Politics & Government - 12 August 2006

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2006-08-12 22:50:41 · 4 answers · asked by bidgee7 1 in Embassies & Consulates

in todays world people are becoming more and more concious about the environment,pollution,global warming,fuel and food crisis,health problems.dont u think the governments should think more about these things rather than making newer weapons,fighter planes, missiles,waging wars,creating a generation of trigger-happy people??

2006-08-12 22:48:49 · 9 answers · asked by loving_u_4ever_n_always 1 in Government

2006-08-12 22:45:38 · 13 answers · asked by haz 2 in Military

What do you think that recent london incidents are just another try to make the world fool by bush and blair?

2006-08-12 22:44:31 · 7 answers · asked by good 1 in Other - Politics & Government

I am NOT I repeat NOT a racist person. But I am finding it more and more difficult to not be racist when I see what is happening in the world today. I would just like your opinion. Do you think you are becoming more racist? By Dean C

My answer to his ignorance..

the road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you..
What do you know about Diana’s death??!!!..
What do you know about the IRA??!!!..
What do you know about “Braveheart”… etc??!!!..

Before you ask a question like this look at it from a wider angle, from all aspects of life.
Why there is terrorism??.. What’s motivate a terrorist to become a terrorist??
How can we all cooperate to vanish terrorism completely from the face of the earth.. If so, is it possible?? If any body became a racist, is this going to solve a problem or just make it worse.??!! What can you say about what is happening in IRAQ, LEBANON, PHALASTINE… etc?? At last but never the least whom to blame and why??..

Facts
Muslims are immigrating in a none Muslim countries do to the pressure from the none Muslim countries that they put on the Muslim countries.. And they say live and let live.

From the beginning of the universe humans are fighting each other for good or bad reasons or whatever, and in every conflict many innocents pay the ultimate price. Conflicts will never ever end while there is something called humans existing on the face of the universe.. So my dear if you think racism will solve the problem be my guest.

2006-08-12 22:41:16 · 53 answers · asked by Free wily triumphantly 1 in Politics

It was the Muslim nations that took the land away from the Lebanese. Not Israel not the United States, not Europe. After World War II The land was split in half, half for the Palestineins and half for the Jews. The Muslim countries came and took the Palestinian half and said they wanted it all and kicked the paelestinines out and they became refugees. The Arab world then all ganged up and attacked Israel to get the rest of the land, however ther Islam countries got a serious butt whipping and lost more land which the Israelis then gave back. All this is your own damn faults, im sick of the whinning and trying to pass the blame to every Western country. Israel cares for over 100,000 refugees, while Lebanon keeps the Palestinien refugees in poor conditions so they can use them to show the world how repressed they are. Its a joke.

2006-08-12 22:33:56 · 10 answers · asked by snare3011 3 in Politics

2006-08-12 22:17:17 · 29 answers · asked by good 1 in Other - Politics & Government

It is not even arguable. I live there in fear but by choice, my reasons are personal. So many others have no choice. Yes, most African countries are corrupt but its not just the corruption in Zim that is killing the people. The world imposed sanctions in the 70's when whites ruled, why should we now stand by and watch this horror unfolding which is much worse than anything the whites and British Government did in the colonial days? Yes, invade if necessary, set an example to the other African leaders and be proud that we did it for humanity and not oil.

2006-08-12 22:12:19 · 4 answers · asked by Baroness 1 in Other - Politics & Government

US involved in planning Israel operations --
The New Yorker

Lebanon offensive prelude to strike on Iran


Agence France-Presse
Last updated 03:43pm (Mla time) 08/13/2006


NEW YORK -- The US government was closely involved in the planning of Israel's military operations against Islamic militant group Hezbollah even before the July 12 kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, “The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue.

The kidnapping triggered a month-long Israeli operation in South Lebanon that is expected to come to an end on Monday.

But Pulitzer Prize-winning US journalist Seymour Hersh writes that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were convinced that a successful Israeli bombing campaign against Hezbollah could ease Israel's security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential US preemptive attack to destroy Iran's nuclear installations.

