On Wednesday’s BradCast on KPFK/Pacifica Radio, I interviewed Brendan Cummings, senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity. He’s fresh off his win in federal court where a U.S. Magistrate Judge found earlier this week that the Obama Administration violated federal law by not taking the effects of fracking into account in its environmental assessment before leasing areas of the Monterey Shale Formation in California to oil companies.
We discussed the case and its first-of-its-kind ruling, the impact it may (hopefully) have on similar fracking land leases elsewhere in the state and nation, and what the hell supposedly “liberal” Democrats like Barack Obama and CA Gov. Jerry Brown must be thinking.
I also covered this week’s election fraud felony guilty pleas by a staffer for Newt Gingrich’s 2012 Presidential campaign, the pending felony charges against a co-defendant and additional arrests that prosecutors say may be coming soon. All a part of Gingrich’s failed attempt to qualify for the 2012 GOP Presidential primary in Virginia, and his unbelievable hypocrisy in downplaying fraud in his own campaign that was far worse than anything ACORN ever did (or, actually, didn’t do.)
Finally, we had an extended Green News Report segment with Desi Doyen, to discuss, among other things, Rep. Joe Barton’s amazing comments today, and the new attempt by Fox “News” to raise George Orwell from the grave by describing environmentalists as “climate deniers”…
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Today’s “liberal” is yesterdays “Nixon Republican.”
I showed GasLand to my HS students today. 🙂 So nice to teach business ethics. So little good to say.
OBAMA TREATMENT IS JUST CLINTON REDUX
The General Accounting Agency reported that the Republicans in Congress spent $110,00,000 from 1995 to 2001 on Hearings and Investigations on the Clinton administration in a concerted organized effort to destroy it.
Obama is getting the same treatment only a different approach. Do not allow him any programs that will help the middle class and poor and build his reputation. It was a disgrace to kill the American Jobs Bill in a severe recession with high unemployment.
The list of Filibuster set new records by far. The Republican even got so petty they would not pass the Budget Resolution that always passed with ease.