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    1. documento no está completo. Los militares solo mostraron 1 página de las 4 que completan al archivo. Aún así, lo recuperado nos sirve porque conocemos el monto total que destinaba la organización para mantener toda su estructura: unos 10.707.000 de dólares distribuidos en 9 meses en distintas ramas

      Total expenditure

    2. Lo que también podemos notar en el documento, es que existe en la mayoría de las células una proporción del doble o triple de alquileres por sobre las compras: las células de combate compran 54 viviendas, y alquilan 108 (el doble). Informaciones compra 6 viviendas y alquila 12 (el doble).  Sindical compra 57 viviendas y alquila 114 (el doble). Territorial compra 51 viviendas y alquila 102 (el doble). Estudiantil compra 5 viviendas y alquila 15 (el triple). Propaganda compra 22 viviendas y alquila 44 (el doble). Secretaría de organización compra 10 viviendas y alquila 30 (el triple). Destacamentos compra 7 viviendas y alquila 14 (el doble). No ocurre en todas las células evidentemente: Logística compra 44 viviendas y alquila 121. Pero es notable que en muchas células ocurra esta proporción exacta del doble o triple de alquileres por sobre las compras, lo cual puede darnos una pauta de dependencia entre una y otra (por ej. que los alquileres funcionen como viviendas alternativas exactas de quienes habiten en las compras, o que militantes de una célula se distribuyan equitativamente en viviendas compradas y alquiladas). Lamentablemente el documento no habla de este aspecto, por lo que solo podemos especular....

      Very useful

    3. COLABORE. ESTE ALERTA Se reitera a la población la necesidad de hacer conocer toda información referente a:-Inmuebles desocupados recientemente-Traslados de grupos familiares en horas impropias y/o presurosamente -Talleres, comercios e industrias que por carteles externos denuncian su condición de tales y no desarrollan su actividad específica y, sí, otras consideradas sospechosasLLAME AL TEL. 31627 COMANDO V CUERPO DE EJERCITO

      importance housing

    1. daba consesiones legales e ilegales cada vez mayores a la vigilancia y represión territorial: el Operativo Independencia primero, después la represión a la huelga de Villa Constitución, después el decreto de octubre de 1975 que extendía la jurisdicción militar en la lucha antisubversiva a todo el país. Ninguna de estas consesiones era suficiente para las aspiraciones de las fuerzas armadas, que veían impotentes cómo el activismo civil mostraba una primitiva pero sorprendente capacidad organizativa en huelgas de aumento salarial como las de Villa Constitución, donde no solo los trabajadores sino los pobladores de la zona se auto-gobernaban, constituyendo una suerte de jerarquía paralela alimentada por las distintas organizaciones políticas revolucionarias. Desde finales de marzo hasta finales de abril de 1975, Villa Constitución se convirtió en una especie de mini-gobierno paralelo, con su propia gestión de recursos y auto-defensa. Aunque la huelga fue derrotada por el asedio gubernamental, era una de las tantas evidencias que necesitaban las fuerzas armadas para extender el aniquilamiento nacional a la parte civil de la insurgencia, cosa que no podrían lograr plenamente sin un golpe de Estado

      Importance of Villa Constitución

    2. Tres personas encapuchadas, adjudicándose su pertenencia al "Comando Moralizador Pío XII"  informan a la prensa que serán inmisericordiosos contra las prostitutas, por atentar contra las buenas costumbres y la moral. En su trayectoria 1974-1976 en la provincia de Mendoza, este comando religioso ultra-derechista torturó y asesinó a prostitutas, también colocó artefactos explosivos vandálicos (no letales) en boliches, establecimientos israelitas, locales de venta de alcohol, y lugares de concurrencia de izquierdistas o gremialistas. El comando estaba amparado por la policía local

      https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/handle/11336/127971

    3. ublicación de la revista peronista ortodoxa "El Caudillo", noviembre de 1973. Allí mezclan el psicoanálisis, las drogas, la homosexualidad con Freud y el marxismo. Pag. 6:https://eltopoblindado.com/nacionalismo-derecha/decada-1970-nacionalismo-derecha/lopezrreguismo/1973-el-caudillo-n-02/

      Useful re right-wing terrorist ideology

    4. Mientras el gobierno de Isabel podía controlar la guerrilla de izquierda, o mejor dicho, mientras la guerrilla de izquierda era incompetente militarmente como para representar un peligro bélico a cualquier gobierno (siendo el copamiento de Monte Chingólo el fracaso más doloroso de la guerrilla); en cambio el montonerismo sindical y estudiantil era un gran peligro pero no podía ser enjaulado mucho menos asesinado, abiertamente, por los resortes de un gobierno constitucional y con una prensa libre (que de por sí era favorable a la prédica castrense, pero podía difundir noticias que dañaran el carácter clandestino de la represión). Como resulta obvio de imaginar, un militante de célula sindical o universitario no iba a andar vociferando a sus colegas de trabajo que pertenecía a Montoneros o PRT-ERP, sino que se callaba la boca y hacía proselitismo encubiertamente, sutilmente para no caber en las ambiguas leyes persecutorias. Asi que el enemigo estaba más que nunca mimetizado física y/o legalmente en las fábricas y escuelas; el único modo de extirparlo de la sociedad era mediante una fuerza que solo puede ejecutarse con los mecanismos constitucionales disminuidos

      Key point

    5. A diferencia de lo que ocurrirá posteriormente en el resto del país, los militares en Tucumán no buscaron ocultar la existencia de centros clandestinos masivos de tortura a la población. Prueba de ello es que la "escuelita de Famaillá", primer centro clandestino en masa, se ubicaba en la Plaza Principal de Famailá, rodeado de viviendas de pobladores locales, quienes escuchaban los gritos de los secuestrados, la música ruidosa para tapar los suplicios, los camiones y helicópteros del Ejército trasladando personas, e incluso podían parcialmente ver la actividad del campo de concentración subiéndose a las terrazas de la vivienda. Los militares así diseminaban el miedo a toda la población, para cortar cualquier vínculo amistoso con la "subversión" o paralizar cualquier actividad agitativa

      Point

    6. en 1971 el gobierno de Alejandro Lanusse promulgó una Cámara Federal especial de juzgamiento a los delitos de la actividad insurgente, que endurecía las penas y se salteaba las jurisdicciones provinciales indebidamente para instruir las causas. La experiencia resultó estadísticamente fallida, puesto que los jueces encontraron dificultades para condenar a personas por delitos poco significativos y cuestionables (como literatura subversiva o incitación al comunismo, etc.); en los casos de asociación ilícita se agravó muchísimo la pena aunque no concordara con el resto del andamiaje penal; y solo se procesaron a 1.200 personas. La Cámara Federal no daba resultados para los militares por su enfoque pseudo-legalista donde se perseguía un delito, y no a la red de contactos militantes que un detenido pudiera tener. Los interrogatorios de la Cámara Federal no se orientaban a la detención masiva de personas en una cadena celular, volviendo inútil la represión "legal" para desbaratar una organización político-militar que acumulaba en ese entonces varios miles de simpatizantes y activistas

      important on camaron

    1. Donald Denoon and Marivic Wyndham, who write here about Australia and the Pacific in the 19th century, suggest matter-of-factly that ‘indigenous peoples were decimated and outnumbered by new, expanding societies of free British migrants,’ but they seem to believe that this ‘demographic revolution’ was caused by smallpox rather than the deliberate actions of colonists. There is no mention of the use of poisoned ‘damper’ (maize meal laced with arsenic), nor of the simple remedies suggested by wealthy Australian ranchers like Colonel William Cox, speaking at a public meeting in Beaufort in 1825: ‘The best thing that could be done would be to shoot all the Blacks and manure the ground with their carcases, which was all the good they were fit for ... the women and children should especially be shot as the most certain method of getting rid of the race.’

      cf Sarmiento on gauchos

    1. That distinction explains both what neoliberalism is and why it has been so durable. It can survive the abandonment of particular policies, even of free trade itself, so long as markets remain the norm against which political action is judged and capital remains insulated from democratic claims.

      Nice summary

    1. ARROSTITO: Toda la «organización» éramos doce personas, entre los de Buenos Aires y los de Córdoba. En el operativo jugamos diez.

      De ahi saca Gillespie el nùmero.

    1. Y recuerdo que después de esa reunión entre Cámpora y Perón le dije al General: “El proceso termina con usted en el balcón y de uniforme militar, como el símbolo de la unidad nacional”. Pero bueno, Cámpora creyó que era peligroso resaltarlo, que podían los militares reaccionar mal. Porque había habido todo tipo de condicionantes durante febrero. Entre otras cosas, un discurso de Lanusse, teóricamente ante mandos militares pero que había trascendido, en el que dijo que a pesar de todo él podía asegurar que el señor Perón nunca iba a volver a ser presidente de Argentina. Textual. En las Actas de la Junta hay cosas sensacionales. Por ejemplo, en la reunión de la Junta del 17 de noviembre (de 1972), por la tarde, Lanusse dice que el regreso ha sido una gran derrota de Perón. Que está prácticamente terminado como sujeto pensante.

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    1. Finance is not a major player in this model of the economy. Corporations in the industrial technostructure seek to optimize for retained earnings, the only kind of capital that they can use completely flexibly, rather than for equity or debt, both of which come with (sometimes quite costly) obligations. Galbraith quips that no banker would presume to know more than a General Motors engineer about the design of a new combustion engine—and the banker would lend anyway, because who would doubt a GM engineer, an “organization man”? The barrier to economic development in Galbraith’s time is no longer any scarcity of capital; rather, it is the concentration of expertise—which the industrial corporation is uniquely able to organize and shape to its ends.

      How things have changed

  2. Jul 2026
    1. Another of Anderson’s sources for this period is Mario Monje, leader of the Bolivian Communist Party. Anderson found him living out a long and sad exile in Moscow, one of the few foreign Communists still bunkered down in the former Soviet capital. Monje has often told the tale of his disagreements with Guevara at the guerrilla camp at Ñancahuazú on New Year’s Eve 1966, which effectively deprived Guevara’s Bolivia campaign of significant political support, but he has rarely been questioned about these earlier events. He tells of a meeting in Havana in 1963 in which he explained to the Cuban spy chief, Manuel Piñeiro, known as Barba Roja, that Stalin had backed guerrilla struggle in Latin America in the Thirties and it hadn’t worked. ‘They pushed armed struggle here, guerrillas there,’ he told Piñeiro. ‘They tried it in different countries and failed, and now you are trying to repeat what they did.’

