(2012/02/10) We're all the scarecrow now (Economics) - a podcast by BestOfTheLeft.com
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Edition #574
We're all the scarecrow now
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Act 1: Wage stagnation coverage by media big leagues - Counterspin - Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 1: Sweet disposition - The Temper Trap
Act 2: Shoveling America's wealth to the top - Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-3-12
Song 2: A change is gonna come - Sam Cooke
Act 3: Dr. David Graeber - Debts as a promise and the story of The Wizard of Oz - Majority Report Air Date: 12-13-11
Song 3: I'm a believer - The Monkees
Act 4: Disastrous Obama Choice for World Bank Chief - Young Turks 1-18-12
Song 4: Rains down in Africa - Toto
Act 5: Newsweek's Neil Ferguson on Convincing the Public for Austerity Measures - Counterspin - Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 5: Why did I listen to that man? - Urinetown
Act 6: An ugly surprise from big oil - Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-24-12
Song 6: Gorel - Babba Maal
Act 7: ExxonMobil Swears It's Going To Start Taxes Early This Year - The Onion
Song 7: Elevator love letter - Stars
Act 8: The argument for refusing to leave your home - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 1-27-12
Song 8: Winter song - Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Act 9: NY Times David Brooks Defends Economic Elite - Counterspin - Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 9: Don't let the sun go down on me - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 10: Tim Wise - Demonization of Minorities - Majority Report - Air Date: 1-30-12
Song 10: Just a ride - Jem
Act 11: Getting stuck on America's economic ladder - Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-25-12
Song 11: Big black nothing - Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band
Act 12: Subtle GOP Racism - Romney not concerned about very poor - Matthew Filipowicz - Air Date: 2-2-12
Voicemails:
Asking teenagers when they chose to be straight - Tony from Southern New Jersey
Recommending the Smiley and West Podcast - Max from Davis, CA
Wishing there had been a two-way teachable moment regarding It Gets Better - Adrianne from College Station. TX
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on the fringe LGBT movement against equality
Article: Not the marrying kind
Activist Ryan Conrad critiques the gay equality movement
http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Not_the_marrying_kind-11365.aspx
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