“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
LLAW’s COMMENTARY:
Okay, I just finished watching Rachel Maddow’s (with Chris Hayes) two hour “Podcast” on MSNBC. The last thing she said, after telling us for two hours with reference to her new #1 Best Seller “Prequel“, how poorly America has avoided defending our Democratic freedom internally and how externally we often were not defending ‘freedom’ at all in many of our wars, but rather invading and conquering other countries comparable to how we conquered the Indigenous people who were here long before we were. I so absolutely relate to that, having lived in the western Rocky Mountain States for so much of my life educating me automatically about how we treat non-white people. And you who have lived in the south know even better.
Oh yeah, back to the last thing Rachel said — she said next year was going to be a tough year for America and that meant the next few years would also be bad years. It does not take a political genius to understand what she meant by that . . . and she was only talking about what the political world would do to us, not about what non-political tools might be used to help cause our grief. She makes a point, repeatedly, how fascism and autocratic government has always been a gleam in the USA’s political eyes and points out that some Presidents, such as “Old Hickory”, FDR, and others were utter racists, and that next year’s elections may make it become a reality the following year when a new President in sworn in. If she is right, we have only 2024 to deal with the concept of saving our living souls from the tools of oppression and war that are already constantly threatening us with probable self-extinction.
So how does this relate to “All Things Nuclear”? The connections are too numerous to describe in one evening, but as a broad blanket I will just use the word, “everything” — meaning nothing has changed, but the rules and methods will change from treacherous lies called threats to treacherous reality called WWIII because the ‘lies’ right now (called pretentious deterrence) are the only thing keeping us alive right now. We are staring in the face of a one-man rules world, and there is not an autocratic leader alive who does not believe he is the man for the job, and if the concept of Democracy no longer exists, even though it is also a prevarication, there is nothing left to deter — instead it’s the world against the world(s) with no exceptions. Words like peace, freedom, tranquility, felicity, community, and even love will have lost their meaning.
The two major wars we have going in the the Ukraine and the Middle East, as pathetic as they are, clearly point that out, and with Iran about to have a nuclear bomb, and the USA and other already nuclear-armed endowed countries building more powerful bombs and more of them, coupled with the USA selling nuclear fuel to non-nuclear armed countries, plus the easy conversion of nuclear power plants to nuclear weapons of mass destruction, it is easy to see the writing on the wall. If one-man rule can’t exist, then the second rule is no-one rules.
Rachel Maddow knows far more than she says (I urge you to read all of her books), and I would say that when she offers a political warning about the USA insanely losing its lonely Democracy to an international world of power-crazy Hitler-style racist fascists, the 6th Extinction cannot help but end humanity and most all life on this beautiful blue-green planet Earth. ~llaw
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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS:
Nuclear Power
NEWS
Can China Achieve its Nuclear Energy Ambitions? – VOA News
VOA News
FILE – Construction equipment is parked near the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Taishan in southern China’s Guangdong Province, June 17, 2021.
First refuelling at floating nuclear power plant : Uranium & Fuel – World Nuclear News
World Nuclear News
Fresh nuclear fuel has been loaded into the starboard side reactor on the Akademik Lomonosov in the first operation of its kind, with the process …
IAEA Sees Operational Safety Commitment at Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant in Russia …
International Atomic Energy Agency
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said that the operator of the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the Russian …
All Things Nuclear
NEWS
Russia’s ‘Cold Shutdown’ at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Fuels Safety Fears – Newsweek
Newsweek
“Because the reactors have been off for so long, over a year, everything becomes easier for the plant staff. In an operating reactor, things can …
End the Insanity: For Nuclear Disarmament and Global Demilitarization – CounterPunch.org
Counterpunch
… all living things. Earth’s climate and biodiversity systems are shattering … Regarding nuclear war, if we think about it at all, we are prone to …
5 Things in the World to Be Thankful for on Thanksgiving 2023 – Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy
Apart from the ominous risks of a nuclear exchange, a direct clash of arms … All rights reserved. Foreign Policy, 655 15th St NW, Suite 300 …
Nuclear War
NEWS
Fear of Israel-Hamas war spreading restrains West from major Iran nuclear crackdown
The Times of Israel
Concern over potential regional war stops IAEA Board of Governors from passing binding resolution on Tehran’s defiance of nuclear watchdog, …
Russia’s war on Ukraine only the beginning, nuclear use not off the table – Ukrainian intel
Yahoo News
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now in its 21st month, has entered a critical phase, Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service head, …
What do we know about Israel’s nuclear weapons? – The New Arab
The New Arab
He was suspended soon afterwards. RELATED · Israel minister says nuclear attack on Gaza is ‘an option’.
Nuclear Power Emergencies
NEWS
Update 196 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
International Atomic Energy Agency
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts observed an emergency exercise conducted at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) …
The Fulcrum
… nuclear attack. Having witnessed the destructive power of nuclear weapons and lived through Soviet attempts to place such weapons in our backyard …
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
A new “all-hazards” approach for reducing multiple catastrophic threats
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Each of these steps overarches not just one but a whole range of threats. RELATED: Another warning from industry leaders on dangers posed by AI. Let’s …
End the Insanity: For Nuclear Disarmament and Global Demilitarization – CounterPunch.org
Counterpunch
Is the collapse of planetary health less ominous than the unfurling of AI – or just less glamorous? The threat of nuclear war … threats. Present …
Russia’s ‘Cold Shutdown’ at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Fuels Safety Fears – Newsweek
Newsweek
New kind of nuclear threat in Putin’s war on Ukraine explained · Russian … Russia ramps up nuclear threats amid Ukraine’s counteroffensive advances.
