(2011/11/20) Advocating for selfish altruism (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 November 2011
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Edition #550
Advocating for selfish altruism
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Act 1: Wall Street wankers according to an Irishman abroad - TheDadgadman on YouTube
Song 1: The Czar of Munster - Seamus Egan
Act 2: Obama Moves Left For 2012 Election - Jimmy Dore 9-19-11
Song 2: I'm Free - The Soup Dragons
Act 3: Republican Businessman Suggest $3 Minimum Wage - David Pakman Air Date: 9-27-11
Song 3: Minimum Wage - They Might Be Giants
Act 4: The 1 percent didn't give workers weekends and child labor laws - Majority Report Air Date: 10-28-11
Song 4: Working Class Hero - Exit Clov
Act 5: Taco Bell Employee Somehow Dressed Down By Manager - The Onion
Song 5: So low - Self
Act 6: Why GDP Is Like GPA - NPR Air Date: 10-29-11
Song 6: World go 'round - No Doubt
Act 7: The disuniting of America - Jim Hightower Air Date: 11-10-11
Song 7: The Bare Necessities - Bruce Reitherman & Phil Harris
Act 8: Bloomberg's Don't Blame the Banks Lie Debunked - Majority Report Air Date: 11-4-11
Song 8: Billionaire (feat. Bruno Mars) - Travie McCoy
Act 9: Legalized Corruption of Government Exposed by Abramoff - Young Turks Air Date: 11-7-11
Song 9: Bling (Confessions of a king) - The Killers
Act 10: Working Man Proud Of Job He Hates - The Onion
Song 10: Slave song - Sade
Act 11: The Managers Of Money - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 11-13-11
Song 11: Torn Blue Foam Couch - Grand Archives
Act 12: On Capitol Hill, Rand's 'Atlas' Can't Be Shrugged Off - NPR Air Date: 11-15-11
Song 12: Evil is alive and well - Jakob Dylan
Act 13: Pawning the Libertarians again - Majority Report Air Date: 9-16-11
Song 13: Selfish - This Providence
Act 14: Bank of America CEO Thank Us - Young Turks Air Date 10-30-11
Voicemails:
Responding regarding the Fairness Doctrine - Todd from LA
Thanks for elements of non-violence - Eric
Thoughts on medicare and student loans - Earland from Indiana
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final Comments on advocating for selfish altruism
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Republicans say tax the bottom 50 percent more - Young Turks
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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 Coups today from Anne Irishman, |
| 0:13.2 | the Jimmy Doar Show, the David Pakman Show, the majority report, the Onion Radio News, |
| 0:17.2 | NPR, Jim Hightower, the Young Turks, and Mumio Bougemoll, with a bonus video clip for |
| 0:21.5 | our Apple iOS and Android app users from the Young Turks, and today's episode does contain |
| 0:26.3 | some hilarious profanity. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Jason Calary with the Financial News here in Limerick, Ireland, talking to an Irishman |
| 0:34.9 | about Wall Street. |
| 0:36.6 | Sir, what do you think is happening on Wall Street right now? |
| 0:39.2 | I'll tell you what's happening on Wall Street right now, total fucking chaos, sir. |
| 0:43.6 | We've had these bunch of fucking wankers and bankers on Wall Street, who for the last |
| 0:47.1 | 10 or 15 years have created or produced these hoax-pocus bunch of products like complicated |
| 0:53.8 | derivatives and subprime margues that have bundled together, sold them to you and I, |
| 0:59.1 | with a blessing of the credit agencies. |
| 1:01.2 | And of course, we all know what happened in around 2007, all these hairy, fairy schemes |
| 1:07.4 | began to unravel. |
| 1:08.8 | And you know, these fuck shits had gone to the hills with billions of dollars in bonuses. |
| 1:13.1 | And of course, 2008, the government had to bail out the Wall Street crowd to the tune |
| 1:18.1 | of approximately $1.3 trillion. |
| 1:22.8 | And by the government, you mean? |
| 1:24.3 | By the government, I mean, the hard-working people of the United States of America, the |
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