      Interesting quote

    2. Guevara had observed with interest how, during the Cuban war, other political groups in the country had constantly tried to outmanoeuvre Fidel. He learnt to appreciate the advantage enjoyed by politicians with guns in their hands. All those directly involved in fighting the war in the Sierra Maestra were convinced that the revolution would only be safe under their control. This was Guevara’s enduring concern in the elaboration of his theories – and of his practice in the Congo and Bolivia. Political leadership had to be kept by the guerrillas themselves, in the jungle or the mountains; it could not be the prerogative of remote figureheads in the cities.

      Interesting point, applicable to Montoneros debates

    1. ¿Cómo puede ser de semejante triunfo, unos meses después aparezcan huelgas generales en el país? No hubo triunfo de la dictadura, la resistencia estaba avanzando. Simultáneamente, en el último trimestre del 78, nuestro análisis decía que había terminado la ofensiva de la dictadura. ¿Por qué se acabó? No porque no le queden armas u hombres, sino porque perdieron la moral. La perdieron en esto que ahora llamamos genocidio. Esa es la razón de la contraofensiva. Nos sumábamos a la resistencia que desplegaba el pueblo, con la acción de nuestra política militar y propagandística. En ese margen, el 80 por ciento de nuestras caídas se produce en la estructura política, en los compañeros que estaban tomando contacto con el germen de la organización política. Porque todavía tenía fuerte presencia la dictadura ahí adentro. No tuvimos grandes bajas en las acciones militares ni en el área propagandística. Nos equivocamos en aspectos de tipo organizativo pero nos sumamos a un proceso que estaba en marcha y que siguió. Y que en marzo de 1982 terminó con miles de tipos en la calle peleando contra el gobierno. La dictadura consigue, eso sí, dar vuelta en parte esto con Malvinas, pero era la resistencia que venía avanzando. Y que recorre el camino histórico de los ciclos en la Argentina. Golpes militares, resistencia popular, militares que se van, avance popular, y así. Esta vez vino mediado por el tema Malvinas y luego por el tema de una recuperación de la democracia donde los partidos políticos se hicieron los osos. Y adoptaron todas esas concepciones que venían del norte acerca lo que significaba la democracia. Me hago cargo de lo que digo, pero creo que nos equivocamos asignarle a esta democracia un valor mayor del que realmente tiene.

      Disparate

    1. Perón también proponía organizar sectas “diabólicas”, con el nombre de Justicia del Pueblo, para combatir el gobierno de Aramburu:“Los parientes y los amigos de los muertos, los perseguidos y encarcelados, los desposeídos, etc. tienen derecho y obligación moral de formar parte de estas sectas destinadas al castigo de los culpables. Su organización tendrá carácter permanente y no se disolverán por ninguna causa antes de cumplido totalmente su cometido. Los que ingresen a ellas deben pensarlo bien antes porque no pueden desertar después. Se formarán: a) En cada ciudad, pueblo, establecimiento, etc., el número necesario de Sectas Territoriales. b) En cada organismo sindical, las correspondientes Sectas Gremiales. c) En cada circunscripción, departamento, etcétera, las Sectas Políticas correspondientes. Cada una de estas ‘Sectas’ debe tener la lista de los enemigos del Pueblo, con sus correspondientes domicilios y datos personales, encabezadas por Aramburu y Rojas, como asimismo sus colaboradores directos e indirectos y los sicarios de las Fuerzas Armadas. De acuerdo con estas listas, los asesinos y traidores del Pueblo serán condenados y se les aplicará la pena. No es necesario que sea inmediata, se puede esperar la ocasión hasta que se presente. Ellos deben saber que un día u otro serán sancionados. Los hermanos que se incorporen a las sectas recibirán un número para designarse y una palabra clave para reconocerse de modo que cada uno tenga, en vez de nombre, número, y en vez de apellido, una palabra clave. El ingreso se hará en una ceremonia presidida por los hermanos dirigentes y, el ingresante, jurará allí “odio eterno a los enemigos del pueblo”, recibirá una pequeña credencial de reconocimiento y se le leerán las obligaciones que contrae con la institución. Todas las reuniones son secretas y los hermanos, mientras se encuentren en ellas, se cubrirán el rostro con capuchón que impida que se les conozca. El trato entre ellos es secreto y sólo se individualizarán por medio de su número y la palabra clave. Una sola pena se aplica a los traidores: la Muerte. Los agentes que se infiltraran mediante engaños deben ser drásticamente suprimidos en cuanto se los descubra. Los hermanos dirigentes, designados por la propia secta, deben conocer los antecedentes de cada candidato al ingreso. Es obligación de todos los asociados, de todas las sectas, investigar todo lo referente a la desaparición del cadáver de la Mártir del Trabajo —Doña Eva Perón— y es deber de todos los asociados establecer los culpables directos e indirectos para matarlos. De esas víboras no debe quedar una viva”.

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    1. Walsh había pedido escribir esa crónica publicada por Leoplán –una de las dos que hoy se conocen como sus “textos incómodos”-, en la que exalta el heroísmo de los aviadores golpistas. Tenía sus razones: su hermano Carlos, a quien admiraba, era también aviador naval y había participado del golpe.

      Notable

    1. El 29 de agosto de 1973, Gelli -por intermedio de López Rega y en nombre del “Consejo Supremo Universal”- le escribiría a Perón que “tuviese presentes” lo siguientes nombres para su futuro gobierno: Albergo Vignes, ministro de Relaciones Exteriores; César de la Vega, secretario de Bienestar Social -en caso de posible vacante del titular, sustituirlo y nombrarlo ministro-; general Miguel Ángel Iñíguez, jefe de la Policía Federal -en sustitución del general Ferrazzano-; Guillermo de la Plaza, asesor del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores; Loureiro Ron, presidente del Banco Hipotecario; contraalmirante (RE) Juan Questa, un cargo en el Ministerio de Defensa; brigadier Osvaldo Cacciatore, un cargo en la Fuerza Aérea, y general Suárez Mason, oficial de enlace.

      Note

    2. A partir de la relación bilateral con Frondizi y con Perón, desde inicios de la década del setenta Valori empezó a batallar por la concreción del “Plan Europa”. Era un proyecto estratégico para la Argentina afirmado sobre bases políticas y empresariales: uniría la fuerza popular del general Perón con la visión política y el prestigio europeo de los que gozaba Frondizi, y contaba con el respaldo y tutelaje de las más poderosas empresas italianas —Fiat, Techint, Pirelli— y del Mercado Común Europeo, dispuestas a invertir en el Cono Sur.

      Useful

    1. The global dollar is not the property of the US. For every $100 made in the US, $70 of USD credit is made in London, Singapore and a host of other places. Why? Because it’s easier for Malaysia and India to trade in USD than in each other’s currencies due to volatility and clearance issues, and so they do. And all those exporters still like their dollar reserves for that reason as well as the ‘savings asset’ reason. The USD is the only globally accepted currency that is deep and liquid enough that any individual trade, even by China, does not move the market. And everyone likes that

      Important

    1. “Mi padre, que conocía a Arturo Frondizi, escuchó de su boca que Martínez de Hoz, en una reunión, había dicho que era necesario destruir la industria nacional para modernizar el Estado. Entonces le pidió al dirigente desarrollista que lo hiciera público. Y éste lo declaró ante periodistas de Clarín. Con ese recorte del diario se presentó ante la Justicia”, contó a 90 Líneas Alejandro Olmos Gaona, hijo de Alejandro Olmos.

      “Mi padre, que conocía a Arturo Frondizi, escuchó de su boca que Martínez de Hoz, en una reunión, había dicho que era necesario destruir la industria nacional para modernizar el Estado.

    1. Había gente sensata, pero el liderazgo de la “orga” estaba en manos de un grupo que pensaba que en la Argentina estábamos cerca de la revolución.

      Había gente sensata, pero el liderazgo de la “orga” estaba en manos de un grupo que pensaba que en la Argentina estábamos cerca de la revolución.

  3. Jun 2026
    1. La rehabilitación de Morales y Almirón tiene una fecha precisa: el 11 de octubre de 1973, el presidente interino Raúl Lastiri firmó el decreto 1858 que los reincorporó al servicio activo en la Policía Federal y los ascendió: Almirón subió cuatro escalafones hasta llegar a ser designado subcomisario; mientras que Morales alcanzó el grado de comisario principal.

      Notable

    1. Esos días de finales del 55, felices para algunos y tristes para otros, los reflejó el escritor Ernesto Sábato en una anécdota personal. “Aquella noche de septiembre de 1955, mientras los doctores, hacendados y escritores festejábamos ruidosamente en la sala la caída del tirano, en un rincón de la antecocina vi cómo las dos indias que allí trabajaban tenían los ojos empapados de lágrimas”, recordaba.

      Quote

    2. El sector sindical también fue muy castigado y los gremios, asaltados por los llamados “comandos civiles”. Pese a las promesas pacificadoras del general Lonardi, no podía controlar al sector más antiperonista y se produjo una secuela sin precedentes de despidos por causas políticas o gremiales. Asimismo, los dirigentes Augusto Vandor, Andrés Framini y Armando Cabo fueron detenidos y mantuvieron una acalorada discusión con un oficial de la Marina que les dijo: “Nosotros hicimos esta revolución para que el hijo del barrendero siga siendo barrendero”.

      Useful quote

    1. To begin with, drugs. According to Ukraine’s military ombudsman Olga Reshetilova, the 425th has 2000 soldiers dependent on methadone treatment. Ukraine, as I recently wrote, has state-funded methadone treatment clinics as a way to wean drug addicts off of street amphetamines.

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    1. in his view, high unemployment wasn’t necessary to scare the working class into submission; years of downsizings had produced a fear of job loss that left workers feeling deeply insecure “despite the tightest labor markets in decades,” as he put it in a July 2000 speech. Workers felt like the unemployment rate was a couple of points higher than the actual rate of 4 percent, and that was fine with him since it kept wages down.

