News & Events - August 2007

ok, me and my mom have this theory that it did not colapse, that there was a bomb involved. we watched the news and everyone that saw & heard it do not say, it went, crack,they say that it went, BOOM BOOM or it sounded like an explosion. plus, this morning, the news had a tape from al quida saying that they will terrorise our country. 3 days after the bridge fell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what do you think about this theory and what are yours?

2007-08-05 03:30:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

... especially on a Sunday afternoon.
Should I see -

A) A Doctor.

B) A Lawyer.

?

2007-08-05 02:54:21 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

Yea it fell, yea it is sad people died but COME ON...More people die each minute from murder or cancer or whatever!

2007-08-05 02:23:52 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

Long back there was a news in newspapers that an astroid is going to hit the earth by 2016. And NASA is going to destroy this astroid before it comes closer to us. How far the news and the counter action are true ? Can such a phenomenon ever happen ?

2007-08-05 00:53:54 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

having read this http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070804041432AARKdK1 and the subsequent comments, I just wanted to say thank you for your comments, even though I don't see eye to eye with you, I apologise for mentioning you in my question and if I could delete your names I would.
This whole business is actually quite stressful for me and I no longer have any idea who I can trust, who has multiple ID's who says what to who. And the idea that some people think dragging my child into it is acceptable just appalls me.
While you're all having fun participating, try to remember there's a sick child involved, at least have some decency about yourselves

2007-08-04 23:47:17 · 6 answers · asked by Eden* 7 in Current Events

A lot of leaders have been using the term "peace in the middle east" or "peace for Iraq" to justify what they do. Even Osama Bin Laden claims he wants a peace for the middle east. To me this could mean many things. It could mean:

1. A democracy throughout the middle east
2. The destruction of Israel
3. The TOTAL genocide of the other religion (shiites or sunnis, throughout the whole middle east).
4. The enabling shiites to set up a shiite government in Iraq, while giving very little or no power to the sunnis
5. A global Islamic caliphate set up with Iraq as its captial
6. It could even mean the complete collapse of terrorism
7. It could also mean the collapse of all democracy in the middle east, including Lebanon's government returning to the control of Syria.
8. It also means the unity of Israel and the Palestinian nation for peace.
9. Or it could even mean the status quo of instability throughout the region


In my view this phrase is used too much, by too many different leaders.

2007-08-04 22:46:27 · 11 answers · asked by kingdom of twilight 2 in Current Events

and not fess up to the English who have to read this carp on the McCanns.

From a recent Sol report (thanks Dteacher for the heads up)

"A journalist with the Daily Express – who has repeatedly contacted Sol searching for new information on this case – recognized this week that it is 'difficult for an English newspaper to adopt a critical tone concerning Madeleine’s parents'. The Daily Express cited, in one of its last reports, the news that has been published by Sol, describing them as a 'hate campaign' against the McCanns. The same journalist ended up confessing, 'It's the only way we can transmit your data'."

2007-08-04 22:17:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

i cant help but wonder from day to day where this world is going. every day a new terrorist to fear and then we are told that a "top al queda" leader was caught that we have never heard of, but we feel safe knowing that he was caught. I think the real terrorists are in our goverment offices. They inflict more terror than Osama ever could. The term "war on terror" makes no sense. It is a war on an emotion and a feeling not a war on a physical group or being. Because if we were to name it a war on a group, it would just be a war agains Islam and that is not PC with us. We need to stop this nonsense people. stand up let them know that you are not playing around anymore. Tell your leaders you will not stand for this anymore. Protest. Do you know how much of our taxes are funding killing of innocent people. Do you know ho much you support the war everytime you fill up with gas? Who do you think is the real terrorists of the world? Osama, Bush, Putin, or even you for supporting them?

2007-08-04 21:23:37 · 5 answers · asked by Jesse N 2 in Current Events

2007-08-04 21:16:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

American government spend millions of dollars in Iraq in a day one wonders why they did not heed ealier warning by engineers concerning the bridge, why fight terrorism outside and neglect your own citizens, I think now is the time for America to do a rethink concerning its policies, they have an intimidating recources the best in the world, but what the use if things like this happens, it could happen any place in the world, this i agree but my concern is why did the government neglect the warning of their engineers some years back only for this to happen, I was sad to see what happened on CNN. My heart bleed for those who lost loved ones do to government neglect. I WHANT TO KNOW WHY DID IT HAPPENED AND WHOSE FAULT IS IT.

2007-08-04 20:42:56 · 2 answers · asked by oscar boom 2 in Current Events

Aii the channels take votes for certain issues. Do you think results are genuine?

2007-08-04 20:08:01 · 6 answers · asked by suhana 3 in Media & Journalism

Our soldiers are overseas by the thousands......Who is protecting us? Our government? If this is true what is written on this site, we are about to see tragedy on a scale that has not been measured yet! I for one believe if it is think-able, it is do-able! And those MANIACS aren't done yet!!! see what you think......

