Atrocious Joe posted:

https://latterdaysaintmag.com/article-1-2639/

Normal way to refer to kids

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ST. GEORGE –Today, Attorney General Sean Reyes, in partnership with the Governor’s Office, presented a gubernatorial declaration recognizing January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month and awarded several groups, including visiting Haitian dignitaries, that are working to combat human trafficking locally and globally.

“It’s critical that every American understands that human trafficking can be found in every community, robbing victims of innocence, dignity, and hope,” Reyes said. “It is indiscriminate in its predation of people of all backgrounds, regardless of wealth or station. The groups here today deserve our gratitude for protecting the liberty and worth of our innocent children and most vulnerable citizens.”

The Declaration for National Slavery and Human Trafficking designates January in Utah as the month to remember victims and commend all groups, individuals, and public servants for their diligent efforts to educate themselves, inspire others, rebuild lives, and to protect the inherent worth of each citizen and human being.

Notable among those honored was Haiti’s Attorney General, Clame Ocnam Dameus, his Chief of Staff, Jim Petiote, as well as their wives and several staff members, for their work combatting human trafficking in their home country. Ocnam and his team are visiting Utah due to their partnership with Reyes and Operation Underground Railroad to discuss efforts abroad.

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Ballard’s Mormon faith also heavily influences his work. “The other option was to face my maker one day and tell him why I didn’t do it,” he says of his decision to start combating crimes against children. Ballard insists that religious belief isn’t a requirement to join OUR but notes that the staff members often pray together. If someone isn’t “comfortable praying,” he says, “they’re not going to be comfortable working with us.” (In a February interview with LDS Living magazine, Ballard was more candid about his faith: He said he launched OUR after being instructed by God to “find the lost children.”)

Today, OUR has a full-time staff of 12 people and a stable of trained volunteers, most of them Mormon. They include former military and intelligence officers, nurses and Army medics, cops and martial arts instructors. From small offices in Salt Lake City, Dallas, and Anaheim, California, OUR has coordinated more than a dozen raids in Latin America and the Caribbean. It claims to have saved at least 250 trafficking victims, including 123—55 of whom were children— in three stings coordinated across Colombia last October.

ChopnDrop posted:

https://twitter.com/AcesandEightsTX/status/1677462386653970434

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1677447851973001216

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1677162301365932033

https://twitter.com/Honkamoto1775/status/1677163594675363845

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/upholdreality/status/1677486524563070977?t=UAgjg776K9RJ4UINVQIoXw&s=19

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Some of you may recall that Trump's appointee to run Voice of America was seen as attempting to deteriorate its editorial independence; an independent investigation was recently publicly released revealing how hard he'd gone in trying to purge the place. Topline findings:

Some interesting parts

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The Smith-Mundt Act prohibitions apply only to USAGM and the State Department, not the White House. USAGM guidance states that, “USAGM broadcasters have an affirmative obligation to take all steps to ensure that U.S. audiences are not being targeted” by Agency content.102 The guidelines state that, “USAGM broadcasters have an affirmative obligation to take all steps to ensure that US audiences are not being targeted; for example, broadcasters must opt out of boosting content to audiences located in the U.S.”

OCB uses a Spanish translation of VOA's best practices guide, which states that USAGM-funded journalists should “not attempt to reach audiences in the United States. This includes diaspora groups. There are no exceptions, even if the content is in a language other than English, or the groups or individuals are from countries which we reach overseas.” The guide also discusses requests from outside of USAGM to use Agency-funded content: “Ultimately, if it looks like the intent is to ignore the rules—i.e., if the goal is to influence U.S. opinion, or otherwise develop audiences within the United States—then the activity is prohibited.”

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In late June 2020, CEO Pack took action to make government editorials more prominent on VOA's website and to ensure that VOA language services carried them. Given his statutory responsibility to ensure VOA adhered to its legal mandates—which include carrying U.S. government editorials explaining U.S. policy—his directive was within his authority.

How the directive was announced and implemented created friction and antipathy. VOA was not consulted or informed about the decision before USAGM issued a press release on June 24, announcing this directive. Similarly, the CEO's Office also did not give USAGM's Office of Policy—which supported making editorials more prominent— advance warning that a press release was forthcoming.

