Throughout history humans have practiced and perfected sexual techniques that could curl toes and get bills paid! But unfortunately it is taboo in American culture to teach your child the sexual techniques it took you years to perfect.

 So we sit back and watch our children get taken advantage of by partners that are more sexually knowledgeable then they are. Is there a better way?

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It seems like another skeleton falls out of the United States’ closet every day. Whistleblowers are coming out of the woodwork, and the government is struggling to keep the scandals contained

In 1996, Gary Webb, a writer for the San Jose Mercury News, published a series of articles known as “Dark Alliance.” The articles detailed how the CIA turned a blind eye as Nicaraguan drug traffickers sold and distributed crack cocaine in Los Angeles throughout the 1980s. It also described how the Reagan administration protected drug dealers from prosecution.

US Army Private Bradley Manning is responsible for what some have called the biggest leak of secret military data ever. His actions also helped put WikiLeaks on the map, as he provided the organization with hundreds of thousands of classified documents.

Among the things Manning revealed were:

• A secret video, nicknamed “collateral murder” that showed US air crew laughing after killing dozens of people (including reporters and civilians) in an air strike.

• Detailed records of the civilian death toll in Iraq (even though the military repeatedly said there was no record). Out of 109,000 deaths logged in a six year period, 66,081 were unarmed civilians.

• US Soldiers committed horrific acts of torture on Iraqi prisoners, and despite hundreds of filed complaints, authorities never investigated.

• US defense contractor DynCorp was involved in child trafficking.

Currently Manning is being imprisoned by the military and is facing 21 charges, including “aiding the enemy,” which comes with a life sentence. Yes . . . Manning is in jail for exposing the US government paying a company that sold child slaves.

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I went to an event the other day and they were playing Rap music, as I listened I noticed that every song was about "Bitches", "Niggers" sexual organs, sexual acts and doing bodily harm to someone. Music is very powerful, it can get you through hard times. The military sings cadence when they train. Certain songs and musical instruments have been outlawed by countries.

Songs are sung in protest and in churches to inspire and bring people together. At one time there were plenty of Rappers who made music to bring people together and give them a sense of pride but you'd be hard pressed to find one on the top ten nowadays. All this negativity has to be effecting our younger generation. What is the future of Hip Hop?

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Propaganda: ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.

I often hear people say, Why are they always protesting? or, If they would only listen to the police they wouldn't get shot. Propaganda is used to make the perpetrator look like the victim, and the victim look like the perpetrator. Learn to know propaganda when you see or hear it.

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Freddie Gray's death on April 19 leaves many unanswered questions. But it is clear that when Gray was arrested in West Baltimore on the morning of April 12, he was struggling to walk. By the time he arrived at the police station a half hour later, he was unable to breathe or talk, suffering from wounds that would kill him. Gray died Sunday from spinal injuries. Baltimore authorities say they're investigating how the 25-year-old was hurt—a somewhat perverse notion, given that it was while he was in police custody, and hidden from public view, that he apparently suffered injury. How it happened remains unknown. It's even difficult to understand why officers arrested Gray in the first place. But with protesters taking to the streets of Baltimore since Gray's death on Sunday, the incident falls into a line of highly publicized, fatal encounters between black men and the police.

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.http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-mysterious-death-of-freddie-gray/391119/

Why is it illegal in countries where it grows naturally, especially if it's part of their culture?

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/06/top_11_reasons_america_doesnt_want_legal_marijuana.php

Top 11 Reasons America Doesn't Want Legal Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in Culture

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 12:57 pm

#8. In 1937, the guy who started this whole fiasco said...

"No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a philosopher, a joyous reveler in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer." ~ Harry J. Anslinger

And people still believe this... Let me help you out, America. You get mellow when you smoke. Whatever was troubling you hurts less now.Harry was right about it making music and stories better, but murderers and insensate? I haven't insensate since high school. (Someone should tell me what "insensate" means.)

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Your Ex has 3 children but only one of them is yours the father of the other 2 kids is a deadbeat. When you pick up your child for visits you notice he has on hand-me-downs and he is not taking the piano lessons you requested, when you ask his mother what she is doing with the money she states "They are brothers and they have to share everything!"

Is this acceptable?

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After they spent the Easter weekend in jail the teachers now dubbed the APS 12  have activist advovating for them not to receive prison time. Monday morning a group of community activists met with Fulton Co. D.A. Paul Howard to present him with a petition of signatures. They're asking Howard to push for leniency during next week's sentencing phase. do you think they deserve leniency?

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http://Successful Student A resource for students to excel.

From http://successfulstudent.org/

The following is an excerpt from: Successful Student

An education should involve learning life skills that a person will carry with them after college in order to navigate relationships and careers and be a well-rounded, successful person. This article has compiled 20 life skills not taught in school, which are valuable in life in general. Though high school and college is excellent in teaching many valuable skills, our current academic curriculum doesn’t teach many aspects necessary to succeeding and thriving in life in general, such as financial responsibilities and investments, how to think logically–retaining information and not merely temporarily memorizing information, and how to apply such abilities to real-world scenarios which are bound to occur.

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