REBUILD THE UNITED STATES!

By Stas Margaronis There is a growing concern here that Greece is facing economic disintegration as it continues to cut back on wages, pensions and public spending in response to European demands for Greece to accept new austerity measures in exchange for bail-out funding. The unemployment rate has jumped to 21 per cent as the crisis worsens and the Greek Orthodox Church is reportedly feeding...

November 10, 2011 The Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee approved on November 2, 2011 language in S. 1430, to strengthen US build requirements for ships the Maritime Administration Act for Fiscal Year 2012, require the Maritime Administration to certify that it is not possible to "use a United States when issuing waivers Jones Act waivers. This provision is a response to the...

BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS/Jobs Bank A European consortium, Friends of the Supergrid, is advertising the potential for fast-tracking construction of offshore wind farms by first building off-shore transmission lines as Europe continues to move forward with new wind farm development. The Friends of the Supergrid (FOS) was making its case at the American Wind Energy Association off-shore wind...

BY STAS MARGARONIS Congressional resistance to spending on infrastructure is undermining growingU.S.agricultural exports linking  theMississippi river  to Gulf ports and  hurting   new opportunities to improve intermodal freight transport with lower cost and cleaner marine shipping. The situation is reaching a crisis level and prompted Rick Calhoun, chairman of Waterways Council, Inc to warn...

The Sustainable Shipping Conference 2011 will look to allay the fears of the industry by bringing together ship owners and many technology providers together to focus on how collaboration can provide an advantageous and positive experience in meeting impending international regulations. There will be an exhibition and sponsorship opportunities are available, and it is definitely something you...

Maritime Executive Magazine is holding a forum in Baltimore, Maryland to win Congressional and public support for a major new investment in the U.S. maritime industry through a media campaign entitled “StrongShips for America,” which features a series of conferences leading up to the 2012 election. The publication focuses its efforts on a marine highway initiative designed to take truckloads off...

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Whatever the outcome of the debt ceiling confrontation between Congressional Republicans and President Obama, unemployment will be getting worse. The dismal June jobs data had already indicated that cuts in public spending were causing higher rates of unemployment among government workers. The impasse in Washington and the resulting spending cuts needed to seal an agreement on the debt ceiling...

CONTACT: Stas Margaronis, publisher Rebuild The United States via email at stas@rbtus.com. The dismal jobs report saying 18,000 jobs were created in June with 13 million Americans out of work points to an inability by Congress and President Obama to tackle the long-term unemployment crisis, which needs a World War II type mobilization that created 18.5 million jobs between 1939-1944 and ended...

Cutbacks May Hamper Mississippi Shipping & Shut Down Inland Waterway Projects in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky in 2012 By Stas Margaronis, RBTUS, May 2, 2011 Congressional and Obama Administration resistance to adequately funding key dams and locks along the Tennessee, Monongahela rivers plus inadequate dredging of  the  Mississippi river between New Orleans and Baton Rouge could cripple...