By Jo-Shing Yang | Alternet.org | Oct. 31, 2008
Water is the new oil for global financial powerhouses and water is being commoditized and traded in global stock exchanges. Today in addition to being able to buy water rights and purchase lakes on private land, an individual or a corporation can invest in water-targeted hedge funds, index funds and exchange-traded funds (EFTs), water certificates, shares of water engineering and technology companies, shares of multinational private water utilities, shares of multinational banks and investment banks that own water companies, and a host of other newfangled water investments in this U.S.$425 billion industry which is expected to become a U.S.$1 trillion industry within five years. And if one happens to be a tycoon, one can also create his or her own private water districts and water utilities.  

By David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster | Rawstory.com | Oct. 30, 2008
On Wednesday’s Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, the rising-star host spoke with ‘political phenom’ Ron Paul, a popular Republican congressman from Texas, about whether or not the GOP is at an ‘end.’

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Robert Kennedy talks about the cover up regarding vaccines and Autism.

By Robert Verkaik | The Independant | Oct. 31, 2008
Senior CIA officers could be put on trial in Britain after it emerged last night that the Attorney General is to investigate allegations that a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay was brutally tortured, after being arrested and questioned by American forces following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington in 2001.

By Del Quentin Wilber | Washington Post | Oct. 30, 2008
A federal judge declined today to block D.C. police from operating a checkpoint initiative that authorities say is designed to quell spikes in violence. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon denied a request by a civil" Suffice it to say that the public's interest in deterring violent crime of this type through a checkpoint program this carefully crafted is overwhelming," Leon wrote. "Simply put, to take this arrow out of [D.C. police's] quiver on such a weak showing as to its unconstitutionality would be injurious not only to [D.C. police's] ability to protect our citizens, but to the public's overwhelming need to be protected from these mobile merchants of violence."

By Paul Joseph Watson & Yihan Dai | Prisonplanet.com | Oct. 30, 2008
According to reports out of top Chinese mainstream news outlets, the RAND Corporation recently presented a shocking proposal to the Pentagon in which it lobbied for a war to be started with a major foreign power in an attempt to stimulate the American economy and prevent a recession.

By Alan Stang | NewsWithViews.com | Oct. 29, 2008
As I write, little more than a week remains before E-Day, on which most Americans will vote. Nerves are being fearfully wracked. Even people who are usually somnolent say they can’t take the stress. There is a real danger that, unaddressed, the frustration of choosing between a Communist illegal alien raised by a Communist sex pervert and a POW traitor who is a Soviet front man could lead to an epidemic of Acid Reflux Disease or even an outbreak of Restless Leg Syndrome.

By Linda S. Heard | OnlineJournal.com | Oct. 29, 2008
The US has once again “targeted foreign fighters” as part of its so-called war on terror. But these “fighters” were all Syrian civilians, including four youngsters. Another five individuals have been hospitalized after being shot by US Special Forces.

By Martin Crutsinger | The Associated Press | Oct. 29, 2008
The Federal Reserve has slashed a key interest rate by half a percentage point as it seeks to revive an economy hit by a long list of maladies stemming from the most severe financial crisis in decades.

By Jill Bryce | Daily Gazette | Oct. 29, 2008
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy is hoping to convince local school districts and educators to randomly drug test students.

By Eric Dash | New York Times | Oct. 28, 2008
First came the mortgage crisis. Now comes the credit card crisis. After years of flooding Americans with credit card offers and sky-high credit lines, lenders are sharply curtailing both, just as an eroding economy squeezes consumers.

By Mary Williams Walsh | IHT | Oct. 30, 2008
The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a company claiming to be solvent in September could have developed such a big hole by October. Some analysts say at least part of the shortfall must have been there all along, hidden by irregular accounting.

By John Porretto | AP | Oct. 30, 2008
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Thursday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter.

By Douglas Wellman Sr. | The News-Sentinel | Oct. 27, 2008
“Obamamania” having swept the nation through the anointing of Barack Obama by the liberal media and the money from likeminded socialists, it is, indeed, possible Obama will be our next president. Obama's election will bring about an assault on many of our cherished American rights and freedoms.

By Jennifer Loven | The Associated Press | Oct. 28, 2008
An impatient White House prodded banks and other financial companies Tuesday to quit hoarding billions of dollars flowing into their vaults from Washington and start making more loans. Wall Street soared nearly 900 points on bargain-hunting and hopes of a hefty interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve.