#BlockTheWall Rapid Protest

Woman in cold weather gear holding a sign at a protest outside that reads The Trump Presidency is the REAL emergency

Over 100 people gathered on a cold Monday morning February 18th -- President's Day -- in downtown Columbus to protest what they called Trump's fake emergency on the border to justify his spending more money to build a wall. They marched to U.S. Senator Rob Portman's office to appeal to him to stop the fake emergency to stop the wall. 

Donald Trump’s Historical Illiteracy and the Dooming of America

Our Historically-illiterate (and proud of it) President Trump has Never Read the History of the Preventable Evils that were Loosed on America and the Planet by the President’s Corrupt Crony Capitalists in 1919

 

WARNING: Trump/Pence and their Cronies are Blindly Following the Formula for a 1929-style Stock Market Crash that is likely to be followed by a 1930s-style Great Depression)

 

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” --  George Santayana

 

The following history lesson, taken virtually verbatim from the Encyclopedia Britannica is a perfect example of the old truism in the title (attributed to philosopher George Santayana).


Readers can draw their own conclusions from the following historical account of what can happen (like it did 100 years ago this year) when a group of greedy, unaccountable, authoritarian, Big Business-oriented ruling elites think that they can run a government like an inherently sociopathic, multi-national corporation.

 

The Green New Deal supported by Progressive Democrats of America

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We believe it is time for every citizen and elected official to show up and find the courage to face the climate emergency. We urge you to seize this moment and stand with all of us by supporting the Green New Deal resolution.

The recent reports from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United States Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCS) confirm what our 2016 Democratic Party Platform had already declared - we are in a climate emergency and an urgent and immediate response is required. What is hopeful about these particular reports is that we have finally shifted from the abstraction of long-term timelines. They call for an emergency response now. This is the decade that matters.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY12) and our allies in the Sunrise Movement and The Climate Mobilization are leading the way forward with calls for real, bold, truthful action on climate; to turn away from gradualism. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has proposed a resolution calling for a new Select Committee for a Green New Deal.

Mr. Genius

#BlockTheWall Rapid Protest Columbus

PHoto of white house with neon lights in front against black saying FAKE CRISIS NO WALL

Monday, February 18, 11am
LeVeque Tower, West Broad and Front Street, downtown Columbus
Trump declared a national emergency to fund a border wall for a fake crisis that he and his administration made up. Immigrants is what makes America Great and they aren’t a epidemic, they’re human. The true national emergencies we face are Reproductive Rights, Gun Violence, Climate Change, Infant Mortality, and the Opioid Crisis... oh and Trump.

Trump's "Emergency" Is About His Criminality, NOT the Wall

The “Desperado in Chief” wants — NEEDS!!! — a diversionary “national” emergency.

He says it’s about the border wall. He’s got everybody yapping about immigration and steel slats. He’s torturing and killing innocent children in concentration camps at the border for the private profit of the incarceration corporations … and to act out his own primal fantasies as an absolute dictator.

But really, he couldn’t care less.

In fact, what this is obviously all about is the four walls he doesn’t want to look at from the inside of a jail cell for the rest of his unnatural life.

Those walls have been closing in on him for a long time. But the pace is mightily accelerating.

His indicted (and convicted) co-conspirator Paul Manafort has just had his plea deal canceled because he got caught lying (again!) to the federal courts. The consequence: that former look-how-incredibly-rich-I-am ex-millionaire may spend the rest of his orange-clad life in prison.

Is Tulsi Gabbard for Real? America Is Ready for a Genuine Peace Candidate

The lineup of Democrats who have already declared themselves as candidates for their party’s presidential nomination in 2020 is remarkable, if only for the fact that so many wannabes have thrown their hats in the ring so early in the process. In terms of electability, however, one might well call the seekers after the highest office in the land the nine dwarfs. Four of the would-be candidates – Marianne Williamson a writer, Andrew Yang an entrepreneur, Julian Castro a former Obama official, Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congressman John Delaney – have no national profiles at all and few among the Democratic Party rank-and-file would be able to detail who they are, where they come from and what their positions on key issues might be.

(AA)): Attention all vaccine science-illiterate Journalists, GOV Bureaucrats, and potential vaccine recipients: You have been seriously dis-informed by Big Pharma, the CDC, the AAP and Big Medicine about "Vaccine-hesitant Patients"

Attention all vaccine-illiterate journalists, healthcare givers (and potential vaccine-recipients): you should not be criticizing what you don’t understand, especially when you are relying on the massive amount of dis-information coming from professional dis-information artists in the vaccine and medical industries who have ulterior motives, such as scaring everybody into demanding fully vaccinating their children because of an “outbreak” of measles among 0.0001 % of the American population, some of whom were already vaccinated!! (Note that tere have been 130 children who died from the measles vaccinations but essentially zero that died from measles in the past decade! The prevention is worse than the disese. Please do your investigative journalism like they taught you in journalism: look al all sides of issues and don’t be bamboozled by those pseudoscientists who have ulterior motives. Also –school yourself in real science. Gary G. Kohls, MD, Duluth, MN

 

Will the U.S. Senate Let the People of Yemen Live?

n 1973 the War Powers Resolution weakened the U.S. Constitution’s placement of the power to start and end wars with the first branch of the U.S. government, the Congress. The new law carved out exceptions to allow presidents to start wars. However, it also created procedures by which a single member or group of members of Congress could force a vote in Congress on whether to end a war. Despite weakening the written law, the War Powers Resolution may finally be about to prove itself to have strengthened the ability of proponents of peace to put an end to mass slaughter.

Since 1973 we’ve seen numerous wars waged in blatant violation of both the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, not to mention the UN Charter and the Kellogg Briand Pact. But we’ve also seen Congress members like my friend Dennis Kucinich force votes on whether to end wars. These votes have usually failed. And the Congress that ended this past December illegally refused (in the House) to even hold such votes. But debates have been created, people have been informed, and the notion that a law still exists that merits respect has been kept alive.

Solidarity with Edith Espinal

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On Valentine’s Day, Edith will have been in sanctuary for 500 days. At Edith's request, Solidarity with Edith Espinal, the Central Ohio Worker Center, and Columbus Mennonite Church have created a campaign to raise awareness and resources for Edith's ongoing fight to stay in the US legally. The campaign launches Monday, February 11 and runs through the end of the day February 14. Please share Edith's story on social media by using the resources at SolidarityWithEdith.org/valentines-toolkit, and following Edith on Facebook (@SolidarityWithEdith), Twitter (@LetEdithStay), and Instagram (@SolidarityWithEdith). Text "Edith" to 44-321 to give to Edith's campaign.  Edith wanted us to pass this message along: (Sp.) Gracias por sus donaciones en este día del amor al ser humano. Para mi es importante tener su apoyo como comunidad. (Eng.) Thank you for your donations on this day of love for humanity. For me your support as a community is very important.

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