These same people are 'worried' about how stopping the wars will effect the economy...
Slavery Defenders: Business Groups ‘Worried’ About The Effects Of Banning The Importation Of Goods Made With Child Labor
From the I Shit You Not File: Business Aims to Relax Bans on Products Made with Child & Slave Labor
Check out this report from Inside U.S. Trade:
Business groups are worried by the potential effects of provisions banning the import of all goods made with convict labor, forced labor, or forced or indentured child labor that were included in a customs bill sponsored by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-IA)...
These groups are examining the ramifications of the bill's provisions, especially in light of the bill's requirements that a newly created office in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) annually report to Congress on the volume and value of goods made with child labor, forced labor or convict labor that have been stopped at the border.
Business sources say this reporting requirement could cause DHS to more actively seek out imported products made with child labor, forced labor or convict labor...
One source did expect a push from lobbyists closer to the Finance Committee markup of the bill, and speculated that U.S. industry groups and foreign governments could form ad hoc coalitions to help send a united message.
Sitting here at my keyboard, I notice that the shirt I'm wearing was made by modern-day slaves, and that the lamp that is lighting my room (the sun is just beginning to rise) was manufactured in China, where workers who try to organize are imprisoned. Since Levi Strauss just closed their last American jeans factory this year, odds are the pants I'm wearing were made in a slaveholding nation as well.
I can rationalize all the products of distant slaves that I use – after all, I don’t have to look into their faces as Jefferson did (which may account for why biographer Fawn Brodie notes that whenever Jefferson returned to Monticello from any trip he brought gifts for his slaves, and his household ledgers show evidence that he smuggled significant sums to Sally Hemmings over the years) – but it's still just a rationalization.
The stark reality is that we didn’t "end" slavery. We simply exported it.
And it’s so much more comfortable for us to criticize Jefferson for agonizing over – but still using – slave labor two hundred years ago when we don’t have to look into the faces of today's slaves who are toiling and dying at this very moment to sustain our lifestyles."
- Thom Hartmann, "What Would Jefferson do?".
I would say we OUTSOURCED it! - Big Dan
If Peter Galbraith doesn't make "hundreds of millions" off the Iraq War, the terrorists win!!!
Former US diplomat could make ‘hundreds of millions’ off Iraqi oil fields
What Galbraith kept completely concealed all these years was that a company he formed in 2004 came to acquire a large stake in a Kurdish oil field whereby, as the NYT put it, he "stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars." In other words, he had a direct -- and vast -- financial stake in the very policies which he was publicly advocating in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and countless other American media outlets, where he was presented as an independent expert on the region.
Peter Galbraith's vast, undisclosed financial interests in the policies he spent years advocating as an "expert."
Interviews by The New York Times with more than a dozen current and former government and business officials in Norway, France, Iraq, the United States and elsewhere, along with legal records and other documents, reveal in considerable detail that he received rights to an enormous stake in at least one of Kurdistan’s oil fields in the spring of 2004.
NYTimes: U.S. Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits
Fed Slaps Curbs on Overdraft Fees
BDBB Flalshback December 12, 2007 - Getting Ripped Off With An Unjust Overlimit Fee: PRICELESS!
U.S. Foreclosure Filings Surpass 300,000 for 8th Straight Month
Did FOX "news"/Tea Party/Limbaugh/Beck favorite Doug Hoffman-R win, but concede too quickly?
NY-23's Democratic congressman has already been sworn in, but absentee votes and errors have caused Hoffman-R to have a longshot at actually having more votes. Republicans should remember the precedent they set in the 2006 Bilbray-Busby election, but the Republicans, FOX "news", Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck won't mention it, where the exact opposite happened and the Republicans rushed Bilray-R to be sworn in quickly before all the votes were counted and certified and fought any challenge attempts. Don't expect the corporate-owned media to mention the Republicans' Bilbray-Busby precendent should this go any further.
Did Doug Hoffman Actually Win the NY-23 Special Election? If So, Does It Actually Matter?
Jon Stewart: What was that message, Doug Hoffman? The winners were winners...and the losers were winners - polish that turd!
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