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The Recycled Debate About Recycling
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Robin Smith  
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GRAHAM: After dirty cop-Mueller, It’s Time to Investigate the ‘Other Side’ of Collusion Story
by Ben Sellers

{libertyheadlines.com} ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC,  invoked his bipartisan bona fides on Monday to reiterate the conclusiveness of the dirty cop-Mueller report...
 while calling on a special counsel investigation into the other side. His press conference invoked a firm demand for fairness and equal pursuit of justice that may have been reminiscent to some of his stand during the Brett Kavanaugh hearing last September. As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Graham was one of the first to receive Attorney General William Barr‘s summary of the findings of the dirty cop-Mueller report. On Sunday, he was returning from a golf outing with President Donald Trump when Barr formally announced that the report found no evidence of Russian collusion and insufficient evidence of obstruction of justice to pursue a case. Graham said he hoped to have Barr appear before the committee in a public hearing to discuss the full dirty cop-Mueller report and his conclusions. “The truth is, I want you to know as much as you possibly can know. This is a very big deal,” he said.  “From my point of view, it was a great day for the president in terms of the underlying allegation, but now I’m hoping some of you will be interested in the other side of the story.” Despite saying Trump had been deeply scrutinized more than any president since Nixon, Graham emphasized that he had been a vocal supporter of the dirty cop-Mueller probe from the beginning...   https://www.libertyheadlines.com/graham-investigate-other-side/
Trump Derangement Worsens, Despite dirty 
cop-Mueller Report, Dems Still Think 
He Committed a Crime
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The highly anticipated cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome has failed. The report from Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller did not, as some hoped, end the speculation that President Trump conspired with Russia... to win the election and then obstructed justice to keep law-enforcement authorities from prosecuting him. Instead, the dirty cop-Mueller report, which returned zero indictments for what Democrats have claimed is a conspiracy to destroy the American Republic, seems instead to have intensified TDS. Democrats don’t believe dirty cop-Mueller’s report, and are still carrying on about crimes the president did not commit. “Now the question is if there were three investigations — no evidence of collusion — who made it up?” Giuliani asked the hosts of Fox & Friends this morning. “It didn't just come out of thin air. I want to know who did it. Who paid for it? Who fueled it? Because the person that did it, and the group that did it, knows it's untrue because they invented it.”... It's the dems who have  Derangement Syndrome.
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On collusion, dirty cop-Mueller sent sign 
after sign, yet some would not see
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Many Trump opponents were shocked and disappointed by Trump-Russia special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller's conclusion that "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated... with the Russian government in its election interference activities." Some members of the Resistance and Never Trump communities apparently had a deep emotional commitment to the idea of collusion. But there was no reason for surprise. For more than a year, dirty cop-Mueller sent sign after sign that he would not allege collusion. Those signs took the form of indictments and plea agreements against key Trump figures that did not allege any conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia to fix the 2016 election. If those key Trump figures — Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, and others — were not involved in a Trump-Russia conspiracy, who was? As it turns out, no one.The first big sign came in October 2017, when dirty cop-Mueller indicted Manafort and Gates for tax evasion, bank fraud, and failure to register as a foreign agent, among other crimes. Prosecutors detailed Manafort's extravagant spending, like a $15,000 ostrich coat, but left out any accusation that Manafort and Gates were involved in conspiracy or coordination with Russia to affect the election. Manafort and Gates were well-known for their dealings in Ukraine which involved politicians with links to Russia. Media reports were filled with speculation that the Ukraine connection meant that Manafort, and to a lesser extent Gates, were part of some sort of Trump-Russia wrongdoing. But the charges were what they were — and they did not allege collusion...
Nancy Pulosi’s ‘Equality Act’ Would Be Disastrous
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Equality is a central value that unites us as Americans, and is enshrined in our nation’s legal motto, “Equal justice under law.”... It is egregious, then, to misuse that term, to use it to divide us and further inequality. But that’s what House Speaker Nancy Pulosi has done in naming her new proposal the “Equality Act.” Far from advancing equality, the bill would rob Americans of some of their most cherished liberties. The Equality Act would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes under federal civil rights law. But whereas the original Civil Rights Act of 1964 furthered equality by ensuring that African-Americans had equal access to public accommodations and material goods, the Equality Act would further penalize everyday Americans for their beliefs about marriage and biological sex. Similar sexual orientation and gender identity laws at the state and local level have already been used in this way. Here are five groups who would be harmed if the Equality Act were to become law. 1. Employers and Workers 2. Medical Professionals 3. Parents and Children 4. Women 5. Nonprofits and Volunteers... She not even waving an U.S. American flag.
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Supreme Court Shuts Down 
Unknown dirty cop-Mueller Appeal
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by Kevin Daley   
{westernjournal.com} ~ The Supreme Court denied an appeal Monday from an unknown foreign entity disputing a grand jury subpoena issued in connection with special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s investigation... which is now complete. Little is known of the case, which is under seal — the identity of the foreign corporation, the country in which it is based, and the nature of the subpoena are all unknown. The entity, which is a foreign financial institution, contested the subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and the laws of its own country. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected those arguments, prompting an appeal to the Supreme Court. The entity warned of far-reaching effects on U.S. foreign policy were the D.C. Circuit’s ruling allowed to stand. “The D.C. Circuit broke from the FSIA’s text, this Court’s precedents, other circuits’ holdings, and the longstanding rule in America and abroad that one sovereign may not  exercise criminal jurisdiction over another,” the company wrote in its petition to the high court. “If left to stand, the ruling would wreak havoc on American foreign policy — possibly alienating U.S. allies, undermining diplomatic efforts, and inviting reciprocal treatment abroad for American agencies and instrumentalities.” The Trump administration asked the Court to reject the appeal...
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The Recycled Debate About Recycling
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Robin Smith:  Once upon a time, Americans drank their water from the faucet or tap. If you liked it cold, you may have kept a jug in the refrigerator filled and chilled when thirsty. If you needed a drink of water on the fly, you leaned over the water fountains that were publicly available or used the plastic dispenser of the day … the hose.

