Mary is the owner of a bar in Los Angeles. To increase sales, she decided to let their loyal customers – who most of them are alcoholics, and no job – can drink now and pay later. She maintains a list of drinks consumed (in this way is giving them credit to their customers).
The voice [...]
You may have read a previous article on Politicafe.com dated October 27, 2008. The article was titled “Drug test before receipt of a welfare check”. The premise of the article was an introduction to the concept of drug testing entitlement recipients—welfare, food stamps, etc. It appears as though others are showing an interest in this.
Lawmakers [...]
Who Benefits From the New Environmental Ethics? Human vs nature-based code of ethics for tourism
More than 50 years ago Aldo Leopold presented the dilemma that existed then between development and the conservation of the environment in his book “A Sand County Almanac” (1949). In chapter four, Leopold said that “the land ethic did not yet [...]
Economic conflict to political conflict
A disaster for the government
Always said that social conflicts can be transformed into political conflicts. And this is what may be happening in Venezuela.
On Saturday, Chavez reduced Venezuela’s budgeted oil price estimate to $40 per barrel from $60 and lowered the oil output estimate to 3.17 million barrels a day from [...]
Clean Energy Opportunities in the Persian Gulf
By Sam Hopkins | Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
You know the energy world is changing when a Persian Gulf financial crisis has big renewable energy implications…
Abu Dhabi produces about 90% of the oil in the United Arab Emirates and is host to the world’s first green city project, Masdar. Abu [...]
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and other companies as part of a sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation, government officials said.
One proposal could impose greater requirements on the boards of companies to tie executive compensation more closely to corporate performance and [...]
“One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals – lastly, the tendency of hydrocarbons to unite together to form the more condensed material – suffice to account for the formation of these curious compounds. Moreover, this formation will be [...]
Chavez trims budget, adds debt to counter crisis
Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:20 pm
By Frank Jack Daniel
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday almost tripled his government’s borrowing plan and trimmed his budget to offset a slide in oil revenues, but resisted pressure to devalue the local bolivar currency.
Chavez, a socialist who rails against [...]
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The coup plot against Cuba’s Fidel and Raul Castro
Two of Cuba’s star politicians seem to have been a part of a conspiracy or a coup to overthrow Raúl Castro
Something along the following lines took place: for at least a month or so, Lage, Pérez Roque and others were apparently involved in a conspiracy, betrayal, coup [...]
G-20 emphasises open trade policies
Ahluwalia at the G-20 meet in London. (AP)
London, March 15 (PTI): The finance ministers of the G-20 countries have supported India’s stand that protectionism should be avoided and agreed to end the convention by which the heads of the IMF and the World Bank are decided by Europe and the US, [...]
The Banking Crisis Explained in Simple Terms | 
Drug Testing "Entitlement" Recipients | 
Who Benefits From the New Environmental Ethics? | 
The economic Conflict to Political Conflict | 
Clean Energy Opportunities in the Persian Gulf | 
Government Oversight of Executive Pay! | 
