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It's been 500 days since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in Japan
Jul. 26, 2012 8:55 am
By louisehartmann
And one thing’s clear – it’s still an extremely dangerous situation. A Japanese newspaper is reporting that plant operators still face a number of hurdles before they can decommission the plant and officially close the book on the crisis – and it could take decades. Those hurdles include trying to determine why 8 million becquerels of radioactive cesium still continues to pour out of reactor number 2 every single hour.Daily Topics - Wednesday July 25th, 2012
Jul. 25, 2012 11:14 am
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Hour One: Romney camp: 'put a white man back in the White House...' / Plus, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau turns 1 today - Elizabeth Warren
Hour Two: Regulate the credit reporting industry? Malcolm Out Loud
Hour Three: Conservative millenials & boomers are both being conned...
Police violence sparks civil unrest in Anaheim
Jul. 25, 2012 9:32 amBy louisehartmann
Civil unrest in America spread to Anaheim last night – where, for the fourth straight day, citizens took to the streets to protest police brutality and the killing the of an unarmed man by police over the weekend. As journalist Tim Pool reported, cops fired hundreds of less lethal rounds of rubber bullets and pepper balls into the crowds – wounding several demonstrators.Daily Topics - Tuesday July 24th, 2012
Jul. 24, 2012 12:16 pmBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Is Michelle Bachmann the new Joe McCarthy - Ryan Mauro, Radical Islam.org / Plus, "You Don't Belong Here"...the Republican legacy of dog whistle politics
Hour Two: Only Christian Aurora victims go to heaven? Bill Keller, Live Prayer
Big Brother is watching you!
Jul. 24, 2012 9:40 amBy louisehartmann
In an interview with Current TV on Monday, former NSA senior official Thomas Drake revealed that the NSA is not just monitoring international phone calls and emails as its been given the authority to do, but also domestic calls and emails. As Drake said, “a key decision [was] made shortly after 9/11, which began to rapidly turn the United States of America into the equivalent of a foreign nation for dragnet blanket electronic surveillancDaily Topics - Monday July 23rd, 2012
Jul. 23, 2012 10:19 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Does anyone in America really need an assault weapon? Noel Flasterstein, Gun Rights For You
Hour Two: How to lose 800,000 jobs...Mitt Romney's tax plan - Curtis Dubay, Heritage Foundation
Hour Three: Food fight...time to return to family farming?
Why does the US have such a high rate of gun murders?
Jul. 23, 2012 9:25 amBy louisehartmann
The shooter in the Aurora theater massacre, James Holmes, purchased more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition in the weeks leading up to the shooting, spending roughly $3,000 on his arsenal. He also purchased a bullet-proof vest and other tactical gear to mimic a SWAT team member, and high-capacity magazines that would have been illegal under the Assault Weapons Ban or any number of pieces of gun control legislation that have stalled out in CGrowing economic stress & inequality brings an increase in violence
Jul. 20, 2012 9:13 am
By Thom Hartmann A...
Twelve people are dead and nearly 40 wounded after a gunman opened fire in a crowded movie theatre in Colorado late Thursday night. Moviegoers were attending the premiere of the new Batman movie, when 24-year-old James Holmes walked in with tear gas, a rifle, a shotgun, and two hand guns, and opened fire. Holmes is in police custody.Daily Topics - Thursday July 19th, 2012
Jul. 19, 2012 12:16 pmBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Who's the richest country in the world? "We're #1"...NOT! Logan Clement, Freestar Media LLC
Hour Two: Business...you can't do it alone, can you? Mark Williams, MarkTalk / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - Where do animals get their magnetic sense from?
The US is NOT the wealthiest nation on the planet
Jul. 19, 2012 9:54 amBy louisehartmann
America likes to think of itself as the richest nation on the planet, and looking strictly at total combined wealth, it is. But that’s only because there are a heck of a lot of billionaires living here. But looking at median wealth, or how much Americans in the middle are making, the United States doesn’t even crack the top ten in the world.
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