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Brisketexan

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7 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

China, get off your fucking ass and set this party off right. 

God.  You are such an unoriginal thinker.  China-Taiwan is so predictable.  Want shit to get lit and REALLY catch people off guard?  We need a new war between Paraguay and the triple alliance.  Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina all at war again?  Now THAT'S some cool shit.

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God.  You are such an unoriginal thinker.  China-Taiwan is so predictable.  Want shit to get lit and REALLY catch people off guard?  We need a new war between Paraguay and the triple alliance.  Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina all at war again?  Now THAT'S some cool shit.

Meh, it's not as interesting when there isn't nuclear brinkmanship and the end of the planet involved. But a little South America Boogaloo could certainly bring some spice. 

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Meh, it's not as interesting when there isn't nuclear brinkmanship and the end of the planet involved. But a little South America Boogaloo could certainly bring some spice. 

Yep, but then how do the hipsters get their Mate? Glad I have a few pounds of it hidden in my secret bunker. 

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19 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Meh, it's not as interesting when there isn't nuclear brinkmanship and the end of the planet involved. But a little South America Boogaloo could certainly bring some spice. 

Oh.  So you're one of those sheeple who thinks Paraguay DOESN'T have nukes.

Interesting.....

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God.  You are such an unoriginal thinker.  China-Taiwan is so predictable.  Want shit to get lit and REALLY catch people off guard?  We need a new war between Paraguay and the triple alliance.  Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina all at war again?  Now THAT'S some cool shit.

No. I strike down this proposal.
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God.  You are such an unoriginal thinker.  China-Taiwan is so predictable.  Want shit to get lit and REALLY catch people off guard?  We need a new war between Paraguay and the triple alliance.  Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina all at war again?  Now THAT'S some cool shit.

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8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Did they stand on the shoulders of Nazi scientists to get there, like NASA and the moon landings?

Nazis....in Paraguay.   Hitting a little close to home....

CSB: in the mid-90s (pre-widespread intergoogles usage), we visited Paraguay.  Really pretty country, still crooked as hell.  Our tour guide took us to this place for lunch:

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The Hotel Tirol.  Beautiful grounds, lots of flowers, hummingbirds everywhere.  We were greeted by the proprietor....a cranky old German.  It didn't take us long to all laugh (nervously) about how the place gave off a "nazis who fled Germany" vibe.  We talked about if for years after.  Then one day, I decided to google the place to see if anyone else had said anything similar.  Ummm.....yeah.....

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Christmas 1963. Wiesenthal got tipped off in a letter: Mengele, Hotel American, Milan. He flew there with a German prosecutor. Said the manager, "Yesterday, he left." In Torremolinos, Spain, he missed him by two days; at the Rome airport, by mere hours.

Later, a group of Auschwitz avengers called the "Committee of 12" tracked him to the Hotel Tyrol near the thriving German colony of Hohenau in eastern Paraguay. They planned to spirit him to Frankfurt to stand trial. His alias that time: Dr. Fritz Fischer. They burst into room 26, but he was gone. Minutes before, Herr Fischer got a phone call, said the manager, raced down the stairs with his pajamas on under his suit, and vanished in the night.

So.....that hotel remains one of the creepiest fucking places I've ever been.

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Met this German dude in Santa Cruz Bolivia. Young, sitting at a bar on the River Pirai. We got to talking soccer, dude was cool. after a few beers I asked him his name, Johann Barbie. Yep, Klaus was his grandfather and an uncle owned a brewery. Bolivia had damn good beer. A different type at each altitude. 

There was also a White Russian colony near Santa Cruz. They did not mingle except for market days. Lived like in the era of the Tsar's without snow. Well, they may have helped grow plants that became "snow". 

Fun times. Latin America is a damn cool place. 

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Met this German dude in Santa Cruz Bolivia. Young, sitting at a bar on the River Pirai. We got to talking soccer, dude was cool. after a few beers I asked him his name, Johann Barbie. Yep, Klaus was his grandfather and an uncle owned a brewery. Bolivia had damn good beer. A different type at each altitude. 

There was also a White Russian colony near Santa Cruz. They did not mingle except for market days. Lived like in the era of the Tsar's without snow. Well, they may have helped grow plants that became "snow". 

Fun times. Latin America is a damn cool place. 

That tres fronteras region where Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay come together is sketchy as hell.....but damned cool.  I still want to go back and fish for dorado.

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Met this German dude in Santa Cruz Bolivia. Young, sitting at a bar on the River Pirai. We got to talking soccer, dude was cool. after a few beers I asked him his name, Johann Barbie. Yep, Klaus was his grandfather and an uncle owned a brewery. Bolivia had damn good beer. A different type at each altitude. 

There was also a White Russian colony near Santa Cruz. They did not mingle except for market days. Lived like in the era of the Tsar's without snow. Well, they may have helped grow plants that became "snow". 

Fun times. Latin America is a damn cool place. 

The Butcher of Lyon

 

Assuming the name of Klaus Altmann, Barbie settled in Bolivia and continued his work as a U.S. agent. He became a successful businessman and advised the military regimes of Bolivia. In 1971, the oppressive dictator Hugo Banzer Suarez came to power, and Barbie helped him set up brutal internment camps for his many political opponents. During his 32 years in Bolivia, Barbie also served as an officer in the Bolivian secret police, participated in drug-running schemes, and founded a rightist death squad. He regularly traveled to Europe, and even visited France, where he had been tried in absentia in 1952 and 1954 for his war crimes and sentenced to death.

