have torque creek which starts up in kansas runs through the mining belt becomes contaminated at douthat which is just south of picher it then rooms on the east side of commerce runs through the center of miami only into neo show river. on into green light let's just say it's been doing that since eighty three nothing but orange yucky smelly containment. this watershed has been clocking five million gallons a day since there have been clocks. and if water rolls into the mines or slides off the chap pilot flows out from the underground it's real bad news. isaac newton says the reaction to the mining is a lifetime polluted water. and this mine system swallows any groundwater hole and then coughs up orange blood. look at these problems and say this has been here for a long time. it's not just twenty five years of superfund it's it's since money. and we all benefited from that money either directly or indirectly. it was a good thing for the united states but this is the legacy. kind of a obligation to fix. if you drive through picher right now and drive down the road nothing's changed nothin

telling you this you know what they think we want to hear but if you drive through picher drive down douthat road it looks the same as when they turned off the pope's and walked. no one cares about the people that live there this is not a safe place to live it's a good place there's good people here but it's not fit there been whispers about buying this place out since it was named the superfund in eighty three i mean horrible water all this mine waste direct danger to children they couldn't get the help they needed should have been easier to put a buyout together whether it's a dioxin scare they want to build a lake or highway somewhere buyouts happen all the time. and human health dangers here seem to qualify plus stark regretted and said an ace in the hole oklahoma senior senator jim inhofe was chair of the environmental and public works committee in the senate this committee over seas and directs the e.p.a. and inhofe oversaw the committee as far as environmental by a money goes in off was the faucet and you have a place like this in your home state you're chairing the kind of committee

called an emergency meeting to discuss whether to withdraw its observers from syria france has voiced douthat of the effectiveness of the league's monitors in the country amid concerns that forces are still killing anti-government protesters in the most recent wave of trouble a gas pipeline exploded in homs province i wish the government has blamed on terrorists five thousand people have been killed in syria since the uprising began last march. thirteen people have died in three separate bomb blasts in the afghan city of kandahar in the first day motorbike bomber detonated explosives at a police checkpoint killing four including one police officer official say the target may have been nearby a police vehicle the second attack of the day thought to be against a nato convoy killed a child who was nearby. the taliban says it has struck a deal with cutter to open a political office there or the plan is being seen as a major step towards ending the ten year war in afghanistan germany and the u.s. have been urging the group to create representatives able to start peace negotiations the u.s. and tal

despair it's despair and it's come to the united states of america as the york times columnist ross douthat pointed out last year when technocrats began taking over in europe democracy may be nice in theory but in a time of crisis it's the technocrats who really get to call the shots this is just one component of how the ruling elite the banks the transnational c.e.o.'s and the politicians they own are keeping power in america despite crashing our entire economy a few years ago we need to say enough is enough democracy can withstand a crisis in fact it's really the only way we're going to get out of this crisis it's time to trust we the people to make our own decisions again and not the tactic rats the dictators and the tools of the global banking system who want to take us back to the dark days of feudalism before american democracy change the game. that's it for the big picture tonight for more information or to see any segment of our show check out our website at thom hartmann dot com and don't forget democracy begins with you show up get active participate your it will sort of. download