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Stabbing attack happened in Southport, England. Three young girls were killed, eight more were wounded, five of them are in critical condition. People are outraged ofc, and went to the streets. Three suspects were arrested, one of them 17 years old.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/31/southport-stabbing-latest-live-updates/
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> import sandniggers
> they kill a bunch of euros
> now watch euroes beat up and arrest each other
> ???
> PROFIT

This "live updates" news become very prominent at every event happening. Then these articles disappear to never be found again. No news sites keep workable archives. When we'll try to look back from the distance over a decade and search for the events, we'll find nothing happened.

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And...
The Award...
For the First Recorded Case of Monkeypox Outside Africa...
Goes to...
SWEDEN!
Yes!
Give them a great applause!
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1153231
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-16/first-case-of-mpox-confirmed-outside-of-africa-in-sweden/104232634

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Make Philippines Fun Again
That takes a Duterte.
The daughter of the good old Prez we all loved, Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio, who serves as vice presidend, is a similarly hilarious personality as his dad.
https://philnews.ph/2024/11/23/vp-sara-duterte-reveals-final-wish-kapag-pinatay-ako-patayin-mo-sila-pbbm/
> Wag kang mag-alala sa security ko kasi may kinausap na ako na tao. Sinabi ko sa kanya, ‘pag pinatay ako, patayin mo si BBM, si Liza Araneta, at si Martin Romualdez. No joke. No joke,”
According to google:
Don't worry about my security because I'm talking to someone. I told him, 'When I was killed, kill BBM, Liza Araneta, and Martin Romualdez.
BBM is the current president, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr., Liza Areneta is his wife. Martin Romualdez is the Speaker of the House and cousin of BBM. Well the Philippines apparently a family enterprise like a mom-and-pop store. Also now I want a prez or pm whose name is Bongbong.
So apparently Sara Duterte talks about an assassin who is contracted to assassinate the Prez and his family in case something happens to her. Let's hope she won't choke on a fishbone.

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This shit never gets old.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-car-driven-into-crowd-at-magdeburg-christmas-market/a-71127071
Mercedes of peace. Same site other article says:
> 2 killed, including a young child, and at least 60 injured
This is the politics side, but:
Germany is preparing for election as noted here  >>/52671/ This will radicalize Germans more, more votes for AfD and BSW (that is Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice). They'll gain quite a lot of seats. I'm not sure if it will be enough for anything. Is this gonna result in a bunch of 15% parties, and an impasse when it comes to forming a new government?
Recent polls from Politico, which means little, but still. Strong CDU/CSU, the "classic" conservative party of Germany, at 30%. Considering they initiated the migration danke, mutti people might turn away. AfD is at 19% and second, perhaps they can move up to over 20, maybe to 25%.

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Nigeria's interior ministry is keepin it real.
Dey retweeted a porn actress' poon shot. It was up for 15 hours or something.

 >>/52569/
Not much, it's just me blogging, and sometimes I skip days now.

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 >>/52572/
Well ur posts are always good, so things must have been great then. :DD

I'm not really doing much winter season. I'm just staying inside. No enthusiasms to do anything lately. That happen to other bernds during winters?

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I have come to partially disregard what people say when they're angry. Even if it's an accurate portrayal of their emotions, I've found it's not an accurate prediction of their actions. Time and time again this person promises they'll get rid of X during a fit of rage, time goes on and X is still around.

 >>/54170/
That's normal. Heightened emotions - not just anger - makes people say things they don't actually mean. This is why they say that time heals, as time passes tempers cool.
Rare are those people who can bide their time, and get their revenge served cold.

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Happy Anzac Day, Boongbernds!

