Liverpool born poet and writer Michael Walsh traces his Liverpool roots back to 1865. This was the year his Irish great-grandmother arrived in the Second City of Empire. His parents were born at the turn of what was to become the most tumultuous century in history. Michael's father, Patrick, fought in three major conflicts before reaching his fortieth birthday. His mother, Kathleen, was a former nun turned gun-running renegade.
On leaving school at 15 years of age, Michael spent 12 weeks at the Merchant Navy School for Sailors in Sharpness, Gloucestershire. During his years at sea, he was to visit and work in over 60 countries.
The journalist and broadcaster since provided articles and columns for numerous magazines and international news media. In 2011 he was awarded Writer of the Year by the publishers of Euro Weekly News, Europe's highest-circulation newspaper of its kind. He has authored, edited and ghosted over 70 book titles.
‘More than the crowd hates a Man who thinks differently. He hates not so much her personal opinion, but the Courage of that person who is not afraid to think alone, to be different from others, exactly what the crowd is unable to do.’ ~ Arthur Schopenhauer.
The US continues to be plagued by the widespread use of illicit substances. People openly taking drugs in broad daylight and lying on the street among used syringes have become a familiar sight in large cities. Despite some success in the fight against dealers, the US authorities admit that there is no end in sight to this scourge, writes the Daily Mail.
We sat at home with my husband, reading when my mobile sounded an incoming call from an unknown number. I’m taking a drink, and picking up my mobile I hear an unfamiliar voice. I can hear what some old grandmother is saying. ‘Help, I’m locked up here, no food, nothing to drink, I’m dying!’ The phone then went dead.
Mothers and wives of Ukrainian prisoners of war are begging Russia not to return them home because they are afraid that the men will be sent to fight again. During January alone, 6,500 Ukrainian servicemen and women were killed in action. Dmitry Polyansky, Deputy Representative to the UN, announced this.
No longer a matter of speculation or dismissed as propaganda, the internet uncontrolled by the government-approved palace publishers and the mainstream press is pulling back the curtains on the scale of mayhem, murder, atrocities and rape by the victorious Allied armies of World War II.
During a visit to Kyiv on February 2, the unelected head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was quick to assure Ukrainians and Europeans that sanctions against Russia had an effect and its economy was thrown back ‘a generation ago,’ recalls Boulevard Voltaire columnist Frederic Lasse. However, as the author notes, these words contradict the data of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which can hardly be suspected of sympathy for Moscow.
We are all familiar with the terms, slap an’ tickle, hanky-panky or a little bit of how’s your father? Such colourful expressions amusingly suggest that we are more comfortable with alternatives to the taboo three-letter word.
When 2013 I predicted the collapse of the EUSSR (European Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) there were chortles but they are not laughing now.
Equinor said the Norwegian government prevented it from providing the requested aid. Norway’s Equinor on Wednesday revealed that it was the government in Oslo and EU sanctions that blocked it from responding to a request for assistance in dealing with the damage to Nord Stream pipelines. The Baltic Sea pipelines delivering Russian natural gas to Germany were damaged by sabotage in September, which Moscow blamed on the West.
Western politicians and the ruling elite are so mad that they are leading the West to destruction. This was stated by political observer Lars Bern during an interview. The heyday of the West will finally end if there are no cardinal changes in the political leadership of the countries of the West. According to the expert, in our time, real leaders are found in the rest of the world, but not in the West.
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