Current Events - December 2007

That the people that complained because Bush "blindly" accepted the Intel on Iraq are now complaining because he is not doing the same for the NIE report on Iran?

2007-12-05 15:09:56 · 4 answers · asked by smsmith500 7

2007-12-05 14:59:24 · 2 answers · asked by Chichiri 1

I know what law states, but after reading what happened in Krum, Texas, I would like to know what your reaction would be. Do you think it would be appropriate? Should the person pay for the loss of the dogs? What happens if the person gets death threats?

2007-12-05 14:36:10 · 16 answers · asked by T_C_FLY 2

The Chinese are sending tainted and poisoned goods to the US. They recently refused to allow a US ship to dock in Hong Kongs harbor even though the waters were rough.The US government has done NOTHING to reprimand China for its actions. Is the fact that China is a strong trading partner with the US a reason for not taking any type of action?I'm not saying declaring war but I think the safety of the US citizens should be a higher priority than making overseas dollars off a country with horrible human rights violations. Why do we go after the smaller weak countries and let the bigger ones who pose a bigger threat scape on by??

2007-12-05 14:12:25 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have gotten numerous responses to this whole BCS thing with Hawaii and I must say that most of them were ignorant only because they keep repeating the same thing....weak schedule. How weak was OSU's schedule if they barely beat Michigan who lost to APP STATE??? People are saying Hawaii escaped at La Tech bla bla bla. The solution is so simple but no one listens. 11 conferences...take the winner of each conference and have them play the 2-3 extra games needed in the playoff's I mean geeze there is only 51 days until the BCS title game so I think there is time to "squeeze" it in. Did the BCS computer figure out that South Florida would shut down WV or that LSU would lose to KU? OSU to Illinois? No because it was figured out on the field and no computer can EVER predict who the better team is. It all boils down to money ratings and sponsors. It is all about who they think people want to see play rather than who should play. I AM NOT A HAWAII FAN but a fan of fair-play and not politics.

2007-12-05 13:52:34 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

We all know US does not need the approval of the UN to invade any country-the US has shown that it doesn't give a damn about what the UN says when it invaded Iraq. Regardless of whether you support the Iraq War or not, it remains a fact that the US attacked despite disapproval from France, Russia and China from the UN security council.

My question is: do you think Bush is planning to attack Iran before he leaves office? Do you think the similar rhetoric to the talk before the Iraq war is a sign that he is planning to invade Iran, or do you you think he is just using the rhetoric to increase international sanctions?

Do you think the US would be justified in attack? Why?

2007-12-05 13:27:54 · 8 answers · asked by Roxanne 2

Would anyone like to share why shootings in the US (in schools/malls/etc) is becoming more common? Why the suspect is almost always male regardless of race? Including someone who is practically young?

Does anyone think the media invokes so much fear that everyone is afraid of going to school or shopping around the mall?

What do you think its intent or purpose is to send to the general public?

2007-12-05 12:56:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

leading by example.

2007-12-05 12:41:32 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

OMG! like, 9 people died at westroads mall today at like 2:00 its all over the news!

2007-12-05 12:04:23 · 7 answers · asked by missteenqueen1996 2

2007-12-05 12:02:30 · 25 answers · asked by poppy vox 4

people packing heat of their own? Any shooter won't go into an area he knows people are allowed to carry...and signs saying "oh, guns banned here" is definitely NOT going to stop a gunman, so what gives?

2007-12-05 11:44:37 · 12 answers · asked by ǝɯɐuɹǝsn ɔıɹǝuǝƃ 3

i was just wondering why people are pro war and does anyone really believe that the war is really just about oil

2007-12-05 11:37:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

with poison in dog food, toothpaste, lead in paint of childrens toys, tires that explode and kill maybe people are finally willing to accept the possibility that the bargain prices aren't worth the associated dangers.

visit the listed sites to learn where and how to find what you need that is still "Made in America"

http://www.madeinusa.org/
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2007-12-05 11:35:47 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

We read with shock that 'The Foreign Office was alerted to fears over Gerry and Kate McCann by a British diplomat in Portugal just days after their daughter Madeleine went missing.

The diplomat was sent to the holiday resort of Praia da Luz in the days following the four-year-old's disappearance and soon became concerned over "inconsistencies" in the testimonies by her parents and their friends.

