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  • 2010 CENSUS HAS STARTED – PLEASE MAKE YOURSELF COUNT

    2010 CENSUS HAS STARTED – PLEASE MAKE YOURSELF COUNT

    From: TURANT [mailto:[email protected]]

    Subject: 2010 Nufus sayimi

    Nufus sayimina iliskin Baskonsoloslugumuzdan gelen yazi ilisiktedir. Lutfen kendimizi saydirmayi unutmayalim.

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    Bu ay Amerika’da nüfus sayımı yapılıyor. Amerika’da yaşayan Türklerin de nüfus sayımına katılımı teşvik ediliyor ve etnik kökenlerini Türk olarak beyan etmeleri isteniyor.

    Amerika’da her 10 yılda bir nüfus sayımı yapılıyor. Amerikan Anayasası, Temsilciler Meclisi’ndeki milletvekili dağılımının nüfus sayımındaki sonuçları yansıtmasını öngörüyor.

    Amerika’da yaşayan Türkler’in nüfus sayımı formunda etnik kökenlerini “Türk” olarak beyan etmeleri için bir kampanya başlatıldı. Türk televizyonlarında reklam veriliyor.

    Saytürk kampanyasına Amerika’da yaşayan Azerilerin, Irak Türkmenlerinin, Özbeklerin ve diğer Türk asıllı Amerikalıların da katılması COK ONEMLI.

    Bir Türküz ve çok sayıda varız. Bu federal makamlara önemli bir mesaj. Bulunduğumuz bölgelerde nüfuzumuzu öğrendiğimizde o bölgelerde siyasi olarak daha etkili olabileceğiz” diyor.

    Şu anda Amerika’nın nüfusu 308.758.112. Amerika’da yaşayan Türkler’in sayısı ise kesin olarak bilinmiyor. Bu nüfus sayımı, ilk kez, Amerika’daki Türkler’in sayısı hakkında fikir verecek.  Türk toplumunun liderleri 2010 nüfus sayımı sonucunda Türkler’in sayısı hakkında daha sağlam bir fikre sahip olmak için Türkler’e çağrı yapıyor.
    2010 Nufus sayimi hakkindaki duyuru metnine asagidaki linkten ulasabilirsiniz.
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    2010 CENSUS 

    * Who should complete the Census form?
    The head of household should complete the form on behalf of every person living in the residence on April 1, 2010, including relatives and non-relatives.

    * What do i do about people who live with me occasionally?

    You should count people who are living in your home on April 1, 2010. Do not include any family members living somewhere else on that date. They will be counted where they are living.

    * Does the Census Bureau share information with immigration and Customs Enforcement, internal Revenue Service, courts or police?
    No. it is against the law for the Census Bureau to give personally identifiable information about an individual to any other individual or agency until 72 years after it is collected for the decennial Census. Anyone breaking this law is subject to jail, a fine, or both.

    * When do we complete and return the census questionnaire?
    The questionnaires will arrive in your mail box in mid-March, 2010. After completing the form, you should mail it back to the Census Bureau by Census Day, April 1, 2010.

    * Not a U.S. Citizen?
    The census is a count of everyone residing in the United States: in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana islands, and American Somoa. This includes people of all ages, races, ethnic groups, both citizens and non-citizens. So even if you are not a U.S. citizen but you live and sleep in the U.S. most of the year, you will be counted in the census.

    * An international student?
    As the above point explains, the census is a count of everyone residing in the United States. The Census Bureau is mandated by the Constitution to count everyone who lives in the country, regardless of immigration or citizenship status. So even if the U.S. is not your country of citizenship, if you live and sleep in the U.S. most of the year, you will be counted in the census.

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  • U.S. Official ‘Praises’ Armenian Stance On Turkey

    U.S. Official ‘Praises’ Armenian Stance On Turkey

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    25.02.2010
    Emil Danielyan

    A top U.S. diplomat was reported to praise Armenia’s position in the stalled normalization process with Turkey at a meeting with President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday.

    Sarkisian and Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon met in the Ukrainian capital Kiev after attending the inauguration of Ukraine’s newly elected president, Viktor Yanukovich.

    A statement by Sarkisian’s office said the talks focused on the U.S.-backed efforts to normalize relations between Armenia and Turkey. It said the Armenian leader reaffirmed Yerevan’s commitment to an unconditional implementation of the agreements to that effect which were signed by the two governments in October.

    The statement quoted Gordon as describing this position as “constructive” and saying that the Armenian and Turkish parliaments should ratify the two protocols “without linking them to other existing problems.”

