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Burmas clandestine nuclear weap-ons are poorly managed but it couldbecome a real threat if another roguenation such as North Korea steps into offer assistance, says a formerdirector of the United Nations Inter-national Atomic Energy Agency.

In a technical briefing held at theForeign Correspondents Club Thai-land in Bangkok last week, Americannuclear scientist Robert Kelley saidhe believes the secret nuclear weap-ons program run by the Burmesemilitary is not well developed and isbeing badly managed.

It is a poor program [from what wehave seen]. Theres poor work-manship, [and] its a top down man-agement system saying you will do

this, not how you will do this, saidKelley.I think it is safe to say the people

of Thailand are safe for the next fewyears because these guys dont knowwhat they are doing, but I wouldntwant to give them more than a fewyears.

However, Kelley said that he isalso concerned about underplayingthe Burmese generals' nuclear weap-ons program saying that it coulddevelop into a genuine threat.

If another country steps in and

has all the knowledge, the materials,and the keys that would unlock whatis plaguing them, including bad man-agement, this program could reallyspeed up, said the former seniorU.N. nuclear inspector.

[Then] everything Ive said about itbeing a bad program goes out thedoor. [Assistance] from North Koreacertainly comes to mind, he said.Kelley wrote a report for the Demo-cratic Voice of Burma that was re-leased in June, which is predominant-ly based on the information and evi-dence such as documents, drawings,and photographs, provided by adefecting Burmese army major, SaiThein Win.

[Mr. Sai] was briefed on the nucle-

ar program, not because he was amajor, but because he was an aide tosome senior officers, said Kelley.In his role as aide, the defector, whois also a Russian-trained mechanicalengineer, attended briefings thatincluded Burmas top general, ThanShwe.

In those briefs the word to thegeneral officers [from Than Shwe]was, We want a nuclear bomb, andwe want to build a reactor so we cando it, said Kelley.

Thats what he heardhe also

worked in the special machine toolfactories making prototype compo-nents for missile and nuclear pro-grams, which gave him a lot of credi-bility, said Kelley.

The 34-year-old defectors infor-mation, he added, included detailsabout the nuclear battalion atThabeikkyin, which has orders tobuild a nuclear reactor and to enrichuranium for a nuclear bomb.

Violation. Kelley said that theBurmese nuclear program is a viola-tion of agreements the junta hassigned both with the IAEA and theAssociation of Southeast Asian Na-tions, and that the junta should not beallowed to get away with it.

Its a violation, its against the law.

Ive been doing this for a l ong timebecause Id like to catch someoneearly and make them stop, saidKelley who participated in IAEA mis-sions to South Africa and Libya.

This program as we see it today isnot a threat in terms of a nuclearmushroom cloud, but it is a threat tothe whole system. I dont think ignor-ing it should be an option, he said.

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Burmese troops have been victimizing civilians as part of the campaign against ethnic minorities.

From our Dearest Sex Advisor

LA(id) Realationship AdviceIn theory, the purpose of minimum

wage is to provide workers withenough per hour so as to be able tosupport themselves and their familywith a minimum standard of living.

Currently however, the basket ofgoods meant to calculate the averagestandard of living is heavily out ofdate, and does not include manyrelevant expenses for the contempo-rary American. Increases in the pricesof utilities, transportation, insuranceand taxes leave the average workerwanting this, coupled with the factthat minimum wage jobs neither havebenefits nor pension schemes leavesthe individual in an even more vulner-able position. Let us not even talk ofthe luxury of saving a little somethingat the end of the month.An average person works a minimumof 8 hours a day. The average Ameri-can family size according to the l atestUS Census is 3.2. Furthermore, anaverage of 2.06 children are born perwoman.

The current federal minimum wageis $7.25 per hour; the federal tippedwage is $2.13 (changing the definition

of a tip from complimenting the quali-

ty of your services received to shoul-dering the employers responsibility ofsupporting his staff this however isnot the topic of the day).

Simple math, for one working adult,

8 hours of work 5 days a week, at thefederal minimum wage: 7.25*8*5 =$290. In one month, this individualwill make: $1,160. In one year, thisindividual will make $13,920. Current-ly, in 48 states the poverty thresholdmeasures at $18,310 for a family unitof 3 individuals. Thus, a single motherfor instance, working full time at mini-mum wage will still come nowherenear to reaching the poverty thresh-old.