In 1972, the Nazi hunters Serge Klarsfeld and Beatte Kunzel discovered Barbie’s whereabouts in Bolivia, but Banzer Suarez refused to extradite him to France. In the early 1980s, a liberal Bolivian regime came to power and agreed to extradite Barbie in exchange for French aid. On January 19, 1983, Barbie was arrested, and on February 7 he arrived in France. The statute of limitations had expired on his in-absentia convictions from the 1950s; he would have to be tried again. The U.S. government formally apologized to France for its conduct in the Barbie case later that year.

Legal wrangling, especially between the groups representing his victims, delayed his trial for four years. Finally, on May 11, 1987, the “Butcher of Lyon,” as he was known in France, went on trial for his crimes against humanity. In a courtroom twist unimaginable four decades earlier, Barbie was defended by three minority lawyers—an Asian, an African, and an Arab—who made the dramatic case that the French and the Jews were as guilty of crimes against humanity as Barbie or any other Nazi. Barbie’s lawyers seemed more intent on putting France and Israel on trial than in proving their client’s innocence, and on July 4, 1987, he was found guilty. For his crimes, the 73-year-old Barbie was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison, France’s highest punishment. He died of cancer in a prison hospital in 1991.

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13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

That tres fronteras region where Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay come together is sketchy as hell.....but damned cool.  I still want to go back and fish for dorado.

We used to go out to Puerto Suarez/Corumba. Running around the Bolivian rivers during the day and then crossing into a Brazilian River Port to eat and drink beer was not the smartest thing I have done. But it was fun! 

 

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Looks like even though the populist Law and Justice won the most votes, opposition center-right Civic Platform and center-right/Christian Democrat Third Way will capture a majority in Polish parliamentary elections. Likely return of Donald Tusk as prime minister and good news for European democracy. 

What are the implications for Poland’s position/actions Re Ukraine?
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Also means that Orban loses an erstwhile ally in Brussels as Kaczynski and PiS would work with him to defang EU rule of law enforcement. The likely three party Tusk government— Civic Platform, Third Way, The Left— will be solidly EU.

It is also good news for the Central Europe group as Slovakia fell into the swamp last week and brought Orban friends to power. Czech Republic won’t be alone on the island and Hungary+Slovakia are easier to dismiss than Hungary+Poland at the EU level. 

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Darfur again. 

Thousands of people have been forced to flee the Sudanese region of West Dafur amid fears of ethnic cleansing, a medical charity says. 

Witnesses have accused the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of targeting and killing non-Arabs, with reports of hundreds of deaths.

This comes after the RSF captured the Sudanese army headquarters in West Darfur capital of El Geneina. 

The RSF says it is not involved in what it describes as a "tribal conflict".

It has been battling the army for control of the country since April.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67356375

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Global trade being disrupted by these Houthi attacks. How long until something substantial is done to shut these fools down?

 

Yemen wants to ramp things up:

— A report in the Emirati newspaper "Al Ain": AnsarAllah Yemen will also use explosive-laden boats, in addition to missiles & drones, in their attacks against ships [intended for israel] in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The article also states that Yemeni specialized experts are tweaking & finishing the uncompleted technical equipment necessary to use anti-ship ballistic missiles more effectively and reducing its inaccuracies.

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Yemen wants to ramp things up:

— A report in the Emirati newspaper "Al Ain": AnsarAllah Yemen will also use explosive-laden boats, in addition to missiles & drones, in their attacks against ships [intended for israel] in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The article also states that Yemeni specialized experts are tweaking & finishing the uncompleted technical equipment necessary to use anti-ship ballistic missiles more effectively and reducing its inaccuracies.

Sounds like the Sand Spider is getting the Crimson Jihad Band back together.

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Yemen wants to ramp things up:

— A report in the Emirati newspaper "Al Ain": AnsarAllah Yemen will also use explosive-laden boats, in addition to missiles & drones, in their attacks against ships [intended for israel] in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The article also states that Yemeni specialized experts are tweaking & finishing the uncompleted technical equipment necessary to use anti-ship ballistic missiles more effectively and reducing its inaccuracies.

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, Parliament said:

Peter Zeihan says throughout History the nation with the strongest navy saw its currency rule all others.  Rome, Spain, Britain, America.  Let's see if that holds true.  (I like our chances.)


one US Naval carrier group could set yemen back a 100 years. if they want to press the issue, warm up an ohio class sub 

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Part of an island. And the one with the really good rum.

But here we go. Kenya approves by the 10th to send in forces is my guess. They are going to get their asses kicked, requiring a rescue element.... I mean who the fuck has Barbados fought? Reading the documents behind this makes me sad. Send in the Rwandans. Oh wait, they are in Mozambique and South Sudan and guarding Mog.

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2 minutes ago, SurlyGator said:

Again with the farting into the mic thing.  Girl has issues.

Recordings of Taylor Swift farting into a mic going up for sale would boost our GDP by another .1% ...with half of that coming from Surly posters.

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Recordings of Taylor Swift farting into a mic going up for sale would boost our GDP by another .1% ...with half of that coming from Surly posters.

Heaven help us if you ever meet Taylor.  

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Ecuador is getting interesting. President issued a National Security Directive, including a mandatory curfew. Gangs said nah.... Kidnapped 4 cops, some bombings, usual shit. But this is not.

Heavily armed gangsters have stormed the studio of a major television station in Ecuador during a live broadcast as criminal groups launched a series of seemingly coordinated attacks across the South American country and its prison system was plunged into chaos.

Toting pistols, machine guns and sticks of dynamite, the masked criminals stormed the headquarters of the TC Televisión network in Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil, at about 2pm local time.

The newspaper El Universo said panicked reporters and camera operators flooded messaging groups with pleas for help as the outlaws rampaged through the building. “They want to kill the lot of us. Help us,” one message read. The news program, El noticiero, was reportedly on air when its studio was overrun by more than 20 men with their faced covered, and armed with pistols, shotguns and automatic weapons.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/ecuador-gangs-wave-terror-state-of-emergency

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