12 Things That The Mainstream Media Is Being Strangely Quiet About Right Now

[webairalex]

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As the mainstream media continues to be obsessed with Anthony Weiner and his bizarre adventures on Twitter, much more serious events are happening around the world that are getting very little attention. In America today, if the mainstream media does not cover something it is almost as if it never happened. Right now, the worst nuclear disaster in human history continues to unfold in Japan , U.S. nuclear facilities are being threatened by flood waters, the U.S. military is bombing Yemen, gigantic cracks in the earth are appearing all over the globe and the largest wildfire in Arizona history is causing immense devastation. But Anthony Weiner, Bristol Palin and Miss USA are what the mainstream media want to tell us about and most Americans are buying it.

In times like these, it is more important than ever to think for ourselves. The corporate-owned mainstream media is not interested in looking out for us. Rather, they are going to tell us whatever fits with the agenda that their owners are pushing.

That is why more Americans than ever are turning to the alternative media. Americans are hungry for the truth, and they know that the amount of truth that they get from the mainstream media continues to decline.

The following are 12 things that the mainstream media is being strangely quiet about right now....

#1 The crisis at the Fort Calhoun nuclear facility in Nebraska has received almost no attention in the national mainstream media.

Back on June 7th, there was a fire at Fort Calhoun. The official story is that the fire was in an electrical switchgear room at the plant. The facility lost power to a pump that cools the spent fuel pool for approximately 90 minutes. According to the Omaha Public Power District, the fire was quickly extinguished and no radioactive material was released.

The following sequence of events is directly from the Omaha Public Power District website....

There was no such imminent danger with the Fort Calhoun Station spent-fuel pool.
Due to a fire in an electrical switchgear room at FCS on the morning of June 7, the plant temporarily lost power to a pump that cools the spent-fuel pool.
The fire-suppression system in that switchgear room operated as designed, extinguishing the fire quickly.
FCS plant operators switched the spent-fuel pool cooling system to an installed backup pump about 90 minutes after the loss of power.
During the interruption of cooling, temperature of the pool increased a few degrees, but the pool was never in danger of boiling.
Due to this situation, FCS declared an Alert at about 9:40 a.m. on June 7.
An alert is the second-least-serious of four emergency classifications established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
At about 1:15 p.m. on June 7, FCS operators declared they had taken all appropriate measures to safely return to the previously declared Notification of Unusual Event emergency classification. (See first item above.)
But the crisis at Fort Calhoun is not over. Right now, the nuclear facility at Fort Calhoun is essentially an island. It is surrounded by rising flood waters from the Missouri River.

Officials claim that there is no danger and that they are prepared for the river to rise another ten feet.

The Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska is also being threatened by rising flood waters. A "Notification of Unusual Event" was declared at Cooper Nuclear Station this morning at 4:02. This notification was issued because the Missouri River's water level reached 42.5 feet.

Right now the facility is operating normally and officials don't expect a crisis.

But considering what has been going on at Fukushima, it would be nice if we could have gotten a lot more coverage of these events by the mainstream media.

#2 Most Americans are aware that the U.S. is involved in wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. However, the truth is that the U.S. military is also regularly bombing Yemen and parts of Pakistan. If you count the countries where the U.S. has special forces and/or covert operatives on the ground, the U.S. is probably "active" in more countries in the Middle East than it is not. Now there are even persistent rumors that U.S. ground units are being prepared to go into Libya. Are we watching the early stages of World War 3 unfold before our eyes in slow motion?

#3 The crisis at Fukushima continues to get worse. Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, recently made the following statement about the Fukushima disaster....

"Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind"

TEPCO has finally admitted that this disaster has released more radioactive material into the environment than Chernobyl did. That makes Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster of all time, and it is far from over.

Massive amounts of water is being poured into the spent fuel pools in order to keep them cool. This is creating "hundreds of thousands of tons of highly radioactive sea water" that has got to go somewhere. Inevitably much of it will get into the ground and into the sea.

Arnold Gundersen says that the scope of this problem is almost unimaginable....

"TEPCO announced they had a melt through. A melt down is when the fuel collapses to the bottom of the reactor, and a melt through means it has melted through some layers. That blob is incredibly radioactive, and now you have water on top of it. The water picks up enormous amounts of radiation, so you add more water and you are generating hundreds of thousands of tons of highly radioactive water."

The mainstream media is not paying as much attention to Fukushima these days, but that doesn't mean that it is not a major league nightmare.

