Where is the iPod manufactured?

Do you have some kind of concept the Chinese are going to continue to be our stupid manufacturing partners?

The Chinese are picking our brains and starting to compete quite successfully. Huawei. There probably is an American company behind them (most likely Cisco, and behind them Motorola) but we’ll never know for sure will we.

If you think our game addicted young are going to compete against “want to eat” youth guess again.

yes, would require Investment, even developing the Oil Fields would, as well.

the point is, between Conservation and Carbohydrates, we could forestall some/much of the impact during development/switch over..

electric cars y ‘Smart Grids’ are a complete, and utter, boondoggle that is nothing more than the uber-backbone-’Smart Grids’-of the pervasive surveillance state..
see some of this stuff: FIGURE 2. Developed for cargo-tracking applications, GPSit is a device that gathers GPS location and other critical information and sends it wirelessly to a remote tracking station (left). The second-generation device, which will appear to an intruder as a bumper sticker or label (right), is envisioned as a 1/4-in.-thick miniature surveillance camera with integrated optics and sensor that can operate for 60 days on one battery and gather images within a 60° field of view. (Courtesy of GPSit)
But a lesser-known option for covert tracking is a new imaging technology called GPSit from the company with the same name, GPSit (San Diego, CA). GPSit is currently a 1/2-in.-thick package that sends GPS data to a remote terminal for cargo-tracking applications (see Fig. 2). By the Q3 2009, GPSit says the device–reduced to 1/4 in. thick–will house a miniature camera, imaging sensors, and electronics packed together in a super-thin flexible plastic embedded within “Tough Skin.”
http://www.laserfocusworld.com/display_article/358147/12/none/none/Feat/PHOTONICS-APPLIED:-HOMELAND-SECURITY:-Threat-identification-demands-new-imaging-technologie

everything that moves, and doesn’t, is fixin’ to be tagged
see: NAIS, for a different facet, and, a contra view http://www.nonais.org/