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Florence, AZ – Federal workers may not be getting paid during the government shutdown, but the ICE deportation machine continues its grind. In Arizona, ICE officials are preparing a charter flight to Africa at the cost of $148,000--all to deport a handful of people, possibly as few as nine. The charter may leave Arizona tonight or sometime tomorrow.
 

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Saturday, Jan. 12, 6:30-11pm. Whether it snows a lot or not.
1021 E. Broad St., east side door, park in front, in driveway or parking lot in back.
Come socialize and network with progressive friends! Food from Tandoori Grill and presentation by Joe Motil, candidate for Columbus City Council.
Free, no RSVP required.
614-253-2571. colsfreepress@gmail.com

Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency have been marked by extreme controversy, divisiveness, and partisan polarization. Many contend America hasn’t been this divided since the Civil War. Shortly after 2016’s election, comedian Cecily Strong played CNN’s chief political analyst Gloria Borger in an SNL skit, repeatedly complaining Trump “is not normal.”

In fact, one of the rare things an overwhelming majority of Americans can agree on nowadays is that Trump and his reign are outside of the presidential norm. Whether you voted for him or not, are a Republican, Democrat, or independent, love him, hate him, or are neutral, there is general consensus among the electorate, media and punditocracy that Trump and his governing style are different from anything we’ve seen before.

War is the most underrated danger, crisis, and moral outrage to be dealt with.

Trump is the most antiwar president the United States has seen in decades.

As a dedicated peace activist, I believe Trump needs to be removed from office immediately.

How can this be so?

First, becoming a relatively antiwar U.S. president is an extremely low bar to clear. Trump has increased weapons sales, demanded that NATO members increase weapons spending, increased U.S. military spending, increased base construction, increased drone murders, increased nuclear weapons construction, threatened nuclear weapons use, fueled hostility with Iran and China and (with a big push from Democrats) with Russia, armed Ukraine, sabotaged longstanding disarmament treaties, exacerbated the worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen, surrounded himself with hardcore warmongers, celebrated warrior culture, built up the racism and xenophobia and blind subservience that can make wars easier to start, bombed nine nations, not actually ended any wars anywhere, and scared the living hell out of half the globe with his unpredictability.

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Chief Jacobs is Out

So, Chief Kim Jacobs is leaving her post a few months earlier than previously expected – on February 8, 2019.

The Chief hasn’t been on the job since late October and the department has been operating under acting deputy chiefs. Officially her absence is explained by knee replacement surgery, but that didn’t stop Jacobs from showing up in full regalia at the Michigan-OSU game on November 24.

A Checkered Career

Unlike the Buckeyes, Jacobs had a really bad year.

The Department’s spokesperson was arrested on child pornography charges.

Three members of her Vice Squad were relieved of duty and in an unprecedented move, no doubt with pressure from the Columbus Safety Director Ned Pettus, Jr., Jacobs called in the FBI to investigate Columbus Vice.

A week or so prior to Vice Officer Andrew Mitchell’s controversial shooting death of Donna Dalton in his cruiser, a citizen complaint had come in against Mitchell that he was exchanging sex for rent at one of the apartments he owns.

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Friday, January 11, 12-1pm
Senator Rob Porman's office, 37 W. Broad St., Suite 300
Join our union brothers and sisters of AFGE for a rally this Friday, January 11th to end the government shutdown. Every day that this government shutdown drags on, hundreds of thousands of working people are denied a paycheck and millions lose the vital government services that we deserve. Real families with very real bills are being harmed and it’s time we hold our country’s leadership accountable.

Following is my response to an average American, of average intelligence and gullibility, who is also a brain-washed “true believer” in Big Pharma’s propagandistic “Big Lie” (that the pharmaceutical/vaccine industry’s obvious over-vaccination agenda is safe or even effective in preventing so-called childhood “vaccine-preventable infectious diseases”. Below is an email message that I received awhile ago - and my response to it (October 2018):

 

Hi Gary,

 

As for the alarmist anti vaccination rhetoric expressed in this and other emails you've sent warning people of the dangers of vaccinations of seemingly all types, I wonder how you discount the success of the vaccines that reduced so many formerly fatal childhood diseases and others like polio. 

 

People who've accepted "information" such as is expressed here have gotten these preventable diseases because they've refused vaccinations for their children.  The more people who refuse vaccinations the more likely they are to contract the formerly preventable diseases and bring back the threat of another wider spread problem.

 

Donald Trump and his base — the leftover scraps of Jim Crow, the broken shards of racist hatred that once were the American mainstream and made the country seem “great” to those who weren’t its victims — have, it appears, a crucial role to play in our future.

President Trump is the increasingly naked truth. He’s what we have wound up with: a raw, uncensored scapegoating and fear-mongering that’s too much for most of the American public. And thus the political center, the military-industrial-media consensus that has ruled the country for the past four and a half decades, pushing progressive values to the margins of American politics, is unraveling. Centrist compromise, which birthed the Trump presidency, can’t mask the truth anymore.

It’s time to evolve.

(Why? Because they have 1) actually looked at the overwhelming evidence disproving the official story and 2) they automatically distrust the US Government (and Big Business’s war-related industries) when they try to create fear and war hysteria)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50902.htm

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Thursday, January 10, 2019, 6:30 – 7:30 PM.  Central Ohio American Promise Meeting.  Please join us at our next monthly meeting.  Lots to report.  Many meetings with legislators.  Post cards and more.  Progress towards our road map and some free stuff.  Please come prepared to write a post card to your Ohio state senator and state representative and maybe others.

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