Updated and comforted

Nearly one and a half days later and getting increasingly impressed by our politicians and at least some of the experts (though others do provide for some groan-inducing moments). It seems our prime minister is in excellent company when it comes to making enlightened statements.

The main source of relief came from a NRK special news series called "Aktuelt" broadcast at about 21:00 GMT+1 or so "today" (23rd of July). The opening discussion/conversation between experts (well a bit of a mix really but I'll call them that) as well as the later political bit with Storberget (from labour), Solberg (from the conservatives), and Jensen (from the progress party) were both superbly good with extremely important points made and lots of intelligent reasoning.

Among the experts Tore Bjørgo and Swedish David Poohl in particular were absolutely outstanding, I think I only had the most minor quibble with one or two statements made! The third expert/person was foreign minister Støre, unfortunately the name of the fourth person escaped me. Reassuring and comforting viewing of extremely sensible and intelligent stances by Bjørgo and Poohl and the two other both added some very salient points/advice.

It has alleviated many of my current worries; some mentioned or hinted at in my previous blog post and some resulting from the "institutionalized bigotry" that quickly reared its ugly heads on NRK (and elsewhere as well).

It would be nice if those parts of this episode of "Aktuelt" could be released with English subtitling for global viewing on the internet, I think a lot of people would benefit from --and/or outright appreciate-- viewing it (and it probably ought to be required watching for US politicians who seem to often needlessly aggravate their own population(s)).

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HMKG were deployed in various locations in Oslo today in full gear (in addition to the ordinary locations). Couldn't help noticing that their weapons had the ammunition chambered and ready to fire on select fire (my old military friends would laugh hard at me instantly noticing that even after all these years ^_^).

Most local residents probably haven't ever seen a real battle ready soldier in real life before, must be an even weirder experience for them.

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I've noticed a group of police cars and a bomb squad special vehicle zipping past hither and dither throughout the day responding to reports of suspicious packages. Later on news media said fewer reports were being made.