SPB News for Wednesday.

NYT: Bloomberg Will Seek To Revise Term Limits, Run For Mayor Again

No Bailout for You! (VIDEO); Health plan for WTC workers abandoned by congress

FRONTIERSMAN EXCLUSIVE: Palin responds to questions — Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee, agreed to a request by her hometown newspaper, the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, for an interview by providing written responses via e-mail to the following questions.

Gwen Ifill Breaks Ankle, But Still Plans To Meet 'Em In St. Louis — First On TVNewser: PBS' Gwen Ifill has broken her ankle after tripping and falling down stairs at her home last night, a NewsHour insider tells TVNewser. We're told Ifill had been walking up a staircase …

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The capitalist system has failed --Stocks plunge on Wall Street as bailout fails in Congress By Bill Van Auken The capitalist system has failed, and there is no reason to doubt the warnings from Bush, Paulson, Obama and others that it is preparing a social catastrophe... Whatever their tactical differences on the bailout, the answer of the Democrats and Republicans is clear: Working people must give up their jobs, living standards and social interests in order to rescue the financial parasites who created the disaster. The working class must put forward its own solution. The banks and major financial institutions which now threaten to drag down the economy and plunge millions into poverty must be nationalized, without compensation to their executives and big shareholders. These institutions should be transformed into public utilities, controlled democratically by the people, with their resources utilized not for the creation of profits for the rich, but rather for productive purposes, including the creation of jobs, a halt to foreclosures and evictions, the rebuilding of the social infrastructure and the funding of education, health care and other vitally needed social programs.

Army probes soldiers' chemical exposure by KBR Army Secretary Pete Geren has agreed to investigate whether Indiana National Guardsmen were exposed to a carcinogen while protecting an Iraqi water pumping plant shortly after the U.S. invasion in 2003. A review panel appointed by Geren also will look at whether the Army's oversight of a private contractor [AP buried the name of the contractor, KBR, in paragraph *nine.*] that operated the Iraq water plant was sufficient and whether the military's medical screenings of soldiers were adequate... Although the toxic exposure happened five years ago, Indiana Adjutant Gen. R. Martin Umbarger was not notified of it until June, in a phone call from U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan, a Democrat from North Dakota.

Department of Defense Announces More Iraq Deployments The Department of Defense announced today additional major units scheduled to deploy in support of Operation Iraqi 'Freedom.' The announcement involves one corps headquarters, one division headquarters, one Marine expeditionary force headquarters and seven brigade combat teams consisting of approximately 26,000 people.

Italy to supply 18 planes to Afghanistan An Italian company has won a 287 million dollar contract to supply 18 transport planes to the Afghan armed forces through the US air force, the Italian group Finmeccanica said Tuesday.

House limits constituent e-mails to prevent crash The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill. As a result, some constituents may get a 'try back at a later time' response if they use the House website to e-mail their lawmakers about the bill defeated in the House on Monday in a 205-228 vote.

Bill would limit Homeland Security laptop searches The Homeland Security Department has declared its right to seize laptops at the U.S. border indefinitely, but legislation introduced Thursday is intended to curb that power. U.S. Senators Russ Feingold, D-Wis., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and U.S. House Representative Adam Smith, D-Wash., introduced the Travelers Privacy Protection Act in response to the DHS policy allowing customs agents to detain a traveler's laptop for an unspecified period of time to review its contents, even absent of individualized suspicion

Court denies GOP appeal on Ohio early voting A federal court has ruled against a GOP appeal of a disputed early voting window that allows Ohio voters to register and cast a ballot on the same day. A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati denied the Ohio GOP's request that ballots cast during the weeklong period be segregated from other ballots.