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Iran: Ahmadinejad Calls For Demographic Revolution
ADN Kronos Intl. ^ | Oct-23-06 | AKI
Posted on 10/23/2006 7:51:53 PM PDT by indcons
Tehran, 23 Oct. (AKI) - After two decade of policies by previous Iranian governments to contain the growth of the country's population, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on Iranians to have more children. After the initial demographic boom, when the population doubled following Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, Iran initiated a plan in 1988 to control the birth rate, based on a major campaign promoting the use of contraception. The country succeeded in reducing the growth rate of the population from 3.2 to 1.4 percent per year. Now however Ahmadinejad has said he would like to take u-turn in this policy.
"I don't agree with those who say that there is no need to have more than two children," said Ahmadinejad speaking to parliamentarians in Iran. He then went on to say that the government intends to reduce the number of hours women are required to work, in relation to the number of children they have.
"I am not saying that women shouldn't work but they presence outside of the home should not in any way compromise their principal mission which is to educate their children," said the Iranian president.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he is convinced that Iran "has the capacity to satisfy the needs of 120 million of its citizens."
"The West fears more than anything else, our population growth and we must defeat them in this battle," he said.
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Is War With Israel The Next Step For Iran?
Global Politician ^ | August 22, 2006 | Ghazal Omid
Posted on 10/22/2006 11:44:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Iranian government will fight with utmost brutality. The result will be the destruction of the beautiful Persian culture. Iran is not only harboring the terrorist group Hezbollah; it has adopted their method of fighting. Mahmood Ahmadinejad, in his interview with Mike Wallace, said that the number of registered suicide bombers has increased from 2000 in January 2006 to the current number of 54,000... While Iran was at war with Iraq, Khomani kept referring to the eight year war as a blessing. Iran’s only “blessing” from that war was over 1,000,000 casualties, including half a million dead, The regime, of course, survived many uprisings, killing over 2500 of its opposition per month and no one from the international community even blinked... Anticipating hard times, key figures have already pulled their assets from national banks; at the same time, trying to find allies among the very fragile circle of friends in the Arab community. Iran will stage a war on Israel and the US on all fronts in the coming months. US troops in the Persian Gulf can be hit by their fast boats; at least that is what Iran banking on. Iran will not put all their eggs in one basket. They will hit Israel at the same time as they step up the militia aggravation of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan; as well as hitting US troops via supporters in Arabic countries. And, Iran will interrupt oil flow.
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China Holds Ethnic Koreans for Attempted Uranium Sale
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 10/24/06
Posted on 10/23/2006 6:33:43 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China Holds Ethnic Koreans for Attempted Uranium Sale
Chinese police last month arrested two men on charges of trying to sell 1 kg of enriched uranium, an essential raw material for nuclear weapons, press reports said Monday. The two were ethnic Koreans living in China, police in Beijing confirmed. Press reports said Beijing police arrested the two men, identified as Chang and Chung, on charges of attempting to sell 969.03 grams of enriched uranium at a hotel there on Sept. 11.
Beijing police said initial investigations found the enriched uranium probably came from Russia, but sources there say the possibility that it came from North Korea can’t be ruled out. One source said a considerable number of ethnic Koreans in China are involved in smuggling with North Korea. “I actually met someone in a Chinese border town who asked me to find a buyer for the material and told me, ‘I have enriched uranium smuggled from North Korea.’”
Uranium naturally occurs in two isotopes: U-238 (99.3 percent), and U-235 (0.7 percent). When the latter is enriched at 3-4 percent purity, it can be used for nuclear power plants, and with more than 90 percent purity, it becomes a raw material for nuclear weapons. It is not known at what purity the seized uranium was enriched. Some 15-17 kg are needed to produce nuclear weapons, but the seized amount was less than 1 kg. When U.S. envoy James Kelly visited Pyongyang in 2002, the North allegedly admitted to having its own highly enriched uranium program.
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China launches two satellites with one rocket
People's Daily Online ^ | 10/24/06
Posted on 10/23/2006 8:09:51 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
China successfully launched two satellites into space with a Long March-4B carrier rocket early Tuesday morning.
