David James Bellamy OBE (1933-2019) was an English botanist, television presenter, author, and environmental campaigner. In the early 1970s, Bellamy helped to establish Durham Wildlife Trust, and remained a key player in the conservation movement for a number of decades.
An exhibition has opened in Berlin dedicated to the 14 million ethnic-German refugees who were expelled from their former homelands at the end of World War II.
Dolores O’ Riordan died January 15, at the age of 46. The singer of the Cranberries, with an angry, fragile, or angelic voice has passed away in the afterlife and in London where she had come to record one last time.
August 1, 2021, marks the 85thanniversary of the opening day of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The Berlin event was unique in that it boasted the largest number of foreign athletes in the history of the Olympics. The Berlin Olympic Village was so beautifully designed that every Olympic village since has been modelled on it. The Berlin stadium boasted seating for 100,000 spectators. Attending were four million fans and journalists from 41 nations. The Berlin Olympics was the first to be televised. Competing in the 1936 Games were a record number of participants: 4066 athletes including 331 women from 49 countries.
As a child, Yeonmi Park fled North Korea with her mother when she was 13-years-of-age in 2007. The pair of genuine refugees fell into the hands of Chinese traffickers and later escaped to Mongolia. Park said that she had to walk across the Gobi Desert before reaching South Korea.
BBC Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt faced intense hostility at an anti-lockdown rally on Downing Street. Such was the fury of the BBC-hating mob the anchorman newscaster had to flee behind the police barrier from jeerers chasing him and calling him a traitor.
One of the most successful instances of victors spin are to be found in accounts relating to the dam-busters raid of May 16/17 1943. The claimed daring incursion brought international acclaim to Royal Air Force (RAF) Wing Commander Guy Gibson and pilots of 617 Squadron.
I recall a news media story in the 1960s that recorded a remarkable event that shocked into silence the dwindling numbers who allowed themselves to believe the propaganda of the three victorious empires who cast Adolf Hitler as ‘evil incarnate’.
That corporate media is more corrupt than all a prison’s convicts combined is generally accepted. Such is the arrogance of the Press, television and radio broadcasting companies they feel that they are omnipotent. So, they can shrug off and disdainfully dismiss the fact that theirs is the most discredited profession of many.
It is not the Russians, it is the Israelis. Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook, Inc. is under artillery fire from former President Donald Trump regarding $350 million donated by Zuckerberg and his Chinese partner, Priscilla Chan to help local election offices in various jurisdictions.
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