One California insurance company Anthem Blue Cross notified individual policy holders, last week, that their premiums would be going up as much as high as 39% this year.

Anthem Blue Cross is spending millions on executive salaries and lobby efforts against healthcare reform -- and how are they paying for it? By forcing 39% increases on their policy holders in California.

President Obama: "If we don't act, this is just a preview of coming attractions."

Wellpoint - Anthem merger marks birth of mega-HMO.

Considered as the most reliable just recently, now Toyota and Honda have to call back their cars. Some say it's a weird fluke that all this happened after the Government took over American car maker.

"OK, first of all we have to understand that President Obama right now is in car the business because he has basically taken over general motors, he provided some assistance to Ford. Isn't it funny that it's Toyota and Honda now but have the defects.

I would point out that Ford owns Mazda and General Motors is a largest shareholder in Isuzu. Why is it that those two Japanese auto manufacturers haven't been named in this big defect hoopla.

Ra'anana, Israel, 10 February 2010: Emblaze Ltd. has notified Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") that Microsoft's IIS Smooth Streaming system infringes Emblaze's U.S. patent for media streaming technology.

Emblaze has been developing media streaming technology for over a decade and first unveiled its technology to the public in a live video streaming broadcast from the White House during Easter, 1998.   Emblaze's Live Streaming technology allows users to send live or pre-recorded audio and video to other devices, saves on data traffic, does not require devoted streaming servers, and allows reliable streaming even through firewalls.

Video (4min 40sec): Mortgage Bankers Celebrate Victory.

You would think this year's Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) annual meeting would be a rather solemn affair -- given the criticism the industry has endured in recent months.

But the American New Project (ANP) reporter attending the meeting found the bankers in a celebratory mood.

The reason? A massive lobbying campaign against bankruptcy reform legislation known as "cram-down" appeared to be working.

Video (1min 55sec): Ted Turner: "The opportunity of the future is gonna be in clean, renewable energy.

The whole world's gotta have it. Everybody's gotta have it. And everybody's gotta have it right now. And it's gonna require the greatest mobilization of resources and strength of will.

But there's gonna be vast fortunes made, because energy's on of the categories, and we need to completely rebuild the whole thing.

And we would have had to do it soon anyway because we're running out of fossil fuels. We're just movin' it up a little now..."

Video: Elaine Bernard: Anti-Union Laws = Harder to Organize.

As the economic crisis deepens, many economists have pointed to low wages, lack of real as one of the root causes of the current economic crisis, consumer debt, the result thereof.

So why are wages so low in the United States?

Clearly, connected partly at least is the lack of unionization.

Video (1min 42sec): Financial Crisis Returns Karl Marx to Fashion.

This is how Karl Marx predicted, "Bank greed will self destruct. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. Twenty percent will produce eagerness. Three hundred percent and not a risk it won't run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged."

The world's leading Marxist scholar has exposed passages by Karl Marx that predict the global financial crash and its outcome.

Giorgy Bagaturiya claims the world is now shifting to China's economic model.

Video (5min 39sec): Credit Card Industry Defeated for Now.

Hidden penalties, sudden interest rate hikes, and deceptive language are just a few of the questionable tactics used by credit card companies to extract money from increasingly stressed consumers.

Now, some on Capitol Hill are trying to regulate the more abusive practices.

With bills actually moving through both houses of Congress, the credit card lobby is finding itself on the defensive, and turning out in force to oppose the legislation.