    It was a clear reference to Turkish leaders’ statements making Turkish ratification conditional on a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that would satisfy Azerbaijan. The Armenian government says this “precondition” contradicts the essence of the protocols, which make no reference to the Karabakh dispute.

    Ankara also attributes its reluctance to ratify the protocols to the Armenian Constitutional Court’s recent interpretation of the protocols’ implications which it says ran counter to the letter and spirit of the deal. Gordon, who coordinates U.S. policy on Europe and the former Soviet Union, dismissed the Turkish claims last month.

    U.S. officials have yet to publicly comment on Yerevan’s threats to wake away from the agreements if the Turks continue to drag their feet. Acting on those threats, the Armenian parliament passed on Thursday, in the second and final reading, legal amendments that facilitate such a move.

    Adding a new twist to the normalization process is a decision by a U.S. congressional committee to discuss and possibly vote on March 4 on a resolution describing the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide. A Turkish parliamentary delegation is expected to visit Washington this week to lobby U.S. lawmakers to block it.

    The U.S. State Department opposed similar resolutions drafted by pro-Armenian legislators in the past, citing Turkey’s geopolitical significance for the United States. Department officials have so far pointedly refrained from criticizing the latest genocide bill. Some observers believe Washington will use it to press Ankara to ratify the protocols.

    Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu clearly alluded to such possibility when he condemned the bill earlier this month. He said the prospect of U.S. recognition of the Armenian genocide will not force his government to soften its stance on protocol ratification.

    Davutoglu insisted this week that the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement has not reached an impasse. “Negotiations and the process are going on,” he said, according to the Regnum news agency.

    https://www.azatutyun.am/a/1968518.html
  • Paying too little for gas? How about $8 a gallon?

    Paying too little for gas? How about $8 a gallon?

    A SURPRISE FROM OBAMA ON THE WAY – STOP THE SURPRISE

    0BAMA GULUYORBIGGEST TAX INCREASE IN THE US HISTORY IS AROUND THE CORNER

    “I have been leading the fight against the global warming hoax in the Senate for a decade. Myron Ebell and his team have always been there fighting beside me. Freedom Action is an invaluable ally.”
    –Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma)
    Stop $8 Gas—Click Here
    Dear Fellow Patriot,
    Are you paying too little for gas at the pump?
    Are your electric bills way too low?
    President Barack Obama thinks so. The President said that under his global warming plan “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” And he holds up Europe—where gas prices routinely approach $8 a gallon—as the model for U. S. energy policy.
    If you too are outraged by this, read on.
    President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Harry Reid, and White House Climate Czar Carol Browner all agree: You are paying far too little for the energy that fuels your cars and keeps the lights on.  And they have BIG plans to change that.
    Our politicians must hear from millions of Americans loud and clear that we aren’t going to let them get away with it.
    We can force them to back down—we’ve already done it by  stopping Cap-and-Trade (which is really Cap-and-TAX). House and Senate Members are rapidly running away from those bills. Why? Because the American people found out how much it was going to cost them, and said NO!
    But that isn’t stopping the zealots in Obama’s  Administration. They are now trying to use backdoor EPA regulations to raise energy costs through the roof. And what is most outrageous, they think they can mount this sneak attack on American consumers without getting Congress to approve it.
    Why are they doing this? They say it’s to stop global warming. What global warming! The top scientist in the Climategate scandal even recently admitted that global temperatures stopped going up in 1995. That’s right—there has been no global warming since 1995!
    Stop $8 Gas—Click Here
    What is really going on here is that Obama’s zealots are using the phony global warming crisis in order to push their big government agenda. Their goal? A HIDDEN TAX INCREASE. But not just any tax increase. The biggest tax increase in history.
    It’s that simple. They want trillions of dollars of our money to pay for more and more government spending. Not just for a few years—but for decades and decades.
    But with all of us working together, we can stop this sneak attack on our own wallets and America’s prosperity.
    Here’s how—
    We are sending this SOS to over one million Americans—and that’s just a start. Just one of us will be ignored. But when millions of Americans speak with one voice, Congress and even President Obama will be forced to listen.
    Click here to sign the Declaration that tells President Obama to back down and demands that Congress take action to stop Obama’s global warming regulations!
    By signing the Declaration, you will be adding your voice to a mighty grassroots movement. Freedom Action is a grassroots web-based group, dedicated to more freedom and less government. Our motto is what Margaret Thatcher said about President Reagan, “He put freedom on the offensive.” At Freedom Action, we’re doing just that.
    So let me invite you to sign the declaration to tell your elected leaders that you won’t stand for $8 gas and “skyrocketing” electric bills.
    Stop $8 Gas—Click Here
    Thanks for all you do to keep America strong!
    Yours for freedom,
    Myron Ebell
    Director, Freedom Action
    (By way of background, I’ve been engaged in grassroots activism and public policy since volunteering for the Reagan campaign in the 1980s. In 2009, Business Insider stated, “Myron Ebell may be enemy #1 to the current climate change community.” I’m trying hard to live up to that!)
    P. S. Once you’ve signed the Declaration, please forward this email to your friends. You can tell them that it only takes a couple minutes to take action on the biggest threat we face to our personal freedom and prosperity.

