February 2010 Blog Posts (58)

Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the factories that build its computers, iPods and mobile phones.

By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai

At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple.

The company did not name the offending factories, or say where they were based, but the majority of its goods are assembled in China.

Apple also has factories working for it…

Presenter: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen April 28, 1997 8:45 AM EDT

DoD News Briefing: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen

Q: Let me ask…

Hitting Middle Class Particularly Hard; Millions of Such Jobs Gone Forever, Reports John Blackstone

(CBS) Even though many economists say the Great Recession ended over the summer, you'd never know it by the millions of Americans still struggling to find work. The once prosperous and gainfully-employed middle class is being hit especially hard, reports CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone.



The unemployment rate has backed off a…

Early Saturday morning a devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Chile, setting off a tsunami which threatened a quarter of the globe.

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This is how it's done. Thake…

Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Dec 19, 2007 - The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.



"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us," long-time Indian…

By Robert Singer - BLN Contributing Writer

Overnight, an impromptu riot to protest budget cuts and tuition increases at the University of California-Berkeley snowballed to include more than 200 students and resulted in flaming dumpsters, broken windows and dancing in the streets.

The Daily Californian reports that the riot emerged from a campus dance party and…

Paul Craig Roberts

Infowars.com

The Washington Times is a newspaper that looks with favor upon the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neocon wars of aggression in the Middle East and favors making terrorists pay for 9/11. Therefore, I was surprised to learn on February 24 that the most popular story on the paper’s website for the past three days was the “Inside the Beltway” report, “Explosive News,” about the 31 press conferences in cities in the US and…

Russia Today

A feminist movement has accused the Israeli government of adopting a racist policy towards the country’s Ethiopian Jews. Activists believe black women are deliberately being given a controversial contraceptive, to bring about a drop in the population – a claim the government denies. Thousands of…

Damon Vrabel

Infowars.com

Citibank’s recent announcement that it may require seven days notice prior to honoring withdrawals is just the latest small brushstroke on a much larger canvas being painted by the banking system and the US government. The broader picture is shocking for those watching as it comes into view. Americans must heed Martin Luther…

By Vigilant | Category: Vigilant Reports

Black "Leaders" beefin...SMH…

Greenspan just said that the current credit crunch is "by far the greatest financial crisis, globally, ever" -- including the 1930s Great Depression.

Bloomberg notes:

Greenspan…

With the bill to audit the illusive Federal Reserve having passed the house and racing through the senate, Texas Congressman Ron Paul confronted Fed Chariman Ben Bernake in a spirited exchange Wednesday on Capitol Hill. During Bernake’s testimony to the House Financial Services Committee Congressman Paul implicated the Fed as having…

Who would have thought, of all people, Fonzworth would put out one of the more socially relevant songs today...…

Nathan Janes

Pupaganda

A flow of information is constantly streaming from the television set; a bombardment of words and pictures. The speed at which this information is communicated makes it easy for the signal to take control, switching the viewer’s brain to stand-by as information is absorbed without analysis or question. Today the…