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/soapbox/juvalaviv.asp

2007-08-04 19:52:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

I now it's going to happen sooner or later. I say as soon as they pull the last car out of the water and we have an official death toll. The Democrats will start blaming Bush for it. What do you think their timeline and reasoning will be???

2007-08-04 19:35:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

A lot of drug money is used to finace Taliban and al Qda. It is also sustaining drug culture in Inner city areas. Patriotism it seems is for sale when it comes to drugs!

2007-08-04 18:45:51 · 5 answers · asked by lunistan 2 in Current Events

"Bears" Stephen Colbert
"Pretzels" George Bush

But seriously?

2007-08-04 18:30:05 · 25 answers · asked by NSB 3 in Current Events

Is it due to the Israeli Military occupation "illegal"
Or Jerusalem is a holy city for all not only the Jews

2007-08-04 18:17:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer. (2001)

http://opioids.com/afghanistan/index.html

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Now:

Afghanistan poppy cultivation skyrockets

WASHINGTON - Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world's near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070805/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_afghanistan

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Not once in the article above did the writer say anything about the Taliban wiping out Opium production and instead says the Taliban is using the production to further their agenda.

Comments

Peace

Jim

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2007-08-04 17:58:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

Seems this could create new business and alternate routes relatively quickly, compared to reconstruction? Or even just as traffic alternative during reconstruction?

2007-08-04 17:00:02 · 8 answers · asked by stephiek 2 in Current Events

These soldiers are young and can tend to misbehave. The age they send them there is the time when most are partying the most, and they lose they're opportunity to party here in this homeland, and go to some other country and do something like this. As the years go by its getting clear to me, that terrorists are caused through acts of these disgusting soldiers. He raped the daughter, and killed the family, four accounts of murder, and rape! I get information from other news networks about this stuff happening allover iraq that most US news networks will not show. Rape/slaying is the sickest, sickest of all crimes. And the soldier gets possibility of parole after ten years, I bet if he were a man of color this government would have him in at life w/o possiblity of parole! I am outraged! These acts will produce more and more terrorists/guerrillas, and i am getting more and more upset! IS THIS JUSTICE? Anyone feel how I feel, or are u too patriotic to be a human being!?

2007-08-04 16:37:26 · 9 answers · asked by qwertyman 3 in Current Events

2007-08-04 16:16:04 · 4 answers · asked by robert j 1 in Other - News & Events

I read the wikipedia articles, and the links from wikipedia, about the snowtown murders, and i have just never heard of such unremorseful brutality before.

I don't believe that there would be anything worse, would there?

2007-08-04 15:58:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

I read the wikipedia articles, and the links from wikipedia, about the snowtown murders, and i have just never heard of such unremorseful brutality before.

I don't believe that there would be anything worse, would there?

2007-08-04 15:58:12 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

Take a look at this... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6930845.stm

2007-08-04 15:23:39 · 21 answers · asked by Nikita 4 in Current Events

2007-08-04 15:19:08 · 14 answers · asked by Reo 5 in Other - News & Events

What do you think happened to her, do you think that she was killed or is still alive? And why do you think she is dead or alive? PLEASE NO RUDE COMMENTS.

2007-08-04 14:58:22 · 9 answers · asked by ... 5 in Other - News & Events

Ten times that amount would be a good start. They cry about having to prospect for new fields, while pocketing billions and billions. Boo Hoo for big oil!!

2007-08-04 14:51:04 · 11 answers · asked by Jerry T 1 in Current Events

What would an interesting newspaper topic for an article?

2007-08-04 14:40:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

Having recently just learned a lot on Japan, I was curious what some people who might be knowledgable in the subject would like to comment on what they believe are the biggest issues facing the media in Japan right now.

2007-08-04 14:39:55 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

In Sol on August 4, 2007:

A report by Felicia Cabrita with Margarida Davim
translation

Looking for Maddie’s body

The investigations have returned to their initial course. Portuguese and British police search for the body of the child in the surroundings of Praia da Luz. “There are strong signs” that Madeleine, the English child that disappeared from Praia da Luz almost one hundred days ago, “is dead”, police sources have told Sol. The 180º turnaround that the investigation by the Policia Judiciaria (PJ) from Portimao seems to have done in the past few days, even led the Attorney General, Pinto Monteiro, to postpone the making of an interview that had been requested by British media chain BBC – an interview that would be focusing on the fact that, so long after Maddie’s disappearance, the authorities still remain without real clues concerning her whereabouts. Although an official source from the PGR justified the postponing of the interview with “agenda issues”, the moves by the PJ and some elements from the British police during these last days – accompanied by two dogs, in Praia da Luz – seem to indicate that the investigation is now centred on the McCann family and their group of friends. Sol could find out that the English dogs are trained for different tasks. One, to detect human remains originating from dead flesh, and the other one to detect human blood or fluids. A specialist that was contacted by Sol explains that the technique of these animals rests on scientific bases, and that while “one of the dogs can distinguish between natural death or death by accident that does not involve bloodshed, the other one can diagnose whether someone died a violent death, with bloodshed or other spilled fluids”.

