I should've known From how I felt When we were together And even more when we were apart You tiptoed in And you got under my skin You snuck your way right into my heart
I put up barriers To shield my emotions A wall that you could never break apart But like a ninja of love Rappelling down from above You snuck your way right into my heart
Aww what a nice poem.
Phineas: Ya keep saying that you don't have rhythm But listen what you're doing right there With that stamp and a book you got a real nice hook Sounds to me like you got rhythm to spare
Swampy: I have no idea what you're talking about I've got as much rhythm as that chair What happened to me was a tragedy But I don't have to be a millionaire
Look, I got a sweet deal going on here I got all the books that I can read All these sweet old ladies and this carpet from the 80's What more could a librarian need?
Some other random stuff that rhythms.
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Sexual exploitation and forced labor are the most common forms of human trafficking in the world, a new report from the U.N. O
Saturday, December 12, 2009 @ 3:29 AM
The "Global Report on Trafficking in Persons" is based on data from 155 countries and offers a global assessment of human trafficking and efforts to fight it.
The most common form of human trafficking is sexual exploitation, at 79 percent, the report said. The victims of sexual exploitation are predominantly women and girls.
In about one-third of the countries that provided information on the gender of the traffickers, women made up the largest proportion of traffickers. In Central Asia and Eastern Europe, women make up more than 60 percent of those convicted of trafficking.
"In these regions, women trafficking women is the norm," said Antonio Maria Costa, the head of U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. "It is shocking that former victims become traffickers. We need to understand the psychological, financial and coercive reasons why women recruit other women into slavery."
The second most common form of human trafficking is forced labor, or slavery, making up 18 percent of the total, although the writers of the report say it may be under reported.
"How many hundreds of thousands of victims are slaving away in sweat shops, fields, mines, factories, or trapped in domestic servitude?" Costa said. "Their numbers will surely swell as the economic crisis deepens the pool of potential victims and increases demand for cheap goods and services."
Regardless of the type of human trafficking, nearly one in five of its victims were children, according to the report.
"Children's nimble fingers are exploited to untangle fishing nets, sew luxury goods or pick cocoa," the report said. "Their innocence is abused for begging, or exploited for sex as prostitutes, pedophilia or child pornography. Others are sold as child brides or camel jockeys."
In a 2008 report on human trafficking, the U.S. State Department listed Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as destination countries with widespread trafficking abuses, particularly forced laborers trafficked from Asia and Africa who are subject to restrictions on movement, withholding of passports, threats and physical and sexual abuse.
The report found those countries made feeble efforts to rescue victims and prosecute traffickers.
The department's report also says slave labor in developing countries such as Brazil, China and India was fueling part of their huge economic growth. Other countries on the blacklist were Algeria, Cuba, Fiji, Iran, Myanmar, Moldova, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Sudan and Syria.
The U.N. Protocol Against Trafficking in Persons has been in place since 2003. The number of member states "seriously implementing" the protocol has doubled, according to the U.N. report. But it singled out Africa for lacking the necessary legal instruments and the will to crack down on human trafficking.
"There are strong international agreements to ensure that people's lives are not for sale," Costa said. "I urge governments to enforce them."
PLEASE STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 4:16 AM
Cant sleep so post some stuff. 11/12/2009 is the premiere of Naturally.
Read some other people's blog and realize how sensitive people are, it makes me feel sad. Gotta Learn how to overcome the emotion called sadness. Sadness causes chaos throughout the universe. Only something more contagious then sadness can cure the dreaded disease. This is known as laughter. So next time when you see someone crying and feeling all sad, try your best to make them laugh. And maybe, who knows? You might get a new friend. People you try to cheer up dont have to be someone you already know. Anyone who is crying, is sad. Attempting to stop them from crying, means more to them then a $10 note. By making them happy, you have made the world a better place, for the sad person and yourself. Even if you dont know how to make them laugh again, you can always stay quiet and be by their side.
The silent voice within one's heart whispers the most profound wisdom.
Remember that.
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 11:20 PM
Sneak Peak at a new music video Naturally By Selena Gomez