{"id":10397,"date":"2013-11-27T20:49:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T04:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2013-11-27T22:18:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T06:18:16","slug":"kpfk-bradcast-corporate-espionage-against-nonprofits-and-private-citizens-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10397","title":{"rendered":"KPFK &#8216;BradCast&#8217;: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofits and Private Citizens (Like Me)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_CorporateEspionage_USChamberOfCommerce.png\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Hope you&#8217;ll grab this one for some Thanksgiving weekend listening!<\/p>\n<p>My guest on this week&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i> on <a href=\"http:\/\/kpfk.org\">KPFK<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/pacificanetwork.org\">Pacifica Radio<\/a> was the Center for Corporate Policy&#8217;s Gary Ruskin, author of the new report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corporatepolicy.org\/spookybusiness.pdf\">&#8220;Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage of Nonprofit Organizations&#8221; [PDF]<\/a>. The report is &#8220;spooky&#8221; for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10384\">I am named in the report<\/a>, as one of the targets of an extraordinary $12 million espionage plot by the loathsome, rightwing U.S. Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n[The scheme involved the U.S. Chamber, their powerful and sleazy law firm Hunton &#038; Williams, LLP and three grifter U.S. defense\/intel contractors, HBGary Federal, Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies. It was meant to <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8354\">use tools developed for the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; against me, my family and a number of progressive organizations<\/a>. None of the parties involved have been held accountable to this day. <em>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/USChamberPlot\">more about it here&#8230;<\/a><\/em>]\n<p>Ruskin&#8217;s report is chilling and the interview is disturbing. But the second half of the show is (largely) much less troubling! We update a lot of the stories we&#8217;ve been covering of late on <i>The BradCast<\/i>, most of them with good news updates!<\/p>\n<p>So, curl on up to the holiday radio hearth and give it a listen&#8230;and all of my best to you and yours for Thanksgiving! (Or, as we call it around here since Chanukah falls on the same day this year: Thanksalatke!)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/KPFK_BradFriedman_GaryRuskin_112713.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/KPFK_BradFriedman_GaryRuskin_112713.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope you&#8217;ll grab this one for some Thanksgiving weekend listening! My guest on this week&#8217;s BradCast on KPFK\/Pacifica Radio was the Center for Corporate Policy&#8217;s Gary Ruskin, author of the new report, &#8220;Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage of Nonprofit Organizations&#8221; [PDF]. The report is &#8220;spooky&#8221; for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[672,192,26,89,675,379,599,200,288,477,188,61,389,126,470,105],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaag-2013","category-accountability","category-brad-blog","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-cbs","category-election-2013","category-environment","category-health-care","category-kpfk","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-nsa","category-randi-rhodes","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-us-chamber-of-commerce","category-virginia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}