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LESSONS FROM KOREA BY BENITA MARGARONIS, ELSIE ALLEN HIGH SCHOOL,  SANTA ROSA, CA During my summer vacation, I spent five days in South Korea and I went to two shipyards, Samsung and Daewoo. I've learned some very important things while being here. America should learn these things also. If we as a country learned from the Koreans  then we would be a strong independent nation again. These things...

  BAILOUT: PLACING BANKS BEFORE HOMEOWNERS BY STAS MARGARONIS While supporting the Bush administration’s $700 billion bailout of the banking industry, the Obama administration is still struggling  to help millions of homeowners devastated by the 2008 financial crisis. The administration decided to help homeowners save their homes by relying on mortgage companies to modify unaffordable...

OAKLAND-STOCKTON MARINE HIGHWAY SERVICE PROJECTS CUTTING 750 WEEKLY TRUCK TRIPS   BY STAS MARGARONIS   A new marine highway service proposes to shift 750 containerized truckloads per week off Northern California freeways and on to two tug/barges. The service between the Port of Oakland and the Port of Stockton, located 75 miles to the east of Oakland along the Sacramento river, expects...

China Challenges Korea & Singapore In Oil Rig Market China is challenging Korea and Singapore in the oil rig manufacturing market as a result of an offshore exploration boom in which the Chinese have garnered 20% of the $72 billion market, according to a Reuters report. Chinese companies like  COSCO Corporation have become a contender  against  Korea and Singapore in just seven years  making...

CALIFORNIA HIGH SPEED RAIL PROPOSES SAVING TAXPAYERS BILLIONS BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS The California High Speed rail Authority believes its new plan to build a leaner $68 billion high speed rail system for California would save California$124 billion in freeway  and airport expansion spending  if the rail  system were built today. Karen Massie, Information Officer, California High-Speed Rail...

The dismal jobs data report showing that only 69,000 jobs were created in May and that unemployment rose proves that Republican led austerity measures in Congress  have failed to generate jobs. Sadly, the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats were ineffective in fighting Republican cutbacks. The failures to invest in infrastructure, energy-saving investments and jobs makes a bad...

According to the Financial Times, The European Union  tells member states it has compiled firm evidence  that Beijing’s telecommunications equipment companies  have benefited from illegal state subsidies Read the full article at: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/876632ae-a689-11e1-aef2-00144feabdc0.html

IOCC Delivers Medical Aid As Greece Crisis Threatens Children's Access To Health Care Two-year-old Electra sits patiently during an exam by a volunteer doctor at a free clinic in Athens, Greece. She represents the face of the new poor in Greece, where working class families like hers are losing jobs, homes and access to healthcare because of the country's deepening recession.Photo by Apostoli...

AMERGENT  TECHS' WHIPPLE PROMOTES PORT SAFETY & SECURITY BY STAS MARGARONIS Frank Whipple is the principal of Amergent Techs and has years of commercial experience in marine safety and port security including 28-years of experience with the U.S. Coast Guard. Amergent Techs, LLC, is a leading provider of regulatory services in health, safety, security, and environmental services. Amergent...

Driving Down the Cost of Drugs:  Battling Big Pharma in the Statehouse by Ramon Castellblanch Reviewed By Stas Margaronis San Francisco  State University professor Ramon Castellblanch  gives us an in-depth view of the struggle by grass-roots and labor activists to bring down the cost of pharmaceutical drugs, a major factor in high health care costs in the United  States. This is a tale about...