VOA had technical concerns with ensuring that government editorials were clearly distinguished from news content and did not have an opportunity to work through these concerns prior to CEO Pack's press release. The concerns extended not only to VOA's English-language site, but to dozens of VOA language service websites, as well as to automated feeds that distribute content over social media, such as Facebook Instant Articles. For well over a month, VOA language service content was not clearly distinguished from USAGM editorials on Facebook Instant Articles because both types of content went out over the same automated feed.

“All reputable news organizations keep clear, hard lines between their opinion work and their reporting,” one VOA employee wrote in August. “Without clear labeling and keeping these pieces separated from the social media accounts of our languages, we are deliberately blurring the line between opinion and news.” The VOA employee also raised the legitimate concern that this co-mingling of news with editorials raised the risk that Facebook, for instance, could begin treating government-funded VOA content like it treats state-controlled content from Russia (RT) and China (CCTV).

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1677825938481119232?t=nLi8A2G99gwzMxBPPmjxuQ&s=19

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1677825938481119232?t=nLi8A2G99gwzMxBPPmjxuQ&s=19

PathAsc posted:

Marenghi posted:

So the US military is involved in sex trafficking as well as drug smuggling. Makes sense when you look at the poor countries they operate in and have bases, are well known hot-spots for child sex tourism and sex trafficking.

MonsieurChoc posted:

I'm surprised for once it's not Fort Bragg.

Victor Vermis posted:

Agreed. The US should immediately shutter all bases and withdraw all military personnel

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

I remember the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Taliban fighters entering the compounds of US allied warlord to find drugs, weapons, money, obscene objects of wealth and “dancing boys.”

And we tried so hard to make them a democracy like us… they just couldn’t hack it.

MonsieurChoc posted:

I'm surprised for once it's not Fort Bragg.

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

I remember the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Taliban fighters entering the compounds of US allied warlord to find drugs, weapons, money, obscene objects of wealth and “dancing boys.”

And we tried so hard to make them a democracy like us… they just couldn’t hack it.

FunOne posted:

The war in Afghanistan and our poo poo rear end attempt at nation building pisses me off. We were there for over 20 years. We could have educated two loving generations into being pro-america and pro west and somehow we dicked that all up.

Instead we did our damned best to make sure we're going to get attacked by these people for the next 60 god drat years.

FunOne posted:

The war in Afghanistan and our poo poo rear end attempt at nation building pisses me off. We were there for over 20 years. We could have educated two loving generations into being pro-america and pro west and somehow we dicked that all up.

Instead we did our damned best to make sure we're going to get attacked by these people for the next 60 god drat years.

Marenghi posted:

Afghanistan became a human trafficking hot-spot with it growing every year since the US invaded. There were reports of PMCs organizing the trafficking of girls and women.

Kinda suspicious that after the US invades it becomes the source of international drugs smuggling and human trafficking rings.

mawarannahr posted:

[Epstein] The Clinton admin actually did a somewhat decent job

Marenghi posted:

So the US military is involved in sex trafficking as well as drug smuggling. Makes sense when you look at the poor countries they operate in and have bases, are well known hot-spots for child sex tourism and sex trafficking.

FunOne posted:

The war in Afghanistan and our poo poo rear end attempt at nation building pisses me off. We were there for over 20 years. We could have educated two loving generations into being pro-america and pro west and somehow we dicked that all up.

Instead we did our damned best to make sure we're going to get attacked by these people for the next 60 god drat years.

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New Wave of Protests Begin as US Troops Enter Perú to Train Armed Forces
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
14 Jun 2023

A Third Takeover of Lima is the next action planned in the mobilization against the coup government in Peru.

National Strike, Day 161

As the parliamentary coup against democratically elected president Pedro Castillo enters its sixth month, the people of Perú continue the protests and begin a new wave of coordinated actions throughout the country to prepare for a third Takeover of Lima in July. Despite the coup regime’s various attempts to stifle the uprising that began December 7th and has continued both in the capital city of Lima and in the outer provinces and regions, despite the Supreme Court ruling declaring protests are not a protected right and Congress trying to take Perú out of the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, the people have not stopped making their voices heard. With the entrance of hundreds of US military personnel starting on June 1st, it is yet to be seen what this deployment means for the movement and the people’s struggle for a plurinational and sovereign nation, but plans continue for a renewed wave of protests.

