Greed, War, Sex Trafficking and Corruption

America is now the number 1 sex trafficking destinations in the world. The world has at least 27 million slaves and at least 2,000 children die per day due to poverty-related conditions;  1.5 billion people earn less than $1.25 per day.  We have 300 plus million population compared to China's 1.33 billion (1/5 of the world) and use 30% of the world's resources.  Our personal wealth is estimated at $70 trillion and we spend $10 trillion per year on personal items and nearly one trillion on personal care items like cosmetics.  We have or are affiliated with, thousands of churches, non-profits and international organizations working here and abroad, supposedly to help everyone.  We can't even help all the people in our own country because of greed and continued racial and economic bias.
Meanwhile the human trafficking industry is the fastest growing and most lucrative industry besides guns and drugs.  Women are literally used as money-making SLOT machines.  This year, the United States is on the list of human trafficking countries.  Billions of dollars from this industry go into the coffers of syndicated crime organizations and the predators are very difficult to apprehend or convict.  Women are held hostage and their predators have their  passports and know their family members' locations.  They risk beatings to attempt saving any money for themselves.  Some escape to tell their stories on documentaries.  Many are too ashamed or afraid to speak about it.
Just as we are losing the war on drugs and the border wars with Mexico we are treating human trafficking as a regular crime, i.e. we don't take it as seriously as murder, but the fate of these women is often worse than death.   Just as we have an insatiable desire for guns and drugs, the demand for sex slaves both adults and children makes it a world-wide commodity as valuable as the rise and fall of the stock market.
It goes without saying that most of the John's are not prosecuted and the syndicate leaders are very sophisticated and constantly move around avoiding apprehension.  America and Somalia are the only countries that have not signed the United Nations Convention On The Rights Of Children (1989).  We are so sophisticated we can trap people in the cyber-sex abuse world so it is plain and simple greed that prevents us from solving world problems.  Our war in the Middle East is a side-show compared to the world's real problems and Christians have a majority presence in 100 nations or more (40 of the poorest).  Children are sold by their parents or relatives for a small amount of money or monthly payment to agents who are unscrupulous.  This happens right now in countries like the Philippines. 
We convicted only a handful of Wall Street crooks in the world-wide crisis involving trillions of dollars and subjected  millions of Americans to bankruptcy and/or poverty level.  Drug Lords are rarely caught and the demand for drugs and related profiteering is incredible.  Many Americans are in a hostage situation regarding housing and lack of jobs, between a rock and a hard place.  We have always had crooks on Wall Street and the wealthy often get away with crimes that would lead to life in prison for the average person.  Like Tantalus the richest countries hold most wealth and resources, including water, just out of reach of their own people and the majority of the nations in the world.  Look how corrupt Mexico is with 111 million people and a per capita income of $14,000 yet people have risked their lives to come to America and other nations by the millions since the fifties.  The thirty-two Muslim nations average about $9,000 per capita and I don't ever hear or google about widespread starvation or sexual slavery and assaults.  There are approximately 2.2 billion Christians and Roman Catholics and 1.5 Muslims.  Christians make up 250 million of the U.S. population of 310 million and control at least $60 trillion in wealth.  Their rhetoric that God helps those who help themselves is certainly an ugly American analogy.  Of course the US  has a bad reputation in the world.  China and Russia nationalize billions of dollars of company assets and individual assets, we let people be as greedy as they want (backed up by the largest law firms in the world)
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Haiti is the worst place in the world to live.  Ziimbawe must be second.  They are both predominately Christian nations.  For Americans to see just one savaged child or adult and put it into perspective world-wide should change our hedonistic ways.  But the problems only get worse.  Some think our problem is the Muslims trying to take over the world, but in fact the U.S. has a strong relationship with most of the Muslim  nations.  It is America that is the problem with the world.  How do we become so greedy and hedonistic, ignoring the needs of most of the world?  It seems the American Dream is to have your name on the top of a  building instead of instead of being patriotic and democratic.
One can reach only this conclusion - Christians are to blame for most of the world's problems.  World-wide Roman Catholic sexual abuse could fill an encyclopedia.  Ninety percent of Americans are either overwhelmed by an unfair workplace or they make up the rest of the population :  60 million children 14 and  40 million seniors and 40 million disabled and 40 million age 15-24.  There are 80 million men in the workplace and 70 million women.  The top 5% of wealthy Americans are too busy with a lust for money to even help our own nation much less other nations without even access to water.  Where is our patriotism?  Where is democracy?  What is changing in America or the rest of the world?  It's getting worse.   Christians' zeal to get new members rather than share their money is unconscionable.  I suggest that unlike Muslims only half of our Christian nation consists of practicing Christians (the ritual of full participation in a church).   Wealthy Muslims give 2.5% of their wealth (zakat) to the poor yearly to be purified and legitimate.  If Americans followed this practice approximately $1trillion would be given to the poor, without disrupting CAPITALISM.
If our country wasn't so greedy and hedonistic we wouldn't have terrorists, sex offenders and gangs everywhere you turn.  We have created a monster because of refusal to exercise true globalization.  Even Christian missionaries are at fault for discouraging the customs and practices of ethnic groups around the world.  They even did it to Hawaii where I live.  As Joe Ratigan (formerly of Fast Money) said the stock market is like drug dealers, they gamble with other peoples' money then pass on the losses to my mother, who never intended to gamble.  Most of the Muslim world believes we were behind the 9/11 attacks.  Our leaders don't follow the law and neither do a huge number of Americans, whether it's human trafficking, cheating on taxes or sexually abusing their own children, figuring the odds are in their favor.  We are WEAKER than other soldiers in the Middle East, we even bribe people not to fight.  Our soldiers are on drugs and we are fighting an illegal war we cannot win.
The penalty  for John's should be twenty years for the repeated brutal sexual assaults conducted in the human trafficking industry.  This, the same as 1st degree sexual assault of a child would deter John's from their easy-pickings of women sex slaves.  Human Traffickers should be given the death penalty.  Too much effort is put into catching ring-leaders, when it's much easier to punish the Johns and the word would spread quickly.  Also, the leaders of countries who don't cooperate with authorities should go to prison.  Human Trafficking should fall under Genocide Law and countries that are the worst offenders should face multi-billion dollar fines for their failure to resolve the horrible nightmares of the victims over and over and over.
Thus, in spite of American Greed, this problem can be tackled on all levels.

Satisfied With The Mysteries Of Life's Eternity

"How strange is the lot of us mortals!  Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;  for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.  But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people - first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.  A hundred times every day I remind myself in order to give in the same measure I have received and am still receiving...

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical bias I call the ideal of a pigsty.  The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth.  With the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field or art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me.  The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted sharply with my pronounced lack of need for direct contract with other human beings and human communities.  I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even immediate family, with my whole heart;  in the face of all these ties I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.

My political ideal is  democracy.  Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.  It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow beings, through no fault, and no merit of my own.  The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainabale to many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.  I am quite aware that for any organization to meet it's goals, one man must do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility.  But the led must not be coerced, they must choose their leader.  In my opinion, an autocratic system of leadership soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality...the really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remain dull in thought and dull in feeling.

The topic brings me to that worst outrcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor...this plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed.  Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathesome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passioinately I hate them.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.  It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.  Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.  It was the experience of mystery - even mixed with fear - that engendered religion.  A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds:  it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity.  In this sesnse, only this senses, I am a deeply religious man - I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

Albert Einstein

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