Road trip to Xinjiang, by Hua Bin - The Unz Review - Seeing-is-believing beauty

 (Obviously, China is not burdened by a foreign rulership sucking the last drop of blood and ounce of treasure from its residents. - CL)

....While June to August is high season for Xinjiang, everything is remarkably affordable.

Our two-bedroom space capsule by the waterside at Sayram Lake cost $220 dollars a night. That was the most we paid on the trip.

The bed and breakfast places as well as Holiday Inn type hotels cost between $50 to $70 dollars with free same-day cancelation and complimentary breakfasts.

Free self-help laundry services are available in all the placed we stayed.

Incredibly, accommodation at low season is 40 to 60% cheaper.

A sit-down meal costs $7 to $10 dollars per person with drinks. A half-pound naan, a clay oven baked flatbread, cost less than $1. Turpan grapes, the best in China, cost $2.5 per kilo. Gasoline is $1 per litre. Diesel is 85 cents per litre.

On my last driving day from Sayram Lake to Urumqi, the total toll for the 580-kilometer 4-lane express way is RMB205 ($29).

The rental cost of my Great Wall Tank 400 Hi4-T hybrid, with a range of 850 to 900km full battery and full tank, is RMB220 ($32) per day, inclusive of insurance.

Prices of things in Xinjiang, like the rest of the country, are easily affordable. Retail prices for home electronics have stayed the same for at least a decade; car prices have actually dropped by 20 to 30%.

Full text and pictures to see what he saw:

https://www.unz.com/bhua/road-trip-to-xinjiang/#comment-7685833 

Why China Doesn’t Have a Wall Street and Why It Doesn’t Want One - By Dr. Yu Bin Professor of Economics at Zhejiang University

 Capital is a fundamental component of economic development regardless the political-economic system that employs it. What renders Capitalism deadly is the lack of regulation and not dedicating its purposes for the good of the general public, which could easily be done via corporate charters and business law.

A few articles ago, I informed readers of an English language Chinese publication called The China Academy that provides another source for Chinese views on critical geopolitical and geoeconomic issues. The most major distinction between China’s system and the West’s was its relegation of finance to the public realm at the outset of the New China’s existence in 1949—perhaps the most important aspect of Communism/Socialism the privatized West can’t stand and will wage war to overturn as we’ve seen with USSR/Russia/Cuba and a smattering of others. Financial control as I noted in my last article is the primary pillar of the Class War between Creditors and Debtors that’s been ongoing for 4,000+ years. One of the reasons the Kuomintang was so poor at governance was its very deep level of corruption—easily as deep as the Trump Gang’s—and is the primary reason for its being overthrown. The Chinese are outstanding students, and they’ve studied the West and the Outlaw US Empire for decades to see what China might use and what China must avoid. China decided it must avoid the accumulation of great wealth by individuals for political usage. The Jack Ma example is the best available. China’s been extremely protective of its financial system because they knew it was weaker than the West and that the West has tools at the ready to undermine and capture it setting the clock back to 1900. In 2024, Xi Jinping gave a landmark speech at a closed venue about making China into a financial powerhouse and outlined the steps to take. That speech was kept classified until February 2026 when it was published and I reported it in-full. What many didn’t know was that China had already been working hard for two years and had already instituted some of the required steps. China learned that its industrial success would attract Capital wanting to benefit from that success, and so it has. Several articles I’ve read speak about the entry of Big Capital into the development funding mixture augmenting what the CPC funds via the budget. IMO, it’s very possible that Hong Kong and Shanghai displace New York and London as the planet’s main financial centers—yet another reason why China’s being targeted by economic war. Now that the table’s set, let’s read what Dr. Yu Bin has to say about the issue:

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/why-china-doesnt-have-a-wall-street?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1779344&post_id=209417989&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

....As we discovered, the article’s title is misleading since China has stock and bond markets. The main difference is Capital and its influence is heavily regulated and not allowed to go beyond the set boundaries. Capitalists are to remain capitalists and not meddle in China’s political affairs. We do see human failure often enough where some official is caught taking bribes, an offense that can merit the death penalty that proves China’s seriousness on the matter. One possible reasoning is political involvement takes business away from concentrating on what it’s supposed to be doing—innovating, modernizing, opening new markets, etc. China has a massive very well educated political class that’s proven itself very adept at governance, although like all humans it errs occasionally. There’re several instances in US history where to promote the public welfare the federal government needed to intervene in markets, energy production and electrification most prominently during the Great Depression. There’s also what was known as the American System promoted by Federalist then Whig politicians that called for government investment in fundamental infrastructure projects like roads, bridges and canals. (It’s a shame railroads weren’t included at their outset.) The Anti-Communist Crusade was all about the preservation of private ownership versus public ownership of Capital and related assets. It’s easy to see the very strong anti-public bias of the wealthy who fueled the Crusade and its propaganda. And with deregulation government was captured by Neoliberal Dogma where the public domain is seen as something to devour to the point where nothing much is owned by the general public—even your house and car are owned by the bank that provided the credit for that purchase. The Empire currently has 25%+ of its people living with their parents because they can’t afford housing. And those people have no incentive to procreate. In his Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy, published in 2015, Dr, Hudson described where Neoliberalism and adherence to its dogma would lead, and we’re living it now. The nations that rejected the West’s prescription have prospered, which is fundamentally why they’re targeted by economic and/or kinetic warfare. China avoided that by adopting what seem to be rather simple ideas related to the common good that provide the foundation for avoiding societal unrest and raising almost a billion out of poverty. It’s easy to see why the West doesn’t want the Global Majority to emulate the Chinese model of development.

