South Africa's SHAME !

Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history! While most are held in debt bondage in the poorest regions of South Asia, some are trafficked in the midst of thriving development. Such is the case here in Africa's wealthiest country, the host of this year's FIFA World Cup. While South Africa has invested billions to build infrastructure for the half-million visitors expected to attend, tens of thousands of children have become ensnared in sexual slavery and those who profit from their abuse have prepared for the tournament as well....big time.

An investigation into human trafficking syndicates operating near two stadiums found a lucrative trade in child sex. The children, sold by their parents for as little as $45, can earn more than $600 per night. "I'm really doing good business during this World Cup," said a trafficker. He said he had already done a brisk business among stadium construction workers. Although its 1996 constitution expressly forbids slavery, South Africa has no stand alone law against human trafficking in all its forms. Aid groups estimate that some 38,000 children are trapped in the sex trade there. More than 500 syndicates (Nigerian, Chinese, Indian & Russian) collude with South African partners, including recruiters and corrupt police officials, to enslave local victims. The country's estimated 1.4 million AIDS orphans are especially vulnerable. South Africa has more HIV cases than any other nation, and a child sold into its sex industry will often face an early grave.

A UN Human Rights official stated that, "An exploitation-free World Cup will require resources and political will from the South African government." Such political will is not evident. At best, the South African government's response to child sex trafficking has been superficial or piecemeal, at worst. United Nation sources describe how police at all levels have been soliciting underage prostitutes in Bloemfontein, Durban and other World Cup cities. South African officials claimed that Parliament will pass a comprehensive law against human trafficking in early 2010......no sign of it yet! Meanwhile, honest enterprising police officers who take on these traffickers do so with few legal tools at their disposal. Convictions for trafficking-related offenses typically bring little or no jail time. SHAME!


South African President Jacob Zuma addressed fears about sex trafficking and slavery in a speech last August. "We have noted the concern amongst women's groups that the 2010 FIFA World Cup may have the unintended consequence of creating opportunities for human trafficking, " the President said. "We are putting systems in place to prevent this, as part of general security measures that we should take when hosting an event of this magnitude."


The Way I see It....Zuma's pledge was too little too late for many of those children. This is the douchebag that bragged that the way he beats getting AIDS is taking a shower after having sex with his mistress! I wonder what any of his four wives thinks of that and the other sex slaves that are in earshot of the sounds of the Vuvuzela coming from the stadiums. South Africans would be a lot healthier if its citizens had the same enthusiasm for condoms as they have for that annoying horn.

Global Warming: A Reality Check !

There are people out there who say that global warming will drive many species to extinction, including the polar bears. That sea levels will rise dramatically as the Greenland ice cap melts before the end of the century. That hurricanes will get stronger, the Amazon rainforest will succumb to drought and the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035....and much, much more. They are WRONG! These people deserve to be called phony alarmists. People like the Environmental Defense Fund that scare the "be-Jesus" out of our young people to donate millions to their left-leaning agenda and don't forget the head scare-monger himself, Al Gore, with his 35 lies, errors and omissions in his alarmist "Inconvenient Truth" film.

Last month's 4th Annual Conference on Climate Change by the Heartland Institute (they have a very informative website at http://www.heartland.org/) put the reality back into the present climate change situation. Here are some highlights of this three day conference which included dozens of scientists from two dozen nations:

• Sweden's leading expert on sea levels, Nils Morner says sea levels are simply not rising around the Maldives, Tuvalu and Bangladesh, despite the fact that these low-lying places are the poster children of the supposed catastrophe caused by "global warming." Also New Zealand scientist Bob Carter stated that sea levels around Australia have actually fallen more than a meter over the past 6000 years and yet the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) continues to trumpet sea-level rise as a major concern and a reason to curb worldwide carbon emissions. He said, "In using IPCC advice to set their policies, national governments are NEGLIGENT and fail utterly to do their duty to their people." Ten years on, Europe's Emission Trading Scheme is a failure and has left their citizens with higher energy bills with nothing to show for the pain. This should be the key reason for Prime Minister Gillard and President Obama not to try it.
• From Western Washington University's Don Easterbrook: "We have begun global cooling which I predicted in 1998 and the Russians confirmed in 2008." He also noted that natural global warming, much more intense than modern warming, has occurred many times in the past without substantial changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations or Polar Bear numbers. Easterbrook also pointed out that twice as many people are killed by extreme cold as by extreme heat and that global cooling poses far greater other risks are well, including risks to food production and increased demand for fuel energy. Climate changes in the geologic record show a regular pattern of alternate warming and cooling with a 25-30 year period for the past 500 years. He summarized by saying, "Expect global cooling for the next 2-3 decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been."
• From the most important non-warmist top atmospheric scientist, MIT's Richard Lindzen, who said that doubling the concentration of CO2 (which only makes up 0.0384% of our air) in the atmosphere would contribute only 1 degree (Celsius) to warming! All IPCC models predict more because they assume "positive feedback's" which only exist in models; real measurements show slight negative feedback. (Positive feedback means that climatic reaction to warmer temps would be changes that would lead to even warmer temps, which is not what's happening.) He reiterated that the Cult-of-Gore refuses to consider climate change could be part of a complex phenomena that has multiple causes than being based on a single cause.
• Joseph D'Aleo described the fascinating topic of how global temperatures are measured. He noted that from 1990 there was increased missing data with either no or totally inadequate adjustments for the "urban heat island effect", a point made by several speakers. They pointed out that most of the warming that the IPCC has measured and treated like gospel, was simply the warming created in big urban areas that have encroached around the weather stations thus substantially overstating the actual changes in climate. Disgraceful!

The way I see it....the word "skeptic" should not be used: "Skepticism" implies doubts about a plausible proposition. Current global-warming alarm hardly represents a plausible proposition. Twenty years of repetition and escalation of claims does not make it more plausible as does the recent evidence from Climategate and other instances of overt cheating. It's clear that the warmists' data prove Mark Twain's maxim that "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." I rest my case.

Oliver Stoned on Hugo !

While Venezuelan media outlets that criticize Hugo Chavez's regime get the duct tape treatment, Oliver Stone is out seeking to promote a movie that lionizes the autocrat. The increasingly leftist filmmaker just can't seem to shake his "Thug-Love" having already wasted money on the productions of Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat flicks. Now he's got a documentary called, "South of the Border" that heralds Hugo as well as 6 other South American socialist leaders.

"None of them are Dictators" says Oliver, looking unashamedly more like a South-of-the-Border dictator himself. His co-lover of Banana Republics, Sean Penn, is obviously delighted with Hugo being the main feature of the film. Penn has repeatedly praised Hugo for his anti-American stance and tight-fisted control of any complaints from his citizens. Sick little bastard.

Stone has been on tour of Latin America, on a marketing campaign for his film. Surprise, surprise--the beleaguered citizens of Venezuela decided not to show up to watch the whitewash of their so-called president. Many of the theaters were reportedly EMPTY! During the first 12 days of the movie's release, it brought in only $18,601 on 20 screens. That's what Venezuelans refer to as "la Bomba".

Venezuelans have been force-fed a steady diet of Chavez's mug on TV, which makes Hugo (the despot) more overexposed than Pamela Anderson doing the rumba on "Dancing with the Stars". Stone and the Hollywood leftist sympathizers of these dictatorial Pond Scum should reacquaint themselves with the Declaration of Independence which categorically states: Authority is derived from the governed, not through control.

The way I see it....Stone shouldn't worry too much though. "South of the Border" is sure to be a big hit with Marxist professors, socialist union bosses and most of all with the anti-democratic apologists running the White House.

World Water Wars !

There's a battle going on for the source of Life: WATER. The corporate media isn't saying much, but across the globe citizens are struggling against various large transnational corporations like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Nestle, Vivendi and Bechtel which are seizing or trying to control our dwindling fresh water supplies.

National Geographic had a Special Issue on Water in April and stated these facts:

• Nearly 70% of the world's fresh water is locked in ice.
• Two-Thirds of our water is used to grow food.
• Our aquifers are being drained faster than they can be recharged.

We have been bombarded by information on Global Warming and Energy Consumption but little has been said concerning the world's current and future crisis. As long as we can turn on a faucet and get a clean glass of water, why worry? However, in our state of ignorant bliss, corporations have been plotting to control the water supply on this planet for a while now and have moving their plans into place around the globe. Now the World Bank has required certain governments to privatize their precious water supply, make it a corporate commodity answerable only to stockholders, as a condition of getting a loan.

Late last year news reports highlighted a number of Indian communities were struggling against Coca Cola over issues of over-exploitation of their ground water supply. The people of Plachimada, in Kerala, that live in and around the Coca Cola plant have proof that validates their charges that the bottler's operations have depleted and contaminated the ground water. In fact, in April, the village elders decided NOT to renew the license issued to the Coca Cola factory on grounds of "protecting the public interest". One bottling plant in Kala Dera, in Jaipur, has been instrumental in causing a severe drop in groundwater levels by 4.3 meters (14 feet). In other Indian provinces new struggles against Coca Cola's groundwater greed have recently come to light.

There are three informative DVDs out now that will shock, anger and inspire you to do something. They are FLOW, TAPPED and BLUE GOLD. You will be introduced to the people who are being harmed by these corporate tyrannies that are claiming their water. You'll be taken to a Bolivian city's water war with Bechtel and see what's happening in South Africa and elsewhere in India, even to the state of Michigan and beyond. Big businesses are making a fortune as they pollute or divert water supplies, or bottle it for sale at prices the world's poor cannot afford.

The way I see it....the case against greed is the message at hand. The answer comes down to demand. If we, as stewards of the earth, stop buying their various bottled water products (like the phony vitamin water, etc.), the demand would dwindle and the resultant reduction in the industry's drain on the aquifers would help preserve this natural resource for further generations. Walk away from Coca Cola, Pepsi, Nestle and Vivendi bottled water and not only help our planet but insure your better health and well being.

Chiro-Care Slows the Aging Process!

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A New Guide to ISLAM

I've just come across a book that reveals the whole "politically incorrect" truth about Islam's violent teachings, bloody history, backward culture and morally depraved founder. It's aptly named The Politically Incorrect Guide to ISLAM. It's by Robert Spencer, an Islamic expert and published by Regnery Publishing. It is a real "page turner" that's hard to put down as Spencer dares to tell the unvarnished truth about Islam. And as the old saying goes, "Being warned is being forearmed" is very true in this case.

The mainstream media and numerous political leaders have tried to softpedal this religion in whose name promotes a type of violent speech and allows despicable terrorist acts to take place. They represent a common attitude: "True Islam -- as opposed to the extremist version -- promotes peace, justice, freedom and tolerance" but this has allowed public complacency to exist. The problem with this argument is that it is false and therefore dangerous since it blinds us to the true nature of the enemy we face.

Exposing myth after myth of the "Islam means Peace" establishment, the author tackles all the hot-button issues regarding this religion of hate and the Crusades, including:

