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*Former NBA star Dennis Rodman was back in North Korea last week and this time he came bearing some unusual gifts.

On Thursday, Rodman gave the countrys sports minister a copy of Donald Trumps book The Art of the Deal, a present intended for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. It wasnt signed by Trump and Rodman has said his visit has nothing to do with the White House.

His previous visits in 2013 and 2014 certainly drew controversy, but Rodman said this visit was all about meeting old friends and hitting up a few local attractions. As USA Today reports, Dennis and his small entourage have been spending time hanging out with young North Korean basketball players.

Rodmans arrival last Tuesday came hours after the North decided to release Otto Warmbier, an American university student who had been sentended to 15 years hard labor for trying to steal a propaganda banner.

Following news of Rodmans visit, The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation launched a petition on change.org calling for the NBA to remove Rodmans from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame following his praise and defense of the of North Korean dictator, per MSN.com.

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In the petition, the foundation said that Rodman has consistently defended Jong-un, who he calls his friend for life.

Otto Warmbier was murdered by the North Korean regime. The barbarous treatment received by this young American at the hands of his North Korean captors is sadly not a unique act, VOC Executive Director Marion Smith said in a statement. North Koreas government has a record of forcing innocent American tourists into decades of hard labor and of beating and torturing them to the point of death. Their own people receive the same treatment, or worse, on a daily basis.

Dennis Rodmans complacency and coddling of Kim Jong-un romanticizes and makes light of how dangerous North Korea is to its own people and Americans who travel there. Removing Rodman from the Hall of Fame will send a message that all Americans are united against this regime.

Warmbier, who had been confined for 17 months, died Monday afternoon after reportedly being in a coma for a year. Officials in Washington and Pyongyang said Rodmans visit had nothing to do with Warmbier going home.

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*Former NBA star Dennis Rodman was back in North Korea last week and this time he came bearing some unusual gifts.

On Thursday, Rodman gave the countrys sports minister a copy of Donald Trumps book The Art of the Deal, a present intended for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. It wasnt signed by Trump and Rodman has said his visit has nothing to do with the White House.

His previous visits in 2013 and 2014 certainly drew controversy, but Rodman said this visit was all about meeting old friends and hitting up a few local attractions. As USA Today reports, Dennis and his small entourage have been spending time hanging out with young North Korean basketball players.

Rodmans arrival last Tuesday came hours after the North decided to release Otto Warmbier, an American university student who had been sentended to 15 years hard labor for trying to steal a propaganda banner.

Following news of Rodmans visit, The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation launched a petition on change.org calling for the NBA to remove Rodmans from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame following his praise and defense of the of North Korean dictator, per MSN.com.

Peep the clip below:

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In the petition, the foundation said that Rodman has consistently defended Jong-un, who he calls his friend for life.

Otto Warmbier was murdered by the North Korean regime. The barbarous treatment received by this young American at the hands of his North Korean captors is sadly not a unique act, VOC Executive Director Marion Smith said in a statement. North Koreas government has a record of forcing innocent American tourists into decades of hard labor and of beating and torturing them to the point of death. Their own people receive the same treatment, or worse, on a daily basis.

Dennis Rodmans complacency and coddling of Kim Jong-un romanticizes and makes light of how dangerous North Korea is to its own people and Americans who travel there. Removing Rodman from the Hall of Fame will send a message that all Americans are united against this regime.

Warmbier, who had been confined for 17 months, died Monday afternoon after reportedly being in a coma for a year. Officials in Washington and Pyongyang said Rodmans visit had nothing to do with Warmbier going home.

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A human rights group has launched a petition to remove former NBA star Dennis Rodman from the Basketball Hall of Fame after his most recent jaunt to North Korea.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit, started the petition this week following the death of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was held by North Korea for 17 months before being released in a coma to the United States.

Mr. Rodman arrived in North Korea on June 13, the same day news broke that Warmbier had been released. U.S. officials have said theres no connection between his visit and the students release, CNN reported. Warmbier died Monday in Cincinnati.

