Дід Мороз In Kyiv

New Year’s Celebration in a Metro Station – Kyiv, Ukraine-  December 31, 2022.

Because of Russian Missiles and Bombs, even on New Year’s, Ukrainian Children and their Families spend the Holiday in Metro Stations being used a Bomb Shelters. Despite the death and violence around them caused by the Russians Father Frost (Ukrainian: Дід Мороз) brings New Year’s Presents to the Ukrainian Children.

I heard Father Frost (Russian: Дед Мороз) is skipping the Russian Children this year because of all the War Crimes being committed by their Parents in Ukraine.

Soon Russia’s War in Ukraine will end in a Ukrainian Victory, Russian War Crimes in Ukraine will also end and Putin’s Dictatorship will collapse in Russia. Here’s to a hopeful 2023.

No Moscow Дед Мороз

New Year’s Celebration at Red Square in Moscow Russia – December 31, 2022.

Usually this has a lot of people celebrating the New Year and listening to the Kremlin Bells, but this year, because of Russia’s War in Ukraine and Putin’s fear of Protesters and Demonstrations there are more Police than People.

Soon, Russia’s War in Ukraine will end in a Ukrainian Victory, Russian War Crimes in Ukraine will also end and Putin’s Dictatorship will collapse in Russia. Here’s to a hopeful 2023.  

I Celebrate

 

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Barbara Walters

From Yahoo/GMA:

“Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93”

Barbara Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent who shattered the glass ceiling and became a dominant force in an industry once dominated by men, has died. She was 93. Walters joined ABC News in 1976, becoming the first female anchor on an evening news program. Three years later, she became a co-host of "20/20," and in 1997, she launched "The View." In a career that spanned five decades, Walters won 12 Emmy awards, 11 of those while at ABC News. She made her final appearance as a co-host of "The View" in 2014, but remained an executive producer of the show and continued to do some interviews and specials for ABC News. "I do not want to appear on another program or climb another mountain," she said at the time. "I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women -- and OK, some men too -- who will be taking my place."

Barbara Jill Walters was born in Boston on Sept. 25, 1929, to Dena and Louis "Lou" Walters. Her father worked in show business as a booking agent and nightclub producer, and discovered comedians Fred Allen and Jack Haley, who would go on to star as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz." Growing up around celebrities taught a young Barbara a lesson that she relied upon throughout her career. "I would see them onstage looking one way and offstage often looking very different. I would hear my parents talk about them and know that even though those performers were very special people, they were also human beings with real-life problems," Walters said in a 1989 interview with the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences. "I can have respect and admiration for famous people, but I have never had a sense of fear or awe."

In her 2008 memoir "Audition," Walters revealed that she got her ambition to succeed from her older sister, Jacqueline, who was born developmentally disabled. "Her condition also altered my life," Walters wrote. "I think I knew from a very early age that at some point Jackie would become my responsibility. That awareness was one of the main reasons I was driven to work so hard. But my feelings went beyond financial responsibility. "Much of the need I had to prove myself, to achieve, to provide, to protect, can be traced to my feelings about Jackie. But there must be something more, the 'Something' that makes one need to excel," she added. "Some may call it ambition. I can live with that. Some may call it insecurity, although that is such a boring, common label, like being called shy, that means little. But as I look back, it feels to me that my life has been one long audition -- an attempt to make a difference and to be accepted."

(Today Show anchor Barbara Walters covers the Democratic National Convention in 1972.)

After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, in the 1950s, Walters found work as a publicist and television writer, before landing a spot as a writer on NBC's "Today" show in 1961. She would become the program's first female co-host in 1974, and won her first Emmy award the following year for Outstanding Talk Show Host. "No one was more surprised than I," she said of her on-air career. "I wasn't beautiful, like many of the women on the program before me, [and] I had trouble pronouncing my r's." In her memoir, Walters wrote that she had dark hair, a sallow complexion and was often told she was skinny. She said her parents' term of endearment for her was "Skinnymalinkydin."

 In 1976, Walters found a new home on ABC's "Evening News," making history as the first female co-anchor of an evening news program.

(Barbara Walters and Harry Reasoner on the ABC News set, Sept. 30, 1976.)

In her inaugural broadcast on Oct. 4, 1976, with co-anchor Harry Reasoner, Walters scored an exclusive interview with Earl Butz, who had just resigned as President Gerald Ford's Secretary of Agriculture after it was revealed he told a racist joke. She also conducted a satellite interview with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on his plans to end his country's fighting with Lebanon. At ABC, her interviews were wide-ranging and her access to public figures, unparalleled; Walters crossed the Bay of Pigs with Fidel Castro and conducted the first joint interview with Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin. She also developed a reputation for asking tough questions. "I asked Vladimir Putin if he ever ordered anyone to be killed," she once recalled. "For the record, he said 'no.'" Upon the death of Castro in 2016, Walters released a statement saying the dictator had called her two interviews with him "fiery debates." "During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy," Walters said in her statement. "I told him that what we most profoundly disagreed on was the meaning of freedom."

There were lighter interviews, too. For years, she hosted an annual Oscars special, in which she interviewed Academy Award nominees and was known for making a number of them reveal deeply personal information and even cry. In 1994, she launched the "Most Fascinating People" special, which aired every December and afforded her the opportunity to chat with the year's top newsmakers. In 1999, an estimated 74 million viewers tuned in to watch Walters interview Monica Lewinsky about the former White House intern's affair with then-President Bill Clinton. Toward the end of the interview, Walters asked Lewinsky, "What will you tell your children when you have them?" Lewinsky replied, "Mommy made a big mistake" to which Walters quipped, "And that is the understatement of the year."

Walters also interviewed every U.S. president and first lady from the Nixons to the Obamas. She interviewed President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump before they entered the White House. With "The View," she created a forum for women of different backgrounds and views to come together and discuss the latest hot topics in the news, a format that has since been widely imitated by other networks. In a May 2019 New York Times Magazine cover story, "The View" was deemed "the most important political TV show in America."

(Barbara Walters is pictured with her daughter, Jackie Danforth, April 18, 2008.)

Walters was married four times to three different men (she wed Merv Adelson, a television producer and real estate developer, twice) and adopted daughter Jacqueline Guber with second husband Lee Guber, a theater producer and owner. She named her daughter after her sister, writing in her memoir that she "wanted Jackie to feel that she, too, has a child, because I knew by this time she never would." "She keeps me sane, she keeps me grounded," Walters said of her daughter. "Children do that ... I think a lot of working women struggle with the job and being home and there's never a right answer. Whatever you do is wrong, but whatever you do will turn out eventually to be OK."

She was honored in 2001 with a wax portrait of her likeness at Madame Tussauds in New York City and in 2007 she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was also the recipient of honorary doctoral degrees from her alma mater Sarah Lawrence College, as well as Ohio State University, Temple University, Marymount College, Wheaton College, Hofstra University and Ben-Gurion University in Jerusalem. After 25 years in television, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1989 and was presented the award by Peter Jennings, then the anchor and senior editor of ABC's "World News Tonight." "In all the years that Barbara has spent covering the world, those of us who have moved along in her wake have done better because she was there first setting standards, and she has taught us all something," Jennings, who died in 2005, said at the time. In 2000, Oprah Winfrey echoed Jennings' speech when she presented Walters a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. "Had there not been Barbara Walters, surely all of the other women who have followed in her footsteps, including myself, could not stand where we stand and do what we do in this industry today," Winfrey said. In her acceptance speech, Walters said, "I have been blessed with a life I never expected, and helping me up the steps of the ladder over the years have been hundreds of people."

