This is an excerpt from a book whose overall merits I won’t be commenting on, but it contains a plausible example of an early Ticket-offering.
From G.H. Pember. “Earths’s Earliest Ages”
…The brother of the last-mentioned lady drew my attention to a very remarkable attempt to entangle a correspondent of the well-known Methodist divine. Dr. Adam Clarke. The circumstances are narrated at the beginning of Book V of the Account of Dr. Clarke’s life, ed. 1833.
Clarke was a famous Methodist theologian who started as an itinerant preacher and ended up being wrong about the Rosetta Stone. (He wrongly thought it was made of basalt and identified its third language as Coptic instead of the correct Demotic.) He was also wrong to deny Christ as God’s Son prior to the Crucifuxion, a perspective that most of Methodism rejected.
Regardless, he had skill with languages and was a member of many scientific societies.
Clarke on the left, Jeffrey Epstein on the right. Just sayin’, quite the resemblance.
His interest in chemistry led to a long friendship with a Mr. Richard Hand, who is described as “eminent as a man of science, a gentleman of character, and one who would not on any account knowingly misrepresent any fact.”
On December 2nd, 1792, Mr. Hand wrote from Dublin to Dr. Clarke that,
The 2nd of November last, came to my house two men, one I thought to be a priest, and yet believe so, the other a plain sedate-looking man; they asked for me. As soon as I went to them, the last-mentioned person said ” He had called to see some of my stained glass and hoped as he was curious, I would permit him to call and see me now and then “: of course. I said I should be happy that he would do so. After much conversation he began to speak of metals and their properties, and of alchemy. asking me “If I had ever read any books of that kind” (but I believe he well knew that I had). After some time, and many compliments passing on my ingenious art, they went away.
I understand this was typical behavior for early scientists, who were often so distant from each other that physical visits were special occasions, and meanwhile they corresponded with each other so frequently that we know more about them than if they’d written a proper book.
This coming account, for example, would never have shown up in a textbook.
At twelve 0 clock the next forenoon he came himself. Without the priest, and told me “He had a little matter that would stain the glass the very colour I wanted” and which I could never get: that is, a deep blood red.
Not as diabolical as one might think.
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Glass is colored by adding metal oxides or metal powders to molten glass. Depending on the metal, the glass takes on a particular color. You may have seen “cobalt blue” glass –yes, that color comes from adding cobalt. Copper oxides also make glass blue to bluish green. Sulfur and cadmium make yellow. Iron oxides produce greens and browns. Tin produces white. Chrome produces emerald greens. In early glass production, the rarest of colors was red. This is because red required the most costly of additives – gold. Today, chemists have found other ingredients that produce red, but you will not see much red glass in truely antique stained glass. (Learn more: See the Geology.com article “Elements of Color” for more on metal oxide coloring of glass…)
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Said he. “If you have a furnace hot we will do it. for the common fire will not do well.” I replied, “Sir, I have not one hot, but if you will please to come with me I will show you my little laboratory and I will get one lighted.”
When we came out he looked about him, and then said, ” Sir. do not deceive me, you are an alchemist.”
“Why do you think so, Sir ?”
I infer from this, that Hand was a glass-blower by trade, which explains well why a priest would be interested in his work. Also, why Hand might develop an interest in alchemy.
“Because you have as many foolish vessels as I have seen with many others engaged in that study.”
“I have,” I answered “worked a long time at it, it is true, without gain, and I should be glad to be better instructed.”
” Do you believe the art ? “
“Yes, Sir.”
“Why? “
“Because I give credit to many good and pious men. He smiled. “Will you have this air furnace lighted?”
“Yes Sir.” I did so: he then asked for a bit of glass—‘opened a box. and turned aside, and laid a little red powder upon the glass with a pen-knife–put the glass, with the powder on it, into the fire, and when hot took it out, and the glass was like blood.
Traditionally gold chloride, but more modern methods are selenium oxide or various copper oxides. The first is a brownish liquid and the second is a white powder. Yes… I checked whether he was doing it the old way just to trick Mr. Hand into thinking he had special knowledge, but nope.
“Have you scales?”
I got them for him, and some lead: he weighed two ounces : he then put four grams of a very white powder in a bit of wax and when the lead was melted put this into it, and then raised the fire for a little while:-then took it out and cast it into water :-never was finer silver in the world! I exclaimed and said, “0 God! Sir you amaze me!”
This can’t have happened per chemistry, except by nuclear reaction. Silver is a brittle metal compared to lead and the density is much different, so I assume Mr. Hand would not be caught off-guard by a plating or other trick.
“Why,” he replied, “do you call upon God do you think He has any hand in these things? “
” In all good things, Sir,” I said.
“Ah, friend, God will never reveal those things to man. Did you ever learn any magic?”
“ No. Sir.”
“Get you, then,–he will instruct you; but I will lend you a book, and will get you acquainted with a friend who will help you in that knowledge. Did you ever see the devil?”
“ No, Sir, and trust I never shall.”
“Would you be afraid?”
“Yes.”
“Then you need not be, he harms no one; but is every ingenuous man’s friend. Shall I show you something wonderful?”
“Not if it is anything of that kind.”
“It is not, Sir…”
Bullshit. “You shouldn’t invoke God. He’d never teach you these tricks, but we will. Say, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? Then how do you know you wouldn’t like it?”
“…Please to get me a glass of clean water.” I did so. He pulled out a bottle, and dropped a red liquor into it and said something I did not understand. The water was all in blaze of fire, and a multitude of little live things like lizards moving about in It. I was in great fear: this he perceived took the glass, and flung it into the ashes, and all was over.
“Now, Sir,” said he, ” if you will enter into a vow with me as I see you are an ingenious man, I will let you know more than you will ever find out.”
This I declined, being fully convinced it was of the devil; and it is now I know the meaning of. “coming improperly by the secret.” After Some little he said “He must go, and would call again when I should think better of his offer.” He left me the two ounces of luna.
In a letter of the next month, Mr. Hand gave further details of the experiments, and said:
“I was not imposed upon in the transmutation, having used a quarter of an ounce of the silver in my own work and sold the remainder of it for pure silver.”
He added:
On his flinging the water on fire under the grate with the lizards in It, I looked to see if I could observe them there: he observed me and said:
“They are gone.”
“Where?”
“From whence they came.”
“Where is that?”
“Oh, you must not know all things at once!”