      Key line

    1. Una versión, confirmada por Robert W. Scherrer, ex agente del FBI en la embajada estadounidense en Argentina, al periodista norteamericano Martin Andersen, indicó que los captores de Egan "le habían cortado los genitales. Los montoneros, al contrario de lo que puedas haber escuchado, torturaron y mutilaron a otros prisioneros secuestrados para cobrar rescate". Sin embargo, uno de los policías que descubrieron el cadáver y que no quiere que su nombre trascienda negó que eso fuera cierto: "Si bien era de noche, en una zona poco frecuentada, cerca de un canal, recuerdo que no había manchas de sangre en sus pantalones".

      Interesting example of this guy supplying rotten meat to Andersen

    1. Si recordamos una vez más, que la mayoría de los desaparecidos no era combatiente / logística, se entiende que los militares optaran por la desaparición. El ejemplo de los etarras puede ser medianamente convincente pero ni de lejos es el mejor argumento para comprender la decisión tomada, pues aunque todo el mundo aplaudiera el fusilamiento de un montonero que mata a un policía ¿Hubieran aplaudido el fusilamiento de una célula estudiantil que solo hacía propaganda montonera pero no cometió ningún crimen?? ¿Hubieran aplaudido el fusilamiento de una persona acusada solamente de un delito no lesivo como la simple asociación ilícita? ¿Qué artículos del Código de Justicia Militar hubieran citado para fundamentar la sanción capital?

      Good point

    2. os represores Ramón Camps y Miguel Etchecolatz repiten en sus libros el discursito que el modelo de delincuente común para la Justicia no se amolda a la subversión. Enlace a sus correspondientes libros: https://es.scribd.com/doc/260116204/El-Poder-en-La-Sombra  https://es.scribd.com/document/375764380/La-Otra-Campana-Del-Nunca-Mas-Crio-Grl-M-Etchecolatz

      For possible download

    1. As I examined the document, eight months after Gabbard’s confirmation as director of national intelligence, I found it striking that such deep suspicion of U.S. intelligence appeared to have been fed to someone who would later coordinate the CIA, the National Security Agency and more than a dozen similar agencies.

      This is the WaPo after all.

    1. Countries including Italy, France and Greece have proposed repaying NextGenerationEU recovery funds through the reissuance of debt, a mechanism known as "rolling debt". The proposal is strongly opposed by Germany, the Netherlands and others, who reject any form of new common borrowing.

      Key

    1. Distintas publicaciones dan cuenta del alcance de esos esfuerzos de producción de armas por parte de las facciones subversivas. Entre las armas que se fabricaban de manera clandestina figuran:Granada de mano SFM-4, en instalaciones detectadas en Carapachay, partido de Vicente LópezTromblón Lanzagranadas SFM-4Granada tipo Energa G 70 A, de carga hueca y aptas para perforar blindajes y mamposteríaLanzagranadas SFM-LG22-MP, producto de la Fábrica Militar José Sabino NavarroEspoleta de tracción SFM/ET-1Explosivo plástico C-2, producido en establecimientos clandestinos de Rosario, Lanús y Villa DominicoGranada tipo Strim SFM/G-40, antipersonalPistolas ametralladoras “Monto” y “Yarará”, basadas en las suecas Carl Gustav, y producidas en partes en talleres de Mar del Plata, Florida, Don Torcuato, Garín, Villa Ballester y la Capital.

      Equopment

    1. La Compañía Comando actuaba como retén, esto es, una dotación de 22 soldados que tienen la misión de vigilar y de reaccionar en caso de ataque. En total, ese día había 110 soldados, de acuerdo a los registros oficiales del Ejército.

      Numbers

    1. La Compañía Comando actuaba como retén, esto es, una dotación de 22 soldados que tienen la misión de vigilar y de reaccionar en caso de ataque. En total, ese día había 110 soldados, de acuerdo a los registros oficiales del Ejército

      Numbers

    1. Fernández Cendoya contó que la operación fue planeada por el aparato de inteligencia de Montoneros, encabezado por Rodolfo Walsh, y que José Luis Dios pertenecía al Pelotón de Combate “Norma Arrostito”. También aseguró que el terrorista fue premiado por la organización siendo nombrado secretario de prensa y propaganda de la Columna Norte. En sus orígenes había militado en la Juventud de Trabajadores Peronistas en Lomas de Zamora y fue abatido el 9 de septiembre de 1977 en un enfrentamiento con la policía frente al Club San Andrés, en la localidad del mismo nombre.

      "Fernández Cendoya contó que la operación fue planeada por el aparato de inteligencia de Montoneros, encabezado por Rodolfo Walsh, y que José Luis Dios pertenecía al Pelotón de Combate “Norma Arrostito”. También aseguró que el terrorista fue premiado por la organización siendo nombrado secretario de prensa y propaganda de la Columna Norte"

    1. Hasta mediados de la década del ’60 desarrolla su militancia en ámbitos demócrata cristianos, tradicionalmente antiperonistas. Pero en un movimiento típico de su generación, hacia fines de los años ’60, en el marco de la represión y censura política que caracteriza a la dictadura del Gral. Juan Carlos Onganía, termina asumiendo una identificación con el peronismo al igual que otros jóvenes de su mismo origen ideológico con quienes, tras compartir experiencias de trabajo gremial, en barrios y villas, y también en vinculación con la CGT de los Argentinos, desemboca en 1968 en la fundación del Comando Descamisado.

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    1. La presencia del cuerpo de Eva en la casa de Arandía no trajo nada cercano a la paz ni al descanso. El mayor era atormentado por una paranoia que no lo dejaba dormir. Una noche oyó ruidos. La versión que hizo trascender es que pensó que había entrado un ladrón. Lo que se dijo es que en verdad lo aterrorizaba la posibilidad de que una célula de la resistencia peronista ingresara a su casa e intentara recuperar el cadáver. Lo certero, lo siniestramente certero, es que tomó su pistola nueve milímetros y vació el cargador contra un bulto en la oscuridad: su mujer, embarazada, cayó muerta al instante.

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    1. Sin embargo, puertas adentro del país, Alemann tuvo que soportar la reacción antisemita de algunos integrantes de la Junta Militar, indignados por los fuertes vínculos del estudio Weil, Gothsam & Manges con la comunidad judía de Nueva York.

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    2. Esta solución se le ocurrió al abogado Richard Davis, socio del estudio neoyorquino Weil, Gothsam & Manges, ex subsecretario de Finanzas del Tesoro durante la administración de James Carter y experto en sanciones económicas internacionales, contratado por el Ministerio de Economía por el temor a que el gobierno de Reagan cediera a la presión de Thatcher de embargar los bienes argentinos en territorio norteamericano.

      Very interesting

    1. “La Armada estaba convencida de que era menester dejar el gobierno, pero en condiciones de negociación fuertes como para que no ocurriera lo mismo que en 1973 (asunción de Héctor Cámpora y la izquierda montonera), y para esto la operación Malvinas era fundamental. Como la operación Malvinas no se podía hacer con Viola, la conclusión muy simple era sacarlo”.

      Important

    1. ntes de llegar al Ministerio del Interior de la dictadura encabezada por Videla, Harguindeguy había sido jefe de la Policía Federal durante más de un año, nombrado por María Estela Martínez de Perón. Allí creó el Grupo de Tareas 2 (GT-2), encargado de la represión ilegal, en el ámbito de Coordinación Federal.

      Grupo de Tareas 2

    1. El Memo relata que el día miércoles 1° de octubre “los cinco generales que tienen los fierros, de Sur a Norte: Antonio Domingo Bussi (Cuerpo I); Juan Carlos Trimarco (Cuerpo II); Cristino Nicolaides (Cuerpo III) y José Rogelio Villarreal (Cuerpo V) informaron a Galtieri que su posición era que Viola no era negociable y que, si era necesario, se debía modificar la regla de unanimidad” en la Junta Militar. Pocos lo dicen: desde hacía tiempo Galtieri pretendía ser Presidente con retención de la comandancia en Jefe del Ejército, ambición que recién concretaría en diciembre del año siguiente, con el respaldo del almirante Jorge Anaya, tras nombrar nuevos jefes de Cuerpo a su antojo. Pasaron a retiro Villarreal y Bussi.

      Important

    1. The irony is that most Wall Street people freak out about high Federal budget deficits and debt, but those actually produce safe securities, namely treasury bonds. When Wall Street generates private debt, like mortgages and commercial credit, that’s what fosters financial crisis.

      Good that he notes this.

    1. A lo largo de los años, la influencia del juez Urien como jefe oculto de Anael se extendió entre funcionarios judiciales y gubernamentales y en el ámbito profesional, pero la columna vertebral de la logia era el Comando Nacional de Suboficiales de las Fuerzas Armadas (Conasub), que acompañó el golpe de 1943 ejecutado por el Grupo de Oficiales Unidos (GOU). Luego los suboficiales fueron expulsados del Ejército por resistir a la Revolución Libertadora. El último libro de Urien, firmado bajo el seudónimo de Dr. Anael, La razón del Tercer Mundo, editado en 1964, iba de mano en mano por los cuarteles.

      Notable

    1. Over the last quarter century, about 60 percent of global trade has been invoiced in dollars, and 80 percent of trade settlements.

      Have to look at this distinction.

    1. Where he does diverge from Marquand is on the question of MacDonald’s legacy. Marquand saw MacDonald as ‘decent and honourable’, but regretted his failure to follow the path outlined by Keynes in 1931, arguing that he lacked ‘a willingness to jettison cherished assumptions in the face of changing realities’. For Reid, this shows that Marquand, then a Labour MP, was a follower of the Keynesian economics that still prevailed in the 1970s. In the decades since then, Reid asserts, the ‘apparently self-evident ... merits of Keynesianism and deficit financing have been displaced’. But even this restates what Marquand himself wrote in 2004 in a re-evaluation of MacDonald’s life, admitting that his earlier criticisms had been moulded by the ‘equally time-bound assumption that it would have been better to take Keynes’s advice in 1931 than that of the Bank of England’. Marquand, who followed Roy Jenkins into the Social Democratic Party in 1981, conceded that it was ‘no longer obvious that Keynes was right in 1931 and the bankers wrong’, or that governments could flout the financial markets. MacDonald, he now wrote, had been ‘not just honourable and consistent, but right’.