Part of ABC News' Headquarters in New York was renamed "The Barbara Walters Building" in May 2014. During the ceremony, Walters accepted the honor, saying, "People ask me very often, 'what is your legacy?' and it's not the interviews with presidents, or heads of state, nor celebrities. If I have a legacy, and I've said this before and I mean it so sincerely, I hope that I played a small role in paving the way for so many of you fabulous women."

^ This is sad to hear. She brought National and International News to Ordinary Americans. ^

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/barbara-walters-trailblazing-tv-icon-023600549.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

Class Phone

 

100: USSR

100 years ago today (December 30, 1922) The Declaration and Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Декларация и договор об образовании Союза Советских Социалистических Республик and Ukrainian: Договір про утворення  Союз Радянських Соціалістичних Республік) created the Soviet Union and forced 15 Countries to become Soviet Republics for the next 69 years – The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was created after the 1917 Communist October Revolution and formed the USSR in 1922.

The USSR collapsed on December 26, 1991 (31 years ago) and ever since then Putin, who called the collapse of the Soviet Union the ““was the greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century” has tried to bring it back by sending Russian Troops to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine.

Only Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (all are part of the European Union, NATO and the Eurozone) and Turkmenistan have no Russian Troops.  

A 2020 Poll found that 75% of Russians (including those born after the USSR Collapse) said the Soviet Era was the “Greatest Time in Russia’s History.”

Putin has failed to bring back the Soviet Union or to make Russia a Super Power once again. In fact, he has done just the opposite. He has shown the world that the Russian Government, the Russian Military, the Russian Economy and Russian Industry are more 3^rd World than ever before. Ukrainian Farmers have been able to destroy “Modern” Russian Military Equipment and 102,050 Russian Soldiers have died in 10 months in Ukraine than in 10 years of the Soviet-Afghan War.  

More Tests Required

From the BBC:

“China Covid: Spain, South Korea and Israel tighten rules”

Spain is the second EU country to announce Covid testing on visitors from China, following similar decisions in Italy, plus the US and India. Arrivals can skip the tests if they are fully vaccinated - and Spain does accept some Chinese vaccines. Beijing has announced that it will fully reopen its borders next week for the first time since March 2020. Its current Covid surge has caused wariness, with reports of hospitals filling up and waves of illness. The UK, South Korea and Israel also announced new testing rules on Friday. "At the national level, we will implement controls at airports and require travellers from China to present a negative Covid test or be fully vaccinated," said Spanish health minister Carolina Darias. On Thursday, the EU's disease prevention agency has said such measures were not justified in Europe, because of the levels of immunity and the fact that variants spreading in China were already present on the continent. The World Health Organization, however, has said it was "understandable" that some countries had decided to impose restrictions and urged Beijing to be more forthcoming about its Covid numbers. China's foreign ministry said earlier this week that its "epidemic situation" overall was "predictable and under control". But the true toll of daily cases and deaths in China is unknown as officials have stopped requiring cases to be reported, and changed classifications for Covid deaths.

South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said that travellers from China would need to have a negative PCR or antigen test before boarding flights to South Korea. They will also need to undergo a PCR test within the first day of their arrival in South Korea. Israel, meanwhile, has ordered foreign airlines not to allow people to travel from China unless they have tested negative - and asked its own citizens to avoid unnecessary travel there. Not all countries have announced controls. Germany has joined Australia, France, and Portugal in saying there will be no new rules yet. However, Germany's health minister has said the country is seeking a co-ordinated system to monitor variants across European airports. China's decision this week to reopen its borders on 8 January marks the last stage of the country's controversial zero-Covid policy, which President Xi Jinping had personally endorsed. As the rest of the world transitioned to living with the virus, Beijing maintained an eradication policy involving mass testing and stringent lockdown. In November, the frustration spilled on to the streets in rare protests against Mr Xi and his government. A week later, Beijing began to roll back the restrictions.

^ Just a few days ago the US was getting slammed for requiring Negative Covid Tests from anyone (Chinese, American and everyone else) that has been to China within the past 10 days.

Today the UK, Spain, Israel and South Korea now require Negative Covid Tests from China (Japan, Malaysia and Italy already did.)

The Chinese Communist Government was not forthcoming about Covid in 2019 or 2020 and let Millions of their Citizens help spread it around the World killing 6 million Worldwide and over 1 Million in the US.

The Chinese Government have only stopped their Zero Covid Policy because of protests calling for the overthrow of the Communist Party. The Government didn’t stop things because the health situation is better there.

It’s estimated that several thousand Chinese a day are getting Covid (including new Strains) and that could become a Million a day in January,

Any country that doesn’t take steps now (like requiring Negative Covid Tests) from any person – Chinese or their own Citizens –  that have been to China in the past 10 days deserves to have a major Covid Outbreak. This isn’t 2020 and so there’s no excuse to be stupid about Covid.  ^

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64127917

Ukraine's Numbers

As 2022 ends lets take a moment to see what has been going on inside Ukraine by the numbers:

(This is a current map of the situation inside Ukraine. The blue areas show formerly Ukrainian Territory occupied by the Russians, the Pink shows the current Ukrainian Territory occupied by the Russians.)

10 months and 6 days = Time since Russia started it’s War in Ukraine.

900,000 = Number of Russian Soldiers sent to Ukraine.

246,000 = Number of Ukrainian Soldiers in Ukraine.

102,050  = Number of Russian Soldiers killed.

150,000  = Number of Russian Soldiers wounded.

13,000 = Number of Ukrainian Soldiers killed.

87,000 = Number of Ukrainian Soldiers wounded.

33,452 = Ukrainian Civilians killed.

8 Million  = Number of Ukrainian Civilians that have been internally displaced inside Ukraine.

7.8 Million = Number of Ukrainian Civilians that have been externally displaced outside Ukraine.

1.2 Million = Number of Russian Civilians that have fled Russia since February 2022 (the largest Emigration since the 1917 Communist Revolution.)

14,900 = Number of Russian Civilians that have been arrested for publicly protesting Russia’s War in Ukraine.

15 = Mandatory Term (in Years) in a Forced Labor Penal Colony for Russians that speak out against Russia’s War.

1,000 = Number of International Companies that have left Russia since February 2022.

600 = Number of Russian War Criminals Identified so far.

1.2 Million = Number of Ukrainian Men and Women abducted by Russia inside Ukraine and sent camps in Russia.

250,000 = Number of Ukrainian Children abducted by Russia inside Ukraine and sent to camps in Russia.

33,347+ = Number of Open War Crime Investigations by the Ukrainians against the Russians.

