The Greenback Blues: Something's Gotta Give By Mike Whitney Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney 08/19/08 ?ICH? In a matter of weeks, the euro has been pounded into ground-chuck while the dollar has regained much of its former glory. What gives? The mighty greenback has surged 6% in the last month alone. Apparently, the early reports of the dollar's demise have been greatly exaggerated. The euro is caught in the same recessionary downdraft that is buffeting a number of currencies, all of which are unwinding at the same time although unevenly. Currency.Cartel.

This Battle with the Bottle is Nothing So Novel Tickets, by Eric Martin From the sublime (with follow up), to the ridiculous - yet two more reasons to end the disastrous .".war on drugs.".e more reason: Sebastian and I agree (I believe). That's gotta count for something. It's remarkable that the American people got a taste of the massive societal problems created by the prohibition of alcohol, and decided to revisit those maladies on a larger scale. Just say .".no.".indeed. Perhaps we can start with marijuana, and when the world fails to implode .

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40 Murders in 48 Hours in Juarez (800 this year) (Thanks to Lone Wolf for the video and the following commentary) What I found most interesting about this issue, was the opinion of the ?expert? professor Payan. According to the good professor, there is no cause for alarm, this are TARGETED murders, all the good people of Juarez have to do is STAY OUT OF THE CROSSFIRE! However, he forgets to mention that one of the ?incidents? took place in a drug treatment center, sponsored by the church, where gunmen killed 9 people, INCLUDING A PRIEST. Ticket.

Dateline Vienna: India to brief NSG troika today Indian officials will meet the NSG troika of Germany, Hungary and South Africa late this evening to plan for tomorrow's big meeting of the nuclear club. And also with the United States delegation. 20 August 2008 The Hindu India to brief NSG troika today Siddharth Varadarajan Vienna: Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon will meet the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) ?troika? late Wednesday evening in the run-up to the August 21 meeting of the 45-nation cartel, where the fate of the American prop. Cartel estate.

Dateline Vienna: For nuclear club, it's decision time on India Proposal to bend rules brings angst, and the opportunity of business for some. 20 August 2008 The Hindu For nuclear club, it's decision time on India Proposal to bend rules brings angst, and the opportunity of business for some Siddharth Varadarajan Vienna: For a club with such strict rules of membership and forbidding guidelines of behaviour, the Nuclear Suppliers Group's lack of a permanent address has always given the cartel something of a spectral character. Set up under condit. Cartel tickets.

Freaks from The Future (that's us!) Irving plaza tickets, we had nothing better to do, so we did this. watch it hahahhs had bio yst the paper wasn't that easy or maybe i didn't rlly study for it. hung out with huisze, isabelle .&.zena for like 3hours. ate yummy macs breakfast then went to town but most of the shops were closed .&.it was raining. i bought my white tmgc there .&.he's beside me but he's still sound asleep. so cute heh can't wait to play with him. went for boring bio prac, it was boring to the max. stoned there for what seemed.

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An End To A 'Reprieve' - Bye Bye Web Radio? A little over a year ago I was writing about negotiations between SoundExchange and Web streamcasters. The issue was a set of exorbitant new fees authorized by the US Copyright office. Back then it appeared that Congress might even pass some kind of legislation. In the glare of scrutiny and public outcry, the Cartel backed down, a little. Web radio didn't die. But it did ingest a poison - a slow-acting set of fees and restrictions that may yet kill the nascent industry. According to Peter Whor. Irving plaza ticket broker.

DrumBeat: August 19, 2008 ticket brokers, The Great Oil Bubble? The markets are rejoicing as the ?great oil bubble? loses air and rapidly heads back to its proper double-digit price. The rejoicing may be a bit premature as the underlying supply and demand fundamentals do not appear to support ?proper? prices for oil. Between 2004 and 2007, global oil consumption grew by 3.9%, driven by emerging giants China and India (40% of the world's population) and other rapidly growing emerging economies. While consumption has exploded, product.