McKissock, a leader in continuing education for home inspectors, has highlighted three courses focused on today’s hot topics in the home inspection industry. McKissock is a trusted resource for state-specific, state-approved land surveyor, engineer and home inspector courses, regulation information and compliance. “Our course catalogue is built to meet the needs of […]
NEITHER RICH NOR POOR – IT’S MIDDLE CLASSES SUFFER IN WELFARE STATES
Welfare State concept has gone long back all over the world. Even if some largest Democracies in the world claim that they are Welfare States by showing some of their policies in health care, insurance, educational scholarships, unemployment benefits, old age pensions, public housing, subsidized prices of a few consumables, public health programmes, they are […]
Is Congressionally Mandated Health Insurance Constitutional?
Here’s a link from a writer on another blog for CBS also taking on the argument with respect to the Constitutionality of this massive bill written by lawyers, for lawyers, and the financial, insurance and medical community special interests now with respect to the health care deform bill. Which is now pending House approval, with the […]
City Owner Tops British Football’s Rich List
Manchester City’s hugely wealthy owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan has toppled Roman Abramovich to head British football’s rich list. Sheikh Mansour, a member of the royal family of Abu Dhabi, has a personal fortune of £15billion according to the Football Rich List, researched and published in a magazine. The 38-year-old bought City […]
How safe are San Francisco Bay beaches and water a year after the Cosco Busan oil spill?
Story by Aaron Crowe A "dirty bathtub ring" and a some oil under a few rocks are about all that remain from the Cosco Busan oil spill more than a year ago in the San Francisco Bay. The spill of nearly 54,000 gallons of heavy fuel when the container ship hit the San Francisco […]
TNK-BP Wracked by Government Intervention
Posted by Anne Szustek to FindingDulcinea.com Russian tax authorities have hammered British oil company BP with fines, court cases and inspections that recall the early days of investing in post-Soviet Russia. TNK-BP, a joint venture between BP and AAR, a group of four Russian billionaires, is Russia’s second-largest foreign investment to date. With 2007 profits […]