential nod, he was on the shortlist for the second spot on the ticket four years ago, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Ohioans shared their thoughts about Romney, the primary process and Portman's possible vice presidential nomination via email, instant messaging and Twitter.
* "I don't understand why newspapers and news shows get so excited about endorsements. I really don't think they have any impact on how people vote at all. Portman has done a good job representing Ohio, but I really don't care which candidate he is voting for in the race. Romney is barely a conservative, our choices are very poor this year, a time when we need a strong leader more than ever." -- Don Withers, architect, Cincinnati.
* "The primary system is antiquated and flawed. Every American does not get the same chance to pick the nominee. The way it is set up now, people in Iowa and (New Hampshire) have a far stronger influence on the process than folks in other states. There was a time when months between votes were necessary for candidates to travel the country and share their views with voters. That time has long since passed. A single day to vote on the first round of candidates and then a run-off race six months later is a far better idea. Or at least separate the country into geographic quarters and just hold four votes during the same month." -- Marla Peters, fashion designer, Canton.
* "The Republicans do not like Romney but are willing to support him as a supposed centrist candidate to run against our president. They will have a hard time convincing liberals that Romney can do a better job than President Obama. Our president inherited a horrible economy and has begun to turn it around, ended two wars and killed our worst enemy." -- Matt Wayne, Ohio University student, Athens.
* "I don't think that Portman will be on the Republican ticket as the potential vice president. It would be smart to include someone from Ohio, but the nominee will most likely choose one of the other candidates who polled well during the primary. I sure wish that Chris Christie has chosen to run or that Rick Perry had not stumbled so often during the debates. That way we could have a real conservative choice in the race. Ron Paul is correct on a lot of issues, but is so very out-there on others that he does not have a real chance." -- Jim Brendon, small business owner, Dayton.
* "The most important thing about the 2012 election is sending Obama packing. Romney is not my first or even second choice. Every quality Republican elected official can offer him endorsements, but that will not make his candidacy any easier to swallow. Rick Perry was the shining star of the group, until he flubbed the debates. By the time it gets to our time to vote, there probably won't be but two candidates even left on the ballot, just like last time." -- Stacy Brown, physician assistant, Lancaster.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Gingrich calls Romney, Bain Capital 'exploitive' (AP)
COLUMBIA, S.C. ? Republican candidate Newt Gingrich on Tuesday leveled a forceful new attack on Mitt Romney, calling the GOP front-runner's former private equity firm "exploitive."
Gingrich had attacked Bain Capital before, but his comments before a gathering of business leaders in Columbia contained some of his harshest rhetoric yet and came just four days before the South Carolina primary, a critical benchmark for the Gingrich campaign.
After lagging behind in the Iowa causes and the New Hampshire primary, Gingrich is hoping a strong showing in the nation's first Southern primary will re-energize his White House bid.
And he's holding little back as he goes for broke against Romney.
The former House speaker said that, in at least some instances, the Bain model has meant "leverage the game, borrow the money, leave the debt behind and walk off with all the profits."
"Now, I'll let you decide if that's really good capitalism. I think it's exploitive. I think it's not defensible," he said.
Gingrich continued that what Romney engaged in "is not venture capital."
"Venture capital is when you go in and put in your capital and you stick it out," he said.
Gingrich has faced rebuke in some quarters as attacking the GOP bedrock of free enterprise in his criticism of Romney and Bain. But he argued Tuesday that raising questions about Romney's track record at Bain should not be confused with an attack on capitalism.
"I'm proud of real capitalists. I'm proud of guys who say to their workers I'm in it with you. If I lose money and you lose a job we lost together because we both tried," he said.
Earlier in the day Gingrich said at a town hall meeting in West Columbia that a Muslim-American seeking office in the U.S. would have to publicly renounce Islamic law to receive his backing.
When asked if he could support a Muslim for office, the former House speaker replied that it "would depend entirely on whether the person would commit in public to give up sharia," or Islamic law.
Gingrich said he is totally opposed to Islamic law and supports a federal law that would pre-empt it.
"A truly modern person who worshipped Allah would not be a threat," he said.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
SC rally marks MLK day with voting rights message (AP)
COLUMBIA, S.C. ? Thousands commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday outside South Carolina's capitol heard a message that wouldn't have been out of place during the halcyon days of the civil rights movement a half-century ago: the need to protect all citizens' right to vote.
