- Three women, two from Liberia and one from Yemen, share the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
- Commanders in Afghanistan make tough choices on where to send the limited number of troops they have, and the goals have shifted from the ambitious, to the attainable.
- Slovakia holds up the EU rescue plan as the speaker of parliament there degrades the plan.
- The Pakistani commission investigating the Bin Laden's presence and eventual assassination in Pakistan are suggesting the Pakistani doctor that helped the CIA run a vaccination program be tried for high treason.
- As the U.S. blocks funds intended for Palestine over their efforts to gain statehood, the bite comes down.
- An Iranian student, who had been studying in the U.S., returned to his home country to see family, was promptly arrested and accused of espionage.
Domestic
- At a news conference yesterday, President Obama, defending his jobs bill, said, "It's fair to say that I've gone out of my way in every instance - sometimes at my own political peril and to the frustration of Democrats - to work with Republicans to find common ground to move this country forward." He then proceeded to note how Republicans have met these overtures with "games-playing." **Editorial note: Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. I'm thrilled the president actually recognizes that and acknowledges he has rushed to compromise as an opening bid of negotiation. Now stop doing that please, Mr. President.**
- The unemployment rate remains steady at 9.1% as just over 100,000 jobs were added in September. An army of long-term uemployed, people out of work for two years or more, still searches for opportunity and jobs. Meanwhile, the former chief economist of the IMF, Kenneth Rogoff, believes the U.S. needs a little more inflation. It sounds counter-intuitive, but a growth in inflation could be an effective way to get the economy moving again.
- The Occupy movements begin a 4-day (permitted) rally in DC.
- The commissioner of Alabama's Department of Argiculture says not to worry about the migrant workers that have fled the state in the way of new immigration laws. For those farmers that need help in their fields, there are plenty of inmates to go around. A similar program didn't pan out in Georgia.
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