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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...

DELAYS REPLACING PENNSYLVANIA - WEST VIRGINIA LOCKS AND DAMS COULD COST TAXPAYERS & UTILITY CUSTOMERS $2 BILLION   BY STAS MARGARONIS   Utility customers adjoining the Pennsylvania-West Virginia  lock and dam system could pay  as much as $1 billion per year in higher rates if the system needs to be shut down for repairs in addition to the  $1 billion cost overrun to U.S. taxpayers...

PORT TECH LOS ANGELES SEEKS NEXT GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES By Stas Margaronis Port Tech Los Angeles was started two and a half  years ago and is a project of the Port of Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles Clean Tech program. It is working to develop a $50 million fund to develop clean technologies for port applications and improved transportation systems. PTLA does not currently fund its nine...