      Jesus

    1. Offshore RMB markets – Hong Kong is the largest – were supposed to serve as the launchpad for internationalization, providing a freely convertible pool of Renminbi.

      Was internationalization of the RMB a goal of the Chinese regime?

    2. . The pressure of capital flight grew as the Chinese economy entered a period of deepening crisis in the last decade, with no clear end in sight. This, in turn, has intensified the CCP’s urge to tighten capital controls.

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  4. May 2026
    1. The winds of unipolarity were so strong that coherent arguments for primacy were barely needed at all. Stepping into the breach, some elite discourse shifted from complacent to hallucinatory, particularly among economists. “This expansion will run forever,” said MIT’s Rudi Dornbusch.34Rudi Dornbusch, “Growth Forever,” Wall Street Journal (July 30, 1998) Paul Krugman declared that good economists could disagree on questions like whether “the demand side matters.”35Paul Krugman, (<)em(>)Peddling Prosperity Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations(<)/em(>) (New York: Norton, 1994) 89 Janet Yellen and Alan Blinder speculated about a future without public debt.36

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    1. En 1958 la “Revolución Libertadora” da paso al gobierno de Arturo Frondizi, dirigente de la Unión Cívica Radical Intransigente (UCRI), quien gana las elecciones nacionales con el voto del peronismo, a partir de un acuerdo electoral previo con Perón. Como sostienen Ramírez y Viguera 44 , Perón desde el exilio había pactado con el candidato a presidente su apoyo electoral a cambio de la re-legalización de la estructura sindical y el posterior levantamiento de la proscripción política al Partido Justicialista. El triunfo de Frondizi y la normalización de la CGT , en consecuencia, reinstauraron a la dirigencia sindical de origen peronista en el centro de la lucha corporativa. En tanto presiones en contrario no permitirían la rehabilitación del Partido Justicialista, el movimiento sindical se convertiría de hecho en la voz política del peronismo

      important

    1. Yet the biggest problem that CoreWeave has is that it needs more debt to complete the data centers it’s already agreed to, leaving it in a dilemma where it must build data center capacity way faster than it can to make revenue to justify borrowing more money to build more capacity to make more revenue to pay off its debts.

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    1. La fábrica paró durante varios días exigiendo por su paradero y su libertad. Sabemos que estuvo en Campo de Mayo porque un conscripto de su pueblo natal le contó varios meses después, a su familia en Salta,  que lo había visto allí.

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    1. Bloomberg TerminalStagflation and hawkish central banks were cited by many of the 32 investors as key risks the market is failing to price properly. Those responses underscore how the bond market looms large in stock investors’ peripheral vision as the main threat to equities.

      And hawkish central banks

    1. If being the leading critic-novelist of America means every once in a while delivering a novel that shows you understand the follies and vast smugness of the middle class in the heartbreak house of capitalist culture then perhaps Wood has done his work: this novel is, in terms of sheer writerly execution, better than Wilson’s Memoirs of Hecate Country, better than Trilling’s Middle of the Journey, and better than Sontag’s The Volcano Lover. Yet it does not appear very different from the recent fiction by O’Neill and Jonathan Dee, who confidently play us back the society around us.

      "confidently play us back the society arround us"

    1. Since 2016, politics has broken free of specific issues, leaders and demands, and now flows back and forth between public and private realms in a way that was unimaginable in the ‘postpolitical’ era of the 1990s. Hyperpolitics, Jäger writes, ‘represents a redoubling of antipolitics, a mode of viral panic typical of the internet age with its short cycles of hype and outrage’.

      ?

    1. Dentro de la casa estaban Roberto, Amelia y sus hijes pequeñes. El expediente reconstruye un ataque sostenido durante horas. Exconscriptos relataron que se utilizaron fusiles FAL y otras armas, como una ametralladora antiaérea montada sobre trípode, que disparó directamente contra la vivienda, y una bazuca para destruir parte de la estructura.

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    1. La justicia no pudo probar un involucramiento de funcionarios del gobierno radical como ideólogos o instigadores del operativo pero la sospecha al respecto fue generalizada, fundada además en los lazos personales entre varios miembros del MTP y funcionarios del gobierno; sin mencionar que en los años 60 y 70 las filas del PRT se nutrieron en parte de jóvenes de origen radical.

      PRT radicales

    1. Víctor Basterra. Por si faltaban datos para confirmar que Massera seguía en relación estrecha con Licio Gelli, Basterra declaró en la megacausa ESMA haber confeccionado cuatro documentos con nombres diferentes y fotos del jefe de la P2.

      Notable

    1. El testimonio de Claudio Uriarte resulta importante, porque escribía en el diario Convicción, creado y manejado por Massera y que sostenía las posiciones del almirante y de la Armada en las internas de la cúpula militar. Ya avanzada la democracia, Uriarte estuvo a cargo de la sección Internacionales del diario Página 12, por lo cual ha tenido la oportunidad de obtener información de ambos lados del espectro ideológico.

      lol

    1. El almirante Anaya confió la planificación de la operación y el armado del grupo comando al Contralmirante Girling y este -en un pase de manos- a Luis D¨ Imperio, quien designó al mando al capitán de corbeta e infante de marina y buzo táctico Héctor Rosales, junto a los exmontoneros Máximo Nicoletti, Antonio Nelson Latorre alias “el Pelado Diego” y un tercer integrante conocido como “El Marciano”, cuya identidad se desconoce, aunque hay versiones (incluso literarias) que indican que fue un conscripto. D’Imperio, fue el sucesor de Jorge “El Tigre” Acosta en el Grupo de Tareas 3.3.2. de la Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada (ESMA); el mismo grupo de tareas que había “chupado” a Nicoletti.

      Good detail

    2. Pero su historia no termina allí. Según parece, los jefes de la Armada estaban muy interesados en sus destrezas. Es por ello qué en el año 1978, durante el conflicto que la Argentina mantuvo con Chile por el canal de Beagle, aquella le pidió que preparase un operativo similar al que llevó a cabo en Rio Santiago, esta vez en Valparaíso y contra buques trasandinos. La mediación papal impidió que el asunto llegara a otros estadíos y el plan fue desestimado.

      Huh

    1. Nabiullina was much praised by the Western technocratic elite and given invitations to Jackson Hole, Basel and the IMF. There, she was fêted for her efforts to defend liberal economic orthodoxy in Russia’s challenging environment as an emerging economy; Christine Lagarde, then managing director of the IMF, said she made ‘central banking sing’.

      This explains a lot.

    1. So, for the world’s producers of commodities and manufactures, what happens in China is a big determinant of the prices of goods, while what happens in the US is a big determinant of the costs of borrowing and servicing debt. And when these two forces are out of phase with each other, many countries around the world (and particularly commodity exporters in the global south) face booms, busts, or both in succession.

      Nicely put.

    1. its recent taste for extremism’ (examples of which are ‘legalization of drugs regardless of the logic of addiction’ and ‘the rights of biological men who identified as women to enter women’s changing rooms and women’s prisons’)

      damn

    2. The book seems, prima facie, to be proposing an interesting thesis – that is, one which, even if not completely true, is at least contentful enough to be enlighteningly false.

      Nice line

    1. At the RBA’s press conference on Tuesday announcing the – Monetary Policy Decision – the Governor said that: … when governments are spending a lot of money and we’re running up against capacity constraints, then they do need to think about whether or not there’s ways they can help the inflation problem by looking for ways to constrain demand. Next week, the Treasurer will deliver his annual fiscal statement outlining spending and tax initiatives for 2026-27.

      Jesus

    1. When Louis-Philippe became king in 1830, his regime embraced laissez-faire policies, increased the money supply, and expanded credit and investment. He also extended the franchise to wealthy bankers, financiers, industrialists and some other property owners. Financialisation was rampant, money appeared to determine social status, and French society itself began to be understood as a market

      Wonder what author has in mind about increasing money supply? Less requirement to back by specie?

    2. In the view of one judge, brokerage merely shifted unions from love and affection to the ‘still honest domain of self-interested transactions’.

      Great line

    1. The ardent masses who joined the Communards in battle were seldom industrial workers (Paris in the 1870s had relatively few factories), but more often small shopkeepers, café proprietors, shoemakers, students and self-employed craftsmen of every trade. In other words the petty bourgeoisie, which together with industrial workers constituted the People, the fabled dragon which had carried French revolutions since 1789.

      Modern implication here.

    1. El apoyo argentino en Centroamérica anticipaba ‘tolerancia’ por parte de los EE.UU.; el subsecretario de EE.UU. (Enders) le dijo a Costa Méndez ‘ese problema (Malvinas) es para nosotros un tema de hands off’. Creyó que siempre era más importante para EE.UU. su frontera libre de amenaza ideológica. EE.UU. dependía del apoyo argentino en Centroamérica.

      "dependia"

    1. Sassoon and Graves and Owen were obviously far better poets, but it is important to remember that they were not the only, or even the dominant, voices in the air. Disillusion and horror were counterbalanced by pride in what, it continued to be argued, was a necessary sacrifice. In this connection, it is worth mentioning Hugh Cecil’s Flower of Battle (1996), which covers a dozen novelists of the time, many of them bestselling, who tried to make sense of the war with more sorrow than bitterness.

      Could look up.

    1. Gen. Arturo A. Corbetta the new federal police chief named after the assassination by a terrorist bomb of Gen. Cesareo Cardozo last week, said in a televised speech Friday night that the subversion required “a high concentration of centralized violence” the state in reply.But he added that this repressive violence must be “official, public and controlled, exercised with decision, but also with the ??? of men who know their duties.”This is the position of General Videla and a majority of the leaders of the armed forces. In the context of the strong emotions aroused among the military by guerrilla violence against retired officers, isolated policemen and the families of serving officers, the idea of “controlled violence” is considered moderate here.

      Example of NYT wrong deduction

    1. El 2 de julio otro atentado montonero, esta vez a la Superintendencia de Seguridad Federal produjo 23 muertos. Ante semejante desafío, Corbetta no cambió su proceder. Es más, un grupo de policías quiso ir a la cárcel de Villa Devoto, donde había presos políticos para sacarlos y, probablemente, matar algunos. El propio Corbetta, acompañado de un puñado de oficiales de Ejército se interpuso ante los policías en la sede de la jefatura policial y evitó que salieran.

