the deal. she's in mind is. a sense for you with the palm of your. call. hello i'm sorry to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture outrage against government cuts toward health care wages and education are not only being felt here but across the globe more on why a half million people took the streets of london over the weekend after making billions of profits and not paying taxes general electric is next going after the union workers who can really get away with things and radiation continues to rise

in japan are we seen a worst case scenario unfolding. you need to know this more than five hundred thousand people took to the streets in london over the weekend to protest the british government's proposed austerity program that would cut one hundred thirty billion dollars in spending and lay off nearly five hundred thousand public workers all walks of british life will be affected by the conservatives proposed cuts to childcare services retirees and public safety programs and the cuts set the nation's single payer health care system on the road to privatization london hasn't seen a protest this big since the two thousand and three demonstration against the iraq war one of the groups leading the protest was the trades union. and paul our head

of organization and services said this about why people are demonstrating. the government needs to change on a call of course because the courts are creating more unemployment just eyeful in economic recovery and the devastating public services not twice hundreds of thousands of people who joined the march today to send out loud and clear message to the government not your. from the center of the protests was the u.k. . targets corporate tax dodgers were a major reason why governments across the world are facing huge budget deficits so will this weekend's protests in london. not just in the u.k. but possibly worldwide for more on this and drugs soldier who was on hand in london for the protest freelance writer erica seder it's. great to be here great to have you with us first of all what was it like on the ground in london this week for you what was the major kerry takeaway sure i think it was just

a really powerful experience for me i join you know half a million other folks there just you know such a diverse crowd there is you know nurses teachers parents union member is firefighters and i think it just was a really powerful show of strength and it was really sort of a showing that this is really affecting all walks of life and all types of different people in the u.k. and it's not just limited you know american narrow group it's kind of a mass movement that's really emerging there the coverage that i saw on television here in the united states seemed to emphasize violence i know there were you know if you crazies in the crowd did you see any there's definitely some but i think for the most part i mean the vast vast majority of it was really peaceful protesters you know there's always going to be some violence but i think the media really chose to emphasize that over a lot of the peaceful actions in u.k. . how did peaceful sit in i want to stores there and i think that's what's really driving this is we have

a large department store really upscale department store there. they targeted for tax touched tax avoidance tax dodging. so i think that that really wasn't the case you know and a large part of the process that was sort of a small minority definitely was a good harvest or as i recall the avoided forty sixty million dollars in taxes you know. you would say you've spent the last. sweeps in the u.k. how would you describe the mental. at this point i think it's really building mean i think we saw this when jeremy starr a lot of the student protests there were students out. protesting you know sort of things that were related to education but this is really a broadening of that movement now it's kind of expanded and i think this is really kind of a start of that mass movement when you talk to people there they're saying this is just the beginning it's going to last through the summer it's going to keep on going they're going to kind of what they feel you know is necessary it's really push this forward the first big protests in the u.k.

after the new cameron conservative government announced cuts the first cuts are to student programs and raising the university tuition which had been closed to free and a lot of colleges. and that brought the students or what percentage of the group of course were seeing that we could be role here as the foreign minister this is the this is the stuff that was actually few and far between yeah but what percentage of the group was young people. and and is it true that there were large parts of the demonstrations where it was literally you know moms with kids and strollers and old poll showing up holding flowers and things yeah i mean there was a significant number of young people i mean i marched in one of a drawing with one of the feeder marches that sort of joined the main march that was mostly students but once i got to the main march i mean it was you know as kids it was karen's it was you know standing with firefighters all with their you know coworkers that you know union so i think it really was just quite

a mix certain and largely peaceful was there a social media you know so it's so often all over the middle east we're hearing about you know the twitter wars you have facebook you know was there a social media. element to this separately we haven't i mean a group that's you know it's very distributed a group that's working to target these you know people pointing these corporations avoiding paying taxes when they really they really blossoms and kind of were established on twitter where they do a lot of their organizing it's just kind of people will decide how many actions publicize them online and others will join in so definitely i mean i think that was the way that people were keeping posted and things evolved and saturday i'm now you were in the u.k. for six weeks you're an american. and there's a u.s. version of us and. what's your sense of the difference between the two. not so much necessarily organizationally or behaviorally. but in terms of public perception. i mean i know that in the u.k. and u.s. u.k.

