(2011/03/12) Easing the decline (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 March 2011
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Edition #465
Easing the decline
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Act 1: Tony Blair and the Iraq war - BBC News Quiz
Song 1: Lake Michigan - Rogue Wave
Act 2: Drones not always precise in real world - Counterspin
Song 2: Real world - Matchbox Twenty
Act 3: Treatment of Bradley Manning - Majority Report
Song 3: Pressure Drop - The Clash
Act 4: Obama's abominable retreat on Gitmo - The Progressive
Song 4: Animal - Miike Snow
Act 5: In an Age of Austerity, Can't the US Cut the Military Budget? - The Breakdown
Song 5: Spend - Jeff Caudill
Act 6: We're losing a game of Solitaire - Lee Camp
Song 6: He got game - Public Enemy & Voices Of Shabach Community Choir Of Long Island
Act 7: Afghanistan still wildly unpopular - Counterspin
Song 7: Surrender II - Ottmar Liebert
Act 8: Managing the decline of our empire Part 1 - Common Sense
Song 8: Like humans do - David Byrne
Act 9: Troubling Rise In Teen Uranium Enrichment - The Onion
Song 9: Radioactive - Kings of Leon
Act 10: Managing the decline of our empire Part 2 - Common Sense
Voicemails:
Promotion for LeftForum.org - Ryan from NY
www.emptythisapartment.blogspot.com - Eric from Michigan
Date rape story in response to feminism episode - Anonymous
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on skipped voicemails, www.emptythisapartment.blogspot.com and a call for responses to date rape story
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Al Qaeda Attacks Internet With Photo Of Adorable Piglet - The Onion
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with Cups today, from the BBC News |
| 0:13.1 | Quiz, CounterSpin, the Majority Report, the Progressive, the Breakdown from the Nation |
| 0:17.7 | Magazine, Comedian Lee Camp, Common Sense with Dan Carlin, and the Onion News Network |
| 0:22.6 | with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users, also from the Onion |
| 0:28.3 | News Network. |
| 0:29.3 | Jeremy, which pretty straight kind of guy appeared in public without notes this week? |
| 0:35.1 | Well, again we're slightly banjacked because the show is recorded before the appearance |
| 0:40.7 | of Tony Blair at the Chilcot inquiry. He was on it last year and they thought he was |
| 0:45.4 | so good he's got a recall. By the time this show goes out he will have appeared and we |
| 0:51.2 | don't know what he will say, but the inquiry wants to publish extracts from his messages |
| 0:58.1 | to George Bush, but Sir Gassaud Donnell, who is head of light entertainment at the Home |
| 1:04.1 | Office or something, he won't let him. So we are not allowed to read what Tony Blair |
| 1:10.6 | said to George Bush, which I imagine is predominantly answers, such as yes boss whatever you say, |
| 1:18.6 | oh George, I can see you're doing him from up here. By the way, he doesn't like to refer |
| 1:27.2 | to this as his second appearance at the inquiry, he doesn't see it more as a second coming. |
| 1:33.2 | They've released the letters though that Presscot wrote to Bush, we can't actually read |
| 1:37.0 | those, which we basically go, you know what I say, you like Tony, do you mean like, |
| 1:42.0 | like, as in, you know, like or just like, just check it out. |
| 1:46.5 | The idea is supposed to be they're being held back because they contain terrible secrets, |
| 1:49.5 | but it is just probably, like, blegoing week, we can't do this without a mandate and |
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