law and john are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture japan's greatest fears have unfortunately been realized officials announced radiation levels now stand about the same degree as churn noble so does this mean for a country already struggling back on its feet meanwhile the money tug of war continues on capitol hill who will be the first to loosen their growth and whose

budget plan climb inside of our mountain of debt plus even though american employers may be given male and female employees equal opportunities and i pay and i'm equally i'll explore the growing gap of men and women earn in this country. you need to know this republicans will likely vote on paul ryan's two thousand and twelve budget this week you know the one the benefits only the top one percent of americans that sells off medicare to for profit health insurance company leeches that hands an enormous tax cut to millionaires and billionaires and sinks or nation deeper into debt and that's not stopping progress is in the house of introducing

their own budget one this serves the other ninety nine percent of the american people the progressive twenty twelve budget saves money by ending the wars in iraq and afghanistan it ends taxpayer subsidies to transnational oil corporations it closes tax loopholes. it raises the estate tax on the super rich it ends the bush tax cuts look at driving a stake through the heart of a vampire and adding a surtax on millionaires in america and without actually your money progress is will invest one point four five trillion dollars into job creation green energy and education as well as create public health insurance option unlike the republican budget proposal the congressional budget proposal or office rather reports that the progressive budget will actually a little late our nation's deficit entirely by twenty forty so with these two roads

in front of america paul ryan's paid by corporate owned republicans and the other by progressives looking out for the rest of us isn't pretty clear which one is best for our nation joining me now to explore this tale of two budgets and how the debate will unfold is our old friend of one of the finest progressive legislators in the house of representatives organ congressman peter de fazio congressman de fazio welcome back to our program reshape the opportunity first you know kind of a setup question here why didn't the democrats deal with the budget last year when they held the house. so it's kind of a said tale you know after we were marched over the cliff accepting the first we did the stimulus with three hundred forty billion dollars of tax cuts having a limited bunch of investment in education transportation infrastructure real job creation by the democratic leadership so obama could get three republican senate

votes then we were marched over the cliff and accepting the senate version of health care reform without at least national exchanges certainly without a public plan option you know and then and then came the cap and trade bill the dream of wall street let's monetize the carbon emissions and and begin gambling in the multi-trillion dollar market. the house was at the point of saying look you know we're not passing any more bills unless they're actually going to come up in the senate in a form where we can have a meaningful discussion and the senate just couldn't get there because of the unconstitutional rule that they have to have sixty votes to get up in the morning and say that prayer so so nothing happened well paul ryan's budget due to our nation. it's pretty extraordinary document incredibly duplicitous first as you pointed out earlier in twenty forty we would still be running very large

deficits under the ryan plan but what it would do is enrich the top one percent and particularly the top one tenth of one percent of people those that were in well over a billion dollars a year reduce their tax rates right up front by more than thirty percent and make those cuts permanent reduce corporate tax rates he dances around because he comes from an egg state but actually if you read into the details he keeps all the subsidies in agriculture would still pay people not to grow things corporate farmers we would cut back on those other wasteful spending why. women infant children you know feeding young pregnant moms or young babies and the food stamp program which unfortunately record number of people in my district need right now to get the crummy economy and then you know continue pretty much business as usual at the pentagon ali takes is the proposed obama cuts were just a little bit of

a whitewash not that significant nothing about the wars the war spending and a bunch of other weapons systems we don't need it will never use and then finally you know he privatizing medicare and that's the most ironic part of what he proposes it's an extraordinary remember democrats were just six cory ated for having set up exchanges that would be regulated by the federal government well they're actually state exchanges unfortunately not national we don't have a public plan option but yeah they'll be some state exchanges that are somewhat regulated that was that was called socialism under obamacare and then the huge cuts in medicare that is were going to go with the lower the profit margins margins on these private medicare advantage plans well the republicans keep that reform they are going to still lower the profit margins on the better medicare private advance plans i.e. they're going to cut medicare and then they're going to tell people fifty five and younger sorry you may have been paying into medicare every working day of your life

it's not going to be there for you instead you will go to a government exchange and you will get a government approved plan which won't have any limits on what it can charge for your premiums won't have any limits on who they can discriminate against in terms of preexisting condition or age or sex or anything else and will pay a set amount toward your toward your. premium unbelievable it's amazing congressman we just have a couple of minutes very quickly i'm getting calls you know we do a three hour radio show every day and we have an. message board over its own arm and a comment and we're getting slammed by people saying that if president obama touches or arms medicare or social security is part of some kind of compromise with republicans that literally people who work their butts off for him and gave money to him are just going to walk away progressives got forty thousand signatures in