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    2. -Eso (Borges en el Colegio Militar) pudo haber sido en 1974 –dice Balza- porque mi suegro, el general Antonio Serrano, era director del Colegio Militar cuando Corbetta era subdirector. Serrano siempre me habló bien de Corbetta. Entre otras cosas, porque a mediados de ese 1974, Serrano renunció al Colegio Militar y pidió el pase a retiro por una pelea con Guillermo Suárez Mason, que era director de Institutos Militares por entonces.

      Bien

    3. -Yo lo tuve de subdirector del Colegio Militar a Corbetta –dice Giacosa- y una vez lo llevó nada menos que a Jorge Luis Borges a darnos una charla. En otra oportunidad, nos dijo algo así como que "todos los militares deberíamos leer a Borges".

      note

    4. Me preguntó cómo estaba. Le dije que encerrado todo el día, que recién desde hacía poco nos dejaban leer algún diario, pero que no teníamos libros, que los recreos eran esporádicos… en fin, le conté la verdad. Lo que recuerdo es que me dijo: "La única manera legítima de combatir a la subversión es con la Constitución en la mano"

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    1. Adam Gopnik, writing in the New Yorker in 1997, objected to the obituarist for the Economist asking: ‘Was there not always, at the very back of her mind, just a nagging feeling that she was being laughed at, even scorned?’ It was ‘an attack in the guise of an obituary’, while the Times had called her a ‘colourful courtesan’, making ‘it plain that, as far as Pamela Harriman was concerned, the age of chivalry was over’. Gopnik suggests, like Purnell, that Pamela was misunderstood: ‘Had this life been played out in the 18th century, she would undoubtedly be the subject of an admiring biography or two by a feminist professor.’

      But of course

    1. In 1980, while living in penury in Tasmania, Wright became ensnared in the ploys of Victor Rothschild, who used his money, energetic talent and Whitehall prestige to indulge in lofty and irregular wire-pulling in security matters. Rothschild put Wright in touch with the journalist Chapman Pincher, the egregious former defence editor of the Daily Express. In return for promises of money, but also to vent his raging accusations, Wright supplied Pincher with official secrets centring on Hollis’s supposed treachery. Curiously, Thatcher’s cabinet secretary, Robert Armstrong, had devised a similar scheme to leak the Hollis allegations to Pincher in order to pre-empt stories from more left-wing journalists. Hollis’s fictive treason was the sensational selling point of Pincher’s Their Trade Is Treachery (1981).

      Notable

    1. Los métodos de Coordinación Federal fueron acuñados por el comisario Alberto Villar, creador dentro de la policía del cuerpo de Guardia de Infantería. Un grupo encabezado por el propio Villar había estado, en 1969, durante la represión de obreros y dirigentes gremiales que participaron del Cordobazo, en mayo de ese año.

      Did not know this

    1. Middlemas’ book is particularly valuable for the light it throws on the way in which British re-armament—for the sake of which Chamberlain was supposed to have ‘gained valuable time’ at Munich—was bedevilled and strangled by the Government’s insistence that nothing must be done to produce more than a minimal disturbance of the profitable operations of private enterprise in industry and commerce

      look this up

    1. WIRED first learned about the campaign after this article’s author was invited by SM4 to participate. The details were later confirmed by several other content creators who received similar outreach.

      lol

    2. In an Instagram video posted on April 1, lifestyle influencer Melissa Strahle poses outdoors before an American flag as soft instrumental music plays. “AI lets me focus on what matters most,” she tells her 1.4 million followers. “We need to invest in American-made AI to ensure America leads the way in innovation and job creation.”

      lol

    1. Una vez que Ana María González terminó de colocar la bomba se fue del departamento de María Graciela con una nimia excusa –”me siento mal”— luego de completar unos dibujos. Tras la explosión la onda expansiva irritó a los mandos castrenses y llegó al mundo político. La responsable, Ana María González, era la novia de Sergio Leonardo Gass, nombre de guerra “Gabriel”, hijo del dirigente radical y ex diputado nacional Adolfo Gass. Los dos jóvenes eran los más buscados a partir de ese momento.

      NOtable

    1. Another of Bartel’s vignettes shows that austerity was as much a dissolver of the Iron Curtain as mimetic desire. Hungary, which by 1988 had embarked on the Polish route of liberalization, made a headlong effort to reduce expenditure to placate the imf. This included a decision to postpone the overdue modernization of the border wall with Austria. In effect, the de facto dismantling of the Wall was undertaken in the service of cost-cutting.

      Remarkable

    1. not only had the basic structure of the neoliberalization process already been laid out by Chilean economists in El Ladrillo, but its key features and overall framework were already under way by the appointment of Chicago Boy par excellence Sergio de Castro as senior adviser for the Ministry of Economics in September 14, 1973 (8). Leaving aside the instability generated by the military’s repressive violence and a dual state interregnum, the neoliberal ascension was also delayed, as noted, by conflicts within a junta split between a protectionist/corporatist and a neoliberal political economy.

      Junta split interesting

    1. Driven by both personal interest and political affiliation, Kast joined forces with other businessmen of the area and provided practical assistance to the military coup and its abducting/killing machine. As later trials would reveal, not only did Michael Kast provide local police and military units with trucks and drivers for arresting and disappearing left militants and radical workers and farmers, but he made sure to add workers from his own factory to the lists handed over. Moreover, as the unlikely survivor of a mass execution, Alejandro Bustos, would testify years later, Kast’s son (Christian Kast, sixteen at the time) was present during interrogations, torture, and executions.

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  5. Apr 2026
    1. As the US diplomats well understood, the military’s real war was not against the chimera of a communist threat, but against liberalism. It was a poisonous hatred not unlike that imported by the Nazis who had found safe refuge in Argentina. When I first began researching the Nazi escape to Argentina, I was looking for ways in which their presence could have directly inspired the crimes of the dictatorship. As it turned out, I found no physical point of contact and no evidence of direct ties: there were no aging SS officers torturing young prisoners in Argentina’s dungeons during the 1970s. Each country produces its own type of murderous totalitarians.

      Divisions within the Junta.

    1. Norma Berta Radice has consistently denied wrongdoing. The court, however, concluded that she was fully aware of both the criminal origin of the assets she helped manage and the nature of her brother’s activities. The case was formally elevated to trial on March 13, 2023. In 2025, Santiago Viola, who is currently President Milei’s representative before the state body that elects federal judges and the legal representative of ruling party La Libertad Avanza, was appointed as Norma Berta Radice’s lawyer.

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    1. by the 1980s Sklar himself had dramatically transvalued his account of corporate liberalism, which he now celebrated as not only benign but even a kind of unconscious, half-recognized American socialism. In Sklar’s hallucinatory prose, corporate capitalism and its Progressive handmaidens achieved a social movement on a par with ‘the Civil War and its aftermath’, to be celebrated because it ‘pacified agrarian populism, transcended proprietary capitalism and, in the inclusive as well as the exclusive sense, contained socialism’. When Sklar died in 2014, he still called himself a leftist but counted John Yoo as a personal friend; he had cut off contact with Judis, but the latter still offered an obituary of more than 10,000 words in The New Republic.

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    1. ROGOFF: I hope so. I think he’s the best chance that Argentina’s had in a long time, which is, fair to say, a very low bar. The thing that he’s done that I have not seen before is balancing the budget. If you’re a big borrower and you keep defaulting, a starting point is figuring out how not to have to borrow money, and he’s managed to do that. I don’t know that all his libertarian visions necessarily will come to pass, but he’s provided some stability, bringing inflation down.

      Dammit

    1. Pocos días después una escuadra especial a las órdenes del Buró Político detuvo a Ranier y a otro integrante del ERP, Coco. Esta segunda detención era parte de una estratagema para quebrar la resistencia del Oso.“Lo detuvimos con otro que era inocente –cuenta Mattini-. Agarramos a Coco, al que le teníamos muchísima confianza, y le dijimos: ‘Tenemos una misión rejodida. Te vamos a detener como si fueras un sospechoso y te vamos a maltratar’, para hacerle creer al otro que también lo íbamos a maltratar”.Los llevaron a una misma casa operativa, donde los interrogatorios estarían a cargo de Juan Mangini, el capitán Pepe, jefe de Inteligencia del PRT-ERP, y de Nélida Augier, Pola, encargada de Contrainteligencia.

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    1. 973 fue un año completo, con dictadura, elecciones, interregno entre ambos, asunción de Cámpora, retorno de Perón, Ezeiza, renuncia presidencial, elecciones, asesinato de Rucci. Resulta difícil encontrar en el pasado una intensidad parecida. Pocas vidas abarcan tantos hechos trascendentes como ese año.

      Nice quote

    1. Josh Ryan Collins wrote about the Bank of Canada in “Is Monetary Financing Inflationary? A Case Study of the Canadian Economy, 1935-75” (Spoiler alert: it’s not.)

      Excellent

    1. It is also notable that Poberezhnuk wrote that these soldiers serving in the 14th brigade were ‘attached’ to the 30th brigade. This practice has been much criticized over the past two years, since it means that the ‘attached’ unit is often ‘used up’ at the frontlines by the unit it is attached to. Units that have the privilege to ‘attach’ other units to themselves care little about preserving the lives of troops in these attached units, because they can always just attach another unit. All the while, they can claim to suffer reasonable losses in their own unit.

      Important

    1. He also wrote that “I am not persuaded that MMT is the best way to challenge the orthodox theory of sound finance” and echoed the mainstream claims that democracy would collapse if governments didn’t accept a financial constraint: To say that there is no theoretical reason why sovereigns need to “apply to the people” for money is correct, but it fails to consider why the rules of “sound finance” were invented in the first place. The rules were put in place precisely to prevent governments from spending money at will. That governments should apply to parliaments (ultimately, “the people”) for “supply” is part of the theory of the limited state.

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    2. Second, fiscal deficits are inflationary and he quoted James Callaghan who as British Labour PM told the 1976 Annual Labour Conference in Blackpool that: We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending … I tell you in all candor that that option no longer exists, and insofar as it ever did exist it only worked by … injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy.

      damn

    3. I also thought the work of Polish Marxist economist – Michał Kalecki – who was a contemporary of Keynes and was blocked by the latter in his quest for an academic position in Britain, was a far better ‘modern’ extension of Marx than anything Keynes had to offer.