Increasing the minimum wageholds the argument of promotingillegal workers who are willing toaccept lower wages, thereby notpaying taxes and resulting in a loss ofrevenue for the government. Illegalactivities also perpetuate the povertytrap as social protection will be non-existent, resulting in the the exploita-tion of workers under every spectrum.

The argument of scrapping theminimum wage on the other hand,

still holds no justification. In fact, the

opposite should be done. Not onlyshould the minimum wage be in-creased to meet the minimum povertylevel, vocational training should beprovided to allow those working to

improve their skill set, bumping themup the ladder. Tax breaks and incomesupport are always welcome, but thetrue goal in an American economy - isself-sufficiency.

The purpose of the minimum wageis to protect our labor and allow thema decent standard of living. The con-cept is fair, however, it is incomplete.Considering those in the minimumwage bracket often are less educat-ed, have little awareness with regardto their opportunities, and suffer from

job insecurity, the least that can beregulated by the government withregard to protection, is the paycheckthey receive at the end of the month.

In the long term however, the mini-mum wage should be nothing morethan a stepping stone for teenagersand those entering the job market.Youve done the math could yousurvive?

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There has been so much discus-sion recently about "QE 2" that youwould think the entire financial sectorwere about to embark on a transatlan-tic cruise. Unfortunately, they, and we,are not so lucky. In the year 2010,"QE 2" doesnt refer to a sumptuousocean liner, but a second, more ex-travagant round of "quantitative eas-ing" stimulus. In the past, this tech-nique was simply called "printingmoney." As if the nation has not al-ready suffered enough from the firstround, Captain Ben Bernanke and theFed are determined to compound thedamage by hitting us with anothermonetary juggernaut. Their statedgoal is to boost the economy andcreate jobs. However, since economic

growth cannot be achieved by printingmoney, their QE 2 will sink just assurely as the Titanic.

The intent of QE 2 is to lower inter-est rates to promote job growth andavoid the apparently growing threat ofdeflation. But the very idea that theeconomy is weak because interestrates are too high is laughable. Defla-tion is the market's cure for the assetbubbles that have recently burst, soany attempt to avert it will only weak-en the economy further.

In fact, one of the reasons the USeconomy is in such bad shape is thatinterest rates are already too low. Lowrates have encouraged excess bor-rowing, by both individuals and gov-ernments, and discouraged saving,fueling new asset bubbles at the ex-pense of legitimate investment. As aresult, the dead weight of debt hassimply overloaded our economy, andour creditors are getting nervous.

What we need now is to make hardchoices, not engage in more easing to deleverage, not borrow more.Worse still, by keeping rates too low,

the Fed has enabled the US govern-ment to grow significantly larger than itotherwise could had its borrowingbeen restrained by higher rates. Ab-sent these low rates, Washingtonlikely wouldn't have passed expensivenew healthcare and financial regula-tion reforms; they would be too busytrying to keep the lights on in theCapitol. For this and other reasons,the bogeyman of deflation is really nota concern at all. It's not a threat be-cause falling consumer prices couldserve as a relief for many sufferingfrom layoffs and pay cuts in the reces-sion. Even if it were a threat, it's noteven likely because so much liquidityhas already been created and aninfinite amount could still be created at

will by the Fed. Consumer prices arealready rising across the board, de-spite a contracting economy, sowhat's all this talk about deflation?

The Fed is quick to point to fallingreal estate prices. But a drop in realestate will no more cause consumerprices to fall than the real estate boomcaused them to rise. Real estate pric-es are too high, and the economy willnever truly recover unless they areallowed to fall. It is interesting thatwhen real estate prices were rising,the Fed did not raise rates to bringthem down, but now that they arefalling, the central bank feels com-pelled to lower rates to prop them up.If falling real estate prices threatendeflation, why did the Fed not per-ceive an inflation threat when realestate prices were rising?

My thinking is that, at the end of theday, all this deflation talk is a redherring. The true purpose of QE 2 is to

disguise the decreasing ability of theTreasury to finance its debts. As glob-al demand for dollar-denominateddebt falls, the Fed is looking for an

excuse to pick up the slack. By an-nouncing QE 2, it can monetize gov-ernment debt without the marketsperceiving a funding problem. If thetruth were known, a real panic wouldensue. So, the Fed pretends buyingtreasuries is simply part of its masterplan to boost the economy, eventhough, in reality, it is simply acting asthe buyer of last resort.