“Why, Sir, I believe this is magic. You could, I have no doubt, raise the devil if you liked.”
“Would you be afraid?”
“Yes, Sir, I hope ever to be saved from having anything to do with him.” He replied:
“You are a very ingenious man, Mr. Hand, and I wish you to be better acquainted with Nature and the things in this curious world through which I have myself almost been, and I have more knowledge than most I have met with, and yet I know many wonderful men.”
“Do you know any person, Sir, who has the red stone?”
“I do, multitudes.”
“I wish I knew some.”
“You shall, and the whole secret.”
“Sir you are very good.”
“But you must know that we are all linked like a chain, and you must go under a particular ceremony and vow.”
Context of Ireland, that meant either Jesuit or Freemason. I’d guess the latter given the overt rejection of God.
“I will vow to God, Sir,” I replied, “that I will never divulge—-“ Here he stopped me, and said: “I was going beyond the question,” and appeared vexed. He said the vow must be made before another; and with an angry tone, “It is no matter to you whether it be before God or the devil, if you get the art.”
Then, indeed, my dear friend, I saw almost into his inmost soul, and I grew all on fire, and said : “I will never receive anything, not even the riches of the world, but from God alone.”
“Oh, Sir,” he replied, “you seem to be angry with me. My intention was to serve you; you are not acquainted with me, or you would rather embrace than offend me.”
He told me that there was but one way on earth of knowing the transmutation of metals, and of that he said I knew nothing.
On May 13th following, Mr. Hand added:
Since I wrote to you last, I met the man who was at my house, and who made the transmutation, and did the other matter. I said:
“How do you do, Sir ?” He replied:
“Sir I have not the honour of knowing you”
”Do you not remember,” said I, “the person who .stains glass and to whom you were so kind as to show some experiments ?”
“No, Sir, you are mistaken,” and he turned red in the face.
That’s a rejection technique as old as Scripture, as current as Judgment Day and as sharp as a pimp slap.
“Sir ” I answered, “if I am mistaken, I beg your pardon for telling you that I was never right in anything in my life, and never shall be.”
“Sir, you are mistaken, and I wish you good morning.”
He several times turned round to look after me; but be assured I never saw a man if that man was not the one who was with me.
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Surely this was a deliberate attempt by evil powers to inveigle an able and inquiring mind into their toils. One is reminded by it of a statement by the founder of the Theosophical Society, Colonel Olcott, concerning the ” Masters,” who are alleged to be ever at hand to help seeking souls towards the “Great Reality,” that “some have encountered them under strange guises in unlikely places” (Old Diary Leaves, The True History of the Theosophical Society, 19). How does the Christian need to pray, “Deliver us from the Evil One:’ and to watch and to pray that he enter not into any temptation. Is it beyond possibility that some of the modem chemical discoveries, now in use for wholesale massacre, have been revealed diabolically, perhaps to minds not so cautious as Mr. Hand?
Speak of the devil, Olcott was himself a notorious Freemason. Ticket-taking has surely been a thing for as long as there have been secret-keeping societies. Not all of them were diabolical; it was common for businesses to hoard methods of manufacturing as recently as the recipe for Coca-Cola, with many dire punishments for he who broke the silence; but it suggests that mystery cults say much about human psychology.
For a closing note regarding the above boldfaced, I find that while the devil is not a creator himself, he is a past master at seizing upon new technologies for maximum advantage. The Communists had a monopoly on television news until the advent of cable; Bill Gates seized control of operating system architecture; and here, a Freemason used a newfangled process for stained glass to tempt a soul directly into Hell. I am tempted to add the privatization of spaceflight but still have unanswered questions about Elon Musk’s loyalties. One the technical questions of these technologies were worked out, the devil swooped in to… monetize it, for want of a better term.
The devil doesn’t understand tech but he does understand people.
I am honestly surprised, and pleased, that American states whose economies depend upon fossil fuels are willing to act in self-defense.
In related news, California is slowly going back into Covid lockdown for flu season. This hasn’t made the headlines yet because it’s being done voluntarily by individual organizations acting on their own.
As others have put it, the game of musical chairs is in progress.
Louisiana divests from BlackRock over ESG policies: ‘Would destroy Louisiana’s economy’
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By Thomas Catenacci, 5 October 2022
Louisiana’s government doesn’t want to sabotage itself and die? That’s almost unprecedented in modern American politics. I would sooner expect politicians to swan-dive into wood chippers than defend their people from financial rapists. Most American politicians don’t even acknowledge the concept “my people”.
Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder penned a letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, explaining the state would liquidate all BlackRock investments within three months and, over a period of time, divest nearly $800 million from the bank’s money market funds, mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. The state treasurer blasted Fink’s pursuit of so-called environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards that promote green energy over traditional fossil fuels.
“Your blatantly anti-fossil fuel policies would destroy Louisiana’s economy,” Schroder wrote to Fink in the letter first obtained by FOX Business.
“This divestment is necessary to protect Louisiana from actions and policies that would actively seek to hamstring our fossil fuel sector. In my opinion, your support of ESG investing is inconsistent with the best economic interests and values of Louisiana,” he continued. “I cannot support an institution that would deny our state the benefit of one of its most robust assets.”
Where did this pleasant surprise come from?!
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Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder, a Republican, says he is running for governor in 2023.
In a text to his supporters obtained by USA Today Network, Schroder writes, “Just wanted to let you know that the Schroder family has met, and we will be entering the governor’s race. Timeline for announcement is not set yet, but I wanted to let you know.”
Schroder has long been considered likely to run, telling USA Today Network last spring, “I love being a public servant and working to instill faith in the government process is my No. 1. If you want to fix things and help people, (governor is) certainly the best position to be in.”
Oh. It’s just election season. Then again, if he’s willing to kick the banksters out then Louisiana could do much, much worse for a governor. Also, a finance guy who cares about his state is good raw material for somebody capable of meaningful opposition against the globo-banks. The timeline I boldfaced above means he’s going to divest regardless of election outcome. I would not have believed him, had he done the usual Republicuck tactic of making it a campaign promise.
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The treasurer noted in the letter that the state has already removed $560 million from BlackRock investments, a figure that will swell to $794 million by year’s end under his agency’s plan.
Schroder is a go-getter!
BlackRock and several other major financial institutions have spearheaded an effort to promote ESG standards over the last several years. A chief pillar of the ESG movement is to utilize publicly-traded funds to incentivize a “net-zero” transition from fossil fuels to clean energy alternatives like wind and solar.
