{"id":14185,"date":"2022-03-01T18:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T02:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14185"},"modified":"2022-03-02T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T01:26:52","slug":"denazification-russian-bombs-reportedly-fall-on-ukraine-holocaust-memorial-bradcast-312022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14185","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Denazification&#8217;? Russian Bombs Reportedly Fall on Ukraine Holocaust Memorial: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 3\/1\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BombedCar-UkraineFlag_030122.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Gotta keep this <i>very<\/i> brief as tonight&#8217;s State of the Union address begins shortly (full coverage on tomorrow&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>), but the madness of Putin&#8217;s war on Ukraine continues today, as some Republicans here at home seem to be rooting both <i>for<\/i> him and <i>against<\/i> democracy itself. [<i>Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>We begin again today with coverage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-6bcdf50c08dd62a4c5305aa34d045cce\">latest noteworthy news<\/a> out of Russia\/Ukraine, along with a few warnings about propaganda from all sides and the potential for erroneous reports amid the fog of war. Among the many stories covered today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The office of the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/fast-forward\/483233\/russian-missile-strikes-babi-yar-five-killed\/\">reporting<\/a> today that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/03\/01\/ukraine-holocaust-babi-yar\/6979800001\/\">Russian bombs fell on Babi Yar<\/a>, a <b>Holocaust memorial site in Kyiv<\/b> where some 34,000 Ukrainians were slaughtered by Nazis during one 48 period in 1941. The news offers a bizarre twist on the &#8220;denazification&#8221; that Vladimir Putin used as a phony pretext &#8212; along with false claims of stopping a &#8220;genocide&#8221; &#8212; when he launched his unprovoked attack on Ukraine last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly <b>700,000 refugees<\/b> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-60555472\">reportedly fled the country<\/a>, with tens of thousands still trying to get out. But more than 40 million men, women and children remain, and are still facing bombardment while valiantly defending the country and its major cities. For now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/nord-stream-2-bankruptcy-05fe10e2-a312-4f44-ab59-0b6e2629e222.html\">Swiss authorities report<\/a> that the firm responsible for running the <b>Nord Stream 2<\/b> gas pipeline from Russia to Germany on behalf Gazprom, the Russia-controlled gas giant which owns the pipeline, have been laid off and the company overseeing the project is either in or near bankruptcy. That, after Germany stopped certification of the new pipeline as Russia launched its war last week and as sanctions have resulted in the pipeline firm being unable to pay its workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The International Energy Agency (IEA)&#8217;s 31 member countries, including the U.S., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/01\/politics\/us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-release-latest\/index.html\">declared<\/a> they will be releasing <b>60 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves<\/b> in hopes of preventing global shortages and to ease the soaring price of crude. Knowing Big Oil and fossil fuel market speculators, its unlikely to have much effect. Though moving the world off of fossil fuels MUCH faster just might help!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In a kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russian-official-apologizes-to-ukraine-at-climate-science-meeting\/\">amazing story<\/a>, a <b>Russian government climate scientist publicly apologized<\/b> to Ukrainian scientists over the weekend during the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)&#8217;s final session to complete the group&#8217;s latest blockbuster report released on Monday. The Russian scientist offered his &#8220;apology on behalf of all Russians who were not able to prevent this conflict,&#8221; adding that &#8220;all of those who know what is happening fail to find any justification for this attack against Ukraine.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Those remarks echo some points we tried to make on <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14183\">yesterday&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> in response to a few on the left (hopefully very few) who seem to be placing inappropriate blame on the U.S. and NATO for Russia&#8217;s outrageous aggression and war crimes. While the U.S. and NATO have made a number of missteps since the fall of the Soviet Union, only Russia can be blamed for the deadly, unprovoked military assault now underway on an unthreatening neighboring sovereign nation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/quinandcreed\/posts\/2460365044098379\">Here is a very short and helpful metaphor<\/a> to help folks understand all of this, casting <b>Ukraine as a woman trying to break up with her abusive ex<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, while the fight for democracy overseas is at a perilous moment, the Republican Party here at home continues to have completely <a href=\"https:\/\/dailykos.com\/stories\/2022\/2\/28\/2083009\/-Republican-neocons-call-Paul-Gosar-and-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-morons-for-their-antisemitism\">lost its way<\/a>. (Or, maybe, has finally found it.) Far-right Congressmembers <b>Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/b> (R-GA) and <b>Paul Gosar<\/b> (R-AZ) both appeared at a white nationalist rally over the weekend, where the leader of the group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenLorber8\/status\/1497407269587206144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1497407269587206144%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2022%2F2%2F28%2F2083009%2F-Republican-neocons-call-\">praised<\/a> their &#8220;secret sauce&#8221; of &#8220;young white men&#8221; as the crowd cheered for Putin just before MTG took the podium. Sen. <b>Mitt Romney<\/b> (R-UT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNSotu\/status\/1497950385235017734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1497950385235017734%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2022%2F2%2F28%2F2083009%2F-Republican-neocons-call-Pau\">condemned<\/a> both of his colleagues on CNN on Sunday, noting, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got morons on my team.&#8221; One of those morons, as we also discuss after playing some audio of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidCornDC\/status\/1498738231755644928?s=20\">his comments<\/a> on the House floor today, is House Minority Leader <b>Kevin McCarthy<\/b> (R-CA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s mid-term primary <b>Election Day in Texas<\/b> today and, as we <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14177\">discussed last week<\/a> with the President of the League of Women Voters of Texas, the state&#8217;s new GOP-adopted voting restrictions are resulting in a huge percentage of <b>absentee ballots being rejected<\/b> &#8212; nearly 30%, for example, in Houston&#8217;s Harris County. By way of contrast, the last mid-term elections in Texas in 2018, saw a 1% rejection of vote-by-mail ballots statewide.  Some late absentee voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/thousands-texans-risk-ballots-rejected-first-test-new-state-law-rcna18042?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">may still have until March 7<\/a> to cure any ballot deficiencies <i>if<\/i> they can get to the County Clerk&#8217;s office in person to do so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, <b>Desi Doyen<\/b> is here with <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14184\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with more news on energy related sanctions and Russia; the disturbing new, 4,000 page IPCC report; and the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s latest attempt to gut the EPA&#8217;s statutory power to regulate deadly fossil fuel emissions&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-RussiaUkraine-BobiYar-Refugees-Gazprom-WhiteNationalistMTG-TXBallotRejection_030122.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta keep this very brief as tonight&#8217;s State of the Union address begins shortly (full coverage on tomorrow&#8217;s BradCast), but the madness of Putin&#8217;s war on Ukraine continues today, as some Republicans here at home seem to be rooting both for him and against democracy itself. 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