We lost 45 years to the fossil fuel billionaires and their GOP toadies, who've kept us dependent on fossil fuels to keep their profits high - but still they want more, more, more...

As Putin's war of choice against Ukraine tears that nation apart, his army is in the process of seizing a second nuclear power generating station, which will allow him to cut off power — and thus communications, heat, and water — to large chunks of that nation.

If most households in Ukraine had solar panels on their roofs and battery storage in their basements — as two states in Germany and the US State of California are now requiring for all new construction — blowing up or seizing a central power station would have far less ability to brown out large parts of the country.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

How Big Data has not only invaded our privacy but also left us vulnerable to domestic predators & foreign threats - and how Trump opened the door to Russia. (This is my newest book, ships Tuesday.)

Big Brother and the Global Info Wars

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News

— As they were being shut down by Putin's thugs, Russia's last independent news channel played Swan Lake, the same song that Russian media played during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
— Trump's henchmen are trying to run out the clock on the January 6th committee, and some may succeed.
— "Don't Say Gay" legislation in Florida, Texas and other states is facing united opposition from students who are tired of being pawns in the GOP's election-year "culture war."
— Putin's largest base of support in the US for the past decade or so has been white evangelical church leaders, who see his open hostility to Islam and his harassment of and laws against LGBTQ+ people as a model for the USA.
— After Tucker Carlson has openly embraced Putin for months and now goes off on a cringeworthy racist rant about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, will Fox abandon him or is this really and truly the Murdoch brand?
— Will the Fed cripple the Biden Boom?
— In Good News, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a series of Republican gerrymanders that would have cemented GOP rule in that state even when a majority of Wisconsinites vote for Democrats every election.
— Crazy (and I mean really crazy) Alert! As the "freedom convoy" of mostly pickup trucks and cars with a sprinkling of big rigs heads toward Washington, DC this weekend, word has spread that the CDC has dropped their mask guidance and the country is moving past mask and vaccine mandates.
— Quote of the week goes to George Will who, in a Washington Post op-ed on Friday, referred to Donald Trump as "a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation's sleeve."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Warning of 'large-scale ecological disaster'
- Joe Cirincione, Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute (former President-Ploughshares Fund) / national security analyst & author of 7 books including Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World before It Is Too Late and Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons. Served on the International Security Advisory Board for Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry & was an advisor to presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

Article: "Russian forces 'fire rockets at SECOND nuclear facility': Warning of 'large-scale ecological disaster' as missiles hammer Kharkiv physics institute with atomic reactor inside... two days after attack on Zaporizhzhia power plant" by Chay Quinn.

Tweet: "Lots of discussions about the threat of nuclear war from the Kremlin and whether Putin is rational. I share my thoughts in this thread.
To frame: I do not believe Russia would use nuclear weapons and I believe Putin is a rational actor." by Andrei V Kozyrev.

Article: "Andrei Kozyrev" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Invasion of Poland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cuban missile crisis" (1962) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine Again Shows Why Decentralized Energy is Essential" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "Every American should see this: Jen Psaki destroys the liars in the @GOP and at the @APIenergy for their attempts to exploit the war in #Ukraine for cheap political purposes: "The oil and gas industry is literally sitting on stockpiled leases and permits."" by Richard Hine.

Article: "Rural Electrification Administration (REA) (1935)" by Living New Deal.

Article: "An overview of the California solar mandate" by EnergySage.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Speech: "Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, 15 July, 1979.

Article: "Solar module installations up 10% in Germany 2021, mandatory solar roofs in two states" by Kerstine Appunn.

Article: "Russian forces 'fire rockets at SECOND nuclear facility': Warning of 'large-scale ecological disaster' as missiles hammer Kharkiv physics institute with atomic reactor inside... two days after attack on Zaporizhzhia power plant" by Chay Quinn.

Article: "Ex-ERCOT chief says Abbott directed freeze blackouts to stop before decision to run up billions in bills" by James Osborne.

Article: "'Joe Biden Doesn't Own This Station': Store Manager Begs for an End to 'I Did That' Stickers on His Gas Pumps" by Kipp Jones.

Article: "DHS Warns That Right-Wing Extremists Could Attack Power Grid" by Shannon Vavra.

Article: "Gov Abbott Ordered Price Gouge During Outages: Former Texas Energy Chief" by Aila Slisco.

Article: "As Texas braces for a cold snap, officials promise the power grid will hold." by Edgar Sandoval.

Article: "at least 246 people" by .

Article: "In final tally, state officials say 246 Texans died in February from freeze and power loss" by Katie Hall.

Article: "Carter Tried To Stop Bush's Energy Disasters - 28 Years Ago" by Thom Hartmann (2005).

Event: March 8 @ 5pm (PT)" Powell's Books webinar: 'The Hidden History of Big Brother in America'".

Event: March 10 @ 6pm (PT)" Seattle Townhall Books webinar: 'The Hidden History of Big Brother in America'".

Article: "NYT photographer captures chilling image of 4 Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian strike" by Dylan Stableford.

Article: "Moldova" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hungary" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Baltic states" (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Finland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sweden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Member states of NATO" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq" by Jonathan Stein, Tim Dickinson.

Article: "Nuclear Deterrence".

Article: "Mutual assured destruction" (MAD) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over" by The Guardian.

