CNBC Interview

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On a street corner in Sadr City, one of the poorest slums in all of Iraq, men gather to argue politics. The smell of raw sewage is overpowering. Trash is strewn over muddy roads.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=3&u=/usatoday/20050112/ts_usatoday/twoiraqcitiesawaitelections
Who cares about the elections, clean up the streets!

Certainly, another sign of depression would be declining consumer net worth -- the total of consumer assets minus liabilities -- which obviously plummeted during the 1930's. Strangely, during the Bush "depression," this statistic rose to a new all-time high of $45 trillion by the end of 2003
http://www.techcentralstation.com/011205B.html

The latest arrests followed an operation in December which allegedly thwarted an assassination attempt on visiting Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, our correspondent says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4167523.stm

Now, they accept it: Ford recently published a newspaper advert saying simply: "Global Warming. There. We said it."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4163967.stm

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3555353

Take an anonymous Pentagon leak from a “high level military officer,” add an appalling lack of knowledge of history, and compound it with ignorance of special warfare tactics. This process describes the article published by Newsweek...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16601

A source within the Mexican Foreign Ministry confirmed that, at least in the short term, funds for repatriating corpses would not be available, given disputes between President Vicente Fox and Mexico's Congress.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/011205dnmetcadavers.166ee.html

Backdoor Draft?
http://www.techcentralstation.com/011105C.html

For Airbus, the future will include a huge, quiet, fuel-efficient double-deck aircraft with 555 seats and the potential to cram in a lot more by eliminating or shrinking several lounges and bars. For Boeing, the future will be a smaller aircraft of 210 to 250 seats that can fly nonstop between almost any two airports on Earth. Its fuselage will be made of material that will allow larger windows, greater cabin air pressure for easier breathing and enough humidity to halt dry throats on long flights because the nonmetallic composite material will not rust in higher humidity.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/11/business/AIRBUS.html