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16981 [lbo-talk] creating consumers -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 26, 2005 GOO-GOO GREED IT'S not enough to dress the results of the recent baby boom in Dior and Bur berry and push them around in Buga boo strollers that cost as much as a car. Now there are posh new nursery rhymes to recite to the spoiled sweeties. In "This Little Piggy Went to Prada," Amy Allen rewrites childhood standards with a designer bent. "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," becomes "Twinkle, Twinkle Diamond Ring." But our fave ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 13:57:32 PDT 2005

16982 [lbo-talk] Gary Hart is a dick -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >It recycles the long-discredited, contemptible lie that Philip Agee >exposed Richard Welch as CIA station chief in Greece in the 1970s. Who did then? Genuine question - I don't know the story. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 26 13:54:26 PDT 2005

16983 [lbo-talk] Yay Liza! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >The guy who interviewed is really named Ron Insana? With a name >like that, shouldn't he be working for Fox? Ron Insana is a smart guy. He goes way back to the old FNN, and really knows what he's talking about. His politics aren't cretinous either. Some years ago, the CNBC management objected to Ron's growing bald spot. Word is that he tried Ron Popeil's Hair In A Can for a while - and it kinda looked that way on camera. (Ron Popeil gave his name to Ronco products, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 13:11:59 PDT 2005

16984 [lbo-talk] Ruy Teixeira's latest -- rank: 1000

[oodles of links in original] <http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=NC&pubid=1124> In this edition of Public Opinion Watch: Change Constituency Continues to Grow Economic Pessimism Shows No Signs of Lifting Youth Tilt Progressive Change Constituency Continues to Grow SurveyUSA recently released a set of fifty statewide surveys that show just how large the constituency for change is becoming. In each state, these surveys asked "In general, do you think the country is headed in the righ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 13:08:33 PDT 2005

16985 [lbo-talk] latest poop, sez Max -- rank: 1000

[this two-line comment was prepended to the 16k La Repubblica article, so it bounced for length] Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Michael Ledeen & SISMI! Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:57:34 -0400 From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at epinet.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Latest poop on Kos is that Fitz may empanel a new grand jury and go after more neo-cons, including Ledeen.

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Date:	Wed Oct 26 13:04:56 PDT 2005

16986 [lbo-talk] a new model for food aid -- rank: 1000

[not sure what I think of this, but it seems on the surface that the Bush admin has a point] Wall Street Journal - October 26, 2005 Meal Ticket Farmers, Charities Join Forces To Block Famine-Relief Revamp Bush Administration Wants To Purchase African Food; Lobby Says Buy American Proposal Is Stuck in Congress By ROGER THUROW and SCOTT KILMAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL American humanitarian groups, armed with food donated by the U.S. government, have fed millions of starving peopl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 12:47:13 PDT 2005

16987 [lbo-talk] GAO takes electronic voting problems seriously -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf> [summary] While electronic voting systems hold promise for a more accurate and efficient election process, numerous entities have raised concerns about their security and reliability, citing instances of weak security controls, system design flaws, inadequate system version control, inadequate security testing, incorrect system configuration, poor security management, and vague or incomplete voting system standards, among other issues. For example, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 12:37:06 PDT 2005

16988 [lbo-talk] Happy b'day, Village Voice, RIP -- rank: 1000

This is really sad. I started reading the Voice in 1967 or 1968, and wrote for it pretty regularly from 1987 to 1992. It started going slowly downhill during the recession of the early 1990s, when then-owner Leonard Stern (the Hartz Mountain magnate whose son, Eddie, was caught up in the mutual fund timing scandal <http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/funds/2003-09-05-trading-scheme_x.htm>), obsesed with declining profitability at the paper, cut back the news hole. Successive owners and edi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 09:58:26 PDT 2005

16989 [lbo-talk] the Wal-Mart effect -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >And, in a related story. > >Hot off the BBC... > ><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4377344.stm> > > >Wal-Mart calls for higher wages The Gigot Collective weighs in... Wall Street Journal - October 26, 2005 The Wages of Wal-Mart Hoping to make nice with detractors, Wal-Mart Chief Executive Lee Scott has called on Congress to increase the $5.15 minimum wage. Senator Ted Kennedy, whose latest bid to raise the national minimum was spurned last ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 26 08:40:42 PDT 2005

16990 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart: cut benefits because we love our associates so much -- rank: 1000

[full text of memo at <http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/26walmart.pdf>] New York Times - October 26, 2005 Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and MICHAEL BARBARO An internal memo sent to Wal-Mart's board of directors proposes numerous ways to hold down spending on health care and other benefits while seeking to minimize damage to the retailer's reputation. Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unh ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 26 08:24:10 PDT 2005

16991 [lbo-talk] the Wal-Mart effect -- rank: 1000

<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2005/nf20051026_8916_db016.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily> NEWS ANALYSIS By Aaron Bernstein Some Uncomfortable Findings for Wal-Mart At a gathering sponsored by the retailer, economists will present studies of the giant's economic impact -- not all with flattering results Is Wal-Mart good or bad for the U.S. economy? A group of economists is attempting to answer that question. And the surprise is that the economists' studies, which aren't all comp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 08:21:15 PDT 2005

16992 [lbo-talk] Michael Ledeen & SISMI! -- rank: 1000

[my Italian is pretty choppy, but it looks like the 1980s are back, with Michael Ledeen, SISMI, and the right wing of the US national security establishment all dancing together] <http://www.repubblica.it/2005/j/sezioni/esteri/iraq69/bodv/bodv.html> L'INCHIESTA/ La missione del direttore del Sismi negli States per accreditare l'acquisto di materiale nucleare da parte di Saddam "Pollari anḍ alla Casa Bianca per offrire la sua verità sull'Iraq" Il dossier sull'uranio dal Niger non ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 26 07:53:23 PDT 2005

16993 [lbo-talk] more on the Italian angle -- rank: 1000

[Translated excerpts from La Republicca at <http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=Repubblica+Translation>] <http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10506> La Repubblica's Scoop, Confirmed Italy's intelligence chief met with Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley just a month before the Niger forgeries first surfaced. By Laura Rozen With Patrick Fitzgerald widely expected to announce indictments in the CIA leak inves ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 08:09:13 PDT 2005

16994 [lbo-talk] Wilson's neighbors; an Italian connection? -- rank: 1000

[interesting Italian angle at the end] Los Angeles Times - October 26, 2005 Focus of Prosecutor in CIA Leak Inquiry Appears to Shift to Rove FBI agents question neighbors of Valerie Plame, whose covert role was revealed. By Tom Hamburger, Richard B. Schmitt and Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writers WASHINGTON - Prosecutors investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity returned their attention to White House advisor Karl Rove on Tuesday, questioning a former West Wing colleague about contacts ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 07:41:22 PDT 2005

16995 [lbo-talk] business cool on budget cuts -- rank: 1000

The Hill - October 26, 2005 <http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/102605/news3.html> K Street on budget sidelines By Patrick O'Connor Congressional Republicans are trying desperately to pass a controversial budget bill without the support of a normally reliable constituency: corporate America. During the Bush administration, Republicans on Capitol Hill have used broad business support to pick up relatively easy wins on bankruptcy reform and tax cuts and much toughe ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 26 07:37:13 PDT 2005