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2020's Federal Court Voting Rights Roller Coaster and How to Make it Stop: 'BradCast' 10/16/2020
Guest: Univ. of KY election law Prof. Joshua A. Douglas; Also: Trump's CA wildfire emergency disaster relief roller coaster...
If you're feeling a bit nauseous of late, hopefully it's not COVID. But it could very well be the effects of trying to keep up with the roller coaster of federal court rulings we've been reporting on The BradCast of late. Or it could be due to trying to keep up with the President of the United States changing moods every few hours these days, as he vacillates between vindictiveness and desperation just over two weeks from Election Day. [Audio link to today's full show follows below summary.]
On Thursday, Donald Trump refused a request from the Governor of California for a Major Disaster Declaration following the spate of record wildfires we've seen in the Golden State over the past month, amid record heat and drought fueled by climate change. Some 8,500 fires this year have resulted in more than 4 million acres burned this year alone --- twice the all-time record for the state --- with nearly 2 million acres scorched in six major wildfires over just the past month. A thousands structures have been leveled and 31 people have died in recent blazes, as five of the six largest fires in California history have taken place this year.
But Trump --- who despises California because we don't vote for him --- has long threatened to cut off FEMA emergency funds to the state, dismissing climate change as a cause, citing leaves and dead trees as the reason for the massive fires and demanding better forest management in the state. That, despite the fact that the vast majority of California's forests are federal lands, which are supposed to be managed by....the Trump Administration.
White House spokespeople spent Friday morning explaining that California's request for federal aid "was not supported by the relevant data that States must provide for approval and the President concurred with the FEMA Administrator's recommendation" against it. That recommendation, however, according to Trump's former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor over the summer, was ordered by a cruel and vindictive Trump himself. But by Friday afternoon, just before air time, someone must have pointed out to Trump that more of his voters live in California than in any other state in the union. Or, they just told him how bad he looked, just over two weeks from Election Day, in refusing federal aid to people who have lost everything due to no fault of their own, especially in a state which had been running a $5.6 billion budget surplus until Trump's disastrously bungled response to the coronavirus resulted in a $54 billion deficit here instead.
It's clear that Donald Trump doesn't even care about his own voters, if they live in a state that won't help him win a second term. He cares about only himself. Period. But, whatever it takes. We're happy for the late breaking news that he finally reversed his cruel idiocy moments before airtime today.
Keeping up with the roller coaster of Trump's mood swings, however, is only marginally less nauseating than keeping up with the roller coaster of recent federal court rulings on voting rights this year! As we've been reporting over the past several weeks, in state after state after state, lower courts have general found in favor of efforts by Democrats and voting rights advocates to make voting easier and safer during the pandemic, as the Trump Campaign and Republican Party have sued virtually everywhere to prevent that from happening. But time and again, well-reasoned, Constitutionally sound rulings by U.S. District Court judges have been overturned at the appellate and Supreme Court levels, often in deference to state legislatures, or simply because SCOTUS has decided its too late to change an election rule or law, even not doing so might disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in violation of federal law and the Constitution itself.
As University of Kentucky election law professor JOSHUA A. DOUGLAS, author of Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting, asks this week in a CNN editorial, if the courts are supposed to protect the right to vote, why aren't they doing so?
Good question, which Douglas joins us to discuss on today's program. He also has some good, if troubling answersto that question, which Amy Coney Barrett will not be making any less troubling when her SCOTUS confirmation is rammed through the U.S. Senate to seat her on the High Court before Election Day.
"It is frustrating," he tells me, "because the Constitutional right to vote is supposed to be one of our most foundational precious rights, and the courts are supposed to be a check on legislative majorities that try to rig the system, rig the rule of the game to keep themselves in power. That's the whole point of judicial review in these Constitutional cases involving voting rights, and the courts are refusing to do that right now."
But Douglas has good suggestions as well, for how we can begin to correct this sickening course that has resulted, in no small part, from the packed rightwing courts which have been stripping more and more rights from voters over the past decade or so.
"Congress does have the Constitutional authority to regulate elections in a lot of ways under Article 1, Section 4 of the US Constitution, referred to as the Elections Clause," he argues, "which gives states the first right in regulating elections, but says Congress may also alter or amend those regulations." Moreover, he continues, "we have to think on a long term strategy on enshrining the Right to Vote as a textual matter in the US Constitution. Because if these judges are 'textualists', then having explicit language conferring the right to vote, which the Constitution does not currently have, is a much stronger legal argument."
Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest Green News Report, which --- speaking of Barrett --- examines the apparent climate science denialism of the Justice-in-Waiting, as revealed during her Senate confirmation hearings this week. And, just before we finish up today, the breaking news that the U.S. Supreme Court will be deciding whether Trump may violate the Constitution by excluding undocumented immigrants from Congressional apportionment following this year's decennial U.S. Census...
Article Categories: California, Election Reform, Texas, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Rights And Freedoms, U.S. Constitution, South Carolina, Republicans, U.S. Supreme Court, FEMA, Vote-by-Mail, KPFK, Donald Trump, Antonin Scalia, Voting Rights Act, Climate change, Extreme weather, BradCast, Gavin Newsom, Election 2020, Gerrymandering, Amy Coney Barrett
High School Kids' Startup Outpaces FEMA on Delivery of Protective Face Shields in Georgia: 'BradCast' 7/14/2020
Guest: High School senior Shourya Seth, COO of Project Paralink; Also: Admin's top-to-bottom failures in managing COVID crisis continue; Biden proposes 100% carbon-free power by 2035, millions of jobs with it...
On today's BradCast: How bad is Donald Trump's Administration response to the COVID-19 crisis? Bad enough that "a guerrilla network" of high school kids seem to be doing a better job of getting some much-needed life-saving protective gear to medical workers than the federal government itself, at least in one state so far. [Audio link to show follows below.]
If you tried to fail any worse than the Trump Administration and his GOP acolyte Governors around the nation (Hello, Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis!), you'd be hard-pressed to fail as thoroughly as Trump has managed to, in virtually every aspect of the COVID-19 crisis. His deadly incompetence is continuing to help drive up infection rates, hospitalization rates and deaths in the U.S., even now, some five months into the pandemic. In Florida, the state's incompetent and very Trumpy Governor is at least finally admitting that they do not have nearly enough rapid tests to keep up with the explosion of new cases in the state after DeSantis reopened opened businesses far too early in the spring. But, even as FL hit a national record on Sunday of 15,300 newly confirmed cases in a single day on Sunday (more than most entire nations!), he continues to keep hospitalization rates a secret, despite promising last week to begin reporting them transparently to the public.
For their part, the Trump Administration is at least pulling back on one element of their shambolic crisis management. After being sued by 17 states this week, the Administration has walked back its vow to withdraw visas from foreign exchange students attending schools which refuse to open their classrooms to deadly in-person classes five days a week beginning next month. Other than that, the Administration response continues to go from horrific to even more horrific, if that's even imaginable.
NBC News reports today that, according to internal Health and Human Services documents they've obtained, shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) persist across the country as cases and hospitalizations and death rates continue to surge in major metropolitan cities and rural areas alike. The Strategic National Stockpile and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are still only able to fulfill about 30% of the requests for PPE for front-line medical and long-term care facility workers across the country, according to the federal documents, despite the President's ability to invoke the Defense Production Act to commandeer manufacturing facilities to meet the nation's needs.
