Union: Pipeline Decision is ‘Politics at Its Worst’ (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork – The president of the half-million member Laborers’ International Union of North America has categorized the Obama Administration’s January 18 rejection of the construction of the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline as “politics at its worst,” indicating a potential hit to the Obama re-election campaign from his union base. Here are the details.

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Troubled euro gains currency with counterfeiters (Reuters)

Reuters – Europe’s debt crisis may be threatening to unravel the euro but criminals increasingly see the single currency as worth counterfeiting.

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Heil Hound: Nazis dogged by Hitler-mocking mutt (AP)

AP – Newly discovered documents have revealed a bizarre footnote to World War II: the Nazis’ dogged obsession with a Finnish mutt who gave not a howl, but a heil. And, just as absurdly, the totalitarian state that dominated most of Europe was unable to do much about the canine’s paw-raising parody of Germany’s Fuehrer.

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EU wins bureaucratic name spat in Airbus subsidy row (Reuters)

Reuters – A bureaucratic spat over just one letter in Europe’s identity has been solved despite failure to reach agreement in a major trade row over aircraft subsidies.

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