Hey....amigo, BUSH does not represent US, he's just a contracted worker,
he will be
replaced by the end of this year. So don't worry, Ok Amigo? Mucho mucho
Taco for you magnana ok?
El Tico
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> Beijing: China on Wednesday voiced strong opposition to the U.S. State
> Department's 2007 Human Rights Re****t that criticises China's human
> rights conditions.
>
> "China is willing to have dialogue and exchange of views with other
> countries on the human rights issue," said Chinese Foreign Ministry
> spokesman Qin Gang.
>
> However, the spokesman stressed that the country sternly opposes to
> any intervention to the internal affairs of other countries in excuse
> of human rights concern. Qin said, responding to the re****ters'
> question on the U.S. "Country Re****ts on Human Rights Practices for
> 2007",
>
> that China respects and safeguards human rights and the Chinese
> government adheres to a policy that calls for "putting people first."
>
> Qin said the U.S. annual re****t "again ignored basic facts", and
> willfully distorted and groundlessly criticized China's ethnic,
> religious and legal systems, which was "quite mistaken" and will never
> succeed in its attempt.
>
> "We suggest the U.S. government to stop depicting itself as a human
> rights watchdog and focus more on its own human rights problems", Qin
> said, demanding the U.S. to stop its wrongdoing such as issuing the so-
> called country re****ts on human rights practices, playing double
> standard on the human rights issue and interfere with the internal
> affairs of other countries.
>
> Meanwhile, Russia on Wednesday denounced an annual re****t issued by
> the United States on human rights that criticized Moscow, saying it's
> full of groundless accusation and a demonstration of dual standards.
>
> "The latest re****ts ... contain the standard set of objections
> concerning Russia in a mentor's tone, departure from democratic
> principles in government, harassment of dissenters and pressure on the
> press and restriction of freedom of speech," Interfax news agency
> cited a Foreign Ministry statement as saying.
>
> "Many of the sections are copied from the previous re****ts. One gets
> the impression that the State Department simply collected facts to
> sup****t conclusions formulated in advance," the ministry says.
>
> Wa****ngton's "Country Re****ts on Human Rights Practices for 2007" has
> been rejected by many states. - Xinhua
>
> China issues Human Rights record of US in 2007
>
> CHINA: The re****t says that the deserved economic, social and cultural
> rights of US citizens have not been properly protected.
>
> Poor population in the United States is constantly increasing.
> According to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau in August
> 2007, the official poverty rate in 2006 was 12.3 percent. There were
> 36.5 million people, or 7.7 million families living in poverty in
> 2006.
>
> In another word, almost one out of eight U.S. citizens lives in
> poverty.
>
> The wealth of the richest group in the United States has rapidly
> expanded in recent years, widening the earning gap between the rich
> and poor. The earnings of the highest one percent of the population
> accounted for 21.2 percent of U.S. total national income in 2005,
> compared with 19 percent in 2004.
>
> The earnings of the lowest 50 percent of the population accounted for
> 12.8 percent of the total national income in 2005, down from 13.4
> percent in 2004, according to Reuters.
>
> Hungry and homeless people have increased significantly in U.S.
> cities. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a re****t released
> on November 14, 2007 that at least 35.5 million people in the United
> States, including 12.63 million children, went hungry in 2006, an
> increase of 390,000 from 2005.
>
> About 11 million people lived in "very low food security", according
> to Reuters.
>
> People without health insurance have been increasing in the United
> States. A Reuters re****t on September 20, 2007 quoted the U.S. Census
> Bureau as saying that 47 million people in the United States were not
> covered by health insurance.
>
> Racial discrimination is a deep-rooted social illness in the United
> States, the re****t says. Black people and other minor ethnic groups
> live in the bottom of the U.S. society.
>
> According to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau in August
> 2007, median income of black households was 31,969 U.S. dollars in
> 2006, or 61 percent of that for non-Hispanic white households. Median
> income for Hispanic households stood at 37,781 U.S. dollars, 72
> percent of that for non-Hispanic white households.
>
> The rates of blacks and Hispanics living in poverty and without health
> insurance are much higher than non-Hispanic whites, according to
> Wa****ngton Observer Weekly. Ethnic minorities have been subject to
> racial discrimination in employment and workplace.
>
> According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in November 2007, the
> unemployment rate for Black Americans was 8.4 percent, twice that of
> non-Hispanic Whites (4.2 percent).
>
> The unemployment rate for Hispanics was 5.7 percent. The jobless rates
> among blacks and Hispanics were much higher than that for non-Hispanic
> Whites. Racial discrimination in the U.S. judicial system is
> shocking.
>
> According to the 2007 annual re****t on the state of black Americans
> issued by the National Urban League (NUL), African Americans
> (especially males) are more likely than whites to be convicted and
> sentenced to longer terms. Blacks are seven times more likely than
> Whites to be incarcerated.
>
> The re****t says the conditions of women and children in the United
> States are worrisome. Women account for 51 percent of the U.S.
> population, but there are only 86 women serving in the 110th U.S.
> Congress. Women hold 16, or 16.0 percent of the 100 seats in the
> Senate and 70, or 16.1 percent of the 435 seats in the House of
> Representatives.
>
> In December 2007, there were 76 women serving in statewide elective
> executive offices, accounting for 24.1 percent of the total. The
> pro****tion of women in state legislature is 23.5 percent.
> Discrimination against women is pervasive in U.S. job market and
> workplaces.
>
> The U.S. Equal Employment Op****tunity Commission said it received
> 23,247 charges on ***-based discrimination in 2006, accounting for
> 30.7 percent of the total discrimination charges.
>
> The living conditions of U.S. children are of great concern. Houston
> Chronicle re****ted that a survey by the United Nations on 21 rich
> countries showed that though the United States was among the world's
> richest nations, its ranked only the 20th in the overall well-being of
> children.
>
> U.S. juveniles often fall victims of abuses and crimes. According to a
> re****t on school crimes in the United States released by the
> Department of Justice in December 2007, 57 out of one thousand U.S.
> students above the age of 12 were victims of violence and property
> crimes in 2005.
>
> U.S. troops have killed many innocent civilians in the anti-terrorism
> war in Afghanistan.
>
> The Wa****ngton Post re****ted on May 3, 2007 that as many as 51
> civilians were killed by U.S. soldiers in one week (Karzai Says
> Civilian Toll is No Longer Acceptable, The Wa****ngton Post, May 3,
> 2007).
>
> An Afghan human rights group said in a re****t that U.S. marine unit
> fired indiscriminately at pedestrians, people in cars, buses and taxis
> along a 10-mile stretch of road in Nangahar province on March 4,
> 2007 , killing 12 civilians, including one infant and three elders
> (New York Times, April 15, 2007).
>
> U.S. human rights records can be best described as tattered and
> shocking. The facts enlisted above are only a tip of an iceberg, the
> re****t says.
>
> It is high time for the U.S. government to face its own human rights
> problems with courage, take actions to improve its own human rights
> records and give up the unwise practices of applying double standards
> on human rights issues and using it to suppress other countries,
> according to the re****t.
>
> This is the ninth consecutive year that the Information Office of the
> State Council has issued human rights record of the United States to
> answer the U.S. State Department annual re****t.
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