@joekent16jan19
We honor our fallen by ending this war & stopping any more of our young men & women from being killed.
We’ve done our retaliation strikes, now it’s time to leave.
This war shouldn’t have started, it will get worse if we attempt to “finish it” any other way than leaving now.
https://xcancel.com/joekent16jan19/status/2079221768993063275
Trump government officials seek protection as US regime collapse continues
This is 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19.
The Pentagon says they were killed Friday in an Iranian attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
The remains of another person were found after the same attack and have not yet been identified.
RIP.
like DOGE, Kek
https://decentfijc.substack.com/p/doge-department-of-gatekeeping-everything-80d
Any true patriot has a duty not to let those responsible for service members’ deaths use their sacrifice as cover for still more needless deaths.
It makes me genuinely sick that people who were infants or not yet born on 9/11 are now dying in a Middle Eastern war
Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults.
As ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune investigated child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, reporters found a common theme: children who were victims of sexual misconduct going on to repeat the behaviour.
https://www.propublica.org/article/old-apostolic-lutheran-church-child-sexual-assault-cycle-abuse
Illicit massage businesses, commonly known as “massage parlors,” have been ubiquitous in the
American landscape for decades. Today, new research finds an estimated 9,000-plus of these
businesses are operating in every state in the country, with earnings totaling nearly $2.5 billion a
year across the industry.1
These businesses dot the sides of highways and are tucked into suburban
strip malls between fast food restaurants and dollar stores and behind darkened windows in
storefronts in some of America’s biggest cities. There may be women who choose to sell sex either
along with or under the guise of massage therapy, but evidence suggests that behind these bland
facades, many of the thousands of women engaging in commercial sex in illicit massage parlors
are victims of human trafficking. And for the most part, thanks to corporate secrecy, their traffickers
cannot be traced.
About massage parlor trafficking
Contrary to popular portrayals, human trafficking does not always or even often involve force or the
threat of force.
To be considered sex trafficking in any venue, a situation must include one of the following:
• Force: Violence or the threat of violence
• Fraud: Such as deceitful recruitment practices or fraudulent debt accumulation
• Coercion: Including emotional manipulation, document confiscation, or threats using
legal processes like deportation
Labor trafficking is defined as force, restraint, threats of harm, abuse or threatened abuse of the
legal system, or any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause the person to believe that if they
did not perform labor, they would suffer serious harm or restraint.2
The victims of massage parlor trafficking in the United States almost all:
• Recently arrived from China or South Korea
• Carry debts or are otherwise under extreme financial pressure
• Speak little or no English
• Have no more than a high school education
• Are mothers in their mid 30s to late 50s
Force is rarely an element of massage parlor trafficking. Instead, victims are controlled by traffickers
through a complex mixture of cultural manipulation, fraud, and coercion. Key among these are
telling the women that the police are in the pockets of the traffickers and will simply arrest them,
that the rest of society views the women as worthless, and that they have no real options but to stay
at the massage parlor and do what the traffickers say.
1 Keyhan, Rochelle et al, “Trafficking in Illicit Massage Businesses.” Polaris, (January 17, 2018)
2 U.S. Code Chapt. 77 Peonage, Slavery and Trafficking in Persons. http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@
title18/part1/chapter77&edition=prelim
ArtIII.S2.C1.12.6 Torts Committed on Navigable Waters
Article III, Section 2, Clause 1:
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;—between a State and Citizens of another State,—between Citizens of different States,—between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
Maritime torts include injuries to persons,1 damages to property arising out of collisions or other negligent acts,2 product liability suits,3 and violent dispossession of property.4 Cases involving tort claims fall within admiralty jurisdiction when two requirements are met: (1) the commission or consummation of the act that gives rise to the claim occurs on navigable waters;5 and (2) the tort bears a significant relationship to traditional maritime activity.6
Ex-counterterrorism official Joe Kent continues calling for US military withdrawal from Middle East
'Get our troops out now before we suffer a mass casualty attack,' Kent urged
Is Germany working on a secret nuclear weapons program?
Moscow’s foreign intelligence service believes that Berlin could produce a working device within a year
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Trump Escalates Iran War As More Soldiers Die