Fukushima disaster continues

I am accessing international articles from outside Australia's media networks and they tell me the Fukushima disaster is continuing day-after-day but almost entirely unreported.

They also say that Fukushima is a catastrophe still unfolding replete with newsworthiness but almost entirely unreported.

They say that the policy issues associated with Fukushima are immense.

There are none bigger with the possible exception of Global Warming and species annihilation.

Fukushima has already flooded, and continues to flood, mass-mangling highly toxic poisons into our atmosphere and oceans.

It is already responsible for hundreds of thousands of future killings of humans and current mangled births, already more than 20 times the miseries caused by Chernobyl.

They also state that, unlike Chernobyl, the time window for concreting the monster into an awful concrete sarcophagus has passed.

There is no protection and hundreds of tonnes of "spent fuel" (meaning highly radioactive, including plutonium, old fuel rods and 'rubbish') is being held four storeys up on piers that are now buckling and will collapse, sending countless radioactive cancer-inducing "hot particles" into the oceans and atmospheric jet streams.

They say that the northern hemisphere is already well-and-truly polluted and getting worse by the day, that the southern hemisphere is now starting to see and measure the Fukushima fallout.

The nuclear industry and its knowing warriors, corrupted politicians and media, or unwitting fellow-travellers have connived to keep this knowledge from the world's people.

The handling of this disaster continues to be corrupt, anti-democratic, mass victimmed, and self-interested.

Some of our Australian media and politicians have been gullible to the soothing noises of the nuclear industry.

Some have been wilfully ignorant because they do not how to deal with the catastrophe.

Others are well-informed but supine and corrupted by their self-interested connections to the nuclear industry or their political stances and likely loss-of-face.

Some are naively arrogant and play the "we cannot panic the masses by telling them" strategy.

I have written letters to the Sydney Morning Herald and the Telegraph before complaining about the Australian media's lack of coverage of this "story".

None have been published.

I have accused them of betraying us, the people, and choosing to be a lackey to the nuclear industry.

There's a lot of difference between a "free press" committed to providing facts for the public good, and a press-media "free" to report that which it feels it wants us to know and suppresses that which it finds politically uncomfortable or threatens their currently powerful positions.

The first is consistent with democracy.

The latter is consistent with manipulative regimes which are anti-democratic and corrupt and provide the basis for consequential totalitarians.

Online Submission. 4 Jul 2012

Vanlyn Davy, Pearl Beach