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import { Mixin, on, addListener, removeListener, sendEvent, hasListeners } from '..';
import { moduleFor, AbstractTestCase } from 'internal-test-helpers';

moduleFor(
  'system/props/events_test',
  class extends AbstractTestCase {
    ['@test listener should receive event - removing should remove'](assert) {
      let obj = {};
      let count = 0;

      function F() {
        count++;
      }

      addListener(obj, 'event!', F);
      assert.equal(count, 0, 'nothing yet');

      sendEvent(obj, 'event!');
      assert.equal(count, 1, 'received event');

      removeListener(obj, 'event!', F);

      count = 0;
      sendEvent(obj, 'event!');
      assert.equal(count, 0, 'received event');
    }

    ['@test listeners should be inherited'](assert) {
      let obj = {};
      let count = 0;
      let F = function() {
        count++;
      };

      addListener(obj, 'event!', F);

      let obj2 = Object.create(obj);

      assert.equal(count, 0, 'nothing yet');

      sendEvent(obj2, 'event!');
      assert.equal(count, 1, 'received event');

      removeListener(obj2, 'event!', F);

      count = 0;
      sendEvent(obj2, 'event!');
      assert.equal(count, 0, 'did not receive event');

      sendEvent(obj, 'event!');
      assert.equal(count, 1, 'should still invoke on parent');
    }

    ['@test adding a listener more than once should only invoke once'](assert) {
      let obj = {};
      let count = 0;
      function F() {
        count++;
      }
      addListener(obj, 'event!', F);
      addListener(obj, 'event!', F);

      sendEvent(obj, 'event!');
      assert.equal(count, 1, 'should only invoke once');
    }

    ['@test adding a listener with a target should invoke with target'](assert) {
      let obj = {};
      let target;

      target = {
        count: 0,
        method() {
          this.count++;
        },
      };

      addListener(obj, 'event!', target, target.method);
      sendEvent(obj, 'event!');
      assert.equal(target.count, 1, 'should invoke');
    }

    ['@test adding a listener with string method should lookup method on event delivery'](assert) {
      let obj = {};
      let target;

      target = {
        count: 0,
        method() {},
      };

      addListener(obj, 'event!', target, 'method');
      sendEvent(obj, 'event!');
      assert.equal(target.count, 0, 'should invoke but do nothing');

      target.method = function() {
        this.count++;
      };
      sendEvent(obj, 'event!');
      assert.equal(target.count, 1, 'should invoke now');
    }

    ['@test calling sendEvent with extra params should be passed to listeners'](assert) {
      let obj = {};
      let params = null;
      addListener(obj, 'event!', function() {
        params = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
      });

      sendEvent(obj, 'event!', ['foo', 'bar']);
      assert.deepEqual(params, ['foo', 'bar'], 'params should be saved');
    }

    ['@test hasListeners tells you if there are listeners for a given event'](assert) {
      let obj = {};

      function F() {}
      function F2() {}

      assert.equal(hasListeners(obj, 'event!'), false, 'no listeners at first');

      addListener(obj, 'event!', F);
      addListener(obj, 'event!', F2);

      assert.equal(hasListeners(obj, 'event!'), true, 'has listeners');

      removeListener(obj, 'event!', F);
      assert.equal(hasListeners(obj, 'event!'), true, 'has listeners');

      removeListener(obj, 'event!', F2);
      assert.equal(hasListeners(obj, 'event!'), false, 'has no more listeners');

      addListener(obj, 'event!', F);
      assert.equal(hasListeners(obj, 'event!'), true, 'has listeners');
    }

    ['@test calling removeListener without method should remove all listeners'](assert) {
      let obj = {};
      function F() {}
      function F2() {}

      assert.equal(hasListeners(obj, 'event!'), false, 'no listeners at first');

      addListener(obj, 'event!', F);
      addListener(obj, 'event!', F2);

      assert.equal(hasListeners(obj, 'event!'), true, 'has listeners');
      removeListener(obj, 'event!');

      assert.equal(hasListeners(obj, 'event!'), false, 'has no more listeners');
    }

    ['@test a listener can be added as part of a mixin'](assert) {
      let triggered = 0;
      let MyMixin = Mixin.create({
        foo1: on('bar', function() {
          triggered++;
        }),

        foo2: on('bar', function() {
          triggered++;
        }),
      });

      let obj = {};
      MyMixin.apply(obj);

      sendEvent(obj, 'bar');
      assert.equal(triggered, 2, 'should invoke listeners');
    }

    [`@test 'on' asserts for invalid arguments`]() {
      expectAssertion(() => {
        Mixin.create({
          foo1: on('bar'),
        });
      }, 'on expects function as last argument');

      expectAssertion(() => {
        Mixin.create({
          foo1: on(function() {}),
        });
      }, 'on called without valid event names');
    }

    ['@test a listener added as part of a mixin may be overridden'](assert) {
      let triggered = 0;
      let FirstMixin = Mixin.create({
        foo: on('bar', function() {
          triggered++;
        }),
      });
      let SecondMixin = Mixin.create({
        foo: on('baz', function() {
          triggered++;
        }),
      });

      let obj = {};
      FirstMixin.apply(obj);
      SecondMixin.apply(obj);

      sendEvent(obj, 'bar');
      assert.equal(triggered, 0, 'should not invoke from overridden property');

      sendEvent(obj, 'baz');
      assert.equal(triggered, 1, 'should invoke from subclass property');
    }
  }
);


