Plastic and glass belong in landfills

“As Kinnaman discovered in a 2014 study – a complete life cycle analysis of the recycling process – it currently doesn't make much economic or environmental sense to recycle plastic and glass in much of the developed world. Both of these materials are fairly easy on the environment to produce, but oftentimes very tricky and intense to recycle. When you factor in all of the water used to decontaminate plastic and glass, the immense distances traversed transporting them (usually by truck, train or ship), and the mechanical and chemical processes utilized to transform them into new goods, it becomes clear that they are better off in a landfill.”

Aluminum, tin and paper should be recycled.

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/07/15/why_its_probably_better_for_the_planet_to_throw_plastic_in_the_trash.html

Link at maggiesfarm.

(China no longer takes plastic for recycling. Large piles of plastic in China contributed to ocean pollution. Landfills can be tapped for methane, produced as products rot in landfill heat.

(Not much will change, though, because recycling is a feel-good activity for most of the industrialized world. Oother parts of the planet have not yet become civilized and people there continue to throw trash wherever and whenever.)

How women can be proactive in self-protection

Texas woman shoots ex- boyfriend, who was choking her.

HUMBLE, Texas — A man is dead after being shot at a home in Humble, police confirm.

This happened Sunday in the 5400 block of Palamino Court around 4:55 a.m.

There was a party at the home, where Harris County Sheriff’s Office investigators say the man was invited. The man and woman are a former couple, Sgt. Eric Clegg said.

At some point, there was an altercation between the two of them.

She told police the man was choking her before she was able to get her handgun and shoot him.

Police said the man died at the scene.

The woman was not arrested. Investigators will gather more information and present it to the district attorney’s office to determine whether to pursue charges.

“There were several individuals inside the house and right now we’re in the process of just getting statements from everybody,” Sgt. Clegg said. “It appears to be just a disturbance that went wrong.”

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=88972

Too weird: Balkan countries celebrate failed Turkish coup

Maja Zivanovic, Blerta Begisholli, Hamdi Firat Buyuk and Marcel Gascón Barberá

Belgrade, Bucharest, Pristina, Sarajevo

BIRN

July 15, 2019

The Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, hoisted a Turkish flag on Monday to mark the third anniversary of the failed coup in Turkey, just a week after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the country, when he urged the authorities to extradite suspected followers of the exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen – who Ankara blames for the coup attempt.

Matching events included photography and art shows as well as religious ceremonies, marches and sporting events organized on Monday in Skopje, Zagreb and Pristina. In North Macedonia, a reception and a religious ceremony were held in the Mustafa Pasha Mosque on July 15, organised by the Turkish embassy in Skopje and other Turkish institutions operating in the country.

In Sarajevo, several receptions and events organised by Turkish institutions and NGOs as well as a special religious ceremony in the city’s main mosque, the Gazi Husrev Beg Mosque, took place on July 15. A small symbolic marathon, the “15 July democracy run”, organised by Turkish institutions in Sarajevo, also took place on Sunday.

Ceremonies started in Sarajevo on July 10 with the showing of a documentary called Network,which was about the failed coup attempt. On July 12, the day was marked in Sarajevo’s historic Bascarsija square with a video screening organized by a Turkish lobby group in Bosnia, the Union of International Democrats, UID.

A friendly football match between Bosnian war veterans and Turkish soldiers who serve in Bosnia was organised in Zenica, in central Bosnia, on July 13, following a conference and a photographic gallery, which the Bosniak member of the Bosnian state presidency, Sefik Dzaferovic, attended. “Turkey showed a great democratic example on July 15, 2016,” Dzaferovic said, Anadolu Agency reported.

The Turkish embassy and other Turkish institutions in Zagreb, Croatia, marked the “Day of Democracy and National Unity” on July 15 with a commemoration and the opening of an exhibition of photographs recorded on the day of the unsuccessful coup attempt.

A press conference was held on July 12 in the Yunus Emre Institute in Zagreb, where the Turkish ambassador, Mustafa Babur Hizlan, said that in defending the country from this threat, the Turkish nation had been willing to sacrifice its life to protect the state and democracy.

In Serbia, on the same occasion, Turkey organized on July 14 an international bicycle race, the “Turkish-Serbian Friendship Cup”, in Belgrade. Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, who attended the event, highlighted the good relations between Belgrade and Ankara.

In Kosovo, the Turkish embassy organised a reception in Pristina on July 15. In the western city of Prizren, an exhibition of photos from the night of the failed coup was staged on July 13. Other activities included a showing of the documentary film The Network at the Kino Armata in Pristina on July 13.

On July 9, the same documentary was also shown in Skopje, capital of North Macedonia. Following that, a panel discussion was staged on the failed coup attempt.

On July 9, the same documentary was also shown in Skopje, capital of North Macedonia. Following that, a panel discussion was staged on the failed coup attempt.

