Angry depositors gathered outside the People’s Bank of China in the city of Zhengzhou on Sunday demanding their money back, following similar demonstrations in May and June.
Videos circulating online showed hundreds of demonstrators, some of whom were holding banners accusing local officials and police of corruption, being surrounded by police and beaten by identified men wearing white.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/7/11/chinese-police-arrest-suspects-in-bank-scandal-behind-protests
Videos circulating online showed hundreds of demonstrators, some of whom were holding banners accusing local officials and police of corruption, being surrounded by police and beaten by identified men wearing white.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/7/11/chinese-police-arrest-suspects-in-bank-scandal-behind-protests
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Chinese police arrest suspects in bank scandal behind protests
Four banks in Henan froze millions of deposits in April, leaving individuals and firms unable to access their funds.
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“All night we talk of this object. How much farther can it be? Beyond the Ganges, that we know. But how distant is that? No guide can tell us. I cannot overstate how this excites me. To stand where no man of the West has stood before! To behold that which none has seen! And forever to be the first!
Do you think me vain or self-inflated? Consider: What has almighty Zeus portioned out for man, save this earth? Heaven He has kept for Himself. But this sphere here, beneath this sky, we mortals may roam with naught to hem us but our own will and imagination.
I can see Earth’s Limit. It shines before my inner eye like a city of crystal, though I know, when I reach there, it will be but a shingly strand beneath an alien sky. No matter. It is Earth’s Ultimate, of which not Heracles or Perseus have dreamt, but only I.
What will I seize when at last I stand upon that shore? Nothing. I shall not even bend to pick up a stone or shell, but only clasp my mates’ hands and gaze with them upon the Eastern Ocean.
That is what I want.
That is all I want.”
—The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield
Do you think me vain or self-inflated? Consider: What has almighty Zeus portioned out for man, save this earth? Heaven He has kept for Himself. But this sphere here, beneath this sky, we mortals may roam with naught to hem us but our own will and imagination.
I can see Earth’s Limit. It shines before my inner eye like a city of crystal, though I know, when I reach there, it will be but a shingly strand beneath an alien sky. No matter. It is Earth’s Ultimate, of which not Heracles or Perseus have dreamt, but only I.
What will I seize when at last I stand upon that shore? Nothing. I shall not even bend to pick up a stone or shell, but only clasp my mates’ hands and gaze with them upon the Eastern Ocean.
That is what I want.
That is all I want.”
—The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield
Soldiers’ journey from WA to an ancient world
Nothing could possibly have prepared the 1026 men of the WA-raised 11th Battalion for what awaited them after they sailed away from WA in November 1914.
The 11th was the first battalion raised in WA and was also in the first convoy to head for the battlefields.
If any thought they were headed for the European theatre of war, they were sadly mistaken. Instead, they disembarked in Egypt in early December to continue training.
Incredibly, they found themselves not only a world away from home but also in an ancient world.
https://thewest.com.au/news/anzac/soldiers-journey-from-wa-to-an-ancient-world-ng-b881005365z.amp
Nothing could possibly have prepared the 1026 men of the WA-raised 11th Battalion for what awaited them after they sailed away from WA in November 1914.
The 11th was the first battalion raised in WA and was also in the first convoy to head for the battlefields.
If any thought they were headed for the European theatre of war, they were sadly mistaken. Instead, they disembarked in Egypt in early December to continue training.
Incredibly, they found themselves not only a world away from home but also in an ancient world.
https://thewest.com.au/news/anzac/soldiers-journey-from-wa-to-an-ancient-world-ng-b881005365z.amp
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Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton: "As someone who has helped plan coup d'état—not here but, you know, other places—it takes a lot of work. That's not what [Trump] did."
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Forwarded from The way of the warrior
Japan, the land of the rising sun, the world of Tradition, the cult of ancestors, the cult of the elements - the Sun, the Moon, Water, mountains, streams, groves. The unique etiquette of the samurai. A warlike and heroic nation, mobilized for a common and total service to the highest solar ideal.
All this contrasted sharply with what we see in our homeland, in Germany and in Europe as a whole. Cosmopolitan cities, selfishness, capitalism, the market, venality, oblivion of higher ideals.
But at the same time, how close is Japan to the romantic soul of a German patriot, in love with German myths and legends, full of nostalgia for that golden feudal age, when Tradition flourished on the European continent — the age of Knights, Holy Empires and Magical Kings.
~ Karl Haushofer
All this contrasted sharply with what we see in our homeland, in Germany and in Europe as a whole. Cosmopolitan cities, selfishness, capitalism, the market, venality, oblivion of higher ideals.
But at the same time, how close is Japan to the romantic soul of a German patriot, in love with German myths and legends, full of nostalgia for that golden feudal age, when Tradition flourished on the European continent — the age of Knights, Holy Empires and Magical Kings.
~ Karl Haushofer
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The bear will leave its cave forever.
UK Outraged After British Volunteer Dies In Russian Custody In Ukraine, Summons Ambassador
A British volunteer who had been arrested in April in the Russian-held southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has died in captivity. He was being held by pro-Russian forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) for "mercenary" activity.
British media and the UK government have long maintained that the 45-year old Paul Urey was an aid worker and was illegally detained. UK officials are outraged and are pressing the issue with Russian counterparts. "We are urgently raising this with our Ukrainian allies and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs," the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office announced Friday.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/british-volunteer-dies-pro-russian-separatist-custody-ukraine
A British volunteer who had been arrested in April in the Russian-held southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has died in captivity. He was being held by pro-Russian forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) for "mercenary" activity.
British media and the UK government have long maintained that the 45-year old Paul Urey was an aid worker and was illegally detained. UK officials are outraged and are pressing the issue with Russian counterparts. "We are urgently raising this with our Ukrainian allies and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs," the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office announced Friday.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/british-volunteer-dies-pro-russian-separatist-custody-ukraine
ZeroHedge
UK Outraged After British Volunteer Dies In Russian Custody In Ukraine, Summons Ambassador
The Kremlin accused him of being a "mercenary" while his family insists he was an aid worker...