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 >>/54223/
The book has a companion website which features "intervention" cases, basically examples of US foreign policy actions. The book itself features others. These examples demonstrate how US acts and what policies it has.
https://www.us-foreign-policy-perspective.org/

So.
Since the Spanish-American War of 1898 the United States started to build her client empire. The book was published in 2008, but the list of clients they give is dated to 2005. Since then 20 years passed and I'm sure some changes happened, like the failure and withdrawal in Afghanistan, or that Hungary got on the list too.
Picrels show four points in time how this client empire grew.
Here's the list:
Africa: Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia. It's not a lot, but most countries there are clients of US clients', such as France. This is a multi-level clientèle.
The Americas and related islands: all but Cuba. I wonder how they'd rank Venezuela these days.
Europe: Austria, B&H, BeNeLux, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK. Long list of non clients, I assume that list got shorter.
Middle East and North Africa: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates. Noteworthy: Lebanon was on the list for a while back.
Caucasus, Central and South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan. The first one is not anymore obviously.
Asia Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Zealand, Palau, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand.

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 >>/54224/
So what's this client empire?
Traditionally an empire conquers and annexes new clay to grow. But not always. Even Rome had some Greek polities as clients in Hellas. Before incorporating them into the empire, but still. The British colonial empire was similar to this important to note: clients aren't colonies, they organized new states subordinated to Great Britain, instead of annexing them. Another example is the contemporary Franceafrique.
A client is not simply a tributary, who pays tax to their bully. A client's regime regime =/= leadership, regime is the system, the people running it can and do change consciously agrees to be subjected to the surveillance of the patron, who gives them advice, helps keeping the regime in power through maintenance and if necessary intervention. Important to note: clients don't have to follow the advice, tho the patron might pressure them into doing how they were told. In the British colonial empire there wasn't any choice, there were officials - I think the Brits called them "inspectors" - whom when they said something it was expected the colony to obey.
What the patron gets in return? In Realpolitik terms the patron state gets to raise power and security, the two things it concerns with. Essentially clients help the US to project her power all over the globe. If we view it in more liberal sense, then we can say the US state does what a state should: create opportunities for its citizens and the companies of the citizens all over the world, it ensures that they can conduct their business safe and free. The patron expects the client to keep the patron's interests in mind.
The patron relies on the clients, draw on their resources, be it economical, political, or militarily. Of course it is often not granted (just as listening to the advice), but they always can get an open door and mind to negotiate. The US relies on the clients to get aid to other clients, or use them as a proxy force in conflicts, or to bully enemies with embargo, or strengthening Washington's voice in questions of international politics.
I think we can describe the position of a client as closer than an ally, but farther than a colony. And this is to that particular one way surveillance the patron does, the client has nothing similar to that.

picrel
French foreign legion embarks to intervene in Zaire in 1978. The US had barely anything to do with the conflict, according to the book:
> Morocco stepped into the breach, sending a 1,500-man paratroop brigade, assisted by Egyptian pilots and mechanics, paid for by Saudi Arabia, and flown in by France, which added additional weapons and paramilitary advisers.

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 >>/54225/
In general three federal executive departments are busy with building this client empire:
1. State
2. Treasury
3. Defense
For certain tasks other departments might get involved, but these three runs the institutions runs the bureaucratic structure that does the surveillance, writes the reports on other states, suggests policy instruments to deploy, and does the maintenance.
In the international relations the US busy herself with three things:
1. opposing enemies;
2. taking on new clients;
3. maintain clients;
One would think that interacting with "neutral" states is way more prominent. But apparently not. Basically the fact that like half of all the countries are US clients, and a large chunk is the clients of clients, and then there are the enemies and the clients of the enemies... By now barely any "neutral" countries left, even less to worry about them.
Tho it wasn't like that in 1898 when they started out. But the book doesn't tell us how the US dealt with countries in their sovereign times, like France. Although the mindset, the "clientelist ideology" - how the book calls it - comes natural for all the diplomats, elites, and even to the general populace, it evolved gradually. I suppose it had an opportunist nature until all the policy tools which are available today formed.

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One of the oldest client. Along with Cuba, but Cuba ain't a client no more.

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 >>/54232/
What are the ways the US acquires new clients? The book gives the following "contexts" country acquisitions fall within:
- post-occupation;
- switching;
- danger;
- prewar planning;
- postwar planning;
- special access.

