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Italy’s top disaster experts quit after
jail sentences in earthquake trial

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 3:01:23 PM Post Reply

Rome - Four top Italian disaster experts have quit their jobs, saying the convictions of several former colleagues for failing to adequately warn of a deadly 2009 earthquake means they can’t properly perform their duties. (Snip) Scientists have ridiculed the case, saying there’s no definitive way to predict temblors. Commission president Luciano Maiani and two other members resigned Tuesday. Maiani said the court ruling made it impossible to work in a “serene and efficient” way. Also quitting was a top official at the Department of Civil Protection.

Stocks Tumble on Downbeat Earnings

Wall Street Journal, by Chris Dieterich Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 2:57:02 PM Post Reply

NEW YORK—A barrage of downbeat corporate earnings reports in the U.S. refocused the attention of investors on the fragile global economic recovery, sinking stock and commodity prices while driving investors to the safety of Treasurys.The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 214 points, or 1.6%, to 13131 in afternoon trading on Tuesday, on course for the biggest drop since June. If stocks close at this level, it would be the Dow's second loss of more than 200 points in three sessions, the highest such concentration of steep drops in nearly a year.

Wall Street slumps on weak
outlooks from DuPont, UTX

Reuters, by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 2:56:27 PM Post Reply

New York - Stocks fell on Tuesday, putting the Dow industrials on track for the biggest drop since June 21, after a series of weak quarterly results from bellwether companies. Multinationals including DuPont and United Technologies fell short of Wall Street's revenue expectations, amplifying worries about the health of the global economy. DuPont's stock lost 8.8 percent to $45.39 after the chemical company reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit and announced 1,500 job cuts. The stock was responsible for a 33-point drag on the Dow, which was down more than 220 points. (Snip) "The market has gone from taking a macro view

Desperate Obama ‘bombs’ Romney
but Mitt stands his ground
in final bitter debate

New York Post, by S.A. Miller & Geoff Earle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 2:51:46 PM Post Reply

Boca Raton, Fla. - Forget diplomacy, President Obama was dropping the bombs in his final debate against Mitt Romney. With the race on the line and polls shifting against him, Obama delivered his most polished performance in the third and final debate — which focused on foreign policy — as he repeatedly tried to trump Romney by playing the commander-in-chief card. (Snip) Romney stood his ground. “Attacking me is not an agenda,” he said. It was one of the Republican’s best comebacks of the evening, reminding voters that Obama has focused much of his campaign on tearing down Romney.

The New Gallup Numbers
Are Out: Romney Up by 6

Atlantic Wire, by Elspeth Reeve Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/23/2012 2:47:41 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney leads President Obama by 6 percentage points among likely voters nationwide, according to Gallup's seven-day tracking poll. The result, 51 percent to 45 percent, is a small 1 point drop for Romney from Sunday. Among registered voters, the poll tightened more significantly, showing Obama just behind Romney 47 percent to 48 percent. The difference between the two findings is significant and the reason Obama's campaign has criticized Gallup. The widely-respected pollster has shown the largest lead for Romney lately, prompting the Obama campaign to complain

Iran says it may stop oil
sales if sanctions tighten

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 2:47:26 PM Post Reply

Dubai - Iran said on Tuesday it would stop oil exports if pressure from Western sanctions got any tighter and it had a "Plan B" contingency strategy to survive without oil revenues. Western nations led by the United States have imposed tough sanctions on the Islamic Republic this year in an attempt to curb its nuclear program that they say is designed to produce an atomic bomb. Tehran says its nuclear plans are peaceful. "If sanctions intensify we will stop exporting oil," Iranian oil minister Rostam Qasemi told reporters in Dubai.

Apple surprises with new
iPad as it unveils iPad Mini

Boston Herald, by Jessica Van Sack Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 2:46:41 PM Post Reply

Apple unveiled its hotly anticipated 7.9-inch iPad Mini this afternoon, an “entirely new design” of its trail-blazing tablet. “There is nothing as amazing as this, this beautiful new iPad Mini,” said Apple’s top marketing officer Phil Schiller.At 7.2 millimeters thick, it’s a quarter as thin as the fourth-generation iPad, also announced today. It weighs .68 pounds. “It’s as light as a pad of paper,” Schiller said. Available in Apple’s customary black and white, the iPad Mini fits in your palm and can be held in landscape or portrait mode. All 275,000 apps available for iPad are compatible.

Obama, Romney pumped
for dash to the finish

Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler and Ken Thomas Original Article

Posted By: kennedylaw- 10/23/2012 2:45:43 PM Post Reply

With just two weeks until Election Day, President Barack Obama on Tuesday began a cross-country rush to hold onto office in tough economic times with a new booklet outlining his second-term agenda and a closing argument that the choice comes down to trust. (Snip) Axelrod said the campaign was printing 3.5 million copies of his second-term agenda to reach the "small universe" of voters who haven't made up their minds.
Snip added by staff.