A similar tone was struck at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King preached from 1960 until his death. There and in South Carolina, speakers condemned the voter identification laws they said are meant to suppress black voter turnout.
For most of 13 years in South Carolina, the attention at the NAACP's annual rally has been on the Confederate flag that still waves outside the Statehouse. But on Monday, the civil rights group shifted the focus to laws requiring voters to show photo identification before they can cast ballots, which the group and many other critics say is especially discriminatory toward African-Americans and the poor.
South Carolina's new law was rejected last month by the U.S. Justice Department, but Gov. Nikki Haley vowed to fight the federal government in court. At least a half-dozen other states passed similar voter ID laws in 2011.
"This has been quite a faith-testing year. We have seen the greatest attack on voting rights since segregation," said Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The shift in tactics was also noted by the keynote speaker, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Last month, Holder said the Justice Department was committed to fighting any laws that keep people from the ballot box. He told the crowd he was keenly aware he couldn't have become the nation's first African-American attorney general without the blood shed by King and other civil rights pioneers.
"The right to vote is not only the cornerstone of our governance, it is the lifeblood of our democracy. And no force has proved more powerful, or more integral to the success of the great American experiment, than efforts to expand the franchise," Holder said. "Let me be very, very clear ? the arc of American history has bent toward the inclusion, not the exclusion, of more of our fellow citizens in the electoral process. We must ensure that this continues."
Texas' new voter ID law is currently before the Justice Department, which reviews changes in voting laws in nine mostly Southern states because of their history of discriminatory voting practices. Other states that passed such laws in 2011 included Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
Similar laws already were on the books in Georgia and Indiana, and they were approved by President George W. Bush's Justice Department. Indiana's law, passed in 2005, was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008.
Critics have likened the laws to the poll taxes and tests used to prevent blacks from voting during the civil rights era. Supporters, many of whom are Republicans, say such laws are needed to prevent fraud.
"I signed a bill that would protect the integrity of our voting," Haley said in a statement welcoming Holder to South Carolina.
At the Atlanta church where King once preached, the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock said some in America disrespect King's legacy by "cutting off those for whom he died and the principles for which he fought."
He called voter ID laws an affront to the memory of the civil rights leader.
"You cannot celebrate Dr. King on Monday, and undermine people's ability to vote on Super Tuesday," Warnock said.
The King Day rally in South Carolina took place in the shadow of Saturday's Republican presidential primary. State NAACP President Lonnie Randolph said people should vote any time they can, but said his group is nonpartisan. He said officials wouldn't encourage its members ? a generally Democratic voting bloc ? to disrupt the GOP's process of choosing its nominee because "we don't do the mean things."
Jealous made one of the few references to the GOP field during Monday's rally, saying he was tired of attacks on the movement, such as cuts to education funding.
"And I'm real tired of dealing with so-called leaders who talk out of one side of their mouth about celebrating the legacy of Dr. King and then do so much out the other side of their mouth to block everything the man stood, fought and died for," Jealous said.
The King Day rally in South Carolina was first held in 2000 to call for the Confederate flag to come down off the capitol dome, and has continued after state leaders decided instead to place the flag on a 30-foot pole on the Statehouse lawn near a monument to Confederate soldiers.
The flag was mentioned Monday ? North Carolina NAACP president the Rev. William Barber called it a "terrible, terroristic banner" ? but it was not the focus.
The Confederate flag and voter ID laws are all examples of how blacks cannot stop fighting for civil rights, said 39-year-old Llewlyn Walters of Columbia, whose grandmother watched King speak and whose mother told him stories of the civil rights movement as he grew up.
"People's hearts and minds change, but then they forget. The movement was great, but that one single generation couldn't stop all the discrimination in this country any more than one single dose of antibiotic can fight a disease," Walters said.
In Washington, President Barack Obama and his family commemorated the day by helping to build bookshelves in a local school's library. The president said there was no better way to celebrate King's life than to spend the day helping others.
Obama's attorney general ended his speech on a positive note, saying Americans can't forget the progress this nation has made. After all, the nation elected a black president just 40 years after King was assassinated.
"In the spirit of Dr. King, let us signal to the world that, in America today, the pursuit of a more perfect union lives on," Holder said. "The march toward the Promised Land goes on, and the belief not merely that we shall overcome, but that, as a nation, we will all come together, continues to push us forward."
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Associated Press writers Jessica Gresko in Washington and Errin Haines in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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