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I think it is more like 46 million abortions performed worldwide...but what would I know? I'm "just silly

JS (just socialist?) this cartoon is obviously for and about Americans in regard to the Iraq War and abortion
still the horror of 46 million is staggering
thank you for the horrifying number

Russians employed at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor suddenly depart in a body,
according to local Arab sources
October 1, 2007,

 
The Khorramshar News Agency, which is published by the ethnic Arab underground of Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan, reported early Oct. 1 that the entire staff of Russian nuclear engineers and experts employed in building the nuclear reactor at Bushehr had abruptly packed their bags Friday, Sept. 28, and flew back to Russia. The agency's one-liner offers no source or explanation.

The story appears to have originated with the ethnic Arabs who live near the reactor or who come in contact with its Russian staff. If true, our sources offer three hypothetical scenarios to account for the Russians precipitate departure:

1. Another crisis has cropped up in the patchy Russian-Iranian dealings over the Bushehr reactor. This is unlikely because Russian president Vladimar Putin is due for a high-profile visit to Tehran on Oct. 16, when he plans to sign a series of nuclear accords with the Islamic Republic. Furthermore, Moscow, like Beijing, stands foursquare behind Iran's efforts to delay harsher sanctions for its continued uranium enrichment. Only this week, the two powers gained Iran two to three months grace by forcing a delay in the UN Security Council session that was to have approved a third round of sanctions.

2. Moscow or Tehran has been tipped off that a US or Israeli attack is imminent on the Bushehr plant and Iran?s other nuclear installations and acted to whip Russian personnel out of harm's way.

3. Moscow has learned that an Iranian pre-emptive attack is imminent against American targets in Iraq and the Persian Gulf and/or Israel.

Aside from these hypothetical scenarios, Iranian sources report that the Khorramshar News Agency keeps its ear to the ground on happenings in Bushehr, because it is claimed by Khuzistan separatists as Arab land which they will fight to liberate from Iranian "occupation."

[source: e-mail]

yes I read your garbage
you are trying to imply the findings are "right wing"
which in fact is not at all true

Immigation drains Britain, says Left think tank
By Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent
BST 30/09/2007

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are a drain on Britain and its economy, not a benefit, says a Left-leaning think tank.

Migrants from many developing nations fail to pay their way, while those from wealthy countries, such as the United States and Australia,
provide a boost for the economy.

The report, published today by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), sets out to reveal which nationalities are "a debit on Britain's balance sheet".

It found that fewer than half of Britain's 650,000 Somalis, Bangladeshis, Turks and Pakistanis, have jobs and the four communities have the highest levels of benefit dependency.

Britain's fastest-growing migrant group, the Poles, score above-average for employment, but have the lowest hourly pay and make a below-average tax contribution.

Channel 4 commissioned the report for a Dispatches documentary, Immigrants: the Inconvenient Truth, to be shown tomorrow night.

The IPPR, which has close links to Labour, insisted that its report "is not an attempt to cast immigrant communities in a bad or good light".
However, its findings will be seized on by those campaigning for tighter immigration controls.

New government statistics predict a two million rise in population over the next decade due to immigration, more than previous projections.

Liam Byrne, the immigration minister, said last week that the forecast "underlines the need for swift and sweeping changes to the immigration system".

This newspaper revealed last week that one in five crimes in London is now committed by foreign nationals, with Poles, Jamaicans, Irish and Somalis at the top of the list.

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KAZ1CFX4V4DRNQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/09/30/nimm130.xml

shouldn't this headline actually be pleasing to a large segment of the pacifist anti-military left?

in fact if the headline is true, maybe the far left should come around and support the Iraq war
because don't they want the American military weaker and "worn too thin" so the US has to cave in to
a more "equatable and fair" world?