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President Obama Opens the Health Reform Meeting

To kick off the bipartisan health reform meeting, President Obama lays out the plan for the day and his hopes for what can be accomplished. He talks about where we’re at now and why this meeting is so necessary: President Obama explains, “Politics, I think, ended up trumping practical common sense. I said at the [...]

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The Health Care on the table

It’s hard to imagine how anything very positive will come out of the President’s health care summit in Washington tomorrow.  An article in Politico describes the atmospherics and the haggles involved in detailed negotiations.
A gaggle of congressional Democrats and Republicans will meet with the President at Blair House for about six hours, apparently all of it [...]

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Nobel Peace Prize and the world

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The U.S. president, Barack Obama, has received the Nobel Peace prize at a grand ceremony that is developing in the Oslo City Hall.
Obama began his speech by admitting that his accomplishments are minor compared with those obtained by other laureates, including Nelson Mandela, and, recalling that his country maintains two open open conflicts in Iraq [...]

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Copenhagen: The beginning of the undead?

Sculptures are illuminated as they stand in a water feature outside the Bella Centre during the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the best, last chance for a [...]

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The Latin American bicentennial used as nationalist and populist propaganda

Today news are many personal blog about the bicentennial of the countries of Latin America.
Even CNN has developed special programs for this.
Beyond just and deserved celebration just want to add something to put in perspective:
These Bicentennial only serve as distraction mechanism nationalist.
Governments are mere shift CIRCUMSTANCES.
It is people who celebrated. It’s in them, from their [...]

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USA & Iran : History of Relations (Video)

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Argentina: Unionists block distribution of newspapers.

The secretary general of the CGT, Hugo Moyano, along with members of the labor union truck drivers, blocked again this morning the Distribution of the newspapers La Nacion and Clarin.
The demonstrators staged a protest outside the plant distribution of the two newspapers in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas.
Moyano’s men, who were driving about 30 [...]

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Unemployment Problem

Are you tired of reading and hearing about the unemployment problem?
Rest assured, the unemployed are tired of it, too.
I know I am. I’m tired of living with it. I’m tired of it slapping me in the face from the time I get up in the morning until the time I go to bed at night [...]

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Sarah Palin gets $ 1.25M for “Going Rogue”

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin reports she received $1.25 million as a retainer for her upcoming book “Going Rogue.”
The former Alaska governor says in her financial disclosure statement released Tuesday that she received the money from publisher HarperCollins.
Palin, the former GOP vice presidential candidate, resigned in July. She kept a fairly low profile as [...]

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Middle East: Rewriting the future. A NATO for the Middle East?

After the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq the U.S. and British governments gave up their excuses about bringing democracy to the people of the Middle East and started slowly talking about their strategic interests in the region. Fighting terrorism and bringing democracy were mere pretexts for military assaults. The Anglo-American game plan exposed itself in the summer of 2006 [...]

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Estonia: Democratic Revolution in flight

Estonia is entering a new era in her democratic history. As in so many other areas, Estonia is pioneering the use of technology in its political system. Gradually, the use of e-voting is beginning to take hold and, as ever higher numbers of people cast their votes securely over the Internet, many suggest that it [...]

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You Lie Obama, and Joe Wilson is Your Pre-Existing Condition

You Lie, Obama. Would any congressman dare to disrespect President Bush this way, even though he actually lied in front of congress many times? Hey guys, remember WMD? I can’t imagine so. Joe Wilson of South Carolina called the president a liar, and well, the President was actually and factually telling the truth about immigrants [...]

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