Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts

Monday, March 22, 2010

Yeah he did!


I don't want to hear this shit anymore from these haters "Obama has been in office a whole year and hasn't done anything, nor has he kept any of his promises." Besides the obvious bullshit of that statement, Obama has finally fulfilled the U.S.A.'s promise to its citizen all the way back to the establishment of the U.N. Deceleration of Human Rights of 1948 in article 25 which states(UN.org):
"* (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."
If you need to be refreshed, the UN was established as a replacement for the League of Nations after the second World war and was encouraged by the current president at the time Harry Truman. In a letter to the UN delegates President Truman wrote
"We represent the overwhelming majority of all mankind. We Speak for people who have endured the most savage and devastating war ever inflicted upon innocent men, women and children. We hold a powerful mandate from our people. . . . . We must build a new world " a far better world " one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected. (rightstohealthcare)"

Past presidents who tried to make it happen and failed include Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton (Slate.com) That isn't including his other accomplishments such as the Stimulus bill that goes to help tax payers, the opposite of TARP. He has strengthened foreign relations at a time in which the United States was loosing influence due to the economy, and finally telling Israel to stop their expansion into Palestine territory if they ever truly want peace. With that out in the open, tell me a more successful first year of a presidency that you remember?

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

So we shouldn't protest out of respect for CHINA?



"We are begging for five hours of peace,"
Sam Ng, president of the Chinese Six Companies

"If I support the Olympics, of course I don't support the protests. This is the first time China has had the Olympics. We should be proud of this,"
Ling Li, 29, who immigrated to San Francisco from China's Guangdong Province eight years ago

These statements were in regards to the numerous protest of China's human rights policy. The Olympic torch relay has been marred in protest in various countries, and today the torch made its way to beautiful San Fransisco California.
Ling Li was so proud of China and her time there she decided to move to one of the most liberal cities in America. RIGHT, that makes sense. Games that have no impact on reality except for bragging rights are much more important than human rights. Where are my priorities sycronized Swimming brings the world together, I am sure that the 14 year olds in the nike factories appreciate the surge in workload. Doing their part for their countries first Olympics.
Lets go over some rules in the Olympic village that will make this years so exciting:
1. All athletes will be prohibited from taking their own food into the Beijing Olympic Games Village (China.org.cn)
2.U.S. athletes can criticize China's human rights record if asked about it at any time or place—as long as it isn't at a news conference organized for that purpose in an "Olympic area." (Chicago Tribune)

"The act (interfering with the torch relay) will surely arouse the resentment
of the peace-loving people, and is bound to fail," the spokesman was quoted as
saying, adding that the Olympic flame represents "peace, friendship and
progress."(CNN)
-unnamed spokesman from the Beijing Olympics organizing committee -
Peace, Friendship and Progress
Look quick, its freedom in action

Monday, January 14, 2008

RIOTS, now thats just dirty

You dont see these pictures in the Italian travel agencies.





The Italian army moved into Naples as tensions over the city's mounting rubbish
crisis erupted in violence. Entire districts of the city are lying submerged
under more than 5,000 tons of waste. The pile is growing at the rate of 800 tons
a day. No rubbish has been collected in Naples since Dec 21, when the city's
dumps reached their capacity. While the residents are furious at the stink, and
the risk of disease, there have also been protests at plans to create new dumps
or reopen old ones. Riots broke out at Pianura, the site of an enormous open-air
dump that the locals say pollutes the area with deadly dioxins...the Italian
prime minister, sent in the army to restore calm and to start shifting the
rubbish from the city. "We are taking charge," he said, "because the
world is watching and I do not want them to have this negative image of Italy".
Army engineers used bulldozers to clear waste from schools in the
Caserta region. The government called for the schools to be opened, but no
students arrived. Clemente Mastella, the justice minister, said the dead hand of
the Camorra, or Neapolitan mafia, was behind the crisis. "People who set
fire to buses are not citizens, but usually people sent by the mafia
,"
he said. It is in the Camorra's interests for rubbish to build up in the city,
since the clans own most of the rubbish recycling companies that would
eventually win contracts to dispose of the waste. (Speigalonlineinternational)



Thats right prime minister, it isnt your fault you are just controlling the situation. There is no way to know if a landfill is almost full, except by looking at it. I understand you though, that takes to much effort, and it is stinky at those landfills. If all else fails, blame it on the Mafia. BUT WAIT HE HAS A PLAN, "LETS PUT ALL THE TRASH ON THAT CITY(Pianura, Sardina). This is what they think of your grand idea.


Democracy in action, kick his ass. He has no right to protest.


In the past week, the municipalities surrounding the Pianura garbage dump have
seen next to no government presence. Rioters controlled the area, the crater of
an extinct volcano, until last Wednesday. There were checkpoints and burning
piles of tires, while residents had to deal with young men armed with sticks,
their faces covered. When the dump was closed in 1996, after having been used
for more than 40 years, residents were promised that the site would be converted
into a golf course. The fact that garbage trucks are back, instead of golf
carts, hasn't exactly boosted residents' confidence in their local politicians.
"We did our part. We pay taxes, and we too are Europeans," says Patrizia, a
50-year-old hotel worker, who is thin and smokes. "I'm tired of wasting away,"
she adds. She's talking about the garbage, the hooligans, the politicians, the
stench, the Camorra -- in short, life. Meanwhile, the garbage is spreading -- by
1,100 tons a day in Naples alone. Since the dumps have been filled to capacity,
garbage is no longer being picked up in the suburbs, where it litters the
streets in the form of rotting piles shredded by traffic, dogs and rats. Waste
disposal fees are higher in Naples than elsewhere in Italy. Nevertheless, in the
past few decades regional officials have come up with no better idea than to
fill their craters, basalt caves, quarries and low-lying areas with garbage. In
1994, the region was ordered to clean up all unregulated garbage dumps and
develop a waste disposal program that includes garbage separation and recycling.
Fourteen years and close to €2 billion later, none of the region's three waste
incinerators is operational and the garbage separation rate is one of the lowest
in the country. Closed dumps are being reopened, and yet the region -- with the
exception of Pompeii and the office of Vice President Valiante -- is full of
trash (Speigalonlineinternational)

Take away peoples rights they will destroy the place, now make money hahahahah

Naples'
rubbish crisis
could end up costing the region's economy 500 million euros
(740 million dollars) in lost business, thousands of jobs and tar the region's
image for years to come, local officials warned Sunday..."The losses could run
up to 500 million euros because of the tarnished image of the Campania region,
in terms of cancelled bookings in the hotel sector and lost orders for farmers,
both from at home and abroad," the farmers' union Coldiretti agreed, in a
statement on its website Sunday. (
France24)