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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49409)	11/9/2005 6:30:23 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

FT writes about secret agenda of Ahmadinejad..' "His behaviour shows he has more important goals than politics," says Mr Abtahi. "He speaks with the confidence of someone who has received God's word. Whether genuine or a means to power, this is a new discourse for the Iranian revolution.""" news.ft.com This is a great article, please do read what I wrote about the guy.. Long on 'Jihad' and short on achievements sells well on Islamic streets, this is a direct attack on the so far inert 'Council of Guardians' and attack on the supreme leader of Iran. This an effort from street to control the hearts and minds of Iran by a President, he does not want to be a lame duck President like Khatami waiting for the morsels of feed from higher ups. He wants to emanate authority and challenge the entrenched masters by using their own agenda of a new counter revolution bloodier and uglier than one before. The new revolution focuses on find a new enemy, craft an enemy and bring a war upon people so that a new battle of Islam versus Zionism can be reinvigorated. Today's hundreds of thousands demonstrating in Iran in favour of annihilation of Israel is a challenge to Rafsanjani and Khomeini policy of avoiding hot conflicts. This however, clearly indicates a new rupture within Clergy. He will be deposed by the clergy; the clergy wants its cake and eat it as well. He is creating a new populist division, devouring clergy of its one-upmanship of Islamic revolution and its core slogan of destruction of Israel. This mantle cannot be handed over to anyone else but the hard core clergy. The mullahs in Qom worried from two prong attacks one from Najaf seminary other from their own President will have to deal with new divisions with little more sensitivity. iranian.com

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49409)	11/9/2005 7:13:59 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

The E.U: The EU is a French concept and is still largely run according to French ideas. And France is the archetypal EU country. If you have a regular job in France, your life is, in theory, lyrical. You work 35 hours a week. You generally get four weeks of holiday in August, plus a further three weeks throughout the year, in addition to 11 state holidays. Full medical care is provided, even in retirement. Retirement age varies, but it is now typically 55. Pensions may be two-thirds to three-quarters of a person's salary at the time of retirement. The truth is that the EU has been living beyond its means, and its bills are coming due. The biggest bill of all--the cost of generous state pensions, which in most EU countries are underfunded--is looming. It's true that most advanced countries are having difficulties meeting pensions because people are living longer and work forces are expanding more slowly (or not at all). Britain is running into a pension crisis. Most of those who banked on a healthy private pension for their old age are going to be disappointed, partly because returns on investments are so low and partly because the Labour finance minister, Gordon Brown, has been raiding the till by abolishing tax-free pension dividends. This is the issue that will lose Tony Blair the next election, as the pain of Labour's "pension raid" is felt. But at least Britain has a properly funded public pension plan. And the British economy is moving forward, perhaps not as fast as America's, but at a healthy and accelerating rate. The omens for continental Europe, however, are sinister. The entire plan for perpetual improvement upon which the EU depends is based on continuous economic expansion. There is no provision for stagnation. As we see in Japan, once stagnation sets in, it can last many years. Americans should count their blessings, above all the supreme blessing of having an economy that is run by businessmen not bureaucrats, or that--under wise governance--runs itself. posted by Zachary at 17:26 <'French Intifida' is betrayal of French policy of 'appeasement' and 'buying their quiet' at the cost of national honor. French socio-economic structure is a remnant of a socialist era and ensures that most of these immigrants exploit the loopholes within French law so as to avoid work. Much as it not much work is available, but 35 hours week, and 100 different kinds of taxes on those who work hard beyond 35 hours, plus hefty "chomage" ensures these youth to play havoc with the suburbs in their leisure time.> iranian.com