BREVITAS

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MIDEAST

WE INTERRUPT THE OFFICIAL LYING FOR A FEW FACTS: A chart, prepared by
Angry Bear, that shows that GI Iraq fatalities in 2007 have exceeded
those in 2006 each month so far.

http://angrybear.blogspot.com/2007/09/true-statements.html

SUZANNE GOLDENBERG, GUARDIAN, UK - Two US soldiers who helped write a
critique from the front saying America had "failed on every promise" in
the war have been killed in Iraq. . . Staff Sergeant Yance Gray, 26, and
Sergeant Omar Mora, 28, were among a group of seven soldiers serving in
Iraq who wrote a piece excoriating America's conduct of the war. The
piece was published in the New York Times last month. . . The criticism
caused a flurry of public debate because of the candor with which the
men, all serving in the 82nd Airborne, described the situation in Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2167858,00.html

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OUTLYING PRECINCTS

FOR THE FIRST TIME, Thompson and Giuliani are tied in a our three poll
moving average. McCain has 16 and Romney 10. Clinton remains 18 points
ahead of Obama.

AP - A lawsuit accusing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham
Clinton's brother of failing to repay debts to a Tennessee carnival
operator has been settled. Tony Rodham was accused of failing to repay
$107,000 plus interest to the bankrupt estate of Edgar Allen Gregory Jr.
and his wife, Vonna Jo, both of whom received a presidential pardon in
2000. The case was scheduled to go to trial on Thursday, but the parties
reached a settlement agreement, said Rodham attorney Samuel Crocker.
The terms were not disclosed.

ABC NEWS - Hsu's legal woes may be expanding with new inquiries into his
business dealings with a New York-based investment fund. A spokeswoman
for New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said that their office
is investigating whether Hsu "misappropriated" $40 million investments
from Source Financing Investors, an investment fund run by Joel
Rosenman, one of the creators of the 1969 Woodstock rock festival. The
Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that an attorney for Source
Financing Investors had contacted the district attorney's office after
checks from one of Hsu's company bounced due to insufficient funds. . .
Hsu reportedly raised well over $1 million for Hillary Clinton's 2008
presidential campaign by eliciting donations from others and giving
generously from his own pockets.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/

BOSTON GLOBE - Service members have traditionally supported the
Republican Party, but there has been a dramatic shift since the war
started in 2003 away from financial backing for GOP candidates for
president and Congress, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics
said. So far this year and in the 2004 election, about 40 percent of
contributions from donors identifiable as military members has gone to
Democrats, compared to about one fourth in the 2000 and 2002 cycles, the
center's study said. Service members gave about $1.8 million in the 2004
cycle and about $330,000 this year, the study said. Democrat Barack
Obama, who is calling for a troop withdrawal to start immediately, has
received the most of any presidential candidate from uniformed service
members -- about $27,000.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/09/military_shifti.html


POLITICAL.COM - Controversial former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
spent months attending Green Party events around the nation designed to
help raise money to pay off her 2006 campaign debt. And-after months of
flirting with making a run for Green Presidential nomination-McKinney
formally withdrew from the Green nomination contest. In a letter
addressed to the Steering Committee of the Green Party of the United
States, McKinney wrote: "After careful consideration about the political
conditions facing our nation, the level of development within the
[Green] Party, my own readiness to take on such a daunting task and my
own long postponed personal priorities, I write to inform the Party that
I must at this time withdraw my name from consideration for the Party's
2008 Presidential Nominating contest." The move leaves McKinney free to
make yet another attempt to recapture her former House seat next year.

http://thirdpartywatch.com/2007/09/11/mckinney-wont-seek-green-party-nomination/


STEVEN ROSENFELD, ALTERNET - The Department of Justice's Voting Section
is pressuring 10 states to purge voter rolls before the 2008 election
based on statistics that former Voting Section attorneys and other
experts say are flawed and do not confirm that those states have more
voter registrations than eligible voters, as the department alleges. . .
Voter roll purges, if incorrectly done, can be a factor in determining
election outcomes -- particularly in tight races. Unlike most of the
"voter fraud" cases cited by GOP activists, where a handful of
registrations -- usually in the single digits -- from big voter
registration drives are found to be erroneous, purges can affect
thousands of voters. In Florida and Missouri in 2000, a total of 100,000
legal voters were incorrectly removed, according to academics and local
election officials. In Cleveland in 2004, voter purges were a factor
behind long lines and people leaving without voting as poll workers
dealt with people who did not know they had been removed from voter
lists, various media reported.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/62133/

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HEALTH

THE ARIZONA AFL-CIO has becme the 23rd state AFL-CIOto endorse John
Conyers single payer healthcare legislation

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FURTHERMORE. . .

GIULIANI'S HUGE 9/11 MISTAKE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0E0wfShJ58&v3

TIME - Organized crime may have brought in more than $2 trillion in
revenue last year, about twice all the military budgets in the world
combined, a report issued Monday said. The "State of the Future" report,
published by the Millennium Project of the World Federation of United
Nations Associations, said organized crime entities generated income
from money laundering, counterfeiting and piracy, and the trafficking of
drugs, people and arms. One of the countries it singled out was North
Korea, which it said makes an estimated $500 million to $1 billion
annually from criminal enterprises.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1660700,00.html

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