Meanwhile, some high school kids in Atlanta, Georgia have taken it upon themselves to actually do something about the problem. We're joined today by SHOURYA SETH, high school senior and Chief Operating Officer for Project Paralink, a grassroots organization built with his friends to combat the coronavirus pandemic with the decentralized production producing and distribution of PPE to health workers. So far, they've managed to manufacture and donate more than 420,000 units of PPE, from face-shields to masks to more than 1,500 locations.
They've also gained some corporate support for their efforts, which are now joined by nearly 1,000 volunteers in the work to distribute much-needed protective gear in at least four states, to date. Seth says they have distributed to Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama, though he tells me today they've recently begun working with California, New York, New Mexico and the Navajo Nation as well, for what they describe as "decentralization for social good" and "localized disaster relief".
Recently, he explains, "some hospitals had gone back to the position where they were only left with one week of supplies. And it was just, you know, really frustrating to see that the federal government was not doing anything about it." The project's ultimate goal, Seth explains, is to replace, or at least augment, FEMA's efforts with "Parapod Relief Stockpiles" all over the nation. He describes the project as "a guerrilla network of sorts [to] get the PPE supplies delivered faster than the federal supply chain." He also tells me that Paralink has already even outpaced FEMA in at least one respect in Georgia.
"Recently we actually passed FEMA in the donation of face shields," says Seth. "We didn't really see any coordination, at least on the gubernatorial level or the city level. On June 11th, FEMA put out a public press release, giving out state-by-state PPE data. When we looked at Georgia, what we found out was that FEMA had, at that time, only been able to produce 189,000 face shields, while we had been able to produce 370,000 face shields, essentially doubling the output. And the funny part is, some of the donations we made were to FEMA! So while we had been overproducing we had also been donating to FEMA!"
Seth tells us how how the project came about as an effort to improve food delivery logistics before the COVID crisis struck. They then decided to modify their algorithms to turn to PPE manufacturing and delivery.
"Just before the surge of cases, we started to notice a very, very slow downward trend in the cases. And we realized a lot of people, like Dr. Fauci, were talking about a second wave of the pandemic coming during the winter. We wanted to create the stockpiles in states to prepare for the future," he says. "A lot of the Republican-controlled state governments were ignoring those warnings, but we understood according to virologists, according to common sense, the cases were going to rise again." So, they sprung into action.
Seth also offers his own feelings about whether schools should be opened for in-person classes, as the Administration is now insisting upon, and asks for your help in growing the project. "If you have any sort of questions, inquiries, or ways that you can help us out, reach out to us!"
So, if you're worried about the next generation, today's conversation is likely to make you feel much better about their ability to handle --- and fix --- so much that we've already screwed up for them.
Then, another bit of encouraging and progressive news, this time from the Joe Biden Campaign today. The presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee announced a massive climate plan aimed at combating climate change and spurring economic growth by overhauling America's energy industry with a proposal to achieve carbon-free renewable power across the entire country by 2035. The ambitious plan echoes that offered during the Democratic primary campaign by then rival Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington state. The ambitious progressive plan would more than doubles the resources and halve the time-frame that Biden had previously proposed during the campaign. The effort to tackle our climate crisis would also, as Desi Doyen explains today, serve as a massive infrastructure jobs engine to help the U.S. climb out of the pandemic, it's accompanying economic crisis, and systemic racism, as the proposal requires that 40 percent of the money spent on clean energy deployment goes to historically disadvantaged front line communities, which have been among the worst and first victims of the climate crisis. It's a New Deal-like proposal that some might even call a Green New Deal --- if that phrase didn't startle delicate Republicans so.
Finally, we close with our latest Green News Report, as the nation attempts to deal with an extended extreme heat wave amidst our coronavirus crisis; as oil and gas companies go belly up, while both leaving environmental disasters for tax-payers to clean up and making sure their executives get huge bonuses on the way out the door; and as one venerable environmental group goes all in on ad buys highlighting Trump's deadly, parallel denial of both COVID-19 and climate change...
Article Categories: Florida, Georgia, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Environment, Education, Health Care, Joe Biden, FEMA, KPFK, Donald Trump, Climate change, Extreme weather, BradCast, Election 2020, Brian Kemp, Ron DeSantis, HHS, Green New Deal, Pollution, Coronavirus/COVID-19
'Green News Report' - June 30, 2020
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: U.S. fracking pioneer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy; BP warns investors of a future with less oil; Sorry, endangered species, U.S. Supreme Court won't stop Trump's border wall for you; PLUS: Flood risks to U.S. homes far higher than previously estimated... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): House Democrats unveil ambitious climate package, steering toward a net-zero economy by 2050; South Pole warmed three times the global rate in last 30 years; PGE first major utility to support bans on natural gas; Democrats' infrastructure bill has a special delivery: Electric mail trucks; Clean Energy Milestone: First offshore wind installed in U.S. federal waters; China's CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May... PLUS: Space agencies unveil site showing lockdown changes to Earth... and much, MUCH more! ...
Article Categories: Environment, U.S. Supreme Court, FEMA, Washington D.C., Green News, Fracking, Donald Trump, Natural gas, Chevron, Oil, Climate change, Extreme weather, Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, Dept. of Interior, Public lands
'It Was Never Politics, It Was Always Science': 'BradCast' 6/25/2020
COVID-19 surging in U.S. at record rates as hard evidence confirms that yes, Trump told his 'people' to 'slow the testing down, please'...
Seriously, at some point American officials will need to be prosecuted for mass murder for their criminal delinquency and deceit in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, which has, so far, in just four months, cost the lives of more than 122,000 Americans. Those prosecutions should begin (if not end) with the man currently serving as President of the United States. That is particularly true in the wake of his criminal admission at his Death Rally in Tulsa last week, when he admitted that he told his "people...slow the testing down, please!" The White House later said Donald Trump was just joking, but when asked if he was kidding, he publicly admitted otherwise. "I don't kid," he said, "let me just tell you, let me make it clear." And we now have hard evidence on today's BradCast to prove that, perhaps for the first time, he was finally telling the truth. [Audio link to full show is posted below.]
On Wednesday, confirmed new coronavirus cases in the U.S. set a single day record of more than 38,000. At the same time, hospitalizations are rapidly increasing in a number of states around the country, including states such as Florida, Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma, where denialist Republican Governors reopened for business far too quickly, in direct contradiction to almost all health experts.
As states like New York, New Jersey and Connecticut --- hit hardest and earliest at the beginning of the pandemic --- have seen case numbers and hospitalizations plummet, they've instituted quarantine restrictions on travelers from some of the currently hardest hit states. As of Wednesday, the list included Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Texas.
When asked what he would say to the leaders of some of those states, including Florida, whose Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis had issued a quarantine on travelers from the NY metro area early in the pandemic (while failing to mandate appropriate restrictions in his own state), New York's Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo said today: "You played politics with this virus and you lost. You told the people of your state and you told the people of this country, White House, don't worry about it. Just open up, go about your business, this is all Democratic hyperbole. Oh, really? Now you see 27 states with the numbers going up. You see the death projections going up. You see the economy going down. It was never politics, it was always science. And they were in denial."
Well, many of them are still in denial. And not just denial, but taking purposeful, affirmative efforts to lie to their people about COVID-19 numbers in their own states. The expert who ran Florida's once-lauded COVID-19 tracking website, but was fired because, she says, she refused to manipulate the data, sent out a warning this week. She charges that officials have been "instructed this week to change the numbers and begin slowly deleting deaths and cases so it looks like Florida is improving next week in the leadup to July 4."
