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Wearing red is not limited to red clothes, red socks, and red belts, but can also be red jewellery, red mobile phone cases, as long as the items you carry with you are red.
There are two special days when wearing red is appropriate:
i) The first day of the first lunar month, during the Spring Festival, wearing red can add to the festive mood.
ii) The second is the beginning of Spring. As the beginning of the year, the beginning of Spring means the start of a new cycle.
Within China, there is a custom of “Avoiding Spring” (避春 – Bi Chun) at the beginning of Spring, that is, avoiding offending the numerous “Tai Sui” (太岁 – “Grand Aged”) gods that equate to the 12 stars opposite Jupiter (later expanded to 60 deities) – so people choose to wear red on this day in the hope of bringing good luck.
Everyone shapes their own destiny. Hard work, kindness and wise choices will help you succeed.
No matter what – I hope everyone will experience a smooth journey throughout the Year of the Snake (2025-4723) and welcome the arrival of boundless happiness and good luck!
I thank all those who contributed to the decision announced today by the United States to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, where it should never have been and which, along with two other measures adopted, has had a high cost for the country and Cuban families .
It is a decision in the right direction, although it was taken late and with limited scope . The blockade and most of the extreme measures that were put in place since 2017 to suffocate the Cuban economy and cause shortages for our people remain in place .
Recently, Eire (Ireland) has joined this rapidly developing case of Israel committing War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity! Meanwhile, the UK’s former Toy MP – Michael Gove – has called for the perpetuators of this “Genocide” – the “IDF” – to be the recipient of the “Noble Peace Prize” in a column he writes for the “Jewish Chronicle”! The collective delusion is exactly how Mussolini and Hitler came to power! In 1975, the UN passed a Resolution declaring “Zionism” to be a form of “White Supremacy” developed in late 1800s Germany – primarily by “White” secular Jews.
The first female clerks, responsible for typewriting invoices and the telephone exchange, were employed in 1885. The new hires may have been surprised to find the company brochure had a dedicated ladies’ section called ‘Matters Feminine’. However, the suffragettes would not have been too impressed with its content. Topics mainly included cooking, family and fashion.
‘It is all very well for a man to smile at the feminine love of clothes, and dismiss them as being of very little importance in life. Women know better. Husbands, who profess not to admire fashions, are not slow to complain at the dowdy appearance of their wives,’ read one passage.
In the following decades, many of the women employed found promotions were very much possible. Anne Edwards, who got a job as a clerical assistant in 1957, wrote: “Brilliant employers, they paid for me to attend Pitman’s College to extend my shorthand skills. They monitored my progress, my typewriting skills and promoted me from junior to manager’s secretary in the same department. I loved working there.”
Of course, sexual deviancy is a distinguishing factor seen in the far-right – developed upon the Hitlerite grounds that those who constitute their victims are considered “sub-human” – and are therefore not protected by anti-abuse laws! Many Jewish offenders, for instance, claim the Bible justifies their sexual abuse of non-Jews (goyim) – and that as a “divine race” they should not be subject to the rigours of secular law. Ivor Caplin, who has made a career using secular law to oppress others and further his career, accts in these videos as if he should not be subject to secular law! As I suspect these videos will “go missing” – I have made my ad hoc copies!
