Canada must do more to curb human trafficking: report

" Law enforcement officials must do more to protect Canadians, particularly women and children, from being dragged into the sex trade against their will, a new report says. The report, issued by the U.S. State...

Labor Could Lose Next General Election In UK

"   "  Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s prospects in a general election within the next year took a further blow on Friday when the opposition Conservatives won a by-election victory in a...

Does Local Texas News Play Favorites & Refuse to Report Story?

     In regard to a NowPublic story about alleged physical abuse, forced wage-cuts, non-payment of overtime wages, discrimination, retaliation, and more, supposedly done against...

Get Ready for 14 Percent Unemployment

1 percent unemploymentwould be a disaster.It is still possible it will notget that bad. " The current 9.5% unemployment rate is causing great economic pain, and life with a 14% jobless rate would be much, much...

Blacks, Men: Are Racial & Gender Discrimination Not Dead Yet?

Houston, TX -- A Federal Civil suit has been filed in Texas alleging problems of gross, illegal discrimination and unethical conduct by one of the largest YMCAs in the nation. The conflict seems to involve a former...

The Citizens Dividend Liberates Everyone

EXCERPT: This Robin Hood scenario has rarely happened in history. More efficient than trying to capture wealth downstream, after the elite has accumulated it, is to capture wealth upstream, preventing an elite from forming. A tax on income or sales or property captures wealth...

Things Are ‘Stormy’ When Labor Strikes Hit Enid

Lightning strikes are unpredictable.  Labor union strikes…not so much.  Both, however, can be damaging. When I was growing up in Enid, Okla., a small northwest Oklahoma town of 47,000, lightning was a...

US Journalists Laura Ling & Euna Lee get 12 Years Hard Labor

A twelve year sentence of hard labor was handed down to US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea on Monday.  " North Korea on Monday sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in...

Kimora Lee Simmons gives birth, twitters through her labour

Kimora Lee Simmons is currently in hospital, about to give birth to a baby boy by cesarean with her husband actor Djimon Hounsou by her side, but she can't help but share the experience with her fans through...

China's Kidnapped Children

From what I understand the problems have gotten worse since the "One Child Policy" went into effect and there is a shortage of girls according to some of the families selling their children. The Chinese Government...

Labor Movement Finds New Unity Behind Immigration Proposal

"While the business lobby supported comprehensive immigration overhauls in the past, much of that support has hinged on the expansion of temporary guest-worker programs that bring immigrants into the country for a finite number of years, but do not necessarily offer them...

Day-to-day struggle

"I read this story in The Chicago Tribune and was shocked to realize what a toll this tough economy is taking on the less visible, but imminently vital, illegal laborers of our country. Even more surprisingly, some desperate American citizens are also showing up to get hired...

Netanyahu: Israeli Government 'Partner For Peace'

Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government will be a "partner for peace" with Palestinians.  "Speaking to an economic forum, Netanyahu said, "Palestinians should understand that they have in our government a partner for peace, for...

Child Slave Labor in China

   Just when we think we've heard the worst out of China, another atrocity rears its ugly head.  This time it's the push for more child labor. I know that some of you have read my articles on China...

Obama: virgin beauty on wedding night

The hiccups that the new Obama administration faced in the first month might have been easily avoided."The media giants played a darn dirty role in helping corrupt US society by inviting a sleazeball to their talk shows as if he did a great thing by trying to sell the...

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