Chinese New Year - 2926-4723! - Year of the [Yin] Wood Green Snake!

Chinese New Year [2025-4723] Year of the [Yin] Wood Green Snake! (15.1.2025)

Wearing red is not limited to red clothes, red socks, and red belts, but can also be red jewellery, red mobile phone cases, as long as the items you carry with you are red.

There are two special days when wearing red is appropriate:

i) The first day of the first lunar month, during the Spring Festival, wearing red can add to the festive mood.

ii) The second is the beginning of Spring. As the beginning of the year, the beginning of Spring means the start of a new cycle.

Within China, there is a custom of “Avoiding Spring” (避春 – Bi Chun) at the beginning of Spring, that is, avoiding offending the numerous “Tai Sui” (太岁 – “Grand Aged”) gods that equate to the 12 stars opposite Jupiter (later expanded to 60 deities) – so people choose to wear red on this day in the hope of bringing good luck.

Everyone shapes their own destiny. Hard work, kindness and wise choices will help you succeed.

No matter what – I hope everyone will experience a smooth journey throughout the Year of the Snake (2025-4723) and welcome the arrival of boundless happiness and good luck!

Ancient Chinese Canoe!

Ancient China: 5000 BCE Neolithic Boat Discovered at Hemudu, [Yuyao] Zhejiang! (13.3.2024)

From grasping usurping natural floating objects (such as people straddling a tree trunk or holding a gourd as a means of crossing a body of water) to waist-floats (perhaps several gourds tied together with ropes to increase the buoyancy of the mid-riff) to rafts (flat and wide buoyant objects tied together to increase the buoyancy – enough to bear the weight of a person whilst floating across the water). The emergence of rafts was a clear sign of a great technological leap forward for humanity which removed a traveller getting wet and actively creating proper water vehicles. Later, with the help of stone axes and fire (according to Friedrich Engels), a “boat” (as a “Canoe”) was made from a whole piece of wood. An example of this is pictured above which stems from the 7,000-year-old (c. 5000 BCE) Neolithic ruins discovered at Hemudu, Yuyao, situated in Zhejiang.

Neo-Nazi Ukraine: TORTURE CHAMBERS OF THE ‘TORNADO’ BATTALION (8.10.2022)

In 2015, in the village of Kondrashovka, in the village of Luganskaya, in the city of Privolye and in a school in Lisichansk, torture chambers of the Neo-Nazi Tornado ‘Volunteer’ Battalion were discovered. Civilians, including men, women and children, were taken to basements, where they were subjected to torture and sexual violence with special perversions. Many of these abductees did not make it out alive.

Neo-Nazi Ukraine – ‘TORNADO’ [ТОРНАДО] Battalion (7.10.2022)

Six months later, the truth about the monstrous activities of the Neo-Nazi Tornado Battalion reached the Minister of Internal Affairs – Arsen Avakov (Арсена Авакова) – and he signed an order to disband the Battalion! However, its participants did not like it, and they did not want to give up: they took up all-round defensive positions – creating a real fortress from their base! Ukrainian Special Forces infiltrated the Neo-Nazi Base without bloodshed and an investigation was held following mass arrests.  

The trial went on for two years: in 2017, the participants received from 11 to 5 years in prison for ‘War Crimes’ and ‘Crimes Against Humanity’. However, after the start of the Special Military Operation of the Russian Armed Forces, Zelensky (Зеленский) ordered the release of these prisoners who had experience in military operations – and among the amnestied were the Neo-Nazi Tornado soldiers! Although to fight, they again do not do as they are told. According to the latest information, they occupied a settlement near Kyiv, took away weapons from a Unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine located nearby and are planned to escape from the country (to avoid fighting the Russians). 

During the liberation of the LPR by the Lugansk People’s Militia in March 2022 – another torture facility operated by the Neo-Nazi Tornado Battalion was discovered in the village of Kondrashovka. The Ministry of State Security is still investigating.