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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (14420)	3/12/2003 10:54:27 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 89467

'15 Bush-Warmonger articles per day?' You may want to do a recount. He gets that many posted instead of working the first 4 hours of his shift at work. That leaves him 4 more hours of uninterrupted time to find many more before he goes home & gets online. Face it Jim. The man is dedicated to his chicanery. :-\

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (14420)	3/12/2003 11:24:54 AM
From: Softechie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

How much does it cost US per day on Iraq now? I've heard $1B...

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (14420)	3/12/2003 7:12:04 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Twilight Zone By Stephen Roach Morgan Stanley Mar 10, 2003 morganstanley.com <<...On the economic front, the world now appears to be in the early stages of a fairly predictable shock-induced downturn. America’s labor market data leave little doubt as to the direction of the next move in the economy -- down, not up. The only questions, in my view, pertain to severity and duration. February’s outsize job losses totaling 308,000 workers cannot be dismissed as weather-related statistical noise. As indicated by sharply rising jobless claims data over the past three weeks, conditions in the US labor market are deteriorating markedly. An oil shock always hits corporate hiring; the accompanying confidence shock only compounds the problem. As jobs and income generation come under intensified pressure, further consolidation of the over-extended American consumer seems likely. And without the consumer, the US economy will fold. I reiterate my view that odds of a recessionary relapse in the United States are high and rising...>>

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (14420)	3/13/2003 4:30:08 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

U.S. envoy says al-Qaida planning attacks on "unprecedented scale" helenair.com STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A U.S. envoy on Thursday defended the detention of suspected terrorists and Taliban fighters at a U.S. naval base in Cuba and warned that al-Qaida terrorists are planning "massive attacks" against civilians. In an opinion article in the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes, Pierre-Richard Prosper, said detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay were being treated according to the Geneva Conventions on prisoners of war, although the United States considers them "unlawful combatants."