India Invests In A Cleaner Ganges

India is planning on investing around $3 billion in cleaning the river Ganges, which flows through northern India and Bangladesh. Currently, around 50 percent of Delhi's raw sewage flows straigt into the Ganges. ...

Save one job, lose another

Frank de Jong, the Leader of the Ontario Green party, hits the nail right on the head in this article. As soon as this Bust is over, Governments will begin raising taxes to pay the interest on debt accrued from bailing out private corporations. In other words, taxpayers will...

ABC News: AIG systematically denies injury claims of Americans

Insurance giant AIG has angered Americans by receiving billions in bailout money and millions in bonuses, now a new report says that AIG often turns down the injury claims of American contractors who have lost...

UN Humanitarian Chief Surveys Gaza Damage

The only hope for Gaza it that both Israel and Hamas learned war is not a good option for resolving disputes."The United Nations humanitarian chief is in Gaza, surveying the damage after a 22-day Israeli offensive...

Hopes for the Obama Presidency

This will not be easy orfast.  Obama said that atthe inauguration and theAmerican people need to realize this."President Barack Obama will need to act swiftly and invest political capital -- along with...

Obama talks on economic recovery in radio address

"In his Youtubed weekly radio address -- you can hear it HERE -- President-elect Obama provides more details about his economic recovery plan. "We need action –- and action now," Mr. Obama says. "That is why I...

Four Weeks In, Billions Don't Restore Faith in Banks

"Some four weeks after the U.S. Treasury Department invested $125 billion into nine major U.S. banks -- as part of the government’s $700 billion financial rescue plan -- stocks for some have seen breathtaking...

Brown seeks IMF boost.... China feels crisis

The aggresive rate cut anounced by the RBI has created new debate that developing world is also feling the pain the GDP forcast has forcasted downword target under the shadow of financial crisis.India,China has...

Russian economy 'won't be nationalized'

As the US and China led in the reduction of interest rates, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rules out any state nationalization of the economy. However, Putin also stated that "increasing the state's...

Billions are Going Hungry but there are Ways to Improve Access to Food

UPDATE: Almost a billion people go hungry each day after food prices pushed 40 million more people around the world into the ranks of the undernourished, the UN food agency reported yesterday.According to the UN's...

German Car Industry hit by US-GM cancer, asking for state money handouts

US-GM cancer spreading over to Opel in Europe. The german car industry wants now after the banks a car bilout of 50bn Euros ($70bn) as GM received a signed government paper for $25bn first round and $25bn second...

Bailout Nation USA, bailout my climate change too, what can $700bn change? sp...

$ 700 bn how to invest ? Bailout Nation USA, what could $700bn do to remake the planet and create jobs. To refill or fix the Ozone layer by Laser Satellites would cost only $50 bn. What could the program Lighting...

The Great Bank Robbery of 2008

" Daily Article by Robert P. Murphy | Posted on 9/30/2008 Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson, Jr. A.K.A. "The Treasurer" The Paulson bailout failed in the House. If it isn't a death blow to the plan, it...

Plastic-Devouring Bacteria Could Keep Soda Bottles Out of Landfills

Most bacteria are our friends and here is another example of it.  I can't remember the reference, but I remember reading about a student who worked on this problem as a science fair project.  His high...

Bush, a Georgie come lately, as always

Have you noticed over the last 8 yrs, that Bush is always a day late and a dollar short......on brains and action?"Bush: 'We must act now'Bush, Paulson outline powerful steps targeting troubled mortgage-related assets weighing down the finance industry. Plan could cost...

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