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Secretary Snow has downgraded his expectations of a strong job report:

 

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - The hurricanes that hit Florida last month will likely have a negative effect on the September employment report to be released Friday, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said Thursday.

 

"It wouldn't surprise me if the numbers were down somewhat because of the hurricane," Snow said. "It had a devastating effect on Florida in particular; in the past when we've seen serious hurricanes like (Hurricane) Floyd it has had a negative effect on jobs. It varies from hurricane to hurricane, but this certainly isn't positive for the jobs picture."

 

The Labor Department report on employment is the last before the November presidential election.

 

Snow said he imagined the net result of the hurricanes would be to reduce the jobs gains "somewhat," before adding "I don't have an accurate estimate of how much."

 

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/9861513.htm

 

Based on weak retail sales, hurricanes, and only modest credit growth in September, I only envision at best a modest increase in employment numbers

(although prior months may be revised due to new methodolgy).

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Fascism alert:

 

The House is just starting to consider H.R. 10, the so-called "9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act." (I mean now, at 10:00 p.m.)

 

It is full of new Patriot Act style crackdowns on both citizens and aliens that were not recommended by the commission, including a "life travel history" of U.S. citizens.

 

These "dirty work" bills are typically amended and passed in the wee hours of morning when legislative rules can be circumvented, and few people are around. When dawn breaks, no one knows how all the bad stuff got in there.

 

http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html

 

This obnoxious piece of Nazi-style legislation (which Rep. Ron Paul accurately warned us about two months ago) is intended to be reconciled in conference with the Senate version (also to be voted on this week) and signed by Bush before the election.

 

The constitution is already dead, but with this bill they will defecate on the lifeless document.

An old friend called to invite Lady Fokker and I to join him and his wife for a long weekend of camping in the Adirondacks. I declined, and told him that if he'd be willing to camp on this side of the border, we'd have a deal. He told me that the site was already reserved, but that he admired my caution nonetheless. Didn't laugh at me, though he didn't change his plans either. There's just no reason to subject oneself to the jurisdiction of a country that has so recently begun to shred its most fundamental guarantees.

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Bush, Cheney Concede Saddam Had No WMDs

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041007/D85ISTE80.html

 

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush and his vice president conceded Thursday in the clearest terms yet that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, even as they tried to shift the Iraq war debate to a new issue - whether the invasion was justified because Saddam was abusing a U.N. oil-for-food program.

 

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Yup, that's code for flip-flop ;)

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Did anyone else just see the Southern congressional watcher guy on "Hardboiled" ask Krudlow whether watching the debate made him "grind his teeth"?

 

He replied, "I generally don't grind my teeth."

 

This, from an ex-coke fiend.

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Blast hits embassy in Paris

An explosion at the Indonesian embassy in France has wounded seven people, the Paris fire brigade says.

French radio said the blast occurred on the ground floor of the embassy, which is located in the exclusive 16th district of the capital.

 

Four staff members are reportedly among the wounded. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

 

Eleven fire trucks and dozens of firefighters have been dispatched to the scene.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3725520.stm

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Facts and figures for Afghanistan's upcoming election

Thursday October 07, 2004 (2355 PST)

 

KABUL: CANDIDATES _ 18, including interim leader Hamid Karzai, ethnic Tajik former Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni, Uzbek strongman Abdul Rashid Dostum, and Massooda Jalal, the only female candidate.

FAVORITE _ Karzai is widely favored to win, but it is not clear if he will garner the outright majority necessary to avoid a second round against the runner-up.

 

STAKES _ The vote is Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential vote and first national ballot since the fall of the Taliban. Karzai is hoping a victory will solidify his rule and allow him to take bolder steps to rebuild the country and fight the influence of warlords that still hold sway in much of the countryside.

 

DATE _ Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004, though organizers have left open the possibility some voting might be allowed on a second day.

 

POLLS OPEN: From 7 a.m. until 4 p.m. (0230 GMT to 1130 GMT).

 

VOTING CENTERS: 4,807, each of which will have separate polling booths so that men and women may vote apart to respect the country's Islamic customs.

 

VOTING STATIONS: There are 21,521 stations within the voting centers. Of these 12,354 will be for men, and 9,187 for women.

 

MONITORS _ More than 16,000 domestic observers but only about 225 international monitors will be involved in overseeing the vote to guard against fraud and intimidation _ a turnout which has disappointed the United Nations.

