what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through get through people have made who can you trust no one who is in view who would have noble mission would see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.

about the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour despite two close calls of nuclear disaster in nebraska earlier this year plans to add new nuclear power plants in america are underway so where are the projected danger zones and our nation's corporations climb up the ladder and greed and it starts with our nation's judicial system in tonight's daily take all explained why it's now time to occupy our fourth. ohio is about to get more nuclear power. lance errantly speaker of the house of

representatives john boehner hasn't learned anything from the fukushima nuclear disaster in japan earlier this year he also hasn't learned anything from his own party's outrage over the manufactured sole interest scandal you know the so-called scandal in which brainer said quote for the federal government to be out there picking one company over another one type of energy source or another i think is wrong and quote only a few weeks after saying that painter is now taking one company over another and one energy source over another is pushing for a two billion dollar loan guarantee from the department of energy for a new nuclear plant you know course the companies seeking the loan is us the scene incorporated which just so happened to give ten thousand bucks in campaign contributions to boehner since last year and yes the price is right joining me now to talk more about the dangers inherent in the proliferation of nuclear power here in the united states and what type of energy our nation should be promoting instead is kevin camps radioactive waste washing at beyond nuclear kevin welcome back

thanks great to have you with us how what kind of a hypocrite is john boehner being on this issue decrying turning into a scandal of their eyesight is he mostly carrying that water of you know holy cow solar power we're subsidizing we can't do that we need no clear. doctor sees very deep on the republican side it's not pain or just pain or and i say it's murphy from pennsylvania it's up in from michigan and it's even ron paul from texas who one side of their mouth talk against energy loan guarantees and things like solar but then on the other side of their mouth they're all for nuclear power loan guarantees in their home states or nationwide so in boners case in ohio this is your rainy and richmond facility that's proposed in portsmouth ohio although there have been hense over the past couple years of actually building atomic reactors there and that's the form that these taxpayer backed loan guarantees take in the united states are your name in richmond or new in town a preamp. there's me and you know to be fair about this i'm guessing that there are

probably more than a few democrats who are pushing for these kind of things in their own states as well very true i mean that word from texas is a powerful democrat on the house energy committee actually took a position to the right of the tea party republican he was running against the last go around on this question of nuclear power loan guarantees and then same on the the tea party republican that person changed their position to match has to be in favor of nuclear longer and he's which puts the onus the financial risk on the taxpayer the taxpayers become the cosigners on the loan these guys love the free market until it comes to nuclear power why i don't understand that it's because of the huge campaign contributions of the nuclear power industry also their lobbying prowess. so lender of vs the loan guarantees approved at the local ga for two new reactors speaking of democrats president obama made the announcement of self an eight point three billion dollar loan guarantee this was february of twenty for two

new reactors in georgia that's fifteen times more money at stake than the cylinder a so nobody's complaining about that because that industry is spreading money to both parties and that's the old nuclear industry the old boy one of the biggest players in town in terms of campaign contributions and then lobbying expenditures in a ten year period of time six hundred forty five million dollars in federal lobbying that's more than a million dollars a week that's incredible ohio already has. a bit of a nuclear problem would david bessie atomic reactor in toledo do i have a study davis that's the atomic tells her. this is a sonic reactor is now thirty four years old it's had a whole string of near misses with major disasters there was a three mile island meltdown precursor eighteen months before three mile island had its meltdown there was a steam generator in i mean at this davis festival in ohio identical design to three mile island same exact accident scenario began fortunately an operator had

enough experience to recognize what was going on the one problem was they never communicated it to three mile island so eighteen months later the three mile island didn't know how to stop the disaster but they did that it started to got stopped and it was but they came very close to pave especially fortunately somebody caught it in time before it melted down like happened in three mile island got a whole string of these incidents most recently in two thousand and two a major corrosion hole in the lid up and they've especially reactor the closest thing to a disaster since three mile island more recently than that just in the last few weeks a crack in the seal building a part of the radiological containment device that cracked well we don't know yet but they have drilled a huge hole in the thing to get the lid out this will be the third lid on this reactor the first would have the corrosion hole in two thousand and two the new would the second is now leaking boric acid as well as corroded they're going to replace it again but now they got a thirty foot long crack in the shield building this facility needs to be shut down

