[Sprite518]

Gee what a surprise government lied? This is WHY you do not trust the Government to tell you the truth. They are only look out for their own interest first.

I'm still perplexed why so many freepers had the audacity to trash The Drudge Report and believe the government line.

For the people who still do not understand this. When someone or something keeps changing their story... they are not telling you the truth. Duh!!! I have no doubt we will NEVER be told the true story from the government. The truth, like anything else, is usualy hidden in plain view.

[mewykwistmas]

So many freepers are knee-jerkers.

The Greens are against it?
It must be good then. I shall defend automatically no matter what.

You can be pro-nuclear energy and demand safety by holding the bastards accountable.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

The media will lie to you as well, the only sure way is to educate yourself.

[bornred]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=kill+people&ok=Search&q=quick&m=all&o=time

[lonestar]

We are Americans...we expect the government to lie.

I would trust the Japanese gov't more than our own.

What I've noticed is that many of our reporters are questioning their government...but never suggest our own might be lying...when we know they are!

I guess they have to talk about something...and there is no looting or Sean Penn.

[sten]

Still not seeing any readings along with distance from source/location

In other words, I still don’t believe what I’m reading

[KrisKrinkle]

Riiight. Finally. Like it's certain they knew for certain at the beginning.

The press wouldn't mention all their “sky is falling” wordage if the sky didn't fall-—unless the Japanese had played into it at which time they'd have been blamed for over reacting.

[KrisKrinkle]

“When someone or something keeps changing their story... they are not telling you the truth. Duh!!!”

Of course. They can’t be mistaken. Developing events and new information can’t trip them up.

Never say anything till everything is over, you have every bit of information, and have had time to analyze it. And maybe not then. Especially when the situation is fluid.

Make a mistake, get misunderstood, and you’ll be a “liar”.

[Wonder Warthog]

So, exactly who has died from the incident??? The leakage certainly has the POSSIBILITY of killing someone if proper precautions aren't taken, but thus far....nobody dead from anything nuclear (i.e. radiation dosage).

You may think the government lacks credibility, but the media is even less truthful.

[cookcounty]

An argument that a certain amount of radiation is good for you: http://radiationhormesis.com/tag/nagasaki-and-hiroshima/

[Clock King]

The whole article is UK leftist panic crap. Assuming this is true, then the containment vessel was not build to a decent standard. Their little fuzzy pictures DO NOT show open rods, no matter what lie they put in print. But remember, this plant was built to withstand and 8.x quake, and the quake was 9.0. Nature will override anything man builds.

It is now officially on a par with the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979. Only the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 has topped the scale.

Nobody died at TMI. This is the problem with the journalist idiots: they think this incident is either nothing or Chernobyl, with no in-between.

[palmer]

Some of it is complicated, there are anti-nuke zealots dispensing unfounded speculation from the other side. Like Arne Gunderson who was quoted here many times: "Chernobyl on steroids". They interviewed him on WTOP radio (news radio in DC) and he said the same thing and the interviewers ate it up.

OTOH, some of it is very simple: where there is no smoke, there is no fire. There is no possible way that some fuel rods could have burned in the spent fuel pool without lighting up the whole thing. Arne thinks they will burn but the only reference I see to that is an unattributed govt report and for all I know he wrote it. It appears to be more likely that they don't burn. Either that or they do burn but haven't yet burned and every day that they don't is safer than the previous.

[Mister Da]

“The truth, like anything else, is usually hidden in plain view.”

For me, the truth was the helos dropping sea water on the reactors. That signaled desperation & the reactors were a total loss. Sea water is very corrosive to electrical systems. Concrete can't be long in coming.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

The scarier part is that we have been hearing even GOP Media (Fox News, especially) try to downplay the apparent nuke catastrophe happening in Japan

We need nuke power in the US....but it has to be done better than what the Japanese have displayed. And, we cannot have non-Conservative GOP Media try to pooh-pooh and downplay the obvious nuke holocaust that will hit Japan

[Cvengr]

So if you were to ever represent the government, we obviously could not depend nor trust yourself to tell us the truth?