Word: puppeteered
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Again the U.S. has come to the rescue of a corrupt puppet, a man disliked by his own people because he has brought them only misery. You said, "Democracy triumphed." Hardly! ESTELA GIBSON Cypress, California...
...ventriloquist quietly celebrated his 100th birthday with family in Manhattan before taking off for his customary half-year in his native Spain. Senor Wences was a staple on TV for three decades, starting on the Ed Sullivan Show, where he conducted absurd conversations with his dummy Pedro, his puppet Cecelia the chicken, or the blond-wigged Johnny, a face he painted on his hand, moving thumb and index finger to simulate a mouth. Born Wenceslao Moreno, he imitated voices as a child. He worked as an amateur bullfighter but, after being gored repeatedly, took up circus juggling. Later his ventriloquist...
...inexperienced freedom fighters of 1948 are today waging a campaign fought for the same ideals of liberty, yet on a completely new set of tactical terms. The Israel of today is the only democracy of the Middle East (not to be confused with Lebanon's Syrian-controlled puppet government). For this reason, along with its renowned military capabilities, which have been tested to the utmost degree in the wars over the past years, Israel is the United States's foremost ally in a turbulent area of our globe...
Most of the time, contributions don't go directly to a candidate--that would be bribery--but to a candidate's many puppet organizations. Thus Archer Daniels Midland, one of Dole's largest lifetime donors, gave $900,000 to the Republican National Committee between 1991 and 1994, plus $200,000 to Dole's PAC, Campaign America, and his think tank, the Better America Foundation...
Europeans have a name for the state of economic-political affairs into which we have fallen, where all national decisions are dictated by private corporate monopolists to whom servile puppet government is beholden: the Europeans call it fascism. --Steven Wohl