Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government 03 Nov 2008 <http://www.legitgov.org/>http://www.legitgov.org/ All items are here: <http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news>http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1082591/Prepare-chaos-U-S-electoral-warned-cope-historic-number-voters-cast-ballot.html>Prepare for chaos: U.S. electoral system warned it 'can't cope' as historic number of voters cast their ballot 03 Nov 2008 The American presidential election could descend into electoral chaos on Tuesday as unprecedented numbers of voters turn out to cast their ballot in a system that is largely untested. The U.S. has an electoral system that is not organised, designed or funded to cope with 'anywhere near a 100 per cent turnout', a director of a leading independent electoral reform group has said. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/03/uselections2008-barackobama-johnmccain-election-day>Obama expected to draw record number of voters to polls 03 Nov 2008 Election officials are braced for the biggest election turnout in US history tomorrow as voters finally deliver their verdict on Barack Obama and John McCain to bring to an end a gripping, two-year long campaign. The excitement generated by Obama's candidacy is expected to see between 130m to 140m Americans 'vote,' easily eclipsing the 121m in 2004. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/03/voting-lines-stretch-to-e_n_140401.html>Voting Lines Stretch to Eight Hours 03 Nov 2008 Early voting has reached record numbers this year. Including absentee ballots, 27 million people have already voted. That's in spite of lines that stretch on for hours... Rachel Maddow <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#27508339>discussed the long lines -- eight to ten hours in some places -- on MSNBC last night. While she admitted that images of people waiting hours to vote was inspiring, she reminded viewers that not everyone has the time to do it. Long lines, she argued, are a new kind of poll tax. <http://www.wtvr.com/Global/story.asp?S=9285834>Judge Refuses to Extend Voting Hours in Virginia 03 Nov 2008 The Associated Press is reporting that a Judge has refused to order longer voting hours and reallocation of voting machines in Virginia. Last week the NAACP filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth and Governor Tim Kaine saying the state was not prepared for Tuesday's election. It said that there were not enough voting machines for areas that predominately served African-American voters. It also asked the governor to extend voting hours from 7pm to 10pm. The ruling from the judge today means that hours will remain the same and no additional machines will be added to five precincts named in the suit. <http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=123103>Fulton, Clayton Election Boards Nix Longer Voting Hours 03 Nov 2008 (GA) Fulton and Clayton County elections officials decided against asking for federal permission to extend voting hours on Election Day. The counties considered whether to ask for expanded hours because of the heavy turnout in early and advance voting. The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections [GOP trolls] said Monday that the number of voting machines is enough to handle the crush of voters. <http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7779138&version=7&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1>Voter docs found on Tampa highway 03 Nov 2008 (FL) Thousands of pages of voter information were found lying along the shoulder of Interstate 4 this morning. The papers, all with information about Hillsborough County voters, have been cleaned up and taken to a Department of Transportation maintenance facility for now, but voting officials still don't know where they came from. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110301729.html>McCain Sues to Force Va. to Count Military Ballots That Arrive Ten Days After Election 03 Nov 2008 John McCain's campaign sued Virginia's electoral board today, hours before the election, seeking to force the state to count late-arriving overseas military ballots. The lawsuit asks a federal judge to order the State Board of Elections to count any overseas absentee ballots sent by November 4 and received by local election officials as late as November 14. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27488250/>NBC/WSJ poll: Obama holds significant lead --Dem's edge nationally over McCain stands at 8 points among likely voters 03 Nov 2008 With just a day left until Election Day, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama holds a statistically significant advantage over Republican Sen. John McCain in the race for the White House, according to the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before the election. <http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081103/D947MLHO4.html>Obama, McCain dart across crucial states 03 Nov 2008 The presidential candidates are capping a history-making campaign with a dash from Florida through a half-dozen other crucial states as John McCain tries for an upset over Barack Obama. With little sleep, McCain was darting through seven swing states Monday, arguing that victory was virtually at hand despite national polls showing otherwise. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/3374402/Barack-Obamas-grandmother-dies-as-polls-point-to-election-triumph.html>Barack Obama's grandmother dies, as polls point to election triumph 03 Nov 2008 Barack Obama's grandmother - the woman who helped raise him - has died on the eve of the US election. Madelyn Dunham died peacefully after a long battle of cancer, the Democratic candidate announced in a joint statement with his sister. They described her as "the cornerstone of our family". Mr Obama learned of her death this morning while he was campaigning in Florida. <http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/03/america/NA-US-Elections-Obama-Grandmother.php>Obama's grandmother dies a day before election 03 Nov 2008 Barack Obama's grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, has died, Obama announced Monday, one day before the election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86. Obama announced the news from the campaign trail in Charlotte, North Carolina. <http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/11/customs-officia.html>Customs Officials Refer Leak of Obama's Aunt's Immigration Status to Inspector General 02 Nov 2008 Officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement department have referred the disclosure to the media of the immigration status of Sen. Barack Obama's Aunt Zeituni Onyango to the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General and the office of professional responsibility. The disclosure may have been a violation of federal privacy laws. <http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=081103072623.cq3trqaz.php>Iraq deputy oil minister wounded in Baghdad bombing 03 Nov 2008 Iraq's Deputy Oil Minister Saheb Salman Qutub was wounded in a bomb attack outside his house on Monday, security officials said. The bomb exploded as Qutub was preparing to leave his home in the northern Ataifiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad, they told AFP. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110300313.html>Iraq: Failed Assassination Against Senior Oil Ministry Official 03 Nov 2008 Nine people were killed and dozens wounded on Monday in bombings in Baghdad and eastern Diyala province, including a failed assassination attempt against a senior oil ministry official, authorities said. An explosion ripped apart the car of Abdul Sahib Salman Qutub, a deputy oil minister, outside his Baghdad home, authorities said. The official suffered minor injuries, and his driver was more seriously wounded, according to Asim Jihad, the spokesman for the oil ministry. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7978176>Twin bombing kills six in central Baghdad 03 Nov 2008 Two bombs -- one of them hidden in a trash can -- exploded in a central Baghdad square Monday, killing six people and wounding 21 others, police said. A security official said 10 policemen were among those injured in the blasts, along with two women and nine men. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/02/AR2008110202535.html>Military Seeks 'Bird Control' in Afghanistan --Wanted: Falcons, Handlers For Mission in Afghanistan 03 Nov 2008 The U.S. Air Force is looking for a few good falcons. Live falcons, that is, ones with feathers and talons, the kind that hunt mice and small birds. U.S. aircraft at the sprawling Bagram air base in Afghanistan are coming under increasing attack -- not from al-Qaeda or Taliban fighters but from "many small songbirds, pigeons, Magpies, Hawks and Black Kites," according to a bid request for a "bird control services" contract issued by the Army last month. <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iXyWv4PRyLSD1E6crkLtkFC0s_oA>Gunmen kidnap Afghan government adviser in Pakistan: police 03 Nov 2008 Gunmen have kidnapped an Afghan government official as he was visiting his in-laws in a Pakistani border town, police said Monday. Akhtar Kohistani, an adviser at the ministry of rural development, was whisked away from Chitral town late Sunday, hours after he arrived to see relatives in Pakistan, local police chief Sher Akbar told AFP. <http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g31zyANUyvw7_Z8YFK2F_GC8OB1g>Brother of Afghanistan's finance minister kidnapped in Pakistan 02 Nov 2008 Afghan officials say gunmen in Pakistan have kidnapped the brother of Afghanistan's finance minister. They say Zia ul-Haq Ahadi was abducted in the city of Peshawar on Friday. His brother is Finance Minister Anwar ul-Haq Ahadim. A Finance Ministry spokesman in Kabul says it isn't known who kidnapped Ahadi. [Blackwater. Who else?] <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/world/europe/03moscow.html>Russians With Pumpkins Protest Many U.S. Plots 03 Nov 2008 Thousands of Russians from the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi gathered in front of the United States Embassy here on Sunday night carrying jack-o'-lanterns inked with the names of war victims and charging that the war in Georgia was part of an American plot to improve Senator John McCain's electoral prospects. Most of the demonstrators, men and women in their teens and early 20s, said they held the United States responsible for the war in Georgia, saying President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia would not have attacked the separatist enclave of South Ossetia without express permission from American officials. <http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid=425402>U.S. army commits $50 million research into soldier suicides 03 Nov 2008 The U.S. Army and the National Institute of Mental Health have begun a five-year, $50 million research program into the factors behind soldier suicides and how to prevent them. [US: Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan -- that will stop them.] <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gPSaLLx8OQAU9sRRRifNdgJiBT-Q>Israel far-right parties unite ahead of election 03 Nov 2008 Two of Israel's main far-right parties on Monday announced they had decided to forces under a new list promoting settlements in the occupied West Bank ahead of a February general election. The still unnamed party unites The National Union and National Religious Party, which together have nine MPs in the current parliament. <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiLhKeXoyzTCUXCIILYeZulAd9NQ>Israeli troops destroy West Bank settler structures 03 Nov 2008 Israel said it demolished several structures near a Jewish wildcat settlement in the West Bank on Monday, a day after it vowed to stop funding such illegal outposts amid escalating settler violence. Army bulldozers backed by police forces tore down four makeshift structures located outside the Migron outpost in the Ramallah area of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a military spokesman said. <http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/11/03/guantanamo-albahlul.html>Yemen man convicted of war crimes for making al-Qaeda videos 03 Nov 2008 A U.S. military jury in Guantanamo has convicted a Yemen man on war crimes charges for making propaganda videos for 'al-Qaeda.' The nine-person jury voted to convict Ali Hamza al-Bahlul on multiple counts on charges of conspiracy, solicitation to commit murder and providing material to support terrorism. The jury, which was composed of military officials approved by the Pentagon, reached the verdict on Friday after four hours of deliberations but only announced its decision on Monday. [He was convicted because typically, it's the CIA that makes the propaganda videos