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NEWS DISSECTOR April 22, 2007

What Goes Up Can Come Down: Fear Debt Can Cause Recession

POSTED Sunday Night for Monday By Danny Schechter

From DIRELAND: The French Election Exit Polls and An Analysis

HAPPY EARTH DAY (HAPPY?)

IN THE CITY OF BANKRUPT LOVE
WHICH WAY FRANCE?
EVEN AS THE MARKET RISES, THE ECONOMY COULD FALL

Part of the fun and the excitement of promoting a film is that it takes me out of my office and away from my computer and into an encounter with America and Americans of all backgrounds and interests. The debt crisis is something that touches the lives of millions, and happily my film IN DEBT WE TRUST seems to be resonating.

I was in Philadelphia this past weekend for the 15th annual convention of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA). Over a thousand of them showed up to discuss the latest details of the state of the law which has been remade, or in Bush parlance, "reformed," in the interests of the big lenders with bi-partisan backing by a Congress that had been bought off with a lobbying effort that spent at lest 156 MILLION dollars to weaken consumer protections,

Add to that restrictive, suspicious, stingy and hostile judges, referees and Tax administrators and? and?and?what you end up with is a maze of paperwork and check lists and regulations that are there to undermine the hope of debtors getting a second chance, a right that we have had since the beginning of the Republic. (And if you live like so many in a cash economy, furgittaboutit! because you may never meet their dense criteria of cruelty).

All of this drives up legal costs of course. Bear in mind tat the big corporations who filed for bankruptcy do not have to pass a means test!

And to think that we were on Ben Franklin's old turf in Philly where his counsels against debt are in the museums and deeply embedded in our nation's history No wonder the NACBA organization has, as its motto, "STILL FIGHTING BACK."

Oh readers, it was grim because the new law is stuffed with provisions that make it difficult, discouraging, and if not impossible, for people to file because of all the documentation and minutiae you need to produce to qualify. It's a means test that is as mean as they come because the industry's best risk minimizing lawyers?the folks responsible for those unreadable credit card agreements we all get in the mail, the ones with all the small print and one-sided "protections"- have taken a scalpel to the law and thrown in so much boilerplate that, along with draconian IRS rules, that are all designed to make it harder for debtors to "discharge" debts and get a second chance.

While the lawyers were struggling with the details of how to help their clients deal with this deepening disaster, just across the street, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center hundreds of people were packing a costly "Become A Millionaire This Weekend" conference organized by the Learning Annex featuring none other than "The Donald," Donald Trump giving a motivational lecture with lots of DT BS for people looking for "the secret: to accumulating weapon and getting rich.

"It's bizarre, "says Robert Manning, the credit expert who advised me on In Debt We Trust and who also speaking with me at the Philadelphia conference. "A lot of this is hucksterism telling people that to be come a millionaire, they have to think like a millionaire, dress like a millionaire and be as bold (read predatory) as the Donald Trumps of the World." A sucker is born every minute is the old saying and it seems to be true as an organization that promotes learning hired Trump with big bucks to front for conferences like this.

As the wannabe millionaires packed the lecture hall. The bankruptcy lawyers were regaling themselves with the real life stories of people oppressed by debt and struggling to stay afloat economically. Outside the convention hall, a lone musicians was playing a mournful bluesy version of "Danny Boy, (my song!) as a commentary of the sad spectacle of so many people looking for "secrets" that don't exist.

It's like all the people who play the lottery when there is a big jackpot not realizing that as more people play the odds of winning go down. It doesn't seem to matter, There is a "fever; about these spectacles. And meanwhile a fraud like Trump gets lionized on TV as a big celebrity and is thus able to become an even richer snake oil salesmen as many or his properties fail financially

Happily my two screenings were well attended and went well and the lawyers say they will help us get the word out on the film. Meanwhile the underlying crisis goes from bad to worse, as you discover when you read about financial crises overseas. Can it happen here? Will it? I don't want to be gloommeister or bearer of bad tidings, but if you can tear yourself away from all the other massacres and wars and the Washington Merry Go Round, please focus on these trends and forces.