But the firms have recently faced increased pressure from Republican-led states and groups like the State Financial Officers Foundation which have criticized ESG policies as anti-democratic and, in some cases, illegal.
“Consumers’ Research applauds Treasurer Schroder’s commendable decision to withdraw the state’s assets from BlackRock’s misuse,” Will Hild, the executive director of Consumer’s Research, told FOX Business in a statement. “As noted in his letter, BlackRock is using the people of Louisiana’s money to advance a destructive agenda that raises costs for consumers in the state and across the country.”
“The seeds of today’s energy crisis were planted by BlackRock and others in their reckless abandonment of their fiduciary duty to cozy up to radical, woke politicians,” he continued. “We are glad to see the Treasurer working to put an end to their economic vandalism.”
Economic vandalism… an excellent description of Climate Change. Will use myself!
In late July, West Virginia became the first state to punish banks that pursue ESG standards. Several other states including Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Florida, South Carolina, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Arkansas and North Dakota told FOX Business at the time that they were prepared to take similar actions.
Texas and Louisiana have already pulled the trigger. Florida and Wyoming are surely only a matter of time. California has significant oil reserves but they’ve been all but confiscated by Sacramento already.
BlackRock declined to comment on Schroder’s letter, but pointed FOX Business back to a letter it sent to 19 Republican attorneys general in September.
“We are disturbed by the emerging trend of political initiatives that sacrifice pension plans’ access to high-quality investments – and thereby jeopardize pensioners’ financial returns,” the firm wrote to the state officials on Sept. 7.
Behold the true Utopia of Marxism: a government-backed sinecure ripening into a government-backed pension! Too bad for Blackrock, that threating to revoke government pensions is less of a threatpoint than crashing the state’s economy in the first place.
Barring U.S. Army intervention… which is on the table… the states with energy reserves have every motivation to oppose ESG, while the states without have every motive to betray their people.
I suspect that the driver behind ESG is Great Resetting from soon-to-collapse fiat currency to an energy-backed currency. The only way this can happen is if the globalists can somehow purchase the world’s energy resources at heavily discounted prices… and if there’s one thing that ESG will achieve, it’s devaluing hydrocarbon-based energy assets.
Everything about GAE’s activity makes sense from that perspective, from using domestic national reserves to manipulate our gas prices to all the foreign reindeer games over oil pipelines that have been going on for many years. Cornering the global energy market would make the petrodollar bulletproof… but to corner the market, it must first be devalued… by making everybody stop using gas, if only briefly. Or at least, everybody’s gas except GAE’s.
It’s an old story. He’s working hard to support a young family. She gets bored, sleeps around, gets caught, cries a sob story. Everybody believes her against her husband. She gets the kid and the house.
But that was before full moral inversion was achieved!
I was married to a ‘wife guy’ for 10 years. He cheated on me, so I ended it.
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By Rebecca Tidy, 4 October 2022
I spent 14 years in a relationship with the kind of man who wrote “devoted husband” on his Twitter bio. Everyone said this guy adored and cherished me. He even waited at home in London, posting lovesick Facebook statuses, while I traveled the world in my early 20s.
“There aren’t many men who’d do that,” my mother admonished me.
HE was the best wife a woman could hope for… but no, his husband was too busy being a high-powered executive to appreciate him! It’s HER fault her wife cheated!
“She doesn’t appreciate how lucky she’s got it,” another woman disapprovingly told him.
This “devoted husband” cheated on me, so I ended things. Yet I was seen as the bad person for upsetting a nice man who “made a silly mistake.”
Can’t… stop… ROFLMAO…
My sister let him move into her place for three months, then my parents loaned him an apartment on their farm. Just over a year later, my neighbors still look at me in disgust for tearing apart our “happy” family.
He wouldn’t have cheated if she’d stayed home and made time for him!
Working long hours? You’ve got no time for him.
At the gym? You’re making him insecure.
HAHAHAAA! Suck it suck it suck it
My ex-husband had actually crafted a strong personal brand by flooding everyone’s timelines with content about his undying love for me. He was a textbook “wife guy.”
But social media isn’t an accurate portrayal of anyone’s daily lives or relationships. The sickly sweet graduation photos and effusive praise for my achievements failed to convey that he was rarely at home.
“Wife” played on social media while “husband” was away.
The oh-so-predictable selfies of him in blue scrubs, while I was being sliced open to deliver our baby, brought him effusive praise from online observers. Yet the fact he was at a Christmas party when I came home from the hospital with our newborn slipped by unnoticed.
What was it like, “husband”? Watching your “wife” getting to be the center of attention while you got cut open between business trips?
I believe that my ex-husband had a deep desire to be seen as a selfless hero: He thrived on recognition and congratulatory responses to his posts. But as any reader of childhood fairy tales knows: Where there’s a hero, there’s always a villain. The “heroic” cops have their “villainous” robbers, while the wife guy has, well, his wife.
Uh-uh, flat tits. “Wife guy” has his husband. Feel the burn of half a century’s disrespect!
My ex basked in the halo effect of “being a devoted husband,” a label that all too frequently renders almost any negative characteristic void. Thanks to his public displays of emotion and “vulnerability,” people overlooked his flirting, excessive partying, and questionable ways.
Pussy pass!
They didn’t know that he rarely changed a diaper, but he was always sure to share a selfie on the rare occasion he did. In contrast, critics seemed all too keen to highlight my “faults” in the face of his apparent devotion.
“She rarely cleaned my house but demanded a medal when she did.”
We live in a society that tells women to be grateful for the smallest amount of male attention and assistance — from offering empty compliments to taking out the trash. The bar for men is set so low that even finding your wife attractive is deemed worthy of congratulations.
Robbie Tripp, one of the first internet “wife guys,” was lauded for a cringe-inducing Instagram post about loving his wife’s “curvy” body. Why does society celebrate a dude who talks about being sexually attracted to his wife as if it makes him some kind of hero?
I will answer as best I can without my emesis tray: WE. GAVE. YOU. WOMEN. EVERYTHING. YOU. EVER. WANTED. Here’s your male privilege, Barbie, now be a good boy and keep the world spinning while I post selfies on Twitter about painting my toenails.
There’s no female equivalent of a wife guy — you don’t hear the term “husband chick.” That’s because society expects women to be devoted to their husbands automatically and without question.
