The Relentless Picnic - Ep. 26 - This Is Marketplace

Ep. 26 - This Is Marketplace

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01/17/18 • 109 min

The Relentless Picnic

Like I always say, if the markets are a-singin', you better know how to make 'em dance. Today on the program, it's a deep dive in the shallow pond that is NPR's Marketplace. We'll ask the question: are there Nazis in-studio forcing them to be like this? Or is there a more covert kind of fascism within the neoliberal soul? I'm Kai Ryssdal, and this sinking ship is called Marketplace. SOURCES: - "Buying 450 Million Ripple? - $1Billion Ripple XRP Buy - XRP Ripple CryptoCurrency," by the right reputable Crypto Coin News: https://youtu.be/_TGELnePogs ; - "Is Amazon finally poised for a complete retail takeover?" (Oct. 27, 2017): http://bit.ly/2Dd9mku ; - "Why accountants can't wait for the new tax bill" (Oct. 30, 2017): http://bit.ly/2DJqfEw ; - "Does trickle-down economics make any sense?" (Nov. 7, 2017): http://bit.ly/2EOQiJP ; - "F is For Future: How to Think About Public Media's Next 50 Years" a Knight Foundation whitepaper by Melody Kramer and Betsy Odonovan (2017): http://kng.ht/2AFoCGp ; - Weekly Wrap: "What lowering the tax rate means for the economy" (Sept. 1, 2017): http://bit.ly/2mENxDo ; - "How will corporations spend their tax cuts?" (Dec. 1, 2017): http://bit.ly/2DbtByT ; - "How Kai Ryssdal, Radio Host, Does It," by Kai Ryssdal, as told to KJ Dell'Antonia (NY Times; May 29, 2013): http://nyti.ms/2rdDmLr ; - Vanity Fair profile of Kai Ryssdal, by Sarah Ball (Oct. 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/2mG6GEM ; - Kai on PBS NewsHour with Hari Sreenivasan (Oct. 18, 2016): https://youtu.be/gbMxKqUk02E ; - "A surprise viral hit: Income inequality, the movie" (March 8, 2013): http://bit.ly/2FLj13d ; - "Inequality: Capitalism's 'squeaky wheel'" (Jan. 29, 2014): http://bit.ly/2DmwvnY ; - sporadic Marketplace excerpts from 4/5/17–1/12/18 ; - music from the episode: http://bit.ly/2DmLtKu.

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Ep. 25 - Drench the Spark

To die, to sleep — perchance to be judged no longer viable in society and sentenced to burn alive from within. Who is truly avenged by our cocktails of untested heartstoppers? Justices: why did we stop, then start, doing this again? Join us at the top of the scaffold of lies we tell ourselves, where we countenance barbarisms and watch the clock till it runs all the way out. SOURCES: - Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975): http://a.co/eerXzt2 ; - 60 Minutes, "The Execution of Joseph Wood" (Nov. 29, 2015): http://bit.ly/2kgmw8Z ; - Oklahoma's KFOR-TV on Clayton Lockett's botched execution (Apr. 29, 2014); reporter Courtney Francisco, eyewitnessing: https://youtu.be/d06awQ1L2TM ; - Furman v. Georgia (1972): http://bit.ly/2kIZ6bH ; - news clips on the decision in Furman v. Georgia: https://youtu.be/yeOykQHeRlY?t=2m23s ; - Gregg v. Georgia (1976): http://bit.ly/2kfGh0d ; - a cartoon on the case, produced (amazingly) by the Georgia State Bar: https://youtu.be/3-BNkWHmCqg ; - Bloody Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Code ; http://bit.ly/2CB3Bwe - Two Treatises of Government, by John "Hornsbury" Locke (1689) ; - 30 for 30, Doc & Darryl (dir. Judd Apatow & Michael Bonfiglio, 2016): http://es.pn/2ASRfPt ; - Glossip v. Gross (2015): http://bit.ly/2oGy6Pc ; - J. Alito, for the 5-4 majority: http://bit.ly/2oBvBh0 ; - J. Breyer, dissenting: http://bit.ly/2CZtAOU (& published in handsome volume here: http://a.co/7M59QDr) ; - Nino, concurring: http://bit.ly/2Bxk19L ; - J. Thomas, concurring: http://bit.ly/2BIRZua ; - Audio & transcipts of oral arguments (argued Apr. 29, 2015) on Oyez here: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2014/14-7955 ; - Death Penalty Information Center: deathpenaltyinfo.org; fact sheet: http://bit.ly/2yiSHKz ; - Don Delillo, Americana (1989): http://a.co/bhyKIYp ; - music from the episode: http://bit.ly/2kHBjbX ; FURTHER READING: - McGautha v. California (1971), in which J. Harlan, writing for the court (6-3), said: "To identify before the fact those characteristics of criminal homicides and their perpetrators which call for the death penalty, and to express these characteristics in language which can be fairly understood and applied by the sentencing authority, appear to be tasks which are beyond present human ability." http://bit.ly/2kIHVqH

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