well you're not getting to know you know eight pretty bad situation or terrorist already has a worse brian thank you for coming thank you it's good to see. and thank you mitt romney for giving us the new republican plan to create jobs george w. bush recycling. coming up the margarine may be a long gone but disaster still lingers in japan as the pushing the nuclear crisis remains largely unresolved so how many people are still in danger in japan and what has to be done to save them. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through get through maybe who can you trust no one who is you know in view with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.

blog about who they are when coming up in this half hour it's been months since the nuclear disaster in japan and dangers still works for the families of the fukushima plant just a thought a few moments nuclear experts dr helen caldicott will share her warnings for the

millions of residents in japan and right wingers are outraged by teamsters president james hoffa this labor day rally one tory is billionaire was caught on tape saying a few months ago something even more shocking. more steely take. we're now nearly six months or move from the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in japan the trickle triggered a global nuclear catastrophe and while some progress has been made to deal with the never before seen nuclear crisis there's still a long way to go a lot of questions still unanswered and enormous risks still blanketing the nation of japan and perhaps the world so much so that world renowned physician and anti-nuclear advocate dr helen caldicott recently issued a dire warning to the japanese people not buying into the japanese government's

efforts to downplay the crisis dr caldicott warned people living in north japan and around the crippled fukushima reactors to get the hell out of the area after caldicott said the number of people evacuated is nothing compared to the total number of people at risk in fukushima which has a population of around two million or so in the perfect people left there are at grave risk of developing cancer and leukemia it will continue to be further contaminated it is the material has landed on the soil so concentrated in the food and will continue to be taken in through the air as large amounts of radiation continues to leak out of the three damaged reactors and the four damaged fuel cores after caldicott joins me now from australia to talk more about that this issue dr caldicott it's wonderful to see you thank you so much for joining us thank you tom you were recently quoted i just read a quote basically as saying that everybody in northwestern should be evacuated is that so and if so why where should they go and how long do they need to stay away.

i didn't actually say in the article everybody should be evacuated but there are some very very hot areas and american planes three months after the accident when top with measuring facilities and measured three to fourteen point five terabit thrills me three to four fourteen point seven million big thrills in certain areas and fukushima when the evacuation zone in chino bill was five hundred fifty sounds and big karylle sorry by orders of magnitude people living in incredibly dangerous areas the japanese government is not routinely measuring food is not routinely measuring the radiation in areas throughout japan it is thing sorry irresponsible and my eyes say that north america has received quite a large fall out itself is just a report from the harbor that there's radiation there and when you inhale

a tiny amount of say paternalism into your land like a millionth of a gram from fukushima landing in arklow harma you will not know it's you along but fifteen or twenty years later or a little longer you may or almost certainly google developed lung cancer but you aren't know it's been caused by the pre-charge name from fukushima you inhale twenty years ago this is a long incubation time for cancer in other words we're going to see an incredible increase in cancer leukemia and down the time check genetic disease not just in japan but in the northern hemisphere particularly north america what about people in the rest of japan for example tokyo the most densely populated area and also how does this affect a factor thirsts their diet is principally sea based as so much of this pollution has radioactive material has been exploded out of washed out into the sea. well may

you ask that poured out huge amounts of radiation into the pacific ocean in china has banned cesium three hundred times above normal radioactive cesium in their water just as the chinese closed this fish in by age radioactive material and it concentrates first the algae concentrated then the crust agency the algae concentrated further then the little fish then the big fish and big fish swims thousands of miles over to the pacific northwest for instance tuna fish travel thousands of miles in the continents are the e.p.a. is not routinely measuring the fish then of course they have no plans to do so the japanese people are at great risk they love this seafood almost everything is fish all rise their rice fifty percent of their rice crop is grown in the fukushima

proper province or near near the reactor so and that's just about to come the harvests now are god know is what they will google. and found very hot spots here on they are found radioactivity even south of tokyo so the accident is not over it could be another earthquake could have been three actually melt through which is unheard of in the history of the nuclear age milk through the container on to the onto the onto the floor they could be massive harvesting explosions still or steamy explosions and buildings or is very unstable and it's got a very hot cooling pool on top of that and there is another earthquake that we were called collects the building contracts and god knows how much radiation police state no one knows how and when this accident it's ongoing and the scientists are very confused it's sunset not take three used to big some say. decades but we're in

