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.

Also, half of all the critical thermometers on site are malfunctioning because they've been damaged by high temperatures and high humidity within the plant. There are numerous cooling water leaks. Plus, water contaminated with radiation is accumulating in the basements of the reactor building.

And, plant operators still have no clue how they’re going to remove massive pools of highly radioactive spent fuel from the roofs of the reactors. As the newspaper reports, “Not only will that work be unprecedented, but the work will also have to be done in an environment of high radiation levels.”

Oh, and then there’s the situation with reactor 4, which could collapse at any moment, triggering a worldwide nuclear disaster worse than Chernobyl. Let’s hope nuclear regulators in America are paying attention.

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Hour Two: GOP Voter ID could keep almost HALF of all Philly voters out
- Daniel Halper, Weekly Standard

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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Ed Schultz' Wife Battling Ovarian Cancer" by BRAD BLOG.

Article: "Romney Adviser Says Obama Doesn’t ‘Fully Appreciate’ Our ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Anglo-Saxons" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mitt Romney would restore 'Anglo-Saxon' relations between Britain and America" by Jon Swaine.

Article: "EXCLUSIVE: Romney Bundler A Registered Foreign Agent For Hong Kong" by Josh Israel.

Article: "REPORT: Biggest Donor To Romney And GOP Did Business With Chinese Mob" by Ali Gharib.

The Big Picture
- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator

First anniversary of the CFPB...take that Capital One!
- Professor Elizabeth Warren, Candidate for U.S. Senate (D-MA) / former special adviser to the President

Article: "Capital One to pay $210M in U.S. Consumer Agency's First Action" by Deanne Katz.

Article: "Tricks, Traps, and Accountability" by Elizabeth Warren.

Article: "Congressional Demographics" by Congress.

Article: "The Health Care Law & You" by healthcare.gov.

Article: "The One Percent Solution" by Snopes.

Article: "Romney camp asks Va. to probe voter forms" by Wesley P. Hester.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Hour Two: Regulate the credit reporting industry?
- Malcolm Out Loud, News & Political Commentator / Host of the TV Show "Malcolm Out Loud"

Article: "Top Romney Foreign Policy Aide Refers To Russia As ‘The Soviet Union’" by Ben Armbruster.

Article: "Al Qaeda Taking Deadly New Role in Syria’s Conflict" by Rod Nordland.

Article: "Golden Fleece Award" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Consumer bureau to police credit reporting bureaus" by AP.

Book: The Jungle, Upton Sinclair.

Article: "'Obamacare' reduces deficit, Congressional Budget Office concludes" by Andrew Taylor and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar.

Video: "Concord Project GOTV - the importance of precinct committee members ".

Video: "Concord Project GOTV - how you become a precinct committee member".

Article: "McConnell Agrees To Simple Majority Vote On Bush-Era Tax Cuts" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 7: All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills...

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Article: "Senate Approves Dems’ Tax Plan In Rare Up-Or-Down Vote" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "UN's Ban Ki-moon urges end to Syria 'slaughter'" by BBC.

Article: "Al Qaeda Does Not Have A Foothold In Syria, Says Pentagon" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "Written Testimony of Treasury Secretary Geithner before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the Financial Stability Oversight Council Annual Report to Congress".

Article: "House OKs ‘Audit The Fed’ Bill" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "Obama’s Offshore Drilling Plan Takes Symbolic Hit In House Vote" by Benny Martinez.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954.

Letter: "to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, November 8, 1954" by Dwight Eisenhower. "Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

The good: "Anheuser-Busch Combines Wind, Solar & Biogas".

The bad: "Top Two Oil Companies Earn $160,000 Per Minute, Paid Low Tax Rate" by Rebecca Leber.

The very, very ugly: Family Research Council: "FRC Strategy Memo: ‘We Must Go On Offense,’ Target Secular Research And Young People" by Zack Ford.

Book: "The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience" by Kirstin Downey.

Article: "Romney on NBC: Changing gun laws won't 'make all bad things go away'" by Garrett Haake.

Article: "Romney’s ‘We Did Build This’ Events Feature Businesses Built With Government Subsidies And Contracts" by Aviva Shen.

Book: "Suicide of a Super Power: Will America Survive to 2025" by Patrick J. Buchanan.

Article: "Maslow's hierarchy of needs" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men.""

Article: "24 arrested at fourth day of Anaheim police protests" by Amy Taxin and Gillian Flaccus.

Article: "CBO: States opting out of Medicaid expansion will leave 3 million uninsured" by Zachary Roth.

Article: "Citizens United Constitutional Amendment Floated By Senate Democrats" by Paul Blumenthal.

Article: "Aurora shooting: Colorado gun sales up after cinema killings" by BBC.

Article: "NASA warns 97 percent of Greenland ice sheet surface melted in four days" by Suzanne Goldenberg.