News & Events - June 2007

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2007-06-18 01:07:12 · 2 answers · asked by holacarinados 4 in Media & Journalism

I'd like to ask all of those who have conspiracy theories about the McCanns and Madeline's abduction to tell me exactly why they believe that Gerry and Kate McCann are responsible and what they have seen in the news reports that everyone else (including the british and portuguese police) have missed?

I'd be suprised if one of you can provide any solid evidence to prove anything of the sort.

P.S. And answers like 'they left their children alone' are not what I'm looking for... I know they did wrong in that respect... I'm talking about those people on here who are accusing the McCann's of staging her abduction.

2007-06-18 00:48:31 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

the us has lost over 3,500 soldiers (if I have current figures correct). Doesn't anyone care? Would there be more protesting if the draft were reinstated?

2007-06-17 23:16:13 · 14 answers · asked by cece0312usa 2 in Current Events

I'm asking because 6 years later I'm gathering information for a story about it... i was in care at the time i lived in a special needs home and i'd gone out with the unit manager for the morning on some business and we heard it on the radio i dismissed it at first but then i saw it on TV... it still seemed surreal till i went upstairs to listen to Classic FM!

2007-06-17 22:12:59 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

the secrecy surrounding that night of 3 may is incredible. has there been a d-notice to the press protecting the identities? the witness who saw the man at 9.30 has not been identified or heard of since. Philomena in Hello (!!) is horrified at the thought of madeleine waking up to a stranger, when she's already on record that the child didn't wake up and that's why there was no sign of struggle - otherwise she'd have known her abductor.

did kate return alone? did she run out to the tapas bar? did she shout 'they've taken her'? who did she mean? were the shutters 'jemmied' as gerry said? were the doors 'hanging off their hinges' as gerry said? which of the parents saw maddie last? at what time? why did it take so long to call the police if it was so obvious she had been abducted? who else was in the apartment that night to 'contaminate' evidence, as police say? who were the friends and relations? and how many?

2007-06-17 21:51:16 · 21 answers · asked by Bobby L 3 in Current Events

Where in the world is Bin Laden?

2007-06-17 21:49:17 · 9 answers · asked by Dv8s 7 in Current Events

2007-06-17 21:48:24 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

Has your opinion of Mr & Mrs McCann changed over the past weeks and why?

2007-06-17 21:38:07 · 40 answers · asked by K-9 3 in Current Events

Hi, does anyone know, who will be replacing Bob Barker of the Price is Right Game Show, last Friday was his last show, which was taped in late April or early May, but it was finally shown this past Friday, no one seems to know who will be the new person is. If you know, Please respond. Thank You!

2007-06-17 19:41:12 · 9 answers · asked by ~ANGEL~EYES~ 3 in Media & Journalism

What Presidential Candidates are part of the Council on Foreign Relations?

Fred Thompson
Rudy Giuliani
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Jim Gilmore
Newt Gingrich
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
John Edwards
Joe Biden
Chris Dodd
Bill Richardson

What are they trying to accomplish?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo5CZvD3-QM

Building a North American Union is the blueprint contrived by globalist groups like the CFR and Bilderberg. The North American Union is proposed to subvert the sovereign government of the United States of America.

Who Opposes the CFR?

Ron Paul

2007-06-17 19:06:59 · 6 answers · asked by RON PAUL for President 2008 2 in Current Events

I just read an article about how the school-suicide awareness programme here in New Zealand is being criticised.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/070618/3/nf3.html
Has anyone had any experience with these programmes?

2007-06-17 18:51:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

I know this is old news, but do you think that the people of Iraq are at least grateful we got rid of Saddam Hussien? I don't see how they cannot, since he's one of the worst dictators of this century. I remember seeing this listing of the worst dictators of this century in Time magazine and he was at number three, behind Hitler and Mussolini (Rafeal Trujillo was at 4th, but in my opinion he should of been at number 3). I con understand them not liking the U.S's presence too much since they probably feel bullied or w/e. But, don't they at least like us for killing S.H and wanting to build a democracy in Iraq (cuz their way of life and customs are seriously ****** up(especially how they treat their women).

2007-06-17 18:48:10 · 7 answers · asked by DeLeon Leon 2 in Current Events

it's funny how timing is everything. have you noticed as i have that you just haven't been hearing ANYTHING about what is happening in the middle east ever since this atrocity of a bill, the "z visa bill," actually, "the strive act," has been at the top of our president's list?

what the heck is happening here? the chief of the marines, peter (sorry, can't bring his last name to mind at the moment) stated that he refused to resign when asked by president bush; therefore, he was conveniently replaced. so now that someone else has to go through the time period of getting used to the job, who is watching the ranch in iraq and the rest of the middle east?

what happened to our concern over (do not kid yourselves) the real threat of iran making a nuclear warhead and testing it? where has all talk gone about north korea and its deceptive tricks?

so are we suddenly going to be expected to give up our concerns over this lunatic's ... DON'T ANSWER YET: LOOK BELOW

2007-06-17 17:33:26 · 3 answers · asked by Louiegirl_Chicago 5 in Current Events

how many? anyone knows?

