Current Events - May 2007

I can only think of a few artists who are openly opposing the war, but I can't think of any popular songs, or art that are a reflection of dissatisfaction with the war.

Instead we have Paris Hilton going to jail, Britney Spears shaving her head and going to a psych ward... where is the outrage?

2007-05-29 11:40:00 · 17 answers · asked by professional student 4

Luis Posada Carriles is a well known Venezuelan born terrorist who admitted been responsible for the death of more than 70 people in a terrorist attack in Cuba. Who's extradition from the U.S to Venezuela, to start a trial charging him with crimes against humanity, has been refused by the U.S Government.

Is the government of the U.S protecting a terrorist?
Why is terrorist living a very happy life in a country who has sworn a war against terrorism?

Can anybody explain it to me i can't seem to understand the situation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles

2007-05-29 10:02:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

..chavez, didn't take over RCTV because of its 'anti-chavez' rant or because it didn't agree with socialism (although that might have peeved him off)...It was simply because he didn't like the guy who ran RCTV who was against him before he took power (I got my info from a friend who is Venezuelan)

he is not 'squabbling' for power from an overwhelming 'populist opposition' …

this is what is actually happening: He has 80% support by the people in Venezuela, and although some protesters don't agree with RCTV close-down....the majority of the population doesn't really give a damn.

The protestors were tear gassed because they were getting roudy and distressing the already over-whelmed traffic system…

And when US news covered it they gathered around the reporters making it seem more of a big deal than it really is.

that is why New york times didn't showcase it perhaps...(mainly because its not much to talk about …)

this is what he wants --- he enjoys attention.

2007-05-29 09:35:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_re_us/children_killed

Notice the last two paragraphs!!

2007-05-29 08:29:02 · 6 answers · asked by Mr Pink 4

I want to hear an intelligent response to the facts found on bradblog.com from our Neocon friends.

2007-05-29 08:28:54 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is a reflection of Mexican sentiment in several areas:

1. Immigration issues
1.1. Mistreatment of Mexican illegal immigrants in the US
2. The US Foreign policy
2.1. The war in Iraq

So, no surprises here. Is the booing justified? Maybe not, but neither is the war.

2007-05-29 08:22:31 · 12 answers · asked by zaxxon 3

Chavez called President Bush "Satan"-----and the liberals spoke out in defense of the dictator---------My question is now that he has closed a television station that dared to speak against his tyranny ---------will the liberals still come to his defense in spite of the fact he has flagrantly attacked the right to free speech?

2007-05-29 07:57:42 · 14 answers · asked by EZMZ 7

I am not in the military and do not have another family member in the military as well. This message is not out of strife or anger at a presidency or loss of a loved one. Just merely an overbearing thought for myself and the country I love.

If we were truly grateful should not our armed forces men and women (or at the very least the ones in combat zones) be treated like kings and queens when they return? Lots of free everything, and in certain ways be set for life?

Or for myself,... If I was truly grateful for men and women going in my place to fight and stand for freedom..... why haven't I taken one day,... or even a few hours out of my time to greet soldiers as they come home.

I really don't have this figured out yet but is it just lethargy? All the way from the presidency down to the common man? Are we just too lazy to form new bills that heavily favor those in battle or take time to greet soldiers? Or could it be that we stay too busy with day to day stuff to really care?

2007-05-29 07:23:56 · 9 answers · asked by leland_72 2

2007-05-29 06:40:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

How sick your little minds are.
Cant you just see they want to be with her then this will all stop this media thing, that you all hate

2007-05-29 06:40:20 · 20 answers · asked by elle-fire 2

Do you agree with Senator Obama's plan to help pay for universal health care by repealing President Bush's tax cuts?

2007-05-29 06:35:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

It happend in Forth Worth . Texas .
What leads a young mother to do such thing ?

2007-05-29 06:33:07 · 34 answers · asked by citizen high 6

2007-05-29 06:31:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

is it safe? is it safe? is it safe? is it safe?

2007-05-29 06:18:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

4 dead in home, baby hanging but alive .......

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_re_us/children_killed;_ylt=Ahv8kUalgyAT5oFunwNJTnNH2ocA

I understand that people go through A LOT of things...as a woman, I know that our hearts are oceans of secrets and suppresed emotions, but come on already...killing your children???? What the hell?? How about letting them be adopted and provide joy to a loving family.

Although the woman in this article also killed herself, what about the countless others who lived and were proven "innocent by reason of insanity?" Anyone who commits a crime ~ especially murder or rape ~ has a few screws loose ... i.e. insane. But if you shoot someone (besides in self-defense), you're going to jail (in most cases). Why are these women (no, they don't even deserve to be called 'women') ... why are these ignorant heffas killing their children and not being punished?? It's time out for this. It really needs to stop!! Share your thoughts.

