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Blogger’s Note: For a number of years in the UK – I regularly lived with a North Indian (high-caste) family who had migrated from the
Blogger’s Note: Having accessed a Chinese-language version of this text, it is clear that it has been published to honour the upcoming “Year of the
During the event, Martin provided an extensive account of his childhood, describing a background shaped by neglect, instability, and prolonged periods within state care during the 1970s. He said he was frequently left unattended as an infant, prompting intervention by neighbours and authorities before being placed into institutional care.
He was adopted at the age of four, but said his early experiences had already resulted in deep psychological trauma. According to Martin, behavioural issues during childhood were often treated as personal failings rather than symptoms of neglect, a pattern he said reflected the limitations of welfare and mental health systems at the time.
By his early teens, Martin said he was regularly consuming alcohol and struggling at school. He reported being expelled from multiple institutions and later spending time in juvenile detention, including on his 16th birthday.
In the 1950s, the members of the democratic youth league defended their country in the flames of the war, and the Chollima movement pioneers rehabilitated this land on the debris of the war; in the grim period when the destiny of socialism was at stake, your parents’ generation defended their country, their social system. In this way, all the generations of our Republic have left behind legendary tales and structures, signs of their exploits, which are symbolic of their youth and which are named after their generations.
Shining on all these achievements are the feats performed by the youth league in implanting in the young people the sense of duty and obligation as befits the successors to the revolution and in firmly maintaining the tradition of purity, patriotism and loyalty of the youth movement of Korea.
Furthermore, the Vatican was permitted to retain ALL the advantageous it was granted by the Mussolini regime. After the war, the Pope asked Churchill to resettle 10,000 Ukrainian SS men in the UK on the grounds they were “good Catholics” – despite them raping, torturing, and murdering millions of loyal Soviet men, women, and children. This request was agreed and these Nazi Ukrainians were distributed throughout Scotland under the cover story that they were “Polish”. Andras Kun OFM appears to have been expelled from the St Franciscan (monastic) Order he was a member of in 1943 for refusing to stop his overt totalitarian support. Andras Kun was a member of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM) – a Catholic mendicant order founded by St Francis of Assisi in 1209 – which is dedicated to living the Gospel, practicing poverty, and fraternity, often called “little brothers” (Friars Minor) for their humility. A “monk” is not a “priest” – and although the monk Andras Kun was training to be a priest – he never qualified. It seems the Vatican abandoned him whilst he was tried and executed in Hungary – a staunch Catholic country – which is once again right-wing today.
Iranian authorities said the peaceful protests had been hijacked by “vandals,” and the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Friday that security forces had detained about 3,000 people in connection with the unrest.
Amid the easing tensions, short message service in Iran was resumed on Saturday, while schools will reopen on Sunday after a one-week closure, according to Iranian media.
Also on Saturday, Lebanon’s Hezbollah voiced firm support for Iran. In a televised address on the Hezbollah-controlled al-Manar channel, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem called Iran a “stronghold of resistance” and accused the United States of seeking global domination.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday night strongly condemning what it called “meddlesome” remarks by the Group of Seven nations concerning the recent unrest, urging the group to stop interfering in Iran’s internal affairs.