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ANLYSIS ON ECONOMY

The U.S. economy is huge and might appear able to absorb any amount of capital from overseas, put it to good use and avoid any distortions. But in fact that has not been the case.

In the second half of the 1990s capital poured into the U.S. economy, especially from Europe: foreign direct investment, purchasing land and companies; portfolio investment, purchasing stocks and bonds. What this money helped to do was drive forward GDP growth, drive down the cost of issuing debt, drive up the stock market, drive up capital gains and all other tax revenues, drive up the U.S. dollar (and down the euro), thereby pushing up the U.S. trade deficit.

Of course, it was not only foreign money generating these effects; on the contrary, most of the investment was from domestic sources. But the foreign inflows were part of a boom that distorted the world's biggest economy and that is now unwinding painfully, with stocks dropping and government revenues declining and growth weak and unemployment rising and the dollar weakening.

The process of winding down from the distortions created by over-investment is far from over, in our view.

What are the lessons?

They are that the money-go-round, an essential part of the world economy, is potentially dangerous. Fashion drives the flows and fashions are not always sensible or healthy. It is therefore important to prevent the money sloshing around in the world economy from being excessive. In that we would say the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has failed. He fed the late 1990s stock boom, above all at the tail end of 1998 when he cut interest rates three times, leading to the U.S. stock market's final, explosive surge in 1999.

Now, too, Greenspan is pouring out too much money, to try to counteract the deflationary forces from the stock boom he allowed to take place. The new tide of money is creating another asset price bubble, in the U.S. housing market.

FROM ENGINEERING NEWS (SOUTH AFRICA)

The world of finance seems to have gone crazy. The richest country in the world, the US, has the largest budget and trade deficits and huge debt problems. There is a huge amount of global liquidity available at low interest rates. There are housing and financial assets price bubbles in developed and developing countries. Mergers and acquisitions abound and private equity seems unstoppable. Derivatives markets have grown to many times the size of the combined value of all other global financial transactions. The growth of hedge funds reached such a fever pitch over the last few years that billion-dollar losses in crazy gambles seem to pass without much notice. Huge fortunes are made annually by a few managers of hedge funds while the Millennium Development Goals seem unattainable.

All countries, rich and poor, seem to float on a turbulent sea of global capital. Governments have left important policy choices to the few hundred people that dominate global financial trading and the credit ratings agencies. The dominance of finance in a world made crazy by finance has reached the point where the first question asked by the media and policymakers of almost any event is: How did the markets respond?

And this, from a conservative outlet. Oy Vey

WORLD NET DAILY: U.S. economy poised for nose dive
Major recession feared when 'liquidity bubble' bursts

As the dollar sinks to near-record lows against the euro and the British pound, the stock market has returned to record highs, but investors are being advised to anticipate a worldwide downturn and the U.S. economy may have already entered a recession.

An explanation may be found in a private investment letter published by the Carlyle Group to its "professional investors."

WND has obtained a copy of a Jan. 31 letter by the Carlyle Group's founding partner and managing director, William E. Conway, Jr., to the firm's investment professionals worldwide.

In the letter, Conway attributes the continued rise of world stock markets to a glut of liquidity in the world financial system, which he describes as "the availability of enormous amounts of cheap debt."

BLOOMBERG: HOUSING SLUMP WEAKENS ECONOMY

April 22 (Bloomberg) ? The U.S. economy expanded last quarter at the weakest pace in more than a year, depressed by the longest continuous homebuilding slump in a generation, economists forecast ahead of reports this week.

The Commerce Department will report April 27 that gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced, grew at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in January through March, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. That compares with a 2.5 percent gain the previous quarter.

SOUTH KOREA FEARS NEW DEBT CRISIS

WHAT CAN WE DO?

For starters, we can educate ourselves and each other. That's why I made the film IN DEBT WE TRUST. Readers who share my concerns and the broader alarm about all this can help by getting the film seen in your community. Consider organizing events or even have house parties. Sign up at Stopthesqueeze.org. We now have many experts and bankruoptcy attorneys willing to speak at these events and answer questions.

