FEATURED STORIES
Fox News | Early voting in Illinois got off to a rocky start Monday, as votes being cast for Republican candidates were transformed into votes for Democrats.
William Norman Grigg | Eyewitness Ron Smith told the Standard-Examiner that he heard “one shot, and then a pause, and then four or five shots after that, that were very rapid.”
Michael Krieger | The BBC is using laws designed to catch terrorists and organized crime networks to track down people who dodge the license fee.
Tony Cartalucci | Canada’s Attacks Were Predictable – Western Security Agencies are Prime Suspects.
Truth Revolt | “Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant greenhouse gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed.”
Michael Snyder | Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the middle class is slowly being suffocated by rising food prices.
Kit Daniels | Why would head of state drink wine during a crisis?
Mikael Thalen | Checkpoints used on all bridges exiting Ottawa.
Paul Joseph Watson | U.S. to crumble as superpower, population decimated.
Adan Salazar | Recycled tires used to make fields known to contain harmful carcinogens.
WORLD NEWS
London Independent | South Korean media reports link disappearances to Kim Jong-un.
Reuters | Russian prosecutors have detained four more Moscow airport workers over a plane crash which killed the CEO of French oil company Total.
RIA Novosti | Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, suspected of killing a soldier guarding the National War Memorial in Ottawa, had mental health problems, the suspect’s friend said.
RT | At least 32 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in US-led airstrikes.
RT | Russia will have military control of the entirety of its 6,200 km Arctic coastal zone by the end of 2014.
MONEY WATCH
Zero Hedge | America’s #1 landlord may be private equity giant Blackstone, but closing in rapidly is none other than America’s very own arch nemesis and ascendent superpower, China.
Christina Sarich | Why doesn’t the industry care about other important issues, such as the use of GMOs in its delicious candy?
CNS News | The average price for a pound of ground beef climbed to another record high–$4.096 per pound.
Washington’s Blog | People Will Pay a LOT of Money to Live Near the Money Spigot.
PRISON PLANET
Prison Planet.com | The second attack this week inside Canada raises serious questions about the real threat of terrorism in this once quiet country.
Truth Revolt | An Ohio man is being charged with a felony after he made an incredibly idiotic joke about his ex-wife possibly having Ebola.
Michael Krieger | “Nearly one out of every three American adults are on file in the FBI’s master criminal database.”
Truth Revolt | “We ask the applicant to log on to Facebook in front of us. Pages they’ve looked at, friends – anything that reflects on the character of the applicant.”
COMMENTARY
Brandon Smith | One of the most dangerous philosophical contentions even amongst liberty movement activists is the conundrum of government force and prevention during times of imminent pandemic
New American | In late September and early October of this year, huge demonstrations broke out in Hong Kong.
Michael Snyder | 70 percent of Americans will participate in Halloween festivities once again this year.
Prison Planet.com | Three days left to submit contest entry for chance to win $5,000.
MULTIMEDIA
U.S. NEWS
Reuters | A man jumped the White House fence on Wednesday evening and was attacked by Secret Service dogs before being arrested, a Secret Service spokesman said.
Daily Caller | Obama is being forced to “hide under his desk”.
RT | The Obama administration has blocked the public release of disturbing torture photos out of concern they would endanger US troops.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
AFP | Scientists said Wednesday they had unravelled the oldest DNA ever retrieved from a Homo sapiens bone, a feat that sheds light on modern humans’ colonisation of the planet.
Christina Sarich | The measure would ensure that the labeling of genetically modified foods was mandatory.
Jon Rappoport | The narrative of the virus functions as a cover story, to obscure corporate and government crimes.