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Assessing the Environmental Impact of the Self-propelled Bulk Carriage through LCA
Miro Hegedić University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
Nedeljko Štefanić University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
Mladen Nikšić University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences
Keywords: self-propelled bulk carriage, life cycle assessment, freight rolling stock
Environmental sustainability of the transport sector is a highly important issue today. The European Commission has made a goal of delivering a minimum 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from transport by 2050. Part of this reduction will come from the railway sector by making the maintenance processes more environmentally friendly. This paper presents the results of the environmental assessment of the self-propelled bulk carriage (SPBC), an innovative new product aiming to decrease the environmental impact of the railway maintenance processes. The life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology was used in the study, and environmental impact is given in five impact categories based on the CML 2001 method through three main modules of the self-propelled bulk carriage life cycle: upstream, core, and downstream. The novelty of the research includes the fact that this is the first life cycle assessment study done for the bulk carriage, as well in that the authors have proposed the use of a new functional unit in the category of freight railway vehicles. The biggest environmental impact of the self-propelled bulk carriage across all five categories is in the use and maintenance phase of its life cycle and mainly due to diesel fuel use. The SPBC uses significantly less fuel than a conventional diesel locomotive.
Miro Hegedić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
Department of Industrial Engineering, Teaching assistant
Nedeljko Štefanić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
Department of Industrial Engineering, Head of the Department
Mladen Nikšić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences
Department of Railway Transport, Head of the Chair of Railway Transport Engineering
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"Ok boys, put some clothes on those girls. We're going home!"
Apparently no one worried about nose art on the bombers…over there.
(I don't know who originally wrote this, but it was provided by one of our regular contributors, Ray Kasey, of New Jersey.
Did you know that more airmen died in WWII than Marines.
WWII Statistics US Army Aircorps:
Almost 1,000 Army planes disappeared en route from the US to foreign locations.
An eye-watering 43,581 aircraft were lost overseas including 22,948 on combat missions (18,418 against the Western Axis) and 20,633 attributed to non-combat causes overseas.
In a single 376 plane raid in August 1943, 60 B-17s were shot down. That was a 16 percent loss rate and meant 600 empty bunks in England. In 1942-43 it was statistically impossible for bomber crews to complete a 25-mission tour in Europe .
Pacific theater losses were far less (4,530 in combat) owing to smaller forces committed. The worst B-29 mission, against Tokyo on May 25, 1945, cost 26 Superfortresses, 5.6 percent of the 464 dispatched from the Marianas
On average, 6,600 American servicemen died per month during WWII, about 220 a day. By the end of the war, over 40,000 airmen were killed in combat theaters and another 18,000 wounded. Some 12,000 missing men were declared dead, including a number "liberated" by the Soviets but never returned. More than 41,000 were captured, half of the 5,400 held by the Japanese died in captivity, compared with one-tenth in German hands.
Total combat casualties were pegged at 121,867.
US manpower made up the deficit. The AAF's peak strength was reached in 1944 with 2,372,000 personnel, nearly twice the previous year's figure.
The losses were huge—but so were production totals. From 1941 through 1945, American industry delivered more than 276,000 military aircraft. That number was enough not only for US Army, Navy and Marine Corps, but for allies as diverse as Britain, Australia, China and Russia. In fact, from 1943 onward, America produced more planes than Britain and Russia combined. And more than Germany and Japan together 1941-45.
However, our enemies took massive losses. Through much of 1944, the Luftwaffe sustained uncontrolled hemorrhaging, reaching 25 percent of aircrews and 40 planes a month. And in late 1944 into 1945, nearly half the pilots in Japanese squadrons had flown fewer than 200 hours. The disparity of two years before had been completely reversed.
Uncle Sam sent many of his sons to war with absolute minimums of training. Some fighter pilots entered combat in 1942 with less than one hour in their assigned aircraft.
The 357th Fighter Group (often known as The Yoxford Boys) went to England in late 1943 having trained on P-39s. The group never saw a Mustang until shortly before its first combat mission.
A high-time P-51 pilot had 30 hours in type. Many had fewer than five hours. Some had one hour.
With arrival of new aircraft, many combat units transitioned in combat. The attitude was, "They all have a stick and a throttle. Go fly "em." When the famed 4th Fighter Group converted from P-47s to P-51s in February 1944, there was no time to stand down for an orderly transition.
The Group commander, Col. Donald Blakeslee, said, "You can learn to fly `51s on the way to the target.
A future P-47 ace said, "I was sent to England to die." He was not alone.
Some fighter pilots tucked their wheels in the well on their first combat mission with one previous flight in the aircraft. Meanwhile, many bomber crews were still learning their trade: of Jimmy Doolittle's 15 pilots on the April 1942 Tokyo raid, only five had won their wings before 1941.
All but one of the 16 copilots were less than a year out of flight school..
In WWII flying safety took a back seat to combat. The AAF's worst accident rate was recorded by the A-36 Invader version of the P-51: a staggering 274 accidents per 100,000 flying hours.
Next worst were the P-39 at 245, the P-40 at 188, and the P-38 at 139. All were Allison powered.
Bomber wrecks were fewer but more expensive. The B-17 and B-24 averaged 30 and 35 accidents per 100,000 flight hours, respectively– a horrific figure considering that from 1980 to 2000 the Air Force's major mishap rate was less than 2.
The B-29 was even worse at 40; the world's most sophisticated, most capable and most expensive bomber was too urgently needed to stand down for mere safety reasons. The AAF set a reasonably high standard for B-29 pilots, but the desired figures were seldom attained.
The original cadre of the 58th Bomb Wing was to have 400 hours of multi-engine time, but there were not enough experienced pilots to meet the criterion. Only ten percent had overseas experience. Conversely, when a $2.1 billion B-2 crashed in 2008, the Air Force initiated a two-month "safety pause" rather than declare a "stand down", let alone grounding.
The B-29 was no better for maintenance. Though the R3350 was known as a complicated, troublesome power-plant, no more than half the mechanics had previous experience with the Duplex Cyclone. But they made it work.
Navigators:
Perhaps the greatest unsung success story of AAF training was Navigators.
The Army graduated some 50,000 during the War. And many had never flown out of sight of land before leaving "Uncle Sugar" for a war zone. Yet the huge majority found their way across oceans and continents without getting lost or running out of fuel — a stirring tribute to the AAF's educational establishments
Cadet To Colonel:
It was possible for a flying cadet at the time of Pearl Harbor to finish the war with eagles on his shoulders. That was the record of John D Landers, a 21-year-old Texan, who was commissioned a second lieutenant on December 12, 1941. He joined his combat squadron with 209 hours total flight time, including 2 in P-40s. He finished the war as a full colonel, commanding an 8th Air Force Group — at age 24.
As the training pipeline filled up, however those low figures became exceptions.
By early 1944, the average AAF fighter pilot entering combat had logged at least 450 hours, usually including 250 hours in training. At the same time, many captains and first lieutenants claimed over 600 hours.
At its height in mid-1944, the Army Air Forces had 2.6 million people and nearly 80,000 aircraft of all types.
Today the US Air Force employs 327,000 active personnel (plus 170,000 civilians) with 5,500+ manned and perhaps 200 unmanned aircraft.
The 2009 figures represent about 12 percent of the manpower and 7 percent of the airplanes of the WWII peak.
IN SUMMATION:
Whether there will ever be another war like that experienced in 1940-45 is doubtful, as fighters and bombers have given way to helicopters and remotely-controlled drones over Afghanistan and Iraq .
But within living memory, men left the earth in 1,000-plane formations and fought major battles five miles high, leaving a legacy that remains timeless.
Vietnam era Army JAG, Asia, 17-yr Cold Warrior in Soviet-China Bloc green zone, Been shot at and hit, but in crime, not war; twice-broken nose for lying (same fellow) hence good law school candidate; Could have been Somebody in Corporate world and politics, but at every crossroad chose to be a man with a tawdry past instead. Gave up law and am now a redeemed American.
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Slow cooked, crispy, tender chicken coated in a creamy, tangy, sweet honey mustard sauce and topped with fresh, crisp brussels sprouts slaw – these tacos are legitimately delicious and easy to prepare!
Hi friends! Happy Thursday… soooo close to the weekend!
I have been thinking <– always a dangerous action, I know.
I am starting to feel like I should probably rename my blog to "Chicken, Breakfast and Bowls", because I have been posting a lot of that recently. And spoiler alert, I have a few more coming at you. But, there is a foreseeable end to the CBB post roll. I think? All I know is you can blame my tummy and brain, because clearly those three things are all that has been on my hungry mind… along with popcorn and artic zero sprinkled with Stevia.
But, I decided to spice things up a bit… in the form of tacos, because every sane person loves tacos. Am I right? Of course I am, that's obviously a rhetorical question.
These tacos are legitimately delicious, my friends. The pieces of chicken are crisp on the outside and fall apart tender on the inside. The honey mustard sauce that lovingly coats these little morsels of chicken is savory, creamy, tangy, slightly sweet and a hint salty. What you end up with is some lip-smacking, delicious nuggets of highly addictive chicken.
You could totally eat the chicken as it is, straight from the slow cooker. Fork, mouth, repeat.
I did exactly that the first time I made this, so I won't judge, but you will need to trust me when I say this chicken becomes infinitely better shoved into a lightly toasted tortilla and topped with some slaw.
But, this isn't your average, run of the mill coleslaw we are talking about. No, no, no, no, no. Boring!
I made you Brussels sprout slaw. Thinly shredded, nutritiously packed brussels sprouts and red cabbage mixed with shallots, parmesan, lemon and almonds; and tossed with a bit of homemade, creamy dreamy honey mustard sauce. This slaw is crisp, crunchy, nutty, and 100% delicious.
I was eating the slaw for lunch long after I ran out of chicken, it is just that delicious.
ButButBut, not only are these tacos damn delicious, they are also easy-peasy thanks to the trusty slow cooker.
Simply coat the chicken in a bit of cornstarch and sauté, to get a nice crisp coating, then transfer it to the slow cooker, and add your remaining ingredients. Cover and cook. While the chicken is taking a honey mustard bath in the slow cooker, use your food processor to shred the brussels and cabbage, then mix everything together. Finally, pile all that deliciousness into some warm, toasty tortillas.
Slow cooked, crispy, tender chicken coated in a creamy, tangy, sweet honey mustard sauce and topped with fresh, crisp brussels sprouts slaw - these tacos are legitimately delicious and easy to prepare!
For the Chicken: In a large Ziploc bag add pieces of chicken, cornstarch, salt and pepper. Shake until chicken is well coated.
Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add the chicken and sear until well browned on all sides, about 6-8 minutes. Transfer chicken a paper towel lined plate to drain, then transfer to the slow cooker. Add remaining honey mustard ingredients (garlic through rosemary). Stir to combine. Cover and cook on high for 2-2 ½ hours, or until chicken is cooked through. Remove rosemary sprig and discard.
To Serve: Spoon chicken onto tortillas, top with slaw and drizzle with additional sauce. Enjoy!
*TO easily shred the brussels sprouts use the shredder blade attachment on your food processor. Or you can shred them by hand.
*You can toss the slaw with ¼ cup of the honey mustard sauce from the slow cooker instead of making the honey mustard dressing if desired.
*Slaw and sauce taste best if the flavors are allowed to marry in the refrigerator for at least an hour, up to 24 hours.
*Nutritional Information includes everything but tortillas.


