Green ambitions scaled back as funding realities hit cities, states

Green ambitions scaled back as funding realities hit cities, states

by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2019 The Green New Deal proposed by Democrats calls for the entire United States to be powered by clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources within 10 years. Cities and states which actually have turned to reliance on renewables, tried to institute carbon taxes, or envisioned massive high-speed rail networks often […]

Paris climate change tax revolt shocker: Did Left inject violence?

Paris climate change tax revolt shocker: Did Left inject violence?

by WorldTribune Staff, December 4, 2018 Far-left extremists have infiltrated the “Yellow Vests” anti-carbon tax movement and are likely responsible for a share of the violence that engulfed France in recent days, some reports say. The Yellow Vests are a populist movement formed to pressure French President Emmanuel Macron to rethink a fuel tax that […]

UN Climate Change report calls for massive gas tax, ‘unprecedented’ societal changes

UN Climate Change report calls for massive gas tax, ‘unprecedented’ societal changes

by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2018 Carbon dioxide emissions will need to be taxed as high as $27,000 per ton by the end of the century, which would amount to a $240 per gallon tax on gasoline for Americans, a United Nations special climate report said. To effectively limit global warming, societal changes that are […]

‘Blue wall’: Democrats set to control all of West Coast

‘Blue wall’: Democrats set to control all of West Coast

by WorldTribune Staff, November 6, 2017 The Democratic Party is putting the finishing touches on its own great wall: A “blue wall” extending from the Mexican to Canadian borders. If, as expected, they win the state senate race in Washington’s 45th district on Nov. 7, Democrats would end the GOP’s one-seat majority in the chamber […]

Australia’s pro-Obama Gillard government clings to power, reduces defense spending

Australia’s pro-Obama Gillard government clings to power, reduces defense spending

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory Copley, Global Information System Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Labor Party (ALP)-dominated coalition Government of Australia has clung to power without an express public mandate since the August 21, 2010, House of Representatives elections. This has been largely because its parliamentary majority has been guaranteed by four independent parliamentarians and one […]