(2008/08/20) Preparing to live behind levees (MP3)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2008
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the best of the left podcast with clips today from the onion radio news, |
| 0:13.3 | Earthbeat Radio, Ring of Fire, a town hall meeting with Al Gore and the Young Turks. |
| 0:31.3 | Blackwater Security is contracted to protect the U.S. climate, it's the onion radio news, |
| 0:37.0 | this is Doyle Redland reporting. |
| 0:39.2 | The Environmental Protection Agency awarded a no-bid contract today to Blackwater U.S.A. in |
| 0:44.9 | a move to better protect the American climate. |
| 0:48.0 | Blackwater, a controversial private security firm that has taken on numerous high-risk |
| 0:52.9 | assignments in Iraq, says it's up to the task. |
| 0:56.1 | EPA spokesman Marvin Stackler agrees, Blackwater has sent small teams to shut down holes in |
| 1:02.8 | the ozone layer where dangerous UV rays were able to sneak in. |
| 1:06.7 | Blackwater came under fire last year when several of its employees were accused of gang-raping |
| 1:11.9 | a giant sequoia they had been hired to protect. |
| 1:15.5 | Doyle Redland for the onion radio news. |
| 1:18.5 | Blackwater Security is the only way to protect the American climate, it's the only way |
| 1:25.5 | to protect the American climate. |
| 1:28.5 | Blackwater Security is the only way to protect the American climate, it's the only way |
| 1:35.5 | to protect the American climate. |
| 1:36.5 | Blackwater Security is the only way to protect the American climate, it's the only way to |
| 1:44.5 | protect the American climate. |
| 1:45.5 | Blackwater Security is the only way to protect the American climate, it's the only way |
| 1:55.5 | to protect the American climate. |
| 1:56.5 | Blackwater Security is the only way to protect the American climate. |
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