鈥淔actories making sought-after Apple iPads and iPhones in China are forcing staff to sign pledges not to commit suicide, an investigation has revealed. 鈥淎t least 14 workers at Foxconn factories in China have killed themselves in the last 16 months as a result of horrendous working conditions.
We kid you not
US-backed dictators have 鈥榤oral scruples鈥
鈥淸P]ro-American dictatorships have more moral scruples. The comparison is akin to what happened in the 1980s when U.S. allies led by authoritarians fell peacefully in the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan, even as Communist regimes proved tougher.鈥
鈥 February 16 WSJ editorial.
Supporting its dictators
鈥淭he [Obama] administration has submitted a proposed budget for fiscal 2011 that included military assistance increases for Bahrain, Libya, Morocco, Oman and Yemen.鈥
鈥淭he Group of 20 countries [which met in Seoul over November 11-13] were supposed to have stamped out the financial market abuses at the heart of the global crisis but little seems to have changed since their last summit, analysts say. 鈥淗opes for reform after the market chicanery that brought down a series of 鈥榯oo-big-to-fail鈥 banks and sparked the worst slump since the 1930s have faded with the return of the 鈥榞et rich quick鈥 mentality, according to analysts.
鈥淎bout 15 per cent of US households 鈥 17.4 million families 鈥 lacked enough money to feed themselves at some point last year, a US Department of Agriculture report says. 鈥淭he study also found that 5.6 million of these households 鈥 with as many as 1 million children 鈥 had continuing financial problems that forced them to miss meals regularly. 鈥淭he number of these 鈥榝ood insecure鈥 homes 鈥 was more than triple the one in 2006, before the recession brought double-digit unemployment.
鈥淎 growing number of creatures could disappear from the earth, with one-fifth of all vertebrates and as many as a third of all sharks and rays now facing the threat of extinction, according to a new survey assessing nearly 26,000 species across the globe. 鈥淚n addition, forces such as habitat destruction, over-exploitation and invasive competitors move 52 species a category closer to extinction each year, according to the research, published online Tuesday by the journal Science 鈥
鈥淎rgentine shares and bonds rose on Wednesday after the death of political heavyweight and former President Nestor Kirchner removed a market-unfriendly contender from the country's 2011 election campaign.
鈥淲orkers in southern China, who say they were assembling Apple laptops and iPhones, have become seriously ill after using a dangerous chemical. 鈥淭he Number Five People鈥檚 Hospital in Suzhou has been treating workers who breathed in vapours from the chemical n-hexane. 鈥淎ccording to the workers, the chemical was being used in the production of Apple products and has left them unable to walk 鈥 They say they were using n-hexane to glue and polish the logos on Apple products 鈥
BP abolishes safety ombudsman
鈥淏P is disbanding the external safety ombudsman it set up after a fatal explosion at a company refinery in Texas in 2005 despite a growing number of concerns raised by the oil company鈥檚 employees.
鈥淢ore than half the issues raised since the office was established in 2006 relate to BP鈥檚 operations in Alaska.
鈥淏P said it would not extend the office鈥檚 tenure beyond June.
鈥淭he move comes less than a fortnight after the company announced it was setting up a new internal safety function, led by its head of safety and operations, Mark Bly.
Report: unions key to wellbeing
A new report has found that trade unions improve the general well-being for union and non-union citizens in several industrialised countries, an October 7 InTheseTimes.com article said.
The findings, which appear in the September issue of Social Indicators Research, 鈥渉ighlight a link between union density and life satisfaction based on data from fourteen developed nations鈥, the article said.
鈥淭wo American soldiers have been killed and nine wounded after a gunman in Iraqi army uniform attacked them at an Iraqi base, US officials said. 鈥淭he soldiers were part of a security detail for a United States company commander who was meeting members of Iraq's security forces at a commando compound near the city of Tuz Khurmato, 170 kilometres north of Baghdad, US military said. 鈥淭hey were the first American soldiers killed since US forces formally ended combat operations in Iraq a week ago 鈥 [I]nsurgents continue to launch attacks daily, many targeting Iraqi soldiers and police.鈥
鈥淭ony Blair's autobiography, A Journey, is being subversively moved to crime 91自拍论坛 in book shops by members of a Facebook protest group. 鈥淥ver 10,000 Facebook members have joined the group 鈥楽ubversively move Tony Blair鈥檚 memoirs to the crime section in book shops鈥 and have been posting photos of them doing so 鈥 鈥淭he Facebook group description said: 鈥楳ake book shops think twice about where they categorise our generation鈥檚 greatest war criminal.鈥欌 鈥 September 8 Webusers.co.uk.
鈥淭ony Blair today cancelled a second event scheduled to mark the launch of his memoirs after anti-war campaigners prepared to mount a protest against him 鈥 鈥淭he decision comes just days after Blair announced he was cancelling a signing session due to be held at the Waterstone's book store in London's Piccadilly this lunchtime, amid concerns over planned protests 鈥 鈥淎 book signing in Dublin a few days earlier had seen eggs and shoes hurled by protesters, with one individual attempting to make a citizen鈥檚 arrest.鈥 鈥 September 8 Guardian.
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