(2011/07/27) The manufactured debt crisis Part 1 (Special Event)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 July 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #512
The manufactured debt crisis Part 1
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Act 1: Special Comment: Do Not Cut Care, Mr. President Part 1 - Countdown Air Date: 07-12-11
Song 1: Candle In the Wind (Ben's Song) - Andrew Jackson Jihad
Act 2: Obama and the Politics of Surrender - The Progressive Air Date: 07/11/11
Song 2: Surrender - Cheap Trick
Act 3: Special Comment: Do Not Cut Care, Mr. President Part 2 - Countdown Air Date: 07-12-11
Song 3: Lives in the balance - Jackson Browne
Act 4: Cut Medicare, SS & Taxes For Rich - Gang of Six - Young Turks
Song 4: Right here, right now - Fatboy slim
Act 5: Debt Ceiling Hypocrisy - Jim Hightower Air Date: 07/11/11
Song 5: My favourite game - The Cardigans
Act 6: U.S Debt Ceiling - The Bugle - Air Date: 07-14-11
Song 6: Serre-moi - Tryö
Act 7: Manufactured crises get solved easily and cynically - Common Sense Air Date: 7-20-11
Song 7: Hey ya - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 8: Rhetoric Surrounding Debt Ceiling Debate Gets Ridiculous - Media Matters Air Date: 07/12/11
Act 9: Obama Trying To Be A Republican Accidental Admission - Jimmy Dore on TYT
Song 9: Where have your good words gone - Laura Gibson
Act 10: Washington Game of 'Chicken' Dems v GOP - On the Media - 07-15-11
Song 10: Rush and a push and the land is ours - The Smiths
Act 11: Immovable object vs irresistible force - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 7-19-11
Voicemails:
Personal story of workers rights - Whitney from Missouri
Correlation between rebuilding the dream voting and messaging works - Anonymous
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on Rebuilding the American Dream with Van Jones' speech clip
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Broke Back Mounting - America's Dystopian Future - Daily Show
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show, for details visit |
| 0:05.8 | the membership tab at bestivalvf.com, now working to the award-winning Bestivalvf podcast |
| 0:11.0 | with Cupsidae from Countdown with Keith Ulerman, The Progressive, The Young Turks, Jim |
| 0:15.1 | Hightower, The Bugle, Common Sense with Dan Carlin, Media Matters, Jimmy Doar, On The |
| 0:19.4 | Media, and The Rachel Maddo Show, with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android |
| 0:23.6 | app users from the Daily Show, and today's episode does contain a bit of profanity. |
| 0:30.0 | Finally is promised a special comment on President Obama's role in the deal to raise |
| 0:33.5 | the debt ceiling, and perhaps make cuts to or raise the eligibility age for Medicare, |
| 0:38.6 | Medicaid, Social Security. |
| 0:41.2 | Face it, we do not take care of one another. |
| 0:44.2 | Not we as in progressives, not we as in Americans, not we as in the West, we as a species. |
| 0:49.6 | Individual people we know, we take care of them. |
| 0:52.0 | It is human nature dating back to the caves to form small protective units, families, |
| 0:56.8 | groups, guilds, but take care of everybody, everybody in your neighborhood, the people |
| 1:01.5 | you love, and the people you don't know, everybody in your country, the people who are like |
| 1:06.3 | you, and the people who have in common with you only humanity, do you take care of them? |
| 1:12.1 | Do we take care of them? |
| 1:14.2 | It seems as if we are taught as young children to share, and then as soon as we let go of |
| 1:18.4 | our parents hands, we are taught to stop sharing, or to at least stop prioritizing sharing, |
| 1:23.6 | you stop sharing unconditionally in the broadest sense where there is no identity or a family |
| 1:28.7 | or clan or group, no hope of reward or mutual defense, no insurance against one's own |
| 1:33.9 | future hardship, face it, we do not take care of one another. |
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