LARRY ROIBAL

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Poland morns the loss of it’s president Lech Kaczynski who was killed when a plane traveling from Warsaw to Russia crashed while approaching Smolensk Air Base.

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All eyes are on the European Union. Mounting debt in some small member countries like Greece and Portugal are threatening the Union and causing European markets to free fall…Stay tuned.

Doodled from top to bottom: President of Greece Karolos Papoulias and President of Portugal Aníbal António Cavaco

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Ahmadinejad’s days as President of Iran may be numbered. Yesterday top cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri said the vote was a fraud.

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It’s Hard to break through all the political chatter to figure out the ramifications of President Obama’s meeting with the President/Dictator of Venezuela. in the short term Chavez certainly has the most to gain and will milk every drop of propaganda out of shaking the hand of a US President. Will civility and graciousness pay any long term dividends? too soon to tell.