Disapproval of world leaders?

Filed Under (China) by admin on 02-03-2008

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Jintao
jesito_sascec asked:


I’ve begun to notice that more and more of world leaders are losing support and in fact their subjects are beginning to hate them. Hugo Chavez is hated, simply hated less than the rest of the candidates for his office. Mahmoud Ahmadenijad lost his party the parliamentary control. Vladimir Putin of Russia is accused of murdering his critics (and nearly everyone in his country believes the accusations are true). Shinzo Abe and Hu Jintao are losing in their approval ratings. Ehud Olmert of Israel is at a 14% rating. But look at Palestine and neither party (Fatah and Hezbollah) is well-liked, they have too much in-fighting. At least three governments (Fuji, Thailand, Somalia) have had coups to toss out their governments, and there are probably many more on their way out. Fidel Castro of Cuba gets sick enough to die and his country cheers the news with parades. Tony Blair will be forced into retirement soon (technically he already was, he just hasn’t left yet).
Even George Bush has only a 30% approval and falling, but the new Democrat Congress is seen only as a stop-gap measure to slow him down in his foolishness rather than a chance at new beginnings. With all this I’m beginning to think that soon the people all over the world will soon “revolt” in hopes of establishing a new world order geared toward peace. While normally this would be a good thing, it seems like the perfect environment for someone like the Antichrist to rise up (or rather depending on religion, just someone against God’s plans, whether you believe in Jesus, Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, etc.). Do others believe this is it, we are about to witness the fulfillment of Revelations (or any other prophetic book of the last days of humankind in its present form)?

What leader do you believe is a more dangerous threat to the Western world?

Filed Under (China) by admin on 22-11-2007

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Jintao
Mo asked:


1) Osama Bin Laden (leader of Al Qaeda)?
2) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (president of Iran)?
3) Kim Il-sung (president of North Korea)?
4) Fidel Castro (president of Cuba)?
5) Hugo Chávez (president of Venezuela)?
6) Vladimir Putin (president of Russia)?
7) Hu Jintao (president of the People’s Republic of China)? 8) Sr. Gen. Than Shwe (chairman of the SPDC of Myanmar)?
9) Jacques Chirac (president of France)?
10) G. Bush?

Who are the top 5 most powerful men on the planet?

Filed Under (China) by admin on 02-06-2007

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Draco Malfoy asked:


Who is the top 5 most powerful men on earth?

1. George Bush
2. Hu Jintao
3. Vladimir Putin
4. Indias president
5. Britain’s PM?

Surely noone is more powerful than the above men… especially Hu Jintao.
your answer is fictional… and very stupid by the way…
Zardoz very good answer..
and yes Obama is very influential..
man.. every hollywood actor or actress has no political power at all… they are nothing but over glamourised fools

How should I go about eradicating my stupidity?

Filed Under (Germany) by admin on 01-04-2007

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merkel
Born-Again Libertarian asked:


I, alas, am a product of American society. I am limited, and I am stupid. By the standards of the average American, I am politically, culturally, and geographically literate. That is untrue. My geographical knowledge is spot-on for the US, and pretty good in Europe, Canada, the Middle East and Asia.

I can’t stand the state of politics and any American news is juvenile, sensationalized crap. I haven’t watched the news in a long, long time. I do read the NY Times, but I get bogged down because I lack even the most basic perspective of the last few years. I have no clue what’s going on. My ‘political literacy’ is limited to the names of a few world leaders:

George Bush (US), Angela Merkel (Germany), Vladimir Putin (Russia). Tony Blair just left, and I don’t know if Stephen Harper is still in charge of Canada. I think Vincente Fox is Mexico. Something South American. More details to follow.
I have a basic sense of US history, as in I know the major, major landmarks. I know that the French saved our asses in the American Revolution, but that’s all I know.

Mathematically I’m doing okay, science I’m not actually worried about. I know enough to get me through my life and keep me out of the Stone Age, so that’s good.

Literarily, I’m not so proud. I’ve read:

Anna Karenina
3/4 of The Idiot -library copy, some jackass ripped the last 1/4 of the pages-
A Tale of Two Cities
The Island of Doctor Moreau -awesome book-
David Copperfield
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Time Machine
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
and I’m going to start Dubliners today.
Poetry is pretty much limited to Poe, I’ve read a lot of his short stories as well.

All books were taken on independently, and I’m sure I’ve forgotten a couple.

I’m only 15, though, so it’s a daunting task.

School’s useless.

Is there some way to get some kind of political overview or something? Not sure
where to start.

Magazines I read: Time, Newsweek. I also have a subscription to Scientific American but that’s just ’cause I’m a nerd.

I’m also very good at seeming like I know a lot more than I do, but don’t let me fool you.

That sounded like a joke but I’m serious.