In West Virginia, the state's Republican Gov. Jim Justice, a billionaire coal baron, has forced out the commissioner of the state's public health bureau because he didn't like the numbers she was reporting, as cases rise in at least 11 counties. He had previously lauded her at regular COVID-19 press briefings where she spoke. She was not at his latest briefing on Wednesday and released a statement upon her forced resignation that night, urging state officials "to stay true to the science".
Meanwhile, as the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), conceded that the infection rate in the U.S. is likely 10 times higher than the number of cases currently reported (that's 23 million probably infections, instead of the official 2.3 million reported as of today), states like Texas are seeing not just increased cases, but spiking hospitalizations, which have doubled over the past week. In Houston, ICU beds were 97 percent full by Wednesday. (In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has barred hospitals from reporting those numbers anymore.) Even Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is now warning of the state's "massive outbreak", while still failing to mandate masking or even allowing local officials in Houston or anywhere else to do so on their own.
And yet, with all of that, Donald Trump really has told his "people" to "slow the testing down." Talking Points Memo's Josh Kovensky has been documenting the refusal by the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to approve extensions for federally funded testing at 13 sites across five states, including Texas. Where more than 40 such sites were once funded by the federal government across the country, only 13 sites remain, and they have been told by the Trump Administration that those resources will end on June 30th, despite desperate requests from officials in Texas, Illinois and Pennsylvania for the much-needed aid to continue.
That's just a taste of today's program, which raises the very serious question: Should these people be held accountable for the thousands --- perhaps tens of thousands --- of American citizens who are likely to die, thanks to their purposeful efforts to ignore science and health officials for purely brazen political purposes?
The deadly denial about the coronavirus is a fast-motion mirror of the Republican denial, for brazen political purposes, regarding climate change. Today we close with some accountability and/or attempts at accountability on that front in our latest Green News Report, in which Minnesota's Attorney General has now filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against Exxon, Koch, and the American Petroleum Institute, citing, by way of just one example, a "proprietary" document from Exxon warning about the dangers of "CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere...due to fossil fuel combustion" that "will cause a warming of the earth's surface" and "dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050." That prescient, on-the-money document is dated October 16, 1979, before Exxon went on to spend millions of dollars over decades to misinform the public that climate change due to the burning of fossil fuels was little more than a hoax. Desi Doyen joins us for that attempted accountability and a bit more that has actually succeeded in a refreshingly encouraging GNR today. And it comes not a moment too soon...
Article Categories: Florida, West Virginia, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Arizona, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, New York, Montana, Accountability, FEMA, KPFK, Donald Trump, Climate change, Greg Abbott, Monsanto, BradCast, Exxon Mobil, Andrew Cuomo, CDC, Jim Justice, Ron DeSantis, HHS, Pollution, Coronavirus/COVID-19
We Hate to Say 'We Told Ya So', But We Are Your Early Warning System: 'BradCast' 1/9/2020
Dems and Reps charge Admin has no evidence of 'imminent threat' before Soleimani assassination; Ukrainian passenger plane believe downed by Iranian missile; New study confirms new computer BMD voting systems should not be used in 2020; Trump guts landmark environmental rule...
On today's BradCast, a whole lot of evidence as to why Desi Doyen calls us "your early warning system". [Audio link to show posted beneath summary below.]
Among the stories covered today...
The deadly and dangerous fallout continues from Donald Trump's assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, with Democratic and Republican members of Congress from both the House and Senate, blasting the Administration for failing to provide evidence of an "imminent attack" which might have legally justified Trump's targeted killing of the second most powerful public official in Iran. Members who attended classified briefings by top Administration officials on Wednesday were outraged by the failure of those officials to provide the information they claimed they had regarding the killing. Without that information, Trump's targeted assassination of Iran's top military general was very possibly in violation of both domestic and international law. But are Democrats enraged enough to bring another article of impeachment over it?;
Not all Congressional members were upset by the classified briefing. Some, like Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL), charged that members such as Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who claimed after the briefing that Trump "recklessly assassinated" Soleimani with "no evidence of an imminent threat or attack", was actually an "Ayatollah sympathizer" who was "divid[ing] our country" (Seriously. That's what he said. Rutherford's challengers this year are Donna Deegan and Christopher Eagle on the Democratic side, and 20-year Navy vet Dr. Erick Aguilar in the August Republican primary in the state.);
In related matters, as we surmised based on available evidence during yesterday's BradCast, U.S. officials today are now confirming their belief that the Ukrainian Airlines passenger jet that crashed minutes after takeoff from the airport in Tehran on Wednesday was, in fact, shot down by an Iranian missile. The crash killed all 176 on board just hours after Iran's non-lethal ballistic missile revenge attack on Wednesday in response to Trump's killing of Soleimani last week. Officials in the U.S., Ukraine and Canada (which lost 63 residents in the tragic disaster) believe Iran might have mistaken the passenger flight for a military response from the U.S. that night. Along with the 56 killed during a stampede amidst the massive funeral processions for Soleimani, the death toll of Trump's action has been extraordinary. How any of this has made Americans safer is anybody's guess;
In election news, a new, landmark study [PDF] was released this week by computer scientists, cybersecurity and voting systems experts at the University of Michigan. It finds that new, touchscreen computer Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) --- which we have long been warning about, and which are now proliferating the country in advance of the critical 2020 Presidential election --- are "extremely unsafe" and vulnerable to undetectable hacking.
Most alarming (at least to those who haven't heard the same loud warnings from BradBlog.com and The BradCast for many years now) is that the researchers found that in a mock election, where they had rigged the new voting systems to misprint a voter selection on the computer-marked paper ballot printouts, more than 93% of voters failed to notice that their vote had been changed by the computer! 93%!
And yet, these all-new, vulnerable, 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems are now being deployed to battleground states like Pennsylvania and Georgia and North Carolina, and even to the nation's most populous voting jurisdiction, Los Angeles County, in advance of this year's elections! We explain the study's disturbing findings and what you can do to try and avoid having your vote lost to a touchscreen Ballot Marking Device in your home jurisdiction;
Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest Green News Report, with some good news (coal plant shutdowns have save some 26,000 American lives!), scary news (new findings that Trump's EPA and FEMA are not prepared for disasters) and terrible news (the Trump Administration is announcing a new rule that would do away with most environmental impact studies before construction of major federal projects, such as roads, bridges and even oil pipelines!)...
Article Categories: ES&S, Iraq War, BRAD BLOG, Election Reform, Pennsylvania, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, National Security, U.S. Constitution, Iran, Touch-Screen DREs/BMDs, Accountability, U.S. House, Environment, U.S. Senate, Democrats, Republicans, FEMA, Dominion Voting, EPA, KPFK, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Rand Paul, Coal, Canada, Russia, Climate change, Australia, BradCast, Ukraine, Dept. of Interior, War Powers Act, Election 2020, Mike Lee, Pramila Jayapal, John Rutherford
'Green News Report' - January 9, 2020
By Desi Doyen on 1/9/2020 10:49am PT
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump Administration weakens yet another landmark environmental law; Trump EPA and FEMA not ready to deal with disasters, according to new findings; Shutdown of coal plants has saved 26,000 American lives; PLUS: Disinformation campaign underway to deny role of climate change in Australian bushfires... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here's how; In Australia's burning forests, signs we've passed a global warming tipping point; It's not arson, you absolute f***ing morons; Trump's NEPA ambitions hinge on his reelection; U.S. billion-dollar weather disasters doubled in last decade;
US oil and gas industry's 5-Year Plan is a climate and health nightmare... PLUS: Earth posts second-hottest year on record to close out our warmest decade... and much, MUCH more! ...
