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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/chinas_currency.htm"> <title>China's Currency Manipulation Manipulates The World</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/hpY37qvxrvY/chinas_currency.htm</link>
 <dc:subject>Making It In America</dc:subject>
<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-18T10:48:46-08:00</dc:date>
<description>This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project.  I am a Fellow with CAF.


China's currency manipulation is a worldwide problem, not just a job-killer here.  


U.S. Ambassador Calls China’s Currency...&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/chinese_currenc_1.htm"> <title>Chinese Currency Manipulation: "Not A Small Issue"</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/1Y9YPSsuUNM/chinese_currenc_1.htm</link>
 <dc:subject>Making It In America</dc:subject>
<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-17T11:05:17-08:00</dc:date>
<description>This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project.  I am a Fellow with CAF.


The Chinese currency manipulation issue continues to make news.


Economist Paul Krugman lays out the stakes,

China is in effect...&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/cnn_from_unwatc.htm"> <title>CNN - From Unwatchable To Even Worse</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/xuImBfUNKgk/cnn_from_unwatc.htm</link>
 <dc:subject>The Media</dc:subject>
<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-16T14:49:29-08:00</dc:date>
<description>I haven't been able to watch CNN for years.  Now they just get worse.


"Feminazis?"  "Ugly feminists?


Seriously, why not just watch Fox news if you want to expose yourself to horrible right-wing crap?&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/chinas_american.htm"> <title>China's American Enablers</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/eOaBgCap33A/chinas_american.htm</link>
 <dc:subject>Making It In America</dc:subject>
<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-16T10:11:56-08:00</dc:date>
<description>This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project.  I am a Fellow with CAF.


China argues that some American companies will suffer if China stops subsidizing manufacturing and adjusts their currency to...&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/pass_health_car_1.htm"> <title>Pass Health Care And Start Fixing It</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/xOt7I7QnnTs/pass_health_car_1.htm</link>
 <dc:subject>Health Care</dc:subject>
<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-15T23:11:18-08:00</dc:date>
<description>I hate the health care bill.  I hate that they are going to order us to buy insurance form the greedy monopolistic corporate snakes.


But it gets people care they need, and we can immediately start working to fix it, get Medicare buy-in and ultimately single-payer.  If it doesn't pass, then there...&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/upload_your_i_a.htm"> <title>Upload Your "I Am Not Wall Street's ATM" Pic</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/la68NfBAnRA/upload_your_i_a.htm</link>
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<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-15T13:54:44-08:00</dc:date>
<description>Upload your picture expressing that you are not Wall Street's ATM, at I Am Not Your ATM


Go have a look!&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/todays_radio_sh.htm"> <title>Today's Radio Show</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/XD6W9NSG9k8/todays_radio_sh.htm</link>
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<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-15T13:31:33-08:00</dc:date>
<description>I'll be doing my regular segment on the Fairness Doctrine radio show shortly.  You can listen live at the link.


I'll be talking about the Chinese Currency Showdown.&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/chinese_currenc.htm"> <title>Chinese Currency Showdown</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/YrCik-yjOvE/chinese_currenc.htm</link>
 <dc:subject>Making It In America</dc:subject>
<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-15T11:06:51-08:00</dc:date>
<description>This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project.  I am a Fellow with CAF.


China is holding down the value of its currency, which means goods made there cost less everywhere else.  This undercuts American...&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/admin_says_isra.htm"> <title>Admin Says Israel Endangers Our Troops -- Then Does Nothing About It?</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/wsDvD5xwq28/admin_says_isra.htm</link>
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<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-14T16:11:42-08:00</dc:date>
<description>After Israel's "insult" -- announcing new settlements just as the US Vice President arrived to launch peace talks -- VIce President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that Israel's intransigence,

“is starting to get dangerous for us… What you’re doing here undermines the security of our...&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/supreme_court_c.htm"> <title>Supreme Court Corporate Speech Quid-Pro-Quo?</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/dXCi4Sbqxh4/supreme_court_c.htm</link>
 <dc:subject>Corruption</dc:subject>
<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-14T15:46:01-08:00</dc:date>
<description>So soon after Supreme Court Clarence Thomas votes to allow corporations to put unlimited money into politics his wife sets up an organization that will accept unlimited money from corporations hoping to influence politics.  I wonder how much she'll be paid?


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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/israels_insult.htm"> <title>Israel's Insult</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/sI2nwDq6zpk/israels_insult.htm</link>
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<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-14T09:52:00-08:00</dc:date>
<description>Driving Drunk in Jerusalem

[Biden] should have snapped his notebook shut, gotten right back on Air Force Two, flown home and left the following scribbled note behind: “Message from America to the Israeli government: Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. And right now, you’re driving drunk. You...&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/sec_state_says.htm"> <title>Sec State Says Israel Insulted The United States</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/F0K04MBTer0/sec_state_says.htm</link>
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<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-13T17:19:22-08:00</dc:date>
<description>This is pretty serious: Following Israel's astonishing announcement -- issued just as our Vice President arrived in their country -- that they would increase building settlements after the US asked them to hold off, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear that the United States sees this...&lt;br/&gt;
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/julies_house.htm"> <title>Julie's House</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/Cq50zARha9I/julies_house.htm</link>
 <dc:subject>Music</dc:subject>
<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-13T16:08:39-08:00</dc:date>
<description>Leo Kottke:


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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/horrible_rightw.htm"> <title>Horrible Right-Wingers</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/LTGjKUgGNV8/horrible_rightw.htm</link>
 <dc:subject>RW Smears</dc:subject>
<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-13T12:45:03-08:00</dc:date>
<description>This is just horrible: Isn't It Time To Euthanize Reid's Wife?


Of course, the press will dig up something that was posted in a comment on a liberal blog several years ago, and tell the public "both sides do it."




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<item rdf:about="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/03/bailing_out_the.htm"> <title>Bailing Out The Banks Changed The Way People Think</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeeingTheForest/~3/LwyOa1k6FPQ/bailing_out_the.htm</link>
 <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>
<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-03-12T22:38:01-08:00</dc:date>
<description>Tax-free municipal bonds are selling like crazy because they pay a very high yield. The thing is, they have a high yield because so many states and municipalities are on the edge of going broke, like California.  If they go broke the bond holders are supposed to lose their money.  But California's...&lt;br/&gt;
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