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

[Feuer Frei!]

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.
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....


#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.
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, 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.
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."

#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 . 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.


#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.


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[Krauter]

So basically the world is going down the toilet is what your saying...

Also, @ the Norks Super EMP weapon....

[Feuer Frei!]

Nah, not going down the toilet, at least not yet anyways.
Just some (more) coverage on these matters would be something to behold.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Krauter

Also, @ the Norks Super EMP weapon....

I must echo Krauter's strategic assessment of North Korea's Super EMP weapon...



Also...

#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.

OMG it says why right on the link! Just click 'Type' listed and it will explain the NOTAM, quite a few relate to the fire in Arizona- clearing air space for firefighting aircraft.

[Krauter]

That and Osama's successors probably P.O'd that the US killed Osama...

[Betonov]

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

You wrote that, like it hasn't happened already

So that article is about lack of media coverage on really big stories?
It has real stories amazingly taken from the mainstream media where they are covered.
It also has some crazy conspiracies and rumours which are not covered by the mainstream media but can be found in places like "its the end of the world buy gold coins to get ready for the 2012 doomsday"

[Schwieger]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Are we watching the early stages of World War 3 unfold before our eyes in slow motion?

In the event of a war with China... U.S. will be rolled over pretty easily... US army is outnumber nearly 140 to 1 by nearly 11 million reserve Chinese troops.. and if we're mulling about in Libya and the Middle East, then things will look even worse in the event of this hypothetical war..

As for excess US intervention in the Middle East.. well, if it were me, there wouldn't be a Middle East, save for Israel.

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Schwieger

In the event of a war with China... U.S. will be rolled over pretty easily... US army is outnumber nearly 140 to 1 by nearly 11 million reserve Chinese troops.. and if we're mulling about in Libya and the Middle East, then things will look even worse in the event of this hypothetical war..

I'd like to know where you get those numbers, as far as I know the entire Chinese army doesn't number more than some 3 million men, including reserves. Even if it did have so many troops...140 to 1?

Regardless, where will they even fight? Will the US invade China, or the other way around? I can't see anyone doing anything like that...

[joea]

Interesting, though some of them like the no-fly zones are non-issues. Or utterly ridiculous like the Nork EMP-the huge cracks thing well hello the Earth is always moving and cracking.

[Castout]

3 and 5 are the ones that concern me.

[Jimbuna]

Thankfully I live in the UK safety zone, away from any credible mainstream media

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

So that article is about lack of media coverage on really big stories?

It seems so doesn't it.

It has real stories amazingly taken from the mainstream media where they are covered.

Covered to an extent. None of the events listed in op are what you would call "covered", and certainly not updated.
The public has to do their own delving and research. With non-critical wordly issues, sure, no problem, dig around and play Detective all you want.

It also has some crazy conspiracies and rumours which are not covered by the mainstream media

Which ones?

but can be found in places like "its the end of the world buy gold coins to get ready for the 2012 doomsday"

Yep, adverts on websites, hot diggity dog. Now there's a new thing.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Thankfully I live in the UK safety zone, away from any credible mainstream media

Thread winner right here!

It seems so doesn't it.

Not once you look at it.

Covered to an extent. None of the events listed in op are what you would call "covered", and certainly not updated.

Rubbish.
Take that MSNBC piece which is a workup of a NYT piece, both of which are certainly mainstream. See how often the subject has been updated since the cited article, then look back at the archives and see how many years they have been updating the story for...or should that be decades

Which ones?

Alex Jones is always an old reliable when it comes to crazyness, I wonder if he pops up

Yep, adverts on websites, hot diggity dog. Now there's a new thing.

The problem there being that those are the articles on the end of the world doomsday "newsoutlet" that is linked to in the opening article

I think the problem here FF is that you have linked to an article and are defending what it says without even looking at what it is claiming and the "evidence" it presents

edit to add, sorry I just noticed the source itself runs lots of panic buy gold now "news" articles as well as running lots of buy gold adverts, so it isn't just a case of it linking to dodgy "news outlets" it really is crazy one itself.