Article Categories: Mainstream Media Failure, Environment, FEMA, Green News, EPA, News Corp., Coal, Climate change, Extreme weather, Australia, Oceans, Infrastructure, Pollution
'Green News Report' - October 29, 2019
By Desi Doyen on 10/29/2019 11:10am PT
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: State of emergency in California, amid massive, wind-driven wildfire outbreak; Massachusetts sues Exxon Mobil over climate fraud; Poll finds Americans want less oil and gas exploration, not more; PLUS: Trump's plan to take Syria's oil has a small problem --- it violates international law... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Coal giant Murray Energy is 8th coal company to declare bankruptcy this year; GM, Toyota side with Trump in CA emissions fight; Secret deal helped housing industry stop tougher rules boosting energy efficiency, disaster resilience; 'Evil economics': Rev. William Barber condemns proposed plastics facility in Cancer Alley; Mars Candy still contributing to rampant deforestation, despite pledge; Global warming will cost rich and poor countries alike; CDC whistleblower says he was told not to use phrase "climate change" after Trump elected.. PLUS: Climate change has set California on fire. Are you paying attention?... and much, MUCH more! ...
Article Categories: California, Massachusetts, Environment, San Francisco, FEMA, Los Angeles, Green News, Donald Trump, Oil, Climate change, Extreme weather, Jerry Brown, Exxon Mobil, Gavin Newsom, PG&E, Pollution
'Green News Report' - September 5, 2019
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: U.S. East Coast facing down Hurricane Dorian; Humanitarian crisis unfolding in The Bahamas in Dorian's wake; PLUS: 2020 Democrats dive deep into climate action in CNN's marathon 'Climate Crisis Town Hall'... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Trump Admin. to relax energy efficiency rules for light bulbs; Hurricane Dorian devastation in Bahamas could cost $7 billion; Island nations are pooling disaster risk to pay for megastorms; China's industrial heartland fears impact of tougher emissions policies; Top Interior official who pushed to expand drilling in Alaska to join oil company there; CA becomes first state in nation to outlaw fur trapping; On the AL coast, the unluckiest island in America; As rising heat bakes U.S. cities, the poor often feel it most... PLUS: Many businesses oppose Trump's deregulatory agenda. Here's why... and much, MUCH more! ...
Article Categories: CNN, Environment, Democrats, Joe Biden, FEMA, Green News, Fracking, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Natural gas, Oil, Wind energy, Solar energy, Climate change, Extreme weather, Electric vehicles, Election 2020, Carbon Tax, Green New Deal, Hurricane Dorian, The Bahamas
'Green News Report' - July 11, 2019
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: New Orleans braces for extreme rain, dangerous flooding and a test of their levee system; FEMA warns it is understaffed as hurricane season gets underway; Climate activist Tom Steyer jumps into crowded 2020 Presidential race; PLUS: World's most powerful oil cartel is afraid of teen climate activists... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Adapting to climate change is going to cost Florida a lot. Who's going to pay for it?; Trump Tries to Gaslight Planet Earth; Trump threatens veto on defense bill that targets PFAS 'forever chemicals'; The Colorado River needs a long-term plan for drought; The climate change policy with the most potential is the most neglected; Throwing food away --- or just burning it --- counts as recycling in bill awaiting Murphy's approval... PLUS: David Attenborough: polluting planet may become as reviled as slavery... and much, MUCH more! ...
Article Categories: Louisiana, Environment, FEMA, Green News, Natural gas, Oil, Wind energy, Solar energy, Climate change, Extreme weather, Election 2020, Tom Steyer, Greta Thunberg
'Green News Report' - June 4, 2019
By Desi Doyen on 6/4/2019 12:23pm PT
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Long-awaited disaster relief package finally passes out of Congress despite Republican obstruction; No end in sight for Midwest flooding; Trump Administration rolls out new tactic to suppress climate science; PLUS: Colorado goes big on renewable energy... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): FDA sampling finds toxic nonstick PFAS compounds in some food; EPA head says media 'does a disservice' by not promoting agency's achievements; You can't save the climate by going vegan. Corporate polluters must be held accountable; You will have to make sacrifices to save the planet; Elizabeth Warren proposes $2 trillion clean energy plan as Green New Deal momentum builds; With new plan, Biden establishes ambitious climate action as the 2020 standard; The relentless slaughter of wolves paved the way for a predator that refuses to die... PLUS: Trump pushes up to 20 years in prison for pipeline protesters... and much, MUCH more! ...
Article Categories: Colorado, Texas, Environment, FEMA, Green News, Fracking, Natural gas, Wind energy, Solar energy, Climate change, Extreme weather, Dept. of Energy, Jared Polis
'Green News Report' - April 30, 2019
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Humanitarian crisis expands after back-to-back cyclones slam Mozambique; U.S. Interior Department delays offshore drilling expansion; Voters in Spain opt for a Spanish version of the Green New Deal; PLUS: Air pollution is getting worse again in the U.S.... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release; Indonesia's planning minister announces capital city move; Trump, top Democrats agree on goal of crafting $2 trillion infrastructure plan; Beto O'Rourke proposes $5-trillion climate plan for net-zero emissions by 2050; Cory Booker makes "environmental justice" central to his White House bid; UN report stresses urgent need for nature rescue plan; Climate-friendly farming is taking root in New York; 'Biodegradable' plastic bags survive three years in soil and sea... PLUS: How offshore drilling became a losing proposition... and much, MUCH more! ...
Article Categories: Florida, California, Alaska, Environment, Republicans, FEMA, Green News, Fracking, Donald Trump, Natural gas, Coal, Oil, Climate change, Extreme weather, Oceans, Africa, Arctic, Dept. of Interior, Public lands, Spain, Green New Deal
Butterfly Refuge Sues to Block Border Wall Construction, Break-ins by Customs Officials: 'BradCast' 2/13/2019
Guest: Marianna Trevino-Wright of the National Butterfly Center; Also: Hannity allows Trump to take wall deal; FEMA Director abruptly quits...
As my guest details on today's BradCast, it's not immigrants who are currently posing a threat to those living on our southern border, it's lawless federal agents encroaching on private lands to build an unnecessary and dangerous border wall. [Audio link to show is posted below.]
But, first up: the Department of Justice rounded up dozens of gang members and indicted them on Tuesday as part of a criminal conspiracy for "attempted murder, kidnapping, maiming, and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine." No, they weren't "violent inner-city thugs" or "murderous MS-13 immigrant gangsters", they were white supremacist members of the Arkansas-based New Aryan Empire. Oddly enough, Donald Trump hasn't mentioned them during any of his false, anti-immigrant rants at campaign rallies and State of the Union addresses.
Meanwhile, it appears that Trump will most likely sign the compromise deal struck between Congressional Democrats and Republicans this week to fund the federal government and avoid another shutdown, even though he will get less than he could have had if he'd accepted the deal he backed out of last year before shutting down the federal government over his new demand for $5.7 billion to build a border wall. Sean Hannity of Fox "News" and wingnut talk radio fame has now backed off his earlier charge that "any Republican that supports this garbage compromise" would have to explain themselves. He now appears to be supporting the compromise, while calling for the President to declare a "national emergency" to steal more tax-payer money for a wall. With that permission from his Fox "News" handlers, Trump will almost certainly sign the agreement.
