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For those who don't really know about Mormonism, here is a great video about it. I hope you all know that Romney is a Mormon, and it is believed that "his Mormonism could be 'the x-factor' that costs him the election in a tight race against Barack Obama for the White House in November." If you don't feel like watching a 25 minute video, the article under is more or less the same thing, but less entertaining.

Here's the link for the same video but posted on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljYhySE7FJQ

Obama launches campaign in Spanish with catchy slogans

Interesting analysis of the US motives from the Kony intervention

Actually, it doesn't necessarily mean "dishonest" at least in the way the campaign developed. Just because the NGO didn't roll out their entire agenda in a video doesn't mean they're hiding anything. The video itself was aimed at a component of their objective in Uganda: Make Kony a household name. Dishonest here is a matter of opinion, in terms of how the campaign construction and evolution (encoding) is done. Calling it a scam is like saying advertisers are trying to steal your money, they don't tell you we want to make profit, but rather you need to consume our product. If you choose to participate and donate, it is your job as an activist to do the necessary research, at least in my opinion. The rest can be chalked up to the debate: should campaigners give its audience all of the information or should they give them enough and have them make a decision (lethargic & informed vs. active & smart). Then we seek to define how much is enough, which gets down to opinion. The bottom line however is over such a short period of time and the quick rise of the deviant opinion is something we should definitely examine. The "hidden" motives are basically the motives that weren't included in the video KONY2012 video. However it fulfilled its purpose as a medium, raise awareness about the cause (itself, but not the NGO's agenda), involve as many people as possible. In the end it comes down to framing the issue. As for Invisible Children as an organization, it has its Vision and Mission Statement set clear on its website. There were very broad headlines concerning their Kony initiative, they offered a step by step plan when major criticism began to surface. They have updated their page accordingly: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html - and cracking down because of their funding of the Ugandan army is a matter of political debate. Either you prefer to arm the Ugandans (past human rights abusers) and have them expel the threat themselves, allow the threat of the L

RA to grow, or allow foreign intervention to deal with the issue. From here it's a matter of perspective, and which proponent is thinking of the case of Uganda.

For all those of you who haven't seen the footage of the Tank Man, I suggest you check this out! It also offers background information to situate the guy's actions.

"There is no political theater quite like a French presidential campaign." - This article provides a brief summary and analysis of the current French presidential race, and delves into the radical and stagy conduct of the candidates.

This can't be good.

why? (again, not that I disagree but I'm interested to find out why you think so)

In case u'd like to review :)

HORNY 2012

WASHINGTON: Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney hit an off note when he told a "humorous" story about his dad shutting down a factory. Actor Robert De Niro managed to get both Romney's fellow Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Obama campaign riled up when he joked at an Obama fundraiser that America isn't ready for a white first lady.

Finally, a pop culture production that's actually PRO-military.

Did I really get your comment right? If so, why are we happy about -anything- pro-military again?

Because ever since the troops were sent to war the anti-war media and pop culture industry haven't spared an effort to alienate them and make their sacrifices look worthless.

Since this presidency came a bit early (3 years too early), here's a brief summary to Wulff's resignation back in February, which also comes as a disadvatage to Merkel. I'm trying to find videos since they're always more entertaining, but here's what I got so far. P.S: Sorry for bombarding you with so many pages on a Sunday!

To add more humour into our lives :P

Oh and of course Santorum is the one being laughed at the most!

How the expected votes are likely to be redistributed after 10 candidates have been banned from elections. Amr Moussa will collect Omar Suleiman's following. Mohammad Morsi will collect Khariat el Shater's following.

Re-branding Sarkozy's image?

A re-branding definitely reader I think. I've read a lot of critics about the "Bling Bling" life of Sarkozy.