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	<title>AGMates Trader News &#187; John Mikkelsen</title>
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		<title>Has Nathan Rees Got It Right With His Made In China Ban ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freelance Journalist and Agmates member John Mikkelsen writes: . Shopping gives me the China Blues. A rare shopping trip turned out to be the China Syndrome revisited for me recently. But that wasn&#8217;t until I tried on the new T shirts with Bundy Rum and Pink Floyd logos in my regular ‘L&#8217; size and found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gladstone Workers are Meat In The Sandwich in Rio Tinto BHP Billiton Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freelance Journalist and Agmates member John Mikkelsen writes: . A fog of uncertainty still surrounds Gladstone&#8217;s Rio Tinto workers after the company last week finally rejected the Chinese bid to acquire a $27 billion slice of the action. On face value, it seems the best solution to Rio&#8217;s financial woes. The formation of an iron [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queensland the Blighted State</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freelance Journalist and Agmates member John Mikkelsen writes: . JUST a couple of months ago, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh told us we had to have an early election to provide business and economic stability. She promised us 100,000 new jobs; she promised there were no plans to dump the State&#8217;s 8.35 cents a litre fuel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our strange standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agmates member and freelance journalist John Mikkelsen writes: . I JUST don&#8217;t get it.  Well, I don&#8217;t get lots of things, but it&#8217;s the way we are developing what to me seem strange standards and attitudes that has me scratching my head lately. Why are many of us so obsessed with the whole celebrity thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wayne Swans Harvey Norman Budget &#8211; Buy Now Pay Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 03:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agmates member and freelance journalist John Mikkelsen writes: . THE build-up to this week&#8217;s Federal Budget reminds me of the hype over swine flu &#8211; it was going to be a shocker but turned out to be a bit of a fizzer as far as horror stories go. A deficit of almost $58 billion instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth is Out There on The Emissions Trading Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 04:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agmates member John Mikkelsen writes: . IT&#8217;s good to see sanity prevail with the deferral of the Federal Governments controversial Emissions Trading Scheme for 12 months in light of probable further job losses. You could see the backflip coming, with mounting opposition from all sectors even though Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Environment Minister Penny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Mikkelsen &#8211; Jinxed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 04:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agmates member John Mikkelsen writes: (Click on Video at end of article to listen to some great music while you read Johns article). . I&#8217;VE decided I&#8217;m cursed, probably by the ghost of a Chinaman I&#8217;ve never met, who has been systematically sabotaging anything electric I touch. Most likely, this is revenge for a recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gladstone in limbo as its 3,000 Rio Tinto workers continue Nervous wait</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agmate and Gladstone QLD local John Mikkelsen [pictured] writes: . Workers engaged on Gladstone&#8217;s Rio Tinto sites are hoping the 600 job losses about to take effect are not just the tip of the iceberg. The worst part for employees who have not already been informed if they still have a job, is waiting for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just The Ants Pants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agmates member John Mikkelsen writes: . IT&#8217;S been hailed as the possible final solution to Australia&#8217;s greatest biological menace and attacked as too cruel to contemplate, depending on where you stand. I find it pretty interesting that scientists are finally following up on some practical research I did as a school kid, going where many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Those Bludging Rivers to Work &#8211; Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Agmates member John Mikko [pictured] : . A few weeks ago I wrote an article asking why some of the stimulus money to be spent on infrastructure projects could not be spent on a Bradfield type scheme. That article was also published by the Courier Mail. Here is Roy &#38; HG Nelson discussing [...]]]></description>
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