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Latest Featured Reports | Wednesday, November 2, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Evidence Suggests Oakland PD Violated Law in Confrontation With Occupy Oakland
Video analysis, eye-witness testimony contradicts Police Chief claim that chemicals were used only to defend against 'pelting of bottles and rocks'...
w/ Brad & Desi
TODAY: Mitt flip-flops on global warming; Fox 'News', ignorant & proud of it; U.S. Navy leading on biofuel innovation; PLUS: Weather disasters now more frequent & expensive ...
Previous GNRs: 10/27/11 - 10/25/11 - Archives...
HUGE WIN FOR OCCUPY NASHVILLE
State declines to defend Governor's crackdown on demonstrators after judges refuse to jail them, order tents, other property returned in face of lawsuit...
An Actual Discussion on American TV About Something That Actually Matters to Americans
Thank you, Chris Hayes. Can we convince NBC to let you host Meet the Press now?...
L.A. Times: OWS Is Ruining the Lawn!
Corporate-owned newspaper says protestors have had their fun, thanks, but now they need to move along...
'People & Power - The Koch Brothers': Al Jazeera's Investigative Documentary
Apparently it takes a non-U.S. media outlet to examine the Kochs out-sized influence on U.S. democracy...
Judge Refuses to Charge 'Occupy Nashville' Demonstrators: VIDEO
Tells the arresting officer: 'You have no lawful basis to arrest or charge these people'...
He was Standing Stone Still Amid Tear Gas in Oakland -- Clutching the U.S. Constitution
Haunting video. PLUS: Updates on injured vet Scott Olsen and on the still-unresigned Mayor of Oakland...
EXCLUSIVE: ES&S; Attempts to Block PA County's Audit of its Failed E-Voting System
Why is the nation's largest e-vote firm trying to stop Venango County's touch-screens analysis?...
It's the Accountability, Stupid (or Lack Thereof)
At the heart of OWS: NY AG Eric Schneiderman says he hopes to bring accountability against banks and Glenn Greenwald explains why it matters...
OUR 2-PART MOTHER JONES EXCLUSIVE
Click for 'Secret Koch Tapes' coverage...
VIDEO: 'Rise of the Tea Bags'
Brad interviews American patriots...
'Democracy's Gold Standard'
Hand-marked, hand-counted ballots...
Brad's Upcoming Appearances
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Media Appearance Archives...
Special Coverage Archives
U.S. Chamber of Commerce 'Terror Tools' Spy Plot...
Wisconsin 2011 Supreme Court Election Debacle...
It Isn't Journalism: Woeful MSM Coverage of Wisconsin's Supreme Court Election 'Recount'
Corporate media fails to tell story of massive irregularities, e-vote failures...
Japan Quake/Tsunami/Nuke Emergency...
6/4/11: Fukushima Radiation at Highest Level Since Crisis Began
Germany announces plan to dismantle all nukes by 2022...
5/12/11: TEPCO Admits Unit 1 Reactor 'Meltdown', Fuel Rods Exposed
Radiation believed leaking through hole in bottom of containment vessel...
3/30/11: AUDIO: Brad on KPFK w/ Fukushima News and More...
Joined by the lovely Desi Doyen of the Green News Report...
3/29/11: 'Maximum Alert': Crisis Continues, TEPCO Prez Hospitalized
PLUS: A glimpse at living conditions for the heroic plant workers...
3/29/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Japan Fallout
Fukushima's nuke disaster leads to political shift in Germany; Congressional concerns about US nuke evacuation plans...
3/27/11: TEPCO 'Very Sorry': Radiation Spikes, Work Remains Perilous
Plant operator apologizes, again; AP reports they 'all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history' in designing safe-guards'...
3/25/11: 'Grave And Serious': More Comparison to Chernobyl Levels
Rupture feared; Workers contaminated; New evacs 'recommended'...
PLUS: German study uses French data to corroborate findings from Austrian, U.S. scientists, suggesting Fukushima disaster should be reclassified as 'level 7' accident, on par with Chernobyl...
3/25/11: Brad on 'Randi Rhodes Show' on Disaster, US 'Fallout'