I am a road warrior again this week -in Ithaca and Cleveland, doing what I can to spread the word. That may mean fewer words on Mediachannel. Sorry, can't do it all.

REPORT IN ITHACA JOURNAL (NY)

Danny Schechter to visit campus

ITHACA ? Danny Schechter ? filmmaker, journalist and author of the blog "The News Dissector"?will visit Ithaca College on Tuesday, April 24, to screen and discuss his newest film, "In Debt We Trust: America before the Bubble Bursts." The free event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Park Hall Auditorium.

"Big banks, credit card companies and fly-by-night lenders have buried many unsuspecting Americans in debt by using deceptive interest rates that quickly skyrocket, big late fees, and other tricks," Schechter said. "Half of us don't pay off our credit cards each month, and the average household owes $30,000 in consumer debt."

According to Schechter's 88-minute documentary, debt is strangling the lives of tens of millions of Americans and consolidating power into fewer and fewer hands by a credit and loan complex not unlike the military-industrial complex. This "financialization" of America is producing a kind of "modern serfdom," Schechter said, and is widening the gap between the haves and have-nots.  

"In Debt We Trust" is being distributed to theaters and communities as part of a new national campaign, Americans for Debt Relief Now. The campaign aims to help Americans win freedom from the burden of overwhelming debt. The campaign's website, www.StopTheSqueeze.org, offers useful tips for debtors from Robert Manning, author of "Credit Card Nation".

And speaking of Colleges, the student loan corruption scandal continues:

Colleges Relying on Lenders to Counsel Students

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Is Al Gore Secretly Planning to Run (and other Nooze)

A "SECRET" CAMPAIGN FOR AL GORE IN UK PRESS

NO CRIMINAL LEFT BEHIND

The Justice Department is conducting a probe of a $6 billion reading initiative at the center of President Bush's No Child Left Behind law, another blow to a program besieged by allegations of financial conflicts of interest and cronyism, people familiar with the matter said yesterday.'

The disclosure came as a congressional hearing revealed how people implementing the $1 billion-a-year Reading First program made at least $1 million off textbooks and tests toward which the federal government steered states.

DOCUMENTS "LOST" AT THE FBI

JAYNE STAHL ON "THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLFOWITZ"

It looks like Paul Wolfowitz, leader of the World Bank, and his mentor, George W. Bush, got a stay of execution from the board, or is that "bored," of directors, who put off deciding whether or not to give Wolfie the proverbial ax until next week, a postponement Houdini would die for. Wolfowitz who, some might argue, makes Attila the Hun look like a socialist, fate lies in the balance not for alleged attempts by his aides to abort family planning, and wreak havoc on envrironmental policies, but for garden variety nepotism; giving a hefty raise, and promotion to his "companion" (International Herald Tribune) a.k.a. mistress.

So, it isn't the fact that, as many assert, he was among the principals who masterminded the masculine empire-building blueprint that led to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Baghdad, and may well ultimately lead to the decimation of Tehran, it comes down to the simple, inescapable, and ludicrous matter of not being able to keep it in his pants, and not knowing what to do with it when he takes it out.

A SOUTH AFRICAN VIEW WITH THE SAME TITLE

GAIL SHISTER'S MEDIA COLUMN KILLED IN PHILLY's INKY

The Philadelphia Weekly reports that prominent media writer Gail Shister has had her Inquirer column killed, a further sign that big media is moving away from carrying critical voices about our news system. The Philadelphia Weekly reports:

For a quarter-century she covered mostly network news divisions, a highly specialized niche, which she occupied so thoroughly that Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz referred to her as the Inquirer's "most famous columnist" in a recent article.

Today Shister is dealing with the aftershock of losing her column. She's been reassigned as a features reporter.

The change is due, at least in part, to the loss of 66 Inquirer staffers in recent layoffs, which has stretched the newsroom thin. The change could also be perceived as yet more evidence of the Inquirer refocusing to hyper-local reporting.