If only. Ohhh, if only.
But he still didn’t get the kid and the house in the divorce because… because…
Covid Means I Can’t See My Partner In Prison. It’s Been Torture
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By Rebecca Tidy, 2 December 2020
[Note: Rebecca Tidy is a freelance journalist specialising in drugs, prisons and policing. She also works part-time as a research fellow at the University of Exeter, where she obtained a PhD in Political Science.]
Wife Guy must have been QUITE the research project.
England may be finishing its second national lockdown, but for many families like mine, the first lockdown never really ended. That’s because my partner, Chris, is awaiting trial – on drug importation charges – in Guernsey prison, and we haven’t been allowed to see him since March.
The past seven months have been an extremely stressful and emotional time, made worse by the fact that Chris’ trial has been delayed to March 2021 due to coronavirus. He’s been detained since November 2019, and it’s almost unheard of for someone to be on remand this long. According to Parliament, the average remand time in 2016 was just 39 days.
The remand time for international drug trafficking probably exceeds the average.
This extended wait for trial has been torture. It’s caused arguments, sleepless nights and untold anxieties. Chris is autistic, and his symptoms have become noticeably worse, from his inability to cope with noises to his fear of sudden changes. I’m convinced the emotional impact of these problems would be eased if we could see one another face-to-face.
They say that crazy women give the best sex. Does that apply to Wife Guys?
I’m a single parent, but I don’t qualify for the government self-employment grant or Universal Credit. This means I’ve had to work harder to pay the bills, but it has perhaps been a blessing in disguise. The lengthy hours mean I have less time to dwell on the lack of face-to-face contact, or focus on just how much I long for a hug, or Chris’ familiar smell.
At least her wife has the excuse of doing hard time. What’s the excuse of mens’ wives for their emotional neglect?
I’ve always used weightlifting as a coping mechanism when things get stressful – but obviously the gyms have been closed for much of the last seven months. So instead I’ve simply focused my efforts on work and the kids, while trying my best to support Chris emotionally. I try not to compare my personal situation to anyone else’s, as I get irritated when people complain about trivial things like not being able to go to the pub.
Yep, she’s fully masculinized, except for the whole birthing-person thing. And if he was any more female, he’d be hearing voices in his head…
But, of course, it’s been much more difficult for Chris to distract himself. There’s little to do in a prison cell. He was moved into isolation, after experiencing an autism-related meltdown when officers unexpectedly tried to move him to a different wing.
Prisons aren’t supposed to punish inmates for displaying protected characteristics of their disability, whether it’s autism, schizophrenia or a broken leg. But the prison service claims that isolation is an administrative measure, and not a punishment.
Psychos don’t go in general population. Also, one of those is not like the others.
Crucially, there needs to be a clear acknowledgement of the trauma experienced by inmates during the pandemic, as well as provision of adequate mental health and pastoral support.
Otherwise, there will be an entire generation of inmates for whom prison will have held no restorative value. They won’t have attended rehabilitative courses, participated in therapy or maintained adequate family ties. And to compound this, they certainly won’t have trust in society.
And as we all know, housewives need LOTS of therapy in order to maintain adequate family ties. Otherwise, wifey will go skanking the moment she’s out of prison… which is exactly what Chris apparently did. Which means, it really isn’t his fault that he’s a bad wife. Not when his husband was so emotionally unavailable!
I’m never certain what I’ll find when I go down the rabbit hole. A reader asked me to look into the topic of Decolonizing Russia that’s making the rounds in political circles. At first I thought this was about resuming the brief strip-mining of Russia in its post-USSR days, and I wasn’t completely wrong, but then I thought it was about some papers published by the RAND Corp. think-tank over the years, and I wasn’t completely wrong, then I thought it was the global realignment into ten economic zones… that WILL happen, by the way, it’s reasonably clear in Revelation… but I soon extracted the sordid truth.
There’s a missing page in the history of the Golden Age of Piracy.
World’s largest imperial power sponsors calls for Russia to ‘decolonize’ and the lack of self-awareness is palpable
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By Daniel Kovalik, 28 June 2022
[Daniel Kovalik teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and is author of the recently-released No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using “Humanitarian” Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests.]
Knowing what he’s about to say, I am pleasantly surprised to find somebody in academia still capable & willing to dissent against the Regime. A nod of respect to Pittsburgh School of Law, for so long as they defend Mr. Kovalik from the media wolves.
On June 23, 2022, an organization funded by the US Congress, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe – also known as the Helsinki Commission – held a virtual conference calling for the “decolonizing of Russia.”
This begs the question of why they are not seeking the decolonization of the United States. After all, the country was literally founded by the successors of white colonists who had crossed an ocean to violently seize the territory from its indigenous people.
You should get out more, Mr. Kovalik. We white “colonists” are being exterminated from North America. Exterminated very indirectly, because we sleep with our guns like dragons on their hoard, but yeah. Come on, man, you live in Pittsburgh. Ya gotta know these ain’t our glory days.
The Congressional organization he mentions the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe shares the same mysterious puppet master as Biden.
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The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world’s largest regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and free and fair elections.
What about free and fair banking?
It has its origins in the mid-1975 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) held in Helsinki, Finland.
Hence the many references to Helsinki regarding its activity.
In 2004, at the invitation of the United States Government, the ODIHR deployed an assessment mission, made up of participants from six OSCE member states, which observed that year’s US presidential election and produced a report.
That was the presidential election between George W. Bush and
*drum roll*
John Kerry, who is still in the White House Cabinet from Clinton to this day. It was a close election despite Bush being incumbent.
It was President Slick Willie Clinton who invited in OSCE to monitor the election between Bush and Clinton’s SecState. A failed coup?
It was the first time that a US presidential election was the subject of OSCE monitoring, although the organization had previously monitored state-level American elections in Florida and California, in 2002 and 2003.
The 2003 California election was the first time California recalled a governor, a loser named Gray “Gay” Davis. (It was an insult at the time.) OSCE monitoring didn’t keep him in power. FWIW, our next governor was Arnold Schwarzenegger. He actually did well, calling out Sacramento legislators as “girly-men”, then his friends took him aside and told him he’d never work in Hollywood again if he continued stepping on toes. He was a rubber stamp ever since.
Anyway, OSCE tried and failed to “monitor” GAE elections.