for al-Qaeda.] <http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081031/twl-bio-terror-next-threat-for-us-3fd0ae9.html>Bio Terror 'Next Threat' For US 31 Oct 2008 In an exclusive interview with Sky News, homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff said sources of radioactive and biological materials must be properly secured "at all costs". He warned terrorists are actively seeking to acquire such materials. Mr Chertoff said he did not think a weapon of mass destruction, like a biological or nuclear bomb, was a danger that could be just months away. [LOL! Of course it is! Say, late November... December. See: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/29/usa-bush-syria-elections>Brace yourselves - George Bush will soon be free to do just what he wants By Jonathan Freedland 29 Oct 2008... From November 5 to January 20, he will exercise the freest, most unaccountable form of power the democratic world has to offer.] <http://www.military.com/news/article/scientists-slam-fbi-anthrax-probe.html?col=1186032310810>Scientists Slam FBI Anthrax Probe 03 Nov 2008 It was an open-and-shut case, the FBI said. But three months after agents pinned the post-9/11 anthrax mailings on Army scientist Bruce Ivins - who 'committed suicide' as the FBI closed in on him - his former colleagues have approached a lawyer to sue the feds for fingering the wrong man, The Post has learned. They argue that the FBI abused its power and violated its own policies as they probed an innocent man for six months. <http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/articles/2008/11/03/senior_executives_warned_911.htm>Senior Corporate Executives Warned to Leave N.Y. on 9/11: Source By Jeremy R. Hammond 03 Nov 2008 Foreign Policy Journal has learned that senior executives of a major U.S. international corporation may have been warned to leave New York on September 11, 2001. According to an inside source, one of the senior executives of the corporation told him beforehand that "something big" was going to occur and so other corporate executives would be travelling out of New York. The source, who spoke to the Journal on the condition of anonymity, worked at a European branch of the media giant Warner Bros. <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/02/BUUH13MK5J.DTL>Bush, business groups push limits on lawsuits for drug companies 02 Nov 2008 The question before the Supreme Court is whether patients should be able to sue when they believe drugmakers failed to warn them adequately about the risks of medicines. The pharmaceutical industry, and the Bush administration, say patients are amply protected by the Food and Drug Administration. In the case called Wyeth vs. Levine, business groups and the government are asking the Supreme Court to impose strict new limits on lawsuits against drug firms. <http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/bloomberg-hears-opponents-of-term-limits-bill/>Bloomberg Gets an Earful Before Signing Term Limits Bill 03 Nov 2008 After listening for nearly four and a half hours to emotional and at times harshly critical testimony from scores of residents, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg signed legislation at 1:55 p.m. Monday to extend New York City's term limits law, allowing himself and a majority of the City Council to seek a third four-year term in 2009. <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24589311-5006787,00.html>Bodyguard for bashed flamingo at Adelaide Zoo 02 Nov 2008 The flamingo enclosure at Adelaide Zoo will have a permanent "bodyguard" following this week's sickening attack on a 78-year-old bird. Zoo staff and volunteers will take turns watching over the greater flamingo - believed to be the oldest in the world - that was left bloodied and injured after it was allegedly bashed on Wednesday. CLG needs your support. <http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute>http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute<> Or, please mail a check or money order to CLG: Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) P.O. Box 1142 Bristol, CT 06011-1142 Contributions to CLG are not tax deductible Previous lead stories: <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24591844-2702,00.html>Fallout on leaked call 03 Nov 2008 The federal Opposition has called on the Government to investigate how a telephone conversation between Kevin Rudd and US President [sic] George W.Bush found its way into the media. Details of the call to discuss the global financial crisis were reported on the front page of The Weekend Australian last month. The article, published on October 25, reported that in a conversation about the global financial crisis, Mr Bush asked the Prime Minister what the G20 forum was. US officials denied Mr Bush asked that question, rejecting that aspect of the report's claims through an article in The Washington Post. Mr Rudd's office has also denied that version of events. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1081624/Goldman-Sachs-ready-hand-7BILLION-salary-bonus-package--6bn-bail-out.html>Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7bn salary and bonus package... after its £6bn bail-out 30 Oct 2008 Goldman Sachs is on course to pay its top City bankers multimillion-pound bonuses - despite asking the U.S. government for an emergency bail-out. The struggling Wall Street bank has set aside £7billion for salaries and 2008 year-end bonuses, it emerged yesterday. Each of the firm's 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million. The size of the pay pool comfortably dwarfs the £6.1billion lifeline which the U.S. government is throwing to Goldman as part of its £430billion bail-out. <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5062822.ece>General David Petraeus plans more border raids 02 Nov 2008 General David Petraeus, who took over last week as the new head of Central Command with responsibility for America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is a fervent adherent of the newly expanded American strategy of self-defence aggression. The strategy, outlined by Robert Gates, the American defence secretary, holds that US forces have the right to attack a target in any country, without notifying that government, if the country is harbouring a threat to American interests. Please forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. 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