The test for China is to keep private capital closely regulated. Chinese history is filled with tales of landlords exploiting the peasantry while corrupting the local government charged with disciplining them, while more recent examples during Chaing Kai-shek’s rule and what transpired on Taiwan during the dictatorship there remain living memories for many. I’m sure some readers were surprised at China’s view of personal freedom versus corporate designs and the asking of fundamental questions regarding that relationship that certainly aren’t being asked in the West to the same degree. The question being asked by a growing number of people is will we have Socialism or Barbarism and how do we get to the former from the latter......

Xi Jinping on the Chinese Financial System

 The Chinese journal Qiushi, the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee Bimonthly, has published in its third 2026 edition “Take the road of financial development with Chinese characteristics and build a financial power,” which as it says in an endnote “is an excerpt from General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech at the seminar on promoting high-quality financial development by major leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels on January 16, 2024,” which makes it two-years old. The obvious question is why now? The answer appears to be connected to the implementation of the 15th 5-Year Plan which is being rolled-out today as this report by Global Times documents. A salient fact about the self-described Marxists and Marxist-Leninists of the Soviet Union and China was revealed at the very end of a podcast featuring Michal Hudson and Vijay Prashad—Hudson:

I had spent a year of my life studying Marx’s theories of surplus value. At the beginning, only volume one was translated. Russia fought against its being translated, and the Communist Party actually destroyed the printer’s plates for volume two because it was so upsetting. Same thing in China. They’re not very happy at all to hear discussions of volumes two and three of Capital.

That prompted me to ask Dr. Hudson at his Patreon page if he would explain further. Here’s what he shared:

It's a long story. One dimension is that the Stalinists only focused on Vol. I: industrial employers exploit labor. The other is the confusion of Stalinists (incl Maurice Dobbs) between price and value. For China, they already kept money as a public utility. But they did not tax land or distinguish between economic rent (unearned income) and value, with Rent = Price - Value. They simply rejected Marxism as tainted by Stalinist bureaucracy and avoided studying Marx's Vol II and III since 1980 under Deng. Their universities give priority to Chinese students who have studied economics in the United States and simply have been neoliberalized.

So, we can conclude that the self-described Marxists weren’t very Marxist since they rejected Marx’s most important tracts. IMO, this revelation is very important for both historical and contemporary reasons. Dr. Hudson knows China well as he often taught courses there and has a series of them in video format. But exploring this isn’t the aim; rather, it’s purpose is to show what Xi prescribes is a hybrid that blends traditional Chinese philosophy with Marxist and other Western political-economic thought. It should also be noted that many elements of what follows are incorporated into China’s various Global Initiatives and into its developmental philosophy for the Belt & Road and also finds its way into bilateral trade agreements.

Another reason why Xi’s speech was delayed publication for two years is China’s own development, particularly its performance in winning the Trade War initiated by Trump in 2025 that saw its correct anticipation of Trump’s actions and the methods taken to avoid them while generating a record Yuan valuated amount of exports. Thus, there’s national self-confidence that allows China to present its vision of what constitutes a proper financial system:

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/xi-jinping-on-the-chinese-financial?utm_source=publication-search 

The Shadow Government Steering America’s Iran War, by Jose Alberto Nino - The Unz Review

 https://www.unz.com/jnino/the-shadow-government-steering-americas-iran-war/ 

Ultimately, the consistency of these organizations’ influence proves that the American presidency is merely a rotating office, while the true center of sovereign power resides elsewhere. Regardless of who sits in the Oval Office, these entities maintain the structural ability to direct the nation’s security and foreign policy to suit their own strategic interests. Until this shadow government is dismantled or stripped of its institutional control, the United States will remain a blunt instrument of organized Jewry’s will, systematically deployed to sow chaos across the globe at the expense of its own citizens.

You can now easily search through every executive in federal government - Government Executive

 https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/01/you-can-now-easily-search-through-every-executive-federal-government/393053/ 

WTF Is Deuterium? - (A fascinating article by Capt Randall on this and other Q&A's dealing with health. - CL)

 ....My Dad always told me not to dive into water if you don’t know how deep it is.  He wore a dent in his forehead as a reminder, yet people break their necks every year from such a thoughtless dumb stunt.

Science itself never understood water or the hazards of deuterium until>>>>>

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Pollack!

