Here is a selection of natural disasters from around the globe. It includes landslides, lightning, hurricanes and earthquakes. These events are reminders of how unimportant we humans are in the grand scheme of nature’s design. – If you care, please give it a share –
Children Who Came To The Resuce
Here is a compilation of heartwarming events when young people and children act to save others from harm. It demonstrates the inherent decency that exists in our children. It also tells us that there is hope for our species. If you enjoyed this, please share it with others
Israel Using Syria As Smokescreen To Slaughter Palestinians
The criminal Zionist regime take advantage of distraction to kill four ore Palestinians including a 15 year old boy. The Independent. Gunfire from Israeli soldiers across a border fence killed four Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, and wounded more than 150 others, health officials said, as several thousand people in blockaded Gaza staged a fourth […] […]
Palestinians ‘need popular units’ in face of settlers’ attacks in occupied West Bank —
Palestinian factions in the West Bank called on Sunday for the formation of “national units” to face the attacks by extremist Jewish settlers on villages and neighbourhoods across the occupied territory, Quds Press has reported. According to Isam Baker, the coordinator of the factions in Ramallah, this call comes after an increase in the number… via […]
Israeli Government Minister Supports Snipers Killing Civilians
Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday expressed his “absolute support” for the Israeli soldiers who have been shooting Palestinian protesters in the occupied Gaza Strip in recent weeks. On Friday, Israeli snipers shot and killed four Palestinians (with a fifth succumbing to his wounds on Sunday night), including a 14-year-old child, Mohammad Ayoub. Lieberman said… via […]
Cuba’s New President To Uphold Socialist Values And Continue Success
In this article we see how the newly elected President of the Socialist Republic of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has vowed to continue along the path set out by the Castro brothers and all the revolutionaries who founded the modern Cuban state. It must be a hope of all socialists that the beacon of humanitarianism lit […]
Irish Folk Singer – Paul Brady – Arthur McBride
This wonderful anti-war song, covered by Bob Dylan among others, tells of two young men, one of whom was Arthur McBride, who encounter a British recruiting Sergeant and his drummer boy in Napoleonic times in Ireland. The two Irishmen dispute the proposed merits of joining the British army only to be sent to the continent […]
Children Of Lír – Irish Myth
Here we have that inimitable Dubliner, Ronnie Drew, narrating the hauntingly beautiful ancient Irish myth, The Children Of Lír. This tale is a standard of the Gaelic pantheon of ancient stories. It tells of jealousy, cruelty, loss and loyalty. Perhaps the kind reader will find some aspects that are relevant to life today in a […]
Gwendy’s Button Box – Stephen King & Richard Chizmar
Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar It’s the August 22nd, 1974, and Gwendy Peterson is a chubby twelve-year-old determined to lose weight before changing schools. She goes daily to the metal stairs that lead up the rock face to Castle View, and climbs as fast as she can to burn off all […]
The Agoraphobic’s Lament – Poem
This brief verse speaks of the battles that many fight as they face the world in their day-to-day lives. It can be seen that there are quite a few tormented souls out there who are emotional agorapohobes. This one, by A.D., is for them. The Agoraphobic’s Lament There are raindrops tap-tapping the windowpane but […]
Earth’s Future – 10,000 Years From Now
This brief look into the future of our planet, and species, is intriguing for all that it doesn’t tell us. It’s impossible to say what will happen to us as we are an extremely unpredictable bunch, apart from our relentless greed that is. The video doesn’t pretend to know what will happen in the distant […]
Top 10 Movie Vampires
They have thrilled us and chilled us for centuries. But it was their arrival on the silver screen that truly catapulted the undead into our lives. There have been many attempts to portray Nosferatu over the years. From the formal presentation of Christopher Lee’s Dracula to the gore-covered vamps of Blade, directors all have their […]