Citing an unnamed Middle East expert with knowledge of the current thinking of the Israeli

2006-08-12 22:09:37 · 27 answers · asked by MaSTeR 3 in Military

2006-08-12 22:05:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

2006-08-12 22:04:47 · 29 answers · asked by hari n 1 in Politics

"Conservatism", in the context of this question, refers to the radical conservatism that the Republican administration bases itself around.

2006-08-12 21:58:00 · 9 answers · asked by Futanari 2 in Politics

I had a bag of stuff i just bought at a store. I walked out, and remembered something else, i went back in. one of the checkers flipped out, and came very short of accusing me of shoplifting. I could have sworn the twit said, "you are in trouble!" but i can't be sure of it. if i was sure, i would hire a lawyer. anyway, they said that whenever going in the store, i must tell them i have a bag of stuff, for security reasons.

Here's a good question. LOTSA women carry purses. how come they never have to check their purse in with security? they can easily shoplift, especially if the purse is big. I never see this. It's only someone carrying a backpack, or a shopping bag, that gets stopped. potential female shoplifters carrying purses can go about their business, with no questions asked.

2006-08-12 21:57:22 · 12 answers · asked by snafu1 2 in Law & Ethics

If yes, please explain. What do you have to be proud of? Are you proud of the fact that you were born here and somehow managed not to leave? Isn't it kinda vain to be proud of something you had no responsibility for, like where you were born?

2006-08-12 21:56:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

As I assume many know, a person is often defined as great by how that person acted in a single moment during a single, even short, event. The same holds true of presidents. Single moments in their presidencies can define them as the greatest president ever. But is that fair? Do some US presidents deserve more accolades than other presidents made famous by their history altering deeds? Are presidents that never really change the world less to us although they might have display more competence, and had more successes? Are there any presidents that have shown both? Should Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, and a few others, forever be put above the other presidents?

2006-08-12 21:53:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-12 21:52:02 · 6 answers · asked by kelleygaither2000 1 in Law & Ethics

Will the USA be merged with Canada and Mexico by 2010 or is that a conspiracy theory? See http://texemarrs.com/murder_of_america.htm

2006-08-12 21:49:10 · 15 answers · asked by Crow_Feeder 2 in Government

i just got promoted and i really need to be a good info officer of the city, can you please give me some tips on how to be one

2006-08-12 21:49:00 · 3 answers · asked by ganda 1 in Government

besides the fact that we need it to keep things going. i think it is so ridicioulious of how people get so upset about some things. I get cursed out when say that I'm a liberal. I try to stay out of the political scenes because I have better things to do. I just live by whatever laws and live my life like a everyday party. People should just live and be free and enjoy long naked walks.

2006-08-12 21:47:48 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If our country was to start a revolution, following a war with Mexico to remove the illegals from the nation...

Because that's what would happen if you think about it...

The government helps out the illegals-- American people get pissed, stand up to the government, 250 million strong... The government sees this, and decides, okay we gotta deport them.. and so they try--

...it'll start riots and ruin national security...The illegals would trash the place, kill, rape, murder anybody and everybody to "have a better life."

...Mexico would feel offended, and fight back, however, the government would no longer be fighting us, but fighting Mexico....

....Say all this happened, what would the rest of the world think?

--Rob

2006-08-12 21:47:27 · 8 answers · asked by stealth_n700ms 4 in Immigration

2006-08-12 21:45:18 · 34 answers · asked by unknown u 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Is it necessary on Job applications, license applications other circumstances? When is it a requirement?

2006-08-12 21:32:06 · 1 answers · asked by Lynda V 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

