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- Report/Mark as SpamIt's our last night guest hosting the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy Show this week! Hope you can join us. I promise a BIG show tonight! Once again, we'll be BradCasting LIVE 9pm-Mid ET (6p-9p PT), coast-to-coast and around the uprising globe from the studios of L.A.'s KTLK am1150 in beautiful downtown Burbank....Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-24 00:39:35 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamAfter the Municipal Council elections in Provo, Utah on November 8, residents had been told that Gary Winterton had narrowly defeated Bonnie Morrow for the District 1 seat --- by just 9 votes. The margin was close enough that Morrow was allowed to ask for a recount of the paper ballots which were tallied on Election Night by the city's optical scan systems made by Diebold Election Systems, Inc.Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-23 23:50:27 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamGuest blogged by Ernest A. Canning Last September The BRAD BLOG, unlike the corporate-owned media, offered detailed coverage of a U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights hearing on the spate of GOP voter suppression laws (PART 1 and PART 2). Now, Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films has produced a powerful video that exposes the Koch-funded assault on your democracy, along with a petition that you can signSource: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-23 19:44:41 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamOur week guest hosting the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy Show continues tonight and tomorrow! As usual tonight, we'll be BradCasting LIVE 9pm-Mid ET (6p-9p PT), coast-to-coast and around the uprising globe from the studios of L.A.'s KTLK am1150 in beautiful downtown Burbank. Join us by tuning in, chatting in, Tweeting in and calling in!...Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-23 00:09:39 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamTWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Meet the world's newest oil spill, now in Brazil and starring Chevron!; Supercommittee FAIL a big win for Big Oil; Confirmed again: Extreme weather is the New Normal; Bye-bye oysters; PLUS: Surprise! Fox News deceives its viewers on climate change, or the more you watch Fox, the less you know ......Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-22 21:37:09 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamUC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi "apologized" for last Friday's pepper spray incident during remarks to thousands of students who had gathered on the campus quad for a General Assembly this afternoon. Here's Lee Fang's video of Katehi's teary remarks within the past hour, which began with, "I am here to apologize.Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-21 23:58:25 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamWe're back guest hosting the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy Show every night through this Wednesday! Hope you can tune in! Promise it'll be some lively radio! As usual, we're BradCasting this week LIVE 9pm-Mid ET (6p-9p PT), coast-to-coast and around the uprising globe from the studios of L.A.'s KTLK am1150 in beautiful downtown Burbank....Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-21 22:10:33 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamSeveral opponents of WI's Gov. Scott Walker have been receiving middle-of-the-night death threats, as they've been circulating petitions to gather signatures in an effort to recall the state's controversial anti-union Republican Governor. According to WISC-TV/Channel 3000 in Madison... The threats involved phone calls from an area code in Minnesota. The calls came overnight after Walker's opponents began the recall, said Madison resident Tom Peer, who said he received a call at 2 a.m.Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-21 20:31:17 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamSUPPORT THE BRAD BLOG! --- DONATE $50 OR MORE HERE FOR A SIGNED COPY OF RICHARD AVERETT'S 'IMAGINEPOLITIK'! While I've appeared as "myself" in a number of documentary films, it's a bit of a new experience to actually find myself as a fictional character in a novel. Such is the case, however, in Richard Averett's new political thriller Imagine Politik, subtitled "American Democracy: Democracy in Crisis" where I find my fictional self...Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-21 03:44:44 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamGuest editorial by Ernest A. Canning The photo at right may well provide a pivotal moment in a new American revolution. It exposes a crack in the façade of the corporate security state that could grow to the point that rule by and for the 1% may some time soon internally collapse....Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-21 02:37:38 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamVIDEO: UC Davis Chancellor's Chilling Walk of Shame Through a Line of Silent Demonstrators...
- Report/Mark as SpamThe video above, posted by Lee Fang, was taken this evening as UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi walked to her car as students lined the sidewalk and roadway, sitting and locking arms in complete silence. Their demonstration came on the heels of Katehi's support of the UC Davis Police Department's use of pepper spray on dozens of compliant, peaceful Occupy demonstrators who were sitting in a circle, locking arms, on...Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-20 04:10:48 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamOn Friday, Lt. John Pike of the UC Davis police force lead a group of lawless cops in lining up demonstrators who had been peaceably assembled on the University of California, Davis quad and then covered them with with pepper spray. His fellow cops did nothing to stop him, and actually stood by in support....Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-19 22:39:54 GMT
- Report/Mark as SpamOur own Jeannie Dean --- longtime reader, supporter and commenter at The BRAD BLOG, years-long Election Integrity champion, and now OccupyLA rep --- brings the gospel of the Occupation to RT (formerly Russia Today)... Says Jeannie to the whole wide world via RT: "We have already changed the narrative from deficit spending to jobs and to the economic disparities and the social injustice as we are seeing through our banking system, and...Source: The BRAD BLOGPublished: 2011-11-19 21:23:36 GMT