The Commander-in-Chief, President Donald Trump, has announced a new mission into the realm of martial excess. It is one is that will surely enrich the aerospace industry while spreading the global battlefield to a new dimension.

Trump is calling for the creation of a new Space Force as a sixth branch of the U.S. military, to militarize the heavens.

“It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space,” Trump told a meeting of the National Space Council in mid-June. “We must have American dominance in space.”

Humanities professor Rocco Di Pietro has announced a "Hiroshima Peace Concert." It is in memoriam of Columbus peace activists Margaret Stansbury and Samir Gharbo who have passed away this year. Gharbo once taught Chemistry at Columbus State.

The program includes new compositions by Di Pietro and Ramsey Sadaka, visiting composer from Vancouver, Canada, as well as works by Alan Hovhanhess, and Halim El-Dabh.

Performers include Devin Copfer of Chamber Brews String Quartet and Small Songs band, Erin Helgeson of the CODE Music Ensemble and Tower Duo, Justin T. Swain of Opera Columbus, Larry Marotta, Paul Stawser, Joel McPeak, David Nelson Tomasacci and Rocco Di Pietro will perform all 21 of Di Pietro's "Bewitched Child Songs"

The concert, to be directed by Di Pietro, will be Monday, July 30 from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. in the Columbus State WD Ballroom. 

At the big “Treason Summit” “Russopocalypse” “Catastrovent” on Monday, journalist Sam Husseini tried to ask a question about banning nuclear weapons, and was physically hauled out of the room by officials from the “Land of Press Freedom,” Finland. Meanwhile, an Associated Press reporter was permitted to ask a perfectly respectable question pushing a blatant lie that risks nuclear war. Yay for press freedom!

Thursday, July 19 2018 6-8pm
Columbus Early Learning Center, 240 N. Champion
(Use rear entrance)

Join the discussion with panel members:
Pastor Mike Reeves
Minister Donell Muhammad
Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Kee
Charles Traylor
Barbara Clark
Joe Motil
Melissa McFadden
Moderated by Khari Eneharo
Free, no RSVP required.
See Free Press article for background

"Knowledge is power; but who hath duly Considered the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavor to its one roast with the burned souls of many generations."-- George Eliot,from the author’s last novel,Daniel Deronda

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Pilots from the US Department of the Navy returned from World War II flush with pride at winning the war in the Pacific. So, in 1946, the Navy established a base of naval air operations on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico where the Blue Angels began doing air shows for the public, partly for recruiting future pilots and partly for raising unit morale.

Within a few years the US Air Force established a base in Texas, where the first USAF Thunderbird team began doing air shows in 1953.