Post-occupation
Oldest and simplest. US fights a war, occupies some land, releases them as a new client state. Cuba is the OG example (see the Platt Amendment), which was a client between 1902 and 1959. Most recent was Afghanistan, 2001-2021, except when the US troops left, the country ceased to be a client.

Switching
When an enemy state goes through such a fundamental change, without being occupied by US troops still the US might have something to do with that change, that the new regime accepts the US as its patron.
Iran, 1953-79, with the help of CIA a coup removed the PM.

Danger
US officials perceive a country to be in some kind of a danger and the US has to swoop in and help out. The British client, Greece was in the danger of a communist takeover in a civil war (1946-49), the Brits had to abandon them, so the US stepped in with economic and military aid, effectively starting in 1947. With the same swoop they acquired Turkey as well, for the same reason: they feared Turkey will get in the hands of communists - so Turkey was US client 2 years before NATO was created. Also see the Greek and Turkish Assistance Act.

Prewar planning
Pre- and postwar planning is one group in the book I took 'em apart for readability. Both decides the fate of whole regions.
The US officials see that a military conflict is coming up, so they get clients as part of the preparations, to gain strategic advantages and deny these from the enemies ahead. Pre-WWII Latin America except Argentina, 1939-40. And Canada too.

Postwar planning
War is over have to decide how the peace will look like. Plethora of Western Euro countries after WWII (1948), depleted, fatigued, destroyed. Argentine too (1946) - although it was the same agreement as the other Sudacas got.

Special access
This access is "access to Washington policy makers". These countries falling in this category has some special ties to Washington, either due to lobbying or various historical circumstances. Half a dozen countries are in this list. Ofc, Bernd might have guessed it, Israel is one of them (1948). Saudi Arabia might not be surprising (1953), but Poland might be (1998).

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The Platt Amendment is quite interesting. Full text here:
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/platt-amendment
It was named after the Chairman of the Cuban Relations Committee, senator Oliver H. Platt (from Connecticut), and was accepted first in 1901. It regulated the US-Cuban relations. The Cuban assembly also included it in their Constitution. Since their island was under US occupation did they really have a choice?
Anyway. The most interesting parts.
"III. That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba."
This paragraph above essentially mirrors what the book says. The authors aren't taking these ideas out of their own arses.
"VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States."
Guantanamo base sounds familiar? Having various basing rights is one major point in the US-client relations. They established this practice in the first years of client empire building.

apparently I'm from Greece nao

Danke, Merkel!

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This will be the year of no stepping.
Happy New Year, Bernd!

 >>/51458/
What happened with this? Did Wales reconquer stuff from England?

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Happy Easter, Bernd!
Good sprinkling!

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What the hell, Pope Francis died today. Apparently like 5 hours ago.
What does it mean, dying on the day of Resurrection? What will this bring for us?

 >>/54229/
> what does it mean
Nature is healing.

 >>/54230/
A pope dying on Easter, specifically on the day of Resurrection that is a strong charismatic message. But what does it tell us, comrade?

 >>/54212/
cont.
And then there can be long term considerations, all investments could be useless. Chances for an actual war for NATO countries against a similar adversary is pretty slim. Nuclear deterrence is specifically there to avoid such things. Their future enemies still are the bearded towelheads in robes and flipflops with AKs.

Another not so fresh news: how that 100K shells/month by 2025 thing stands. In 2024 October.
So at 2022 Feb US made 14,400 shells per month.
They planned to up that to 100K.
By 2022 sept, they were producing 28K
By 2024 October that was 40K.
And they aimed 55K by the end of the year... ie. by 2025

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2024/10/14/army-races-to-widen-the-bottlenecks-of-artillery-shell-production/

 >>/54219/
And have to remember: all the shells the West ("West" like Czechia) provided are either were from weapon depots, or purchased third parties's weapon depots. Not nearly enough production.
Russia too got stock shells from Best Korea, but they make 250K a month now.

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Truce is over. Both sides blaming the other for not keeping the truce. What a shock.

