News Weakly - 6/6/2026

A little different format this week.

In the news, we see that Ebola is a problem. WHO and Africa CDC have declared it a public health emergency. The CDC is reporting 452 cases and 82 deaths. Health officials are on high alert again. Now, all of this may be true and even perfectly acceptable practices. Here's the problem. Human perceptions have been altered to hear news and understand it to be “the norm.” So we gear up for a panic. We become afraid we might get Ebola. We worry about our loved ones. We operate in crisis mode—when the crisis isn’t that big. The nature of “news” is to report on the unusual, not the usual. What we’re learning from this story is that this outbreak is unusual and is being approached with that in mind. Don’t let it terrify you unnecessarily.

In Baltimore, 5 men were injured in three separate shootings. A suspected gunman killed six people in a shooting spree across a small city in east-central Iowa. Three people were killed and 17 others were injured in weekend shootings across Chicago. What are we to conclude? In fact, you'd better just stay home and hide. The world isn't safe. Be careful where you go. You'll likely get shot if you go out just about anywhere. Nonsense? Yes. But people think that way because it's in the news.

The European Union will implement the first “carbon border tax” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions outside the EU. This is an example of the above two stories. It is an extreme reaction to the “crisis” of “climate change” without really examining the facts or the science. The Carbon Border Tax will not decrease emissions. It will simply increase the cost of certain imports to the EU and call it “environmentalism.”

Of course, the News Weakly isn’t complete without some lighter news—you know, “your best source for fake news.” The Bee reported that ceasefires are raging across the middle east with increased hostilities between the U.S. and Iran and Israel and Lebanon. I mean, just how much “peace” can we take? California made this news cycle as well. Newsom has designated California as a sanctuary state for fraud after California forwarded a law that would criminalize journalism to protect fraud (actual story). That makes sense, right? And, of course, the whole thing makes the last story far too real. A man found his whole day to be too stressful, so he turned on CNN to get a break from reality. It could happen.

Must be true; I read it on the internet.