Before getting back to the big story of the day, will note a couple of other stories that caught my interest - another good battlefield piece, this time from Afghanistan, where a member of the 82nd Airborne describes this tour of duty as the worst of the three he has had in Afghanistan a couple of years ago and Iraq last year. Good descriptive piece of a firefight that is just part of everyday life over there - wasn't in the news before now, no US casualties.
Is there anything Nelson Mandela could not do if he just wished it? This piece said that the Murrayfield leg of the Live8 concerts yesterday was hushed and enthralled when he spoke by satellite. As opposed to my thoughts of Bob Geldof and to a lesser extent Bono meeting George Bush at Gleneagles, hmm Geldof or Dubya, who is the bigger dickhead LOL. Whereas let's crown Mandela King of the World immediately, emperor for life perhaps.
More worrying bird flu news - there is transmission of HN51 between wild birds, they don't need chickens or other domestic fowl to infect them. It will be no time at all between it jumps another species barrier. Did I hear this morning in my dreamy sleepy state that some Chinese authorities said if the flu gets out it could affect a third of the world's population? Surely my sleepy dreamy state - I was plucked out of a dream where I was part of Mr and Mrs Smith 2 or something LOL, mmm Angelina...
Back to the main story of the day. I heard on SBS just before that the latest death toll was 50, although that's still unconfirmed. Confirmed at this stage is still two dead at the Aldgate bombing, and Kings Cross station is still an active rescue zone. One hospital was saying they had ten critical and another said they had four or six critical, and saw some coverage from BBC World of a badly burned guy having his heart pumped as he was wheeled from the ambulance to the hospital...
That bus at Russell Square does look like it was opened up like a can of sardines, as an early description of it on the BBC was. Let's hope there weren't too many people on it or around it. But one of the eyewitness reports here say that the buses on that route were packed - eek.
More again soon
Paul
Is there anything Nelson Mandela could not do if he just wished it? This piece said that the Murrayfield leg of the Live8 concerts yesterday was hushed and enthralled when he spoke by satellite. As opposed to my thoughts of Bob Geldof and to a lesser extent Bono meeting George Bush at Gleneagles, hmm Geldof or Dubya, who is the bigger dickhead LOL. Whereas let's crown Mandela King of the World immediately, emperor for life perhaps.
More worrying bird flu news - there is transmission of HN51 between wild birds, they don't need chickens or other domestic fowl to infect them. It will be no time at all between it jumps another species barrier. Did I hear this morning in my dreamy sleepy state that some Chinese authorities said if the flu gets out it could affect a third of the world's population? Surely my sleepy dreamy state - I was plucked out of a dream where I was part of Mr and Mrs Smith 2 or something LOL, mmm Angelina...
Back to the main story of the day. I heard on SBS just before that the latest death toll was 50, although that's still unconfirmed. Confirmed at this stage is still two dead at the Aldgate bombing, and Kings Cross station is still an active rescue zone. One hospital was saying they had ten critical and another said they had four or six critical, and saw some coverage from BBC World of a badly burned guy having his heart pumped as he was wheeled from the ambulance to the hospital...
That bus at Russell Square does look like it was opened up like a can of sardines, as an early description of it on the BBC was. Let's hope there weren't too many people on it or around it. But one of the eyewitness reports here say that the buses on that route were packed - eek.
More again soon
Paul
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