But the decision shocked a lot of people, partly because it appears to run counter to a philosophy espoused by publisher Brian Tierney, who in the current issue of Philadelphia magazine says he's enthusiastic about promoting individual reporters as "brands."

ANOTHER PRO-WAR PIECE ON 60 MINUTES

Puhleeze Lara Logan: We share your concern for the Iraqi people but somehow you always manage to weave in your support for US military into your pieces. Last night you profiled a doctor who was being hunted in his neighborhood. You mention that he had visited the White House and later went to work for the Iraqi government. Could that have been one reason he was targeted-not just because he is a doctor? And then you sneak in an upbeat endorsement of the SURGE when most journalists report it isn't working. I love the way you bravely had the other Iraqi family-who also fled iraq in the end but is said to be working with the government. Excuse me Lara?You come from Southern Africa. You know what happened to collaborators in the liberation struggle there?..Why not just wave the American flag in the Green Zone rather than do reports that are still selling the war in the guise of showing how horrible it is?..You reference Al Qaeda when most experts say the insurgency is broad based-and that the sectarian violence and death squads have been encouraged by the US covert Ops boys?how about investigating that rather than prancing about on a hotel roof?.

And Anderson Cooper?why did you avoid talking about WHY so many African Americans fear and detest the police in your piece on SNITCHING? Again, when you raise that issue you raise it with a Police Commissioner but not anyone who has studied the HISTORY of police abuse in poor communities. Its not just connected to the war on Drugs?. Yes, there is a need for more corporate and cultural responsibility in the rap world, but there is a deeper social problem here for journalists to report and more than 60 Minutes gets at?..Seems to be to be more audience pandering than real investigative journalism?.

ANOTHER COMMENT ON IMUS FROM THE WEEKLY

Brian McManus writes:

Don friggin' Imus. What he said about the Rutgers women's basketball team was vicious, vile, repugnant, insipid, stupid, racist and wrong. Yadda yadda etc., so on and so forth.

With his firing last week, a giant tumor called hate speech has been lanced and will never again metastasize. Screw him. Glad he's gone.

But one thing that will truly be missed about the media brouhaha Imus' words inspired: old white broadcaster guys (OWBG) reading dirty rap lyrics.

You'll recall?in addition to commenting on the nature of the players' hair-dids?Imus used a derogatory word to describe these young women: hos. Is it any less wrong, OWBG wondered, for black rappers to use that word to describe women in songs that get played on drive-time radio on a daily basis?

Also on Imus, Mark Cuban sounds off in his Blog Maverick blog:

CBS, owns the Imus radio show. It is a very large public company controlled by 84 year old Sumner Redstone. Mr Redstone is also the same person that fired Tom Cruise for letting his personal views get in the way of the Mission Impossible 3 box office.

MSNBC, the cable TV network that hosted the Imus show is controlled by another huge corporation, General Electric.IMHO, anyone who thinks the decision to cut the Imus show was purely a decision by NBC Universal is kidding themself. GE is one of the largest companies in the world and to say they take pride in being squeaky clean would be putting it mildly.

If you have a live show on a TV network, Its not good to have a brain fart during a slow news week.

All of which leads me to ask a simple, yet to me, very interesting question:

Excluding Premium Subscription Networks like Showtime and HBO where subscribers know what they are paying for, " What TV networks would stand up for Maher or Imus and let the show go on ?"

THE GUARDIAN: THE LIES INSIDE GITMO

Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has 36 clients in Guantánamo and has visited many times. In this powerful extract from a new book he argues that secrecy in the camp is a disease

I had visited several times and there was something nagging at me. I could not work out what left me uniquely unsettled about the place. It was not the depressing environment; few prisons are inspirational. It was not the occasional intimidation. Eventually it came to me: I could not remember being lied to so often and so consistently. In Guantánamo, lying was a disease that had reached pandemic proportions.