Tuesday night, a black and white cocker spaniel that is trained to detect death, spent several hours in the apartment that the McCann family occupied in the Ocean Club resort, and from where Maddie disappeared on May 3. According to sources within the investigation, the dog marked the death of the child inside the apartment.

On the dogs’ trail

The English dogs do not contradict the clues that were detected by the sniffer dog that GNR sent to the location, on the day following the English girl’s disappearance. It’s an animal that only follows odours, and that “detected the movement of the child from the room to another point inside the apartment”, according to a source with the Guarda. The same source said that “based on that signal, it was not possible to conclude whether the child was alive or dead – because a sniffer dog will smell both the living and the dead”.

Yet, outside the house, both through the windows that faced the Tapas restaurant – where the McCanns had dinner with their seven friends – and through the main door, “the dog lost the trail, as if the child had exited, for example, rolled up in a blanket”, that source said. A team from Sol, on the terrain for the last two weeks, could observe the work of the cocker spaniel from the British police, performing several diligences along the water in Praia da Luz and in a nearby valley.

The animal’s path, on Wednesday night, seemed to test the deposition from several witnesses that were heard by the PJ in late May – namely an Irish family that have been living in Luz, and who, on the day that Maddie vanished, reportedly crossed ways with a man that carried a child that seemed to be asleep. According to their deposition to PJ, Martin Smith, his wife and his children, after leaving the Kelly bar, which is located approximately 400 metres from the Ocean Club, around 9.50 / 10.00 p.m., saw an individual described as Caucasian, measuring 1.70 – 1.75 m, walking towards the beach. The Irish man told Sol that he knew Robert Murat (the only arguido in the process) visually for years – and also remembered seeing the Anglo Portuguese man in a bar that evening, “already a bit intoxicated”. Therefore, the Irish dismissed the possibility that the person he saw carrying a child could be Murat: “If it was him, I guarantee to you that I would have recognized him”.

Concerning the clothes the man he saw on that night was wearing, Smith only refers the “beige trousers”, given the fact that his upper body was hidden by the child’s body, which was not covered. It is curious that one of the elements that formed the group of Maddie’s parents’ friends, guaranteed to PJ several days before Smith was heard, that - at a moment when she left the table to check on the group’s children - she had crossed ways with a man that was wearing trousers that fit the description that was also made by the Irish man.
That individual was also carrying a sleeping child. And the witness, who even managed to see what pyjamas the child was wearing, just “thought it was strange that the child was barefoot and uncovered”. This witness said it would be 9.15 p.m.

Direct access to the PM

According to the course the PJ from Portimao is now conducting the investigation, and considering the trail that the British police’s cocker spaniel tracked along the sea shore, the individual would have descended to Praia da Luz, where he could have disposed of Maddie’s body. Sol knows that the English team contacted Joao Alveirinho Dias, a professor at the University of Algarve and a specialist in oceanography, in order to collect information about the sea’s dynamics and the beach area where everything may have happened. The investigator, who was not briefed about the context of the police inquiries, told Sol that he was consulted on “the sand movements, where they come from and where they go to”. The police investigation has therefore, and according to our sources, returned to its initial course, and it becomes increasingly clear, as Sol had reported previously, that there is no proof against Murat.

Yet, the British media continue to point a finger at the Anglo Portuguese man, although the criminal investigation has returned to clues that relate to the group of friends of Madeleine’s parents. A journalist with the Daily Express – who has repeatedly contacted Sol searching for new information on this case – recognized this week that it is “difficult for an English newspaper to adopt a critical tone concerning Madeleine’s parents”. The Daily Express cited, in one of its last reports, the news that has been published by Sol, describing them as a “hate campaign” against the McCanns. The same journalist ended up confessing, “It’s the only way we can transmit your data”.

Sol knows that Gerry McCann has regular contact with Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister. Clarence Mitchell – who was the first spokesman for the McCanns and is now in the press cabinet at Nr. 10, Downing Street – confirms those contacts. “I know there is a communication line between Gerry and Gordon Brown. I know they talk. But I don’t know what they talk about, because those are informal conversations”, he clarified, further adding: “The Madeleine case is treated whenever there are bilateral meetings between Portugal and the United Kingdom. Gordon Brown is sensitive to the case and wants it solved quickly”.

2007-08-04 14:33:25 · 7 answers · asked by dteacher1uk 5 in Current Events

The HORSERACE Is On!
Pick Your Winners:

http://whitehouseforsale.org/

2007-08-04 14:30:15 · 3 answers · asked by Richard V 6 in Media & Journalism