Breaking developments and speculation on the supposed 'nuclear renaissance' previously scheduled for the US...
3/24/11: 'Step at a Time & a Few More Steps': Disturbing New Science
Stabilization continues, as new data suggests 50% of radioactive cesium released by Chernobyl already released by Daiichi's reactors...
3/24/11: 'Green News Report'- Special Coverage: Japan Disaster
Death toll rising; Tap water warning lifted in Tokyo, spreading elsewhere; Radiation hospitalizes workers; Support for nukes drops in US; PLUS: Struggling to maintaining tradition amidst disaster...
3/23/11: Brad's KPFK Intvw w/ VOA's Steve Herman in Tokyo
'Neutron beams', water 'panic', black smoke and the public responses from TEPCO, the government and the people of Japan, LIVE from Tokyo...
3/23/11: Setbacks: Black Smoke, Evacuations, Tokyo Tap Water
'Panic' reported as stores run dry of bottled water after government says iodine in metropolitan water unsafe for infants...
3/22/11: 'Razor-Thin Margins', Positive Progress at Fukushima
Control room re-opened as some power returns, workers attempt to restore cooling systems; U.S. NRC offers mixed signals...
3/22/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Nuclear Crisis
Fukushima on edge; Japan's wind farms to the rescue; New US nuke reviews; PLUS: Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico...
3/20/11: 'Closer to Bringing Situation Under Control': Sun & Mon
Stabilization precarious; UPDATED: Gray smoke forces evacuation...
3/19/11: Some Reactors 'Stabilized' as War Breaks Out Elsewhere
PLUS: Radiation detected in food, water; New Gulf oil slick discovered; War protesters arrested; Slow news week continues...
3/18/11: 'Renewed Nuclear Chain Reaction Feared': Friday Fukushima
Spent fuel rod danger; Fallout detected in S. California; Wind 'saving Japan's ass'; Coulter: Radiation 'good for you'; PM's office tweets...
3/17/11: Brad Interviews Palast: TEPCO Plans for New Nukes in TX
Govt fraud investigator on "bankrupt, corrupt, criminal" nuke companies...
3/17/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Crisis in Japan
Compounding natural, humanitarian and spiraling nuclear disasters - desperate measures to hold off a nightmare...
3/17/11: VIDEO: Close-up Aerial Footage of Crippled Plant
TEPCO offers most detailed view yet of ravaged Fukushima reactors...
3/16/11: Desperation: Helicopters Drop Water On Hot Nuke Reactors
Def Minister: 'We could not delay further'; Four risky drops on Unit 3; Water said in Unit 4 fuel pool; Water cannon trucks next | VIDEO...
3/16/11: Dozens of Countries, Not U.S., Tell Citizens to Leave Tokyo
UK, Germany, France more worried than us. Who ya gonna believe?...
3/15/11: SMOKE BILLOWS FROM FUKUSHIMA'S REACTOR 3
Workers evacuated as radiation levels rose quickly; Govt's chief spokesperson says smoke believed to be radioactive steam...
3/15/11: 'Green News Report': Japan on Brink of Nuclear Disaster
Natural, humanitarian and now man-made disaster, as 50 nuclear plant workers stand in the way of nuclear meltdown...
3/14/11: PM: RADIATION DANGER, EVACS WIDENED, 'STAY CALM'
Explosions at Reactors 2 & 4; Fuels Rods at Unit 2 'Half Exposed';
All but 50 workers evacuated from plant...
3/13/11: EXPLOSION AT FUKUSHIMA'S NUKE REACTOR UNIT 3
U.S. 7th Fleet repositioned after exposure to radioactive cloud
Sunday live blogging 2nd EXPLOSION at Fukushima...
3/13/11: VIDEO: From Within the Tsunami, a Town Engulfed
Watch as a town disappears in minutes...
3/12/11: EXPLOSION ROCKS FUKUSHIMA NUKE REACTOR UNIT 1
Cooling System Fails at Unit 3 | Govt: 'Partial Meltdown' Under Way Saturday day, night live blog following 1st EXPLOSION at Fukushima...
3/11/11: NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES AT 5 REACTORS
Friday day, night live blog until EXPLOSION at Fukushima reactor...
3/11/11: 'Big Government Tyranny' Saved Countless Lives
Strict building codes in Japan likely impossible now here...
3/11/11: 8.9 QUAKE, TSUNAMI STRIKES JAPAN - VIDEO
Unprecedented disaster strikes, towns washed away in seconds...