Former "detainee" Binyam Mohamed [British resident arrested in Pakistan] viewed the whole military commission process as a con, a lie that was meant to deceive the world. In June 2006 the supreme court said the same, in more temperate terms, and struck down the commissions as illegal. It rejected Donald Rumsfeld's assurance that the trials would be fair, accusing the administration of "jettisoning" legal rights.

In Guantánamo, the military began with smaller lies and worked upwards. I was visiting Camp Echo one day and they had messed up the visitation schedule. The client I was meant to see was not there, although I had sent the schedule for my visits several weeks before. I thought I might as well go ahead and see Shaker Aamer [British resident captured in Afghanistan], whom I was not meant to meet until later in the week. So I asked the SOG (the sergeant of the guard, in charge of the camp) whether Shaker was in his normal cell. "No, he's not here," the SOG replied. I settled down for another wasted hour, waiting for the military to bring over someone I could see. It was hot even under the umbrella at the "picnic table" - the area behind one of the cells in Camp Echo where they made lawyers wait. I watched a lizard crawling up the green mesh on the wire fence. I thought about the spider in Robert the Bruce's cave, continually battling to spin its web and teaching patience to the early Scottish nationalists.

PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS: WHATS IN WORD?

From Alternet Via Fair:

Examining the role of media in paving the way for the Supreme Court's revocation of abortion rights:

There is no such thing as partial birth abortion. The term will be found in no medical book. It was coined in 1995 by Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right-to-Life Committee, and former congressional representative and current Florida appeals court judge Charles Canady explicitly to confuse, horrify and deceive-to manipulate language with the intent of sensationalizing the abortion debate?.

Leading medical associations all agreed it was a misleading term, but the media never checked their language and by 2001, 90 percent of articles were using the term without so much as a "so-called" attached. As I reported in my 2004 book The War on Choice, an AP managing editor admitted when challenged that "partial birth abortion" was emotionally loaded, but said they continued to use it because it was instantly recognizable. Another major daily newspaper editor admitted it wasn't correct but said it was easier to use than alternate.

AP: Internet Abuzz Over 'Ismail Ax' Meaning

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - It was reportedly scrawled in red ink on the arm of the Virginia Tech gunman after his shooting rampage that left him and 32 others dead. It was written on an overnight postage Seung-Hui Cho sent between the two shootings. And a variation of it appeared on a file contained in the package sent to NBC that included Cho's rambling, hate-filled video, incoherent written messages and photos.

While there's no clear explanation of its meaning, the Internet is abuzz with speculation about the meaning of the phrase "Ismail Ax'' on Cho's arm, "A. Ishmael'' on the package and "axishmiel'' on the file.

Bloggers and online discussions offer theories on what the words might mean. They have created anagrams, cited poems, books and religious teachings, and floated the suggestion that the phrase was simply 23-year-old English major's name for himself.

The most prominent discussions involve references to Muslim religious texts in which God asks Abraham to slay his son Ishmael in order to prove his loyalty to him.

But making that link is not "intellectually honest'' given Cho's background, said Omid Safi, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"If you watch the video from the shooter, he very specifically talks about himself in Christian terms,'' Safi said, adding that Cho's references to Jesus Christ and being impaled upon a cross are not words "any Muslim would ever use.''

Cho, a sullen loner who often refused attempts to communicate with others, used the religious references to blame his actions on those who had bullied him growing up, speculated Thomas C. Brown, founder of The Broken Toy Project, an anti-bullying awareness program.

"Killing them would tell his former tormentors that 'their' mistreatment of him, (not those at Virginia Tech) resulted in this carnage,'' Brown wrote in an e-mail. "I don't think he was angry at anyone at Virginia Tech. They were the innocents; just like Ismael would have been if his father had killed him to prove his loyalty to God.''

Another theory focuses on a poem by 1960s beat poet Drum Hadley called "The Goat Ranchers,'' written under the pseudonym Yonder Ridgeline. In the poem about a romantic couple Haldey writes: "Traces of Ishmael's ax on the scarred trunks of the cedar trees.''