      Keynes blocked Kalecki

    4. The economic successes of Italy and Germany through strong Keynesian style macroeconomic policies in the early 1930s

      Mussolini pursued Keynesian policies?

    1. “Payment-In-Kind” is a euphemism for “not paying the debt at all,” adding the payment you’d make onto the overall loan balance, accruing interest until the day you supposedly pay it. Put another way, instead of marking a loan as “in default” because the borrower can’t pay it, the fund simply makes the loan larger (and in some cases raises the interest rate).

      Definition of PIK

    1. "Once, a soldier noticed that I wasn't comfortable with it and said, 'What's with you? They aren't coming back here anyway; their story is done.' I didn't reply; I just nodded."

      Quote

  6. Mar 2026
    1. “Every society in the modern world,” Goldsmith writes, “is confronting serious problems which have no simple, universal solution.” They do, however, have a simple cause: at root (Goldsmith here sounding more like a bearded polytechnic lecturer than a man who made billions stripping corporations for profit) these ills are the product of the “inversion of values” that is central to modern economies, in which growth comes at the expense of stability. “The economy is a tool to serve us,” he writes. “It is not a demigod to be served by society.”

      Some parallel to Luttwak's warning in this regard.

    1. Entre el 1° de abril, fecha del secuestro de Aleman, y el 25 de mayo, día de la asunción de Cámpora, sólo las tapas de los diarios dieron cuenta de 15 secuestros extorsivos. Entre ellos, el de un gerente de Kodak; un banquero de Rosario; un chacarero, al que asesinaron al no obtener el rescate; el director de una tabacalera; el de un fuerte industrial del ramo textil; el hijo del cantante Roberto Yanés; el jefe de la Gendarmería de Córdoba, Jacobo Nasif; el hijo de un fuerte industrial, por el que pidieron mil millones de pesos; el de un estanciero de Monte; los hijos de dos ejecutivos y un médico; el de un comerciante, por el que pidieron mil millones; y el de un gerente de Coca Cola.

      kidnappings

    2. Ningún vínculo familiar, ningún privilegio de clase, nos desviará de nuestra lucha junto al pueblo que ahora, desde la clandestinidad, continuaremos sirviendo, desarrollando la lucha por el camino que marcara nuestro Comandante Guevara: hacia una Argentina libre, justa y socialista.

      Guevara

  7. Feb 2026
    1. A shorter version of the report — stripped of the personal claims about Pogrund but with a section on “The Sunday Times article” — was shared with the National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, which declined to launch a full investigation. AdvertisementLabour Together, however, used the fact of the GCHQ referral to create suspicion about the story and its sources, with cabinet ministers and special advisers among those who quietly alleged the report was linked to the Russian state.

      Trick that should be noted.

    1. Frayn in 1963. Even then – in the very year of That Was the Week That Was – Frayn was using the same analogy, and could see, just as clearly, how anti-establishment comedy was letting its audience off the hook: ‘To go on mocking the Establishment,’ he wrote, ‘has more and more meant making the audience laugh not at themselves at all, but at a standard target which is rapidly becoming as well-established as mothers-in-law. To do this is not to undermine but to confirm the audience’s prejudices, and has less in common with satire than with community hymn-singing – agreeable and heartwarming as that may be.

      Nicely put

    1. I’ve watched this up close — and I’ve had to sit through it. Organizations hired Chief Diversity Officers but didn’t shift budget authority. They added “equity” to mission statements but didn’t change who controlled strategy. They created advisory councils of frontline leaders, extracted their knowledge through unpaid “consultation,” then made the same decisions they would have made anyway. They launched listening tours that went nowhere. They renamed programs. They revised style guides. They had people sign oaths — actual oaths — as if the problem were insufficient personal commitment rather than institutional structure.

      Very good description of how these things often work out.

    1. Weren’t you ever as young and dumb as that?’ ‘I’m always in the club drinking martinis,’ he told an interviewer when asked to recall his younger self. ‘What did I know from politics?’ (Richardson doesn’t find in Matthiessen’s letters and journals a coherent politics, but some leftist tendencies emerge in a remark on ‘the startling parallel between communist doctrine and the teachings of Jesus Christ’ and in his sympathy for blacklisted celebrities like Paul Robeson, who ‘got a shitty deal’.) If it were merely a matter of Matthiessen’s reputation as a writer, such explanations might have sufficed, but soon after his arrival in France, he made some new friends, and they started the Paris Review. Since Matthiessen’s employment by the CIA was first reported by the New York Times in 1977, the magazine has had the taint of the association. Given the tendency of its founders, their children and their editorial heirs to memorialise the magazine’s beginnings incessantly, often in the pursuit of fundraising, the issue keeps raising its still un-declassified head, to the extent that many young writers have the impression that since the end of the Second World War American literature has been one big government psyop. That’s why they’re not getting published.

      Nicely acid

    2. re and more​ in his fiction, Matthiessen made a fetish of the Faulknerian device of multiple, conflicting and elliptical points of view. The tendency is tamed in At Play in the Fields of the Lord. For all the hyperbolic reactions to it, Far Tortuga is a fine if difficult novel that teaches you how to read it as the narrative advances through foul weather. Shadow Country in its final form is a heap of jumbled repetitions about the life of Edgar Watson, a real-life sugar planter on the south-west coast of Florida accused of various crimes, including multiple murders, who died at the hands of a mob of his neighbours in 1910. The first volume is told by a rotation of dozens of neighbours and relatives, speaking in various forms of swamp hillbilly dialect. The next book, told in the third person, follows Watson’s descendants, who try to piece together the truth of his legend. The final volume is narrated by Watson himself in a higher register. It’s hard to defy the blurb from Don DeLillo that appears on the cover of the current edition – ‘His writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes’ – but just as hard to call Watson a hero or villain deserving of this epic treatment.

      Some nicely acid comments.

    3. he story got him the attention of the publisher John Farrar, who passed it to Edward Weeks at the Atlantic. Matthiessen was taken on as a client by ‘the toughest agent in town’. Bernice Baumgarten also represented John Dos Passos, Edna St Vincent Millay and Raymond Chandler, who sacked her for calling the Philip Marlowe of The Long Goodbye ‘too Christ-like and sentimental’. She would be hard on Matthiessen’s fiction as well. On receiving 35 pages of a novel in progress, Baumgarten wrote to him: ‘Dear Peter, James Fenimore Cooper wrote this 150 years ago, only he wrote it better. Yrs, Bernice.’

      Good judgement

    1. Most of Preston’s subjects tried to whitewash their pasts after World War II, perhaps none more successfully than Pemán, who reinvented himself as a liberal monarchist. In 1981, two months before Pemán’s death, King Juan Carlos awarded the ailing poet the Order of the Golden Fleece, one of the highest honors for Catholic nobles. Aguilera had a more notorious end. One afternoon in 1964 his son Agustín began massaging his father’s sore feet. Suddenly Aguilera pulled out an old revolver from his African service and shot Agustín in the chest. Aguilera’s elder son, Gonzalo, burst into the room, and Aguilera shot him in the chest, too, killing him instantly. Aguilera then went looking for Agustín, who had stumbled out, and found him lying dead in a pool of blood. His wife hid until the Guardia Civil arrived. “Kill him, he’s a savage,” she implored them. Aguilera died in a psychiatric hospital nine months later. He was never charged for the murders.

      !

  8. Jan 2026
    1. The night before, the campus had hosted a dinner and conversation between the prominent conservative historian Niall Ferguson and Larry Summers, the former Harvard University president and Treasury secretary. Later, that evening, the billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel would deliver the first of a series of lectures on the Antichrist. People at UATX had grown accustomed to fast-paced action.

      lol

    1. ‘New Updike,’ he might think, with a little uptick of a tricky heart, as he came across a trifling piece in the New Yorker, a meatier story in Playboy, a new novel every few years, all backgrounded by the same infusions of radio and television and newsprint, the same social glosses in Life and Time. I am not such a man. And so, nearly deranged by the time I had commando-crawled my way to the 1980s, I started making notes like ‘drink cold cum in hell’ and ‘i’m glad that god killed you.’ I read on and on, waiting for him to become as good as he had been as a boy.

      lol

  9. Dec 2025
    1. Based on a range of open source data, he estimated ~59,000-69,000 Russian KIA, ~55,000 Ukrainian KIA, ~30,000 Russian deserters, and ~109,000 Ukrainian deserters. This means ~89,000-99,000 irreversible Russian losses in 2025 and ~164,000 irreversible Ukrainian losses in 2025.

      Deserters are "irreversible" losses?

    1. In September 2025, Chirisa Technology Parks' data center caught fire for the second time in two months, and according to Data Center Dynamics, two of the three planned data centers are still in progress.

      !

    1. Yet, at the same time, Israel’s economy has also displayed signs of resilience. The shekel has appreciated nearly 20 percent against the U.S. dollar since the start of the war, and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has reached record highs, buoyed in part by wartime spending and central-bank intervention.

      !

    1. The Covid-19 pandemic brought these problems to the fore. While other countries resorted to debt and fiscal stimulus to deal with the crisis, the Mexican government insisted on maintaining strict budgetary balance. There were no massive bailouts, no universal direct aid, and no increase in public investment to mitigate the economic blow. The IMF rewarded the government for its pandemic response with Special Drawing Rights. As a result, austerity remained the guiding principle even in these exceptional circumstances: protecting the macroeconomic balance while sacrificing the income of millions of families.

      Notable

    1. Even more concerning for Kyiv is the fact that Europe, despite its collective annual GDP of €17.9tn, has chosen to turn to the bond markets rather than reach into its own pockets.

      Excellent point

    1. Disguise structural and sentence-level faults as intentional strategies. In this light, Infinite Jest is no longer poorly-plotted and inconclusive, but ‘fractally structured like a Sierpiński gasket.’3 The hundreds of pages of solecistic flummery in his story collections are not really a grating catalogue of cliches, but an incisive parody of corporate-speak and other modern argots (George Saunders, another basically talentless writer, employs this strategy constantly, besides much else from the Wallace playbook). When it comes time to swoon into obvious sentimentality and Hallmark-style kitsch, just point out you’re aware that’s what it is and are doing it intentionally too. This will let the reader think they’re in on a complicated post-ironic work with real feeling behind it, rather than simply reading bad writing.