WikiLeaks / Julian Assange...
O'Keefe / Breitbart ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax...
Breitbart May be Pulled into ACORN-Related San Diego Lawsuit Against O'Keefe, Giles
PLUS: Local media outlet reports story accurately!...
Judge Rejects O'Keefe's '1st Amend' Defense in ACORN Worker Civil Suit
ACORN Scammer Giles Tosses Fellow Scammer O'Keefe 'Under Bus'
O'Keefe's CNN 'Sex' Scam May Violate MD's Felony Wiretap Laws
NYTimes New Public Editor, Meet NYTimes' Old ACORN Problem
'Crimes Caught on ACORN Tapes! O'Keefe's!' Maddow Covers Lawsuit
Former ACORN Employee Files Suit Against O'Keefe and Giles
NYT Public Editor, 'Weasel' Pens Farewell Column
FAIR Echoes Our Critique of ABC, Stephanopoulos Fail
ABC's Stephanopoulos Quotes Discredted NYT w/ O'Keefe/Breitbart
FBI: Details on O'Keefe's 'Wiretap Plot'
O'Keefe Pleads Guilty in New Orleans
O'Keefe Dressed Down by Judge, Allowed to Avoid Trial
'Loser' O'Keefe 'Celebrated' in Song
What? No Pulitzer Prize for Dirty Tricks?!
AP: Breitbart's Newest Video Deception
Brad Interviews ACORN CEO Lewis
Duplicate Anti-ACORN 'Editorials' Astroturfed in Rightwing Papers
Maddow Airs Unedited 'Pimp' Tapes: 'Firestorm Pure Manure'
NYT's ACORN 'Pimp' Finally Goes Missing?
Maddow Video: ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax 'Triumph of Fake Politics'
CA AG: VIDS 'SEVERELY EDITED', SHOW 'NO VIOLATION OF LAW'
No, NYT, O'Keefe Didn't 'Pose as a Pimp' Either
NYT PARTIALLY CORRECTS ACORN 'PIMP' MISREPORTS
NYT'S HOYT ADMITS: 'TIMES WAS WRONG, I WAS WRONG'
McClatchy/SacBee Corrects Cvrge of ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax (Hint: NYT!)
'Yes Men': O'Keefe, Breitbart 'Sad, Pathetic, Assholes'
Superstar GOP Atty Gets O'Keefe Felony Rap Reduced
AUDIO: Brad on S.F. Public Radio's 'Friday Media Roundtable'
GritTV: NYT's Belated Correction 'Way, Way, WAY Too Late'
VIDEO: Brad on Russian TV re: ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax, NYT Fail
It's About the Democracy & the Media, Stupid
GOP 'Mission Accomplished: ACORN to Close Doors
More Media Condemnation for NYT 'Pimp' Hoax Coverage, Excuses
Media Watchdog FAIR Slams NYT Coverage as 'Wildly Misleading'
VIDEO: 'The Times Botched the Story': Author on 'DN!'
Another Legal Victory: Judge Finds Funding Ban 'Unconstitutional'
Real Targets of GOP ACORN Smears: Truth, American Democracy
Transcripts Show O'Keefe & Giles 'Buried the Truth'
ACORN STRIKES BACK! Demands 'Accountability' from NYT, Others
NY D.A.: 'No Criminality' in 'Highly Edited' ACORN Videos
Toon Depicts NYT Editor 'as Weasel' for ACORN Emails
VIDEO: Breitbart Says 'Had No Idea' About 'Pimp' Hoax
NYT's Public Editor Accuses BRAD BLOG of 'Political Agenda'
Exclusive: NYT Public Editor's Remarkable 'Pimp' Hoax Emails
Giles Confirms on Video: 'He Wasn't Dressed Like a Pimp'
VIDEO: Stephen Colbert Mocks ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax
Vote Fraudster Ann Coulter Jumps Into 'Pimp' Hoax Lying Game
Take Note NYT!: How to 'Edit Video to Meet Your Agenda'
NYT Exec Editor in '05: 'Fact-checking is our responsibility'
Breitbart 'Apologizes' for 'Apparent' ACORN 'Pimp' Lie
Giles Admits O'Keefe, Breitbart ACORN 'Pimp' Story a Lie
Breitbart Lied About 'Pimp' Claim in Own News Column
Group Demands NYTimes Retract O'Keefe 'Pimp' Reports
Breitbart Contradicts Self on O'Keefe Salary
Rightwing Blogger Attacks Our Coverage, Shoots Self Instead
ACORN Reacts to Times Editor Emails: 'Troubling, Disturbing'
Follow-Up, Quick Summary of NYT's O'Keefe Story FAIL
Exclusive: NYT Editor on False O'Keefe 'Pimp' Stories
Race Obsessions of O'Keefe; Twitter Tantrum of Breitbart
Questions for Breitbart, AP Investigates, NYTimes Fawns
O'Keefe/Breitbart Have Lame Story, Sticking to It
VIDEO: 'Orly Taitz' Andy Self-Destructs on MSNBC
Breitbart is a Criminal, According to Breitbart's Logic
ACORN Defund Bill 'Unconstitutional' After GOP Scam
Anti-ACORN Videographer Arrested at Senator's Office
SC Dem U.S. Senate Primary Mystery...
Sibel Edmonds Disclosures...