and has been really well received i mean they're sort of seen as doing these more direct actions but in a way that's really sort of approachable and fun and playful and creative in a way this is us on kind of bank of america yeah so i think here i mean i think it's just in the beginning stages i mean there are definitely witnessed a lot of really strong anger at the banks with pressure admirations yeah and greenpeace or the green i think here i mean it's still kind of evolving i think that you know what happened with guns then hopefully will you know we'll see how that sort of plays out with us i'm i was at an event in the u.k. you know i did a video skype conference call with people in wisconsin to kind of get that connection going that's scary erica thanks so much we haven't heard from great to be here thank it's speaking with. a half million people protesting seems like a big news story doesn't especially since whenever the tea party sends a few thousand people washington d.c. dressed up like columnists that's all you hear about our cable news sometimes for

weeks these protests are largely ignored by the mainstream media. well just consider this possibility you've got millionaire commentators and in fact let me let me just set this up first of all who is on network television we have multimillionaire commentators people multi-million dollar rich people would rather not pay taxes the all the networks are owned by billionaires and transnationals none of them want to pay taxes and back in one thousand nine hundred three when ronald reagan was president if you're old enough to remember there was a period that was called the m. and a explosion stood for mergers and acquisitions and people like i have both skied always good they were evan a artists and it was the hot you. i can do mergers and acquisitions all these companies started combining so that we see this graphic this is you know bad been documented this is the media an awful way that when the reagans started stopping for. in the sherman antitrust act and just allowed companies like crazy to start

merging fifty companies controlled more than ninety percent of everything american saw in newspapers magazines t.v. radio stations books music movies videos wire services and photo agencies fifty companies owns ninety percent of our media now since reagan's deregulation and these are the various iterations of ben's rewriting his book we're down to five companies now five companies own ninety percent of our media and i just ask yourself why is there not so much media coverage of us uncut could it be because those five companies are a large giant transnationals that frankly would rather not pay taxes. so why should they give coverage to a bunch of protesters who are out there saying hey big corporations pay our taxes. it just kind of makes sense that it's not going to happen you know so we're frankly falls to us we've got to tell each other we've got to use the web we've got to use

social media we've got to and to whatever extent you can help influence the media to cover the story as us and cut is a story you can have a big story it needs a lot more coverage if it was the tea party it be on the wall so let's go let's get some coverage for this. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question did you hear about this weekend's protests in london from the mainstream media possible answers a yes i heard it on the mainstream news boxes. that the u.k. on cup moment is standing up to corporate tax dodgers or. no the mainstream news does not want to know if the u.k. is that they're really the u.k.

is rejecting corporate tax cuts paid for by spending cuts that screw workers so far you have overwhelmingly voted no log on tom harkin dot com dollars how do you think open. while wonders stood up against budget cuts and corporate tax dodgers the u.s. wasn't just sitting back u.k. uncut counterpart the united states us and also held demonstrations across our country at more than forty bank of america branches on saturday because those that corporation bank of america used over one hundred ten offshore tax havens to avoid paying any u.s. profits on dollars taxes on billions of dollars in. it's and the timing couldn't have been more appropriate as the new york times reported last week general electric the largest corporation in america made more than fourteen billion dollars

in profits last year worldwide over five billion of that the us how much taxes do they pay zero zero in fact they got a three point two billion dollars tax credit in other words we pay g.e. for making mindbogglingly high profits so it makes sense to you so it seems like g.e. should be just fine with their massive profits right. yes again. freelance labor journalist union organizing joins me now to tell us that g.e. is planning to screw their own workers with all their profits from not paying taxes mike welcome it's great to be on the show again thank you mike i appreciate it and thanks for being with us so what is g.e. up to so basically the new york times reported on friday that g didn't pay any taxes in fact they got three point two billion dollars worth of tax credits right now g.'s in contributions is this year and it's asking employees to do with their health insurance they going to give people these health savings accounts which only

save corporations money and cost workers their lives because they will provide savings out there like a limit of five thousand dollars a year or something like that high deductible any of taking your own money or put in the account and then if you get sick you hope you have enough to cover their butts in their own work they save corporations money they cost workers their lives so now they want all employees to get that they've already implemented this for their nonunion salaried employees and on top of that they're going to limit they want to limit pensions for new hires general electric so no pensions anymore if you're a general in kayseri and not even that not even that well so we're talking about a corporation which is made massive profits which has been subsidized heavily by the state that is well into the green a major defense country a major defense in a country more bucks from our tax dollars jeffrey immelt is the c.e.o. and the chairman of the board and he's also the president's chairman of his jobs commission now there's something wrong with this picture when the chairman of the president's jobs commission first off has closed twenty nine factories in the

united states since obama took office it doesn't pay any taxes and increases workers' wages we wonder why we have a jobs crisis in this country when people lately g.c. you and jeff and more are advising the president on how to create jobs well i remember two or three years ago i was talking to bernie sanders senator bernie sanders on the air about this on our radio show and he made this remark about how jeff immelt had just me. this comment about you know when i think of the future of general electric i see china china china and he was talking about moving factories after you said he's closed twenty nine factories since obama took the us just since obama yes any idea how many during bush i mean i know we've lost fifty four thousand factories since bush took office i'm not about jobs factories i don't know how many of g.'s g.'s close dozens of factories i mean the former c.e.o. of g.e. jack welch that he preferred to have factories on an island that's where he could just ship it off anywhere in the world act well it's bragged in his autobiography about being the guy who invented what's called pink collar outsourcing which is and

