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India and China signs military agreement to move towards a NATO style Asian military alliance Media Release May 29, 2006 India Daily (http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/9238.asp) India and China Monday [29 May] signed an historic MoU to institutionalise exchanges in military training and exercises with a view to adding more content to their building strategic relations. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed after visiting Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his Chinese counterpart, General Cao Gangchuan held over two hours of talks here at the Central Military Commission headquarters. The MoU envisages other contacts between the Armed Forces and Defence Officials and experts of...

SASABE, Mexico — When Pedro Lopez Vazquez crossed illegally into the United States last week, he was not heading north to look for a job. He already had one. His future employer even paid $1,000 for a smuggler to help Vazquez make his way from the central Mexican city of Puebla to Aspen, Colo.

Almost all of the population growth in the 21st century will take place in the poorest regions other than Mexico – for example countries of Latin America that have economic and social conditions worse than Mexico and a labor force willing to work for less wages than illegal aliens from Mexico. The poorest regions of the world that face the most population growth include sub-Saharan Africa, other areas of the African continent, and in Central and South Asia. If it’s all a matter of “work that Americans won’t do” and that, so we are told, without such foreign, peasant, servitude...

Apr 10, 2006 Description The plan for the April 10 Day of Action came from the grassroots. The National Capital Immigrant Coalition – a coalition of immigrant, labor, faith, civil rights and business community groups in the metro, Washington, DC area – and allies around the nation, developed the concept of a National Day of Action. Their good idea caught on like wildfire and today hundreds of local grassroots organizations and coalitions are working together in cities all over America to make our voices heard. Join hundreds of thousands of people in telling Congress that we need real, comprehensive immigration...

FOX News Just Showed John McCain with banner "John Mccain (D)" (Letter D) ... just now, I saw it on FOX News. Fitting. As the "Beltway Boys" are telling us that John McCain is correct, "it's not an amnesty", (what a laugh), they show a video of him pointing down. I look down. It says on the banner: John McCain (D). Fitting. Exactly.

My Wife does volunteer work for an Elementary school in the a city in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. She is on site counsels and committees. She knows all the students, and in fact many if not most, know, and love her. The Principal and school officials are always calling her, and taking advantage of her social conscious and intelligence, and her excellence with children. I have a child who attends that school. Today I receive a phone call from my wife. The cell is ringing, I think it's work related. A quick look at the incoming id, it’s...

You may not understand now what I am going to say, which has to do with separation from, and separation of, family. But you very well will understand in your own time. The illegal aliens who are now so demanding, and who are now being given their demands. and for that reason will now demand much, much more - indeed everything, from you - they talk about how those who want to have the most basic laws, perhaps people like you who want the most basic laws because you want to protect your family, well, people like you are told...

Immigration March Draws 500,000 in L.A. By PETER PRENGAMAN LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of immigration advocates marched though downtown Los Angeles in one of the largest demonstrations for any cause in recent U.S. history. More than 500,000 protesters - demanding that Congress abandon attempts to make illegal immigration a felony and to build more walls along the border - surprised police who estimated the crowd size using aerial photographs and other techniques, police Cmdr. Louis Gray Jr. said. Wearing white T-shirts to symbolize peace, the demonstrators chanted ``Mexico!'' ``USA!'' and ``Si se puede,'' an old Mexican-American civil rights shout...

PENCE: Well, it wouldn't be the first time that House conservatives disagreed with this administration, Chris. Many of us broke with the president on the expansion of the Education Department and No Child Left Behind, and a few dozen of us broke with the president when he advanced the creation of the first new entitlement in the Medicare prescription drug bill. What we put out this week we actually call the Contract With America Renewed, because it was based on the budget that the brand new Republican majority passed out of the House of Representatives in 1995. We balanced the...

(1) Coca-Cola (Atlanta, Food products, 23,870 million rupees), (2) Mission Energry Company & Flour Damiel Inc (Power, 15,414 + 11,394 million rupees), CMS Generation (Power, 9,465 million rupees), (3) Ford Motor Company (Auto, 8,635 million rupees), (4) Hughes Electronics Corp (Cell phone/tele, 7,999 million rupees), (5) Public Power International Ltd (power, 7,440 million rupees), (6) Soros Fund Management (God knows what ~power, 7,000 million rupees), (7) Panda Energy Corp USA (Texas, 5,950 million rupees, check this corp)

It has been stomach-turning to listen to flunkies for Bush such as Rush Limbaugh et all call patriots who want to secure our borders “racist” for being “anti-Arab” regarding the port deal. Who’s the racist? Who the hell do you think you are - you think this is a game? Dubai Ports World is anti-Semitic, bottom line, a bunch of Nazis, and U.S. law prohibits doing business with companies who boycott Israel . The whole story regarding Dubai ports firm enforcing Israel boycott is enough of the facts to be the end of this entire deal, dead “in the water“....

