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The deadline for community service and advocacy organizations to apply for funding by ComFest Grants is almost here: January 20 is the last date to apply.  Apply here:  https://www.comfest.com/committees/grants/.   It's also time to be asking graphic artists to start planning their 2020 Logo design contest entries. The contest is Thursday March 12.  This year, the ComFest General Planning Committee has chosen the theme "People Power" as the suggested slogan for logo designs.

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Sunday, January 12, 2020, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Voter registration training in time for secon semester college student activity fairs! Come learn the ins and outs of how to register voters and get signed up to start registering voters right away!  Location:  Old Worthington Library, 820 N. High St., Worthington.  Facebook. 

Please share and help others get informed. Good talk with the Great Harvey Wasserman.

As the insanity escalates in Iran and Iraq, we face the extremely sophisticated and dangerous on-going  push to manipulate the American electorate.

We’re joined by two of America’s top election protection analyst/activists JOHN BRAKEY and SUSAN PYNCHON.
These two brilliant and powerful citizens have already made a huge difference in how we conduct our elections.
Today the give us the inside information on Cambridge Analytica, computerized ballot marking devices and the other incredibly sophisticated tools being used to manipulate our elections.
Beneath the clouds of war and ecological catastrophe, Susan and John keep their eyes on the prize of actual democracy.
If you’re concerned about the realities of 2020 election, don’t miss this show.

I suppose you have to actually be convicted of a felony to be a felon, but I also think we should make an exception for U.S. presidents. Take the current one, for example. Donald Trump just murdered Iranian and Iraqi military officials at an airport in Baghdad. His staff later “briefed” Congress members on why these murders were “legal.” Congress members denounced the briefing as utter nonsense, and yet labeled the murders “a strike of choice.” People who have been convicted of murder, and who are properly called felons, never had the option of getting their crimes labeled “strikes of choice.”

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Saturday, January 11, 2010, 6:30-11pm
1021 E. Broad St., east side door. Parking in side driveway, back parking lot or street.
Free, no RSVP required.
Monthly gathering of progressives to meet, socialize, network, enjoy refreshments (Hound Dog pizza), art, music and presentations on impeachment, Iran, and the Free Press' 50th anniversary!
614-253-2571, colsfreepress@gmail.com

 

 

 

Our Reps Will Wait Their Turn To See The Doctor

They will not be dressed to star in music videos. Prior experience at Hooters or Work Out World will not be sufficient for hiring. They will not call the doctor dude. We understand others waiting to see the doctor are sick.

 

We Will Leave Poor Countries Alone

We'll stop conducting clinical trials on people who can't give informed consent and think they're getting medical care. We will stop marketing cholesterol drugs, HPV vaccines and lifestyle drugs to poor people whose major health problems are malaria, diarrheal diseases and potable water.

 

We'll Stop Extortion Pricing and Looting Medicare/Medicaid

We admit that pricing drugs at $52,321.80 a month (Actimmune), $42,570 a month (Chenoda) or $87,800 for a course of treatment (Harvoni) is extortion. Frankly we're amazed we have gotten away with it.

 

The huge crisis with Iran is more dangerous because so many Democrats have been talking out of both sides of their congressional mouths.

 

An example is the recent rhetoric from Sen. Chris Murphy. “The attack on our embassy in Baghdad is horrifying but predictable,” he tweeted on the last day of 2019. “Trump has rendered America impotent in the Middle East. No one fears us, no one listens to us. America has been reduced to huddling in safe rooms, hoping the bad guys will go away. What a disgrace.”

 

Once upon a time there was a Constitution of the United States. In Article II, Section 2 it stipulated that only the U.S. Congress has the power to declare war, which means the American president has to go to the legislative body and make a case for going to war against an enemy or enemies. If there is a vote in favor of war, the president is empowered as commander-in-chief to direct the available resources against the enemy.

There is also something called international law. Under international law there are situations in which a head of state or head of government can use military force defensively or even preemptively if there is a substantial threat that is imminent. But normally, a country has to go through a procedure similar to that in the U.S. Constitution, which means making a case that the war is justified before declaring war. The Nuremberg Tribunals ruled that starting a war of aggression is the ultimate crime.

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