 

VOTERS _ Some 10.5 million people have registered within Afghanistan, about 740,000 in Pakistan, and there are believed to be another 400,000 to 600,000 eligible voters in Iran. 41 percent of those registered in Afghanistan are women, but that ratio is lower among Afghan refugees in Pakistan and in the deeply conservative Pashtun belt in southeastern Afghanistan.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=79873

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Australia Gears Up for Election

 

 

Australian Prime Minister John Howard launched a media blitz today to persuade undecided voters to give him a fourth term in tomorrow?s election, where he will be the first of the three leaders ? U.S., British and Australian ? who invaded Iraq last year to face a ballot showdown.

 

While Howard?s allies in Washington and London will be closely monitoring the election for signs of what they face in polls next month and next year, voters here have been more concerned with the economy, health and education.

 

With some anal cysts suggesting up to 18 percent of Australia?s 13 million voters remained undecided, Howard and opposition Labor Party leader Mark Latham made their final pitches for support in a string of radio and television appearances.

 

Polls have Howard?s centre-right government the likely winner, but undecided voters opting to back Labor could end Howard?s 30-year political career.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3598445

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Unknown Islamist group claims Taba blast

 

JERUSALEM: The deadly blast at the Hilton hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Taba on the border with Israel late Thursday was claimed by the previously unknown "World Islamist Group", in a telephone call to AFP here.

 

 

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp.../110670/1/.html

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Pakistan bans religious gatherings after blast

07 Oct 2004 14:20:44 GMT

 

Source: Reuters

 

ISLAMABAD, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Pakistan's interior minister said he would tell provincial governments to ban all religious gatherings, except at mosques, after a car bomb blast at a militant rally killed at least 40 people on Thursday.

 

Speaking at a news conference hours after the attack in the central city of Multan, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao also said no banned militant organisations would be allowed to continue with their activities.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL306114.htm

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INTERVIEW: Caucasus tension high in October, says aid expert

06 Oct 2004

 

Source: AlertNet

By Genevieve Butler

 

BRUSSELS (AlertNet) - Violence in conflict-wracked Chechnya and neighbouring Ingushetia could increase during October, according to a representative of the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO).

 

Philippe Royan, head of ECHO?s Moscow office, said security would be highly sensitive in October because a new Russian-backed president takes up his position in the turbulent province of Chechnya, and a 40-day mourning period for the victims of a politically motivated massacre in a school in North Ossetia comes to an end.

 

?We are going towards difficult days. There is a risk that inter-ethnic tensions will rise, ? Royan told AlertNet.

http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefres...09707806453.htm

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North Korea armed for cyber war

Correspondents in Seoul

OCTOBER 06, 2004 

 

NORTH Korea has trained more than 500 hackers capable of launching cyber warfare, South Korea 's defence ministry has said.

 

In a report to the National Assembly's National Defence Committee, the ministry said that hackers from the impoverished Stalinist state were among the best in the world.

"North Korea's intelligence warfare capability is estimated to have reached the level of advanced countries," Yonhap news agency reported.

 

The military hackers had been put through a five-year university course training them to penetrate the computer systems of South Korea, the United States and Japan, the report added. Their goal, it said, was to gather intelligence or to launch a cyber attack.

 

Earlier this year sensitive South Korea computer systems came under attack from abroad, according to intelligence reports.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0...6-15322,00.html

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Iran: 'Improved' missile tested

Thursday, October 7, 2004 Posted: 7:19 AM EDT (1119 GMT)

 

 

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- A missile Iran claimed to have tested earlier this week with the range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) is an improved version of its previously tested Shahab-3 missile, the deputy head of Iran's Aerospace Organization said, according to Iranian media.

 

"Shahab-3 now has a range of 2,000 kilometers and all its components are produced in Iran," said Nasser Maleki.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/07/iran.missile/

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Plunger - when you coming back? miss your perspective. ( Have a great time. Stockholm is a very cool place?

Thanks Butterfield...I'll be back on Monday. Stockholm is very nice. Upon arrival, I drove up north a bit to a small fishing village to visit with the operators of a shipyard. Trees are changing color now and the countryside and foliage reminded me of a combination of Michigan and Western Colorado in many ways...and the towns, farms and homes are all a site to behold. Everything is very well kept, and the people are wonderfully warm. Highly recommend a visit for those so inclined.

 

Jobs report should be interesting...eh? Is it possible that they lose the Ten Year, Oil and the Indexes all at once? Time to crank up some more terrorism in time to Rally-Round the flag?

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