9 Million = Number of Ukrainians without Water, Food, Shelter, Electricity or Heat due to the Russians.

6,000+ = Number of Russian and Iranian Missiles fired on Ukraine by Russia.

1 = Number of Ukrainian Autonomous Republics (Crimea) that have been completely occupied by the Russians since March 2014.

0 = Number of Ukrainian Oblasts (Provinces) that have been completely occupied by the Russians since February 2022.

40 = Number of Countries that have given Military, Humanitarian and Financial Aid to Ukraine since February 2022.

$54.43 Billion   = Amount in US Dollars the United States has given Ukraine in Military, Humanitarian and Financial Aid since February 2022.

1 = The one man that has united Ukraine, Europe, NATO and the Whole World against Putin and Russia since February 2022 (Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.)

2023? = The Year that Ukraine will defeat Russia and Putin’s Dictatorship will end.

Friday!

5 Right

5 Ways to End the Year Right

The end of the year can be bittersweet. It is dual in nature, a dying of the old and the beginning of something new. It can put our accomplishments and failures in sharp focus, and force us to reflect on how we’ve spent the year. For me, the transition from autumn to winter—the cold nip in the air descending into chill, the trees shedding their glorious heads of red and gold, the sunlight prematurely creeping into night—has always triggered re-evaluation, and lots and lots of mixed emotions. Are you struggling with year end blues? Here are five tips to help you kiss 2015 goodbye and greet 2016 with a huge smile.

1. Go ahead, look back. Say it with me and Socrates: “An unexamined life is not worth living.” It’s healthy to sit down and take stock of events and choices that led us to where we are in life at this particular moment in time. Was there anything you could have done better? Are there self-destructive habits you need to let go of? When we look back, we not only take time to acknowledge our actions and learn from them; it also helps us notice certain situations, people, or patterns that may no longer serve us. “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.” (C.S. Lewis) “It’s okay to look back at the past. Just don’t stare.” (Benjamin Dover)

2. Highlight the successes Though looking for ways to improve is a good thing, there is nothing wrong with giving ourselves a pat on the back for a job well done. Perhaps you were able to lock down the apartment of your dreams this year. Or finally got around to starting a small savings account or investment fund. Maybe you quit smoking or stuck to your gym regimen. No matter how trivial it may seem, personal successes and accomplishments are worth toasting to. So clink, clink! “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” (Anne Sweeney) “Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures.” (Sam Walton)

3. Forgive yourself. This piece of advice is something I constantly have to remind myself to practice. I am my worst critic. It’s so easy to beat ourselves up for our so-called failures. So maybe you didn’t get the promotion you were expecting. Or maybe you feel like you didn’t work hard enough to achieve your goals. Perhaps a relationship you put so much energy in ended. Sometimes, we can be so kind to other people but so hard on ourselves. We are all perfectly flawed. And we have to love and forgive ourselves despite our faults and flaws in the same way that we love and forgive others in spite of their imperfections. “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” (Oprah Winfrey) “Detach from needing to have things work out a certain way. The universe is perfect and there are no failures. Give yourself the gift of detaching from your worries and trust that everything is happening perfectly.” (Orin)

4. Give thanks. Make a list of everything you are thankful for this year. Gather friends and family ’round the table, and let them know how lucky you feel to have them in your life. The habit of thankfulness is like a muscle that needs to be exercised. The more we focus on what we’re grateful for in life, the more we notice the abundance of blessings around us. “Happiness isn’t about getting what you want all the time. It’s about loving what you have and being grateful for it.” (Asher Roth) “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but a parent of all the others.” (Cicero)

5. Celebrate! Lastly, get those dancing shoes on and shake that booty on the dance floor! You are alive here and now, and the future is blazing in front of you. Shake it to the left for the 365 days you lived in 2015. Shake it to the right for the 365 days of newness up ahead. Let 2015 go and open your heart wide wide wide for all the loving, learning, and living that’s in store for you this new year! “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1) “Live life like everything is rigged in your favor.” (Rumi)

https://www.lifehack.org/345377/5-ways-end-the-year-right

Good Terms

 

On Your Own

From DNS:

“Winter blackouts: Disabled customers’ fear over confusion on life-saving support”

(Three separate pictures: head and shoulders of Mark Baggley, Fleur Perry in her wheelchair in a garden, and Alan Benson in his wheelchair in front of a brick wall)

Disabled people who rely on powered equipment in their homes to survive have expressed serious concerns at the government’s failure to provide clear information about how they will be protected in the event of power blackouts this winter. Disability News Service (DNS) has spoken to seven disabled people this week, all of whom rely on equipment powered by electricity to keep them safe, and in some cases alive, particularly in winter. But not one of them has been able to secure details of any proper contingency plans that might be in place to ensure their equipment can keep running in a blackout.

National Grid* has warned that planned national power cuts are possible this winter, with customers in certain parts of the country likely to be without power for around three hours a day, although such an emergency is currently considered unlikely. Following that warning, DNS has been trying for more than two months to clarify what contingency plans have been put in place by the government and the energy industry for disabled people who rely on powered equipment in their homes, such as ventilators and dialysis machines. Two months on, neither the industry nor ministers have been able to produce any evidence that such plans are in place (see separate story). The only clear advice to disabled people in this situation is to ensure they are on the Priority Service Registers run by their own electricity supplier and their local electricity distribution network operator (DNO). Even if they sign up, they are warned they will not be exempt from any blackouts, and that if they need a continuous supply of electricity for medical reasons they “should seek advice from their local health service provider”. Both the government and the energy regulator Ofgem have confirmed to DNS that people in this situation must make their own back-up plans rather than expect anything more than basic support from the government or the energy industry.

It has been left to individual disabled people to seek information from their electricity and NHS providers and “form their own back-up plan”. Some of the disabled people DNS spoke to this week have managed to secure some reassurance from individual providers, but others have been left “extremely concerned” at the lack of information.

Alan Benson, a leading disabled campaigner, relies on a collection of vital equipment, including a day-time and a night-time ventilator, two powered wheelchairs, and an electric hoist, while he also needs to stay warm for health reasons. When he became concerned last month at the lack of information about possible planned power-cuts, he contacted his electricity supplier, Good Energy, which admitted it had no contingency plans and simply referred him to the priority services register. Benson told DNS: “Having set the tone by warning of potential power cuts and raised people’s anxiety, the current reassurance rings somewhat hollow. “The different messages from suppliers is leaving many confused, including me. “As a consumer, my relationship is with my supplier. I find it incomprehensible that I should need to understand the distribution network to make provision for my safety. “This is not about sitting in candlelight for a few hours, it’s about being able to breathe. “Disabled people are not stupid. We’re not expecting to be isolated from any impacts of power outages. “It’s not unreasonable that our safety is considered and that we’re given advice and support to prepare. “After all, if cuts do occur then emergency services don’t need to be spending time rescuing disabled people whose safety could have been protected.”

