Ireland taxes plastic bags
Their new plastic bag tax, coupled with an massive ad campaign to bolster public support, resulted in a 94% drop in plastic bag usage in just a few weeks.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day February 4, 2008
Free the Cuban Five. Hollywood billboard
Lefti on the News video’ed PSL Presidential Candidate Gloria La Riva last week in Hollywood speaking at the unveiling of the Free the Cuban Five billboard and at the protest outside the Democratic debate.
Republican lawmaker gets it on global warming
Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) speaks to Focus The Nation on] how we can turn the potential hard hit of climate change into the “triple play of another American century” by cleaning the air, creating jobs, and reducing oil dependency for…
Who cut the cables?
Four have been cut so far. Two near Egypt, another off Dubai, and a fourth cable between the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Conspiracy? One particularly imaginative theory is that a US submarine severed the cables in order to cut…
Venuezuela, the Farc, and cocaine
The Guardian reports on collusion between Colombia’s Farc and the Venezuela military, saying Venezuela is being used as the primary shipping point of Columbian cocaine out of South America. Given the amounts of money involved, it would seem naive or…