... needs a Triangle Shirtwaist fire?

-- Mal

But it should be Benghazi-big. We put the world through hell for our profits. It's completely insane.

The only articles of clothing found were for Walmart, but because the reporter found a book with orders from Disney and Sears, that hits the headline, Walmart is added as if it was protecting the workers.

At least the USA today Article started with Walmart being one of the companies that bought from this factory:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/11/28/bangladesh-fire-walmart-disney-sears/1731225/

Most other headlines included Walmart in the list of buyers from this factory, not as a separate by line.

that US Corporations are the ones who establish labor laws in these poor countries.

Multi-national corporations are the root cause of most of the problems of the world.

I'm beginning to think that only Mother Nature can halt this Globalization of Exploitation.

loosed upon the world. I think oil depletion will go the furthest to end the "world transportation" fantasy.

someone agrees with that concept. I just don't see another way to stop these Multi-national corporations. Mother Nature is the only one with more power than them.

It's sad to realize that I would gladly go down in a tsunami or massive earthquake just so Mother Earth can show the planet who is BOSS!

Since Raygun, life has become more and more torturous....to the point where it's just a miserable existence of watching fools stampeding on Black Friday. Sometimes I simply dread the trip to the grocery store where kids run around like dogs off of their leashes and no one ever says 'Excuse me.'

And the feeling of 'neighborhood' (for me) is gone. Now the neighbors simply go out of their way to play loud music, rev their cars motors (with no mufflers) and yell on their cell phones while standing outside your front door.

Good thing I had lots of fun in the '60's and '70's. Or maybe not...I know how great life could be and compared to today, life sucks.

Maybe I just need to buy some expensive earplugs so to find some peace.

satisfying and slow paced. And you are right it was localized and people cared about each other. I long for my family to know that type of life but as you can see I am not without my own vices - the computer is my friend. There was a security back then that we no longer know.

There were fewer people. It's so crowded now. Our little farm/college town is now 'trendy' and these newbies have moved in and built McMansions and drive around in Hummers. And I just don't enjoy their consumer behavior.

I remember some dangerous situations in our little town. Thank goodness I was taught to always look in the backseat of the car before getting in. Always locked the car from then on. And I was saved from a pedophile when a group of my friends came along.

Dangerous people are everywhere and most of them look just like everyone else. For some reason, I always knew that I had to be alert and be careful who I chose to hang out with. I'm an old soul. I hope I get to go to another planet the next time around....

is that a company, like Wal-Mart, can claim to contract out production to an overseas middle man, who, in turn, contracts out to another middleman, who orders from mill or factory whatever is being made.

Then, Wal Mart can say .." Gasp! Why, I had NO idea about such horrible conditions"
as can the overseas middle man, who points to such laws as may or may not exist,
as does the 2nd middle man...not his fault if the factory head is not obeying any laws....
and so on, down to the burnt out factory.

and in 24 hours after the fire, a new factory is hired, all the middlemen are lined up and it begins all over again.