It's Such a Crock

So, MBS and his oil-rich assholes decide to snuff a journalist and the world comes unglued.

Really?

The Saudi's attacked the world trade center, have been stirring up trouble in Iraq and Syria ever since, and have been killing Yemeni children at an alarming clip for a couple of years now.  It is not like we haven't known for years that they were bastards.

So what made the difference now.  Why, they killed a journalist!!  

Doesn't that say everything about how we think.  The folks who run Saudi Arabia are fucking scum.  But since they are oil-producing scum, we have been giving them a free pass for years as long as they keep the oil spigots open.

At a minimum tens of thousands of people have been killed.  The bastards even manage to throw missiles into school buses full of children and we ignore them.

But now they have committed a true crime.  They have killed a journalist.  A hellfire and a school bus are page-seven news but a Saudi journalist being killed (I would guess that since he was coming out of the embassy, he was shaking down the "kingdom" for coins not to publish) the world is turned upside down.

There are not that many "journalists" anymore.  We only have people who try and control what we think.  The idea of presenting facts in a greater context is a thing of the long ago.  It is all about controlling the narrative now, making certain that your own views and those of your corporate masters control the information that the masses use in their attempts to think.  This is all so that corporate profits can be higher.

So, when the son of a famous arms dealer, who was a stooge for the Saudi royalty for years, who late in life started laying the groundwork for another "color" revolution by becoming a "journalist" the media has a snit because he killed one of them.  Why the media never had a snit when the misbehavior in the past was probably worse than what happened in this case is an exercise left to the reader.

When I am my most cynical, I wonder if the corporate media's current epiphany that the Saudis are a bunch of bastards is in any way connected to the ever increasing water cut at Gwahar