Bad news from the New York Times yesterday: Shiite and Kurdish lawmakers have made a “clarification” to the rules on how the new Iraqi constitution will be passed: Under the new rules, the constitution will fail only if two-thirds of all registered voters – rather than two-thirds of all those actually casting ballots – reject …
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Huh? Well… a little while ago I mentioned that Chavez has been making offers to export his countries oil to everyone but the US. Asia, Europe, South America, and his neighbours in Central America and the Caribeaan. Today, he took one more step towards creating a “Petrocaribe”. The talks are being attended by representatives of …
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and conversely, dictators are only bad if they’re hostile to your interests. These basic principles of The Real Politik as we all know it, was confirmed again today when Pat Robertson, leader of the Christian Coalition of America said, You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if [Chavez] thinks we’re trying …
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