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nationalize the fed

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3. We'll know it's serious

Fri Feb 26, 2016, 12:44 AM

Feb 2016

when the iPhone is banned

Why is Apple allowed to stash billions and billions offshore to avoid taxes?

Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers'
By Richard Bilton
BBC Panorama
18 December 2014

Poor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover BBC Panorama investigation.

Filming on an iPhone 6 production line showed Apple's promises to protect workers were routinely broken.

It found standards on workers' hours, ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers were being breached at the Pegatron factories.

Apple said it strongly disagreed with the programme's conclusions.

Exhausted workers were filmed falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts at the Pegatron factories on the outskirts of Shanghai...
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30532463

iPhone buyers don't care that their phones are made with slave labor

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Obama signs trade bill banning slave-produced imports [View all] Recursion Feb 2016 OP

Pretty damned sad Separation Feb 2016 #1

I think the original exception was because of rubber Recursion Feb 2016 #2

Permitting 'slave-labor' imports was part of the good ol' republican 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff bill pampango Feb 2016 #4

Ah yes, the act we all know from Ferris Bueller Recursion Feb 2016 #5

We'll know it's serious nationalize the fed Feb 2016 #3

Pakistan and India are worse Albertoo Feb 2016 #6