>it's war crimes because it was USA who did it
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Before Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, before Ho Chi Minh and before Mao began his Long March, there was Augusto Cesar Sandino.
While Sandino is not a household name in much of the world, as these others are, he was one of the most important and successful guerilla fighters of the 20th century, successfully driving the US Marines out of Nicaragua against nearly impossible odds. His image, with his iconic Tom Mix cowboy hat tilted to one side, continues to be the most ubiquitous symbol in Nicaragua – a country led by the Sandinista Front, named in his honor.
Unlike the aforementioned revolutionaries, Sandino was not an intellectual and he was not a Marxist. Rather, he was a mechanic from a small town outside the town of Masaya, Nicaragua, and a member of Nicaragua’s Liberal Party. Sandino was not a revolutionary by training or study; he was drawn into the armed struggle in response to the US Marine invasion and occupation of his country which began in 1911 with the goal of ousting Liberal Party President Jose Zelaya. As the US State Department itself explains, American opposition to Zelaya stemmed from his intention to work with the Japanese government to develop a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua which would rival the US-controlled Panama Canal. This flew in the face of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, which holds that the US has sole dominion over the Western Hemisphere and the right to intervene in any country therein to prevent the influence of other nations.
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The president who can’t resist defying the US is at it again
The US was able to put in place a succession of Conservative Party presidents to its liking with the backing of the brutal National Guard. The US was thereby able to ink a deal with the Nicaraguan government which gave the US and US companies significant control over Nicaragua’s treasury, finances and railroad. However, this did not sit well with the Nicaraguan people who, eventually, revolted. As the US State Department explains (in an incredible act of understatement), the US’ attempt to “prevent local management of finances … caused considerable nationalist concern in Nicaragua.” To quell the resulting unrest and civil war which broke out between the Liberals and Conservatives, the US, which withdrew the Marines in 1924, sent an even greater Marine force to Nicaragua in 1925.
It was this Marine invasion which sparked the rise of Augusto Cesar Sandino, who led hundreds of mostly peasant guerillas to repel it. As one historian explains, Sandino, who “had become a Liberal general in the civil war, launched his rebellion, sacking the US-owned San Albino gold mine and issuing proclamations against ‘Yankee cowards and criminals’ and the ‘worm-eaten and decadent’ Nicaraguan aristocracy” that served US interests.
Sandino and his forces, though not great in number and certainly not as well-armed as the United States Marine Corps, proved to be a formidable force which could neither be caught nor vanquished. Sandino soon became a legend, and “even China's Kuomintang carried standards bearing his image.” As the late, great Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano wrote in his acclaimed ‘The Open Veins of Latin America’:
“The epic of Augusto César Sandino stirred the world. The long struggle of Nicaragua’s guerrilla leader was rooted in the angry peasants’ demand for land. His small, ragged army fought for some years against twelve thousand US invaders and the National Guard. Sardine tins filled with stones served as grenades, Springfield rifles were stolen from the enemy, and there were plenty of machetes; the flag flew from any handy stick, and the peasants moved through mountain thickets wearing strips of hide called huaraches instead of boots. The guerrillas sang, to the tune of Adelita: ‘In Nicaragua, gentlemen, the mouse kills the cat.’”
And so, in its desperation to somehow subdue Sandino and his gang of merry men and women, the US increasingly turned to the new form of warfare which it continues to wage today – the aerial bombing of town and country.
Summing up the testimony of those who lived through the US assault, one historian describes the US aerial bombings as “a remorseless faceless enemy inflicting indiscriminate violence against homes, villages, livestock, and people who, regardless of age, gender, physical strength, social status, [and who] lacked any defense except to salvage their belongings.”
According to a fellow combatant of Sandino who lived through the aerial bombing and the sacking of Ocotal, Nicaragua which followed, “the aviation did much damage to the population between loss of life and loss of property, causing thirty-six deaths in our forces ... Sandino's troops stood to the planes as best they could, downing one enemy plane (a Fokker), and aft this the Sandinista troops withdrew, and that's when the Yankee troops enter the already destroyed town, causing the greatest destruction, sacking the images and bells from the ruins of the church and throwing them in the river … There were hundreds of deaths here, among them children, women.”
