Telegraph | At least seven children have been placed in care over fears they were too fat, it has been disclosed.

New York Times | First came the mortgage crisis. Now comes the credit card crisis.

| If the banks go under and need to call on the guarantees, then the state will collapse.

Canadian Free Press | “This is a new Democratic Party not the party of the 70s and 80s. This is a party that has adjusted to the realities of a new world order.”

Infowars | Willie Rodriguez went on Sky News in the UK to call attention to the fact that Americans have been faced with ‘seven years of fear’ since 9/11, and only the economic crisis has changed that trend.

Bloomberg | Bernanke and his team could push borrowing costs to zero by June if the credit crunch intensifies.

911video.de | For the third time this year, Yukihisa Fujita delivered a speech questioning the official version of 9/11 on the floor of the Japanese Diet.

| Because we have fettishized voting we are often that much less able to face the fact that the whole process has been subverted.

Voice of America | Pakistani and Afghan political and tribal leaders meeting in Islamabad Tuesday have agreed to seek talks with Taliban insurgents in a bid to limit violence along their shared border.

| Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says the federal government is monitoring “dozens” of potential terrorists in the U.S.

Telegraph | The new entry system requires people who collect their children to place their finger on a scanner, to make sure that only nominated individuals can get through secure entrances.

Kurt Nimmo | Abu Ghadiya apparently serves the same purpose as the late super-human terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Paul Joseph Watson | Government to block “controversial” websites with universal national filter.

Aaron Dykes | IN MORE EXCLUSIVE VIDEO, Willie Nelson invites Alex and Jesse onto his world famous tour bus, where they begin to examine the motives for war and the need to cover-up the truth about the 9/11 attacks.

Jones Report | CBS’s visual diagram of Bush’s ‘famous’ ancestry reveals over-lapping ties to very powerful and influential family stock.

Telegraph | “The IMF can in theory create liquidity like a central bank,” said an informed source. “There are a lot of ideas kicking around.”

CNSNews | Frank means small business, of course, as multinational corporate business is never regulated.

Sergei Balmasov | Syria has already contacted Moscow with a request to launch the deliveries of military hardware, including up-to-date missile complexes.

The New Media Journal | The pundits, the analysts and the politicians who have supported Obama, are doing a great disservice to the public and America.

Independent | John McCain’s campaign team is under investigation for allegedly accepting a benefit in kind from two mega-rich British citizens, namely Nat Rothschild and his father, Jacob, the Fourth Baron Rothschild.

BBC | Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said it would now be up to the individual concerned to prove they would not “stir up tension” in the UK.

Washington Post | The program is modeled after one begun three years ago in New York that has withstood legal challenges.

The News-Sentinel | Obama’s election will bring about an assault on many of our cherished American rights and freedoms.

Independent | A cameraman was arrested as he attempted to film one of the unnamed marksmen who shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes, police said.

Prof. Alan Nasser | Don’t be surprised if Wall Street’s new main man soon becomes the guy Main Street loves to hate.

Daniel Taylor | Regardless of what kind of crises we will face, the United States is facing very uncertain times.

Independent | Somewhat farcically, the alleged plotters planned to dress in white tuxedos and top hats and drive their car at high speed towards the presidential candidate while shooting at him.

Washington Post | Officials said the raid, apparently the first acknowledged instance of U.S. ground forces operating in Syria, was intended to send a warning to the Syrian government.

Kurt Nimmo | McCain releases television ad on the heels of a Pentagon warning of a “crisis” following the election.

Kurt Nimmo | New technology sifts through audio and video files, censors “objectionable” material.

Paul Joseph Watson | Alaska Governor gives unexpected answer during Ohio rally.

Aaron Dykes | In exclusive video, legendary music icon Willie Nelson meets up with former Governor Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones to discuss the implications of the 2008 Election, the effects of widespread economic downturn and lingering questions about 9/11.

Infowars | Alex Jones interviews Jesse Ventura live during the broadcast at the Backyard in Austin, TX. The former governor challenged the two-party stranglehold on the 2008 election just before music icon Willie Nelson played the venue’s final performance.

WCBSTV | When CBS 2 HD’s reporter on the scene, Christine Sloan, protested and said he couldn’t arrest the cameraman, the officer said, “I can do whatever I want.”

MSNBC | Economic woes, fears that Dems will enact new controls drive increase.

Associated Press | The system accounts for $3 in the $4.50 increase in the driver’s license fee that went into effect in July.

Mail Online | Such a drastic move here would bring rates, currently 4.5 per cent, to their lowest level since the Bank of England was founded in 1694.

YouTube | This piece aired on the Lou Dobbs Show, October 24.

Brasscheck TV | Minutes of the meetings in which the bail out billions (trillions?) are being distributed are issued to the news media with key figures blacked out.

Jason Leopold | Iraq war objector Lt. Ehren Watada cannot be retried by the Army on charges of missing his unit’s deployment and criticizing President George W. Bush and the war, a federal judge ruled.

David R. Hoffman | The tragic reality is that liars have the advantage in American society, and perhaps in societies throughout the world. People who are honest in their dealings with others tend to assume that others will be honest in return.

AFP | Mexican authorities have been holding 35 officials since July for selling intelligence to drug cartels, for payments of up to 400,000 dollars, the federal prosecutor revealed.

Mike Whitney | The Fed now faces the daunting task of trying to maintain America’s dominant place in the global system while the economy contracts, deficits skyrocket and the pillars of US-style capitalism come crashing to earth.

Associated Press | Insurers, automakers and American subsidiaries of foreign banks all want the Treasury Department to cut them a piece of the largest government “rescue” in U.S. history.

Guardian | Every police force in the UK is to be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners — handheld devices that allow police to carry out identity checks on people in the street.

Telegraph | The financial crisis spreading like wildfire across the former Soviet bloc threatens to set off a second and more dangerous banking crisis in Western Europe, tipping the whole Continent into a fully-fledged economic slump.

CNSNews | Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s comment to “Joe the Plumber” about his intended policy to “spread the wealth” is a good idea.

CNSNews | The U.S. stock market has lost 1,417 points–a decline of nearly $3 trillion in value — since President Bush signed into law a $700-billion financial industry bailout bill.

Bloomberg | GM executives have asked Treasury to consider taking a stake in the Detroit-based company.

The Australian | U.S. military helicopters launched a rare attack yesterday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the Syrian Government condemned as “serious aggression.”