(2011/05/01) Oil spill anniversary and Power Shift 2011 (Environment)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 1 May 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #482
Oil spill anniversary and Power Shift 2011
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Act 1: Obama's Sophistry on Nuclear Power - The Progressive
Song 1: Planet Earth - Steve Eschleman
Act 2: Over-reactor - Colbert Report
Song 2: These things take time - The Smiths
Act 3: Update on off-shore drilling - Green New Report
Song 3: Keepsake - State Radio
Act 4: Oil Spill Execs Want Bonuses - Young Turks
Song 4: Back In The High Life Again - Steve Winwood
Act 5: Sunken Oil Tanker Will Be Habitat For Marine Life, Shell Executives Say With Straight Face - The Onion
Song 5: Evil eyes - Theo Bard
Act 6: You know the drill in the gulf - Rachel Maddow
Song 6: Swallowed by the sea - Coldplay
Act 7: One year after Deep Horizon - Green News Report
Song 7: Don't worry baby - Beach Boys
Act 8: Obama's failures in light of the BP Oil Spill Anniversary - Young Turks
Song 8: Welcome to paradise - Green Day
Act 9: Bill McKibben speaking at the Power Shift 2011 - Democracy Now!
Song 9: Dark Flute - Jim Guthrie
Act 10: Climategate Debunked but Corporate Media Ignores - David Pakman Show
Song 10: Skinny love - Bon Iver
Act 11: Activists Occupy Interior Dept. at End of PowerShift Conference - Democracy Now!
Song 11: Kilimanjaro - Emma's Revolution
Act 12: Van Jones speaking at the Power Shift 2011 - Democracy Now!
Voicemails:
Show suggestions, Stop using MSNBC, join a socialist organization - Nicoli from Oakland
The disclosure project - Grant from San Francisco
I've gone too far this time - Michael From Glenn Bernie
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter - Rjd2
Final comments apologizing for playing a Justin Bieber song, comments on using MSNBC, Mumia Abu-Jamal's sentence repealed
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
President Obama's Energy Plan - Young Turks
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details of visit |
| 0:06.2 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cups Today from the Progressive, |
| 0:13.1 | The Colbert Report, The Green News Report, The Young Turks, The Onion Radio News, The |
| 0:17.1 | Rachel Maddo Show, Democracy Now, and The David Pakman Show with a bonus video clip for |
| 0:21.6 | our Apple iOS and Android app users from The Young Turks. |
| 0:30.0 | Even a smoke was still billowing out of the Fukushima nuclear plan on Wednesday, and even |
| 0:34.5 | as Japan's nuclear safety agency admitted that radio activity in the sea was more than |
| 0:38.8 | 3,000 times the safe limit. |
| 0:41.4 | And even as Greenpeace was reporting that a town outside the evacuation zone had dangerous |
| 0:46.0 | levels of radio activity, there was President Obama carrying on about the need to go forward |
| 0:50.5 | with safe nuclear energy in America. |
| 0:53.2 | He's almost as bad as the nuclear power industry itself, which perhaps not coincidentally |
| 0:57.5 | gave a lot of money to his presidential campaign. |
| 0:59.8 | Look, there's no such thing as safe nuclear energy. |
| 1:02.7 | As Fukushima and Chernobyl should have amply demonstrated by now, the downside risk of |
| 1:07.6 | nuclear energy is so great that every country ought to be mothballing these plants. |
| 1:12.4 | That risk includes the kind of disaster we're witnessing today, an enormous waste storage |
| 1:16.8 | problem, and a deadly nuclear proliferation problem. |
| 1:19.9 | These are disasters cubed, and when President Obama tries to gloss over them by repeating |
| 1:24.4 | the word safe, and by saying we need nuclear energy to prevent climate change, he's engaging |
| 1:29.6 | in sophistry. |
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