Good Energy and EDF, the other supplier contacted by DNS this week, both said there was little they could do in the event of an outage, with the responsibility lying with the DNO, although both said they were working closely with DNOs. Nigel Pocklington, chief executive of Good Energy, said he was concerned at the lack of clarity from the government on contingency plans. He said: “Emergency power cuts this winter remain very unlikely and grid operators, government and energy suppliers must communicate responsibly about this as a potential situation. “This means not only saying ‘it’s unlikely, make sure you are on your network operators’ priority services register’. “That is important, but those who are medically dependent on their energy supply need to be absolutely clear on what being on a priority services register actually means, so they can plan accordingly.” He added: “As an energy supplier we are not physically operating any infrastructure, so there is a limit to what we can do in the event of an outage. “Grid operators are limited too in that they cannot switch energy off or on for individual homes. “Due to the understandably heightened anxiety this winter we are working more closely than ever with grid operators on this, but would like to see more clarity from government on the plans for vulnerable customers.”

Another leading disabled campaigner, Fleur Perry, told DNS: “Like thousands of other disabled people, I need a reliable supply of electricity to live. “My ventilator has a back-up battery lasting six hours, and I have a few wind-up torches, but that’s it. “Some of my equipment does not have an internal battery, and so becomes unusable. “Every time there’s a power cut, I wonder how long it’ll be, whether I’ll need to travel to charge up, and if friends are OK. “Emergency planning must include disabled people, and go beyond just putting names on a register. “What we need is information about what will happen, and access to the right equipment to be prepared for power cuts. “We also need an energy infrastructure that is affordable, sustainable, and reliable.”

Journalist Raya Al Jadir relies on a ventilator 24 hours a day, and she contacted EDF and the hospital where she regularly receives treatment, the Royal Brompton, after she became concerned about the possibility of winter blackouts. EDF reassured her that “they will get to me within an hour or less to provide emergency energy” if there is a blackout. The hospital has given her a spare ventilator and batteries, so she now has three ventilators that she charges daily, but it told her that many other patients with muscular dystrophy had raised concerns. She added: “Like Covid, we are not thought about, and everyone is clueless on how to deal with it if it happens, which is a reminder that we are left to deal with this alone.” A spokesperson for the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust said: “We recognise some of our patients can be in a difficult position and we are working with them on an individual basis to help them as best we can.” An EDF spokesperson was unable to confirm how many customers have been given the kind of promise made to Al Jadir, but she said: “As a supplier, we continue to work very closely with the DNOs to ensure customers can be supported in the event of a power cut. “We are ensuring that we have identified any of our vulnerable customers with these sorts of needs, that they are on our Priority Service Register, and that this information has been shared with the DNOs.”

Mark Baggley, manager of Choices and Rights Disability Coalition in Hull, uses a ventilator at night while he’s sleeping, and he first raised his concerns two months ago. He told DNS this week: “I am extremely concerned that since raising the issue of possible power cuts and the effect on disabled people using lifesaving medical equipment, neither the energy companies nor the government have provided any reassurances or appear to have a plan of action. “It appears that registering as a ‘vulnerable’ customer doesn’t provide any practical support.” He added: “Like Covid, it seems that once again, disabled people are the last to be thought about, the most at risk and not important to the government or the energy companies.”

Martyn Sibley, co-founder of the disability marketing agency Purple Goat and the online magazine Disability Horizons, does not need a ventilator but has to keep warm and needs electricity to charge his wheelchair and his battery-operated ceiling hoist. He also has heard nothing of any contingency plans to protect disabled people in the event of winter blackouts, other than the advice to sign up to the priority service registers. He said: “No-one is able to stay healthy if they are freezing cold, but obviously with having a neuro-muscular disability, being sat down all day, having less circulation because I’m sat down all day, staying warm is harder and if I get cold, if I catch a cold that can be more dangerous.” He said he imagines that disabled people who use ventilators and similar equipment and will be in more directly life-threatening situations “would be even more stressed and anxious about what would happen if there was a power cut”.

Michael, from Surrey, needs to keep warm, needs electricity for his stairlift to go downstairs for food or upstairs to use the bathroom, and needs power for a machine to maintain consistent breathing when he is sleeping, while his stock of insulin needs to be kept in the fridge. He nearly died in the pandemic after spending four weeks in hospital with Covid in the first wave of the virus, which has left his lungs and body “fragile”. He said he was confident that the emergency helpline run by his DNO, UK Power Networks, “would not leave me stranded or at risk if I called for their help”, following a previous suspected power-cut when they were “incredibly helpful and kind”, but he has not been contacted by his supplier – EDF – and said he has no information about any contingency plans.

Dave Wood, from Mansfield, needs electricity to charge his electric wheelchair, to power his riser-recliner chair, and for his fridge, where he keeps medication that costs the NHS £2,500 per injection. He also needs electricity to run his gas central heating, which is vital because he has a heart condition and has problems regulating his body temperature, while he also has osteoarthritis.He has prepared a “blackout box” of emergency supplies in case there are power-cuts – including phone-charging power banks, thermos flasks, draft excluders, torches, good quality candles, and food and snacks – as he does not have confidence in the preparations being made by the energy companies and the government. He said he had tried to contact his supplier about his concerns but never received a reply, and he has had no contact from his supplier other than receiving an estimated usage of more than £4,000 for the next 12 months, for two people in a two-bed bungalow.

*National Grid owns the high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales, and – as the electricity system operator – balances supply and demand to ensure homes and businesses in Britain have the electricity they need.

^ This story may be from the United Kingdom, but the Disabled across the World have to “fend” for themselves in times of crisis – Blackouts, Storms, etc. Even when companies and agencies make emergency plans and when the Disabled inform these places of what help they will need in the end it is 99.9% up to the Individual or their Caregiver to figure everything out in order for them to survive. That is the sad fact of today’s world. ^

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/winter-blackouts-disabled-customers-fear-over-confusion-on-life-saving-support/

Silent Terror: Kherson

From the DW:

“Silent Terror - Kherson is Ukraine”

Since the beginning of March, the residents of the port city located in the south of the country have been subjected to the terror and arbitrariness of the occupiers. All access to Kherson was blocked, and the city suffered from a shortage of medicines, food, and cash. Thousands of people fled and there was scant news about those who had stayed behind. Ukrainian television was no longer received, replaced instead by Russian state channels. Strict exit restrictions were also imposed.  After more than eight months Russian forces withdrew from Kherson on 11 November 2022. But the horror of occupation will long be remembered. The film uses eyewitness accounts to describe the first days of the Russian invasion and gives a frightening impression of everyday life under occupation. 

^ Kherson, Ukraine was occupied by the Russians in March 2022 and illegally annexed into the Russian Federation in September 2022 before being liberated by the Ukrainian Military in November 2022.

This documentary, in English, shows some of the Horrors, the War Crimes, etc. the Russians committed on innocent Men, Women and Children during their Occupation.

It also shows the strength of the Ordinary Ukrainian who constantly stood-up to the Russian Occupiers even when they were being tortured, shot at and murdered.

This video shows the pure evil of the Russians (not just Putin, but his Millions upon Millions of Z Supporters: Russian Men Women and Children brainwashed and unable to think for themselves.)

Putin and his Z Supporters will be defeated, but their crimes and the criminals who supported and carried them out will forever be a dark stain on Russia's History - when Russia and the Russian People turned into Nazi Zs.