two hours today on a similar petition people saying that they would withhold both the nation's and support but wall street wants that two point seven trillion dollars money in social security and they can do a lot of good or harm to a presidential campaign that needs a billion bucks you've said that president obama is not acting like a democrat does this all tie together and what you mean by that well i mean all the pundits are saying he just figures his challenge is to the right and he wants to be sort of center right he wants to be the angela merkel of the u.s. i guess it's not working well for her because the last a very good action and i forget the name space right yeah exactly so that seems to be what's going on plus the themes they have incredibly conflict averse and his negotiating style is ok here i'll give you everything you want now let's start targeting and that's what he did on the tax cuts with the republicans that's what he just did now with this budget compromise and we're very very concerned where

he's going to go with his two thousand and twelve plan and he's got to draw the line i mean come on this is a program created by democrats medicare it took seniors out of poverty it created you know healthier senior class that is not twenty two percent in poverty and no private insurance company wants to sell premium policies and seniors at a reasonable price so let's not pretend let's not enrich that industry let's not take it to seniors let's not invented here on his watch if he stood up and said medicare will not end on my watch as president i think a lot of us will be standing up and cheer an absolute. on the side to congressman peter de fazio he's doing such a fine job in congress thank you so much for joining us and. you know a budget isn't just.

it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question as to budgets will we take the republican road to ruin or the progressive road to prosperity possible answers are a the republican budget the benefits the top one percent sells medicare to for profit health insurance company leeches or be the progressive budget big gives one point four five trillion dollars to jobs green energy schools and a public health insurance option that's going to be so far it's split about half and half you can log on it's on our dot com and let us know what you think the poll be open until tomorrow morning. the nuclear situation in japan is now officially as bad as was cherry noble in one nine hundred eighty six japanese nuclear regulatory regulators excuse me yesterday

finally came clean and up the scale of the catastrophe to a seven on a scale of one to seven. a seven rainbow bridge is that and then when you use it a nuclear industrial safety agency made a calculation of the amount of radioactive particles released into the air from the fukushima nuclear power plant based on its analysis of the deep in the condition of the grafters and it met with the standard of level seven. a seven rating had previously only been used to describe one a vent in the history of nuclear energy cherno you can add to the unfortunate category tepco the corporation that operates the plant jerk and warned that the amount of radiation leaking from the crippled daiichi facility might actually eventually exceed the total amount of radiation dispersed after chernobyl so what does this new development mean heaven camps the radioactive waste watchdog of beyond nuclear he joins me now kevin welcome to the program thank you for having me great to have you here why the upgrade in severity now that's

a really good question greenpeace iran has been calling for this seven on the i any scale for weeks or three weeks the japanese government has finally three weeks later gotten around to doing it and this is based on old information this is based still on information from many days or even weeks ago and this has asked for a fee as i get older brother going to have to add an eight and a nine to the scale and we're a scale come from is it logarithmic or or linear or is it just some magic numbers this somebody it's a strange an arbitrary scale and it comes from the international atomic energy agency the boosters for atomic power this is the united nations agency whose mandate is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons technology but to promote the spread of nuclear power technology so it's a very sick it's a frantic and very dangerous flaw in this international treaty and you're right they may need to add extra levels to this thing at fukushima we have three reactors in various stages of meltdown to avoid stepping on much the containment structures

and we also have one pool that's been on fire and others that could catch on fire at turn noble comparison there was one reactor that exploded and burned. how does radiation cause cancer birth defects and other problems well it's very energetic material at a microscopic level in the form of gamma radiation which is like x. rays it blasts through your body damaging the molecules of your cells your tissues your d.n.a. and it can introduce changes or damage that can then turn into a cancer if a fetus is exposed to such radiation that can do damage to various organs that are in development causing birth to facts and then the genetic material for future generations can also be altered or harmed so there are various forms of radioactivity the internal emitters are especially dangerous and gamma radiation blasts through you and doesn't stay on it but these internal emitters things like alpha particles like plutonium stay in the body for the rest of your life and do

