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Sex Industry Act
» Sign this petition
THE PETITION
The Sex Industry is defined as an
industry where Sex workers may be
employed as prostitutes, strippers,
go-go dancers, burlesque
performers, escorts, dominatrices,
peepshow workers, phone sex
operators, hustlers, foot fetish
models, brothel workers, or porn
stars among other things. Some sex
workers are paid to engage in sex
acts which involve varying degrees
of physical contact with clients.
Other sex workers are paid to
engage in live sexual performance,
such as web cam sex and phone
sex. Others are paid merely to be
companions. The petition to create
a bill does not in any way oppose
the Sex Industry. Its entire purpose
is to increase the minimum legal age
for sex workers from 18 to 21.
DESIRED OUTCOME
The petition is to garner support to
pass a bill in NYS to raise the
minimum age of sex industry
workers from 18 to 21 to prevent the
commercial exploitation of young
people.
WHO WE NEED TO INFLUENCE
The petition needs to influence the
legislators of NY, NJ, & CT in phase
one, and the Congress of the United
States in phase two.
» Sign this petition
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The Pain
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An editorial by Patick Lynch
on an article by Kate Devlin
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Lorielle New starring in...
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
by Decateau >watch trailer
Scientific Poll: Only
29% Of Americans
Trust Mainstream
Media
Record numbers say they distrust a
media dominated by corporate
interests
By Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, Sept 14, 2009
A new poll by the Pew Research Center has
reveled that almost two thirds of Americans do
not trust the mainstream media to deliver the
truth, marking a 20+ year low. 63%, the vast
majority of the over 1500 respondents to the
survey, stated that the news media is dominated
by special interests, rendering it biased and
inaccurate. >more
Big Media Blinds Billions
From The
Truth...
Lies,
cover-ups
and...
conditioning has dumbed up
Americans. As long as there's
beer and a game on t.v., it's all
good! Wake up! It's the four
quarter and you never had
possession of the ball. How
could this have happened? Big
media consolidations and lies.
Forum For Truth
To Impanel World
Committee
I ask, who among us
would like to know the
truth about their future,
and where would you go
to find such answers?
Short of divination, we
rely on news sources to
point things out to us. So
we read what they print
and fill our minds with
bits of information that is
all part of gradual
conditioning process to
dumb us up to what's
important. The question
is now then, important to
who?
Society breaks up rather
nicely into groups of like
minded individuals who
seem to get along as
long as there's either a
football game, or some
other mind trancing
programming cleverly
picked out to fit the
needs of the sponsor.
So, essentially, we take
in what big corporations
pay the networks to stuff
into our heads via the
latest in flatscreen
technology.
Whew! I'd rather make
the news than watch it.
It's way to late to stay
hypnotized in front of the
tube. We're way beyond
that point. I'm activating.
What are you doing?
Peaceful protest is
under the whim of an evil
regime which pays
known subversive
groups to disturb the
peace, thereby tagging
the event as a whole. If
we have a known history
of doing this, then why
does it keep repeating?
It repeats because each
new generation drifts
further into virtual reality
while renouncing their
rightful claim to the real
world upon which we
walk. Wake up,lest one
day you never do and
fall into the abyss. >more
Parking Scam or Community
Service:
Fordham Shoppers Pay $1 For Free Spots
By David Greene
Maybe his talents would be more suitable for the 'Shark Tank', series, but an
out-of-work carpenter in Fordham is manipulating the system and is charging
drivers $1 to park their cars in free spots, right under the noses of NYPD
Parking Enforcement Agents, who have a headquarters around the corner.
And one source claims the practice has been going on for the last decade.
Over the past two Sundays, J.B., as he likes to be called, arrives early and
stays late, holding spots for drivers, assisting them during broken U-turns and
maneuvering into spots, and he claims, protecting their belongings left inside
vehicles along E. 189 Street, between Park Avenue and Webster Avenue in
the Fordham section.
