(2011/11/02) Well, that's settled then (Climate Change)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 2 November 2011
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Edition #544
Well, that's settled then
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Act 1: Bobby Kennedy discusses the Public Trust Doctrine - Ring of Fire
Song 1: Clocks - Coldplay
Act 2: Dim bulbs in Congress - Jim Hightower Air Date: 8-12-11
Song 2: Don't turn off the light - Enrique Iglesias
Act 3: Maggie Fox - The Reality of Climate Change Thom Hartmann Air Date 09-13-11
Song 3: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Act 4: That Custom Tailored Obama Scandal You Ordered Is Finally Here - Daily Show Air Date: 9-15-11
Song 4: Sunshine goodtime - Minnutes
Act 5: Record Breaking Temps, James Inhoff thinks it's a Conspiracy - Green News Report Air Date: 8-23-11
Song 5: Find the river - R.E.M.
Act 6: Koch Bros study confirm climate change - Majority Report Air Date: 10-24-11
Song 6: You spin me right round - Dead or Alive
Act 7: New Anger-Powered Cars May Revolutionize The Way We Drive - The Onion
Song 7: Driving sideways - Aimee Mann
Act 8: Dr. Doug Inkley - New Gulf spill report... Not the end of the story - Thom Hartman Air Date: 9-19-11
Song 8: Secrets - OneRepublic
Act 9: Supporting the EPA and the Koch Bros accidentally fund accurate climate research - Green News Report Air Date: 10-25-11
Song 9: Welcome to the black parade - My Chemical Romance
Act 10: CO2 - They call it pollution, we call it life - Al Franken
Voicemails:
Thoughts on Jim Hightower's airport security comments - Michael From Benicia, CA
Debunking of voicemailer who decried Jim Hightower - Mara from Pittsburgh
Follow up on Jim Hightower scanner comments - Michael From Benicia, CA
Responding to Michael From Benicia on airport scanners - Mara from Pittsburgh
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments wondering if we'll hear back from Michael again
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Weathering Fights - Daily Show
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.4 | the membership tab at bestableleft.com, and welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left |
| 0:10.8 | Podcast with Cook Today from Ring of Fire, Jim Hightower, the Tom Horton program, the |
| 0:14.8 | Daily Show, the Green News Report, the Majority Report, the Onion Radio News, and a classic |
| 0:19.8 | clip from the Al Franken show. |
| 0:22.5 | Do you know that Al Franken used to have a radio show? |
| 0:24.8 | It was brilliant. |
| 0:30.0 | So, Bobby, we had to take a break, but you were explaining the two laws that have existed |
| 0:34.8 | through the ages in terms of property. |
| 0:37.8 | And one of them being the private property, nuisance laws, you can't do something that's |
| 0:42.3 | going to impair the enjoyment or the use of other, or interfere with the enjoyment or use |
| 0:48.5 | of other people's property in terms of private property. |
| 0:52.2 | And the notion of public property, ancient laws that have been passed down through |
| 0:57.4 | Rome in response to what happened prior to the Dark Ages in Europe. |
| 1:02.8 | And so, where are we? |
| 1:04.8 | That's called, that second group is called the public trust doctrine, and it protects |
| 1:08.6 | the commons, the publicly-owned lands. |
| 1:11.2 | And what I was saying, the King John in England began privatizing the commons, and this |
| 1:15.8 | always happens in tyrannies. |
| 1:18.0 | And he privatized the fisheries and salt monopolies, and privatized the rivers of England. |
| 1:24.0 | And so, you couldn't navigate on them without paying a total of rich person. |
| 1:28.3 | This caused the public to rise up. |
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