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25441 Query: recent personal debt figures? -- rank: 1000

Diane Monaco wrote: >Can someone possibly direct me to more recent "personal debt" >(credit card, consumer/auto loans) figures for the US, which must be >1-2 trillion (US$) by now? I believe I read a Fed brief/memo on >personal debt some time ago, but after a search of the FRED >database, only percentage values of one sort or another appeared. >Regional time-series data on personal debt would also be useful. I don't think regional series exist, though you might be ab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 15:34:59 PST 2003

25442 Note to Doug re Powell -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >Doug, remember last week or so Powell was saying that it was pretty certain >they would get the war resolution through the Security Council, and you >asked "would Powell say that if it wasn't true?" Yeah, I remember, and I'm glad it's looking like he was wrong. But they must have known this at the time, so I still don't understand why he'd say something with confidence that wouldn't work out a week later. Was it part of the sales effort, or are ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 13 15:26:08 PST 2003

25443 a new blacklist -- rank: 1000

[hey, Salma Hayek is against the war!] The Scotsman - March 11, 2003 Oscars blacklist stars in bid to prevent peace protest speeches ANNETTE WITHERIDGE IN NEW YORK THE backlash against prominent stars opposing any attack on Iraq has impacted on this year's Oscars, with organisers drawing up a blacklist of people who will not be allowed a platform to air anti-war views. Meryl Streep, Sean Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, George Clooney, Dustin Hoffman and Spike Lee are among those who will not be speaking ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 12:37:39 PST 2003

25444 UPS uniforms purchased on eBay! really!! -- rank: 1000

At 1:37 PM -0500 3/13/03, editor at thesmokinggun.com wrote: >You'd think that U.S. Army and New York City Fire Department >officials wouldn't issue an internal "security alert" based on an >urban legend involving the supposed eBay purchase of United Parcel >Service uniforms by presumed terrorists. Well, think again: > ><http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/fdnymemo1.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 12:18:54 PST 2003

25445 reporters as cheerleaders -- rank: 1000

Newsday - March 13, 2003 Head Games With Media's Help Military using journalists in mental war By Edward A. Gargan STAFF CORRESPONDENT Kuwait City - As American and British troops prepare to move north from their staging bases toward the border with Iraq in preparation for an invasion, an elaborate and quite open psychological war is well under way, and the world's media have been summoned to the battle. For two days, hundreds of journalists from dozens of countries have been bused to Army and M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 11:26:39 PST 2003

25446 Scalia on divine authority -- rank: 1000

[pointed out by the mysterious BuzzFlash] <http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0205/articles/scalia.html> God's Justice and Ours Antonin Scalia [...] So it is no accident, I think, that the modern view that the death penalty is immoral is centered in the West. That has little to do with the fact that the West has a Christian tradition, and everything to do with the fact that the West is the home of democracy. Indeed, it seems to me that the more Christian a country is the less likely it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 08:46:35 PST 2003

25447 pop stars for appeasement -- rank: 1000

[gossip columnists are also known for their grasp of geopolitics, esp those whose paychecks are signed by Rupert Murdoch] New York Post [Page Six] - March 13, 2003 Pop truth ROCK stars, known for their grasp of geopolitical matters, are hopping on the appeasement bandwagon. Oasis' Noel Gallagher told a German newspaper: "Whenever there is a conservative, Bible-waving half-wit ruling in the White House, there is war . . . Protests are a bloody waste of time, the war will go ahead anyway.&quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 08:36:01 PST 2003

25448 Poll has unnamed Democrat leading Bush -- rank: 1000

[but named Dems do somewhat less well] Poll has unnamed Democrat leading Bush March 12, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) - The as-yet-unnamed" Democratic presidential nominee has a slight edge over President Bush, according to the latest national Quinnipiac poll. Almost half of those surveyed - 48 percent - said they would support the Democratic candidate, while 44 percent said they would vote for Bush. The poll of 1,232 registered voters, conducted Feb. 26-March 3, had a margin of error of plus or m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 08:11:08 PST 2003

25449 US, country of dickheads -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >I should point out that the US has very little economic leverage over Russia >with which to carry out said threats. The US is a minor trading partner for >Russia. I thought: 1) Russia's pretty flush, and so less vulnerable to U.S. bullying, and 2) the U.S. wants Russian oil as an alternative to the Middle East. So who's in the stronger bargaining position now? There's a rumor that in return for the veto Russia will reject the Kyoto accord, thereby dooming it (all it n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 08:08:50 PST 2003

25450 Perle to sue Hersh -- rank: 1000

Jeet Heer wrote: >Apparantly, he'll use a British court because it would be difficult >to make his case in a US court, where he would have to prove a >malicious intent to deceive. I always thought conservatives hated >frivilous lawsuits... Mightn't there be embarrassing testimony under oath and materials under subpoena? Perle's a busy guy. On the "Chirac, rhymes with iraq" beat (yeah we backed him, but he wasn't our friend!): >Perle Accuses Chirac of Siding with Saddam & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 06:32:40 PST 2003

25451 Fwd: Boycott Brand America! -- rank: 1000

[easy for Canadians to say] Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:17:23 -0800 Subject: Boycott Brand America! From: The Culture Jammers Media Network <media at lists.adbusters.org> Dear Jammers, In spite of opposition from the world - proven in poll after poll - Bush's oil-thirsty war machine marches on. Feeling frustrated? It's time to take a new stand and hit Rogue Nation USA exactly where it counts - right in the economy. It's time to Boycott Brand America. Are you ready? The Boycott Brand America ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 12 18:47:18 PST 2003

25452 Taibbi: dump 'em into the ocean -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >They did let Maureen Dowd call W. "the Xanax Cowboy": ><http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0309-04.htm>. Fascinating. So clearly the reporters thought Bush looked drugged, but they weren't allowed to say it. Only columnists and critics are. You have to be an opinion-monger to reveal some facts. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 12 18:46:32 PST 2003

25453 Taibbi: dump 'em into the ocean -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Sedated. That should've been sedated. Doesn't the NYT have copyeditors to >catch this stuff? By the way, Tom Shales mentioned it in his Wash Post TV column (which I posted here the other day). I guess tube critics have more freedom than WH reporters. >Was Helen Thomas bound, gagged and stuffed in the utility closet during this >charade? No, just not called on. The president had a little list, remember? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 12 18:36:41 PST 2003

25454 Taibbi: dump 'em into the ocean -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Sedated. That should've been sedated. Doesn't the NYT have copyeditors to >catch this stuff? They have ideology editors to eliminate it! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 12 18:33:41 PST 2003

25455 Fwd: NEW DEM DAILY: Will the U.N. Rise To the Occasion? -- rank: 1000

[the DLC never fails to be repulsive] ============================================= THE NEW DEM DAILY, 12-MAR-03 Political commentary & analysis from the DLC ============================================= [ New Democrats Online: http://www.ndol.org ] Will the U.N. Rise To the Occasion? When Congress debated the Iraq "use of force" resolution last fall, it rejected a substitute offered by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) that required U.N. approval of any military action, and instead passed a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 12 11:17:09 PST 2003