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Obama Announces Daschle Appointment to HHS, to Head White House Healtcare Reform Office

Joseph Robertson — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:40:34 +0000

President-elect Barack Obama held a press conference today in Chicago to announce his choice for Health and Human Services secretary, former Democratic Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. Daschle is a top adviser to Obama and the two have made clear their commitment to ending the problem of underinsurance and the uninsured and making sure that no Americans go without treatment.

Cholera Epidemic Spreads in Zimbabwe, as Health Services Collapse (video)

staff — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:12:17 +0000

The spread of cholera due to Zimbabwe’s foundering hygienic infrastructure is reaching crisis proportions. UNICEF is calling for an emergency fund of $17.5 million to fight the spread of cholera in Zimbabwe, calling the outbreak “a cholera crisis of unprecedented levels”. With 13,960 cases already declared and an estimated 589 dead to date, the UN warns upwards of 60,000 people could become infected if drastic and immediate action is not taken to contain the epidemic.

US Recession Takes Root as Job-loss, Housing, Banking, Energy Crises Converge to Slow Growth

Joseph Robertson — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:19:47 +0000

CafeSentido.com :: The United States is firmly in the thrall of a banking meltdown, in which the normal structures, the means of measuring performance, and the meaning of debt-holdings, are all out of balance. More than one Wall Street firm or investment bank has written of tens of billions of dollars in uncollectable [...]

The Cost of Going Green May Be New Boom Economy

admin — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:38:00 +0000

Ecological advancement and retro-fitting will be the new boom economy. Let's make sure we do everything possible to fund not only research, but implementation. What will it cost to produce an environmentally-oriented overhaul of the US economy, by way of the private sector, with government incentives, and to the ever-growing benefit of private sector interests? These are key questions being asked by scientists, activists, economists and politicians, not to mention energy industry executives and those whose core business involves fossil fuels.

Geothermal Energy Creates Hope for Global Energy Solution

admin — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:29:00 +0000

The race to tap large quantities of underground, geothermal energy is heating up. In a recent bid to solve their country's demand for clean energy, the Swiss are digging deep, and the Earth is responding. A scientist at MIT, in the US, says 40% of US geothermal sources could power the entire country's energy needs in excess of 56,000 times.