Gaetano Donizetti: 'Lu Trademiento' (flute & guitar). скачать в хорошем качестве

Gaetano Donizetti: 'Lu Trademiento' (flute & guitar).

   • willie-whistleblower   The wistful Neapolitan song interpreted here on flute and guitar. (The cat will be getting his appearance fee). ______________________________________________________ 15 or so years ago Paul “Pen” Farthing a former Royal Marine, established the Nowzad charity in Kabul to care for animals suffering the fallout of war. Since Farthing first adopted his own street dog in 2006 while stationed in Helmand, Nowzad had reunited 1,600 soldiers back home with animals they cared for on active service, while establishing a pioneering veterinarian practice and neutering programme. Farthing had been living at the compound since the beginning of the pandemic. Given the charity’s symbolic and practical mission, with Kabul about to fall, it was clear that he had to get both his team and the animals out of harm’s way. So he launched Operation Ark , a fundraising operation, to charter a plane to transport its staff and their dogs and cats to the UK. “We could see the horrendous situation that was unfolding on the ground at the airport,” Farthing says. “The terrible images of people falling off planes. So for us, this was potentially a good news story.” (meaning of this sentence unexplained in the Guardian's report..) A threatening voicemail he’d sent to a Ministry of Defence official demanding visa assistance had surfaced in the papers. The Tory MP Tom Tugendhat was relaying a story about how an Afghan man had asked him why Britain was prioritising dogs over children. The Foreign Secretary was holidaying in Greece and with Mr Farthing exerting immense pressure on the Foreign Office, it seems that No 10 saw fit to take a personal interest in the case. It seems that, with Afghans clinging on to airplane undercarriages and dropping to their deaths and, given the potential adverse publicity, only someone of the highest authority could have sanctioned an airlift out of the country (even by private charter) filled with pets and not people. Mr Farthing was only too well aware of the agonising conflict between saving people or pets and he still sees the briefing to the media about “pets over people” as a deliberate smokescreen for the scandalous ineptitude of Britain’s exit. Naturally enough, No 10 denies any involvement in the decision to fly out pets while Afghans loyal to Britain were left to a potentially terrible fate at the hands of the Taliban. It would be too much to expect of our then leader to be courageous and up front by telling the truth about his involvement, direct or indirect. Suffice it to say that had he himself had relatives in danger and in need of a plane seat, he would not have given their seat to a dog. The truth of this bizarre incident will forever be shrouded in mystery, but as someone with considerable concern for animal welfare (admittedly less than Mr Farthing himself) it has to be seen as shameful that HMG acted in so inept, heartless and negligent a manner vis à vis loyal Afghan citizens in their hour of greatest need of Britain's help.