it's thirty four years old it's going for a twenty year license extension they want to operate for sixty years they're thirty four years and then they've had a whole string of near misses we're trying to stop them this is amazing. curious what's the latest on fukushima. well just last week a report by a consortium of european universities about with an american partner on the study has put out a new figures they have again doubled the amount of radioactivity estimated to have been released now the levels in double that since one well since june first when they gobble that before so now we're talking quadruple what the tokyo electric power company. committed to earlier on back in march and april and one of these figures looking like we're looking at two and a half times the radioactive xenon one thirty three released by turns out well so in that sense it's worse than chernobyl and turns of radioactive cesium one thirty seven they're still saying about forty percent of what was released by chernobyl so

this again is a global catastrophe the response on the grounds in japan includes an occupation of the ministry of energy trade and industry in tokyo. by women from that see if by women from fukushima two hundred women from fukushima began this occupation the sit down action on october twenty seventh and then on the thirtieth they called for women across japan and internationally to join them in this action. it's remarkable and in the minute we have left the impact on the united states we've heard a single word or at least in the national media about any detection of your rate of radiation from fukushima here had we gotten anywhere in well certainly the fall out continues the releases from fukushima daiichi continue to annex so it's still it's still below a very yes there is steam escaping from unit three which evidence is mounting that it is severely damaged the primary containment structure appears to be damaged the

unit three as well the call from the woman on the ground in japan is to evacuate much broader areas because there are tens or hundreds of thousands of children in severely radioactively contaminated areas still and they're also calling for an end to nuclear power but here in the united states we said join them because we have twenty three identical twins the fukushima daiichi they could have a bad day we're still receiving the fallout as you mentioned there's a question about even the oceanic currents and the seafood that is migrating from the japanese coast here salmon tuna water the contamination levels there and it's a shame that the obama administration. has dismantled any post who can see my radiation monitoring we're doing very shallow radiation monitoring is it designed to miss what's there need we need to see was there for kevin thanks so much for being with us tonight thank you very to see you if you are here. with the few convenient campaign donations speaker boehner is more than happy to put aside

political talking points and where the threat of nuclear meltdown in his own backyard maybe that's why i always appears to be glowing. just for. the. good the bad in the very very good. the good. british prime minister david cameron well the leader of the u.k. may not know jack about economics we could learn a lot from him about human rights speaking to the b.b.c. cameron announced the u.k. would no longer give out foreign aid to nations that have laws that discriminate against homosexuals. or the premier they'd give us in the world saying that oh eight actually we want to see countries that receive all aid but hearing to proper human rights and that includes people treat gay lesbian people should be out within the united states isn't receiving any aid from the u.k.

because we've cut off no time to join the other developed nations and realise is the twenty first century and gays are the same rights as everyone else the bab and coulter news broke today the republican front runner herman cain may have sexually harassed at least two women back in the ninety's who does in culture i think are the real bad guys in the story liberals but it's outrageous the way liberals treat a black conservative this is another high tech lynching even the allegation who were in clarence thomas the springboard you know that's right there's nothing liberals fear more than a black and so i would ask alan asked michael steele and ask clearance thomas and news flash liberals who care less about herman cain because he isn't actually running for president he's just trying to sell books like you with your feigned a truth of the words and the very very ugly crock of health care is a state certified gun safety instructor with taxes and probably shouldn't be tries to even own a gun he cut

a radio ad recently letting everyone know that he only offers his gun safety training to be people who aren't muslims and aren't liberal. if you are a socialist liberal and or voted for the current campaigner in chief please do not take this class you have already proven that you cannot make a knowledgeable and prudent decision as required under the law also if you are a non-christian arab or muslim i will not teach you the class once again with no shame i am a crack at killer thank you and god bless america yes this is the guy texas is interesting to teach gun safety to everyone some of those ready. i don't think it will be ready to shoot at the first sight of a muslim but anyhow looks like maybe we found our new governor from texas and that's a very nearly. crazy alert drunken driving you are it's halloween which means when people commit crimes

they are usually a ridiculous costumes as well in germany police pulled over a man dressed in full yoga garb after he was allegedly involved in a hit run verily the force was not with the judge i master that night that is unless you consider the force to be a lot of hoops police released a statement on the incident noting that yoda was given a blood test and had his license confiscated from him and then the hapless jet i returned home on foot it appears the rate on the death star has been delayed indefinitely. but i million's a little which is god goes to the streets in search of sweet treats but you know what this hollowing tradition is really all about after a break why everything you think you know may in fact.