2007-05-29 06:14:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

i really don't think as a mother of a lost loved one in the war should give up, i think she should keep striving on her beliefs
and keep her foot down. i really look up to her for what she is/was doin

2007-05-29 06:02:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-29 05:49:32 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-29 05:43:32 · 7 answers · asked by DeathStar 4

2007-05-29 04:51:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

How can we have a real discussion about Mideast peace if speaking honestly about "Israel" is out of bounds?

Ever wonder what it's like to be a pariah?
Publish something sharply critical of "Israeli" government policies and you'll find out. If you're lucky, you'll merely discover that you've been uninvited to some dinner parties. If you're less lucky, you'll be the subject of an all-out attack by neoconservative pundits and accused of rabid anti-Semitism.

In a climate in which good-faith criticism of "Israel" is automatically denounced as anti-Semitic, everyone loses. "Israeli" policies are a major source of discord in the Islamic world, and anger at "Israel" usually spills over into anger at the U.S., "Israel's" biggest backer.
With resentment of "Israeli" policies fueling terrorism and instability both in the Middle East and around the globe, it's past time for Americans to have a serious national debate about how to bring a just peace to the Middle East. But if criticism of "Israel" is out of bounds, that debate can't occur - and we'll all pay the price.

2007-05-29 04:39:44 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've read a lot of critisim about the Mcanns leaving their kids alone and I'm just wondering if this little girl had been snatched while at kindergarten, or from her own bedroom at home - would everyone still be so hard on them? What about the 'witness that came forward to say that she'd seen the child being carried off, should she be blamed for not doing anything about it? can ALL the parents out there or anyone who has ever babysat honestly say that they've kept an eye on the kids 24/7? What about all the parents whose kids have gone missing and they were not around at the time, are they to blame, (some were on their way to/from school)?
*The trauma suffered by the families when somethinglike this happens usually ends up in divorce, alcoholism because of the self-blame& guilt that they go through as it is. Is it fair to point fingers and say: "Well, I'D NEVER have done this".?
Just wondering...

2007-05-29 03:58:28 · 46 answers · asked by Snake Eyes 6

Now maybe she will pack her bags and move to France.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_re_us/cindy_sheehan_4;_ylt=At3JxCX3bLLrD8U8DuE5BqFkM3wV

2007-05-29 03:51:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Actually, I was spitting on them all day during the parade yesterday, freaking baby killers

2007-05-29 03:49:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I would like to take this time to list my own reasons for thanking and blessing Israel, our lone ally in the Middle East, for everything she has done for us, since I am quite sure most Americans are unaware of just what kind of friend she has been to us.

For extorting from me and my fellow Americans $4,000,000,000.00 a year for the last 4 decades, we bless thee.

For taking our most sophisticated weapons technology and stealing it for yourself without paying the American patent holders, we bless thee.

For taking that high-tech military technology and selling it to our enemies, such as the Russians and Chinese, thus further endangering us, we bless thee.

For using that weaponry in a sustained attack against a United States ship, the USS Liberty, in an attempt to sink her, thus preventing US servicemen from revealing to the rest of the world information concerning the war crimes they witnessed you commit against Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Desert during the Six Day War, as well as for the purposes of dragging the US into yet another one of your murderous adventures, we bless thee.

For killing 35 and wounding 170 American sailors aboard the USS Liberty, we bless thee.

For bribing the United States government into covering it up, preventing any justice from being done for the benefit of the families of the lost sailors - as well as the American People, we bless thee.

For sending your agents into Egypt and blowing up American buildings for the purpose of blaming the Arabs in an event known as the Lavon Affair, we bless thee.

For sending your agents into Libya during the Reagan administration, and broadcasting radio messages in Arabic that were designed to sound like “terrorist cell planning” so that the US would initiate military strikes against Khadafi in an event known as Operation Trojan Horse, we bless thee.

For withholding information from us concerning the planned attacks against the US Marine barracks in Lebanon, attacks you knew about through your moles in the Islamic world and about which you deliberately refused to warn us in order to further your interests against the Arabs, we bless thee.

For employing Jonathon Pollard, an American serviceman paid to spy for Israel in order to steal even more of our National Security secrets for your parasitic purposes, we bless thee.

For blackmailing President Clinton through one of your sayanim, Monica Lewinsky, in order to prevent a coherent peace program from being pushed forward between yourself and the Palestinian people whom you have brutalized and murdered for the last 50 years, we bless thee.

For breaking every agreement you have made with your Arab neighbors, stealing their land, displacing, murdering, and treating them like the animals you see them as, we bless thee.

