Virtual Reality App Created for Middle East Peace Process Went Viral On First Day of Release

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Middle East Peace-FNT-Small.pngJERUSALEM – People around the world who have been waiting patiently for the last sixty-five years, while the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) that doesn’t really exist has ground on, and on, and on, will be pleased to know that there is now an app for that. The Virtual Reality version of the MEPP app went viral on Thursday, the first day of its release.

According to its brainchild, P. Alex Schwimner, whose fledgling software company Aspirations Inc. created VRMEPP, the app was designed specifically to appeal to anyone who has been waiting for more than twenty-five years, hoping to see peace in the Middle East, and help tone down their frustration level.

“We thought it would be a niche market and figured, maybe we’d sell a few thousand copies,” he said. “One of our coders wrote it on the back of a napkin. Who knew?”

Schwimner said that he realized that, for most people looking on, the so-called peace process was just a deluded illusion anyway, so he thought: why not make it a little bit more pleasant to look at?

The virtual reality screen gives the viewer a choice of a number of peaceful illusions including an intimate picnic by a babbling brook, a quiet garden scene with flowers, bees and hummingbirds sharing the sunlight, and a tranquil, overhead panoramic vista of a landscape without bombs, fighting and other violence, viewed from a hot air balloon observing another hot air balloon hanging silently in a clear blue sky.

“I know when we’re talking Middle East, those scenes not very realistic,” admitted Schwimner, but it seems to be what some people want, anyway.” Source: FNT Staff

Photo credit: Original images at: CNN , The Guardian , Google Play

Op-Ed: Political Spat Between Saskatchewan and Alberta Is Like a Territorial Dispute between Drug Lords or Street Gangs-No Benefit to Public

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Alberta-Sask-Wall-FNTEDMONTON – In the manner of drug lords and street gang thugs claiming personal territory, politicians in two Canadian provinces yesterday puffed out their chests in a pretentious mise-en-scene and launched invective at each other across the border between them.

In a nutshell, Saskatchewan blustered about banning Alberta license plates from construction sites in the province and Alberta retaliated by name calling and threatening to take Saskatchewan to court. There are behind-the-scenes rumours that Alberta is now scheming to build a wall along the border between the two provinces, and charge Saskatchewan for it.

The self-serving spat, driven by inflated egos, which was captured and egged on by national media, was supposedly about protecting the interests of trade within their perceived fiefdoms. It coincidently also happens to be about which side might get first dibs on taxing said trade. Despite the preening displays about their respective fiat boundaries, neither argument has any more locally-endorsed legitimacy than, in hindsight, did former jurisdictional landholding claims by colonial powers.

These escalating trends of political posturing by elected officials to restrict freedoms and levy tax grabs, conducted under the guise of protecting public interests, are getting more and more tiresome.

Notwithstanding the inherent and overblown silliness of this particular interaction, both sides seemed also to have forgotten both their manners and the fact that they hold office solely by the good graces of the general public, which would be seriously inconvenienced and financially disadvantaged by such overreaching intrusion into people’s day to day lives. Source: FNT Staff

Photo credit: Original images at; Wikipedia