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...This overabundance of production capacity means China's export machine is like a race car with no brakes. As long as the road remains smooth and straight, the car roars ahead. But throw in some potholes and a tight turn, and the wheels come off. Factories have been able to increase output in recent years because the global economy has been on a tear. The 2004-07 period saw the second strongest bout of global growth on record - which translated into strong demand for cheap Chinese-made products. But this era may be ending. Most economists are predicting a significant...
...quarter of our lives have been under the shadow of an American engagement in Iraq, the war has faded to the back of our minds. We graduated from high school to attend one of the most prestigious universities in the world, while many of our peers were shipped straight to the Middle East. Five years on, many of us will soon graduate from Harvard, while our peers in war still have not and may never return home. Nearly 4,000 Americans have died in the war; almost half were under 23. Many of us were too young to fight when...
...together by instantaneous global communication—we are conscious of this in a way no other generation of young people has ever been. Yet, everywhere we have been told to fear, rather than understand, each other. Iraqi and Iranian. Palestinian and Israeli. Black and white. Citizen and immigrant. Straight and queer. Rich and poor. American and “Islamic radical.” We must reject the division of these dichotomies...
...those who have never liked him will say this is just another example of him using rhetoric with no action to back it up. As for the swing voters (the real target group) Obama will continue to address these issues in the same manner and "set the record straight," so to speak, continuously until April 22nd. This is not the last we will hear of this from Obama - especially not in Pennsylvania...
...originally going after al-Qaeda. And this is a diversion. Osama bin Laden said a couple of years ago in a speech that his strategy was to bankrupt America, that's how they would defeat us, and he's using Iraq for that very purpose. We're playing straight into their hands...