OccuWorld · @OccuWorld
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Miguel Afonso Caetano · @remixtures
692 followers · 2712 posts · Server tldr.nettime.org

: "I’d been hearing rumors about illicit uses of Tether—I’d seen court documents containing intercepted messages from a Russian money launderer promoting it to his clients, for one thing—but pig butchering was the most concrete example I found. People around the world really were losing huge sums of money to the con. A project finance lawyer in Boston with terminal cancer handed over $2.5 million. A divorced mother of three in St. Louis was defrauded of $5 million. And the victims I spoke to all told me they’d been told to use Tether, the same coin Vicky suggested to me. Rich Sanders, the lead investigator at CipherBlade, a crypto-tracing firm, said that at least $10 billion had been lost to crypto romance scams.

The huge sums involved weren’t the most shocking part. I learned that whoever was posing as Vicky was likely a victim as well—of human trafficking. Most pig-butchering operations were orchestrated by Chinese gangsters based in Cambodia or Myanmar. They’d lure young people from across Southeast Asia to move abroad with the promise of well-paying jobs in customer service or online gambling. Then, when the workers arrived, they’d be held captive and forced into a criminal racket.

Thousands have been tricked this way. Entire office towers are filled with floor after floor of people sending spam messages around the clock, under threat of torture or death. With the assistance of translators, I started video chatting with people who’d escaped."
bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

#crypto #cryptocurrencies #scam #tether #china #cambodia #slavelabor

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
146 followers · 2197 posts · Server sfba.social

slate.com/technology/2023/08/n

it’s hard to see von Braun’s transition from rocketeer to American as anything less than astonishing. After helping the U.S. develop its , he took a position in the newly established civilian space agency, , in 1960

#nazi #hero #army #ballisticmissileprogram #nasa #bullshitjobs #warsforoil #globalboiling #slavelabor #militaryindustrialcomplex #x #taxbillionairesoutofexistence

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John · @autogestion
121 followers · 345 posts · Server union.place

popularresistance.org/namibian

: Employees protest at supermarket

ended her life by drowning. Just a few hours earlier, she had gotten fired from her job as a cashier. Namibia trails right behind South Africa as one of the most unequal countries in the world.

#namibia #slavelabor #fabiolazondjembo #shoprite #exploitation #inequality #wealthdisparity #capitalism #union #christoffelwiese

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OccuWorld · @OccuWorld
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Mufasa · @ne1for23
569 followers · 9065 posts · Server betweenthelions.link

has created a vast detention system across two countries to hold thousands of Ukrainian .

An Associated Press investigation found routine , and within the system.


apnews.com/article/ukraine-rus

#russia #civilians #torture #slavelabor #psychologicalabuse #ukraine

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dwatchnews · @dwatchnews
48 followers · 530 posts · Server newsie.social

The Putin Gulag - Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more (from @AP)
apnews.com/article/88b4abf2efb

#crimesagainsthumanity #warcrimes #slavelabor #torture

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TeamRose · @SusannaShakespeare
284 followers · 4673 posts · Server mas.to

@bicmay
Those used as slaves & those receiving wages & cond…
Built this country.

The irony of “ House” built by black & brown folks… is a clue!
were “stolen” often by & From folks whose…
Ancestors created them!
people whose ancestors worked & lived on stolen.

have never required that truth on history.
After centuries…it’s the same.
The only “memory” of history believed is of their own making…

#fact #whitefolks #land #native #violence #brutality #vineyards #white #slavelabor

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EurasiaChat: and statelessness in .
And can Central Asia’s poorest countries benefit from their new importance to Russia without suffering secondary sanctions?
eurasianet.org/eurasiachat-sla

#slavelabor #centralasia

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MikeDunnAuthor · @MikeDunnAuthor
1039 followers · 2032 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Today In Labor History April 8, 1911: 128 convict miners, mostly African-Americans jailed for minor offenses, were killed by a massive explosion at the Banner coalmine near Birmingham, Alabama. While the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which occurred just two weeks earlier, elicited massive public attention and support for the plight of immigrant women working in sweatshop conditions, the Banner explosion garnered almost no public sympathy, probably due to racism and the fact that they were prisoners.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #prison #prisonlabor #racism #coal #mine #immigrants #prisoner #workplacedeaths #slavelabor

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somecanuckchick · @somecanuckchick
114 followers · 102 posts · Server mastodon.world

BTW *IF* you're offended by what Tyson Foods is doing w/ child labour... feel free to boycott their brands, eh. Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Sara Lee, etc., etc., etc. tysonfoods.com/our-brands

#childlabor #slavelabor #usa #tysonfoods

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somecanuckchick · @somecanuckchick
114 followers · 101 posts · Server mastodon.world

"This month, after young children were found working at a factory owned by Arkansas’s second-largest private employer, Tyson Foods, the Republican governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, signed legislation making it easier for companies to employ children – eliminating a requirement that children under 16 get a state work permit before being employed."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#childlabor #slavelabor #usa #tysonfoods

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Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌ · @ArenaCops
265 followers · 4492 posts · Server infosec.exchange

@Miriamm Today's "Republican" thoughts & prayers:

Children, who are working regular jobs can't be shot at school.

#childlabor #slavelabor #humanrights #childrensrights #humanity #freedom #banthegop #defraudingamerica

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Heretical_i · @heretical_i
12 followers · 379 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

Did I mention the US gets 80% of certain extractive resources from the abuse of African and ?

" proposes creation of joint bank with African states" thecradle.co/Article/news/2227

, engaged in redevelopment projects in for decades and a large economic partner there also figures into this prominently. 80% of the for your Lectric Car batteries and laptop batteries comes from China's mines voanews.com/a/us-china-compete

#slavelabor #childlabor #iran #china #africa #lithium

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Jules 🍺 · @julesbl
170 followers · 7162 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

@VW says it's opposed to the use of forced labour so why is the company using suppliers that are highly likely to be using Uyghur forced labour? Tell @VW @WeAreJL to stop profiting from the one of the biggest human rights crimes of the century sumof.us/795423629t?referring_

#vw #uyghur #slavelabor #humanrights

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· @Newstarget
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· @NaturalNews
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Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌ · @ArenaCops
204 followers · 3142 posts · Server infosec.exchange

@GottaLaff Slave labor abusing underage kids in the country of Eleanor Roosevelt, the outspoken, brilliant proponent of the Declaration of Human Rights.
It's disgraceful - for the abusers of underage children!

#humanrights #humanity #humanitymatters #slavelabor #meatpacking

Last updated 2 years ago

"All manufacturing has to be taken out of and done in the US"
So thinks is part of the US, and they're still getting federal funding from our to hire and charge us top dollar for crappy devices.

9to5mac.com/2023/02/14/iphone-

#slavelabor #taxmoney #India #Apple #China

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ZGoldenReport · @ZGoldenReport
924 followers · 31285 posts · Server brighteon.social

Meanwhile this is Myanmar:
Each day people risk their lives and trying to find a piece of jade stone it make some money to feed their families!!
This mining fields is owned by China!

#slavelabor

Last updated 2 years ago