61 - Every Day, 30,000 Children Die: World's Worst Terrorism? / Listener Email: How Blast The Right Converted Him From Republican To Progressive

BLAST THE RIGHT

Jack Clark

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🗓️ 28 September 2006

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today I'm going to tell you about two of the most important and damning statistics in the world, and then link them to right-wing policies. We'll also try to decide what to call the deadly result of these policies. Is that result properly called terrorism, or just unfathomable violence?We'll also hear from a listener who abandoned his Republican ideology and adopted a progressive outlook as a

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 61 of Blast the Right.
0:24.4	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:28.8	Today, I'm going to tell you about two of the most important and damning statistics in the world,
0:37.8	and then link them to right-wing policies.
0:40.8	We'll also try to decide what to call the deadly result of these policies,
0:44.8	is that result properly called terrorism or just unfathomable violence.
0:50.8	We'll also hear from a listener who abandoned his Republican ideology
0:55.8	as a result of listening to episodes of this podcast.
0:59.8	Oh, let's get right into it.
1:01.8	My sources are the New York Times, USA Today, infoplease.com,
1:08.8	the Interpress Service, the Vatican website, AFLCIO.org,
1:13.8	the British newspaper The Guardian, Wikipedia,
1:16.8	the World Health Organization, the UN Development Program,
1:20.8	the Institute for Food and Development Policy, located at foodfirst.org,
1:25.8	and the CIA Factbook.
1:28.8	Near the top of my rational radical homepage,
1:32.8	in a very prominent position, I put a counter.
1:35.8	It looks like a car odometer, but unfortunately it's an odometer unlike any other.
1:41.8	Every day it counts up to 30,000, then starts again the next day.
1:46.8	Every week it tallies 210,000.
1:49.8	Every month 900,000.
1:51.8	In a year, my counter advances 11 million times.
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