(2012/17/10) The ick-factor on display (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 October 2012
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Summary
Edition #654
The ick-factor on display
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Explosive Employment - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: 09-20-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Welcome to the black parade - My Chemical Romance
Ch. 4: Act 2: US Suffers for Romney Failure to Engage Obama on Drones - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 9-25-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: If not now, when? - Anchor & Braille
Ch. 6: Act 3: One third of Pussy Riot freed - The Bugle - Air Date 10-14-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Put your records on - Corinne Bailey Rae
Ch. 8: Act 4: Freedom for one third of Pussy Riot - Amnesty International - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 9: Song 4: A girl, a boy, and a graveyard - Jeremy Messersmith
Ch. 10: Act 5: Afghanistan Withdrawal May Come Sooner Than Expected - NATO SG - The Young Turks - Air Date: 10-02-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Spectrum - Florence and The Machine
Ch. 12: Act 6: End the Afghan War Now! - The Progressive - Air Date: 10-8-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Goodbye stranger - Supertramp
Ch. 14: Act 7: Taliban Targets 14 Year Old Girl - The Bugle - Air Date 10-14-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Impossible - Shout Out Louds
Ch. 16: Act 8: War Dead - Humanity Vs. Incidents - CounterSpin - Air Date 10-5-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Imagine that - Katie Todd Band
Ch. 18: Act 9: Waterboarding USA - le Show - Air Date 10-14-12
Ch. 19: Act 10: GOP Good at Exploiting Security for Politics - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 10-10-12
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Ch. 21: Stimulating the economy with legalization - Victor from Poughkeepsie, New York
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Ch. 22: Final comments on nothing at all
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.6 | the membership tab at BestOfLeft.com Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft |
| 0:10.8 | podcast with us today from MarkFury.com, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Bugle, a BestOfLeft |
| 0:15.6 | Activism update, The Young Turks, The Progressive, Counter-Spin and The Show, and a note for our |
| 0:20.8 | listeners, this episode discusses elements of U.S. foreign policy and is therefore not fit |
| 0:25.4 | for polite company. |
| 0:30.0 | Explosive Employment Greetings, Maddots. You are about to leave your |
| 0:37.2 | civilian life of high unemployment and begin a new life of explosive employment. |
| 0:43.8 | Cuts to military and defense contracting budgets mean fewer jobs, so it naturally follows |
| 0:50.8 | that increasing those budgets means more jobs. Prepare yourself for a $2 trillion explosion. |
| 0:59.9 | Remember, government spending on sissy civilian jobs programs does not work. Government |
| 1:06.5 | spending on military and defense contracting budgets works and leads to jobs. You will |
| 1:12.4 | be employed as builders or operators of things that shoot, blow up, fire, zap, transport, |
| 1:19.4 | fly, float, or flatten. You will be deployed to places like Iran, Syria, Somalia, whatever |
| 1:26.7 | a stand, and wherever there are jobs to be had. If bombing Iran means jobs, invading |
| 1:32.4 | and occupying Iran means more jobs. I repeat, civilian stimulus does not work. Building |
| 1:39.8 | infrastructure at home, weakens our ability to bomb and rebuild infrastructure abroad. |
| 1:45.7 | Do not stand in the way of explosive employment. Why grow the deficit with a government job |
| 1:51.8 | at an inner-city school when you can employ and deploy the entire inner-city? Explosive |
| 1:58.6 | employment because war is job one. Now get out there and explode. I'm mid-rowning |
| 2:07.5 | and this is socialism I can support. |
| 2:37.5 | Here in the United States countless publications provoke offense. Like me, the majority of Americans |
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