The 10th Justice

Mueller concluded, according to Attorney General Barr, that neither Trump nor his campaign staff worked with the Russians to tilt the election toward Trump. This is probably true. From what I know about Mueller and his staff I feel that we can trust them. Did Trump's campaign staff want help from the Russians? Of course! They met with them to see about getting dirt on Hillary. Because nothing came of it, there was not court case. Just because neither Trump nor his campaign actively sent false emails, social media posts and other propaganda to millions of American doesn't mean he didn't appreciate the effort Putin put out on his behalf I have also spent two years reading about the financial connections between Trump and the Russian big money players. Clearly, there is money laundering going on by the Trump organization and the Russian oligarchs as well as those high up in the. Russian government. Trump had already been paid by the Russians to be their lobbyist in America. ...

Today Wired magazine republished an article from Yale Environment 360 about China's new policy of not accepting plastics for recycling. Plastic garbage is piling up in America and Europe. China's new "National Sword" policy has stopped the recyclers in China who had been buying 95% of the EU's and 70% of America's plastic recycling from buying any. Today Paul Krugman commented on Devin Nunes's (Rep-California) comment in a restaurant. After being asked if he wanted a straw rather than simply getting one, he said, "Welcome to socialism." Both these articles tell the same story: we don't pay the full cost of our actions as consumers. Buying a vegetable and putting it in a new plastic bag that is then thrown away is very similar to getting a plastic straw and throwing it away. We pay for the cost of receiving these items in the cost of the product but the costs we don't pay is the cost of getting rid of them in an environmentally accepta...