The Fourth of July

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The Fourth of July celebration is the anniversary of the publication of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain in 1776. It is one of our biggest celebrations annually celebrated on July 4[SUP]th[/SUP]. Patriotic displays and family events are organized throughout the United States. Independence Day is a day of family celebrations with picnics and barbecues, showing a great deal of emphasis on the American tradition of political freedom.

Many people display the American flag outside their homes or buildings. Many communities arrange fireworks that are often accompanied by patriotic music. Some employees use one or more of their vacation days to create a long weekend so that they can escape the heat at their favorite beach or vacation spot.

Independence Day is a patriotic holiday for celebrating the positive aspects of the United States. Many politicians appear at public events to show their support for the history, heritage and people of their country. Above all, people in the United States express and give thanks for the freedom and liberties fought by the first generation of many of today's Americans. The Statue of Liberty is a national monument that is associated with Independence Day. The crescendo of the celebrations usually is the fireworks at the end of the day. Whole families go out and watch their local fireworks.


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This post belongs on some Pro American suck up forum

We know what America is and does and there is NOTHING to celebrate apart from mass murder annually

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1]US CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & GLOBAL TERRORISM[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1]US Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction[/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]The indiscriminate use of bombs by the US, usually outside a declared war [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]situation, for wanton destruction, for no military objectives, whose [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]targets and victims are civilian populations, or what we now call [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"collateral damage."[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Japan (1945)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]China (1945-46)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Korea & China (1950-53)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Guatemala (1954, 1960, 1967-69)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Indonesia (1958)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Cuba (1959-61)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Congo (1964)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Peru (1965)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Laos (1964-70)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Vietnam (1961-1973)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Cambodia (1969-70)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Grenada (1983)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Lebanon (1983-84)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Libya (1986)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]El Salvador (1980s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Nicaragua (1980s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Iran (1987)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Panama (1989)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Iraq (1991-2000)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Kuwait (1991)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Somalia (1993)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Bosnia (1994-95)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Sudan (1998)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Afghanistan (1998)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Pakistan (1998)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Yugoslavia (1999)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Bulgaria (1999)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Macedonia (1999)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]US Use of Chemical & Biological Weapons[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]The US has refused to sign Conventions against the development and use of [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]chemical and biological weapons, and has either used or tested (without [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]informing the civilian populations) these weapons in the following [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]locations abroad:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Bahamas (late 1940s-mid-1950s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Canada (1953)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]China and Korea (1950-53)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Korea (1967-69)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1961-1970)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Panama (1940s-1990s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Cuba (1962, 69, 70, 71, 81, 96)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]And the US has tested such weapons on US civilian populations, without [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]their knowledge, in the following locations:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Watertown, NY and US Virgin Islands (1950)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]SF Bay Area (1950, 1957-67)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Minneapolis (1953)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]St. Louis (1953)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Washington, DC Area (1953, 1967)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Florida (1955)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Savannah GA/Avon Park, FL (1956-58)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]New York City (1956, 1966)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Chicago (1960)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]And the US has encouraged the use of such weapons, and provided the [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]technology to develop such weapons in various nations abroad, including:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Egypt[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]South Africa[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Iraq[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]US Political and Military Interventions since 1945[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests), [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]It has done so in nations such as[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]China (1945-51)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] South Africa (1960s-1980s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]France (1947)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Bolivia (1964-75)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Marshall Islands (1946-58)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Australia (1972-75)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Italy (1947-1975)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Iraq (1972-75)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Greece (1947-49)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Portugal (1974-76)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Philippines (1945-53)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] East Timor (1975-99)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Korea (1945-53)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Ecuador (1975)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Albania (1949-53)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Argentina (1976)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Eastern Europe (1948-56)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Pakistan (1977)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Germany (1950s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Angola (1975-1980s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Iran (1953)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Jamaica (1976)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Guatemala (1953-1990s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Honduras (1980s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Nicaragua (1980s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Middle East (1956-58)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Philippines (1970s-90s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Indonesia (1957-58)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Seychelles (1979-81)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Haiti (1959)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] South Yemen (1979-84)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Western Europe (1950s-1960s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] South Korea (1980)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Guyana (1953-64)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Chad (1981-82)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Iraq (1958-63)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Grenada (1979-83)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Vietnam (1945-53)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Suriname (1982-84)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Cambodia (1955-73)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Libya (1981-89)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Laos (1957-73)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Fiji (1987)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Thailand (1965-73)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Panama (1989)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Ecuador (1960-63)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Afghanistan (1979-92)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Congo (1960-65, 1977-78)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] El Salvador (1980-92)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Algeria (1960s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Haiti (1987-94)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Brazil (1961-64)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Bulgaria (1990-91)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Peru (1965)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Albania (1991-92)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Dominican Republic (1963-65)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Somalia (1993)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Cuba (1959-present)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Iraq (1990s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Indonesia (1965)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Peru (1990-present)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Ghana (1966)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Mexico (1990-present)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Uruguay (1969-72)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Colombia (1990-present)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Chile (1964-73)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] Yugoslavia (1995-99)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Greece (1967-74)[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]US Perversions of Foreign Elections[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]elections, and sometimes engineered sham "demonstration" elections to ward [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]practices have occurred in nations such as:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Philippines (1950s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Italy (1948-1970s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Lebanon (1950s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Indonesia (1955)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Vietnam (1955)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Guyana (1953-64)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Japan (1958-1970s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Nepal (1959)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Laos (1960)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Brazil (1962)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Dominican Republic (1962)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Guatemala (1963)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Bolivia (1966)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Chile (1964-70)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Portugal (1974-75)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Australia (1974-75)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Jamaica (1976)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]El Salvador (1984)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Panama (1984, 89)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Nicaragua (1984, 90)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Haiti (1987, 88)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Bulgaria (1990-91)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Albania (1991-92)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Russia (1996)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Mongolia (1996)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Bosnia (1998)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]US Versus World at the United Nations[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]The US has repeatedly acted to undermine peace and human rights initiatives [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]at the United Nations, routinely voting against hundreds of UN resolutions [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]and treaties. The US easily has the worst record of any nation on not[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]supporting UN treaties. In almost all of its hundreds of "no" votes, the US [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]was the "sole" nation to vote no (among the 100-130 nations that usually [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]vote), and among only 1 or 2 other nations voting no the rest of the time. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Here's a representative sample of US votes from 1978-1987:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]US Is the Sole "No" Vote on Resolutions or Treaties[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For aid to underdeveloped nations[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For the promotion of developing nation exports[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For UN promotion of human rights[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For protecting developing nations in trade agreements[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For New International Economic Order for underdeveloped nations[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For development as a human right[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus multinational corporate operations in South Africa[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For cooperative models in developing nations[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For right of nations to economic system of their choice[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus chemical and biological weapons (at least 3 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus Namibian apartheid[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For economic/standard of living rights as human rights[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus apartheid South African aggression vs. neighboring states (2 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus foreign investments in apartheid South Africa[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For world charter to protect ecology[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For anti-apartheid convention[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For anti-apartheid convention in international sports[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For nuclear test ban treaty (at least 2 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For prevention of arms race in outer space[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For UNESCO-sponsored new world information order (at least 2 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For international law to protect economic rights[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For Transport & Communications Decade in Africa[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus naval arms race[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For Independent Commission on Disarmament & Security Issues[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For UN response mechanism for natural disasters[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For the Right to Food[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For Report of Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For UN study on military development[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For Commemoration of 25th anniversary of Independence for Colonial Countries[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For Industrial Development Decade in Africa[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For interdependence of economic and political rights[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For improved UN response to human rights abuses[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For protection of rights of migrant workers[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For protection against products harmful to health and the environment[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For a Convention on the Rights of the Child[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For training journalists in the developing world[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For international cooperation on third world debt[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For a UN Conference on Trade & Development[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]US Is 1 of Only 2 "No" Votes on Resolutions or Treaties[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For Palestinian living conditions/rights (at least 8 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus foreign intervention into other nations[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For a UN Conference on Women[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus nuclear test explosions (at least 2 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For the non-use of nuclear weapons vs. non-nuclear states[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For a Middle East nuclear free zone[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus Israeli nuclear weapons (at least 2 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For a new world international economic order[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For a trade union conference on sanctions vs. South Africa[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For the Law of the Sea Treaty[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For economic assistance to Palestinians[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For UN measures against fascist activities and groups[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For international cooperation on money/finance/debt/trade/development[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For a Zone of Peace in the South Atlantic[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For compliance with Intl Court of Justice decision for Nicaragua vs. US.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]**For a conference and measures to prevent international terrorism [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica](including its underlying causes)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For ending the trade embargo vs. Nicaragua[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]US Is 1 of Only 3 "No" Votes on Resolutions and Treaties[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus Israeli human rights abuses (at least 6 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus South African apartheid (at least 4 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus return of refugees to Israel[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For ending nuclear arms race (at least 2 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For an embargo on apartheid South Africa[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For South African liberation from apartheid (at least 3 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For the independence of colonial nations[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For the UN Decade for Women[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Versus harmful foreign economic practices in colonial territories[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For a Middle East Peace Conference[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]For ending the embargo of Cuba (at least 10 times)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]In addition, the US has:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Repeatedly withheld its dues from the UN[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Twice left UNESCO because of its human rights initiatives[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Twice left the International Labor Organization for its workers rights [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]initiatives[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Refused