2007-06-17 16:34:45 · 7 answers · asked by hot dude 1 in Current Events

Nothing fancy such as a shape shifter or a device that would carry itself with robotic legs. Instead, a very simple design.

A small sphere slightly larger than a tennis ball has a gyroscope/ shape shifter (robot that forms a shape such as a pyramid with 'legs'---a change of length in the legs means a change in the center of gravity therefore making the ball roll forward in a certain direction) at its core. The gyroscope would 'spin' the ball forward in a certain direction as well as measure its motion. The gyroscope and shape shifter would be very cheap. Additionally to all this hardware there is an explosive such as a grenade, that is programmed to explode when the ball reaches its 'target'..

The ball rolls/ zig zags in fast motion as it approaches its target, causing the target to have difficulty shooting at it due to its random/fast motion and the small size of the robot. When the robot reaches a fairly close distance...it explodes...usually with the aim of killing more than

2007-06-17 15:18:44 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

Cost

Now let us consider spending. According to Portfolio.com, the combined cost of the Iraq war (Operation Iraqi Freedom, in Pentagon jargon) and its companions, Operation Enduring Freedom, in Afghanistan, and the Global War on Terror, could easily top $600 billion this year. But the overall cost is even higher, exceeding perhaps $2 trillion. The annual congressional appropriations for the wars — averaging $127 billion — are bigger than the global markets for soap, heroin, or gambling. And the spending is growing. Monthly spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan averaged $6.8 billion in 2006. That figure is now closer to $8 billion a month.
Portfolio adds:
At that rate of burn, General Electric's value would be wiped out in three and a half years, Bill Gates' personal fortune would evaporate in just seven months, and the troubled Ford Motor Co. would cease to exist in a matter of weeks. If you think of the wars as a giant impulse buy using an unlimited credit card, then paying it off would require coming up with enough cash to match the GDP of three Irelands or about 11 Kuwaits or the Netherlands — but only if you throw in Sri Lanka.
Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Colin Powell warned President Bush that if you break it, you buy it. At last count, we've bought the equivalent of 10 Iraqs with your tax dollars. But instead of buying 10, the money has gone to completely destroying one country.
But surely this money is going to more than just war. What about the effort to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure? Well, if you know anything about government building projects, you know there is not a record of success. Pick any Section-8 housing project anywhere in the country and you will find a long record of mismanagement, misallocation, and waste. So it is in Iraq. These reconstruction projects that war supporters have heralded have amounted to little or nothing.
At the Baghdad airport, for example, your tax dollars paid for $11.8 million in new electrical generators. But $8.6 million worth of them are no longer functioning. The problems with generators in Baghdad are legendary: low oil, broken fuel lines, missing batteries, and the like. The water purification system for the city is no longer working. At the maternity hospital in Erbil, an incinerator for medical waste was padlocked and officials can't find the key. So syringes, bandages, and drug vials are clogging the sewage system and contaminating the water.
Now, how did we get all this information? A federal oversight agency went to inspect a sample of eight projects that US officials in Iraq had declared to be a success. Of these eight successes, seven of them were not actually functioning at all due to plumbing and electrical failure, poor maintenance, looting, and just general neglect. Keep in mind that these are the projects that the US government declared successes! The failures must be abysmal beyond belief.
So too with myriad state programs, among which is the Global War on Terror. There is no standard by which it can be considered a success. But as we know, data only get you so far. If you ask the people who the establishment considers to be experts in terrorism, they are united in one belief: we aren't spending enough money on the effort. Every agency needs more power and money, they say. The reason for the failure is a lack of resources. If we would just fork over more, all will be well.
It is precisely this rationale that led socialism in Russia to last 70 years and drive the entire country into the ground. Those of us who watched this calamity from a distance were astonished that a failure could last so long. Can't the government look around and see what a disaster they have created? Can't they see that while their people were lining up blocks for a scrap of bread and dying at the age of 60, ours were shopping in massive department stores and living to 70 and 75? Why isn't it obvious what a failure socialism has been?
Well, one thing is clear in the social sciences: nothing is obvious to the experts. The reason has to do with their perception of cause and effect. The supporters of socialism always believed that more money and better management would take care of the problem. Every failure was caused by something outside of the system that a perfection of the management system would correct.
So it is with the war on terror. All the experts counsel more spending and power. It never occurs to them that the war itself is the problem. All problems are blamed on some other factor: sectarianism, outside interference, a demagogic new leader, poor management, or what have you. The excuses can be manufactured without end.
And then there is the overwhelming factor that the war on terror can only be considered a failure from the point of view of the stated aims. It is not a failure for those who directly benefit from the increased funding and power. And it is an indisputable fact that the government has benefited massively from the war on terror.
Ludwig von Mises said that the great accomplishment of economists was to draw attention to the extreme limits on the power of government. His point was not merely that government should be limited, but that it is limited by the very structure of reality. It cannot make all people rich by its own initiative. It cannot provide universal housing, literacy, and health. It cannot raise wages across the board. It cannot ban products. Those who seek to accomplish economic ends such as these are choosing the wrong means. That is because there is something more powerful than government: namely economic law.
And what is economic law? It is a force that operates within the structure of all societies everywhere that governs the production and allocation of material resources and time according to strict bounds of what is possible. Some things are just not possible. It just so happens that this includes most of the demands that are made by the public and pressure groups on the government. This was the great discovery of the modern science of economics. This was not known by the ancients. It was not known by the fathers of the early church. It was the discovery of the medieval schoolmen, and the insight was gradually elaborated upon and systematized over the centuries, culminating in the classical and Austrian traditions of thought.
The power of government to do what we desire is strictly limited. Those who do not understand this point do not understand economics. And the economic teaching has a broader implication that concerns the organization of society itself. Government is not free to make and unmake society as it sees fit. It is not a tool we can use to fulfill our private dreams. Society is too complicated, too far reaching, too much a reflection of the free volition of individual actors, for government to be able to accomplish its ends. Most often, what government attempts to do — whether abolish poverty, end liquor consumption, or make all citizens literate and healthy — ends up backfiring and generating the exact opposite.

