Politics & Government - 9 August 2006

WE attack them is what happens .saddam was all set to switch over to euro dollars and thats why the french germans and the rest of europ except britan was against the war .IT would of secured there currency and rate of exchange.
IF however they went to gold then europe and america , japan India and china would all suffer for a devalued american dollar .which the world economy is based on .WE have been trading worthless paper for 30 years and the world is tired of the way we run things .
BRUTE force to prop up our dollar by forcing the worlds oil producers to accept it or face attack .
WE are all going to have to learn to get along or all take up arms in america to support our life-style and that is what worries the world .WE are a grredy people who want more then our fair share and have wasted trillions on war instead of investing in a strong productive nation we have become money changers.
WE print and make it and maintain it at all costs . killing and war is the way to maintain $$$$

2006-08-09 06:05:40 · 5 answers · asked by playtoofast 6 in Politics

Any and all background information on the current situation between Israel, Hezbollah and Lebanon is welcome. I'd also like to know exactly what the relationship is between the Lebanese government and Hezbollah.

2006-08-09 06:05:21 · 7 answers · asked by afk 4 in Military

I'd like to think that I'm pretty good, after all I coined the nickname "shrubby", but if you are a great bush-basher, bash away! Best bash wins!!

2006-08-09 06:05:08 · 28 answers · asked by keepitsafe2think 2 in Politics

2006-08-09 06:03:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-08-09 06:02:05 · 8 answers · asked by Terrible T 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

The ? was why are cops the biggest douches.pops said they ain't all bad.Looking at the rest of his Q & A he hates cops.

2006-08-09 06:01:50 · 3 answers · asked by Desperado 5 in Law Enforcement & Police

Given that the council tax is almost as unpopular as the poll tax and taxes the few (regardless of income) rather than everyone surely the way forward is to replace it with a local sales tax. I would envisage a system whereby every unit sold at every outlet below 50 pence would have an additional 1 pence local sales tax added. Goods in value in excess of this would be taxed at 1 pence in every 50 pence (i.e. an item costing £10 would in effect be £10.20). This would enable a very unpopular tax to be scrapped while at the same time ensuring local services were properly funded. Those on a small fixed income would only be paying in a sum commensurate with their lifestyle and would surely pay less than they do now as everyone, in effect, would be sharing the burden.

2006-08-09 06:01:22 · 8 answers · asked by bob kerr 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-09 06:01:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2006-08-09 06:00:06 · 18 answers · asked by tunachunks199 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Is the West but an embodyment of white racism in our time? Recently we have seen the tossing around of terms like "the west" to describe America and other allies. This West is an idealogiy. A world set a apart from all others based on its superiority. This is nothing new, whites have come up with terms for 100's of years to separate them from the rest of US in the world. On one hand the West is all that is pure, full of justice, and intelligence. All else is fanatical, radical, and backwards. Ironically this is the way whites deemed themselves during slavery, they were purer, more righteous, and more intelligent than those under them. Thus they could subjugate the blacks and indians because they were always in the "right" and could do no wrong. Racism based on ethnicicity has merely transformed into racism based on culture and civilization. The "West" does not even exist, we are one world. For instance Israel would be consider the Western World, yet look on a map. Why is there no non white country apart of this west? The West is a mere state of mind of white superiority, and white power at the expense of others. I have even seen people on television deeming the conflict of the Middle East as a war between the west and "them". Them so lowly that they do not have a name, but whites are so holy that they can devote an actual term to describe themselves. Thus the West, no one has heard of the east, south, or north because apparently they simply are not worth enough to be called anything at all! Then other times they will describe the conflicts as civilization vs the uncivilized. Pure racism, whites have always felt that they wer emore cilivized than the rest of us, and this is nothing new. Yet they fail to even realize that people in that part of the world are just like everyone else, but because they dont fall into the white view of things they are inferior! Even posters on this site have described people outside of the "west" like they were animals! One man on here said that the Arabs have nothing of their own and they steal everything from Europe. This sounds like white supremacy, that nobody outside of Europe has any brains what so ever and everything revolves around Europe. He went as far as to say that Arabs had nothing. If he feels this way about Arabs what does he think of Africa and the rest of Asia? Pure ignorance, and it is not one man it is all of you. And the sad is that you don't even realize it.

2006-08-09 05:58:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-08-09 05:56:54 · 13 answers · asked by kb_stl 1 in Politics

does this World Trade Center movie make anyone else want to vomit?

