(2011/03/12) Easing the decline (Foreign Policy)

Edition #465

Easing the decline

 

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Act 1: Tony Blair and the Iraq war - BBC News Quiz

Song 1: Lake Michigan - Rogue Wave

Act 2: Drones not always precise in real world - Counterspin

Song 2: Real world - Matchbox Twenty

Act 3: Treatment of Bradley Manning - Majority Report

Song 3: Pressure Drop - The Clash

Act 4: Obama's abominable retreat on Gitmo - The Progressive

Song 4: Animal - Miike Snow

Act 5: In an Age of Austerity, Can't the US Cut the Military Budget? - The Breakdown

Song 5: Spend - Jeff Caudill

Act 6: We're losing a game of Solitaire - Lee Camp

Song 6: He got game - Public Enemy & Voices Of Shabach Community Choir Of Long Island

Act 7: Afghanistan still wildly unpopular - Counterspin

Song 7: Surrender II - Ottmar Liebert

Act 8: Managing the decline of our empire Part 1 - Common Sense

Song 8: Like humans do - David Byrne

Act 9: Troubling Rise In Teen Uranium Enrichment - The Onion

Song 9: Radioactive - Kings of Leon

Act 10: Managing the decline of our empire Part 2 - Common Sense

 

Voicemails:

Promotion for LeftForum.org - Ryan from NY

www.emptythisapartment.blogspot.com - Eric from Michigan

Date rape story in response to feminism episode - Anonymous

 

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

 

Final comments on skipped voicemails, www.emptythisapartment.blogspot.com and a call for responses to date rape story

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Al Qaeda Attacks Internet With Photo Of Adorable Piglet - The Onion

 

Produced by:

Jay! Tomlinson

 

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