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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The perpetually frosty state of relations between North Korea and the U.S. has meant that Washington’s diplomats don’t rack up many frequent-flyer miles traveling to the isolated capital of Pyongyang. Prior to last week, the last time a senior American diplomat visited was October 2002, and then only to confront the North with secret intelligence [...]

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On Monday, June 25 Iran, Mongolia, and Turkmenistan confirmed their participation at the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit scheduled for August 16 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The presidents of all three countries – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nambaryn Enkhbayar, and Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov – will attend as distinguished guests. The Kyrgyz government is currently awaiting confirmations from [...]

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Defense ministers from the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) met in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Wednesday to discuss security preparations for the SCO’s Aug. 16 summit. Among these discussions were talks on plans for another set of large-scale military exercises in the weeks leading up to the summit. Though the meeting is still [...]

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When China destroyed its own satellite, outrage — and debris — rapidly encircled the globe. Was the Sat Kill a policy weapon or the start of an arms race in space?
At 5:28 PM EST on Jan. 11, 2007, a satellite arced over southern China. It was small — just 6 ft. long — a tiny [...]

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Russia successfully launches military satelliteInternational Herald Tribune, France - Jun 29, 2007“The satellite will expand the orbital group of Russia’s military satellites,” the statement said. It did not elaborate on the satellite’s purpose and …

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Bukovsky and BelienVladimir Bukovksy, the 63-year old former Soviet dissident, fears that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union. In a speech he delivered in Brussels last week Mr Bukovsky called the EU a “monster” that must be destroyed, the sooner the better, before it develops into a fullfledged totalitarian [...]

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BEIRUT - Hezbollah is busy preparing for its next war with Israel in the knowledge that the Jewish state will not rest easy with the results of last summer’s 34-day conflict, military analysts in Beirut believe.
Since the United Nations-brokered ceasefire came into force last August 14, the pro-Iran Shiite militia has been steadily gearing itself [...]

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Most investors have no idea that there is currently a mad speculative scramble going on in the commodities markets over the future price of uranium. Yellowcake, the raw unrefined uranium oxide from mines, has jumped from $10 per pound five years ago to $138 per pound recently. A year ago, yellowcake was selling for $45 [...]

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The Turkish public dislikes the United States more than any other nation in the world, while leading global actors such as the European Union, Russia, Iran, China and Israel are also falling from favor with a majority of Turks, according to a global survey released on Wednesday.
The 47-country survey found that only 9 percent of [...]

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Scientists, environmentalists and members of the international community are reeling after Moscow apparently broke with convention and made a land grab for a 460,000 square mile / 1.2 million square km oil-rich zone near the North Pole.
Russian scientists say that they have uncovered evidence which links its northern region with the North Pole via an [...]

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Under Islam, even “normal” marriages, let alone forced marriages, can be viewed to Western sensibilities as trafficking in human beings, or bondage. FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan reveals what Western governments are doing about it, and his report will shock you.
Legal Marriage And Forced Marriages
A man in Islam can have four concurrent wives, though a [...]

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