(2011/09/02) Fighting to avoid game over (Climate Change)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 2 September 2011
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Edition #524
Fighting to avoid game over
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Act 1: Sen. Bernie Sanders against building Tar Sands oil Pipeline - Green News Report Air Date: 8-18-11
Song 1: Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Act 2: Exxon Montana Oil Spill Lies - Young Turks Air Date: 7-06-11
Song 2: 350.org Because the world needs to know - 350.org
Act 3: Protesting Obama to Stop Keystone Oil Pipeline in Alberta's tar sands - Majority Report Air Date: 8-22-11
Song 3: A change is gonna come - Ben Sollee
Act 4: Activist McKibben: Tar Sands pipeline is climate game over - Countdown
Song 4: Show me something new - Shout Out Louds
Act 5: Global Warming Denyers, RicK Perry's 'Climate Gate' - Green News Report Air Date: 8-18-11
Song 5: Soft serve - Soul Coughing
Act 6: Fox Rips Huntsman On Global Warming - Young Turks Air Date: 8-29-11
Song 6: Turn back time - Freedom Call
Act 7: Scientists Trace Heat Wave To Massive Star At Center Of Solar System - The Onion
Act 8: Conservatives Avoid Global Warming Talk During Heat Wave - David Pakman Air Date: 7-27-11
Song 8: Little furnace - Jim Guthrie
Act 9: Fox Anchor's Global Warming Question Leaves Bill Nye Speechless - Media Matters Air Date: 7-28-11
Song 9: Science is real - Theyu might be giants
Act 10: Heatsteria - Colbert Report Air Date: 8-09-11
Song 10: Under the sea - Samuel E. Wright
Act 11: Thom Hartmann talks about Al Gore's Rolling Stone article - Thom Hartmann
Song 11: La Valse d'Amélie (Version Orchestre) - Yann Tiersen
Act 12: Fox News Declares War on SpongeBob SquarePants - Media Matters Air Date: 8-4-11
Act 13: Record Breaking Temps, James Inhoff thinks it's a Conspiracy - Green News Report Air Date: 8-23-11
Song 13: Kilimanjaro - Emma's Revolution
Act 14: Miners Trapped In Life-Threatening Mining Jobs - The Onion Air Date: 8-16-11
Song 14: BotL Promo (Instrumental) - Chris Priest
Act 15: Limbaugh: Air Conditioning Tricks People Into Believing in Global Warming - Media Matters Air Date: 7-26-11
Act 16: Why Is Tim DeChristopher the One in Prison? - The Progressive Air Date: 7-28-11
Voicemails:
Kudos on handling controversies and suggested topics - John In Tulsa, OK
Thoughts on boycotts - Matt from Alabama
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Ghostwriter - RjD2
Final comments breaking down Daryl's pro-meat voicemail
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
GOP Not Eager To Help Hurricane Victims - Young Turks Air Date: 8-29-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the Green News |
| 0:12.8 | Report, The Young Turks, Majority Report, Countdown with Keith Overman, The Onion, The |
| 0:17.5 | David Pakman Show, Media Matters, The Colbert Report, The Tom Hartman Program, and The Progressive |
| 0:22.0 | with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from The Young Turks. |
| 0:30.0 | Speaking of spending billions for big oil, |
| 0:32.5 | Building this pipeline will keep America addicted to oil. |
| 0:37.2 | And while it might be a good idea for coke industries, which supplies and refines large |
| 0:41.9 | volumes of Canadian tar sands oil, it is a bad deal for our country. |
| 0:46.9 | That was Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont calling on President Obama to deny approval of |
| 0:51.8 | the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline that would transport heavy crude oil from the tar |
| 0:56.8 | sands of Canada 2,000 miles across Midwest farmlands, rivers, and aquifers to the Gulf |
| 1:02.7 | of Mexico. |
| 1:03.7 | Canada is lobbying hard for the chance to make billions more dollars off of our oil addiction. |
| 1:08.7 | So the folks at 350.org are organizing some lobbying, too, right in front of the White House |
| 1:14.2 | over the next two weeks. |
| 1:15.5 | By the way, the pipeline company that's behind the Keystone project, TransCanada, had |
| 1:19.6 | 12 pipeline spills in the U.S. in just the last year, all on the same new pipeline. |
| 1:25.3 | But don't worry, they say the Keystone pipeline will be the safest in the U.S. |
| 1:56.3 | There was an oil leak in the Yellowstone River, which runs through Laurel, Montana at |
| 2:04.1 | part of its apex of, that's what rivers have, I just invented that. |
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