For using your agents within the first Bush administration to involve us in the first Gulf War, causing the deaths of American men and women, and exposing our servicemen to whatever bioweapons were and are responsible which have led to Gulf War Syndrome, we bless thee.

For your role in the September 11 attacks in this country, and for blackmailing and bribing the US government into deporting back to Israel the 100 or more intelligence agents that were arrested after the attacks, we bless thee.

For suppressing the information from the American people of your involvement in the September 11 attacks and sending us in the wrong direction in search of answers, we bless thee.

For using one of your agents in the US Army Weapons Lab to steal anthrax and distribute it into our mail system, terrorizing US citizens and killing several in order to blame the Arabs, we bless thee.

For using your agents in the US Government, namely, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Abrams, and the rest into initiating this war in the Middle East so that you could bring to heel all the enemies you have made during the last 50 years, we bless thee.

For using your agents in the media to lie to us on a minute by minute basis about the war, lying to us as to how “just” this cause is, and what the real reasons behind it are, we bless thee.

For using your agents in the Christian Evangelical community, such as Falwell, Graham, Swaggert, Robertson and the rest who praise you as God’s chosen people and further keep Americans in the dark about who you really are what you have done, and what you are truly about, we bless thee.

For bringing idiots like Limbaugh, Liddy, Hannity, Beck, O’Reilly and Savage to the forefront as paid liars who will support you and further lead Americans astray, we bless thee.

For making America your attack dog, and for sending her sons and daughters to fight and die in all your future wars, we bless thee.

For using your influence in the media to hide the real statistics about the war, the dead and wounded on both sides, we bless thee.

For using us in such a way that not only further inflames the Arab world against us, but as well has succeeded in our alienating ourselves against those nations with whom we have been friendly for over a century, we bless thee.

And finally, for using your influence in our media and academia to flood our minds with pornography and lies, as well as inculcating in us a hatred for our history, religion, and culture, for dividing our nation between races and sexes, and for releasing into our society all of your plagues and filth that have left us a rotted out corpse of a once great nation, oh Israel, our friend,

we bless thee.

2007-05-29 03:35:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

After Libya refused to handover the 2 suspects of Lockerbie bombing, what economic sanctions were imposed. What do sanctions limit a country from doing? When sanctions are imposed on a country, are they the same for any country? For example, India was hit with sanctions after their Pokran Nuclear tests, was it also the same?

2007-05-29 03:06:09 · 1 answers · asked by crispy_corn 2

I was shocked and stunned by the photos of the McGanns in the Sunday newspapers. They looked more like lottery winners than a couple who have recently 'lost' a young child. Had their selfish and despicable action of leaving the children alone occurred at home in England, they would be prosecuted for child neglect and rightly so. Instead, they appear to have become celebrities with the use of a private jet and an audience with the Pope no less ! I can't help it but I smell a LARGE rat here, I just cannot fathom what it is.
Your task should you choose to accept it is to express your own opinion on what has REALLY happened here.

2007-05-29 01:25:51 · 5 answers · asked by C R 2

This is what we have been saying all along, that the president did not and can not go to war, or remain in war on his own. Our type of government prevents it. The senate and house both republican and democrat voted to do it, AND to stay in it. So what the hell made her finally realize it? To quote the good witch of the north, "the power to see it was always there" so what happened???

2007-05-29 01:03:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

who decides what can be said and what cant

2007-05-29 00:48:54 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

This isn't partisan so please keep the flames to a minimum.

It's a serious and fair question from a former (betrayed) Democrat, and I'm looking for mature thoughtful answers: With the revelation that only 6 Senators from EITHER party read the NIE report (many say they were 'briefed' on it) how many buy the excuses they are giving about why they voted for bush's war? Even Edwards, the only one to admit a mistake, still betrayed (us) because it's easy to say "oops" AFTER an operation has begun.

Reason for question: Not just looking for an easy opportunity to attack bush and/or Congressional Democrats. I am just sick to death of the two main parties trading power every so many years - while keeping imperialist U.S. foreign policy intact.

Second question: Aren't you also sick of paying for militarism, based on lies, in order to support our economy?

2007-05-29 00:44:40 · 7 answers · asked by CJ 2

Letting our material desires get played by entertainment and advertising? So we want more than
we can afford to own? And demand more wages and benefits to pay for them? Then the corrupt types of Rich crying publicly, but laughing in private? Simply raising their prices for their goods? And the Middle Class "brings home" more money every week? But doesn't "have" any more money, because everything costs more? And the Rich get richer, and the Poor get clobbered?

Anthony Silva
Citizens for Ethics

2007-05-29 00:39:51 · 7 answers · asked by THE NEXT LEVEL 5