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I always looked before I leaped, but had no idea of the depth of the secrets held by simple stupid water,…until Dr. Gerald Pollack performed a few “simple stupid” experiments.  

The discovery of EZ (exclusion zone) gel-state layering in water surrounding hydrophilic surfaces with its charge potential, “The 4th Phase of Water”, should have changed the foundations of science.  

It should have earned the dear gentleman a Nobel Prize, yet “the science” was too complicated and stupid to recognize the magnitude of his work.  I did, and structured water rounded-out my view of our electrical nature.

He found that light, heat and sound along with vortexing structure water; why I make Sun Tea in a gallon Ball jar and have copper vortex pipes coming off my wells and pool pump.

The pH of my well water rises while pool water feels smoother and silky as the vortex spins-out heavier molecules and separates them from the central water.

Pollack also came up with a logical, novel and intriguing theory that most oxygen and CO2 don’t actually enter the bloodstream due to the size of their molecules and the speed at which they must traverse lung epithelia!  He proposed the idea that electrons and protons actually penetrate lung tissues in time allotted.  City air is loaded with positively charged ions and kills millions each year, while forest air and the air following thunderstorms is loaded with negative ions, smells great so breathe deep!

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Deuterium/Kruse/Seneff

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Things happen at walls, interfaces and our countless membranes within.  That’s where things come and go, like oxygen, electrons, protons, nutrients and enzymes; the pearly gates of bio-function.  Via the negative charge of EZ water, positively charged molecules are excluded, but what’s more this crystalline gel acts as a battery to maintain system voltage upon which our water-bag bodies are powered.

An isotope of hydrogen with an extra neutron that makes deuterium heavy is expelled by these coherent water layers. Because it’s heavier it gets vortexed-out in the heart to be more safely kept in the bloodstream. Deuterium is attracted by magnetic fields and has a higher boiling point.

Deuterium builds if not eliminated and clogs the metabolic machinery as well as crippling DNA methylation and expression!

The body naturally eliminates deuterium via gut bacteria and vagal activation as well through a number of healing methods we are already familiar with.

Coherent water is disrupted by pollutants such as Roundup/glyphosate, fluorides, pharmaceutical residues, metals as well as fearful stressful negative emotions (see Dr. Emoto’s water crystallization experiments).

Glyphosate kills the very bacteria that de-deuterate water as it ties up essential minerals.

RFK Jr. tried to ban Roundup, but chemical farmers, the USDA and a “very intelligent” Trump said NO,… keeping it in use despite tons of lawsuits by cancer sufferers! 

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I found symptoms of manganese deficiency in my citrus trees after constant irrigation with well water here in farm country where Roundup is commonly applied to corn, sunflowers and weedy fields.  That well water has not been tested for glyphosate levels by our water managers for “some strange reason” (Big Ag?) and probably hindered soil bacteria from removing deuterium,…and Jack Kruse blames Florida’s citrus decline and susceptibility to greening on deuterium buildup......

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/capt-randall/wtf-is-deuterium/ 

....Science is not that spooky once one gets over the jargon and confusing synonyms.  All the scientists I mentioned have websites, interviews and youtube entries.  Check ’em out, get educated in what I see as accurate information, and most importantly learn to apply the principles for a longer healthier life.

Rethinking Brain Health: A Systems Approach to Preventing Cognitive Decline

 The Cognitive Brain

Cognitive decline represents one of the most feared consequences of aging—not simply because of memory loss, but because it erodes identity, independence, and the essence of self. While Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are often framed as inevitable consequences of aging, a growing body of evidence challenges this deterministic view. Cognitive decline is not a singular disease process but rather the culmination of multiple interacting biological insults: metabolic dysfunction, vascular injury, chronic inflammation, mitochondrial failure, oxidative stress, and impaired proteostasis.

Importantly, many of these processes begin decades before the first clinical symptoms appear. This long preclinical phase presents a critical opportunity: cognitive decline is, at least in part, preventable and modifiable.

Emerging evidence supports a multi-domain, systems-based prevention strategy, analogous to the “multi-axis metabolic pressure” model increasingly applied in oncology. Just as cancer cells adapt to single-agent therapies, the aging brain resists simplistic, single-intervention approaches. Effective prevention requires coordinated interventions targeting multiple biological pathways simultaneously.

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Pathophysiology of Cognitive Decline: A Systems View

Cognitive decline arises from the convergence of several interrelated biological processes:

......Conclusion

Cognitive decline is not inevitable. It is the cumulative result of modifiable biological processes acting over time. By targeting these processes early—through lifestyle, metabolic optimization, and selected pharmacologic interventions—we can substantially reduce risk.

The most effective strategy is not a single intervention, but a coordinated, multi-domain approach that supports metabolic health, preserves mitochondrial function, reduces inflammation, and enhances neuroplasticity.

In this sense, preventing cognitive decline is not about treating disease, it is about maintaining the resilience of the brain.

https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/rethinking-brain-health-a-systems?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5737269&post_id=192450053&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email