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There are major questions about how Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil this morning with his family for the US without detection by Brazil.
All morning, Brazilian authorities were utterly confused and clueless. As rumors circulated that Bolsonaro had left Brazil, they had no idea if it was true. At one point, they thought they had located a plane in Argentina, but Bolsonaro wasn't on it. That seems to have been a decoy.
Some Brazilian media outlets are now reporting that the US Govt did not merely agree to allow Bolsonaro to enter, but actively planned, participated in and even executed the exit of Bolsonaro and his family from Brazil to the US: meaning that it was a covert extraction operation by US officials carried out right under the noses of Brazilian intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, who had no idea it was happening.
(Bolsonaro has now arrived in the US, but the secrecy of all this means the US Govt has not publicly spoken on it. Everyone, including me, is working on finding out their version).
There are lots of questions for both governments, some pretty serious implications as well, and ultimately lots of embarrassment for Brazilian officials no matter how it happened (to say nothing of the authoritarian and anti-democratic stench of having Brazil's globally notorious tyrannical judge order the passport seizure of Lula's opponent a mere 7 minutes after Lula was declared the winner).
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Is someone taking notice of money punted on the Spring Carnival horse racing in Victoria.
Caufield cup, Cox Plate already ran, Bendigo Cup today, Melbourne Cup Tuesday and Oaks Thursday, Cost of living Crisis, be fucked there is, they're having a laugh..🤣😂
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Fun fact: 400,000 native Palestinian residents of Jerusalem are defined by Israeli law as neither Palestinian citizens, nor Israeli. As a result, they don't have political representation anywhere and vote nowhere - not even in the fake occupation instrument called 'the Palestinian Authority'.
With the knowledge, blessing and approval of almost every country in the world, and every international institution, on top of every other atrocity and crime against humanity documented, Israel holds 400,000 people under full ,formal denial of every political right given to any other human being on this planet.
No vote. No parliament. No representation. Transparent subjects.
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Jillian Segal are you there.
Can you take time and watch this clip.
A huge number of Australians have viewed this video on various social media outlets and accept its contents.
Does this mean more and more Australians will become habitually "fashionably Anti-Semitic".
@AlboMP
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Marco Rubio just explained the Venezuela oil deal in one word: China.
Speaking on Monday, Rubio said most of the fields handed to the US-backed company had previously been held or operated by Chinese or Russian firms.
The deal:
> 100-year concessions
> 17 Venezuelan oilfields
> about 65 billion barrels of proven reserves
> US access to those reserves "in a crisis"
ONE HUNDRED YEARS.
Even Maria Corina Machado, Washington's favourite opposition leader, is now challenging the arrangement.
Chinese and Russian companies worked those fields under contracts with Caracas. Now they are pushed aside and the oil is locked up for a century for a US-backed company.
That is not a free market. It's a takeover with a State Department briefing attached.
And they still call China the "predatory lender".
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The fake account/spam issue in X is really getting out of control: those are the biggest accounts that reposted the post below... All sex accounts (when my post has nothing to do with it) with hundreds of thousands of followers and zero posting history.
I don't know why they're reposting me, what the angle is, but definitely coordinated and very fishy.
I know a lot of people in the West are baffled by the Mbappé-Mao storm in China - which in itself shows that Mbappé's ignorance doesn't come out of nowhere...
To understand it, here's the best analogy I could think of: imagine the biggest Chinese star in the NBA, with sponsorship deals all over the US. One day he's asked for his favorite meme of himself. He giggles: "the one where they put my face on some guy, I think he was an American slave owner." When the "some guy" in question is George Washington.
Whatever you think of the label, you know exactly how that would land in the US: an ungrateful foreigner getting rich off Americans, laughing at the country's founding father in an offensive way - at least to a big share of the population - without even knowing his name.
A founding father is the story a nation tells itself about where it comes from. Laugh at him as a foreigner while cashing in on that nation's consumers, and that's not going to go well in any country.
The label is also extremely un-nuanced: yes, all important historical figures have their share of darkness and Washington and Mao are no exception.
