Politics - 9 August 2006

2006-08-09 07:28:11 · 2 answers · asked by PARKERD 7

2006-08-09 07:20:24 · 4 answers · asked by Mister2-15-2 7

2006-08-09 07:20:09 · 22 answers · asked by kathy6500 3

In other words, dont you think that democracy should be used everywhere??

2006-08-09 07:12:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

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.

WHY ARE WE FIGHT THIS WAR?

2006-08-09 07:11:51 · 12 answers · asked by trusolja_dareal23 1

Huge levels of debt. Erosion of civil rights. Illegal immigration out of control. Education spending gutted. Gas prices at all time high. Terrorism fears. Thousands of soldiers dead and injured. Middle-east in turmoil. Relationships with other countries damaged. Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians slaughtered.

Has he actually accomplished anything?

2006-08-09 07:10:52 · 17 answers · asked by Whoops, is this your spleeen? 6

and give it to the poor? this seems fair.

2006-08-09 07:10:38 · 6 answers · asked by W E J 4

Then, they lived in a repressive regime. Now, 100,000 civilians are dead, their infrastructure is gutted, they live in an occupied country, they're oil industry is ruined, electricity is scarce, sectarian violence is rampaging, and they're on the verge of civil war. Should they thank us?

2006-08-09 07:03:58 · 21 answers · asked by Whoops, is this your spleeen? 6

2006-08-09 07:03:06 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-09 06:59:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well don't forget, when all this started she said, No, we are not going to interfere with Israel's attempt to get Hezbollah. Well Israel didn't get Hezbollah, but the poor women and children of Lebanon

Source: Human Rights Watch.

2006-08-09 06:58:28 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I dont trust politicians, some republican want to give illegal immigrants legal status (whats up with that!?), and some democrats in California (Phil Angelides to be exact) want to give ilegal imigrants drivers license (whats up with that!?), So I want to know if I register with one party, is it posible to vote for the other one?

2006-08-09 06:56:32 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Maybe female robots can achieve what female humans have yet to achieve?

2006-08-09 06:55:41 · 16 answers · asked by hichefheidi 6

Do You think Joe Lieberman will jump to the Republican Party? I think it's a good possibility,He seems a bit too Right for the current Democratic Party. I respect Joe and would welcome Him into the Republican Party!

2006-08-09 06:53:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-09 06:51:54 · 26 answers · asked by david c 4

2006-08-09 06:51:52 · 26 answers · asked by liberaldumbutt 1

2006-08-09 06:47:05 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Considering how much money they donated to the IRA over the years. It seems they only started a "War on Terror" when their own citizens were attacked.

Only asking, just interested to know what others think. Opinions and reasons please.

2006-08-09 06:44:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

i think he is a puppet of people more powerful than him.

2006-08-09 06:43:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think so cause he didnt like mr gor e and he stole the electionand he killed iraq and lebanon kids and I think that is real conservative.

2006-08-09 06:43:39 · 15 answers · asked by liberaldumbutt 1

hit it off. I later found that he is one of the reasons I am protesting my cause. Should I go out with him and then let give him my wrath or just flat out turn him down?

2006-08-09 06:43:28 · 4 answers · asked by frommetayou 2

2006-08-09 06:43:16 · 5 answers · asked by You CANT BAN ME! 1

the gov't wants to go to the latoni river 12-15 miles in lebanon rockets go 43 miles or more whats the point? the policy of shooting bad guys surrounded by civilians seems to me if our police force did that there would be lots of complants from the public.

2006-08-09 06:40:58 · 2 answers · asked by brian L 6

2006-08-09 06:38:07 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

what is your opinion of the current U.S president?

2006-08-09 06:36:34 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-09 06:34:52 · 25 answers · asked by james w 3

2006-08-09 06:33:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

the report published by human rights watch called fatalstrikes;israel's attacks against civilians in lebanon.the report covering from july 12 to qana bombing has done a careful compilation of incidents involving attacks on civilians and civilian vehicles . in both categories, victims and witnesses interviewed independently and repeatedly said that neither hizbolla fighers nor hizbolla weapons were present in the area during or just before the israeli attacks took place.it further stated that "by consistently failing to distinguish between combatants and civilians,israel violated fundamental tenet of the laws of war;the duty to carry attacks on military targets only.the extent of the pattern and the seriousness of the consequences indicate the commissioning of war crime.

2006-08-09 06:32:10 · 4 answers · asked by stent 2

2006-08-09 06:32:04 · 42 answers · asked by Mark1341 2

and why haven't we caught him (them)?

2006-08-09 06:31:24 · 2 answers · asked by anonacoup 7