the middle of the medical catastrophe what can people in for example tokyo in you know in the near proximity in the country and people in the rest of the northern hemisphere what can or should they and we be doing. well we need the data to chum and that's not forthcoming the japanese government should be measuring all of the food supplies and if they're radioactive banning them but in fact the elevation levels of radiation to which people particularly children can be exposed no radiation is safe every door should receive the risk of getting cancer particularly if you're using radioactive food which in the the isotopes large in various organs you live that you learned you brain radios you just a few cells for many years giving those cells a high dose and and almost inevitably many will in jews who will develop cancer the

other things they should be measuring the radio show in the story will sourly systematically throughout japan and evacuating people from marysville radioactive they should be measuring the exit children hailing the air almost fifty percent of children had this over thousand children almost fifty percent have radioactive iodine in the sarod glands in a certain part of the fukushima province so those children are a great risk of developing storage cancer. and we have data from chernobyl to sarin our from the new york counties science and support that was a million people have died as a result of chernobyl i've a million well now some people say that the accident because shimon is three or five times worse than chernobyl and that rebel groups were bred around the northern hemisphere our current tenure as a physician has one eight radioactive food we can't get it out of your body

a cancer stand back and tell you to go ahead i'm sorry we're out of time but i hear you made your back very well a very eloquently and i very much appreciate your joining us from like australia thank you and q thank you i've said it before i'll say it again let's not let this terrible loss and your pen go to waste lots of ditch reclear power in the united states for good. it's the good the bad of the very very modestly ugly the good janet politan oh the homeland security director. some airport security changes should be coming down the pike said in an interview with politico the policy. we're moving towards an intelligence and risk based approach to how we screen i think one of the first things you will see over time is the ability to keep your shoes on wow i mean like

all the rest of the year p. and countries were actually going to go back except for the just our rolling back the security theater trappings that gave us constant headaches at the airport subsists secretary an apology follows through with this and eventually we dumped the church x. very normal spammer says well the bad. news the mouthpiece of the republican party is trying to manufacture a controversy around republican debate hosted by their rival and b c citing that a number of republicans were not invited to attend the debate congressman that is for carter buddy roemer and gary johnson i'm sure you've all heard about talking head neil cavuto had this hard hitting observation. so i'm calling this podium. why not just add more podiums for legit candidates who come to the game with legit solutions to our problems surely the t.v. networks i don't care how dire and poorly off they are can figure out how to shoot

a slightly more crowded stage how could ground breaking ideas ever get through if we don't let the guys offering them break through how noble looking out for the forgotten public and it's unfortunately he didn't have a problem last month when his own fox so called news host a republican debate and excluded those very same candidates from part. fox so-called news your number one source for blatant hypocrisy and the very very ugly dick cheney the war criminals book tour continued this weekend a man without a pulse showed up on fox so-called news sunday morning to promote his rewrite of american history when pressed on whether or not he's worried about being tried as a war criminal as colin powell's former chief of staff lawrence wilkerson alleged cheney laughed it off. powell former chief of staff lawrence wilkerson i don't know if you know this is also weighed in and he says that you're worried about being

tried as a war criminal. that's news to me. i don't pay a lot of attention mr wilkerson i know no one as far as i know i've never met the gentleman i know he speaks out from time to time and it strikes me as. cheap shot. your head sucker. ok that's right cheney laughs off war crimes the last off torturing people you last saw flying this nation into a war that is still raging today is that cheney is trying to outdo himself when it comes to how evil someone and that's very very. after the break the battle lines are being drawn in america in my daily take i'll tell you about the dark days ahead for america as the all of guards begin their bombing raids on the new deal. that drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to

break through get through anything made who can you trust no one who is you view with the noble mission we see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. your take my take is the part of our show where you have a chance to make yourself heard of your comments and i came to us via the rant line . discouraging me we can get most of our troops home how are we going to employ all of that space temporary workers holding down their jobs currently and what kind of the seven short and long term keys think that there's any cause to believe that

keeping this war machine going but that keeping people employed in general misguided it's going to be something on that very well. that could be a theory that the number of jobs created in the absence of deployed troops is relatively small compared to the country's current unemployment rate of nine point one percent millions and over ten million people fifteen million people the uniform services employment and reemployment rights acts of one thousand nine hundred four pressed tax civilian jobs for members of the military and requires employers to hold those jobs but members of the armed forces are training are deployed as law covers both public and private sector jobs and requires employers to properly rehire members of the military when they return from a deployment of up to five years a law doesn't hear and see a soldier the exact same job at a comparable job with similar wages around seventy five percent of national guardsmen are part time soldiers and most of them work civilian jobs so that means that this law covers approximately three hundred fifty thousand jobs in the u.s.