Article: "Ukraine war: what is the Budapest Memorandum and why has Russia's invasion torn it up?" by Aldo Zammit Borda.

Article: "The west's hybrid war on Russia" by Robin Wigglesworth, Colby Smith and Claire Jones.

Article: "Russian banks mull China UnionPay; big accounting firms exit" by AP.

Article: "Another squeeze on Russia: Three shipping companies won't sail there" by Chris Liakos.

Article: "Russia Cracks Down on Dissenting Media, Blocks Facebook" by James Ellingworth.

Article: "Protests across Russia see thousands detained" by BBC.

Article: "Republicans, Democrats slam Lindsey Graham after he calls for Putin's assassination" by Christopher Wilson.

Article: "Volodymyr Zelensky: Russian mercenaries ordered to kill Ukraine's president" by Manveen Rana.

Article: " Did Vladimir Putin pressure Mikhail Prokhorov to sell the Brooklyn Nets?" by Josh Kosman and Brian Lewis.

Article: "Russian Soldiers Raping Women, Ukraine Claims" by Gerrard Kaonga.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Tweet: "Putin is not only an autocrat who initiated an illegal & immoral war against Ukraine, he's the leader of an oligarchic kleptocracy that's stolen billions from the Russian people. In Russia, ordinary people struggle while Oligarchs make out like bandits – which they are. (1/14)" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Trump praised Putin's justification to invade Ukraine as 'genius' and 'savvy'" by Bryan Metzger and John Haltiwanger.

Article: "Sen. Ed Markey's push to block $20 billion in Russian oil imports picks up bipartisan steam" by Benjamin Kail.

Article: "U.S. Senate talks on omnibus spending bill hit snag over Ukraine defense money -Republican leader McConnell".

Article: "What could be fairer than a tax on oil and gas's North Sea winnings? " by Phillip Inman.

Article: "EU Commission to propose Windfall tax on big oil, proceeds to fund renewables" by Nathan Allen.

Article: "Carter's 'Windfall'" by NY Times.

Article: "Mapped: The Anatomy of Land Use in America" by Iman Ghosh.

Article: "Big wins for renewable energy in the 'Build Back Better' bill" by John Engel.

Article: "Full Transcript of Biden's State of the Union Address".

Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

Article: "Impeachment won't keep Trump from running again. Here's a better way." by Bruce Ackerman and Gerard Magliocca.

Article: "What Is the Keystone XL Pipeline?" by Melissa Denchak, Courtney Lindwall.

Tweet: "Every American should see this: Jen Psaki destroys the liars in the @GOP and at the @APIenergy for their attempts to exploit the war in #Ukraine for cheap political purposes: "The oil and gas industry is literally sitting on stockpiled leases and permits."" by Richard Hine.

Article: "Antibiotic resistance" by WHO.

Article: "Senator Whitehouse Calls For Confirmation Of USPS Board Of Governors Nominees To Address Major Operational Problems Under Postmaster General Dejoy" by Postal Times.

Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden Nominates Two New Postal Service Board Members" by Madeleine Ngo.

Article: "United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "After 40-year ban, U.S. starts exporting crude oil" by Matt Egan.

Article: "Trump Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Class In 2018" by Camilo Maldonado.

Article: "Enjoy your tax cuts while they last" by Jeanne Sahadi.

Article: "Dozens Of Republican Senators Urge Biden To Counter Russia By Boosting Domestic Fossil Fuel Production" by Thomas Catenacci.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Tweet: "Hate to say it, but we need to increase oil & gas output immediately.
Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures." by Elon Musk.

Hour Three: COVID Memorial Day and New CDC Guidelines
- Kristin Urquiza, MPA, Co-Founder & Chief Activist - Marked By Covid / she is the daughter of Mark Anthony Urquiza who died from Covid-19 in June ("...his only underlying condition was believing Donald Trump.")

Site: Trump Death Toll.

Article: "Spanish flu" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.Res.174 - Memorializing those impacted by and lost to the COVID-19 virus." by Rep. Stanton, Greg [D-AZ-9].

Bill: "S.Res.334 - A resolution memorializing those impacted by and lost to the COVID-19 virus." by Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] .

Article: "How many people get 'long COVID'? More than half, researchers find" by Penn State.

Article: "Manhattan Project" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "April 18, 1977: Address to the Nation on Energy" by Jimmy Carter.

Article: "Convoy ridiculed for costing truckers thousands in diesel — then getting lost on the Beltway" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Accidents along the Washington Beltway as trucker convoy causes chokepoints" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "QAnon Theory Says Trump, Putin Working Together to Destroy Fauci Labs" by Aila Slisco.

Article: "Zelenskyy declines US offer to evacuate Kyiv" by AP.

Video: Ukraine Media Wars | Full Measure.

Article: "'College is too damn expensive': New Mexico governor signs free college tuition bill into law" by Algernon D'Ammassa.

Article: "From Grozny to Aleppo to Ukraine, Russia meets resistance with more firepower" by Jeremy Bowen.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States... To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"

Article: "How Ben Franklin Established the US Post Office" by Patrick J. Kiger.

Article: "Information warfare" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charles A. Flynn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Trump is suddenly replacing Pentagon officials with loyalists" by Alex Ward.

Article: "Every Jan. 6 case matters" by James Comey.

Article: "Big Oil Profits Surge to $174 Billion in 2021 Amid Rising Gas Prices: Report" by Kenny Stancil.

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