Obama campaign confident
for final stretch

CBS News, by Jillian Hughes Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 2:43:26 PM Post Reply

With exactly two weeks to go, the Obama campaign is feeling good: the president's advisers insist they are winning nationally and in battleground states. And they say this is the race they have always prepared for. "This is a race we believe we're leading," said senior strategist David Axelrod on a conference call with reporters, "We believe we're leading nationally and we're leading in these battleground states." He added that the Obama team "has the ball" and insinuated that the Romney camp may be lying to themselves about who holds the upper hand. "We know what we know

Fischer: Sanctions won't
collapse Iran economy

Jerusalem Post [Israel] & Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 2:42:51 PM Post Reply

Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer on Monday expressed doubt that economic sanctions against Iran would lead to the collapse of its economy. In an interview with CNBC, Fischer said that while the Iranian economy would "continue to go down," the regime likely would "find a way to continue to keep economic life going." (Snip) He also said that the Bank of Israel was preparing for all sorts of eventualities, including for a possible war with Iran. "We do plans, we do scenarios, we do exercises about how the central [bank] will work in various situations."

Tunisian women fight
new 'sexist' constitution

Deutsche Welle [GER], by Lisa Bryant Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 2:40:05 PM Post Reply

Tunis - A clause in Tunisia's draft constitution has sparked uproar and concerns that women's rights are under threat. Some Tunisian women are fighting back. When Tunisia's National Constitutional Assembly published the new draft constitution earlier this year, its references to women provoked outrage. One article stipulated that the roles of men and women "should complement each other within the household." (Snip) But some women now perceive the new definition of gender roles as a threat to their freedoms.

Software glitch could strand
Chevy Volt drivers

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 2:35:51 PM Post Reply

The Chevy Volt is not being recalled…again. The Detroit News reports that Chevrolet is initiating a “customer satisfaction” program to fix a computer glitch that can cause the plug-in hybrid car’s electric motor to shut down while the vehicle is in motion. Up to 4,000 2013 model year Volts may be affected by the problem. The automaker is currently contacting owners to inform them of the issue, saying that it can occur after they use the Volt’s delayed charging feature, which allows them to program a time for the car to automatically start charging to take advantage of off-peak electricity

12 Hours Later, It's Clear
That Romney Won The Debate

Business Insider, by Grace Wyler Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 2:16:15 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney showed up to the third debate a decidedly more low-key candidate than we have seen so far during the 2012 general election, taking a remarkably non-confrontational approach to his final match-up with President Barack Obama. (Snip) Romney's strategy of staying above the fray reflects the Republican nominee's continued momentum going into the final two weeks of the presidential race. In Monday's debate, Romney exuded the easy confidence of a challenger who thinks he has enough of an advantage to risk running out the clock. And Obama's aggressive offense suggests that his re-election team agrees with that assessment.

Don't Look Back

Oregon Magazine, by Art Hyland Original Article

Posted By: teapartyM- 10/23/2012 2:13:07 PM Post Reply

“…Barack Obama loves the future because that’s where all his accomplishments are.” The more things change, the more they stay the same. In an unusually objective moment four years ago, the New York Times’ David Brooks decided to put some fleeting thoughts on paper for all to see. Perhaps he was lamenting Hillary did not win the primary, while an upstart junior senator somehow had.

Mark Leibovich's Cover
Profile of Paul Ryan for
NYT Mag Steeped in His
Typical Anti-Republican Hostility

Newsbusters, by Clay Waters Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 1:58:46 PM Post Reply

"Paul Ryan Can't Lose," a 5,000-word cover story by Mark Leibovich, the New York Times magazine's chief national correspondent, conformed to the writer's history of cynical, unsympathetic profiles of Republican candidates. According to Leibovich, Newt Gingrich is "among the more divisive political figures of recent decade," always threatening to become "Nasty Newt," former vice president Al Gore is a "compelling" "pop culture icon." Offered the fat target of Vice President Joe Biden, Leibovich instead buttered him up. Yet former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney didn't escape: "Critics deride him as a Prince of Darkness

Did EPA Illegally Experiment
On Human Beings?

Investor's Business Daily, by Steve Milloy Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/23/2012 1:50:26 PM Post Reply

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been sued in federal court for conducting illegal experiments on human beings. A federal judge will now determine whether the EPA has violated federal law and the most sacrosanct moral standards of scientific research or whether the EPA has been lying to Congress and the public about the dangers of air pollution. Based on thousands of pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, since 2004 and continuing through the Obama administration, the EPA has intentionally exposed hundreds of human subjects to extraordinarily high levels of air pollutants such as diesel exhaust

Trump adviser knocks
down speculation that Obama
revelation is about cocaine

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 1:40:08 PM Post Reply

An adviser to Donald Trump told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that speculation that the real estate mogul’s “very big” revelation about President Barack Obama expected this week has to do with college-era allegations involving cocaine is not true. “Mr. Trump’s announcement is substantially more important to the American people than these allegations made against the president,” Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump, told TheDC by phone on Tuesday.

