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Today: Children trafficking

Child trafficking stills exists today. According to this source, 1.2 million children are trafficked each year. Trafficking means that you essentially enslave the child, usually involving kidnapping, and also involving dangerous, immoral, or illegal activities, including forced labor, sexual exploitation, used in the military as soldiers, and within the drug trade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficking_of_children Recently one news source posted an article regarding the refugees entering Europe, titled: More than 10,000 refugee children missing in Europe http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/10000-refugee-children-missing-europe-160131164555450.html  Many fear that the children were taken into the trafficking system. The child trafficking is a lucrative business. This is evident because enslaved children are a cheap labor, and because they can be manipulated to produce high income related business activities. Even though these activities are illegal, they occur. This inv...

Death or Rebirth of Democracy? 308

Day-32:OutRage

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 So im going to look at a small point, the thought that, when hearing that only a few prosper from the system we have, the Immediate Reaction that We Have of Thinking, No, wait the majority of Humans are Happy, the majority are well, and are taken care of, isn’t this so?                 So this statement for me is a difficult point to face as I  can imagine all the points people can bring up, which are existent within me obviously otherwise I would not have them. People may say, but where we are now is soooooo much better than 100 years ago. People live longer, they use to die at a younger age. We have technology, cell phones, and medicine and even a public education system where anyone can get educated now, so there are no excuses for suffering. These statements I just wrote out shows the general ignorance and denial that many Americans live in and I bet Europeans too. Looking at history, wh...