Other - Politics & Government - January 2007

You remember Sniglets. Those words that should be in the dictionary but arent.

Heres one I've seen recently.

A.s.s-assinate - The ability to make an a.s.s out of oneself to such an extent that it kills your career.

(as in the case with some of our leaders)

Thats a good political one.

Does anyone have any other political Sniglets?

Thanks!

2007-01-13 23:48:43 · 2 answers · asked by johnphoenix_2007 1

U.S and britain has attacked afghanistan ... iraq..lebnon..now somalia...iran and syria soon will soon be attacked.
U.S. and britain have their bases in many big muslim countries..ie..saudi arabia..kuwait..egypt..behrain..pakistan..and U.S has always been interfering with muslims countries internal matters...so the question is how muslims can stop U.S from attacking more countries...and leaving occupied countries..????

please note..; axcuse of terrorism is not acceptable.

2007-01-13 23:47:53 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-13 23:39:17 · 7 answers · asked by JAMES 4

i dont get it!why do thy hate iran and us both?we know about us but iran..hts bc iran s not sunni or arab country?

2007-01-13 23:07:06 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-13 22:59:57 · 9 answers · asked by chefssaltyballs 1

2007-01-13 21:51:51 · 13 answers · asked by ihaveadream 1

2007-01-13 21:45:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-13 21:34:37 · 6 answers · asked by ihaveadream 1

2007-01-13 21:26:28 · 10 answers · asked by ihaveadream 1

2007-01-13 20:40:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I need this to be as recent as possible.

Please give reference to where to find info on the case.

2007-01-13 20:31:12 · 7 answers · asked by ? 1

2007-01-13 20:16:50 · 6 answers · asked by naveen k 1

The videos confiscated by the FBI of the Pentagon attack were released and you could actually see an airplane hit the Pentagon?

I would be satisfied if I could see an airplane hit the Pentagon. Why will the government NOT release those tapes? And how can they expect us to allow them to brainwash our children into fighting in the Armed forces if they are unwilling to back their story up with some actual proof, considering that WE KNOW THEY HAVE THE PROOF, one way or the other?

2007-01-13 20:14:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I believe it is an act to KEEP YOU off balance. After all, the same reporters who are ripping the President an new @$$hole never ask the President WHY he has not released the video tapes the FBI confiscated on 9/11 of the Pentagon attack. There were three outside places the tapes were confiscated; the Shereton Inn, the Citgo gas station and the Va DOT. Surely we would be able to actually see the plane clearly in one of those tapes. It would end all the controversy. Not only should they be released, but the MEDIA, if it were not doing government business, would DEMAND those tapes be released.

The media is not lib or con. It's GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA. If it were not, some reporter would have gotten to the bottom of 9/11 by now. We'd know what really happened.

What about Building 7? On 9/11 major media was saying it had to have been a controlled demolition. The next day, you never heard about bldg 7 again.

Watch..

http://infowars.net/articles/january2007/120107Misdirection.htm

2007-01-13 20:01:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Found on Yahoo News

