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On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has been treated for a tumor on her pancreas, and Court officials say there is no evidence of disease remaining. Rightwing billionaire David Koch has died \u2013 with his brother Charles Koch, he raised and spent $1 billion almost exclusively on Republican candidates and rightwing causes to influence US elections. The stock market took a dive after China announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods and Donald Trump unleashed a Twitter tirade in which he attacked his own fed Chair, calling him an "enemy" of the US, and absurdly declared he has "hereby ordered" U.S. companies to stop doing business with China. Rightwing business groups, White House officials, and Congressional Republicans were reportedly dumbstruck by the President's increasingly unhinged pronouncements. With the corporate media focused on the horse race elements of the 2020 presidential campaign, we are focusing on the quickly deteriorating track conditions for voters and candidates. In North Carolina, an astounding vote by the State Board of Elections will allow the certification of controversial, new, 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems in the state for the 2020 elections, despite overwhelming public opposition. Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker LULU FRIESDAT discusses the stunning vote in the closely divided battleground state of North Carolina, and new revelations from DefCon's Voting Village at which new voting systems were hacked by attendees in minutes. We also cover her new organization, SmartElections.US, launched to help train and organize voters to oversee their own public elections via the new #CountTheVote citizens' initiative.\xa0 Finally, if it seems that the world is on fire of late, that's because it is, both figuratively and literally, from the Arctic to the Amazon....