The Turkish embassy in Romania marked the anniversary of the coup attempt with a ceremony in the Turkish Heroes Cemetery in Bucharest, where the ambassador, Fusun Aramaz, and other members of the Turkish community planted trees to “pay homage to our heroes fallen in the night of 15 July 2016”, Ankara’s representation in Romania said on Twitter.

Three years ago, on July 15, 2016, Turkey saw a failed coup attempt that was allegedly perpetrated by a minority group within the Turkish military.

Ankara accuses Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish preacher who has lived in self-imposed exile in the US since 1999, of orchestrating the failed coup. It describes his supporters as the “Fethullahist Terrorist Organisation” or “FETO” for shorAt.

Gulen has denied any connection to the coup attempt and the US has ignored attempts to extradite him.

Turkish President Erdogan, meanwhile, is pushing Balkan countries to do more to close Gulen-linked schools and other institutions and hand over suspected “Gulenists”.

https://balkaninsight.com/2019/07/15/anniversary-of-failed-turkey-coup-marked-in-balkans/

(All the "celebrations" were organized by Turkish organizations or by Turkish embassies. Strange, these celebrations in countries occupied by Turkey for hundreds of years, and which saw revolutions against the Istanbul caliphate.)

Scholars’ new book questions transgender ideology

A new book from a group of academics offers a “dramatic intervention” into the prevailing narrative surrounding transgenderism.

In “Inventing Transgender Children And Young People,” a collection of essays challenging the “dangerous” ideology taught in schools and universities, the authors warn of youngsters not being able to have children due to “powerful sex-change drugs,” the consequences of not speaking out against transgender orthodoxy, and teens quickly being labeled “transgender” due to “normal feelings” of bodily discomfort.

Contributors to the book include Oxford University’s Michael Biggs, King’s College London’s Heather Brunskell-Evans, and the University of Sydney’s Dianna Kenny, according to the Daily Mail.

Dr. David Bell, a consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, said the large increase in the number of females seeking sex changes “cannot be explained by individual factors alone,” nor is the new atmosphere of feeling free to “come out” responsible.

“Many services have championed the use of medical and surgical intervention with nowhere near sufficient attention to the serious, irreversible damage this can cause and with very disturbingly superficial attitudes to the issue of consent in young children,” he said.

The book also features accounts by whistleblowers who prefer to remain anonymous.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/07/scholars-publish-book-warning-of-consequences-of-transgender-ideology/

(There are stories, related by parents, of 6-year-old children who have decided they are the wrong sex. And the parents publicize those “decisions.” Other stories tell of teachers who decide a boy is really a girl, or a girl is really a boy. Here is reality: “Male and female created he them…” – Genesis 5:2. Got it? Male and female. Not “Well, maybe one, maybe the other. Who’s to decide?”)

A letter between Egyptian Christians 400 years before Muslims existed

“Greetings, my lord, my incomparable brother Paulus. I, Arrianus, salute you, praying that all is as well as possible in your life. [Since] Menibios was going to you, I thought it necessary to salute you as well as our lord father. Now, I remind you about the gymnasiarchy, so that we are not troubled here. For Heracleides would be unable to take care of it: he has been named to the city council. Find thus an opportunity that you buy the two [–] arouras. 

“But send me the fish liver sauce too, whichever you think is good. Our lady mother is well and salutes you as well as your wives and sweetest children and our brothers and all our people. Salute our brothers [-]genes and Xydes. All our people salute you. 

“I pray that you fare well in the Lord.”

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/55773

Happy Bastille Day, murderers and tramps

“There are two countries called France. One is the sluttish Republic – ‘Marianne’ – the other is the timeless, civilised doyen of Christendom, the nation of Clovis and St Louis, of the Valois and Bourbon kings, the Catholic and monarchic civilisation that fell with Charles X in 1830 but still defiantly survives in many enclaves. That pulse will beat quietly today while the heirs of the sans-culottes strut their stuff, proclaiming French nationalism under the figurehead of a Hungarian president and his Italian wife.

“It is all hollow, even on their terms: the lodges and the heirs of the Jacobins have migrated to Brussels and are working on a more ambitious project, still aimed at the de-Christianisation of Europe and the elimination of freedom and tradition. France without its monarchy and the Church of which it was proudly termed the Eldest Daughter is a desert.”

https://neveryetmelted.com/2019/07/14/bastille-day-2/

How not to write

Ace of Spades HQ has a piece on Joan Salvatto Wulff. I had not heard of Wulff, so I did a search.

One of the semi-literates who writes at Wikipedia opined:

“When she was 10, Wulff asked her mother if she could borrow her father’s fly rod, whom she admired and adored. After a few attempts at casting, the rod came apart, and the top section slid into the water.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wulff

We have learned that as a child Joan admired and adored her father’s fly rod, and that said fly rod came apart after it made a few attempts at casting itself.

I read no more of the article.