Iran and Venezuela plan anti-U.S. fund
By NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON, Associated Press Writer Sat Jan 13, 11:41 PM ET
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fiery anti-American leaders whose moves to extend their influence have alarmed Washington said Saturday they would help finance investment projects in other countries seeking to thwart U.S. domination.
The two countries had previously revealed plans for a joint $2 billion fund to finance investments in Venezuela and Iran, but the leaders said Saturday the money would also be used for projects in friendly countries throughout the developing world.
"It will permit us to underpin investments ... above all in those countries whose governments are making efforts to liberate themselves from the (U.S.) imperialist yoke," Chavez said.
"This fund, my brother," the Venezuelan president said, referring affectionately to Ahmadinejad, "will become a mechanism for liberation."
"Death to U.S. imperialism!" Chavez said.
Ahmadinejad, who is starting a tour of left-leaning countries in the region, called it a "very important" decision that would help promote "joint cooperation in third countries," especially in Latin America and Africa.
It was not clear if the leaders were referring to investment in infrastructure, social and energy projects — areas that the two countries have focused on until now — or other types of financing.
Iran and Venezuela are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and Chavez said Saturday that they had agreed to back a further oil production cut in the cartel to stem a recent fall in crude prices.
"We know today there is too much crude in the market," Chavez said. "We have agreed to join our forces within OPEC ... to support a production cut and save the price of oil."
OPEC reduced output by 1.2 million barrels a day in November, then announced an additional cut of 500,000 barrels a day, due to begin on Feb. 1. Dow Jones Newswires reported Friday that OPEC is discussing holding an emergency meeting later this month to reduce output by another 500,000 barrels a day. Venezuela and Iran have been leading price hawks within OPEC.
Ahmadinejad's visit Saturday — his second to Venezuela in less than four months — comes as he seeks to break international isolation over his country's nuclear program and possibly line up new allies in Latin America. He is also expected to visit Nicaragua and Ecuador, which both recently elected leftist governments.
Chavez and Ahmadinejad have been increasingly united by their deep-seated antagonism toward the Bush administration. Chavez has become a leading defender of Iran's nuclear ambitions, accusing the Washington of using the issue as a pretext to attack Tehran.
Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, has called Chavez "the champion of the struggle against imperialism."
U.S. officials have accused Chavez — a close ally of Cuban leader
Fidel Castro — of authoritarian tendencies, and National Intelligence Director John Negroponte said recently in an annual review of global threats that Venezuela's democracy was at risk.
The U.S. also believes Iran is seeking to use its nuclear program to develop an atomic bomb. Tehran says its program is peaceful and geared toward the production of energy.
The increasingly close relationship between Chavez and Ahmadinejad has alarmed some Chavez critics, who accuse him of pursuing an alliance that does not serve Venezuela's interests and jeopardizes its ties with the United States, the country's top oil buyer. Venezuela is among the top five suppliers of crude to the U.S. market.
In a speech earlier Saturday, Chavez called for the U.S. government to accept "the new realities of Latin America," as he brushed aside restrictions that limit presidents to two consecutive terms. He vowed to stay in office beyond 2013, when his term expires, saying he would revise the constitution to get rid of presidential term limits.
But Chavez also said in his state of the nation address to government officials and legislators that he had personally expressed hope to a high-ranking U.S. official for better relations between their two countries.
Chavez said he spoke with Thomas Shannon, head of the U.S. State Department's Western Hemisphere affairs bureau, on the sidelines of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's inauguration earlier this week.
"We shook hands and I told him: 'I hope that everything improves,'" Chavez said. "I'm not anyone's enemy."
Chavez prompted a crash in Venezuelan share prices this past week when he announced he would seek special powers from the legislature to push through "revolutionary" reforms, including a string of nationalizations and unspecified changes to business laws and the commerce code.
He also announced plans for the state to take control of the country's largest telecommunications company, its electricity and natural gas sectors and four heavy crude upgrading projects now controlled by some of the world's top oil companies.
He said Saturday, however, that private companies would be allowed to own minority stakes in the lucrative Orinoco River basin oil projects.
The government has already taken majority ownership of all other oil-producing operations in the country through joint ventures controlled by the state oil company. Most companies have shown a willingness to continue investing despite the tightening terms, which have also included tax and royalty increases.

2007-01-13 20:00:15 · 7 answers · asked by chole_24 5

2007-01-13 19:08:53 · 15 answers · asked by Bam 1

they may be. But do you really believe that they are the ones behind this terrorist problem? Don't you think they just want emmys and pulitzers and they like all the paparazzis are after it for their own personal gain like wolves to the smell of blood? Aren't they easily led to spread all this garbage? Who do you depend on for the truth in the media today? Give me a place to view please?
If you know of any that are telling it like it is I would appreciate your candor.

2007-01-13 18:47:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-13 18:42:29 · 16 answers · asked by hitesh c 1

Pre-Paid Legal Services, community, affordable housing, Child support, Resources, etc.

2007-01-13 18:38:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

To the corporations that portray their products with stero-type people like that rice Uncle so and so.. and that pancake mix and the porter on that cream of wheat box. Do these companies still think that blacks are fat black maids or porters or man-servants.

2007-01-13 18:32:19 · 17 answers · asked by caciansf 4

why not just look at the facts and stop denying what you don't want it to be, but accept what it is. What excuse can all the Americans that voted for Bush give now? Why not just accept you were wrong? It is like riding a bike you always fall, so what? Get back up and ride it again? Stop riding on the losers, and it does not matter what party, just face it and make the right moral decisions?

2007-01-13 18:22:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I ask because I believe all news is embellished with some twist to favor government. It's all fear and terror and it is targeted at US. It is designed to create dependence on "something else" to protect and care for us. It is designed to scare the hell out of you.

The media is terrorizing us with twisted lies. To me, that is TERRORISM. What do you think?

2007-01-13 18:17:49 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-13 18:17:41 · 9 answers · asked by kallil r 1

Do you think it would work? Or am I just asking for trouble? I ask this because here in California from what I know you have to register first right? Which means that if I don't register, by phone, they'll never know I had to go, right?

2007-01-13 18:15:14 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-13 18:10:45 · 4 answers · asked by RKN 1

Is our current administration waiting for the next natural disaster before they decide to make some tough decisions involoving the enviroment? What we do now affects what kind of earth we live in for the 40-50-60 years. Do you think we will see major impact from global warming in our lifetime?

2007-01-13 18:09:33 · 3 answers · asked by hichef24 1

Did the alarm clock that sounded like 2 buildings in New York crashing down wake you up from your political correct nap. Are you going to take note of who is your enemy if and that he knows who is his enemy.
We all woke up on that day and we stayed awake for a while but it seems that we are drifting back to sleepy-town.

2007-01-13 17:54:51 · 10 answers · asked by caciansf 4

Or did we just believe what we saw on tv? Was 9/11 a psy-op? Someone turned me on to this video is why I ask.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6131142214433741484&q=boogieman+video&hl=en

2007-01-13 17:50:24 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-13 17:30:54 · 13 answers · asked by caciansf 4

Or do you feel Arnold is right and the presidency should be available to foreign born people?

2007-01-13 17:26:10 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous