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Late Helen Thomas: She uttered the truth and died with great regret for this hypocritical USA
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Late Helen Thomas: She uttered the truth and died with great regret for this hypocritical USA she served a lifetime
Helen was young once. She died at age 95. The US newspapers commemorated her on the second year of her passing away.
She is from Lebanese descent. She represented the major medias to ask the first question to all the successive President in all the Presidential announcement in the White House lawn.
She accompanied Nixon first visit to China.
She lambasted Bush Jr. when he announced that he is invading Iraq for the "Cross and God" and said: "For the Devil is the case"
A year before her death, she dispatch a letter to all the newspapers who refused to publish it for the first time in her life.
Helen warned in that letter that USA, France and England are executing a plan to re-divide the Middle-East and redraw the borders as they did in 1916.
She claimed that the CIA in the USA is run by Israel and is the main culprit in creating terrorist factions and running them all over the world.
She said: "The Zionist Jews are running our main newspapers and media outlets" (It would be more accurate to say "The Christian Evangelical Zionist movement""
To please the Zionist lobby in the USA, Barack Obama forced her out of this privilege as she voiced her sincere opinion: "Jews from all over the world must return to their countries and let the Palestinians return Home"
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المرآة التي فضحت الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية والكلام الممنوع من النشر حتى "ماتت "وتركت كلمة " المنطقة العربية ستزول بالكامل.
المرأة التي فضحت أميركا، وعلاقتها بالإرهاب في الشرق الأوسط
في يوليو الماضي احتفل نادي الصحافة الأمريكي القومي بالذكرى الثانية لرحيل عميدة مراسلي البيت الأبيض، وأول امرأة تتولى منصب رئيس نادي الصحافة الأمريكي، والتي عاصرت أهم رؤساء أمريكا،
ورافقتهم وغطت أنشطتهم، وكانت مع نيكسون في أول رحلة تاريخية للصين، عام 1971، والتي رفضت أن ترافق جورج بوش الابن، وأعلنت رفضها لعبارته الشهيرة: " إنه يحارب في العراق من أجل الله والصليب " وقالت: " بل إنها حرب الشيطان وليست حرب الله ".
هي هيلين توماس، التي ماتت في الخامسة والتسعين، وكانت كما قال تلاميذها في حفل تأبينها: " أجرأ صحفية في تاريخ الولايات المتحدة الامريكية ".
توماس قبل رحيلها بعدة أيام، كتبت مقالة خطيرة للنشر في كبريات الصحف الأمريكية، وتم رفضها في حادثة لها للمرة الأولى، مما جعلها تصرخ في محاضرة بنادي الصحافة قائلة: " اليهود يسيطرون على إعلامنا وصحافتنا ويسيطرون على البيت الابيض ".
وأضافت، أنا لن أغير ما حييت، مؤمنة به؛ الإسرائيليون يحتلون فلسطين، هذه ليست بلادهم. قولوا لهم ارجعوا لبلادكم واتركوا فلسطين لأهلها.
إنني أرى بوادر حرب عالمية ثالثة، طبخت في مطبخ تل أبيب ووكالة الاستخبارات الأمريكية، والشواهد عديدة، أول خطوة ظهور تنظيمات إرهابية ، بدعم أمريكي لا تصدقوا أن واشنطن تحارب الإرهابيين ، لأنهم دمية في أيدي السي آي إيه.
وأضافت، إنني أرى أن بريطانيا سوف تستحضر روح البريطاني " مارك سايكس " وفرنسا سوف تستحضر روح الفرنسي " فرانسوا بيكو " وواشنطن تمهد بأفكارهما الأرض لتقسيم الدول العربية بين الثلاثة،
وتأتي روسيا لتحصل على ما تبقى منه الثلاثة، صدقوني انهم يكذبون عليكم ويقولون: " إنهم يحاربون الاٍرهاب نيابة عن العالم وهم صناع هذا الاٍرهاب والإعلام يسوق أكاذيبهم، لأن من يمتلكه هم يهود اسرائيل".
هذه كلمات هيلين توماس منذ عامين وأعيد نشرها في ذكراها، يوليو الماضي، بالطبع قوبلت بعاصفة هجوم عاتية من اللوبي الصهيوني وطالب نتنياهو بمحاكمتها بتهمة معاداة السامية لكنها رحلت بعد أن قالت الصدق وتلقف كلماتها المخرج العالمي " مايكل مور " في فيلم تسجيلي.
ومور هو من فضح بوش الابن وعصابته من أصحاب شركات السلاح من اليمين الأمريكي مثل " ديك تشيني " و " كوندليزا رايس " وحصل فيلمه الشهير فهرنهايت 11/9 على أكثر من جائزة.
ما يهمنا وسط الأحداث الاخيرة، بداية من حادث سقوط الطائرة الروسية التي راح ضحيتها أكثر من مائتي مدني، ثم حادث بيروت الذي خلف عشرات القتلى والجرحى ثم حادث باريس، مرورا بحوادث في العريش، والعراق، وليبيا، وسوريا،
أنّ التنظيمات الإرهابية لا يمكن لها أن تقوم بكل هذا العنف البشع بمفردها، وأن هناك أجهزة استخبارات تدعمها، وتشيطنها لتشعل المنطقة وتدفعها لأتون جحيم لا ينطفئ، فتراهم على حافة الفناء.
والفناء هنا يعني تسليم المنطقة للقوى التي خططت، ودعمت، وأشعلت لإزالة القائم وزحزحة المستقر وإزالة المعترف به. وما يُؤكد هذا، كلام " جيمس وولسي " رئيس الاستخبارات الأمريكية السابق الذي قال بوضوح: " المنطقة العربية لن تعود كما كانت، وسوف تزول دول وتتغير حدود دول موجودة ".
نفس المعنى تقريبا قاله " مارك رجيف " المتحدث باسم الحكومة الإسرائيلية: " المنطقة على صفيح ساخن، ونحن لن نسكت، وننسق مع أجهزة الاستخبارات في الدول الكبرى للقضاء على الاٍرهاب، وسوف نتدخل معهم لمحاربة الاٍرهاب حتى لو اندلعت الحروب، لنضمن حماية دولتنا ".
إذن تتحقق نبوءة " هيلين توماس " تل أبيب وواشنطن خلقت أسطورة التنظيمات الإرهابية في المنطقة التي خرجت من معامل تل أبيب وواشنطن لتشعل المنطقة والعالم، وتحرك الأنظمة نحو هدف واحد، وإعادة الترسيم وتوزيع النفوذ والغنائم،
فماذا انتم فاعلون يا عرب ؟
أعيدوا قراءة مقالات ومحاضرات " هيلين توماس " التي اقتبس منها مقولة " الغرب يعيش على غباء العالم الثالث والدول الفقيرة .
هل يصلح هذا الحل، في وقتنا مع كل المتغيرات الدراماتيكية؟
نعم فقط جربوا أن تتوحدوا وتكونوا على قلب رجل واحد. إنه حلم، لكنه ليس مستحيلا،
ومرة أخرى اقرأوا هذه السيدة التي هاجمها الصهاينة، وحاربوها، لكنهم لم يكسروا قلمها، إنها هيلين توماس".
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At long last, Pentagon Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons
Posted by: adonis49 on: March 25, 2015
In: engineering/research/experiments | Essays | Events/Cultural/Educational/Arts | Jews/Jewish/Israel | political Artical | social articles
—"Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations"—
It's not exactly news.
According to opinion polls, two-thirds of the American people, know this facts.
Many articles and documentaries have expounded on this fact: That Israel possessed Nuclear bombs since the late 1960's, thanks to France total participation in providing Israel with nuclear capabilities.
France even tested an Israeli bomb in Algeria desert and scores of Algerian and French soldiers were not informed of the terrible consequences of this live test.
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Could this be true?
It's Official: The Pentagon Finally Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, Too
After five decades of pretending otherwise, the Pentagon has reluctantly confirmed that Israel does indeed possess nuclear bombs as well as awesome weapons…
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While the Washington press corps were obsessed over Hillary Clinton's e-mails at the State Department, reporters were missing a far more important story about government secrets. After 5 decades of pretending otherwise, the Pentagon has reluctantly confirmed that Israel does indeed possess nuclear bombs, as well as awesome weapons technology similar to America's.
Early last month the Department of Defense released a secret report done in 1987 by the Pentagon-funded Institute for Defense Analysis that essentially confirms the existence of Israel's nukes.
DOD was responding to a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by Grant Smith, an investigative reporter and author who heads the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy.
Smith said he thinks this is the first time the US government has ever provided official recognition of the long-standing reality.
Policy elites and every president from LBJ to Obama have known that Israel has the bomb.
But American authorities have cooperated in the secrecy and prohibited federal employees from sharing the truth with the people.
When the White House reporter Helen Thomas asked the question of Barack Obama back in 2009, the president ducked. "With respect to nuclear weapons, you know, I don't want to speculate," Obama said. That was an awkward fib. Obama certainly knows better, and so do nearly two-thirds of the American people, according to opinion polls.
In my previous blog, "What about Israel's Nuclear Bomb?" I observed that the news media focused solely on Iran's nuclear ambitions but generally failed to note that Israel already had nukes.
That produced a tip about the Pentagon release in early February.
Yet the confirmation of this poorly kept secret opens a troublesome can of worms for both the US government and our closest ally in the Middle East.
Official acknowledgement poses questions and contradictions that cry out for closer inspection.
For many years, the United States collaborated with Israel's development of critical technology needed for advanced armaments. Yet Washington pushed other nations to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which requires international inspections to discourage the spread of nuclear arms.
Israel has never signed the NPT and therefore does not have to submit to inspections.
Washington knew all along what the inspectors would find in Israel. Furthermore, as far back as the 1960s, the US Foreign Assistance Act was amended by concerned senators to prohibit any foreign aid for countries developing their own nukes.
Smith asserts that the exception made for Israel was a violation of the US law but it was shrouded by the official secrecy. Since Israel is a major recipient of US aid, American presidents had good reason not to reveal the truth.
The newly released report—"Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations"—describes Israel's nuclear infrastructure in broad terms, but the dimensions are awesome.
Israel's nuclear research labs, the IDA researchers reported, "are equivalent to our Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories." Indeed, the investigators observed that Israel's facilities are "an almost exact parallel of the capability currently existing at our National Laboratories."
The IDA team visited Israeli labs, factories, private companies and government research centers in Israel and relevant NATO nations (details on NATO allies were redacted from the released version).
On Israel, the tone of the report was both admiring and collegial. "The SOREQ center," it said, for instance, "runs the full nuclear gamut of activities from engineering, administration and non-destructive testing for electro-optics, pulsed power, process engineering and chemistry and nuclear research and safety. This is the technology base required for nuclear weapons design and fabrication."
The IDA team added: "It should be noted that the Israelis are developing the kind of codes which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs. That is, codes which detail fission and fusion processes on a microscopic and macroscopic level." So far, The IDA estimated, Israel scientists were about where the US had been in the 1950s in understanding fission and fusion processes.
The report does not include a single declarative sentence that directly states the taboo—Israel has nukes—but the meaning is obvious.
For many years, scholars and other experts have estimated that Israel has at least 100 to 200 bombs, possibly more.
Some of the IDA's observations seem to hint at a copy-cat process in which the US government either actively helped or at least looked the other way while Israel borrowed or purloined technologies to establish a parallel nuclear system that looks a lot like America's.
The IDA document does not say anything, one way or the other, on the history of how this happened. But critics of Israel and advocates for banning all nuclear weapons have harbored suspicions for decades.
The Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, Smith said, is pushing another FOIA request aimed at the CIA, hoping to pry open long-secret intelligence investigations about how Israel managed to get the bomb in the first place.
The institute is seeking disclosure of a CIA study that supposedly investigated how quantities of uranium were leaked or allegedly smuggled by Israeli agents from a Pennsylvania defense plant to provide seed corn for the Israel bomb.
Smith and others suspect that elements of the US government knew what happened back then or may even have assisted the stealthy transfer. That particular mystery was a hot issue back in the 1970s. It seems likely to get renewed interest now that the pretense of official ignorance has been demolished by release of the 1987 report.
However, the IDA's most powerful message may not be what it says about Israel's nukes but what it conveys about the US-Israel relationship.
It resembles a technological marriage that over decades transformed the nature of modern warfare in numerous ways. The bulk of the report is really a detailed survey of Israel's collaborative role in developing critical technologies—the research and industrial base that helped generate advanced armaments of all sorts. Most Americans, myself included, are used to assuming the US military-industrial complex invents and perfects the dazzling innovations, then shares some with favored allies like Israel.
That's not altogether wrong but the IDA report suggests a more meaningful understanding. The US and Israel are more like a very sophisticated high-tech partnership that collaborates on the frontiers of physics and other sciences in order to yield the gee-whiz weaponry that now define modern warfare. Back in the 1980s, the two nations were sharing and cross-pollinating their defense research at a very advanced level.
Today we have as a result the "electronic battlefield" and many other awesome innovations. Tank commanders with small-screen maps that show where their adversaries are moving. Jet pilots who fire computer-guided bombs. Ships at sea that launch missiles over the horizon and hit targets 1,000 miles away.
I had to read the report several times before I grasped its deeper meaning. The language is densely technological and probably beyond anyone (like myself) who is not a physicist or engineer. The researchers reported on the state of play in electronic optical systems, plasma physics, laser-guided spacecraft, obscure communication innovations and many other scientific explorations that were underway circa 1987.
Finally, it dawned on me. These experts were talking in the 1980s about technological challenges that were forerunners to the dazzling innovations that are now standard. I saw some of these new war-fighting devices in the late 1990s when I wrote a short book on the post-Cold War military struggling to redefine itself when it no longer had the Soviet Union as an enemy (Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequence of Peace).
While reporting on numerous military bases—land, sea and air—I saw some of the early attempts at battlefield communications and guidance systems. A lot of the new stuff didn't work very well. Soldiers and commanders sometimes had to put it aside or work around it. Drones at that stage were still on the drawing boards, known as UAV's—"unmanned aerial vehicles."
The Middle East wars became the live-fire testing ground where new systems were perfected. The consequences of peace were brushed aside by the terror of 9-11. War became America's continuous preoccupation.
Israel participated importantly in developing groundwork for some of the wonder weapons and, as the IDA survey makes clear, Israeli physicists or engineers were sometimes a few steps ahead of their American counterparts. To be sure, the Israelis were junior partners who brought "technology based on extrapolations of US equipment and ideas." But the report also observed: "Much Israeli fielded electronic warfare and communications [is] ahead of US fielded equipment."
On several occasions, the research team spoke of "ingenious" or "Ingeniously clever" solutions that Israeli technologists have found for mind-bending problems of advanced physics. The IDA team also suggested opportunities for American researchers to piggy-back on what Israel had discovered or to team up with one of their R&D centers. Yale's Office of Naval Research, IDA suggested, should collaborate with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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"Scientists at RAFAEL [another Israeli center] have come up with an ingenious way of using the properties of a glow discharge plasma to detect microwave and millimeter waves," the report said. "The attractiveness of the project lies in the ability of the discharge to withstand nuclear weapons effects."
This observation gave a me a chill because the earnest defense scientists have yet to find a way for human beings "to withstand nuclear weapons effects."
It would be good to keep in mind that these extraordinary breakthroughs in technology have one purpose—fighting wars—and are intended to give still greater advantage to advanced nations like the US and Israel that dwarf more primitive adversaries. Many of the new technologies, it is true, will find commercial applications that improve everyday lives (some already have). Yet it is also true that our advances in high-tech killing power have not subdued all the enemies.
They find irregular ways to fight back. They blow the legs off our soldiers. They plant home-made bombs in crowded restaurants. They recruit children to serve as their guided missiles. They capture and slaughter innocent bystanders, while our side merely bombs the villages from high altitude. The victims do not see our way as pristine or preferable. Their suffering becomes their global recruiting.
The highly successful partnership of American and Israeli military science is one more reason it will be most difficult to disentangle from the past and turn the two countries in new directions, either together or separately. But many people are beginning to grasp that lopsided wars—contests between high-tech and primitive forms of destruction—do not necessarily lead to victory or peace. They have led the United States into more wars.
Read Next: William Greider on how Israel's nuclear superiority affects Middle East conflicts
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Scourge of whom? US Presidents, Israel, Freedom of Expression… Helen Thomas dies at 93
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Helen Thomas, a wire service correspondent and columnist whose sharp questions from the front row of the White House press room challenged and annoyed 10 presidents and who was effective in divulging information that federal officials tried to keep secret, died July 20 at her home in Washington. She was 92.
A friend, retired journalist Muriel Dobbin, confirmed her death. No immediate cause of death was disclosed, but Ms. Thomas had been on dialysis for a kidney ailment.
Patricia Sullivan published this July 20, 2013 E-mail the writer
Helen Thomas, feisty scourge of presidents, dies at 92
"Not intimidated by presidents or press secretaries, Ms. Thomas was known as the dean of the White House press corps for her longevity in the beat. She reported for the United Press International wire service for almost 60 years.
Among the most-recognized reporters in America, Ms. Thomas was a short, dark-eyed woman with a gravelly voice who, for many years, rose from her front-row seat at presidential news conferences to ask the first or second question. For nearly 30 years, she closed the sessions with a no-nonsense "Thank you, Mr. President."
View Photo Gallery — Helen Thomas: A lifelong devotion to journalism: Thomas's work as a White House watchdog began with the Kennedy administration. Although her career ended in controversy, she was celebrated as a pioneering woman in journalism. Thomas died July 20 in Washington. She was 92.
"Helen was a true pioneer, opening doors and breaking down barriers for generations of women in journalism," President Obama said in a statement. "She covered every White House since President Kennedy's, and during that time she never failed to keep presidents — myself included — on their toes."
Ms. Thomas's pointed queries often agitated the powerful, but she was also lauded for posing questions "almost like a housewife in Des Moines would ask," a colleague once said. She asked President Richard M. Nixon point-blank what his secret plan to end the Vietnam War was, and she asked President Ronald Reagan what right the United States had to invade Grenada in 1983.
Helen Thomas, a long-time White House correspondent and a pioneer for women in journalism, has died. She was 92. A friend, Muriel Dobbin, says Thomas died at her apartment in Washington on Saturday morning.
When President George H.W. Bush announced that the defense budget would remain the same after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of communism in Europe, she succinctly asked, "Who's the enemy?"
"I respect the office of the presidency," she told Ann McFeatters for a 2006 profile in Ms. magazine, "but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants. They owe us the truth."Ms. Thomas had a number of scoops, including her exclusive interviews with Martha Mitchell, which helped expose some aspects of the Watergate scandal. Mitchell, the wife of Attorney General John Mitchell, told Thomas in late-night phone calls that she had seen a Nixon campaign strategy book that included plans for Watergate-style operations. Thomas also broke the story that Nixon's speechwriters were working on a resignation address that he would give the next day.Her strength was her indefatigable pursuit of hard news, the bread-and-butter staple of the wire services. She arrived at work every morning before dawn and accompanied presidents on overseas trips. She was the only female print reporter to accompany Nixon on his historic visit to China, and later, in her 70s and 80s, she often outdistanced younger reporters on arduous around-the-world travels.
Her unparalleled experience covering the presidency earned her the respect and affection of both colleagues and public officials for decades.
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China published a report: "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011"
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Apparently, China got enough of the exclusive US reports on human rights violations "outside of the US" and produced its own counter attack report.
The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a report titled
"The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011" on Friday.
Occupy Seattle protesters, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, scuffle with police officers
during a May Day rally and anti-capitalist march in Seattle. Stuart Isett / Bloomberg
"The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 2011 on May 24, 2012.
As in previous years, the reports are full of over critical remarks on the human rights situation
in nearly 200 countries and regions as well as distortions and accusations
concerning the human rights cause in China.
However, the United Statesturned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation and kept
silent about it. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011 is hereby prepared
to reveal the true human rights situation of the United States to people across the world
and urge the United States to face upto its own doings.
I.On life, property and personal security
The United States has mighty strength in human, financial and material resources
to exert effective control over violent crimes.
However, its society is chronically suffering from violent crimes, and its citizens' lives,
properties and personal security are in lack of proper protection.
A report published by the US Department of Justice on Sept 15,2011, revealed that in 2010, the US residents aged 12 and above experienced 3.8 million violent victimizations, 1.4 million serious violent victimizations,14.8 million property victimizations and 138,000 personal thefts.
The violent victimization rate was 15 victimizations per 1,000 residents (www.bjs.gov).
The crimerate surged in many cities and regions in the United States.
In the southern region of the United States, there were 452 violent crimes and 3,439
property crimes per 100,000 inhabitants (in 2010) on average
(The Wall Street Journal, Sept 20, 2011).
Just four weeks into 2011, San Francisco saw 8 homicides -compared with five during
the same time of the previous year, with Oakland racking up 11, when the previous year
in the same period it had four (The SanFrancisco Chronicle, Jan 29, 2011).
Grand larcenies in the subway in New York City increased from 852 in 2010
to 1,075 cases in the first nine months of 2011, a 25 % jump (The ChinaPress, Sept 24, 2011).
Homicide cases in Detroit in 2011 saw a 13.5% rise over 2010 (www.buzzle.com).
Between January and October 2011, a total of 123,924 serious crime casestook place in Chicago
(portal.chicagopolice.org).
An antibullying public service announcement declared in January 2011 that more than
6 million school children experienced bullying in theprevious six months (CNN, Mar 10, 2011).
According to statistics from the Family First Aid, almost 30% of teenagers in the United States
are estimated to be involved in schoolbullying (www.familyfirstaid.org).
The United States prioritizes the right to keep and bear arms over the protection of citizens' lives
and personal security and exercises lax firearm possession control, causing rampant
gun ownership.
The US people hold between 35 percent and 50 % of the world' s civilian owned guns,
with every 100 people having 90 guns (Online edition of the Foreign Policy, Jan 9, 2011).
According to a Gallup poll in October 2011, 47% of American adults reported
that they had a gun. That was an increase of 6 percentage points from a year ago
and the highest Gallup had recorded since 1993.
About 52% of middleaged adults, aged between 35 and 54, reported to own guns,
and the adults' gun ownership in the south region was 54% (The China Press, Oct 28, 2011).
The New York Times reported on Nov 14,2011, that since 1995, more than 3,300 felons
and people convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors had regained their gun rights
in the state of Washington and of that number, more than 400 had subsequently committed
new crimes, including shooting and other felonies (The New YorkTimes, Nov 14, 2011).
The United States is the leader among the world's developed countries in gun violence
and gundeaths. According to a report of the Foreign Policy on Jan 9, 2011,
over 30,000 Americans die every year from gun violence and another 200,000
Americans are estimated to be injured eachyear due to guns
(Online edition of the Foreign Policy, Jan 9, 2011).
According to statistics released by the US Department of Justice, among the 480,760
robbery cases and 188,380 rape and sexual assault cases in 2010, the rates of victimization
involving firearms were 29% and 7 percent, respectively (www.bjs.gov).
On Jun 2, 2011, a shooting rampage in Arizona left six people dead and one injured
(The China Press, Jun 3, 2011).
In Chicago, more than 10 overnight shooting incidents took place just between the evening
of June 3 and the morning of June 4 (Chicago Tribune, Jun 4, 2011).
Another five overnight shootings occurred between Aug 12 evening and Aug 13
morning in Chicago.
These incidents have caused anumber of deaths and injuries (Chicago Tribune, Aug 13, 2011).
Shooting spree cases involving one gunman shooting dead over five people also happened
in the states of Michigan,Texas, Ohio, Nevada and Southern California
(The New York Times, Oct 13, 2011; CNN, Jul 8, 2011; CBS, Jul 23, 2011;USA Today, Aug 9, 2011).
High incidence of gun related crimes haslong ignited complaints of the US people and
they stage multiple protests every year,demanding the government strictly control
the private possession of arms.
The US government, however, fails to pay due attention to this issue.
II. On civil and political rights
In the United States, the violation of citizens' civil and political rights is severe.
It is lying to itsel fwhen the United States calls itself the land of the free (The Washington Post,
Jan 14, 2012).
Claiming to defend 99 percent of the US population against the wealthiest,
the Occupy Wall Street protest movement tested the US political, economic and social systems.
Ignited by severe social and economic inequality, uneven distribution of wealth and
high unemployment,the movement expanded to sweep the United States after its inception
in September 2011.
Whatever the deep reasons for the movement are, the single fact that thousands of protesters
were treated in a rude and violent way, with many of them being arrested – the act of willfully trampling on people' s freedom of assembly, demonstration
and speech – could provide a glimpse to the truth of the so-called US freedom and democracy.
Almost 1,000 people were reportedly arrested in first two weeks of the movement,
according to British and Australian media (The Guardian, Oct 2, 2011).
The New York police arrested more than 700 protesters for alleged blocking traffic
over Brooklyn Bridge on Oct 1, and some ofthem were handcuffed to the bridge
before being shipped by police vehicles(uschinapress.com, Oct 3, 2011).
On Oct 9,92 people were arrested in New York (The NewYork Times, Oct 15, 2011).
The Occupy Wall Street movement was forced out of its encampment at Zuccotti Park
and more than 200 people were arrested on Nov 15 (TheGuardian, Nov 25, 2011).
Chicago police arrested around 300 members of the Occupy Chicago protest in two weeks
(The Herald Sun, Oct 24, 2011).
At least 85 people were arrestedwhen police used teargas and baton rounds to break up
an Occupy Wall Street camp in Oakland, California on Oct 25.
An Iraq war veteran had a fractured skull and brain swellingafter being allegedly hit in the head
by a police projectile (The Guardian, Oct 26, 2011).
Acouple of hundred people were arrested when demonstrations were staged in different
US cities to mark the Occupy Wall Street movement' s two-month anniversary on Nov 17 (USAToday, Nov 18, 2011).
Among them, at least 276 were arrested in New York only.
A few protesters were bloodied as they were hauled away.
Many protesters accused the police oftreating them in a brutal way (The Wall Street Journal,
Nov 18, 2011).
As a US opinion article put it, the United States could be considered, at least in part,
authoritarian. (The WashingtonPost, Jan 14, 2012).
While advocating press freedom, the United States in fact imposes fairly strict censoring
and control over the press and "press freedom" is just a political tool used to beautify
itself and attack other nations.
The US Congress failed to pass laws on protecting rights of reporters'news sources,
according to media reports. An increasing number of American reporters lost jobs for
"improper remarks on politics."
US reporter Helen Thomas resigned for critical remarks about Israel in June 2010
"Report: On the situation with human rights in a host of world states,
"the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia, Dec 28, 2011).
While forcibly evacuating the Zuccotti Park, the original Occupy Wall Street encampment,
the New York police blocked journalists from covering the police actions.
They set cordon lines to prevent reporters fromgetting close to the park and closed
airspace to make aerial photography impossible.
In addition to using pepper spray against reporters, the police also arrested around
200 journalists, including reporters from NPR and the New York Times
(uschinapress.com, Nov 15, 2011).
By trampling on press freedom and public interests, these actions by the US authorities
caused a global uproar.
US mainstream media' s response to the Occupy Wall Street movement revealed the hypocrisy
in handling issues of freedom and democracy.
Poll by Pew Research Center indicated that in the second week of the movement,
reports on the movement only accounted for 1.68 percent of the total media reports
by nationwide media organizations.
On Oct 15, 2011, when the Occupy Wall Street movement evolved to be a global action,
CNN and Fox News gave no live reports on it, in a sharp contrast to the square protest
in Cairo, for which both CNN and Fox News broadcast live 24 hours.
The US imposes fairly strict restriction on the Internet, and its approach "remains
full of problems and contradictions."
(The website of the Foreign Policy magazine, Feb 17, 2011)
"Internet freedom" is just an excuse for the United States to impose diplomatic pressure
andseek hegemony.
The US Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act both have clauses about monitoring
the Internet, giving the government or law enforcement organizations power to monitor
and block anyInternet content "harmful to national security."
Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 stipulates that the federal
government has "absolute power" to shut down the Internetunder a declared national emergency.
According to a report by British newspaper the Guardian dated Mar 17, 2011,
the US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites
by using fake online personas, and will allow the US military to create a false consensus
in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries
or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.
The project aims to control and restrict free speech on the Internet (The Guardian, Mar 17, 2011).
According to a commentaryby the Voice of Russia on Feb 2,2012, a subsidiary under
the US government' s security agency employed several hundred analysts, who were
tasked with monitoring private archivesof foreign Internet users in a secret way,
and were able to censor as many as 5 million microblogging posts.
The US Department of Homeland Security routinely searched key words like "illegal immigrants,"
"virus,""death," and "burst out" on Twitter with fake accounts and then secretly traced
the Internet users who forwarded related content.
According to a report by the Globe and Mail on Jan 30,2012, Leigh Van Bryan, a British,
prior to his flight to the US, wrotein a Twitter post, "Free this week,
for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?"
As aresult, Bryan along with a friend were handcuffed and put in lockdown with
suspected drug smugglers for 12 hours by armed guards after landing in Los Angeles
International Airport, justlike "terrorists".
Among many angered by the incident in Britain, an Internet user posted a comment, "What's worse, being arrested for an innocent tweet, or the fact that the American
Secret Service monitors every electronic message in the world?"
The US democracy is increasingly being influenced by capitalization and becoming
a system for"master of money." Data issued by the US Center for Responsive Politics
in November 2011 show that 46 % of the US federal senators and members
of the House of Representatives have personal assets of more than a million dollars.
That well explains why US administration' splans to impose higher tax on the rich
who earn more than one million dollars annually have been
blocked in the Congress (www.financeol.com).
As a commentary put it, money hasemerged as the electoral trump card in the US
political system, and corporations have a Supreme Court recognized right to use their
considerable financial muscle to promote candidates and policies favorable to their
business operations and to resist policies and shutout candidates deemed inimical
to their business interests (Online edition of Time, Jan 20, 2011).
According to a media report, nearly two thirds of all the contributions that the chairman
of the House Financial Services Committee received during the 2010 election cycle
came from industries regulated by his committee.
A ranking Democrat Representative on the Agriculture Committee, who served as chairman
between 2007 and 2010, saw a 711% increase in contributions from groups regulated
by his committee and a 274% increase in contributions over all, in the same period
(The New York Times, Nov 16, 2011).
According to aWashington Post report on Aug 10,2011, nearly 8 in 10 of Americans
polled were dissatisfied with the way the political system is working, with 45 %
saying they are very dissatisfied (The Washington Post, Aug 10, 2011).
The US continued to violate the freedom of its citizens in the name of boosting security levels(The Washington Post, Jan 14, 2012).
The Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2011 released areport,"Patterns of Misconduct:
FBI intelligence violations from 2001 to2008," which reveals that domestic political
intelligence apparatus, spearheaded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,continues
to systematically violate the rights of American citizens and legal residents.
The report shows that the actual number of violations that may have occurred
from 2001 to 2008 could approach 40,000 possible violations of law,
Executive Order, or other regulations governing intelligence investigations.
The FBI issued some 200,000 requests and that almost 60% were for investigations of
US citizens and legal residents(www.pacificfreepress.com).
The New York Times reported on Oct 20,2011, that the FBI has collected information
about religious, ethnic and national-origin characteristics of American communities
(The New York Times, Oct 20, 2011).
According to a Washington Post commentary dated Jan 14,2012, the US government
can use "national security letters" todemand, without probable cause,
that organizations turn over information on citizens' finances, communications and
associations, and order searches of everything from business documentsto library records.
The US government can use GPS devices to monitor every move of targeted
citizens without securing any court order or review (The Washington Post, Jan 14, 2012).
Abuse of power, brutal enforcement of law and overuse of force by US police have resulted
in harassment and hurt to a large number of innocent citizens and have caused
loss of freedom of some people or even deaths.
According to a report carried by the World Journal on Jun 10, 2011, the past decade
saw increasing stop and frisks by the New York police, which recorded an annual of
600,000 cases in 2010, almost double of that in 2004.
In the first three months of 2011, some 180,000 people experienced stop-and-frisks, 88 % of whom were innocent people (World Journal, Jun 10, 2011).
In early July of 2011, two police officers beat a mentally ill homeless man to death
in Orange County, Southern California (FoxNews.com, Sept 21, 2011).
In August 2011, North Miami police shot and killed a man carrying realistic toy gun
(TheNY Daily News, Sept 1, 2011).
On Jan 8,2011, a Central California man was shot and killed bythe police, who thought
of him as a gang member only because the jacket he was wearing wasred, "the chosen color of a local street gang." (www.kolotv.com, Jan 19, 2011)
In May 2011, Arizona' s police officers raided the home of Jose Guerena and shot
him dead in what was described as an investigation into alleged marijuana trafficking.
However, the police later found nothing illegal in his home (The Huffington Post, May 25, 2011).
Misjudged and wrongly handled cases continued to occur.
According to media reports, Anthony Graves, a Texas man,was imprisoned for 18 years
for crimes he did not commit (CBS News, Jun 22, 2011).
46 year old Thomas Haynesworth spent 27 years in prison after being arrested
at the age of 18 for crimes he didn't commit (Union Press International, Dec 7, 2011).
Eric Caine, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment after being tortured
by police into confessing totwo murders, spent nearly 25 years behind bars.(Chicago Tribune, Jun 13, 2011).
The US lacks basic due lawsuit process protections, and its government continues
to claim theright to strip citizens of legal protections based on its sole discretion
(The Washington Post, Jan14, 2012).
The National Defense Authorization Act, signed Dec 31,2011, allows for the indefinite detention of citizens (The Washington Post, Jan 14, 2012).
The Act will place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands
of the military and which wouldopen the door for trial free, indefinite detention of anyone,
including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists
(www.forbes.com, Dec 5, 2011).
The US remains the country with the largest "prison population" and the highest
per capita level of imprisonment in the world, and the detention centers' conditions
are terrible.
According tothe US Department of Justice, the number of prisoners amounted to 2.3 million
in 2009 and one in every 132 American citizens is behind bars.
Meanwhile, more than 140,000 are serving life sentences
(Report: On the situation with human rights in a host of world states, the website of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia, Dec 28, 2011).
According to a Los Angeles Times reporton May 24,2011, in a California prison,
as many as 54 inmates may share a single toilet and as many as 200 prisoners
may live in a gymnasium (Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2011).
According to data issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the estimated number
of prisonand jail inmates experiencing sexual victimization totaled 88,500
in the US between October 2008 and December 2009 (www.bjs.gov).
Since April 2011, officials stopped serving lunch on the weekend in some US prisons
as a way to cut food-service costs. About 23,000 inmates in36 prisons are eating
two meals a day on Saturdays and Sundays instead of three (The NewYork Times, Oct 20, 2011).
Harsh conditions and treatment in prisons have caused recurring protests
and suicides of inmates.
There were two major hunger strikes in California prisons staged by a total of more
than 6,000 and 12,000 prisoners in July and October 2011, respectively,
to protest against what they call harsh treatment and detention conditions (CNN,Oct 4, 2011; The New York Times, July 7, 2011).
According to a Chicago Tribune report on July20,2011, since 2000,
at least 175 youths have attempted to kill themselves inside Departmentof Juvenile Justice
lockup facilities in Chicago and seven youths committed suicide.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture in a 2011 report noted that in the US,
an estimated 20,000 to25,000 individuals are being held in isolation,
and the US government in 2011 for twice turned down the Special Rapporteur's
request for a private and unmonitored meeting with detainees held in isolation.
Demonstrators call for justice in the murder of Trayvon Martin atLeimert Park
in Los Angeles on March 22, 2012. Florida Governor Rick Scott appointed a task force
to investigate the shooting death ofunarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin
as calls grew for charges tobe filed against the neighborhood watch volunteer
who killed him. Jonathan Alcorn / Reuters
III. On economic, social and cultural rights
The United States is the world's richest country, but quite a lot of Americans still lack
guarantee for their economic, social and cultural rights, which are necessary
for personal dignity and self-development.
The United States has not done enough to protect its citizens from unemployment.
At no time in the last 60 years had the country's long term unemployment
been so high for so long as it was in 2011.
It has been one of the Western developed countries that provide the poorest
protection of laborer's rights.
It has not approved any international labor organizationconvention in the last 10 years.
Moreover, the US lacks an effective arbitration system to deal with enterprises
that refuse to compromise with employees.
The New York Times reported on Dec 12, 2011, that at last count,13.3 million people
were officially unemployed and that 5.7 million of them
had been out of work for more than six months (The New York Times, Dec 12, 2011).
The unemployment rate was 8.9 percent for 2011 (www.bls.gov), and the unemployment rate
for American youths between 25 and 34 stood at 26 % in October of that year
(TheWorld Journal, Nov 18, 2011), with more underemployed.
A total of 84 metropolitan areasreported jobless rates of at least 10.0%,
and El Centro, California, recorded the highest unemployment rate of 29.6 %
in September of 2011 (www.bls.gov).
The unemployed people suffered from not only financial pressures but also mental pressures
including anxiety and depression.
There is a widening of the gap between the extreme top and bottom (The USA Today, Sept 13, 2011), showing apparent unfair wealth distribution.
The United States claims to have a large population of middle class,
making up 80% of its total population, while there is only very few impoverished
and extremely rich people (The China Press, Oct 13, 2011).
This is not the truth. According to the report issued by the US Congressional Budget Office
(CBO) on Oct 25, 2011, the richest 1% of American families have the fastest growth of family revenue from 1979 to 2007 with an increase of 275 % for after-tax income,
while the after-tax income of the poorest 20 % grew by only 18 % (The World Journal, Oct 26, 2011).
Cable News Network reported on Feb 16,2011, that in the last 20 years, incomes for 90%
of Americans have been stuck in neutral, while the richest 1% of Americans have seen
their incomes grow by 33 %.
Economic Policy Institute published a paper on Oct 26,2011, saying that in 2009
the ratio of wealth owned by the wealthiest 1% to the wealth owned by median households
was 225 to 1 (www.epi.org).
In the United States, thebestoff 10 % made on average 15 times the incomes of
the poorest 10 percent (Reuters,Dec 9, 2011).
The wealthiest 400 Americans have $1.5 trillion in assets (The China Press, Oct13, 2011), or the same combined wealth as the poorest half of Americans – more than 150 million people (www.currydemocrats.org).
The annual incomes of the richest 10 chief executive officers (CEO) were enough
to pay the salary of 18,330 employees (The World Journal, Oct 16, 2011).
Roughly 11% of Congress members had net worth of more than $9 million,
and 249 members were millionaires.
The median net worth:$891,506, was almost nine times the typical household
(The USA Today, Nov 16, 2011).
A commentary by the Spiegel said that theUS has developed into
an economic entity of "winners take all". American politician Larry Bartels said
that fundamental shifts in wealth allocation was caused by political decisions
rather than the consequences of market forces or financial crisis (The Spiegel, Oct 24, 2011).
Contrary to the wealthiest 10 percent, the number of Americans living in poverty
and the poverty rate continued to hit record highs, which is a great irony in affluent America.
A report published by the Census Bureau on Sept 13, 2011, showed that 46.2 million people
lived belowthe official poverty line in 2010, 2.6 million more than 2009,
hitting the highest record since 1959.
The report also said that the percentage of American who lived below the poverty line
in 2010 was 15.1 percent, the highest level since 1993.
An analysis done by the BrookingsInstitution estimated that at the current rate,
the recession would have added nearly 10 million people to the ranks of the poor
by the middle of the decade. According to the analysis, 22% of children
were in poverty (The New York Times, Sept 13, 2011).
Another survey showed that 12 states of the US had poverty rates above 17 percent,
with Mississippi's poverty rate standing at 22.4 percent (The Huffington Post, Oct 21, 2011).
The US has grown into acountry dependent on food stamps (Reuters, Aug 22, 2011).
The percentage of Americans who did not have enough money to buy food grew
from 9 percent in 2008 to 19 percent in 2011 (The World Journal, Oct 15, 2011).
In 2010,17.2 million households, or 14.5 percent, werefood insecure (www. Worldhunger. org).
In 2011, 46 million Americans lived on food stamps, about 15 percent
of the total population, up 74 % from 2007 (Reuters, Aug 22, 2011).
Millions of homeless people wandered around streets.
Reports said that about 2.3 million to 3.5 million Americans did not have a place
that they call home to sleep in the night(www.homelessnessinamerica.com).
Between 2007 and 2010, the number of homeless families grew by 20 percent
(The Huffington Post, Aug 26, 2011).
Over the past five years, thepercentage of singles arriving at shelters
after living with family or elsewhere in the community has jumped
from 39 percent to 66 percent (The USA Today, Dec 9, 2011).
There was an all time record of more than 41,000 homeless people in New York City,
including 17,000 homeless children (www.coalitionforthehomeless.org).
On any given night in Santa Clara County,California, 7,045 people were homeless
according to a 2011 Santa Clara County Homeless Census and Survey (www.santaclaraweekly.com).
And advocates estimated that Chicago hadup to 3,000 homeless youths
in need of shelter on any given night(www.chicagonewscoop.org).
The US declared it has the best healthcare service in the world, but quite a lot of
Americans could not enjoy due medication and healthcare.
The Cable News Network reported on Sept 13,2011, that the number of people
who lacked health insurance in 2010 climbed to 49.9 million (Cable News Network, Sept 13, 2011).
Bloomberg reported on March 16,2011, that 9 million Americans have lost
health insurance during the past two years.
An additional 73 million adults had difficulties paying for healthcare and 75 million
deferred treatment because they could not afford it (Bloomberg, March 16, 2011).
Death and infection risks caused by AIDS grew.
Since the first American patient was diagnosed with AIDS in 1981,600,000 people
have died from the disease in the US By the end of 2008, 1,178,350 Americans had been infected with AIDS (The China Press, June 3, 2011).
AFP reported that nearly three quarters of Americans with HIV do not have
their infection undercontrol and one in five people with human immuno-deficiency virus
are unaware that they havethe disease.
Among people who know their HIV status is positive, only 51 percent get ongoing
medical treatment (AFP, Nov 29, 2011).
Statistics given by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention showed that,
in the last 10 years, death caused by prescription drugs in America had doubled
and that one would die from taking prescription drug every 14 minutes.
Prescription drug overdose caused 37,485 deaths in 2009, exceeding traffic fatalities
(TheChina Press, Sept 19, 2011).
The US government has significantly cut the expense on education, reduced teaching staff,
and shortened school hours with tuition fees soaring.
The guarantee for teenagers' rights to education is weakening.
The New York Times reported on Oct 3,2011, that since 2007, school budgets in
New York city have been cut by 13.7% every year on average.
Since 2008, 294,000 posts in the American education industry, including schools
of higher education, have been cut (The China Press, Oct 25, 2011).
Four day per week classes have been practiced in 292 school districts,
which was only put into use during the financial crisis in the 1930s and
the oil crisis in the 1970s (The World Journal, Oct 30, 2011).
A report by College Board showedthat the average tuition fee of American
four year public universities in the school year of 2011through 2012 was $8,244, $631 more than the last school year, up 8.3 percent (The ChinaPress, Oct 27, 2011).
About 3,000 people gathered on Sproul Plaza to protest tuition increasesat Berkeley on Nov 9, 2011 (The New York Times, Nov 13, 2011).
Reuters reported that twothirds of undergraduate students would graduate
with student loans about $25,000 on average owing to expensive college tuition
(Reuters, Feb 1, 2011).
Native American culture in the United States has long been suppressed.
The country assimilated the Native American culture through legislation
and mainstream culture.
At the endof the 19th century, the United States carried out "white man's education"
and implemented compulsory English-only education.
Most of the people who now speak Native American languages are the seniors living
in reservations. It is estimated that only 5% of Native Americans
will speak their own languages 50 years later if there are no measures
from the US government.
The financial crisis was far from being the sole reason for the inadequate guarantee
of Americans' economic, social and cultural rights. So far, the US has not approved
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
The above problems concerning human rights are the reflection of the US ideology
and political system that ignore people's economic, social and cultural rights.
IV. On racial discrimination
Ethnic minorities in the United States have long been suffering systemic,
widespread and institutional discrimination. And racial discrimination has become
an indelible characteristic and symbol of American values.
Ethnic minorities have low political, economic and social positions due to discrimination.
The number of ethnic people in civil service is not proportional to their population.
New York Times reported on June 23,2011, that the number of Asian Americans
in New York City has topped one million, nearly 1 in 8 New Yorkers,
but only one Asian-American serves in the State Legislature, two on the City Council
and one in a citywide post of the New York City.
Accordingto the annual report released by the National Urban League of the US,
African-Americans' 2011 Equality Index is currently 71.5 %, compared to 2010's 72.1%,
among which thee conomic equality index declined from 57.9 percent to 56.9%,
and the health index, from 76.6 percent to 75 %, and the index in the area of social justice,
from 57.9 % to 56.9 %.
Ethnic Americans are badly discriminated against when it comes to employment.
It was reported that the unemployment rate of Hispanics rose to 11 percent in 2010
from 5.7 % in 2007 (The New York Times, Sept 28, 2011).
The unemployment rate of African Americans was 16.2%.
For black males, it's at 17.5 percent; and for black youth, it's nearly 41 %,
4.5 times the national average unemployment rate (CBS News, June 19, 2011).
Nationally, black joblessness stands at 21%, rising to as high as 40% in major urban centers
such as Detroit (The Wall Street Journal, Aug 31, 2011).
In Ziebach County of South Dakota, acommunity mainly composed of Native Americans,
more than 60% of the residents live at or below the poverty line,
and unemployment rate hits 90% in the winter (The Daily Mail,Feb 15, 2011).
A study shows that of the seven occupations with the highest salaries,
six are over represented by whites (Washington Post, Oct 21, 2011).
The poverty rate of African Americans doubles that of whites, and the ethnic minority
groups suffer severe social inequalities. According to a report by the Pew Research Center
released inJune 2011, the median wealth of white households is 20 times
that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households (pewresearch.org).
In 2010, poverty among blacks rose to 27.4 percent, and poverty among Hispanics increased
to 26.6 percent, much higher than the9.9% poverty rate among whites (www.census.gov).
A Pew Research Center report says the lopsided wealth ratios among whites,
Hispanics and AfricanAmericans in 2009 were thelargest in the past 25 years (pewresearch.org).
According to an investigation done by the Washington-based Bread for the World, "black children are suffering from poverty at a rate ofnearly 40 %, and
over a quarter of Blacks reported going hungry in 2010". "The figures are both startling and very telling," said Rev Derrick Boykin (www.amsterdam.com).
Ethnic minorities are denied equal education opportunities, and ethnic minority kids
are discriminated against and bullied in schools.
According to a report by the US Census Bureauon June 8, 2011, in 2008, among 18-to 24-year-olds, 22 % were not enrolled in highschools for Hispanics, 13 % for African Americans, whereas only 6 percent for whites(www.census.gov).
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on Oct 28,2011, one third of American students
are bullied at schools, and Asian-American children bear the brunt.
The teases and insults they get in cyber space are three times more compared
with kids from other ethnic groups.
A research finds 54 percent of Asian-American students have been bullied in schools, 38.4 % for African-Americans and 34.3% for Hispanics (World Journal Oct29, 2011).
Ethnic minorities and nonChristians are also badly discriminated against in fields
such as law enforcement, justice and religion, rendering the so claimed ethnic equality
and religious freedom nothing but self-glorifying forged labels.
A New York Times story (Dec 17,2011) saysthe New York Police Department
recorded more than 600,000 stops in 2010 and 84 percent of those stopped
were blacks or Latinos. It was reported that black non-Hispanic males are incarcerated
at a rate more than six times that of white non-Hispanic males
(World Report2011: United States, www.hrw.org).
On Dec 1,2011, the American Civil Liberties Union said that"the FBI is using
its extensive community outreach to Muslims and other groups to secretly
gather intelligence in violation of federal law". (Washington Post, Dec 2, 2011)
A survey by Pew Research Center finds that 52 percent of Muslim Americans surveyed
said their group is undergovernment's surveillance, about 28 %said they had been treated
or viewed withsuspicion and 21 % said they were singled out by airport security
(articles.boston.com).
More than half of Muslim-Americans in another poll said government anti-terrorism policies singled them out for increased surveillance and monitoring, and many reported
increased cases of name-calling, threats and harassment by airport security,
law enforcement officers and others (Washington Times, Aug 30, 2011).
Illegal immigrants also live under legal and systematic discrimination.
It was reported that afterArizona passed its anti illegal immigration bill, Alabama began
implementing its immigration law on Sept 28, 2011.
The Alabama immigration law provides differentiated treatments to illegal immigrants
in each of its term, rendering their daily lives rather difficult.
Critics argued that thelaw runs counter to the US Constitution and to certain terms
in relevant international human rights law regarding granting equal protections
to illegal immigrants (www.hrw.org).
The NewYork Times reported on May 13, 2011, that Georgia passed an anti-illegal immigration law which outlaws illegal immigrants working in the state
and empowers local police officers to question certain suspects about their immigration status.
Illegal immigrants suffer ferocious mistreatments.
Internal reports from the Office of Detention Oversight of the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed grave problems in many US detention facilities
for immigrants, including lack of medical care, the use of excessive force and
"abusive treatment"of detainees (The Houston Chronicle, Oct 10, 2011).
A report released on Sept 21, 2011, by an Arizona-based nonprofit organization
revealed that thousands of illegal immigrants detained across the border between
Mexico and Arizona are generally mistreated by US borderpolice, being denied enough food,
water, medical care and sleep, even beaten up and confined in extreme coldness or heat,
suffering both psychological abuse and threats of death
(TheWorld Journal, Sept 24, 2011).
Native Americans are denied their due rights.
From January to February 2011, UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya
lodged two accusations against the United States, including accusing
the Arizona State government of approving the use of recycled wastewater
for commercial ski operations on the San Francisco Peaks, a site considered sacred
by several Native American tribes (www.forgottennavajopeople.org),
as well as the case of imprisoned indigenous activist Leonard Peltier.
Peltier was sentenced to life in prison in 1977 for the alleged murder of two FBIagents.
However, Peltier has been claiming he is innocent and persecuted by the USgovernment
for participating in the American Indian Movement (www.ohchr.org).
On April 26, 2011, Farida Shaheed, independent expert in the field of cultural rights,
Heiner Bielefeldt, special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief,
and James Anaya, special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples,
of the UN Human Rights Council, jointly lodged accusations against the US,
claiming that the city of Vallejo, California, is planning to level and pave
over the Sogorea Te, held sacred to indigenous people in northern California,
in order to construct a parking lot and public restrooms (www.treatycouncil.org).
Race-motivated hate crimes occur frequently. According to an FBI report, 6,628 hate crime incidents were reported in 2010, 2,201 of which were against African-Americans
and 534 against Hispanics and 575 against whites.
About 47.3 % of all were motivated by racial bias, 20% by religion and 12.8 % by
an ethnicity/national origin bias (ww.fbi.gov).
Accordingto a report released by the Center for American Progress in August 2011,
seven American charitable groups, over the past decade, had spent 42.6 million US dollars
on inciting hatred against Muslim communities (The New York Times, Nov 13, 2011).
There are three active white supremacy groups in the city of San Francisco,
which focus on attacking ethnic minorities andimmigrants (www.abclocal.go.com).
On Nov 10,2010, two Mexican nationals were beaten by agroup of whites
who were members of these organizations (www.sfappeal.com).
According to aninvestigation, black men aged 15 to 29 years old were most likely
to be victims of murders.
In New York City, they make up less than 3 percent of the city's population but in 2010
represented 33 percent of all homicide victims (The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2011).
The sufferings of civil rights activists who oppose racial discriminations arouse attention.
The Huffington Post reported on May 31,2011, Catrina Wallace,
a civil rights activist in Jena, Louisiana, was sentenced to 15 years in prison
by authorities only based on a drug dealer'saccusation.
Previously, Wallace had taken part in organizing a 50,000-people protest against racial discrimination that won freedom for six black high school students.
The article deemed the sentence was revenge taken by authorities
on Wallace's human rights activism. "I am a freedom fighter. I fight for people's rights."
Yang Ting Lye (left) and Amy Huang hug at an impromptu memorial oncampus for the two graduate students from China, Qu Ming of Jilin andWu Ying of Hunan, who were shot dead near the University ofSouthern California in Los Angeles on April 11, 2012. Jonathan Alcorn /Reuters
V. On the rights of women and children
To date, the US has ratified neither the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, nor the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
As the USneglects the rights of women and children, their situation deteriorates.
Gender discrimination against women widely exists in the US. According to statistics,
women arenot fully represented in governments at all levels in the US, as women hold
only 17 % ofthe seats in Congress (www.wcffoundation.org).
Women doing the same work as men often getless payment in the US, and the wage gap has
narrowed by only 18 cents in the past halfcentury (www.thedailybeast.com).
According to a report released by the American Civil LibertiesUnion, in 2009,
women working full-time, year-round were paid 77 cents on average for
everydollar paid to men (www.aclu.org).
Women in the US widely suffer discrimination in terms ofemployment, promotion and work.
A new study confirms that American tech companies arewoefully behind in including women
among their board members and highest-paid executives.
On average, fewer than one in 28 of the highestpaid tech executives is a woman.
AtCalifornia's biggest public companies, only about 10% of the board members and
top executives are women (The New York Times, Dec 9, 2011).
The poverty rate among American women reached a record high.
According to data from theUS Census Bureau, over 17 million women lived in poverty in 2010,
including more than 7.5million in extreme poverty and 4.7 million single mothers in poverty.
The poverty rate amongwomen climbed to 14.5 percent in 2010 from 13.9 percent in 2009,
the highest in 17 years.
Theextreme poverty rate among women climbed to 6.3 % in 2010 from 5.9% in 2009,
the highest rate ever recorded (www.merchantcircle.com).
According to a report of theAssociated Press on April 12,2011, a single mother named
Lashanda Armstrong drove herfour kids in a minivan into the Hudson river in Newburgh,
New York, due to the unbearableburden of raising the kids. Only her 10-year-old boy survived.
Women in the US often experience discrimination, violence and sexual assault.
Ethnic minoritywomen face discrimination during pregnancy.
According to a report provided by the LAMB (TheLos Angeles Mommy and Baby Project), 32.4 percent of Asian-American mothers feltdiscriminated against during pregnancy, second only to African-American mothers amongwhom the ratio amounts to 47.9%, while the ratio
among Latin American mothers is 31.1% (The China Press, June 1, 2011).
According to statistics from the website of the LosAngeles Police Department,
more than 2 million American women are victims of domesticviolence annually.
The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey shows nearly one in 5 women
has been raped in her lifetime, and one in four has experienced serious physical violence
from an intimate partner at some point in her life (Los Angeles Times, December 14, 2011).
Throughout the military, sexual assault affects about 19 percent of female troops
but most of them choose to keep silent, according to a survey of sexual assault
conducted by theUS military (www.csmonitor.com).
From March to October in 2011, a string of 20 sexual assaultshappened in Bay Ridge,
Sunset Park and Park Slope and the victims were all young women
Reports say many of the 1 million women in prison in theUS experienced harsh treatment
and even had their arms and legs chained when they weregiving birth (www.globalissues.org).
The poverty rate for children in the US reached a record high.
According to the report releasedby the US Census Bureau, more than 1 million children
were added to the poverty populationbetween 2009 and 2010, making the total number
of children living below the poverty line reachmore than 15 million, the greatest since 2001.
The poverty rate for children in 2010 climbed to21.6 percent in 2010 from 20 percent in 2009,
with 653 counties seeing a significant increasein poverty rate for children aged 5 to 17
and about one-third of counties having school age poverty rates
above the national poverty rate (www.census.gov).
The Daily Mail reported onAug 17, 2011, that child poverty increased in 38 states from 2000 to 2009 and Mississippi is
the state with the highest level of 31 percent.
The US Census Bureau said that children living inpoverty, especially small children,
are more likely to develop cognitive and behavioraldifficulties and may have
a shorter education time and a longer time being unemployed whenthey grow up
(The China Press, Nov 21, 2011).
The number of homeless children has surged.
In 2010,1.6 million children in the US were livingon the street, in homeless shelters
or motels, up 33 percent from that in 2007, according to the National Center on Family
Homelessness (USA Today, Dec 15, 2011).
According to theEducation Department of New York, there are 53,503 homeless students
and children of 3 to21 years old in New York, and the Homeless Service Department's
count also shows anaverage of 6,902 children of 6 to 17 years old a month are homeless
in the city (The New YorkTimes, Nov 14, 2011).
Nearly 17,000 children slept in the municipal shelters in New York onHalloween night in 2011.
From May 2011 to November 2011, children in shelters rose 10 percent
(The Wall Street Journal, Nov 9, 2011).
Children are severely exposed to violence and pornography.
BBC reported on Oct 17,2011,that over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children
were believed to have beenkilled by their family members.
More than 1 million children are confirmed each year as victimsof child abuse
(www.preventchildabuse.org), and one in every two families in the US is involved in domestic violence at some time (www. reverepolice.org).
The Wall Street Journal reported onNov 14, 2011, that roughly 120,000 calls
were made to the state hotline for child abuse callsadministrated by the state
Department of Public Welfare in Pennsylvania, but only about24,000 cases were investigated.
A 13-year-old boy named Christian Choate was allegedlybeaten to death in 2009 by his father.
The report said prosecutors had alleged that the boyendured beating daily and was kept locked
in a 3-foot-high dog cage, where he had little to eat and often soiled himself
(Chicago Tribune, June 24, 2011).
Campus violence and cyberbullying are growing more malicious in the US.
According to a report of the US News & WorldReport on June 3, 2011, at least 40%
of high school students have been bullied by cyberbullies (www.usnews.com).
The Women's eNews reported on May 23 last year, the sex-trafficking problem is acute
in the state of Georgia, with an estimated 250 to 300 underageteens and girls being sexually
exploited each month there (womensenews. org).
According to areport published by Stanford University, the number of reports of sexual assaults
received in itscampus in 2010 rose by 75 percent over that in 2009 (CBS, Sept 30, 2011).
Infant mortality rate remains high in the US.
According to a report of The New York Times onOct 15, 2011, the infant mortality rate in the US is 6.7 deaths per 1,000 live births.
The rate among AfricanAmericans is 13.3 deaths per thousand, while the rates among whites,
Hispanics and Asian-Americans are respectively 5.6, 5.5 and 4.8 per thousand.
In Pittsburgh, the infant mortality rate for black residents of Allegheny County
was 20.7 per thousand in 2009, while therate among whites in the county was only
4 per thousand in the same period.
Nationally, blackbabies are more than twice as likely as white babies to die before the age of 1.
VI. On US violations of human rights against other nations
The US has been pursuing hegemony in the world, grossly trampling upon the sovereignty
of other countries and capriciously violating human rights against other nations.
It "appears moreand more to be contributing to international disorder"
(After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order, by Emmanuel Todd).
The revelation of the history of human experiments conducted in the US is yet another
scandal sparking public outcry around the world after the prisoner abuse scandal.
The Britishnewspaper The Telegraph reported on Aug 30, 2011, that from 1946 1948, a US government-paid medical experiment program had made
nearly 5,500 people in Guatemala subjected todiagnostic testing, and the researchers
deliberately exposed more than 1,300 people, includingsoldiers, prostitutes, prisoners
and mental patients, to syphilis and other venereal diseases.
Seven women with epilepsy were injected with syphilis below the back of the skull,
and a femalesyphilis patient with a terminal illness was infected with gonorrhea in her eyes
and elsewhere.
These experiments had caused over 80 deaths.
An article on a USbased journalistic websitesaid that "these revelations are only the latest
in an ongoing series of scandals regardinggovernment illegal and unethical experimentation"
and that "there are plenty of other underreported and important stories out there on the
terrible scandal that has been US illegal experimentation. "The article said that the list of such illegal experiments is quite long, including
government radiation experiments, human mind control (also known as MKULTRA)
experiments and the CIA and DoD (Department of Defense) experiments on
"enemy combatants" in the "waron terror" (Pubrecord.org).
Newspaper The Hindu reported on Aug 30,2011, that in 1932, the US public health
service agency started a study of untreated syphilis in the human body inAlabama.
The researchers told the subjects that they were being treated for some ailments,
and nearly 400 African-American men were infected with syphilis without informed consent.
Infact, the men infected did not receive proper treatment needed.
The study lasted until 1972after media disclosures.
Austrian national TV commented that this was a disgraceful event inthe US history
and a dark period in US medical ethics.
The US-led wars, albeit alleged to be "humanitarian intervention" efforts and for "the rise of a
new democratic nation", created humanitarian disasters instead.
For Iraqis, the death toll in theUS-initiated Iraq war stands at 655,000 (Tribune Business News, Dec 15, 2011).
According to figures released by the Iraq Body Count, at least 103,536 civilians were killed
in the Iraq war(Reuters, Dec 18, 2011).
In 2011, there were an average of 6.5 deaths per day from suicide attacks and
vehicle bombs (www.iraqbodycount.org).
It is estimated that civilian casualties inthe military campaign in Afghanistan could
exceed 31,000 (Tribune Business News, Oct 17, 2011).
According to a news report, on May 28, 2011, a US-led NATO airstrike killed 14 civilians
and wounded six others in the southern region of Afghanistan (The New York Times, May 29, 2011).
Separately, on May 25, a total of 18 Afghan civilians and 20 police were killed
in a NATO airstrike in the province of Nuristan (BBC News, May 29, 2011).
The British newspaper TheGuardian reported on March 11, 2012, that an American soldier
stationed in Afghanistan burst into three civilian homes in two villages in the small
hours of March 11, shot dead 16 sleeping Afghan villagers, injured five others and
burned the dead bodies.
The victims included ninechildren and three women.
According to a Reuters report, witness accounts said there wereseveral US soldiers
involved (Reuters, March 11, 2012).
Another Deutsche Presse Agent report quoted a member of the Afghan parliamentary
investigative team as saying that therewere 15 to 20 soldiers who had conducted
the night raid operation in several areas in thevillage.
The source also told DPA that some of the Afghan women who were killed were
sexually assaulted, according to the findings (DPA, March 18, 2012).
Such "American style massacre" against innocent civilians has once again pierced
the veil of the US proclaiming itself "a country under the rule of law" and
"a human rights defender."
Incomplete statistics revealed that the US has launched more than 60 drone attacks
in Pakistan in 2011, killing at least 378 people (USAToday, Jan 11, 2012; Newamerica.net).
The number of civilian deaths in Afghanistan increased15 percent in the first half
of 2011 over the same period of 2010 (The New York Times, Aug 6, 2011).
According to media reports, on the night of Feb 20,2012, some American soldiers
of the NATO troops at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan transported copies of Koran
and other religious books to a rubbish pit and burned them (BBC News, Feb 23, 2012).
The acts ofdesecration of the Quran have sparked strong protests and large-scale demonstration
activities among the people across Afghanistan as well as in the countries of Pakistan
and Bengal (www.pakistantoday.com.pk; www.firstpost.com).
The US does not support the right to development, which is a concern of most of the
developing countries. In September 2011, the 18th session of the United Nations Human Rights
Council adopted a resolution on "the right to development."
Except for an abstention vote fromthe US, all the HRC members voted for the resolution.
The US continues its conduct that seriously violates the right of subsistence and right
of development of Cuban people. On Oct 26, 2011, the 66th session of the UN General Assembly
overwhelmingly adopted a resolution titled "Necessity of ending the economic,
commercial andfinancial embargo imposed by the United States of America
against Cuba," the 20th suchresolution in a row.
A total of 186 countries voted in favor of the resolution, three countries abstained,
and only the US and Israel voted against the resolution.
The resolution urged theUS to repeal or invalidate the almost 50-year-long economic,
commercial and financial embargoagainst Cuba as soon as possible (www.un.org).
The US, however, continues to defy theresolution.
The blockade imposed by the US against Cuba qualifies as an act of genocide under
Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
which was adopted in 1948.
The above mentioned facts are but a small yet illustrative enough fraction of the
US' dismal record on its human rights situation.
The US' own tarnished human rights record has made it inno condition, on a moral,
political or legal basis, to act as the world's "human rights justice,"
to place itself above other countries and release the Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices year after year to accuse and blame other countries.
We hereby advise the US government once again to look squarely at its own grave
human rights problems, to stop the unpopular practices of taking
human rights as a political instrument for interference in other countries
'internal affairs, smearing other nations' images and seeking its own strategic interests,
and to cease using double standards on human rights and pursuing hegemony under
the pretext of human rights." End of Report
It would be great for a researcher comparing the Human Rights violations between the two reports (USA and China) to divide by the rate of the populations in the two countries. There are the other two difficulties, the kinds of sources that the US relied upon, and that China got out of the wilderness in 1980…
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Євген Олександрович Гриценко ( 5 лютого 1995, Донецьк, Україна) — український футболіст, воротар вірменського клубу «Ван». Виступав за молодіжну збірну України