Too little too late, Mr
President? Romney DOUBLES
his lead in new national
poll just hours after Obama
goes to war in final TV debate

Daily Mail (UK), by Toby Harnden & Hugo Gye Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 1:30:04 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney has doubled his lead in a new national poll just hours after the explosive final presidential debate - and with just two weeks to go until election day, it is unclear whether Barack Obama will be able to make up the gap. The Republican candidate held a four-point lead in the Rasmussen tracking poll released on Tuesday, with 50 per cent of the vote compared to 46 per cent for the President. In Monday's poll he led by two points. In addition, Romney's lead was five points in swing states and as many as nine points among

Why is Uncertainty So
Unbelievable to Paul Krugman?

Fox News, by Elizabeth MacDonald Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 1:22:37 PM Post Reply

As the presidential campaign winds down, some economists have been playing down the role of economic and political uncertainty in hamstringing the U.S. economic recovery.(snip) Krugman says in his column: “One of the central talking points of right-wing economists is that ‘uncertainty’ caused by Obama is holding the economy back.” He adds: “It’s not at all about Obama,” and concludes that recent research led by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University instead shows that “the U.S. economy is being held back by Republican extremism, by the GOP’s unprecedented willingness to hold the full faith and credit of American [sic] hostage

Big Bird, Binders, Bayonets:
Who Sank Whose Battleship?

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/23/2012 1:19:41 PM Post Reply

It was the foreign policy debate that just quite… wasn’t. (Snip) In the early questions, Romney didn’t go after the administration’s double-speak, video-blaming, and preparedness in the Benghazi attack. The challengers then agreed against military intervention in Syria. Pundits were quickly calling this matchup the “big hug” compared to last week’s rumble on Long Island. Then the last debate in this uncomfortably tight race soon veered into teachers’ unions, balancing the budget, encouraging small business, ObamaCare, and the auto bailout.
Intro repaired by staff

Last night's debate: no clear winner,
but the Obama campaign is now
spiteful, petulant and lightweight

Telegraph [UK], by Thomas Pascoe Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/23/2012 1:10:41 PM Post Reply

The final presidential debate was not a great advertisement for the genre. After a strong start, Mitt Romney appeared content to sit back and give Barack Obama sufficient floor time to dig himself a big hole. The hole proved large enough for both men. This debate added little to our understanding of foreign policy, although it did tell us where both camps believe the race will be won. Mr Romney's more measured style implies he believes there are sufficient floating voters unimpressed by the President's histrionics to tip the scale in favour of a more sober performer. Mr Obama appealed

How 9/11 'Mastermind' Got
an Orange Beard at Gitmo

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 1:06:04 PM Post Reply

The Pentagon has given a partial explanation to a Guantanamo mystery: How the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks managed to dye his beard. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's bushy grey beard has been colored a rusty orange during court appearances. Spectators had assumed he used henna, which is used by some Muslims as a hair dye. A Pentagon spokesman says Mohammed used "natural means," such as juice from berries that he receives in his meals. Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale said Tuesday that Mohammed did not receive any "outside" means to color his beard.

New Afghanistan drones to be remote-
controlled from Britain as RAF doubles
its unmanned aircraft strike force

Daily Mail [UK], by Mario Ledwith Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/23/2012 1:05:48 PM Post Reply

The UK will double the number of unmanned RAF drones in Afghanistan to ten with the new aircraft to be operated remotely from Britain. The aircrafts, which are capable of firing missiles and carrying out surveillance, have been the subject of criticism due to civilian deaths during attacks. A Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed that pilots based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire would fly the five recently-bought vehicles. The hi-tech Reaper drones are primarily used to gather intelligence on enemy activity on the ground, but they also carry 500lb bombs and Hellfire missiles for precision strikes on insurgents. Five of

Waiting for a blowout election
to settle the dust for Romney

Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/23/2012 1:01:13 PM Post Reply

Barring a really major blunder — such as revealing that he was born in Lower Volta or endorsing interspecies marriage (the next big civil rights issue) — this election is beginning to look like it’s Mitt Romney’s to lose. On the morning after the third and mercifully last presidential debate, nearly all the major polls show the race tied or Mr. Romney narrowly ahead. The Gallup poll, the oldest such, dating from 1936, shows a Romney lead of 6 percentage points, well outside the margin of error.

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