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

“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

WA-raised 11th Battalion

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

Just released: Nuclear Preparedness PSA

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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."

— BREAKING: Sri Lanka's president flees to Maldives after protesters storm his home - @SkyNews

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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

The bear will leave its cave forever.

Looks like International Law is back on the menu.

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

Response to Joel Davis on Atlanticism

Western friendship depended on America being a just guardian of international law and granting amnesty after WWII. Their exploitation of this unique position has been a catastrophe, not only for the European judicial order, but also against it – Americans have not escaped the consequences of this either. This catastrophe followed the worst injustice in history, which may never be righted. Nevertheless, it is essential to keep the extent of these events in mind, the degree of failure in the face of world power.

One cannot separate society from its mores and culture, they are part of its iconography. Despite the protests of a weak conservative position, and no matter the causes of gender wars, they represent a significant part of what the Western democratic order has become. To deny this is to miss something significant, especially regarding the underlying causes which led to the sexual revolution.
It may be partly a herald of the madness of the West, and also a response to the technical leverage placed on sexual mores. In any case, conservative s themselves are equally to blame and have not been able to create any substantial opposition.

Western unity is a falsehood, as much of the destructive order begins, both through colonialism and anti-colonialism, in and against the West. Germany was occupied and subjected to the worst humiliations, and today the whole of the West faces constant subterfuge and neutralisation by America and underground military agencies. To say that Eurasia could not have a unity in the face of this would be foolish. At the least they are far less divided than the West is now, and decades of pressure has brought them together out of necessity. This is not unlike the explosion of new countries admitted into the UN during the Cold War – enemies may be made into a legitimate union, if only temporarily, through radiating power of the great spaces.

In very broad terms, Western unity was based upon the Age of Discovery, the Peace of Westphalia, and Industrialisation. Each of these has come to an end, so there can be no return to a defeated Western unity. One must first understand the power and spatial shifts. What does this new era ask of us?

Decentralisation and depoliticisation will be absolutely necessary as the order shifts. However, I don't see a return of nation-states without the world dualism being resolved first. Nations and states will only be possible with a total world state or its destruction. Anything in between will only continue the interim, or mixed state, quality which acts against strong states and peoples.

Atlanticism has never been nationalist, its rise accompanies the final defeat of nations. And even if it were possible a new name would be necessary. If people are to rebuild the nations totally than the continental and world order can only undergo an even greater change. We must think in terms of a new millennium, and reconciling with the defeat of our nations. What part of a millennium would such an undertaking demand? This is the test of post-nationalism: building only after overcoming, not living from the defensive any longer. For us, we can only think of inheritance and sacrifice, that which was denied to us.

America did not uphold its duties to the West, and engaged in the worst injustices in history – for that there must be consequences. The possibility of an American uprising seems to have passed, so now it is a matter of divine intervention. Of course, they should not face vengeance or the world trials to which they subjected others, but their place on the world stage will have to be reconstituted; whether through war, civil war, revolution, or all at once. No matter, most people underestimate the changes that will, and must, take place in the coming years.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/joeldavisx/599