Al Gore takes aim at "unsustainable" capitalism

[Uncle Joe]

54. What did Microsoft, Amazon, Hewlett Packard and a multiitude of other tech companies admit to?

"Less than a month ago, the Times ran a damning account of working conditions at the Foxconn factory. Although the company's suicides and potentially hazardous work environments have been covered for years, this was the powder keg that launched a very public backlash against Apple and sparked an independent investigation. As you may expect, Apple was probably none-too-pleased about the way the paper specifically called it out in the headline -- despite the fact that Foxconn manufactures products for Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), and many other companies."

Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/dailyfeed/2012/02/17/apple-exposes-bitter-grudge-with/#ixzz1mlymjsE2

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"As Tim Worstall has pointed out, there’s nothing particularly noteworthy about Foxconn’s manufacturing in China, or Apple’s relationship with it. Oppressive conditions are par-for-the course over there, and Foxconn actually has a slightly lower suicide rate than China writ-large. and any electronics company worth their salt does their manufacturing in similar conditions: it’s the game they all play, and it’s the game we demand when we ask for cheap electronics."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/02/10/why-does-apples-manufacturing-bother-us-so-much/

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If FOXCONN's suicide rate is actually lower than of China's at large, why would corporate media institution N.Y. Times make such a big story out of it and put the blame solely on Apple?

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7611747

PTSD suicide rate exceeds ALL US deaths in Iraq/ Afghanistan

The disease affects one out of every six veterans and last year contributed to 334 suicides among service members, which is higher than the number of service members who were killed in Afghanistan or Iraq during the same time period, Rhodes said. The disease nearly caused him to take his own life in 2007.

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Could the Times have been feeling guilt because of the great number of American Veterans' suicides from Afghanistan and Iraq, the latter being a war based on lies which the Times was front and center promoting to the American People during their stenographer, brown nosing days of the Cheney/Bush Era?

Do you know if the N.Y Times has admitted to anything yet?