All news is bad news
Has anyone got any good news? It’s June, it’s pissing down with rain, we can’t rid ourselves of these pillocks in power for another two years, and the news reports haven’t been so consistently depressing and paralysing since the 1970s. Let’s glance at just a handful of prime examples of news stories to make you weep…
The Arctic sea ice is melting even faster than last year, with as few as five more years before the Arctic is completely ice-free in the summer months. UK inflation could top four per cent by the end of this year, and household energy bills are likely to increase by as much as 40 per cent, again by the end of the year, meaning your average British family will have to find an additional £400 to keep warm. Add to this prices going up at the pumps every week, the food crisis getting worse, and our utterly twisted government taking advantage of the misery to promote force GM crops on us as a means, exactly how not stated and it never will be, of ending said food crisis… Yeah, right…
tags: Arctic, energy bills, food crisis, fuel crisis, global warming, GM crops, inflation, news and politics, sea ice
6 comments on “All news is bad news”
June 19th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
*sigh*
Today just sucks doesn’t it. I found out today one of my hero has died, Stan Winston, the guy behind some of the best movie special effects ever. Not much compared to the new you have reported, but he really did inspire me art wise when I was younger.
Maybe something good will happen soon. Keeping those fingers eternally crossed.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Stan Winston is dead? Sheesh. Yeah, that counts as more very depressing news. x
June 19th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Good news is localised and not shocking enough to feature in newspapers, I think. Bad news makes people say”thank (insert diety) that wasn’t me” and gives non-thinkers a boost to their own lives as they don’t realise the impact it has on their lives.
Can’t think of any global good news. But my life is going well, and presumably all of you are happy, healthy and singing inside. At least, I hope so. I have concluded the only way to face the world is with a smile, even if you don’t match it on the inside, soon you will. Nothing, especially pain, is forever. XX
June 20th, 2008 at 9:29 am
TLJ » You know, that’s absolutely spot on. Local news is often accused of being trivial and ‘nice’ but it counterbalances to some degree all the big world news stories that are so depressing. And it’s also true to say you’ve got to focus on what’s inside you and around you that is good, but then we all have off days when that focus isn’t there for one reason or another.
But I’ve noticed every company is now putting up its charges for things. I think it’s sometimes opportunistic and it makes things worse–only yesterday I got a text from my mobile phone provider (who I am leaving in less than a month, having had enough of poor reception), telling me they’re increasing charges for calling certain numbers. One can only presume the food and fuel crises are somehow having an impact on what goes into making calls… I don’t think so.
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June 20th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I agree that companies are being opportunistic and jacking up the prices on goods even where it does not need to be. Here in Canada we are used to it. We pay more than Americans by about 20% for everything even though our dollar is at par or better for almost a year now. This includes products manufactured in our own country! I have no idea why Canadian consumers take this, but can only wonder if it is because we are glutted with news as to “how terrible the economy is in the US and any minute now it will happen here too.” And people believe it must be true if they hear/read/see it on the news.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I also want to add that I agree with TLJ comments
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