Today Putin’s Russia used a drone to hit the sarcophagus that covers seething nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, in Ukraine.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/europe/russia-ukraine-drones-chernobyl-intl-hnk/index.html
As of this writing, there has been no formal statement from the Russians.
But it really doesn’t matter: this terrifying strike sends the world a clear message...in the age of drone warfare, any “Peaceful Atom” plant can be turned into a radioactive apocalypse at any time.
Chernobyl is not in a “hot” war zone. Drone warfare has evolved into a highly sophisticated, carefully controlled nightmare with very advanced computerization.
https://progressive.org/latest/drones-nukes-and-the-myth-of-reactor-safety-wasserman-20250129/
Our government is drowning in multi-trillion-dollar financial corruption and debt while a fear-peddling national security state has reached deeply into the personal lives of each and every American, justifying its existence through endless wars cooked up by a deep state which has become the most corrupt marching band and chowder society in American history.
That deep state of permanent governance, entrenched media, think tanks, NGOs, and multi-billion-dollar government contractors, notwithstanding elections, has demanded US taxpayers pay additional TRILLIONS for wars, for subsidizing conflicts in other countries, for secret and not-so-secret arms deals to “rebels” for regime change, subverting governments through the pretext of foreign aid.
The government that we have succeeded most in subverting is our own.
the deadly illusion that nuke power helps alleviate climate chaos is balanced by its definitive economic failure.
all atomic reactors emit Carbon 14, massive waste heat & unmanageable radioactive wastes.
they also cost double or more all projections for wind, solar & battery backup.
of the 4 reactors attempted in the US since 2000, 2 at VC Summer totally failed, costing $9 billion in pure waste. the 2 at Vogtle, GA, came in years late & at 2x the promised cost, nearing $40 billion.
SMRs (silly mythological rip-offs) have already failed, will never compete with renewables & have had their projected market upended by DeepSeek & the realization that data centers will not need the massive quantities of electricity the industry has been scamming for a phony hyper-powered future.
meanwhile wind, solar, geothermal & batteries continue to plummet in price while soaring in efficiency.
Erica L. Green, a White House correspondent, covering President Trump and his
administration, reports on Trump’s task force to “prosecute anti-Christian violence
and vandalism” (https://nytimes.com/2025/02/07/trump-anti-christian-bias.html).
Green writes: “President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at
eradicating ‘anti-Christian bias’ in the federal government by having agencies
review policies and practices that he says have tried to squelch religious activities
and activism.” Trump “announced the order at the National Prayer Breakfast,”
where he “appointed his new attorney general, Pam Bondi, to lead a task force at
the Justice Department to spearhead the effort.” Green continues: “Mr. Trump said
the task force would ‘fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our
society’ and ‘move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and
religious believers nationwide.’”
Trump criticized former President Biden for supporting the convictions of anti-
A recent survey conducted by the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio (AHACO) claims a “supermajority” of residents support more housing in existing neighborhoods. The AHACO, a nonprofit, also stated, “NIMBY [Not In My Backyard] voices may be loud, they do not represent the vast majority of Central Ohioans.”
Even though it was titled, “Overwhelming: Central Ohio’s Housing Survey,” the AHACO says only 1,357 Central Ohio residents took the survey, meaning their so-called “supermajority” is representative of 0.050 percent of the region’s population. The AHACO is financially supported by Huntington Bank, Mortgage Bank Association, The Columbus Foundation, Homeport, National Church Residences, Wynn Developers, among others.
The AHACO says their survey, “Is the most comprehensive research to-date on how residents really feel about policies that create more housing options and lower the cost of owning or renting a home.”
“The United States may need to restart explosive nuclear weapons testing,” declared Robert Peters, research fellow for nuclear deterrence and missile defense at The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing organization close to the Trump administration, in a lengthy report last month. Issued on January 15, it was titled: “America Must Prepare to Test Nuclear Weapons.”
Peters stated that “the President may order the above-ground testing of a nuclear weapon….And while the United States leaving the [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty may not be optimal and may indeed have negative downstream effects, doing so may be necessary to stave off further adversary escalation.”
There has not been a nuclear weapon tested above-ground in the United States since 1962, Peters said. That was a year before the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 was signed by the U.S., Soviet Union and United Kingdom. It prohibits nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, underwater or in outer space. It allowed underground tests as long as they didn’t result in “radioactive debris to be present outside the territorial limits of the state under whose jurisdiction or control” the test was conducted.
Gitmo, of course!! It’s the freest place “we” have – by which I mean the American government, a.k.a. Donald Trump. No rules apply there, be they international humanitarian law or the U.S. Constitution. It’s a dumping ground, a black hole.
It’s the most secure place for America to hold, as Trump put it a few weeks ago, “the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back.”
We start GREEP Zoom #211 with “Resistance” from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
We then welcome the great GREG PALAST for a full-bore excursion into how the massive Jim Crow disenfranchisement of millions of Americans put Donald Trump back in the White House.
Palast warns that “your ballot will be rejected” at an astronomical rate if you are a person of color, meaning the 2024 vote count was heavily coded by color to pull off the soul-killing death-of-American-democracy coup now in poisoned progress.
Palast’s VIGILANTES INC. is at www.gregpalast.com & is a must-see for anyone concerned about the preservation of what’s left of American Constitutional freedom.
We also hear from the uniquely power election protection audit expert RAY LUTZ, and from Greg’s associate PATRICE GALLAGHER.
Greg. Patrice & Ray are joined for clarifying comments from NATHAN TAYLOR, PAUL NEWMAN, HEDY TRIPP, CD BUCKLEY, JOHN SEELEY, MICHAEL MCMILLAN, LYNN FEINERMAN, JULIE WEINER, MICKI LEADER, ERINNE ROCHELLE, NICOLE UNG, BARBARA WRIGHT & other truly wonderful Greepster participants.