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I monitored the US-denounced Nicaraguan election; people believe in the Ortega government
Still, Sandino and his mostly peasant liberation army persisted, and successfully drove the US Marines out of Nicaragua in 1933, but not before the Marines were able to shore up the National Guard under the leadership of Anastasio Somoza. Not able to defeat Sandino on the field of battle, the only method left for Somoza was chicanery. And so, on the promise of a peace deal, Somoza lured Sandino to Managua where he was assassinated on February 21, 1934. Sandino’s remains disappeared and have never been found. Meanwhile, Somoza – “a son of a bitch, but … our son of a bitch” as FDR would quip – declared himself president of Nicaragua with the backing of the United States and turned quickly to repressing Sandino’s followers and supporters.
Somoza and his son, and then his grandson, ruled Nicaragua with an iron fist (and US military assistance) for the next 45 years. However, Sandino’s example inspired the creation of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1962. The FSLN, again a primarily peasant movement in a mostly agrarian society, waged a guerilla war against Somoza and his National Guard, culminating in the victory of the FSLN and the ousting of the last Somoza in 1979. But Somoza did not leave without a fight; in the end 50,000 Nicaraguans died, mostly through the aerial bombings of his own cities, reminiscent of the US bombings in the 1920s and early 1930s.
In addition, 100,000 were wounded, 40,000 orphaned, and 150,000 became refugees. And, when Somoza fled the country, he took its treasury, ensuring that huge swaths of Nicaragua would remain in ruin from his air campaign for years to come.
The FSLN, once victorious, made sure that Sandino’s memory and legacy would be preserved. At the same time, Sandino is one of those historical figures, like Jose Marti in Cuba, which nearly all parties claim in Nicaragua. Indeed, the worst accusation one could level against a leader or activist in the country is that they have somehow betrayed Sandino and his legacy, and this charge is made often.
Indeed, it is now fashionable amongst disgruntled Sandinistas, the mainstream press in and outside Nicaragua, and amongst even the left in the US and Europe, to claim that the current FSLN leadership, including President Daniel Ortega, have abandoned Sandino’s legacy and the Sandinista Revolution. Even the dictator Somoza, before being gunned down while exiled in Paraguay by Argentine revolutionaries in 1980, made such a claim, putting out a book shortly before his death entitled ‘Nicaragua Betrayed’. It is now even common in some circles to hear claims that Ortega is in fact “the new Somoza.”
As my good friend S. Brian Willson, a Vietnam veteran turned peace activist who lost his legs protesting an arms shipment from the US to Central America by train in 1987, said to me, the essential promises of Sandino and the Sandinistas have been fulfilled. And these essential promises to the Nicaraguan people were and are: (1) independence and sovereignty in the face of the US and its attempts to determine Nicaragua’s destiny; and (2) land reform, education, and a decent life for Nicaragua’s large peasant population. Brian, who has lived in Grenada, Nicaragua for years, knows what he is talking about.
Ortega and the FSLN have largely made good on both these promises, according to a majority of Nicaraguans. And that is why, much to the chagrin of many leftist intellectuals, Ortega remains popular in Nicaragua, particularly among peasants, workers and the poor. Ortega and the FSLN have given many hectares of land to peasants; instituted free education and health care; put money into affordable housing for the poor; electrified the country and built up the infrastructure; and significantly reduced poverty and extreme poverty, with nearly 100% of the food Nicaraguans eat grown and raised by the peasants themselves.
The Sandinistas also kept Nicaragua free from US interference, most notably by winning the brutal Contra War of the 1980s in which the US financed, trained and directed former leaders of Somoza’s National Guard to try and violently retake the country. The resulting conflict killed 30,000 and left the country and economy in ruin. Thankfully, Nicaragua has now more than bounced back.