to renew the Antiballistic Missile Treaty[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Refused to back the World Health Organization's ban on infant formula abuses[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Refused to sign the Anti-Biological Weapons Convention[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Refused to sign the Convention against the use of land mines[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Refused to participate in the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Been one of the last nations in the world to sign the UN Covenant on [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Political &[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Civil Rights (30 years after its creation)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Refused to sign the UN Covenant on Economic & Social Rights[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Opposed the emerging new UN Covenant on the Rights to Peace, Development & [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Environmental Protection[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Sampling of Deaths >From US Military Interventions & Propping Up Corrupt [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Dictators (using the most conservative estimates)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Nicaragua[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 30,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Brazil[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 100,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Korea[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 4 million dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Guatemala[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 200,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Honduras[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 20,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]El Salvador[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 63,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Argentina[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 40,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Bolivia[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 10,000 dead[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Uruguay[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 10,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Ecuador[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 10,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Peru[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 10,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Iraq[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 1.3 million dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Iran[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 30,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Sudan[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 8-10,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Colombia[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 50,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Panama[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 5,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Japan[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 140,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Afghanistan[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 10,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Somalia[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 5000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Philippines[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 150,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Haiti[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 100,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Dominican Republic[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 10,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Libya[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 500 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Macedonia[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 1000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]South Africa[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 10,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Pakistan[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 10,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Palestine[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 40,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Indonesia[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 1 million dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]East Timor[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 1/3-1/2 of total population[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Greece[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 10,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Laos[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 600,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Cambodia[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 1 million dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Angola[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 300,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Grenada[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 500 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Congo[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 2 million dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Egypt[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 10,000 dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Vietnam[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 1.5 million dead[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Chile[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] 50,000 dead[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Other Lethal US Interventions[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]CIA Terror Training Manuals[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Development and distribution of training manuals for foreign military [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]personnel or foreign nationals, including instructions on assassination, [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]subversion, sabotage, population control, torture, repression, [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]psychological torture, death squads, etc.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Specific Torture Campaigns[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Creation and launching of direct US campaigns to support torture as an [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]instrument of terror and social control for governments in Greece, Iran, [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Vietnam, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Supporting and Harboring Terrorists[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]The promotion, protection, arming or equiping of terrorists such as:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]. Klaus Barbie and other German Nazis, and Italian and Japanese fascists, [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]after WW II[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]. Manual Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Rafael Trujillo [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica](Dominican Republic), Osama bin Laden (Afghanistan), and others whose[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]terrorism has come back to haunt us[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]. Running the Higher War College (Brazil) and first School of the Americas [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica](Panama), which gave US training to repressors, death squad members, and [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]torturers (the second School of the Americas is still running at Ft. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Benning GA)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]. Providing asylum for Cuban, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Haitian, Chilean, [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Argentinian, Iranian, South Vietnamese and other terrorists, dictators, and [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]torturers[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Assassinating World Leaders[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Using assassination as a tool of foreign policy, wherein the CIA has [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]initiated assassination attempts against at least 40 foreign heads of state [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica](some several times) in the last 50 years, a number of which have been [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]successful, such as: Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Republic), Ngo Dihn Diem (Vietnam) Salvador Allende (Chile)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Arms Trade & US Military Presence[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]. The US is the world's largest seller of weapons abroad, arming [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]dictators, militaries, and terrorists that repress or victimize their[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]populations, and fueling scores of violent conflicts around the globe[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]. The US is the world's largest provider of live land mines which, even in [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]peacetime, kill or injure at least several people around the world each day[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]. The US has military bases in at least 50 nations around the world, which [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]have led to frequent victimization of local populations.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]. The US military has been bombing one Middle Eastern or Muslim nation or [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]another almost continuously since 1983, including Lebanon, Libya, Syria, [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (almost daily bombings since 1991)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]This, then, is a sampling of American foreign policies over the last 50 [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]years. The FBI uses the following definition for Terrorism: "The unlawful [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]of political or social objectives." This sounds like the terrorism we just [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]experienced. It also sounds a lot like the US policies and actions since [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]1945 that I've just described.[/FONT]
 
