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POPSIn Virginia, Palin crowd believes every myth This sounds like The Onion, but it's a New York Times story covering a race-track rally by Sarah Palin. How have we failed, that Americans could be so poorly educated as to be vulnerable to such tripe?
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POPSBest Documentary EVER: Never shown in USA !!! Amnesty International has publicly confirmed that a fear of violence directed at their staff forced the organisation to withdraw 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' from their recent film festival in Vancouver, Canada. In an article in the Guardian newspaper (http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,12716,1090788,00.html), an Amnesty spokesman said the organisation had been forced to pull the film after staff at their Venezuelan office expressed fears for their safety if the film was screened. Prior to this, Amnesty has received a series of representations alleging that the film had distorted key events. These representations were rejected. The film was only pulled after the safety fears were raised. The Guardian confirmed that the campaign to halt screenings of the film is connected to opponents of the Venezuelan government.
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POPSObama offers partnership — and humour Is Obama now Chavez's latest Amigo, joining with the ever increasing list of friends of the Venezuelan leader? What 'balls'! Al last, America has a leader that will not be chased out of South America, as Bush was. Long live peace for all in the Americas.
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POPSBush loses another client state. From 1980 to 1993, Honduras bought oil from Mexico and Venezuela as part of a pact aimed at offering cheap oil to debt and war-ridden Latin American countries.
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POPSDC...2 MILLION PLUS-- PROTESTERS! TWO MILLION PLUS PROTEST BIG GOVERNMENT IN DC The tally coming from Washington DC Tea Party Protest. Both CNN and ABC are reporting....... ...2 MILLION PLUS-- PROTESTERS! The Daily Mail is also reporting 2 million in Washington, via Instapundit. WOAH! More... HotAir has some amazing video of the massive crowd today. http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/12/how-big-was-the-crowd-in-dc-today/ Posted by Gateway Pundit
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POPSObama seeks new relationship with Latin America Those issues, though not on the summit agenda, are sure to be debated. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and like-minded leaders are expected to push for Cuba to be readmitted to the Organization of American States. Debate over Cuba would underscore the divide between the United States and the region. Washington has said it would not end its 47-year-old embargo on the communist island. But Obama is looking at loosening restrictions on family visits and remittances to Cuba, steps many view as inadequate. "The measures that the administration seems to be willing to roll out regarding Cuban-American family travel are so limited in their impact, narrow in their scope that perversely this administration, which wants the summit not to be a Cuba summit, might make it a Cuba summit," said Julia Sweig, head of Latin American studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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POPSDivorced From Reality "And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes. Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?"
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POPSU.N. Red and U.S. “Progressives” Plan Socialist World Government Now, even the New York Times is paying attention to what this crackpot has been up to. D'Escoto, the Times said, believes the way out of the global financial crisis "should be lined with all manner of new global institutions, authorities and advisory boards," including the Global Stimulus Fund, the Global Public Goods Authority, the Global Tax Authority, the Global Financial Products Safety Commission, the Global Financial Regulatory Authority, the Global Competition Authority, the Global Council of Financial and Economic Advisers, the Global Economic Coordination Council, and the World Monetary Board. D'Escoto is the former foreign minister of Communist Sandinista Nicaragua and Catholic Priest of the Maryknoll Order who advocates Marxist-oriented liberation theology and won the Lenin Peace Prize from the old Soviet Union.
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POPSManuel Zelaya Arrested: Honduras President Detained By Soldiers Zelaya was arrested shortly before polls were to open in a referendum on whether to change the constitution. The Supreme Court ruled the referendum illegal and everyone from Congress to members of his own party opposed it. Critics said Zelaya wanted to remove limits to his re-election. It was not immediately clear who was running the government. Tanks rolled through the streets and hundreds of soldiers with riot shields surrounded the presidential palace in the capital, Tegucigalpa.
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POPSObama Betrays Freedom Again " Take this hypothetical: imagine that Barack Obama announced that he was going to hold a referendum on legalizing a third term for himself. Imagine that even his attorney general, Eric Holder, advised him that it was illegal. Imagine that the Supreme Court ruled that holding the referendum was unconstitutional. In spite of that, let's imagine that Obama coerced the FEC into holding the referendum anyway. Then - let's further imagine -- we found out that Venezuelan strongman Chávez (who has pulled off a similar power grab in his own country) was financing the referendum. What should the Joint Chiefs do in such a case? And if they removed Obama from office, would they be destroying the Constitution or preserving it? "
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POPS“Nobody Wants To Take On The White House . . . . " While our sacred Constitution grants him no such authority, Obama has had no trouble firing the head of General Motors, rewarding union “activists” with control of Chrysler, unilaterally forcing health care executives to forego $2 trillion (with a “T) in future revenue, implicitly telling Citigroup and Bank of America that they must fire their CEO’s, and blackmail, extort, or threaten the state of California that unless it restores wage cuts to a union, he will rescind billions in already granted stimulus money. Four months into his presidency and Obama has removed all doubt that he is the most “activist” president of our lifetimes. He is an activist president who demonstrates his leftist leanings with almost every action and non-action. One such non-action being his decision not to reject or correct America-bashing strongmen Hugo Chavez or Daniel Ortega at last month’s Summit of the Americas. Why?
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POPSRussia Moving into U.S. Backyard Thanks to the arrogance of the Bush/Cheney foreign policy with Venezuela, we now have talk of nuclear reactors being built in Venezuela with Russia's assistance. Relations between U.S. and Venezuela have been deteriorating for years and as a result Russia is extending its reach around the world. If we had maintained better relations with Russia, this would not cause Americans much concern. But the reality is that we now have two oil rich nations trading nuclear technology and weapons that are not motivated to work with the U.S.
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POPSCSM "America, stop waving the nuclear threat at potential adversaries" The US should use its nuclear arsenal for deterrence only and preserve the 'taboo' on nuclear weapons use. They both essentially said they would engage international reprobates – something this administration has repeatedly baulked at doing. Remember, Vice President Dick Cheney said, "We don't negotiate with evil. We destroy it." A tougher question is whether the next president would threaten to use nuclear weapons against a foreign enemy. Obama recently told the Associated Press that he would not use nuclear weapons "in any circumstance" involving civilians. Clinton once again criticized his foreign policy position saying that she didn't believe that "any president should make any blanket statements."
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POPSObama 'meddles' in Honduras -- and chooses the wrong side Its surely tough to make decisions about the diplomatic posture America should take when defending (or supporting) liberty and democracy around the world. Especially when you hardly believe in in yourself. Its gonna be a tough 3.5 years for Obama at this rate.
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