Fertility data suggest that the international migration picture is about to change.
As the debate over illegal immigration from Mexico rages in Washington and across the country, and as the administration’s reform bill hangs by a thread, few Americans are aware that this problem is on track to decline, and will eventually become a vague memory.
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A senior diplomat with ties to the IAEA said that Iran was already operating more than 1,300 centrifuges for enrichment by mid-May at its Natanz plant and could have 3,000 by the end of July.
Under ideal conditions they could produce enough highly enriched uranium to produce a nuclear weapon within a year at most.
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JERUSALEM: Syria is producing more rockets and preparing its army for possible armed conflict with Israel, but is unlikely to initiate an attack, a senior Israeli defense official said Saturday.
In an alliance with Iran, Syria also continues to help arm the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, despite a U.N. arms embargo, and supports the violent Palestinian [...]

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The need to ration gas in OPEC’s second largest exporter of crude oil reveals a major vulnerability of Iran’s theocratic regime.
Government policy is clearly to blame for the rationing. The problem begins with subsidies for consumers; at 34 cents per gallon (and a total cost of $5 billion last year), the subsidized price acts as [...]

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Russian media reported a series of attacks June 28 in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia. While fighting is normal in the secessionist region, these attacks were not small in scale, and Russia could use them as the means it has been looking for to move not only back into South Ossetia, but into Georgia [...]

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MOSCOW: A Russian-built space rocket on Friday sent a new military satellite into orbit, military officials said.
A Zenit-2M booster rocket put the Kosmos-2428 satellite into its designated orbit 13 minutes after its launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian Space Forces said in a statement.
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As China and India increasingly prospect for resources here, terrorism concerns rise and the U.S. military seeks a permanent military presence in Africa, the continent has its greatest international influence in decades. Whether Africa can use its newfound might to end its longtime blight is a separate issue.
“There’s a new dynamic in play” for African [...]

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The US Department of Defense (DOD) is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual “nodes” to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR.
Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a “synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with [...]

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As the 45th anniversary of the Chinese attack on India nears, disturbing signs flow from across the Himalayas.
China is today providing Pakistan missiles and nuclear capabilities designed to ensure that Pakistan permanently remains an Albatross around India’s neck. Pakistan’s nuclear weapons capabilities are being augmented by providing it with designs, equipment and knowhow to build [...]

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This week two members of the “Axis of Oil” – Russia and Venezuela – were especially active and transparent so the world can see their true colors. Venezuela nationalized their oil industry and kicked all US oil interests out. Russia is doing their best to do the same. They want to use oil not [...]

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