Add one more negative to Malaysia by James.
 
Senator Russ Feingold, head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, democratic presidential hopeful for 2008, and one half of the McCain Feingold Bill, said on national TV on Sunday June 25, 2006 that Malaysia and Indonesia have been added to the "watch list" of countries with increased anti-US terrorists, Al Qaeda activities and insurgents.  The other countries are Afganistan, Iran and North Korea.  
 
The increase has been a result of the Iraqi war and huge presence of US troops in that area.  This forced the new wave of terrorists to flee to safe havens of Malaysia and Indonesia for training and meeting.
 
As US troops are pulled out of Iraq as Feingold and General Casey have recommended, the US troops will be deployed to Malaysia and Indonesia to thwart the rise of anti-American terrorist activities in those countries (per Feingold).
 
Where are dyson vacuums made?
 
Carmine D.

China is not on the US "watch list" for terrorist activities.
Malaysia is.  James had no way to know it would be except that Indonesia and Malaysia were known safe havens for terrorists in 2002 when he located his plant in Malaysia.
 
China is slave labor without the guilt.  If I had a choice of the two countries for plant location (China and/or Malaysia), as a strictly business decision with political implications, I'd go with China based on the facts and circumstances of the two governments.    
 
Carmine D.

"HUh?  Malaysia is not on the terror watch list,whatever that is,............... Kind of funny though if you check out the facts Feingold did say General Casey supports his pull out proposal but has been taking a beating as he "pulled a Carmine" and only used half of a Casey quote to misrepresent his position. "  
 
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Whose misrepresenting? Read the transcript.  And THINK.
 
Here's the quote from Sen Feingold from the Meet the Press interview WRT terrorist activities increasing in Malaysia, Indonesia and Somalia:
 
"That is the way to have confidence in the process in Iraq and get us refocused on the broader fight against terrorism in those places in the world, Tim, where we’re losing ground. We’re losing ground in Afghanistan. We don’t have enough resources in Indonesia and Malaysia area in this regard. We have lost ground in Somalia. And the fact is that Iraq is draining our strength. I think General Casey knows that. And this plan is very similar to the type of thing that Senator Kerry and I actually proposed in the United States Senate this week."
 
Since the Senator made mention of Malaysia by name, it means Malaysia is on the Senate Foreign Relations Commitee's "terrorist watch list."  Sen. Feingold chairs the Committee.  45 countries including Iraq are on the terrorist "watch list."
 
WRT General Casey and the democratic troop withdrawal plans, news accounts since the interview assert with certainty that the republicans, Bush and the Pentagon have a troop withdrawal timetable.  The republicans are keeping it close to the vest until it is politically advantageous to disclose (mid term elections?).  The withdrawn troops will be redeployed to the countries where the US is "losing ground" to the terrorists.  This is the crux of the quote that I cited by the Senator.
 
Thanks for posting the link to the Feingold interview.  The full Feingold-Russert interview is worth a read despite the off subject topic.  It demonstrates the grave concerns our government leaders have with the rise of worldwide terrorism, Al Qaeda, and anti-American insurgencency and the countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Somalia (run by a known Al-Qaeda) and Afganistan that are on the "watch list."  
 
Where are the dyson vacuums made, again?
 
Carmine D.

In the current printing of "Against The Odds" by James Dyson, the last chapter details Mr. Dyson's "Coming To America" story.  He talks about the decision to Move the factory from England to Malaysia, due to the fact that the town in England where the factory was located would NOT allow him to expand the factory.  He would NEVER have been able to make enough cleaners for the U.S. market (let along the WORLD market) in England had he not been able to expand the factory.
 
Perhaps he should have just bought the abandoned Hoover factory in North Canton, Ohio.  Now that Hoover makes new Hoovers in China.
 
James also talkes about the fact that Dyson cleaners are made (in Malaysia) in the SAME factory as Sony and Hewlett Packard.
 
The few companies that still make vacuums in America are Air-Way, Fairfax, Kirby, Rainbow, Thermax, and Silver King.  Don't know, off hand, of any others.

"The few companies that still make vacuums in America are Air-Way, Fairfax, Kirby, Rainbow, Thermax, and Silver King.  Don't know, off hand, of any others."
 
Many of the HOOVER vacuums, like the WindTunnel canister just to mention one, are made in the USA.
 
Add ORECK to the list of in-sourced vacuums of the USA.
 
Carmine D.