      Nicely put.

    1. Chile’s “black-sheep status” had “already made trouble for its economic recovery” due to overseas boycotts and countries refusing to trade with Santiago.

      Can note here Peron deal

  10. Nov 2025
  11. www.northsouthnotes.org www.northsouthnotes.org
    1. The archives of the Securitate, opened after being vetted by SRI in the mid-2000s, have become a national fixation. Rather than providing transparency, the opening of the archive created what I call a “cult for the occult” – a passion for revealing that which has been hidden about others; searching through files for evidence of collaboration; using the archive as a weapon in political and personal disputes; and trading secrets from the archive for money. More troublesome, the contents of the archive are unreliable.

      Not an uncommon problem

    1. On the international stage, the crusade led by Jacques Chirac against the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq now looks like the last gasp of a dying creed. In 2009 Nicolas Sarkozy rescinded the Gaullian withdrawal of France from Nato command.

      ?!

    2. The secretary of state, Cordell Hull, was ‘conscientious’ but ‘hampered ... by his summary understanding of what was not American’.

      Not unfair

    1. TF: I know, I saw that. That’s who was advising him. One of the really interesting things about Franklin Roosevelt is that by the time Roosevelt became president, all the orthodox economists were discredited. So Roosevelt couldn’t go to the orthodox economists. They were all flat on their backs. They’d made fools of themselves, and so he had to turn to people with unorthodox ideas. Obama didn’t do that. Obama went right to the guys who had been running things.

      Nice point

    1. What does Meta fraud look like? One example cited by Reuters is the company's discovery of a "six-figure network of accounts" that impersonated US military personnel, who attempted to trick other Meta users sending them money. Reuters also describes "a torrent of fake accounts pretending to be celebrities or represent major consumer brands" in order to steal Meta users' money.

      Charming

    1. Can AI democratise knowledge—putting a tutor, doctor or adviser in every pocket? Early studies hint at the promise. In Nairobi, OpenAI and Penda Health, a chain of primary-care clinics, tested a tool that advised doctors during consultations. In a randomised trial covering nearly 40,000 patient visits across 15 clinics, doctors with the assistant cut diagnostic errors by 16% and treatment errors by 13%. In Nigeria, a six-week after-school scheme using Microsoft Copilot—in which pupils interacted with the chatbot twice a week—boosted English scores by the equivalent of nearly two years’ extra schooling.

      Alarming

    1. A key aspect of improvement in the Brazilian external accounts has been the process of “de-dollarization” of its external liabilities. This means that now a large share of Brazilian external liabilities (such as public bonds and shares held by non-residents) are denominated in Brazil´s own currency, making creditors bear the exchange rate risk and making the economy less vulnerable to large exchange-rate movements

      Interesting

    2. Despite massive underemployment and informality, the low unemployment rate and growth of real wages are understood as inflationary problems to be solved by constraining demand.

      Christ

  12. Oct 2025
    1. On 31 January, for instance, the New York Times told its readers that Hitler was likely to be stymied by the opposition ‘if he sought to translate the wild and whirling words of his campaign speeches into political action’.

      Perfect

    1. Como se instrumentarán a través del FMI vía swap, piensan en ambos costados de las orillas donde se diseñó el plan, no se requerirá ni una ley en Argentina ni una autorización del Congreso de los Estados Unidos

      Point

    1. But in the process, the peso has become so strong, once inflation is factored in, that it’s making it incredibly cheap for middle- and upper-class Argentines to binge on those imported goods. And because Chile has such lower tariffs than Argentina — almost 30 percentage points less, for instance, on clothes — thousands of people are making the trek over the border every day to make those purchases. It’s turned into such big business for stores in Santiago that some of them have exempted Argentines from a rule requiring customers enter a Chilean ID number when making on-line purchases.

      Plata dulce!

    1. The choice of Santander to become Treasury’s conduit to the peso came down to two crucial factors. One, the Spanish lender is part of a small group of so-called primary dealers in U.S. treasuries, which means it has a long-standing relationship with the Federal Reserve. The other is that it has large markets teams in both New York and Buenos Aires.

      Interesting detail

    1. The opaqueness of First Brands’ operations was amped up by its growing use of a number of short-term borrowing techniques, known broadly as trade finance, that allowed it to take out what amounted to corporate payday loans, often tied to expected shipments or inventory.

      "Trade finance", "corporate payday loans"

    1. Even its much-reviled Washington consensus—while some of its commandments were taken to an extreme length and other ignored—is fundamentally sound and has much to recommend itself.

      Absolutely not

    1. De acuerdo con la explicación oficial, lo que se busca es desincentivar la compra de esos billetes para luego realizar operaciones especulativas. En modo indirecto, además, esto reduce también la motivación a la compra de dólares, ya que la estimación es que muchos se inclinaban hacia la divisa debido a la ganancia extra que podían obtener.

      Interesting

    2. A fines de septiembre, y mediante la comunicación A 8336 del Banco Central, se estableció que quienes compren dólares oficiales no podrán venderlos luego en el segmento financiero por 90 días.

      point

    1. ‘Comprá, campeón”, subraya, en referencia a la frase con la que intentó semanas atrás alejar los rumores de que se avecinaba una devaluación del peso.

      lol

    2. Entre los hitos más recordados de su gestión macrista está el bono a 100 años que colocó por 2.700 millones de dólares, pero también sus maniobras a partir de 2018, cuando los fondos frescos comenzaron a escasear. Ese mayo logró vender 3.000 millones de dólares en bonos del Tesoro en pesos a los fondos Templeton y BlackRock con el objetivo de mostrar que el Gobierno todavía tenía acceso a los mercados. Le propuso entonces a Macri pedir un rescate al Fondo Monetario Internacional que resulto el más grande en la historia de la institución (57.000 millones de dólares).

      key element

    3. El entonces secretario se ganó con rapidez el aprecio del presidente gracias al acuerdo alcanzado con los fondos buitre que habían llevado a Argentina a los tribunales en 2010 y que bloqueaba el acceso del país sudamericano a los mercados financieros. Desde ese momento, el crédito privado internacional comenzó a fluir a raudales y Caputo fue ascendido a ministro de Finanzas a principios de 2017. Argentina había regresado al mundo y el entonces jefe de Gabinete, Marcos Peña, lo bautizó como “el Messi de las finanzas”.

      Dealing with vulture funds

  13. Sep 2025
    1. The German chemicals powerhouse BASF has already temporarily shuttered 80 plans worldwide and is slowing production at another 100 as it plans further output cuts depending on what happens to gas prices.

      !

    2. Over half of Europe’s aluminium smelters have already been affected by the power crises. The EU has temporarily lost 650,000 tonnes of primary aluminium capacity, or about 30% of its total, Eurometaux said. Some of Europe’s biggest steel and chemical plants have also been taken offline and there is no clear idea of when they can start up again. And Europe's fertiliser industry association says more than 70% of the continent's fertiliser production has been either shut or slowed due to sky-high gas prices.

      !

    3. “Sky-high gas prices and aggressive monetary policy tightening have pushed the global economy to the brink of a late 2022/early 2023 recession – defined as two quarters of falling per capita GDP. We expect a global recession to be avoided, but a sustained and substantial improvement in growth also seems unlikely,” Oxford Economics said in a note.

      "aggressive monetary tightening"

    1. "They will not get there," Guntram Wolff, senior fellow of the Bruegel think-tank, said of the 5% goal. "If you are a highly indebted country, you can't issue more debt, it means very difficult budgetary choices," he said of the hefty tax hikes or spending cuts that it would require.

      Bruegel

    2. The European powers have three options to come up with the money they need to fund both their own expanded defence budgets and Ukraine: cut domestic spending, borrow more, or confiscate the $200bn of Russian money that is frozen in Euroclear. They are considering all three but are making little progress.

      Tax?

    3. Not only does Europe not have this money, Europe is slipping into recession and crises. Germany says it can no longer afford to pay for its social services and France and the UK are on the verge of asking for International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout loans. Almost all of Europe is suffering from anaemic growth, cost-of-living crises, elevated energy costs, and high budget deficits. With external debt of over 100% of GDP in several countries, they can’t even afford to borrow their way out of their deepening holes.

      I mean, ECB

    1. This morning UBN reported that the IMF has just persuaded Ukraine’s government to significantly increase its projections for additional funding up from that $37.5bn to $65bn for 2026.

      Almost double

    1. The Trump administration is offering a bailout of hedge funds and banks that bought dollar-denominated Argentinian bonds because of their faith in right-wing President Javier Milei. Milei took over the country a few years ago, which suffered from a lack of dollars and an inability to engage in foreign trade because left-wing governments defaulted on International Monetary Fund and hedge fund obligations. Milei then secured IMF funding due to his pledges to cut pensions and the welfare state.A week and a half ago, voters rebuked Milei in a local election, which led to concerns that the country doesn’t have enough dollars to service its debts should Milei find himself out of power. Argentina quickly went into a financial crisis, a sort of bank run on the country. Those hedge funds are on the hook for defaulted bonds.

      These are always private credit bailouts.

    1. This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.

      Very good

    1. she had her own ideas, and particularly for the house magazine, the Poetry Review. She wanted to raise standards by paying contributors rather than charging them. In her debut editorial, she asked: “Cannot we cease railing at the Moderns?” The answer was a predictable no.

      lol

    2. In Electric Spark, her capacious and penetrating study of Spark’s life, work and psyche, Frances Wilson favours “Muriel”, though, “When I discuss her writing, I call her Spark”. Where Stannard stepped back, Wilson opens her third eye: “[Spark] is no longer here to score through my sentences, but that does not mean I have not felt, on every page of this book, her control of my hand”.

      Bueno . . .

    1. German scholarship had dominated Roman republican history in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. But after the Second World War the approach of Ronald Syme, Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford from 1949 to 1970, won primacy among most anglophone scholars; over time and in other hands it tended to devolve into dry-as-dust analyses of rival political groupings, largely stripped of “real” political issues. At the same time groundbreaking German work such as Christian Meier’s sociologically inflected Res publica amissa, published in 1966 but never translated into English, drew little notice.

