{"id":11375,"date":"2015-09-25T17:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11375"},"modified":"2015-09-25T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:49:07","slug":"bye-bye-boehner-hello-again-florida-vote-suppression-and-other-breaking-world-affairs-bradcast-9252015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11375","title":{"rendered":"Bye, Bye, Boehner; Hello (Again), Florida Vote Suppression; And Other Breaking World Affairs: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 9\/25\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Boehner_PopeUN_FloridaSuppression_ChinaUS_092515.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">News is breaking like crazy today. We do our best to cover it all on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, along with yet another <i>new<\/i> chapter in the long and shameful history of voter suppression by Republicans in the state of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s thrilling, action-packed adventure!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&bull; The sudden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/09\/john-boehner-resigns-gop-speaker\">resignation<\/a> of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner; the gleeful reaction to it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/09\/jubilant-conservatives-dance-on-john-boehners-political-grave-before-resignation-ink-has-dried\/\"><i>from Republicans<\/i><\/a>; who might replace him, and who the hell would want to?<\/p>\n<p>&bull; China and the U.S. come to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/09\/25\/us-usa-china-idUSKCN0RO2HQ20150925\">&#8216;understanding&#8217;<\/a> on cyberhacks&#8230;at least some of them&#8230;as President Obama meets with President Xi Jinping in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Pope-mania continues, as Francis wows &#8217;em <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2015\/09\/25\/pope-francis-united-nations-address-migrants-climate\/72746990\/\">at the U.N.<\/a> General Assembly in New York City today.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; And we take a trip back down to Florida, where new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/article\/florida\/2015\/09\/8577571\/republican-lawmaker-says-inmates-key-defeating-corrine-brown\">audio recordings<\/a>, revealing evidence of a blatant vote suppression scheme in the Sunshine State, remind us (<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9438\">yet again<\/a>) why it is so outrageous that the Rightwingers on the U.S. Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10094\">gutted<\/a> the federal Voting Rights Act&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All of that, plus China <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-34355581\">announces<\/a> a nationwide cap-and-trade program to curb carbon emissions; AP has a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ap.org\/announcements\/an-addition-to-ap-stylebook-entry-on-global-warming\">new way<\/a> to describe climate change deniers, and Desi Doyen joins us for the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_BoehnerResigns_FLVoteSuppression_PopeChina_092515.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen to the complete show online below&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/i>[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_BoehnerResigns_FLVoteSuppression_PopeChina_092515.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News is breaking like crazy today. We do our best to cover it all on today&#8217;s BradCast, along with yet another new chapter in the long and shameful history of voter suppression by Republicans in the state of Florida. Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s thrilling, action-packed adventure!&#8230; &bull; The sudden resignation of U.S. House [&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,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,239,89,675,405,598,543,63,400,6,28,200,16,226,566,455,619,477,762,300,546,313,186,280,243,517],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ap","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-bush-legacy","category-china","category-climate-change","category-election-2000","category-election-2012","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-environment","category-florida","category-hillary-clinton","category-jeb-bush","category-john-boehner","category-keystone-xl","category-kpfk","category-pope-francis","category-republicans","category-rick-scott","category-us-supreme-court","category-united-nations","category-vote-caging","category-voter-registration","category-voting-rights-act","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11375","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=11375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11375"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}