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StocksAtBottom.com Sitting Around the Table DJIA 10640 NASDAQ 2170 S&P 1229 July 19, 2005 The Macro Picture at mid-year By the time this year is over, America's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) should grow by about 3.5%. There was good growth in the first half and we should get a slow-down (oil induced) by the end of the second half. If you look around the world, most major countries are starting to slow down. By year-end Asia will have experienced the greatest degree of growth for the year. The United States will be second and Europe will follow in third place....

<p>A Moscow-based organization was training Iraqi intelligence agents as recently as last September -- at the same time Russia was resisting the Bush administration's push for a tough stand against Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi documents discovered by The Chronicle show.</p>

RUSSIA SPIED ON BLAIR FOR SADDAM... // Top secret documents obtained by the Sunday Telegraph in Baghdad show that Russia provided Saddam Hussein's regime with wide-ranging assistance in the months leading up to the war, including intelligence on private conversations between Tony Blair and other Western leaders... MORE...

op secret documents obtained by The Telegraph in Baghdad show that Russia provided Saddam Hussein's regime with wide-ranging assistance in the months leading up to the war, including intelligence on private conversations between Tony Blair and other Western leaders. Moscow also provided Saddam with lists of assassins available for "hits" in the West and details of arms deals to neighbouring countries. The two countries also signed agreements to share intelligence, help each other to "obtain" visas for agents to go to other countries and to exchange information on the activities of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qa'eda leader. The documents detailing...