This could be a really longer list, but I'm going to narrow it down to what I feel the guys at wikileaks can share electronically. I grew up reading my dad's Time/Newsweek and my mom's Star magazine/The National Enquirer (nope, I am not talking about the newspaper folks; my mom used to read a lot of Hollywood gossip - the unusual factoids these tabloids provide are what intrigued me, like "Bigfoot seen in Las Vegas" or some s#*t like that), so there is a lot of unexplained stuff out there.
So before I give out my top ten things that I want wikileaks to shed light on, I have a couple of honorable mentions ala Bill Simmons:
• Elvis Presley: alive or dead? (is there some document from the US Marshall's office that put him in the witness protection program? And is he really racist like what Chuck D said?)
• Michael Jordan's first retirement - is there a letter from David Stern that "suspended" him from the NBA because of his gambling issues?
Without further adieu, here's my top ten (get it right, Assange!):
10. The Facebook movie – I just had to mention this, but can’t Assange share the diary of the girl who never added Zuckerberg on Facebook or the details of the settlement he paid the twins (did he really rip off from them?)? I don’t know why I am interested to know if he’s really an A-hole, but he’s our generation’s Bill Gates so I think we’re all entitled to that.
9. Kobe Bryant’s settlement– I’m not sure if it’s documented already, but how much was the settlement and did he really violate the girl from Colorado? Actually, I just want to see how she looks like, if it was worth my leaving the Laker fandom after Kobe mentioned Shaq’s infidelities to the police and ruined their working relationship etc etc etc. And even if Pau Gasol grows his hair and beard to look like uber-cool Bill Walton in the 70’s, I’m still not a fan of Kobe Bryant (and this doesn’t help).
8. GMA/Hello Garci - I would like to see the unedited script of her televised apology and who wrote it, complete with handwritten comments of what to omit etc. An election is just an approximation, I get it, but I would be lying as well if I say I fully believe that she won fair and square over Fernando Poe Jr. (I voted for neither of them, by the way). And I’m sure there’s more incriminating evidence. Too bad the proposed Truth Commission is deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Who appointed the Supreme Court Justices, you might ask? Hello? Hello?
7. Derivatives market bubble - there must be some study out there that should tell us more about this financial crisis that’s right around the corner. Like maybe a 4th Quarter 2010 memorandum from a certain bank to its employees saying "guys, start packing your bags", right? I'm almost positive guys here got one.
6. Gore / Bush in Florida - I remember seeing a televised celebration of Gore winning in 2000, and I also remember news networks retracting their announcements. And what followed was terrible. I enjoyed the Rage Against the Machine video on the election, but I have no doubt that the world would have been safer and better without Dubya as president (although without him, Will Ferrel would not have been nominated for a Tony). I would like to see the unopened votes opened and counted, and I don't care how Assange's team is going to post or assemble that data.
5. Vizconde Massacre – my memory is hazy, but if the people who have been incarcerated for the past fifteen years are guilty only because of the testimony of a star witness on drugs, then they really should have called Grissom first. That’s the Philippine justice system for you, folks! There must be some written order to dispose or transfer the evidence (but wasn’t there a fire or an explosion in the NBI office a few years ago? They can use that as an alibi… what the hell am I saying?!).
4. JFK’s death– I honestly believe that in today’s era of Flip cameras and Facebook, this investigation would have turned out differently. There must be more hidden info out there, perhaps hidden inside a pew of an abandoned church in the south…
3. The ending of Inception – seriously. Was DiCaprio dreaming the whole time? Nolan must have the complete story on a moleskin or something. If I come up with a list of movies that linger, this could be among the Top 5.
2. The Decision – I’m talking about stuff like the Sopranos video that James Dolan prepared for Lebron James or a photo of Delonte and Queen James. I mean, just anything to explain the logic of the televised “Decision”. Man, I do not know how killing a franchise saves the NBA (I feel bad for Cleveland, but in fairness Dan Gilbert had a chance to book Stoudemire with Lebron in 2009-2010...). And besides, between the Heat and the Knicks, shouldn’t the nod have been towards saving New York? After 9/11 and Isaiah Thomas, New York sorta needs a Lebron James-signing (sorry Amare, but I am just not feeling it when they play Empire State of Mind during your intro). If he had any hand in it, then David Stern needs a better financial advisor (I’ll make myself available!) before they enter into a lockout next year.
