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  • Idaho’s Commerce Secretary Don Dietrich and Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter

    05/13/2011 3:51:27 PM PDT · by TheDailyChange
    "Is Idaho really ready to give the Peoples Republic of China a “beachhead” in the Gem State?" "Merriam-Webster.com defines “beachhead” as “an area on a hostile shore occupied to secure further landing of troops and supplies.” Dictionary.com provides a similar definition: “the area that is the first objective of a military force landing on an enemy shore.”
  • Non-Hispanic immigrants wonder what reform means for them

    04/16/2006 12:35:02 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 29 replies · 768+ views
    ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 4/16/06 | Peter Prengaman - ap
    Hamid Khan stood out among the Hispanics he marched alongside at a recent immigration protest. When one demonstrator asked Khan where he was from and the reply was Pakistan, the man asked, "'Then what are you doing here?'" Khan was surprised. "I said, 'Look, there are non-Latino groups who are also suffering under these laws,'" said Khan, 49, a commercial pilot and director of an advocacy group called the South Asian Network. Hispanics, the nation's largest immigrant group, are leading the movement to demand a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and defeat legislation that would criminalize them. Khan's experience...
  • Land intervention by the Venezuelan Government: It’s all about populism

    01/05/2005 6:03:30 PM PST · by Kitten Festival · 203+ views
    The Devil's Excrement (Venezuela) ^ | Jan. 5, 2005 | Miguel Octavio
    The Governor of the State of Cojedes announced yesterday that on Saturday they will begin the “intervention” of the Hato El Charcote farm, owned by British company Vestey, under the decree issued by that Governor in mid-December. The concept of “intervention” does not exist in Venezuelan jurisprudence, so that it is unclear exactly what it means. According to the Governor: “The intervention will be performed with all of the machinery of the State to establish the first beachhead of the “Free land and Men Mission…With the aid of all of the Armed Forces and police forces and the authorities of...