(2013/01/08) Time to wind it down (Foreign Policy)
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🗓️ 9 January 2013
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Edition #676
Time to wind it down
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Is It Time to End the Global War on Terror? - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 11-30-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: New Normal - Phil Joel
Ch. 4: Act 2: Champions Of Free Speech, and Justifying Drone Attacks - CounterSpin - Air Date 12-7-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Keepsake - State Radio
Ch. 6: Act 3: Children Targeted by Bombs, U.S. Military Approves - Young Turks - Air date -12-4-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: One day - Matisyahu
Ch. 8: Act 4: Afghanistan to be U.S. Outpost - The Progressive - Air Date: 12-14-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Fake Empire - The National
Ch. 10: Act 5: US in Afghanistan 2 More Yrs & How Many More Lives? - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 12-12-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men
Ch. 12: Act 6: Pay Attention - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: 11-29-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die - Brand New
Ch. 14: Act 7: Guantanamo Judge Damages Our Democracy - The Progressive - Air Date: 12-13-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: The laws have changed - The New Pornographers
Ch. 16: Act 8: Syrian WMDs - CounterSpin - Air Date 12-14-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Up against the wall - Peter Bjorn & John
Ch. 18: Act 9: Kerry Nomination Moves Focus to Hagel at Defense - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 12-21-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Submarine Symphonika - The Submarines
Ch. 20: Act 10: Facing The New Reality - We're Not In That Much Danger - Common Sense - Air Date 11-30-12
Ch. 21: Comments introducing the Fermi Paradox and the Big Think clip
Ch. 22: Big Think: Michio Kaku: Will Mankind Destroy Itself?
Ch. 23: Final comments relating the future of the species to my fundraising campaign at bit.ly/jaysplunge
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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 BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.4 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Scoops Today from the Rachel |
| 0:12.3 | Maddo Show, CounterSpin, The Young Turks, The Progressive, MarkFury.com, and Common Sense |
| 0:17.6 | with Dan Carlin. And then at the end, we ponder the fate of the human race. |
| 0:30.4 | Do you remember the color-coded alert system we used to have? Remember that? |
| 0:36.5 | Tom Ridge announced the existence of our national color-coded, be afraid alert chart about |
| 0:44.0 | a decade ago in March 2002, so we could tell out of glance how alert we were supposed |
| 0:49.7 | to feel. |
| 0:50.7 | And if you didn't feel like glancing at the alert chart, at least at the airport, they |
| 0:55.4 | would read periodic recorded statements over the intercom telling you out loud that today's |
| 1:02.3 | threat level was orange. The threat level was always orange at the airport, no matter what |
| 1:07.5 | else was going on in the rest of the country. We don't do that anymore. We got rid of |
| 1:13.7 | the color-coded chart thing last year, and nobody complained. We also no longer have this. |
| 1:19.4 | This is the Google Street View of one of the secret prisons we used to have in Romania. |
| 1:24.9 | The Associated Press did a little overhead satellite view of it, too, so you can see just |
| 1:29.2 | how snubbed up our secret prison was against the railway lines and a really densely populated |
| 1:34.8 | part of Bucharest. But yeah, that little thing there, that was ours. We are a country with |
| 1:39.4 | two million people in prison or jail on any given day. America has thousands of prisons |
| 1:45.1 | and jails right here at home, but we decided to open up a little something in Romania, too, |
| 1:50.2 | in secret, also in Poland. And in a bunch of other places, we had secret overseas prisons. |
| 1:57.0 | We don't do that anymore either. They said they emptied them out in 2006, and then in 2009, |
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