Current Events - September 2006

What do you think of marketing tactics that use words that imply "healthy" (e.g. natural, lite, lo, low-fat etc.) when the reality is rather different.

Example 1: Cigarette manufacturers are currently facing court action over their marketing of "lite" cigarettes (which seem to be more even more harmful than regular kind) as a somehow "healthier" option.
Example2: A Which! survey shows cereals that use words like "natural" etc. are full of sugars or fats & hardly natural.

Please ignore the emotive topics of cigarettes & cereals, this is a question about marketing & how it can mislead.
How would it be if they told the truth ... ?

2006-09-26 00:31:03 · 4 answers · asked by echo c 3

2006-09-26 00:15:26 · 6 answers · asked by shishir g 2

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Pat Robertson told viewers of his longtime show, "The 700 Club," on Monday that Chavez was turning his oil-rich South American country into "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent."

"If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it," said Robertson

Now it looks like Pat Robertson's sage warning has come to pass:

Mr. Chavez has decided that America is his enemy, so he is building up his army. He has forged an alliance with Fidel Castro, the government of Iran, and many think he is going to make trouble for the United States.

2006-09-26 00:13:43 · 4 answers · asked by robertbdiver 3

I reckon he is a taker.

2006-09-25 23:08:21 · 9 answers · asked by Dale W 2

Because my friend ROGER tells me that he knows him and he talked to him by phone last week and that everything is alright ...

http://www.peripherique.org/article...

somtimes Roger tells me also bullshit , your opinion ?

2006-09-25 22:52:34 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I heard from the news that Osama died from typhoid..but is this true and how can we believe it is without his body to prove it?

2006-09-25 22:23:50 · 13 answers · asked by Remus L 2

It is very difficult to trace out the missing people by their relatives in war-stricken countries if not kept. UN should ask them to if not kept

2006-09-25 22:06:35 · 7 answers · asked by anil m 6

She is just 8 years old and i saw her speech....she seemed not that sad like her mother...she's gonna have a really pressured life with her own show..i hope their gonna let her grow up with much publicity or attention from the media or the public.Give your opinions on this....

2006-09-25 21:37:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

He was on national television talking about trying to get so-and-so to kill Osama Bin Laden.
I certainly don't condone or defend O.B.L.'s actions, but isn't contract killling a felony in the United States?
If you or I got caught trying to have someone killed, we'd be in prison already.

2006-09-25 21:29:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-25 21:28:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you know that elephants in their natural habitat are an endangered species?

2006-09-25 21:06:38 · 13 answers · asked by In Honor of Moja 4

someone sent me a email saying

"i will come and get you"

im scared, what do you think?

2006-09-25 20:51:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-25 20:48:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-25 20:08:26 · 6 answers · asked by Salvation man 1

2006-09-25 19:42:49 · 17 answers · asked by memolino2007@sbcglobal.net 2

It's just somehting to chew on, a lot of police have been roaming around lately in my neighborhood so im just wondering if theres anyhting serious out there [ triads etc etc ]

2006-09-25 19:09:07 · 8 answers · asked by richmanxd 2

2006-09-25 18:45:38 · 12 answers · asked by http://hogshead.pokerknave.com/ 6

2006-09-25 18:43:36 · 11 answers · asked by swmv 1

Citgo is owned by Hugo Chavez (ok, Venezuela). DO NOT BUY THEIR GAS!!!! The stores are all independently owned, so use the mini-marts, but don't buy the gasoline. Chavez must be over-thrown or at least assasinated.

2006-09-25 18:40:15 · 12 answers · asked by musiccross 2

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labourconference2006/story/0,,1881085,00.html

2006-09-25 18:29:53 · 7 answers · asked by http://hogshead.pokerknave.com/ 6

Why don't people take a look at the bad things illegals do instead of try to make them hard working sounding people. I live around plenty of them and they pile up in a small apartment, work a few hours a week each, and drink beer when they get up in the morning, I know this because I see it every day. A useless illegal took the life a policeman, which we don't have enought of in this town, where as we have too many illegals.

2006-09-25 17:37:41 · 11 answers · asked by reallyfedup 5

2006-09-25 16:24:45 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

What an f'ing idiot!!! Why would you actually lose your temper on camera? What an utter moron!

2006-09-25 16:22:04 · 12 answers · asked by Mishy 1

I'm thinking no. You can't judge America based on one movie. People who are saying that Jackass 2 makes America look stupid are ridiculous. Americans can let loose and enjoy a silly movie that's far from the norm. Does everyone want to see straight laced boring movies? No.
I actually saw Jackass 2, and it was hilarious. You can't compare a silly movie to a whole country's attitude. What does everyone else think?

2006-09-25 15:53:31 · 10 answers · asked by Bright Eyes 4

It's crazy. You always hear about and even know people who have to take extreme measures to conceive... yet so many ill-prepared people are so blase about the whole thing and act like being in charge of raising another person to be a decent, successful human being is nothing....

2006-09-25 15:51:31 · 12 answers · asked by Mishy 1

2006-09-25 15:49:07 · 6 answers · asked by Juble 3

Honesty hurts. Many answers confirm my assertion that the minds, eyes, ears and souls of Americans have been stolen and they are not ready to listen, to see the truth. USA Government is a Global Terrorist. It has pounded 20,000 pound bombs on wedding parties, dropped Napalm bombs, diasey cutters and uranium bullets (Total radiation more than Hiroshima) on Afghanistan and had rstored 60% of the world heroin whcih was completely stopped by Taliaban. In Israel it is supporting the biggest thugs who abducted the elected cabinet of Palestine. In Chechnya it is supporting Zionist and ex KGB chief Puttin and it is supporting Blair who has given the protection to number 1 Terrorist of Pakistan i.e Altaf Hussain,who is die hard anti Islam,. Both CIA and MI 5 are using MQM to kill innocent and scholarly people in Pakistan and also to plant bombs in Churches & Mosques and then blame Islam and Muslims. I sicnerely hope Americans start using their gray cells of brain and do not buy yellow media!

2006-09-25 15:12:05 · 19 answers · asked by pathowiz 3

Long story short, this is about the kid who went on a killing rampage in New Mexico. People are now blaming makers of Grand Theft Auto saying that THIS was the reason why he went on a murdering spree. The part about him being abused for years about his dad were mentioned and obviously overlooked. IS this a load of crap or what?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060925/ap_on_re_us/ranch_killings_video_game_suit

2006-09-25 14:56:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I enjoy following the moon phases and the times that they change. I would like to find a site that will allow me to display the moon in it's current phase on my front page.

2006-09-25 14:52:28 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-25 14:39:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous