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.
The Austrian Chancellor explained that the migration flows since 2015 have already brought anti-Zionism, homophobia, and people ‘who are not exactly upholding women’s rights’ in Europe.
During a cabinet council meeting involving top Polish politicians in the Warsaw presidential palace, President Andrzej Duda referred to claims in the public sphere that there could be mandatory vaccinations against the coronavirus in Poland. He noted that parents are worried that children will be forced to get vaccinated.
How long will it be before a former serviceman of Britain’s armed forces take out one of the rainbow nation’s violent but otherwise inept cops? A protest against Covid-19 vaccine passports in Newcastle, England, turned ugly only after state police showed up with horses, batons were drawn and attack dogs, one of which mauled a man who was being tackled and subdued by several officers.
Tourists around the world are outraged over exorbitant prices for PCR tests. Bloomberg has found that tourists planning to travel to resorts in Africa and South America are forced to pay from $100 to $6,000 for each PCR test. The price range is so wide that the International Air Transport Association has asked governments to take action on pricing for COVID-19 tests.
Outraged residents of a small village in the Netherlands held a major protest last week to voice their staunch opposition to the sudden and unexpected arrival of hundreds of asylum seekers from Afghanistan being dumped by NATO in their community.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks in Rome with Giorgia Meloni, president of the Italian Fratelli d’Italia party, on Friday. At the meeting, the two politicians discussed the situation of the European anti-globalist right and the growing threat to Europe and the European peoples of migration, Orbán’s press secretary Bertalan told national news agency MTI on Saturday.
The nations making up the European Union’s 27 states fall under the term collective irresponsibility. In fact, for monumental blunders on an epic scale each of these nations defence departments should be dismantled and its hapless operatives arrested; their bank accounts analysed.
How can you think straight and make rational decisions when each and every day you hear conflicting and contradictory information from ‘authoritative’ sources? You can’t. No one can. That’s the whole point. That’s why the powers that be are doing this. Welcome to the materialistic hell of a post-truth world.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday his country won’t accept Afghan refugees because he doesn’t want to deal with militants masquerading as asylum-seekers. The Russian strongman slammed Western nations for placing Afghan refugees in countries even near his border while their US and European visas are being processed.
German police on Saturday detained 78 people during an unauthorised march against serum injections that have already proved to be accelerating the cases of the virus.
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