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While the conference speakers… used the current crisis in Ukraine as a jumping off point, they demanded that the Russian Federation “decolonizes” from regions and republics which have been governed by Moscow since the 16th century (e.g. Siberia and Tatarstan) and others going back to the early 1800’s (e.g. Chechnya).
This is, of course, tantamount to calling upon the US to relinquish nearly all of its territory from the Atlantic to Pacific, not to mention more recent holdings such as Hawaii.
Indeed, when a conference attendee asked what the US should do with Hawaii in light of this “decolonization” discussion, the panel speakers danced around this issue and quickly changed the topic, showing they are not so concerned about “decolonization” at all, but are truly interested in breaking up the Russian Federation for its own sake.
…And of course, it is the US, not Russia, which has, in just the past 29 years, traveled halfway around the world to invade, and invariably destroy, other nations such as Iraq (twice), the former Yugoslavia, Libya, Somalia and Afghanistan…
Just so, Daniel, but there’s no point in confronting GAE people with their hypocrisy. They don’t care. They Do. Not. Care. They are children of lies, why not accuse them of breathing while you’re about it?
There’s a better way to make them squeal, heh heh. Sunlight!
DECOLONIZATION OF RUSSIA TO BE DISCUSSED AT UPCOMING HELSINKI COMMISSION BRIEFING
h ttps://www.csce.gov/international-impact/press-and-media/press-releases/decolonization-russia-be-discussed-upcoming
21 June 2022
Russia’s barbaric war on Ukraine—and before that on Syria, Libya, Georgia, and Chechnya—has exposed the Russian Federation’s viciously imperial character to the entire world. Its aggression also is catalyzing a long-overdue conversation about Russia’s interior empire, given Moscow’s dominion over many indigenous non-Russian nations, and the brutal extent to which the Kremlin has taken to suppress their national self-expression and self-determination.
Wow. I get Daniel yelling accusations in an op-ed, but this is an official notice for an international think tank. Why were they not concerned about pro-Russian sentiments that some of their members and delegates from across the world might have?
And why is it more concerned with Russia’s past than its present..?
The following panelists are scheduled to participate:
Fatima Tlis, Circassian journalist Botakoz Kassymbekova, Lecturer, University of Basel Erica Marat, Associate Professor, College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University Hanna Hopko, Chair, Democracy in Action Conference; former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament Casey Michel, Author, American Kleptocracy
Erica Marat is affiliated with both Harvard and the Jesuits’ Georgetown. Hanna Hopko is USAID and Bloomberg affiliated, and became an MP during the 2014 coup. Botakox is Wellcome Trust affiliated and peer with Marat. Casey is a propagandist for the Ukraine, and Fatima…
Fatima…
What’s Circassia? Never heard of it.
An important question, as we see in the coming transcript portion. Most of the video is these people airing long-held grievances… centuries-old grievances… for which people alive today have blood guilt?
Why does that sound familiar?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iGtFXs9gvo
[formatted by me]
[Fatima the Circassian speaks]
In the face of such senseless brutality, many wonder what Russia’s endgame is. The answer to that question is Circassia. Just like Ukraine, Circassia was a vibrant prosperous nation centuries before Muscovy existed. Circassians converted to Christianity before Russia existed. Circassian nobility was embedded in the cave and rose from its very early stages. Seeking to strengthen his grip on power, the Russians had Ivan the Terrible married the circus and Princess Maria.
So, where is Circassia today? It is not on the world map or even in the history book.
It’s not a particularly valuable spot. The good places for ports are to the west and those mountains would discourage overland trade routes. It’s probably wet enough for good farming but agriculture alone doesn’t put a place into history.
Circassia fought against Russia for more than a hundred years. It never surrendered, Russia won and occupied Circassia by killing and forcibly deporting an estimated 98% of the population.
Losing people who don’t eventually surrender, tend to get wiped out. Yes.
But the genocide of Circassians did not end with raj end with Russia declaring a victory more than a century ago. The kremlin divided Circassia into three administrative entities and Circassians into multiple ethnic minority groups giving each different names and even different languages.
The Circassians and Circassian kids in Russia don’t study their history or their language or culture at schools today.
How do these Circassians even exist today? 2% survival rate, with no homeland, centuries ago? Which is it, were they wiped out long ago or is there a diaspora of a nation wanting to return?
Russia denies the Circassians their indigenous status. Their political, economical, cultural, ecological and linguistic rights to the millions of Circassians living in a forced exile in more than 50 countries around the world.
Say what? “Dem’s our ancestral water rights!” FYI, world, American-style rights are restrictions on government power. They are not government-secured entitlements. I know, I know, that’s not what the last American told you. It’s just a long-forgotten truth.
Again, that account of Russia denying Circassians “their indigenous status” sounds familiar. We’re talking about Circassians, right, and not Jews? Because Jews are the people known for getting kicked out of their settlements and holding centuries-old blood libels and…
…and not explaining why Russia decided that a hundred-year war of extermination against Circassia was worth the cost & effort.
The Jew tells you what happened but never why.
Russia denies the right for repatriation, instead imposing visa limitations quarters specifically designed for the Circassians regardless of who occupies the kremlin at any given era. Leadeth Atsar, a Communist or a Chekist, the Circassians know firsthand that the core of the regime’s policy towards Circassians is constant and that is a colonial policy of systematic and selective destruction of the identity and that also goes for other, what Russia calls ethnic minorities.
Yeah, so what? When you lose a hundred-year war of annihilation, you don’t get special status from the new government. That is every country and nation in human history.
Only white men care about preserving the legacies of OTHER peoples. And for that, these Fatima types accuse us of cultural appropriation!
Vladimir Putin made it clear twice his role models are two Russian emperors known for the most aggressive brutal and blood bloody step building strategies and that his mission is to rebuild that empire at any cost.
Putin is not, in fact, a Russian emperor, aggressive or otherwise. That is not Russia’s current political system. I suspect this accusation’s purpose is to justify blaming Putin today for what happened a couple centuries ago. Which I’ll get to.
His appetites, as we see with Ukraine, are only growing. I just wanted to underline, I’m not a policy maker, I’m not a political analyst, I’m not going to suggest any, um, measures to be taken to improve the situation…
“Oh, why won’t somebody get rid of this Putler for me! I didn’t say to kill him.”
…to prevent Russia from you know being emboldened even further, and further than it is now. I’m presenting a case of my people.
I hope this helps to understand the root of brutality and Russian colonialism and why this needs to be changed. Thank you very much.
