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There’s a mantra that Americans are the freest people in the world. The First Amendment guarantees our right to free speech, assembly and redress of grievances. The Republican-dominated Ohio State Senate opposes these basic principles and they memorialize their hatred of civil liberties in Senate Bill 33.

Known all over the nation as the “pipeline protest bill,” SB 33 criminalizes protest activities. This ALEC-based (American Legislative Exchange Council) bill already passed through nine state legislatures – and passed 24-8 in the Ohio Senate. Ohio State Senator Frank Hoagland (R-Mingo Junction), the man who introduced SB 33, is a member of ALEC.

The bill makes trespassing on “critical infrastructure” property different than regular trespassing and defines “critical” as pipelines, natural gas plants, other facilities and even property where a pipeline might someday be built. Protestors found in violation can face a third-degree felony that carries a prison sentence from three months to five years and increases of fines by the ten-fold – up to $100,000.

North Carolina Board of Elections held a sham meeting and certified voting machines that have unreadable barcodes. Read the letter below.

August 24, 2019

Mr. Damon Circosta, Board Chair
North Carolina State Board of Elections
damon.circosta.board@ncsbe.gov

Mr. Circosta:

I spoke on the issues of barcode ballots for the strict two-minute time limit imposed on concerned voters at yesterday’s NCSBE meeting. Prior to the meeting, we at Coalition for Good Governance submitted fact-based expert opinions on the reasons that BMDs are insecure, unauditable and unfit for use in NC elections, which you ignored in favor of uninformed magical thinking and vendor influence. Here’s a link to Friday’s Coalition for Good Governance submissions.

We love our cell phones. So, what I am about to tell you might be upsetting. Just because you cannot see it, does not mean that exposure to electromagnetic frequencies come without risk. Children love them so much they sleep with them on, under their pillows at night, a practice parents might want to end, as a growing body of evidence suggests doing so poses an immediate danger to the small growing brains of our children whose skulls are thinner. The smaller the human, the greater the risk. 

So, Jeff Epstein “committed suicide” while on suicide watch in prison. This was widely predicted, since Epstein, in part to gratify himself, was running one of the world’s most notorious “honey traps.” if you were rich or powerful and liked underage girls, Epstein was your guy. Now that Epstein’s gone, the likes of Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew and other former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson can breathe easier.

If the public is lucky, a slew of civil suits will come forward and provide more revelations. But we can expect the majority of these to settle quietly with non-disclosure statements, thus allowing pedophiles of the world to continue to unite in their quest for illegal sex.

Epstein was also the intelligence community’s guy. As journalist Vicky Ward pointed out in “Jeffrey Epstein’s Sick Story Played Out For Years in Plain Sight,” Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney who went light on Epstein in a 2017 deal, became the Secretary of Labor under Trump. Reportedly he told the people vetting him in the Trump administration: “I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.”

The struggle continues, but a battle has been won. The Trump administration, despite its “maximum pressure” campaign, has failed to crush Iran and Venezuela. There are signs that the economies of both countries have turned a corner. The Iranian rial has stabilized, rising “30%” against the dollar since early May according to Bloomberg. Hyperinflation in Venezuela has finally come to an end, as reported by economist Sergi Lanau.

Between 2006 to 2012, in the far-west zip code of 43228, each and every person accounted for 3,300 oxycodones or hydrocodones distributed. 170 million pills in total for roughly 50,000 Columbus residents.

The 43228 ranks number one in the state for the total amount of opioids distributed over those six years, and number three for pills per person, this according to data recently made public by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Across the entire state 3.4 billion opioids were distributed over this time.

These numbers, this stomach-turning data, was voluntarily submitted by drug companies from 2006 to 2012 to the federal government’s ARCOS database or Automated Reports and Consolidated Ordering System. This begs the question, did federal law enforcement know the scope of what was happening? It was their database after all.

Following continued pressure by journalists, the data was recently made public by US District Judge Dan Polster of Cleveland. Polster is presiding over 2,000 lawsuits against drug manufacturers and distributors, which of course includes Cardinal Health of Dublin, the state’s largest distributor of opioids.

Are you afraid to go to the grocery store?

Are you afraid to see a lone young white male amongst a diverse crowd?

What doesn’t make sense is that Hillary Clinton lost, so we were supposed to be safe, right?

If he had lost, there would be active shooters wherever non-whites and women gathered. Those were Trump’s own words. As if you forgot.

So why have disaffected white males continued to turn our gathering places slick with blood?

Perhaps there is an answer but certainly not a solution…Stochastic terrorism.

“The use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable,” states Daily Kos.

“The person who actually plants the bomb or assassinates the public official is not the stochastic terrorist, they are the ‘missile’ set in motion by the stochastic terrorist. The stochastic terrorist is the person who uses mass media as their means of setting those ‘missiles’ in motion,” continued Daily Kos.

Ohio State University uses Caterpillar Inc. machinery for construction purposes on the corner of College Road and Annie and John Glenn Avenue this summer. By investing in a company that profits off of demolishing Palestinian homes, OSU is complicit in their oppression. Caterpillar has been listed as one of the companies to boycott in order to show solidarity for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli apartheid.

The BDS movement is launched and supported by 170 Palestinian-led organizations. It demands an end to the occupation of all Arab lands, dismantling the apartheid wall and the checkpoints, ending racial discrimination of Palestinians living in Israel, and promoting the right of all Palestinian refugees to return to their land. Israel profits of colonizing Palestine as it experiments with weapons of war on Palestinians and makes money off of the military industrial complex.

It was supposed to be just another round of pork in Columbus. The nuclear power industry, which was flush with success from winning billions in bailouts from state governments in New York and Illinois was again prepared to play Ohio's government like a fiddle. Ohio had, in the past, ponied over $9 billion in subsidies for such flimsy reasons as "stranded costs" to keep the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants running. This time, though, it's proven to be much more complicated. Fierce opposition from every part of the political spectrum meant a reduced payoff, and even though Governor DeWine signed House Bill 6 (HB6) into law on July 23, the money may never be delivered.

Earlier this month it was still looking like Prohibition 1920s for CBD oil and industrial hemp in the Buckeye State, but the Ohio General Assembly on Thursday passed Senate Bill 57, allowing for the cultivation of hemp and the legal sale of CBD.

Every single state bordering Ohio, including staunch right-wing Indiana, was moving forward with cultivation of marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin, industrial hemp, which can be used to make CBD oil, fuel, paper and textiles, among other things.

Nevertheless, Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder said on July 6th that Senate Bill 57 wouldn’t pass until this fall at the earliest.

However, small changes to the bill were made this week making state representatives have a change of heart before their summer break. Ohio farmers struggling with tariffs and bad weather could have been a factor.