{"id":12011,"date":"2017-01-26T18:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T02:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12011"},"modified":"2017-01-26T19:15:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:15:43","slug":"doomsday-nears-bradcast-1262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12011","title":{"rendered":"Lurching Towards &#8216;Doomsday&#8217;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 1\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_DoomsdayClock_012617.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the board members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/press-release\/board-moves-clock-ahead10433?platform=hootsuite\">announced<\/a> that their Doomsday Clock has been moved 30 seconds closer to midnight in the wake of Trump&#8217;s nuclear pronouncements and the increasingly alarming threat of climate change. We&#8217;re now two and half minutes to midnight. Sounds about right. [<i>Audio link to show posted below.<\/i>]\n<p>Those worries are unlikely to ease anytime soon, as the Administration trashed 150 years of institutional memory at the State Department yesterday with a purge of its leadership, while taking an increasingly aggressive stance against the media, science, facts and other institutional establishments on which the nation and its citizenry have long relied.<\/p>\n<p>Among the related stories also covered on today&#8217;s program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s top political appointee and voter registration <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11821\">fraudster<\/a> Steve Bannon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/26\/business\/media\/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html?smid=tw-share&#038;_r=0\">lashes out<\/a> at the free press, telling them to &#8220;keep its mouth shut&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Four top State Department officials were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/26\/politics\/top-state-department-officials-asked-to-leave-by-trump-administration\/index.html\">forced out<\/a> of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/josh-rogin\/wp\/2017\/01\/26\/the-state-departments-entire-senior-management-team-just-resigned\/?postshare=3501485447139231&#038;tid=ss_tw-bottom&#038;utm_term=.d34a416fa3ed\">leadership<\/a> positions, as world tensions are ratcheted up (in no small part by Trump.)<\/li>\n<li>Mexico&#8217;s President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/mexico-americas\/la-fg-mexico-trump-20170126-story.html\">cancels<\/a> his planned visit to the White House after the U.S. President orders a wall between the two countries.<\/li>\n<li>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/01\/26\/511636325\/its-a-big-one-iowa-pipeline-leaks-nearly-140-000-gallons-of-diesel\">pipeline<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/01\/24\/canada-oil-pipeline-spills-200000-liters-on-aboriginal-land.html\">spills<\/a> in the wake of Trump orders to complete the KeystoneXL and Dakota Access pipelines;<\/li>\n<li>The sources of Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2017\/01\/26\/trump-just-gave-a-remarkable-new-interview-heres-a-tally-of-all-his-lies\/?utm_term=.a0543488b22a\">false<\/a> &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; claims, reiterated again in a remarkable ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2017\/01\/25\/watch-president-trump-s-nonsensical-response-abc-muir-s-voter-fraud-fact-check\/215133\">interview<\/a> last night, are revealed and debunked. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/~\/media\/legacy\/uploadedfiles\/pcs_assets\/2012\/pewupgradingvoterregistrationpdf.pdf\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the 2012 Pew study that he claims is about &#8220;voter fraud&#8221;. It isn&#8217;t. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-bernhard-langer-voting-fraud.html\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> his fourth-hand story about non-citizens voting, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillGrayGC\/status\/824659537852407808\/photo\/1\">didn&#8217;t actually hear<\/a> from the pro golfer he claims told him about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/12\/01\/0-000002-percent-of-all-the-ballots-cast-in-the-2016-election-were-fraudulent\/?utm_term=.22e6afaa79bd\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> some of the evidence showing that the illegal votes we know of, to date, from 2016 were cast for Trump, not Hillary Clinton. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/online-voting-records-prove-tiffany-trump-registered-2-states-article-1.2956043\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the story of his daughter Tiffany being registered in two different states at once.)<\/li>\n<li>Advocate for discriminatory Photo ID voting restrictions is placed in charge of DoJ&#8217;s Civil Rights Division as the administration prepares to go &#8220;all in&#8221; on such restrictions nationally.<\/li>\n<li>Desi Doyen joins us for the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, recapping the new Administration&#8217;s chilling assault on the environment and its protectors since taking office less than a week ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Hayes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrislhayes\/status\/824415599505903616\">tweeted<\/a> yesterday that &#8220;Every day feels like 10 days.&#8221;  I couldn&#8217;t agree more&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_DoomsdayClock_TrumpVoterFraudLies_012617.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_DoomsdayClock_TrumpVoterFraudLies_012617.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>On today&#8217;s BradCast, the board members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that their Doomsday Clock has been moved 30 seconds closer to midnight in the wake of Trump&#8217;s nuclear pronouncements and the increasingly alarming threat of climate change. We&#8217;re now two and half minutes to midnight. Sounds about right. 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