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Nationalize ANWAR

By Francis K. DeVuono
July 19th, 2008

British P., Dutch Shell, Exxon, the Kuwaitis? Who? What? Why should I (Mr. American Joe Citizen) give anyone of these foreigners the right to take My Oil.

I'm the American here.

Anwar is National Park (that's my land) --not some T. Boone Pickens ranchero in Texas. more »

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"Centrists" Running the Asylum

By David Sirota
July 18th, 2008

OUTSIDE OF WACO, TEXAS - I'm filing this weekly column dispatch at a rest stop outside of Waco, Texas on my way to the Netroots Nation conference. On the drive from Dallas, I've been listening to talk radio and obsessing over the concept of "the center." more »

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1984 in 2008

By Timothy Gatto
July 18th, 2008

An editorial in The New York Times, No Friend of the Workers, today http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/opinion/18fri2.html?ref=opinion was a scathing indictment of the Labor Department. Now I don’t want to lecture anyone about what they should be paying attention to, but this one was too hard to ignore. The editorial was spot-on in it’s reporting, and that was gratifying in itself. more »

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Toxic Imports

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
July 17th, 2008

American consumers are at risk from toxic imports. more »

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Ted C. Fishman, "Hidden culprit of product scandal made in China," USA Today. 2 August 2007. http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/08/hidden-culprit-.html
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America for Sale

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
July 17th, 2008

The American economy is increasingly in hock to foreign governments. China and the OPEC nations are setting up sovereign investment funds to buy up pieces of America. China recently bought a $5 billion stake in Morgan Stanley. Abu Dhabi bought $7.5 billion of Citigroup. Singapore paid $4.4 billion for a part of Merrill Lynch.

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"Of Sovereign Funds and Prairie Fires," New York Times. 21 February 2008. http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/of-sovereign-funds-and-prairie-fires/?scp=4-b&sq=foreign+investors+buying+america&st=nyt
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Half of Our Trade Deficit Due to Oil

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
July 17th, 2008

Almost half of our trade deficit—$327 billion—is attributable to oil imports. To finance this debt, we must either borrow from countries like China or sell off American assets at the rate of $2 billion every single day.

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http://www.energyintel.com/PublicationHomePage.asp?publication_id=2
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Trade Deficit with China

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
July 17th, 2008

In 2007, the U.S. trade deficit with China alone hit a record $256 billion, out of the total U.S. trade deficit of $711 billion.

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"Top Trading Partners - Total Trade, Exports, Imports Year-to-Date December 2007," U.S. Census Bureau. 14 February 2008. http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/top/top0712.html
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Trade Deficit Nearly Doubles under Bush

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
July 17th, 2008

America's trade deficit has nearly doubled during the Bush presidency. The 2007 trade deficit was $711 billion compared to $365 billion in 2001.

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"U.S. Trade in Goods and Services - Balance of Payments (BOP) 1960 thru 2007, U.S. Census Bureau. 10 June 2008. http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/historical/gands.txt
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Manufacturing Sector Takes a Big Hit

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
July 17th, 2008

The manufacturing sector has been hit hard by current foreign trade policies with 3.4 million jobs—one out of every five manufacturing jobs—shipped overseas over the past seven years. Under the current trade agreements, as many as 40 million more jobs will be at risk over the next 10 to 20 years.

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Martin Crutsinger, "Factory Jobs: 3 Million Lost Since 2000," Associated Press. 20 April 2008. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OKGR480&show_article=1
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400,000 American Jobs Lost a Year

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
July 17th, 2008

Every year, about 400,000 American jobs are lost because of our foreign trade policy—and that number takes into account employment created by increased exports.

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Dean Baker, "Beat the Press:NYT On the War Path for Bush-Clinton-Bush Trade Agenda," American Prospect. 26 April 2008. http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=04&year=2008&base_name=nyt_on_the_war_path_for_bushcl#106087 Martin Crutsinger, "Factory Jobs: 3 Million Lost Since 2000," Associated Press. 20 April 2008. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OKGR480&show_article=1
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Lessig at Netroots Nation

By Rick Perlstein
July 19th, 2008

In a Netroots Nation keynote speech, Larry Lessig made the point that Al Gore proposed that the 1994 Telecommunications Act contain a title deregulating cable and DSL. Congress, Lessig reports, went berserk: "How can we extort donations from the telecommunications industry," they basically said, "if we don't regulate them?"

The title was struck. more »

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Low Flow Joe

By Rick Perlstein
July 19th, 2008

There haven't been altogether too many relevant presentations on conservative failure here at Netroots Nation, and I've grown a bit weary of conference-going. So...now for something completely different! more »