1. MOA on Ancestral Domain – I would love to read a trail of documents that started this sincere effort to recognize the Bangsamoro homeland and then the trail of emails/letters/what-have-you that made a mess out of it. I would like to see how it was supported and then abandoned. I’m still supporting it, if ever you are asking, and damn those who used the MOA-AD for their own agenda.
WORD COUNT: 970
So before I give out my top ten things that I want wikileaks to shed light on, I have a couple of honorable mentions ala Bill Simmons:
• Elvis Presley: alive or dead? (is there some document from the US Marshall's office that put him in the witness protection program? And is he really racist like what Chuck D said?)
• Michael Jordan's first retirement - is there a letter from David Stern that "suspended" him from the NBA because of his gambling issues?
Without further adieu, here's my top ten (get it right, Assange!):
10. The Facebook movie – I just had to mention this, but can’t Assange share the diary of the girl who never added Zuckerberg on Facebook or the details of the settlement he paid the twins (did he really rip off from them?)? I don’t know why I am interested to know if he’s really an A-hole, but he’s our generation’s Bill Gates so I think we’re all entitled to that.
9. Kobe Bryant’s settlement– I’m not sure if it’s documented already, but how much was the settlement and did he really violate the girl from Colorado? Actually, I just want to see how she looks like, if it was worth my leaving the Laker fandom after Kobe mentioned Shaq’s infidelities to the police and ruined their working relationship etc etc etc. And even if Pau Gasol grows his hair and beard to look like uber-cool Bill Walton in the 70’s, I’m still not a fan of Kobe Bryant (and this doesn’t help).
8. GMA/Hello Garci - I would like to see the unedited script of her televised apology and who wrote it, complete with handwritten comments of what to omit etc. An election is just an approximation, I get it, but I would be lying as well if I say I fully believe that she won fair and square over Fernando Poe Jr. (I voted for neither of them, by the way). And I’m sure there’s more incriminating evidence. Too bad the proposed Truth Commission is deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Who appointed the Supreme Court Justices, you might ask? Hello? Hello?
7. Derivatives market bubble - there must be some study out there that should tell us more about this financial crisis that’s right around the corner. Like maybe a 4th Quarter 2010 memorandum from a certain bank to its employees saying "guys, start packing your bags", right? I'm almost positive guys here got one.
6. Gore / Bush in Florida - I remember seeing a televised celebration of Gore winning in 2000, and I also remember news networks retracting their announcements. And what followed was terrible. I enjoyed the Rage Against the Machine video on the election, but I have no doubt that the world would have been safer and better without Dubya as president (although without him, Will Ferrel would not have been nominated for a Tony). I would like to see the unopened votes opened and counted, and I don't care how Assange's team is going to post or assemble that data.
5. Vizconde Massacre – my memory is hazy, but if the people who have been incarcerated for the past fifteen years are guilty only because of the testimony of a star witness on drugs, then they really should have called Grissom first. That’s the Philippine justice system for you, folks! There must be some written order to dispose or transfer the evidence (but wasn’t there a fire or an explosion in the NBI office a few years ago? They can use that as an alibi… what the hell am I saying?!).
4. JFK’s death– I honestly believe that in today’s era of Flip cameras and Facebook, this investigation would have turned out differently. There must be more hidden info out there, perhaps hidden inside a pew of an abandoned church in the south…
3. The ending of Inception – seriously. Was DiCaprio dreaming the whole time? Nolan must have the complete story on a moleskin or something. If I come up with a list of movies that linger, this could be among the Top 5.
2. The Decision – I’m talking about stuff like the Sopranos video that James Dolan prepared for Lebron James or a photo of Delonte and Queen James. I mean, just anything to explain the logic of the televised “Decision”. Man, I do not know how killing a franchise saves the NBA (I feel bad for Cleveland, but in fairness Dan Gilbert had a chance to book Stoudemire with Lebron in 2009-2010...). And besides, between the Heat and the Knicks, shouldn’t the nod have been towards saving New York? After 9/11 and Isaiah Thomas, New York sorta needs a Lebron James-signing (sorry Amare, but I am just not feeling it when they play Empire State of Mind during your intro). If he had any hand in it, then David Stern needs a better financial advisor (I’ll make myself available!) before they enter into a lockout next year.
1. MOA on Ancestral Domain – I would love to read a trail of documents that started this sincere effort to recognize the Bangsamoro homeland and then the trail of emails/letters/what-have-you that made a mess out of it. I would like to see how it was supported and then abandoned. I’m still supporting it, if ever you are asking, and damn those who used the MOA-AD for their own agenda.
WORD COUNT: 970
