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Frankenstein has too many questions with no answers.
Anderson appears on split screen with Nancy Grace while they replay Bush's speech.
Very cute Grace's picture has a split screen with troops marching. Is there anytime soon when everyone gets serious about the issue. As a governor Bush never did anything about controlling the border with Mexico and Texas. He provided care to the illegals as they provided cheap labor for the Texas economy. The treatment of these people by these employers are deplorable. It's amazing to think the illegals actually perfer the inhumane treatment of southern Texas then living in Mexico.
I don't want to hear it. I've seen first hand the very serious mistreatment of illegals that work in McAllen, Texas, where they are called 'Wet Backs' because they sweat while they work. American employers in South Texas are such nice guys.
There is nothing humane about the treatment of illegals even when they cross the border. This isn't about illegals this is about American employers that commit human rights abuses of people neglected by their Mexican government to provide the Americans with their work force.
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Historically, immigrants come to the USA and in turn send monies back home. I don't care what country they come from it's always the same. Countries receive benefits from American immigrants. The more ILLEGAL immigrants the USA allows across the border with Mexico the indirect fiscal support Mexico gets for their people. Mexico has a welfare program. Did you know that? It's called 'Become an illegal alien. Support the family back home." Mexico President Fox is committing human rights violations by allowing the border crossings that misuse his citizens in inhumane work and living conditions.
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U.S., Libya establish full diplomatic relations after 26 years
By Warren P. Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The United States announced Monday that it's re-establishing full diplomatic relations with Libya and removing it from the State Department's list of terrorism sponsors, completing a remarkable turnabout with a country whose leader was once at the top of the U.S. enemies list.
Senior State Department officials acknowledged that the move was aimed in part at influencing Iran to give up uranium enrichment, a process that can create fuel for nuclear weapons, and comply fully with the demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi voluntarily gave up his oil-rich country's nuclear weapons program in December 2003. The message to Iran, U.S. officials said, is that it will reap concrete benefits if it does likewise - although that prospect now seems remote.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/14585990.htm
Non-oil sector finally drives growth in Libya
afrol News, 11 April - Since the lifting in 2003-04 of international sanctions, Libya has experienced a strong economic growth, mostly driven by high oil prices and investments in that run-down sector. In 2005, however, economic reforms and trade liberalisation has finally lifted Libya's under-developed non-oil sector to become the motor of economic growth. This comes despite the still persistent limits to foreign investments.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday published its conclusions from its annual economic consultations with the Tripoli government - the third ever IMF report on Libya's economic situation. The report is an account of fast and deep-ploughing macroeconomic reforms towards a market economy since 2003, followed by very positive economic results.
http://www.afrol.com/articles/18855
Renewed US ties breathe life into Libya oil sector
By Chris Baltimore
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States' move on Monday toward normalized relations with OPEC member Libya should help the African nation in its quest to expand its crude oil production capacity, experts said.
Culminating a years-long rapprochement, Washington will reopen an embassy and remove Libya from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, rewarding the longtime pariah nation for scrapping its weapons of mass destruction programs.
Libya produces about 1.6 million barrels per day of crude oil, which puts it toward the rear of the pack of OPEC's 10 members. Led by the one-time U.S. antagonist Muammar Gaddafi, Libya badly needs foreign investment in its energy industry, estimated at about $30 billion. Libya has not pumped above 2 million bpd of oil since the 1979 oil price shocks.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2006-05-15T185359Z_01_N15455659_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIBYA-USA-OIL.xml
CONSIDER THIS. The instability in the oil market in supply. What is everyone doing? Why aren't we demanding rapid change in the source of energy for National Security. If the peoples of third world countries aren't rebelling against oil companies that kill them, then Jihadists are blowing up oil pipelines and wells. This makes sense to secure our Nation? No.
Venezuela's Chavez, bane of U.S., to meet Gaddafi
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060515-0521-libya-chavez.html
TRIPOLI – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose socialist course has won him the opprobrium of Washington, will visit Tripoli on Tuesday for talks with the Libyan leader who once bore the brunt of U.S. disapproval.
Muammar Gaddafi, whose country like Venezuela is a major oil producer, has in recent years toned down fiery anti-American rhetoric and opened its industry to Western investment. Chavez, a self-styled socialist revolutionary, has by contrast led a campaign to tighten state control over the energy sector.
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