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Dissector Forum: Good Reads and Your Letters

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Chris Mills writes

Hello, my name is Chris Mills. I have just finished watching your movie "WMD". I feel outraged by what it so obvious about the mass media and fearful of what will become of this country in the not to distant future if we do not figure out some way to wake people up to the truth of what is going on not only in this country but around the world. I have 3 brothers that seem very much swept up by the propaganda that parades around as "news" and for the life of me I cannot seem to get them to consider
thinking for themselves.

I am a father with 3 children at home living off of the income of my fiance while I attend a Jr. college in my local area. Since beginning school I have been introduced to real critical thinking for the first time in my life and since opening my eyes to politics, religion (especially the fundamentalist branch of "Christianity") I have developed an extreme sense of outrage and helplessness.

I do have a friend that works for the campus newspaper and I could probably get an article in it. What I would like is to have something that makes your/our point clearly and strikingly. If you could possibly supply me with some kind of direction or material that would help I would be most appreciative.

Unfortunately at this time I am not rolling in cash but I believe that I can get things done on the ground if given some ideas on how best to tackle the tough job of getting the word out.

Hartley Pleshaw writes from Massachusetts:

've just seen the YouTube piece on the reaction of the audience in L.A. to In Debt We Trust; congratulations! I'm curious, though; it being in Los Angeles, how many members of the alleged "Hollywood Left" showed up to watch and support the film?

It seems like on so many issues?the environment, animal rights, Darfur?the celebrity creative community is out front, leading the way. But when it comes to a matter both literally and figuratively close to home, such as credit card debt, I don't see too many so-called "Hollywood Lefties" manning the proverbial barricades. True, there are some celebrities concerned with it (such as, obviously, Lorraine Bracco, who appeared in the film; she, of course, was personally affected by the issue), but for the vaunted "Hollywood Left," it just doesn't seem glamorous or exotic enough.

Of course, there may well be another reason. Yes, the rich (and famous) are different from you and me, and yes, they have more money. Your average resident of Beverly Hills and the Hamptons, however much he or she may have a social conscience, generally doesn't have to worry too much about where the next meal is coming from (quite the opposite, it seems), or putting a roof over his or her head. Let's face it: goodhearted and well-intentioned though they may be, with a few glorious exceptions (Bruce Springsteen being one), the Showbiz Left is composed of the bourgeoisie, not the proletariat, and thinks and acts accordingly.

Whenever typical right-wing radio ranters inveigh against "the Hollywood Left," and its insulation from the realities most working people face?its humanitarianism expressed in such gestures as adopting babies from the Third World rather than spending its money, time and creative energies in America's de facto Third World communities, for example?I have to admit that such otherwise loathsome people have a point, albeit for the wrong reasons. Where they see Commies, I see Yuppies: rich, famous, glamorous, physically beautiful people who have good intentions, but whose actions seem to place the Left on the wrong side of the Great American Class War?at least from my point of view.

Along with giving their love and wealth to their newly adopted babies from Africa, couldn't Brad and Angelina also spend some of their love and wealth on behalf of the poor kids of Watts, South Central and East L.A.? If Democratic presidential candidates are going to grovel to David Geffen for financial favors, couldn't Geffen make it clear that such favors are conditioned on these would-be presidents promising to help the victims of downsizing and outsourcing? If so many Hollywood activists are opposed to the Bush Administration's war policy, why can't they also be opposed to its trade policies, which continue to liquidate American industrial jobs, and run both the nation and its average citizens deeper and deeper into debt?

Yes, our Hollywood friends and allies are nice people, and are right to be concerned with, among other things, Green issues. But let's not forget that there is another kind of "green" survival issue tens of millions of Americans have to be concerned with?the kind of green with George Washington's picture on it. Coming out to support In Debt We Trust wouldn't be a bad way for "The Hollywood Left" to finally start living up to its name.

Hooray for Hollywood?someday, I hope.

Welcome to the new week. I am posting Sunday Night for Monday.
Off to Ithaca, my early l960's old stomping grounds at Cornell.
Will be at IC on Tuesday.

Your letters welcome. Write dissector@mediachannel.org

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