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Mind_Master

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Wish you guys Happy 4th of July ! :yes:

Pay no attention to some morons on this forum as Celebrating Independence Day is important for any nation. One must not forget its own history and remember how important Freedom really is. All the best!
 
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tudywala

Minister (2k+ posts)
UKPakistani said:
This post belongs on some Pro American suck up forum

We know what America is and does and there is NOTHING to celebrate apart from mass murder annually

[SIZE=+1]US CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & GLOBAL TERRORISM[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]US Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction[/SIZE]

The indiscriminate use of bombs by the US, usually outside a declared war
situation, for wanton destruction, for no military objectives, whose
targets and victims are civilian populations, or what we now call
"collateral damage."

Japan (1945)
China (1945-46)
Korea & China (1950-53)
Guatemala (1954, 1960, 1967-69)
Indonesia (1958)
Cuba (1959-61)
Congo (1964)
Peru (1965)
Laos (1964-70)
Vietnam (1961-1973)
Cambodia (1969-70)
Grenada (1983)
Lebanon (1983-84)
Libya (1986)
El Salvador (1980s)
Nicaragua (1980s)
Iran (1987)
Panama (1989)
Iraq (1991-2000)
Kuwait (1991)
Somalia (1993)
Bosnia (1994-95)
Sudan (1998)
Afghanistan (1998)
Pakistan (1998)
Yugoslavia (1999)
Bulgaria (1999)
Macedonia (1999)
US Use of Chemical & Biological Weapons
The US has refused to sign Conventions against the development and use of
chemical and biological weapons, and has either used or tested (without
informing the civilian populations) these weapons in the following
locations abroad:
Bahamas (late 1940s-mid-1950s)
Canada (1953)
China and Korea (1950-53)
Korea (1967-69)
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1961-1970)
Panama (1940s-1990s)
Cuba (1962, 69, 70, 71, 81, 96)
And the US has tested such weapons on US civilian populations, without
their knowledge, in the following locations:
Watertown, NY and US Virgin Islands (1950)
SF Bay Area (1950, 1957-67)
Minneapolis (1953)
St. Louis (1953)
Washington, DC Area (1953, 1967)
Florida (1955)
Savannah GA/Avon Park, FL (1956-58)
New York City (1956, 1966)
Chicago (1960)
And the US has encouraged the use of such weapons, and provided the
technology to develop such weapons in various nations abroad, including:
Egypt
South Africa
Iraq
US Political and Military Interventions since 1945
The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since
1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in
political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting
opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests),
undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth.
It has done so in nations such as
China (1945-51)
South Africa (1960s-1980s)
France (1947)
Bolivia (1964-75)
Marshall Islands (1946-58)
Australia (1972-75)
Italy (1947-1975)
Iraq (1972-75)
Greece (1947-49)
Portugal (1974-76)
Philippines (1945-53)
East Timor (1975-99)
Korea (1945-53)
Ecuador (1975)
Albania (1949-53)
Argentina (1976)
Eastern Europe (1948-56)
Pakistan (1977)
Germany (1950s)
Angola (1975-1980s)
Iran (1953)
Jamaica (1976)
Guatemala (1953-1990s)
Honduras (1980s)
Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71)
Nicaragua (1980s)
Middle East (1956-58)
Philippines (1970s-90s)
Indonesia (1957-58)
Seychelles (1979-81)
Haiti (1959)
South Yemen (1979-84)
Western Europe (1950s-1960s)
South Korea (1980)
Guyana (1953-64)
Chad (1981-82)
Iraq (1958-63)
Grenada (1979-83)
Vietnam (1945-53)
Suriname (1982-84)
Cambodia (1955-73)
Libya (1981-89)
Laos (1957-73)
Fiji (1987)
Thailand (1965-73)
Panama (1989)
Ecuador (1960-63)
Afghanistan (1979-92)
Congo (1960-65, 1977-78)
El Salvador (1980-92)
Algeria (1960s)
Haiti (1987-94)
Brazil (1961-64)
Bulgaria (1990-91)
Peru (1965)
Albania (1991-92)
Dominican Republic (1963-65)
Somalia (1993)
Cuba (1959-present)
Iraq (1990s)
Indonesia (1965)
Peru (1990-present)
Ghana (1966)
Mexico (1990-present)
Uruguay (1969-72)
Colombia (1990-present)
Chile (1964-73)
Yugoslavia (1995-99)
Greece (1967-74)

