(2014/01/02) Following the money, the gas and a table (Climate)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 January 2014
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Edition #786
Following the money, the gas and a table
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Climate Change is a Thing and the Science Behind it is Real - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 10-29-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: I didn't see it coming - Belle and Sebastian
Ch. 4: Act 2: The Lesson of the Typhoon - The Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 11-11-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Flood - Jars of Clay
Ch. 6: Act 3: The growing threat of water insecurity, and the opportunistic mineral exploitation of the arctic - Living on Earth - Air Date: 11-01-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Listen - Theo Bard
Ch. 8: Act 4: This Wooden Table Will Change The Way You View The World - Lee Camp - Air Date: 11-26-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Power to the people - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band
Ch. 10: Act 5: Cap And Trade - Carbon Offset - Carbon Footprint - Climate Change - Carbon Scam - Pollution Scam - brainphreak - Air Date: 1-2-10
Ch. 11: Song 5: Something good can work - Two Door Cinema Club
Ch. 12: Act 6: Who Funds Climate Change Deniers? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-24-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Planet Earth - Steve Eschleman
Ch. 14: Act 7: De-Smog Blog - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 15: Song 7: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 16: Act 8: Why do we Have Electric Power Plants? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 11-01-13
Ch. 23: Final comments on the life cycle of fracked gas, the polar bear plunge and how to get a promotional video made for your business
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
http://www.desmogblog.com
Information for this segment can be found at:
https://twitter.com/DeSmogBlog
https://www.facebook.com/DeSmogBlog
http://leecamp.net/podcast-275-steve-horn-talks-with-me-about-how-the-keystone-pipeline-is-already-carrying-oil-and-more/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/new-york-fracking-ban
http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/12/12/federal-pipeline-safety-agency-offers-keystone-xl-south-half-green-light
http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/12/20/u-s-congressmen-refuse-address-keystone-xl-southern-half-spill-concerns
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Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details of |
| 0:06.3 | visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cups Today from the Rachel Maddo |
| 0:12.4 | show, the Progressive Magazine, Living On Earth, Comedian Lee Camp, Brain Freak, The Young |
| 0:17.6 | Turks, The Unfucked Up Project, and The Tom Harp and Program. |
| 0:21.0 | And I'd just like to point out ahead of time that all the problems you're about to hear |
| 0:23.8 | about still seem to stem back to money and politics. |
| 0:27.2 | Funny how that works. |
| 0:30.0 | From Florida, all the way north to Maine, cities and towns, and regular people boarded |
| 0:35.6 | up windows and tried to get ready. |
| 0:38.1 | Hurricane Sandy was on the way up, up from the Caribbean to the East Coast, spinning huge |
| 0:44.8 | and mercilessly. |
| 0:46.6 | We have experienced a lot of hurricanes in this country, but for sheer size, Sandy was |
| 0:52.3 | without precedent. |
| 0:54.0 | Sandy was the largest single storm system to ever form in the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 1:00.2 | And it was aiming for the most densely populated part of the United States. |
| 1:03.7 | It was aiming for our nation's largest city. |
| 1:07.6 | And that city raced like all the others to get ready for this gigantic storm. |
| 1:11.8 | New York City sent out evacuation orders for people living in flood zones. |
| 1:16.2 | They built sandbag walls at office buildings. |
| 1:18.7 | They shut down the subway system. |
| 1:20.4 | They locked the door to Grand Central Terminal. |
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