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  • I get the feeling the word "Superpower" is being used as an excuse/justify or to hide the fact that India is an "elitist" country where everything revolves around the rich 15% of the population!

    The Guardian World News Angela Saini 2011

  • When both of her idols agreed to take part in her project, one thing led to another and a "lucky accident" called Superpower was born.

    Yes Weekly 2009

  • When both of her idols agreed to take part in her project, one thing led to another and a "lucky accident" called Superpower was born.

    Yes Weekly 2009

  • When both of her idols agreed to take part in her project, one thing led to another and a "lucky accident" called Superpower was born.

    Yes Weekly 2009

  • Once the United States - the major world "Superpower" - is removed, his push will be towards Israel and global Anti-Semitism (Zech.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • Some Sunni and Shia tribesmen will kill each other, Iran will become a "Superpower" (like that's ever gonna happen), Israel will be forced to stop running a mini-Auschwitz in Gaza and the price of oil will either go up or go DOWN.

    Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat & Crowded": Replacing the "War on Terror" with a "War on Global Warming"? 2008

  • On this latter score, Wolin correctly notes that, while the Republican party has for years talked about "getting big government off our backs," it has in fact created a monstrous governmental/military apparatus (a "Superpower") which provides massive welfare to corporations; engages in permanent war throughout the world on multiple fronts; and exercises ever greater domestic policing and surveillance powers, with the U.S. now housing the largest number of prisoners per capita in the world.

    Dan Kovalik: The Loss of Democracy: The Deeper Meaning of McClellan's Revelations of Imperial Deceit & Media Submissiveness 2008

  • Egeman Bagis, an aide to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Turkish media that Turkey - a conduit for many of the supplies shipped to American bases in both Iraq and Afghanistan - might have to "cut logistical support to the US" America, the only "Superpower" in the world is getting punked by

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • "Superpower" in the world is getting punked by Turkey.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • One glaring example of this political ignorance is that while Obama himself was born in the occupied territory of Hawai'i, he has expressed zero understanding that the 1893 military overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a watershed event that propelled the budding American Empire into the upcoming "Superpower" that was to rule the Planet for the next (20th) century.

    Indybay newswire 2009

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