If the Fed really wanted to help theeconomy, it would raise rates quitedramatically. Instead of preparing forQE 2, it should be unloading the debtit purchased during QE 1. Of course,that is not so easy to do which isprecisely why I was against QE 1 fromthe beginning. However, even thoughthe exit will be painful, going down

with the ship will be even more un-pleasant.Higher interest rates and a commit-

ment from the Fed to refrain frompurchasing Treasury debt would forcethe government to dramatically reducespending. If we combine less govern-ment spending with fewer regulations,reform our tax code in a way thatstops punishing savings and invest-ment, stop all government subsidiesfor real estate so that prices can fall toaffordable levels, and allow all insol-vent entities to fail, then a real recov-ery will take hold.

If the Fed refuses to set sail on QE2, then her loyal passengers mightcomplain, but at least the US will beon solid monetary ground as it tried torebuild a viable economy. If insteadwe board QE 2 (and QE 3 and QE 4thereafter), then we are headed to asea full of icebergs called interest ratespikes, and all on board will surely

drown in a sea of worthless FederalReserve Notes.By Peter Schiff | President and ChiefGlobal Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital

Consider the following thoughtexperiment: suppose that the mini-mum wage is raised to $1000/hour.What are the implications? Evident-ly, most employers cant pay thatmuch and theyll go out of business.If that werent so, we could all be-come fantastically wealthy just bydecreeing a ridiculously high mini-mum wage. Now suppose that theminimum wage is lowered to $0.01/hour. Again, employers wont paythat wage (even though theyd liketo) because other firms are biddingfor the same workers, and thisdrives wages up. The reason em-ployers dont pay the decreed wag-es is that wages are determined bysupply and demand, not govern-ment edict. Firms hire workers withthe goal of earning profits, whilewages are costs. They competitive-ly bid wages up to the point wherethe wage (cost) equals the benefitor extra profit gained from hiringthat worker. So competition forprofits practically ensures that work-ers get paid according to theirproductivity, according to the valueof their labor. (In economics jargon,

they get paid their discounted mar-ginal revenue product.)

Now lets trace out the effects ofan increase in the minimum wageon the employers affected (e.g.,those hiring unskilled labor). First,the increased labor costs leadsome firms to lay off workers andothers to shut down, since demandfor their goods and hence theirprices have not changed. But thedownsizing and shutdowns reducethe supply of the goods, increasingtheir price. This new, higher price

justifies the higher wage for thosewho kept their jobs, since they arenow producing a more valuableproduct. The end result is that someworkers lose their jobs, while therest enjoy the higher wage. Con-sumers lose because prices arenow higher.

Since workers are paid accordingto their productivity (like all factorsof production), all the minimumwage does is to make it illegal tobuy or sell labor beneath the pricefloor. The government is essentiallysaying: You must be this produc-tive to legally work in our country.

This is most harmful to the leastskilled of workers, the ones wewant to help most. They will be thefirst to be fired, and will be cut offfrom the chance to gain the workexperience and job skills needed toearn a legal wage. Allowing suchpeople to work for lower than mini-mum wages gives them a chance towork their way to a better life. Todeny them the freedom to negotiatetheir own wages and to leave themlegally prohibited from working is amoral outrage.

Some clever economists mightargue that the minimum wage canincrease the total wages paid to allworkers. This could happen if theamount of workers unemployedwas more than offset by the in-creased wage. But what is thisexcept human sacrifice? Theywould knowingly unemploy themost needy in order to increase theaggregate income of workers. Thisposition is morally bankrupt and aninsult to those who genuinely wantto help the less fortunate.

By Yuri Isacov | Contributor

REBUTTAL: IN OPPOSITION TO MINIMUM WAGE LAWS

EDITORIAL: KEEP YOUR HEAD ABOVE DOLLAR

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After picking three upsets last week andwatching all three of them turn into blowoutswe're playing this week conservatively. Beforewe get to the picks it's time to update our fanson the state of the Pac-12 Union.

In case you haven't heard about the OregonDucks, there's a pandemic amongst their fansthis season. Apparently all of the high-fiving inEuguene after touchdowns has led to a substan-tial increase in carpel tunnel inthe camouflage clad fans.

Some insider information out of Los Angelesis saying that the NCAA is looking into imposingmore sanctions on USC for treating their matchup with the Ducks as a fictitious bowl game.The reasoning being that the Trojans arebanned from bowl games until 2012.

