Child Slaves In UK

Hundreds of child slaves sold into UK every year
By David Harrison
(Filed: 04/06/2006)

Children as young as six are being brought to Britain in their hundreds every year to be used as "slave labour" in sweatshops, private homes and cannabis factories.
The children are transported from all over Africa, Asia and eastern Europe by ruthless and highly organised gangs of traffickers. Many are taken with the unwitting consent of their parents, who pay up to £3,000, believing the traffickers' claims that their children are going to a better life - and will be able to send money home.

The victims are smuggled into Britain or brought in on false passports by adults posing as relatives. They are put to work immediately, live in appalling conditions and are subjected to physical and sexual abuse. The scale of the crisis - which has spread from London to Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle - is revealed in a consultation paper presented to the Home Office by a coalition of nine charities including Unicef, Save the Children and the NSPCC. Last night, the charities accused the Government of failing to tackle the problem and called for urgent action to end the "cruel and shocking exploitation of children".

Christine Beddoe, the director of the coalition - called End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT) - said: "This is modern child slavery." Another senior charity official described the traffickers as "21st-century Fagins - only much crueller", a reference to the character who ran teams of child pickpockets in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist.
In the consultation document, passed to The Sunday Telegraph, the charities say there are "no specific support services" for victims of child trafficking and they accuse the Government of using "an unsympathetic and punitive asylum process" to treat them as illegal immigrants rather than victims.

Most trafficked children who come to the authorities' attention are deported immediately, they argue, and then face persecution and re-trafficking. The charities want the Government to introduce measures to help police, immigration officials and social workers to identify, rescue and protect them.

Children from China, Vietnam and Malaysia, have been found in sweatshops, restaurants and suburban cannabis factories. African children are often put into domestic servitude, working long hours for little or no reward. Eastern European children tend to be used to beg and steal - and many more are likely to arrive next year when Romania and Bulgaria are expected to join the European Union.

Charities and police believe most trafficked children are used for slave labour rather than prostitution, but the report says they are "sexually exploited in informal locations, such as private flats, where they are expected to have sex with groups of men".
ECPAT calls for a national strategy, including safe houses for victims, counselling and legal and medical support, and an independent Child Trafficking Rapporteur. It urges the Government to ratify the European Convention against Trafficking in Human Beings to allow victims to stay in the UK to recover from their ordeal and receive help so they can testify against the traffickers.
Ms Beddoe estimated that "hundreds" of children were trafficked to Britain each year but said the true figure could be much higher. The ECPAT research has identified suspected victims in all but one of 33 London boroughs. The charities are also investigating child trafficking in Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle.

Police said there was a "pressing need" for a national strategy. A senior Scotland Yard detective said: "It is hard to believe that there are child slaves in Britain in the 21st century but we are determined to end this appalling practice."

A Delicious Little Tidbit from a woman who SAW Bush engaging in HOMOEROTIC ACTIVITY

'George W. Bush's marital problems have just taken another turn for the worse. Apparently, Mr. Bush has not only engaged in an extra-marital affair with a member of the opposite sex who is also a senior member of his Cabinet, but also a member of the same sex. Wayne Madsen Report received the following release this morning from Leola McConnell, Democratic candidate for Governor of Nevada. McConnell is a one-time professional dominatrix.'

"President Bush's speech to the nation Monday. If he doesn't say he's a gay American or at the least a bisexual one then he shouldn't be making one at all. And the notion that it would be in regards to writing bigotry into our nation's Constitution is reprehensible. Too bad it isn't me doing the rebuttal because in 1984, I watched him perform (with the enthusiasm of a homosexual male who had done this many times before) a homosexual act on another man, namely Victor Ashe. Victor Ashe is the current Ambassador to the nation of Poland who should also come out like former Governor McGreevey of New Jersey and admit to being a gay American. Other homo-erotic acts were also performed by then private citizen George Bush because I performed one of them on him personally.

I am the woman this website (bushssecretlifein84.tripod.com) speaks of that has been posted on the net nearly two years now. None of this would be the business of anyone but President Bush's little ruse to save his failed presidency by using DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act] to divide Americans one from the other has to be exposed as the act of a desperate closeted homosexual man. The only crime in being GLBT is in the hiding. The President needs to come clean with the American people about his own past sexual behavior before he tries to besmirch the humanity of people in search of sincerely committing to the same bonds of matrimony he's afforded. He violated his own vows of monogamy having a homosexual affair with a long time family friend of whom his wife had no knowledge. His hypocrisy seems to know no bounds.

