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No one has ever reported a solar energy meltdown
People around the world are recognizing the danger of nuclear energy. Over the weekend, 500 protesters marched down Main Street in Battleboro, Vermont to rally against the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. The group gathered in opposition to what they claim is the illegal operation of the plant, which is owned by Entergy Nuclear.
The plant has been opperating without the state's required certification of public good, and has been plagued with with technical problems. Protesters carried signs reading “No more leaks, lies and lawyers,” and demanded that the plant be taken off line.
Meanwhile, half a world away in Tokyo, Japanese researchers announced that a type of shellfish has disappeared in waters near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. And scientists say that the species that remain have high levels of radioactive material inside their bodies. Researchers state that the disappearance of the shellfish is linked to the nuclear disaster, and is not a result of the 2011 tsunami.
These two events illustrate the dangers of nuclear energy, regardless of the location of the plant, or the regulations imposed on plant operators. One nuclear disaster can leave an area uninhabitable to people or animals, as we saw after Chernobyl, and as we're seeing at the Fukushima site. It shouldn't take a catastrophic event within our own borders to make lawmakers wake up to the danger of nuclear energy. Plants around our nation are outdated, under-regulated, and extremely dangerous.
It's time to end the use of nuclear power. No one has ever reported a solar energy meltdown, or a toxic spill from a wind farm. For the sake of our planet, our nation, our economy, and our safety, let's make the switch to green energy. No nukes.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Shocking-tar sands oil flowing through American neighborhoods... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Shocking-tar sands oil flowing through American neighborhoods...- Bill McKibben, 350.org  - Anthony Swift, Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC)
Screwed: A New Civil Rights Movement: Liberating Our Communities from Corporate Control- Thomas Linzey, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
The Best of the Rest...
Daily Take: When we will stop cars guns from killing people
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:    campaign site.
Hour Two: The GOP's sneaky plan to control America- Lee Fang, The Nation Institute & author of the forthcoming book "The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right"
Hour Three: "Anything Goes on Townhall Friday"
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8." ... To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; ..."
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: When we will stop cars guns from killing people?
Hour Two: Have libraries outlived their usefulness...time to close or clean them up?- Daniel J. Flynn, American Spectator / Author, A Conservative History of the American Left
Hour Three: 'I'd Have Killed A Thousand If I Had Enough Bullets'- Tommy Christopher, Mediaite.com
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Why do conservatives take a 'holier than thou' approach when it comes to excluding everyone else from God? I'll challenge conservative journalist Scottie Nell Hughes of The Tea Party News Network...
Plus, we'll have the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Should right-wing hate groups be considered terrorist organizations?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Conversations w/Great Minds - The Terror Factory - The FBI "Sting" isn't what you think P1
Conversations w/Great Minds - FBI Informants focus on Muslims instead of Militias P2
While all eyes were on DOMA...the Monsanto Protection Act was signed
Rumble - Is ND the country's "freest" state or the most socialist state?
Rumble - www.smallpenisgunclub.com
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 3/29/13: The Small Penis Gun Club
Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses the Small Penis Gun Club, Jim Carrey's Funny or Die video on guns and Representative Don Young's "wetbacks" comment. In tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with Trevor Aaronson, author of the new book "The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism," and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains what the signing of the "Monsanto Protection Act" means about our political system
Thom Hartmann on the News: March 29, 2013
Caller: Owning a Gun Has Nothing to do With Penis Size!
How Conservatives Are Destroying Public Education
How The GOP is Taking Control
Caller: Guns Protect Against Tyrannical Governments?
Ever Heard of The Small Penis Gun Club?
Brunch with Bernie: March 29, 2013
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