You can see the Documentary at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXBOrxvFJqc&fbclid=IwAR2HwbbRIC8cyfJdhGfWhIcb6yTehgpsxsej5ySFvIOGZPgaCrVKeNNZyYE

^

https://www.dw.com/en/silent-terror-kherson-is-ukraine/a-63716392

Better Sorry Than Safe

From the DW:

“EU agency says COVID checks on China travelers 'unjustified'”

Italy has called for EU rules on arrivals from China, where COVID-19 restrictions were scrapped despite a surge in cases. But EU health officials say the situation in China is not likely to affect the bloc. The European Union's health agency on Thursday said new blocwide measures in response to China's decision to lift its COVID-19 travel ban were not necessary.  Despite an unprecedented surge in coronavirus infections, China is easing its curbs on travel to and from the country following protests against its strict zero-COVID policy. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said it considered "screenings and travel measures on travelers from China unjustified." The agency said in a statement that the BF7 omicron variant prevalent in China was already circulating in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA), and that its threat had not significantly grown. "Given higher population immunity in the EU/EEA, as well as the prior emergence and subsequent replacement of variants currently circulating in China by other Omicron sub-lineages in the EU/EEA, a surge in cases in China is not expected to impact the COVID-19 epidemiological situation in the EU/EEA," the ECDC the said

Which countries will require COVID tests from travelers from China? India, Japan, Taiwan, Italy and the US are among the countries introducing mandatory COVID-19 tests on all travelers from China.  Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she "expects and hopes" for Rome's measures to be implemented on an EU level. "Italy cannot be the only country to carry out anti-COVID checks at airports for those arriving from China," said Matteo Salvini, Italy's deputy prime minister and transport minister. "I have asked that checks and possible limitations be applied throughout Europe."

How have other countries reacted to China's move? While French President Emmanuel Macron said he had asked authorities to take "appropriate measures" to protect citizens, French health officials said they saw "no reason" to reintroduce measures on travelers.  "From a scientific point of view, there is no reason at this stage to bring back controls at the borders," Brigitte Autran, head of the French health risk assessment committee COVARS, said on French Radio Classique on Thursday. Germany also said it saw no need to bring back travel restrictions. Austria noted that the return of Chinese tourists to Europe comes with economic benefits.

What travel rules is China easing?  Following two years of some of the world's strictest COVID policies, China began relaxing its lockdowns and extensive testing and announced that it would no longer release an official daily COVID death toll.  The country is scrapping its quarantine requirement for travelers from abroad on January 8. Until now, passengers arriving from abroad, including Chinese nationals, have had to quarantine for five days at a hotel, followed by three days at home. The move is widely expected to revive international tourism, as Chinese tourists had long made up a large proportion of the world's tourist population before the pandemic.

^ The EU, the US and the whole World downplayed the threat of what was going on inside China in 2019 and early 2020. Then we all saw and felt the real threat that we had brushed-off and which has killed over 1 Million Americans and over 6 Million People Worldwide in just over 2 years.

The Chinese Communist Government was not forthcoming with the World back in 2020 and it’s not being forthcoming with the World in 2022. The only reason they are stopping their “Zero Covid Policy” is because Ordinary Chinese Citizens are starting to protest and call for the Commies to be pushed out of power.

In January 2023 China will reopen its Borders to the World and an untold number of inflected people (believed to be in the Thousands if not the Millions) will easily travel to every corner of the World and infect everyone like they did back in 2020.

I’m not personally worried (since I am Fully-Vaccinated with 2 Shots, a Booster and the Updated Booster) but many others aren’t. The Hospitals in the US, Canada, the UK and many other Countries are already strained to the max with Covid, the Flu and RSV. Add to all of that a new Covid Strain coming from Thousands  - or again Millions - of People from China and we will be back to the dark days of the Pandemic where people were dying outside and we needed Refrigerated Morgue Vans.

Testing people coming from a Country is the smart thing to do – especially testing everyone coming from there (both Citizens and Foreigners.) It is better (and smarter) to require a simple test and not let the inflected to travel than to make broad and dumb statements about how safe we are and how things in China aren’t going to affect us here since we have seen, in just the past 2 years, how people who said that back in 2019 and in 2020 were completely wrong – deadly wrong. It seems many people would rather be sorry than safe when they should be safe and not sorry.  ^

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-agency-says-covid-checks-on-china-travelers-unjustified/a-64235864

UN To Visit

From Reuters:

“U.N. aid chief to visit Afghanistan over female aid worker ban”

(Martin Griffiths, the under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, briefs reporters on the famine and humanitarian situation in Mogadishu, Somalia, September 5, 2022.)

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths will visit Afghanistan in the coming weeks and will seek to meet the highest possible officials within the Taliban-led administration after it banned female aid workers, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday. "We regret to see that there is already an impact of this decision on our programs," Ramiz Alakbarov, U.N. humanitarian aid coordinator in Afghanistan, told reporters in New York.

The United Nations said on Wednesday that some "time-critical" programs in Afghanistan had temporarily stopped and warned many other activities will also likely need to be paused because of the ban. Alakbarov said that the humanitarian needs in Afghanistan were "enormous" and the United Nations was committed to staying and delivering help. He said the United Nations was actively working to get the ban reversed. The ban on female aid workers was announced by the Islamist Taliban-led administration on Saturday. It follows a ban imposed last week on women attending universities. Girls were stopped from attending high school in March. The Taliban seized power in August last year. They largely banned education of girls when last in power two decades ago but had said their policies had changed. The Taliban-led administration has not been recognised internationally.

^ I don’t see this visit or any like it as being successful. The Taliban don’t care about Human Life. They don’t care about the Millions of Afghans starving. They don’t care about the Millions of Afghans dying. They only care about being in power, what people wear and about hiding Women – probably because so many of the Taliban spent 2+ Decades only with Men in the Mountains and other isolated places. ^

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/un-aid-chief-visit-afghanistan-over-female-aid-worker-ban-un-official-2022-12-29/

Strong Man

 

120 Missiles

From the BBC:

“Russia fires 120 missiles from air and sea – Ukraine”

An air raid alert has been issued across Ukraine, as a fresh wave of Russian missiles targets major cities. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said more than 120 missiles had been launched at the population and civilian infrastructure. At least three people - including a 14-year-old girl - were taken to hospital after explosions hit the capital Kyiv, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said. Blasts were also heard in the cities of Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv and Zhytomyr. The regional leader of the southern province of Odesa, Maksym Marchenko, spoke of a "massive missile attack on Ukraine".

The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia was attacking the country from "various directions with air and sea-based cruise missiles". It added that a number of Kamikaze drones had also been used. Air raid alerts sounded in all regions of the country on Thursday morning. Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych urged civilians to seek shelter and said the country's air defences were operating. In Kyiv, two homes were damaged by debris from an intercepted missiles, according to the city military administration, while Mr Klitschko said "several explosions" had been reported. In the southern region of Mykolaiv, Governor Vitaly Kim wrote that five missiles were intercepted by air defences. Mr Marchenko said 21 missiles were shot down in the Odesa region. He added that missile fragments had hit a residential building but no casualties were reported. And in the Western city of Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy said several explosions had been reported. Mr Podolyak accused Moscow of seeking "to destroy critical infrastructure and kill civilians en masse".

