Why News Matters

Anyone watching the news from another planet this week would think that the only thing going on was the upcoming wedding of two rich, inbred morons that I could not care less about. Other things are occurring, important things, and I watch as, and I swear to God this is true, some uber-gay idiot (Not a homophonic slur, trust me this guy was GAY) dressed like the Union Jack puked on him with tri color hair (and a design of hair shaving that reminded me of a basketball), going on and on about the royal wedding dress. I could not care less about a person's sexual orientation. His fashion sense on the other hand. Dial it down, schmuck, my eyes can't handle it. And all this blah blah blah about the wedding. Isn't there like a hundred wars going on? Isn't the Midwest and south in a constant state of entering Oz at any second? Did world peace happen and nobody bothered to tell us? No, it's the same old give the masses their bread and circuses and let's steal everything we can while they are distracted.

On the nightly news tonight both the local and national news gave almost half of their allotted time to these stories. No mention of the fact that ALIENS MAY HAVE LEFT US A MESSAGE AT SOME POINT IN THE LAST TWENTY YEARS. If this story is true, and I have no reason to doubt it as it is a government document that one man has fought to get through FOIA since 2004 when it originally supposed to be released, it is the most important thing ever. I do mean EVER. And if it's not real, why fight so hard to keep it from being released? More and this as I seek further confirmation onto its authenticity.

On a totally way out there prediction, what if the terrorist attack warning I wrote about last week was going to be a hit on the Royal Couple? The code words "the wedding has begun," was used, maybe this is the wedding they are talking about. It would be a stunning attack as all eyes on Friday are going to be on London. But it would be near impossible to do anything with all the security but who knows? I say chances for even trying at less than 20% and less than 10% of it actually being successful. But if it happens, you can say I mentioned it was possible, albeit unlikely.

The problems in Syria are a good example of what happens when you shut down all news in a society. Rampant misinformation is being used by all sides to wage what is actually going on in Damascus. Some reports say over 400 dead. Others say 30. Some say the whole thing is propaganda so the UN will have another pretext to go to war with yet another country. That last one's a little far fetched for me. But there are reports, unverified of course, that all this talk about people being shot in the streets is not true. But without a news media, we have no way of knowing? Egypt learned the hard way that shutting down news services makes people panic and regimes will lose every time. Syria may go the same if it continues down this dangerous path.

Speaking of Egypt, a new poll shows everyone why keeping dictators is in US best interests. A majority of people want to end their treaty with Israel, a recipe for disaster that has kept the area war free for decades. They also want the Koran as the ultimate law and religious groups to get a bigger hand in government. This is all bad news for US and Israeli alike. This rash of anti-Americanism is spreading and when places like Yemen or Syria fall to increasingly hardliner Muslim states, the world gets closer to WW3. Religion, on all sides, will kill us all.