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

          31        1115   12301        3950        458      58

April   6           906    11787        4211        631      37

          20         883   13905         3481      2020    120

          21         876  14088          3157      2102      53

Summary:  

• Not good.  Is the pandemic declining?  Nope.  
• The World, with 888,256 new cases yesterday, broke its all-time record.  
• The previous worst was on 8 January 2021 with 843,970.
• Then on 13 February 2021, new cases dropped to 388,173.
• According to the New York Times:
• New infections around the world hit a record last week, with much of the increase in India.
• The pandemic canceled flu season.
• Virus resources: Global Maps & Cases | Global vaccinations | Vaccine Q & A

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:

• Hitler interviews Bruno Ganz.
• Here is a ten-minute video celebrating ten years of Hitler Rants Parodies.  
• On this one, he finds out about these Downfall Parodies.  

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  Ranker selected a TOP TEN. 
• Hitler rants about the Year 2020.
• Only made last month, Hitler's Burger King double whopper order disaster.
• You need to be from Europe to appreciate Hitler's reaction to the proposed European Super League.  This effort just failed.  

• 
  Hitler phones Biden.
• Well, this one you got to watch, Hitler finding out that Biden is now president.

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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