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Juan Manuel Santos has won an overwhelming victory in Colombia’s runoff presidential election, making him the successor to two-term President Alvaro Uribe. Santos wins an overwhelming 69 percent of the vote.

First it was power outages now Chavez’s revolutionary miracle so adored by Oliver Stone, Mark Lloyd at the FCC, and Sean Penn is having problems just getting enough to eat. Yes, we know, its all Bush’s fault.

BP remains one of the most active major western oil companies engaged in joint-venture energy projects with the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum outside of Iran. In the last five years, BP has begun extracting around 4 million cubic meters per day of natural gas from a field in Britain’s North Sea in a 50-50 joint venture with Iran, worth $1 million a day at June 15, 2010 spot prices.

Pew’s new survey of global attitudes reports that the U.S. still isn’t popular in Muslim countries: “In Egypt, America’s favorability rating dropped from 27% to 17% – the lowest percentage observed in any of the Pew Global Attitudes surveys conducted in that country since 2006.”

Every “green job” created with government money in Spain over the last eight years came at the cost of 2.2 regular jobs, and only one in 10 of the newly created green jobs became a permanent job. Now the same union socialist policies being pushed here by Obama are collapsing the economy in Spain.

I am disappointed, however, that the president has failed to waive the Jones Act for foreign ships, who want to assist in the clean-up efforts,” said Djou in a statement. “There is no good reason to turn away international help in responding to this environmental catastrophe.” (Shows the union control over Obama -Editor)

Congressman Mike Pence lets the House know that the American people are on Israel’s side and wonders whose side Obama is on.

Four Colombian men held captive by rebels for nearly 12 years have returned to Bogota. The former police and military hostages got a hero’s welcome on their return.

The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto. If approved, the treaty could effect gun rights in the US.

“It is a storm that’s only going to get worse,” said a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who has investigated Mexican drug cartels. “Our law enforcement agents are on the front lines of a war that is embedded deeply in Mexico.”