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Poisoning Chinese Workers/Apple Faces Backlash

Consumers Urged to Act Against Apple’s Failure to Make Chinese Supplier Factory Conditions Safer

(WASHINGTON DC) - Ending “Bad Apple” Devices: It Could Take Just a Dollar Per Device to Fix Apple’s Poisonous Practices; Green America Takes on Apple After Success in Changing General Mills’ Cheerios.

With more than a million workers in Apple supplier factories in China at risk for exposure to toxic substances on the assembly line, U.S. consumers should consider putting a hold on planned purchases or upgrades of iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices...

Report: Chatwing`s Newest Release - Android Chat App

Users can easily share their chatrooms via different social media like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

(SALEM) - Chatwing’s release of its chat widget over the internet has been a huge success. Now, with the release of its Android chat app, it has finally ventured into mobile phone usage.

Chatwing’s Android app can be accessed on GooglePlay. Once installed in one’s mobile phone, the user can instantly use it.

China`s Stealth Chengdu J-20 Jet Fighter Rivals American F-22

The plane was first observed flying in grainy photographs in late 2010.

(SALEM) - A new Chinese fighter jet with stealth capabilities, the Chengdu J-20, was observed conducting a successful test flight Saturday at noon.

Photos and video of the flight were leaked on military forums like Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter.

The Microwave Factor

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Microwave - and other forms of electromagnetic - radiation are major (but conveniently disregarded, ignored, and overlooked) factors in many modern unexplained disease states.

Insomnia, anxiety, vision problems, swollen lymph, headaches, extreme thirst, night sweats, fatigue, memory and concentration problems, muscle pain, weakened immunity, allergies, heart problems, and intestinal disturbances are all symptoms found in a disease process originally described in the 1970s as Microwave Sickness.

Online Freedom Under Threat

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.--Tim Berners-Lee

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - On November 23rd, 2013, British inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, warned that "Internet surveillance by British and US spying agencies has posed a threat to online freedom and the future of democracy."

Describing the activities by the US and UK spying agencies as “dysfunctional and unaccountable,” Berners-Lee spoke of the importance of protecting whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden.

US, Canada, China and Korea Already Have Detox Clinics for Children Addicted to Video Games

The first harbingers of addiction appear when people decide not to eat.

(MADRID) - An inquiry carried out between two thousand adolescents of the virtual community Habbo Hotel says that video games are the preferred applications in the letter to Santa Claus. Only 4 % of the children ask for books.

All parents said that the leisure time employed with the video games should not exceed one hour per day. These data correspond to an inquiry conducted among four thousand parents in the UK, France, Germany and Italy. Parents are not involved in their childrens' games, so that six out of ten kids play alone.

What Have We Allowed Our Government To Do?

Isn’t it time we get involved and take control of our own government?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - The government spies on everything we do including phone calls, emails, social networks, cell phones, and internet.

Has illegally listened in on 70 million French phone calls.

Has illegally read the e-mails of the President of Mexico.

Has illegally intercepted the communications of the Brazilian President.

Wi-Fi Signal Has Long Term Consequences for Women

With Deference to all Scientists: this Research Report has been written for all students and non-scientists to understand.

(Devon, UK) - A minimum of 57.7% of schoolgirls exposed to low-level microwave radiation (Wi-fi) are at risk of suffering stillbirth, fetal abnormalities or genetically damaged children, when they give birth. Any genetic damage may pass to successive generations.

Professor John R Goldsmith wrote concerning the low level exposure of microwave irradiation (below thermal level) incident upon women:

“Of the microwave-exposed women, 47.7% had miscarriages prior to the 7th week of pregnancy....”

Studies Show Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs Save States Money

This Duke study is consistent with other studies conducted in North Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Florida.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Forty-five states permit the use of assisted outpatient treatment (AOT), court-ordered treatment (including medication) for individuals who have a history of medication noncompliance, as a condition of their remaining in the community.

Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Tennessee do not have AOT.

Time for the FCC to Re-Examine Its Retransmission Consent Rules

The July 29, 2013 deadline for reaching an agreement was extended until August 2.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Imagine not being able to watch "Person of Interest," "The Good Wife," "NCIS," and other programs on CBS or Showtime.

But satellite customers like me as well as cable customers may not be able to have uninterrupted access to the major four (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) because the 1992 Cable Act requires pay TV providers to get broadcaster consent to carry the station...