Today, water is sold just as a soft drink, iced tea, or another beverage of convenience — in cans, plastic bottles, or sometimes in glass bottles. We Americans seem to need both hands occupied with a beverage and our smartphones to be fashionably complete in the modern-day world of hustle and bustle.

But at what price?

Last week, both The New York Times and Breitbart touched on the same topic and came surprisingly close to a similar conclusion — Americans generate a ton of waste that, despite being recycled, now is adding more and more to our landfills due to the increasing costs of recycling and the excess of recycled items that end up in the trash heap.

The most current data available to quantify our waste is from 2015. That year, Americans generated about 262.4 tons of garbage that was placed in a landfill. Compounding a growing problem of our reliance of packaging for convenience is the fact that our recyclables, once bought by China in vast quantities, have been restricted since 2017 due to the contamination of products with waste. China’s ban on used plastics and paper have resulted in a glut of recycled materials not just in America but abroad, with municipalities seeing the cost of recycling rising due to the falling value of the collected materials. Hence, the quandary: What do we do with the increasing volume of waste?

To appreciate the scale, Fort Worth, Texas gained $1 million through the sale of its recycled items in 2017 but is on track to lose $1.6 million this year due to the reversal of fortune in dealing with a mountain of material that is too expensive to be exported yet has to be addressed.

This isn’t a glamorous issue. Most want to talk about economic policy, health-care-payer dynamics, world trade and the value of the dollar, or the healthy conflict between global markets that need America to be competitive. Heck, it’s pretty fun to talk about the metaphorical head explosions of the crowd that refused to accept the loss of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton in 2016 now having to admit that President Donald Trump endured two years of investigation only to be found innocent of collusion with Russia!

Nevertheless, our garbage is never the policy point of soaring rhetoric, but let’s face it — if America doesn’t begin to address some of our consuming habits and our infrastructure to handle it, we’ll see a public health and safety problem that no one will enjoy having to deconstruct after we’ve helped build it.

Some cities are incinerating their waste. That means smoke, particulate matter, and pollution in the air, right? No. Capturing the heat from the closed combustion and harnessing that energy onto a grid, cities in Florida and Pennsylvania featured in the Times piece are finding a less expensive way to deal with items that would otherwise consume space in landfills or prove increasingly more expensive to send across the Pacific for recycling.

The next question will be, should there be a ban of the use of disposable items? It’s always easier to issue edicts but in the case of food packaging, there’s a complicating factor of sanitation that’s required with the sale of consumable goods like food, beverages, and medicines. It’s also a fact that those who have the most restrictive access to fresh foods and refrigeration are the poorest who rely heavily on items packaged for single use.

Back to the largest contributor resulting in China’s ban: single-stream recycling. The ease of placing a container of waste on the curbside beside a bin of recyclable items mixed for later separation is popular, but unwelcomed by those who want to purchase the used items with a minimal amount of work to reuse the items. About two-thirds of all municipal recycling programs are single-stream recycling processes that don’t require separation at the point of return and pick up. Dialing it back a bit, when recycling first launched, even the plastics were separated by the number that corresponds to the type of plastic, ranging from numbers one through seven. Simply put, the Chinese began rejecting our recycling because it included too much of our other waste they didn’t want to buy.

So, if the use of disposable products shouldn’t be banned and likely since folks want to see less land used for landfill dumping, we need to change our behavior as consumers. America’s desire to frequent the drive-through and enjoy the conveniences of single-use items has added costs to our retail purchases. We’re now seeing those desires and conveniences are adding costs to our lives in the long run.

As we approach solutions, let’s reflect on a few of President Theodore Roosevelt’s thoughts on conservation that teach us being a good steward transcends a partisan divide:

“We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.”

“I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”

“Conservation means development as much as it does  protection.”  

~The Patriot Post

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