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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.

If Europe had as many feet as a centipede it would shoot itself in every foot

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Tourism in Italy is considered a backbone industry, which before the quizzical pandemic brought 13% of the country’s GDP, German TV channel Das Erste reports. In 2019, 1.7 million tourists from Russia visited Italy, leaving almost a billion euros on vacation, but because of the events in Ukraine, they are no longer counted on, which leads many companies in the Italian tourism sector to despair. The same picture emerges in Greece, Spain and Portugal.

Britain obediently follows Washington into the Economic Abyss

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The UK was preparing for the biggest decline in living standards in decades even before the start of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine. Blaming Putin is unlikely to gain a toehold in the public consciousness. The consequences of the Washington-fuelled conflict threaten to intensify the crisis of Britain’s poorest households and pull into dire financial problems millions of people in the United Kingdom, writes Bloomberg.

Both Right and Left support Putin in Italy

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There are millions in the West sympathising and supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin and typically Italy. In fact, vast numbers of Russian supporters are present across the entire breadth of the political spectrum, from the extreme left to the extreme right, according to the German television channel N-TV. 

Why would Russia attack Europe when it is doing such a good job of attacking itself.

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Just whose side is the EU and Washington on? Why would Russia have any interest in attacking Europe when the EU and US are doing such a good job of attacking themselves. After oil and gas, cereals and some metals, German industry is now warning that another imminent shortage is looming: that of soot, or as the tire industry more elegantly calls it, ‘carbon black.’

Media Totalitarianism Rules in the Wild West

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The media now broadcast only the position of Kyiv, and any alternative opinions are simply not allowed to air, writes Freie Welt. For example, people from Donbass do not have the opportunity to express their position at all. And this media totalitarianism, the newspaper notes, is being imposed by a handful of European and US news agencies that publish fakes. All those who try to expose the fakes are dismissed as ‘enemies of democracy’, ‘dissenters’ and ‘Nazis’.

Washington and Brussels plus the Threat of NATO Expansion Release Hell on Europe

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The call came Thursday evening. 72 people, 32 children, 24 of them with psychological or physical injuries, 7 are bedridden, said the voice on the other end of the line. It belonged to Heinz Hilgers, president of the German Child Welfare Association: ‘Time is running out. These children from the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, who fled with their mothers to Poland, were allowed to enter Germany only if the mayor immediately assumed full responsibility, writes Süddeutsche Zeitung.