It does help, Fatima. Thank you very much. When I first read you Wikipedia biography, it made no sense to me.
h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_Tlisova
[Fatima] Tlisova claims she has been facing severe intimidation for reporting on attempts to counter increasing Islamic and Chechen insurgency in the violent North Caucasus region. She has been assaulted repeatedly since 2002, allegedly for filing reports not favourable to the Governments and Secret Services of the Republics of the North Caucasus, as well as the federal government of Vladimir Putin. Her travails included being beaten and having her ribs broken, being poisoned, kidnapped and having cigarettes extinguished on her skin, and her teenage son being harassed by the police [as a Chechen sympathizer].
There’s no background on those crimes. I am suspicious. Not whether they happened, necessarily, but when I checked, she was only “kidnapped” around a street corner for that beating. Technically correct but not really.
…She became the editor-in-chief of the Caucasus desk for the Regnum News Agency. Since 2005, she was also working with the Associated Press. She had travelled widely in the region, filing reports from Adygea to Dagestan.
Allied with Western media, nursing a prohibited ethnic grudge. I can’t imagine why she ended up on the FSB’s short list.
In January 2005, she faced considerable harassment for a series of articles about the murder of seven shareholders in the firm Kavkaztsement. A few months earlier, they had challenged the firm’s majority shareholder Ali Kaitov, nephew of the Republic president Mustafa Batdyev. Shortly after they went to see Kaitov at his dacha, gunshots were heard from the vicinity, and the seven disappeared. They included Rasul Bogatyrev, a deputy in the state legislature; the family of the murdered raised vigorous protests, and the case drew considerable attention in the international press. The relatives of the murdered people wrote to Vladimir Putin, saying that considering the dacha near which their sons disappeared belonged to the son-in-law of the republic’s president, they were compelled to express “categorical distrust in both the law-enforcement organs and the organs of state power of Karachaevo-Cherkessia” in investigating this case.
Is there a reason Putin would have responded? I honestly don’t know, and this is my danger when discussing foreign cultures. There’s a lot that I risk taking for granted as a ‘Murican. Traveled as I am, it’s all been internal USA.
After a month of official inaction, four of the seven bodies were found at the bottom of a mine; they had been dismembered and burnt with tyres as fuel.
Subsequently, a large rally protesting the local government overcame teargas and reinforced police lines to take over the presidential palace.
That, Putin might have had to respond to. It sounds too organized to have happened spontaneously, but maybe.
Following Tlisova’s coverage revealing further details of the murders, the Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry withdrew her accreditation. She was accused of illegally receiving a pension and criminal proceedings were initiated, but were later dropped.
Sans the ethnic angle, I wouldn’t have known what to make of that. But Fatima is all about “her people” so I checked the guy she accused.
h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Batdyyev
Batdyyev was born to an ethnic Karachay family in Kazakhstan; his family repatriated in 1957. Mustafa Batdyyev finished a boarding school in Cherkessk and served in the Soviet Army from 1970 to 1972. In 1978 he was graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University and in 1981 he got his doctorate there. Batdyyev is married and has two children.
Okay, what is “ethnic Karachay”?
h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachays
The Karachays are a Turkic people descended from the Kipchaks, and are linguistically similar to the Kumyks from Daghestan. The Kipchaks (Cumans) came to the Caucasus in the 11th century CE.
In the nineteenth century Russia took over the area during the Russian conquest of the Caucasus. On October 20, 1828 the Battle of Khasauka took place, in which the Russian troops were under the command of General Georgy Emanuel. The day after the battle, as Russian troops were approaching the aul of Kart-Dzhurt , the Karachay elders met with the Russian leaders and an agreement was reached for the inclusion of the Karachay into the Russian Empire.
After the annexation, the self-government of Karachay was left intact, including its officials and courts. Interactions with neighboring Muslim peoples continued to take place based on both folk customs and Sharia law. In Karachay, soldiers were taken from Karachai Amanat, pledged an oath of loyalty, and were assigned arms.
A smart move, making peace with an incoming army. Meanwhile, Fatima’s ancestors never surrendered.
In 1942 the Germans permitted the establishment of a Karachay National Committee to administer their “autonomous region”; the Karachays were also allowed to form their own police force and establish a brigade that was to fight with the Wehrmacht. This relationship with Nazi Germany resulted, when the Russians regained control of the region in November 1943, with the Karachays being charged with collaboration with Nazi Germany and deported. Originally restricted only to family members of rebel bandits during World War II, the deportation was later expanded to include the entire Karachay ethnic group.
The Holodomir of about a decade previous might have had something to do with the decision. Again, I don’t know. USSR wasn’t afraid to kill people but there’s usually a reason for a genocide.
The majority of the Karachay people are followers of Islam. Some Karachays began adopting Islam in the seventeenth century due to contact with the Nogais and Crimean Tatars. Most Karachays adopted Islam by the mid-eighteenth century via the influence of the Circassians.
But Fatima said the Circassians were Christians? Time for the big reveal.
h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassia
Circassia was a country and a historical region in the North Caucasus along the northeast shore of the Black Sea. It was conquered and occupied by Russia during the Russian-Circassian War (1763–1864). 90% of the Circassian people were either exiled from the region or massacred in the Circassian genocide.
In a curious parallel with Fatima’s Wikipedia entry, the Circassian one goes straight to the sympathy play. All you need to know about both Fatima and Circassia is Russia Bad Russia Bad!
[Spoiler: Circassia was never, in fact, a country.]
The Circassians also dominated the north of the Kuban river in the early medieval and ancient times, but with the raids of the Mongol Empire, Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate, they were withdrawn south of the Kuban, from the Taman Peninsula to North Ossetia. During the Medieval Era, Circassian lords subjugated and vassalized the neighboring Karachay-Balkars and Ossetians. The term Circassia is also used as the collective name of Circassian states established on Circassian territory.
So, that journalism feud between Fatima and Batdyyev is actually an ethnic feud going back 400 years. But who’s counting? Everybody, because Middle East.
Circassia for centuries lived under the threat of external invasions, so the whole way of life of the Circassians was militarized. The governor of Astrakhan wrote to Peter I: “One thing I can praise about the Circassians is that they are all warriors.”
Circassia developed the so-called “Culture of War”. Honorable combat was a big part of this culture, during hostilities, it was considered strictly unacceptable to set fire to homes or crops, especially bread, even from enemies.