2006-08-09 05:56:20 · 19 answers · asked by ? 3 in Politics

2006-08-09 05:56:19 · 7 answers · asked by Waas up 5 in Politics

My 18 year-old son is totally lost. He only has 18 out of 40 necessary credits to graduate high school. He spoke with a Marine recruiter who has guaranteed him that he will graduate with his class in May 2007 - if he signs-up with the Marines. Does anyone know if the Navy, Army, etc would guarantee anything like this. And ... I'm so scared that he'll join and be scared and want to come home - he really really needs discipline - but I'm scared for him. Any suggestions.

Thanks!

2006-08-09 05:56:06 · 11 answers · asked by emmmay61 1 in Military

In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"

Every year 15 million children die of hunger

For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years

Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!

The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.

One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture

The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy

Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF

3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.

In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.

In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.

The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.

One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.

Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.

In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.

Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death

About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age

To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.

The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.

Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger

It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

2006-08-09 05:55:58 · 9 answers · asked by trusolja_dareal23 1 in Civic Participation

it was offenseive he told me that I was un-American and that I was taking away his rights. Do you agree with his assessment?

2006-08-09 05:55:01 · 28 answers · asked by Ethan M 5 in Politics

I know I can make copies of my music for my personal use. This is a gray area: I would not be copying the sheet music I'm using, but I would be replicating someone's work in another form. If the issue is whether or not the composer/publisher gets money, my action could influence people not to pay money for audio recordings of the music by other musicians, but it could also influence them to buy the sheet music (I have a lot of musician friends).

2006-08-09 05:54:26 · 3 answers · asked by musician 2 in Law & Ethics

of everything our nation leader has done, still the illegals are flooding into America. I have also heard that our president wants to be stricter on the borders but his advisors and congress fail to see that we are being invaded. and they are not going with what the president wants done. if this is true, what do you think we should do? what should the president do? and how would we do it?

2006-08-09 05:54:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2006-08-09 05:53:21 · 1 answers · asked by Maria g 1 in Other - Politics & Government

When someone who supports Anti illegal viewpoints, and they are of caucaisan decent, does that now make them a nazi? seems to be a growing catch phrase just like "racist". Evidently if we are all nazi's, that must make them all stupid inbred weback bean pickers, right? whats good for the goose is good for the gander,Why are we labled as such, but cannot return the favor? Hypocrites no better than the idiots in washington who can't seem to make up their minds on a simple matter.....

2006-08-09 05:51:37 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

should the party be renamed The American Marxist party ?

2006-08-09 05:51:27 · 13 answers · asked by W E J 4 in Politics

2006-08-09 05:49:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Is it illegal to own and listen in on a police scanner?

I have always wanted one and even priced them on ebay. But wondered if caught holding one, will I get in trouble for listening to police business?

2006-08-09 05:48:21 · 6 answers · asked by ♠♣♥Rogue♣♥♠ 5 in Law Enforcement & Police

do you believe the story? do you think that the government is been hiding secret UFO secrets to America?Do you believe what some say, that Aliens live around us and that our government knows who they are. some even say that the technology we have the government have aquired from them. Scary, but maybe true

2006-08-09 05:48:18 · 5 answers · asked by dn_reen 2 in Government

the conservative sees a free and wealthy man and says all people should have as much . The liberal sees the same man and says this is unfair, lets tax him, take his money create welfare and social programs and give it to those who are lazy.

2006-08-09 05:48:13 · 7 answers · asked by W E J 4 in Politics

2006-08-09 05:44:11 · 4 answers · asked by jimmydeep123 1 in Immigration

Basic situation - involving state employment issue - employer COMPLETELY lied under oath in a recorded phone hearing. Am talking obvious provable lies - that I moved from CA with two horses (fact I moved from IL with NO horses) and misrepresented/lied about qualifications (completely untrue and HE CHECKED REFERENCES on hiring). Also said horses were not neglected despite one starving to death and having over 20 with ribs, hipbones showing, an eye injury he wouldn't spend $15 for something to keep the flies out of etc. (photograph evidence available as proof).
These are serious things that slander my reputation and were stated and he repeated to the state official several times he would stand by it and not amend it. They are lies that can be proven...but how/where to take it?

2006-08-09 05:42:33 · 4 answers · asked by Jan H 5 in Law & Ethics

It seems to me the govertment is trying to move al U.S Forces over seas. All the bases I live near, they are being closed down becuase there moving all the personal over seas. Do you think this is wise. Do we have a tatical advantage or something.

2006-08-09 05:42:17 · 9 answers · asked by glenn s 2 in Military

When i first came here in america they said the land of promise i thought everything is high tech and beautiful, i was surprised because its just the same in any other countries. Only 3 big cities here have big buildings but the other states or remaining states wow i cant believe they call it a states. Everywhere is the same theres no different, people are rich and poor. Some places are good but some oh my God.

2006-08-09 05:41:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-09 05:40:54 · 20 answers · asked by Dr.Feelgood 5 in Politics