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Post by Gort on Apr 16, 2020 13:00:23 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 13:51:47 GMT 10
Corona virus > wet markets > human body parts trafficking > human slave trade.
A person today is considered enslaved if they are forced to work against their will; are owned or controlled by an exploiter or “employer”; have limited freedom of movement; or are dehumanised, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as property, according to abolitionist group Anti-Slavery International.
Globally, more than half of the 40.3 million victims (24.9 million) are in forced labour, which means they are working against their will and under threat, intimidation or coercion. An additional 15.4 million people are estimated to be living in forced marriages.
Women can fall into a dark spiral of sexual exploitation and forced, unpaid prostitution, unable to escape.
Of the 24.9 million people trapped in forced labour, the majority (16 million) work in the private sector. Slaves clean houses and flats; produce the clothes we wear; pick the fruit and vegetables we eat; trawl the seas for the shrimp on our restaurant plates; dig for the minerals used in our smartphones, makeup and electric cars; and work on construction jobs building infrastructure for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Advertisement
Another 4.8 million people working in forced labour are estimated to be sexually exploited, while roughly 4.1 million people are in state-sanctioned forced labour, which includes governmental abuse of military conscription and forced construction or agricultural work. In certain countries such as Mauritania, people are born into “hereditary” slavery if their mother was a slave.
Again, women and girls bear the brunt of these statistics, comprising 99% of all victims in the commercial sex industry, and 58% in other sectors, according to the ILO.
Where is this happening?
Statistically, modern slavery is most prevalent in Africa, followed by Asia and the Pacific, according to the Global Slavery Index, which publishes country-by-country rankings on modern slavery figures and government responses to tackle the issues....https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200
In short humans are arseholes.
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Post by pim on Apr 16, 2020 15:50:23 GMT 10
There are slaves that have been trafficked into Australia (and NZ - your country is not exempt, KTJ!) and they work near you. and you and you and you.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 19:37:57 GMT 10
Wasn't animals that created the virus..it was humans.
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Post by pim on Apr 16, 2020 22:20:26 GMT 10
Human activity created the conditions for the virus to make the species jump. It needed a new host. We were there. Speed dating. Perfect match.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 6:33:10 GMT 10
Indeed so Pim...while speculation only, consider what if humans tromping around virgin pristine areas in search of wildlife and game actually gave disease to the animals first....which then mutated and transposed back to humans.
Humans > Animals > Humans.....poetic justice....> evolving into something highly contagious and deadly.
Conclusion: WHO needs to be more assertive in stopping exotic wildlife for food, it has the possibility of ending civilisation altogether..when climate change is set for global calamity.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Apr 18, 2020 7:55:39 GMT 10
Meanwhile, what does this photograph remind you of? A scene from a zombie movie, perhaps?(click on the photograph to read what it is about)
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Post by Gort on Apr 22, 2020 11:27:29 GMT 10
Hmm ... $5 Billion in debt ... international travel not due to recover for ages ... 10 buyers lining up?
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Post by Gort on Apr 23, 2020 22:37:19 GMT 10
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Post by Gort on Apr 25, 2020 11:35:15 GMT 10
I received a personal phone call this morning from my local State Government member. Luke Donnellan Luke Anthony Donnellan is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2002, representing Narre Warren North. He is the Minister for Child Protection and the Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers in the Second Andrews Ministry since December 2018 He was checking on our health and how we were coping with the "lock-down" measures. Aww ... wasn't that nice?
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Post by Gort on Apr 29, 2020 12:40:07 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2020 16:55:06 GMT 10
Good on Luke to care for his constituents .. nothing from our local member Nationals Melinda Pavey too busy bashing Koalas and possums denying them habitat.
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Post by KTJ on Apr 30, 2020 19:54:00 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 5:40:05 GMT 10
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Post by Gort on May 1, 2020 13:26:44 GMT 10
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Post by KTJ on May 2, 2020 19:35:33 GMT 10
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Post by Gort on May 4, 2020 12:53:50 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2020 16:40:38 GMT 10
They wants to open up travel between AU and NZ and for Aussies to stay at KTJ's houses while he goes down the road and gets mornin' coffee and eggs benedict on toast...
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Post by KTJ on May 4, 2020 19:33:01 GMT 10
Leave the border closed, I say.
Otherwise we might end up with pieces of filth like Peter Dutton visiting and polluting our land.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2020 0:53:48 GMT 10
An axe murderer would make a better tourist than Dutton.
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Post by Occam's Spork on May 5, 2020 23:36:32 GMT 10
The overblown statistics of Coronavirus. ...Why do our governments want to encourage this worldwide panic?
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Post by KTJ on May 6, 2020 5:59:38 GMT 10
You forgot one: BILLIONS of deaths by simply growing old.
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Post by KTJ on May 6, 2020 6:00:56 GMT 10
Actually, I'm all for those southern baptist churches reopening in jesusland.
'cause when the virus spreads amongst them, there'll be less fundies to vote for America's idiot “fake president”.
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Post by Gort on May 13, 2020 11:48:41 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 12:07:01 GMT 10
Sporko the fuss over the deaths is Covid-19 is, as well as another killer on the list, it is largely unknown what other effects the virus may have other than a form of deadly pneumonia....and no vaccine as yet, in short it may have the potential to mutate into something more deadly..
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