Bush Officials Give (Ironic) 'Denials' to Charges
Perle: Edmonds chasing 'imagined demons'
FORMER FBI EXEC SEEKS 'SPECIAL COUNSEL' PROBE
Corroborates several key Edmonds allegations
More Special Coverages Pages...

SPECIAL COVERAGE: L.A. County's Super Tuesday 'Double Bubble' Ballot Debacle

KEY BRAD BLOG ARTICLES IN THE SERIES SO FAR
(Most recent articles at bottom of list.)

2/5/08: Problems (and Confusion) at L.A. County Polls Today
Independent Voters Have Trouble Voting, and Having Their Vote Counted, in the Open Democratic Primary
A Legal Battle Could Be on the Horizon Over 'California's Butterfly Ballot' if Results are Close...

2/6/08: More Details on 'Double Bubble Trouble' in Los Angeles County
Hundreds of Thousands of Non-Partisan Voter Ballots May Not be Counted in California's Open Democratic Primary Election
City Attorney Calls for Review by CA SoS, County Registrar of Voters...

2/6/08: Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was the Play? - LA Times Reports 'Few Election Glitches, Except for Independents'
ALSO: Video Indicates Los Angeles Registration Problems for Republicans as well...

2/7/08: Filling in the Ovals on LA County's Super Tuesday 'Double Bubble' Debacle
Confusion Reigns, Legal Challenges Loom as Hundreds of Thousands Votes May Not be Counted Due to Maddeningly Confusing Ballot Design, Procedures
UPDATED: Registar's Office Say They Plan to Examine Non-Partisan Ballots, Will 'Seek Legal Authority to Count Those Votes'...

2/12/08: L.A. County Registrar Says It's 'Impossible' to Count Nearly 100,000 Ballots from Super Tuesday Primary
The L.A. County Registrar is Lying...And Blaming Voters and Pollworkers to boot...
UPDATED With Link to Petition Demanding ALL Votes Be Counted! Please Sign It!

2/14/08: How to Count L.A. County's 'Double Bubble' Fiasco Ballots Accurately and Immediately
As the Clock Ticks Towards Final Certification, and the County's Registrar Makes Excuses, Hundreds of Thousands of Voters Stand to be Disenfranchised for No Reason at All...
Every Vote Counted REDUCES the Current Error Rate! The Registrar Must Act NOW!

2/16/08: L.A. County 'Double Bubble' Disenfranchisement Happened Before, Registrar Conny McCormack Did Nothing About It
44% of Non-Partisan Cross-Over Ballots Went Uncounted in March '04, 42% Uncounted in June '06, Before Same Ballot Design Used Again for the February 2008 Super Tuesday Primary
As LA Times Gets Religion on Election Integrity Issues, But Doesn't Bother Apologizing For Their Failures to do so up to Now...

2/18/08: Former L.A. County Registrar Blames Everyone But Herself for 'Double Bubble' Failure Which Went 'Unheeded' for Six Years
'No One Could Have Predicted This,' Conny McCormack Tells LA Times in Her Best Condoleese, About Her Ballot Design That Disenfranchsed 40% of Voters in At Least Two Previous Elections...

2/18/08: Bowen to the Rescue: CA's SoS Calls on L.A. County Registrar to Count Thousands of Still-Uncounted Super Tuesday Ballots
Asks for 'Precinct-by-Precinct Reconciliation' of Poll Rosters to Begin Accurately Accounting for Tens of Thousands of Non-Partisan Voters Who Cast Machine-Unreadable Ballots

2/26/08: L.A. County Registrar Prepares to NOT Count Thousands of 'Double Bubble' Ballots from Super Tuesday's Democratic Primary
New Planned Method for Counting Uncounted Non-Partisan Crossover Ballots, as Proposed by Dean Logan in Response to Sec. of State's Request, Will Needlessly Disenfranchise Thousands of Legal Voters
SoS Bowen Must Intervene Again to Assure All Votes That Can be Counted ARE Counted...

2/20/08: L.A. County 'Double Bubble' Trouble Gets Worse, as Thousands of 'Remade' Provisional Ballots Set to Go Uncounted as Well, According to Local Activist
Despite Party Designation on Provisional Ballot Envelopes, an Estimated 10 to 15,000 Democratic Votes Cast by Validated, Non-Partisan Registered Voters from 'Super Tuesday' Primary May be Uncountable by Registrar's New 'Supplemental Counting' Scheme...

3/04/08: L.A. County Registrar Chooses to Disenfranchise 12,000 Voters in Final 'Double Bubble' Ballot Tally
But the Good News: Provisional Ballots, Newly Discovered as Uncounted, as Reported by The BRAD BLOG on Friday, Were Ultimately Counted...by Hand!
Joint Legislative Hearing on 'Double Bubble' and Other Super Tuesday Problems to be Held on Friday in Los Angeles...

3/8/08: 'Double Bubble' Hearing: Logan Runs and Conny Gets Called on the Carpet
Acting Registrar Lies to the Board of Supes, Former Registrar Lies to the Joint State Legislative Panel
Independent Criminal Investigation Called For...

3/10/08: VIDEO: Brad Friedman and Other Election Integrity Advocates Speak At Historic California Hearing On Voting Problems
The BRAD BLOG Publisher Also Nearly Gets Thrown Out Of Hearing by The Sergeant-at-Arms

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