US Perversions of Foreign Elections
The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign
elections, and sometimes engineered sham "demonstration" elections to ward
off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere
of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in
power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such
practices have occurred in nations such as:
Philippines (1950s)
Italy (1948-1970s)
Lebanon (1950s)
Indonesia (1955)
Vietnam (1955)
Guyana (1953-64)
Japan (1958-1970s)
Nepal (1959)
Laos (1960)
Brazil (1962)
Dominican Republic (1962)
Guatemala (1963)
Bolivia (1966)
Chile (1964-70)
Portugal (1974-75)
Australia (1974-75)
Jamaica (1976)
El Salvador (1984)
Panama (1984, 89)
Nicaragua (1984, 90)
Haiti (1987, 88)
Bulgaria (1990-91)
Albania (1991-92)
Russia (1996)
Mongolia (1996)
Bosnia (1998)
US Versus World at the United Nations
The US has repeatedly acted to undermine peace and human rights initiatives
at the United Nations, routinely voting against hundreds of UN resolutions
and treaties. The US easily has the worst record of any nation on not
supporting UN treaties. In almost all of its hundreds of "no" votes, the US
was the "sole" nation to vote no (among the 100-130 nations that usually
vote), and among only 1 or 2 other nations voting no the rest of the time.
Here's a representative sample of US votes from 1978-1987:
US Is the Sole "No" Vote on Resolutions or Treaties
For aid to underdeveloped nations
For the promotion of developing nation exports
For UN promotion of human rights
For protecting developing nations in trade agreements
For New International Economic Order for underdeveloped nations
For development as a human right
Versus multinational corporate operations in South Africa
For cooperative models in developing nations
For right of nations to economic system of their choice
Versus chemical and biological weapons (at least 3 times)
Versus Namibian apartheid
For economic/standard of living rights as human rights
Versus apartheid South African aggression vs. neighboring states (2 times)
Versus foreign investments in apartheid South Africa
For world charter to protect ecology
For anti-apartheid convention
For anti-apartheid convention in international sports
For nuclear test ban treaty (at least 2 times)
For prevention of arms race in outer space
For UNESCO-sponsored new world information order (at least 2 times)
For international law to protect economic rights
For Transport & Communications Decade in Africa
Versus manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction
Versus naval arms race
For Independent Commission on Disarmament & Security Issues
For UN response mechanism for natural disasters
For the Right to Food
For Report of Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination
For UN study on military development
For Commemoration of 25th anniversary of Independence for Colonial Countries
For Industrial Development Decade in Africa
For interdependence of economic and political rights
For improved UN response to human rights abuses
For protection of rights of migrant workers
For protection against products harmful to health and the environment
For a Convention on the Rights of the Child
For training journalists in the developing world
For international cooperation on third world debt
For a UN Conference on Trade & Development
US Is 1 of Only 2 "No" Votes on Resolutions or Treaties
For Palestinian living conditions/rights (at least 8 times)
Versus foreign intervention into other nations
For a UN Conference on Women
Versus nuclear test explosions (at least 2 times)
For the non-use of nuclear weapons vs. non-nuclear states
For a Middle East nuclear free zone
Versus Israeli nuclear weapons (at least 2 times)
For a new world international economic order
For a trade union conference on sanctions vs. South Africa
For the Law of the Sea Treaty
For economic assistance to Palestinians
For UN measures against fascist activities and groups
For international cooperation on money/finance/debt/trade/development
For a Zone of Peace in the South Atlantic
For compliance with Intl Court of Justice decision for Nicaragua vs. US.
**For a conference and measures to prevent international terrorism
(including its underlying causes)
For ending the trade embargo vs. Nicaragua
US Is 1 of Only 3 "No" Votes on Resolutions and Treaties
Versus Israeli human rights abuses (at least 6 times)
Versus South African apartheid (at least 4 times)
Versus return of refugees to Israel
For ending nuclear arms race (at least 2 times)
For an embargo on apartheid South Africa
For South African liberation from apartheid (at least 3 times)
For the independence of colonial nations
For the UN Decade for Women
Versus harmful foreign economic practices in colonial territories
For a Middle East Peace Conference
For ending the embargo of Cuba (at least 10 times)
In addition, the US has:
Repeatedly withheld its dues from the UN
Twice left UNESCO because of its human rights initiatives
Twice left the International Labor Organization for its workers rights
initiatives
Refused to renew the Antiballistic Missile Treaty
Refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming
Refused to back the World Health Organization's ban on infant formula abuses
Refused to sign the Anti-Biological Weapons Convention
Refused to sign the Convention against the use of land mines
Refused to participate in the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban
Been one of the last nations in the world to sign the UN Covenant on
Political &
Civil Rights (30 years after its creation)
Refused to sign the UN Covenant on Economic & Social Rights
Opposed the emerging new UN Covenant on the Rights to Peace, Development &
Environmental Protection
Sampling of Deaths >From US Military Interventions & Propping Up Corrupt
Dictators (using the most conservative estimates)
Nicaragua
30,000 dead
Brazil
100,000 dead
Korea
4 million dead
Guatemala
200,000 dead
Honduras
20,000 dead
El Salvador
63,000 dead
Argentina
40,000 dead
Bolivia
10,000 dead