Mr. Rodman, who has visited North Korea five times and befriended its brutal dictator, Kim Jong-un, says hes trying to bring basketball to the isolated country.

Everybodys going to be happy. It was a good day. It was a good trip. A really good trip, Mr. Rodman said in Beijing Saturday following his five-day trip, Reuters reported.

But the Victims of Communism group said Mr. Rodman has gone too far.

According to the Halls Board of Trustees, a candidate may be removed if he or she has damaged the integrity of the game of basketball, states the petition, which gathered more than 1,300 signatures as of Thursday afternoon. Clearly, Rodmans actions have tarnished the name and reputation of basketball and it is time that he is removed from the Hall of Fame. Doing so will send a message that all facets of American society, from sports to politics, will stand firm for our shared values and reject the shameless coddling of murderous dictatorial regimes.

Marion Smith, director of the rights group, said Warmbier was murdered by the North Korean regime.

The barbarous treatment received by this young American at the hands of his North Korean captors is sadly not a unique act, he told CNN. North Koreas government has a record of forcing innocent American tourists into decades of hard labor and of beating and torturing them to the point of death.

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The Kremlin, for many years the seat of the Soviet Union's Communist Party, overlooks the Moskva River in Moscow.

Though the term "communism" can refer to specific political parties, at its core, communism is an ideology of economic equality through the elimination of private property.

The beliefs of communism, most famously expressed by Karl Marx, center on the idea that inequality and suffering result from capitalism. Under capitalism, private business people and corporations own all the factories, equipment and other resources called "the means of production." These owners, according to communist doctrine, can then exploit workers, who are forced sell their labor for wages.

The working class or "proletariat" must rise up against the capitalist owners, or "bourgeoisie," according to the ideals of communism, and institute a new society with no private property, no economic classes and no profits.

Communism differs from socialism, though the two have similarities. Both philosophies advocate economic equality and state ownership of various goods and services. However, socialism usually works through the existing democratic structures of capitalist countries. Almost all capitalist countries, in fact, have some socialist characteristics, like the public schools and Social Security program in the United States.

In contrast, communists state that capitalist economic and political systems must be completely overthrown through revolution.

Historically, such communist revolutions have never yielded their intended utopias of equality. Communist theory predicts that, after the proletariat revolution, special leaders must temporarily take control of the state, leading it toward an eventual "true" communist society. Thus, the governments of the Soviet Union, communist China, Cuba and others were intended to be provisional. In practice, these "temporary" governments have held on to power, often subjecting their citizens to authoritarian control.

Communist ideology also states that these revolutions should spread across the globe, rather than be limited to individual countries. This helps explain the historical antagonism between capitalist and communist nations particularly the long Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Appearing on MSNBC this afternoon to talk about the Senates secretive health care bill that will finally be released this week, Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) wanted it to be known that the potential of millions of people losing health insurance coverage shouldnt be all that concerning. Why? Because communism, thats why.

After telling host Craig Melvin that he, much like many of his colleagues, doesnt know what is in the new bill, Brat began railing against Obamacare and the original version of the American Health Care Act, claiming that both were written around coverage and not price.

Melvin noted that while that may be the case, it was fair to say that there would be millions of people who would lose their coverage under either the House plan or whatever the Senate unveils. Brat responded by saying he didnt think it was all that fair because you have to look at things through a free-market lens.

Imagine the Soviet Union 20 years ago transitioning to a free market, the Virginia lawmaker explained. 100% of people under communism couldnt eat any food but they did have health care coverage.

He continued, What happens if you move to a free-market system? Everybody in your population loses coverage. So you lose 100% of coverage thats not good, right? But its also good if you have a free market in place where you can finally feed your people and they are 1,000 percent richer 20 years later. And so thats the truly fair narrative weve got to get out.

The Freedom Caucus member went on to bemoan the lack of cheap insurance products for younger people while somewhat defending the lack of transparency from the Senate regarding their bill.

Following last months House passage of the AHCA, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put together a group of 13 Republican senators to craft their own version of the bill. Over the past few days, with the legislation being drawn up in secret, there has been bi-partisan outrage over the lack of details and daylight.

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