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The explosion of complex life may have occurred four million years earlier than previously thought. © Xiaodong Wang

China: The Origins of Complex Life Pushed Back to Before the Cambrian! (6.4.2026)

Associate Professor Fan Wei, a leader of the group, says, “After years of fieldwork, we finally found several sites with the right conditions where animal fossils are preserved together with abundant algae.”

Unlike most Ediacaran sites, where organisms are preserved as impressions in sandstone, the Jianchuan fossils are preserved as thin carbon-rich films. This is type of preservation is more typical of famous Cambrian sites such as the Burgess Shale in Canada.

This exceptional preservation reveals anatomical details rarely seen in Ediacaran fossils, including feeding structures, digestive systems and organs used for movement.

Associate Professor Ross Anderson, a co-author of the study from the Oxford Universities Museum of Natural History, says, “Our results indicate that the apparent absence of these complex animal groups from other Ediacaran sites may reflect differences in preservation rather than true biological absence.”

“Carbonaceous compressions like those at Jiangchuan are rare in rocks of this age, meaning that similar communities may simply not have been preserved elsewhere.”

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How Ogham Was Aligned with the Greci-Roman Alphabet.

Eire: Speaking [and Writing] the Irish Tongue! (6.4.2026)

She was also taught English at school by brutal school-masters. The children were beaten until they learned the English words – and this was by Irish teachers. As far as I am aware, Irish is a spoken language that was first written down in Ogham (lines pressed into the edges of clay tablets before firing – or engraved along the edges of standing stones – and known as the tree alphabet). Later, the sounds of Irish were transliterated into the received Greco-Roman alphabet – but this development was a contrivance – so that the invading English could understand what the Irish were saying. It would seem that the modern Irish learn to speak their language as normal – but now write it down using a foreign alphabet (English). Not only is this the case, but it would seem that a “French-like” accent (termed a “fada”) is used in modern Irish literature – such as over an “á” and other letters. Adding this mark – or taking it away – alters the sound of words and therefore the meaning of words. I suppose it amounts to “context” – but regarding literature (that is – the written word of modern Irish). As I cannot speak, read, or write “Irish” – I’m busking at the moment. My claim to fame is that my paternal grandmother (Gladys Kilmurray) could speak Irish – and that when her family members came to the UK to attend her funeral – they spoke Gaelic to one another and English to us. They seemed surprised that we could not speak Irish – but Nana was always reluctant to speak it in England due to the racism she used to receive for being “Irish”. Now, the racists would have believe the Irish have been “White” all along.

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Let the Mind Think Multi-Dimensionally!

UK: We Are Stuck in the Capitalist Mind-Set! (5.4.2026)

It is clear who is in control. Entertainments that dulls the awareness and fake news presented as fact. The US uses a most prolific form of social engineering to control the English-speaking people of the world. Democracy is a sham – an excess code used to gain entry to your most inner opinions and behaviour patterns. You will obey – or be considered an Enemy of the State. There is nothing sacred and all is up for grabs. Right is left, left is right, up is down, down is up, the fringes become the centre – as nothing is sacred in the this deception designed to maintain the political, judicial, and cultural control of this asymmetric distribution of profi. The police and military are very much part of this – as working-class people who join these anti-worker establishments are rewarded with certain benefits and immunities that others (their victims) do not receive. They arrest and kill us for breaking a system of law inflicted upon us by a hostile class power. The bourgeoises (and its institutions) act as if it is the theistic god the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christisnity, and Islam) purport to follow. 

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Conveyance Title - 71 Mount Pleasant Road, Brixhan

Brixham: Framed 1920 Conveyance Deed – Kai-Lin Helped Me Read It! (3.4.2026)

Today, such people are “preserved” as a “right” – as their presence helps us understand our own human history (the Celts – my ethnicity – used to strip naked, get drunk, and cover themselves in shit before a battle). But I digress. In the bedroom our two daughters are occupying – the above legal document has been “framed” and hung on the wall for all to see and admire. Indeed, until, this morning, none of us had actually noticed it. In 2026, this second-floor building (“71a” is beneath us) is termed “Rock Hopper” – and this is the name used in all the advertising literature. The back yard is a narrow strip of land – but I suspect that “71” and “71a” were originally one and the same dwelling. The steep rock-face at the end of the garden turns-out to be the edges of an old quarry – whatever that was used for – probably prior to these houses being built on a steep and narrow hill (incline).

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'Al-Michal-El- Ehole' missile

Iran: How Mickey Mouse’s Ears Assist the the War on Zionism! (1.4.2026)

Meanwhile, the Collective West, that bastion of moral guidance, has ignored the illegal (terroristic) attack on Iran by the US and Israel – and instead has blamed Iran for ‘bringing the problem upon itself’ by a) existing and b) insisting upon exercising self-determination – thus compounding the situation. President Putin is fighting a war on two fronts. The first is against Neo-Nazi Ukraine – whilst the second is internally preventing Russia from sliding back into Soviet Socialism. North Korea is battling with the contradiction that its soldiers have died fighting for a capitalist Russia in Kursk (how does this fit in with Juche) – whilst the Communist Party of China is grappling with the paradox of how building capitalist market forces reconciles with constructing a new society premised upon the auspices of Scientific Socialism.

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Chechen ground fighters. (File photo)

Iran: Chechen Military Units to Join Islamic Republic if Trump Invades! (31.3.2026)

If this is true – Press TV is not always accurate (like the BBC, CNN, or Sky, etc) – then this would bring Russia in direct conflict with the US. I am not sure it is true as I have read the leader of Chechnya has made anti-Iran statements – but some say that this is not true. Swings and roundabouts. What I do know is that in the first months of the Russian “liberation” of Donbass the Chechen soldiers led the way against the Western-backed Neo-Nazi forces of Ukraine. I watched hours of footage of Chechen soldiers fighting hand-to-hand with the AFU, the Hitlerite Azov and all the Westerners wearing AFU uniforms. The Chechens were very effective and brave fighters and I will never forget their collective contribution to the anti-fascist cause. The Soviet Red Army, of course, possessed Muslim regiments, as it did Buddhist regiments.

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