Is a lack of intellectual diversity causing university faculty to self-censor? That’s a central claim made by advocates of Ohio State University’s Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, which is one example of a slate of new “viewpoint diversity” centers established recently on college campuses. In an era of dwindling state support for higher education, Ohio State’s version was created by the state legislature (over the objection of the Faculty Senate) at an initial cost of $24 million.

We start with our Laureate MIMI GERMAN’s usual brilliant poetry.

We hear from the dis-incarnated Jeffrey Epstein about his money laundering with Donald Trump & V. Putin.

We further discuss the nitty gritty of the Second Amendment and the perils of gun ownership with the great DOROTHY REIK.

We here from former Mormon BRENT MILLER.

Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces the great JENNIE GAGE and her post-Mormon Denim Revolution.

From Jennie we hear a fascinating account of how she broke away from her fundamentalist past.

We later hear from JONATHAN BEARD about the idea of progressives moving to Red States to organize & shift the Electoral College.

From Green Party Presidential candidate HOWIE HAWKINS who discusses the Trump-Putin alliance.

Howie then introduces SVITLANA ROMANKO who explains from Ukraine the hellish conditions in which green activists are trying to shift the nation from fossil/nulear fuel addiction to clean, green wind and solar.

From MICKEY LEADER we get questions about geothermal energy & its possible role in rebuilding Ukraine.

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BANGKOK, Thailand -- President Donald Trump is miffed that the U.S. is aced-out by China in processing rare earths which are especially prized for making strategic-use magnets.

Those magnets are critical to create high-tech weaponry and equipment used by military and aerospace industries, including for U.S. warplanes.

China hopes to strengthen its near-monopoly over the world's military-grade processed dysprosium, terbium, and other rare earth elements by securing rebel-held mines in Southeast Asia's war-torn Myanmar while boosting support for its coup-installed military dictatorship.

"China intelligently went in and they sort of took a monopoly of the world’s magnets," Mr. Trump told reporters on August 25 while discussing tariffs.

"Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago, ‘let’s all do magnets.’

"It'll take us probably a year to have them. We’re heavy into the world of magnets now, only from a national security standpoint."

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