Posted by Squatters Butterfly on Saturday, September 15, 2012,
this book explained how my previous post of a recent news article of a virus on the Chinese production line on a new pc is to be expected. dependence on other countries to make all our products makes the USA the underdog in cyber warfare. Another drawback to buying foreign made products.
According to Microsoft, a new tendency has arisen in cyber-crime: to install viruses into computers as they are being constructed on production lines.
In their study, the software giant Microsoft found that several new computers contained malware and that the malicious code had been installed in the factory where the computers were constructed. According to The...
The Challenge: Making the case for being Fully Present:
by Farnoosh of Prolific Living
In life is full presence in the moment. My greatest happiness and best accomplishments have emerged from all those times when I have been fully present. The gap between the knowing and the doing is what brings me here to share my thoughts with you. Is it even possible to be completely in the moment in this madly changing and swiftly movi...
From the beginning, Sam Walton and Wal-Mart focused
on buying goods as cheaply as possible, which often meant buying
imports. Here is an examination of the history of Wal-Mart's procurement
practices in Asia and China -- even through its own "Buy American"
promotional campaign in the 1980s and 1990s -- and the prognosis for the
future.
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Posted by Squatters Butterfly on Saturday, September 15, 2012,
rederick Douglass (1818-95) was a prominent American abolitionist,
author and orator. Born a slave, Douglass escaped at age 20 and went on
to become a world-renowned anti-slavery activist. His three
autobiographies are considered important works of the slave narrative
tradition as well as classics of American autobiography. Douglass' work
as a reformer ranged from his abolitionist activities in the early 1840s
to his attacks on Jim Crow and lynching in the 1890s. For 16 years he
edited... Continue reading ...
Posted by Squatters Butterfly on Saturday, September 15, 2012,
no love going into their jobs. Employee function as slave laborers. Foxconn's response is to prepare a hold harmless contract. Forcing employees to sign a contract that their families won't sue them if they commit suicide.
Apple
has issued its 2011 "Supplier Responsibility" report, in which the
iPhone maker reveals it terminated business with a facility that
employed 42 underage workers, and explains how it responded to suicides
at a Foxconn plant and n-hexane exposure to 137 workers...
Posted by Squatters Butterfly on Friday, September 14, 2012,
Posted: Feb 16, 2012 3:38 PM ESTUpdated: Feb 16, 2012 11:21 PM EST
LEE COUNTY -
An NBC2 Investigation uncovers the number of non-Americans getting public assistance now outpaces the number of U.S. citizens getting assistance. Investigator Andy Pierrotti crunched the numbers and explains what he found.
With her list and radio in hand, Desiree Gutierrez makes sure all 101 rooms are ready for guests at the Naples Double Tree Hotel.
Gutierrez is a Cuban refugee, in this country legally, but not a c...
Posted by Squatters Butterfly on Friday, September 14, 2012,
As a happy hypocrite, I read this article knowing that I still walk into walmart to save some pennies. I am always frustrated at the lack of service and can't ignore the bigger pictures. Wonder if I stood in front of walmart with a sign, pictures, and videos of the slave laborers who manufactures these products that "save" me a few cents would it make it more real to Americans to buy american?
Why is the connection displaying the women tied to her 2 year old, literally, while she mak... Continue reading ...
The downtrodden Lester family lives in rural Georgia on once-prosperous farm land, now fallow, which lies alongside the old tobacoo road. The head of the family is Jeeter, a shiftless man who is always making grand plan...
Then there’s that other why question: Why, in our zeal to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, we never considered spending a fraction as much to rebuild Detroit, New Orleans, or Cleveland (projects that, unlike Afghanistan and Iraq in their heyday, have never enjoyed widespread support)?
I use the term “reconstruction” for convenience, but it is important to understand what the U.S. means by it. Once corruption and pure greed are str...
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When you fall asleep at night, do you ever think to yourself “Today I accomplished way too much in far too short a time span?” Don’t be embarrass...
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