(2011/01/23) The United States of America has gone mad (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 January 2011
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Edition #448
The United States of America has gone mad
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Act 1: How to spend 1.5 billion dollars – The Pinky Show
Song 1: Billionaire – Billionaire
Act 2: Invest in the US, not Afghanistan – MSNBC
Song 2: Girl in the War (Josh Ritter cover) – Chris Priest
Act 3: Bullets or bucks – Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 3: Breakneck Speed – Champ
Act 4: Gay agenda comes to airport security – Majority Report
Song 4: See Me, Feel Me (Single Version) – The Ultimate Collection
Act 5: Obama on Afghanistan echos Vietnam – The Progressive
Song 5: Everybody lies – Melissa Lusk
Act 6: Wikileaks uncovers pressure to attack Iran – Young Turks
Song 6: One Million Miles Away – The Illusionary Movements of Geraldine and Nazu
Act 7: Allies in lies – Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 7: Scene No. 13 Segment IV Dance Of The Little Swans – Swan Lake
Act 8: Bush helped Iran’s foreign policy – Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Thank You – No Angel
Act 9: The immorality of America at war – Jim Hightower
Song 9: Casualties of War – The 18th Letter – The Book of Life
Act 10: Ike’s warning still challenges a nation – NPR
Song 10: Enzymes – Enzymes – Single
Act 11: MLK didn’t want US troops in 177 countries – The Progressive
Song 11: Celebration Guns – Set Yourself On Fire
Act 12: The United States of America has gone mad – Democracy Now!
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Trust but verify – Rachel Maddow
Sources:
The Pinky Show
MSNBC
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Majority Report
The Progressive
The Young Turks
Rachel Maddow
Jim Hightower
NPR
Democracy NOW!
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.2 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from the Pinkie |
| 0:12.6 | show, The Young Turks, MuMia Abu Jamal, The Majority Report, The Progressive, The Rachel |
| 0:17.4 | Maddo Show, Jim Hightower, NPR, and Democracy Now with a bonus video clip for our Apple |
| 0:22.9 | iOS and Android app users from The Rachel Maddo Show. |
| 0:30.0 | You see this airplane? |
| 0:32.1 | It's a United States Air Force BT stuff bomber. |
| 0:36.2 | It's one of the main airplanes. |
| 0:37.8 | The United States uses to bomb stuff and people. |
| 0:42.2 | You wanna guess how much one of these things costs? |
| 0:45.5 | Well, there are 1.5 billion dollars each. |
| 0:49.9 | Each, okay? |
| 0:51.2 | Billion, not million. |
| 0:53.6 | That's an amount of money most people can't even comprehend. |
| 0:57.6 | I mean, let me put it this way. |
| 1:00.7 | If you had a good job that paid you $50,000 a year and you never had to spend any of it |
| 1:07.1 | and you could just save all your money all the time, it would still take you 30,000 years |
| 1:13.3 | to save up the 1.5 billion to buy your very own B2 bomber. |
| 1:18.9 | Now whether or not you think that's crazy, I guess that depends on how important you |
| 1:24.0 | think it is to be able to bomb people and things on the far side of the planet with impunity. |
| 1:30.6 | To some people, you can't put a price on such things. |
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