Puppet regime changers
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The Taj Mahal wasn&#39;t built in a day, and it looks as if it&#39;s going to take much longer than that to torch it. Two months before the Oct. 15 release of Team America: World Police, Matt Stone and
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Tycho:  After seeing Chore Wars mentioned yesterday, the opportunities for manipulating people seemed...  rich.  The possibilities for mashups based on this data are also rich - I wonder if it could be exposed, somehow.  When my charge is old enough to manipulate in this way, my crib is going to fucking sparkle.
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Since when does the White House care about puppets? Ever since the guys from &quot;South Park&quot; started pulling the strings. Trey Parker and Matt Stone&#39;s movie &quot;Team America: World Police&quot; features
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Digital technology changes from workhorse to entertainer.
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Is Russia sliding back into czar-like autocracy, after a brief liberation from Soviet dictatorship? The leaders who ushered in democracy fear so, as President Vladimir Putin pushes to centralize yet more power in his own busy hands.
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Some Italians want African illegal immigrants deported, others want them arrested, but theater director Marco Baliani believes one way to ease Italy's refugee crisis is with a long-nosed wooden puppet.
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The drama surrounding the fate of Kenneth Bigley highlights the different tactics taken by countries faced with citizens kidnapped in Iraq.
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North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
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The effort is changing into a terror war of its own.
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SEOUL - Watchers of the reclusive North Korean regime are buzzing about reports that might indicate a change in the cult of personality surrounding Kim Jong Il.
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TEHRAN -- Two detained Iranian-Americans were shown on state television last night in a program contending that they tried to foment regime change in Iran with the support of the US government.
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A user guide to Britain's new ruling class
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The Kremlin's strategy is beginning to take shape.
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Many nations are hells on earth for political and religious prisoners. Among them: Iran, North Korea, Cuba and one of the very worst Uzbekistan under the ferocious rule of Islam Karimov.
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The power dynamics in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) have taken a major shift following Saturday&#39;s national election.
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A succession crisis has led to debate on the monarchy--and the shadowy agency behind it
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Militants are facing a new postelection dynamic - a population that has endorsed the political process.