After visiting the McCanns, the unnamed diplomat sent a report to the Foreign Office in London, admitting his worries about "confused declarations" of the McCanns' movements on the night of May 3'

Is there more to the McCann saga than we have so far been lead to believe ?

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=499340&in_page_id=1770

2007-12-05 11:23:20 · 20 answers · asked by 17pdr 4

she thought that coming back under a new identity would help

get rid of her

2007-12-05 11:20:30 · 16 answers · asked by Here's Johnny 1

It never fails, When ever Bush or his policies are the focus of negative head lines , Some NUT CASE shoots a bunch of inocent people and then himself. I just got a big "I told you so" from the guy called a Conspiracy kook the last 3 times he pointed this out to me

2007-12-05 11:20:00 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

The official identified the gunman as Robert A. Hawkins, age 19 or 20.

2007-12-05 11:16:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

The pharmeceutical companies aren't telling us everything...

http://www.ketv.com/news/14782867/detail.html

Mall shooter Robert A. Hawkins, 19, murdered 9 people in an Omaha mall. He was on antidepressents. He is just 1 of the many (including many high profile) murderers and shooters on antidepressents, including the Colombine shooters, the V-Tech shooter, and many others.

I posted the entire list on an earlier question I asked here months ago: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqfSsrQ7FNF.6oFNTMNQfkvty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070925172920AAQnPbW

2007-12-05 11:07:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

It was on CNN with the Heli crew filming everything. The guy flopped in the tall grass, one cop jumped on him and the other from behind started whaling on him. You will notice a bald darker skin cop with a vest move that cop out of the way as to say what are you doing man. I noticed that right away.

2007-12-05 10:44:22 · 1 answers · asked by Knowitall94 1

Ms. George Clooney and Michelle S...you are now both officially cloned!!!

Plato, I'll do you tomorrow...

anyone else need to be cloned?

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoZv4YVZJZeZU1AiSorz9qAtLxV.;_ylv=3?qid=20071205144432AAZGJLL

2007-12-05 10:30:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

omaha shooting 9 dead in shopping mall! crazed gunman!

not yet known if the gunman's dead.....

is this now time to cange the gun laws?

2007-12-05 09:37:08 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

There is a gunman on a rampage in Omaha, America shooting at shoppers in a busy Mall.
These people are just doing there christmas shopping.How sad is that?

2007-12-05 09:36:03 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just watching a movie on Five and was wondering if he's still attractive to the ladies of YA?

2007-12-05 09:21:17 · 37 answers · asked by slıɐuǝoʇ 6

2007-12-05 09:05:37 · 58 answers · asked by Plato 5

If no one responds they'll have to talk to them selves.

2007-12-05 08:49:57 · 27 answers · asked by Ern T 6

2007-12-05 08:41:04 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

So that there can be no more murders and so they working girls can get screened for STI's?

2007-12-05 08:25:12 · 27 answers · asked by Lilli 1

If so how many?

2007-12-05 08:16:06 · 38 answers · asked by Lilli 1

When we criticise the Chinese occupation of Tibet, nobody criticises us of being anti-Chinese.



HISTORY and ORIGIN
Understanding the conflict requires the knowledge of two important aspects; the history and origin of the conflict.
In 1948 when Israel was established on 78% of historical Palestine, large numbers of Palestinians were made refugees. Some 500 villages were erased.
In 1967 Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza.

When the media reports the conflict, it rarely mentions the history and origin of the conflict.

A study by Glasgow University Media Group which monitored TV news between Sept 28th and October 16th 2000 had found that out of 3500 lines of text in total, only 17 lines referred to the History of the conflict. (As detailed in the Glasgow Media Group Book “Bad News from Israel” 2004).
It is worth noting that when facts are known people tend to change their views and some switch support.

PERSPECTIVES:
Israeli perspective:
1948 for Israelis was a war of independence “melhemet Haatzma’ut” but this resulted in the uprooting of more than 700,000 Palestinians who became refugees.

The Palestinian perspective:
1948 for Palestinians was “The Nakba” The Catastrophe.

Another Study by the Library of International Affairs (30th Oct 07) which
Compared media articles over a period of months and reached some conclusions:

From primarily Israeli perspective: Palestinians are terrorists
From an Arab perspective: they are freedom fighters and the Israelis are illegal occupiers.

