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Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, known for assembling Apple's iPhones and iPads in China, plans to use more robots, with one report saying the company will use one million of them in the next three years, to cope with rising labour costs. Foxconn's move highlights an increasing trend toward automation among Chinese companies as labour issues such as high-profile strikes and workers' suicides plague firms in sectors from vehicles to technology. Contract manufacturers such as Foxconn, which also counts Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia among its clients, are moving parts of their manufacturing to inland Chinese cities or other emerging markets. They...

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[James Lee Demands as posted at http://www.savetheplanetprotest.com/] The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn's "My Ishmael" pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other's inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue...

Here we go again. Newsweek reports--in surprisingly positive terms--on the movement to rid the earth of the vermin species--us (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19762077/site/newsweek/): Environmentalists have their own eschatology--a vision of a world not consumed by holy fire but returned to ecological balance by the removal of the most disruptive species in history. That, of course, would be us, the 6 billion furiously metabolizing and reproducing human beings polluting its surface. There's even a group trying to bring it about, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, whose Web site (http://www.vhemt.org/) calls on people to stop having children altogether...And "four out of five" of the people...

HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags, says a report to be published today by a green think tank. The paper by the Optimum Population Trust will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family's carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York. Full coverage: Climate change in-depth John Guillebaud, co-chairman of OPT and emeritus professor of family planning at University College...

April 22, 2005 Report from the Front Anti-Human Earth Day By Edward Hudgins Executive Director The Objectivist Center ehudgins@objectivisatcenter.org Today is a religious holiday that should make us all into atheists. April 22, 2005, marks the 35th anniversary of Earth Day. For many people it’s simply a day to think warm and fuzzy thoughts about clean air, crystal lakes, verdant forests and soaring eagles. Until the 1990s May Day marked the worship by the communists of an abstraction called the “workers” at the expense of real flesh-and-blood workers and every other human being on the planet. The result was human...

While Earth Day (April 22) can be used as way to promote environmental stewardship, it's mainly used by environmental extremists to promote their anti-human, anti-economic agendas. For more see: "Earth Day's Anti-Human Agenda""Environmental Protection or Ecoterrorism?""Anti-Earth Day Celebrates Science, Industry and Capitalism" (archived 2001 article)'Blue' Environmentalism: How Democracy Cleans the Environment

Not an Agent of the Death Cults Typical agent of the Death Cults: any convicted killer.Process: killer gets a full hearing after full hearing based upon any evidence or grievance or procedure overlooked that a criminal lawyer can dream up. Result: killers, as a class, gain protection. Every effort is made to preserve the life of the condemned man until all appeals have been exhausted. That protection is institutionalized to the extent that justice is delayed to the point that justice is denied. Whatever deterrence that executions have to suppress similar murders by others is diminished. Not an agent of...

Last Updated: Monday, 1 November, 2004, 23:16 GMT Bomber's family condemn militants The bomb was detonated in a shop in a busy Tel Aviv market The mother of a teenage suicide bomber who blew himself up and killed three Israelis in Tel Aviv has criticised the militants who recruited him. More than 30 others were wounded when 16-year-old Amer al-Fahr detonated about 5kg of explosives in a shop in the Israeli city's busy Carmel market. The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said one of its members had carried out the attack. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was among...

Earth Day is a perfect time to celebrate the first, true gift of the Earth to us: food. Before we toss our hats into the air, though, we might want to start with an admission. While we in the United States like to think we're blessed with the world's best and cheapest food, we've actually let market prices lie to us. They don't register all the hidden costs of our "factory farming" model, costs that undermine the very sustainability of nature's gifts. Food prices don't count the fact that soil is eroding on prime farmland many times faster than nature...