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Why Do They Hate Us?. U.S. has still not ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Abandoned Kyoto treaty Abandoned Anti-Ballistic missile treaty Rejected International Criminal Court Rejected Biological Warfare Treaty. Why Do They Hate Us?. Crappy Beer.
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Why Do TheyHate Us? • U.S. has still not ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. • Abandoned Kyoto treaty • Abandoned Anti-Ballistic missile treaty • Rejected International Criminal Court • Rejected Biological Warfare Treaty
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Crappy Beer
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Bombed 23 countries in 23 years
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Joey Buttafuoco • Tom Arnold
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Consumer CultureCrusade
Why Do TheyHate Us? • New Jersey
Why Do TheyHate Us? • U.S. supplies 62% of the world's arms • U.S. Targets a $452 billion military budget by 2007. • Announced a “Bomb First” policy – meaning it will make a pre-emptive strike on any nation it pleases. • Regularly attempts overthrows of Democratic leaders (Venezuela the latest)
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Mullets
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Military presence on every continent, including Holy Lands • Only nation to use a nuclear weapon to incinerate civilians • Its businesses use undemocratic forces (IMF, World Bank) to strangle domestic economies and force them to becomeneo-imperialistic labor farms or suffer crushing debt
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Fraternities and Sororities
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Wassup?!
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Financially supports and has supported non-democratic dictators who have committed human rights abuses, including torture, biological weapon use, theft, and general acts of tyranny against its own people • Voted off the UN commission for Human Rights
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Starbucks
Why Do TheyHate Us? • Stuff Magazine
Testimonials • Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth. – Henry Ford • Endless money forms the sinews of war - Cicero • The truth of the matter is that Iraq today is not a threat to its neighbors, and is not acting in a manner which threatens anyone outside of its own borders. – Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq • It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in. - General Colin Powell [When asked about the number of Iraqi people who were slaughtered by Americans in the 1991 "Desert Storm" campaign • The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world. - Amnesty International ["United States of America - Rights for All" October 1998]
Testimonials • If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace. – Nelson Mandela • If the American People ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the corporation that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.- Thomas Jefferson • No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. – HL Mencken • Freedom of press is limited to those who own one. – HL Mencken
Q & A • How can we increase our company’s profits? • Have you heard about all the clients we lost last quarter? Talk about collateral damage! • Have you seen this new cell phone? • What would Harry Potter do? • What time is American Idol on, fer chrissakes!!! • When will the Red Sox win a World Series??? • Did you hear that Matthew Perry is out of rehab? • Canada and Australia – more to them then hockey and kangaroos? • Wasssuuuppppp? Uh…How ya doin?!