Dozens of Russian attacks have pounded Ukraine in recent weeks, causing repeated power cuts across the country. The mayor of Lviv said on Thursday that 90% of his city was without power, while Mr Klitschko warned there could be fresh power and water cuts in the capital. Power cuts have already been reported in Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk. "They are introduced due to the threat of missile attacks, in order to avoid significant damage if the enemy manages to hit energy facilities," the DTEK energy supplier wrote. Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Military Administration in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, said missiles fired at his city had been launched from Russian "ships and planes from the Black Sea". Power in the city had been switched off as a "precaution", he added. Ukraine's southern command had already issued a warning that Russian force were preparing to launch up to 20 missiles from positions in the Black Sea. In one barrage earlier this month, Ukraine shot down 60 of more than 70 missiles fired by Russian forces. Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in its missile strikes. However, President Vladimir Putin has recently admitted that Russian troops have been hitting Ukraine's critical energy facilities. The admission followed allegations from some international leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, that targeting energy facilities could amount to a war crime. The government in Kyiv has pleaded with Western leaders to provide it with additional air defences, and US President Joe Biden recently agreed to supply its Patriot system.

^ If only Putin could fall off a balcony like his opponents then Russia's Genocide in Ukraine would end. ^

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64114784

2022 Deaths: 2

                                                           2022 Deaths

June

1^st: Anthony Drake, 81, English teacher, designer of the flag of Saskatchewan.

2^nd: Carl Stiner, 85, American military officer, commander of USSOCOM (1990–1993).

3^rd: Ann Turner Cook, 95, American author and model (Gerber Baby).

7^th: Carl, Duke of Württemberg, 85, German royal, head of the House of Württemberg (since 1975).

9^th: James C. Hayes, 76, American politician, mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska (1992–2001), first African-American mayor in Alaska.

14^th: Vladimir Stepanov, 95, Russian politician and diplomat, ambassador to Finland (1973–1979), first secretary of the Karelian Regional Committee (1984–1989).

16^th: Yuri Fedotov, 74, Russian politician, deputy minister of foreign affairs (2002–2005), ambassador to the UK (2005–2010) and executive director of the UNODC (2010–2019).

19^th: Clela Rorex, 78, American civil servant, issued first same-sex marriage license, complications from surgery.

26^th: Thue Christiansen, 82, Greenlandic visual artist and politician, designer of the flag of Greenland and minister of education (1979–1983).

28^th: Dennis Wilson, 101, British war poet.

30^th: Muriel Phillips, 101, American World War II veteran and writer.

 

July

4^th: Kunihiko Saitō, 87, Japanese politician and diplomat, ambassador to the United States (1995–1999), prostate cancer.

6^th: Jacob Nena, 80, Micronesian politician, president (1997–1999) and vice president (1991–1996), governor of Kosrae (1979–1983).

8^th: Shinzo Abe, 67, Japanese politician, prime minister (2006–2007, 2012–2020) and MP (since 1993), shot.

8^th: José Eduardo dos Santos, 79, Angolan politician, president (1979–2017), complications from cardiac arrest and COVID-19.

9^th: Ted Hunt, 102, British waterman, Queen's Bargemaster (1978–1990).

11^th: José Guirao, 63, Spanish cultural manager and art expert, minister of culture (2018–2020), director of Reina Sofía Museum (1994–2001) and deputy (2019–2020), cancer.

13^th: Anna Jakubowska, 95, Polish World War II combatant and community activist.

14^th: Francisco Morales-Bermúdez, 100, Peruvian politician and general, president (1975–1980), prime minister (1975) and minister of economy (1968–1974).

18^th: Delia Giovanola, 96, Argentine human rights activist, co-founder of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

19^th: Joan F. López Casasnovas, 69, Spanish Catalan language philologist, teacher and politician, member of the Balearic parliament (1983–1992).

23^rd: Nguyễn Xuân Vinh, 92, Vietnamese aerospace engineer and military officer, commander of the South Vietnam Air Force (1958–1962).

25^th: Paul Sorvino, 83, American actor (Goodfellas, The Rocketeer, Law & Order).

26^th: Oleksandr Kukurba, 27, Ukrainian military officer.

27^th: Tony Dow, 77, American actor (Leave It to Beaver, Never Too Young) and television director (Coach), complications from liver cancer.

27^th: Sir Christopher Meyer, 78, British diplomat, Downing Street press secretary (1993–1996), ambassador to the United States (1997–2003) and Germany (1997), stroke.

29^th: Julian Nava, 95, American educator and diplomat, ambassador to Mexico (1980–1981).

30^th: Pat Carroll, 95, American actress (The Little Mermaid, The Danny Thomas Show, Caesar's Hour), Emmy winner (1957), complications from pneumonia.

30^th: Nichelle Nichols, 89, American actress (Star Trek, Truck Turner, Snow Dogs), heart failure.

31^st: Oleksiy Vadaturskyi, 74, Ukrainian entrepreneur, founder of Nibulon, shelling.

 

August:

1^st: Anastasiya Kobzarenko, 88, Ukrainian director, librarian, and writer.

1^st: Sir Michael Pike, 90, British diplomat, ambassador to Vietnam (1982–1985).

4^th: Atakhan Pashayev, 84, Azerbaijani civil servant, chairman of the National Archive Department (since 2002).

6^th: Archie Battersbee, 12, British child, removal of life support.

6^th: Marilyn Loden, 76, American writer, coined the phrase "glass ceiling", small-cell carcinoma.

8^th: Dame Olivia Newton-John, 73, British-Australian singer ("I Honestly Love You", "Physical") and actress (Grease), Grammy winner (1974, 1975, 1982), breast cancer.

10^th: Dean S. Laird, 101, American World War II flying ace.

11^th: Jonathan Danilowitz, 77, Israeli flight attendant and LGBT activist, pancreatic cancer.

11^th: Anne Heche, 53, American actress (Donnie Brasco, Psycho, Another World), Emmy winner (1991), injuries sustained in a traffic collision.

12^th: Wolfgang Petersen, 81, German film director (Das Boot, The NeverEnding Story, Troy), pancreatic cancer.

13^th: Peter S. Bridges, 90, American diplomat, ambassador to Somalia (1984–1986).

14^th: Dmitri Vrubel, 62, Russian painter (My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love), complications from COVID-19.

16^th: Eva-Maria Hagen, 87, German actress (Don't Forget My Little Traudel, Goods for Catalonia, Meine Freundin Sybille).

17^th: Mehdi Mujahid, 33–34, Afghan Hazara militia commander (Balkhab uprising), shot.

18^th: Mari Montegriffo, 72, Gibraltarian politician, MP (1984–2007) and mayor of Gibraltar (1988–1995).

18^th: Rita Ndzanga, 88, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP (1999–2004).

18^th: Felix Novikov, 95, Russian architect (Krasnopresnenskaya metro station).

18^th: Virginia Patton, 97, American actress (It's a Wonderful Life, Black Eagle, The Lucky Stiff).

