William Gheen of Americans
for Legal Immigration will be at the Braswell Memorial
Library, Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 7:15PM. Make an effort
to get out and listen to what William has to say regarding
the illegal immigration that is part of the downward spiral
of America and what you can do to stop it.
Americans
for Legal Immigration
1-866-329-3999
http://www.alipac.us
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FEMA
Helped Pay For Too Many Funerals, Figures Show
Florida officially recorded 123 fatalities from last year's
hurricanes, but the federal government has paid funeral
expenses for at least 315 deaths, including those of a
man who shot himself and a stroke victim hospitalized
more than a week before the last storm hit. - Sun Sentinell
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Truckers
Mount Gas Price Protest in C. Florida
Dozens of truck drivers held an overnight protest of rising
gas prices today in the middle of the Bee Line Expressway
in the Orlando area, according to FLORIDA TODAY news partner
WKMG Local 6 News. - Florida Today
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$7,782,816,546,352
in Debt
Regardless of how it is sliced and diced, we are looking
at an annual deficit of $368 billion this year and a
10-year projected deficit on $1.35 trillion, according
to the Congressional Budget Office. CBS
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Where
Does Your Tax $$ Go?
This year, the federal government will spend more than
$2.5 trillion on a variety of programs, from national
defense to social aid. In this week’s PARADE, investigative
reporter David Wallechinsky looks inside the federal budget
and details how Congress actually spends our tax dollars.
Following are several additional federal programs Americans
help pay for. Also, Wallechinsky answers some frequently
asked questions about the deficit and how the public can
influence government spending.
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Wages
Lagging Behind Prices
Inflation has outpaced the rise in salaries for the first
time in 14 years. And workers are paying a bigger share
of the cost of their healthcare. For the first time in
14 years, the American workforce has in effect gotten
an across-the-board pay cut. - LA Times
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Minuteman
Project - Day Nine, On Scene Report
Day Nine and illegal alien apprehensions are still way
down. Locally, traffic has shifted away from the Naco
Line, moving eastwards towards Douglas and westward to
the Huachuca Mountains and beyond to the San Rafael Valley.
There are also reports of more traffic heading towards
Nogales and the Tohono Oíodham reservation. -
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Americans
Must Have Passports To Visit Canada Soon
The U.S. State Department and the Department of Homeland
Security announced Tuesday that, by 2008, Americans returning
home from Mexico, Canada, Panama and Bermuda must have
a passport in order to get back in. Currently, U.S. citizens
returning from these countries don,t need this document.
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Immigration
Letter To A Congressional Representative
Are you as an American citizen ready to spit nails about
illegal immigration? You aren't alone. Millions of Americans
have had it up to their eyeballs with illegal immigration.
It's no longer immigration; it's an invasion by the Third
World. The line never ends. Illegals assault our country
in every state, community, hospital, school and home.
We're angry. - NewswithViews/Frosty Wooldridge
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LexisNexis
Data On 310,000 People Feared Stolen
Data broker LexisNexis said Tuesday
that personal information may have been stolen on 310,000
U.S. citizens, or nearly 10 times the number found in
a data breach announced last month.
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Russia,
France Sign Launch Pad Agreement
Russian and French space officials
signed a $448 million deal Monday to build a new South
American launch pad for sending Russian rockets into
space.
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US-Israeli
Relations at Lowest Point in Years
U.S. officials said relations between
Jerusalem and Washington have been strained at both
the defense and political levels. They said the Bush
administration has been increasingly estranged from
the Israeli government amid repeated misunderstandings
between leaders, rising U.S. skepticism over Israel's
ability to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and northern
West Bank and the growing perception that Israel has
hampered U.S. policy goals in the Middle East.—Middle
East Newsline
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U.S.
Audit Probes $212 Mln in Halliburton Iraq Work
U.S. oil services giant Halliburton
Co. may have overcharged by at least $212 million to
get fuel to Iraqi civilians under a no-bid deal with
the U.S. military, said Pentagon audits released on
Monday.California Rep. Henry Waxman, a leading critic
of Halliburton's work in Iraq, released portions of
audits by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) that
identified overcharges and questioned costs for fuel
delivered in Iraq by Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown
& Root in 2003 and 2004
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Rumsfeld
Visits Iraq to Press New Leaders
The leaders of Iraq's emerging new
government must not allow "turbulence or incompetence
or corruption" to slow or foil progress toward building
democracy and defeating the insurgency, Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld said. Rumsfeld was meeting later
Tuesday with Interim President Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish
former rebel leader, and Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Shiite
Muslim who was designated interim prime minister last
week
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BASF,
Gazprom Deepen Cooperation In Energy Supply
BASF, the world's biggest chemical
company, and Russian gas giant Gazprom strengthened
ties on Monday when they signed two major contracts
on the production, transport and marketing of Russian
gas to Germany.Signed in the presence of German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder and Russian President Vladimir Putin
at the Hanover Messe industrial trade fair, the agreement
was a "memorandum of understanding" regarding the expansion
of joint activities -Industry Week
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The
energy ties that bind India, China
Though Indian External Affairs Minister
K Natwar Singh's careful "suggestions" about democracy
got all the press play during his recent visit to Myanmar,
the Dawei deepsea port and other measures to strengthen
India-Myanmar economic relations were no doubt discussed.As
both India and China move to secure their energy and
economic futures, they are developing infrastructure
that opens significant new potential for economic cooperation
and security -Ramtanu Maitra/Asia Times
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AN
IMPORTANT FACTOR FOR 2008 ELECTIONS
America cannot survive any more presidents
who represent a world government, but that's exactly
what will happen in 2008 if the American people don't
mobilize now.Not tomorrow.Not next year and certainly
not six months before the election.Now.I made some observations
to Michael Peroutka that I would like to share with
you -Devvy Kidd/NewsWithViews
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Top
US Scientists Urge Halt to Funding for Missile Defense
Deployment
A group of top US scientists, including
nine Nobel Prize winners, called on Congress to stop
funding deployment of interceptor missiles for a controversial
ground-based missile defense system, saying it was incapable
of defending against a real attack.In a letter, they
said the funding should be eliminated until the system
can be shown to work through tests that mimic real-world
conditions
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Bush
rewards his failures
After mouthing pious verities about
needing better intelligence, the commission, appointed
by President George W. Bush, amazingly found: (a) No
one was really guilty of the Iraq intelligence fiasco;
and (b) there was no White House political pressure
on the intelligence community to justify the war.So
the mighty Niagara of whitewash flows on -Eric Margolis/Toronto
Sun CA
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Nominee
Reacts Mildly to Democrats' Barbs
Bolton once asserted that he wouldn't
mind if U.N. headquarters in New York lost 10 floors.After
yesterday's confirmation hearing, he probably wouldn't
object if a similar fate were to befall the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee.But whatever anger the questioning
provoked in Bolton, he didn't let it show; he replied
with mild sentiments, half-hearted excuses and convenient
amnesia, but not his legendary temper.He even praised
the secretary general, the conservatives' nemesis -Washington
Post
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Senate
Confirms Bush Judicial Nominee Crotty
Paul Crotty, an attorney who has worked
with top Democrats and Republicans, on Monday became
the first of President Bush's 20 renominated judicial
nominees to win Senate confirmation.On a bipartisan
vote of 95-0, the Republican-led Senate approved Crotty
for a seat on the U.S. district court in the state of
New York
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As
Syria Pulls Out, Lebanon Again in Flux
Plans for a new government were delayed
Monday as consensus eludes both camps.--Christian Science
Monitor
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