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Fox 'News' and Republicans Were For Prosecuting Journalists Before They Were Against It	23.5.2013	BradBlog
If you haven't already, you should read Glenn Greenwald's full take, published earlier this week, on the Obama DoJ's astonishing invasion of Fox "News" reporter James Rosen's work as a journalist by naming him as an unindicted co-conspirator in order to access his email, phone records and more in the ...
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'Green News Report' - May 21, 2013	22.5.2013	BradBlog
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: A Green News Special Report: Devastation as another record tornado hits Moore, OK - The city wakes up to the day after, questions about resilience and the influence of climate change ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Listen online here, or Download MP3 ...
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Climate Scientist Trenberth Explains Climate Change Effect on Tornadoes Like Moore, OK's	22.5.2013	BradBlog
Yesterday's horrific, tragic and enormous tornado in Moore, OK has been described as "the biggest, most destructive tornado in the history of the world." In its wake, many are questioning the relationship between such monster storms and climate change. Here's a statement from Dr. Kevin Trenberth of the National Center ...
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Very Bad News from ABC, NBC and CBS	21.5.2013	BradBlog
Despite completely misreporting on Administration emails related to the pretend Benghazi "scandal", after they were misquoted (and/or fabricated) to him by a reportedly Republican source, ABC News and their White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl still refuse to properly correct and apologize for having lied about "obtaining" those emails. Had Karl's error ...
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IRS 'Scandal' Appears Nearly as Phony as Shirley Sherrod, Van Jones, ACORN 'Scandals'	18.5.2013	BradBlog
"Listening to the nightly news, this appears to be just the latest example of a culture of cover-ups -- and political intimidation -- in this administration," declared the opportunistic Republican Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee during a hearing today on the "scandal" related to the IRS use ...
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Since the GOP Isn't Telling You: Our Federal Budget Deficit Has All But Disappeared	18.5.2013	BradBlog
Recall that "massive budget deficit!!!" which was to be the death of our nation, as Republicans described it during the 2012 election cycle? Yes, it's all but gone now -- but it seems the GOP forget to tell people, for some reason... While the disappearing deficit seen above is not ...
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'Green News Report' - May 16, 2013	17.5.2013	BradBlog
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hysterical Fox 'News' flip-floppery on Tesla; Consensus strikes again: 97% of climate scientists say global warming is man-made, but the public thinks it's evenly split; CO2 levels pass 400ppm; You're already paying a 'disaster tax'; PLUS: Thanks to renewable energy, one town now has too much ...
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'Misconduct'?: What's NOT in the Inspector General's Report on IRS Identifying 'Tea Party' Groups for Additional Tax-Exempt Scrutiny	16.5.2013	BradBlog
During remarks at the White House yesterday evening, President Obama offered his opinions on the Treasury Department Inspector General's report [PDF] finding that the IRS used "inappropriate criteria to identify organizations applying for tax-exempt status," in order to review those groups "for indications of significant political campaign intervention." He described "the ...
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Holder: 'Banks are NOT Too Big to Jail', We Just Haven't Jailed Any of Them	16.5.2013	BradBlog
Apparently, we were wrong last March, when we interpreted Attorney General Eric Holder's Congressional testimony to mean that the big banks were just "too big to jail". "I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them ...
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Republicans Decide to Care About Big Government Overreach	15.5.2013	BradBlog
Government officials and employees responsible for the allegedly inappropriate scrutiny of Rightwing groups applying for non-profit, tax-exempt status as "social welfare organizations" (tax-payer subsidized, supposedly non-partisan 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) groups) should be investigated and, if appropriate, disciplined, fired and/or charged under criminal statutes. Government officials and employees responsible for secretly subpoenaing ...
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'Green News Report' - May 14, 2013	15.5.2013	BradBlog
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Sequester budget cuts hit federal firefighting response during an early wildfire season; More good news for Tesla Motors, bad news for loser Mitt Romney; Scientists accidentally discover new way to make cleaner steel; Another city votes for solar on all new construction; PLUS: Sec. of State ...
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An All-Brad KPFK 'BradCast' with Brad Johnson, Obama's Scandalpalooza Day and More...	14.5.2013	BradBlog
While The BradCast on KPFK/Pacifica Radio usually airs live on Wednesday's, we did a special Monday version this week, as I was filling in for my friend Harrison who was on the road today and unavailable to do his normal show. That gave me the opportunity to cover some of today's ...
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Absentee Ballot Fraud Allegations in L.A. Underscore (Again) Dangers of Vote-By-Mail	13.5.2013	BradBlog
The BRAD BLOG has long detailed the dangers of Vote-by-Mail and absentee balloting, describing the practice as "terrible for democracy," for a number of reasons. Among those reasons are the ease by which absentee ballots can be undetectably gamed, bought or sold, used for intimidation ("Show me that you voted ...
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Wall Street Journal's 'Weapons-Grade Denial': 'In Defense of Carbon Dioxide'	13.5.2013	BradBlog
From William Happer and Harrison Schmitt at the once-but-no-longer respectable newspaper known as the Wall Street Journal... Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity. ... For most plants, and for the animals and humans ...
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Dance. Everybody. Everywhere on Earth. At Least We Can Still Do That Much...	13.5.2013	BradBlog
As posted by NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, which explains the above as follows: What are these humans doing? Dancing. Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in practically every ...
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Legacy of 'White Boys' Leads to Election Problems for Small Central California Town	13.5.2013	BradBlog
Earlier this year, The BRAD BLOG offered an exclusive exposé on how one Registrar of Voters in Fresno County, CA almost single-handedly put a stop to the attempted statewide post-election hand-count of last November's failed Prop 37 (the ballot initiative which, if it had prevailed, would have required Genetically Modified ...
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'Green News Report' - May 9, 2013	10.5.2013	BradBlog
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Senate GOP walks out, obstructs Obama's EPA nominee; OMB says EPA regulations pay off 10 to 1; Honeybee losses accelerate in US while feds stall on action; Another coal export terminal bites the dust in OR; PLUS: Shocker: Consumer Reports has a new all-time favorite car... ...
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KPFK 'BradCast': On Sanford/Colbert Busch, Unverifiable Elections, Syria's 'Iraq Trap', More...	9.5.2013	BradBlog
Today on the KPFK/Pacifica BradCast: My take on what happened in the 100% unverifiable Mark Sanford "victory" over Elizabeth Colbert Busch in South Carolina's Special Election for the U.S. House on Tuesday; How the media are pulling "an Iraq" all over again on the supposed use of chemical weapons in Syria; ...
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Internet Voting Hacked on NBC's 'The Voice'?	9.5.2013	BradBlog
It might be funny, but for the fact that beating back the Internet Voting virus -- even here in California, where it is Democrats who are being dumb enough to push for it, despite warnings from virtually every world-class computer scientist and security expert in the world that it's an ...
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10,000	8.5.2013	BradBlog
Not for nothing, but this article is number 10,000 at The BRAD BLOG. That's right, we've now filed some 10,000 items on these pages since January of 2004, as our 10th year of investigative journalism, blogging, trouble-making and muckraking continues. (I say "some 10,000" because there are certainly several score ...
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