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.
RIA Novosti. The leaders of the American movement Black Lives Matter, which media claims opposes violence against the black population, secretly purchased a house in the US state of California for six million dollars, using the collected donations, New York Magazine reported.
Meet the husky who risked his life to save many others in what became known as the 1925 Serum Run. The hero dog’s name was Balto, a Siberian Husky who in the most atrocious Alaska can heap on man and beast carried life-saving medicine to halt a diphtheria outbreak.
Foreign critics have long chafed at the exorbitant privilege of the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency. The U.S. can issue this currency backed by nothing but the ‘full faith and credit of the United States.
The international press loudly proclaimed that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would face his ‘toughest’ election fight ever, polls pointed to his potential defeat, and the EU withheld much-needed recovery funds from Hungary in the run-up to the election. Yet, Orbán not only prevailed but did so in a fashion that has left many in the Western media and political establishment in shock once again. Now, as the dust settles, what lessons can we take away from his historic win?
A Transylvanian Franciscan monk of Hungarian ethnicity, Csaba Böjte, has been nominated by Hungary for the Nobel Peace Prize for his three decades of work in creating a network of orphanages in neighbouring Romania, Minister of Human Capacities Miklós Kásler announced on Thursday.
Despite the difficulties, the Russian economy can still exit with a brilliant trade and balance of payments. According to Bloomberg, experts expect Russia to earn almost $321 billion from energy exports in 2022, more than a third more than it did in 2021.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, known for his recent strong stance in support of Russia in the war in Ukraine, has won a second presidential term after Sunday’s elections with his Progressive Party (SNS) also coming out on top in the early parliamentary election.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his nationalist-populist Fidesz party scored a resounding victory in last night’s election, with results showing that the party would once again win a two-thirds supermajority. While declaring victory in Budapest, Orbán thank Hungarians for placing their trust in him once again.
Even as US ‘President’ Joe Biden and Canadian premier Justin Trudeau announce food shortages sweeping their respective nations, farmers are being paid to stop farming. In the United States, chickens are now ‘illegal animals’ in more municipalities, requiring a permit, ‘due to bird flu. The claim goes’
In response to our superbly researched story about the absence of German atrocities during World War II, to which were added many admissions by Allied commanders that the German armed forces treated their captives far better than convention required, a Canadian reader suggested that we republish The Silence of the Lambs to the Slaughter.
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