In all, as Trump points out, the deal allocates $23 billion for border security --- a lot of money for Democrats to agree to if, as Trump lies, they favor "open borders". It's also a lot of money period. But, record national debt and annual deficit spending do not appear to be a problem for pretend "fiscally conservative" Republicans in Congress. The Treasury Department announced yesterday that the national debt has now topped $22 trillion for the first time in history, after increasing more than $2 trillion since Trump took office under GOP leadership in Congress. The landmark comes thanks, in no small part, to the Trump/GOP's unpaid-for $1.5 trillion tax cuts.
And while both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are hoping that Trump signs their compromise border security agreement to keep the government open, Trump's U.S. Customs and Border (CPB) agents are busy breaking into private property and threatening to seize private lands owned by Americans who have lived and worked on the banks of the Rio Grande at the U.S. southern border for generations.
Bulldozers and other heavy machinery is now reportedly rolling into wildlife sanctuaries in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley and the National Butterfly Center in Mission, TX has filed a restraining order this week to stop them after, the Center charges, CPB broke into a fence on its private property, cut the lock, and replaced it with its own.
We're joined today by the Center's Director MARIANNA TREVINO-WRIGHT to explain the federal government's intrusions on their 100-acre butterfly refuge, wildlife center and native species botanical garden. The Center, part of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA), regards CPB's behavior as unlawful and unconstitutional according to a lawsuit "filed in December of 2017 as the result of the government's actions on our property in July of 2017, more than nine months before a Congressional vote, or any funding appropriation for 'border wall'," Trevino-Wright emphasizes.
We discuss, among other things, the 28 laws and environmental regulations --- "including the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act, and the Native American Religious Freedom Act" --- that the Department of Homeland Security has waived since Congress approved 33 miles of new border fencing in the area last year to allow construction of the barrier, and the federal government's use of Eminent Domain already underway to confiscate private lands for Trump's wall. Trevino-Wright details the devastation that awaits butterfly species, as well as other insects and native wildlife with the construction of the wall on the property of both the Center and the neighboring 91,000 acre Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
She says insects and animals will be "sentenced to death" thanks to flooding that will occur between the mighty Rio Grande River and the concrete base of the planned 30 foot wall where they will become trapped. Moreover, the accompanying LED "blitzkrieg all-night bright lighting every 150 feet on the wall, will result in catastrophe for sensitive nocturnal creatures and "lead to greater environmental damage". And, no, Trevino-Wright tells me, many butterflies and birds are not able to fly over a 36-foot concrete and steel barrier. She describes the wall as an "abomination", Trump's claims of an humanitarian and violent criminal "crisis" at the border to be nonsense, and why residents in the area are far more worried about criminals within law enforcement agencies than they are about those crossing the border unlawfully or ferrying drugs into the country. "Conflict or property damage or terrorist acts by those who support this agenda are actually what we're more concerned about," Trevino-Wright adds.
Please tune in for this full conversation.
Finally today, a surprise resignation in the Trump Administration as FEMA Director Brock Long calls it quits after facing two years of harassment from DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen and unprecedented hurricanes, wildfires and other catastrophes, writing in his farewell letter to staffers that "no one could have ever predicted the challenges we would face." Our own Desi Doyen --- who has long been citing scientists predicting those very challenges for years, thanks to global warming --- offers a word or two in response...
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'Green News Report' - January 10, 2019
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Fiat-Chrysler to pay big fines for using secret software to cheat on U.S. emissions tests; Three costliest natural disasters in the world in 2018 all occurred in the U.S.; Trump threatens to cut off FEMA disaster aid for California wildfires; U.S. greenhouse gas emissions spiked in 2018; PLUS: Democrats push back, and push ahead, on climate action... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): "Innovation": the latest GOP smokescreen on climate change policy. It does not mean what they think it means; Dr. Michael Mann: A commentary on the politics of climate denial and 'Vice'; Food inspections by the FDA have been sharply reduced, alarming critics; Shutdown means EPA inspectors aren't on the job; California governor Newsom proposes wildfire investments; California set a goal of 100% clean energy, and now other states may follow its lead; Trump nominates Andrew Wheeler as permanent EPA Administrator; Federal judge strikes down Iowa law on undercover ag workers... PLUS: How mountains of U.S. plastic waste ended up in Malaysia, broken down by workers for $10 a day... and much, MUCH more! ...
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'Governing by Temper Tantrum' and How Trump 'Played' TV Networks With His Border Speech: 'BradCast' 1/9/2019
Guest: Matt Gertz of Media Matters; Also: Dems win big in VA, Trump claims to be cutting off FEMA wildfire recovery aid to CA...
Donald Trump's tantrums and partial federal government shutdown continue on today's BradCast, with no end in sight for either of them. [Audio link for today's show follows below.]
On Tuesday night and again on Wednesday, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused Donald Trump of governing "by temper tantrum". The first reference came in Tuesday's Democratic response, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to Trump's televised prime-time Oval Office address meant to gain public support for his demand of $5.7 billion for a southern border wall. The money is needed, Trump claims, to respond to what he described during his 9-minute speech as an immigration and humanitarian "crisis". But the address offered no new policies or information and, at times, parroted word-for-word rightwing anti-immigration, pro-wall commentary from Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs' programs on Fox 'News'.
The second reference to a Trump "tantrum" came today after the President reportedly stormed out of a White House negotiation meeting with Congressional Democrats as the partial federal government shutdown over funding for his wall continues in its third week. The cost of that shutdown to some 800,000 federal workers is rapidly intensifying. Paychecks will not be issued this week for many workers who are already facing extraordinary hardship thanks to the shutdown which Trump has threatened to continue for "months or even years" unless Democrats agree to his border wall demand.
But, if nothing new was offered in his Tuesday night prime-time address, why did the television networks agree to clear the time for him to litter our public airwaves with false claims and long-ago debunked propaganda? Particularly since the same networks refused President Obama's request to air his own remarks on actual new immigration policy back in 2014?
We're joined today by Media Matters' Senior Fellow MATT GERTZ who charges that the "networks got played." He describes their capitulation to Trump as "cowardly" with the result being "exactly what we said was going to happen: the President used the time to lie to the public."
"I don't understand why there's such an urgency to just put the President on television when all of the people involved in producing the news know that he's a liar who is going to lie," he tells me. "It's the most predictable thing in American politics right now --- if the President is talking, he's lying."
So why did the networks give up that valuable airtime to allow it to happen? And, were the attempts by media outlets at debunking and fact-checking Trump's false claims during or after the speech actual helpful to the public? We discuss that and the larger challenge for media: "How do you respond to a President who is deliberately deceptive and is constantly trying to make people believe in a reality that is different from the actual one?"
Also today: The 2018 electoral 'blue wave' continues into 2019, as Dems in Virginia win very big (by 40 points!) in the first Special Election of the year. And Donald Trump announces, via misspelled tweet, that he is cutting off FEMA wildfire recovery aid to California, following the worst and most deadly fires in state history. Whether he will follow through with that threat is a separate question, of course, and his absurd explanation as to why he claims to be doing it is, as usual, nonsense...
