{"id":15148,"date":"2024-09-03T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15148"},"modified":"2024-09-04T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T23:29:53","slug":"were-back-and-catching-up-with-americas-knife-fight-in-a-phone-booth-and-much-more-bradcast-932024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15148","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Back! And Catching Up With America&#8217;s &#8216;Knife Fight in a Phone Booth&#8217; and Much More!: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 9\/3\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_HarrisBiden-IBEWUnionHall-PittsburghLaborDay_090324.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Yup. We&#8217;re back! And we&#8217;ve got lots to <i>begin<\/i> getting caught up with on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. [<i>Audio link to full show follows below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the many stories reported and discussed on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s recent flip-flops on <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-abortion-florida-six-weeks-ae0ce47cb2af82a6586fa19235ea2226\">abortion<\/a>, pandering on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804\">IVF<\/a> and his <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/trumps-arlington-cemetery-campaign-event\/sharetoken\/b96b7e75-56f0-4885-b201-d656565a8ccc\">desecration<\/a> of <b>Arlington Cemetery<\/b> for political purposes. (By the way, Dems should embrace Trump&#8217;s pandering promise to have the Government pay for anyone&#8217;s fertility treatments. It&#8217;s the GOP&#8217;s first baby step toward universal healthcare\/Medicare-for-All after all! Sounds great! Hold them to it!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 10,000 hotel workers celebrated <b>Labor Day<\/b> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/02\/business\/hotel-strike\/index.html\">going on strike<\/a> for better wages and working conditions across the U.S. <b>Kamala Harris<\/b> and <b>Joe Biden<\/b> campaigned together, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/harris-walz-campaign-readies-labor-day-blitz-courting\/story?id=113318693\">speaking to a packed house of union workers<\/a> in <b>Pittsburgh<\/b> on Labor Day, touting the most pro-union, jobs-creating Admin in history and promised to continue it under a Harris-Walz Administration. Trump, apparently unable to find any union workers who wanted to hear from him, stayed home yesterday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>More than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/02\/biden-says-netanyahu-not-doing-enough-to-secure-ceasefire-with-hamas?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1\">hundred thousand demonstrators<\/a> took to the streets in <b>Israel<\/b> to protest against their far-right <b>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/b>-led government, demanding a deal for a cease-fire and the release of hostages in <b>Gaza<\/b>, after six of them were <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hersh-goldberg-polin-israel-palestinians-gaza-hostages-0be443e7ce616cbce3f2cb984e7971ca\">found dead<\/a> in a tunnel beneath Rafah on Sunday. Twenty-three year old Israeli-American hostage <b>Hersh Goldberg-Polin<\/b> was among those found dead, just days after his parents spoke at the <b>Democratic National Convention<\/b> in Chicago, calling for a cease-fire and the release of more than 100 hostages who remain in Hamas custody following their horrific attack on Israel last October. As we have been arguing for months, however &#8212; and as Israeli protesters are noted as mentioning in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/02\/biden-says-netanyahu-not-doing-enough-to-secure-ceasefire-with-hamas?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1\">this <i>Guardian<\/i> piece<\/a> &#8212;  Prime Minister Netanyahu is unlikely to ever agree to a deal that would effectively end Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza, because it would also result in the end of his governing coalition. After that, he will have to face corruption charges filed against him from which he is currently immune&#8230;as long as he remains Prime Minister. If all of that sounds like a deal that <b>Donald Trump<\/b> hopes to win for himself in November, you are right. Tune in for much more on all of this today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Meanwhile, on Tuesday, <b>Russia<\/b> launched another deadly, long-range <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-missile-strike-poltava-region-a53f1a4500ef52e4bf8217ee0e8bca84\">missile assault<\/a> on <b>Ukraine<\/b>, this time on a military academy and nearby hospital. More than 50 were killed, more than 200 wounded. That as Ukraine has finally <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-putin-kursk-incursion-ca6d18d06606794580bdc779d2c98134\">taken possession of land inside Russia&#8217;s Kursk region<\/a>, including some 500 square miles along the Ukrainian border, and continues to plead with the U.S. and Europe to send weapons to help them defend themselves against the two-and-half-year onslaught by its imperialistic Russian neighbor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Massachusetts<\/b> is holding its Congressional and state legislative primaries today, just days after its Secretary of the Commonwealth <b>William Galvin<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegram.com\/story\/news\/state\/2024\/08\/29\/ma-primary-election-text-scam\/74994898007\/\">warned residents<\/a> in the state about scam text messages being sent to some voters, falsely telling them that they are ineligible to vote. It is just one of the many dirty tricks we will be seeing between now and Election Day, the period of time that I am calling PHASE 1 of this year&#8217;s general elections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, speaking of, Labor Day is a good moment to mark where things are in the horse race toward Election Day, following the unprecedented plot-twist of the last 6 weeks following <b>Kamala Harris<\/b> taking over at the top of the ticket. She has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natesilver.net\/p\/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model\">surged in the polling averages<\/a> against <b>Donald Trump<\/b> &#8212; particularly in the seven critical battleground states &#8212; since then. But, she remains just barely ahead of Trump in the states she most needs to win. Her slim lead nationally and in the most critical battleground states she would need to get to 270 electoral votes, in a system that advantages Republicans, has resulted in, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/09\/02\/trump-harris-polls-2024-00176981?cid=apn\">Politico colorfully describes<\/a> it today, &#8220;the equivalent of a knife fight in a phone booth.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us today to <i>begin<\/i> catching up on much that we missed in climate and environmental news after being off just one week, including the role of climate action in the <b>2024 contest<\/b>; new data on deadly <b>extreme heat<\/b> in the <b>U.S.<\/b>; <b>China<\/b> meeting its renewable electricity targets <i>six years early<\/i>; and the <b>Klamath River<\/b>, now finally running free again along the <b>California\/Oregon border<\/b> after being dammed up for more than 100 years!&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-HarrisBidenLaborDay-IsraelNetanyahu-UkraineRussia-HorseRace2024_090324.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/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=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/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>Yup. We&#8217;re back! And we&#8217;ve got lots to begin getting caught up with on today&#8217;s BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.] Among the many stories reported and discussed on today&#8217;s program&#8230; Donald Trump&#8216;s recent flip-flops on abortion, pandering on IVF and his desecration of Arlington Cemetery for political purposes. 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