Shooting nuclear waste into the sun? ‘Space disposal’ considered

http://economicrisis.com/shooting-nuclear-waste-into-the-sun-space-disposal-considered-by-obama-commission/6865 Shooting nuclear waste into the sun? ‘Space disposal’ considered by Obama commission Nuclear power plants do have a waste management problem because...

25 Must Have Survival Foods: Put Them In Your Pantry Now

http://economicrisis.com/25-must-have-survival-foods-put-them-in-your-pantry-now/4637 25 Must Have Survival Foods: Put Them In Your Pantry Now This information has been contributed by Tess Pennington, author of The Prepper’s Cookbook. After joining the Dallas chapter...

Needs overtake Congress; Defense acts without them

Base closures are essential cost reductions Just as the President has found ways to move around an incompetent and recalcitrant Congress, now the Department of Defense must do the same. You see Congress doesn’t...

Kidney cancer patients beaten by medicine bill

It is very hard to keep hope when you have been diagnosed with cancer. It happened to me. My blood pressure was sky high. I was diagnosed with hypertension. I took blood pressure medicine, though it was very hard...

Too long and too costly to capture bin Laden

American public, let’s get real about the terrorist situation. The cost to capture is too great. The cost in combating terrorism is driving the nation bankrupt the way we have been going about it. It isn’t the...

The cost of pollution, not only a matter of dollars. Lives too

By, Uwe Paschen. A study conducted by the London-based consultancy Trucost, which is due to be published this summer, found that the combined damage of only the world's 3000 biggest companies was worth US $2.2...

Zune HD Released Today: Specifications and Price

Microsoft released Zune HD in the United States today. The 2.07"x 4.08"x .35" (52.7mm x 102.1mm x 8.9mm) device is the first portable media player which has a built-in HD radio tuner. The Zune will initially be...

Pensioner's £67,000 power bill

Unbelievable? Even more so when you look at the companies figures for 2007 [PDF]"A County Londonderry pensioner who has lived without electricity for 27 years has been told Northern Ireland Electricity will charge him £67,000 to link his home to the grid."The company made a...

Paying for Infidelity--With Diamonds

" Every time British businessman Robert Charlton cheated on his wife, he bought her some extravagant jewelry to try to make amends. After 26 years of marriage, long-suffering Elizabeth Charlton had more than 40...

Health care not Guaranteed

"" Even if Congress extends health coverage to the nation's 46 million uninsured Americans, there's no guarantee that everyone will have access to care -- unless payment reforms and new models of care are...

1/4 $Million to Raise a Child

""  A government report released Tuesday says a middle-income family with a child born last year will spend about $221,000 raising that child through age 17.The report identified housing as...

Low-carbon strategy will raise household energy bills by £200...

"  Household energy bills will rise by more than £200 a year under the Government’s low-carbon strategy being announced next week. Meeting Britain’s targets for cutting emissions could push another 1.7...

Health Care Reform: Scrap GMOs

In his latest weekly address, President Obama says health care reform must no longer mean “reform that throws good money after bad habits”.  An usually wide array of interest groups that have lined up...

Meet Lauren, Microsofts new weapon against Apple.

It looks like Microsoft may be onto Apple's achilles heel.  Where is it? Cost. With the economy so bad, people are starting to weigh cost to performance to coolness.  Microsoft has a new campain, that...

The Ever Rising Health Care Cost, has to be Cut off Now.

By, Uwe Paschen.  The ever rising Health care cost of the Social Democracies such as Japan, Germany, Sweden and to a certain extend even Canada is putting public health care in serious jeopardy. Last week I took...

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