So again we see the bond between our borders, whether they be our ports, air space and airports, or our borders with Mexico, and check pants Republicans such as the Rush Limbaugh, George Bush and Arlen Specter crowd. All of it is a question of borders - and that is why the Bush Administration and supporters are so keen on getting the controversial port deal through, which continues policies of weak border security. Because the politics of it are clear: If Bush succeeds on the port issue, then the amnesty for illegal aliens also moves forward. And if he fails,...

Dubai investment group buys midtown landmark Friday, November 11, 2005 By Aleksandrs Rozens Associated Press NEW YORK - A Dubai-based investment firm Thursday said it has purchased 230 Park Avenue, a 34-story office high-rise in midtown Manhattan. The property, commonly known as the Helmsley Building, sits above Grand Central Terminal's underground commuter train and subway complex. The buyer, Istithmar PJSC, purchased the building for $705 million. The seller was 230 Park Avenue Investors LLC, of which Robert Bass of Fort Worth Texas is a lead investor. Current tenants include ING Baring, Tokio Marine and the Bank of Argentina. The building...

For some people, who they play golf with is more important than the morale of the U.S. troops who are trying to defend us from Arab terrorism. Opps - I’m sorry . . . We are not allowed to say “Arab” terrorism. In fact, even the term Islamic terrorism is a no-no with some. I mean, the Nazis, there weren’t just Germans. There were Arabs for example, who were Nazis. Kosovars who were Nazis, and such. And today, Iranians aren’t Arabs, but many are Islamic terrorists. And so, just as it would have been wrong to call it a war...

Indo-US N-deal may affect NPT: Maurya Sheraton booked Agencies New Delhi, Feb 26 Describing the talks on nuclear deal as a "complicated issue", Co-Chair of Indo-US Science and Technology Forum Norman P Neureiter has said there were concerns among some sections that it could encourage countries like Iran and have a "negative impact" on non-proliferation efforts. The eminent American scientist, however, emphasised that there were no concerns with regard to India misusing the agreement to become the proliferator of nuclear weapons. "The real issue is - does it (the nuclear deal with India) have a negative impact on global efforts...

Today, Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan accepts the Olympic Flag during the Torino 2006 Closing Ceremony at Stadio Olimpico. These are exciting times for all of us over the coming several years, because the next Winter Olympics will be in Vancouver, Canada in 2010! The Olympic Flag will be handed over to the beautiful city of Vancouver, B.C., which hosting many of the indoor events, and the Alpine events will be in the Winter wonderland of Whistler just a few miles away. Canada is a neighbor just next door, and this is an opportunity for the United States to show a...

The Bush administration refuses to take control of the Mexican border, despite 911 and the dangers such careless lax of security exposes our citizens to, and now the questionable outsourcing of control operations over six major U.S. ports to a company hosted out of a terrorist-sponsoring Middle-Eastern nation, a precarious enterprise which is endorsed and defended by the Bush administration to the outrage of many among both parties, Republicans and Democrats. Before 911, any political advantage and money contributions some Republicans thought they would gain from Corporate and big-Agra business which break U.S. laws through hire and exploitation of illegal...

The problem with people like Yoko Ono is, they value peace more than they value freedom. And people and nations who go down that path end up with neither peace nor freedom. Anyone who knows the whole debauched scene of Yoko Ono and her corrupt, vengeful and decadent life, knows exactly what a Yoko Ono wants - she doesn’t want people to follow her ideas, she wants people to follow her. And if people did, they would end up under a Khmer Rouge dictatorship with plastic bags being tied over the heads of their children. Yoko Ono is not a...

O’Reilly was more wearing on me in just one day than a Michael Savage could be in one year. And that is because someone’s gotten’ to the Leprechaun, and this whole scene of his, so obvious today, of practically hurting to want to be seen as a “moderate”, is, plain as the nose on your face, mediocre and almost “Bushie” in quality at the same time. O’Reilly, the in your face supposed “tough guy” (and don’t let anyone kid my that his genre isn’t anything but this persona that he purposely puts out – viz “what say You?”) – and...

Thank you Governor Schwarzenegger for Denying Clemency Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, thank you so much for your well founded decision in refusing to block the execution of murderer Stanley Williams. About 30 minutes before your decision was made official, emails had already come in which, in a one line sentence, you announced your decision not to grant clemency. It was a great relief for many who were concerned, as the news broke over the radio, and among news talks shows all over the state and nation. Later a full statement was released by your office, five pages, and the words in...