I spoke with Jeff Tedford's psychiatrist thisweek and he's recently been diagnosed asagoraphobic. This explains the awful roadperformances and their third blowout this year.Texas continues to prove that they were not agood fit for the Pac-12. UCLA served them up acan of whoop ass in non-conference play, butmore recently and of greater embarrassment is

their back-to-back losses at home to Iowa Stateand Baylor. Oregon State's orange and blackuniforms were the perfect Halloween costume...Now, to the gamesCalifornia at Washington State: The bipolarBears will try to give this one away, but Wash-ington State is playing to keep their conference

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TONIGHTIf youre looking to get an early start to your

weekend, Downtown (and close to it) is where itsat on Thursday night. Exciting and laser-lovingGhostland Observatory hit Club Nokia on theirtour with DJ Jack pre-set while chart-toppingtender rapper Drake lights up Gibson Amphithea-tre.

For lesser known talents likely to deliver note-worthy performances check out multi-instrumentalist Emily Wells performs beautifulcompositions and occasional Cello inspired inter-pretation of Notorious B.I.G. classics at Largo orthe rising MC, Freddie Gibbs chops it up at KeyClub with a cast of local L.A. rappers as support.

FRIDAYFriday Los Angeles hosts a bunch of party

starters Boy 8 Bit at Avalon, Matthew Dear atVanguard and Yelle at Echoplex top my list unlessyou like your sounds really hard, in which caseHelmet at Key Club should do the trick.

For guitar enthusiasts, indie darlings Dr. Dogperform at The Wiltern and rockers Govt Mule

jam out The Music Box. Indie heads might alsolike Peter Moren of Peter, Bjorn & John at Skybar

at the Mondrian.SATURDAY

Saturday the calendar gets even heavier,literally as The Heavy plays at El Rey Theatrewith Wallpaper set to open. If you dont recognizethem by the weight behind their cool name, youllsurely recognize them when they perform their hit

How You Like Me Now?For acts currently harnessing that songs

attitude, check out KROQ Locals Only at TheRoxy with Young The Giant (you may have heardtheir song My Body) and Vanaprasta, or if youcan get tickets to the sold out event, Florence &The Machine, Hanni El Khatib and Grouplove atThe Wiltern.

Another hard to access show, Mike Gordon atThe Troubadour, should be any bass fans fantasyshow. Vegans have a fantasy offering of theirown just a little bit North of The Troubadour, when

The Roxy hosts LA Vegan Beer Festival at 1p.m., accompanied by performances from ahandful of artists including Paul Chesne Band. Iadvise attendees to stick around until nightfall andthen walk a little west to Key Club where they canshout expletives with Too $hort and crew.

SUNDAYIf you find yourself awaking from a vegan beer

induced hangover on Sunday morning, LA Week-lys event at Gibson Amphitheatre with MassiveAttack, Thievery Corporation, Saint Motel,Voxhaul Broadcast, Red Cortez and lots of KCRWpersonalities could be your panacea. If not,

maybe a miracle ticket to the second sold outnight of Florence & The Machine with Hanni ElKhatib and Grouplove at The Wiltern would do thetrick.

MONDAYUnlike most weeks, the calendar doesnt die

off very much on Monday. Florence & The Ma-

chine pull double duty on their final night of perfor-mances in L.A., gracing The Wilterns stage for athird time before rocking an after party DJ set atBardot for school night, which is FREE but re-quires RSVP. If you cant get on that list, KoshaDillz at Libertine for the Hunnypot Radio Show,Black Apples and Tijuana Panthers at Echo orChasing Kings and friends at Silverlake Loungeall provide high quality free entertainment.

TUESDAYTuesday night, marijuana enthusiasts sad-

dened by the failure of Prop 19 congregate at KeyClub to indulge in some Collie Buddz, danceableindie-rock enthusiasts two-step with Delorean andlocal band Superhumanoids at The Troubadourand supergroup A Perfect Circle rock out Avalon.

WEDNESDAYA Perfect Circle returns to Avalon to deliver

another dosage of intense super-rock on Wednes-day night, although theyll be competing withBrandon Flowers (The Killers) and Fran Healy(Travis) at The Wiltern for a handful of guitaraficionados. Other notable events on Wednesdayinclude Big Muff Night at Spaceland and a showfor hip-hop heads - Swollen Members and the

former Entourage character, Saigon, at Key Club.As always, you can find a more complete list ofconcert listings, as well ticket giveaways andarticles on rising talent in the music scene, inSUPERGOODMUSIC.coms Concert Blast whichis published every Friday and available thruwww.supergoodmusic.com.