After walking away from J.B., one driver, who would only identify himself as
'Joseph', was asked if he paid the man for the parking spot. Joseph replied
with a firm, "No." Asked if the man asked for money, Joseph responded, "Yes,
a dollar... I told him, 'Listen, man, why are you charging money when it's free
parking'; he said, 'No, because I work right here and I want the money.'"
The manager of the Carvel on the
corner, stated, "You got the guys
breaking into cars, so they're doing
us a favor... so why not?" Asked
about crime on the block, the man
replied, "It's not like before but
crime is still everywhere."
The manager claimed several of the
men have been arrested for,
"harassing people for change," but
the group is not responsible for any
auto break-ins, in the area. Adding,
"If you forget to put a quarter in the
meter, they will do it for you, but
they still want to get paid for that...
they're not asking for a lot... chump
change."
The manager estimated that the
operation has been in existence for
the last five years.
One resident of Highbridge,
shopping in the Fordham section
recalled, "In my neighborhood, they
cleaned out an empty lot and
started renting out spots," adding
police eventually shut down that
entrepreneur.
Maybe local officials can get some
of the stimulus money and expand
this unofficial pilot program. Get
them all official shirts and pay them
$8 an hour. First, however, they'll
need to figure out how to pay for
the attendant's medical bills, when
one of them gets run over by a
truck. # # #
PHOTO 1: J.B., Fordham's unofficial parking
agent directs traffic along E. 189 Street.
--Photo by David Greene
PHOTO 2: Parking spot salesman J.B. attempts
to get a second sale as a woman maneuvers her
SUV into the protected spot on E. 189
Street. --Photo by David Greene
PHOTO 3: Parking salesman J.B. watches as his
customer parks in his spot. --Photo by David
Greene
PHOTO 4: A woman pays Fordham's unofficial
parking attendant J.B. along E. 189 Street after
using his services. --Photo by David Greene
Joseph added, "I told him I only had credit cards but he demanded cash".
An unidentified Sergeant with the NYPD's Traffic Enforcement Bureau,
stationed in her vehicle around the corner from where J.B. was conducting his
business, stated, "They come and chase him but it's up to the people." The
sergeant added that on any given day half the meters on the block are broken.
Asked what happens when police catch up to an individual selling free or
metered parking spaces, the official added, "I don't know what happens, I just
started, but I'm quite sure he's been doing it long before I got here," two years
ago.
Speaking of J.B.'s business associates, the traffic agent offered, "There's a
lady and about three other boys, there's a lot of them. They'll come here to do
that before they'll get a job, I don't understand."
When told how one man claimed J.B. "Demanded," money, the sergeant
responded, "Demanded? the office is right around the corner and they don't
even care."
The sergeant's partner added, "He shouldn't demand anything from those
people."
Asked about possible confrontations with the police, J.B. said, "I make
sure the cars don't get broken into. What are they going to do? For
helping people park cars? I don't ask for money, but they give it to me."
Claiming his being on the street prevents theft and vandalism, J.B.
continues, "So in that way it's good, you know it's a good thing for the
people."
J.B. asks, "Do you know how many cars they break into here? People
do their shopping and leave a bag in the car, and they break the
window, but you only have $2 worth of stuff in the back of your car, but
the window will cost you $150, it doesn't make any sense. But when a
guy is always here, they're not going to do that."
J.B. denied ever demanding any money, offering, "I didn't demand
anything from that guy... I never ask for money, so the police can't say
I'm out here panhandling," adding that when he's on the street, his
customers know "Their stuff is safe."
"You don't have to worry about your car being broken into," J.B. says
with a smile, "or your wife being mugged." J.B. claimed that the
Monday-to-Friday crew often lays out the quarters for the meter and are
reimbursed when the driver returns, preventing a ticket if they return
late.
On traffic enforcement agents, J.B. claimed he knows all of them and
added, "They don't bother us because they know we're doing a good
thing."
J.B., who claims to be an out-of-work carpenter, who has not been able
to return to work since a recent heart attack as he can no longer lift
heavy sheet-rock, says he can make between $50 to $60 on a good
day, and some make as much as $350 a week. J.B. claimed, "Right now
I'm laid off... I have no work... I've got a family to feed."
