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	<title>Crikey &#187; free trade</title>
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		<title>Beware of what lurks beneath free trade agreements</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/beware-of-what-lurks-beneath-free-trade-agreements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craig Emerson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hyping of the Trans-Pacific Partnership has begun. But on some issues it's cover for a predatorial United States.]]></description>
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		<title>The American middle class &#8211; a thing of the past?</title>
		<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/22-statistics-that-prove-the-middle-class-is-being-systematically-wiped-out-of-existence-in-america-2010-7</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The middle class of America is apparently facing a slow and systematic decline. Need proof? <b>Michael Snyder</b> has 22 statistics to support the claim. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Chavez: the new leader of the Latin American left</title>
		<link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/cuba/091216/alba-summit-castro-chavez?page=0,0</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/cuba/091216/alba-summit-castro-chavez?page=0,0#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alianza Bolivariana para los pueblos de Nuestra America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chvaz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How an alliance between Cuba and Venezuela, formed 15 years ago in protest to an American free trade agreement, has grown into a $7 billion socialist trading partnership, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at its helm.]]></description>
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		<title>Free trade, first movers and carbon mercantilism: why unilateralism is good</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/14/free-trade-first-movers-and-carbon-mercantilism-why-unilateralism-is-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/14/free-trade-first-movers-and-carbon-mercantilism-why-unilateralism-is-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen Climate Change Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sue Boyce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You thought Copenhagen was just about climate change? Australia, and most other countries, are treating Copenhagen like a trade negotiation. Such carbon mercantilism will cost us in the long run.]]></description>
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		<title>Where are all the voices that support immigration?</title>
		<link>http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5470066/yes-lets-talk-about-immigration.thtml</link>
		<comments>http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5470066/yes-lets-talk-about-immigration.thtml#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's not just Australia getting worked up over asylum seekers. In the UK, anti-immigration fans get all the press. But, if you believe in free trade, you must also believe in the free movement of labour, writes <b>Alex Massie</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>The utopian borderless free world is fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/16/rundle-the-utopian-borderless-free-world-is-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/16/rundle-the-utopian-borderless-free-world-is-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stern Hu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Globalisation has created international economic dependency that erodes state power, writes <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fisher and Paykel: Rudd&#8217;s first trade credentials test</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/17/fisher-and-paykel-rudds-first-trade-credentials-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/17/fisher-and-paykel-rudds-first-trade-credentials-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fisher and Paykel appliances is closing its Brisbane whitegoods plant and moving it to Thailand to save money. Here's an early test of the Rudd Government's trade credentials, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/17/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/17/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john button]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soaring petrol prices and Rudd's plan ... Barry Hall: gladiator slave ... how letters editors work ... free trade and Australia's advantage ... ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>US08: Free trade, protectionism and taking on China</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/15/us08-free-trade-protectionism-and-taking-on-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/15/us08-free-trade-protectionism-and-taking-on-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton is promising bans on Chinese imports, if they don't adjust their currency to a level more favourable to US exporters. But would she actually follow though with that? <b>Guy Rundle</b> examines America's free trade conundrum. 
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Farmer&#8217;s political bite-sized meaty chunks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/03/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/03/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbyists]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[road maps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people's political coverage. <b>Richard Farmer</b> writes.]]></description>
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