June 7th marked Flag Day in Perú as well the 6 month anniversary of the Boluarte/ Fujimori coup regime that claimed the lives of over 80 Peruvians during the uprising. Peruvians, particularly in the southern regions of Puno, Arequipa, and Apurímac raised the black and white Peruvian flag honoring those killed in the 6 months of dictatorship. Merchants in mercados throughout the country raised the black and white flag, the families of victims and others in places like Ayacucho, Junin and in Lima staged a “lavado” (wash) in public squares where they were washing flags in buckets of soap and water (to metaphorically get the blood of their slain children and other martyrs and abuses of this dictatorship off the flag), and continuous organizing towards the July 19th Third Takeover Of Lima where delegations of people from outer regions into Lima to demand the ouster of the Boularte regime, the closure of Congress, and justice for the victims, among other demands.

As with much of this popular uprising, the southern region of Puno has provided leadership to the struggle. On May 30th, all of Puno observed a full strike (paro seco) that had all storefronts, hostels, and restaurants closed in observance of this decision made by Popular Assembly. Through various formations, both longstanding and newly formed in these past six months, popular assemblies have been converging throughout the regions and macro regions of the country to plan for the upcoming delegations heading to Lima, but also to plan more local actions like the strike on May 30th, and more importantly, what the demands of a popular, sovereign and plurinational constituent assembly should be. Other regions, like Arequipa, have also agreed to the Third Takeover of Lima for mid July while also planning local actions in the lead up to the mass march on the capital, according to Yasmani Cayo, presidente del Frente de Defensa del Avelino.

The Boluarte regime declared an additional 60 days of a State of Emergency for Puno in response to the planned protests. The next day would result in tense scenes in the city of Juliaca in Puno with police and mourners jostling to lower the flag at half mast, but no deadlier interactions reported. With this round of renewed protests and major mobilizations to the capital city of Lima, the mobilized masses have yet to face the brutality of what training the Peruvian Armed Forces are receiving from the additional 1,000 US military troops. As President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel recently stated when asked about the entrance of US troops to Perú, “that is interference, that is aggression. A country that respects itself does not allow that. That is an attack against the sovereignty of a nation, it is to end self determination…Behind this, it shows the interest to assault and be present in the problems of our countries as an element of domination.”

As government contracts from the Department of Defense flood into Lima, particularly the Naval Medical Research Unit Six (NAMRU-6), the primary source of infectious diseases research in the Latin American region for the US Navy, it’s clear that the US is stationing itself further entrenched in Perú not only to help clamp down the popular uprising inside the country, but also as a threat to the region of what happens when the people elect a government promising to have the resources of the country benefit the masses.

Clau O'Brien Moscoso is an organizer with the Black Alliance for Peace in the Haiti/Americas Team. Originally from Barrios Altos, Lima, she grew up in New Jersey and now lives between both countries.

gradenko_2000 posted:

new biolabs just dropped:

https://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/new-wave-protests-begin-us-troops-enter-peru-train-armed-forces

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https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PBAAF347.pdf

gradenko_2000 posted:

new biolabs just dropped:

https://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/new-wave-protests-begin-us-troops-enter-peru-train-armed-forces

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https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PBAAF347.pdf

FunOne posted:

The war in Afghanistan and our poo poo rear end attempt at nation building pisses me off. We were there for over 20 years. We could have educated two loving generations into being pro-america and pro west and somehow we dicked that all up.

Instead we did our damned best to make sure we're going to get attacked by these people for the next 60 god drat years.

FunOne posted:

The war in Afghanistan and our poo poo rear end attempt at nation building pisses me off. We were there for over 20 years. We could have educated two loving generations into being pro-america and pro west and somehow we dicked that all up.

Instead we did our damned best to make sure we're going to get attacked by these people for the next 60 god drat years.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/incontextmedia/status/1677302025342550019

MonsieurChoc posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaGEmMCGLBU

Love that the concert is now a generic peace concert instead of one specifically supporting a leftist anti-colonialist government. Probably won't mention the thugs that tried to kill him were sent by the CIA either.