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ADOLF HITLER: Downfall and Ressurection

  From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):


        DAY  USA  WORLD   Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9    1093     4732        1185        246       82
July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120      572
Aug    12     1504     6556        1242       835      130
Sept     9     1208      6222       1136      1168       82
Oct     21     1225      6849         571       703       85
Nov    25     2304    12025        620         518      118
Dec    30      3880    14748      1224        299      465
Jan     14       4142     15512       1151         189      712              
Feb      3       4005   14265       1209       107      398
          25       2414    10578        1582        119      144
Mar     2        1989    9490        1726        110      194
          30         873   10854        3668        355      78
April   6          906   11787         4211         631       37
         14          921   13550         3462       1037      75
         20         883  13905         3481       2020     130
         21          876  14088          3157       2102       53

Summary:  

If you can't access the NYT, you can Google similar information from other sources.

Today is Earth Day, and President Joe Biden, with Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, has been hosting a 2-day virtual global climate change summit.  All the important leaders are involved, including Xi of China, Modi of India and Putin of Russia.  To begin, it is clear that China, the U.S., India and Russia are the four worst polluters:

Can you imagine where the world would be on this matter if Donald Trump had won?  On the other hand, what promises nations make are nearly meaningless.  There is no enforcement provision.

Four years ago I mentioned Downfall, a 2004 German war film starring Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler on Amazon Prime.  I checked Rotten Tomatoes, and saw that this 2.5 hour epic scored 90/94.  I had never before seen the movie, and it was FREE, so I did.  But then, as the scenes unfolded, they looked familiar. Yes, those Hitler rants parodies, known popularly as internet memes, I remembered as hilarious.

The first of them appeared in 2005, mostly in Europe.  However, over the next decade or so, Constantin Film took down those parodies.  Lately, the company figured out they were being benefited from them, so you can again watch these videos.

Hundreds of these were made:

I yesterday ended with a giraffe.  Can you find it here?

Sticking to African animals, here is one of those tearjerkers:

Is this a true story.? Yes, it is.

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Once Super Typhoon Surigae, reaching 190 MPH on April 17, the strongest ocean storm ever in the month of April, could have been disastrous, but just happened to ease by the Philippines and Taiwan, and will not threaten Japan:

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