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 Danish government is looking for ways to deter economic migrants seeking a better life of financial and comfort paid for others. The small nation has come up with the idea of directing asylum seekers to countries outside the European continent. Danish MEPs are currently debating a bill that would allow the Scandinavian country to transfer responsibility for receiving applicants to a third country or several third countries, Le Monde reported.
The short video featured at the tail end of this article says it all. An Irish MP makes a rousing speech in the Irish parliament in defence of the Palestinian people. He calls attention to Israel’s flagrant war crimes, apartheid policies, and double standards. Note that this is an unprecedented public denunciation of Zionism by a national government representative. It has never happened before.
A team of over 1,000 lawyers and over 10,000 medical experts led by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich have begun legal proceedings against the CDC, WHO & the Davos Group for crimes against humanity.
Despite widespread vaccination availability and even the U.S. CDC saying that vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks, Toronto has decided to cancel an entire summer’s worth of social functions. The city has cancelled “all major in-person events for a second straight summer,” CBC reported on Friday.
Thousands of economic migrants from North Africa and elsewhere are heading to Italy and Southern European countries do not have enough capacity to handle the crisis, leading them to plea for help from the European Union.
A WWII veteran has told the story of how he was a goalkeeper in the Sunday football league at Auschwitz. Ron Jones, 94, played in football matches organised by the camp administrators at the labour complex. The pensioner played in goal for the Welsh team in the games against other British prisoners of war.
Fontilles is a small walled town, hidden in the mountains, in the natural area of the Vall de Laguar, in the province of Alicante. The ‘garden of Eden’ is home to a private foundation that opened in 1909. In the 1950s was inhabited by 450 leprosy patients, whereas today, just twelve patients remain there, with the condition eradicated in Spain, only around ten or twelve new cases are diagnosed each year, and can be cured.
A leading Christian Democrat politician in Finland is facing up to two years in prison after being charged with hate speech over LGBT-critical comments made on social media, including quoting a verse from the Bible.
The Visegrád Four (V4) countries of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have established a ‘family-friendly coalition’ at a video conference held on Thursday, Hungarian minister without portfolio for family affairs, Katalin Novák said on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Twatter (sic) issued a 12-hour suspension against the account of a professor of philosophy and law and a deputy of the anti-migrant patriotic Spanish Vox party, Francisco Jose Contreras, on grounds of ‘incitement to hatred.’ Contreras had affirmed a simple biological fact that ‘a man cannot get pregnant. A man does not have a uterus or ovaries.’
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