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VIDEO:&amp;nbsp;Golf tees off in China </description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Golf tees off in China</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/24/1164454.aspx#1164502</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:48:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1164502</guid><dc:creator>Marcus L. Donovan</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt; What a truly marvelous story, China has become. There hybrid communism is rolling right along, with a ultra-booming economy and the Olympics right around the corner, the Chinese are on true roll, must be nice to live in a country were things are looking up, maybe Rev. Wright was right, because the BUSH Regime lied and invaded Iraq, maybe our chickens are coming home to roost, we deserve a terrible economy and a truly bad reputation around the world as being imperialistic and greedy, we are on a steady decline, things will only get much worse, thank you Bush-Martin</description></item><item><title>Golf tees off in China</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/24/1164454.aspx#1164547</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:04:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1164547</guid><dc:creator>Carla Ann Monroe   NYC</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt; As a American, I am a bit jealous to see these hard working, smart people, doing so well, when the weak and getting weaker USA is dying a slow agonizing death.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; The Chinese super economy, has left us in the dust, they take the best of their system and ours and then combined them-how very intelligent, look at their results.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; The Chinese, the EU, Middle East and even India, no longer need America and we better get used to it, we are no longer number one, we had our time and its over, much like Rome, our time at the helm of histroy is ending, we die, like they died, corruption, lies, unmoralistic living by our citizentry and a Imperilistic Bush Whitehouse that thought themselves so elite, they could lie and invade Iraq, our troops have killed over 100 thousand innocent civilians thru collateral damage-so now the blood calls out from the ground for justice.</description></item><item><title>Golf tees off in China</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/24/1164454.aspx#1164554</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:05:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1164554</guid><dc:creator>Justin Moore   Beaumont, CA</dc:creator><description> Who will be the new Tiger-son Woods?</description></item><item><title>Golf tees off in China</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/24/1164454.aspx#1164573</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:13:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1164573</guid><dc:creator>Carmen Dolby  San Deigo, CA</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt; I have visted China twice and was very impressed, Bejing although huge was clean and easy too get around, the people were really nice and english was spoken in the stores and resturants.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; China will do wonderfully as leaders of our Global Neighborhood, along with the Russians (flush with high oil money)and the booming Middle East, who knows where the USA will end up in all this, things are not looking good on our end and after having traveled all over the EU on business I can tell you, we are hated, even in the UK, I pray the new President will square things away and we can take the role as a leader for good and not evil and destruction as we are now.</description></item><item><title>Golf tees off in China</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/24/1164454.aspx#1165531</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:08:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1165531</guid><dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator><description>It's definitely a bad idea to make golf a popular sport - as only rich people can afford it. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;don't clone everything the west is doing - they are the biggest poluter - china should not become the 2nd</description></item></channel></rss>