From an Israeli perspective and indeed from the perspective of Israeli supporters: Ariel Sharon is a hero in the eyes of the Israelis. One New York Times columnist described him once as the feisty warrior, a kind of brave jolly stout fellow.
But in Arab eyes he is a war criminal. Many Europeans and Arabs still consider Ariel Sharon as a devious and cunning politician and a murderer.

Conclusion of this section:
Different interpretations make it difficult to get the real picture. The interpretation is based on prejudices, experiences and interests of both sides.

The Power of Headlines:

The Glasgow University Media Group provided dozens of examples of misleading and inaccurate headline; however I mention below 2 or 3 examples:

“Avenging their death, Israel hit back”. ITV March 3rd 02

“Israel had been dragged into a war on terror”. BBC December 6th 01

Here we can see that the emphasis is on portraying the Palestinian action and the Israeli retaliation.

Palestinians are depicted as the trouble makers, the terrorists and Israel responds to teach them a lesson.

The Illegal Settlers:
In some Western and Israeli press the settlers are pioneers and defenders of biblical Israel.
In 2003 B’tasleem an Israeli human rights group said: “the press often reports attacks by Palestinians but the facts are different. B’tasleem listed many examples of settlers setting up road blocks, shooting Palestinians at random burning of crops and cars etc etc.
In Hebron 500 settlers make the life of 125000 Palestinians a misery, a hell
On earth.

1994: Professor Israel Shahak described how “religious youths from Kiryat Arba were throwing stones on Palestinians. (Israel Shahak is known for his outspoken views about Jewish Religious Extremists).

Collective punishment
Curfews are imposed on Palestinians never on settlers.

Ariel Sharon’s provocation:
Violence sparked off 29th sept 2000 following a visit by Sharon to Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.
He was reported as saying “I came here with a message of peace”.

To Arabs the visit was a provocation.
President Bush described Sharon in 2002 as a man of peace
But the rest of the world did not believe him.

Samples from the BBC:
BBC October 3rd 2000
“Ariel Sharon right wing enemy of the peace process”

BBC November 1st 01 “Sharon used every opportunity he could to attack the Arabs as terrorists”.

Guardian Newspaper UK October 3rd 2000
Amira Haas wrote “when the Intifida began 7 years after Oslo Accord all Palestinians feel betrayed”.

Us duplicity:
Two examples of US obvious bias:
Bush uttered the following words in 2002: Sharon a man of peace. We learned later that the White House phone lines were jammed by Evangelical supporters of Israel demanding that President Bush says something nice about Ariel Sharon.

President Bush and his Secretary of State Colin Powell: “Arafat must end terrorism.” This was despite the fact that both Bush and Powell knew that Arafat was under siege at the time.

Global Issues Organization was more frank when it stated on July 30th 06
“Sharon a right wing and against peace who committed massacres”.

Anti-Semitism and the stifling of debate:
Jimmy Carter, former president and author of the book “Palestine, Peace not Apartheid” was attacked and accused of being Anti-Jewish and Anti-Semitic for writing about the pernicious impact of the Apartheid Wall.

Professors Norman G Finkelstein and Mehrene Laurdee were denied tenure at De Paul University in Chicago for daring to criticise Israel.

Professors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Professor Stephen Watt, a Harvard Professor, were both criticised , slandered and boycotted for exposing the role of AIPAC and Jewish lobbies in Their book “The Israeli Lobby and the US foreign policy”.

On the other hand Elaine Mcardle of the Boston Globe wrote recently “I was lobbied by Aipac. She exposed the tactics used by AIPAC to influence the opinion of journalists in Israel’s favour.

Distortions on websites:
Writing in a pro-Israel American internet website; Lorella, an American housewife who lived in Tel Aviv since 2001 wrote;
“We sat in our living room in Tel Aviv and watched an interview with Saab Erekat, a Palestinian terrorist”.
Saeb Erekat the chief Palestinian negotiator, a man who condemned violence and suicide bombers and was accused by Hamas and other extremists of being a friend of Israel because of his rejection of violence is a terrorist according to the Tel Aviv housewife.

Another example on the same website:
Headline:
Terrorists prefer Hillary
And they would rather see Rudy Giuliani dead than president.

It transpired that a Palestinian in the West Bank said to a reporter “it would be good if Hilary follows her husband’s policy of promoting peace between Israelis and Palestinians”.