Elevated levels of radiation are being reported by Japanese bloggers all over eastern Japan. There are reports of sick children all over the region. One adviser to the government of Japan says that an area approximately 17 times the size of Manhattan is probably going to be uninhabitable.

Of course the mainstream media has been telling us all along that Fukushima is nothing to be too concerned about and that authorities in Japan have everything under control.

If the mainstream media is not going to tell us the truth, how are they going to continue to have credibility?

#4 Members of Congress continue to mention Christians as a threat to national security. For example, during a recent Congressional hearing U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee warned that "Christian militants" might try to "bring down the country" and that such groups need to be investigated.

#5 China's eastern province of Zhejiang has experienced that worst flooding that it has seen in 55 years. 2 million people have already been forced to leave their homes. China has already been having huge problems with their crops over the past few years and this is only going to make things worse.

#6 Thanks to the Dodd-Frank Act, over the counter trading of gold and silver is going to be illegal starting on July 15th. Or at least that is what some companies apparently now believe. The following is an excerpt from an email that Forex.com recently sent out to their customers....

Important Account Notice Re: Metals Trading

We wanted to make you aware of some upcoming changes to FOREX.com?s product offering. As a result of the Dodd-Frank Act enacted by US Congress, a new regulation prohibiting US residents from trading over the counter precious metals, including gold and silver, will go into effect on Friday, July 15, 2011.

In conjunction with this new regulation, FOREX.com must discontinue metals trading for US residents on Friday, July 15, 2011 at the close of trading at 5pm ET. As a result, all open metals positions must be closed by July 15, 2011 at 5pm ET.

We encourage you to wind down your trading activity in these products over the next month in anticipation of the new rule, as any open XAU or XAG positions that remain open prior to July 15, 2011 at approximately 5:00 pm ET will be automatically liquidated.

We sincerely regret any inconvenience complying with the new U.S. regulation may cause you. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact our customer service team.

Sincerely,
The Team at FOREX.com


Apparently, Section 742(a) of the Dodd-Frank Act prohibits anyone "from entering into, or offering to enter into, a transaction in any commodity with a person that is not an eligible contract participant or an eligible commercial entity, on a leveraged or margined basis."

So what impact is this going to have on the gold and silver markets?

Nobody is quite sure yet.

#7 All over the world, huge cracks are appearing for no discernible reason. For example, a massive crack that is approximately 3 kilometers long recent appeared in southern Peru. Also, a 500 foot long crack suddenly appeared recently in the state of Michigan. When you also throw in all of the gigantic sinkholes that have been opening all over the world, it is easy to conclude that the planet is becoming very unstable.

#8 According to U.S. Forest Service officials, the largest wildfire in Arizona state history has now covered more than 500,000 acres. But based on the coverage it is being given by the mainstream media you would think that it is a non-event.

#9 There are reports that North Korea has tested a "super EMP weapon" which would be capable of taking out most of the U.S. power grid in a single shot. The North Koreans are apparently about to conduct another nuclear test and that has some Obama administration officials very concerned.


ETC ETC...............................

[Sly]

#7 Easy to conclude that the world is unstable because of sinkholes and cracks?

[Wizzo]

Other then #7 I've known about the others from the mainstream media.

[Caligari]

#4 Members of Congress continue to mention Christians as a threat to national security. For example, during a recent Congressional hearing U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee warned that "Christian militants" might try to "bring down the country" and that such groups need to be investigated.

thats actually christian militants, so keeping an eye on those buggers is a very good thing.

but the latest nuclear incidents are very concerning indeed.

[SmokeyTheBear]

i have heard of all these stories from the mainstream news ( except north korea emp weapons )

[Sly]

Originally Posted by Sly

#7 Easy to conclude that the world is unstable because of sinkholes and cracks?

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...1063100AAiPKzX

[PR_Glen]

Originally Posted by Sly

#7 Easy to conclude that the world is unstable because of sinkholes and cracks?

haha i was wondering about that one too...


It would be concerning if the planet stopped doing that, that's for sure... The planet is in motion, spinning continuously at a high speed.. cracks are to be expected genius...

[LC777_BCM]

You forgot to mention "Massive Earthquakes" shifted the World's axes. This could be what is causing some of our strange weather lately!

The Japan earthquake shifted the axes about 14 cm; that's about 2 or 3 hours of normal movement.
The Earth's axis has moved about 18.6 meters since 1910. Mostly it wobbles around in a rough circle with a radius of 9 m around the north pole, but the center of this circle also drifts about 120 cm a year. For a plot of the motion, look at the "polar motion"

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Chile may have also made our planet's days shorter, according to NASA scientist Richard Gross.

A minor change in the Earth?s axis isn't expected to alter much in terms of weather. The planet's tilt influences the seasons, allowing for winter, spring, summer and fall, and it would take a far greater change in the Earth's axis to affect them.
The Chile quake may have moved the Earth?s axis by about 3 inches, Gross said.
The quake also shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds, the scientist determined, using a complex model he and others developed.
The Earth's rotation was likely affected by the shift in the planet's mass, which could cause it to spin faster.
Scientists believe other quakes, such as the 2004 9.1-magnitude earthquake in Sumatra, have also decreased the Earth's day. That quake is believed to have shortened it by 6.8 microseconds, and altered the axis by nearly 7 inches.

[The Heron]

Michigan is full of sinkholes, they aren't that exciting...

[sinclair]

... for future read. In the process of folding a new tin foil hat.

[96ukssob]

the reason US media doesn't include that is because the US only cares about stupid shit. If one new station is running a report on Anthony Wieners wiener, then the others have to. if you dont keep up the ratings, then you will lose

[MaDalton]

2012 is near...

[Wizzo]

What is really funny, if you check their references like #7 for example they point to this article http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/201...ss-the-planet/ which lists about dozen other "mainstream" news sites with similar articles including CNN.

Or #8 which points to this article http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...re-update.html which states "The Associated Press contributed to this story" so the Associated Press isn't mainstream anymore?

Total Fail...

[Brujah]

I don't blame mainstream media. They want to make a profit. In order to make a profit or even stay afloat, they need to give the viewers whatever it takes to get them to tune in and in large numbers. They do that with sensationalism and entertainment. It's not a conspiracy to keep it away from us. It's a response to the idiocracy.

[Sly]

Originally Posted by Wizzo

What is really funny, if you check their references like #7 for example they point to this article http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/201...ss-the-planet/ which lists about dozen other "mainstream" news sites with similar articles including CNN.

Or #8 which points to this article http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...re-update.html which states "The Associated Press contributed to this story" so the Associated Press isn't mainstream anymore?

Total Fail...

I think the only issue/story mentioned above that I haven't heard of was the 500 foot crack in Michigan. LOL. Should that really be concerning the nation?

[Vendzilla]

If the main stream media started covering this stuff more, people would look to there leader for leadership and find Obama.

Thats why Weiner is so important!!!

[PornGreen]

Originally Posted by webairalex

#7 All over the world, huge cracks are appearing for no discernible reason. For example, a massive crack that is approximately 3 kilometers long recent appeared in southern Peru. Also, a 500 foot long crack suddenly appeared recently in the state of Michigan. When you also throw in all of the gigantic sinkholes that have been opening all over the world, it is easy to conclude that the planet is becoming very unstable.

post lost all credibility with that crap

[Chris]

my mom lives in brownville nebraska and they have an active nuclear plant and the town is majorly flooded

no major news coverage at all

[Shey]

They're just waiting for the next Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian or Charlie Sheen to come up with new shenanigans so they can give you real entertainment. Who cares if the world is not gonna be here in a week as long as you know who the latest politician to show their pecker to an intern is. Pfft...

[Vendzilla]

If the main stream media started covering this stuff more, people would look to there leader for leadership and find Obama.

Thats why Weiner is so important!!!

I didn't know about the cracks
And I saw about the flooding and wondered why they built nuke plants in an area like that where the government would always do a impact assessment and would have known floods were possible, oh wait, I said government. Never mind, move along, nothing to see here.

[Brujah]

Originally Posted by Vendzilla

If the main stream media started covering this stuff more, people would look to there leader for leadership and find Obama.

Thats why Weiner is so important!!!

See? This is why we get the news we get. We get the news we deserve. The Idiocracy is here.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by MaDalton

2012 is near...

july 3rd is EVEN CLOSER...

[GetSCORECash]

Originally Posted by MaDalton

2012 is near...

Stop it, the date has been moved to 2045.

[waltgator]

Originally Posted by GetSCORECash

Stop it, the date has been moved to 2045.

phew! thanks! gives me time to establish me paysite & affiliate program!
(shameless plug)

[amateurbfs]

Originally Posted by bm bradley

july 3rd is EVEN CLOSER...

[epitome]

Originally Posted by Brujah

See? This is why we get the news we get. We get the news we deserve. The Idiocracy is here.

I doubt he's intelligent enough to see the irony in his post. He's probably happy at the lame and completely irrelevant jab he delivered to Obama. He thought it was so great he felt the need to repeat himself.

[JamesGw]

All of these nuclear problems are a little disconcerting, I guess.

[iamtam]

what is truly amusing here is that tin foil hatters have figured out a way to make their claims look better, by cloaking them in a big media cover up story.

1 is a non-story, already resolved. 2 is somewhat dishonest, as the us isn't bombing pakistan, only attacked terrorist cells in the country, 3 is old news, and gets coverage only where there is something new going on, 4 is a non-story, 5 is true, however flooding in those areas is actually common and huge diversions projects exist, 6 isnt a story until the 15th, 7 is a non-event, who cares? 8 story has been covered to death already, and 9 is speculation of a speculation based on a speculation that makes a v_rocks post look intelligent.

there is more tin foil in play than anything. oh yeah, the sky is falling and 12 clicks is a genius!

[L3 Payments]

Great way to freak us all out Interesting stuff that Im now going to research myself! Thanks for sharing.

[seeandsee]

Some interesting stuff i heard now here , must google abovetopsecret now

[TheDoc]

Originally Posted by Vendzilla

If the main stream media started covering this stuff more, people would look to there leader for leadership and find Obama.

Thats why Weiner is so important!!!

I didn't know about the cracks
And I saw about the flooding and wondered why they built nuke plants in an area like that where the government would always do a impact assessment and would have known floods were possible, oh wait, I said government. Never mind, move along, nothing to see here.

Hahaha, and you pretend you don't have a special little place for Obama.

[TheDoc]

1) The exact issue has been reported. With no gigometer's going off, they really have nothing to report other than fear.

2) We aren't at war with Libya or even Afghanistan and we've been in a hell of a lot more conflicts at once.

3) That sucks for everyone... a great example of why we should get off that power source for good.

4) No reason to ignore what is true. Christians can be terrorists as much as a Muslim can be.

5) Aye, China has it's own land based HAARP, they made it snow in the summer as well.

6) Not true... it makes trading with Congo and unregistered gold & those unregulated markets. Which was not regulated before, had fraud, fake gold trades, blood gold, human trafficking issues, etc. Most of us here don't own mines that trade with other mines that also deal in unregulated (black market/stolen) gold. For that one guy that does, you're screwed.

7) Crazy... just think, entire seas have vanished and volcanoes have formed, overnight before. Mother Earth is truly alive!

8) I live here, what's to cover? 9.9999999999% of everything burning is desert mountains, with 50-100 miles of desert between rages. It burns every year, some range, always...

9) EMP can't beat the curvature of the earth. China is probably a little pissed but we're fine. America also has a mobile sat HAARP station in space. Kinda makes the EMP seem like a blackcat firework once you compare the two.

[Vendzilla]

Originally Posted by Brujah

See? This is why we get the news we get. We get the news we deserve. The Idiocracy is here.

I think the idiocracy is to believe I have control over the news, but go ahead, I won't correct you

Originally Posted by TheDoc

Hahaha, and you pretend you don't have a special little place for Obama.

My place for him



your place for him

[TheDoc]

Originally Posted by Vendzilla

My place for him

your place for him

Yeah, I've seen this argument from the right many times now. At least you'll admit you hate Obama, but you are so blinded by that hate, that anyone that doesn't match your opinion instantly means they're praising Obama. How sad....

Facts do not praise anyone, they are simply facts.

Like it is a fact that you hate Obama and that hate blinds you to the facts around you.

[SleazyDream]

run for the hills!!!!!!!

[webairalex]

I will post the other 4 things as well.....



#9 There are reports that North Korea has tested a "super EMP weapon" which would be capable of taking out most of the U.S. power grid in a single shot. The North Koreans are apparently about to conduct another nuclear test and that has some Obama administration officials very concerned.

#10 All over the United States, "active shooter drills" are being conducted in our public schools. Often, most of the students are not told that these drills are fake. Instead, students often go through hours of terror as they think a hostage situation or a shooting spree is really taking place.

#11 NASA has just launched a "major" preparedness initiative for all NASA personnel. The following is an excerpt about this plan from NASA's own website....

A major initiative has been placed on Family/Personal Preparedness for all NASA personnel. The NASA Family/Personal Preparedness Program is designed to provide awareness, resources, and tools to the NASA Family (civil servants and contractors) to prepare for an emergency situation. The most important assets in the successful completion of NASA?s mission are our employees? and their families. We are taking the steps to prepare our workforce, but it is your personal obligation to prepare yourself and your families for emergencies.

#12 Over the past week over 40 temporary "no fly zones" have been declared by the FAA. This is very highly unusual. Nobody seems to know exactly why this is happening.

So what do all of these things mean?

It would be nice if the mainstream media would examine some of these important issues more closely and do some honest reporting on them.

[Joshua G]

alex. what more do you expect the media to report on the flooding nuclear plants. Guesswork? Speculation? Isnt that the job of the bloggosphere, not the mainstream media?

even in japan, with cores melting, the media could only report what TEPCO told them. They cant exactly access a nuclear meltdown to get the truth.

Even if some nobel scientist says the yellowstone caldera is gonna blow, the mainstream media will ignore until there is a ball of fire. Thats just how they operate.

[gmr324]

Wow, the EMP, gigantic cracks and NASA preparedness drills are definitely disturbing. Amazing what information the media neglects to report, although I'm not surprised

[Vendzilla]

Originally Posted by TheDoc

Yeah, I've seen this argument from the right many times now. At least you'll admit you hate Obama, but you are so blinded by that hate, that anyone that doesn't match your opinion instantly means they're praising Obama. How sad....

Facts do not praise anyone, they are simply facts.

Like it is a fact that you hate Obama and that hate blinds you to the facts around you.

facts around me

we're covering a lot of acreage looking for people to shoot at these days
more than Bush ever did

13.3 million unemployed
14.3 million on food stamps
14.4 trillion national debt
signed to renew the patriot act twice

[TheDoc]

Originally Posted by Vendzilla

facts around me

we're covering a lot of acreage looking for people to shoot at these days
more than Bush ever did

13.3 million unemployed
14.3 million on food stamps
14.4 trillion national debt
signed to renew the patriot act twice

Actually, he's covering far less... we aren't bombing 1/3 of Afghan and every city in Iraq.

And thank god it only went up roughly 1% under Obama's watch. If the trend had continued it could have went off the chart.

Again, thank god we have a support system in place for hungry people, eh? What type of unrest would we have with no jobs, no money, and no food? Holy shit!

Well ya, when you have a past President cook the books for 8 years of war costs, and then a new President correct those books, the national debt is going to go up, when the truth is shown to you.

Just be happy that for the first time in like forever spending and income are leveling out, so it's not sky rocketing anymore.

Just think if the other people got into office, which promised more of exactly the same thing... this would have never stopped growing and growing and growing.

The PAct sucks, but it isn't ever going away until they feel the threat is gone, and then it still may not go away. Or vote for Ron Paul, like I did.

[shimmy2]

Originally Posted by webairalex

There are reports that North Korea has tested a "super EMP weapon" which would be capable of taking out most of the U.S. power grid in a single shot.

in the carribean the power goes out 4-5 times everyday anyway, people are used to it and don't miss a beat. this would be chaotic in the US, for just 4-5 minutes

[Vendzilla]

Originally Posted by TheDoc

Actually, he's covering far less... we aren't bombing 1/3 of Afghan and every city in Iraq.

did I say anything about bombing?

And thank god it only went up roughly 1% under Obama's watch. If the trend had continued it could have went off the chart.

it was 7.6% when Obama took office, roughly hasn't seen that since after spending how much money with the stimulus?

Again, thank god we have a support system in place for hungry people, eh? What type of unrest would we have with no jobs, no money, and no food? Holy shit!

Back up for a bad president, thank god

Well ya, when you have a past President cook the books for 8 years of war costs, and then a new President correct those books, the national debt is going to go up, when the truth is shown to you.

and the new president doesn't stop those war costs, he increases the spending of war and you defend him?

Just be happy that for the first time in like forever spending and income are leveling out, so it's not sky rocketing anymore.

leveling out? Oh wait, now it's called investing instead of just blowing money, remember they are trying to raise the debt limit again?

Just think if the other people got into office, which promised more of exactly the same thing... this would have never stopped growing and growing and growing.

easy to say what if, what if Obama gave a shit about the country?

The PAct sucks, but it isn't ever going away until they feel the threat is gone, and then it still may not go away. Or vote for Ron Paul, like I did.

how many billions of dollars are spent on the patriot act for protecting us from underwear explosives?