Child labour found at Apple suppliers Company’s internal audit reveals 106 children employed at 11 factories making Apple products in past year Next site … North Korea?[...]
Archive for January, 2013
January 26th, 2013 - 11:07 am § in Misc.
North Korea Invites Tourists!
Stimulated by its new relationship with Apple, the government of Kim Jung Un has released an ad inviting tourists to the “hermit kingdom!” ‘[...]
January 25th, 2013 - 12:40 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS! Hillary and Barack .. a duo appearance Sunday night!
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will hold their first joint interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes.” Steve Kroft will sit down with Obama and Clinton today at the White House for an interview to be aired on Sunday. The interview comes after Clin[...]
January 25th, 2013 - 4:19 am § in Misc.
‘Microblogging encoffiner’
Blogging in China Death is dignified and equal wherever it happens Because of the account, Lin was often asked what death means to him. Lin answered the question with a clam that few of his peers have, “Life is a very ordinary existence and will be taken away at any time. There are more than [[...]
January 25th, 2013 - 4:15 am § in Misc.
Students Defend Modesty
Students criticise Feminist protest A number of University of Birmingham students have protested against an ‘International Topless Jihad Day’, a campaign organised by the Ukrainian feminist group Femen, branding it ‘racist’ and ‘colonial’. The campaign by Femen wa[...]
January 25th, 2013 - 1:53 am § in Misc.
Good News from VA
Poll: Unpopular Cuccinelli Trails McAuliffe In Virginia Guv Race 10 hrs ago – PEMA LEVY 3:38 PM EST, TUESDAY JANUARY 8, 2013 Democrat Terry McAuliffe leads tea party-party favorite Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s attorney general, 46 percent to 41 percent in Virginia’s race for governor[...]
January 24th, 2013 - 12:31 pm § in Misc.
1% control 25% of US wealth!
Speaking to the BBC’s economics editor Stephanie Flanders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Joseph Stiglitz called for more work to boost the educational opportunities of the “bottom 50%” of Americans, higher minimum wages, and more collective bargaining in the wor[...]
January 24th, 2013 - 9:26 am § in Misc.
BALMER: Not good news for the Surface
Microsoft’s Surface tablet has been on the market for nearly three months. So far, not so good. Brent Thill, an analyst at UBS Investment Research, estimates that Microsoft sold just one million Surface tablets in the fourth quarter — half his original estimate of two million. Some other analyst[...]
January 24th, 2013 - 4:47 am § in Uncategorized
Global Warming Goes South
Study shows rapid warming on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet[...]
Zipcars go to Avis
The global car hire firm Avis Budget has agreed to buy Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing firm, for $500m Why is this inevitable ? Insurgents find a better way to do something, get bought up and then (I will bet) chopped up.[...]