I have been traveling to Nicaragua since 1987. And it was back then that I saw my first images of Sandino and learned of his fight against the US Marines. I even met an old man in Ocotal who fought with Sandino and who proudly sat on his front porch in the old uniform he wore in battle. I have watched a country with once shocking levels of poverty and underdevelopment become a prosperous and developed society. If Augusto Cesar Sandino, who continues to look upon Nicaragua from statues and paintings, could see his country today, I believe he would be proud.
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Lets use cigarettes as a currency. Half year of capitalist brainwash is 200 cartons.
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Eh, I disagree, batteries are too useful.
Money needs to be something dumb and useless, otherwise people will prefer to use it for their actual useful purpose than for monetary purpose.
There's even a theorem tied to this in a way: Gresham's theorem states that if you have both good money and bad money concurrently in circulation, good money will be hoarded and bad money will be spent, leading to only bad money staying in circulation.
What I'm describing is not fiat money. Gresham's theorem - named after Sir Thomas Gresham, a Tudorian economist, but that's a modern attribution - was well-known by late medieval period already & was already invoked e.g. by Copernicus in Monetæ cudendæ ratio, well before fiat currency system.
Transferred into your world; why buy and sell energy, when you can buy and sell something worthless that you can in theory use to buy energy with? Isn't trading actual energy a bit of a risk?
>Transferred into your world; why buy and sell energy, when you can buy and sell something worthless that you can in theory use to buy energy with?
Well, that's because we've been discussing a post-apocalyptic setting with scarce settlements. So we needed a step above barter, yet not a "real" modern type of currency, backed by a state (because there're no states). Something like ammo in the "Metro" series. My friend proposed liquid fuel, but I proposed batteries - because IIRC in the Fallout world everything runs on electricity/atomic energy. So in my vision you have things like CR2032 and AA batteries as money, "Krona" types as precious metals bars, accumulators of various sizes would be like a useful domestic animal - a goat or a chicken, and finally electrical generators - solar (on farms) or atomic (in big cities) or otherwise would be akin to windmills or watermills or something like that - a big and important utility that is used and maintained by the whole community. (Or by a lord of the lands, who lends it for limited use by his subjects - like windmills in medieval Europe, which were property of barons, who'd allow his serfs to grind their wheat on certain days only.)
"Why 40k€ is not much for a bachelors degree."
Look at these soulless creatures.
Looking like every other banker.
I could never trust a person looking like this.
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I like watching the poster map and checking out the cities where other Bernds live.
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There is no week passing without multiple bad news for me, big or small.
- I get sick
- friend gets sick
- friend has to quarantine
- parents get covid
- I get sick again
- gf breaks up with me
- friend moves away
- friend gets covid
- other friend moves away
- friend breaks up with bf
...I don't even have a lot of friends and family, yet all they produce is bad news these days. Whenever I feel like catching up, there is just nothing happy to tell. It's very exhausting.
I don't have a gf anymore and the friends I have are moving away or can't meet me all the time for different reasons. I have tried four times to invite them for a card game evening with pizza and failed every time.
I know some of these things aren't big deals. But I'm depressed already and have nothing else going on in my life. When I check my phone after waking up at 11am, there are usually bad news like this.
This box used to be sold for 20€. Now people sell unopened ones for 100-150€ on ebay ;_; It was ideal for building a Mordheim mercenary warband. I hope GW brings it back, people make it for 3d printers or something.
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This post is in memory of my dog, a good boy. He passed away last night at the age of 14 and 8 months. I still remember the summer of 2007 when I got back from a hockey camp and found this little shit waiting for me.