2007-06-17 14:23:38 · 5 answers · asked by MIkE ALEGRIA 1 in Other - News & Events

there has been a shooting in Melbourne. 6 shots fired and so far one person dead and what do the public do? They all run out and hang around to see what is going on. The shooter has not been caught yet. Would you hear a shooting and run out to look? Or would you stay were you are and lock the door? I know which I would do.

2007-06-17 13:35:52 · 10 answers · asked by Rachel 7 in Current Events

He is currently being force fed due to hunger strike, in Ashworth, Maghull. But although its legal under the MHA to do this, what would you decide?

2007-06-17 12:12:51 · 28 answers · asked by babyshambles 5 in Current Events

The boys' families spent millions on defense and the prosecutor's life is ruined because he meant to make a name for himself. I feel that she should have to answer for this. How do you feel about this?

2007-06-17 12:00:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

I found some questions here on murdered tot James Bulger, and did some research for my answer. Look at this charming stuff:

http://www.judascow.com/forum_judascow/viewtopic.php?t=37

I was shocked. What the hell? Why would anyone be this cruel and spiteful to a woman who lost her child to murderers?

2007-06-17 11:06:39 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

2007-06-17 10:16:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGbP23uHYE8&mode=user&search=
im not exactly sure but isnt it the same thing as the holocaust with the jews? so why arnt we paying as much attention to it??

2007-06-17 09:49:37 · 5 answers · asked by Tinkerbell eats Yahoo! 5 in Current Events

2007-06-17 09:03:25 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

Also, where can I find a video of this b*tch?

2007-06-17 08:39:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

The Mayan civilization, known for the accuracy in their calendars and predictions, have determined the world will end in December of 2012. Also a couple of other none related ancient civilizations have made the same prediction for 2012. Do you think as the year approaches, we will hv similar hysteria as we had asssociated with Y2K ???

2007-06-17 07:54:25 · 7 answers · asked by gemini6187 2 in Other - News & Events

After all, his Mother is now 81...

2007-06-17 07:43:06 · 15 answers · asked by captbullshot 5 in Media & Journalism

The West Wing is not a comfortable place these days. No one inside the White House knows what the rules are anymore. The White House is even alienating its friends. It looks like the wheels are coming off. When you are in trouble, every little pebble becomes a giant rock, then a boulder heading downhill**....

2007-06-17 07:05:09 · 4 answers · asked by dca2003311@yahoo.com 7 in Current Events

2007-06-17 06:50:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

2007-06-17 06:13:48 · 12 answers · asked by cavetroy 3 in Current Events

In 'The Sunday Times" she is said to be considering giving up her part time GP position to become the person to represent child welfare and protection against peodophiles.
Now, I for one find this offensive.
I always lock up my home when I leave it so my valuables are safe.
I would not want someone to represent house security who always left their doors unlocked. I would not trust their opinion.
How is she fit to do take on this job? She neglected her children, or has she forgotten that already. How can she advise or be in the position to help anyone?

2) How can these two people almost make a celebration out of the 50th day their daughter has gone missing. Why are they preparing for things, like large concerts with Elton John? These things will take a while to organise. Do they not expect Madeline to be found for some time then?

2007-06-17 06:08:18 · 12 answers · asked by Roisen C 2 in Current Events