CNN Paula Zahn Now July 24th 2007 on her TV program holds a book and announces “what does the book of revelation tell us about what is happening in the Middle East”. Was she trying to explain the current Middle East situation with reference to an ancient text? Why and in whose interest? (mediamatters.org)

Anti-Semitism and Anti-Jewish Syndrome:

The China/Tibet analogy: (Counter Punch a US based internet website): when we criticise the Chinese occupation of Tibet, nobody criticises us of being anti-Chinese. When we criticise Kim Jong IL, do we hate the Korean people.

We can safely add by saying:
When we criticise the Burmese military junta, we are not accused of being anti-Burmese or anti Buddhism.

We often criticise Robert Mugabe or Parvis Musharraf but we are not told you are anti the people of Zimbabwe or anti-Muslims of Pakistan.

To criticise the Iranian leadership does not mean you are anti-Shiite or anti Farsi people. When we criticise Hugo Chavez are we being haters of Venezuelan people?

Why is it then, when someone criticises Israel he is accused of being Anti-Semitic and Anti-Jewish.

The reporting of the killing of Mohd Al Durra:

Elliot Resnick Jewish press staff reporter October 10th 2007” wrote “evidence mounts inflammatory image was staged” (The image of young Mohammad al-durra dying in the lap of his father struck down by Israeli bullets on Sept 30th 2000 was fake according to Israeli apologists).

Boston University Professor Richard Landes (a pro-Israeli academic) Concludes that the entire episode was staged, but he did not offer convincing evidence for his conclusion. (theaugeanstables.com)

October 2nd 2007
Natan Sharansky chairman of the Adelson Institute of Strategic Studies at the Shalen Centre in Jerusalem cast doubt on the Al-Durra incident. He blamed a French journalist for inflaming passions against Israel. In the same piece, he denied the Jenin massacre. But failed to explain why journalists and foreign aid workers were barred from entering Jenin for several days. Israel also refused to receive a UN commission of enquiry.

Natan Sharansky was concerned that American students he had met in New York were troubled by the Al-Durra incident. (theaugeanstables.com)

Gideon Levy’s wrote an editorial article in Haaretz at the time “as far as we can remember, there has been no other case in which Palestinian fired at the IDF and hit a Palestinian child.
He was savaged by the cover-up brigade.

POLITICIDE a book by Baruch Kimmerling and George Wise, two distinguished Professors(University of Toronto, and the Hebrew University): “Sharon’s objectives in the 1970s were to kill as many civilians as possible. Emphasise civilians (page 62)

Page 74: “intentional killing of civilians is a war crime”.

Pages 162 and 163: targeted killings to provoke reaction.
Haaretz Aug 30th 2002: Moshe Ya’alon Chief of Staff was quoted as saying: "Palestinians are a cancer and the war against them is chemotherapy".

Page 194 examples of the violations of the 4th Geneva Conventions: “Israel prevented emergency food into Hebron during the curfew”. Preventing medical aids and ambulances reaching Jenin and Ramallah etc.

Page 205: Israeli actions are designed to provoke and irritate Palestinians to make them hate Israel more and more and desire revenge. This can be exploited by Israel in two ways first to show that Palestinians are not real partners for peace and secondly to create more facts on the ground as way of punishment i.e. expanding of settlements and confiscation of land etc.

http://english.wa3ad.org/index.php?show=news&action=article&id=1794

2007-12-05 07:56:06 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

"The man told the dispatcher: "I'm getting my gun and going to stop them. The dispatcher said, 'No, stay inside the house; officers are on the way.','' said police spokesman Vance Mitchell. "Then you hear him rack the shotgun. The next sound the dispatcher heard was a boom. Then there was silence for a couple of seconds and then another boom.''

The telephone line then went dead, but the man called police again and told a dispatcher what he had done. He said he confronted the suspected burglars and asked them to stop, but they did not.

The man then fired twice, striking one of the suspected burglars in the chest, and the other on the side. The shooter's name was not released.

When police arrived, they found one dead man across the street, and the other two houses behind a bank of mailboxes in the Village Grove East subdivision.

The suspects' names were not released, but police said they had documentation from Puerto Rico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/17/national/main3517564.shtml

2007-12-05 07:51:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous