First in News

Last Sunday I beat the American news media by perhaps three days on the story of the Afghani man on trial for his life because he had converted to Christianity.
 
This Sunday, today, I am going to beat American journalism on another story, but I will hold that story back for a few paragraphs.
 
In wire service journalism, where I cut my journalistic teeth, a lead of minutes over the opposition was considered good; and when once I beat the Associated Press on a major news story by eleven minutes, I received a personal letter of appreciation from the president of the company I worked for, UPI.
 
A three day lead on a major, obvious news story like the Afghani Christian's plight is really telling of the nature of American journalism today.  American journalism has been so pruned of individualists for so many years, its reporters are so homogenized and so cookie-cutter-ized, that they now tend to be birds of a lesser feather flocking together, all covering the same news, each dreading leaving the flock.
 
Gone are the champions, and all that remains are the junior varsity, but they seem like varsity because there is no varsity to compare them with.
 
These American journalists, they all want to cover the same story at the same time, and they are all afraid to go out and find the unknown story.  The scoop, sought after by the journalists of yesteryear, is now a thing to avoid out of fear of being alone, fear of being first.
 
I think it is very likely that I was the first American journalist to point of the
story of the Afghani Christian, and after I pointed it out there began the American media's feeding frenzy several days later.  Several days later; that is remarkable.
 
Then and only then, after the news media had finally flocked to the story, did the president and his henchwoman, Condoleeza Rice, start puffing themselves up as they usually do; in this case talking about the religious freedom they demonstrably not believe in; and remember, they did not start talking about it until four days after it was pointed out in this Christian's blog.
 
I told you I was going to break another story ahead of the pack again today; I will get there shortly.
 
Four days after I wrote about the Afghani Christian convert in this blog the government of the whole damn United States of America finally got around to talking about it, and of course carefully not referring to this blog.
 
That is so telling.  Either the White House did not know about this before I pointed it out, or it did not think it was important enough to address until the media frenzy began and it knew it could get brownie points with the public for being the noble Christians talking down to the backward Muslims.
 
My being ahead of the news and ahead of the White House is a common thing.  I have successfully warned of three presidential assassination attempts, the Challenger explosion, the 9/11 attack, and many other events; and I have gotten nothing but abuse from the White House and the media and the public for my efforts.
 
The most huge and most important news I have been ahead on for years is the great ecological dilemma this Earth is facing, and I am still alone on it among American news people even though more and more scientists are now saying what I have been saying for years, that this Earth is dying.
 
In 1972 I was already saying this Earth is dying, and I so understood the accuracy of what I was saying that I staked my life and my reputation on getting that news out.  I was one good sailor on a ship of fools, and the fools held power over me.
 
For several years now I have been naming the estimated date of the Earth's death to be 2065; and I am right, given the human being's remaining as stupid as the human being has always been, which seems likely.
 
A thirty year lead on a major, obvious news story is really telling of the conceptual cowardice of American news media.  Even now, the American news people are afraid to really report on this Earth-death story because the media rat pack is not yet feeding on it.
 
Why is this Earth dying and how do we save her?  That is the news story before which all other news stories bow. 
 
Before George W. Bush's stupid and fascist invasion of Iraq I said America would lose that war, and at this moment, on this very day, America is teetering on the brink of that defeat and that teetering is becoming more and more the talk of pundits and politicians, but too little too late, too pathetic too cowardly.
 
I wonder sometimes if I am locked out of journalism because I am just too far above average.  There are a lot of journalists who are better liked than I , who are better educated than I, and who mistakenly assume they run in better circles than I, but I do not think there is a single American journalist who has more intellectual courage than I.
 
The reason I have been ahead on so many news stories over the years, the reason I knew America would lose the Vietnam war ten years before it lost it, the reason I knew America would lose the war in Iraq before it launched it, the reason I knew this planet is dying 30 years before it became public knowledge, is because I am not afraid to think the unthinkable, and I am not afraid to be patriotically incorrect, and I refuse to kiss the boss's ass for a paycheck and a censored byline.
 
So, the story I write today that the rest of the world's journalists will be writing soon is that George W. Bush and his henchwoman, Condoleeza Rice, do not believe in freedom of religion for Virgil Kret.
 
In fact the United States of America is executing Virgil Kret by slow torture for holding a different view of Christianity than the Protestant Bible bangers and the Catholic holier-than-thou-ers say he can old and remain a free, living man.
 
My religious belief is God gave me the gift of audible telepathy for good reason, and that reason was to help save this Earth.
 
Considering that the Muslim Afghanistan court was preparing to try the Christian convert, and to execute him if convicted; and the Americans are torturing to death the telepathic Christian without charge, trial or conviction, the Muslims of Afghanistan are demonstrably far more just and tolerant than the Christians and Jews of America.
 
My Old Pal, Jesus, tells me to know people by their works, not by the self-flattering words that come out of their mouths; and it seems to me when I see how Muslims have treated me compared to Christians and Jews, who have been wicked, murderous and cruel to me while insisting they are my superiors in the eyes of God, the Muslims are by far the most God-loving of the three.
 
My suggestion is this, Islam is superior to Christianity and Judaism in terms of living its faith; and that this superiority will become apparent as God openly enters into the battle to save this Earth from Satan.