Detective Mindy Diaz at Police Plaza seemed a little stunned by the
practice of individuals charging drivers for free parking spots, stating,
"They can't do that!" Diaz suggested the next time J.B. is out on a shift,
to call 9-11.
Serving up to a
dozen people an
hour, when J.B. was
confronted about
business, he replied,
"No, business is
slow, very slow."
Asked how he
charges people for
spots that are
normally free on
Sunday, J.B.
explained, "What
can I do?"
The foundation was established
on September 8, 1994 as an
internship and scholarship not
for profit corporation called, the
American National Deployment
of Resources for Opportunity &
Intellectual Development, Inc.,
certainly a mouthful! That's why
it is reported to the IRS as the
ANDROID Foundation. Less
words. Same foundation.
Now that hard times have fallen
upon us, millions of people are
in need of interim needs.
Politicians who rely solely on
existing resources are simply
not hedging their bet for the
best of all possibilities. Senators
line item and hand out funding
to organization that pay salaries
above the national average.
Indeed economic adjustment is
needed for cost of living in New
York City, but no one running a
not for profit corporation should
make more than the President
of the United States.
This is the case in organizations
that care for animals and plants
such as: The Wildlife
Foundation, which pays their
top executive over $600,000,
and the Botanical Gardens
paying over $300,000 to their
top earner.
Why should these organizations
receive any public funding if
they are going to waste that
funding by paying double or
even ten times the national
average according to the U.S.
Department of Labor, and
Charity Navigator.com, a web
based source.
Four doctors on the Board of
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
earn over 4 million dollars per
year to head departments in
that university. That's absurd!
You mean to tell me that job is
worth more than the highest
paying government job. Top
NASA scientist don't even come
close to that salary range.
The ability of a charity to create
jobs that pay grossly over the
national average is something
that the U.S. Department of
Labor needs to investigate. Top
jobs go to cronies on their way
up and down the political food
chain. Hidden within tens of
thousands of 501c (3) and
other organizations are layers
of alliances which have lead us
to the current political
machinery. An elite group of
Bronxites that through money
and influence continue to
decide the future of the Bronx.
My job with the ANDROID
Foundation is to let local
politicians know that there is
now another outlet for them to
consider when doling out funds.
Building A Better Credit Report
By Andrew Perretti
There are techniques you can put into
practice to improve your Credit Scores.
Don't rely on my suggestions only
because there is usually a wealth of
information on this subject available at any
bank or lending institution that provides
mortgage services. Lenders analyze your
credit scores to determine whether or not
to approve a home mortgage, a car
purchase and other types of loans. Before
they lend you money, they want to
determine risk, or how likely you are to
repay the money they loan you. Your Credit
Scores helps them do just that. The higher
your score, the less risk is the logical
assumption.
Most increases to your credit scores take
place over time and require an ongoing
effort from you. The only true credit score
fast track repair is to pay down debt and to
successfully dispute the negative
remarks on your credit report.
Credit scoring software looks at five areas
of your credit reports:
- Your Payment History
- Amounts You Owe
- Length of Your Credit History
- Types of Credit Used
- Your New Credit
You can improve your credit scores by
taking a close look at your credit reports
and charting a plan of action to improve
them. There are dozens of not for profit
companies that help you consolidate debt
and provide you with free counselling.
American Financial Services is one such
company that provides this type of credit
repair solution.
However, the first, but not last
recommendation you will receive from me
in this article is to go straight to the free
information provided to consumers by the
Federal Trade Commission. Remember,
our government is an expert in creating
debt. That's something they have been
doing for over two centuries! So with that
much practice creating debt, I'll wager an
educated guess that they are very good at
understanding and eliminating debt.
The last recommendation is a solution
which enables apartment renters to build
credit with rental payments the way
homeowners do with mortgage payments,
regardless of income or geography.
Demonstrating your credit- worthiness
with a bill payment history is one of the
smartest financial moves that you can
make. It is no longer necessary to go into
debt to demonstrate that you pay your bills
on time and that you are creditworthy. For
more information on how you can build
credit without going deeper into debt, visit:
www.prbc.com .