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>#UnsealEpstein
Make it so. Although that recent visit might have smoothed things out, some people seemed pretty happy, deals cut, fade.
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Tav Marks the Spot: How the Jewish Pirates of the Barbary Coast Made Their Mark on History
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2018/webprogram/Paper24560.html
Zobeida Chaffee-Valdes, Carleton College
Piracy in the Caribbean was a lucrative career, and attracted a much more diverse set of people than those today tend to envision. One group that continually gets left out of the popular narrative of piracy is the small yet flourishing community of Jewish pirates in the Caribbean, which started around the turn of the 16th century and continued to be relevant into the 19th. Many famous Jewish pirates have made their marks on the Atlantic World, among them Sinan Reis, Samuel Pallache, and Moses Cohen Henriques. Sailing with Ottoman letters of marque, Jewish pirates cooperated with and fought alongside Muslims, some of whom had similar motivations of revenge against Spain and Portugal, the countries from which they were expelled just as transatlantic exploration and trade took off. My research explores how the Jewish identity shaped these men’s careers and legacies, from their motivations to obtain letters of marque to how they used the wealth they plundered, and how their religious lives intersected with the daily activities on a pirate ship. I also examine the relationships between seafaring Muslims and Jews, and whether life aboard the ship served as an equalizer or exasperated prejudices. Finally, I am studying the forgotten legacy Jewish piracy left on the world and how it is often excluded from popular culture because it does not fit the traditional narratives surrounding both Judaism and Piracy. In this poster session, I hope to concisely present my research on two specific aspects of this project; namely, why Sephardi Jews took to a life of piracy, and how their Jewish identity affected and shaped their daily lives on board a ship.
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>>6690169
As I think about this more, something comes to mind, the contradictions, the cognitive dissonance, the ability to play it a million different ways.
This board simultaneously piously pushing patriotism and religion along with porn, gore, etc. WWG1WGA, but apparently we'll be brutalized by the thugs on this board for the entire journey. Posts that support the possibility of certain events, but the can keeps getting kicked down the road. Justice will come to perps who are entwined with those who are supposed to mete out justice. Equal justice for all, but a particular group kinda sticks out for its long-standing activities.
Maybe it's a way to keep avenues open, but the problem I see is that if things don't work out, or worse they do only not what we think, plausible deniability could be brought to the fore, and we could be thrown to the wolves.