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From: "Peace network"
Subject: Fw: Sponsor
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:45:56 +0000
Dear friend we are looking NOW for national and international: partners,
sponsors, grants and supporters for the projects:
I. For helping children and orphans
1.. Long Distance adoption project
It is our intent to continue helping children from two orphanages located
in two major cities in the Republic of Moldova. We are continually seeking
sponsors who would be willing to provide monthly financial support to one or
more orphaned children in Moldova. Termed "adoptive parents", the sponsors are
requested to send money to assist individual "adopted children" from the orphanages. This would enable the orphans, who receive only a weak support from
the state, to receive greater benefits through the support offered by their
"adoptive parents". This aid would allow for the provision of clothing, school
supplies, medical care and the satisfaction of all the child's basic needs. This
program is a long-term project and is still developing.
For photos of prospective supportable orphans please contact the
director, Nicolae Cirpala at irff@pisem.net
Join this project by sponsorship or volunteer work here:

http://www.irffmd.net/public/long_distance_adoption_project.html
The Children's planet project
Beginning in January, the main goal of this project is to educate the
young generation in the spirit of care for everything which represents life on
earth and to prevent global warming. This project, which will be divided into
two parts, will involve both the planting of trees to improve the local
environment and the participation in the annual ‘Children’s Planet’
festival at the National Palace.

Support the festival here:

http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html 3. The festival Flower of peace
This event will take place at the National Palace on September 21 and will
be dedicated to the International Day of Peace. At the festival young talents
from all over the world including, Moldova, Ukraine and Romania will perform. Partners: 1. The Women's Federation for Peace,2. Silver bells Organization.
Support the festival here:

http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html

II. For helping youth INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS ACADEMY

1. Community Service Projects
As part of the 'Youth Change the World' initiative which represents a
network of 40 youth clubs from different localities of the Republic of Moldova,
our intent is to perform community service and ecological projects in all the
localities involved in our initiative during this spring. This project will
culminate in a large scale ecological project.

Join by supporting here:

http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html

2. "The impact of youth in mass-media for peace" project
This project, which will be held in the summer of 2008, will include
trainings, a summer camp workshop, community service projects and media summer
schools on various topics, ending with the Media Festival dedicated to the
International Youth Day.
3. The Voice of Community project
Together with Radio Singera we are planning on launching the "Voice of the
community" radio program. This will represent a range of weekly broadcasts
oriented toward serving the communities of approximately 100000 radio listeners,
including those in the capital city.
Add you support here:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
III. For helping families and elders
1. The project for micro financing of the family businesses
This project, which will begin in June, will consist of diagnostic and
consultancy support for the micro financing of family businesses and will end
in an international conference where the code of ethics for business will be
signed and awards will be offered for the best family businesses from the
Republic of Moldova.
Join it: http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
2. The Health Expo
This project will involve cooperation between traditional and
nontraditional medicine and will present the Health Expo, with the participation
of 100 physicians, 100 NGOs, 200 medicine students and 100 peer-educators from
the country.
Invest in health:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
3. Monthly peace building conferences and projects
According to our established plans, it is our intent to organize monthly
meetings and projects regarding the creation of a 'culture of peace'. Well known
personalities from the scientific, cultural and mass-media spheres, to name a
few, will be invited. These meetings and peacebuilding projects will result in
an important scientific conference at the end of the year called "Family and the
culture of peace in the Republic of Moldova" and BIG International Peace
Festival.
For this project we are looking for: national and international partners,
sponsors, participants, volunteers and supporters. Contact us for details at:
irff@pisem.net
Invest in peace building here:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
Contact us for more info about becoming partners, sponsors, participants,
volunteers, grants and supporters for our projects: Tel/Fax
(37322)73-83-30,Mob.(373)69-00-63-51,
or just join by monthly or single donations for the projects with any
amount here: http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
Announcements:
fast-paced non-profit organization for our Volunteer and training program:
"Today’s Youth- Tomorrow’s Leaders"-2008
We are looking for youths who are able to take initiative and have good
written and verbal communication skills. This program will assist you in
developing and practicing your leadership abilities..
Participants from our country and abroad will have the possibility to
participate on our projects as volunteers.
This is a wonderful opportunity for you to learn more about peace
building, meet members of the nonprofit community in Moldova and learn about the
logistics of a membership organization.
Next program's are:
-Project proposals
-Photo/video
- Promote youself throw you oun newsletter
- English
Monthly program fee for international participants is €30
Application: You may join the program any month by e-mailing your
participation confirmation by the 1st day of the month to Cirpala Nicolae,

