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Timeline and reconstruction of summer solstice celebrations as they might have appeared at Bulford 5000 years ago © Wessex Archaeology

UK: Strange Stories from England – Proto-Stone Henge Dsicovered! (19.6.2026)

“The discovery at Bulford is fundamental because it’s the earliest example of people building things here that aim directly at the solstice. When we talk about the solstice, we’re talking about religion. About how prehistoric peoples understood the cosmos, the world, and their place in it. What we see at Bulford, and later at Stonehenge, is a way of celebrating and marking the passage of time, but it’s also about making sure the world keeps working as it should. It’s likely their way of saying to their deities, please keep us in mind, keep us warm and safe. It’s a religious event. That’s why it’s so important.”

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The Re-Arranged Family Shrine - 2026

UK: The Family Shrine Re-Arranged for the Passing of My Father! (18.6.2026)

Even if no member of a Chinese family has not trained in a formal spiritual order – incense will be regularly lit, and fresh flowers and fruit will be added every so many days. Of course, some shrines are kept-up at a greater degree than others – but this does not matter in the end. A family shrine is a door-way between one plane and another. It is a two-way structure that permits a solemn respect to traverse from the material realm into the immaterial realm – and allows a positive spiritual reality to emanate from the immaterial plane to the material realm. Today, I talked to my deceased father – and I did this via a photograph that my mother took and printed-out for me probably around 2010. The photograph was taken in the front garden of our old home at 2 Torbay Road, Torquay Road, Torquay, Devon (the shyster landlord took over a hundred thousand pounds in rent between 2002-2018 before applying a no-fault eviction because we requested a repair be made). As this was 16-years ago – my father would have been around 68-years old at the time. I suppose my father was at the peak of his power as an elderly person! Tomorrow we will collectively lit incense. It is the next stage of respectful mourning.

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USSR: Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx [1933] Newsreel Footage! (18.6.2026)

Although I have read about this in Western sources, and I assume it to be true, I have never found any evidence (as yet) in the Soviet Archives. I am, however, assured that these events did take place. The camera angle for the Harpo clip is incredibly limited – as if the camera-operator was not permitted to film anyone else – or the original clip has been edited. I suppose at the time the Soviets were suspicious of the US intentions. After-all, Roosevelt was forced to pass a disclosure law in 1940 which saw the Communist Party of the US “withdraw” from the “Third Communist International” – a huge blow to World Communism at the time and a major contributing factor to the Third International being dissolved in 1943 (as half the world was trying to destroy the USSR at the time). When faced with the continuous barrier of bourgeois lies and deception – we must advance our own proletariat research inch by inch. I find it interesting that the Marx family was good friends with Charlie Chaplain – which might give you a hint of their political leanings (the US government expelled Charlie Chaplain and stole $20 million of his own money in 1952 – because he was far-left – and a personal friend of Ho Chi Minh).

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80 000 Wooden Blocks of Complete Collection of Buddhist Scriptures

DPRK: Buddhist Sutras on Display! (17.6.2026)

On a slightly different note, there was an English man called “Stephen Bachelor” who travelled to South Korea and joined a Buddhist monastic order. Indeed, I believe he eventually met the woman who would become his wife – at the time a Buddhist “nun”. Upon returning to the UK he established a Buddhist College in Devon – but as the years went by he started to describe himself as an “atheist” who do not believe in any form of religion or mysticism. He even banned Buddha statues from his meditation rooms – and when my teacher – Richard Hunn – was invited to teach, he also banned all incense. Of course, Buddhism is not a religion with the Buddha being described as “non-theist” (he said gods only seem to exist until believers realise they are non-existent). Yes – monotheism was unknown in the Buddha’s time – so it is interesting to consider what exactly it was that Mr Bachelor was reacting to? Did he think Buddhism was a religion – and the Buddha a god? Is this what they were teaching in South Korea?

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One of the US bases in Okinawa lies at the heart of Ginowan city

Okinawa: US Military Crimes Continue on Occupied Island! (16.6.2026)

US soldiers, regardless of skin-colour, are “racist” in that they are trained by the US education system to view Asians as being racially inferior. Furthermore, The Japanese, being equally “racist” – view Okinawans as second-class citizens as many of them are of ethnic Chinese origination (Okinawa used to be a tributary State of the Chinese empire) – and this is why the US is permitted to retain a military base on Okinawa. The Japanese do not care what happened to the Okinawans – and the US do not care what they do to the Okinawan people.

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The crowd stands in tribute before the commemorative monument, Aug 25, 2015. [Photo by Chen Mengwei and Wang Zhuangfei/chinadaily.com.cn]

China: Bravery of Soviet Red Army & People’s Army of Mongolia Remembered in Langwogou! (15.6.2026)

During WWII, the Japanese aggressors committed atrocious crimes across the Chabei region in northern China. They spent years constructing extensive military fortifications and blockade trenches, and seizing grain, livestock, and other vital resources on a massive scale while exploiting and enslaving the local population. Civilians were arbitrarily detained and killed, and those suspected of supporting resistance forces were subjected to brutal torture. Countless people were displaced and plunged into dire suffering. Even more heinous, the Japanese army conducted large-scale bacteriological warfare in Zhangbei County and across the Chabei region. They forcibly conscripted locals for live human experimentation and deliberately spread epidemics throughout pastoral areas, inflicting untold misery upon the local population.

In August 1945, the Soviet Union and Mongolia declared war on Japan. Mechanized units of the Soviet and Mongolian forces crossed the border and advanced into the Chabei region to fight the Japanese aggressors. Guerrilla units of the Chinese Eighth Route Army operating behind enemy lines provided support. As a result, the main forces advanced with unstoppable momentum, and liberated multiple counties in the Chabei region. On August 15, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and Zhangbei County was subsequently liberated.

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