Valley of Seven Castles, a Luxembourg Thriller (progressive) by John T. Cullen - Galley City

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Valley of Seven Castles, A Luxembourg Thriller by John T. Cullen

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New World Order: Contractual Slavery

ANN (Europe)—U.S. State Department officials have decried the recent surge in cases of U.S. nationals being held in virtual slavery overseas, particularly in China, India, and other Asian countries belonging to the self-declared CEOC, or Corporate Executive Officials Confederacy. CEOC, whose governing parliament is about to meet at the Chateau Ansembourg in the Valley of Seven Castles in Luxembourg, represents the world's 900 wealthiest families from all parts of the world, representing half the world's wealth.

The entrapment situation results from voluntary contracts into which desperate young people from depression-wracked U.S.A. put themselves for an average of five years, typically expecting their freedom and a pension for life after completing their term. This fad is all the rage in the West, especially in the United States. Because the United States is still today the only major nation without universal health care, some victims sell themselves to gain medical care for a loved one, and to avoid having all their savings and property seized by predatory so-called health insurance companies. Horror stories about enslavement were once a problem faced mainly by domestics from the Philippines and other Third World countries working for private families in the world's wealthiest oil exporting nations, particularly in the Middle East. The so-called nanny and butler contacts being marketed to U.S. teens over eighteen, and twenty-somethings, are currently a serious fad. Under a type of indentured servitude contract, attractive young U.S. women—and some men—sell themselves into virtual slavery for periods typically of three to five years. During that time, they serve their owners in any manner required, under the misleading concept of BAN (Butlers And Nannies). Services include—it is unofficially alleged—sex slavery. In return, these young people's contracts guarantee, upon satisfactory completion of the full term, a lifetime pension equivalent to those of the lucky few in the United States who currently have full time jobs with benefits and some modicum of health care.

According to State Department sources, dozens of these modern indentured slaves have petitioned for release from their contract and return home under safe conduct, citing abuses including rape, torture, sexual slavery, and even murder. Governments of the newly wealthier nations around the world have been notably unwilling or unable to assist the U.S. in seeking extradition of U.S. and European nationals, citing the legality of the contracts and the unparalleled global power of international corporations. These corporations are often wealthier and more powerful than nation-states. Instead of making war, they deploy armies of top lawyers to stymie all human rights efforts on behalf of the so-called BANs, who in no way resemble their namesakes of previous centuries. Reports of further abuses have surfaced, including allegations that BANs are forbidden any contact with the outside world, to prevent them from escaping or appealing for help. Several of these captive U.S. women have allegedly tried to run for their lives, only to disappear in the underworld and brothels of major cities like Shanghai and Delhi, never to be seen again.

The internationally corporate-controlled U.S. Congress has refused to move forward any legislation to investigate or remedy proposed by the Labor and Middle Class movements. In the absence of a free press—with U.S. media 99% under corporate control for the past century or more—and with the investor base now global rather than U.S. based, there appears to be little interest in finding remedies for U.S. workers' grievances in what the corporate media dismiss as 'socialist and communist agitation by illegal foreign elements undermining our Constitutional rights.




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