I had planned to run for governor of Nevada without going into any of this but his planned nationally televised address to the nation makes it necessary for me to address his attempt at division in as public a way as he picked to try this Bushification of reality regarding same sex marriages.

Sincerely,
Leola McConnell
Liberal Democratic candidate for Governor of Nevada

Are your groceries spying on you?
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN. June 8 2006

Has your electronics store (or drugstore or music store or department store) recently replaced its metal shelves with plastic ones? Such a move could signal a switch to a type of product tracking that has the potential to invade your privacy.
Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, is a wireless technology that allows objects and even people to be tagged and tracked. RFID tags contain microchips and tiny radio antennas and are embedded in products or stuck on labels. (Tags slightly larger than a grain of rice can be implanted under the skin.)
Once activated, they transmit a unique identifying number to an electronic reader, which, in turn, links to a computer database where information about the product or person is stored.
Metal, as in shelves, can interfere with transmissions between tags and readers.
Although it sounds like science fiction, radio tagging is very much a reality. For years, railroads and the U.S. Department of Defense used radio tags to track inventory. Cars outfitted with radio tags that mark their passage have long breezed through tollbooths, while ExxonMobil's Speedpass — an RFID tag in the form of a key fob — enables drivers to pay for gas without swiping a card or using a PIN.
More recently, the technology has shown up in contactless payment cards such as Chase's Blink or MasterCard PayPass, on individual items at Wal-Mart and Best Buy, in library books and in U.S. passports. The use of RFID tags is growing so explosively that analysts forecast sales this year alone of 1.3 billion units — more than half as many tags as were sold in all years up through early 2006.
Part of the reason is that the price of the tags — topping $1 apiece in 1999 — is plummeting. Within five to seven years, radio tags are expected to cost less than a penny each — the magic point at which nearly anything we buy is likely to be tagged.
To be sure, radio-tagging products from CDs to shampoos can offer huge savings to businesses. (For one thing, it can alert stores to merchandise shortages, preventing out-of-stock losses and other supply-chain inefficiencies that cost retailers an estimated $40 billion annually.)
And the technology can directly benefit consumers by speeding them through checkouts, ensuring the genuineness of often-counterfeited prescription drugs, and — in the case of medical-information implants — providing data to doctors when patients cannot.
But there are touchy privacy issues, too. Identity thieves and other crooks can tap into the information transmitted from a radio tag to a scanner, culling — for example — banking or medical information. Researchers already have cracked the code in ExxonMobil's Speedpass, demonstrating for the company how a hacker could use mined data to charge gas on the Speedpass holder's account. (Despite this January 2005 demonstration, ExxonMobil has not changed the technology, claiming it knows of no fraudulent use of Speedpass from cloning.)
Other researchers have copied an implantable RFID tag, which could allow them to assume the implantee's identity and gain access to high-security locations. (VeriChip, the tag's manufacturer, says its product would serve as only one of several security layers thwarting such incursions.)
Because it has moved so rapidly to the forefront, there are those who would like to put the brakes on radio-tag technology. At least seven states have introduced RFID-related legislation, including a New Hampshire bill requiring that labels be placed on all items with tracking devices. Indeed, some products already are flagged as tagged, voluntarily displaying a thumbnail-sized Electronic Product Code (EPC) logo on their packages. Yet few consumers recognize the logo or understand its meaning.
So for now, at least, unless you are explicitly told by a merchant — or the product sits on a metal shelf — you're unlikely to know if the item you buy may be spying on you.

Destruction of the Indies: PART TWO

Another chilling excerpt from Bartolome de las Casas' book, "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies."

Nicaragua: 1542.