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Kyle MacLintock and Erika Schuurmans' dog Rue died of strychnine poisoning — a registered pesticide that is only available in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Photo by Kyle MacLintock
MONTREAL—As federal consultations on the use of strychnine come to a close – and following the recent highly publicized tragic deaths of two family dogs, Rue and Ruby from strychnine poisoning – animal protection and conservation groups have aligned with scientists to call on Health Canada to ban the use of this cruel and inhumane wildlife poison.
Fifty leading experts signed on to an open letter submitted today, which includes a detailed addendum of why wildlife poisons should be banned. This letter supports Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency's proposal to cancel the use of strychnine for ground squirrel control without delay. It further urges Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor and Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency to immediately remove three highly toxic wildlife poisons from the Canadian landscape; strychnine, Compound 1080, and sodium cyanide.
These poisons are deadly to all warm-blooded animals but are registered for use in Canada primarily to kill wolves, coyotes, bears, rodents and skunks. According to experts across the globe, these poisons should be banned across Canada because they endanger human health, safety and the environment and pose threats that are both serious and irreversible.
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Strychnine is a deadly neurotoxin best known for the painful deaths it causes. When inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed by the nose and mouth it causes extremely agonizing muscular convulsions, ending in asphyxiation while still conscious. All three poisons, referred to as predacides when targeting predators, cause violent convulsions prior to death. Pesticides represent over 30 percent of the accidental poisonings identified in livestock, companion animals, and wildlife in western Canada since 1998.
The poisons are placed in baits which can attract pets and other wildlife, resulting in non-target victims. Animals that consume the baits can take several hours to die, and carcasses containing Compound 1080 and strychnine are toxic to scavengers, causing widespread secondary poisoning through the food chain. Poorly regulated, the use of these indiscriminate poisons also results in the deaths of pets, endangered species, and other non-target animals.
Sadie Parr, executive director of the conservation group Wolf Awareness declared: "Scientists and veterinarians have expressed that banning these poisons is long overdue. All evidence shows it is the right thing to do."
Julie MacInnes, wildlife campaign manager for HSI/Canada, stated: "Dogs like Rue and Ruby should never have died so tragically, nor should any animal. Despite being condemned internationally and banned in many countries, strychnine is inexcusably still being used in Canada to kill wild animals."
Sheryl Fink, director of wildlife campaigns for IFAW Canada, said: "These cruel poisons need to be removed from the landscape immediately. Not only do they cause agonizing deaths for animals they target, they kill many more animals all up and down the food chain, decimating the ecosystem."
"We urge the Minister of Health to ban the use of products containing strychnine to kill Richardson's Ground Squirrels. This poison causes an inhumane death for the squirrels who play an important role in the prairie ecosystem. It also kills many non-target species as evidenced by information gathered through multiple Freedom of Information Requests to the Governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan. It is bad for wildlife and bad for the environment and should be banned," said Liz White, Director, Animal Alliance of Canada.
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Sadie Parr, Executive Director, Wolf Awareness Inc.: 250-272-4695, sadieparrwolfpact@gmail.com
Liz White, Executive Director, Animal Alliance: 416-462-9541 ext 23, liz@animalalliance.ca
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Born in Lagos, she completed her medical training at University College London, a Masters degree in Public Health at the University of Cape Town and a doctorate in Epidemiology from Imperial College London, UK.
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Obviously we made the move towards Unter den Linden, using a sweet double decker bus to get there. A nice tip if you plan to visit Berlin and don't like walking too much: The public buses 100 and 200 are double deckers that you can take with any valid Berlin (BVG) transport ticket, but they drive on the same routes as all the "City Sightseeing" tourist buses – so there is no reason to pay for those. We strolled along the alley towards a monument that many people have first in mind when they think about Germany: The Brandenburg Gate. The weather was being not too nice to us, drizzling slightly, but it did not take away our excitement. What seems to be quite normal to Berliners, there is always some kind of political demonstration in front of it. This time, a few Kurdish people demonstrating against the German government for their passiveness in combating ISIS.
The tour led us through some of the main rooms, which didn't disappoint by being incredibly extravagant and expensive. It was not allowed to take pictures unfortunately, one of the reasons being the incredibly fast pace of the tour. The guide was talking fast, in a hard to understand German accent, not sparing the group a second to ask even a single question before saying "And now we move on to the next room over here…". I got the feeling that the whole organization was designed to haul as many tourists through the castle as possible. Given the number of people visiting, though, this was not entirely unreasonable.


