Anna Leporskaya was a Soviet Union artist ....
'Three Figures' (1932–1934) By Anna Leporskaya |
..... who was apparently famous in the Soviet block for designing buildings and exhibitions, as well as her paintings and ceramics.
In a year in which mass shootings in the USA have reached record numbers, and are still rising with five months of the year left to run ....
The Schmidt's - As They Will Be Remembered |
.... its often hard to pick out any except the most outrageous events, the multiple deaths such as school shootings.
When in November 2017, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) responded to reports of a car that had collided with a truck ,and ended up on a ditch, in Nisku, south of Edmonton, Alberta, they were met by a very strange scene ....
Strange Winter Scenes In Nisku, Canada |
So a Bristol jury have decided ...
Taking The Law Into Your Own Hands Is Vigilante Justice |
... that a bunch of white
Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters were not guilty of criminal damage, when
they toppled over a public statue of a long dead white man, of whom they suddenly disapproved.
We in the West often find that the messages of hate emanating from certain Islamic states are downplayed by our governments and media ...
'Righteously' Angered Islamic Mobs Often Ignored By West ... |
.... indeed they are often totally disregarded, or treated as just some sort of cultural part of Muslim identity and of no real import.
Julius Jones, a convicted killer, had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in 2021 by Oklahoma's governor Kevin Stitt ....
Innocent Or Guilty? |
.... this after a series of celebrity led campaigns to free him as a 'victim of a wrongful conviction' and a ABC TV documentary 'The Last Defense', a three-episode program produced by the actress Viola Davis, that aired in 2018.
In our globalised world ....
Globalisation Is Like Pandoras Box - Unpredictable |
The BBC has always struggled with impartiality when it comes to causes it supports e.g. 'Illegal immigrants' are always described as 'migrants' (as though they have valid visa's) ....
The BBC Version Of Impartiality Sometimes Comes Unstuck |
If you ever had any doubt that the free availability of guns is not really a good idea ....
Lance Storz - Mass Murderer - Rapist - Sodomist |
Well Britain's colourful Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resigned.
Boris Johnson - A Colourful Prime Minister |
I suppose it was always going to end this way, as his personality was not one to just retire after a quiet premiership.