but the law doesn't address what happens when a business closes and in this economy the military is seen more and more instances of soldiers going back to shuttered shops and the greater tragedy still is that our soldiers are coming home to face the harsh realities of transitioning to civilian life without any social safety net there's no g.i. bill for the men and women who serve in the military today or in recent decades over and over again democrats have tried to create a new g.i. bill but each and every time their efforts have been sabotaged by republicans during the course of this year half a million veterans will be on the streets without a home and without work and even though there are some benefits available benefits that pale in comparison to the old g.i. benefits from world war two. these benefits require people to wander through an endless maze of bureaucracy to recover them it's troubling to believe that for example the navy seals who took up in law earn on average around forty five thousand dollars a year while the average c.e.o. makes a love and million and the top ten banks here is on wall street average two billion

dollars a year each and pay a maximum fifteen percent income tax on that money about half the tax rate that a c.e.o. pays talk about our nation's priorities being our work and while these c.e.o.'s are getting golden parachutes when they retire or retiring soldiers are getting a lead weight to hang around their neck no education no job skills to make in the american economy and so shame that in today's america there's no path to a retired soldier can take to find that elusive american dream that he fought to defend that's it for your take my take the night if you'd like your comments and questions heard in this segment of the show listen up we want to know your to send us your comments by visiting the facebook page via twitter if that's under school or in the champ room on the message boards or the blog at thom hartmann dot you can also leave a message on a rant line at two two five three six fifty three zero six agree disagree sound

it's all welcome to remember that your comments may be used on the air. our nation is in the midst of an unbelievable transformation a struggle not seen in any of our lifetimes in response to this transformation james hoffa told a crowd of workers gathered for a labor day rally it was time to go to war take a look. we can't he responded better that we pray somewhere on workers and you see it everywhere it is the tea party and you know there's really one way to beat it when they're at war the one people working people is we like a good fight and you know what they got a war they got to run with us and who are you going to be one where it's going to be the workers' other begin an america we're going to wind down move president obama this is your army we are ready to march everybody here is going to vote if we go back and we keep the entreprise let's take the son of

a bitches out and give america back to rebuild and of course the right wing echo chamber went absolutely nuts. here be any doubt hoffa maybe obama been think a republican to their bitches ever since he was elected by whom before this is all over hoffa has to go hide middle east ablaze and while battling to save his state from burning to ashes rick perry took time to put in his two cents someone says something like that he say that's appropriate inappropriate par for the course which he reaction. well you wouldn't be bleeping if it was appropriate and of course glenn beck sarcasm was the last thing anyone. not inciting violence here is . clearly not the right. i have seen this kind of rhetoric before you know. we all just come together and find a new song. who better to find that tone than someone with the last name.

and of course this wouldn't be complete without a shot out from the fox and friends coach. it was very very unlikely which on job creation the president oh you're kidding me everyone i'm not you know you want your take on what happened yet you weren't ready to get out always do your more similarly honest pilots who say they're scared face up to the challenges of our nation a president called that's right bill and i don't think it's worse now the white house to say nothing on its head of the d.n.c. i think a lot of people would love to hear a response to taking so we have a sense of how many times. question how many times have you called out the coarse language at tea party rallies i'm not on this network almost never but i've never heard you or anyone else i have to rely on how much i'm sure i'll get more slammed what is your response. a couch a fair and balanced. i'm impressed that she was able to keep a straight face as she said that but the point is that these outraged right wingers have a clear agenda to hide the fact that there already is a class war going on in the united states as warren buffet put it back in two