Клубна кар'єра
Вихованець молодіжної академії донецького «Шахтаря», в складі якого з 2002 по 2012 рік виступав у ДЮФЛУ.

Дорослу футбольну кар'єру розпочав у складі фарм-клубу гірників, донецького «Шахтаря-3», за який дебютував 26 серпня 2012 року в переможному (6:0) домашньому поєдинку 8-го туру Другої ліги проти НПГУ-Макіїввугілля. Євген вийшов на поле на 79-й хвилині, замінивши Ігоря Філіпенка. У складі «Шахтаря-3» зіграв 23 матчі, в яких пропустив 28 м'ячів.

Влітку 2014-го року Євген перебрався в молодіжний склад «гірників», за який зіграв 78 ігор і пропустив 63 м'ячі.
У сезоні 2017/18 Гриценко в складі «Шахтаря» став чемпіоном молодіжного чемпіонату, провівши 19 матчів (11 пропущених м'ячів).

У червні 2017 року було оголошено, що Гриценко орендований «Маріуполем», проте вже через тиждень він повернувся до молодіжної команди «Шахтаря».

28 червня 2018 року перейшов в річну оренду до маріупольців. 2019 року повернувся з оренди в «Шахтар». У сезоні 2019/20 грав за молодіжний склад.

В червні 2022 року стало відомо, що футболіст покинув «Шахтар» у якості вільного агента після 15 років перебування в системі клубу, проте за основну команду він не дебютував.