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Another Cruel New Border Policy, More Impeachable Chaos: 'BradCast' 4/17/2019
Guest: Sarah Pierce of Migration Policy Inst.; Also: Trump vetoes Congressional ban on U.S. support for Saudi war in Yemen; Media (and Dems) unequipped to deal with Trump lawlessness; More...
By Brad Friedman on 4/17/2019 6:27pm PT
On today's BradCast, as the nation awaits Trump Attorney General William Barr's release of some redacted version or another of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Thursday morning, Barr was busy announcing new immigration policies to add to the Administration's ongoing success in creating havoc and a humanitarian crisis on our southern border. [Audio link to show is posted below.]
But first today, a few other news items of note and another reminder of how neither the media nor the Democrats in Congress are prepared to adequately respond to the "creeping authoritarianism", as media analyst Eric Boehlert too-generously describes it, that has turned outrageous, impeachable actions by a sitting President into little more than another "wacky Trump story of the day" over the past two years of his chaotic and criminal Presidency.
On Tuesday night, the war-mongering Trump vetoed a bicameral, bipartisan War Powers Resolution adopted by Congress --- for the first time since the 1973 War Powers Act largely delegated Congress' Constitutional war-making power to the White House --- demanding an end to U.S. military aid for Saudi Arabia's war against Yemen, where thousands of civilians have been killed and millions are facing famine. That, despite the murder last year of Washington Post's Saudi journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi at the alleged command of Saudi crown prince and Trump ally Mohammad bin Salman.
Meanwhile, as federal prosecutors seek up to 10 months in prison for actress Felicity Huffman in the college admissions scandal after her recent guilty plea (please note my "Full Disclosure" during the program regarding my personal history with Huffman and her husband William H. Macy), the actions taken by Trump last week alone, as highlighted by Boehlert, are a veritable litany of impeachable offenses.
Nonetheless, while the actress may face jail time for a foolish and illegal offense on behalf of her daughter, our lawless President runs free --- and few, if any, in the media or Congress appear capable of taking on his Constitution-endangering lawlessness with the gravity warranted. Even several of the outspoken progressive freshman Democrats in the House, while supporting calls for impeachment in general, appear to be pulling punches in deference to fearful party leadership. As I argue today (yet again), there is more than enough --- even without whatever findings may come from Mueller --- to, as columnist Dan Savage has long argued, "ITMFA".
Next, we're joined by immigration attorney SARAH PIERCE, Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute to discuss Barr's newly-announced immigration policy changes revealed Tuesday evening. The new measures would bar asylum seekers who have already demonstrated a "credible fear" of return to their home countries to immigration officials from being allowed to seek bond for release until their asylum case can be heard. The process would, she explains, keep such individual in detention for months and even years, despite an already-existing lack of space in ICE detention facilities which has led to their current so-called "catch and release" policies.
The new measures, Pierce explains, would not apply to families seeking asylum or children traveling alone (even as thousands of asylum seeking children remain separated from their parents in the wake of Trump's previous AG Jeff Sessions' so-called "zero tolerance" policies.)
Pierce details what Barr's new policy measures will and won't do; why Barr has the authority to enact them; how they differ from Executive Actions undertaken by the Obama Administration (which Republicans used to object to as "unconstitutional unilateral actions"); why the new policy is likely to be challenged in federal court; how almost all of Trump's border policies are exacerbating the very problems he claims to want to solve; and why he continues to take such extreme and often unlawful and/or unconstitutional measures.
"This Administration just doesn't seem that interested in resolving this systemic problem. Instead, they just want to deter asylum seekers from arriving at the southern border. They want to limit how many ultimately apply for asylum, and then limit how many ultimately receive it," she tells me. "There is a political incentive for this President to look like he's active on immigration, to show that he's engaged in the fight, and fighting for the policies that his base is interested in --- and maybe less of a political interest in actually having results on the ground." Pierce surmises that Trump wishes to "keep hammering in these harsh policies, whether or not they're actually going to stand up in court or be effective."
Finally today, some listener comment in response to my rant yesterday regarding the $700 million raised overnight (now up to nearly $1 billion), from a handful of billionaire families and corporations, to restore the fire-ravaged, 850-year old Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris...
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Article Categories: BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Rights And Freedoms, U.S. Constitution, Impeachment, Mainstream Media Failure, Accountability, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Immigration, Democrats, Jeff Sessions, Yemen, KPFK, Donald Trump, BradCast, Saudi Arabia, Brian Schatz, War Powers Act, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Jamal Khashoggi, William Barr, Notre Dame
'If We Don't Get What We Want, I Will Shut Down the Government': 'BradCast' 12/11/2018
Trump's Oval Office tantrum; The 'Bottomless Pinocchio'; New misconduct in NC-9 election fraud probe; FL's late absentee ballots; The 'Axis of Oil'...
By Brad Friedman on 12/11/2018 6:29pm PT
On today's BradCast: A preview of the unimaginably worse dysfunction that awaits us all after Democrats take over the U.S. House majority in January and Donald Trump becomes even worse and more dishonest at his job? [Audio link to show follows below.]
First up today, some quick news headlines, including Time Magazine's announcement that several journalists, killed or imprisoned, are "Person of the Year" for 2018, and a life sentence plus 419 years recommended by the jury for the neo-Nazi who murdered activist Heather Heyer by plowing a car into counter-protesters during the August 2017 "United the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Also, the Washington Post Fact Checkers have been forced to create a new category to describe Donald Trump's dozens of endlessly repeated lies, such as his claims that Mexico would pay for his border wall (he's demanding U.S. tax-payers do so instead) and that his tax cuts were the largest in U.S. history (they weren't. They were the 8th largest.) The new category will be called "Bottomless Pinocchio" and will apply to lies that repeated more than 20 times after they've long been debunked by the fact-checkers as a falsehood. To date, Trump is the only politician to merit such a rating. At least 14 of his most frequently repeated lies have already earned the dubious new distinction.
Then, Trump's bizarre on-camera pageant in the Oval Office today with presumptive, soon-to-be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer. During a media avail before what was to be a meeting regarding the impending federal budget deadline, the three bickered about Trump's threat to shut down the U.S. Government if a budget deal fails to include billions for his southern border wall. "If we don't get what we want," Trump threatened the Democrats during the lengthy and bizarre televised negotiation, "I will shut down the government."
Pelosi and Schumer tried to convince the President to accept one of two bi-partisan deals they say could be immediately passed by both the House and Senate. But Trump, the great deal-maker, failed to budge --- so far. Trump's threat to shutdown the U.S. Government despite the costs to Americans and the economy, comes even while Republicans still control both chambers of Congress. Things are likely to get much uglier once Dems take over the House with their (at least) 40-seat majority on January 3.
Speaking of which, we've got a few more new details today on the GOP election fraud scandal in North Carolina's still-uncertified 9th Congressional District race. Republican Mark Harris is said to have won the election in November by just 905 votes over Democrat Dan McCready. But evidence of absentee ballot fraud by a GOP contractor hired by Harris (in both the general election and Republican primary) has delayed certification of the race by the State Board of Elections. They will decide whether to order a new election or declare one of the two candidates the winner. The Board had planned to review evidence from the ongoing investigation by December 21, but has now told a state court they they may need more time, given that the Harris Campaign has been slow in responding to documents subpoenaed by the Board.
Also, new evidence this week reveals that election workers in Bladen County (one of two NC counties at the center of the probe), illegally tabulated early vote results and leaked them to non-election officials (the Harris campaign?) several days prior to the close of polls on November 6th.
Meanwhile, election officials in Florida have now revealed that more than 6,600 vote-by-mail absentee ballots sent and post-marked by Election Day went uncounted in the Sunshine State's midterm election. Those numbers don't yet include ballots from Palm Beach County, a Democratic stronghold. The untabulated ballots might have effected a number of close races in FL, including those tallied in statewide "recounts" for U.S. Senate, Governor and Agricultural Commissioner. While state law allows ballots post-marked by Election Day from overseas military votes to be included in the tally if they are received up to ten days after the election, all other "late" ballots are ignored.
