London’s Burning
When The Clash sang “London’s Burning” they were whingeing about boredom, not bombs. I first heard of the news last night via sms from a friend who used to live there, urging me to check upon my friends and see if they are okay. Swiftly, I turned on the net, where google news is my main page, an amazing news site that gets updated by the minutes. True enough, the horror started to trickle in.
Next I turned on BBC Net Radio (pretty amazing streaming audio with more than just news, with tens of stations to turn to – for music, go BBC Radio 6) and for the next few hours we listened to the live reports; the death toll climbed while the clock ticked until it got too excrucriatingly depressing to go on.
As usual it’s the innocents who died and bled and lost their beloved and limbs and lives. I’m lost for words…
To those looking for the best page to check upon the developments:
BBC London Explosions in Depth
BTW; most of my friends in London wrote back and they are fine. Still I’m waiting for news from my old editor (from the days of The Blasting Concept) who are studying and living there. I hope he’s alright.
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If you’re on broadband / streamyx:
BBC Radio Main Page: Loads of selections.
BBC 6 Music: excellent music, that is f you’re not one of those who have discriminatory musical taste. Check out Tom Robinson (ex-The Tom Robinson Band) playing great selections and special sessions every Thursdays.
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They’re really saying I love you.
I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.
~joey ramone (punk rocker in memory)
i guess nobody is safe now…. london’s mourning….
and now whose to blame?
and everybody in the world know where the fingers are pointing right now!!!!!
hmmm could it be the work of anti-Olympists?
its always “terrorists” and by that they mean Muslim mean with headgear and meagre rifles calling for Jihad.
is it always them?
give me a break.
its alwys like that..
on the other hand:
“We saw the frightful TV footage from the London bombing but no footage at all of the destruction of an entire Afghan village just days before by the US Air Force.
“I am not in any way justifying terror attacks, only putting them into context. I believe US and British military forces do not target civilians – though this has happened far too often – but in the end what they term ‘collateral damage’ means many dead civilians.
“When we kill them in droves, some of them will strike back. Calling on such avengers to fight fair is a waste of time. Claiming these extremists attacked because they hate our western way of life, as Bush and Blair have done, is dishonest. They attacked us because we have been attacking them.
“As Tony Blair rightly said, murdering civilians on their way to work is ‘barbaric.’ But so is dropping bombs on Afghan or Iraqi villages, using tanks to crush Palestinian demonstrators, or the slaughter of 100,000 Chechen civilians by our ally, Russia.”
– Eric Margolis, Foreign Correspondent, July 11 2005.
taken from BigO