How can a parent (in Idaho) obtain a transcript of court proceedings of a juvenile? Whenever he asks the att'y for it, he gets blown off. No more money to hire another att'y or fight the system - but with transcript, can/will 'prove' illegal (2 long yrs) proceedings from pros. atty. on an 11 yr. old. All rights/laws thrown out the window with statement - we can do anything we want - and they did. No Mirandizing, no adult w/child when interrogated (law states under age 14 that is a must), no quick trial, a parole officer assigned for 1 1/2 years 'before' final trial/verdict, thrown in detention for not getting good grades (that had nothing to do with his legal problem) and p.o. called the shots for the 'entire' family or he would go back to detention (and she sent him back when dad was in bed sick and couldn't visually see him 24/7), harassment of parent (single dad), lies - misquotes by pros. atty/detective (I know that to be true because they talked to me and when I was told what they - under oath (in court) testified to that I had said - it was bits and pieces of my statement taken totally out of context), etc., etc. Sounds unreal, that is what I thought until I saw what they were going thru on a daily basis. Boy, is our legal system screwed up and people living pay check to pay check have no chance. The outcome was told to them by the P.O. 'before' the trial started and guess what - she was 'right on'. By the way, this little boy has ADHD, opositional defiant, & is bi-polar but they wouldn't take his doctors word for that until AFTER they convicted him. To this day, he doesn't know what he did wrong (he was 11 going on 7-8) and doesn't understand why he's in trouble (he just turned 13 and is still about 8). Too long of explanation but if you get this far and can offer some help in (any avenue) to obtain a transcript (remember, the Dad has no more money as they have more than drained him but because he works, he can't get assistance), I would appreciate any help that I can pass on to the Dad. He's struggling trying to keep things together for his other child, pay his monthly bills along with all the extra 'fees' the judge could come up with (even has to pay extra for a parole officer - monthly - why do we pay taxes to pay their wage if they add extra $ each month for a p.o. to persecute - yes I said persecute the parent that's trying to do right by their child? Mother is a dead beat and pays nothing). What the little boy did was wrong but not earth shattering and definitly not to the extent he was punished. I've seen people who get repeat DUIs, domestic battery, etc., get less that what they've given this child. Enough - I'm just angry that the legal system I've always believed in (60 + years) is so corrupt that they'll destroy a family just so they can get a notch on their belt. I'll be waiting for your helpful replies. Thank you for any suggestion.

2006-08-12 21:30:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2006-08-12 21:29:50 · 12 answers · asked by Henr 2 in Civic Participation

are people Born Snitches or do they Become Snitches as they live??

2006-08-12 21:29:15 · 18 answers · asked by Yahoo Troll 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

This was not writen by an American...This comes from an european newspaper...I post this in lue of the recent uprising in "loosing confidence of the American Military. Our boys and girls, of the USAF, are the finest in the world...There is no question about it...Anyway...This is what people in Britain think of our military capability...

Armed to the teeth

Is Bush's awesome increase in military spending a reasonable response to the afermath of September 11, or is he creating a force almost too powerful for its own good? Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy report

Is America too powerful for its own good?

You can have your say online here.

Observer Worldview

Sunday February 10, 2002
The Observer


There is a United States special forces dog-handler who meets journalists, diplomats and aid workers off the UN flight to Kabul. His job is to search luggage and ensure the security of US troops in Afghanistan. He is short, gingery and aggressive. His skills at persuasion are limited to shouting at the milling crowd: 'Stand back! Stand back! My dog will bite!'
Last week that phrase had become the defining motto and operating credo for the military and foreign policy of the Bush administration. Already President George W. Bush has put Iran, Iraq and North Korea on notice as terrorist-sponsoring nations at the centre of an international 'axis of evil', despite the CIA's recent evidence that none of them was in the business of threatening the United States at present.

Last Monday, to back that explicit threat, he announced an increase in US military spending of 15 per cent, the biggest in 20 years, more than double the military spending in all of the European Union. The rise will be $36 billion (£26.5bn) this year, $48 billion next year and $120 billion over the next five years, rising to a staggering two trillion over the next five years.

Even this is not enough for General Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They want the US defence budget to increase at an even faster rate.

What all this means is clear. Troubled by the 11 September attacks and buoyed by the ease of the war against Afghanistan, Bush's message to the 'evil doers' of the world is that he has a dog; that it is very big, getting bigger, and certainly it will bite.

The puzzle about the latest rise in defence spending is that America at the beginning of the 21st century is already not so much a superpower as a behemoth on the world stage. Economically dominant, it enjoys military and cultural power unrivalled since the days of the Roman emperors, as the American author Robert D. Kaplan reminds us in his new book, Warrior Politics.

