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Underage prostitution in the US is organized crime’s third biggest money-maker after guns and drugs. But the kids get blamed instead of the criminals. Young girls are put behind bars for walking the streets, with no offer of rescue or help.

­The US State Department regularly puts out reports on how horrific human trafficking is in other countries.

Yet for the home country, the FBI estimates that each year more than 100,000 underage American girls are exploited for commercial sex. The average age is 13 years old. But the usual treatment the children get, when arrested, is either jail time or probation.

In the US, prostitution laws do not exempt minors from prosecution. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention reported 1,600 juveniles were arrested for prostitution within just one year.

http://rt.com/news/underage-prostitution-trafficking-us/

A new law came into effect in France, banning women from wearing full-face veils in public. The law produced quite a controversial effect and risks igniting social tension in the country.

­From today forward a new French law bans all women covering their faces in public. It is said to have been designed to make Muslim women integrate into society. Common people however feel the law has had the opposite effect: “My friends have simply stopped going out at all”, said a young woman…

http://rt.com/news/france-muslims-law-ban/

This will not make things better, but it will make things worse…

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Yesterday, multitudes took to the streets in more than 40 Mexican cities – and in protests by Mexicans and their friends at consulates and embassies in Europe, North America and South America – to demand an end to the violence wrought by the US-imposed “war on drugs.”

What? You haven’t heard about this? Or if you have heard something about it, did you know that it is the biggest news story in the Mexican media, on the front page of virtually every daily newspaper in the country?

Did you know that the American media could careless…

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/4372/and-what-history-looks-mexico

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The Truth About Libya
By Stephen Goodson
4-1-11

Colonel Muammar Gadaffi is frequently referred to in the media as a “mad dictator” and “bloody tyrant”, but do these allegations accord with the facts?

Libya consists of over 15O tribes, with the two main groups, the Meghabra living in Tripolitania in the west and the Wafallah living in Cyrenaica in the east. Previous attempts to unite these tribes by the Turkish (1855-1911) and ltalian {1911-43) colonial rulers failed and the country was split in two for administrative purposes.

Oil was discovered in Libya in 1959, but King ldris of the Senussi tribe allowed most of the oil profits to be siphoned into the coffers of the oil companies. The coup d’etat on 1 September 1969 led by Colonel Gadaffi had countrywide support. He subsequently married a woman from the royal Barqa tribe and adroitly unified the nation.

By retaining Libya’s oil wealth for the benefit of all its people, Gadaffi had created a socialist paradise. There is no unemployment, Libya has the highest GDP in .Africa, less than 5% of the population is classified as poor and it has fewer people living below the poverty datum line than for example in Holland. Life expectancy is 75 years and is the highest in Africa and I0% above the world average.

With the exception of the nomadic Bedouin and Tuareg tribes, most Libyan families possess a house and a car. There is free health care and education and not surprisingly Libya has a literacy rate of 82%. Last year Gadaffi distributed $500 to each man, woman and child (population 6.5 million).

Libya has a tolerable human rights record and stands at 61 on the International Incarceration Index, comparable with countries in central Europe (the lower the rating, the lower the standing – the USA occupies the no.1 spot!). There is hardly any crime and only rebels and traitors are dealt with harshly.

Anyone who has read Gadaffi’s little Green Book will realize that he is a thoughtful and enlightened leader. Libya has been accused of having committed numerous acts of terrorism in the past, but many of these have been perpetrated by foreign intelligence agencies as false flag operations – the Lockerbie bombing being a prime example.

The CIA and MI6 and their frontmen have been stoking up dissent in the east of the country for almost 30 years. Libya produces exceptionally high quality light crude oil and its production cost of $1 a barrel, compared to the current price of $115, is the lowest in the world.

Riba (usury) is not permitted. The Central bank of Libya is a wholly-owned by the Libyan Government and is run as a state bank, issuing all government loans free of interest. This is in contrast to the exploitative fractional reserve banking system of the West. The no-fly zone and the bombing of Libya have nothing to do with the protection of civilians. It is an act of war ­ a blatant and crude attempt by the oil corporations and international bankers to steal the wealth of Libya.

http://rense.com/general93/truth.htm

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76,000 active personnel seems to be the lowest number that I can find on how many personnel they have in Libya’s armed forces. (I see higher numbers though.) I also understand that 40,000 extra are non active and can be called up…

If we have killed one third of them and for easy sake just use the 76,000 active personnel. That means we have killed:

25,000 people in the name of humanitarian help… (One third…)

These are men and women that have families like you and I. What because they are military it is OK to kill them. That is their country and they fight for their country. These families are now with out these guys or gals forever and they died because they are fighting against NATO (America) for Libya…

Western strikes have destroyed nearly a third of Libya’s military assets, and NATO is now making the defense of the besieged city of Misrata a priority, an alliance general said Tuesday. The bombing campaign has prompted Qaddafi to change tactics, moving his forces in light vehicles and using human shields to protect heavy artillery from airstrikes, said Brig. Gen. Mark van Uhm.

