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Earthquake Causes: From Lunar to Looney
By David Moye - AOL News(April 20) -- Although scientists are working nonstop to learn all they can about earthquakes, some people already have the answers. At least they think they do. For instance, one Iranian cleric is blaming all the recent earth-shaking activity in Mexico's Baja California, Chile and Haiti on booty-shaking women flaunting their sexuality. Courtesy the Rev. Brian Keneipp The Rev. Brian Keneipp says the recent rash of earthquakes is karmic payback for the violent way NASA's LCROSS rocket gashed into the moon's surface. According to Fox News, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, a senior Iranian cleric, ...
How Iran Wins Friends and Influences People
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Nov. 23) - Iran is at the top of its diplomatic game. The U.S. has staunch allied support for a tougher line on Tehran's nuclear ambitions, including at least nominal backing from Russia and China. The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency last week reported the latest evidence of Iranian deception. And domestic unrest continues to undermine the country's claims to theocratic democracy. Yet Iran still counts powerful friends on its side and seems no closer to facing potent international sanctions. Today Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits a welcoming Brazil, an influential power among the ...
Yanqui, Don't Go Home! Race, Gender, Oil and Honduras
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyToo bad we're fixated on Michael Jackson (not my thing) and Sarah Palin (mea culpa) because the power play taking place right now in little ole Honduras has a bit of everything, including the politics of race, gender, oil, democracy, and Yankee imperialism. Toss into our high-drama soap opera a Nobel Laureate, the human lightning rod known as Hillary Clinton, a martyred Honduran boy, and the first black president of the United States, and, well, the Honduras coup has something for everyone. ...
Even Rush Limbaugh Knows Dick Cheney's Handshake Criticism is Idiotic
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyPolitico has video of Dick Cheney joining a chorus of other, less-mainstream conservative figures slamming Barack Obama for shaking Hugo Chavez' hand (as opposed to what? Folding his arms and holding his breath? Kicking Chavez in the nuts?). Any thinking person knows this is ridiculous, but it is so ridiculous that even Rush Limbaugh knows it, and says it out loud: ...
Muddling the Chavez and Bo Stories, Obama Shakes Hands With a Dog
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyWe're going to blame this one on presidential jet lag.Barack Obama, who seems to have dedicated as much of his first 100 days to overseas travel as George W. Bush dedicated to Crawford vacations, is mixing up his symbolic gestures.Following a week where he both adopted Bo the dog and shook hands with erratic Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, the leader of the free world dovetailed the two narratives last Thursday when he shook hands with a dog belonging to the president of Mexico.The story broke yesterday on the Talking Points Memo and if the reaction in any way matches that of the Chavez ...
Obama Deflects Criticism over Chavez Meetings
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama made news at last week's Summit of the Americas in Trinadad and Tobago with his receptiveness toward leaders and countries hostile to the United States, namely Cuba and Venezuela. Obama announced that the U.S. would seek a "new beginning" with Cuba, and stressed his Administration's lifting of restrictions on travel and remittances to the communist island nation. Obama met and exchanged greetings with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an outspoken critic of the United States and former president George W. Bush. Chavez pledged to restore full diplomatic relations with the ...
It Didn't Have to Be This Way, Italy
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsThe dream came crashing to an end on Tuesday evening in Toronto when the evil Communists from Venezuela cheated defeated Italy 10-1 and eliminated them from the World Baseball Classic. It was the second time in a matter of days that the Venezuelans bested the Italians (the first game was a 7-0 "victory"), no doubt because Hugo Chavez bribed the umpires with free gasoline. It's really a shame too, but not just because of the promise shown by Italy when it sent Canada home after only two games on Monday. No, it's a shame because none of this ever had to happen. The Italians could have beaten ...
Barack Obama to Keep Campaign Promise; Will Meet with Hugo Chavez
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama will reportedly meet face-to-face with Venezuelan dictator and avowed enemy of the United States Hugo Chavez later this year when he attends the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. During the Democratic primary campaign, Obama said that he would meet in person with the heads of Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, and Venezuela without pre-conditions during his first year in office. While he spent the rest of the campaign trying to walk back that promise, saying that there would be unspecified "preparations" before he met with any of the five rogue ...
The Chavez Charade Crumbling
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyIn the wake of Venezuela's recent incursion into Colombia, analysts have questioned the underlying motivation of Venezuelan boss Hugo Chavez. Many consider the military action a diversion from Chavez's domestic troubles - an unsatisfied electorate delivered to Chavez his first political defeat in December of last year. Since then, intensifying scrutiny has surrounded the demagogue - and in true dictatorial fashion, Chavez has responded to political disquiet by starting up the tanks. The most recent salvo against Chavez comes from Francisco Rodríguez, who served as the Chief Economist of the ...
Venezuela Invades Colombia
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyVenezuela's petty tyrant Hugo Chavez has ordered troops across the Colombian border, where these soldiers fired shots before retreating back into Venezuela. Colombia has long been battling the terrorism-inclined Farc, and has succeeded as of late in pushing the faction into neighboring Ecuador and Venezuela. Chavez took advantage of the recent Colombian crossing of the Ecuadorian border (to kill a senior leader of the Farc) as an excuse to amass military forces on the border. Most observers agree that Chavez is simply grandstanding, attempting to divert attention from his own political ...
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