The two satellites, which are intended for space environment exploration, were launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi province at 7:34 a.m.
One of the satellite was detached from the rocket after about 11 minutes of take-off, followed by the other about one minute later. Both have successfully entered preset orbits.
The two satellites, which form Group-02 of Shijian-6, were manufactured by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology and China's DFH Satellite Co., Ltd. respectively. Both have a designed life of more than two years.
They will replace two Shijian-6 satellites launched on Sept. 9, 2004, to conduct exploration of space environment, radiation in space and their influence, parameters of physical environment of the space, and carry out other related space experiments.
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"Update on a very tense situation in Lebanon"
By Olivier Guitta
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "On this 23rd anniversary of the attacks (it happened on Oct 23, 1983) against our Marines and French troops in Beirut which killed respectively 241 and 58, the situation in Lebanon remains very worrisome to say the least."
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23 years ago today: BEIRUT Marines killed
self | 10/23/2006 | RaceBannon
Posted on 10/23/2006 3:27:52 PM PDT by RaceBannon
Today is the 23rd anniversary of the Beirut bombing of the Marine Barracks.
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Armed Man Shot During Attempted Robbery (TX)
KFDA ^ | October 22, 2006 | Staff
Posted on 10/23/2006 9:07:58 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
An armed man attempting to rob a local car lot... Ends up being shot himself that's according to Amarillo Police.
Officers tell us shortly after 1:30 this morning the owner of Jimbat Autos confronted an armed man breaking into one of his cars.
Police say the suspect started assaulting the owner and that's when he shot the suspect in the groin area.
The suspect was taken to the hospital after being apprehended.
The owner of the car lot was not seriously hurt.
Human rights violations - Eritrea
Is this the end of free speech in Russia?
Snip: ...anyone who speaks up against the government and its leaders faces possible death. To put it bluntly, it seems that hundreds of years of Czarist oppression, followed by seventy years of Stalinist repression (far worse) have been suffered by the people to no purpose at all. Russia is now, at least nominally, a democracy, but a democracy where thinkers who dare to speak their mind openly run the considerable risk of being found dead in a lift.
The Al Jazeera of South America
Snip: On the Telesur board, there are a lot of people who are very well known, people like Tariq Ali, Ernesto Cardenal ... This is the advisory board, not the directors’ board.
Danny Glover is also on the advisory board, and he made a comment, I think it might have been last year. He said, “I do not see any Afro-descendants from this region on this advisory body, nor Indigenous people, and very few women. It is critical that we keep in mind who we are talking to.” To this President Chávez said, “Danny, I am with you.” Has Telesur started to address this problem in any way?
Snip: A Brazilian bike mechanic who confessed to killing one boy is suspected of slaying 41 others, O Globo TV reported Monday. Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito, 41, admitted to killing a 15-year-old boy in 2003. Chagas had previously confessed to the other killings, then retracted his statements. He blames sexual abuse as a child for his murderous streak.
Argentina - shopping for military equipment
Snip: Argentine Defense Minister Nilda Garre said transport planes, helicopters and radar equipment top Argentina's list of military needs as she shops for the best price from arms manufacturers, La Nacion reported Oct 23. Garre began Oct. 21 a two-week tour of France, Russian, Ukraine and Cyprus to meet with her counterparts in those countries and find purchase deals that will make Argentina's armed forces more mobile.
Bolivia says military posts no threat to neighbors
Snip: Bolivia's neighbors should not feel threatened by a proposed military aid package from Venezuela that will be used to set up new bases on its borders, Defense Minister Walker San Miguel said Friday.
Snip: Freshly printed currency worth US$2.5 million (?2 million) has disappeared from a shipment to Paraguay from Paris, a government prosecutor reported Saturday. Of 200 boxes packed with 50,000-Guarani bills, there were six boxes missing when the shipment arrived by boat at a port on the Rio Paraguay outside the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, prosecutor Sergio Alegre said. "A report was filed for damages to the national economy. In this case, the Central Bank is the victim," Alegre said.
