You need to know this. The impending nuclear disaster in Nebraska just got worse. Over the weekend – a floodwall protecting the nuclear plant from the overflowing Missouri River gave way – inundating the facility in floodwater. The plant is less than 20 miles away from Omaha – Nebraska’s largest city – and is now cooling its reactors and spent fuel pools with back-up diesel powered generators.

Officials say water has not breached any of the buildings yet which are designed to withstand flooding of 1,014 feet – but currently floodwaters stand at 1,006 feet – and they’re expected to rise. It was a tsunami that triggered the world’s worst nuclear meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima plant a few months ago – and if floodwaters continue to rise and upstream dams can’t hold them in Nebraska – then the same thing will happen here – and we might lose Omaha.

The rest of the world is ditching nuclear power – we’re doing nothing except praying the flooding doesn’t get worse.

-Thom

(What do you think it will take for the US to abandon nuclear power? Tell us here.)

The Daily Stack

Quote: "Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." -- James Madison.

Hour One: Latest on the war on democracy - did a judge try to choke a fellow justice?! John Nichols, Washington Correspondent - The Nation Magazine

Article: "Bradley says Prosser choked her" by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Article: "Union contracts will come to an end on Wednesday" by Steven Verburg.

Video: "Walker leaving Devil's Lake".

Article: "95-Year-Old Woman Forced to Remove Adult Diaper by TSA Agents" by E.D. Kain.

Article: "Screeners for T.S.A. Select Union" by AP.

Video: "Thom Hartmann: IMPORTANT! Boulder council pushes 'corporate personhood' referendum".

Crazy alert: "Pretty, I am not: Yoda wins World's Ugliest Dog title" by AP.

Article: "Supreme Court Votes Against Banning “Violent” Games" by Ridge Shan.

Case: "Brown v. Entertainment Merchants' Assn".

Article: "Flood berm bursts at Nebraska nuclear plant" by CNN.

Article: "Gay marriage legal in New York State after Senate passes historic bill 33-29" by Glenn Blain and Kenneth Lovett.

Video: "Thom Hartmann: IPhone video kill switch...the George Orwell-ification of America?".

Hour Two: Who's really "playing chicken" with the debt ceiling? Peter Ferrara, General counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, author

Article: "Obama's Debt Limit Scare Tactics" by Peter Ferrara.

Article: "Will Higher Taxes Tank the Economy?" by Bruce Bartlett.

Sign the Petition: "Shared Sacrifice " by Senator Bernie Sanders.

Video: "Lucy Conquers Stairs - Part 1".

Article: "Obama says committed to working to cut debt" by Ayesha Rascoe.

Article: "Pelosi: Tax cuts created deficit, not jobs" by UPI.

Article: "Walker Signs Budget Into Law" by Channel 3000.

Article: "Floodwater seeps into Nebraska nuke plant building" by Nelson Lampe.

Book: "We Almost Lost Detroit" by John G. Fuller.

Site: "Conversations With Great Minds ... with Thom Hartmann".

Video: "Conversations with Great Minds, pt.1 - Lester Brown - Is the global civilization failing?".

Video: "Conversations with Great Minds, pt.2 - Lester Brown - Is the global civilization failing?".

Conservative alert: "Christie Defends Berating Constituent For Asking If He Sends His Kids To Private School" by Alex Seitz-Wald.

Article: "Gov. Christie thinks being a bully to constituents makes him huggable" by John Amato.

Article: "Chris Christie Convinces MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski He Is ‘Huggable’ With A Big ‘Lovable’ Squeeze" by Matt Schneider.

Article: "Donald O. Haughey".

Site: Salem International.

Talk Radio News Segment: Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Article: "WH: "Significant" deal possible on deficit, debt ceiling" by Lucy Madison.

Article: "Bachmann Kicks Off 2012 Campaign" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "CBS’ ‘Face The Nation’ Forgets Herman Cain" by Alex Seitz-Wald.

Article: "Poll: Rep. Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain lead".

Talk Radio News Segment: Jay Goodman Tamboli, Legal Affairs Correspondent and IT Director

Article: "Supreme Court Frags California Violent Video Game Regulation" by Jay Goodman Tamboli.

Article: "High Court Strikes Matching Funds For Publicly Financed Campaigns" by Jay Goodman Tamboli.

Article: "Justices to decide police use of GPS devices on suspects' cars" by Bill Mears.

Article: "Supreme Court to Rule on F.C.C.’s Ban on Indecency" by Edward Wyatt.

Hour Three: Student loans & for profit colleges are creating a new generation of indentured servants Kyle Olson, Founder and CEO of Education Action Group Foundation

Article: "I found out what I owe today. I'm sick and terrified." by aquart.

Article: "Default: The Student Loan Documentary" by Anna Lekas Miller.

Movie: "Default: The Student Loan Documentary".

Video: "Kids Aren't Cars".

Green Report: Nebraska's Fort Calhoun...America's Fukushima? Paul Gunter, Director, Reactor Oversight - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "Flood wall fails at Fort Calhoun" by Sam Womack.

Article: "Flooding: The worst is yet to come" by David Hendee.

Article: "Japan hopes to convince public of nuclear reactor safety" by Agence France-Presse.

Article: "A Nuclear Plant's Flood Defenses Trigger a Yearlong Regulatory Confrontation" by Peter Behr.

Article: "AP IMPACT: US nuke regulators weaken safety rules" by Jeff Donn, AP.

The good: "EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Murphy Says Thomas’ Actions Call Into Question Whether He ‘Can Continue To Serve As A Justice’" by Ian Millhiser.

The bad: "Gov. Christie thinks being a bully to constituents makes him huggable" by John Amato.

The very, very ugly: "95-Year-Old Woman Forced to Remove Adult Diaper by TSA Agents" by E.D. Kain.

Book: "Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)" by David Cay Johnston.

Book: "Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That is Breaking America" by Matt Taibbi.

Book: "What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America" by Thomas Frank.

Article: "Michele Bachmann's Holy War" by Matt Taibbi.

Article: "Climate of Denial" by Al Gore.

Twilight Zone alert: "Bus-Sized Asteroid Barely Misses Hitting Earth" by Reshma Kirpalani.

Article: "The Federalist Papers.

Article: "James Madison's Notes On the Constitutional Convention of 1787".

Article: "Exclusive: Oil Industry Forms New Astroturf Group To Manipulate 2012 Republican Primary In Iowa" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Supreme Court rejects generic drug labeling suits" by James Vicini.

Article: "Greek PM faces parliament as EU deadline looms on austerity" by Bloomberg .

Article: "On the News With Thom Hartmann: Nebraska Nuclear Danger Gets Worse, and More".

Coming up Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program

Hour Two: What is the Tea Party plan to take over the GOP? Mark Williams, Talk Radio host and Tea Party advocate

Hour Three: can you pass "The Psychopath Test?" Jon Ronson, Journalist, documentary filmmaker, radio presenter, author

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