Ship Breaking in Bangladesh

[DeSwiss]

Run time: 09:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk0xbjamHt0   Posted on YouTube: December 08, 2009 By YouTube Member: UniteTheUnion Views on YouTube: 17381   Posted on DU: September 06, 2011 By DU Member: DeSwiss Views on DU: 917

 
- Capitalism at its finest......

"Democracy is a con game. It's a word that was invented to placate people. To make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing "we are free." The minute that you hear "freedom and democracy" watch out. Because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you, you're free." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qlgzTlAvOo&feature=player_embedded">~Jacques Fresco

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abundance, sustainabi­lity and efficiency are the enemies of profit." http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=yPmHaTirn­Cc">~Peter Joseph

[aquart]

1. Any particular reason for quoting obvious idiots?

[Historic NY]

2. This guy is amazed...check out India & Pakistan...

its called the breakers for a reason & it breaks men & ships.

[JDPriestly]

3. Excellent. The working conditions here in the US in the 19th century

were unbelievable bad, and world trade with no enforcement of labor standards could mean that deadly working conditions return here.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. The problem is very few ships go directly from their Western operator to the breakers

With the exception of lake freighters that don't really have a secondary market very few ships go directly from a western operator to the scrapper. And needless to say the Government of Liberia has taken an immense interest in this issue...

[WhoIsNumberNone]

5. That's pretty horrifying

And if we want the jobs to come back to America, these are the kind of conditions we can expect if the Koch brothers and the Chamber of Commerce get their way.