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Things Congress Could Do for Peace, From Easiest to Hardest

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Indigenous Leaders to Washington: Your Borders Cross Our People 8 a.m. Friday, January 19th

People marching outside with a huge banner that reads Respect Indigenous People's Rights End colonialism

The Indigenous People's March comes to Washington today, and the snow-clad streets of the citadel of the American Empire are about to turn Red!

It might be mistaken for any other day. The slushy sidewalks are half full of sleepy eyed company men and Trump Administration apparatchiks, sliding to and fro. Those, that is, who are still showing up for their jobs.

But – then, the sound of drums in the distance, the steady beat of moccasined feet approaching. And they are about to do a stomp dance that's gonna rock this rotten country coast to coast.

Friday, January 18th, 2019 is just a day like any other day. It is a day for the true Native Nations of this continent to Stand Up for the Earth. A day to stand together for the People.

So say Native leaders gathering for today's march: “Our People didn't cross your border. Your border crossed our People.”

I didn't ask their names.

Identifying Indigenous activists in print can lead to the kind of trouble few members of the white elite in America will ever experience.

Indigenous Leaders to Washington: Your Borders Cross Our People

 

Report from Liberation News Service:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_News_Service

The Indigenous People's March comes to Washington today, and the snow-clad streets of the citadel of the American Empire are going Native.

It might be mistaken for any other day. The slushy sidewalks are half full of sleepy eyed company men and Trump Administration apparatchiks, sliding to and fro. Those, that is, who are still showing up for their jobs.

And then, the sound of drums in the distance, the steady beat of moccasined feet approaching. They're about to do a stomp dance that's gonna rock this country coast to coast.

US Adopts Christian Ideology to Guide Foreign Policy

This trip is especially meaningful for me as an evangelical Christian, coming so soon after the Coptic Church’s Christmas celebrations. This is an important time.

We’re all children of Abraham: Christians, Muslims, Jews. In my office, I keep a Bible open on my desk to remind me of God and His Word, and The Truth.

And it’s the truth, lower-case “t,” that I’m here to talk about today. It is a truth that isn’t often spoken in this part of the world, but because I’m a military man by training, I’ll be very blunt and direct today: America is a force for good in the Middle East.

We need to acknowledge that truth, because if we don’t, we make bad choices – now and in the future. [emphasis added]

– US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, January 10, 2019

How Asbestos is Still Negatively Impacting Our Health and Environment

Black and pick mess on a floor and words Caution Asbestos

It’s been almost 70 years since the idea of climate change was introduced to the world — 70 years of compiling data, furthering research, and building the kind of ironclad case that only science can build. And yet, there is still a very large portion of our population that dismisses it as coincidence or political conspiracy or both.

It’s difficult to argue against science, particularly in this digital age when technological advances eliminate all hints of theory from the science. However, as we’re dealing with human beings with human agendas; even when the science appears sound, people still have a difficult time seeing the truth.

The same can be said for many other threats that plague our planet and our own health and mortality, though these are not mutually exclusive. A better distinction may be direct threat, as any threat to our planet will also be a threat to us as humans. Unfortunately for everyone whose lives have been impacted, asbestos falls into the category of direct threat.

What is Asbestos

Official Women's March Ohio 3rd Columbus Anniversary

Women marching and young blonde woman holding a pink sign that says Girls Just Want to Have Fun-damental Rights

Saturday, January 19, 11am
Social Justice Park, Cleveland Avenue nd Broad Street
Sponsored by Women's March on Washington-Ohio Chapter and Women's March

Human Beings are Destroying Life on Earth but Deluding Ourselves that We are Not

It is easy to identify the ongoing and endless violence being inflicted on life on Earth. This ranges from the vast multiplicity of assaults inflicted on our children and the biosphere to the endless wars and other military violence as well as the grotesque exploitation of many peoples living in Africa, Asia and Central/South America. But for a (very incomplete) list of 40 points see ‘Reflections on 2018, Forecasting 2019’.

However, despite the obvious fact that it is human beings who are inflicting all of this violence, it is virtually impossible to get people to pay attention to this simple and incontrovertible fact and to ask why, precisely, are human beings behaving in such violent and destructive ways? And can we effectively address this cause?

Council Lets Big Money In

Middle aged white man in a suit with brown receding hair at a mic with a flag in the background

January 14, 2018 // Columbus City Council voted to allow individual campaign donors to give them, and other city office holder candidates $12,707.79 per year. In the last agenda item of the night, on Tuesday 14 January, the city established one of the highest municipal caps in the state. In comparison, candidates in Cleveland can only accept $5,000, and in Cincinnati $1,100. 

All four citizen comments regarding the ordinance at the council meeting opposed the high cap, but members of Council spoke glowingly of the ordinance prior to its approval. Michael Stinziano, President ProTempore, called the ordinance "a good first step." Council President Shannon G Hardin said, "For the first time we are putting a cap on campaign contributions in the city...This legislation is a good, historic first step."

Flash Rally To Support Government Workers

Sign sitting outside in the snow against a large planter says End the Trump Shutdown

Thursday, January 17, -6:30pm
John  Glenn International Airport (Columbus airport), 4600 International Gateway
Show your support for government workers being impacted by the Trump shutdown.
Air traffic controllers, safety inspectors, scientists, TSA agents, our Coast Guard, Park Service and many other working citizens are being forced to work without pay or are furloughed due to Trump's shutdown over his racist monument.
Due to security issues this will be a "flash" event. Please make banners or signs that can be kept folded in a pocket and remain covert until rally starts. Cloth would be ideal.
It is likely we will be asked to leave. However, it is harder for them to ask a large group to leave, hence the "flash" nature.
We lend our peaceful nonviolent support to our government workers. Perhaps we will catch Representatives Stivers and Beatty on their home flights and have opportunity to ask them directly to end this shutdown.

Guilty of Sex Crimes, She Claimed Trump/Manafort Audio

BANGKOK, Thailand -- A jailed Belarusian "huntress girl" and her
Russian lover, who together claimed to have incriminating audio of
Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort colluding with
Russians about America's election, were found guilty January 15 of sex
crimes and will be deported.

After the couple's arrest in February 2018 near Bangkok, Anastasia
Vashukevich -- who calls herself Nastya Rybka -- said she and her
"master" Alexander Kirillov secretly recorded the scandalous audio
when she was Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska's "mistress" during
2016 and 2017.

Thai authorities jailed the couple for conducting a week-long seminar
offering sleazy seduction techniques to foreign men and women who paid
$700 each.

After being busted Pattaya, Thailand's infamously hedonistic beach
resort, Ms. Vashukevich posted a video online while inside a prison
vehicle, pleading with "friends, American press" for help.

She claimed the couple secretly made recordings about "Manafort and

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