20^th: Bram Peper, 82, Dutch politician, mayor of Rotterdam (1982–1998) and minister of the interior and kingdom relations (1998–2000).

24^th: Frieda Posey, 75, American Teacher at DoDDS in Darmstadt, Germany.

24^th: William Reynolds, 90, American actor (The F.B.I., The Gallant Men, The Islanders), pneumonia.

24^th: Joe E. Tata, 85, American actor (Beverly Hills, 90210, Unholy Rollers, The Rockford Files), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

26^th: Roland Mesnier, 78, French-born American chef and author, White House executive pastry chef (1980–2004), complications from cancer.

30^th: Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, Russian politician, final general secretary of the Communist Party (1985–1991) and president of the Soviet Union (1990–1991), Nobel Prize laureate (1990).

31^st: Allan Hawke, 74, Australian public servant, chief of staff to the prime minister (1993–1996), high commissioner to New Zealand (2003–2005) and chancellor of ANU (2006–2008), cancer.

 

September

1^st: Adam Kułach, 57, Polish diplomat, ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2004–2010), European Union ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2012–2016) and Djibouti (2016–2020).

7^th: Marsha Hunt, 104, American actress (Pride and Prejudice, Blossoms in the Dust, The Human Comedy).

7^th: Bernard Shaw, 82, American journalist (CNN), pneumonia.

8^th: Queen Elizabeth II, 96, British and Canadian Monarch and Head of the Commonwealth (since 1952).

9^th: Mark Miller, 97, American actor (Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Guestward, Ho!, Savannah Smiles).

12^th: Oleksandr Shapoval, 48, Ukrainian ballet dancer, shelling.

12^th: Rimantas Šidlauskas, 60, Lithuanian diplomat.

14^th: Mária Wittner, 85, Hungarian revolutionary and politician, MP (2006–2014).

15^th: Liam Holden, 68, Northern Irish victim of a miscarriage of justice.

16^th: Mahsa Amini, 22, Iranian woman, subject of the Mahsa Amini protests.

19^th: Marilyn P. Johnson, 100, American diplomat, ambassador to Togo (1978–1981).

19^th: Shabsa Mashkautsan, 98, Romanian-born soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

20^th: Sergei Puskepalis, 56, Russian actor (Metro, How I Ended This Summer, Simple Things) and theatre director, traffic collision.

20^th: Nika Shakarami, 16, Iranian protester (Mahsa Amini protests).

21^st: Dean Caswell, 100, American World War II flying ace.

21^st: Anatoly Gerashchenko, 72, Russian aviation scientist and academic, rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute (2007–2015), mysterious fall.

21^st: Edward Mosberg, 96, Polish-American Holocaust Survivor (Kraków Ghetto, Kraków-Płaszów Concentration Camp, Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Mauthausen Concentration Camp.)

22^nd: Donald M. Blinken, 96, American diplomat, ambassador to Hungary (1994–1997).

25^th: Nikolai Kirtok, 101, Ukrainian-born Russian Red Army pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

27^th: Prince Ferfried of Hohenzollern, 79, German aristocrat and racing driver.

27^th: Judah Samet, 84, Hungarian-American Holocaust Survivor (Bergen-Belsen), public speaker and businessman, stomach cancer.

October

2^nd: Vladimir Kuts, 94, Russian World War II Veteran (the only Soviet citizen to have served with both the Soviet Red Army and the United States Army during World War II.)

2^nd: Sacheen Littlefeather, 75, American civil rights activist and actress (Johnny Firecloud, Winterhawk, Counselor at Crime), breast cancer.

2^nd: Carl Walker, 88, British police inspector, George Cross recipient (1972).

4^th: Günter Lamprecht, 92, German actor (Berlin Alexanderplatz, Das Boot, World on a Wire).

4^th: Loretta Lynn, 90, American Hall of Fame country singer-songwriter ("Coal Miner's Daughter", "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", "The Pill"), Grammy winner (1972, 2004, 2010).

5^th: Lenny Lipton, 82, American poet and lyricist ("Puff, the Magic Dragon"), brain cancer.

10^th: Michael Callan, 86, American actor (West Side Story, Cat Ballou, Gidget Goes Hawaiian), pneumonia.

11^th: Dame Angela Lansbury, 96, British-American-Irish actress (The Manchurian Candidate, Sweeney Todd, Murder, She Wrote) and singer, five-time Tony winner.

13^th: John Spender, 86, Australian politician and diplomat, MP (1980–1990) and ambassador to France (1996–2000).

14^th: Robbie Coltrane, 72, Scottish actor (Harry Potter, Cracker, GoldenEye) and comedian, multiple organ failure.

14^th: Ralf Wolter, 95, German actor (One, Two, Three, Cabaret, What Is the Matter with Willi?).

16^th: Helen Michaluk, 92, Belarusian activist, chair of the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain (1997–2013).

16^th: María Salud Ramírez Caballero, 109, Mexican centenarian, inspiration of Coco.

17^th: Sayed Yousuf Halim, 62, Afghan judge, chief justice of Afghanistan (2014–2021), heart failure.

23^rd: Marian Fuks, 108, Polish historian, director of the Jewish Historical Institute (1968–1969, 1971–1973).

23^rd: Jiří Kraus, 87, Czech linguist and translator, director of the Institute of the Czech Language (1994–2002).

24^th: Leslie Jordan, 67, American actor (Will & Grace, Hearts Afire, Call Me Kat), Emmy winner (2006).

25^th: Jules Bass, 87, American animator and television producer (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Last Unicorn), co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions.

26^th: Julie Powell, 49, American author, subject of Julie & Julia, cardiac arrest.

26^th: Christopher Yvon, 52, British diplomat, ambassador to North Macedonia (2010–2014).

28^th: Jerry Lee Lewis, 87, American Hall of Fame singer ("Great Balls of Fire", "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On", "High School Confidential") and pianist.

28^th: Hannah Pick-Goslar, 93, German-born Israeli Holocaust Survivor (Berge-Belsen) and Childhood Friend of Anne Frank.

November

1^st: Moshe Ha-Elion, 97, Greek-born Israeli Holocaust Survivor (Auschwitz) and writer.

2^nd: Andrey Titenko, 103, Ukrainian-born Russian World War II veteran, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

3^rd: Lois Curtis, 55, American artist and disability rights activist (Olmstead v. L.C.), pancreatic cancer.

3^rd: Yocheved Kashi, 93, Israeli Military Officer. The first Woman Paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces.

4^th: Nicole Josy, 76, Belgian singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1973), fall.

5^th: Aaron Carter, 34, American singer ("Crush on You", "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)", "Leave It Up to Me").

5^th: Irène Kaufer, 72, Polish-born Belgian author,LGBTQ+ activist, and trade unionist.

5^th: Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 89, Maltese politician, prime minister (1984–1987).

5^th: Shyam Saran Negi, 105, Indian school teacher, country's first voter.

6^th: Joel Sherzer, 80, American anthropological linguist, complications from Parkinson's disease.

7^th: Michael Butler, 95, American theater producer (Hair).

7^th: Leslie Phillips, 98, British actor (Carry On, The Navy Lark, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) and author.