      Wonder if Namier an influence

    2. n idea not conceived in English is probably not worth thinking at all.” Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, perhaps the leading proponent of the historical approach highlighted by this volume, attributes this dictum to an unnamed member of the “Classics faculty, Cambridge, c.1987”.

      !

    1. How much debt do you ask? Well…“Private credit funding of artificial intelligence is running at around $50 billion a quarter, at the low end, for the past three quarters. Even without factoring in the mega deals from Meta and Vantage, they are already providing two to three times what the public markets are providing,” said Matthew Mish, head of credit strategy at UBS.And many new computing hubs are being funded through commercial mortgage-backed securities, tied not to a corporate entity, but to the payments generated by the complexes. The amount of CMBS backed by AI infrastructure is already up 30%, to $15.6 billion, from the full year total in 2024, JPMorgan Chase & Co. estimated this month.

      !

    1. If we move away from regulations and textbooks, we will actually discover another major source of financing the budget deficit - balances in treasury accounts. In fact, this is a kind of "intra-treasury" liquidity reserve, which theoretically should be minimized (if we focus on ideas about the efficiency of the treasury), but in real Russian conditions after 2022 it has been increasing for a long time, allowing it to be used as an additional reserve to cover unforeseen expenses. Balances in treasury accounts first decrease every month as the treasury finances budget expenditures, and then, from the beginning of the tax period, they grow. From the point of view of their direct purpose, their size should not greatly exceed the difference between the minimum and maximum monthly values ​​(in relation to the Russian situation in recent years, this is 2.5-3 trillion rubles), but in practice a much larger amount has formedlarge  balances (up to 9-10 trillion during 2024 and more than 11 trillion rubles in December 2024).

      important

    1. The SEALs reached shore thinking they were alone, and started to remove their diving gear. The target was only a few hundred yards away.

      Coastal trunk cable or something?

  14. Aug 2025
    1. For instance, the Fed crew pushed aggressively for intertwining cryptocurrencies into the banking system. It was “hand-to-hand combat” for 18 months among regulators, with the Fed and officials Nellie Liang and Janet Yellen at Treasury pushing a bill, along with the most bank-friendly Senator, Pat Toomey, that would have given access to Fed facilities to stablecoin issuers. Fortunately, they lost after Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX blew up spectacularly, and the Fed finally flipped its position by issuing a statement opposing crypto coming into regulated banking. (Of course, the embarrassment never ends, some dingbat regulator at the Fed, supported by SF Fed President Mary Daly who also screwed up on SVB, had allowed FTX to buy a bank charter, and get access to the payments system and a Fed backstop.)

      ! did not know this

    1. Not enough has perhaps been made, in assessing Durrell’s radical animus against England, “Pudding Island”, as he called it, of the wrench from India, where he was born and spent his first schooldays. Opportunistic romancing about these early years came easily to him. Haag disposes of his various later claims to being Irish simply because a great-grandmother, born in Delhi, carried the surname O’Brien. Neither was it true, as he liked to tell his French admirers, that childhood inspirations came from being able to glimpse Mount Everest from the dormitory windows as a pupil at St Joseph’s College in Darjeeling.

      lol

    1. In military management, there is a long-standing, hopeless chaos with layers of colonels, who should not only have stopped increasing long ago but should have been separated into a distinct brigade, isolated from decision-making, and who still shuffle papers full of lies.

      "layers of colonels"

    1. And what does the Ukrainian industry look like in terms of cooperation with Western arms manufacturers? There have been numerous announcements that Ukraine is collaborating with various companies. This largely remains in the realm of media announcements. If Ukraine doesn't receive significant funding in the form of subsidies for the purchase of Western equipment, even from factories supposedly being built in Ukraine, it won't buy this equipment. We spoke with a representative of one of the ministries responsible for international cooperation. She said that if Ukrainians had a choice, for example, between purchasing one Lynx vehicle for €10 million and three or four Ukrainian-made BTR-4 vehicles for the same price, they would choose the Ukrainian ones. The fact that Western vehicles would be 20-30 percent better doesn't make much difference from their perspective.

      Point

    1. Using more than 1,000 radar satellite passes, the FT tracked changes at sites associated with ammunition and missile production, two bottlenecks in the west’s support for Ukraine.

      ?

    1. For example, France supplies 90% of its barrel production to Ukraine. Moreover, Ukrainian long-range artillery, particularly Western-supplied systems, is often superior in quality to its Russian counterparts, which is another crucial factor.

      Interesting detail

    1. ). Of course, our national debt remains a politicized issue; people embed their ideological aims in their urgent warnings about Treasuries and interest rates. The Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff told me that “progressives have had their head in the sand about the deficit,” partly because they’re bad at admitting there are trade-offs; he published a paper in the August 2024 issue of the American Economic Review showing that long-term real rates tend to move back to a historical equilibrium. “It was like saying climate change might have partly natural causes,” he said. He watched his thesis get mangled as it moved through the ideology machine. “People think, Well, you’re in favor of ‘austerity’ because you think there’s a trade-off.”

      Terrible

    1. A divorced father of three boys, he would tell ChatGPT what was in his fridge and ask for recipes his sons might like. When his seven-pound Papillon dog ate a healthy serving of shepherd’s pie, he asked ChatGPT if it would kill him. (Probably not.) During his contentious divorce, he vented to ChatGPT and asked for life advice.“I always felt like it was right,” Mr. Brooks said. “The trust level I had with it grew.”

      lol

    1. In a relatively short space of time, one company, Valnet, has acquired a dizzying number of titles, including three publications I once freelanced for — Android Police, How-To Geek, and MakeUseOf.Valnet — a Canadian company whose two founders made their name, and their fortune, in adult media — also owns ScreenRant, The Gamer, XDA Developers, and Polygon, to name but a few sites from its fast-growing portfolio.

      !

  15. eventsinukraine.substack.com eventsinukraine.substack.com
    1. The formerly USAID-funded Bihus, which specializes on uncovering corruption, released a new investigation on May 20. It found that the greater part of 40 billion hryvnia (1 billion USD) allocated to the building of frontline fortifications hadn’t found its way to the war-torn Donetsk steppes.

      !

    2. Shyrshyn has been defending Ukraine since the first days of the full-scale invasion, having enlisted in the 80th Air Assault Brigade, where he became a platoon commander. Later, he became a company commander in the 47th Mechanized Brigade. He proved himself a true leader during the offensive operation in the Zaporizhzhia direction in 2023. His company was one of the first to break through to Robotyne after months of frontal assaults on well-prepared enemy defenses — because the commander was always with his soldiers, personally participating in the assaults and fighting on the front lines. His company can be seen in Oleg Sentsov’s film "Real."

      Interesting that rose from platoon commander.

    1. The division of the latest 155 mm Caesar self-propelled howitzers (SPHs), as well as the rest of the brigade's artillery and mortar crews, did not have the opportunity to complete a comprehensive firing course and are learning to shoot during combat missions. All 120 mm mortar shells supplied to the brigade, manufactured by the Ministry of Strategic Industries, turned out to be faulty. On December 4, during test firings, not a single one of the 10 shells detonated. The mortars could not provide fire support, and there was no suitable ammunition available to train the mortar crews. Furthermore, the Ministry of Defense neither oversees the quality control of mortar supplies to the troops nor removes faulty ammunition from service.

      !

    2. 95% of the brigade's commanders had not fought in the war and needed extensive training and selection before they could be trusted with command. 100% of the brigade's technical specialists had to be trained from scratch—for drones, equipment, and management—and there was no time to shape them into proper specialists.

      !

    3. Nevertheless, most of the soldiers who were sent to France did not desert but were preparing. Neither did more than 4,000 people recruited without selection from the TCR (Territorial Centres of Recruitment), who came to replenish the brigade in September-November, who, in the absence of the brigade command and the home station, lived on the territory of the OC "West" training center and were somehow trained by the instructors sent there by the OC.

      Territorials as reinforements

    4. In other words, they took away almost all of the fully fit soldiers who had just been appointed by the brigade commander and battalion commanders, actually resetting the previous four months of work, in March-June, so that this brigade was organized in August, and then... they issued an order for everyone who remained to prepare for the trip to France at the end of September.

      !

    5. MP (AWOL) March 46 (3) April 123 (6) May 217 (31) June 1978 (185) July 3882 (310) August 2748 (217) September 3253 (187) October 3211 (339) November 5832 (448).

      5-10% each month

    1. n early June, it emerged that Russia was actually reducing its payment levels for contract fighters. This would indicate that they are having no issues with finding a sufficient number of fighters. In 2025, payments were reduced in several regions. In particular, in the Samara Region, the amount dropped from 3.6 million rubles (approximately $40,000) to 2.1 million rubles ($23,000); in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO), from 3.1 million rubles ($34,400) to 1.9 million rubles ($21,100); and in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, where earlier reports mentioned payments of 3 million rubles ($33,300), they have now been reduced to 1.5 million rubles ($16,700). In Bashkortostan, it was decided to cut the one-time payments from 1.6 million rubles ($17,800) to 1 million rubles ($11,100).

      Interesting

    1. Another user wrote that zombie units are widespread:Without exception (well, maybe 154 to some extent), these 150 ‘organisms’ are just ticking boxes—nothing more. For management, they dumped every possible reject from other brigades here. A small example: The deputy battalion commander for armaments DOESN’T KNOW how to properly document and transport weapons in a rail convoy. The brigade’s own leadership is clueless about most regulatory documents—even electronic workflows had to be set up by a sergeant transferred from another brigade. Need I mention that this ‘divinely blessed’ formation’s transport service, in 1.5 years of existence, hasn’t processed a SINGLE vehicle registration?

      Interesting

    1. internal recruiters whose function, in part, is to push back on hiring managers’ wish lists. (“That job doesn’t require 10 years of experience,” or “No one with all those qualifications will be willing to accept the salary you’re proposing to pay.”)

      Point

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    1. His letter ended with a threat – ‘“In addition, we understand that the bill requires the Cabinet of Ministers to ensure that the same level of localization is introduced in future procurement related to projects financed by international financial institutions such as the European Investment Bank. In this regard, we would like to emphasize that these requirements could have a serious negative impact on the future of such institutions in Ukraine and the corresponding support of the EU."

      damn