what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions great through that sort of made who can you trust no one. is imbue it with a global missionary see where we had it state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.

or or less. right we debut a new segment here in the big picture that has been a long time favorite on my radio show so you know sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know what you don't know and sometimes is the firesign theater says everything you know is wrong and. you can hear you're right.

to make. sure. you always. get everything you know is wrong my expert guests challenge the conventional wisdom on the very things that most of us just assume to be the truth even though we're never really stopping to think about the real story behind the set the norm tonight kids all across the country are running around their neighborhoods and the rest up in as many characters as they can imagine not being on every door within walking distance to collect as much cavity inducing candy as they can carry. is that what this holiday is really all about you might be surprised to learn that everything you know about all of ween is wrong joining me now to break down the real story about today is dr steven larson professor emeritus at the state university of new york and author of ten books including the shannon's doorway. dr larson as the rockets even rocket either come it's good to hear your voice and well you get

a great picture in my book. what is the real meaning of hollow winston. well it is a holiday that christianity tried to abduct as all saints day because the catholic church had so many saints they needed a place to celebrate them but actually in many places around the planet. what is called now so when in the celtic culture zone or what is called the earliest when we have those in mexico and perth central america parts of south america. was really way way pre-christian it was an in which people wanted to honor those who passed and they needed a kind of a special holiday in the in the calendar in order to do that and that is helloween and by the way it's not how lean is nothing how about it it's it's hallowed it's

a sacred this is there's a connection here to all saints day and and i'm wondering how many other cultures have this kind of a holiday. lots and lots of cultures have it there are many eastern cultures that routinely expect honor their ancestors and we only do it belatedly because of these pagan survivals christianity tried to kind of bring everything. it encountered in the lens that various kinds of christian. let's say missionaries. and warriors conquered and turned them into christian holidays so it is a hallowed day in the sense of being all saints stay but for the people who celebrated it it was the end of sam maine so when sam is summertime and so it was the end of the summertime season and the beginning of the six months of cold cold winter that's interesting while the grizzly perfect.

will the grisly paraphernalia there are a number of explanations for there for example in in mexico it was an aztec ritual and as we all know the aesthetics had kind of grisly religious rites and often human sacrifice so there are lots of scrolls and bones around too to use in the celtic region of animals were slaughtered on some way in because it was the beginning of the time where without refrigerators you could keep your meat for the winter and so all the animals that were sick or lame or couldn't make it through the winter were sacrificed on that time and the meat was put into it hold storage and the bones were thrown into the fire it's fascinating what is the specific appeal for kids and why the phrase trick or treat. up that's

a really interesting thing i think it has to do with the guys ing theme guys ing has to do with the fact that you might meet spirits on this night it is all souls night and in the european culture zone before they have go they didn't have been a concern europe so the hollowed out turnips and made those into magic lanterns of elite and. the kids would go out and they were trick or treat the idea of being something horrible is if you meet some spirits out there in the dark you could scare them as much as they could scare you it's sort of getting on an even footing getting on parity with things that might scare you. and the phrase trick or treat. crick or treat is the idea the spirits themselves are kind of tricky and you might kind of take on their their particular. sort of guys yourself

and trick somebody out. there and and can we find a deeper meaning or a way for adults to use those holidays to. i think it's a wonderful holiday for adults and we kind of miss it in all the costumes and the you know the american way of doing it is a sort of a hatchet in your head type of. how will mean well in the helloween celebrations we've done at the center for symbolic studies we. we have a beautiful little like a kiddie pool and people can light prayers for there he parted and put them a little been float these candles on little bokes it's like in the indian culture zone that. once yes i think you know and it's a time for reflection on the fact that we are standing on the shoulders of generations and we have to kind of honor and respect those generations that have

