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- the owners and the operators of these factor[/IMG]http://www.[/IMG]http://www.businessweek.com/stories/200 ... ial-advice[/url]     From the book, “China Shakes the World” by James Kynge © 2006, 2007: “The problem started in the 1980’s when tens of thousands of small companies, including pulp and paper mills, chemical factories, and dyeing and tanning plants=, sprang up along the river and began dumping their toxic waste into it. By the early 1990’s there were clear signs of distress. The water in many areas was unfit to drink, Cancer rates were twice the national average, and, according to one report, for years none of the boys from certain villages in the Huai River area were healthy enough to pass the physical examination required to enter the armed forces.” “When local authorities were ordered by Beijing to resolve the problem, they released the polluted water that has been building up in the reservoirs and tanks, and in so doing, unleashed a tide of black liquid that killed almost everything it touched as it flowed downstream. Millions of fish died and thousands of people were treated for dysentery, diarrhea and vomiting.” “Several hundred factories were indeed closed, but they opened up again almost as quickly. By 1998 and 1999, it was clear that the campaign was going to fail; reports of people dying from being exposed to the noxious gases and chemicals in roadside ditches were regularly reported in the newspapers, and in 1999 the Huai ran dry for the first time in twenty years, ruining crops and killing millions of fish.” “It emerged that the waters of the Huai, far from being clean were so toxic that, by the governments own classification standards, they could not even be used for irrigation.” “Streams and rivers are drying up all over the northern half of the country, and water tables are falling precipitously as wells, many of them illegally dug, are sunk ever deeper into the dwindling reserves of groundwater. Altogether some 400 out of 668 large Chinese cities are short of water, and the incidence of rationing is growing.” ‘The factories that multinational companies have set up have turned China into the workshop of the world but have also made it the rubbish tip of the world.”   Slave labor is also very prevalent in other countries in addition to just China. Sweatshops, with no ventilation, no heating during the winter [the Yehuborim who run these are too cheap], are actual prisons. Doors are bolted shut and locked down. Permission must be granted to use the restroom, there are no safety measures taken, hazards are everywhere and only recently, another fire killed hundreds in one of these factories in Bangladesh, as they were unable to escape. A moderate amount of research will reveal that all of these sweatshops and so-called “factories” are under the control of Yehuborim owned and operated corporations. The Yehuborim dictate the conditions. The manufactured goods are then exported to the USA, Canada and Europe and marked up, often to 1,000% or more of the original cost of the slave labor and materials.   From the book, “Take this Job and Ship It by Senator Byron L. Dorgan © 2006:   “In 2002, the Los Angeles Times reported: in one sever dust storm in the spring of 1998, particle pollution levels in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia soared. In Seattle, air quality officials could not identify a local source of the pollution, but measurements showed that 75 percent of it came from China, researchers at the University of Washington found.”   “In April of 2005, police and villagers clashed in Zhejiang Province as citizens occupied an industrial complex blamed for crops ruined by polluted water supplies. In the village of Huaxi, toxins from manufactures were blamed for a withered cabbage crop. ‘It is rotten from the inside. It doesn’t grow,’ Li Xian, a local farmer said.”   “Our fields won’t produce grain anymore,” said a woman who lives near the Jingxin Pharmaceutical Plant. “We don’t dare to eat food grown from anywhere near here.” “Her husband added, ‘They are making poisonous chemicals for foreigners that the foreigners don’t dare produce in their own countries.’ “   “The Taiwan News reports, ‘Across China, entire rivers run foul or have dried up altogether. Nearly a third of the cities don’t treat their sewage, flushing it into waterways. In rural China, sooty air depresses crop yields.’ An old farmer, who rioted to protest pollution from chemical plants in one coastal village, told the Taiwan News, ‘We just had to do it. We can’t grow our vegetables here anymore. Young women are giving birth to stillborn babies.”   “In Indonesia in 2004, police suspended operations at the American owned Newmont Minahasa Raya gold mine for dumping deadly heavy metal mine waste laden with Mercury and arsenic into Buyat Bay – two thousand tons daily. Locals reported health issues including nervous system disorders, lumps forming under the skin, and other skin ailments. The fish have fared far worse. The sea was filled with bloated corpses of fish near the pipe that discharged cyanide, among other waste, into the ocean. According to the National Newspaper, the fish had hemorrhaging in the liver, diaphragms broken, and eyeballs bulging form the socket.”   “Children are easy to control; Children don’t form labor unions.” The International Labor Union reported in 2005 that at least 12.3 million people work as slaves or in other forms of forced labor. Other estimates more than double that number. UNICEF reported in 2005 that one in twelve children in the world is forced into child labor.”   “Kevin Bales, antislavery activist and author of the book “Disposable People” says that in 1850, a slave would have cost the equivalent of $40,000 in today’s dollars. Today, a slave working in the coffee or cocoa plantations on the Ivory Coast – some as young as nine – will set you back as little as $30.00, Bales says.” “Work them until they drop.” “They are considered disposable.”   “A total of 27 child slaves between the ages of 5 and 12, released with the help of the Bonded Liberation Front, told the following story. The boys, on the promise of being taken to a film, went with the village barber, Shiv Kumar Thakur. They did not tell their parents, as the trip was going to be a secret. It is believed that the barber received 7,000 rupees – he was saving for a motorbike. The new child slaves were introduced to the intricacies of the trade by being locked up and beaten for the first few days. Requests for food were met with blows from iron rods and yardsticks and woundings by the sheers [sic] used in carpet making. Mistakes in weaving or slow work received the same treatment. The boys’ day began at 4 am., when Panna Lal poured cold water over them to wake them. They worked until their lunch break of a half an hour at 2 pm. According to Suraj, who was seven years old when he was rescued, they often worked until midnight and only then received their second inadequate meal of the day. They were all locked in at night. When these young boys cried, they were beaten with a stone wrapped in a cloth. The boys were never paid any wages. Suraj also said that they were branded with hot irons. He had bruises on his temple caused by a blow from a bamboo staff – punishment for a weaving mistake. Many of the children fell ill and were denied medical treatment. Despair caused seven of the boys to try to run away. They were caught, slung upside-down from trees and branded. If they cut their fingers [which happens often on the sharp cutting tools], the loom masters are known to shave match heads into the cut and set the sulphur on fire so that the blood will not stain the carpet.”   “Worked to Death in a Toy Factory” “On the night she died, Li Chunmei must have been exhausted. Coworkers said she had been on her feet for nearly 16 hours, running back and forth inside Bainan Toy Factory, carrying toy parts from machine to machine. When the quitting bell finally rung shortly after midnight, her young face was covered with sweat. This was the busy season before Christmas, when orders peaked from Japan and the U.S. for the factory’s stuffed animals. Long hours were mandatory, and at least two months had passed since Li and the other workers had enjoyed a Sunday off. Lying n her bed that night, staring at the bunk above her, the slight 19 year old complained she felt worn out, her roommates recalled. She was massaging her legs, and coughing, and told them she was hungry. The factory food was so bad, she said, she felt as if she had not eaten at all. Finally, the lights went out. Her roommates had already fallen asleep when Li started coughing up blood. They found her in the bathroom a few hours later, curled up on the floor, moaning softly, bleeding from her nose and mouth. She died. The minimum wage for workers like Li is 30 cents an hour. Workers like Li are forced to work up to sixteen hours a day in polluted plants without air-conditioning and in temperatures reaching near ninety degrees. Work