Finally today, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report with news from COP24, the U.N. climate conference in Poland, where the U.S. has joined Russia and Saudi Arabia in an "Axis of Oil" and is, literally, being laughed at for pushing coal while youth protesters demand fossil fuels be kept in the ground. Back home, the Trump Administration is now planning to reclassify high-level nuclear waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state (and other facilities) in order to avoid billions of dollars in clean-up at the nation's most polluted former nuclear weapons site...
Article Categories: Election Irregularities, Florida, North Carolina, Washington Post, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Election Fraud, Military/Overseas Voting, Journalist Intimidation, Accountability, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Washington State, Immigration, Republicans, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Vote-by-Mail, Time Magazine, KPFK, Donald Trump, Nuclear power/weapons, Climate change, Rick Scott, BradCast, Saudi Arabia, Race, Dept. of Energy, Election 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, Mark Harris, Dan McCready
Death Penalty for Abortion: 'BradCast' 11/21/2018
Guest hosted by Angie Coiro, with wisdom from historian Adam Hochschild; Abortion rights update; John Roberts vs. Donald Trump; Saudi Arabia torture reports; urban housing insights, and more!...
By Angie Coiro on 11/21/2018 6:04pm PT
On today's BradCast, I'm in for Brad today --- Angie Coiro, host of In Deep with Angie Coiro.
Quite the contrast between all the news Brad and Desi had to fit in yesterday, and the relatively quiet developments today; everyone's hitting the road. Except Donald, who's hitting Twitter, and SCOTUS chief John Roberts, who's hitting back.
We start with a round-up of news, including three abortion stories (yes, politicians in Ohio want you dead if you get or give an abortion); three tales of adults adulting, even in DC; and a story out of Saudi Arabia that makes it even more astounding that Trump loves the Crown Prince (and Saudi-tied profits) so dearly. Plus a look at Robert Reich's antitrust take on Facebook, Google, and Amazon.
Then long-time historian/journalist ADAM HOCHSCHILD discusses his book, Lessons from a Dark Time --- a collection of his work from over the decades. (A warning here for those who are sensitive to sexual assault discussions, as that does come up.) We talk about prison reform, redefining gun issues, and how far the Nazi Germany metaphor might play out in the US.
Housing activist and journalist RANDY SHAW has a book, too, and it has an unusual take on the urban housing crisis: it's a generational thing. Generation Priced Out documents his investigations in twelve major US cities, seeking both factors and fixes. In addition to the more universally-recognized culprits, he sees a less-discussed one: Baby Boomer resistance to housing the next generations.
And at the very tail end of the hour, a little something to make you smile --- to get you into the Thanksgiving spirit of gratitude. I'll let you check it out for yourself.
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Article Categories: CNN, AP, Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco, Barack Obama, FEC, Los Angeles, Torture, Economy, Donald Trump, Robert Reich, IRS/Taxes, BradCast, Saudi Arabia, Civil disobedience, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amazon, Jamal Khashoggi
GA Sec. of State Kemp Caught on Tape Worried 'Everybody May Exercise Their Right to Vote': 'BradCast' 10/23/2018
Also: Trump's Saudi wrist slap; Bomber targets Soros; DeSantis ducks in FL; Record Early Voting in TX, GA, NV elsewhere may be misleading...
It's another very busy show on today's BradCast (for a change), exactly two weeks out from this year's crucial midterm elections. Among the stories covered [audio link to show is posted below]...
After Trump describes the Saudi lies about their assassination of WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi as "the worst" coverup "in the history of coverups" (who would know coverups better?!), the Administration announces they will revoke visas for some of those involved. Good thing those guys only chopped up a journalist instead of showing up at our border to legally claim asylum or they'd have been thrown in jail without their children for months!;
We finally found the "angry left wing mob"! Apparently one of them put a bomb in the mailbox of Democratic funder George Soros. That seems an odd thing for "the left" to do, doesn't it? (Happily, nobody has attempted to bomb either the Koch Brothers or the many other Republican funders like Sheldon Adelson who give far more money to GOPers than Soros has ever given to Dems.);
Florida's Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis really doesn't want to answer any actual questions. On Sunday, he dodged just about everything asked of him during his debate with Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum on CNN and on Monday he cancelled an hour-long interview with the Editorial Board of the USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida;
Rolling Stone releases audio of Georgia's Republican Sec. of State and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, from a private campaign fundraising event last Friday, in which Kemp, the state's chief election official, is heard lamenting that his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams is spending millions on GOTV efforts which, he says, "continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote."
Little wonder Kemp has spent years trying to keep Georgians from voting, supports the state's easily-hacked, 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems, and is being sued by at least five different voting rights organizations for the myriad ways the state has been working hard to prevent voters --- particularly African-American ones, like Abrams --- from voting;
In Texas (as in Georgia, Nevada, and elsewhere around the country), early voting turnout is breaking records over previous midterm elections and even nearing Presidential election numbers in some cases. But Democrats would be wise not to make too much of those numbers for a host of reasons that we discuss in detail today. Among them: evidence suggests GOP enthusiasm is up as well and lines shouldn't be as long as they are, with hours-long waits in some places, suggesting unprepared election officials and failing voting equipment which could make for a nightmarish Election Day;
Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, with more global warming-fueled hurricanes coming (including Hurricane Willa now crashing into Mexico and gunning for Texas and maybe later this week, the East Coast, as well as Typhoon Yutu barrelling towards the Marianas and Guam), more new global heat records, and some reasonably encouraging news about debates taking place around the country in advance of the November 6 midterms, where candidates are finally being asked by journalist moderators about their positions on climate change!...
Article Categories: Florida, Texas, Georgia, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Rights And Freedoms, Accountability, Voter Registration, Vote Caging, Democrats, Republicans, Vote-by-Mail, KPFK, Donald Trump, Climate change, Rick Scott, Ted Cruz, BradCast, Saudi Arabia, George Soros, Election 2018, Mike Pompeo, Brian Kemp, Beto O'Rourke, Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum, Ron DeSantis, Jamal Khashoggi
GOP Telecom Deregulation Haunts FL Panhandle Recovery After Michael: 'BradCast' 10/22/2018
Guest: Harold Feld of Public Knowledge; Also: Khashoggi was banned by Saudi Arabia after criticizing TRUMP; Still fighting voter suppression...
On today's BradCast: More chilling Khashoggi news, more maddening voter suppression, and the Republican deregulation of phone companies in Florida and at the FCC have deadly consequences in the Sunshine State. [Audio link to full show is at bottom of article.]
First up today, an update on the latest in the alleged Saudi murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the wildly unreported fact that he had "self-exiled" from Saudi Arabia after being banned by the Saudis from writing and appearing on television or at conferences back in December of 2016 --- for being critical of then President-elect Donald Trump! That point seems quite important, given the Trump Administration's continuing efforts to help cover up the assassination in coordination with the Saudis and their ruling Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, after they repeatedly lied about the grisly killing of a journalist who had been mildly critical of Trump, as first reported in late 2016 and by the U.S. State Department in 2017.
Next, GOP voter suppression continues across many states in advance of the crucial November 6th midterms. Over the weekend on Twitter, President Trump lauded Georgia's Republican Gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, who as Secretary of State, has been working for years to suppress tens and even hundreds of thousands of disproportionately African-American voters in the Peach State. Kemp, as the state's chief election official, is overseeing his own election in a reportedly tight race for Governor against African-American Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams.
