How to Create a Propoganda Video: American Energy Independence

First, make sure you have photos of terrorists - any terrorists will do. Create an element of fear a la Bush era Iraq.

Make sure you tell viewers that these countries are energy-producing countries that Americans depend upon for energy. This is an outright lie, but say it anyway.

Be sure to add spooky and tense music behind those images to invoke continued fear.

Switch to lighthearted new-age music as you tell Americans that their energy usage will increase by 25 percent by 2030. Then, show them images of nuclear power plants, which - by the way - are not the only way that Americans can create energy. And, it isn't cheap, but who's telling?

Keep up that lighthearted music while showing an image of uranium ore that generates the power for nuclear energy. Don't tell anyone how radioactive that ore can be - and that it's a cancer-causing agent. You need to cut the fear back at the terrorists, remember? If you have to, paint the ore gold so it looks valuable.

Switch back to that onerous music again while telling viewers that Americans receive most of their uranium from Russia. Don't tell viewers that it's virtually impossible to spell out specific amounts of reserve numbers and direct import/export numbers and facts - there's no way that any country will tell how much yellowcake they have in reserve or where it's going or coming from. Yellowcake, after all, can be used to produce weapons as well as energy. Top-secret stuff, that.

Switch to light-hearted banjo tap-your-feet music while explaining that Pittsylvania County can supply all the uranium and jobs that Virginia needs to supply this state's power. Don't tell viewers that the states that demonstrate the greatest amount of uranium resources are Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas and the Four Corners Area of Arizona, Colorado and Utah - NOT Virginia. And, don't tell viewers that most of the uranium mined in Virginia will not stay in Virginia. What a joke! Good one, too, but I'm sure the viewers will buy it.

Then, show images of people who are working utility jobs, rather than showing uranium miners - especially those who work in open pit mines.

Never, ever show an image of an open-pit mine and its accompanying tailings ponds. Don't ever talk about cancer rates amongst uranium miners and residents who remain living around open-pit uranium mines. And, instead of stating how dangerous this mine might be in a hurricane/tornado/flood corridor, state that Virginia will be THE FIRST to mine uranium east of the Mississippi. Yippee!

It is forbidden, as well, to talk about what happens when the mining ends. Let viewers do their own homework to discover that there is not one case of a uranium mining company making reparations to land that has been mined for uranium in the U.S. In all cases, the U.S. government has stepped in to clean up with Superfunds and other monies (except in a most recent case where the government stepped in to force the company to clean up - http://appomattox.posterous.com/epa-arco-to-spend-102m-for-nv-mine-cleanup.

Whatever you do, make sure you end on a happy note...Don't tell Virginians that no one will be able to live on or near the Coles Hill property for centuries after the mining is done. For heavens sake, don't point them to the Uravan project, whatever you do (http://www.epa.gov/Region8/superfund/co/uravan/).

The End. Good job.

PS - The study has NOTHING to do with promoting or denying the uranium mining moratorium. It simply is a study. How it will be used is up to YOU. But, have you fought the government and big business and won? Didn't think so.