Footage from cameras aboard the spacecraft. (Photo courtesy of CCTV)

China’s “Red Menace” Grows in Space! (24.3.2026)

In September 2022, cosmonauts on the Shenzhou-14 mission became the first Chinese crew to eat vegetables they had grown in orbit. The mission completed full growth cycles for crops, including wheat and dwarf tomatoes. It also achieved the first full life-cycle cultivation of rice in space, from seed to seed.

Subsequent crews have continued to expand the range of crops grown aboard the station, including lettuce varieties and cherry tomatoes. More recently, astronauts have experimented with sweet potatoes, with samples returned to Earth for further study.

Space-based plant cultivation is aimed at supporting long-duration missions by providing food and aiding oxygen and water recycling, while advancing research for deep-space exploration. Microgravity may also alter plant growth cycles, offering insights into plant biology and potential applications on Earth.

Happy Chinese New Year of the Double (Red) Fire Horse!

UK: ICBI Chinese New Year Message – Lunar Spring Festival – 4724! (17.2.2026)

As compassion and loving kindness grows and is magnified through the more people it is shared with – these statements act as “ripples” of positive energy emanating that traverse through the portals of the past, present, and future – excluding none and embracing all! Of course, the Buddha defined the human mind as being that capacity which can perceive the present, recall the past, and plan for the future. This is a remarkable observation. What the Ch’an School offers, infused as it is with the thinking associated with Confucianism – and the far older “Book of Change” – is that the mind should a) be “stilled” (realising a relative emptiness), b) a product of purifying all vestiges of greed, hatred, and delusion, and c) and in so-doing experiencing the expansion of this “emptiness” realisation into an “all-embracing” reality.

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UK: How to Get “Banned” from the US – Deluxe Edition! (15.2.2026)

I am told that I am not only permanently “banned” from ALL US-controlled social media – but a warm cell awaits me if I dare to leave the safety UK sovereign shores. However, if the right kind of government somehow manages to acquire power in the UK – this situation might deteriorate rapidly – and it will be off to Cuba for me! Of course, I could go to North Korea or China – but I would have to traverse many unfriendly territories – and as I am not the wanted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu – the chances are I will be detained even though I have committed no crime. We are the Red Devils and we are dialectically seeping into the cracks of the predatory capitalist system!

Nalta Issues Chinese New Year Stamps - 2026

Malta: Commemorative Stamp – Celebrating Chinese Lunar Year of the Horse – Issued! (12.2.2026)

According to MaltaPost, the Year of the Horse stamp features an elegant design that blends elements of traditional Chinese silk luo with artistic concepts inspired by Maltese lace-making. The stamp will be available at major post offices across Malta and through online sales channels.

Speaking at the ceremony, Chinese Ambassador to Malta Zhang Zuo said that the stamp, carrying messages of friendship and good wishes, would become a warm and positive chapter in the history of cultural exchanges between China and Malta.

Malta’s Ambassador to China John Busuttil, who addressed the event via video link, said that the zodiac stamp project serves as a vivid example of bilateral friendship and offers the Maltese public greater insight into China’s rich cultural heritage.

Uncle Joe Will See Us Through!

UK: Red Family Solidarity Montage! (16.1.2026)

A Red tribute to being working class and on track for a Socialist Revolution and the eventual Communist transformation of society. Trotskyism and politicised religion will be no more. Trotsky can be studied in the libraries – whilst religion will become a private matter. The working class is created generation after generation by the bourgeoisie – simply because the capitalists cannot exist without workers – which they need to exploit. It is the greed of the middle class which ensures that the working class is perpetuated from one era to the next. This cycle of breeding for exploitation will continue until the bourgeoisie is overthrown.

Flag of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and State of Palestine (1988-Present)

Flag of Palestine – a Short History! (6.9.2025)

This is because this flag, although adopted by the Arab Socialist Baath Party, is actually a flag which possesses a deep and profound association with a) the history of theological Islam, and b) the history of the physical spread of Islam. An ahistorical statement currently originating from the depths of US anti-intellectualism (and mindlessly trumpeted by the political far-right) – is that the British Tory (and British Army Officer) – Sir Mark Sykes  – “designed” not only the Palestinian Flag – but ALL subsequent Arab national flags. This obviously “racist” pseudo-history has its origins in William Easterly’s (2006) book entitled “The White Man’s Burden”. No Arab-language source agrees with this ridiculous assessment – or even bothers to mention this degenerate tome.

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