Trump also took the opportunity on Twitter over the weekend to falsely fan the flames of the GOP's phony claims of "VOTER FRAUD" in hopes, according to the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, of inciting government officials and law enforcement to intimidate minority voters before the crucial November 6 election. The Lawyer's Committee heads up the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline to answer question and help trouble-shoot voting problems, such as recent reports that early voters are being either turned away or forced to vote by provisional ballot --- rather than normal ones --- if the address on their ID does not match the one under which they are registered. Georgia's Photo ID voting restriction does not require registration addressees to match those on IDs (e.g. student voters who may not have in-state driver licenses or those who recently moved but have not yet updated their license.) Please contact the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline with questions about local voting laws or any problems at the polls --- and share that number far and wide over the next two weeks!
Finally, despite national media now focusing elsewhere, the devastation in Florida's Panhandle following the Category 4 Hurricane Michael two weeks ago continues and the official death toll is still rising. At the same time, power and phone service is still out in a number of rural areas, thanks in no small part to the deregulation of telecommunications company rules by Florida's Republican Gov. Rick Scott shortly after taking office in 2011, and by Donald Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
We're joined today by Public Knowledge's Senior Vice President HAROLD FELD, who has been warning for years about exactly such a situation. Feld explains how Scott gutted almost all of Florida's telecom company rules when he signed the "Regulatory Reform Act of 2011" and how Pai went still further when he gutted Obama-era phone company regulations in November of 2017.
Scott's 2011 measure "was a complete deregulation of the telephone industry in Florida. It removed the state Public Service Commission from any sort of jurisdiction over residential telephone service. It removed something called 'Carrier of Last Resort,' which means there always has to be a telephone provider in the area. It even removed the ability of the Public Service Commission to take complaints from consumers," Feld tells me. He describes it as "one of the most radical deregulations in the country."
As to the federal regulations scrapped by Trump's FCC, that was in response to federal regulations enacted in the wake of the disastrous performance by Verizon following SuperStorm Sandy in 2012, when copper lines were swept away, and phone companies failed to restore them, claiming that the use of cell phones meant they were no longer necessary. Obama's FCC insisted that "no repairing was not an option," says Feld. But Pai "insisted that there was no reason for any of these regulations [and] that companies have private incentive to deploy these networks, despite everything that actually happened," particularly in rural areas, following Sandy.
The Government, he notes, largely for decades has recognized "that it's always going to be profitable [to ensure service] in the cities, [but] it's not going to be profitable once you get out into the rural areas." So, it's been a value and tradition "through each upgrade of our communication network --- when we went from letters to the telegraph, from the telegraph to the telephone" to ensure service to all. But that's no longer the case.
Like Gov. Scott's Florida, Feld describes, some 37 states have lifted similar decades-old telecommunications requirements, thanks to legislation encouraged by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a privately-funded partnership between major corporations and (mostly) Republican state lawmakers.
The Republicans' deregulate-at-all-costs efforts to gut regulations --- regulations that Pai scoffed at before he became Trump's FCC Chairman --- may now be costing lives in Florida, as many in rural areas, as of late last week, remained unaccounted for, weeks after the storm. The non-partisan Public Knowledge group is suing for a reversal of those deregulations, and Florida's own Chief Financial Officer and State Fire Marshal, a longtime resident of the Panhandle himself, is now also begging Pai to consider a reversal...
Article Categories: Florida, Georgia, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, National Security, Rights And Freedoms, Photo ID Laws, Journalist Intimidation, Mainstream Media Failure, Accountability, Barack Obama, Voter Registration, FCC, KPFK, Donald Trump, ALEC, Rick Scott, Extreme weather, BradCast, Saudi Arabia, Election 2018, Brian Kemp, AT&T, Verizon, Stacey Abrams, Hurricane Michael, Jamal Khashoggi
Harvard Law Prof: Dems Must Now Pack SCOTUS or Face 'Political Suicide': 'BradCast' 10/19/2018
Guest: Harvard Law's Michael Klarman; Also: Trump praises GOP Rep's violence against journalist at MT rally, as Khashoggi assassination roils...
On today's BradCast: It's no longer only political pundits and activists calling for Democrats to pack the U.S. Supreme Court by adding several seats as soon as possible, in the wake of the Republican Party's blatant theft of the high court majority. Esteemed law professors are now joining that call. [Audio link to show follows below.]
But, first up today, a word or two on the President of the United States' appalling celebration of violence against journalists at a political rally in Montana on Thursday night. To the cheers of his supporters, Donald Trump praised the criminal assault on Guardian journalist Ben Jacobs by Republican U.S. House member Greg Gianforte. The attack last year was carried out by Gianforte, and caught on tape, on the eve of his special election to the state's only U.S. House seat.
"Any guy that can do a body slam --- he's my kind of guy," Trump declared to laughter and wild applause from supporters at the campaign rally for Gianforte in Missoula on Thursday, lauding him as "one tough cookie." The Congressman initially lied to police after the assault, claiming that he was attacked by Jacobs. Later, after he won the election, and after a Fox News crew who witnessed the attack detailed what actually happened, Gianforte pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault, apologized to Jacobs and paid a small fine in addition to performing 40 hours of community service and receiving 20 hours of anger management counseling.
Trump's disgusting --- and chilling --- praise for the violent attack against a reporter doing his job, comes amidst Trump's seeming support for Saudi Arabia following their reported assassination and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist and Virginia resident Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago. Journalists today --- including the Guardian's Editor and the head of the White House Correspondents Association --- are decrying Trump's support for violence against reporters, despite his sworn oath to protect and defend the Constitution's First Amendment. We decry it --- and the dark path where it's leading --- on today's show as well.
Next, we're joined by MICHAEL KLARMAN, the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School to discuss his recent essay at the Take Care Blog, detailing "Why Democrats Should Pack the Supreme Court" if they are ever able to regain control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. The public conversation in support of expanding the number of seats on the high court --- which can be done statutorily, without a Constitutional Amendment --- has been intensifying in recent weeks. What had begun as a call from activists to restore a Democratic majority, stolen from them by Republicans in 2016, has quickly spread to academic and legal circles.
Klarman, the author of many books on American law and history and a former clerk to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, argues that, in addition to the GOP's historically unprecedented theft of the high court and his belief that Trump was likely elected only due to unlawful foreign interference, a host of radical actions by Republicans in recent years at both the state and federal level, leaves Democrats with only the choice to respond in kind. If not, he argues, it will be nothing less than "unilateral disarmament" and an act of "political suicide" for the party.
"It's not radical. It's responding to an extraordinary rightward shift in the Republican Party that is tearing apart the rules of democracy," he argues. "The Republicans have already packed the Court," so "unpacking" it, he says, would be warranted.
"There's a kind of sickness that's been spreading in the Republican Party for the last decade or two. It's certainly not true of all Republican voters, many of whom I think would be unaware of these things, and would have a problem with them if they knew about it," he tells me. "But the Democratic Party can't go on playing by the established norms and traditions of democracy when the Republican Party is willing to do anything to win. That's unilateral disarmament. It usually doesn't work out well for the party that disarms. So this is a fairly mild way to fight back."
"My argument is not that Democrats should control the Supreme Court at any cost --- I think that's the Republicans' position, [that] 'we get to control the Supreme Court even if it means stealing an appointment.' My position is their theft has to be offset, and put us back in the position that we ought to have been at if the seat hadn't been stolen."
He leaves the case of whether Dems should run on a promise to expand the Court, or wait until they gain back control before announcing such a plan, to political scientists, but he notes: "We're going to have to think creatively in order to rescue democracy. And that may mean occasionally fighting back in ways that Democrats don't gravitate toward naturally, and that they would prefer not to have to use at all in a normal political environment. But you can't just respond by disarming in the face of this incredible threat that the Republican Party is posing to the basic norms and institutions of democracy."