Hmm. A militaristic society… on the coastline of major sea-trade routes… in a mountainous region with few natural resources.
Legally and internationally, the Treaty of Belgrade of 1739 between Austria and Turkey provided for the recognition of the independence of Eastern Circassia (Kabarda). Both the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire recognized it, and the great powers at the time witnessed the treaty. The Congress of Vienna held in the period between 1814-1815 also stipulated the recognition of the independence of Circassia. In 1837, Circassian leaders sent letters to European countries requesting legal recognition. Following this, the United Kingdom recognized Circassia.
However, during the Russian-Circassian War, the Russian Empire did not recognize Circassia as an independent region, and treated it as Russian land under rebel occupation, despite having no control or ownership over the region. Russian generals referred to the Circassians not by their ethnic name, but as “mountaineers”, “bandits”, and “mountain scum”.
First Russia recognized Circassia, then it didn’t. Why?
Look at my boldfaced above. The Treaty Of Belgrade required Russia to recognize… Kabarda.
Oh, look at that. “Eastern Circassia”, indeed! Although both areas were at one time ruled by the same ruler, Russia never recognized coastal Circassia.
It is the tradition of the early church that Christianity made its first appearance in Circassia in the 1st century AD via the travels and preaching of the Apostle Andrew, but recorded history suggests that, as a result of Greek and Byzantine influence, Christianity first spread throughout Circassia between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD. The spread of the Catholic faith was only possible with the Latin Conquest of Constantinople by the crusaders and the establishment of the Latin state.
The Crusades were 11th century, and Circassia was rather out-of-the-way for that.
Some Circassian tribes chose Judaism in the past as a result of the settlement of approximately 20 thousand Jews in the 8th century Circassia, along with the relations established with the Turkic-Jewish Khazar Khaganate. Although Judaism in Circassia eventually assimilated into Christianity and Islam, Judaist influence on Circassian culture and language remained.
Fixed it.
Sigh. The Kazarian Jews, or Ashkenazi, colonized a Christian region. I’m sure those newcomers was miners and fishermen, not a ruling class of any kind, despite the reputations of the Khazars who installed them. /sarc
No wonder everything about all this talk of ‘Decolonizing Russia Today for Peter I’s Unfinished Plans Of 1714’ is chock-full of lies, half-truths and blood libels assessed against convenient leaders.
Turkish influence began Islamizing Circassia in the late 1700s, so there’s that. Hence my crossing out the “Christianity and” above. Christianity did not return to the region until Russia came along.
Meanwhile, to this American’s ears, a militant Christian nation hosting a Jewish colony is SOOOO familiar.
In 1714, Peter I established a plan to occupy the Caucasus. Although he was unable to implement this plan, he laid the political and ideological foundation for the occupation to take place. Catherine II started putting this plan into action. The Russian army was deployed on the banks of the Terek River.
That’s at least a 50-year gap. Catherine came to power in 1752.
In 1714, the Russian Navy (they had a good one at the time) was at war in Finland. Why would Peter have concerned himself with a Black Sea Sparta?
Especially since the historical significance of the Treaty of Belgrade is that it gave Russia naval access to the Sea of Azov/Black Sea for the first time… in 1739. And twenty-ish years later, Catherine II decided Circassia Delenda Est.
Why would a major naval power take notice of a militaristic coastal nation a few years after securing their new naval access?
…Were the Circassians pirates, by any chance?
…During the Russian-Circassian War, the Russian Empire did not recognize Circassia as an independent region, and treated it as Russian land under rebel occupation, despite having no control or ownership over the region.
And it became a Russian land when they DID assert control and claim ownership… yes? Bueller? Even by wikipedia standards, this entry has been edited for Narrative control.
Russian generals referred to the Circassians not by their ethnic name, but as “mountaineers”, “bandits”, and “mountain scum”.
Bandits? That’s not an insult, that’s a casus belli. Banditry along trade routes is just cause for military deployment… and there’s a word for “banditry at sea”.
The Circassian Parliament launched large-scale foreign policy activities. First of all, an official memorandum was drafted addressed to Tsar Alexander II. The text of the memorandum was presented to the tsar by the leaders of the Parliament during the latter’s visit to Circassia in September 1861.
1861? The conflict started in 1763… and ended in 1864. Those could only have been terms of surrender… but this was “first of all”? Somebody is trying to play the victim in a historical account.
The Parliament also accepted an appeal to the Ottoman and European governments. Special envoys were sent to Istanbul and London to seek diplomatic and military support. The activities of the Circassian government received the full support of public organizations, so the Circassian Committee of Istanbul and London supported Circassia. Thus, if not de jure, then de facto Circassia acquired the features of a subject of international law.
BULLSHIT! Even at a glance. “Friendly public organizations liked the idea of supporting Circassia, which made Circassia a legitimate, recognized nation under international law.”
THAT IS NOW HOW IT WORKS.
And then a hundred years of bitter land warfare ensued. No mention of naval warfare in this entry.
According to Walter Richmond, “Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the Russians drove the Circassians from their homeland…”
Circassia was not a nation, the Russians deemed them bandits and THIS didn’t get mentioned at all:
CIRCASSIAN NAVY DURING RUSSIAN-CAUCASIAN WAR
h ttps://www.circassianworld.com/history/war-and-exile/1234-circassian-navy9
By A.Y. Chirg, 7 April 2009
During Russian-Caucasian War Tsar’s Russia did use not just ground forces but also Navy. Tsarism considered blockade of Adyghe (Circassian) sea coast as one of the main measures to conquest the Circassia, thus Russians wanted to stop any kind of connection Adyghe people with the rest world. The active role to fulfil it had assigned to Russian Navy. From the 1830 year along the eastern coast of Black Sea had patrolled especial Russian squadron named “Abkhazian expedition”. Battle cruisers did not allow to sail for commercial European and Turkish vessels towards Circassian coast.
The Russian Navy cutting off access between commercial shipping and the Circassian coast can be taken a couple different ways. One, they were trying to starve out the Circassians, or two, they were protecting trade lanes from Circassian piracy.
The fact that Circassia lacked natural resources, meant there was little reason for Russia to care about the people who lived there unless they were making pests of themselves.
Also, a context for this action is that Russia and the Ottoman Empire were fighting frequently. Circassia was predominately Muslim by the 1830s, so there is good probability (although I can’t document it at the moment) that the Circassians privateered for their Muslim peers at the opposite end of the Black Sea.
