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| Articles about Slaves |
| Picture of the day: Onise (8), one of 300,000 slaves in Haiti. | | 2008-07-08 12:07:33 | | Eight-year-old Onise is one of an estimated 300,000 child slaves living in Haiti. Her parents, who live in the countryside, are so poor they simply gave her away to a slightly less poor family who lives in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and who use her as a slave. (More)More Pictures of the Day on The Road.Picture courtesy ABC
| | By: The Road to the Horizon | | |
| | "They have no heart. They treat us like slaves." | | 2008-07-07 21:12:08 | | As the need to find jobs in foreign countries increases, Filipino maid exploitation has been a growing problem that everyone reads about in newspapers. Recently a group of maids-OFW's from the...
To UP Ibalon alumni: Meet in this weblog special people who miss you !
| | By: UP Ibalon Bicol | | |
| | Slaves Again | | 2008-01-17 01:41:00 | | As a new year arrived and made itself comfortable, three thinkers – two of my friends and I – decided to offer it a beverage as a mark of our hospitality to guests…a stimulant…a stimulating conversation. Presented here is the decoction from one of the threads and the coffee I prepared thereafter.We were talking about the status quo of the Indian Government. It is common knowledge that today the government is concerned only about staying in power and all its actions and decisions are aligned towards that singular purpose. No policy is examined from the perspective of whether it is beneficial or harmful but rather whether it will help uphold their image, whether it will help garner votes and create long-standing vote-banks. Consequently, either age-old policies are continued with for the fear of upsetting a multitude of maniacs who will go on rampage in revolt or, worse still, retrogressive policies are brought-in in the name of equality, fairness and justice. The Opposition takes itself very seriously and literally and keeps ‘opposing’ whatever the government proposes without any analysis, giving baseless reasons for their criticism thinking that it will boost their image as an ‘intellectual’ lot. And the government keeps ignoring what the Opposition says (even if, by some fortunate turn of events, what they say makes sense) since they are the Opposition and they are just not supposed to agree with each other. The hapless nation and its people, for whom (ideally) the policies should be framed, are left behind watching the numerous Parliamentary sessions where this mindless game is played and millions of rupees of the taxpayer’s money is wasted everyday.It reminds me of a possible scenario in household where the birth of a newborn has just shifted the equations a little – the baby is crying for a change or food or whatever, and the young couple is fighting over whose responsibility it is to take care of it…they keep fighting to reach a conclusion | | By: Writers Blend - The Intellectual Mindscape [RSS] | | |
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| Child Sex Slaves To The Gods? Do You Care? | | 2008-01-17 00:07:41 | | Did you know that little African girls are taken from their parents to be "wives of the gods" in the southern Volta Region of Ghana, and in southern Togo and Benin? Thousands of young girls of the Ewe tribe are held as slaves in unspeakable conditions, victims of ritual abuse. The term "wives" does not mean they are treated with kindness or respect. No, they are there to fulfill the priests' | | By: Inspiration and Encouragement - April Lorier | | |
| | Burj Dubai: The Tower that Slaves Built | | 2007-08-05 23:33:00 | | Will the Burj Dubai mark the top of the Dubai property boom“…Tall building syndrome is a well known phenomenon. The topping out of the world's tallest buildings has frequently happened at the point when a local market turned down… When it is completed next year the Burj Dubai will be a symbol of Dubai's achievement in quadrupling local GDP in the past decade. Then the global competition to build higher will take a new turn, and Australian James Packer has just announced plans to build a super-tall building in Las Vegas…â€Touch the sky“…High-rise housing has a rich history that embraces the very top and the very bottom of the social pile, serving paradoxically as the preserve of both the super-rich in their glamorous skyscrapers and the poor in their tenements and concrete slabs. It is the ultimate dream of the modernist architect, offering up the minimalist visions of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe as well as the extravagantly sculptural forms of the latest blockbuster buildings. It is a form that fascinates and seduces planners, developers, designers and homebuyers. And this has never been more true than today…â€The Tower that Slaves Built“…According to news reports Burj Dubai is set to overtake Taipei 101 and the Sears Tower as the world’s tallest building in the coming months. The Burj, which means tower in Arabic, will have 124 floors upon completion, as well as a luxury hotel and four luxury swimming pools along with offices and residential units. Designed to resemble a glittering desert flower, the Burj Dubai when completed will also be the tallest manmade object ever built on earth… Indeed, given this iconic position on the human landscape, the Burj is not unlike the Egyptian pyramids of yesteryears which were also testaments to the wealth and might of the burgeoning Pharoanic kingdom and commanded awe and respect from all who viewed them. Undoubtedly the United Arab Emirates is now a world trading giant, having successfully harn | | By: ChileSoc | | |
| | Modern Day Heroes or Commodities in Human Trafficking of Slaves? | | 2007-07-27 22:23:55 | | Are we sending our people as modern day heroes or as commodities in human trafficking of slaves? In our 21st century world, where access to information is just a click away we still see a vestige of the ugly human trafficking slave trade of the past still haunting us like a recurring nightmare. Unfortunately this phenomenon is real and happening in most developed countries of the world with the | | By: Pedestrian Observer | | |
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| Attention slaves-Move Date | | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | Lady Sheer is moving into my new home so you need to hold off on sending gifts to the old address. I have been getting many gifts from my shopping boys and I hate that things aren’t moving as fast as I want them to go. I have to drives miles to get my new [...] | | By: Financial Domination | | |
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