Finally today, more news on the ongoing allegations of attempted voter suppression, particularly in southern states once covered by the Voting Rights Act until the central part of the Act was gutted by SCOTUS Republicans in 2013. That, on the same day that Trump's former longtime lawyer and business partner Michael Cohen broke his media silence to plead with the American public to vote this November or face "another two or another six years of this craziness." And then we enjoy another musical close to today's show, this time from actress Jenifer Lewis, of ABC's Blackish, who explains, in song, why it's time to "Get your ass out and vote!"...
Article Categories: BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Alabama, Rights And Freedoms, U.S. Constitution, Journalist Intimidation, Montana, Accountability, U.S. Senate, Voter Registration, Democrats, Republicans, U.S. Supreme Court, KPFK, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Antonin Scalia, Voting Rights Act, Russia, Election 2016, BradCast, Saudi Arabia, Merrick Garland, Election 2018, Neil Gorsuch, Election 2017, Greg Gianforte, Michael Cohen, Brett Kavanaugh, Jamal Khashoggi
Repubs Attempt State Supreme Court Coups in FL, WV as SCOTUS May Have Stolen U.S. Senate: 'BradCast' 10/16/2018
Guest: Slate's Mark Joseph Stern; Also: Early voting fails on first day in GA; Adelson now owns the GOP; Death toll rising after Michael...
On today's BradCast: If you think the way the Republican Party has rigged and stolen the U.S. Supreme Court is appalling, just wait until you see what they're trying to do of late at a few of the state Supreme Courts! [Audio link to show is posted below.]
But, first up today: Donald Trump says the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia told him he had nothing to do with the disappearance --- and, likely, murder --- of Washington Post journalist, Saudi citizen and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. The Prince's word appears to be good enough for Trump, who went on to compare the situation to the allegations of sexual assault against now-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Meanwhile, the midterm elections are now exactly three weeks away and early voting got underway on Monday in Georgia where, you'll be shocked to learn, it didn't go well. After our previous coverage of ongoing racially disproportionate voter suppression schemes under the command of GA Sec. of State and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp (who is in a tight election contest with Democrat Stacey Abrams), and after very serious and years-long concerns about their completely unsecure, wildly hackable, and 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems, it appears that the electronic pollbook systems failed across Fulton County (Atlanta) on the first day of early voting.
In not entirely unrelated news, the GOP appears to now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
Then, we move to some of the insanity of several attempted state Supreme Court coups this week with Slate's legal reporter MARK JOSEPH STERN. Stern joins us to detail both some good news from the Florida state Supreme Court, regarding that state's Supreme Court, and an apparent Constitutional Crisis in West Virginia after a decision by that state's Supreme Court, regarding their state Supreme Court. If it all sounds nuts, it's because it is.
First, in Florida, outgoing Republican Gov. Rick Scott had vowed to name three new Justices to the Court, even though the Democratic-appointed Justices he planned to replace will not be vacating their seats, because of term limits, until after Scott officially leaves office in January. Stern reports the largely good news --- with a caveat or two --- regarding the Sunshine State's Supreme Court's unambiguous ruling last week that will leave the job of appointing three new Justice to Scott's successor instead (who will be either Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum or Republican Ron DeSantis, depending on how things go on November 6th.)
Then, things get far crazier at the West Virginia state Supreme Court, where the Republican state legislature, along with Republican Gov. Jim Justice, have been attempting a coup by impeachment of all five Justices on the state's 3 to 2 Democratic-majority Court. This story has more jaw-dropping twists and turns in it than I can possibly describe here --- including five temporary replacement Justices determining that at least one of the impeachments was unconstitutional under state law and the GOP-majority state Senate which hopes to move forward with a trial anyway...if only they could only find a Justice willing to preside over it, as required by the state Constitution.
Just tune in for the insane details on how, as in Florida, West Virginia Republicans are doing anything and everything they can to blatantly steal a Democratic-majority high court.
And, as if that's not enough, Stern then reports on the wildly hypocritical decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last week that will leave a new voter suppression law --- enacted by North Dakota Republicans --- in place for the November midterms. The ruling effectively changes the state's election law at the last minute before this year's general election and is likely to disenfranchise thousands of Native American voters. The ruling threatens to undermine this year's re-election chances of Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who won her previous election in 2012 by just 3,000 votes, and could assure Republicans hold their control of the U.S. Senate along with it.
Yes, elections and Supreme Courts --- be they at the federal or state level --- matter!
Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, as the long road to recovery begins and the death toll increases after the catastrophic Hurricane Michael, and as a bought-and-sold Republican Party --- from Marco Rubio in Florida to Donald Trump in the White House --- continue to deny the deadly and costly impacts of climate change on behalf of their fossil-fueled corporate owners...
Article Categories: Election Irregularities, Florida, West Virginia, Georgia, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Impeachment, Accountability, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Voter Registration, Republicans, U.S. Supreme Court, Turkey, KPFK, Donald Trump, North Dakota, Climate change, Rick Scott, BradCast, Saudi Arabia, Sheldon Adelson, Native Americans, Election 2018, Brian Kemp, Jim Justice, Heidi Heitkamp, Stacey Abrams, Brett Kavanaugh, Andrew Gillum, Ron DeSantis, Hurricane Michael, Jamal Khashoggi
Ignoring the Cries of Stranded Children: 'BradCast' 10/12/2018
Guest-host Angie Coiro with Tina Vasquez on ICE, family separation; Bill Browder on Jamal Khashoggi; Sarah Craft on death of the death penalty in WA; Eliza Griswold on one family's fight against fracking...
On today's BradCast, I'm your host as Brad and Desi make their way along the road. Some of you hear my show, In Deep with Angie Coiro, alongside the BradCast on the same stations and streams.
We're awash in immigration stories this week, none of them good. Between Donald Trump's ongoing snit that there's no border wall, and his dead-eyed sidekick Stephen Miller's pleasure that the first round of sobbing, damaged children was a such grand success, a new round of detentions and separations is in the works. While reports are that grabbing wailing children from their families and losing them in the system isn't the plan this time around, the proposed "binary choice" isn't a whole lot better. Captured families can sit together in detention while justice slowly creeps toward them, or - their wailing children will be grabbed from them. That sounds awfully familiar.
TINA VASQUEZ has an article published simultaneously on Rewire.News and the New York Review of Books. She talks with me about the organizations shooting for the moon, working to #Abolish Ice. In fact, some go further, with dreams of open borders and Jeff Sessions put out to pasture.
Then the latest on the disappearance and probable murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. BILL BROWDER is the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management. When his lawyer was tortured and killed by the Russians, Bill campaigned in the US for sanctions against Russia for the crime. The result is the 'Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act' - the same act Congress cites in its requests to Trump to investigate Khashoggi's fate. Trump so far continues to twiddle his thumbs. Bill talks to me about what justice in this case looks like to him.
SARAH CRAFT brings us tidings of great joy. Yesterday the state of Washington's top court found the death penalty unconstitutional. Sarah - with Equal Justice USA - says it's a trend that seems to be growing.
Finally, ELIZA GRISWOLD, poet and journalist. She spent three years with the Haney family, on the edge of Appalachia. Stacy Haney watched her son grow sicker and weaker, pets die, farm animals born deformed, and the family's drinking water turn black. She realized all that was connected to the fracking down the road. But in a town getting rich on fracking leases, she was ostracized in her fight against the company. Eliza's book is Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.
Next time: the return of Brad and Desi! I'll be back soon. You take care of yourselves.
Article Categories: CNN, Pennsylvania, Washington Post, Whistleblowers, New York Times, Death Penalty, Environment, Washington State, Immigration, Turkey, EPA, Fracking, Donald Trump, Coal, BradCast, Agriculture, Saudi Arabia, Mining, Jamal Khashoggi
Where is Jamal Khashoggi?: 'BradCast' 10/11/2018
Guest-host Angie Coiro on the possibility of sanctions against Saudi Arabia, as Trump protects arms sales; Also: The power of women's rage, with Nelini Stamp and Soraya Chemaly...
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.
Article Categories: Rights And Freedoms, Joe Biden, Economy, Turkey, Donald Trump, BradCast, Saudi Arabia, Civil disobedience, Election 2018, Jared Kushner, ACLU, Melania Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, Jamal Khashoggi