Article Categories: California, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Virginia, Mainstream Media Failure, Accountability, Immigration, Democrats, FEMA, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, KPFK, Donald Trump, Extreme weather, BradCast, Election 2019
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Large swaths of the Florida Panhandle still awaiting help after catastrophic Hurricane Michael; Michael was the fourth 'major' hurricane to make U.S. landfall in the past 15 months; PLUS: Despite Michael's record-breaking destruction, Republicans are still denying the science and economic impacts of climate change... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): 'Hyperalarming' study shows massive insect loss; It could take mammals 7 million years to recover from humanity wiping them out; Study that failed to back Trump's coal rescue plan is kept under wraps; Supreme Court deals final blow to lead paint manufacturers' years-long effort to avoid cleanup costs; Zinke eyes West Coast military installations for US fuel exports; Fracking begins in UK for first time since 2011; Disney theme parks are going green; 'Lifeboats' amid the world's wildfires... PLUS: Climate deniers lose $10k bet on global cooling. You're not surprised that they won't pay, right?... and much, MUCH more! ...
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HERALDING FROM A MIX OF SCOTTISH AND GERMANIC ANCESTRY I WAS NEVER GOING TO SURRENDER COMPLETELY TO CONVENTION.
Excelling at English Language and Literature in an otherwise uneventful school career, it is no surprise that I would eventually be drawn to writing a novel, only how long it took me to come to this conclusion.
Immersing myself into marriage and raising my two children, not to mention a thirty-five-year nursing career kept me occupied until such times as they flew the nest and I suddenly found the luxury of time on my hands.
Imaginary worlds and situations, that are realistic enough to create that ounce of belief they could be real, led me to a blueprint for the books I have written so far.
Firstly, my love of reading, losing myself in stories that other people have created.
Secondly, the fact that my sister, Carmella, started to write, and passed each chapter to me as she finished them, for my opinion and suggestions. I got to the point where I was thinking up scenarios for future books, with a view to giving her some inspiration for a next novel.
Eventually when she told me she had ideas of her own and why didn't I write it myself? I thought, okay then I better get on with it.
My tastes are varied, ranging from historical drama to quirky young-adult fantasy and sci-fi. I suppose I'm always looking for an undercurrent of romance to run through the stories but it doesn't have to be a full-on bodice ripper!
WHO ARE YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS, PAST AND PRESENT?
As a child, I think I read every single Enid Blyton book ever published, from Brer Rabbit through to the entire Famous Five, and Mallory Towers Series. However, if I was to pick the two books that shaped my love of fantasy, they would be J.M Barrie's Peter Pan and C.S Lewis and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Nowadays I'm more likely to pick up Jojo Moyes, but my need for something a little more 'otherworldly'; has me reaching for Aprilynne Pike, Melissa Marr, and a fairly newly discovered favourite: Karpov Kinrade.
With my second novel, The Sapphire Heart, recently finished, I am concentrating on editing books I have written previously.
Romancing the Elements, a futuristic, utopian trilogy starting with Book 1 - Lake of Stars, is available in eBook from Amazon, Kobo and Smashwords. Books 2 and 3 are completed and will be uploaded soon.
Also, a set of two books centred around the Fey, need some last-minute tweaking, not to mention a title! (suggestions welcome).
WHEN AND WHERE ARE YOU MOST LIKELY TO FIND INSPIRATION?
Any time that I'm not fully immersed in other things. Maybe whilst appreciating a fantastic view or sunset, cheesy but true. Often when I'm out and about and witness funny incidents. I'll tweak them slightly to fit in with a current storyline if I can.
And at night, in those last few minutes which are still reality just before sleep takes over, pure fantasy time when the imagination can run riot.
Enjoying the Twilight Series so much and seeing their success and those of Harry Potter, it would be difficult not to opt for one of those. Twilight is completely my sort of genre and Harry Potter is so cleverly written, I love that so much happens in every chapter and it doesn't all have to be relevant to the main story.
YOU COME UP WITH A STORYLINE, DO YOU RUN IT BY FRIENDS AND FAMILY, OR FOLLOW YOUR GUT INSTINCTS?
Gut instincts, every time, but any constructive feedback is invaluable.
WHAT TYPE OF AUDIENCE DO YOU THINK YOUR BOOKS WOULD APPEAL TO?
They are not aimed at a specific group. I try and have a varied age range of characters, all with distinctive and contrasting personalities. My daughter who is in her mid-twenties and a male friend in his sixties have read and enjoyed my books, as I've been working on them. Although not specifically targeted for YA, they are suitable, for this age group.
WHAT'S THE ONE PIECE OF ADVICE YOU WOULD GIVE TO AN ASPIRING AUTHOR?
Most importantly, don't leave it as long as I did to start writing. If you have an idea, make a start, and don't be disheartened if you're not happy initially. Keep re-writing, it will come. Have enough belief that you can transform whatever stories you have in your head, into words.


How do I save my password for my Internet Service Provider?
The box for the check to save my password in Cybertrails (ISP) is greyed out. How do I change the grey to active so that I can check the box to save my password?
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Have you ever taken an online course that was so boring you left the course 10 minutes in? In contrast, have you had an eLearning experience so engaging that you not only finished the course, but recommended it to your friends?
What are some key differences between these two types of online courses? Can you recall what kept you engaged with the content?
At Onlea, we specialize on the design and production of highly engaging digital learning experiences. That's why, when our clients in business and academia come to us, they know that we will tailor the experience to their audience and their goals in order generate active engagement with the content.
One of the first exercises we have with our clients is identifying the type of content and interaction required for the subject matter at hand. No single size fits all when you are talking about eLearning.
Interactivity is one of the multiple tools used to create outstanding learning experiences. As such, it is important to know at a high level how learner interactivity affects engagement.
A simple way to understand Learner interaction is on a continuum between content delivery framework and the level of customization associated with the interaction. As such, there are four types that are industry standards as shown in the following graphic.
Keep each unit short (5 minutes or less). This means breaking larger concepts into smaller ones.
Find a relatable presenter and/or style suitable to the audience. As an example, teenagers listen to other teenagers better.
Add direct examples from the field such as: expert interviews, demonstrations, on-location walk-throughs, etc.
Ask questions that the learner has not directly learned yet, but which are directly tied with the content coming up next. This method engages the learner by creating a framework where they have to think ahead and use the basis learned so far.
Find a balance between too easy and overly complex. Quizzes (as opposed to the final evaluation) are meant to be doable and generate a sense of achievement and progression.
In this type of interaction, learner's creativity starts to become the source of engagement. Group projects and small simulations can tie together the concepts learned throughout the course.
In this type of eLearning modules, full simulations enhanced with gamification techniques can lead to unique learning experiences. The use of new technologies including Augmented and Virtual reality, can add to the toolset of engagement mechanics in this area.
Now that you have some of the basics in mind, you can identify what type accomplishes the goals set forth for the learners in your organization.
At Onlea, we are here to support your team on the development of engaging eLearning courses. Onlea has achieved international recognition for reaching staggering engagement and completion rates by learners of our clients' courses. Our course completion rates are typically three to four times higher than the industry average for free courses.
How do we achieve much greater engagement rates in our courses than other eLearning creators? We call it O.N.E. Learning, which we define as a narrative based learning methodology that combines insights from gamification and online behavior patterns that allows us to craft superior learning experiences where interactivity and engagement is front and center. In turn, that interactivity serves to enhance the learning experience where learners are able to more readily understand and remember the message.
Onlea's President and a life-long learner. I love books, changing stereotypes and driving innovation.


