– “OECD report finds that [Greek] citizens’ trust the government has plummeted from 38% to 13% in the five years up to 2012” and more can be found here.

– “The [Greek] government will on Tuesday resume its negotiations with the troika, whose inspectors have returned to Athens without showing any signs that it intends on withdrawing its demands for more austerity measures in 2014.”

– “Up to six people are expected to appear before an investigating magistrate on Tuesday, to testify on charges of embezzling €1.1m from the sailors insurance fund, known as the Sailors’ House (Oikos Naftou)”

– Ireland — The Ground Zero for Austerity 101

– Ireland to place referendum on ballot to public in 2015 on marriage equality

– “Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s husband says move to new prison 2,000 miles from Moscow follows hunger strike over poor conditions”

Latin America (& Canada)

– A World Cup trade show in Rio has been called off due to protests

– Venezuela declares Dec. 8 as a day in honor of Hugo Chavez

Financial Matters

– Gallup: American confidence plunges in Gallup Daily tracking for October, significant drop to be specific

– “The U.S. economy is growing at a tepid pace, job growth is subpar, pay raises are scant and business investment sluggish. Yet U.S. companies have been producing solid profits and lifting their stock prices. Here’s how.”

– More on the first Wall Street criminal prosecution without anyone going to jail; meanwhile a Manhattan federal judge refuses to rubber stamp the SAC settlement unless he gets some answers on the “accord’s fairness”

– “Eight days before Detroit filed for bankruptcy, Michigan’s state treasurer expressed concern about the move, saying he agreed with it but wondered if the city first should give creditors a “take-it-or-leave-it demand before we pull this trigger,” according to an email revealed in court Tuesday.”

– New data shows EU still seeing high unemployment

– “Activity at U.S. service firms accelerated in October behind a jump in sales and more hiring, suggesting businesses largely shrugged off the partial government shutdown.”

– Apple has created 2,000 jobs in the US, shifting production back there

– “EU antitrust regulators are set to fine six global banks including Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and HSBC after an investigation into the rigging of benchmark euro zone interest rates, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.”

Surveillance Planet

– Pew: 56 percent of Americans believe spying on allies is “unacceptable”

– “On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, [ex-CIA official] Ray McGovern comments on the British Gov. calling journalist Glen Greenwald’s partner a terrorist and on awarding Edward Snowden the Sam Adams award”

– Six months after Obama promised to give more info on drones, here’s what we still don’t know

– “The federal institute that sets national standards for how government, private citizens and business guard the privacy of their files and communications is reviewing all of its previous recommendations.”

– “Governments and businesses spend $1 trillion a year for global cybersecurity, but unlike wartime casualties or oil spills, there’s no clear idea what the total losses are because few will admit they’ve been compromised. Cybersecurity leaders from more than 40 countries are gathering at Stanford University this week to consider tackling that information gap by creating a single, trusted entity that would keep track of how much hackers steal.”

– “Look at the U.S. economy and you’ll notice an unusual disconnect.” Ya think?

– Anonymous pledges to make more attacks against “corrupt” Philippine goverment

– Emptywheel: “Lawfare Uses Incomplete Facts about Abdulmutallab Trial to Attack Dirty Wars” & “NSA’s notation of regaining confidence”

Labor’s a-Brewing

– “Many [Saudi] workers stayed off the streets to avoid checkpoints looking for invalid labor papers. Thousands of others had already arranged one-way journeys home, with Saudi officials insisting that those without the right visas and documents would receive no leniency.”

– “Mondragón has been justly cited as a leading example of what can be done through cooperative organization. But it recently announced that its most important unit, Fagor, was filing for bankruptcy. This raises important larger questions about the market, and longer-term strategies for moving beyond the failings of corporate capitalism and traditional socialism.”

Politics USA

Washington USA

– “A House of Representatives oversight panel subpoenaed the Obama administration on Tuesday for internal reports showing the number of people who have enrolled in health coverage through new online insurance marketplaces in all 50 states.”

– Only one in seven House districts were competitive in 2012

– “The U.S. Supreme Court will revisit the issue of legislative prayer when it hears oral arguments on Nov. 6 in a case involving a challenge to a municipality’s practice of beginning each town board meeting with an invocation. ”

– Five steps to save the Post Office

– “Why health insurance cancellations shouldn’t be a surprise”

– “Can a reprieve and a lawsuit reverse health insurance cancellations?”

– “President Barack Obama’s early efforts to boil down an intricate health care law so Americans could understand it are coming back to haunt him, leaving a trail of caveats and provisos in place of the pithy claims he once used to sell the law.”

– “The White House is asking insurance companies to explain to Americans the cancellation letters they’re receiving in the mail.”

– Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner: The website is improving

– Stephen Colbert’s hilarious take on the religious issue of contraceptive use in the ACA

– “Under growing pressure, the administration refused repeatedly to state a position Tuesday on legislation formalizing President Barack Obama’s oft-stated promise that everyone who likes their existing coverage should be allowed to keep it under the new health care law.”

– Attorney General Eric Holder appears at a court session to listen more on the issue of overcrowded prisons

– In other news, he has not ruled out charging George Zimmerman with federal charges; Also he made a “strange Gitmo boast”

– Jeh Johnson, potential Department of Homeland Security secretary appointee, unfamiliar to those in law enforcement

– Both Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) want to place an anti-union “right to work” clause in the anti-LGBT discrimination ENDA bill

– “The US military must reshape its role in the face of deep budget cuts while avoiding a turn towards isolationism after a decade of war, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel said Tuesday.”

– Additionally, he stated the US should lead but “continue to listen”

– Defender of capitalism and pseudo-libertarian (since us communists coined that term) Ron Paul calls for nullification by the states against Obamacare during a campaign stop for Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia

– Amid numerous statements that Rand Paul has plagiarized from different sources, Sen. Rand Paul concedes defeat by saying he will have a “new approval process” for his speeches

Everything Else USA

– Breaking: Authorities are coming to arrest you for crime you didn’t commit

– Live updates of elections can be found here

– Local, not US, issues at play in elections today

– Pew: 57 percent of Americans view their state and local government favorably

– Al Madrigal’s hilarious piece about the Virginia gubernatorial election

– “Esquire and NBC News are pushing a new political demographic that just so happens to be in sync with the priorities of the 1 percent.”

– ” A former California councilman has agreed to plead guilty to a bribery charge after accepting $2.3 million in what is believed to be the largest illegal payment ever taken by a U.S. politician in an undercover sting, authorities said Tuesday.”

– “The Promise and Perils of Bill de Blasio If Elected Mayor of NYC: 9 Power Centers to Keep Your Eye On”

– Police subject individual to eight anal searches after a minor traffic stop

– “A New Jersey couple is fighting to put their child in a discredited therapy to ‘cure’ him of his sexual identity [with a lawsuit to do it].”

– “Federal officials are looking into whether Paul Ciancia, accused of killing a TSA agent last week, is a right-wing conspiracy theorist.”