Typically, it has been left to the French, traditionally suspicious of US global hegemony, to find the best words to describe it. Gigantisme militaire they call it, in a phrase that describes both the scale of America's ambitions and also a pathological condition: an organism grown so large it is sick.

The question the rest of the world is asking itself is: Who is the enemy America is arming itself so against? And why?

'Ostensibly,' says one European diplomat, 'this is about security. But quite how a massive increase in defence spending is supposed to prevent another terrorist attack remains unclear. Instead this seems to be about repairing the bruised American psyche after 11 September. America's powerlessness in the face of this attack requires big gestures and reassurances, even if they are counter-productive and meaningless.'

Indeed, some analysts say, if it is security that America seeks it is better sought in dialogue with potentially threatening states, rather than in reinforcing the idea already held by many anti-US groups that it is an evil empire bent on world domination.

Cynics have identified more overtly self-serving strands in the Republican obsession with America's defence. The 'war' rhetoric, as some US liberal commentators have pointed out, serves a purely domestic Republican agenda in the post-11 September mood of national paranoia: to win Bush a second presidential term and, in the shorter term, regain Congress.

The reality - even before the latest proposed increases in military spending - is that America could beat the rest of the world at war with one hand tied behind its back. The requirement that US armed forces be able to fight two fully fledged wars with two separate adversaries simultaneously may recently have been dropped, but only because it would be hard pushed to find two such equal foes to fight.

A single US nuclear-powered carrier group - which forms around the USS Enterprise, for example, with a flight deck almost a mile in length and a superstructure 20 storeys high - concentrates more military power in one naval group than most states can manage with all their armed forces. America has seven of these battle groups.

It is not just the scale and power of these weapons systems. The reach of US arms, too, is awesome. When the USS Kitty Hawk was sent with its accompanying warships from Yokohama to the Gulf for the war against Afghanistan, it covered 6,000 miles in just 12 days to be transformed into a vast floating forward attack station for thousands of US special forces.

Its B-52 bombers can fly and refuel across the world armed with cruise missiles that can be fired hundreds of miles away from hostile skies, the missiles themselves directed to their targets by satellites in orbit.

And America's supremacy in bombs, planes, satellites, tanks and real-time intelligence have made the prospect of US casualties remote, except in the event of ****-up or disaster. And, significantly, as the world's only economic hyper-power, it can afford this level of militarisation.

But against all this even the manufacturers of America's arms - like the aviation giant Lockheed-Martin - have been struggling for a decade or so to define the threat its top-shelf jets will be battling in the skies, being forced in one memorable presentation to show the European Eurofighter as a potential adversary.

So why the need for more and better military power? Even military analysts are baffled. 'The rise in US military spending,' says Dan Plesch, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, 'ought to be compared to the decision in the First World War to order up more cavalry when the first wave had been mown down by machine-guns.

'The US has no competitor in high-tech military equipment. And what it is spending its money on is mostly irrelevant against the knives used to carry out 11 September. The bombing of Afghanistan has created the illusion of victory.'

Professor Paul Kennedy at Yale University calculates that the US now spends more each year than the next nine largest national defence budgets combined. Indeed America is responsible for about 40 per cent of the world's military spending.

2006-08-12 21:25:34 · 26 answers · asked by quarterback 2 in Other - Politics & Government

I searched following sites for interior shots of the commando bridges of either the Hood or the Bismarck, but could not find any:

http://www.hmshood.com/

http://www.kbismarck.com/
http://www.bismarck-class.dk/
http://www.diebismarck.de/
http://www.schlachtschiff.com/index_schlachtschiff_bismarck.htm
http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/battleships/bismarck/index.html

Your help would be greatly apprechiated.

2006-08-12 21:21:28 · 1 answers · asked by wurzelbrunft 2 in Military

2006-08-12 21:15:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2006-08-12 21:14:25 · 16 answers · asked by JustLynn 6 in Politics

He attempted to make a citizens arrest on Mugabe whilst 'visiting' England. Maybe, with people like Peter around WE could do something about the Zimbabwe crisis.

2006-08-12 21:13:25 · 7 answers · asked by Baroness 1 in Other - Politics & Government