WORLD-CLASS MUSIC HITS L.A. FOR 7 DAYSBy Brandon Dorsky, Esq. Entertainment Columnist

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www.SUPERGOODMUSIC.com Washington at #1 Oregon: The Huskies aregiving up 212 yards per game on the ground,expect the Ducks to triple it if they want to embar-rass their uncompetitive rival. Ducks 63-Huskies 6Oregon State at UCLA: The Beavers have hittheir midseason stride and will continue to runright over the helpless Bruins. Beaves 30-BabyBears 20Arizona State at USC: Let's see if the salesmanLane Kiffin can get the troops to buy into another"this is our bowl game" motivational speech. Thestands should have some amazing talent ondisplay from the coeds. Trojans 28 -Sun Devils 23.Colorado at Kanas: Now that basketball seasonhas started the Kansas fans will start disappearingfrom the football stadium. Cody Hawkins shouldhave more success than his 17 of 44 performancelast week. Buffs 27 - Jayhawks 21.#15 Arizona at #13 Stanford: In the Californiagame of the week, the winner will move to numbertwo in the conference power rankings. The Wild-cats should be able make plays by spreadingStanford's secondary out in space, but they'vestruggled in the red zone. Stanford will try to runthe ball early and wear down the two defensiveends Brooks Reed and Ricky Elmore.#3 TCU at #5 Utah: The game of the week nation-ally and the spot for ESPN's College Gamedayheads to watch two unbeatens square off. TheUtes have played great defense this year and I'mexpecting them to contain Andy Dalton and theoption offense. Utes 27 - Horny Frogs 24

ACROSS THE NATION

It was dubbed Roadblock Saturdaylast weekend and the undefeated teamsin Division I now stand at five. 9-0 Auburncontinued their dominance with a 51-31blowout at Mississippi. Boise State beatLouisiana Tech 49-20 and TCU and Utahboth won to set up their unbeaten show-

down this Saturday. Nebraska endedMissouris quest for a perfect season witha 31-17 win and a school record 307yards rushing by Roy Helu Jr. Michigan

States Cinderella season came to anabrupt halt with a 37-6 beat down byIowa. Florida State was stunned by NorthCarolina State 28-24 and Virginiaknocked out Miami quarterback JacoryHarris on their way to a surprise 24-19win. Notre Dames troubles continue afterthe tragic death of 20-year old team vide-ographer Declan Sullivan who toppled

over in a blustery wind storm in SouthBend last week; the Irish went out andlost to Tulsa 29-28 losing starting quar-terback Dayne Crist in the process.

OREGON RECAPThe Coliseum was rocking last Satur-

day evening with the #1 AP ranked Ore-gon Ducks in town. The stage was setwith a national audience, College GameDay, Homecoming, and Halloween eve. Itwas just one year ago that the Trojanswent up to Eugene and were throttled for613 total yards and a 47-20 demolitionthat signaled the changing of the guard inthe PAC-10 conference. This was anopportunity to come out and get a signa-ture win with all eyes on the land of Troy.It was the first time that USC had beenan underdog at home in 51 games sothere was a lot to prove and a lot atstake. By the end of the game, therewas no question that Chip Kelly and theOregon Ducks were a superior team withbetter depth, better execution, and betterschemes on Saturday. The Trojans trad-ed punches with the relentless Duck

attack even going up 32-29 with 11:19left in the 3rd quarter.

With the Coliseum pumped and theTrojan faithful starting to believe, therelentless Oregon offense respondedwith four consecutive scoring drives whileshutting down the Trojan attack that putthe game out of reach. The Duck defensecontinued its dominance in the 4th quarterhaving only given up seven points allseason and they forced two punts, oneinterception, and loss of downs after theTrojans took the lead. Oregons trade-mark has been to get stronger as thegame goes on and this game was a text-book example of how they have handledall of their opponents to this point.

Sophomore Heisman candidate LaMi-chael James was held to 65 yards in thefirst half but pounded the Trojan D with174 yards in the 2nd half to finish with239; the most ever against USC at the

Coliseum. Oregon won the turnover bat-tle 3-2 and they had 599 total yardsagainst the beleaguered Trojan defense.USC knew going in that they would haveto win the turnover margin, control thefootball, convert 3rd downs, and score inthe red zone. Coach Kelly said he wasnot into statements, just winninggames. He certainly has made his markin his second season as head coach witha Duck offense on its way to scoringmore than 600 points this year. Theyaverage close to four plays a minutewhen they are going full tilt and they havethe depth to run a platoon system in thetrenches which Kelly acknowledges is hiscompetitive advantage.

TROJAN OFFENSEAs I said in the last REPORT, the

Trojans needed to come out and play aphysical brand of smash mouth football.It was crucial for . (continued online)

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