Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the capture of Abimael Guzmán, leader of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), in Lima, Peru. I'm not a big fan of Twitter thread postings, but this one is quite interesting, in terms of explaining how he was found.
lucius septimius
9/13/2022 8:47:29 AM
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So everything's signed but no money has yet changed hands. I'm kind of worried my bank dropped the ball on my transfer request - it was supposed to go out tomorrow but nothing's happened.
vxbush
9/13/2022 8:49:23 AM
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In #1 Occasional Reader said: Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the capture of Abimael Guzmán, leader of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), in Lima, Peru. I'm not a big fan of Twitter thread postings, but this one is quite interesting, in terms of explaining how he was found.
Yes, interesting and nice to see the old-school methods working. The FBI should study this as a textbook case of how to gather information on a suspect. They might learn something.
lucius septimius
9/13/2022 9:15:32 AM
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SOLD!!!! Just got the signed paperwork from the buyer's attorney ... nearly a week late.
Occasional Reader
9/13/2022 9:19:29 AM
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In #4 lucius septimius said: SOLD!!!! Just got the signed paperwork from the buyer's attorney ... nearly a week late.
I do hope the papers included an acknowledgement that the house sits on land that was stolen from Elizabeth Warren's ancestors...
Anyway, congratulations.
Occasional Reader
9/13/2022 9:28:59 AM
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Okay, for some odd reason, the earworm I have doing loops around in my head today is the song "Throw The Jew Down The Well", from the Borat movie.
I'm... not sure what that means...
buzzsawmonkey
9/13/2022 9:49:20 AM
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In #6 Occasional Reader said: I'm... not sure what that means...
Probably means you've been reading comments on Insty.
vxbush
9/13/2022 10:44:12 AM
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In #4 lucius septimius said: SOLD!!!! Just got the signed paperwork from the buyer's attorney ... nearly a week late.
But still--good news! Congrats!
Occasional Reader
9/13/2022 10:52:49 AM
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In #7 buzzsawmonkey said: Probably means you've been reading comments on Insty.
Heh.
Actually, I think it was prompted by a thread on Insty recently, linked to a story about the discovery of medieval pogrom victims at the bottom of a well in.... England, I think.
vxbush
9/13/2022 11:42:49 AM
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In #9 Occasional Reader said: Actually, I think it was prompted by a thread on Insty recently, linked to a story about the discovery of medieval pogrom victims at the bottom of a well in.... England, I think.
And this is why Queen Elizabeth was vilified after her death. Rightly so.
////////all the haters online
Occasional Reader
9/13/2022 1:57:28 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 10:
But Gorbachev was a saint, and both he, and the system he defended, were above reproach.
Kosh's Shadow
9/13/2022 4:18:20 PM
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In #9 Occasional Reader said: Actually, I think it was prompted by a thread on Insty recently, linked to a story about the discovery of medieval pogrom victims at the bottom of a well in.... England, I think.
The Norfolk pogrom.
Kosh's Shadow
9/13/2022 4:19:49 PM
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In #11 Occasional Reader said: But Gorbachev was a saint, and both he, and the system he defended, were above reproach.
I have to find the article contrasting the NY Pravda coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth and Stalin. Guess who was praised and who was criticized.
So where do I get my Imperial Storm Trooper armor suit?
Kosh's Shadow
9/13/2022 5:31:22 PM
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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: I have to find the article contrasting the NY Pravda coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth and Stalin. Guess who was praised and who was criticized.
The New York Times decided to cover Queen Elizabeth’s death by running an anti-obituary, claiming that “the queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged,”
And how did they cover Stalin's obituay?
It praises him, claiming falsely, that, “only a man of iron will and determination like Stalin’s could have held together his shattered country during that period of the war when German armies had overrun huge portions of Russian territory and swept to the gates of Moscow, Leningrad and the Caucasus. Like Churchill in England, Stalin never faltered, not even at moments when everything seemed lost.”
There is no mention of the larger cycle of repression and mass murder in the USSR.
Kosh's Shadow
9/13/2022 6:10:44 PM
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Reply to JCM in 14:
Irony is as lost on Democrats as it is on Baldrick:
JCM
9/10/2022 5:34:13 PM
Kosh's Shadow
9/13/2022 4:18:20 PM