Other - Politics & Government (Politics & Government) - July 2006

Why do people either find it so hard to believe or give a free pass to the smaller counties of the world when it comes to intelligence activities? Don't they realize that there are security and intelligence agencies in countries like Iran, North Korea, China , ect , ect that regularly participate in active covert action and propaganda activities? Why is it only the US, UK, and their allies that are blamed for the state of affairs in the world. Don't people realize that the opinions they are being influenced by and are subcribing to originate in the countries of their enemies?

2006-07-29 00:30:43 · 4 answers · asked by claymore 3

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Israel or Lebnon? Who is on the right side?

2006-07-29 00:20:37 · 12 answers · asked by roghani 1

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Redirect Military or Foreign aid Money?

Since withdrawing from the world stage, from a military standpoint, would constitute surrender.....is it time to withdraw foreign aid from the derelict countries of the world and redirect it toward domestic issues?

2006-07-29 00:19:01 · 5 answers · asked by claymore 3

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Who r the REAL terrorists???..ISRAEL or AMERICA?

the war tht is goin on..whr the human rights association now?..whr the ppl who talk about 9/11?..ppl who talk about peace??..whr r those ppl who talk bout their beloved killed in 9/11??r only americans n israeli life precious??coz of this ppl lik osama r born..n the whole world blames Muslims..jus for 2 israeli soldiers they r kiling dozens of lebnani children..y??n America n Uk is supporting them..

2006-07-28 23:31:15 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

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Am i right or wrong mate?

why should the australian government pay to resuce and bring home lebanese who have dual citizenship? so these lebanese want it both ways. they want to live in my wonderful australia and at the same time keep their lebanese citizenship as well
Dont you think that its great that the australian government wants these dual citizenship lebanese to pay back every cent that went towards their rescue?

2006-07-28 23:14:25 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

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what is your opinion on human cloning?

2006-07-28 23:12:41 · 16 answers · asked by Legend 4

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Did Yasser Arafat died of AIDS?

I read in somewhere that Yasser Arafat died of AIDS, and that was the reason that not so many people were moved when he died. Is that true?

2006-07-28 22:52:17 · 13 answers · asked by GS 3

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Do you know how many times the world decided on resolutions and the Israeli regime refused?

www.action-for-renewal.org.uk
look for
pages/isreal_un_resoltions.htm

2006-07-28 21:49:46 · 6 answers · asked by coco 2

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Will Israel and their arab neighbors ever get along?

2006-07-28 21:32:49 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

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Are school U.S. history textbooks telling us the whole story?

If you look a a regular U.S.history textbook, or any history textbook for that matter, from a highschool, and you do some research, you can pretty much tell that the textbook is half baked. Why is this? Is it so the U.S. can look good and generations can be patriotic, and they wont grow up rebeling against the country. Or is it that the history of the U.S. history is to gory for detail, Im not exactly sure, but either way, you tell me.

2006-07-28 21:27:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

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why malaysia very important in united nation?

2006-07-28 21:04:44 · 2 answers · asked by flyplanef 1

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Do Amricans know how the UK is split up geographically and politically?

This question is prompted by the fact that Americans seem to ask questions only about London sometimes.

2006-07-28 20:47:35 · 5 answers · asked by artisana222 2

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Do you have any regrets voting for George W. Bush? Why?

2006-07-28 20:28:37 · 14 answers · asked by ? 5

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when is the ""U.N."" going too get back to the real reason why all hell has got loose in the middle east????

get back to the root of all the is going on against ISRAEL who?? started the conflict "ugh! hamas and the cowards hissbollah" GIVE OUR SOLDIERS BACK ,, STOP THROWING MISSLIES AT ISRAEL,,and then ISRAEL will stop what they the cowards hamas,, hissbollah started,, tell the lebense people too stop, harbouring them,, then they to can have peace and quite,, is it to much to ask for??????

2006-07-28 20:21:53 · 8 answers · asked by vanessa69_leah 1

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Who is George W Bush? What is his job?

2006-07-28 20:10:25 · 24 answers · asked by ♥♥chocolate♥♥ 1

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Why is a male graduate like me in Bachelor of Science in Psychology hard up in landing on a high-paying job?

Why is it also that we as a graduate of the said course are not entitled or given the legal rights as can be amended in the constitution to be called PSYCHOLOGISTS/ Is it because there is no such thing as a LICENSED PSYCHOLOGISTS because there is no licensing billed or vetoed in the Senate House Committee? Please reply!

2006-07-28 20:01:51 · 10 answers · asked by Domingo C 1

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Has anyone seen the payment method where you pay with your finger print?

I'm guessing this is just in big cities. You register your fingerprint onto a sensor that automatically dedects from your banking account.
If you are familiar with what I am talking about, do you use it?
Why or why not?

2006-07-28 19:54:23 · 6 answers · asked by profile image 5

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USA vs. North Korea- why do people compare the two so that they can say USA is the greatest country?

MYTH 1: The US was founded on Christian principles.

TRUTH: This is incorrect.