Program Coordinator at irff@pisem.net , and the completed application
form.
Application form:
1. Please describe your motivation to participate on our program:
2. Shortly describe your past experience in similar programs:
3. State your opinion about the benefits of the contribution given by
volunteers in society:
Name:
Email:
Messenger: (skype, yahoo, etc.)
Please go to our FORUM from the home page of our web for any questions,
suggestions, comments and info.
2 A. F. IRFF ONLUS is seeking year around youth for internship
applications to work for our rapidly growing, fast-paced non-profit
organization. We are looking for youth who is able to take initiative, and has
good written and verbal communication skills. No phone calls please. Email or
mail resume, cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, education and professional,
experience to Cirpala Nicolae, Program Coordinator at irff@pisem.net More on
www.irffmd.net
3. Ajuta sinistratii inundatiilor in Moldova / Help victims of floods in
Moldova

Rom: Guvernul a deschis conturi bancare pe care oamenii pot
transfera bani pentru a-i ajuta pe cei care au avut de suferit in urma
inundatiilor.
1) În lei moldoveneşti

Beneficiar: Ministerul Finanţelor al Republicii Moldova –
Trezoreria Centrală
Contul beneficiarului: 3357003
Codul fiscal al beneficiarului: 1006601000037
Contul trezorerial: 460100000000002
Banca beneficiarului: Ministerul Finantelor Trezoreria Centrala

Codul băncii: TREZMD2X
Destinaţia plăţii: Lichidarea consecinţelor inundaţiilor 2008
2) În dolari SUA (USD)
Beneficiar: Ministerul Finanţelor – Trezoreria Centrală
Contul beneficiarului: 3261584015
Codul fiscal al beneficiarului: 1006601000037
Banca beneficiarului: Banca Naţională a Moldovei
SWIFT: NBMDMD2X
Contul corespondent al BNM: Federal Rezerve Bank, NY, SWIFT: FRNY US
33, account no. 021087125
Destinaţia plăţii: Lichidarea consecinţelor inundaţiilor 2008
460100000000002 (contul trezorerial)
3) În EURO (EUR)
Beneficiar: Ministerul Finantelor al Republicii Moldova –
Trezoreria Centrala
Contul beneficiarului: 3261797815
Codul fiscal al beneficiarului: 1006601000037

Banca beneficiarului: Banca Nationala a Moldovei
SWIFT: NBMDMD2X

Contul corespondent al BNM: De Nederlandsche Bank N. V., Amsterdam,
SWIFT: FLOR NL 2A, account no. – 060.01.26.226

Destinaţia plăţii: Lichidarea consecinţelor inundaţiilor 2008
460100000000002 (contul trezorerial)
Si Mitropolia Basarabiei a deschis un cont bancar pentru sinistrati:
BC ”Victoriabank” S.A.
Cod bancar 280101416
Cont MDL 22510000186757

De asemenea, doritorii pot acorda ajutoarele materiale, î
mbrăcăminte şi obiecte de primă necesitate, prin intermediul Agenţiei
Rezerve Materiale, Achiziţii Publice şi Ajutoare Umanitare pe adresa:
Republica Moldova, mun.Chişinău, str.Columna, 118/1. Telefon de contact:
24-33-66
Eng: The government has opened bank accounts that people can transfer
money to assist those who had suffered after the flood.
1) In MDL
Beneficiary: Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Moldova - > Central Treasury
The beneficiary: 3357003
Fiscal Code of the beneficiary: 1006601000037
The trezorerial: 460100000000002
Bank beneficiary: Ministry of Finance Central Treasury
Bank code: TREZMD2X
The destination of payment: Liquidation of the 2008 floods

2) In U.S. dollars (USD)
Beneficiary: Ministry of Finance - Central Treasury
The beneficiary: 3261584015
Fiscal Code of the beneficiary: 1006601000037
Bank beneficiary: National Bank of Moldova
SWIFT: NBMDMD2X
The correspondent for the NBM: Federal Reserves Bank, NY, SWIFT:
FRNY U.S. 33, account no. 021087125
The destination of payment: Validation of the consequences of floods
in 2008 460100000000002 (trezorerial account)