white collar outsourcing which is the call centers and the the back office operations the book you know the things he talks in is in his own autobiography about how he was over there trying to sell power plant or something and he looked around and said but i'm not i'm surrounded by people who speak english and they're willing to work for twenty five cents an hour what am i doing paying these guys you know thirty bucks an hour in new york city to do bookkeeping in the back office and they answered me and he literally claims credit for having created white collar this is general electric why would the president and states president obama the democratic president hire the head of this company that does this kind of stuff that does this kind of tax stuff as his show hobbes advice or what what am i missing here and reason about the general electric is one of the most powerful corporations in the world not our own america not only are they a large corporation they own several major media outlets and when n.b.c. and m.s.m. decency and gets sold a good chunk of that too was surprised i think are the rise of the still forty nine

percent of the corporation. so they still own a huge chunk of n.b.c. don't the message universe don't mess with g.e. but on top of that i think it shows which side the prison is really on the president doesn't have to pass any legislation here he just doesn't need someone who's actively shipping jobs overseas and cutting workers reduce being his advisor on jobs like he was it was. truly on the side of workers he would fire him and bring in somebody better think even if he was truly on the side of workers and frankly i think frankly i always thought he was that he'd look at this and go hoops you know time for this he had to resign let's replace him with somebody from you know from the a.f.l. . you know i'm just i'm baffled but the hockey acts are so bad and this is and this is no real job i mean jeff immelt is still pulling down i don't know what the salary is with something huge a g. this is just a part time advisor to the president does this all the time you do this for example with the honeywell workers have been locked out of you really pursued in southern

illinois for almost a year now while they were locked out because you know the company wanted to cut their health care entirely you know when after they retired and when they were locked out the president was flying on air force one with the c.e.o. of honeywell around india making speeches and the c.e.o. of honeywell he was traveling over with about two hundred fifty three hundred other c.e.o.'s i'm not sure you can just in that way but he was traveling with them and not only that he was the president's choice to be on the deficit commission so this president time and time again chooses to bring in advisors like that and i talked with some g.e. workers today and they said well jeff immelt goes to the white house when we get to go away here i mean wouldn't that be fair i mean if they want to have him or give some advice on jobs when i have some workers or africa work from top what it's like to work for g.m. it would be you would think a good idea let's hope. it's something that if they are would have done yeah at the very least that president obama can change the optics of things here tonight i'd like to see the whole thing changed like thanks so much for joining me on the show great to have you. with the massive protests in london and the actions over the

weekend of u.s. uncut as well as protests in greece ireland portugal france spain and even germany it looks like the entire world is rejecting corporate tax cuts paid for by spending cuts that screw working families and here in the u.s. while we may be getting a late start more and more people are standing up against this. servant of radical agenda to devastate the middle class and sell the remnants of our nation transnational corporations we need frankly to call out companies like g.e. to profit from the middle class in america and then dodge their taxes in ways that average person could never do without going to jail so let's get out there and get active. coming up japan's sits on the brink of a nuclear crisis that could be worse than sure and all the potential risks we could face to have to break.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry to see. in the best of the rest of the news the crippled nation of japan suffer another

great earthquake over the weekend a six point five that prompted a tsunami alert fortunately there were no reports of damage however the situation of the broken daiichi nuclear facility appears to be worsening plant workers who are trying to dispose of huge amounts of nuclear waste water it's reportedly been found in all four badly damaged reactors at the plant in reactor two water contains radiation levels reported to be one hundred thousand times above normal and has already sent some workers to the hospital with radiation burns seawater outside the plant as registered radiation levels nearly two thousand times above normal which could trigger a sea food crisis in a nation that depends on seafood just to feed itself enemy matters worse the sum of all fears has been realized as plutonium has been found in the soil near the date you plant the tony and by the way is by far the most toxic of radioactive elements in fact is the most toxic of all elements just one atom is able to kill

a human and it takes hundreds of thousands of years to lose its radiation so what are these extremely high levels of radiation. could this become worse than chernobyl paul gunter director of the reactor oversight project at beyond nuclear joins me again to shed some light on these troubling new developments all welcome back. to louisiana verse thirty three mile island. absolutely i remember that well . in fact i think jane fonda's movie was out at that time or just a few weeks before the china syndrome and so a lot of us when we saw three mile island with had a pretty good idea of what could go wrong. what from that time there was swats nine hundred seventy nine seventy nine ok from seventy to today what have we failed to learn. well its lessons on learned. what's being demonstrated today i think that what the what we're seeing right now is. a lesson that should have

