Located just 25 miles north of New York City, the Indian Point nuclear power plant long been a source of worry among nuclear activists, who think that it could cause a Fukushima-style disaster right here in the U.S.

Just this past winter, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for the facility to be shut down after officials discovered that a radioactive substance known as tritium was leaking into groundwater.

Officials said that the substance didn't leave the site, but the whole incident raised serious questions about the long-term safety of the facility some call "Chernobyl on the Hudson".

Given this shoddy safety record, you'd think that government officials would do everything in their power to keep danger as far away as possible from Indian Point - right?

Well, think again.

A federally-approved pipeline project currently under construction would - once completed - come within miles of the Indian Point facility - threatening the lives of millions in the process.

The so-called Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project was OK'd by the government last March and has been the target of a fierce protest campaign ever since.

Even Governor Andrew Cuomo has joined in, asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to block the project.

The governor was unsuccessful (the FERC upheld the Algonquin expansion this past March) but the fight against the pipeline isn't over.

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Global Warming and the Seas - Bunny McDiarmid (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Thursday's Daily Stack 

Hour One: What Happens in a Libertarian World?
- Austin Petersen, former 2016 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate  

Article: "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?" (1980 Libertarian Party platform) by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Libertarian Party Platform 2016".

 

Article: "Read Donald Trump's Speech on Jobs and the Economy" by Tessa Berenson.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders will hit Ohio to campaign for Clinton as polls tighten" by Noah Bierman.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Leads Major Rally Against Oil Pipeline Project in Front of the White House" by Alexandra Rosenmann.

 

Donald Trump Joked About Flint Water Crisis, Insults Pastor
- Karen Weaver, (D) Mayor of Flint, MI  

Article: "Trump Refuses To Comment On Flint Water Crisis".

Article: "Donald Trump, Interrupted. He Calls Flint Pastor Who Cut In 'a Nervous Mess.'" by Alan Rappeport.

Article: "Trump Criticizes Flint Pastor - But Misstates Key Facts About Their Encounter" by Scott Detrow.

Article: "Flint's crisis can be fixed with $55M in new pipes: Lansing mayor" by Trent Gillies.

Article: "Michigan DEQ official fired in wake of Flint water crisis" by Emily Lawler.

 

Article: "Moments After Judge Denies DAPL Injunction, Federal Agencies Intervene" by Valerie Taliman.

Article: "Dakota Access: Kelcy Warren committed to completing oil pipeline despite DOJ statement" by Matt Barkhausen.

Twitter: "#nodapl".

Article: "Tim Kacena Running for State Representative" by Our Revolution.

Site: Tim Kacena for Iowa.

Article: "109 N.M. Inmates Sent Out of State After Riot" by AP, September 04, 1999.

Article: "Here's Why Libertarians Are Mostly Men" by Kevin Drum.

Article: "The Flint, Michigan, Sit-Down Strike (1936-37)" by Ertan Tuncer, Ellen Terrell.

Hour Two: What Should You Care About the Impact of 'Negative Interest' Rates?
- Professor Steve Keen, Economist/Kingston University  

Article: "Trump rips 'false economy,' 'artificial' market, says rates must change" by Reuters.

Article: "Negative Interest Rates" by Jana Randow & Simon Kennedy.

Article: "Famous Economist Paul Romer Says Macroeconomics Is All Bullshit" by Kevin Drum.

Law: "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reserve Requirement Systems in OECD Countries" by Yueh-Yun C. OBrien, 2007.

Article: "Money creation in the modern economy" by Michael McLeay, Amar Radia and Ryland Thomas.

Article: "FDR Solves The Mortgage Crisis" by CBS News.

 

Article: "Trump targets "the FDA Food Police," calls for elimination of food safety regulations in new tax plan" by Sophia Tesfaye.

Article: "Household incomes rose in 2015 for first time in eight years, US Census says" by Jana Kasperkevic.

Article: "Fiat money" by Wikipedia.

Article: "When The U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt (And Why It Didn't Last)" by Robert Smith.

Article: "Mostly White Crowd Roars at Donald Trump's Joke About Flint Water Crisis" by Tommy Christopher.

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

Article: "Obama Creates Atlantic Ocean's First Marine Monument" by Julie Hirschfeld Davis.

Article: "Death of Sandra Bland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sandra Bland's family 'win $1.9m payout' in Texas" by BBC.

Article: "Harvard study: Political 'dysfunction' crippling U.S. economy" by Politico.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren Asks Newly Chatty FBI Director to Explain Why DOJ Didn't Prosecute Banksters" by David Dayen.

Article: "Trump Jr. defends 'gas chamber' remark" by Nick Salazar.

Article: "Trump releases additional health details" by TMN.

Article: "Clinton returns to campaign trail, calls days away 'a gift'" by Heidi M. Przybyla.

Hour Three: FDA Finds Glyphosate in U.S. Honey Supply
- Carey Gillam, U.S. Right to Know  

Article: "FDA Finds Monsanto's Weed Killer In U.S. Honey" by Carey Gillam.

Article: "IARC Monographs Volume 112: evaluation of five organophosphate insecticides and herbicides" by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (WHO).

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Book: "Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann - new updated version out now!

Article: Chapter Thirteen: Unequal Regulation

Article: "EPA's glyphosate report now a spring thing (maybe)" by Jenny Hopkinson.

Video: Are Big Ag's Chemicals Making Us All Sick? (w/ Guest: Dr. Stephanie Seneff) Jul. 7, 2016.

 

Article: "Matt Lauer totally blew it on Trump's blatant lying about Iraq and Libya" by Matthew Yglesias, September 7, 2016.

Site: Free Speech TV

 

Trump/Bondi Scandal Plot Thickens
- Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL, 21st District)  

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