3) Euro (EUR)
Beneficiary: Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Moldova -
Central Treasury
The beneficiary: 3261797815
Fiscal Code of the beneficiary: 1006601000037
Bank beneficiary: National Bank of Moldova
SWIFT: NBMDMD2X
The correspondent for the NBM: De Nederlandsche Bank NV, Amsterdam,
SWIFT: FLOR NL 2A, account no. -- 060.01.26.226
The destination of payment: Validation of the consequences of floods
in 2008 460100000000002 (trezorerial account)

And Metropolis of Bessarabia opened a bank account for sinistrati:

BC "Victoriabank" S.A.
Banking Code 280101416
MDL Account 22510000186757

You also may wish to help with aid materials, clothing and articles
of first necessity, through Agency, Public and Humanitarian Aid address:
Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, str.Columna, 118 / 1. Telephone contact: 24-33-66

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http://www.truthout.org/article/palin-and-mccains-shotgun-marriage
The reason that McCain and
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 17:47 — LClark (not verified)
The reason that McCain and Palin can stand there and spew the garbage that they do without the slightest concern for the repercussions is that they already know what the outcome will be. They know that the plan to steal this election is already in operation and they're banking on it. The republican party doesn't play by democratic rules--the speeches and posturing are just a dog-and-pony show to help distract the press and the voters from noticing that THE THEFT OF AMERICA IS IN PROGRESS NOW. Which should be front page news. The more stupid and outrageous they are, the more press time they take up and the more people's attention is diverted from the real election process--purging voter lists, pre-loading electronic voting machines with McCain votes, creating "bugs" in the counting software, bribing election personnel, disenfranchising as many as possible who would vote democratic. So we need to pay less attention to the illusory face of Oz and more to the operations of the man behind the curtain... I think the american voters have been given short shrift of late. It isn't that we're stupid--anyone with even half a functioning marble can see that what Obama proposes would be good for American and what McCain represents (he hasn't bothered to propose anything) would be a final resounding flush toward sending everything we care about (planet included) down the toilet--it's that our democracy well... it isn't one anymore.

http://www.truthout.org/article/palin-and-mccains-shotgun-marriage
Sunday 07 September 2008
by: Frank Rich, The New York Times

Sarah Palin makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night. By the time he slogged through his nearly 50-minute acceptance speech - longer even than Barack Obama's - you half-expected some brazen younger Republican (Mitt Romney, perhaps?) to dash onstage to give him a gold watch and the bum's rush.

Still, attention must be paid. McCain's address, though largely a repetitive slew of stump-speech lines and worn G.O.P. orthodoxy, reminded us of what we once liked about the guy: his aspirations to bipartisanship, his heroic service in Vietnam, his twinkle. He took his (often inaccurate) swipes at Obama, but, in winning contrast to Palin and Rudy Giuliani, he wasn't smug or nasty.

The only problem, of course, is that the entire thing was a sham.

As is nakedly evident, the speech's central argument, that the 72-year-old McCain will magically morph into a powerful change agent as president, is a non sequitur. In his 26 years in Washington, most of it with a Republican in the White House and roughly half of it with Republicans in charge of Congress, he was better at lecturing his party about reform than leading a reform movement. G.O.P. corruption and governmental dysfunction only grew. So did his cynical flip-flops on the most destructive policies of the president who remained nameless Thursday night. (In the G.O.P., Bush love is now the second most popular love that dare not speak its name.)

Even more fraudulent, if that's possible, is the contrast between McCain's platonic presentation of his personal code of honor and the man he has become. He always puts his country first, he told us: 'I've been called a maverick.' If there was any doubt that that McCain has fled, confirmation arrived with his last-minute embrace of Sarah Palin.

We still don't know a lot about Palin except that she's better at delivering a speech than McCain and that she defends her own pregnant daughter's right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude to police the reproductive choices of all other women. Most of the rest of the biography supplied by her and the McCain camp is fiction.

She didn't say 'no thanks' to the 'Bridge to Nowhere' until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers' money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed 'she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,' she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her 'executive experience' as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: 'It's not rocket science. It's $6 million and 53 employees.' Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same.

How long before we learn she never shot a moose?

Given the actuarial odds that could make Palin our 45th president, it would be helpful to know who this mystery woman actually is. Meanwhile, two eternal axioms of our politics remain in place. Americans vote for the top of the ticket, not the bottom. And in judging the top of the ticket, voters look first at the candidates' maiden executive decision, their selection of running mates. Whatever we do and don't know about Palin's character at this point, there is no ambiguity in what her ascent tells us about McCain's character and potential presidency.

