On today’s BradCast, I’m your guest host — Angie Coiro of In Deep with Angie Coiro.
Among the headlines today:
The news about Jamal Khashoggi gets more and more grim. Turkey claims to have both audio and video evidence of the missing journalists murder — although for reasons I detail in the show, Turkey is not an entirely reliable narrator here. US sources tell the Washington post this sounds to them like a failed rendition attempt. Donald Trump is twiddling and fretty lest the US lose arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and what’s a missing journalist compared to that?
The ACLU is among those sounding the alarm about new regulations proposed for the National Park Service to inflict on White House protestors. It’s ugly stuff; maybe the most blatant bit is shaving down to just five feet — yes, FIVE FEET — of White House sidewalk space allowed to protesters. That, and raising the cost of permits and fees. If you ain’t got the coin, there goes your “free” speech. You can comment directly to the NPS, or via the page set up by the ACLU.
Melania Trump is the most bullied person in the world. No, really.
The percentage of American kids without vaccinations has quadrupled since 2001, proving once again that idiocy is highly contagious.
And Joe Biden thinks Dems have a shot at taking both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections. From your lips etc., Joe!
After the headlines roundup: a conversation with NELINI STAMP, Organizing Director with the Working Families Party and a key organizer in the #BlackFridays movement. Last Friday was the kickoff for women – particularly women of color and non-binary women – to don black clothes and walk out of work at 3pm local time. Nelini reviews that impressive first week, and what the movement is about.
Then, SORAYA CHEMALY discusses her new, highly-researched book, Rage Becomes Her. It probes cultural messaging about anger – and the effects of that messaging – on every era of women’s lives, from the cradle onward. The footnotes section is both impressive and sad – impressive because it is so. Darn. Thorough. And sad because – as the author is a woman – research tells us she’s viewed as inherently less credible, and she has to work that much harder showing her work.
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As far as the Khashoggi torture and horrific murder I found this article very interesting, in light of the fact our intelligence services were aware of what the saudi’s we up to and did nothing to alert him.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/14/did-saudis-cia-fear-khashoggi-9-11-bombshell.
I can not testify to the veracity of this news outlet, but its the only thinng I’ve read that makes sense as to why our intelligence service’s silence.
Sorry, the link above is not taking you to the specific article. Let me try that again.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/14/did-saudis-cia-fear-khashoggi-9-11-bombshell.html