The Nation’s Dumbest Governor and the Nation’s Most Dangerous: ‘BradCast’ 7/8/2015
We were live at the KPFK/Pacifica Radio studios in Los Angeles for today’s BradCast and had the opportunity to open up the phones for a lot of great listener calls. But, first, we covered today’s disturbing, near-simultaneous collapse of computer systems at the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal and United Airlines, and […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 25, 2015
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Gov. Bobby Jindal jumps into the 2016 race — So, what’s his position on climate change?; Deadly heat wave in Pakistan; Two new studies find climate change potentially ‘catastrophic’ for human health; PLUS: Court orders Dutch government to cut carbon […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 11, 2015
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Oil spill clean up continues in Santa Barbara; Major media steps up, challenges Presidential candidate Rick Santorum on climate science denial; World’s largest economies put an expiration date on fossil fuels; Wanna see how climate change will affect your grandkids? […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 4, 2015
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Republican Rick Perry and Democrat Lincoln Chafee enter the 2016 race; Maryland bans fracking; Texas and Oklahoma ban fracking bans; PLUS: Big Oil CEOs call for a price on carbon (but there’s a catch)… All that and more in today’s […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 2, 2015
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Three more Republicans enter crowded 2016 race – we’ll tell you their positions on climate change (even if they won’t); Also, another Democrat jumps in; PLUS: May 2015 breaks new records for extreme weather… All that and more in today’s […]
‘Green News Report’ – May 14, 2015
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Hours after Amtrak crash, Republicans vote to cut Amtrak’s budget; FBI violated its own rules to spy on Keystone XL pipeline protesters; Hawaii votes to be first in the nation to reach 100% renewable energy; PLUS: It’s our 600th episode! […]
‘Green News Report’ – May 12, 2015
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Explosion, fire and oil spill at nuclear plant just outside New York City; Here we go again: Shell gets approval to drill in the Arctic this summer; More water restrictions amid California drought; GOP votes to slash funding for NASA […]
‘Green News Report’ – May 5, 2015
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: The race for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination just doubled in size: Fox ‘News’ darling Ben Carson jumps in; former CEO Carly Fiorina jumps in; former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee jumps in — climate change deniers all; PLUS: The Pope’s […]
‘Green News Report’ – April 14, 2015
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Another GOP climate science denier enters the 2016 race; And a non-denier jumps in on the Democratic side; Bad news for Big Coal in China; PLUS: Florida’s denier disease is spreading — now officials in Wisconsin barred from work on […]
Koch Brothers Don’t Know, Don’t Care, Don’t Give a Damn About the Suckers They’re Hoping to Con
How little do the Koch Brothers’ “local” apparatchiks actually care, or even know, about the denizens of the various localities they are hoping to scam, with millions of dollars of misleading propaganda (lies), into voting against their own interests? This little: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) bashed the Koch brothers-funded conservative outside group Americans for […]
‘Climate Change’ Down the ‘Memory Hole’
The videos were good for a barrel of laughs. The Director of Florida’s Div. of Emergency Management, Brian Koon was forced to engage in verbal gymnastics so as to avoid violating a state ban on using the words “climate change.” In another clip, replayed by Comedy Central’s John Stewart, former FL EPA employee Kristina Trotta […]
Hillary’s Email ‘Scandal’, O’Reilly’s Massive Lies and the GOP’s Politics of Stupid: KPFK ‘BradCast’
After another (too-long) fund drive break at Pacifica Radio’s KPFK, we were finally back today with a live and fresh BradCast! And, if you’ve been following The BRAD BLOG lately, you’ll know that I think so much of what’s going on, in the media, in Congress, and just about everywhere else of late, is just […]
Politics of Stupid: Don’t Cotton to It
Lots of deserved criticism of late for Arkansas’ freshman U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Neocon Tea Party) for the ridiculously condescending (and, ironically, Constitutionally inaccurate) letter he authored to Iran in hopes of undermining sensitive negotiations concerning their nuclear program. But while Cotton richly deserves all the criticism he is now roundly receiving, even from some […]
Oh, Bummer: Tea Partying Former Sheriff Now Begging Public to Pay For His Health Care
The courageous ‘Tea Party’ leader and former County Sheriff who hid behind the women on the ‘front lines of freedom’ at the Bundy Ranch last year, is now asking the public to pay for much needed health care for both himself and his wife. Via TPM… Former Arizona county sheriff Richard Mack, a fierce opponent […]
‘True the Vote’ Founder Says She’s ‘Not a Victim’, Just Subject of U.S. Government ‘Inquisition’
“I am not a victim,” Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of the Rightwing voter suppression group calling themselves “True the Vote” told members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning. It was an odd turn of phrase given all that came before it in her testimony, both written and oral, at the confirmation hearings for […]