He wanted to choose the pro-abortion-rights Joe Lieberman as his vice president. If he were still a true maverick, he would have done so. But instead he chose partisanship and politics over country. 'God only made one John McCain, and he is his own man,' said the shafted Lieberman in his own tedious convention speech last week. What a pathetic dupe. McCain is now the man of James Dobson and Tony Perkins. The 'no surrender' warrior surrendered to the agents of intolerance not just by dumping his pal for Palin but by moving so far to the right on abortion that even Cindy McCain seemed unaware of his radical shift when being interviewed by Katie Couric last week.

That ideological sellout, unfortunately, was not the worst leadership trait the last-minute vice presidential pick revealed about McCain. His speed-dating of Palin reaffirmed a more dangerous personality tic that has dogged his entire career. His decision-making process is impetuous and, in its Bush-like preference for gut instinct over facts, potentially reckless.

As The New York Times reported last Tuesday, Palin was sloppily vetted, at best. McCain operatives and some of their press surrogates responded to this revelation by trying to discredit The Times article. After all, The Washington Post had cited McCain aides (including his campaign manager, Rick Davis) last weekend to assure us that Palin had a 'full vetting process.' She had been subjected to 'an F.B.I. background check,' we were told, and 'the McCain camp had reviewed everything it could find on her.'

The Times had it right. The McCain campaign's claims of a 'full vetting process' for Palin were as much a lie as the biographical details they've invented for her. There was no F.B.I. background check. The Times found no evidence that a McCain representative spoke to anyone in the State Legislature or business community. Nor did anyone talk to the fired state public safety commissioner at the center of the Palin ethics investigation. No McCain researcher even bothered to consult the relevant back issues of the Wasilla paper. Apparently when McCain said in June that his vice presidential vetting process was basically 'a Google,' he wasn't joking.

This is a roll of the dice beyond even Bill Clinton's imagination. 'Often my haste is a mistake,' McCain conceded in his 2002 memoir, 'but I live with the consequences without complaint.' Well, maybe it's fine if he wants to live with the consequences, but what about his country? Should the unexamined Palin prove unfit to serve at the pinnacle of American power, it will be too late for the rest of us to complain.

We've already seen where such visceral decision-making by McCain can lead. In October 2001, he speculated that Saddam Hussein might have been behind the anthrax attacks in America. That same month he out-Cheneyed Cheney in his repeated public insistence that Iraq had a role in 9/11 - even after both American and foreign intelligence services found that unlikely. He was similarly rash in his reading of the supposed evidence of Saddam's W.M.D. and in his estimate of the number of troops needed to occupy Iraq. (McCain told MSNBC in late 2001 that we could do with fewer than 100,000.) It wasn't until months after 'Mission Accomplished' that he called for more American forces to be tossed into the bloodbath. The whole fiasco might have been prevented had he listened to those like Gen. Eric Shinseki who faulted the Rumsfeld war plan from the start.

In other words, McCain's hasty vetting of Palin was all too reminiscent of his grave dereliction of due diligence on the war. He has been no less hasty in implying that we might somehow ride to the military rescue of Georgia ('Today, we are all Georgians') or in reaffirming as late as December 2007 that the crumbling anti-democratic regime of Pervez Musharraf deserved 'the benefit of the doubt' even as it was enabling the resurgence of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. McCain's blanket endorsement of Bush administration policy in Pakistan could have consequences for years to come.

'This election is not about issues' so much as the candidates' images, said the McCain campaign manager, Davis, in one of the season's most notable pronouncements. Going into the Republican convention, we thought we knew what he meant: the McCain strategy is about tearing down Obama. But last week made clear that the McCain campaign will be equally ruthless about deflecting attention from its own candidate's deterioration.
Palin and McCain's Shotgun Marriage

Sunday 07 September 2008

»

by: Frank Rich, The New York Times


What was most striking about McCain's acceptance speech is that it had almost nothing in common with the strident right-wing convention that preceded it. We were pointedly given a rerun of McCain 2000 - cobbled together from scraps of the old Straight Talk repertory. The ensuing tedium was in all likelihood intentional. It's in the campaign's interest that we nod off and assume McCain is unchanged in 2008.

That's why the Palin choice was brilliant politics - not because it rallied the G.O.P.'s shrinking religious-right base. America loves nothing more than a new celebrity face, and the talking heads marched in lock step last week to proclaim her a star. Palin is a high-energy distraction from the top of the ticket, even if the provenance of her stardom is in itself a reflection of exactly what's frightening about the top of the ticket.

