Oil Industry, Labor Unions Form Historic Labor-Management Group

The American Petroleum Institute and 15 labor unions announced today the historic creation of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee, which will work to promote job retention and growth. In a...

Grain Elevator Blast Rocks Destrehan, Near New Orleans

"Friday, October 31, 2008By Matt Scallan, New Orleans Times-Picayune A fire and explosion at the ADM Growmark grain elevator in Destrehan caused "considerable structural damage" to the facility, according to an initial report from the state Department of Environmental...

3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Inn...

Coming soon to your living room; full immersion "virtual reality" extreme sports, action, romance, horror, scifi and shopping"The StarCAVE is a five-sided virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens...

9/11 Truth, Here is the Proof, WTC Building 7 imploded due to Fire and Heat

9/11 Truth, Here is the Proof,  WTC Building 7 imploded due to Fire and Heat National Institute of Standards Report Says."Fires in the 47-story office tower at the edge of the World Trade Center site...

One Year After Major Bridge Collapse, Structures Still Need Work

Ever since the collapse of the eight-lane Interstate bridge into the Mississippi River on Aug. 1, 2007, a lot more people have been paying attention to the amount of work being done to repair bridges across the...

The Human Toll of Our Economic Death

Sitting out in the car last fall waiting for Diana to step out of the last remaining department store in a dilapidated mall that had been dying slowly for a few short years, it occurred to me that the moment represented the collapse of our nation. This store was closing its...

Caress Us with Lies from a Corrupt System

http://structuraleconissues.blogspot.com The cackles can be heard coming from behind every wall of this ‘windowless dirty room’ that where trapped within - with little or no hope of escape. Don’t worry every now and then they’ll throw us a dark moldy piece of stale...

Offshore Drilling Won’t Stop Oil Profit Inflation

http://structuraleconissues.blogspot.com/The oil industry is continuing to suggest through its surrogate ‘body snatched’ republican Presidential candidate that offshore drilling for oil will somehow miraculously lower retail gasoline and diesel prices. This argument...

Is Your Home Ready for Hurricane Season?

Fema Press Release"BILOXI, Miss. -- With the 2008 hurricane season officially here, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency urge residents to take steps to make...

Zambia: Securing Our Food

"This fascinating article on the Food Security Pack Programme provides a good case for government to expand the agriculture sector and move Zambia to a position that would guarantee food security. Although Zambia's food production has increased in recent years following those...

Hillary's Looming Electability Crisis

Talk of Hillary's electability (read: un-electability) is ratcheting up in the days prior to Super Tuesday.  I'd like to think I was ahead of the curve on this one.  I personally know at least six Republicans (read: every Republican I know) who will vote...

F-15 grounding strains U.S. air defenses

My god, things are worst than you thought in the US military.  You know things are bad when you're relying on the Canadian air force:"FRESNO, Calif. - The grounding of hundreds of F-15s because of dangerous structural defects is straining the nation's air defense...

RCMP needs overhaul really bad

Ok fine, but just don't lose the red jackets.  Or the horses."TORONTO — A federal task force convened to help overhaul the RCMP recommended major structural changes for the 133-year-old force today,...

Seattle: Worst waterfront city?

Aaron O., the blogger who posted this to Metroblogging Seattle asserts that this distinction brands Seattle a "world class city" (wink, wink). I wonder what the Project for Public Spaces would say about...

Big Oil The Crude Facts

"Big Oil The Crude Facts Manipulating The Oil Reserve Big Oil The Crude Facts: Thomas Palley runs the Economics for Democratic and Open Societies Project. He is the author of Plenty of Nothing: The Downsizing of the American Dream and the Case for Structural...

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