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Update on Fukushima: Discovery of Plutonium Leakage and Highly Radioactive Water from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

Recieved my issue of ‘Time’ magazine yesterday. Japan catastrophe noticably absent, or perhaps ‘replaced’ is more like it, w/a story which asks ‘Can its young people save Japan’? But no story about current events. How about the fact that situation has worsened in some aspects & estimates of how long it will last is now ‘months’?

‘Health & Science’ section seems to gloss over & minimize the effects, especially ‘Assessing The Threat’ even for the Japanese people.

That plutonium & uranium-laced water is sloshing over the boots of plant workers, er, ‘contractors’ & their condition, plutonium on the site is not mentioned is odd indeed. One could go on. There are sobering headlines by the dozen & serious news accounts by the score which need to be told regardles of how grim they may appear. Sudden backseat Japan continuing debacle has taken noteworthy, in that with the sheer volume of stories & its continuing development, it seems to be gettinging pushed back more & more.  

Several stories on Libya, not surprising & Elizabeth Taylor appropriately gets a few pages. Oh, & there is a story about how crying at work is now ‘OK’, we have their permission.  

In a world where corporate interests take precedence over the best interests of all of us, ‘truth’ is becoming an ever more rare commodity. Here in ‘the land of the free & home of the brave’, ‘truth’ is happily sold out to the highest bidder, processed by the spinmeisters, those who represent & are funded by the special interests, who then spin it to desired consistancy, color it a shade to their liking & serve it to sheepled masses, the gullible public. Intended audience is made clear by the facts or lack therof which are easily recognized by those who are have followed it or knowledgable about the issues.

Depressing to see supposedly reputable news organizations who have allowed themselves to be played by these special interests who then game their viewers or readers by misinforming them.  

Meanwhile back in VT where truth still prevails, we can be grateful & thankful for Fairewinds Associates, the Gundersens, to bring it to us, as well as the expert analysis to understand what the latest developments mean to the average citizen.

*note- I took the fact that an update & video was up, but not posted to GMD as perhaps the Gundersens being too busy to post it to GMD. If there is a story, I would gladly take my story down if there was one that just hadn’t made it up.