"The most insidious pestilence dreamed up by this governor (Pedrarias Davila) was the system by whereby he granted licences to Spaniards to demand slaves from native caciques and nobles. This development has done more to ravage that country than anything else. Demands for fifty slaves at a time were made every four or five months or whenever an individual obtained permission and a licence from the governor to make such a demand. The demand was always accompanied by the threat that, if the requisite number of slaves was not produced, the noble concerned would be burned alive or thrown to wild dogs.
Since slavery is practically unknown amoung the local population, even their caciques having the most two or three or four of them, the lords themselves would have to find the slaves. At first they might round up all the orphans they could find; then they might ask any family with two children to surrender one, and a family with three to produce two, thereby fulfilling the demands made of them by the tyrant in their midst. But they did so against a background of wailing and gnashing teeth, for these people appear to entertain a love for their children which surpasses that of any other people in the world.
Since the demands of this nature were so frequent, the whole region was devastated within the space of a few years, for during six or seven of the years between 1523 and 1533 five or six slaving vessels patrolled the coast and carted off vast numbers of these innocents to be sold in Panama and Peru, where they all perished. Indeed, experience shows time and time again that these people die very quickly once you remove them from their native lands, especially as they often are forced to go without food while still being made to do a full day's work, those who buy and sell them having no other thought in their heads but the work these slaves can be forced to undertake.
In this fashion, more than five hundred thousand souls, each of them as free as you or me, (Legally, all Amerindians were subjects of the Crown of Castile and enjoyed equal rights with all other subjects of the Crown. Making war on Amerindians, said theologian Francisco de Vitoria, was like making war on the inhabitants of Seville) have been taken from their homelands. On top of that, a further five or six hundred thousand have so far been killed, either during the course of hellish fighting initiated by the Spanish or as a direct result of the horrendous conditions in which they have been imprisoned. And the carnage continues to this day. All this devastation has taken place over the past fourteen years, and in the whole of the providence of Nicaragua today, once (as I have said) among the most densely populated place on the face of the earth, there remain only four or five thousand people and every day sees even some of these succumb to the work they are made to do, and the personal abuses to which they are subjected every day of their lives.

Conspiracy Of Silence

"Conspiracy of Silence" is a powerful, disturbing documentary revealing a nationwide child abuse and pedophilia ring that leads to the highest levels of government. Featuring intrepid investigator John DeCamp, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and 16-year Nebraska state senator, "Conspiracy of Silence" reveals how rogue elements at all levels of government have been involved in systematic child abuse and pedophilia to feed the base desires of key politicians.
Based on DeCamp's riveting book, The Franklin Cover-up, "Conspiracy of Silence" begins with the shut-down of Nebraska's Franklin Community Federal Credit Union after a raid by federal agencies in November 1988 revealed that $40 million was missing. When the Nebraska legislature launched a probe into the affair, what initially looked like a financial swindle soon exploded into a startling tale of drugs, money laundering, and a nationwide child abuse ring. Nineteen months later, the legislative committee's chief investigator died suddenly and violently, like more than a dozen other people linked to the Franklin case.

So why have you never heard of the Franklin cover-up? Originally scheduled to air in May of 1994 on the Discovery Channel, "Conspiracy of Silence" was yanked at the last minute due to formidable pressure applied by top politicians. Some very powerful people did not want you to watch this documentary. Thanks to the wonderful power of the Internet, three different links below take you to this eye-opening documentary. Other links provide detailed information about the case, reliable media coverage, and places to order DeCamp's revealing book, The Franklin Cover-up.
Beware that you may find yourself becoming angry or upset while watching "Conspiracy of Silence." Many people do. However, I invite you to consider that each of us, myself included, has at times in our life acted out of selfish motives when it comes to sexuality and ended up hurting others in one way or another. Let us take this information not only as a call to stop this kind of abuse at the nationwide level, but also as a call to examine our own sexual relationships and make a commitment to deep honesty and integrity in our own lives around this most sensitive issue.

With best wishes,
Fred Burks
Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton
"Conspiracy of Silence" (55 minutes) is available for free viewing at the three links below: http://www.franklincase.org/silence.htm - best quality of these three http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=359924937663867563 - http://www.propagandamatrix.com/141003conspiracyofsilence.html

The final link above includes a copy of the front page of the Washington Times with a top headline and story published on the Franklin case. Scroll down and click on the images to read the full story. DeCamp's commentary on "Conspiracy of Silence" and more can be found below the newspaper articles there. Or for another easy-to-read copy of the Times article, click here.