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Leader and founder of Peruvian Shining Path rebel group dies in prison
Adios, good riddance!
Back in the 80's and 90's this story of the Shining Path and Guzman always interested me. It's totally crazy stuff. They lived in the jungles of Peru.
But, bringing back to today in relationship to the madness of right wing militias and terrorist groups in the US, we're not that far from the same BS that the left wing Shining Path.
Crazytown!
Here's some of the juicy quotes:
Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, known as 'Sendero Luminoso' in Spanish, died in prison on Saturday, according to the country's National Penitentiary Institute. He was 86.
Under Guzman's leadership, the group declared war on the Peruvian government in 1980, carrying out bombings and assassination operations, which by official accounts killed more than 30,000 Peruvians during the next 20 years.
Another 30,000 Peruvians died at the hands of the government and paramilitary groups in the fight against the group, a government commission said in 2003. The group also conducted a number of devastating attacks in Lima. It blew up electrical transmission towers, causing citywide blackouts, bombed factories, and set off explosives near government offices and inside the ruling party's political headquarters.
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Having done a full on lockdown I feel like I have caught up a bit to what England and the US has been experiencing with the pandemic. I got to go through that bit where you surrender to lockdown - facing it up like a way of life rather than short term situation. I mean just think about it for a second, for those of us who live on our own it means you can be however you like nobody is going to come and bug you about it.
and I'm still okay, so I know firsthand we can't blame the pandemic for crazytown.
but it's here isn't it. quite scary really. so much has changed in a couple of generations. If we live to a full old age we will see the young men and women of today turn middle aged and I feel like it's going to be heartbreaking.
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my neighbour tells me there's an old woman over the road who hates cats and tries to get them with her shovel.
Lils has come home with this oily bitter substance that she can't get rid of off her fur it's been poured on her back, it has slowly got better over weeks and weeks. and now she has a broken pelvis. poor darling, I am nursing her day and night - and every so often I think of the woman, it's stunning the cruelty of what she has done to my cat, very upsetting. I am hoping things get easier for the little puss in the next few days.
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way past the nine lives now and my cat is recovering. she is amazing. and she is such a sweet thing. really delightful, she even made it out of her nest and onto the kitty litter last night, it must have been a huge effort.
I have gone out on a limb for her, my neighbour was going to drive us to the vets for an X-ray which is only sensible but she is saying I want to stay home with you and I am thinking well yes but that's because it's easier not necessarily the right thing to do but I am scared, I imagine the vet is thinking old cat, hind quarters have gone, it would be kinder to put her down now. and I love my cat!
So initially she was scared and omg in a lot of pain, day by day the pain levels have improved. yesterday she was much more comfortable but still scared, very brave, put on a show for me moving her right leg around but I could tell she was balancing on her right leg when she sat on her haunches. Different today, she's up and her left leg held, not for long she is lying down now. But she can't stop smiling, not scared any more.
I listened to my cat over me and everyone including the vet, am I some kind of idiot!? trying to decide that now...
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I'm baaaaack!
I'm glad your cat is getting better. Wow, she sure does have nine lives!
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Hi!
yes she is eating enough for two now. and she can hobble short distances.
yesterday was a big day for me - watching her take her first steps, planting out my spinach seedlings in the bed I have been so laboriously making. and renting out my flat!
It was such a coincidence. I'd reached that point where it's like I need an income and saw this couple on Flatmates that I liked the look of and it was we have just found a place but send some pics if you like and I did and she texts back saying it looks like where we used to live and she said she loved living here. They had been away and come back and see the thing is when I bought this house they had asked if they could stay and I had said no I wanted the place empty and I did, it was a year before I first rented the flat out.
so it's all very satisfying somehow, for all of us - we bonded over mask-wearing etiquette.
so the answer I came to was yes of course I am some kind of idiot but I remembered the reason I put the cat first - I thought it's her life we are talking about snuffing out, she gets first dibs.
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