Link: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/148686/pot_prohibition_is_the_cornerstone_of_a_police_state/

The simple truth about America's marijuana prohibition: any law that allows the easy incarceration of any citizen any time those in power want to do it is the ultimate enemy of democracy. With 800,000 annual arrests over an herb used by tens of millions of Americans, it is the cornerstone of a police state.

Link: http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2010/10/leaked-trade-agreements-and-hidden.html

Canada’s National Farmers Union wants the Canada-EU trade deal scrapped. US farmers face the same assault by agribusiness and the biotech industry under S 510. Epoch Times noted: “Under provisions in CETA [Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement], using saved seed could result in a farmer’s land, equipment, and crops being seized for alleged infringement of intellectual property rights attached to plant varieties owned by corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, and Bayer.

Link: http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2010/10/top-clinton-official-only-terror-attack.html

A former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton says that the only thing which can rescue Barack Obama’s increasingly tenuous grip on power as his approval figures continue to plunge is a terror attack on the scale of Oklahoma City or 9/11, another startling reminder that such events only ever serve to benefit those in authority.

Link: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=229526

In his latest reflections Fidel Castro refers to fragments of the text “The War Crimes of Stanley McChrystal, U.S. General” which, among other things, “reveals examples of how the Obama Administration continues walking in Bush`s footsteps”. That’s terrific! So I exclaimed when I read down to the last line about the revelations of the famous journalist Seymour Hersh, printed in Democracy Now! and collected as one of the 25 most censored news items in the United States.

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2010/10/worlds-monetary-system-is-in-process-of.html

The world’s monetary system is in the process of melting down. We have entered the endgame for the dollar as the dominant reserve currency, but most investors and policy makers are unaware of the implications. The only questions are how long the denouement of the dollar reserve system will last, and how much more damage will be inflicted by new rounds of quantitative easing or more radical monetary measures to prop up the system.

Link: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=229526

We are in the grip of yet another so-called terror plot designed to terrify the wits out of everyone. Anyone of a nervous disposition was sent in to a tailspin of panic over the increasingly dramatic news coverage… this manifested itself in a tsunami of 911 calls in America which paralyzed parts of New York, Maine and Philadelphia for several hours.

Link: http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=49264&t=1&cg=4

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has switched 15% of its national reserves into gold, reported the official news agency IRNA Saturday, citing the CBI governor. "When the price of each ounce of gold worldwide was on average US$656, a few hundred tons of gold were imported," Mahmoud Bahmani was quoted as saying Saturday at a banking conference in Tehran. "At present, the price of each ounce of gold is $1,230. Consequently, the value of the national reserves has risen by a few billion dollars," he said.

Link: http://www.truth-out.org/net-neutrality-and-broadband-access-a-civil-rights-issue64618

"Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reigns, all are unequal." - Whitney Moore Young Jr. Is net neutrality just a matter of the marketplace, or is it also a matter of ethics - a civil rights issue? And if the latter, how should broadband optimally serve the nation?

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/10/2010103111557376134.html

Conservationists worried as government plans to sell off about 150,000 hectares of forest land. The UK government has confirmed plans to sell off up to half of its state-owned forests to private companies. The around 150,000 hectares of land could be used for commercial development, which worries many conservations. Harry Smith reports from Sherwood Forest, one of England's most popular woodlands. The people of the UK have no say in their destiny or in the destiny of their country. It will be sold off just as America was sold off. For the corporate super rich the world has no boarders, it all belongs to them to do with as they please. This is why America fights endless war that the people don’t want, and France cuts the peoples retirement to profit the banks, and now the UK's forrests are sold off to the highest bidder. All the wars are fought for ‘them’, all the wealth and power belongs to ‘them’, and the people of the earth are their cattle, fighting dieing and starving to suit the will of the privileged, the chosen ones, the super rich.

Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/washpost-war-iran-rescue-economy/

Washington Post political correspondent David Broder has kind words for President Barack Obama in in his opinion column Sunday, arguing that it isn't the president's fault the economy is stuck in reverse. But the four-decade-plus veteran of Washington politics offers a startling solution to the president's political and economic woes: March off to war with Iran.

Link: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=13712

Normally we wouldn’t post “readers comments” but this is different. Sent in by a reader, it indicates the extent to which people are no longer buying the official version of the “War on Terror”. Below are readers comments to the article “Al Qaeda ink cartridge bomb found on jet was linked to mobile phone SIM card”. In fact the readers comments are more interesting than the article itself, which repeats the official line that "Fears have been growing rapidly over the terror threat posed to the West by Islamic fundamentalists based in Yemen" etc, etc. Too few, too late