A Reuters journalist commented that "many workers told us that throughout their shift...they are not allowed to speak at all, so there is absolutely no conversation at all between workers during their shift".
An 'auditing team' (Foxconn - Wikipedia) discovered that Foxconn workers were punished by being made to stand at attention for extended periods,[12] and workers were subjected to military-style drills.[13]
Foxconn admitted that it made workers do an extra 80 hours overtime per month while the local labour law only permits 36 hours[14]
Foxconn sued the journalists responsible for revealing these practices, for $3.77 million and filed a successful court ruling to have the journalists' assets frozen.[15]
In China (slave labours), "workers told the police they were forced to work 20 hours a day, while one worker was allegedly beaten to death by a thug using a spade, and his body buried in a nearby hill, a Shanxi newspaper reported...
"The shoeless workers were even forced to carry red-hot bricks from the kiln on their backs, leaving numerous scalds on their bodies. Worst of all, the toiling laborers were subject to frequent and brutal beatings by the hired thugs for no apparent reasons.
Some children enjoy work?
"In a related development, the New Express newspaper reports 40 children were rescued from slavery in Shanxi brick kilns, but hundreds more are believed to be held captive.
"The paper reports 400 fathers of missing boys from the central province of Henan had joined forces to find their sons at kilns hidden deep in the mountains of neighboring Shanxi.
"Boys as young as eight had been taken from bus and train stations and sold for 500 yuan each to kilns where they were beaten, starved and forced to work 14 hours hauling bricks.
"At least 1,000 boys are being held in the kilns in Shanxi, the paper says, quoting a reporter from the Henan provincial television station." Oleg Deripaska, boss of the world's biggest aluminium company, is being treated as a formal suspect in a money-laundering case linked to the Russian mafia. (dailymail.co.uk/Oligarchz).
In the past, Deripaska has entertained the UK's Lord Mandelson and the UK Chancellor George Osborne on his luxury yacht.
Peter Mandelson was a UK cabinet minister, belonging to what was Tony Blair's Labour party.
Mandelson, and the UK Labour Party, have sometimes seemed to serve the interests of certain Jewish businessmen, rather than the interests of British workers.
In 2005, Peter Mandelson, the former EU Trade Commissioner, was a 'valuable extra' dinner guest when billionaire Oleg Deripaska met American aluminium bosses in Moscow.
The meeting was also attended byDeripaska's pal, financier Nat Rothschild.
The result was a deal to sell two of Deripaska's Russian factories to a U.S. firm, Alcoa.
Mandelson "was in a position to allay 'concerns' over tariffs on imports from Eastern Europe at the meeting."
Over the following three years, tariffs were slashed.
This led to the dumping of cheap aluminium on the European market, forcing at least four British factories to close.
These were: Alcoa's South Wales aluminium rolling plant, a plant at Rogerstone in Wales, and plants at Falkirk and Glasgow.
In the past, Mandelson has denied ever talking to Deripaska about aluminium or even meeting Deripaska before 2006.
But, the Mail says Mandelson's presence at the private dinner in 2005 has been confirmed by eyewitness sources.
"Nat Rothschild's wealth has been accrued in his role as the adviser to Oleg Deripaska, one of the richest oligarchs in Russia... His best friend is Roman Abramovich..."
1. In 1961 Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated.
Belgian officials, backed by the CIA and a White House assasination order, carried out the assassination.
There may be a similar situation now in Guinea.
2. Oleg Deripaska is the boss of a company called Rusal.
In October 2009, Victor Boyarkin, a close associate of Deripaska, was in Paris where he was introduced to Guinean Government officials.
Guinea supplies bauxite to Russian aluminium smelters.
In Guinea, Rusal operates the Kindia bauxite mine.
3. In 2006, Rusal bought the Friguia alumina refinery for $19 million.
That deal was revoked in September 2009 on the ground that it was corrupt.
The real value of the refinery is said to be at least $240 million more than Rusal paid.
Rusal’s mines, refinery, and the rail line, port, and power station linked to them, are, together, one of the largest employers in the country.
The Dian-Dian bauxite concession, for which Rusal has mining rights, but which it has yet to dig, is the largest bauxite deposit in Guinea, probably in the world.
4. Chinese interests are reportedly in the running to buy the Friguia refinery.
Boyarkin has asked the Camara government for a reversal of the court ruling revoking Rusal’s ownership of Friguia.
Boyarkin and Deripaska have been talking with the French about Rusal’s multi-billion dollar debts to French banks.
5. Sources reveal that the French bankers are unhappy with measures being taken by Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
Kouchner gave the order to close French schools in, and evacuate French nationals from, Guinea's capital, Conakry.
There is a suspicion in Paris that Kouchner is backing one of the Guinean opposition figures, Alpha Conde, head of the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG).
Conde and Kouchner have been friends since school days.
Kouchner has been attempting to rally international support for political sanctions, and possibly military intervention in Guinea.
There is a suspicion that Kouchner and Conde are plotting to depose Camara.
The banking sources say their interests in Guinea are threatened if they are seen in Guinea as backing Deripaska and Conde.
Guinea, formerly known as French Guinea, has bauxite and the drugs trade.
Reportedly, certain people are trying to overthrow the Government of President Moussa Dadis Camara in Guinea.
Reportedly, three foreign nationals from the US , Cuba and Colombia, caught in a cocaine plane episode in Sierra Leone, are agents of the CIA, based in Miami. (Don't attack Guinea- Courrier des lecteurs)
The government banned a demonstration organised for 28 September 2009 in Conakry, the capital of Guinea.
But 'several political parties, trade unions and civic organisations' went ahead with the event.
Demonstrators set a police station and a police car ablaze
The leader of Guinea's new military government should be put on trial for crimes against humanity, the EU's development chief, Karel de Gucht, has told reporters. (Guinea ruler 'must face charges' )
The president of West Africa's economic bloc, Ecowas, has criticised the junta.
There are 'widespread calls' for the junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara to step down.
The Chinese firm that intends to invest in Guinea is said to be the Hong Kong registered China International Fund.
Reportedly the firm will help build ports, railway lines, power plants and low-cost housing.
Guinea is thought to have the world's largest reserves of the aluminium ore, bauxite.
Under Lansana Conte, there were continuing problems of poverty, unemployment, tribalism, interrupted electricity supply, lack of clean drinking water, lack of decent health centres and schools, and lack of decent roads. (Captain Moussa Dadis Camara and the future of Guinea-Conaky)
Guinea. Cette photo a été prise par Michel Tendil
Now things have changed.
Dadis personally interviews alleged drug dealers and corrupt politicians from the previous regime, live on television.
Ousmane Conté, a son of the previous president, was seen on TV confessing that he had been part of a drug-smuggling ring.
Several former ministers and a prime minister have agreed to give back money that went missing when they were in power.
Dadis is very popular in Guinea, but may not be popular with the CIA or the drugs barons.
Boy, 8, chained to a lamp post by his father, who tried to sell him to strangers in China: dailymail.co.uk/Chinese-boy-chained-lamp-post B
Child labour.
Some children enjoy work?