China actually recognizes this: the official line is that he was "70% right and 30% wrong," and the Party's 1981 resolution condemned how his "personal arbitrariness gradually undermined democratic centralism in Party life and the personality cult grew graver and graver" (marxists.org/subject/china/d…)
Same for Washington: it's officially acknowledged too. Or at least it was until this year: in January, the National Park Service tore down an exhibit in Philadelphia about the people Washington enslaved there, under a Trump executive order targeting content that "inappropriately disparage[s]" Americans (associationforpublicart.org/…). Which goes to show China isn't uniquely touchy about its founding father...
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Lula's victory is a relief for those of us, worldwide, who care about the environment.
That should mean everybody - but in this sorry era of bogans such as Trump, Farage and Hanson - our planet's biodiversity hangs by a thread.
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Victoria's "Liberal" leader reads a speech that's 100% biased towards the murderous war-crazy Israeli regime and 100% biased against its opponents.
She promises to crack down on free speech and the right to protest for opponents of Zionism.
Jews are only ~0.75% of Victoria's population - Zionist Jews even less. Why so biased @Jesswilsonmp?
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There's growing momentum to move the United Nations HQ from the USA, which clearly doesn't meet standards expected of a host. Humanity deserves better.
“Do you understand who you are dealing with? This is America. Back up.”
A United Nations meeting was dramatically suspended yesterday after US ambassador Mike Waltz and Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla both ignored the chair’s plea for order in the chamber.
The problem started when Waltz blamed Cubans for the shocking US embargoes and blockades that are causing huge suffering to the people of the island.
Cuban representatives, astonished at the way Waltz blamed the victims for the crisis, in their eyes, stood up and objected, citing Rule 71, which allows listeners to raise a point of order.
Ambassador Waltz responded that the Cubans didn’t like the substance of his speech, so were not raising a point of order.
But when complaints continued, this caused Ambassador Waltz to lose his temper and shout “Back up! Back away. Do you understand what you’re dealing with? This is America.”
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INTERNATIONAL TERRITORY
The rest of the United Nations was outraged by this attitude, as the UN building is legally international territory.
When Waltz refused to stop his tirade, Khalilur Rahman, chair of the 81st session, ordered that the meeting be instantly suspended. Waltz ignored him.
The meeting was then resumed, but footage of the argument created a huge storm on social media.
Some people in the US defended Waltz’s narrative, blaming Cubans for the suffering caused by the US embargos.
But much of the commentary from the rest of the world said that the United Nations, for the safety of the delegates and the organization itself, should no longer be situated in New York.
When New York was originally chosen as the site, the US pledged not to politicize US visa access to meetings—but has regularly broken the pledge, such as refusing to allow visas for Palestinians.
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5. "... & the Coalition in punching down on migrants, I just reject it... the idea that the sensible centre is somewhere between the Labor Party & One Nation... the sensible centre of Australia is much much more grounded in fairness & truth & honesty than that."
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4. "... to call out a genocide and say kids should not be killed, & to stand up for basic human rights. Equating as your question does... opposing a genocide, speaking the truth about an unspeakable violence in that war, to equate that with the ugly politics of One Nation.../5
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3. "... with less power in politics, some of the appalling behaviour that we've seen in the cartoons that they've put out, unspeakable stuff, I fundamentally reject any correlation between that & what we've been doing as a movement, supported by millions of Australians.../4
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2. Shoebridge: "Show me that sensible centre; is that somewhere between the Labor Party & One Nation... I reject that, & I also reject the argument that the kind of hate and division we hear from One Nation, openly dehumanising migrants, punching down on people.../3
RonnyB retweeted
'The Australian' tried a gotcha on new Greens leader David Shoebridge and it didn't go as planned 😎
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🚨🇨🇳 A Chinese glass company just turned the RIOTS in France into FREE advertising!
Hengxinfeng filmed NOTHING, just posted a video of its unbreakable windows on social media, and went VIRAL.
EPIC TROLLING!
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The sound was muted on at least two occasions, also ABCIView cut the feed after Probyn asked his question. I'm going to email ABC & ask for explanation. If ABC platforms National Press Conferences viewers are entitled to see the unedited & full broadcast.
RonnyB retweeted
If I ever doubted that the Australian 'legacy' media is complicit in genocide, today's #NPC address by David Shoebridge removed it.
Craven cowardice, clearly on show. Along with little intelligence. We are poorly served by most politicians and media.