Uruguay
10,000 dead
Ecuador
10,000 dead
Peru
10,000 dead
Iraq
1.3 million dead
Iran
30,000 dead
Sudan
8-10,000 dead
Colombia
50,000 dead
Panama
5,000 dead
Japan
140,000 dead
Afghanistan
10,000 dead
Somalia
5000 dead
Philippines
150,000 dead
Haiti
100,000 dead
Dominican Republic
10,000 dead
Libya
500 dead
Macedonia
1000 dead
South Africa
10,000 dead
Pakistan
10,000 dead
Palestine
40,000 dead
Indonesia
1 million dead
East Timor
1/3-1/2 of total population
Greece
10,000 dead
Laos
600,000 dead
Cambodia
1 million dead
Angola
300,000 dead
Grenada
500 dead
Congo
2 million dead
Egypt
10,000 dead
Vietnam
1.5 million dead
Chile
50,000 dead

Other Lethal US Interventions
CIA Terror Training Manuals
Development and distribution of training manuals for foreign military
personnel or foreign nationals, including instructions on assassination,
subversion, sabotage, population control, torture, repression,
psychological torture, death squads, etc.
Specific Torture Campaigns
Creation and launching of direct US campaigns to support torture as an
instrument of terror and social control for governments in Greece, Iran,
Vietnam, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama
Supporting and Harboring Terrorists
The promotion, protection, arming or equiping of terrorists such as:
. Klaus Barbie and other German Nazis, and Italian and Japanese fascists,
after WW II
. Manual Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Rafael Trujillo
(Dominican Republic), Osama bin Laden (Afghanistan), and others whose
terrorism has come back to haunt us
. Running the Higher War College (Brazil) and first School of the Americas
(Panama), which gave US training to repressors, death squad members, and
torturers (the second School of the Americas is still running at Ft.
Benning GA)
. Providing asylum for Cuban, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Haitian, Chilean,
Argentinian, Iranian, South Vietnamese and other terrorists, dictators, and
torturers
Assassinating World Leaders
Using assassination as a tool of foreign policy, wherein the CIA has
initiated assassination attempts against at least 40 foreign heads of state
(some several times) in the last 50 years, a number of which have been
successful, such as: Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican
Republic), Ngo Dihn Diem (Vietnam) Salvador Allende (Chile)
Arms Trade & US Military Presence
. The US is the world's largest seller of weapons abroad, arming
dictators, militaries, and terrorists that repress or victimize their
populations, and fueling scores of violent conflicts around the globe
. The US is the world's largest provider of live land mines which, even in
peacetime, kill or injure at least several people around the world each day
. The US has military bases in at least 50 nations around the world, which
have led to frequent victimization of local populations.
. The US military has been bombing one Middle Eastern or Muslim nation or
another almost continuously since 1983, including Lebanon, Libya, Syria,
Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (almost daily bombings since 1991)
This, then, is a sampling of American foreign policies over the last 50
years. The FBI uses the following definition for Terrorism: "The unlawful
use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some
connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national
boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a
government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance
of political or social objectives." This sounds like the terrorism we just
experienced. It also sounds a lot like the US policies and actions since
1945 that I've just described.
Click to expand...
U forgot biggest one againest Native Indians
 
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