their damage slowly tenuously particles that can knock a hole in d.n.a. knock knock some madman or finer guanine or cytosine out of a different d.n.a. radioactive poisons go to different parts of the human body so that you know active cesium one thirty seven goes to human muscle tissue strontium ninety goes to bones you know you can go to bones can go to the gonads a speck of plutonium in the lawns a microscopic speck can cause lung cancer right and typically does. is there anything we can do to mitigate remedy the effects of of radiation. not really there are potassium iodide tablets that defend you against one of the scores of radioactive poisons that are escaping emphysema i don't want thirty one given given given the all it takes is one alpha particle one gamma ray knocking one piece of a d.n.a. strand out of whack in a way that or maybe a couple of them in a way that causes that that cell then when it goes through my toes has arisen

meiosis one that divides to become cancerous. one one way. is it accurate to say that there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation it is the national academy of sciences here in the u.s. for decades now most recently in two thousand and five in the seventh iteration of this report called the biological effects of ionizing radiation as affirmed again and again that there is no safe threshold of radiation it goes right of these why this insanity on radio and television every single light well it's only one hundred twenty two rads i guess suno or not or mill around one hundred twenty resident nuki pretty fast but it's you know or orgy and we've only got to go you know four hundred tries background i guess will break if i don't get it why why is this being treated like a like you know sports scores well the nuclear power industry is one of the biggest players certainly in the united states but also internationally both at the government level but also within the media and they sponsor the media with their

contribution was their underwriting their commercials so they have way too much sway in the last minute any end game here how do you see this thing resolved well they have to still are a month into this thing incredibly they still have to bring those three reactor units under control they have to stop those meltdowns by cooling those course they have to prevent the pools from boiling dry in the waste from catching on fire the only way that they have come up with to do this is to pour massive amounts of water into the reactors and that water has to go out somewhere well they're trying to contain at this point sixty thousand tons of highly radioactive water that grows bigger each day that they continue this cooling process they discharged tens of thousands of tons of radioactive water into the ocean already amazing kevin thanks so much for being with us tonight thanks for your dropping by. so with three nuclear disasters three mile island sure noble and now for fukushima or fukushima

here is the area and they have all been progressively more damaging is the time to stop ignoring the risks and admit that there is no such thing as safe nuclear energy i think so no more nukes. coming up the u.s. chamber leaks scandal continues as new evidence of a deadly serious and a well funded lot by millionaires and billionaires to savage seven sized liberals emerges on a lot. less number given that we had an apartheid regime.

i think. even one well. we have the government says they're going to keep him safe get ready because of the freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realized everything you saw. i'm sorry is a big. more

damaging materials being discovered in the ongoing chamber leaks scandal earlier this week investigative reporter with think progress leapfrogging broke the story of the u.s. chamber of commerce and tracking with private data security for firms to launch cyber attacks against threaten family members oh and discredit members

of progressive organizations like the u.s. chamber watch sci you and robot or not to mention center for american progress of liam's health the latest why does a power point presentation listing dozens of organizations and individuals with the chambers these are their words discredit confuse shame combat infiltrate fracture. in addition the u.s. congress is currently looking into the matter as well as whether or not these private data security firms are also contracting with the us government last week in an armed services subcommittee hearing. and johnson pressed kerry aki acting assistant secretary for the department of defense office of networks and information integration about current government contracts with the firms involved in the chamber leaks scandal you know what. we would like to request copies of been you know contracts between a department of defense and three. prime try to sort of three country that i

mentioned h.p. care required to repel into your technology using technologies would you be able to prove me with that information and also would be chairman of the committee i don't have that information directly myself but certainly again i'll have staff research that and we'll get back to you with an answer to that question a lot think it's a very important issue that i'm not planning on. sweeping under the. want to. i'm going to least get country. going to truman. have been used would be reached for more on this developing story i'm joined by the man who broke at least on reporter and blogger at think progress or blogger extraordinary we welcome you here thank you don always great having you. this power point behind. some of the pieces to this can you there's actually i think several

pieces to it that will go through he explain the same thing to us is for example look at this organization strategy in content i see you know these organizations here. well. it's going on here well you know we initially had another. four or five proposals and power points but laid out all the different strategies that hacking kind of following around the members of. the family members of people targeted by this but some of the slides like the previous one broaden the scope originally we thought only move on think progress here you were targets of the chamber's attorneys and these private security firms. but as the slide shows they're looking at a larger set of people they're looking at progressive strategist joe trippi they're looking at basically the entire labor movement they're looking at the courage campaign of progressive activists interims is robert greenwald bread blog is just