By hurling charges of sexism and elitism at any easily cowed journalist who raises a question about Palin, McCain operatives are hoping to ensure that whatever happened in Alaska with Sarah Palin stays in Alaska. Given how little vetting McCain himself has received this year - and that only 58 days remain until Nov. 4 - they just might pull it off.

believes grizzly bears should be killed. She wants to pass a law that allows aerial
killing of wolves. Buffalo steak is an all time favorite meal.
The republican bait now is the Catholic church.
Middle class Americans and Latins are the target and the great majority of them are Catholic. These are people who are faithful to the Catholic church who rules with the flesh of Christ bleeding over a cross. If you are well informed you know that the Catholic Church has been paid to write history for generations. The history books are full of lies about our ancestors.
Palin, A woman strongly disliked by animal lovers, who is pro life
but loves the sport of hunting is appealing to Catholics. She believes in sending young men to war. She caters to those with handicapped children by putting on a big show starring her mongoloid child and her pregnant daughter with her boyfriend who doesn't want kids. The entertainment is not complete without the appearance of a Native American Indian and African American man who join them in their all American front to keep people from thinking. Take the words away and the great spectacle they put on has no real connection to the heart of man. Again people are being driven by superficial means.
I believe we can be clever enough to blow their cover as long as we
remain connected in heart and spirit with one another.
Love is thicker than blood

Unique experience I passed through my visit to Lebanon (last week), it was work, as (UNDP-ICTDAR) was a partner in a project there.

I was touched by everything there…and really get confused!!
The ppl are awesome on the personal level… Lebanese ppl love life, have sense of humor, hospitable, kind, friendly, love dance and jokes…

The country its natures just like a piece of heaven …

BUT..and there is always BUT…I don't know why all these conflicts over there between the different parties….and the issue of denominationalisms as well !!

I went there as "Human Rights" Trainer for young youth in a project aiming to engage young youth from all Lebanon in a peace project ,
the "TAWASOOL-Youth ICT Boot Camp-Lebanon", which took place in the "University of Balamand" and organized by "iJMA3". The campers took courses on Microsoft Unlimited Potential, Consensus, Red Cross lecture, and sure my organization "UNDP-ICTDAR" … the camp was so interesting and different, where campers had the opportunity to have fun, play sports, watch movies.

By the first day, I get touched by their wonderful spirit and I noticed that everybody is avoiding some kind of topics…
Later on, I realized that the organizing committee asked them and their parents to not get involved in religion nor politics..

Yess …this was good in some kind of aspects and has its negative points as well,

Good: the young youth get involved with each other forgetting their differences and focus on their common bonds as human and Lebanese youth.
Negative Point: that they didn't choose this but they forced not to declare their selves freely….

But in my sessions I broke these golden rules for sure :D

@ the very beginning I asked for open space where trainees can sit on floor and that the materials will be activity based. Through games and fun activities we all get engaged in religion and politics

I was amazed by the Lebanese spirit in conflict management activities..The participants were creative especially that they liked this style of learning, when they sit as groups, and deal with each other in a more friendly and informal way. As Lebanese they got everything to celebrate life, and their spirit gave unique spirit to the sessions …

In my first session the organizing committee didn't believe what I am doing, they were standing watching ….and saying like "oh poor girl..you don't know what you are gonna do with ur self…don't don't get involved in such things..you are in Lebanon" and some of the other trainers asked the trainer from the "Red Cross" to be ready ..just in case for any broken necks or something …:))

But on the contrary the young participants were awesome, a lot of things raised up, and the best thing was that they opened their hearts and spoke up and shared with me a lot of things…how challenges could we face in reall life…

Some of the participants mentioned how they don't feel any problem to share and talk with other parties but because of their surroundings may be it will be little difficult to solve issues…and so on when it comes to electioneering many times..
And this was quite true, I touched it my self, on the personal level they are gr8 ppl but when it comes to denominationalism you will see the big disaster..