8^th: Claes-Göran Hederström, 77, Swedish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1968)

8^th: Tenzin Pelsang, 56–57, Chinese Tibetan Buddhist monk and political prisoner.[599] (death announced on this date)

9^th: Mattis Hætta, 63, Norwegian singer ("Sámiid ædnan", Eurovision Song Contest 1980).

9^th: Kirill Stremousov, 45, Russian-Ukrainian politician and blogger, deputy head of the Kherson military-civilian administration (since 2022), traffic collision.

10^th: Kevin Conroy, 66, American actor (Batman: The Animated Series, Search for Tomorrow, Ohara), intestinal cancer.

10^th: Alan Park, 60, Canadian comedian and actor (Royal Canadian Air Farce), cancer.

11^th: John Aniston, 89, Greek-born American actor (Days of Our Lives, Love of Life, Search for Tomorrow)

12^th: Mehran Karimi Nasseri, 76, Iranian-born stateless refugee, inspiration for The Terminal, heart attack.

15^th: Frida, 13, Mexican search and rescue dog (Mexican Navy).

16^th: Robert Clary, 96, French-American actor (Hogan's Heroes, Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful) and Holocaust Survivor (Buchenwald.)

18^th: Bruce L. Christensen, 79, American television executive, president of PBS (1984–1992).

18^th: Tibor Pákh, 98, Hungarian anti-communist activist, revolutionary and political prisoner.

19^th: Jason David Frank, 49, American actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Sweet Valley High, The Junior Defenders), suicide.

20^th: Hebe de Bonafini, 93, Argentine civil rights activist (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo).

20^th: Joyce Bryant, 95, American singer, dancer and civil rights activist.

20^th: Mickey Kuhn, 90, American actor (Gone with the Wind, Red River, Broken Arrow).

21^st: Margherita Mo, 99, Italian partisan.

22^nd: Dame Frances Campbell-Preston, 104, British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1965–2002).

22^nd: Cecilia Suyat Marshall, 94, American civil rights activist, married to Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice and historian.

22^nd: Yurii Shukhevych, 89, Ukrainian dissident and politician, MP (2014–2019) and Hero of Ukraine.

25^th: Irene Cara, 63, American singer ("Flashdance... What a Feeling") and actress (Sparkle, Fame), Oscar winner (1983).

26^th: Vladimir Makei, 64, Belarusian politician, minister of foreign affairs (since 2012.)

28^th: Clarence Gilyard, 66, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger, Die Hard, Matlock).

29^th: Hiroshi H. Miyamura, 97, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.

30^th: Jiang Zemin, 96, Chinese politician, general secretary of the Communist Party (1989–2002) and president (1993–2003), mayor of Shanghai (1985–1988), leukemia and multiple organ failure.

30^th: Hale Zukas, 79, American disability rights activist.

December

1^st: Tumso Abdurakhmanov, 36, Russian blogger and Chechen dissident, shot.

1^st: Julia Reichert, 76, American documentarian (American Factory, Seeing Red, Union Maids), Oscar winner (2019), bladder cancer.

2^nd: Jaume Camps i Rovira, 78, Spanish lawyer and politician, member of the Catalan parliament (1980–2005).

2^nd: Raúl Guerra Garrido, 87, Spanish writer, National Prize for Spanish Literature (2006).

2^nd: Dominique Lapierre, 91, French writer (City of Joy, Is Paris Burning?, O Jerusalem!).

2^nd: Al Strobel, 83, American actor (Twin Peaks, Child of Darkness, Child of Light, Megaville).

2^nd: Tiit-Rein Viitso, 84, Estonian linguist.

3^rd: Kenneth O. Chilstrom, 101, American air force colonel and test pilot.

4^th: Yuriy Dubrovin, 83, Russian-Ukrainian actor (D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers, Trial on the Road, The Prisoner of Château d'If).

4^th: Bob McGrath, 90, American actor and singer (Sesame Street, Follow That Bird, Sing Along with Mitch), complications from a stroke.

4^th: Jacqueline Rigaud, 97, French resistance fighter, Righteous Among the Nations (2017).

5^th: Kirstie Alley, 71, American actress (Cheers, Veronica's Closet, Look Who's Talking), Emmy winner (1991, 1994), colon cancer.

6^th: Mills Lane, 85, American boxing referee and television personality (Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity Deathmatch).

6^th: Adolfas Šleževičius, 74, Lithuanian politician, prime minister (1993–1996).

7^th: Johnny Johnson, 101, British Royal Air Force officer (Operation Chastise).

7^th: Jan Nowicki, 83, Polish actor (Colonel Wolodyjowski, Spiral, Magnat), COVID-19.

7^th: Harry Yee, 104, American bartender, inventor of the Blue Hawaii.

8^th: Yitzhak Klepter, 72, Israeli singer-songwriter, composer and guitarist (The Churchills, Kaveret).

9^th: Herbert Deutsch, 90, American composer, co-inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

9^th: Qamar Gula, 70, Afghan singer, cancer.

9^th: Joseph Kittinger, 94, American air force officer and command pilot (Project Manhigh, Project Excelsior), lung cancer.

9^th: Ruth Madoc, 79, British actress (Hi-de-Hi!, Fiddler on the Roof, Little Britain), and singer.

9^th: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter, 76, American LGBTQ activist and archivist.

9^th: Fredrick Terna, 99, Austrian-born American painter and Holocaust Survivor (Auschwitz.)

10^th: John Fogarty, 75, New Zealand jurist, king's counsel (since 1990), judge of the High Court (2003–2017).

10^th: Grant Wahl, 49, American sports journalist (Sports Illustrated) and author (The Beckham Experiment), aortic aneurysm.

11^th: Frances Hesselbein, 107, American management consultant, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA (1976–1990).

11^th: Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, 96, American Hawaiian royal princess.

12^th: Mirosław Hermaszewski, 81, Polish cosmonaut (Soyuz 30).

13^th: Stephen "tWitch" Boss, 40, American dancer, television personality (The Ellen DeGeneres Show, So You Think You Can Dance) and actor (Step Up), suicide by gunshot.

14^th: Jacob Luitjens, 103, Dutch Nazi collaborator.

14^th: Frank J. Shakespeare, 97, American diplomat and media executive, ambassador to Portugal (1985–1986) and the Holy See (1987–1989).

16^th: Aleh Hulak, 55, Belarusian human rights defender, clot.

16^th: Denise Meunier, 104, French schoolteacher and resistant.

18^th: Lyudmila Agranovskaya, 90, Russian mountain climber.

18^th: Petro Pylypchuk, 75, Ukrainian judge, chairman of the Supreme Court (2011–2013).

19^th: Ali Ahmed Aslam, 77, Pakistani-born Scottish chef and restaurateur, credited with inventing chicken tikka masala, septic shock and organ failure.

19^th: Manfred Messerschmidt, 96, German historian (Germany and the Second World War).

25^th: Alexey Maslov, 69, Russian military officer, commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces (2004–2008).

26^th: Emilian Kamiński, 70, Polish actor (Akcja pod Arsenałem, Biały mazur) and theatre director.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2022