On the heels of last night's PBS broadcast of the biased "documentary" titled "Gold Futures," which portrays the Romanian village of Rosia Montana as a pristine rural village threatened by a behemoth gold mine, village resident and blogger Gheorge Lucian is preparing to send PBS a message in a bottle - literally.
Lucian, as seen on this YouTube video, has collected samples of the highly polluted river water that flows through Rosia Montana from the now-closed former communisty-run state-owned gold mine, an environmental disaster zone that would be cleaned as part of the development of a new, modern, state-of-the-art gold mine in Rosia Montana.
He intends to send a bottle of the water - it's orange - to PBS.
According to the Environmental Impact Assessment of the proposed gold mine, the river water currently - as a result of the old, environmentally dangerous mine - contains 64 times the legal limit for iron, 110 times the legal limit for zinc, 3.5 times the legal limit for arsenic, and gets its reddish orange color from cadmium.
Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources - the company behind the mining project that the environmentalists are trying to halt - would clean up river and old mine as part of its project.
Far from the pristine village as portrayed by PBS, Rosia Montana is an environmental disaster now - that's the message of Gheorge's bottles of river water.
Lucian is featured in the documentary Mine Your Own Business, which exposes the anti-progress agendas and the deceptions and lies at the core of environmentalist groups' opposition to the proposed new gold mine in Rosia Montana.
In addition to being a great bit of theater, Lucian's YouTube video and blog show the increasing power, not just in America but globally, that is in ordinary folks' hands to challenge the bias and deceptions of large mainstream media outlets like PBS.
—Bill Hobbs is author of Who Is Fred Thompson, a blog-centric look at the presidential candidate.
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Looks like a great opportunity
August 22, 2007 - 11:07 ET by RJfor a follow-up documentary by PBS....being the fair-and-balanced operation they are. (ok, you can stop laughing now)
Defending PBS
August 22, 2007 - 11:12 ET by Mica the MagnificentBut . . but . . . some scientists may say cadmium is good for you. 'Orange' is the new 'clear.' The people of Rosiola are proud of their orange river, who are we to judge?
Ah, heck. Just send us your f***ing donation, jerk.
Orange as the New Clear
August 22, 2007 - 12:16 ET by Dr_LibertyOne of the big complaints in the news against bottled water is that is nothing more than tap water in a bottle. This opens up an economic opportunity for the good folks in Rosario Montana in the event that the gold mine is blocked.
The folks in Rosario Montana could bottle their water and market as having more minerals than Aquafina and Dasani.
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with a few non-polluted stops on the tour...
August 22, 2007 - 12:27 ET by sarcasmo(I suggest anything to do with Dracula!) this guy could probably make a living from guiding tours in the socialist-polluted area to anti-Soros US vacationers. Hopefully, he'll get the idea that his YouTube videos are sorta like commercials, anyway, and do creative capitalist stuff with the disaster left by big-government. Anti-Eco-Tourism, anyone?
JMR
PS I eagerly await the bureaucratic reaction to his sending these bottles of polluted water to the USA! :)
Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul.
orang ade
August 22, 2007 - 11:13 ET by the mad poleGiven enough Heinekens, I could produce an orange sample