Well I started this day with news thanks to yahoo.com that a man had hanged (hung?) himself last night after the Arsenal vs Manure match. A guy in Nigeria who was supporting Arsenal was apparently drunk when he staggered out of a bar and the next time anyone saw him he was Dead. And I thought Darren Fletcher had a bad night.
We’ve also been handed the news that Max Mosley’s son has died from a drug overdose, at 39. It’s strange that this is only really ‘newsworthy’ because of the link to Mosley. If that scandal hadn’t occurred last year this Death would never have been reported.
At what point does a General order the killing of innocent civilians in order to kill the enemy? The point that the US attempts to fight the Taliban. Yesterday ‘dozens’ of civilians were killed when the US Army sent an air strike into Farah province of Afghanistan targeting Taliban rebels. How dare they do such a thing. How dare they ignore the reason they’re ‘meant’ to be there. How can such a bunch of ignorant idiots be the dependants of so many desperate people? Apparently they ‘deeply deeply’ regret the incident, probably because it looks bad on them rather than the terror forced on those they killed and injured.
Guess what; swine flu has barely been mentioned today! Finally I can get back coughing in people’s faces, sneezing on the cutlery and rolling around in pig sties!
A horrible story from Ukraine of a fire in a casino killing 10 people in the town on Dnipropetrovsk. Apparently fire safety guidelines were completely ignored as people watched a football match on the TV.
There was more violence in the West Bank, with two people dying in ‘clashes’ in Israel. An Israeli soldier was killed whilst an unarmed Palestinian was shot by the same Israeli army outside the entrance to a cave.
And of course we can’t go a day without a bomb blast somewhere in the east; this time in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. 12 people were killed by the suicide bomb, of which the Taliban have taken credit for.
There has been disturbing news reported on the BBC News website that a police officer has been arrested over the Death of a fellow colleague earlier today. The report focuses a lot on the accused, which surely isn’t right. Instead of a heart-felt report on a woman losing her life, it seems as though an interesting murder mystery may be developing; I’m sure a lot more interesting.
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Day 26 – Today’s Total: 74, Overall Total: 971
Well yesterday was started with headline that was definitely not suited to the story, ‘Massacre at Turkey Wedding’. Now, 44 people were killed in this horrific incident when masked gunmen entered the party in the Mardin province of Turkey. The enormity and seriously of the attack, however, did not stop the BBC from using this particular headline, to collate with a scene in Tarantino’s Kill Bill, dubbed ‘Massacre at Two Pines’, whereby gunmen enter a wedding chapel and open fire. I just feel a bit of insensitivity on the behalf of the BBC with this one.
Another bombing in Baghdad has left 10 people Dead, BBC News reports, after an explosion in a vegetable market in the Iraqi capital. The report goes on to say that the series of bombings in recent weeks has shown April to be the bloodiest month of the year, with 335 Deaths.
This news is coupled with another car bomb, this time in north-western Pakistan. The suicide blast killed four security personnel.
News on a more heart-felt note of feminist writer Marilyn French passing away at 79. One of the captions in the report simply says ‘not a man-hater’. Feminists get a rough ride.
Another hazardous tragedy has been witnessed in Brazil, with severe floods killing 15 people throughout the north and north-eastern regions of the country. Why is this not ‘headline news’? Maybe because it is an even happening so far away, with so little impact on ourselves?
Another bombing in Baghdad has left 10 people Dead, BBC News reports, after an explosion in a vegetable market in the Iraqi capital. The report goes on to say that the series of bombings in recent weeks has shown April to be the bloodiest month of the year, with 335 Deaths.
This news is coupled with another car bomb, this time in north-western Pakistan. The suicide blast killed four security personnel.
News on a more heart-felt note of feminist writer Marilyn French passing away at 79. One of the captions in the report simply says ‘not a man-hater’. Feminists get a rough ride.
Another hazardous tragedy has been witnessed in Brazil, with severe floods killing 15 people throughout the north and north-eastern regions of the country. Why is this not ‘headline news’? Maybe because it is an even happening so far away, with so little impact on ourselves?
