A new Lifestyle/Health poll has been created.
Van Jones recently quit over past statements. Obama has been under pressure because of what he may or may not say in a speech to school kids. Joe Wilson’s outburst is all over the news. In the US and around the world, much news is made of things people say. Are we being too politically correct? Is too much attention being paid to words not deeds?
A new People_and_Places poll has been created.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued formal new rules to govern how Immigration and Customs authorities handle the seizure of electronic devices and records. The upshot is that agents can still keep your hardware for at least five days before anyone has to decide whether it’s reasonable to continue. The ability to arbitrarily seize personal electronic devices, from laptops to iPods, has concerned everyone from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to a business travelers trade group, and prompted the introduction of a bill in Congress that would call on the DHS to clarify its rules. Breach of privacy or appropriate security?
A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.
From news.bbc.co.uk
Greece’s PM Costas Karamanlis has called a snap general election, although no date has yet been set.
“I am seeking a fresh political mandate,” Mr Karamanlis said on TV.
There had been speculation that the conservative prime minister would go to the polls early given the wafer-thin majority he has in parliament.
The government has been hit by a number of financial scandals and recent destructive wildfires have also hit its popularity.
Mr Karamanlis said in his address: “We have to clarify the political landscape and proceed with a series of essential measures to emerge from the downturn.
“The year 2010 will be a difficult and decisive one, and so the Greek people must choose a government that can lead the country out of this crisis,” he said.
There has been social unrest since police shot a teenager last December
Mr Karamanlis will meet President Karolos Papoulias on Thursday after which the date of the election is likely to be announced. It is expected to be 4 October.
The conservative New Democracy party trailed the Socialists by six points in two recent opinion polls and the snap election had been opposed by some conservative MPs.
A new Lifestyle/Health poll has been created.
A recent California survey shows public support has dropped from 79% to 66%, in California as fears of executing the wrongly convicted escalate. What do you think? Is it warranted in some cases? Should it be abolished outright?
A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.
World government is the concept of a political body that would make, interpret and enforce international law. Inherent to the concept of a world government is the idea that nations would be required to pool or surrender (depending on point of view) sovereignty over some areas. A world government would be able to address problems which national governments or even regional alliances are not capable of independently addressing. The authority granted at this level and how it relates to national governments and/or citizens is debated by both proponents and opponents of world government.
World War II, 1939-1945, resulted in an unprecedented scale of destruction of lives (over 60 million dead, most of them civilians), and the USA’s use of city-destroying atomic weaponry. Some of the acts committed against civilians during the war were on such a massive scale of savagery, they came to be widely considered as crimes against humanity itself. As the war’s conclusion drew near, many shocked voices called for the establishment of institutions able to permanently prevent deadly international conflicts. This led to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, which adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Many, however, felt that the UN, essentially a forum for discussion and coordination between sovereign governments, was insufficiently empowered for the task. A number of prominent persons, such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell and Mahatma Gandhi, called on governments to proceed further by taking gradual steps towards forming an effectual federal world government.
How do you feel about a world government? Would you vote for a world governing body?
A new People_and_Places poll has been created.
The recent release of terminally-ill Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, has caused international uproar. U.S. Is angry. Libya ecstatic. Scotland and U.K. on the defensive.
Should they have released him?
A new Enviroment/Climate poll has been created.
Complaints re Van Jones center around Jones’ background and statements he previously made as an activist. Specifically, conservative blogs and media outlets have seized on a harshly-worded petition Jones signed in 2004 demanding further investigations into the 9/11 attacks. Jones has clarified since then, saying of the petition that “it certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever.
A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.
Special election to fill Massachusetts’s Class I Senate seat, made vacant by the death of Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy on August 25, 2009. Kennedy held the seat from 1962 through 2009. Kennedy first won a 1962 special election to fill the seat vacated by his brother, then-President John F. Kennedy, and at the time of the election, filled by Kennedy ally and interim appointee, former Mayor of Gloucester Ben Smith.
The 2010 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts will take place on January 19, 2010, with a party primary election on December 8, 2009.
–Only one confirmed candidate to date. Poll will be updated as soon as candidates put forward–
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