Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/has-the-election-already-been-stolen-for-romneyryan/5310166

For at least the past four decades, the American election process has been controlled by corporations and agents connected to the Republican Party. This year’s “contest” is no different. Voter suppression campaigns have been underway across America, by Republican operatives. (See Black Box Voting and Brad Blog). Nothing is being done to stop it.

Link: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/cdc-us-birth-rate-hits-all-time-low-407-babies-born-unmarried-women

The birth rate in the United States hit an all-time low in 2011, according to a report released this month by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Link: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83108.html

Iowa has joined Texas in warning international election observers of possible criminal prosecution if they violate state laws and get near polling places on Election Day.

Link: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-debt-ceiling-20121101,0,4317230.story

The federal government will probably hit its $16.4-trillion borrowing limit by the end of the year, adding more urgency to efforts to avoid the fiscal cliff. The nation's debt ceiling once again looms as the spark to congressional brinkmanship that could threaten the slowly recovering economy.

Link: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2012/10/31/depopulation-through-planned-governmental-starvation-of-u-s-citizens/

“If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” - Thomas Jefferson. The lessons of history clearly demonstrate that dictatorial regimes, whether they be Socialists, Communists, and Marxists will not hesitate to use food as a weapon against their own people in order to solidify power and impose absolute autocratic control. Food can be withheld from the masses by preventing it from being grown and harvested, by contaminating it and rendering it unfit for human consumption or by simply preventing food from being distributed to a targeted population.

Link: http://rt.com/usa/news/jill-stein-arrested-texas-694/

Jill Stein, a presidential candidate from the Green Party, has been arrested in Texas while attempting to resupply protesters camping out in trees to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, according to anti-pipeline activists. The Tar Sands Blockade activists said she was released soon after being taken to the Wood County jail in Quitman, TX.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/30-11

Robert Kuttner has written much of the column I intended to write on this subject, so I will point you to his excellent column and add a few thoughts.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/elec-o30.shtml

The American population is presented with a “choice” between two multi-millionaires. One, the Republican candidate Mitt Romney, personifies the financial speculators whose criminality and greed triggered the financial crisis that erupted in 2008. The other, President Obama, has devoted his entire administration to protecting and expanding the wealth of the financial elite, destroying the democratic rights of the American people, and escalating military aggression internationally.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/economy/where-did-paul-ryan-find-inspiration-reforming-social-security-brutal-military-dictatorship

The basis for Ryan's big plan was hatched under the radical right-wing Chilean torture regime of 1973 military coup leader Augusto Pinochet. While the Republican Party and its wealthy plutocrat backers have been accused of waging an elitist virtual war against the American majority, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have financial and ideological ties to rich Latin American elites who have waged real wars against average citizens in their countries.

Link: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/10/29/the-virtual-recovery/

Since mid-2009 the US has been enjoying a virtual recovery courtesy of a rigged inflation measure that understates inflation. The financial Presstitutes spoon out the government’s propaganda that prices are rising less than 2%. But anyone who purchases food, fuel, medical care or anything else knows that low inflation is no more real that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction or Gadhafi’s alleged attacks on Libyan protesters or Iran’s nuclear weapons. Everything is a lie to serve the power-brokers.

Link: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_im_voting_green_20121029/

The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us. And if we do not immediately engage in this battle we are finished, as climate scientists have made clear.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/29-7

The Fix the Debt coalition is using the so-called "fiscal cliff" to push the same old corporate agenda of more tax breaks while shifting the burden on to the rest of us. Brace yourself for one of the most aggressive corporate lobbying campaigns of all time. And one of the most hypocritical.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/iran-o27.shtml

The British-based Guardian newspaper reported Thursday that American diplomats have been lobbying Britain for the use of its military bases on Cyprus as well as US bases on the British territories of Ascension Island in the Atlantic and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for war on Iran.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/pers-o27.shtml

There are increasing signs that the global economy is about to enter a new period of financial turbulence, coupled with deepening recession in a growing number of countries.

Link: http://fayobserver.com/fayobserver.com/files/4c/4cefeb3e-4b11-4769-8f7c-8e35768b4d6b.pdf

The accusations leveled against three Army generals over the past six months are as varied as they are striking, the highest-profile of a growing number of allegations of wrongdoing by senior military officials. A one-star general was flown home from Afghanistan this spring to face criminal charges, including sexual assault.

Link: http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2012/10/obama-signs-new-executive-order-expanding-homeland-security-mission-in-the-u-s-2445282.html

On Oct. 26, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands the role and scope of Homeland Security in states and areas across the country. This order, which establishes a new Security Partnership Council, will have far reaching effects in the overall mission of Homeland Security, and for state and local areas that interact with the Federal agency.

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/10/meet-internet-gatekeepers.html

Eleven years in the making, the system of global Identity Management (IdM) is backed by those with the most to protect, and will bring in Internet Governance by the back door. It will give everyone a unique ID, for life, and make us all very careful about what we do online, as all e-transactions will be marked with the time, date, and identities of those involved.

Link: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2012/10/27/the-relentless-evil-of-goldman-sachs/

Today, the GMO poison food producer, Monsanto, and the great profiteer from all tragedies, Goldman Sachs, are engaged in their own special version of who is the most evil corporation on the face of the earth. Who among them, have committed the most atrocious crimes against humanity? In a close contest, Goldman Sachs is the Japanese war criminal version of General Heisuke and this criminal enterprise corporation has earned the title as the most evil corporation on the planet.

Link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggyvea3OBZDdZOATHbW7qKfoAI8w?docId=CNG.7a5ac9140e1c87c51f0a40348fa8a7c4.81

Earlier this week Falk said the UN General Assembly and civil society should boycott firms that help build and maintain Israeli settlements. He singled out Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard and Motorola of the United States, Veolia Environment of France, G4S of Britain, Dexia of Belgium, Volvo Group and Assa Abloy of Sweden, Ahava, Elbit Systems and Mehadrin of Israel, Riwal Holding Group of the Netherlands and Cemex of Mexico. The international community considers settlements illegal, and Palestinians view them as the greatest threat to the peace process, which last ground to a halt more than two years ago over a dispute about settlement construction.

Link: http://www.omsj.org/blogs/chemical-warfare-manhattan-family-shattered-by-murder-of-two-children-at-hands-of-medicated-nanny

(The Truth Barrier) - Hands shaking as I type this. Nausea. Two children were stabbed to death by their nanny right here in my neighborhood. Of course it was followed by a suicide attempt, in this case not successful. I know why. So do the executives at Eli Lilly, and all the other pharmaceutical companies that have paid millions to have the truth about their serotonin inhibitors (SSRIs) repressed, keep the media in the dark, keep everybody in the dark.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/ceos-o26.shtml

The chief executives of 80 large US corporations have issued a “Deficit Manifesto,” calling on the next president to “fix America’s debt” by making substantial “changes in the federal budget.” The statement was published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/why-big-bucks-donors-dont-want-president-obama-champion-social-security

After stock market shocks and the housing bubble, social security more vital than ever before. But the money men hate it. It is remarkable that social security hasn't been a more prominent issue in the presidential race. After all, Governor Romney has proposed a plan that would imply cuts of more than 40% for middle-class workers just entering the labor force . Since social security is hugely popular across the political spectrum, it would seem that President Obama could gain an enormous advantage by clearly proclaiming his support for the program.

Link: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/10/26/i-team-woman-says-tsa-agent-stole-jewels-at-logan-airport/

BOSTON (CBS) – Terri Ivester was on her way to a family christening in Chicago when she ran into a snag at the security checkpoint at Logan Airport. Terri Ivester says, “The TSA agent holds my backpack up, and um, says there’s a water bottle in this backpack, I’m going to have to take that.”

Link: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4760

Electronically, this election is over. Mitt Romney has won. The big loser is not Barack Obama, or the corporate Democratic Party. It is democracy itself. Unless YOU act now, and are prepared to fight this out for years to come, whatever remains of American democracy is done. Finished. Over. No nation that suffers the theft of three out of four consecutive national elections can harbor the illusion that it is run by the will of its people.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-gibson/land-of-shady-elections_b_2006267.html

If a country proclaimed itself as the standard-bearer for democracy around the world, while a son of one of the country's presidential candidates owned voting machines in a state known for swinging elections, would you take that country's claims seriously? Would you believe that nation's claims of love for democracy if a team of UN observers were sent to that nation's polling locations on Election Day to monitor a hyper-partisan voter intimidation group?

Link: http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/obama-justice-department-set-to-overrule-any-state-that-legalizes-marijuana-121024?news=846040

Depending on the outcome of initiatives in three states, a confrontation awaits between the U.S. Department of Justice and advocates for legalizing marijuana. On November 6, voters in Colorado, Washington and Oregon will decide whether to legalize and tax marijuana sales. If one or more of the measures passes, and President Barack Obama is reelected, expect the Justice Department to take action to stop any state from decriminalizing the popular herb.

Link: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/10/24/in-amerika-will-never-real-debate/

God help them if Obama and Romney ever had to participate in a real debate about a real issue at the Oxford Union. They would be massacred. The “debates” revealed that not only the candidates but also the entire country is completely tuned out to every real problem and dangerous development. For example, you would never know that US citizens can now be imprisoned and executed without due process. All that is required to terminate the liberty and life of an American citizen by his own government is an unaccountable decision somewhere in the executive branch.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/pers-o24.shtml

It is now less than two weeks to Election Day in the United States. The campaigns of the two principal candidates have exposed the fraudulent, anti-democratic character of the entire electoral process. The American people are presented with a “choice” between two candidates who have, in the end, no significant political differences.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/afgh-o24.shtml

The killing of four children in a US raid and the disappearance and murder of civilians at the hands of occupation troops have provoked growing anger and protests among the people of Afghanistan. With the US-led war now in its twelfth year, violence against the country’s population continues to mount. The latest incidents were confirmed by the office of Afghanistan’s puppet president, Hamid Karzai, on Tuesday. The worst of them took place on Sunday in the eastern province of Logar, just south of Kabul.

Link: http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/meet-the-missile-that-wipes-out-everything-electric/3650?fb_ref=activity-widget

Ever wonder what it would be like to go without electricity, apart from the odd five-minute power cut? Ask Boeing — the firm is working on a missile that could completely wipe out all of your electronics.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/media-ignored-experts-shocking-findings-marijuana-helps-prevent-lung-cancer-now-its-med-school

You'd think it would have been very big news in the spring of 2005 when Donald Tashkin, a professor of pulmonology at UCLA's David Geffin School of Medicine, revealed at a conference that components of marijuana smoke, although they damage cells in respiratory tissue, somehow prevent them from becoming malignant. But headlines announcing "Pot Doesn't Cause Cancer" did not ensue.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/24-0

The real electoral fraud being perpetrated across our country is the GOP's frantic claim that hordes of ineligible Democrats are voting illegally. It just isn't true. Indeed, despite all of their squawking, and despite deploying numerous dragnets to apprehend thousands of these election defrauders, they've produce practically no cases of illegal voting happening anywhere.

Link: http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2291-welcome-to-the-age-of-hell-entrenching-murder-as-the-american-way.html

The Washington Post has just laid out, in horrifying, soul-slaughtering detail, the Obama Administration's ongoing effort to expand, entrench and "codify" the practice of murder and terrorism by the United States government. The avowed, deliberate intent of these sinister machinations is to embed the use of death squads and drone terror attacks into the policy apparatus of future administrations, so that the killing of human beings outside all pretense of legal process will go on, year after year after year, even when the Nobel Peace Laureate has left office.

Link: http://naturalsociety.com/mainstream-media-launches-another-phony-war-against-organic/

The mainstream media is invoking déjà vu with their latest laughable attempt to frame yet another study that actually highlighted the benefits of organic into a hysterical anti-organic news frenzy. This time, however, some publications are actually publishing the truth on the matter. Why? Because last time that the mainstream media conglomerate decided to smear the last organic foods study’s findings and proclaim how great pesticides and GMOs are for you and your family, it ended in a major apology by the New York Times.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/23-8

Time magazine columnist Joe Klein argued on MSNBC's Morning Joe that killing 4-year-olds in Afghanistan was necessary to prevent 4-year-olds being killed in the US.

Link: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/aclu-asking-federal-government-how-its-using-drones-inside-us

Today the ACLU filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking records related to the federal government’s domestic use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) – better known as drones – as well as plans for the future rollout of drones in the United States. Drone technology is largely a product of our war efforts abroad, but the federal government is repurposing these machines for surveillance purposes at home.

Link: http://blog.independent.org/2012/10/23/obama-and-romney-war-is-peace/

In last night’s presidential debate, both candidates claimed to run on a promise of peace and against the policies of George W. Bush. Obama criticized the Republicans for going to war in Iraq and took Romney to task for his bellicose rhetoric. A bit more surprisingly, Romney congratulated Obama on executing bin Laden but then said, “we can’t kill our way out of this mess.” The ultimate goal, said Romney, is peace: “We want a peaceful planet. We want people to be able to enjoy their lives and know they’re going to have a bright and prosperous future, not be at war.” Most brazenly of all, Romney declared, “We don’t want another Iraq, we don’t want another Afghanistan. That’s not the right course for us.”

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/22/us-russia-usa-humanrights-idUSBRE89L14O20121022

Russia accused the United States on Monday of double standards on human rights, criticizing its failure to close Guantanamo Bay prison and its use of the death penalty while the U.S. Congress considers a law which could punish Moscow for alleged abuses.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YSoCZs8WlDg

European Parliament, Strasbourg • Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Co-President of the 'Europe of Freedom and Democracy' (EFD) Group in the European Parliament.

Link: http://www.redressonline.com/2012/10/come-back-president-carter/

Alan Hart comments on the lack of substance in the debate about foreign policy between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, and laments that it was left to former President Jimmy Carter to speak the truth about the Palestine-Israel conflict.