cause – SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR)

Hong Kong residents visit the site of Wang Fuk Court, a residential area in Tai Po of Hong Kong, offering flowers and paying their respects to the victims on Nov. 2, 2025. (Photo: China News Service / Hou Yu)

China: 159 Lives Claimed [140 Bodies Identified – 31 Still Missing] in Hong Kong Reidential Fire – Full Socialist Mechanism of Support Initiated! (4.12.2025)

04/12/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

Health Bureau is covering all medical, medication and rehabilitation costs for victims.

The blaze had claimed 159 lives by 2 p.m. on Wednesday, with 31 people still missing, the Hong Kong Police Force said at a press briefing earlier Wednesday. A total of 140 bodies had been identified, said the police, adding that the victims were aged between 1 and 97 years old.

The police have completed the search for remains inside all seven fire-hit buildings, and will expand the search to the vicinity to check for remains under scaffolding that collapsed in the flames.

UK: Palestine Action Prisoners Plan Hunger Strike! (30.10.2025)

30/10/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

This is why the UK-jailed Palestine solidarity activists are warning of hunger strikes as reported by Saeed Pourreza in London. The idea is to shame the UK Labour government into breaking its financial and military support for Israel and unbanning Palestine Action! Of course, the mainstream UK government is ignoring this protest and we have to rely on foreign news broadcasters to find what is going on just down the streets we live in!

Soviet Red Army Soldiers Meet British Army Soldiers - Iran (1941)

When the Left & Right Adopt One-Another’s Ideals! (30.8.2025)

01/09/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

The history is perhaps not so clear-cut as above – as when the UK controlled Palestine between 1917-1947 – British troops were called upon to keep the warring Muslims and Zionists apart. This meant that both sides viewed the UK as an enemy – and a friend – depending upon what was happening. Zionists, for instance, carried-out some the most hideous terrorist attacks upon British citizens and military – as did the various Arab factions. Indeed, even today, some of the Palestinian factions fighting in and around Gaza – still celebrate an ambush (and massacre) of British soldiers which occurred in 1936 – and which is believed to have been encouraged by Adolf Hitler (a man who had very good relations with the Mufti of Palestine). Not only did certain German Jews (Zionists) in Palestine develop very a good Hitlerite relationship – but they did this in parallel (and in distinction to) the good relations the Arabs already possessed! Hitler, at least in the years prior to WWII, held all the cards in Gaza, and was the puppet-master pulling all the anti-British strings.

Email: Contextualising Reform UK – Which Flag Do You Fly? (7.5.2025)

07/05/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

Towns and villages are being turned into barracks for young male workers from abroad. This process began with the dissolution of the USSR – which used to maintain half the world in a state of stability. Of course, Capitalism is the cause, foreign workers the symptom. Whereas the right attacks the symptom (the workers) – the left should attack the cause (capitalism) – but we live in interesting times where narratives are becoming blurred and confused. The bourgeois establishment is practicing the age-old policy of “divide and conquer”. Workers from different parts of the world are being placed in a small geographical area and forced to fight for an equally small number of jobs. The question becomes “How do we on the left walk this tightrope?” My Chinese children, for example, share a classroom with a number of Ukrainian children – who have openly disagreed with the teacher about Hitler (the Ukrainians think Hitler protected the White race) – and made racist comments to my two daughter (my two daughters are the problem – not themselves).

CSA: Oliver Hardy’s “Confederate” History! (5.4.2025)

05/04/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

The comedy duo – “Laurel and Hardy” (Stan Laurel being from the UK) still make millions of people laugh all the time. It would seem that like many people living in the Southern States, the family of Oliver Hardy were originally from England. I find the Confederacy to be a complex period of US history – often misrepresented by prevailing narratives. It is as if the dominant narrative-writers want to hide something that was present in the South between 1861-1865 – but which is inconvenient to know today. My own view is that there was Revolutionary dialectics in operation that could have led the US in an entirely different direction. I find that this observation is just as unpopular with neo-Confederates as it is with the Federal government in Washington DC!

Wimbledon: Buddhapadipa Temple & the Family of Geese! (29.5.2024)

29/05/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

It possesses a modest park with a small body of water, a mansion house and a temple complex. Indeed, we have visited here many times in the past. As with all such temples – it is free to enter – and no-one interferes with acts of private meditation. On occasion, the robed-clad monks (Bhikkhu-Beggar) might be seen walking through the grounds. As all animal cruelty is strictly forbidden, the local wildlife tends to behave in a much more relaxed and content manner – as if each animals perceives the “Dhamma” (Teaching) that is being practiced. Whatever the case, such an environment allows children to develop a caring attitude of respect for all animals – just one of the reasons we take our children to such places!

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