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We open GREEP zoom #252 with MAYOR HEIDE LAMPERT of Waldport, Oregon, a democratically elected official arrested by an armed fascist.

We follow with our Poet Laureate, MIMI GERMAN’s ode common decency, and to CLAIRE ELIZABETH HALL, words from Steven Kent for an esteemed and beloved County Commissioner.

We also honor the great HOWIE KLEIN, who truly made a difference for the better.

Indivisible’s AMY ANDERSON gives a critical report on an upcoming Congressional primary.

The great KARL GROSSMAN joins us to explain the four evil movers pushing the Venezuela assault, including oil, Epstein, Cuba and the petro-dollar.

From JENNIE GAGE we get a report on the MAGA response to this latest imperial war, which is full of tortured contradiction.

From Congressional candidate HARTZELL GRAY we hear a cry against colonialism and the class imperative to finally end it.

Radio talk host LYNN FEINERMAN offers a heart-felt stand for Marjorie Taylor Green and warns of the anti-female dimension to this fascist regime.

Media hero DAVID SALTMAN digs deep into the stock exchange’s role in laundering the petro-dollar throughout the decades.

Look at the life of Renee Nicole Good. She was a mother who loved her child. She was a daughter who was cherished. She was a wife, a dog mom, and a vibrant soul who for 37 years occupied a space in this world that can never be filled again.

Twelve hours ago, Renee woke up in her home. Tonight, her wife goes to bed alone. Her child will never see her again. Not because of a “tragedy,” but because of an execution. This week the Trump administration sent 2,000 ICE agents to Minnesota. And because of that?

Oh good. Now we have a war to focus on. Everyone’s tired of Epstein by now, and tired of the possibility that the bad guy may be, ho hum, our own national leader, a.k.a., the commander-in-chief.

So the commander-in-chief has stepped in for the sake of the public good, bestowing on America a far more traditional enemy to hate and fear and let dominate the headlines: narco-terrorists.

I’m still trying to grasp the fact that Donald Trump has actually invaded Venezuela. He’s no longer simply bombing boats in the ocean. The U.S. military bombed Caracas on Jan. 3 and broke into the home of the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores. They were kidnapped and extradited to the United Staes, where they are now on trial for drug trafficking – as though that was the moral purpose of the invasion.

Germany’s solar generation increased more than 20% from the previous year.

Coal generation has fallen to levels last seen in the 1950s and 1960s.

Net total electricity generation in Germany has declined about 20% since 2002 despite population growth and the increase in electric vehicles and electric appliances. Even more significant has been the nearly 70% decline in generation from fossil fuels and nuclear power in the past two decades. In fact, renewables have been generating more electricity than fossil fuels in Germany since 2019.

Authority is moving away from observable, precinct-level processes and into centralized, data-driven systems that citizens are not permitted to see, audit, or independently verify in most states.

Part 1 explores how voter databases and election administration are being centralized.

Part 2 explains how modern power operates through data, algorithms, and technofeudal systems.

January 2026. You're in Caracas. It's just after midnight on a cold night, and the entire block has gone black. It's quiet, almost too quiet. The TV has gone black and silent, the rattling from the heater is gone, and even the buzz from the overhead lights is gone. It's so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

But you're not focused on that, no, you're just trying your best to keep warm through the night, with hopes the power comes back on before morning. You find yourself dozing off to sleep under a mountain of blankets when the entire building begins to vibrate and shake with the sound of thunder booming through the air. You look at the window, there must be a bad storm, but the ground is dry.

Instead, you see the entire sky light up with what almost looks like a shooting star. It's getting closer, and closer, and closer, until you hear a loud explosion in the city, you look away for just a second, and then everything goes black.

As it turns out, it wasn't a storm, or a shooting star, it was an air strike. A bomb the U.S. military hand delivered straight to you.

Enas Ikhlawi is a young Palestinian journalist committed to documenting and reporting about settlers' attacks against Palestinian villagers. Her goal is to inform the public, hold settlers and IDF attacks to account, and ensure that underrepresented voices of Palestinian villagers are heard. She also led a women's program in Hebron.

Sadly, that came abruptly to an end yesterday Monday January 5, when heavily armed IDF soldiers stormed her home in the town of Idana, west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. According to her brother Raafat Ikhlawi, "After breaking down the doors and arresting my sister Enas in a brutal manner, she was dragged away violently without a hijab or warm clothing. After significant pressure, we were allowed to give her a coat. So far, we do not know her whereabouts or the reason for her arrest."

While activists link it to efforts silencing coverage of settler attacks, the arrest fits a pattern of over 21,000 detentions since October 2023 in Gaza and the West Bank, many without trial amid rising tensions and no immediate comment from Israeli forces.