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Human trafficking has become one of the biggest cultural issues that our society faces today. In fact, it is known as the third largest criminally ran industry in the entire world, generating estimated revenues of $32 billion a year. Additionally, some statistics suggest that the average age a person is abducted/coerced into this horrendous trade…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Thomas Pippen President Donald Trump’s deportation policies could drive the price of milk up to $8 dollars a gallon, according to a Milk industry expert. Around 80 percent of milk produced in America comes from dairies that use foreign labor, and if those workers leave, the U.S. will see significant milk shortages, Jaime…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Several Venezuela protesters have died as anti-government protests continued, NPR reported. NPR reports: “Protests are mounting against embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and the death toll is mounting too. As demonstrators braved a tropical storm on the streets of Caracas on Thursday, a 36-year-old died elsewhere of wounds he had sustained…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The plight against the patriarchy has hit a new low, as attendees at a Maine Democratic Party event seemingly found the the rising suicide rate among white men extremely funny. Onetime Democratic state Senate candidate Richard Fochtmann was speaking at a Pint Tree Staters event in Maine, when his speech shifted…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Jonah Bennett Marine Le Pen, presidential candidate for the National Front in France, slammed President Donald Trump for flip-flopping on NATO. “Undeniably he is in contradiction with the commitments he had made,” Le Pen said Friday during an interview with France Info radio. “I am coherent, I don’t change my mind…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Steve Birr Fiery rhetoric on marijuana legalization from Attorney General Jeff Sessions is prompting some states to preemptively act to limit federal power over local pot laws. “They could start issuing a bunch of threat letters, they could begin raiding and arresting people in various states,” Tom Angell, chairman…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a staunch non-interventionist, has angered and confounded many in her own party due to her questioning of the narrative that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad gassed his own people according to the Associated Press. The Associated Press reports: “This is Tulsi country, and maybe it’s not well understood by people…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Eric Lieberman Uber, the ride-sharing startup turned tech conglomerate, has been accused of creating and operating three invasive spy programs in recent months and years, indicating the lengths the company will go to in order to survive and thrive in the ride-hailing market. Authorities investigated Uber in 2014 for a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Robert Donachie The Department of Health And Human Services dropped an 1,832 page rule late Friday afternoon on Easter weekend. The rule is a proposal to revise the Acute Inpatient Payment Systems (IPPS), which lays out a system for payments for acute care patients staying in hospitals under Medicare…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Saagar Enjeti Chaos erupted after the U.S. dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on an Islamic State training camp in Afghanistan Thursday, local villagers told The Guardian. The bomb was dropped on Achin district in Nangarhar province, the long-time home of the terrorist group in Afghanistan. ISIS has…