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Guest list for Obama’s White House Ramadan dinner
LA Times ^ | Sept. 01, 2009 | N/A

Posted on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 7:17:39 PM by Jet Jaguar

The other day President Obama issued a special message to the Muslim world for the annual Ramadan holiday. Tonight, before leaving Wednesday for the rest of his stay-cation at Camp David, the president hosts a White House banquet to celebrate the same holiday.

Invited guests include three cabinet secretaries, numerous diplomats, five members of Congress including the lone Muslim, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, and chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization mission.

Here is the list of invited guests, as provided by the White House:

Cabinet: Defense Secy. Robert Gates, Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and Kathleen Sebelius, Secy. of Health and Human Services.

Deputy Cabinet Secretaries: Deputy Secy. Dennis Hightower, Dept. of Commerce and Deputy Secy. Adam Miller, Dept. of Education.

Congress: Reps. Andre Carson (Indiana 7th), John Conyers (Michigan 14th), Ellison (Minnesota 5th), Rush Holt (New Jersey 12th) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN). Diplomats: Amb. Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein, Jordan; Amb. Adel A.M. Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia; Amb. Husain Haqqani, Pakistan; Amb. Erlan A. Idrissov, Kazakhstan; Amb. His Excellency Said....

...Tayeb Jawad, Afghanistan; Amb. Aziz Mekouar, Morocco; Amb. Peter N.R.O. Ogego, Kenya.

Also, Amb. Roble Olhaye, D’jibouti; Amb. Michael Oren, Israel; Amb. Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, Indonesia; Amb. Klaus Scharioth, Germany; Amb. Meera Shankar, India; Amb. Nabi Sensoy, Turkey; Amb. Sir Nigel Elton Sheinwald, United Kingdom; Amb. Sameh Hassan Shoukry, Egypt; Amb. Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida’ie, Iraq and Amb. Pierre Nicolas Vimont, France.

Also the following Chargé d’Affaires: Sheikh Mohammed Belal, Bangladesh; Ilango Karuppanan, Malaysia; Mohamed O Maiga; Angela Oi Foong Shim, Brunei; Baba Gana Wakil, Nigeria and Maen Areikat, Chief of Mission, Palestine Liberation Organization.

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Commerce: Toyota last week quietly announced it will shutter its famed NUMMI plant in Fremont, Calif. This should be taken as a warning: The facility had all the features of the green economy the White House wants.

The White House likes some businesses better than others. In particular, it has pushed a battery of policies designed to favor the “right” sort of businesses.
First, they should be green. They should be locally sourced. They should be high-tech and use trendy consultants. They should be organic. They should do lots of volunteering and “service” to the community. Above all, they should use union labor.

Whole Foods, where President Obama once bought his arugula, employs plenty of these modern practices.

But it would be hard to find a more perfect model of this new world of commerce envisioned by the White House than the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) auto plant in Fremont, Calif., a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors.

Since 1982, the plant has cranked out more than 5 million vehicles, including the Toyota Corolla, Pontiac Vibe and Geo Prizm.

It employs only the greenest technologies. The environmentally advanced NUMMI plant has garnered 42 environmental awards — topping even its 32 product excellence awards.

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