(2013/05/09) The greatest measure of a society (Guantanamo)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 May 2013
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Edition #715
The greatest measure of a society
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Life For The Innocent At Gitmo - Citizen Radio - Air Date 4-16-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Break it down again - Tears for fears
Ch. 4: Act 2: In Era of Expanded Executive Power, Obama's Hands are Tied on Gitmo - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 4-30-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Anything could happen - Ellie Goulding
Ch. 6: Act 3: Obama's Words Slim Solace on Guantanamo - The Progressive - Air Date: 4-30-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Solice - General Fuzz
Ch. 8: Act 4: Will We EVER Close Gitmo? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 05-01-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: A little respect - Erasure
Ch. 10: Act 5: Gitmo And Justice During Wartime - Citizen Radio - Air Date 4-30-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Higher ground - Stevie Wonder
Ch. 12: Act 6: Outling Obama's Guantanamo Problems - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date: 5-3-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Next to me - Emeli Sandé
Ch. 14: Act 7: Guantanamo by the Numbers - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 05-03-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Naive - The Kooks
Ch. 16: Act 8: Why You Should Care About The Massive Guantanamo Hunger Strike - Lee Camp - Air Date: 05-06-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Curl up and die - Relient K
Ch. 18: Act 9: Is Guantanamo Obama's Greatest Disgrace? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 05-07-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Clarification on definitions of WMD - James from Santee, CA
Ch. 20: We can't give the government too much power - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
Ch. 21: There are voices of welcoming counteracting those of xenophobia - Jordan in Wisconsin
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Ch. 22: Final comments on rhetorical jiu jitsu
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by the Ting Cellphone Service Company. |
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| 0:08.8 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast, |
| 0:11.2 | with whom today, from Citizen Radio, the Rachel Maddo Show, |
| 0:14.0 | the Progressive, the Young Turks, the Jimmy Doors Show, |
| 0:16.4 | the Tom Harbin Program, and Comedian League Camp. |
| 0:19.2 | And a note of warning today that if you stand in front of a mirror |
| 0:21.6 | and repeat the names of any of the Guantanamo detainees 10 times, |
| 0:25.2 | then they'll appear and escape because they're magic. |
| 0:30.0 | We never give the New York Times props on this show because they're terrible. |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.3 | But they finally did something good! |
| 0:35.7 | Yay! |
| 0:36.9 | They had a really, really powerful op-ed that they published yesterday |
| 0:46.1 | from Samir Naji Al-Hasan Muk-Bel, who is currently a prisoner at Guantanamo. |
| 0:52.4 | Yep. |
| 0:53.2 | And I wanted to read a little bit from it because it is just so powerful, |
| 0:59.0 | but I highly recommend everybody go read it in full. |
| 1:03.9 | So there have been forced raids at Guantanamo this week. |
| 1:10.4 | At times, the rating forces were battling with detainees |
| 1:15.5 | to systematically empty communal cell blocks |
| 1:18.5 | in an effort to end this hunger strike that we've been talking about on the show |
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