"Many feel that sex slavery is particularly revolting-and it is. I saw it firsthand. In a Bucharest brothel, for instance, I was offered a mentally handicapped, suicidal girl in exchange for a used car. But for every one woman or child enslaved in commercial sex, there are at least 15 men, women, and children enslaved in other fields, such as ( Read more... )

Talking about politics, or rather trying to educate someone politically, especially Americans is mind numbingly difficult if not altogether impossible.  In large part because we live in the only society in history to ever have an empire that the majority of the populace doesn't know about.

The reason is simple enough, every other empire in history ( Read more... )

So I had a chance to have a political discussion with a couple of educated and well informed individuals over the last few days, something which I was really looking forward to since people generally can't hold a discussion outside of whether or not they think Palin's daughter secretly had a kid.

After getting into a heavy discussion primarily with ( Read more... )

For almost a year I have been going on about the likelihood if not inevitability of a depression.  Now, as banks continue to collapse, I'm actually beginning to hear financial analysts use the D word in the context of what's happening now.

This seemed so obvious and inevitable if you know anything about how our economy works, but sadly most people ( Read more... )

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There are a lot of arguments debunking 9/11 truth.  What these arguments share, from the childishly insistent and poorly informed to the highly respected popular publications and official studies is their tendency to provide a theoretically possible alternative for the collapse, then present that as truth.  Since the approach from an official ( Read more... )

Getting a professional to say something which disputes the information at hand is fairly easy, after all, doctors used to think smoking was not only not bad, but was actually good for you.

As a result, there's a variety of professionals of all fields on both sides of the 9/11 issue offering contradictory arguments and explanations for what happened ( Read more... )

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The anniversary of 9/11 is coming up, so I'll be taking this time to present some arguments with links in dispute of the rather flimsily constructed official story.

I know this is going to prompt some people to argue, and as in the past I expect to see many of the same arguments again.  So I'm going to take some time to address them in advance ( Read more... )

I know that everybody likes to keep up on the newest terminology, the hip new slang, um...yo.  So I thought it would interest you to know that people no longer "plan to protest", instead, and I think you'll agree this is much cooler, they are engaged in a "Conspiracy to riot in the furtherance of Terrorism".

People generally thought the argument ( Read more... )