Mike Daisey was a self-described “worshipper in the cult of Mac.” Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.[This American Life]

Mike Daisey performs an excerpt that was adapted for radio from his one-man show “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.”

There is also some appalling follow up comments from an American Economic Professor about why he thinks sweatshops are good for the poor in economies like China! (:

Boy did the world ever jump the shark on poor Cathy Lee Grifford!

The United States, Great Britain and France have spent the last 55 years interfering, manipulating, arming and encouraging dictators and their oppressive regimes in the Middle East.

Their latest attempt to paint Iran as terrorist state threatens to plunge an already unstable world into a war with possible nuclear implications. Why? OIL. POWER. GREED.

A similar political situation could become reality in Canada as Prime Minister Stephen Harper runs away from a balanced and fair democracy at the speed of a convenience store thief. Working overtime to install his own version of the SS and a corporate funded surveillance state.

Citizens in the FREE, for now, democracies of the western world need to stand taller than and with our brothers and sisters in the Middle East to force OUR morally and politically corrupt leaders from their offices and begin the process of building representative governments free from theological and corporate influence.

Thorium is readily available and can be used to create energy without generating transuranic (long-lived or harmful) wastes. Kirk Sorensen is the leading champion of this technology that was developed and proven along side the current nuclear process in use today.

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor or LFTR reactors are thousands of times more efficient that current reactors, require no expensive to manufacture fuels and produce virtually no harmful waste over their lifetime.

Whether we accept it or not, this is the technology is the ONLY path to our sustainable future and China is in the process of building over 50 of these reactors today using information and research done in the US in the 1970′s. If Canadian and US governments do not start investing and building this technology we will be buying this technology from China in 10 years.

From the Toronto Star: In an effort to prevent a freeze-up in commercial bank credit of the kind that plunged the world into recession in 2008, the central banks said they will make it cheaper starting next Monday for financial institutions to obtain U.S. dollars outside of the United States.

The Bank of Canada said the coordinated strategy was intended to ensure that commercial banks could continue to provide the business and consumer loans needed to keep the global economy from heading into a tailspin.

“The purpose of these actions is to ease strains in financial markets and thereby mitigate the effects of such strains on the supply of credit to households and businesses and so help foster economic activity,” Carney’s office said in a statement.

~COMPLETE BULLSHIT!~

The world banks (governments) are now writing each other IOUs for IOUs for IOUs.
Mr. Carney insults the intelligence of Canadians by including households his statement about
easing the strain on the supply of credit to foster economic development.

What complete and utter BULLSHIT! This is exactly what these idiots did the last time around and not three years later we’re right back to where we started. Flat lined growth outside of government sponsored programs, accelerating unemployment and under-employment Everyone is over leveraged well beyond the point of default and they continue to kick the can down an increasingly short DEAD-END road.

Unbelievable…