The young ppl who I met there, were quite open minded, well cultured, may be this caused by the current situation in Lebanon which created unique generation …they are not kids any more..they are mature, the politics in their daily life changed them..some times I was little bit alarmed from their arguments in our sessions through games and activities…

This generation will create a new Lebanon..I pray to visit Lebanon after 15 years from now …as I am looking forward to see "how this generation will do" …Lebanon is changing …and this generation has a lot to share and give….but hopefully to be for good….

in order to help this generation to do something, we have to step aside and give them a real chance for dialogue and not to be over protecting...and stop hiding behinde our fingers...lets face our challanges and put hand together to solve our issues

I love Lebanon..and miss every body there…and I wanna be there again soooooooooooon…

Ore'ke lewa temi nikan,
Adun ma ra dan,
Ore ke lewa temi nikan,
Apon be'po ree;

Bi won bii mii lere wipe
Tani okan mii fe ?
Tayo tayo nii maa tagiri
Wii fun wipe Iwo nii;

Oju oloju, koma joju eni,
Ee fin nii wa, ko se fii bo rara,
Bi mo wo'tun, bi mo wo'sii,
A'folorunsho mii nii ma ba lo;

Asure tete kin koja ile,
Abere ona kin shi naa,
Bii eda bati nii oluwa,
O da'jupe o tii nii owun gbogbo;

Eyi nii orin ife mii sii o,
Eyi nii ede ife mii sii o,
Bi ti'oluwa tin je ase,
Bo bati wun oluwa laje,

Ore'ke lewa temi nikan,
Atomi sara bi omo tuntun,
Ore'ke lewa temi nikan,
Eyin loju Olodumare.

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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/90_25.php

Moderate quake hits northeastern Bangladesh
2 hours ago

A shallow, 4.9-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Bangladesh early Sunday, meteorologists said.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was centred 115 kilometres (70 miles) north of the capital Dhaka at a depth of 5.2 kilometres and struck at 12:51 am (1851 GMT Saturday).

There were no reports of any damage or casualties, but the tremor was felt in Dhaka and a police spokesman in Mymensingh, the district nearest the epicentre, told AFP it sparked panic there.

A meteorologist at Bangladesh's Storm Warning Centre said it had measured the quake at 5.6 on the Richter scale, according to local media reports.

Bangladesh last month announced plans to step up its earthquake response contingency plans.

The South Asian nation sits on active tectonic plates and is frequently jolted by tremors. The last major earthquake struck in 1896.


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Italy declares state of emergency over immigration

Saturday, 26 July , 2008, 16:40

Rome: The Italian government announced a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday in reaction to a phenomenal increase in illegal immigration to the country's south.

The Silvio Berlusconi government's move is to provide local authorities with greater means to deal with the rising tide of illegals arriving by boat.

Interior Minister Roberto Maroni plans to build new intake centres throughout the country, the daily La Repubblica reported.

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According to the interior ministry, nearly 11,000 people illegally migrated to Italy in the first half of 2008, twice as many that came in the same period in 2007.

The Italian government called a state of emergency with a wave of refugees in 2002 and it was renewed annually - even under the centre-left government of Romano Prodi. As the intake centres in February 2008 seemed sufficient, the Prodi government limited the emergency measures to the three southern regions of Calabria, Sicily and Puglia. The Berlusconi government at the behest of the Interior Ministry has now widened the powers to the entire country.

Warning of the introduction of a "police state," the country's opposition attacked the measures sharply, calling them abhorrent. "Italy does not need inhuman and extraordinary measures," said parliamentarian Rocco Buttiglione, the Turin-based newspaper La Stampa reported on Saturday.

In response, Maroni criticised what he claimed was the opposition intention to make the state of emergency seem like an entirely new development, and called the opposition position "the worst Italian politics."

The Interior Minister is to face Parliament on Tuesday.

Berlusconi, who was elected Prime Minister in April, had declared the fight against illegal immigration a priority. A first step was the passage this week of a package of new security laws brought forward by the conservative government.

The number of illegal immigrants in Italy is estimated at around 650,000. Tens of thousands of refugees attempt the dangerous journey in less-than-seaworthy boats from North Africa into southern Europe each year.

Overnight another 73 would-be immigrants arrived in two boats at the Italian island of Lampedusa.



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How long....






For how long...
while you still don`t know...
am i in the mid of your heart...
am i the human whom you love and adore...
or...
i am a human whom not deserve you and your heart...
and just only deserve your hates...

sweetheart...
do you know o my dear precious...
do you know that i loved you...
loved you since a time,my eyes saw a light...
since then my heart knew a love...
and knew, what it means...
yes...
loved you and still do...
adored you and never adored one like you...
no...
even i die just because of your passion...
and adore every letter,wrote by your name...
yes...
adore and love you...

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