Of the hundreds of epic escape stories that occurred during World War II, it is the banalest like The Great Escape that is turned into movies. It appears that only two, As Far as my Feet will Carry me and The One That Got Away (there were many) were made into movies.
The Ukrainian government is now openly talking about how it summarily executes people it suspects of being pro-Russian and accuses of collaborating with Russia. A hunt for collaborators has been announced and their lives are not protected by the law, says President Zelensky’s advisor Anton Gerashchenko, reports the Daily Mail.
Concerned citizens spoke out against the WikiLeaks co-founder’s imminent extradition to the US. Supporters of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange gathered outside the UK Parliament in London on Saturday to protest his impending extradition to the US, where he faces espionage charges that carry a prison sentence of up to 175 years.
Across Europe, from the Baltic to the Black Seas anti-regime protests and demonstrations are gaining strength and numbers of protestors are growing beyond the most pessimistic expectations. The protest against the German energy policy was only supposed to involve 400 citizens, but that number ballooned to 4,000 out of a city of only 59,000.
Nothing to hide nothing to fear is the mantra all-seeing prying and controlling regimes tell its compliant downcast citizens. However, tyrannical regimes have much to hide and fear any leakage that suggests their juntas have betrayed their citizen.
During conflicts, there are occasions when hard decisions are made. The Russian armed forces recently facilitated the evacuation and rescue of citizens of parts of Kharkiv simply because it was not worth risking the lives of Russian troops to defend a long-front but sparsely populated territory of small towns, villages, hamlets and isolated farms.
European countries are currently experiencing an unusual and mysterious high death rate – and coronavirus deaths are not the reason for this increase. Known as ‘excess mortality,’ people are dying at an unusually high rate in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Great Britain.
Angry and distressed protesters demand the government’s resignation over soaring energy prices, inflation and military support for Ukraine. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in central Prague on Saturday for a march dubbed ‘Czech Republic First,’ urging the government to resign over soaring energy prices and inflation, and to drop anti-Russia sanctions.
The carnival, which was suspended in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID pandemic, is an open-air music festival intended to celebrate multiculturalism, British African Caribbean and British Indo-Caribbean culture.
In today’s show originally broadcast on August 20th, 2022, international news presenter Andy Hitchcock presents a show entitled, ACH (1884) I’m Talking To YOU #30 – Message To The Superheroes is an unscripted solo show covering a variety of topics, which is only available on Andy’s website, and unlike his other shows, is not syndicated elsewhere.
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