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Corporate Pigs Lining Up at the Trough

With the unprecedented bailout of the finance industry, it’s only a matter of time before other corporate lobbyists come knocking on the federal door. As a matter of fact, the automotive and now retail industries are pushing for their own bailouts. Why not? The government is redistributing all of our money to corporations in finance, should they do the same for every other industry? The CEO of JC Penny’s certainly thinks so.

Three Simple Ways To Find Success In This Economic Downturn

Being successful requires you to be positive, desirous, and a problem solver.

Organic Garden Tips And So Much More!

In this day and age, many people are becoming more aware of the environment as well as the world around them. If you’re an official “Greenie” or you want to get into organic gardening there a few really easy ways to go about this! First off, why should you try anything organic or [...]

Health And Safety For Our Children

The health and safety experts have been at it again. The age old tradition of children participating in sack races at schools sports day, all in the name of that horrendous past time called fun, have been ruled out on the grounds that it is dangerous.
I suppose it’s because of that awful chaffing of the [...]

T. Boone Pickens Speaks Out On America’s Energy Crisis

T. Boone Pickens is a legendary Oil man and investor who reached the billionaire stage long ago. Pickens knows a thing or two about oil drilling and America’s dependence upon foreign oil.
In a recent interview with CNN’s Lou Dobbs, Pickens had this to say about the sad state of America’s current energy position.
“The problem is [...]

Why The Public Is Increasingly Going Private

The private hospital is experiencing a boom in the modern healthcare structure. The reasons behind this are diverse but there are a few which stand out; of these a dissatisfaction with the national health service is the most striking. However, people are also choosing to visit a private hospital so they can have their own [...]

The Importance Of Infection Control In Medical Management

Infection control has become somewhat of a political hot potato in recent years with the media producing stories on the spreading of so called ’super-bugs’ in hospitals and medical institutions. Thankfully to combat the problem a growing number of workers are undergoing online training programmes to reduce instances of these bugs such as MRSA and [...]

Equitable Outcome for Debt-Ridden Pension Holders

Equitable Life promised money that it couldn’t afford, building a house of cards that would capitulate in 2000. Throughout the 1990s, the life insurance company promised so much and would eventually deliver so little when the company’s assets were valued at 3 billion pounds less than the customers’ policies.
Ann Abraham, Parliamentary Ombudsman for the Equitable [...]

Save Food, Save The World

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stated that the average household in the UK is wasting around 8 pound sterling per week on unnecessary food bills. Brown’s suggestion that the British public should think more carefully about their food shopping in an attempt to reduce the horrifying effect of the credit crunch seems laughable. With [...]

So What’s New? 2008 Energy Crisis

America had an energy crisis starting in 1973 with the Arab oil embargo. Unfortunately we didn’t seem to take it all that seriously as it was fairly short lived. Certainly the United States didn’t learn much from it.
The 1970’s energy crisis led to greater interest in renewable energy and spurred research in solar power [...]