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16621 [lbo-talk] Control Room guy joins Al Jazeera -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ameinfo.com/68321.html> Qatar: Thursday, September 22 - 2005 at 16:09 GMT+4 Josh Rushing, former U.S. marine, joins Al Jazeera International Josh Rushing, a former U.S. Marine Captain who served in the United States Central Command media office during the invasion of Iraq, has joined the 24-hour English-language network, Al Jazeera International. A 14-year veteran of the United States Marine Corps who held the ranks private through to captain, Josh gained prominence as a centra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 23 12:00:40 PDT 2005

16622 [lbo-talk] lobbyists as policymakers -- rank: 1000

[Why is everyone identified by age?] <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=IN963107NBB5> Bush Relies on Corporate Lobbyists to Help Him Push U.S. Agenda By Kristin Jensen, Jonathan D. Salant and Michael Forsythe Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- On Labor Day, as emergency workers and politicians rushed to Louisiana and Mississippi because Hurricane Katrina had killed hundreds and left thousands of people homeless, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist talked with his staff and ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 23 11:20:58 PDT 2005

16623 [lbo-talk] DC -- rank: 1000

So how many people are going to DC tomorrow to demand an end to the war? I'm just not hearing much talk about it, so I'm wondering about turnout. Scumbag Dems - today's Note notes: >On Saturday, United for Peace and Justice and ANSWER hold a joint >anti-Iraq war rally at the White House. (Note: As the Philadelphia >Inquirer points out, the only Democratic officeholders who plan to >speak at this weekend's protest are Reps. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) >and John Conyers (D-MI).) Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 23 11:12:13 PDT 2005

16624 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: [Marxism] U.S. emergency plans: a disaster waiting to happen] -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >I know the problem with this assumption (besides the fact that even >getting the US and EU on board is a pipe dream)...which is that the >production of GHG emitting industrial processes would just be >transferred to places where there aren't the restrictions. Though that kind of relocation would be discouraged by higher energy prices, as that CIBC report cited yesterday shows. The price of shipping a container from Asia to the US has nearly doubled since 2000. D ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 23 09:59:40 PDT 2005

16625 [lbo-talk] end of an era... -- rank: 1000

...for those of you who've been saving your Federal Reserve Bulletins: <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/other/2005/20050922/default.htm> Release Date: September 22, 2005 For immediate release The Federal Reserve Board announced on Thursday that beginning in 2006, the content of the Federal Reserve Bulletin will be published on the Board's public web site (www.federalreserve.gov) on a continuing basis, as it becomes available. The quarterly paper version of the Bulletin will n ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 17:17:31 PDT 2005

16626 [lbo-talk] Hey Mr. bitter expat -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >for whom four walls are three too many yay!

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 17:15:32 PDT 2005

16627 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Today on my radio show, 5-6 PM NYC time, WBAI 99.5 FM and at <http://wbai.org> (and eventually at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: * a 3-minute teaser from my fundraiser special interview with George Galloway (to be broadcast in full, abt 33 minutes worth, on Oct 13) * Ariel Levy, author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, on the raunch culture * Richard Gott, author of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, on Venezuela Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 11:45:56 PDT 2005

16628 [lbo-talk] triple play -- rank: 1000

[A followup to my last post, this just in from Merrill Lynch's David Rosenberg] Macro-Economics: U.S. Economy Out on a Triple Play Analyst: David Rosenberg Believe it or not, we are in the process of witnessing an event that has not happened in nearly three decades: a year that sees the Fed tighten policy (liquidity pinch), oil prices rise (margin and personal income squeeze), and the equity market head lower (wealth effect, discount mechanism)-a "triple play". Like baseball, economic ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 11:38:59 PDT 2005

16629 [lbo-talk] Poltical effect of Hurricane Rita -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >Really? Here in California gas had been over $3.00 p/g steadily for >nearly a month, and last week it just fell back below that benchmark. >We're that close to the "breaking point"? Every time gasoline has spiked like this, there's been a recession. A complicating factor is that prices for refined products have risen much more than underlying crude prices (in earlier spikes, like 1974 and 1980, it was the reverse). Still, with energy prices up strongly (a ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 11:35:31 PDT 2005

16630 [lbo-talk] Poltical effect of Hurricane Rita -- rank: 1000

Victor wrote: >What about the economic effect? How high can the cost of petrol go >before things really begin to fall apart? Depends on what you mean by "fall apart," but I think $3 is pretty close to the breaking point. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 10:51:41 PDT 2005

16631 [lbo-talk] Indian food [was: Hey Mr. bitter expat -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Yep. If it were not for Indian and Italian restaurants, there would not be >much to eat in London. Au contraire! When I visited London in Nov '03, I was impressed by the variety of foods, from the appealing gastro-pubs to extravantly strange spots like St John Bread & Wine ("Nose to Tail Eating" <http://www.stjohnbreadandwine.com/history.cfm>). Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 10:31:52 PDT 2005

16632 [lbo-talk] Novak: worry about the Bush- (and Novak-) bashing -- rank: 1000

Chicago Sun-Times - September 22, 2005 Bashing by elite group should worry Bush BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST ASPEN, Colo. -- For two full days, President Bush was bashed. He was taken to task on his handling of stem cell research, population control, the Iraq war and, especially, Hurricane Katrina. The critics were no left-wing bloggers. They were rich, mainly Republican and presumably Bush voters in the last two presidential elections. The Bush-bashing occurred last weekend at the annual ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 08:07:21 PDT 2005

16633 [lbo-talk] Peggy Noonan on Bush & the meaning of conservatism -- rank: 1000

[The Note thinks this and the following Bob Novak column are important, so they must be.] <http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007291> PEGGY NOONAN 'Whatever It Takes' Is Bush's big spending a bridge to nowhere? Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT George W. Bush, after five years in the presidency, does not intend to get sucker-punched by the Democrats over race and poverty. That was the driving force behind his Katrina speech last week. He is not going to play ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 08:04:31 PDT 2005

16634 [lbo-talk] less money mo' problems -- rank: 1000

[the top 5 headlines on Reuters business via Yahoo!] Oil leaps above $68 as Rita rages Delta aims to cut up to 9,000 jobs Stock futures indicate lower open Jobless claims surge on Hurricane Katrina Sony to cut 10,000 jobs

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 07:28:50 PDT 2005

16635 [lbo-talk] W re-tippling: National Enquirer -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pugliese] <http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/63426> BUSH'S BOOZE CRISIS By JENNIFER LUCE and DON GENTILE Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal. Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe. Family sources have told how the 59-year-old president was caught by First Lady Laura downing a shot of booze at th ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 22 07:21:05 PDT 2005