  • Letters to Obama, Congressmen and Senators

    Letters to Obama, Congressmen and Senators

    [ 23 Feb 2010 12:15 ]

    Washington. Isabel Levine – APA. During the past couple weeks American Azerbaijanis and their US supporters have sent 1211 letters to the US Administration, including US President Barack Obama, vice-president Joe Biden, secretary of state Hilary Clinton, as well as US Congressmen and Senators, APA’s Washington correspondent was told at Azerbaijani Diaspora organization USAN.
    The reason for sending the letters was to recognize and commemorate the Khojaly Massacre of 1992.

    The authors of the letter point out that “All Azerbaijani people will forever remember where they were on February 26, 1992, like all Americans will forever remember where they were on the tragic morning of September 11, 2001. Having experienced terror firsthand, Azerbaijan has become a staunch ally of the United States in the War on Terror and a member of the Coalition, with Azerbaijani battle-ready peacekeepers serving side-by-side with Americans in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq”.

    On the 18th anniversary of the massacre the Diaspora is also calling upon the to properly recognize and commemorate this tragedy on the floor of the Congress, in the Congressional Record, and by attending a vigil, and to pressure the Armenian government to accept its responsibility for this massacre and withdraw its troops from the occupied regions of Azerbaijan.

    In the meanwhile the Turkish and Azerbaijani Diasporas have sent during the recent two weeks more than 2436 letters to the representatives of US government, including the Congress members and the House and Senate Foreign affairs Committee. These letters are targeting to influence the US Congress to vote against the H252, Congressional resolution on the so called “Armenian Genocide”, voting on which has been has been scheduled for a vote in at the House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 4, 2010.

  • Khojaly genocide commemorated at University of California

    Khojaly genocide commemorated at University of California

     
     

    [ 22 Feb 2010 15:40 ]

    Baku – APA. California-based Azerbaijan-American Council, Association of Turkic-speaking students at Berkeley and Association of Turkish-American Assembly organized a ceremony for commemoration of Khojaly genocide on February 19 at the University of California, Berkeley. Azerbaijan-American Council told APA members of the Azerbaijani community, Azerbaijani students educated in California, officials of the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles and Berkeley students attended the ceremony. Professor Thomas Goltz of Montana University, Professor Thomas Ambrosio of North Dakota State University, Parvin Akhanci of University of California, Davis, Azerbaijan Consulate General official Elshan Baloglanov, ATAA representative Ergun Kirikovali and AAC Director Executive Javid Huseynov addressed the ceremony.

    Odious Armenian terrorist, Armenian national hero Monte Melkonian, who was killed by the Azerbaijani soldiers in Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan in June, 1993, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

  • Toyota faces new US investigation

    Toyota faces new US investigation

    Japanese carmaker Toyota is facing a new US investigation into complaints of steering problems in its Corolla model.

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    The investigation is expected to be opened on Thursday and will involve an estimated 500,000 vehicles.

    It is already facing an investigation into whether it was quick enough in recalling cars over problems involving accelerator and braking systems.

    Toyota said on Wednesday that it was looking into complaints of power steering problems with the Corolla.

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says it has received more than 150 complaints about possible steering problems in the 2009-2010 Corolla.

    Toyota sold nearly 1.3 million of the models worldwide last year, including about 300,000 in the US.

    Toyota is facing another US investigation into whether it was quick enough in recalling millions of cars over problems involving accelerator pedals and braking systems.

    It has denied any cover-up and says it will “co-operate to provide all the information they have requested” on the US inquiry.

    The saga began in the US with reports that accelerator pedals were getting caught under the floor mats.

    The Japanese car giant began recalling vehicles potentially affected by that problem in October last year and Toyota then redesigned the mats.

    The floor mat issue affected a number of vehicles in the US, but not in the UK.

    Later, separate acceleration problems were found to be caused by the pedal sticking.

    This was then followed by the recall of about 436,000 hybrid vehicles, including the Prius model, over brake concerns.

    BBC