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 >>/54221/
Aw shit. Haven't noticed it's mkv... here's webm.
Hit it!

 >>/51545/
It's still good. T.Hanks for the link

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Speaking of websites, let's talk about our board.

We have old banners from years ago. With one linking to an old domain. Will mods update the info on the banners and/or add new banners? Time will tell

 >>/51576/
You are right. I'll look into it sometimes.

 >>/51576/
I could replace banners if someone makes new ones.

Perhaps this should go into the tech thread. But it is a great ChatGPT website:
https://chat-jai-pete.fr/

 >>/51579/
Thank you for your service.
I'll see what can be done about it.

Is it illegal?
Consult with local laws.
> not get my kids ruined by the school system. 
You want to ruin your kids yourself. A bit of DIY. You know not having your kids socializing with other kids can fuck them up pretty well.
> I want to get in contact with people who have similar ideas or are doing it allready.
/kc/ is bad place for it. You can get contact only with me here. Noone else is here.
> picrel comfy home
It comfy only on the pic. It's called poverty otherwise. There is a reason why Slavic serfs wanted to hang their liege lords all the time.
Also
> säge
Why?

 >>/54210/
> You know not having your kids socializing with other kids can fuck them up pretty well.
>  >I want to get in contact with people who have similar ideas or are doing it allready.
Didnt you realize anything writing this right next to each other?

> Is it illegal?
to my knowlege there is no legal way in Germany. I also would have assumed that there are only Germans on Krautchan end you would know Schulfplicht. At this point I wonder, wieso wir nicht deutsch sprechen...
> You can get contact only with me here. Noone else is here.
You are talking to yourself on this board?

 >>/54211/
> only Germans on Krautchan
Are you:
- retarded?
- this new?
When you show up on an imageboard, and specifically on a board you don't know, do you ever lurk? Do you ever make an effort to get to know it?

 >>/54214/
I have assumed that "krautchan" is the same as the original.
But it appears that I am wrong and this thread is missplaced.

But as I am here allready, I might aswell elaborate on why school sucks.

> every kid is individual
in school everyone gets the same curiculum
> learning works best if the kid is motivated
motivation comes from the kid, its not given to him like schools pretend
> oversocialization
there are WAY to many kids in school

 >>/54215/
You had never been on Krautchan, you don't have kids, and you aren't German.

 >>/48694/
That 8 wheeler looks badass.
Are they... symbolic? Any meaning they want to express?

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They are what they are, tractors represent agriculture. The parades happen everywhere and are both civilian and military in content, back in middle school I remember marching past the town hall with my class. But this is the first time tractors partake in the capital's parade. The subtext is Bolsonaro's alliance with agribusiness.

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 >>/35592/
Found something for this.
Specifically for the USian role of the coup against Goulart. So directly connected to these posts:  >>/36702/  >>/36703/

Book:
U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies and Empire by Davud Sylvan and Stephen Majeski, Routledge, 2008
Chapter 5: Client maintenance by interventions
Section: Military opposed: coups d'état: Node 16, pages 168-170
I upload the whole fugging book coz why not.
Essentially supports what has been said.
The US had a cold-warm relationship with Goulart, starting from a "clever opportunist" whom they can work well with and arriving to a dangerous communist who can turn Brazil into China. They get info from their local contacts and wrote reports for Washington, to State, Treasury, and DoD. They encouraged the coupists to do what they want and organized support. The book doesn't say what the rebels actually got or not.
What have to be know about the book and that chapter: it's about how US created, increases, and maintains it's client empire. The client allows US to gather information about the country, and the US as patron gives advice and suggestions to the regime. The US helps it to stay in power, in return some perks (for US military or companies, etc). When leaders don't listen the US might pressure them. If the leaders themselves became nuisance the US will start contemplating to swap them with someone else. There are a number of possibilities depending on the circumstances. This specific one with in Brazil, the military (or at least sufficient part of it) opposed the leader, so a coup could be encouraged, green lighted, supported, and after the events: legitimized.
Note: their first choice is always nudging the client's military to coup - since most of the time the US has excellent relations with these armies, usually they organize, equip, train, advise, or even pay them. But sometimes the military is too cozy with the unwanted leader. Not in case of Brazil.
The part of the book cites lots of quotes. The source are the official documents, published in the series of Foreign Relations of the United States, two volumes, specifically:
- 1961-1963, Volume XII, American Republics
- 1964–1968, Volume XXXI, South and Central America; Mexico
Both can be read and downloaded here:
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v12
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v31

