Given the timing, maybe the Seljuks were more of the market for sale than the Ottomans out east, atop the Abbasid Mediterranean, Córdoba (Muslim Spain), Barghawata, Nekor & Tlemcen.

Somehow ppl rarely bring up some of the more fundamental aspects of slavery before the USA version, which was castrating all male slaves & all slaves were sex slaves. Verdun, Lotharingia was the castration capital of Europe & when slavery declined in Europe, they just sold ppl off to the Ottomans.

It may have been worth taking on the solutions proposed in the article, which I'm moderately sure from reading your profile that you'll agree w/my take on:

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The Italians are still enraged because they're convinced the USA was behind assassinating Aldo Moro & have conspiracy board -type things connecting Licio Gelli & P2 to Michael Ledeen. Everyone is also convinced USA/NATO spy games are behind the Europe-wide neoliberal push & push for war vs. Russia.

Most Germans I've talked to also have a very low opinion of American politics but are oddly shocked to hear that religion is so huge. Even e.g. Italians living here in Berlin are similarly convinced Biden bombed Nordstream & angry about it & shocked to hear that USA religion is such a huge problem.

It doesn't take much interpretation of laws the Christofascists have already passed to figure out which LGBT ppl they're going to do away with first & I'm one of them. USA MSM is N. Korea-ish so it could even already be happening. Better not to be taken alive than to let the Christofascists get me.

My motivation is that I'm attempting to avoid repatriation at all costs so the Christofascists can't get their hands on me to throw me in any prisons, gas chambers, or ovens. I usually tone it down for the normies & say non-refoulement/non-repatriation is just about „staying out of prison.“

When I fled from NYC to Berlin in Jan, it was because of the Christofascists behind Trump & I had never heard of Mamdani. With advance knowledge of Mamdani, I probably still would have fled at the same time I did, but have been torn wanting to stay for him.

Parafrasando il grande Battiato “L’inverno, intanto, tarda ad arrivare…”

…. senza però che le correnti instabili e fresche ci raggiungano.

La seconda immagine mostra gli “spaghetti”. La gobba nel mezzo del grafico indica una probabilità molto alta di avere, a partire dal 7, temperature ben al di sopra delle medie (lo saranno anche nei prossimi 3-4gg, ma meno marcate).

Una configurazione bloccata e ripetitiva che vedrà le basse pressioni insistere sul Nord Atlantico e gli anticicloni agire con maggior frequenza sull’Europa meridionale.

In pratica, vedremo spesso immagini satellitari simili a quella mostrata in questo post…

Al di là dei tecnicismi, ciò che sta succedendo in queste ore è alla base di ciò che accadrà nelle prossime due settimane: una lunga fase caratterizzata da temperature ben superiori alle medie su tutta Europa e da pochi spunti instabili sull’Italia.

"Die Erfahrung von Macht und Reichtum entspricht in ihren Auswirkungen in gewisser Weise dem Verlust des Hirnareals, das „für Empathie und sozial angemessenes Verhalten entscheidend ist“.

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Hopefully Greenland becoming the northern hemispheric centre of cold will still take a while after a Blue Ocean Event. Such wind & precipitation patterns would be highly disruptive.