F :(
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I've got this movie Idea about a very high end Escort Service that specifically cater to old millionaire businessmen where the girls who work there are aged from 18 to 23 years old.
the main actresses in it are Sabrina Carpenter & Talitha Bateman who play Escorts named Tiffany (Talitha) and Brook (Sabrina) of course aren't their real names
where both of them meet one night not knowing they've come to service the same client, an 80yo man in the hotel they start to have sex with him both sucking his cock at the same time before Sabrina's Character starts riding him for awhile before Talitha's Character jumps on top of him where she starts getting really into it while he's eating out Sabrina when he starts to ask her to slow down but neither of them hear him from moaning so loudly that he begins having a heart attack and dies only moments after he cums, they realise he's dead long story short they are they in his room completely naked and later find out his the head of crime family and they then have to spend the rest of the movie doing what they can to stay alive and clear their names from being mistaken for his death my any means
it continues from there where he's dead on the bed still amazingly got he's erection, they start panicking and check his coat for anything like ID, Driver's licence passport and find his Driver's licence inside his wallet next to a picture of him with his family long with his personalised desert eagle.
then one of them sees him name, probably Sab's Character and realises who he is and says "oh we are seriously screwed" while looking up at Talitha's Character and she says back to her "why what do you mean?" and sab say "you do realise who this is (saying his name after to her) he's the boss of the (name of the crime family) crime family" then they both looks at each other and start grabbing their stuff before heading towards the door to see if they get out with out being seen by his personal body guards.
they do they are talking down at the other end of the hall and they sneak out of the hotel half dressed with his rubber still suck in her (oh yeah this is going to be a comedy crime drama) then finally out side of the hotel from the back entrance finally getting dressed Sab bends down to put on her high heels and sees she has the condom in her and comments to her about it and then she moves her hand down between her legs and pulls it out and throws it into one of them tall dumpster bins where a bit of cum flings out of it and catches her in the eye making sab's Character laughing before they're dressed and boot on the hell out of there.
They Manage to make it back to Brook's (Sabrina) apartment where they find her on and off again roommate also an Escort (played by Francesca Capaldi) performing oral sex on her old client on the sofa in the Livingroom before she turns around and say's "oh your back, that didn't take long, how was it let me guess you made yet another client cum too soon, you know your pussy really is the tightest in the business" before she sees her walk into the Livingroom with Tiffany and then say's "oh, now I get it was a double team effort huh?" then Brook replies "oh hey didn't know you were working here tonight, oh yeah I, I mean we've just got back" before continuing talk to her bedroom then her (Fran's) client sees that she's not sucking on his cock any more and pulls on her head and pushes her mouth back on his cock again.
Don't know how Much Room there is on here to write everything here but there's a orgy scene midway through the film where you see them in the actual building the Escort business is ran out from trying to find somewhere to hide from the goons who've been sent out to hunt them down, where they burst into a room where they are hearing some muffled noises coming out from to see s massive orgy taking place with a bunch of the girls (Francesca Capaldi character included) to see Daisy (played by Ciara Bravo) fucking two old men where she looks up at both of them and say "hey!, shut the door or if your coming in!!!, come in you're a little late to the party but I guess there are a few guys in the back waiting for their turn" so they both come into the room where the floor is completely socked from all of the sweat and semen that didn't find it's indented target walk past all of the old men fucking towards the back of the room.
where there's a few of them sitting down, not before one of the old guy's pulls out of the girl he's fucking bends down and cums on both of their feet looks at both of them and says "holy fuck you girls here are the best in the city and have sexiest feet" they manage to get to the back of the room not long before the goons barge in so they realistically have no option at this point but to hide and blend in so they start blowing a couple of the men sitting down the goons then proceed to walk through the room right past both of them seeing that they can't find them leave, then they look up to see that they are gone get up to go not before the old men who they were blowing, say "hey where the fuck do you think you two are going?, we paid a fucking lot of good money for this you two ain't leaving till you're done" so they end up being apart of the orgy which actually works out in their favour as it gave them plenty of time to hide out.
they wake up in the room to see some of the girls going again with some of the old men, two of which are fucking Tiffany as she's still asleep on the ground one's fucking on top of her from behind, while the other is jerking his cock with her feet (where the footjob is actually real and unsimulated you see him fully erect rubbing his penis between the soles of her feet and his actual cum ejaculating on her feet) where the sounds of them having sex with her Wakes Brook up to see them ontop of her telling them to get off of her not before both cum and then chased off her, they get up grab their things again and head out.
there's more to this movie though I don't think I'll be able to fit it all in here.