January 2011
Mohandas Gandhi: For those of you in the U.S. Who want to do something tangible to help those on Egypt... →
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How to help Egypt
Call your Congress people and urge them to publicly support the Egyptians’ right to self-determination and free expression.
Egypt is an important U.S. ally—and we do a lot to help Mubarak stay in power. Making it costly for the U.S. to back up the Egyptian…
“The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing.”
—(via aiusayouth)
Mexican Drug Lord Officially Thanks American Lawmakers for Keeping Drugs Illegal →
huffingtonpost.com
.Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera reported head of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, ranked 701st on Forbes’ yearly report of the wealthiest men alive, and worth an estimated $1 billion, today officially thanked United States politicians for making sure that drugs remain illegal. According to one of his closest confidants, he said, “I couldn’t have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush, George Bush Jr., Ronald Reagan, even El Presidente Obama, none of them have the cajones to stand up to all the big money that wants to keep this stuff illegal. From the bottom of my heart, I want to say, Gracias amigos, I owe my whole empire to you.”
According to sources in the Mexican government, President Calderon is begging American officials to, in the words of reggae great Peter Tosh, legalize it. “Oh yeah,” said an official close to the Mexican president, “Felipe is going crazy. He’s screaming at everybody who comes in, ‘Why don’t they make this sh*t legal already! You’re killing me here!’ Look, everyone knows, when you have Prohibition, you create gangsters. And the more you prohibit, the more gangsters you make. El Chapo is hero now to all those slumdogs who want to be millionaires. Kids in the street, when they play games, they all want to be El Chapo, the baddest man in the whole damn town.”
Meanwhile, many speculate that rich and prominent Mexican families are in cahoots with American businessmen in the alcohol industry, wealthy industrialists who launder the unprecedented profits from the drug business with their legitimate enterprises, and lawmakers who get gigantic kickbacks and payoffs to make sure that these drugs remain illegal, so they can remain rich, fat and happy. According to sources on both sides of the border, tens of millions of dollars in payoffs and kickbacks are stashed in Swiss banks every year, blood money from the brutal business made possible by a corrupt system supported by laws that don’t, and have never, worked.
Rather than putting El Chapo and his kind out of business by modernizing outdated laws and in the process making billions of dollars from taxing drugs (as is done with cigarettes and alcohol), United States government has spent hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars chasing its tail, and offered a $5 million reward for the capture of El Chapo. Many have said that the offer is unofficially: Dead or Alive.
Meanwhile, as an epidemic of murderous violence rages on the Mexican-US border, and the American government wastes boatloads of badly needed money on the illegal drug business which results from the Prohibition laws, El Chapo is laughing all the way to the bank. “Whoever came up with this whole War on Drugs,” one of his lieutenants reports he said, “I would like to kiss him on the lips and shake his hand and buy him dinner with caviar and champagne. The War on Drugs is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and the day they decide to end that war, will be a sad one for me and all of my closest friends. And if you don’t believe me, ask those guys whose heads showed up in the ice chests.”
How you know when you need to desperately end a war:
When the news reports more military suicides than combat deaths for the millionth year in a row.
And why do you think all of these poor people are killing themselves? Perhaps it’s because they can’t live with what we made them see and do.
War is not a business and people aren’t machines. They think and feel. How many more deaths until enough is enough?
Facebook fails to alert police on child porn (video) →
exposereport.com
The management of Facebook repeatedly failed to reveal the activity of an international child pornography syndicate operating on the social networking site and ignored continuing admissions by one of the ring’s Australian members.
The failure was uncovered during an Australian Federal Police-led international investigation of the syndicate, which had operated via fake identities on the site.
”We are aware that Facebook knew of the existence of these pages and even went so far as to remove the profiles,” said the director of the AFP High Tech Crime Centre, Neil Gaughan.
My opinion: Facebook needs to do more than simply take down these profiles. Profiles, pictures, videos need to be reported to the police ASAP! not wait until it’s too late… days, weeks, months later when the child/children have already been hurt, exploited and posiibily gone missing/trafficked
Facebook does have the responsibility to protect users, especially Children and Teens. They need to take Action!
If you come across any form of child porn on Facebook, please Take Action! because only you will be the difference, only you can help save a child.
Report any form of child porn from Facebook including pictures, profiles, groups, videos to: www.missingkids.com
“If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.”
—George Clooney
More than 100,000 American children become sex slaves each year - DNA Foundation →
demiandashton.org
Did you know that…
- 12.3 million people are enslaved today worldwide
- In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation eradicating slavery, yet more than one million people are enslaved in the U.S. today.
- Two million children are bought and sold in the global commercial sex trade
- The average age of entry into commercial sex slavery in the United States is 13 years old
- The global sex slavery market generates $32 billion in profits each year
- Every 10 minutes, a woman or child is trafficked into the United States for forced labor
- Most “johns” are quite ordinary: 70-90% are married, and most are employed with no criminal record
- 76% of transactions for sex with underage girls are conducted via the internet
- The U.S. government spends 300 times more money per year to fight drug trafficking than it does to fight human trafficking
- Approximately 55% of girls living on the streets in the United States engage in commercial sex slavery. Girls from middle and upper class neighborhoods are also at risk
Open your eyes to human trafficking. Get informed, educate yourself and stand up against human trafficking and exploitation of Men, Women and Children.
