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December 03, 2012 | | #mrpresident 2. Obama Talks Fiscal Cliff to Twitter The fiscal-cliff negotiations are coming to a hashtag near you: President Obama took to Twitter today to press his case for letting Bush-era tax cuts expire for everyone but the wealthiest—a proposal that has stalled in Washington. The Daily Beast’s Brian Ries curates the president’s best 140-character arguments. ANGRY DIPLOMACY Let’s just take a step back and calm down, everyone. After the U.N. General Assembly upgraded Palestine’s status, Israel made plans to build 3,000 houses in the hotly contested east Jerusalem section of the West Bank. In response to the aggressive action, Britain, Spain, Sweden, France, and Denmark have corralled Israeli ambassadors to protest the move. It’s a harsh diplomatic stance for the nations. While some say that Bibi had to do something in response to Palestine’s gains, others say it’s a bold and unnecessary domestic move in a time of fragile foreign relations. FOLDED News Corp. digital newspaper The Daily will cease publication Dec. 15, according to a press release issued Monday. Staff from the publication, which Rupert Murdoch launched in February 2011 as an iPad-only newspaper, will be folded into the New York Post, where Daily editor Jesse Angelo will take the helm as publisher. Angelo had formerly been executive editor at the Post in addition to his digital duties. The Daily has by some reports been losing $30 million a year, and Murdoch said in the press release that the publication “could not find a large enough audience quickly enough” to be sustainable. WISEN UP The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had better take note. Hillary Clinton drew a line in the sand on Monday, threatening to intervene in the country’s 20-month-old civil war if his troops use chemical weapons. “Suffice to say we are certainly planning to take action” if the threat looks imminent, the secretary of state said. Syrian officials countered that they were not planning to use any weapons of mass destruction. The United Nations announced that it is withdrawing all nonessential staff from the country because the security situation continues to devolve. | | 
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