В листопді 2022 року підписав контракт з вірменським клубом «Ван» з Чаренцавана.

Кар'єра в збірній
Викликався до юніорських збірних України різних вікових категорій. У 2015 році провів 3 поєдинки у футболці молодіжної збірної України.

Примітки

Посилання
 Статистика виступів гравця на офіційному сайті ФФУ
 Візитна картка футболіста на офіційному сайті УПЛ

 Профіль гравця на сайті soccerpunter.com
 Профіль гравця  на сайті footballdatabase.eu
 Профіль гравця  на сайті worldfootball.net
 Профіль гравця на сайті «УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ФУТБОЛ (історія та статистика)»
 Профіль гравця  на сайті ua.tribuna.com
 Профіль гравця  на сайті campeones.ua
 Профіль гравця на сайті meczyki.pl

Українські футболісти
Футбольні воротарі
Гравці молодіжної збірної України з футболу
Футболісти «Шахтаря-3»
Футболісти «Вана»

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Marat may refer to:

People

Marat (given name)
Marat (surname)
Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), French political theorist, physician and scientist

Arts, entertainment, and media
Marat/Sade, a 1963 play by Peter Weiss
Marat/Sade (film), a 1967 adaptation by Adrian Mitchell
The Death of Marat, a 1793 painting
Il piccolo Marat, an opera

Places
 Marat (Phoenicia), a former Phoenician town now known as Amrit, Syria
 Marat, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune in France
 Marat Fjord, Severnaya Zemlya
 Marat Shahr, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran

Ships
 Marat (ex-Petropavlovsk), a Soviet battleship
 Marat, the French name of HMS Belleisle

See also
Murat (disambiguation)


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Calusa Blueway speaker series returns to Wa-Ke Hatchee
Special to The News-Press
What's happening: Lee County Parks & Recreation has announced the schedule for the 2016-2017 Calusa Blueway Speaker Series, a December through March annual series that showcases aspects of Lee County's 190-mile marked trail for canoeists, kayakers and stand-up paddleboarders.
Where: Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center, 16760 Bass Road, Fort Myers
Free guided walks at local Conservation 20/20 Preserves
When: 6:30 to 8 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month through March. Park grounds open dawn to dusk daily. Recreation center hours are 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Cost: The Calusa Blueway speaker series is free. Park admission and parking is free; the rec center has a one-time membership fee of $10 individual or $25 family. Additional weight room membership is $20 a month, $80 for six months or $120 a year. Classes are provided at an additional cost.
What to expect: Rescuing Wildlife will be presented by Rachel Rainbolt from CROW (Clinic for Rehabilitation of Wildlife) as the first talk in a series of free Calusa Blueway-related programs. This year's series will include programs on what to do if you encounter injured wildlife, how to make your own Greenland paddle, and multiple accounts of kayaking adventures.
Tips / Notes:
The Recreation Center is closed Dec. 24 through Jan. 8 for holidays and building maintenance; the park remains open.
Dogs are allowed only in the dog park on site; it's called Woof-a-Hatchee.
Free WiFi is available both inside the rec center and on park grounds.
Pickleball and tennis courts are first come, first served.
History: Wa-Ke Hatchee Park takes its name from a combination of Native American names combining cow and water. A creek that cuts through the property was an important watering hole for Florida cowboys as the last source of fresh water for their cattle as they headed to Punta Rassa for shipment to Cuba. The recreation center is an innovative, cooperative venture between Lee County Parks and Recreation and the Lee County School Board. Most of the facility is an independent recreation center that is open to the public throughout the day. The gymnasium is dividable and shared with Lexington Middle School during the school day and during school special events. During the evenings and weekends, the recreation center uses the entire gymnasium.
Info: www.LeeParks.org or 239-432-2154. Calusa Blueway Trail information is at www.calusablueway.com or www.leeparks.org/blueway.
Driving directions: Turn onto Bass Road from Summerlin Road. Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center is located next to Lexington Country Club.
About us: Lee County Parks & Recreation has 250 positions, a $33 million budget and more than 31,500 acres of parks, preserves, facilities and other sites. The department oversees four recreation centers, 10 community centers, community parks, Conservation 20/20 lands, greenways, the Calusa Blueway Paddling Trail, four year-round pools, seven boat ramps, sports complexes including the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins spring training facilities, dog-friendly facilities and pristine Gulf of Mexico beach parks.
Contact us at 239-533-7275 or leeparks@leegov.com.

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