US Missionary's wife pays $5,000 for kidnapped husband's release in Haiti
Snip: The Rev. Pritchard Adams III, a 24-year resident of the Caribbean nation, was abducted at gunpoint Sunday as he left church in the northern city of Cap-Haitien. The kidnappers asked for $80,000 but lowered the ransom to $5,000 by Tuesday.
His mother, Lucy Adams of Fayetteville, said Adams' wife Dana met the kidnappers outside a small town called Limbe and paid the ransom as some armed kidnappers hid in the brush.
SCHOOL SHOOTING - UPDATE:
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Monday, October 23, 2006
"Amish School Shooting Prayer Binders to be Delivered In Person Today"
By Michael Ireland
Special Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NICKEL MINES, PENNSYLVANIA (ANS) -- Families of the schoolchildren shot and killed in the October 2 Nickel Mines, PA, Amish schoolhouse shootings will today receive binders containing hundreds of prayers sent by E-mail. Since the Amish do not use computers, the messages will be hand-delivered to the families of both the victims and the shooter."
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"Philippines cops on heightened alert on All Saints Day"
By Santosh Digal
Special to ASSIST News Service
MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES
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Monday, October 23, 2006
"Vietnamese Police Reportedly Abduct and Torture Montagnards"
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Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
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"Support American snipers"
By Michelle Malkin · October 24, 2006 12:00 AM
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UPDATE...
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"Last railroad tanker pulled from trestle
Other burned-out cars remain in Beaver River"
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
By Jim McKinnon and Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An 80-car Norfolk Southern train hauling 100,000 gallons of ethanol from Chicago to New Jersey derailed at about 10:30 p.m. Friday, sending tanker cars plunging into the river.
The National Transportation Safety Board still is trying to determine the cause."
A bit of an UPDATE...
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"Reward offered in church robbery
Congregation held up during services"
By Evelyn Holmes
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "October 19, 2006 (CHICAGO) - Chicago police are searching for suspects in a brazen robbery at a West Side church on Wednesday night. Police say at least two armed men held up the congregation during evening services.
A $2,000 reward is being offered in the case."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "For Arlene Robinson and others who attended the Israel of God's Church, the church has been a refuge for those who live in a neighborhood of violence, but that was interrupted by a robbery."
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"Muslim Woman Told She Must Remove Veil To Testify In Detroit Court"
All Headline News ^ | 10/23/06 | Mort Karman
Posted on 10/23/2006 11:33:19 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Judge Paul Paruk, in Hamtramck District Court, told Muhammad she had to take off her niqab; a scarf and veil, which covers her face and head except for her eyes, or he would dismiss her case. The judge said he needed to see her face so he could judge her truthfulness when she testified."
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Monday, October 23, 2006
"UK Campus Jihad"
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October 23, 2006
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"TWO DEFENDANTS PLEAD GUILTY IN COCA-COLA TRADE SECRETS CASE"
PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "ATLANTA -- Ibrahim Dimson, 30, of Bronx, N.Y., and Edmund Duhaney, 43, of Decatur, Ga., pleaded guilty today in federal district court to a charge of conspiring with each other and another defendant, Joya Williams, to steal and sell The Coca-Cola Company's trade secrets, U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias of the Northern District of Georgia announced today.
"Economic espionage should be treated very seriously," stated U.S. Attorney Nahmias. "Maintaining the incentives to create new and innovative products and allowing the innovators to reap the benefits of their inventions are critical to the growth of our economy. Those who try to cheat by taking advantage of others' hard work and creativity will face prosecution and prison.""
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"Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales
at the Jag Corps Leadership Summit"
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
October 23, 2006
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"Car Plows Into Students At Bus Stop, Injuring Six"
Oct 23, 2006 04:48 PM
Trang Pham-Bui Reports On Bus Stop Hit & Run
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police say the woman behind the wheel was 18-year-old Kreshanda Pruitt. They say she's the sister of the Gulfport student involved in the fight."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Kreshanda Pruitt was arrested at her Gulfport home shortly after the incident. She's in the Harrison County Jail under a $100,000 bond."
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