The Constitution never once mentions a deity, because the Founding Fathers wanted to keep their new country "religion-neutral." Our Founding Fathers were an eclectic collection of Atheists, Deists, Christians, Freemasons and Agnostics.

George Washington, the Father of our country, and John Adams (Second President of the USA) CLEARLY stated in the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli: "The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion.”

G.W. rarely attended church and instead followed a popular 18th century philosophy called Deism—a Star Wars-esque philosophy that believed in a cosmic energy or big-*** universal "Force." The dictionary says that Deism is "a system of thought advocating natural religion based on human reason rather than revelation," that had nothing to do with Christian principles.

James Madison, original mastermind of our Constitution, was an Atheist to the core who loved skewering Christianity. In 1785 he wrote, "What have been [Christianity’s] fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.”

Thomas Jefferson, who sat down and authored The Declaration of Independence, rarely missed an opportunity to laugh at Christianity. In a letter to John Adams in 1823, he wrote: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus…will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

More ammo: In 1814, Tommy J. wrote about the Bible's Old and New Testaments, "The whole history of these books is so defective and doubtful -- evidence that parts have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds.”

In fact, it was President Jefferson himself who first wrote (to a Baptist church group in 1802), "The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between Church and State." Therefore, when Jefferson talked about “Nature’s God,” the “Creator” and “divine Providence ” in the Declaration that he wrote, he was being a hippie and referring to a general cosmic energy-- not the Christian God.

America is not a Christian nation. Period. Our Constitution derived from the post-Christian Enlightenment values of reason and truth...never from the paranoid yammerings of that otherwise compassionate cult leader who ******* died in the Middle Eastern desert 3000 years ago.

MYTH 2. The US doesn’t need improvement compared to other countries; it is the greatest country in the world.
TRUTH: Wrong again. I'll only cite the statistics here.

OECD USA Ranking on Healthcare Quality Index: #37 (#1 France and #2 Italy)-

World Health Organization 2003 USA Ranking of Student Reading Ability: #12 (#1 Finland and #2 South Korea)-

OECD PISA 2003 USA Ranking of Student Problem Solving Ability: #26 (#1 South Korea and #2 Finland)-

OECD PISA 2003 USA Ranking on Student Mathematics Ability: # 24 (#1 Hong Kong and #2 Finland)-

OECD PISA 2003 USA Ranking on Women's Rights Scale: #17 (#1 Sweden and #2 Norway)-

World Economic Forum Report USA Position on Timeline of Gay Rights Progress: # 6 (1997) (#1 Sweden 1987 and #2 Norway 1993)-

Vexen USA Ranking on Life Expectancy: #29 (#1 Japan and #2 Hong Kong)-

UN Human Development Report 2005 USA Ranking on Journalistic Press Freedom Index: #32 (#1 Finland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands tied)-

Reporters Without Borders 2005 USA Ranking on Political Corruption Index: #17 (#1 Iceland and #2 Finland)-

Transparency International 2005 USA Ranking on Quality of Life Survey: #13 (#1 Ireland and #2 Switzerland)-

USA Ranking on Environmental Sustainability Index: #45 (#1 Finland and #2 Norway)-

Yale University ESI 2005 USA Ranking on Overall Currency Strength: #3 (US Dollar) (#1 UK pound sterling and #2 European Union euro)-

USA Ranking on Infant Mortality Rate: #32 (#1 Sweden and #2 Finland)-

Save the Children Report 2006 USA Ranking on Human Development Index (GDP, education, etc.): #10 (#1 Norway and #2 Iceland)-

So much for those "socialist" Europeans and those "backward" Asians, hm? We can do better than this.

MYTH 3: The US government loves to help other countries.
TRUTH: This is a myth. The US government tends to be motivated by interests, not humanitarian principles.

Denmark gives the most amount of its GDP (1.01%) to developing countries; Norway gives 0.91%; the Netherlands give 0.79% and so on until the end of list, where the USA sits. Yes, America ranks DEAD LAST in foreign aid at a pathetic 0.1% of its GDP, compared to the other 21 nations listed as developed nations. The idea that the US government is a heroic bunch that runs around the world helping the poor and the disempowered is not backed up by the evidence. We have one of the stingiest governments on earth.

Most Americans believe the US spends 24% of its budget on aid to poor countries; the actual amount is well under a quarter of 1%. Our country also ranks #5 on asylum-seeker acceptance rates (#1 is Denmark and #2 is Canada).

Another interesting fact: Conservative Red states have a divorce rate 27% higher than the liberal Blue states, the per capita rate of violent crime in Red states is 49 per 100,000 higher than in Blue states, the top 5 states with the highest rates of alcohol abuse are Red states, and the per capita rate of gonorrhea in Red states was 41 per 100,000 higher than in the Blue states. Time to unshelf the antibiotics for our "ethical," "God-fearing" conservative friends with their "traditional family values."

2006-07-28 18:50:20 · 7 answers · asked by bytheway 2

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George W. vs. Richard Nixon...who is (was) worse?

2006-07-28 18:44:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Other - Politics & Government - July 2006