Word: puppeteered
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...Shortly after Howard Dean and the voters have confounded all the "experts" for the millionth time by soundly defeating the current corporate puppet administration, you will collectively reflect with stunned embarrassment at your futile attempts to impose "conventional wisdom" on a wise electorate and Dean's brilliant, transformative, grassroots campaign, and realize belatedly that it was all quite predictable. Free advice from the real world: Job status and pay is determined by performance evaluations, something TIME might consider implementing soon. Lance Nottle Mountain View, Calif...
...time, Reaganomics was shutting down factories and U.S.-backed puppet regimes in South America were slaughtering hundreds of thousands of civilians, particularly Catholic priests and nuns whose teachings were seen as radical propaganda. Yet somehow Reagan managed to convince a large voting bloc to ignore everything it had always considered central to its politics—labor, wealth distribution and a holistic understanding of the “right to life” that includes the death penalty, war and international aid—in favor of one issue. And if you think that the votes of Catholics don?...
...European-national jihadists and taught kamikaze tactics. Both Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused "20th hijacker," and "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam were Khalden graduates. That Khalden nurtured European jihad recruits was no accident. The camp was run by Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian who acted as al-Qaeda's chief recruiter and puppet master of Europe-based terrorists until his arrest in Pakistan in March 2002. According to French antiterror officials, phone intercepts show Zubaydah telegraphed preparations for a foiled 2000 bombing of the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral and also used London-based clerics as intermediaries. Similarly, jailed Franco-Algerian Djamel Beghal...
...force are still new and feeble. Most of his provincial governors are viewed as corrupt, and all are toothless in the face of regional warlords who rule life outside the capital. Far from appreciating the esteem that Karzai enjoys in the West, many Afghans see him as an American puppet. Most are either more loyal to or more frightened of the well-armed warlords...
It’s not that creator Robert Smigel misleads his audience: There’s no bait-and-switch in this supersized Alpo can. Anyone who has seen the canine puppet rant and rave on NBC along with Conan O’Brien ’85 knows exactly what the album entails. True to form, it’s a lewd, juvenile hour of gruff-voiced comedic diatribes, almost exclusively on the subject of sexual relations between man’s best friends. Sometimes Triumph sings, sometimes he makes prank calls and sometimes he just shouts...