{"id":35529364,"date":"2009-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2009\/08\/25\/There-Are-More-Slaves-Today-Than-at-Any-Time-in-Human\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T06:51:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T06:51:18","slug":"There-Are-More-Slaves-Today-Than-at-Any-Time-in-Human\/","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=35529364","title":{"rendered":"There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sustuff\">Stumbleupon Review of : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/142171\/there_are_more_slaves_today_than_at_any_time_in_human_history\">http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/142171\/there_are_more_slaves_today_than_at_any_time_in_human_history<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/to\/6wtWg3\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/142171\/there_are_more_slaves_today_than_at_any_time_in_human_history\/t:4aefa0f7878e1;src:reviews\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><b style=\"border : 2px solid black; display : inline-block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/giara\/2764100777\/\" ><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3051\/2764100777_b83ff87af8.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<ul style=\"font-family: Verdana, Sans-Serif; width : 500px; margin : 10px auto; padding : 60px 65px 45px; color : #ca8; line-height : 1.5em; background:  url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-top-clear.png) no-repeat 10px 10px; width : 450px; margin-left : 100px;\">One hundred forty-three years after passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and 60 years after Article 4 of the U.N.&#39;s Universal Declaration of Human Rights banned slavery and the slave trade worldwide, there are more slaves than at any time in human history &#8212; 27 million.<\/p>\n<p> Today&#39;s slavery focuses on big profits and cheap lives. It is not about owning people like before, but about using them as completely disposable tools for making money.<\/p>\n<p> During the four years that Benjamin Skinner researched modern-day slavery, he posed as a buyer at illegal brothels on several continents, interviewed convicted human traffickers in a Romanian prison and endured giardia, malaria, dengue and a bad motorcycle accident.<\/p>\n<p> But Skinner is most haunted by his experience in a brothel in Bucharest, Romania, where he was offered a young woman with Down syndrome in exchange for a used car.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8230;<\/div>\n<p> BS: Yes, and I knew that I could get that car for about 1,500 euros. While that may sound like a very low price for human life, consider that five hours from where I live in New York &#8212; a three-hour flight down to Port au Prince, Haiti, and an hour from the airport &#8212; I was able to negotiate for a 10-year-old girl for cleaning and cooking, permanent possession and sexual favors. What do you think the asking price was?<\/p>\n<p> TM: I don&#39;t know &#8230; $7,500?<\/p>\n<p> BS: They asked for $100, and I talked them down to $50. <\/p>\n<p><b style=\"display : block; background : url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-bottom-clear.png) no-repeat bottom right; height : 60px; width : 100%; position : relative; top : -10px; left : 50px;\"><\/b><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/142171\/there_are_more_slaves_today_than_at_any_time_in_human_history One hundred forty-three years after passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and 60 years after Article 4 of the U.N.&#39;s Universal Declaration of Human Rights banned slavery and the slave trade worldwide, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=35529364\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35529364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35529364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35529364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35529364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35529364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35529364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}