“We have taken out 30 percent of the military capacity of pro-Qaddafi forces,” van Uhm told reporters, citing an assessment by the Libya operation’s commander, Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard. (Link)

Ok so it is 30% of the military capacity. But NATO proudly tells us that we have killed and maimed in the name of humanitarianism… (How do you think we took them out? In a card game…)

That means 30% of the tanks, aircraft, guns, heavy weapons and the humans that operate them. Anything that is considered military capacity…

Think seriously about it for a minute. Every tank blown up had men in it. Every military base had lots of men in them. We have killed thousands and thousands of Libyans…

You do not take out a tank and the men inside are miraculously not killed… You do not blow up a bunker and the men inside are safe and sound… You do not take out a barracks and the guys sleeping are OK because they – well are sleeping…

I thought we were on a humanitarian mission? No that would have been sitting down and talking this all out in the first few weeks like Qaddafi wanted to do… Like Chavez wanted to do… Like Russia wanted to do… Like China wanted to do…

This whole thing was “one day” from being over before the West interfered. There would have been a lot less dead by 10 fold…

Fact is no one has proof that Qaddafi killed very many people and by NATO’s standards the Rebels are not civilians they are military… (So they do not count right?)

The West is a sick world… (All because of OIL!)

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From healthcare to closing Guantanamo to defending labor rights, US President Barack Obama promised many things, but has failed to deliver.

Brought into office on a cloud of hope, change and positive thinking, voters lifted Obama into the White House with high expectations.

Two years into his presidency and as he enters his reelection campaign many supporters have being forced to grapple with the reality that is the Obama presidency – broken promises.

Recent public opinion polls show less than half of Americas believe Obama deserves reelection, conservatives continue to despise him, liberals and moderates are increasingly becoming disillusioned.

Obama continues to lead among likely Republican contenders, but those match-ups are highly flawed given no leading Republicans have officially entered the race. Obama’s presidential office is quite vulnerable in 2012.

Looking back to 2008 candidate Obama and flash forwarding to today, there are some very clear broken promises, some of which were cornerstones to his campaign.

Hope, change and healthcare for all – the promise spread across America like a virus has not come to be a reality. Despite the passage of Obama’s health care reform plan many Americans still find it challenging to see a doctor or pay for necessary medical needs.

Obama wanted to ensure no American was without access to medical care. It was the goal behind his push for healthcare reform. His health bill however did not grant such coverage. Although Obama’s party once controlled the Congress, he was unable to push through healthcare for all. While the new law addresses some much needed issues with the US health system, such as eliminating pre-existing condition clauses, much of the measure will not take effect until 2014. At that point in time, the Congressional Budget Office estimates over 22 million Americans will still be without proper access to basic medical care.

After initiating a two year freeze on military trials of detained terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Obama has lifted the ban just in time to try self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. On the 2008 campaign trail Obama promised not only to cease the trials permanently, he said he would close the base too. He has gone in a completely different direction. While his Democratic Party controlled Congress Obama could have tackled the trials and military base, but dialed to do so. He caved to pressures from Republicans and military leaders.

“Understand this,” Obama said at a campaign rally in 2007. “If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I’ll will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America.”

States across the Union however recently passed laws cracking down on labor rights and union workers, eliminating benefits, abolishing collective bargaining rights and more. Obama was nearly silent. After pressure mounted he issued a statement, expressing his opposition to Republican bills across the county, but did little more to support organized labor.

Obama failed to show up at the picket line and march as promised.

Also along the campaign trail Obama praised his belief in civil liberties, transparency and judicial prudence. However, he has continued to stand by the Bush-era PATRIOT Act with restricts the above.

The US President called for changes to warrantless searches and wiretaps. He called for a greater respect for the people. But, at every chance to kill these rules instituted by former President George W. Bush, Obama opted to extend them instead of letting them expire.

In addition to his call for a restoration of American civil liberties, Obama called for an end to America’s wars abroad. Afghanistan and Iraq however remain conflict zones, and now Pakistan and Libya have been added to the list. The anti-war pro-peace American President extended US military operations overseas. 60 percent of American deaths in Afghanistan have occurred under the Obama presidency. Conflicts have expanded, locations increased and violence escalated.

Thus far, Obama has failed to deliver on his top promises and yet to even address other he committed too in the 2008 campaign season.

http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-campaign-broken-promises/

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