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The Politicus Pulse – July 28, 2011
Welcome to the Politicus Pulse. Here are the links you need to see to get your day started off right. Consider this a cup of coffee for your mind.
The Plastic Bag Wars (Rolling Stone)
The world consumes 1 million plastic shopping bags every minute – and the industry is fighting hard to keep it that way.
America’s Shameful Leadership (Creators)
America has big needs right now. But those needs are not even being addressed, because little whiney ideologues like Eric Cantor, the GOP’s House majority leader, keep throwing hissy fits, demanding that they get their way, or there’ll be no way.
Air Force Cites New Testament, Ex-Nazi, to Train Officers on Ethics of Launching Nuclear Weapons (Truthout)
The United States Air Force has been training young missile officers about the morals and ethics of launching nuclear weapons by citing passages from the New Testament and commentary from a former member of the Nazi Party, according to newly released documents.
News of the World’s Desperate Final Hours (NYT)
The former defense editor writes that though the newspaper has become a punch line, he grew up with it, and loved it.
The Collapse Of Political Trust (Wired)
One can’t help but imagine the history books of the future, highlighting this moment as an example of why the decline began, how a country this rich and free developed such a dysfunctional political system.
Today’s Tune:
Kitty’s Back – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
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6 Responses to The Politicus Pulse – July 28, 2011
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Shiva (Moderator)
Jul. 28th, 2011 at 9:54 am
funny you should mention plastic bags. In my last job I was running a lab that tested incoming polyethylene’s of many types and then designing blends to create a high-density polyethylene with certain specifications for extrusion. Plastic bags was one of the reclaimed commodities that we used quite frequently. All of these bags could be recycled.
Other than that understand that the plastics industry is vast. The pricing of plastics it affects your everyday life just like the pricing of gasoline. The United States produces plastic virgin pellets of all kinds in quantities beyond your imagination. when I lived in Michigan our company would use up to 135,000 pounds of Virgin resin a day, and that was mixed in various ratios with our own reclaimed materials. We were buying an average of 32,000,000 pounds of high density polyethylene a year. And we were just one facility if that gives you any idea of how big of an industry plastic is. You can be assured that the plastics lobby contributes a great amount of money to make sure that it’s product is perpetuated.
still there is no excuse for the pollution that people create. The question is do I have the right to pollute or should the government create regulations that say you must recycle? In Australia all this stuff is recycled as a matter of course in people’s daily lives. Why is that so difficult here and around the world? in our oceans there are huge floating islands of plastics killing fish and birds. There is absolutely no excuse for this and it’s going to cost the world billions to clean it up, if they clean it up
Sarah Jones
Jul. 28th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Great points Shiva. All I can say since I’m in a rush is remember “Plastics!” from the Graduate.
Phil Perspective
Jul. 28th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
What happened to the video? It worked on the preview last night! Ugh!! :-(
Sharyn Dooley
Jul. 28th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
I actually agree that there is way, way too much plastic that is not just polluting~but destroying our precious sea life. However I don’t want the government to impose more regulations~we always recycle as a matter of law and consciousness~but I do advocate *less* plastic and more reusable things~plastic containers are good but I don’t like the ones you have to throw away. Glass containers are best and seem to last the longest~I think the best bet is to get companies to produce items that are meant to last~not throw away.
crsytalwolfakacaligrl
Jul. 28th, 2011 at 10:36 pm
I try to save all glass (like spaghetti sauce jars) for staples & making herbal tinctures.
I save all my plastic bags and use them for my small garbage cans, and use them when I take my dog for a walk. 8)
The waste I see is from PAPER bags which have no use after the fact and I end up throwing them away and so many trees wasted?
I use cloth bags when ever possible but I’m not always the one who shops?
The paper bags are a waste. I think they should make plastic that breaks down and outlaw paper bags.
Give more incentive to use cloth or CHARGE to use Supermarket bags.
At least people would think,about it. Can I really use this bag again or should I bring my cloth bags NEXT time!
code red
Jul. 28th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Wired made a lot of sense but it seems like this decline started with Nixon getting away with criminal activity and then bush. Why would the repubs change when they get away with murder?