been learned about nuclear power at three mile island was and learned and then really learned that. in one thousand nine hundred six and then and learned again with fukushima and now we're basically waiting for an aging nuclear industry to demonstrate yet another lesson that nuclear power will fail you it will always be more of a liability than an asset in time of national crisis or natural disaster well even even without that i understand is quite clear to everybody that it is the most expensive way to generate electricity so i mean you know it's insane to do it the first place there are apparently hundreds of tons of waste water that have radiation levels one hundred thousand times above normal how are they going to get rid of this i mean this is a liquid it's a whole different thing from trying to move solids well but what we're concerned about now is that fukushima daiichi units two and three have demonstrated that all

the barrier systems are failing that this insidious toxic substance that is that knows no time for inflicting harm and danger is now out in the environment but the news this morning was that a trench that's just one hundred or so feet from the sea of japan. it is now filled with radioactive water that is on the same radiation readings as what's inside the reactor building so containment has failed for units two and three and we're now concerned that all the water that's been poured into these reactors the salt water the fresh water is now coming out like a sieve and now getting into the environment so they still get water in radioactive water out that's that's the scenario and it's not just radioactive water it's water containing particles of radioactive material like cesium and uranium. and plutonium

is it not we're literally flushing the reactors and the reactor contents into the environment and mostly into the ocean. the ocean is a big. big concern there are also the gas emissions that are not really being monitored there you know we're seeing the effects of tremendous amounts of radioactive releases into the air when you see tokyo water supplies being affected . because when i. first leaves it typically leaves the gas right true of cesium and some of the other there are all. these things are very heavy i mean we're seeing we're seeing the liquid effluent that's radioactive we're seeing air assault effluent that's radioactive and we're seeing gas released is that a radioactive so it's all three of these fronts right now we have rust them. just you quickly mention backstage that france is as yes been in touch with tepco right

well actually the tokyo electric power company you know they have basically played their deck right now the they're running out of time they're running out of solutions and today's news was that they have now turned to the french government to see if their resources specialists from electricity defrosts and and the french nuclear safety agency. basically there now call it trying to call in reinforcements but really we're all off the charts right now there is no plane and i was i wasn't surprised at the french are there any tall thank you as well as we shoot it's the entire world is feeling the effects of this catastrophe as far away as massachusetts rainwater registered radiation from the day she fled and in new york two democratic representatives are pushing republicans to get money from nuclear industry to go along with a reevaluation of the indian point nuclear facility which sits on earthquake fault

lines so how worried should we all be about what's happening in japan and it could happen here is the indian point a ticking time bomb congresswoman nita lowry one of the lawmakers trying to raise awareness of this issue joins me on the phone from new york congresswoman welcome hi there is a place to be with you tom and i want to say even before this casts catastrophe in japan i've always had concerns about the safety of operating a nuclear facility in the middle of our nation's most densely populated region and now that we've seen the destruction from what's happened in japan and there is seismic data on the area surrounding the indian point and approves that all our concerns are legitimate the n.r.c. must be required to consider seismic risk population density evacuation plan

to save operation of indian point. in its two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fifteen lead licensing process. i have introduced legislation again requiring the n.r.c. to use the highest standards and determining whether a power plant will be relicensed. the new york times reported shortly after well i guess was maybe five or six months after nine eleven when they had the intelligence and i guess they'd captured. khalid shaikh mohammed the mohammed attah the guy who was flying one of the planes into the world trade center had a religion who organized who planned the thing here in the u.s. it's apparently had originally planned on flying it into that nuclear facility in point nuclear facility but then rejected that idea assuming that there be surface to air missiles and that besides that the reactor was so heavily guarded what we're seeing what we're learning now from japan is that is that it's not a nuclear plant it's so dangerous as the waste right next door to it and he could

have flown a plane right into that it would have been a dirty bomb that would have covered new york city are is congress seriously considering saying to all the nuclear facilities around the united states you've got to put the same kind of protection around your nuclear waste facilities on site as you have around your reactors without a doubt but the key issue here in indian point is they a batter you wait them in an area within ten miles but in japan is you know the nuclear regulatory commission urged evacuation of a fifty mile radius and that would include twenty one million people who live and work in new york city and it separates try and think of evacuating these people if something like this happens if you think the york has a traffic problem now just try that too waiting on the most densely populated regions in an emergency so this is why i've been tough my

colleagues have the governor has really don't think this plant belongs in an area where you have such a high twenty one million people such a high population area and then right after the japanese disaster i called in the n.r.c. . briefing spoke directly with director jasko i urged him in a committed to personally tour indian point. we need to get them to clarify any and i can get information about seismic risk i mean to come to a public meeting. i think you've nailed it congresswoman thanks so much for the great work out of them i thank you thank you for coming on our program you know over the over the weekend on sunday they had elections in germany and german chancellor angela merkel basically lost her party which has helped power for fifty sixty years lost to the green party why is in germany.