You need to know this. Just a few days after the Japanese Prime Minister declared the nuclear crisis at Fukushima is over – there’s shocking new evidence that the disaster may have led to the deaths of as many as 14,000 people…in the United States! According to a new peer-reviewed study published in the December edition of the International Journal of Health Services – researchers found that there were 14,000 excess deaths in America in the 14 weeks after the Fukushima meltdown - and they believe these deaths can be traced back to radioactive fallout.

Most of the deaths were infants – under the age of one – and studies show that despite infant death DECREASING by more than 8% this year in the weeks leading UP to Fukushima – infant death in American INCREASED this year by nearly 2% in the weeks AFTER Fukushima. A similar phenomenon was studied at Chernobyl in 1986 – where more than 16,000 excess deaths were reported weeks after the meltdown. Numbers by the Center for Disease Control back up this study – finding that deaths in America’s biggest cities spiked 4-and-a-half percent from last year in the weeks after Fukushima.

Sadly – we’re just scratching the surface when it comes to how dangerous nuclear power is – yet we keep subsidizing reactors with our tax dollars.

This is insanity.

-Thom

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The Daily Stack

Hour One: OWS, Without a Space to Occupy, Faces Organizational Challenges
- J.A. Myerson

Article: "OWS, Without a Space to Occupy, Faces Organizational Challenges" by J.A. Myerson.

Article: "Donations to Occupy Wall Street plummet" by Justin Elliott.

Article: "Raid-battered Occupy SF changing tactics" by Dan Schreiber.

Site: "Michael Bloomberg". 12th richest in America.

Article: "The Story of Seattle's Hooverville" by Jesse Jackson, 1938.

Article: "Ten Things You Can Do to Sustain the Occupy Movement " by Walter Mosley.

Video: "Conversations with Great Minds - American novelist Walter Mosley, pt 1".

Video: "Conversations with Great Minds - American novelist Walter Mosley, pt 2".

Site: "Food Not Bombs".

Site: "Facebook: Occupy Marines".

Site: "We can't wait" - clock.

Article: "The town that dared to defy Beijing" by Clifford Coonan.

Site: "Occuthon".

Video: "The Trap" by Adam Curtis.

Book: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.

Hour Two: Iowa Caucuses...any $10,000 bets on who will win?
- Congressman Steve King, (R-IA)

Article: "Report: 1 in 45 American Children Homeless" by Kate Cagle.

Article: "Big Bank Bonuses May Be Headed For Record Year" by Pat Garofalo.

Article: "Study: Wealth Inequality In America May Be Worse Than It Was In Ancient Rome" by Travis Waldron.

Video: "Bible Bans, Keeping "Christ" in Christmas " (link at top of Rep. King's home page).

Article: "Factors that may determine Gingrich's fate" by Jennifer Jacobs.

Speech: "Cross of Iron" - Address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16,1953.

Site: "How To Start A Revolution" - Gene Sharp.

Article: "Occupy D.C. Rolls Out Human Red Carpet at U.S. Chamber of Commerce Holiday Party [VIDEO]" by Ashley Portero.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Book: "Self Empowerment: Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach us About Living in the 21st " by B. Anne Gehman and Ellen Ratner.

Article: "House Balks At Senate Payroll Package, Calls For Conference" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "House rebuffs Senate payroll tax cut extension, calls for conference" by Pete Kasperowicz and Amie Parnes.

Article: "American general returns military flag from Iraq to U.S." by CNN.

Article: "Iraq VP denies charges of running death squads" by AP.

Hour Three: "Occupy My Heart: A revolutionary Christmas Carol"
- W.C. "Bill" Turck

Article: "Occupy My Heart: A Revolutionary Christmas Carol".

Site: "New England Salem Children's Village" (NESCV).

Site: Hunter School.

Book: "The Thom Hartmann Reader" by Thom Hartmann. Out now!

Book: "Attention Deficit Disorder : A Different Perception" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "An Explosive Child Learns How to Cope" by The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Site: "New England Salem Children's Village" (NESCV).

The good: Reps. John Yarmuth (D-KY) and Walter Jones (R-NC): "Rep. Yarmuth Introduces Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Citizens United" by Travis Waldron.

The bad: "New Hampshire bill proposes warnings at Massachusetts border" by Jason McLure.

The very, very ugly: "Limbaugh: BP Oil Spill "Ended Up Being A Nonstory"" by Media Matters.

Site: Move to Amend

Site: "OccupyOurHome.org".

Book: "Agrarian Justice" by Thomas Paine.

Book: "A Course in Miracles" by Dr. Helen Schucman.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout" by Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman.

Article: "AT&T-T-Mobile USA Merger Foes Welcome Failure of Derided Takeover Deal" by Olga Kharif.

Article: "Sprint disables controversial Carrier IQ software across all phones" by Phil Hornshaw.

Crazy alert: "Television cannibalism stunt goes global" by DutchNews.nl.

Hour Two: Should we tax the Church?
- Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science and of Law, Vanderbilt University

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