it's that's brad out and he's a friend of mine and here. is the. these are individuals and this is a giant multi multi hundred million dollar a multibillion dollar of the chamber the largest big business lobby in the world they go off according to come down i'm sorry oh no that's right you know these this is the largest lobby group in the world they fundamentally change the outcome of the midterm elections by running the largest independent expenditure campaign in midterm history. and here they are through their attorneys working with the. military contractors to not only litigate against some of their detractors as you can see and the following slide. there they're discussing these tactics as an additional. way to go after this this looks like the kind of the kind of the kind of organizational strategy years structure thing that you'd see in a military operation where you'd say ok that saddam hussein announces number two

you know that palin here one of the free security firms contracted here they actually specialize in these kind of data sets and they provided a demo of what they are capable of doing by taking a similar slide like this and charting out the relationships between iran and all the dummy companies iran creates to funnel money and get around the sanctions that the west has placed on them and according to these e-mails that demo showing what they did to iran for the u.s. government is what sold the chamber in the first place incredible i've got a training video from the tea party here that i want to share with you let's let's take a look at this. i get on amazon i type in liberal books i go through and i say one star one star one star the flipside is you go to a conservative libertarian whatever go to their products and give them pop stars ok so literally eighty percent of books i put a star on i don't read so that's how it works ok there's places others where you

kids i promise you this is where your kids get information rotten tomatoes there's a place where you can rate movies ok so when you type in movies on healthcare or got news on health care i don't want to go to come up i don't want michael moore's to come out so i was given bad ratings i spend about thirty minutes a day just so that's really tacky is that there's a place to i'm going to tell you is the author of twenty one books and and somebody is in six movies that are in for sale right now run it was a that's a little offensive. and you come from a certain point of view you're a progressive and i was there coming for you i mean this is an ideological analyzing war i can tell you about i mean i've seen this happen on my reviews not just here but in other places well this guy austin james the person who made this film. that's actually a filmmaker he's an australian who really gets this better than a lot of americans do but this video of austin james saying this is the strat this guerrilla tactics strategy is it new i've seen it very four times so he basically has been going around the country giving the identical speech over and over and

over again the tea party groups and this group but hosting that pays his salary american majority they started just in the days after obama was elected to help organize the tea and create the tea party movement chapters and offices in sixteen states they were the driving force organizing the first pro governor walker rallies during the union fight they're there in the background you never see their names on to every time. they're found every single penny of their donors through a firm called donors trust but there they were founded by an operative named eric. eric o'keefe has been working with the koch brothers and a wealthy donor named howie rich since the early ninety's now that is the real estate guy that he keeps throwing money into oregon when i was living in oregon that's where it is heavily focused on or yeah it's very interesting cause it was just like a test state you could be small enough that they could do things cheaply. how can progressive's and even middle of the road americans i mean when one side of the

political spectrum is literally under such a such a heavy concerted well funded it's attack you could argue that it's not just progressive suffer it's all over america how do you respond to this it's not even the very first step is is knowing that there is an attack and this is a guerrilla war and that the american majority in these groups are using these underhanded tactics they hired the background they don't advertise their names they clearly don't disclose their donors and they're doing this to shape public people when they're manipulating amazon dot com or even your books online they're doing so through the tea party or through these quote unquote grassroots groups you never really know who's driving them so the first part is at least understanding that there is a well funded effort to manipulate online sites like wikipedia and amazon to hack into progressive organizations the first part is knowing and you're doing a great job of that leaf on thanks so much for dropping by thanks for having me tom and thanks for the absolutely incredible reporting and we're happy you're doing

you're one of my heroes. thanks so much for having me thank you what we're seeing right now with this scandal is nothing more than millionaires and billionaires throwing around their power in america to destroy activists and average people using their hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate cash in our elections isn't enough we also need to crush any organization that's willing to stand in their way. crazy alert if you thought this snotty was the pinnacle of human ingenuity think again let me introduce you to the slob stopper a new invention that allows humans to no longer after worry about whether or not to follow their shovel into their mouths is also spilling all over their of their clothing as this is for happen to you. introducing this mob stuff for get messy spills and unpleasant accidents just slip it on and enjoy your busy lifestyle

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