have been there for us and we're now kind of remembering them. remarkable. is you know i guess that would be the deeper meaning in the way the adults could use this holiday. in just you know that the half a minute or so we have left any final thoughts on halloween how we might transform the holiday here and there. well you might see some of the masks that my wife or robin sent to you we do a mass workshop every january return of twenty five years and when people. who sort of become one of the inner cast of characters that we all have they. they find themselves a new they find other parts of themselves they haven't really met yet and so it's a celebration of the multiplicity of the still the inner cast of characters that we are carry around with hooks and growth as for courage you have in our interests of campbell were very much aware of this but it way. over thirty it was also joseph

campbell's parent of one of the data on which he passed to the other world your mentor stephen dr stephen larson thanks so much for being with us tonight stephen great to talk to you craig kurtz. with occupy wall street in full swing it's time to begin a new occupation of our nation's court system today we learned the corporations are spending millions and millions of dollars meddling in judicial elections around the world and around the nation in fact a new report by the brennan center for justice the new york's university school of law and other independent judicial watch dogs finds that just three corporate

lobbyist groups here house chamber of commerce the business council of alabama and the illinois civil justice league have outspent the entire labor movement in judicial elections around the nation is groups alone spent over three million dollars last year making sure the corporate friendly justices found their way on the benches everywhere in the country. there's long been a debate over what kind of judges best when elected by the people as no state judges are appointed by the president as most federal judges are but the truth is now the corporations are allowed to spend unlimited amounts in our elections both types of judges have been corrupted transformed from professional jurists into corporate shills crazy they're elected directly in which case corporations dump huge amounts of money into the election to decide which a judge will give them more favorable rulings and get that person active or they're

appointed in that approved by politicians who are elected by you guessed it that very same corporate money. that means the branch of our government that was supposed to be the least politicized supposed to be free from any influence the corporate or labor is now quickly becoming one of the most politicized branches this is especially troubling considering that the judiciary branch which was also supposed to be the least powerful branch of our government has emerged as the most powerful branch thanks to the eighteen zero three marbury vs madison decision the supreme court can now strike down laws passed by congress and signed by the president at the whim of five justices who are unalike good and servian for life we saw the effects of the sweeping power of last year's citizens united decision and we've seen the effects of this unfortunate corporate takeover of the high court every single time corporate personhood has been not held by the judiciary even though no congress nor any president has signed off on any law giving corporations the same rights as people that's right no congress nor any president has ever

passed a law saying that corporations are people only the supreme court has so far occupy wall street really wants to find the corporate and corporate personhood it's time to stop start occupying courthouses around america as time to start focusing on one organization in particular the federalist society created in one nine hundred eighty two per the instructions of the palmetto a decade earlier the federalist society is one of the most influential yet least talked about organizations in the nation and is responsible for many of the far right wing decisions headed down by courts across america the federalist society now has over forty thousand members and operating budget of ten million dollars thanks to massive contributions by billionaires like the koch brothers and it has one goal to infiltrate our nation's independent judiciary with conservative and libertarian ideology that means rolling back civil rights legislation rolling back

reproductive rights for women were rolling back pollution regulations rolling back labor project. since and promoting corporate personhood and corporate immunity from prosecution four of the five conservative supreme court justices sitting on the bench right now belong to the federalist society clarence thomas samuel alito anthony scalia and chief justice john roberts former attorney general under george w. bush john ashcroft was a member of the federalist society former white house independent counsel kenneth starr the guy who spearheaded the clinton and impeachment investigations was a federalist society member as was ted olson the guy who ran bush's legal tina argued before the supreme court to stop the recount in florida back in the two thousand election sealing and stealing that presidential election for george w. bush and republican senator orrin hatch who used to be the chairman of the senate judiciary committee now as the number two member on that committee and oversaw the confirmation of several federal society judges he himself is

a member of the federalist society just think of it as a massive right wing network of judges lawyers politicians and business leaders who fund them who unsatisfied with just using their monies to subvert congress and the white house as spent the last two decades gaining control of the judiciary as well which is all the more reason why we have to get corporate money out of politics because as long as corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money in our elections then we can replace lady justice is blind fold with dollar bills rule in favor of the one percent over and over and over again it's time to occupy the courts. that's the big picture first night for more information the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com free speech dot org and. also check out our two you tube channel or links at thom hartmann dot also tell our menarche on check out all the different ways you can send us feedback and don't forget the democracy begins with you get out there and get active occupies

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