thousand and six there's class warfare all right but it's my class the rich class that's making war and we're winning at the right's feigned outrage is rendered even more ridiculous thanks to a or new report by brad friedman over at mother jones magazine who obtained an audiotape of a secret meeting of billionaires back in june in the mountains of colorado what you're about to hear is billionaire oil baron charles koch the same guy who funds right wing think tanks and astroturf tea party groups rally his soldiers our nation's only garbs behind a mother of all wars to be waged against president obama who koch refers to as saddam hussein take a listen. again that was billionaire charles coke calling president obama saddam hussein and urging

his rich buddies to prepare for the mother of all wars later coco's on to tell his troops to shell out a million millions of bucks towards that we're effort pocket change to most of the oligarchy in the room what charles koch is referring to is the billionaires war against working people and it's this very same war the james hoffa spoke of yesterday and on my radio show today. there is a war on workers and anybody that doesn't know about the what our primary day started the war and i'm straight ok with somebody who's going to be a loser at a winner and we're going to be the winners big got they got that money we got the book we got the votes the battle lines are being drawn the billionaires are arming up at hoffa was urging working people to wake up and realize that it's a war against the new deal against the contract that our government made with all of us after world war two if we all work hard an honorable lawyer and lived honorable lives and we could achieve the american dream of a comfortable life we get the house the car the family the vacation the free

education and a comfortable retirement at a reasonable age this social contract held strong for forty years in america from the thirty's to the seventy's and the middle class through it but the wealthiest among us felt threatened as the marketplace in the workplace opened up more and more to minorities and women in the middle of the twentieth century and more and more americans wanted in on this deal of a good middle class life the dream the billionaires saw their piece of the wealth by leveling out they saw their master fortunes growing but not as fast as they'd like as workers demanded better pay and better benefits if they wanted to see their empires grow they had to renegotiate f.d.r.'s new deal with the american people they needed to realign the american economy away through middle class where f.d.r. and republicans like dwight eisenhower had positioned it and give it back to the oliver it's they started as thirty years ago ronald reagan busted up patco the air

traffic controllers union and triggered a generation long battle against labor unions today labor unions which one in three americans used to belong during the fifty's have largely disappeared with only one in ten americans enjoying the protections of organized labor and as labor unions went into decline over the past few decades so too did the middle class. sure the wealth dropping from close to thirty percent in the one nine hundred sixty s. to about ten percent today as the billionaires gobbled up more and more money so much so that just four hundred families now have more wealth than the bottom one hundred fifty million americans combined. with reagan they were subtle about it they said they like social security and medicare they even like unions they just want to protect but after thirty years of successfully drilling holes in the new deal now they're just openly bragging that f.d.r.'s new deal is the get out. the

new new deal paul ryan's new deal pretty easily summed up in four words the republicans are constantly pushing and various forms of code using phrases like personal responsibility and freedom he's four words you're on your own. paul ryan's budget what he calls the road map is that new contract that billionaires want to impose on the american people a contract that renders the american dream obsolete and no longer rewards hard work with a good middle class lifestyle no social security no medicare no labor unions no free education no health care no vacation is no retirement until you're dead no home no car nothing unless you're willing to go into debt up to your eyeballs why it is the billionaires don't want to pay their share to make sure the rest of us have any semblance of economic security it's really just that simple ever publicans win the

election two thousand and twelve get used to the lifestyle of the working poor. luckily so far republicans only control the house of representatives and not the senate with the white house so paul ryan and his billionaire buddies vision for america can't be fully realized at least not yet which is exactly why charles koch is asking his cabal of billionaires to cough up at least a million dollars each to prepare for his phrase the mother of all wars the billionaires quest to take over congress and the white house next year. these billionaires are just one election cycle just one election away from finishing finishing off once and for all their thirty year war against working people that have been picked off and started by ronald reagan just one election away from killing off fifty hours a new deal or a place in it with paul ryan's new deal for billionaires james hoffa knows what we're up against he knows that charles koch isn't afraid to shell out millions of

bucks to win this war so what charles koch and the oligarchy fully committed to this struggle it's time for the rest of us to wake up and decide whose side we're on the billionaires or the rest of america. that's it for the big picture tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com free speech dot org an hour to dot com also check out our two you tube channel there are links from part of the entire show is also available free video podcast and i tunes and we have a free thom hartmann i phone and i pad app in the app store you can send us feedback at twitter at tom others who are on facebook at tom underscore our of our blogs message boards and telephone comment line to tom hartman dot com and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there and get active tag your it will see them all.

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