40 Ways Ohio Now Proposes Nuclear Suicide

 bought, gerrymandered Ohio Legislature has just handed a much-hated $150 million/year public bailout to two dinosaur nuke reactors primed to explode. 

It also bails out two filthy 50-year-old coal burners and guts programs for increased efficiency. 

But a possible repeal referendum could reverse all that – and have a serious impact on the Trumpsters who pushed it – in the 2020 election.

Here are some basics:

There’s Nothing Moderate About “Moderates.” A Primary Example Is Joe Biden.

The comedian George Carlin liked to marvel at oxymorons like "jumbo shrimp" and "military intelligence." Now, as the race for the Democratic presidential nomination intensifies, reporters and pundits at corporate media outlets are escalating their use of a one-word political oxymoron—"moderate."

As a practical matter, in the routine lexicon of U.S. mass media, "moderate" actually means pro-corporate and reliably unwilling to disrupt the dominant power structures. "Moderate" is a term of endearment in elite circles, a label conferred on politicians who won't rock establishment boats.

"Moderate" sounds so much nicer than, say, "enmeshed with Wall Street" or "supportive of the military-industrial complex."

"Moderate" sounds so much nicer than, say, "enmeshed with Wall Street" or "supportive of the military-industrial complex."

The Spy Game: It Ain’t What It Used to Be

The Tehran government has announced the arrest of seventeen Iranian citizens caught spying for America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Some of those arrested have already been sentenced to death. It is the third major roll-up of CIA agents in Iran that I have been aware of, the first occurring in 1991 involved 20 American agents. The second episode in 2011 led to the arrest of 30 spies. The earlier arrests reportedly eliminated what were presumed to be the entire networks of American agents operating inside Iran and it is to be presumed that the recent arrests will have the same impact.

Free Masonique Rally and Verdict

Young black man speaking into a mic to a crowd of people outside with signs

Masonique Saunders was sentenced today. A reporter stated that she was sentenced to three years in the Ohio Department of Youth Serevices with the possibility of being released after two years on good behavior. Activists that had gathered outside the courthouse to advocate for minimum sentencing are sad and upset. See this article for more information on Masonique's case and this article on her plea deal.

Lessons from a Polluted Superfund Copper Mine that used the Dry-stacking Method of Toxic Mine Tailings Storage

Item: A few months ago, the Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management renewed the previously cancelled mineral exploration leases to Antofagasta, the Chilean mining giant that owns Twin Metals, the Canadian penny-stock company that has been doing the groundwork for Antofagasta’s experimental plans to mine copper in via an underground mine in water-rich northern Minnesota near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Quetico Provincial Park in Canada.

 

Prior to Trump’s administration, the US Forest Service concluded that copper mining posed "an inherent risk of irreparable harm to an irreplaceable wilderness." The Trump administration had earlier cancelled a more complete study that would have fully determined the extent of that harm.

 

"It is now more clear than ever that the Trump administration is steamrolling the American people and allowing a foreign mining company to write the rules when it comes to America's most popular wilderness.'' Tom Landwehr, of Save the Boundary Waters, said in a statement.

 

FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW Film Review

 

Hobbs & Shaw is an action-packed spin-off from the Fast & Furious film franchise, with Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) and Jason Stratham reprising their roles from that highly kinetic cinematic series as the titular Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw. There are plenty of explosions, car chases, combat, death defying stunts that makes Evel Knievel look like a wuss and the like in this 2 hour and 15 minute ultra-violent, noisy movie-movie. In H&S, what Hitchcock called the MacGuffin - the plot device that provides the cosmic rationale for all of the story’s frenetic derring-do - is a serum with a virus that will wipe out humanity.

 

Rally for Minimum Sentencing #FreeMasonique

Young black woman smiling and raising her fist in the air

Friday, August 2, 2019, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Frankly County Municipal Court, 375 S. High St., Columbus 43215.

Poor Wittle CNN

“So, Senator Sanders, do you think that someone who’s profited from the current so-called healthcare system, like John Delaney, is qualified to tell you not to change it?”

is a different sort of question from

“So, Congressman Delaney, won’t good Americans run screaming from Senator Sanders’ rabid socialism?”

Similarly,

“Senator Warren, what percentage of federal discretionary spending now goes to militarism and what percentage should?”

is a different sort of question from

“Senator Warren, we’ve all heard that irrelevant crap about how Medicare for All will cost people less money overall, but will you just admit that it would raise taxes on the Middle Class?”

The Inner Nixon

The Nixon tapes are still in the news! My God, they’re still spewing bile, still making America’s eyeballs roll.

They’re as relevant as ever.

Donald Trump, it turns out, is merely the inner Richard Nixon, live and uncensored. He’s also the inner Ronald Reagan — the inner voice, suddenly made public, of every white male racist who has ever occupied the Oval Office (which is probably most of the occupants).

Hidden Colors 5 Columbus OH Premier

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