<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/38692ac2-317b-4244-a371-3e6fee105521/3086BEF4-F089-42B5-A5A9-454D7E60CF51/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/09/getting-defensive.html?showComment=1253556006886#c6448348606644623781" href="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/09/getting-defensive.html?showComment=1253556006886#c6448348606644623781" style="font-size: 11px;">incakolanews.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/09/getting-defensive.html?showComment=1253556006886#c6448348606644623781"><DIV><SPAN>And thus the world shivers</SPAN> and trembles in the face of Venezuela arms deals, with some dudette called <A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE58E60S20090915">Clinton saying</A>:<BR /><BLOCKQUOTE>"We have expressed concerned about the number of Venezuelan arms purchases. They outpace all other countries in South America and certainly raise questions as to whether there is going to be an arms race in the region."</BLOCKQUOTE>Sorry? What was that? Let's see what our friend the owl says about that "<SPAN>outpace all other countries in South America</SPAN>" thing, shall we?<BR /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/09/getting-defensive.html?showComment=1253556006886#c6448348606644623781"><DIV>Yeah, thought he'd say that. Here's a chart that shows the really real numbers, not the BS taint that the USA pretends is reality.<BR /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/09/getting-defensive.html?showComment=1253556006886#c6448348606644623781"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/incakolanews.blogspot.com/img/394C408E-F6D1-4C06-85BA-59CB37355E9B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/09/getting-defensive.html?showComment=1253556006886#c6448348606644623781"><DIV>But that's not really the whole story. Brazil is a big place and has 198m people on board (<SPAN>according to the CIA Factbook at least</SPAN>), so what we really need is some context. Here's the same grouping of countries, but this time the chart shows spend per capita on defence.<BR /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/09/getting-defensive.html?showComment=1253556006886#c6448348606644623781"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/incakolanews.blogspot.com/img/BC04C05F-32E9-4620-899C-B4938A3FD089" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/09/getting-defensive.html?showComment=1253556006886#c6448348606644623781"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/incakolanews.blogspot.com/img/4295A402-739D-49D2-B317-5FA22F71205E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/09/getting-defensive.html?showComment=1253556006886#c6448348606644623781">And Venezuela is the problem? <SPAN>Yeah yeah yeah.....</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3086BEF4-F089-42B5-A5A9-454D7E60CF51/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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