Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times

Like I have said for years -- Recycling is a hoax that has for years allowed and indeed promoted continued production of wasteful single use packaging by promoting the myth that we all need to pitch in but we can save the planet. "Responsible citizens/consumers we must recycle everything."  Now even the New York Times has caught on.

Revision:  In Sonoma County just after this article came out Recology won contracts from the disgraced former trash hauler and held public meetings to show and tell and flatly claim that is is illegal to put recycling in the dump so they store it in a warehouse until it can be sold.  This may be their public claim but it does not make much sense in that warehouse space in the bay area costs vastly more than the value of much recycling and so this is very likely a partial truth about a very broken system at best at worst a lie covering up some other means that are used to "externalize the cost" of this lost associated with the broken system.  I do not have direct evidence but even in the face of this claim I maintain that what is really needed is an audit with complete transparency.

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James Comey Told Barack Obama That His Use of the Phrase “Mass Incarceration” Was Insulting to Law Enforcement Officers

This is the guy everyone suddenly likes because he is anti trump?  But, look at who he really is -- a part of the secret police we call the FBI and a founding member of the "mass incarceration" establishment.   Comey is not our friend even it he is the enemy of Trump.



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Arms sales

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/49301-focus-weapons-for-anyone-donald-trump-and-the-art-of-the-arms-deal

This video shows what is obviously wrong with broadcast media.

What is missing from this video is that this was made possible by Bill Clinton's deregulation of media with 1996 Telecommunications Act which he claimed would "bring more competition", we quickly went from 50 media companies down to 6, this video showing the result.

How America's largest local TV owner turned its news anchors into soldiers in Trump's war on the media: https://t.co/iLVtKRQycL pic.twitter.com/dMdSGellH3

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) March 31, 2018

Artemisia Studios

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Craigslist Just Took Personal Ads Offline Because Of A New Anti-Sex Trafficking Law

This is a very bad, stupid law that will not make abuse go away but will harm people.

This is what is up today:
US Congress just passed HR 1865, "FOSTA", seeking to subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully.
Any tool or service can be misused. We can't take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline. Hopefully we can bring them back some day.
To the millions of spouses, partners, and couples who met through craigslist, we wish you every happiness!

Ivanka Trump and Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, during a bipartisan round table discussion on sex trafficking with members of Congress and the private sector, March 13, 2018, in Washington, DC

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What's disturbing about "hardening our schools" to assault?

Today, at a far right-wing gathering in Washington, the NRA struck back with its own vision for America.  In his speech at CPAC, NRA leader Wayne LaPierre took a brief break from blaming liberals and stoking cultural resentment to tell us what the NRA wants to do about school shootings:

"Everyday young children are being dropped off at schools that are wide-open, soft targets for people bent on mass murder. In every community in America...they must come together to implement the very best strategy to harden our schools, including effective, trained, armed security...and that has to happen NOW."

 Well, OK, consider the source but in truth this is where we have been going for years.  We have drug sniffing dogs.  Armed security trained to pacify and take down unruly students.  Misbehavior is a crime. Take a breath -- it's not the kids, it's not the teachers, it's not the poverty or the black or browness -- It has been all bad all the way for schools and most of the bad has come from on high by political edict in the form of just bad policy.  Several states have already authorized teachers to conceal carry.  LaPierre's comments are shocking but what's disturbing is how low we have already come.