The best way to hack a central tabulator is to buy an elections equipment company. These privately held, unaccountable firms provide the majority of voting systems in the United States. ES&S acquired Premier, successor to the ill-reputed Diebold franchise, but was forced to sell it to Dominion. These two plus Hart Intercivic dominate the market for elections systems, from voting machines to central tabulators to service contracts for full election management. What better place to control an election outcome, tailor made for whomever. These firms sell or otherwise provide equipment with the provision that the software behind the machines is their sole intellectual property. County and state election officials are unable to inspect the software at multiple levels due to this restriction. This is truly secret voting outsourced to private firms who operate behind the scenes and have limited accountability. There is no true public accountability.

Washington Post: Vote Fraud Being Prepared: Networks, AP cancel exit polls in 19 states

There are indicators that Mitt Romney has been selected to continue to carry out the agenda of the New World Order by acting out his character in some kind of Armageddon script which may include the staging of a third world war involving China & Russia. These are clues that Romney has significant establishment support behind him and other signs that he intends to serve the elite’s agenda to a T.

The Green Party candidate for the US presidential race, Jill Stein, has been arrested and briefly jailed by the Texas police.

The 62-year-old third-party candidate, who is a physician by profession, was detained on Wednesday as she was attempting to deliver food to pro-environment protesters camping out to express opposition to the construction of a pipeline in the state. She was reportedly handcuffed by the security guards working for TransCanada, the company in charge of the pipeline project, and handed over to the Texas police, who took her to jail on the charge of “criminal trespassing,” according to the website of an anti-pipeline activist group, Tar Sands Blockade. Over the past 38 days, the opponents of the pipeline have camped out in the area, climbing the trees in the path of the Canada-built oil pipeline in Winnsboro, Texas, and effectively blocking the construction of the pipeline. [...] Earlier in October, Stein and her vice presidential running mate, Cheri honkala, were arrested by police when they attempted to enter the site of the exclusive second presidential debate between the candidates of Republican and Democratic political parties, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, respectively. The Green Party candidate and her vice presidential nominee were protesting the exclusion of all but the two dominant political parties from taking part in the nationally-televised debate.

Iranian rescuers and aid workers are on standby to fly to New York City to provide assistance to those affected by Hurricane Sandy, the head of Iran’s Red Crescent Organization said on Wednesday. - “We are ready to help the flood-stricken people of America,” Mahmud Mozaffar, who leads the organization, told the semiofficial Fars News Agency. His men stand ready to board planes and fly to the United States to help out, assuming the American government accepts Iran’s offer, he said. “If American authorities agree, we can send our rescuers with equipment and tools to American cities in the shortest period of time,” Mr. Mozaffar said. Mark C. Toner, a spokesman for the State Department, said in an email message late Wednesday, “We have seen reports in the media, but at this time have received no official offer of assistance from the Iranian government or any Iranian entity.”

The Telegraph: 50 dramatic images of destruction caused by superstorm and hurricane Sandy

A Swedish town has taken to paying people to look for work in Norway in an attempt to reduce soaring youth unemployment. - Under a scheme organised by the local authorities in the town of Soderhamn and by Sweden's national employment office, anyone aged between 18 and 28 can volunteer to take a "Job Journey" to Oslo and attempt track down gainful employment. Those who sign up get a ticket to the Norwegian capital and are put up in an Oslo youth hostel for a month, with Soderhamn council picking up the £20 a night bill. The package also includes on-the-spot guidance on how to get a job in Sweden's northern neighbour.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been sued by an American Internet privacy advocacy group for its refusal to explain the use of Predator drones inside the United States. - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced on Wednesday that it has filed a legal suit against the DHS in an effort to to gain access to information about the killer drones, which have been lent to domestic law-enforcement departments by the federal agency. EFF said that the suit was filed in a San Francisco federal court following DHS’s failure to respond to its Freedom of Information Act request for more details about the function of the pilotless aircraft within US borders. According to the report,

“A DHS division uses unmanned drones in the United States to patrol borders,” but there are reports that drone missions have been conducted “on behalf of local and federal law enforcement agencies.” "Drones are a powerful surveillance tool that can be used to gather extensive data about you and your activities."

EFF: EFF Demands Answers About Predator Drone Flights in the U.S.
Stephen Lendman: Drone Wars

The John B. Caddell, a 168-foot water tanker, lies grounded on the shore in the Stapleton neighbourhood of New York's Staten Island. Picture: Sean Sweeney/AP