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Honduras Forms Unity Government Shunned by Zelaya, AFP Says
Nov 6th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Honduras’s acting president RobertoMicheletti formed a national unity government without the backingof Manuel Zelaya, the ousted head of state...
Honduran de facto leader to form government without Zelaya
Nov 6th, 2009 - Reuters
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said on Thursday night he would install a national unity government without the participation of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Mugabe-Led Zimbabwe Government Bars UN Torture Expert From the Country
Oct 28th, 2009 - VOA News
ZANU-PF officials in Zimbabwe's troubled power-sharing government on Wednesday blocked a scheduled visit by a United Nations expert on torture to investigate alleged attacks on members of the former opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
Public option, private strong-arming by Reid
Oct 28th, 2009 - Boston
WASHINGTON - A day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would put a public option into the health care bill he sends to the floor, it was clear he had not yet found consensus on the legislation's most divisive issue.
Moderate Democrats challenge Reid on public option
Oct 27th, 2009 - Washington Post
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid's risky decision to bring a health-care bill to the Senate floor with a government insurance plan was met with skepticism Tuesday by party moderates...

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20 + States Declaring Sovereignty Under the 10th Amendment!!! Pennsylvania State Rep Sam Rohrer
of the 10th Amendment. It ensures that any powers not granted to the federal government through the Constitution are reserved to the states and the people. However, through various expansions of federal authority ...
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U.S. Government Stages Fake Coup To Wipe Out National Debt
Congress says that with no way to actually pay back our debts, faking a coup to eliminate financial obligations is the best plan for the US economy.
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Ron Paul: Government can quarantine people
A national emergency has been declared in the United States! But it has nothing to do with the war in Afghanistan, the economic crisis, or the Iranian nuclear situation. Instead, it's all about the H1N1 virus ...
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National Government from WikiPedia:

A national government (alternatively a national unity or national union government) is a broad coalition government consisting of all parties (or all major parties) in the legislature, usually formed during a time of war or other national emergency.

During World War I the Conservative government of Sir Robert Borden invited the Liberal opposition to join the government as a means of dealing with the Conscription crisis of 1917. The Liberals, led by Sir Wilfrid Laurier refused; however, Borden was able to convince many individual Liberals to join what was called a Union Government, which defeated the Laurier Liberals in the fall 1917 election.

During World War II, the opposition Conservative Party ran under the name National Government in the 1940 election as a means of promoting their platform of creating a wartime national government coalition (evocative of the previous war's Union government). The party did dismally in the election which re-elected the Liberal government of William Lyon Mackenzie King whose party continued to rule alone for the duration of World War II.