And on the other hand Tsar’s navy fought along the Black Sea coast of Northern Caucasus by landing numerous ground troops. They were occupying the most important places in strategic military meaning. In 1837-1839 years with the Navy’s assistance had been founded such military forts as: Saint Doukh on the Adler cape, Velyaminovskoye on the mouth of Tuapse River, Tenginskoye on the Shapsugh River, Novorossiysk in the Sudjoukh bight, Navaginskoye on the Sochi River, Golovinskoye on the Shakhe River, Lazarevskoye on the mouth of Psishuapa River.
Such a military buildup gives strength to the ideas that 1. Russia & Ottomans were going at it, and 2. Russia felt the need to protect its flanks from “bandits”.
Fighting with aggression of tsarism coastal Adyghes used their Navy, which consisted from small ships, named in European sources of 19 century as “galley”. Circassians mastered Black Sea navigation from ancient times and therefore they were very experienced navigators and sailors. There are a lot of information about Circassian navigation in ancient (Strabos, Tacitus, etc.) and medieval (Al-Masoudi, D. Interiano, etc.) sources.
By the 19 century sea navigation had very serious traditions. According to Swiss scientist F. Dubua de Monpere who observed Circassian galleys personally, that vessels could hold 60-70 persons each. But there also were which could hold up to 140 men. Adyghe vessels were sailing ones with the oars and sometimes were armed with light cannons. They could make very long coasting navigation.
Coastal navigation is not skilled navigation. The real test of sea navigation, is when you stop depending on coastal landmarks.
Russian trade representative in Western Circassia L.Y.Lulye wrote: “Coastal high-landers sailed very actively. For the transportation of provision from one gorge into another they used the same rowing-ships (galleys) as they did for the sea roads. I saw it by myself, how they were coming on the galleys using oars from very remote places of coast into Sudjouk bight (Novorossiysk) and even to fortress Anapa.”
They didn’t even have sail technology?
That’s not a ship. That’s a landing craft. No sails made long-distance travel inefficient, to say nothing about protection from weather. Shallow drafts made deep-sea travel unsafe, but again, the Black & Azov Seas are small enough that it probably wasn’t a handicap. That might even be a landing ramp at the stern.
It’s the seagoing equivalent of:
In the October of 1836 year Tsar’s vessel “Nartsiss” was attacked near to mouth of Sochi River by 7 Circassian galleys. After, the commander of Russian vessel captain Varnitskiy reported that Circassians fought in organized manner, their commander was showing by long pole to each galley its place during attack. After fierce fight Russians escaped.
In the eastern coast of Black Sea Adyghes used to pursue and seize hostile commercial ships. According to words of one Russian sea officer N.N. Sushev, who was an eyewitness of the Circassian assault. During the assault to the hostile trade ship Circassian firstly “knocked by riffle guns all the sailor from the upper deck, after they were boarding with the daggers and then after few moments all was finished…”
SMOKING GUN!!! Pirates they be!
We have to take into consideration that while war time all this also did England, Holland and others.
That was privateering. So, the Circassians were either doing piracy on behalf and with sanction of the Ottomans… or they were doing piracy.
And since we’re “taking into consideration”…
Segue
h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Piracy
The Barbary pirates were pirates and privateers that operated from the North African (the “Barbary coast”) ports of Algiers, Morocco, Salé, Tripoli, and Tunis, preying on shipping in the western Mediterranean Sea from the time of the Crusades as well as on ships on their way to Asia around Africa until the early 19th century. The coastal villages and towns of Italy, Spain and Mediterranean islands were frequently attacked by them, and long stretches of the Italian and Spanish coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants; since the 17th century, Barbary pirates occasionally entered the Atlantic and struck as far north as Iceland.
Or as far east as the Black Sea? They would not have needed such advanced ships and navigation methods for that.
Barbary pirates flourished in the early 17th century as new sailing rigs by Simon de Danser enabled North African raiders, for the first time, to brave the Atlantic as well as Mediterranean waters.
So, the Circassian raiders had access to such tech but did not use it.
Whilst the Golden Age of European and American pirates is generally considered to have ended between 1710 and 1730, the prosperity of the Barbary pirates continued until the early 19th century.
Concurrent with Russia fighting a “war” against Circassian sailors that was perhaps better described as a series of raids against their infrastructure until they got pissed enough to do a clean sweep.
Unlike the European powers, the young United States refused to pay tribute to the Barbary states and responded with the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War against North Africa, when the Barbary pirates captured and enslaved American sailors.
Not relevant to this post, but USA was targeted by pirates because we won independence from England. When that happened, the English treaty with the Barbary pirates no longer protected our shipping. We did pay tribute but it didn’t stop the attacks. Whether that was Allah-sanctioned deceit or a simple communication error, we proceeded to kick Barbary ass. As our Marine Corps sings, “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli…”
End segue
Other form of using sea fleet by Adyghes in the struggle with tsarism were landings of Circassian troops from the galleys into important places and attacking suddenly points occupied by tsar’s troops. Thus, tsar’s Command were stupefied by bold and successful landing of Circassian troops close to Bombory in May 1834.
Textbook pirate behavior.
…Vorontsov was an eyewitness of unsuccessful Circassian boarding when brave Adyghes started board Russian ship. They chose position for the attack in front of the vessel’s nose, but sailors on the deck cut off the anchor chain and while it was falling down on the light galleys all they sank with the Circassian pirates.
There might be an entire chapter missing from the history of European piracy… the Black Sea chapter.
Coming back to the 21st Century, a surviving Circassian demands that Russia give back everything it “stole” from her people 200 years ago in defensive actions against her people’s banditry.
But wait… Circassia was Muslim at the time Russia cleaned the place out, and arguably aligned with the Ottoman Empire. If Russia DID give back Circassia, it would be to modern-day Turkey.
The Kazarian Jews are demanding that Russia return what the Ottoman Muslims took from them. That is no kind of “decolonization”. Just perfidy, half-truths and historical revisions from the ((usual suspects)). Unless Fatima is herself Muslim, in which case she’s the descendant of pirates wanting to punish the descendants of her victims.
It’s called the Old World because you kick a man’s dog and a thousand years later, it’s the reason that somebody kills somebody. Who wants to live like that? I’m all in favor of curating my people’s history but not to the level of eternal war against neighbors.
