This edition of newsline. Its friday, december 21st. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. Theyre hoping consumers will keep spending and not just on christmas presents. We have joined from the business desk with the numbers. The magic number is considered a rate that reflects a healthy stream of goods an services. The previous estimate didnt reacthat nuer. Officials at the Commerce Department have changed the picture of the economy filling in some gaps. They say the pace of growth is the highest. Commerce Department Officials revised up their growth rate. Gross domestic product grew from the previous quarter. It was up by 0. 4 from the figure last month. Consumer spending does account for 70 of gdp. Expert growth was revised from 1. 1 to 1. 9 . Federal Government Spending was changed. It was revised downward slightly but maintain the pace of 13. 5 . Still the u. S. Economic outlook remains uncertain. The Obama Administration and the republicans are at a stand still to resolve the tax incre
East. This is about an hour. Thank you for that kind introduction, and id like thanks to everybody for coming out in these conditions. Im originally from england and will be heading back there shortly, so preparation after Southern California for a british winter. Just like to begin by saying a few words first, how i came to this subject, were describing the scenes of the book. Now, as you have already heard, the my previous book, the mighty wurletzer about cia front groups, nongovernment organizations made up of anticommunist, private citizens, engaged in cold war propaganda overseas and later emerged these groups were in fact being secretly funded and, to some extent, managed by the cia. One group i didnt really engage with in the mighty wurlitzer was the american Friend Office the middle east. And mainly because its purpose didnt seem to be so much to do with the cold war as with promoting the arab world to an american audience, and also it was antizionist, battling the insew lens o
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