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UK: Late-September – Time to go “Conkering”! (3.10.2026)

03/10/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

Two people would face-off in a Conkering Competition – with one holding their stringed conquer “still” – whilst the opponent “swung” their stringed conquer at it with as much force as they could muster. The impact would either do nothing – damage and/or smash the conker. The swing could also miss. I seem to remember the one strike each – or agreed number of strikes – often three-swings each. Today, children still marvel at the dropping of horse-chestnuts – but do not really know what to do with them. Kai-Lin, my ten-year old daughter, has gathered-up about 20 conkers from the local park. It seems that local schools banned Conkering due to injuries being sustained by participants and those watching. Although not officially banned – this draconian approach amounted to much the same effect.

Rolando Torres-Pena walking in the unit, with his legs covered by material wrapped around his waist.

UK: The Anatomy of Destroying a Once Great Health Service – the Tories, LibDems & Labour Have Blood on Their Hands! (16.9.2026)

16/09/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

As I live in the UK – there are certain realities regarding this case (which is far from uncommon) which if I state in writing – I risk being contacted by the police, warned, arrested, charged, and imprisoned. Draconian measures practiced by desperate governments do not change material facts. If you know me, you know I have no malice in my heart – and you know whose side I am on. However, as I have an insight into the internal workings of a collapsing NHS – I know exactly what is happening. Unqualified “guests” are being invited to take posts in the NHS that are the product of “deskilling” – or the deliberate government policy of replacing university-educated medical staff with uneducated and unqualified friends from abroad. Labour has continued the shut-down of the NHS – so do not look for any solace there. Ten unqualified “guests” are supposed to controlled by one qualified staff member – but this is seldom the reality on the ground. As I suspect this story will disappear down the memory-hole – I have reproduced it in detail here.

Marc Corrieiri who dressed as an Oompa Loompa for hen parties, has been charged with a string of vile sexual offences involves victims as young as 13-years-old

Scotland: “Equal Heights” Oompa Loompa Found “Guilty” of Sexual Offenses! (7.9.2026)

07/09/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

The court heard how Corrieri had a “fetish” for tights and stockings, and these would often feature in his grim requests made to the victims.

Detailing the experience of one 14-year-old targeted by the perverted performer, the prosecutor said: “He sent requests to send images wearing tights and offered to pay for videos of her having sex with her boyfriend.

She felt threatened and asked him to stop but he continued until she blocked him”, before adding that he talked about having “a fetish for stockings and feet.”

Corrieri, who is 4ft 2 and from Motherwell, admitted to a total of 10 sexual offence charges involving a total of six underage victims aged between 13 and 17.

In the course recently concluded in Cuba, 735 young people from 62 countries graduated. Photo: Dunia Álvarez Palacios

Cuba: An International School for Health & Hope! (3.9.2026)

03/09/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

At the end of this academic year, Cuban universities delivered 30,185 new professionals to the country and the world. Engineers, architects, pedagogues, scientists, nurses, technologists… Young people who have sweated in the classrooms, who have studied with just the right resources, who have overcome fatigue and adversity to become what this country needs to move forward.

Among those 30,185 there are 735 young people from 62 countries. Students who came from all continents – Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe – who shared desks with Cubans, who learned our language, our medicine, our solidarity, our way of understanding life as service. Who return to their lands with a degree and, also, with a way of seeing the world that is not taught in any manual.

And among them, two figures should make the blindest pause: 23 new Palestinian doctors.

Young people who will return to their land – a land that burns under bombs and rubble – not with weapons in their hands, but with stethoscopes around their necks. With the knowledge to save lives in the place in the world where it is most needed. With the ethics that Cuban medicine instills: first the human being, then everything else.

UK: “Soul” & “Psyche” (ψυχή) Are Not “Interchangeable” When Discussing Greek Philosophical Texts! (29.8.2026)

29/08/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

The term Tyndale translates as “soul” in English is the Greek term “psychas” (ψυχὰς) – is the “plural” the more familiar “psyche” (ψυχῇ) – which translates as “breath of life”, “to blow” and “to animate” (in Latin, the Greek term “psyche” is presented by the term “anima”). This probably represents the Hebrew term “Neshama” (נשמה) – meaning “breath”, “spirit”, or “essence” (inner self). The early Christians were radical Jews seeking to distinguish their thinking and practice from mainstream Judaism. The Gnostic Christians were content to use Greek philosophical terms and parallel many Greek paths of inner self-cultivation. Later, with the rise of the Catholic Church (empowered by the Roman State), the Gnostic Churches were suppressed and their scriptures outlawed. Catholic theologians, although continuing to use Greek terms (translated into Latin) – radically departed from the original philosophical meaning of those terms (the teaching and practice of Greek philosophy was banned). This process of moving away in meaning is particularly evident when it is understood that the Greek written form of “psyche” (ψυχῇ) has been replaced in translation by the Germanic (Pagan) term “soul”.

UK: Gimme Some Truth – an Interesting John Lennon Album, Documentary & Documents! (25.8.2026)

25/08/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

This is why I admire the genius-structure of “Taxman” – but thoroughly reject the underlying selfishness that informed its production. As for ideology – The Beatles were all over the place. I think “money” was their god – and the transcending freedom this gave them from the cycle manual labour, paying bills, and being in debt – enabled them to take drugs, reads books and explore different realities – realities not normally open to the British workers of the day. John Lennon was did flirt with Maoism (and had an affair with his “Chinese” Secretary) – and they all wore Lenin-type hats from time to time (I do not think Lennon knew anything about Maoism). But this does not amount to Revolutionary action. According to the US government – Lennon was a “Trotskyite” – but I doubt his ideological development had progressed to him taking sides in the unfolding of the Soviet Revolution. He once said the the Socialist had messed-up the world as much as the capitalists – and this was to a group of UK students! Perhaps we expect too much from our millionaires as the game they play is designed to enrich and then move privilege away from the path of Revolution (keeping them firmly ensconced within reaction).

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