Here is the joke. They only abolished slavery as today because they failed to do the paperwork back in 1995!
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Uzbekistan is one of the world’s main producers of cotton and the crop is a mainstay of its economy. The government controls production and enforces Soviet-style quotas to get the harvest off the fields as quickly as possible.
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American income inequality may be more severe today than it was way back in 1774 — even if you factor in slavery. Another thing we learn is that Empire status is bad for income equality.
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In 2008, Finbar McGarry, a grad student at the University of Vermont, was arrested on gun charges. While he was awaiting trial, his jailers ordered him to work for .25 in the jail laundry or be condemned to solitary confinement. He’s now suing for violations of his 13th amendment rights, saying that this amounted to slavery.
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And that is not counting the US slaves because the USA is totally absent from this report. Coincidentally the nations in bad standing with the US get bad marks. Nations now in favor with the US all of sudden do a lot better in 2012.
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Prof Jim Hansen to use lecture at Edinburgh International Science Festival to call for worldwide tax on all carbon emissions
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Some of the questions; “Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?” Another read, “If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?” Oh, and it is a black school!
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