On this week’s very busy BradCast on KPFK/Pacifica Radio:
• After a bit of breaking news on yet another failure to indict a white cop who killed a black man (in NYC), it’s a quick (if disturbing) update on the continuing election recount mystery in Maine.
• The U.S. House race in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District (Rep. Gabby Giffords old seat) is headed to a “recount”, as the state plans to “recount” ballots on the same faulty electronic optical-scan computers that tallied them in the first place. Pima County, AZ election law attorney Bill Risner joins us to discuss his lawsuit [PDF] against the state’s plan for the “recount”.
• Dr. Michael Mann, Penn State University climate scientist and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
responds to the disturbing climate change-related story line on a recent episode of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom on HBO as we separate scary climate fact from even scarier climate fiction. Mann also comments on the seemingly very encouraging news out of Germany this week, suggesting that fossil fuel companies are seeing “the writing on the wall”. The good news: The guy who created the infamous “Hockey Stick Graph” is actually the optimistic one, for a change!
• Finally — as relevant as ever this week — it’s the 50th anniversary of the “Free Speech Movement” kicked off by activist Mario Savio’s inspiring speech at the UC Berkeley sit-in in 1964 (“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus”) and the 30th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster at the Union Carbide plant in India in 1984. We commemorate both.
The NEWSROOM show segment Brad was a major #clifi moment on USA TV, and will be remembered for its wit and its science.
21 impossible votes…..this is why the first question has always got to be,”how many people voted”?
certifying an election using votes the officials KNOW are not possibly legit is fraud
i wish we had a 1000 risners,1000 brads