Monday, 4 May 2009
Day 24 – Today’s Total: 89, Overall Total: 897
It’s been a strange last few days. Apparently swine flu isn’t as bad as once thought. Or was that bird flu? Wait wasn’t that SARS? Looks like crisis over anyway, although I’m sure the media will run with the story until Winehouse burps the national anthem or something crude and not-newsworthy.
Well we can start with some good news. Two pitiful excuses for human beings have been arrested for the Death of the man run over in Leeds last Friday. I know, ‘innocent before proven guilty’ and all that; but sod it, if they did it then they deserve the clowns pocket they’ll get in prison, and a lot more.
Back to the news, and the BBC News website have reported on six people dying in Austria after an avalanche occurred in the Alps region of the country. What a horrible way to go.
Well you think you can’t get much more bad news from the Middle-East, and then you hear about a tragic bus crash in the Iranian city of Tehran, killing 26 people. A mechanical problem was apparently to blame, which caused the bus to smash into a building at high speed, something that really should not be happening with the global technology we have on hand today.
This occurred on the same day that another tragic accident, this time in the Indian-controlled area of Kashmir, saw 27 people dead, as their bus veered off a mountain side, plunging into a river.
There is still violence in Iraq. This time, an Iraqi dressed in his nation’s army uniform has shot dead two US soldiers is Mosul. It really does seem like an impossible task out there, to group such a clearly divided country under one very unstable roof.
The widely reported Gaza unrest at the end of last year seems to have died down now. However, this does not mean the fighting has fully stopped. A report yesterday told of an Israeli air strike killing two people on the Gaza side of the Gaza-Egypt boarder.
Unfortunately, unrest continues in other places of the world, with a roadside bomb exploding on the streets of Zabul and Laghman provinces of Afghanistan, killing a total of 25 civilians. What is worse is that reports say one of the suicide bombers was just 14-years-old.
The whole world seems to be in civil unrest, international war, or technologically suffering. So, we come to the UK, where the main report is that the body of a man has been found in a river, which was last seen ‘intoxicated and unsteady on his feet’. There’s a sad sense of irony here. Really, our lives are only bad if we make them bad.
Well we can start with some good news. Two pitiful excuses for human beings have been arrested for the Death of the man run over in Leeds last Friday. I know, ‘innocent before proven guilty’ and all that; but sod it, if they did it then they deserve the clowns pocket they’ll get in prison, and a lot more.
Back to the news, and the BBC News website have reported on six people dying in Austria after an avalanche occurred in the Alps region of the country. What a horrible way to go.
Well you think you can’t get much more bad news from the Middle-East, and then you hear about a tragic bus crash in the Iranian city of Tehran, killing 26 people. A mechanical problem was apparently to blame, which caused the bus to smash into a building at high speed, something that really should not be happening with the global technology we have on hand today.
This occurred on the same day that another tragic accident, this time in the Indian-controlled area of Kashmir, saw 27 people dead, as their bus veered off a mountain side, plunging into a river.
There is still violence in Iraq. This time, an Iraqi dressed in his nation’s army uniform has shot dead two US soldiers is Mosul. It really does seem like an impossible task out there, to group such a clearly divided country under one very unstable roof.
The widely reported Gaza unrest at the end of last year seems to have died down now. However, this does not mean the fighting has fully stopped. A report yesterday told of an Israeli air strike killing two people on the Gaza side of the Gaza-Egypt boarder.
Unfortunately, unrest continues in other places of the world, with a roadside bomb exploding on the streets of Zabul and Laghman provinces of Afghanistan, killing a total of 25 civilians. What is worse is that reports say one of the suicide bombers was just 14-years-old.
The whole world seems to be in civil unrest, international war, or technologically suffering. So, we come to the UK, where the main report is that the body of a man has been found in a river, which was last seen ‘intoxicated and unsteady on his feet’. There’s a sad sense of irony here. Really, our lives are only bad if we make them bad.
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