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The authors mischaracterize Goulart's March 13th rally ("in which he called for constitutional amendments, among them the legalization of the communist party"), his speech never mentioned the Communist Party - but indeed, banners calling for its legalization are prominent in famous photographs of the event. I was more intrigued by their mention of "the right-wing forces from whom the U.S. was already distancing itself or from the major industrialists or landowners whom the U.S. had already been willing to sell out". History proves Americans can abandon their allies, but Marxist analysis would absolutely rule out abandoning industrialists tied to American capital. In fact, this strand of thought would place economic interests far above geopolitical concerns, ultimately dismissing all talk of communism as a smokescreen for upper class interests harmed by potential social democratic reforms. I'd say early attempts at a constructive American relationship with Goulart do suggest a tolerance for moderate reforms if coupled with a pro-Western foreign policy.

On the inverse topic, that of Eastern Bloc support for Goulart's camp, two intelligence documents from the JFK files have made the news, one covering the 1961 crisis and another written after the coup. Actually it seems both were released years ago and this year's versions just have slightly less redacted sections.

The file I'm sharing reinforces what was already known to historians on Cuban projection of soft power and training of guerrilla operatives. The insignificant scale of the latter was made evident during and after the coup, when no insurgent cell made any attack of note against the military and the left was by and large caught unarmed and unprepared. Leftist insurgents only picked up in number after 1968.

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 >>/54205/
> his speech never mentioned the Communist Party
Perhaps it was one of the constitutional amendments, he just did not mentioned it specifically in the speech itself.
> I was more intrigued by their mention of "the right-wing forces from whom the U.S. was already distancing itself or from the major industrialists or landowners whom the U.S. had already been willing to sell out"
> History proves Americans can abandon their allies, but Marxist analysis would absolutely rule out abandoning industrialists tied to American capital.
The chapter itself is about client maintenance by intervention. By default the US maintains the client regimes by giving them various assistance (like advice, helping them to get loans from the IMF or World Bank, transfers arms, etc.) but occasionally the US have to intervene actively to save the ass of the regime.
It can happen however that the US finds the regime fine, except the leader who starts steer away from them. The first things the bureaucrats including army officers and CIA agents think: we should coup his ass. Then they check what is the settis in the country:
1. the military supports the leader, but they are weak - coup is not possible, but the US military can do the necessary changes
2. the military supports the leader, and strong enough - coup is not possible, too much cost for the US army, so they just sit back and apply pressure on the regime, like denying weapon supplies, or preventing them to get loans (from IMF, World Bank), tariff them, etc. eg.: Venezuela since Chavez
3. Military neutral - coup is possible by changing the military's mind, US creates a proxy force as to intervene, prepares a US invasion to put pressure on, and encourages the military to do a coup, basically they dupe the military to think: if they don't eject the leader the US will crush them.
4. Military opposes the leader - coups is possible since they want to do it, US just gives the green light, then legitimizes the new leadership.
Remember these are all clients of the US already, "friendly" countries. In case of Brazil it seemed it will fall into category #2 due they perceived the army support Goulart enough, and the country is too big both territory and population to do something about it themselves. So they prepared to distance themselves so they can hamper and sabotage the country where they can with diplomatic and economic tools  Brazil could had went the Venezuela way. But the army signaled to the US that they are ready to remove Goulart, this meant option #4. The US let Brazil itself to take care of the leader whom the US perceived as a problem.

I really recommend the book, it gives quite a perspective on how to view USian relations. There should be a website for the book. I'm not sure if it is still up.