(2012/05/31) Reflection of the future across the pond (Economics)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 31 May 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #610
Reflection of the future across the pond
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Austerity Rejected Cenk on Elections In France, Greece - Young Turks - Air Date: 5-14-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Viva la vida - Coldplay
Ch. 4: Act 2: Unraveling A Solution That Doesn't Work - CounterSpin - Air Date: 5-10-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Tiny vessels - Death Cab For Cutie
Ch. 6: Act 3: Greek Crisis and GOP Austerity - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 5-14-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: The walk - Imogen Heap
Ch. 8: Act 4: Assaulting Austerity - Mark Fiore - Air Date 5-14-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Drowning men (acoustic version) - Fanfarlo
Ch. 10: Act 5: GOP Loves Taxes As Long As You're Poor - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 5-25-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Mother we just can't get enough - New Radicals
Ch. 12: Act 6: Unemployed, Over 55...Older Americans Can't Find Work
Ch. 13: Song 6: Kyoko's House ("stage blood is not enough") - Philip Glass
Ch. 14: Act 7: Republicans Preparing to Ditch Fealty to Grover Norquist - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 5-18-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Jump - Van Halen
Ch. 16: Act 8: Is The Secret To Happiness Being Kept A Secret - Lee Camp - Air Date 5-11-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Daydream - The Lovin' Spoonful
Ch. 18: Act 9: Future of Wisconsin Democratic Party Depends on Walker Recall Election - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 5-24-12
Ch. 25: Song 9: Fight back - Garnett Silk
Ch. 26: Act 10: Recall Walker vote and virtual phone bank - BotL Activism Update
Ch. 27: Song 10: Fight back - Garnett Silk
Ch. 28: Act 11: Meet America’s deranged philosopher-queen - Johann Hari - Air Date: 5-10-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 29: Reaction to gay rights and civil rights struggles - Michael From California
Ch. 30: How I gathered the strength to come out - Dan from Chicago
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 31: Final comments on the US being the 1% of the world
Activism Link:
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.5 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com, now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft |
| 0:10.8 | Podcast with Cups Today from the Young Turks, CounterSpin, Tom Hartman, MarkFury.com, |
| 0:16.2 | The Rachel Maddo Show, The Majority Report, Comedian Lee Camp, and Johan Hari. |
| 0:20.7 | And a note of caution today that austerity programs in the mirror may be closer than they |
| 0:24.6 | appear. |
| 0:30.1 | When I was in France, they have an election in my honor, obviously, they must have known |
| 0:34.8 | that I was going there on vacation. |
| 0:37.4 | And I guess what? |
| 0:38.4 | In my honor, the Socialist one, François on, I got to stop, anyway, it was of course |
| 0:46.2 | the Socialist candidate, and he came out victorious. |
| 0:49.6 | This is gigantic news because really, it might be a defining moment for which direction |
| 0:57.4 | Europe goes in terms of whether they're going to do more austerity, or they're going |
| 1:01.7 | to go be in favor of stimulus instead. |
| 1:05.0 | And obviously, Sarkozy had gone in an austerity direction with Angela Merkel, the leader |
| 1:10.4 | of Germany. |
| 1:11.4 | Now, throughout Europe, we have many elections going in the opposite direction, saying, |
| 1:16.7 | hey, austerity doesn't seem to be working, and they're right about that. |
| 1:21.2 | Now often times you'll see in the coverage, poo-pooing of election results, like, oh, the |
| 1:26.9 | electorate in Greece, they're so irresponsible, they don't understand, they need to do austerity, |
| 1:32.3 | and the same goes for perhaps France, and even Germany now has taken an interesting |
| 1:38.0 | direction, I'll tell you about it in a second. |
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