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NEW REPORT: ObamaCare Numbers Are Getting Worse and Worse...
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Just this morning we talked bout Ted Cruz schooling Jimmy Kimmel on ObamaCare. Now comes this report, concerning the shortcomings of Obama's healthcare brainchild. It's even worse off than people thought.
Or at least worse off than the people who don't pay attention in the first place thought. We saw this coming since, here at LwC, we do pay attention... because we care to keep you updated. That way you can laugh and say "I told you so" to all your friends when they're surprised. You're welcome. Here's the scoop.
ObamaCare enrollees are sicker than those covered before the law. Backers see this as good news, because it means those needing coverage are getting it. It's actually a sign of an impending death spiral.
A new report from Blue Cross Blue Shield finds that those who signed up for ObamaCare in 2014 and 2015 had higher rates of various diseases and used "significantly more" medical services in their first year of coverage.
I don't know about you, but I'm never encouraged by phrases like "impending death spiral." Particularly in conjunction with healthcare.
Here's the rub...
But to work, ObamaCare had to also bring in more young and healthy people to offset the costs of the older and sicker and keep insurance premiums down. Otherwise, the market would enter into a "death spiral," in which higher premiums drive more healthy people out of the market, pushing rates up still further.
That was precisely what happened in several states that had already experimented with ObamaCare-style insurance reforms. And it's why ObamaCare included an individual mandate and the sizable penalty for not signing up.
By doing this, the entire healthcare market bets its life on young, healthy people. But what happens when the young people (the most reckless and irresponsible demographic on earth) start getting sick and require more care?
Well, you don't have to guess what would happen in the worst case scenario. Because it already did. It's not working as they had hoped and promised... Though it is working exactly how critics said it would. Go figure.
Critics like me, someone who was raised under a socialized healthcare system in Canada. Want to know what that's like? Watch.
Told you so.
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Joey Fenton
In early 2007, 28-year-old Joe Fenton, a resident of the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, was stopped and searched by Chicago Police Sgt. Ronald Watts. When Watts found $500 in Fenton's pocket, he asked for some of it.
"He told me to give him money for lunch," Fenton later said. "I gave him $40. He then said…that the next time he saw me, I needed to give him $1,000. I thought he was kidding, but I was also afraid given what I had seen and heard about him. After that, I tried my best to avoid Watts and his team."
On July 18, 2007, Fenton was moving out of his third-floor apartment and had just about finished up. "All of a sudden, there was a pounding on my door," Fenton said. "I answered it and Watts, Officer [Alvin] Jones, and several other officers came rushing into my apartment."
Fenton explained that he was moving out. He had just removed the air conditioning units, which he was moving to his mother's apartment.
"Watts told the officers to search the apartment and me," Fenton said. "They didn't find anything in the apartment and I didn't have any drugs or anything illegal on me. They took several hundred dollars off of me, however. Then they took me downstairs."
In the lobby, Fenton and several others were lined up against a wall. "Watts directed several officers to continue searching the building," Fenton said. "At some point, Officer Jones put a gun in front of me and said something to the effect of 'I told you whatever I find in this building I'm going to put on you. This is your gun.'"
Fenton and several others were taken to the police station. Watts showed them a bag of drugs and said the police were going to divide them up among the group.
Fenton said he tried to speak to officer Kallatt Mohammed, who at the time was a friend of Fenton's mother's boyfriend. "Mohammed said he would talk to Watts for me," Fenton said.
"A little while later, Mohammed and Watts came back and said they were going to let me go," Fenton said. "Jones argued with them and said he had already started the paperwork on me. Watts eventually told him he was letting me go and they took me to the back door and let me go."
But Fenton found out otherwise a few weeks later when he got a card in the mail informing him that he had an upcoming date in Cook County Circuit Court. When Fenton appeared, he discovered that the paperwork had been processed after all—he was charged with possession of 41 baggies of heroin and 51 baggies of cocaine. The police report showed that the officers reported confiscating $698 in alleged drug sale proceeds from Fenton. He was not charged with possession of a firearm.
Fenton stopped going to court because he did not want to go to jail for a crime he did not commit. However, an arrest warrant was issued, and on September 22, 2011, he was arrested.
On November 21, 2011, Fenton pled guilty in Cook County Circuit Court to possession of a controlled substance. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
In 2006, Ben Baker was convicted twice—once alone and a second time with his wife, Clarissa Glenn, on charges of narcotics possession based on false testimony from Watts. In 2015, Joshua Tepfer, an attorney at the Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago Law School, filed a petition to vacate Baker's first conviction, citing the corruption of Watts and his unit. The Cook County State's Attorney's Office's Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) agreed in January 2016 that Baker's first conviction should be vacated, and the petition was granted. Later in 2016, a petition filed on behalf of Baker and Glenn also was granted.
The CIU began investigating the cases and agreed that the convictions should be vacated and dismissed. By the end of 2021, more than 90 convictions tainted by Watts and members of his unit had been dismissed.
On April 22, 2022, following an investigation by the CIU, Fenton's conviction, along with the convictions of more than 40 others framed by Watts and his fellow officers, were vacated and dismissed. By that time, more than 200 convictions had been dismissed in the corruption scandal. Fenton subsequently received a certificate of innocence, paving the way to seek compensation from the state of Illinois.


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WVU, Holgorsen moving on to Liberty
by Shanna Rose - September 8, 2015 0616
Jovon Durante during Saturday's opener against Georgia Southern
(Photo Credit: Kelsie VanderWijst)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.– With the Georgia Southern game in the rearview mirror, the West Virginia University football team must now prepare for Liberty.
Head coach Dana Holgorsen isn't going to write off the Flames just because they are an FCS school.
"Liberty will be a challenge for us," he said. "They are a good team. It happens every year. If you take them (FCS teams) lightly and don't respect your opponent then it will come back to get you.
"It happens a lot of times. It seems like it's at a point where it might happen every week. Last year, they went 9-5. They really got on a run toward the end of the year. I think they won seven of their last nine games. They have everyone coming back on offense."
Liberty's offense is expected to be the strength of the squad. The Flames return senior quarterback Josh Woodrum and All-American receiver Darrin Peterson.
"They have an experienced offensive line, and they have two running backs that they have spent time with last year because of an injury," Holgorsen said. "They are not a spread it out and throw it all over the place outfit. They are going to be multiple with what they do.
"Our defense is preparing for that, and they are excited about preparing for a semi-pro style, normal type of offense as opposed to what they have been prepping for the last few weeks. It will be good to see how they will handle that."
Liberty lost a lot of defensive players last season, but Holgorsen isn't disappointed about that.
"Last week, they played a lot of people from new starters to true freshmen," he said. "They play a lot of people. They are not quite as multiple as they were last year based on inexperience. You never know when that will change."
Senior defensive end Chima Uzowihe is one player he is worried about on the defensive side of the ball.
"(Uzowihe) No. 52 has about 20 sacks in his career, so he can get to the quarterback," Holgorsen said. "They are going to test our tackles more so than what was tested last week. I am pretty anxious to see that."
Saturday's game could be a battle between two of the best kickers in the country.
WVU sophomore kicker Josh Lambert had a stellar game against Georgia Southern and earned special teams' player of the week. He was perfect on extra points.
His counterpart from Liberty is also talented.