• How the roots of Islamic terrorism and violence are found in the Koran
  
• How the Koran sanctions prepubescent marriage, domestic abuse, honour killings and slavery.
• Mohammad: the Perfect Man? That's how Muslims regard him. There are details about his character and his career of bloody conquest that make him a dangerous role model.
• The stifling effect Islam has had on science and free inquiry, accounting for its failure to prosper...and hence of its murderous envy of the West.
• How the much-ballyhooed (and grossly exaggerated) "Golden Age" of Islamic culture was largely inspired by subjugated non-Muslims.
• The ghastly lure of Islam's X-Rated Paradise for suicide bombers and jihad terrorists.
• How Mohammad lied and broke treaties as a matter of course, ordered and rejoiced in the assassinations of his critics. Supposed messages from Allah through Gabriel now seem delusional.
• How Islamic law institutionalizes oppression of Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims in Islamic societies. Try even repairing your church in one of these god-forsaken countries.
• How the Koran and Islamic law treat women as nothing more than possessions of men. If a woman accuses a man of raping her she needs four men as witnesses first or she's the one thrown in jail!
  
• How the Crusades were not an unprovoked aggression by Europe against Islam but a delayed response to centuries of Muslim aggression; like attacking France and swallowing up Spain.

• The way I see it..... the western media and leaders who think non-Muslims can "win hearts and minds" among Islamic jihadists are naive and smacks of appeasement which will actually encourage further terrorism from these Islamic scum.
  

Malcolm in the Middle?

It looks like an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) might go down with Goldman Sachs. Goldman-Sachs is the main financial power behind carbon trading...worldwide. Did Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong decide to deep-freeze their own ETS because Goldman Sachs was caught manipulating a housing subprime-mortgage-based scheme and charged with fraud? The new "no-nonsense" boss of the previously slack Security and Exchange Commission, Mary Schapiro, has started a lawsuit against them. Their GREED was legendary.

Goldman owns 10% of Al Gore's Chicago carbon exchange. Al Gore's partners in his Generation Investment Management hedge fund in London are all former Goldman Sachs executives. Then there is Liberal Party member, Malcolm Turnbull, the man who almost delivered the ETS to Australia, by cutting a deal with K. Rudd (sounds like "CRUD") without his party's support. He is Goldman Sachs' main man in Australia. David Mapley, a former executive director of the local Basis Yield Alpha Fund, said the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) should closely examine the role of Goldman Sachs/JB Were (Australia) in marketing the mortgage-related investment product that ultimately led to the Fund's demise in August 2007. What was Malcolm doing at the time and what part, if any, did he play in the selling process that caused a lot of Australian investors to get caught out?

In "The Great American Bubble Machine" published in the July, 2009 edition of Rolling Stone magazine, author Matt Taibbi characterised Goldman Sachs as a "great vampire Creature (like in the Alien movie) wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its feeding funnel into anything that smells like money." Their formula is relatively simple: G-S positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap. I was amazed to find out that they've been pulling this same stunt over and over since the 1920's! Now they are preparing to do it again, creating what may be the biggest and most audacious bubble yet. The new game in town is carbon credits...a groundbreaking new commodities bubble, disguised as an "environmental save-the-world plan" called cap-and-trade.

President Obama has been convinced by Gore and his fellow Eco-fascists to go along with this Cap-and-Tax idea and has stated that people can "expect energy prices to skyrocket under my cap-and-trade plan!" The huge donations by G-S to his campaign fund saw him pay-back G-S with bale-out money to save their bacon. So this new commodities-market in selling Air will be kind to G-S with a one delicious new wrinkle: If the plan gets past by Congress the price raises will be government mandated. Goldman Sachs won't even have to rig the game. It will be rigged in advance!

The way I see it.....the ETS was always going to be a scam, an attempt to create a new global derivatives bubble on a trade in thin air (carbon dioxide), to replace the bubbles in real estate, investment funds and stocks that have been imploding lately. However, due to the uprising Tea Party movement, with the white-hot rage being directed to Washington/Wall Street by a fed up public, the regulatory authorities have been forced to crack down on the fraud and deceit that characterises the entire derivatives-based financial system....and "Goldman-Sucks" has finally been caught out. If Goldman goes down, it will take down its entire worldwide derivatives scam with it. I wonder if Malcolm will be in the middle of the fall out.