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#435 People scared clothes-less and world powers exposed (International Security)

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Edition #435


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Act 1: Don’t touch my junk – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 1: Submarine Symphonika – Honeysuckle Weeks
Act 2: Memo to Fox – Profiling still wont work – Media Matters
Song 2: Your Racist Friend – Flood
Act 3: Homeland security for sale – Young Turks
Song 3: Holiday Road (Live) – Live At the Bass Performance Hall
Act 4: Tales of airport security – Le Show
Song 4: Touch my junk – Harry Shearer
Act 5: Interview with TSA on enhanced pad down procedure – Majority Report
Song 5: Slide – No Angel
Act 6: Wiki gossip – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 6: A Few Honest Words – Learning to Bend
Act 7: NYT on leaked info about Iran – Counterspin
Song 7: How – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (The Complete Sessions 1991-1993)
Act 8: Wikileaks lets us know what’s going on – The Progressive
Song 8: Tracked in mud – Cory Davies
Act 9: Jay Rosen on Wikileaks – Citizen Radio
Song 9: Just My Imagination – Stars – The Best of 1992-2002
Act 10: Wikileaks vs. world peace – Counterspin
Song 10: The Peace Carol – A Christmas Together
Act 11: Knowing what’s real from Wikileaks – Common Sense

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Jay Rosen on Wikileaks- “The watchdog press died; we have this instead.”

Links:
Daniel Ellsberg’s open letter to Amazon.com
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/02/daniel-ellsberg-says-boycott-amazon/print/

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#403 Rachel Maddow gives credit where credit is due (Foreign Policy)

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Edition #403

Act 1: 9 Billion lost – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Where Did It Go (Bonus Track) – Jimmy Cliff
Act 2: The insane cost of war – Young Turks
Song 2: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John: Greatest Hits
Act 3: Taliban code of conduct – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: Sometimes I Rhyme Slow – Ain’t a Damn Thing Changed
Act 4: Reaction to 9/11 – Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Song 4: John Adams theme song – HBO
Act 5: Growing intelligence community – Colbert Report
Song 5:Under the Gun – Sawdust
Act 6: Still not out of Iraq – The Progressive
Song 6: Drowning Men – Reservoir
Act 7: Mission accomplished part 2 – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 7: Don’t Talk – In My Tribe
Act 8: US always has money for war – Young Turks
Song 8: Give a Little Bit – The Very Best of Supertramp
Act 9: Iraq numbers – Le Show
Song 9: Trillion Dollar Bargain – Harry Shearer
Act 10: Credit where credit is due – Rachel Maddow

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Full, unedited interview with the hosts of Citizen Radio

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#399 Climate bill killed as the world melts (Climate Change)

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Edition #399

Act 1: The trouble with fracking – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: That’s All – Arrow
Act 2: Obama on respecting science – Citizen Radio
Song 2: Where Is My Mind? – Surfer Rosa
Act 3: News of the warm Part 1 – Le Show
Song 3: Let’s Dance to Joy Division – A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation
Act 4: The cries from Pakistan – The Progressive
Song 4: Cry – Back to Bedlam
Act 5: Lose 300 million pounds of CO2 – Slate.com
Song 5: Don’t Let’s Start – Then: The Earlier Years
Act 6: Climate bill killed – Young Turks
Song 6: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – The Joshua Tree (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered]
Act 7: The decline of the oil economy – The Bugle
Song 7: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher – Jackie Wilson: 20 Greatest Hits
Act 8: News of the warm Part 2 – Le Show
Song 8: Faster, Sooner, Now – Sell, Sell, Sell
Act 9: Greenland ice island – Countdown
Song 9: Juno – Elephant Shell
Act 10: 2010 hottest year so far on record – Young Turks

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The Climate Bill – Rachel Maddow

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#382 Obama and GOP speak on oil spill (Oil Spill)

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Edition #382

Act 1: Day 58, Obama’s speech – Daily Show
Song 1: Friend of the Devil – Films About Ghosts: The Best of Counting Crows
Act 2: President’s weekly address – Le Show
Song 2: Angry – Mad Season
Act 3: LA Senator wants more oil drilling – Young Turks
Song 3: Mushaboom – Let It Die
Act 4: More moronic GOP reactions – Daily Show
Song 4: The Wind – The Very Best of Cat Stevens
Act 5: Leaving for a yacht race – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 5: Skinny Love – For Emma, Forever Ago
Act 6: Oil execs know nothing about spills – Rachel Maddow
Song 6: Aegean Wave – Pianissimo
Act 7: Oil regulation corruption – Le Show
Song 7: Failure By Design – Your Favorite Weapon
Act 8: Of oil, energy and filibusters – Bill Maher
Song 8: Never Before – Never Before
Act 9: Oil spill not an environmental disaster – Young Turks
Song 9: When It All Goes Wrong Again – The Best of Everclear
Act 10: International oil market – Rachel Maddow

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Tip/Wag at Marshall Islands – Colbert Report

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