"The (senior kicker John) Lunsford kid that they have is a First Team All-American," Holgorsen said. "The dude made a 60-yarder last year. That's pretty special. He has pro potential. They are going to be in range once they cross midfield, so that's something to keep your eye on as well."
The Mountaineers are in good shape this week from a health standpoint.
Daryl Worley and K.J. Dillon
Holgorsen is hoping his team can improve some things, especially blocking and tackling, this week.
"That is where they are the most exposed," he said. "It's where we have a lot of our backups and there is a lot of space. I thought our coverage units were good last week. I thought our blocking was average, but we didn't have as many opportunities. I think there was five punts, and we had to peter call most of them.
"We didn't make the best decisions when it came to that, but the blocks fall off when you have to do that. You can't see them finishing blocks. I don't have a lot of information on how we finished blocks in the return game."
Holgorsen doesn't believe his team will struggle this week after facing Georgia Sothern's triple-option to a conventional offense.
"We took at least 900 snaps against our defense, he said. "What we do offensively is a lot more similar to Liberty than what Georgia Southern presents. They pose some pro-style challenges with good personnel. They are good up front."
"They have a great quarterback that can make the throws. They have one great receiver with some quality receivers and running backs as well. That's kind of what we do, too. We can play a tight end, a back or two backs with a couple of receivers. They present a bunch of different sets, and we will be able to show that to our defense as well."
Holgorsen is impressed with his secondary this season and believes they are a talented group. He is also happy with Jared Barber's performance in his first game in almost two years.
"He looks like he is stronger, quicker and more physical," he said. "That happens to a lot of guys that have knee surgeries if you don't rush them back.
"Him and (director of strength and conditioning) Mike Joseph were going at it for 14 months. They were neck and neck. He brings a lot to the table. He's smart. That's why we call him coach Barber. He's bigger, faster and stronger than he was two years ago."
Holgorsen is impressed with his core of young wide receivers.
"Those catches weren't easy," he said. "It's not like they were running scott free, catching it in stride and prancing into the end zone. They were contested catches. It's exciting for me to watch those two guys make contested catches."
After three years of disappointment, Holgorsen was excited with sophomore linebacker Marvin Gross Jr.'s performance on Saturday.
"He's always been able to run," he said. "He just never knew what direction he was going to run. He was the first one down there on kickoff every time. I think he had his eyes closed half the time, because he ran down there and didn't know where he was."
Holgorsen was a little frustrated with the Mountaineers' run game in the first half, but he thought they did much better later in the game.
" I have us rushing for about 4.8 yards," he said. "We had about six explosive run plays, but none over 20 yards. It's not like we broke one for 70 yards and averaged 4.8 yards a rush."
Holgorsen is impressed with Wendell Smallwood's performance so far.
"He is one of our most dynamic guys out there," he said. "I said that prior to the game. He had six explosive runs. He is an explosive guy. We can use him multiple ways, but we didn't have to do a whole lot with him this past game. We can. We will keep trying to get him the ball as much as we can."
Holgorsen doesn't want to pad his schedule with a bunch of FCS schools, but he realizes these games are often important to the FCS opponents.
"I know it's good for Liberty to come up here and collect a check that can keep their program a float, he said. "Some of them need it more than others. I don't think Liberty is one that totally needs it, but there are a lot of them that need it. It's kind of a shame in that sense."
While some people were upset by Holgorsen's statement it was never meant to be a knock at the schools.
"I have a lot of respect for FCS, Division II and Division III schools," he said. "I made a lot of comments toward that. I think there are a lot of quality coaches out there."
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Shanna Rose
WVU Graduate with a bachelor's in journalism and multimedia journalist. Sports Fan and sports writer. Former WVU News reporter. Contact Shanna on Twitter @SMR1837
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CM. Offered the opportunity to review Disney Star Darlings. It's true. Nothing could go wrong. Based on the characters from Disney Star Darlings, CM received three of the five adventurous girls from Starling Academy – Sage Scarlet and Libby.
Disney Star Darlings reflect the traits I'd love to see in my children. Bold, intelligent, optimist, ambitious and confident.
And that's all well and good when your child sees a doll with big blue eyes.But these dolls offer a little bit more. Clothes on the side of rebellious. Eyes with more than sparkles. With stars in their eyes, of something to wish upon. I love my daughter being aspirational. I love that she doesn't say "I want to be famous", and that she does say "I want to be an actor".
CM is learning to play piano, and is completely committed to her climbing lessons, and wouldn't be without her weekly Beavers session.
I may not recognise parts of her in me, but I recognise everything in her.
And Star Darlings reflect what we hope for in our children – that they make the right decisions.
Libby is kind and generous and making dreams come true truly makes her heart shine.
Scarlet is independent and adventurous and makes her own path; she reminds us that we have all the power in the world to make wishes come true.
Sage is powerful and positive, and reminds us that we are never alone, that we have all the power of our wish inside of us.
These are dolls I don't mind being part of CM's life.
But they are eyes which want to take in the world.
They may be slim, but they have taste which doesn't conform, which suggest individuality is a path of our cause.
And they have musicality. With the hope that we march to the beat of our own tune.
Star Darlings are 11-inch, fully poseable dolls with an RRP of £19.99.
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Leona and Piper. I have also signed up via email (forgot to put it in the box with my email address on the rafflecopter).
I thought it was Vega and Leona. My answer seems to be different to everyone elses!
I thought it was Leona and Vega?
Leona and Piper are the names of the other two dolls. Thank you for the chance to win. My daughters would be over the moon.


Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny has urged Arsenal to develop a "hatred of losing", insisting it will take more than technical ability to beat their rivals to trophies.
Arsene Wenger is under increasing pressure from Arsenal fans having failed to claim a Premier League title for over a decade, and is on the verge of guiding the north London club to their seventh last-16 Champions League exit in as many attempts.
The Gunners also currently sit 10 points behind league-leaders Chelsea after 25 fixtures and have their silverware hopes pinned on a third FA Cup trophy in four seasons.
Koscielny believes that although Arsenal possess the ability to go head-to-head with the elite, their mentality going into important games falls some way short.
"We have the technical and physical qualities," Koscielny told RMC Sport. "We must put in the effort for the whole match. Against the big teams, it takes more than talent.
"It takes more commitment. We are in a complicated situation, [but] we must remain united.
"We must have the hatred of losing."
Arsenal's recent run of results have seen them beaten by Watford and Chelsea in the Premier League, while they were the focus of humiliation following a 5-1 hammering at Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
Their capitulation at the Allianz Arena sparked questions regarding the players' respect for their manager, though Koscielny has moved to dismiss those reports.
"I think the group is always receptive to Arsene Wenger's message," he added. "The coach is there to prepare the players physically, tactically and put a plan in place on the pitch.
"After that, it is up to the players to do what is needed on the pitch to win matches."


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More than 50 killed after train derails in Congo – minister
Observatory StaffSeptember 12, 2019
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (OBSERVATORY) — Up to 50 people were killed when a train derailed in the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Tanganyika province in the early hours of Thursday, but there were wide variations in their death tolls, government officials said.
Humanitarian Affairs Minister Steve Mbeki said the incident took place at around 3 am local time in the town of Maynard and the death toll was 50.
"I offer my condolences to the families of the deceased on behalf of the government," he said on Twitter.
Tanganyika Governor Zoe Kabila later said the initial death toll was 10 in addition to 30 injured. He said three of the train cars had derailed.
Such incidents are common in the Congo due to deteriorating infrastructure and lack of regulation.
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