{"id":11168,"date":"2015-05-07T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T23:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11168"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T23:22:05","slug":"broken-political-machines-and-how-to-fix-them-bradcast-572015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11168","title":{"rendered":"Broken Political Machines (and How to Fix Them): ‘BradCast’ 5\/7\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a very<\/i> busy BradCast<\/i><\/a> today!<\/p>\n

We started with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling<\/a> finding that the NSA’s mass surveillance of US citizens under the Patriot Act is, in fact, illegal; Then, more arrests<\/a> of top elected officials in NY state (Who’s next<\/a>?);<\/p>\n

Next, I was joined by BRAD BLOG’s<\/a> Texas blogger and ‘toon curator Perry “PDiddie” Dorrell of Brains & Eggs<\/a> to discuss the “Ace in the Hole (and on the Bench)”<\/a> in the ongoing criminal felony trial of former TX Governor and presumptive 2016 GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry. (And for an update on whether he’s properly prepared for the imminent “Jade Helm 15”<\/a> U.S. government takeover of Texas!)<\/p>\n

Then BRAD BLOG<\/a> legal analyst Ernest A. Canning on “the democracy deficit” and how it applies to Bernie Sanders<\/a> and his run for the 2016 Dem nomination.<\/p>\n

Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for a very busy Green News Report<\/i><\/a> on Oklahoma tornado outbreak, ‘oil bomb’ trains, the progressive take over of Alberta, Canada’s government, and Elon Musk’s huge new announcement…<\/p>\n

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