news casts in Cuba

Well, giving news to guys in Cuba via the embassy - its got to be one of the dumbest things Ive ever heard .
For starters , it'll get the backs up of the authorities ; it will infuriate the locals [I reckon] and it will create a horrible precedent for use by other embassies .
This has to be the work of Bush- its got all the hallmarks of neanderthalism - it creates nothing and destroys lots and needed a seriously dumb intellect to devise it .
For the world, however, it could give us a boost. Why cant Cuba throw all US citizens off the island in retaliation for this US propaganda ? That includes Guanatanamo Bay personnel of course .
If you think I'm off my trolley , think what would happen if Iran [say] did the same in your capital city ? and how you'd feel ,of course.

USA almost gets Top Al Qaida Leaders

Well The US found some leaders were in a village in Pakistan/Afganistan so they bombed it.
They killed women and children to try to do this assassination .
Isn't this terrorism ? If not it's murder ......
We are allied to this monster .....

bird flu update

well earlier last year now, I was complacent about the bird flu epidemic , and the publicity started dying down as soon as the media worked out that 60 deaths in 9 months didnt constitute a crisis .
Now however, things are looking a tad worse.
With about 5 deaths in about the same number of days in a relatively localised area of Turkey - something has changed ....
Either the virus is now easier to get passed on from fowl to human , or else it's finally maanaged to go direct from human- human ?
I'm not a medical guy, but to my simple mind, if its 'just' easier to get from fowl-human , then this MUST mean that the virus is nearer to becoming a human pathogen and so MUST ? be now slightly possible to go direct human-human , or if not ,its a gnat's crotchet away from it [as they say]
Let's hope it stays that way , or if not that it becomes seriously less lethal in it's end form .
On an end note : virus' dont 'stay that way'
Im sorta glad I live in the countryside now [albeit with 6 hens next door]
Why is it that the media blew it up out of all proportion last year , and now are reporting it, but downplaying it ? It smacks of government guidelines somehow ...