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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
November 5th, 2012

Newest Benghazi Scapegoat: CIA’s David Petraeus
There’s an unexpected casualty of the September assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya: the reputation of David Petraeus, the celebrated Army general turned CIA director. For among the first times in his career, a bureaucratic effort to throw Petraeus under the bus is showing through in the press.

Palestinian statehood doesn’t threaten Israel — but stalled peace process might, internal Foreign Ministry report says
The Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations does not delegitimize Israel, Jerusalem’s demand for recognition as a Jewish state does nothing for the country’s legitimacy, and the stalled peace process harms Israeli interests. All these assertions, which read like the talking points of a European government or a pro-Palestinian NGO, are found in a report written by a senior official in the Foreign Ministry, of Israel.

Parsing the Polls
Gallup uncovered one very significant shift in this year’s voting electorate. There has been a remarkable movement toward the Republican party.

G20 Urges U.S. To Address Fiscal Cliff
The Group of Twenty finance ministers and central bank governors, meeting in Mexico, have urged the U.S. to take steps to avoid the so called 'fiscal cliff,' the scheduled tax increases and severe spending cuts that could hurt growth of the world's largest economy.

Small Quake Rattles NJ Towns in Wake of Sandy
Some residents in northern New Jersey awoke to a small earthquake early Monday. The temblor, with a magnitude of 2.0, struck at 1:19 a.m. and was centered in Ringwood, a community that's still dealing with downed trees and power outages from Sandy.

Keen to make an impression: Japan-US military drills begin amid Asian island row
Japan has launched naval drills with the US in spite of heightened tensions with China over a territorial dispute. The exercise was initially planned to simulate an island re-occupation, but was scrapped for naval operations to avoid agitating China.

What's up in space CORONAL HOLE:
Coronal holes are places where the sun's magnetic field opens up and allows the solar wind to escape. A stream of solar wind flowing from this coronal hole is expected to reach Earth on Nov. 6th.

Syrian opposition blocs at odds over unity
Syrian opposition factions were at odds Monday in talks seeking to forge unity Washington says is needed to boost U.S. support and oust the Assad regime. The Syrian National Council, the main exiled opposition coalition, based in Istanbul, Turkey, disagreed with a U.S.-backed proposal to set up a larger umbrella group the SNC would be part of but not dominate, the BBC reported.

30,000+ Rally for Romney in Pennsylvania
An enormous rally for Mitt Romney in Bucks County, PA had people incredulous and tweeting like fury: The rally isn’t scheduled to begin until 5:30 pm ET, but tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians have already descended on Bucks County, Pa., to show their support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The Pa. rally comes on the heels of a massive rally in Cleveland just hours ago.

G-20 officials meet to discuss debt in Europe, US
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world's leading economies met in Mexico on Sunday amid growing fears over the global impact of Europe's debt crisis and the stalemate over a fiscal plan in the United States. The two-day meeting of G-20...in Mexico City,...lacked key players such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Brazilian finance chief Guido Mantega.

Haida Gwaii hot springs shut off by earthquake
The recent West Coast earthquake appears to have shut off the water at the popular hot springs in Haida Gwaii's national park, but there is hope they could reappear someday. "Three people went down to check it out, and sure enough there is no hot water and the rocks are dry and cold,"

2.7M without power; Sandy death toll 113
The U.S. death toll from Hurricane Sandy rose Saturday, reaching 113, the Los Angeles Times reported, up from 97 Friday. The newspaper said 48 of the deaths were in New York, followed by New Jersey with 24, Pennsylvania 14, Maryland 11, West Virginia seven and Connecticut four, North Carolina two, Virginia two and New Hampshire one. Residents of many beach towns on the South Shore of Long Island were waiting for power to be restored, and even for some sign someone was in charge,

Marathon canceled, but generators and supplies still sit unused in park
The city left more than a dozen generators desperately needed by cold and hungry New Yorkers who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy still stranded in Central Park yesterday. And that’s not all — stashed near the finish line of the canceled marathon were 20 heaters, tens of thousands of Mylar “space” blankets, jackets, 106 crates of apples and peanuts, at least 14 pallets of bottled water and 22 five-gallon jugs of water.

November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation
President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA. More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants.

Gene therapy: Glybera approved by European Commission
A treatment which corrects errors in a person's genetic code has been approved for commercial use in Europe for the first time. The European Commission has given Glybera marketing authorisation, meaning it can be sold throughout the EU. It is a gene therapy for a rare disease which leaves people unable to properly digest fats.

Sandy: Haiti appeals for international help after storm
The Haitian government has renewed calls for international emergency aid to help the country deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. There are fears of food shortages after the hurricane, which hit on 24 October, damaged many crops in southern Haiti. Aid workers and officials are also on alert for an increase in cholera cases in the wake of widespread flooding.

'Assad's army bombards Damascus after rebel attacks'
The Syrian army bombarded rebel strongholds in southern Damascus on Monday with artillery and from the air, hours after opposition fighters attacked a militia loyal to President Bashar Assad, opposition activists said. At least eight people were killed and dozens wounded in the bombardment, after 20 people were killed by army shelling overnight, they said.

Bahrain bomb blasts kill two foreign workers
Two foreign workers have been killed and a third seriously injured by bomb blasts in Bahrain, officials say. Police said there were five explosions caused by home-made devices in two areas of the capital Manama on Monday.

Biden slips again, refers to 'President Clinton'
nother oops for Vice President Joe Biden. He's mistakenly referred to "President Clinton" instead of "President Obama." Biden told a crowd of 1,200 people at Lakewood High School Sunday that a Republican ad claiming Jeep will move jobs out of Ohio was "pernicious," and a sign that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is desperate to win the state.

Another storm headed toward weather-beaten NY, NJ
Just what New York and New Jersey need after the devastation of Superstorm Sandy — More wind. The National Weather Service said an offshore storm that could pack gusts up to 55 mph is in Wednesday's forecast for the New York metropolitan area and the New Jersey coastline. Meteorologist Joe Pollina said the storm looks like a classic Nor'easter, coming up along the Atlantic coast. He said it will not be nearly as strong as Sandy but could compound the damage left by last week's superstorm.

Gasoline prices post biggest fall in nearly 4 years
The average U.S. price for a gallon of regular gasoline took its biggest drop since 2008 in the past two weeks, due to lower crude oil prices, a big price drop in pump prices in California and Hurricane Sandy, according to a widely followed survey released on Sunday.

Did Hurricane Sandy Cause $36.5 Trillion In Damage?
First of all: the answer to the title question is, as far as I can see: no. But it's almost certainly a whole lot more than the $50 billion reported today, and that $36.5 trillion amount doesn’t come from thin air; it appears in a number of news articles about Sandy. All in all, the story raises a few more questions, allows you to play with a bunch of numbers, and leaves you puzzled, amazed and at times easily bewildered.

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