Bruce Kettler is the director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture.
The Indiana State Department of Agriculture says the latest Census of Agriculture shows the sector remains the backbone of the state. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released the census, which is taken every five years. It shows Indiana's agricultural production in 2017 totaled more than $11 billion, which the ISDA says puts the state in the top 10 nationwide for total agricultural products sold.
In an interview with Inside INdiana Business, ISDA Director Bruce Kettler says the results highlight the efficiency of the state's agriculture industry.
"Certainly, we're not the largest state, of course, in terms of land size and land mass in the United States, so it does show good efficiency," said Kettler. "In the past two decades, we have actually more than doubled the agricultural output in dollars in the state of Indiana. Looking at that, I think that says we've been able to diversify our agricultural output probably both in crops but our gut feeling is especially in some of our livestock sectors. We've continued to grow those and I think that helps both."
Kettler says the other part of that is the businesses that supply Indiana farmers are able to continue to have jobs and supply those businesses. He says it's a good way to keep Indiana's ag sector strong.
The census says Indiana had 56,649 farms in 2017, down more than 2,000 over the five-year period. However, the average size of the farms was 264 acres, which is 5 percent higher than 2012. Total farmland in Indiana also rose to 15 million acres, or 65 percent of the state's total land.
The number of female farmers jumped 30 percent over the previous census, along with the number of minority-operated farms in all categories. Indiana also ranks third in the nation in the number of acres planted.
"We are seeing a trend of diversity in agriculture, and I couldn't be more proud to see the significant jump of women and minorities involved in this industry," Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch, Indiana's secretary of agriculture and rural development, said in a news release. "Agriculture has always been Indiana's calling card and the backbone of our economy. As we plan for the future, I look forward to working alongside our farmers, as they continue to feed and fuel our world."
Kettler says they will use the data to look at which parts of the ag sector can grow in Indiana.
"What I think it will help us to understand is where can we either expand existing businesses that are here that are processing the crops or livestock into products, or where can we work to attract new businesses that maybe want to come from other states or even outside of the United States to come here and invest in Indiana and, again, ways to add value to our products and crops that are grown here but then making sure that those jobs and the added value of those products as a result of those jobs stays in Indiana."
Kettler says the ISDA, along with the Indiana Economic Development Corp. and the Purdue Center for Regional Development, among others, will put the new agriculture census data into a study known as the Rural Economic Development Model. He says the model will allow the state to look at where its agricultural assets are located and help determine how best to grow the sector in Indiana.
You can connect to the 2017 Census of Agriculture by clicking here.
Kettler says the results highlight the efficiency of the state's agriculture industry.


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Clock.Time Property

 This clock's current time in beats.

public float Time { public get; }

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Normally, this method polls the clock's current time, and thus changes from moment to moment as long as the clock is running. However, when called from the scheduler thread (that is, from a Message.SendNow method or a CallbackMessage), it returns the precise time at which the message was scheduled.

For example, suppose a callback was scheduled for time T, and the scheduler managed to call that callback at time T+delta. In the callback, Time will return T for the duration of the callback. In any other thread, Time would return approximately T+delta.

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