Bob and Dan discuss recent Trump news -- the Cohen raid, why people should care, the Pompeo situation and why the Democratic Party is attacking Dennis Kucinich

http://www.wcrsfm.org/audio/by/title/the_other_side_of_the_news_april_20...

 

The following group of 5 photographs were taken after the catastrophic Teton River (Idaho) Dam failure that occurred on June 5, 1976. The earthen dam was 305 feet high and held back a 17 mile-long reservoir. The dam breach resulted in the worst man-made disaster in Idaho’s history.

 

Two small Idaho towns downstream from the Teton River Dam, Wilford and Sugar City, were wiped from the map in the flood by a 10 foot-high wall of water. Thousands of farm animals were drowned as were several people. The towns of Hibbard, Rexburg and Roberts were also largely flooded, as was Idaho Falls. In some places houses were under as much as 10 feet of water.

 

Teton Dam Flood

Black and white sketch of man behind bars holding hankerchief to his face

April 24-27
Facebook event

UPDATE 4: success! the call in campaign has worked. Supporters have heard from the prisoners. BUT, the hunger strike continues, because the prisoners refuse to subject to the whims of a dishonest and disrespectful staff. There will be new demands and a new call to action tonight. Thank you to everyone who called today!

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Monday, April 23, 2pm
1500 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH 43215-1010
The Ohio DNR proposed a bobcat trapping season. Let your voice be heard! Ohio's bobcats are a resource for EVERYONE and should be managed as such. We can't put their population at risk just because a few trappers want their fur.

ATTEND: 
April 23rd @ 2:00 pm
State Fish & Wildlife Hearing 
Public comments are allowed but limited to three minutes; you do not need to register in advance. 

May 17 @ 6:30 pm – Wildlife Council VOTE

A drawing of the Planet Earth with a tree in front and a banner with the words earth day and April 22

Sunday, April 22, 12noon-7pm
Genoa Park, next to COSI on West Broad by the river
A day-long celebration featuring great local bands, family-friendly activities, eco-friendly artisans, an electric vehicle ride & drive, and Columbus' best food trucks. Booths from community groups like WGRN 94.1 - the Green Renaissance Radio Network, the Columbus Community Bill of Rights, and the Green Party.

uerto Rico has made history by becoming — briefly — the largest US territory or state to be powered almost entirely by renewable energy.

The corporate media has done all it can to black the story out.

The rising grassroots movement to totally rebuild Puerto Rico’s electric supply system with renewable energy and locally owned micro-grids poses a serious threat to the centralized, fossil-based corporate elite.

But two hurricanes and two human-error blackouts have opened the door to systemic change.

Here’s how:

Last September, Hurricane Irma blew through the Caribbean, passing over enough of Puerto Rico to plunge tens of thousands of people into darkness. Many of them are still without power.

Then Hurricane Maria shredded the island’s electric grid and blacked out its 3.4 million residents virtually in toto.


Imagine some foreign nation sent 100 missiles into Washington D.C.

You can imagine this because Hollywood has trained you to imagine it.

Imagine that for weeks or months prior to this attack, the foreign nation’s government and public debated whether to do it.

You can imagine this because you live in the one nation on earth where such debates happen, or because you have heard about the sorts of things that go on in the United States.

Now imagine that the primary excuse for the attack settled on in the debate in the distant foreign capital was this: it would be punishment for the U.S. government’s use of and possession of banned weapons: depleted uranium, white phosphorous, napalm, cluster bombs, etc.

You may be able to imagine that, depending on what you know about events in the world and how good you are at playing role reversal.

 

 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idVoVgQ2baw

Today, April 20, 2018, Senator Tim Kaine told an audience at the U of Virginia that missiles into Syria were illegal because not authorized by Congress, leaving everyone to imagine Congress could have made such a thing legal. Kaine gave a long speech on the legality of war without ever mentioning that it is illegal. So I asked him, and he admitted as much. He offered no way in which Congress could have made the missiles legal. He claimed wars are legal if a puppet “invites” you, a claim not supported by written law and not relevant to attacking Syria.

The fact is that the same line of text that gives Congress the war powers in the U.S. Constitution also gives it the power to hire pirates — except that everybody admits you’re not supposed to do that. War also was banned, first and in its entirety by the Kellogg-Briand Pact, second and with limited exceptions not met by any recent wars by the UN Charter, as I pointed out to Senator Kaine.

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