#1465 Epidemic of Patent Protection and Propaganda
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 January 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 1/9/2022
Today we take a look at a few of the recent failures and challenges facing the Democratic Party in the face of an oncoming wave of anti-democratic forces bent on establishing an entrenched, minority-rule government through aggressive gerrymandering and voter suppression.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Why Is The GOP So Anti-Science Part 1 - The Mehdi Hasan Show - Air Date 10-14-21
Science historian Naomi Oreskes joins Mehdi to examine the Republican party’s anti-science trend.
Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author, just turned 93 years old. Chomsky spoke to Democracy Now! prior to the discovery of the Omicron coronavirus variant, but he predicted new variants would emerge.
Ch. 3: Why Is The GOP So Anti-Science Part 2 - The Mehdi Hasan Show - Air Date 10-14-21
Ch. 4: Alpha Male Anti Vaxxers Part 1 - Straight White American Jesus - Air Date 1-1-22
Brad and Dan kick off this New Year's Day roundup with a look at the false binary anti-vaxxers use to criticize the COVID vaccine and put forth a bad argument as to why they shouldn't get it.
Ch. 5: Bill Gates and monopoly medicine Alexander Zaitchik Part 1 - This is Hell! - Air Date 4-15-21
Journalist Alexander Zaitchik on his article "How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines" for The New Republic, and in a Moment of Truth Jeff Dorchen foils another dictatorship before it can start.
Ch. 6: Alpha Male Anti Vaxxers Part 2 - Straight White American Jesus - Air Date 1-1-22
Ch. 7: Bill Gates and monopoly medicine Alexander Zaitchik Part 2 - This is Hell! - Air Date 4-15-21
Dr. Robert Malone appears on the Joe Rogan Podcast and uses the term "mass formation psychosis," which instantly becomes the meme of the month for the American right-wing.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 9: Viral Lies - Reveal - Air Date 1-1-22
Reporter and guest host Ike Sriskandarajah looks into one reason people aren’t getting the COVID-19 vaccine: conspiracy theories. The World Health Organization calls it “an infodemic,” where dangerous medical misinformation sows chaos and mistrust.
As COVID cases skyrocket, we speak to Dr. Peter Hotez at Texas Children’s Hospital about the Omicron surge, as well as his groundbreaking work developing an affordable patent-free coronavirus vaccine.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 11: Distinctions without ascribing meaning - Abdul from Charleston, NC
Ch. 12: Continuing to value people with opinions that have no value - Quai from North Carolina
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 13: Final comments on the difference between goals and tactics to explain why libertarians are so often wrong
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:06.7 | take a look at some of the explanations for why life-saving vaccines against COVID-19 |
| 0:11.6 | are unavailable in much of the world, while being refused by substantial numbers of people |
| 0:16.6 | where they are widely available. |
| 0:19.2 | Clips today are from the Medihassan show, Democracy Now, Straight White American Jesus, |
| 0:25.0 | this is Hell and the David Pakman show, with additional members only clips from Reveal |
| 0:31.2 | and Democracy Now. |
| 0:33.2 | And in my final comments, I will explain the difference between a goal and a tactic |
| 0:38.8 | to explain why libertarian ideas of freedom as the ultimate focus is so misguided and |
| 0:45.8 | leads to so much unnecessary suffering. |
| 0:55.2 | If the last year is taught as anything, it's when we ignore science, people die. |
| 1:00.1 | Yet we've seen an entire faction of our political leadership and fellow countrymen, a faction |
| 1:05.1 | that often likes to tout. |
| 1:06.1 | It's pro-life credentials. |
| 1:08.3 | Just bury their heads in the sand when presented with cold hard facts and cold dead bodies. |
| 1:14.4 | Not just when it comes to the pandemic, we see it with climate change too. |
| 1:17.8 | A recent study finds that clean energy measures in the Democrats build back better plan |
| 1:22.1 | could save 50,000 lives by the year 2030, simply by improving the quality of our air. |
| 1:28.3 | The outlook by 2050, 318,000 premature deaths possibly avoided. |
| 1:35.6 | And yet we have a Republican party that really seems to have no desire to address climate |
| 1:40.5 | change, joined by Cold State Democrat Joe Manchin. |
| 1:44.4 | We see this with the pandemic too. |
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