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Pro-Bolsonaro crowd riots at Brazilian police HQ


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:26 UTC
police
© AP/Eraldo PeresBolsonaro supporters clash with police in Brasilia
December 12, 2022
Radical supporters of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil tried to break into the HQ of the Federal Police after one of them was arrested on the order of the Supreme Court. Some Bolsonaristas believe his election loss was the result of a rigged vote and called for a military coup.

The incident happened on Monday night in the capital, Brasilia. A crowd of pro-Bolsonaro protesters, who were wearing their signature T-shirts of the national football team, gathered around the administrative building in the apparent belief that the officers who arrested the activist took him there, according to local media.

The law enforcement agency called on fellow officers from the Military Police for help. During the ensuing clash, police deployed tear gas and fired rubber bullets at the crowd of stone-throwing vandals confronting them.

Amid the violence, there was some damage to public and private property. Several cars and at least one bus parked in the area were torched by the protesters. Some reports claimed that the driver was inside when the bus was set on fire, but managed to escape unharmed.

Comment: See also:

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Eye 1

New Zealand passes world's most tyrannical tobacco laws

Tess McClure
The Guardian
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 05:16 UTC
smoking smoker tobacco
© Mixmike/Getty ImagesNew Zealand passes world-first legislation to impose an annually rising legal smoking age in a bid to become 'smoke-free' by 2025
New Zealand has introduced a steadily rising smoking age to stop those aged 14 and under from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes in world-first legislation to outlaw smoking for the next generation.

Associate health minister Ayesha Verrall said at the law's passing on Tuesday: "Thousands of people will live longer, healthier lives and the health system will be $5bn better off from not needing to treat the illnesses caused by smoking, such as numerous types of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, amputations."


Comment: The is demonstrably untrue, because less people smoke than ever before and the health of people has never been worse. Over in the UK, life expectancy for the poorest has actually begun to drop.

In addition, once the tobacco tax revenue is cut, how are the West's struggling health services going to make up for the shortfall? New Zealand will lose at least $1.7 billion, of which, as of 2018, it had been spending just 2.5% of this total - $43 million - on 'helping people to quit'.


Comment: For more on the driving forces behind the anti-tobacco agenda, see: And also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Truth about Tobacco and the Benefits of Nicotine

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Stock Down

Institutional contagion: How Things Fall Apart

Tyler Durden - Authored by Charles Hugh Smith
ZeroHedge.com
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:23 UTC
The Corporation
(scene from film The Corporation)
That's how things fall apart: insiders know but keep their mouths shut, outsiders are clueless, and the decay that started slowly gathers momentum as the last of the experienced and competent workforce burns out, quits or retires.

Outsiders are shocked when things fall apart. Insiders are amazed the duct-tape held this long. The erosion of critical skills and institutional knowledge is invisible to outsiders, while everyone inside who saw the unstoppable decay either left or burned out.

Share of gross domestic income
Those who remain are the ambitious who lack the experience to reverse the decline and the self-awareness to realize they're way over their head. They're ambitious enough to want the managerial title and power but don't have the necessary experience and competence to lead a brutally difficult and painful turnaround.

Comment: Although the author did not explicitly factor the importance of understanding ponerology as a degrading underlining mechanism, from a recent Political Ponerology article titled Danger-zone Psychopathy, one might notice the following quote from Andrew Lobaczewski (note this was from the 1980's, so play this forward and see what it looks like today):
America's psychological recession drags in its wake an impaired socio-occupational adjustment of this country's people, leading to a waste of human talent and an involution of societal structure. If we were to calculate this country's adjustment correlation index, ... it would probably be lower than the great majority of the free and civilized nations of this world, and possibly lower than some countries which have lost their freedom [i.e. the "communist" nations]. A highly talented individual in the USA finds it ever more difficult to fight his way through to self-realization and a socially creative position. Universities, politics, and even some areas of business ever more frequently demonstrate a united front of relatively untalented persons. The word "overeducated" is heard more and more often. ... In the meantime, the country as a whole — its administration and politics — suffers due to a deficit in the inspirational role of highly gifted individuals. (PP, p. 65)


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Putin

UK politicians are using 'Putinophobia' to dismiss dissent

Timur Fomenko
RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:22 UTC
Vladimir Putin
© Sputnik / Grigory SysoevRussian Resident Vladimir Putin talks to representatives of national public associations, youth and volunteer organizations after a flower-laying ceremony at the monument to Citizen Minin and Prince Pozharsky on the National Unity Day on Red Square, in Moscow, Russia.
Britain's nurses are soon set to go on strike. The proposed disruption is just one of a growing wave of worker unrest that has been sweeping the country. Bogged down with shrinking wages, stagnating GDP, and high inflation, British workers are not happy, and rightfully so.

The politicians running the country, however, have other ideas. Conservative Party Chairman and Cabinet Minister Nadhim Zahawi recently accused those going on strike of helping Russia, stating: "This is a time to come together and to send a very clear message to Mr. Putin that we're not going to be divided in this way."

The comments were not a one-off but in fact part of a routine that has government politicians blaming the country's shrinking standards of living on the Russian president and demanding that British people endure hardships on behalf of Ukraine. As disgraced former Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated in August: "If we're paying in our energy bills for the evils of Vladimir Putin, the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood."
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Recycle

Controversial Вiden genderfluid official loses job


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:03 UTC
Sam Brinton
© Jerod Harris / Getty Images / AFPSam Brinton speaks at an event in Beverly Hills, California, 2018.
LGBTQ+ activist Sam Brinton has left the post of deputy secretary assistant at the US Department of Energy (DOE) after being charged with stealing women's suitcases at two airports. One of the pieces of luggage contained a total of $3,670 worth of items, including jewelry worth $1,700, according to police documents, cited by Fox News.

"Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee," a department spokesperson said in a statement to the media on Tuesday. "By law, the Department of Energy cannot comment further on personnel matters." Brinton had previously been placed on administrative leave.

Brinton, who uses 'they/them' pronouns and has been described as the first openly genderfluid person to hold such a high government position, was charged with stealing a woman's Vera Bradley suitcase from a baggage carousel at Minnesota's Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. The alleged crime took place in September.

Comment: So stunning and brave to brazenly steal luggage at an airport. No doubt he thought he'd be shielded from consequences because of his position as a government official with superior marginalized group status. Good to see he was wrong!

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Magic Wand

JK Rowling works her magic again

Julie Bindel
UnHerd
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:34 UTC
J.K. Rowling, Beira's Place
The launch of a sexual assault support centre for women is always good news but, when it is the brainchild of J.K. Rowling, it is very big news. Especially given the feminist philanthropist and world famous author has smartly taken pre-emptive steps to outwit her detractors.

Rowling has funded and designed a new, women-only sexual violence support service, Beira's Place, which opens today. "I founded Beira's Place to provide what I believe is currently an unmet need for women in the Lothians area," the author said this weekend. "As a survivor of sexual assault myself, I know how important it is that survivors have the option of women-centred and women-delivered care at such a vulnerable time. Beira's Place will offer an increase in capacity for services in the area and will, I hope, enable more women to process and recover from their trauma."

Situated in the heart of Edinburgh, it is a service for women who have been subjected to men's violence. It is named after the Scottish goddess of Winter, as Rowling explained: "Beira rules over the dark part of the year, handing over to her sister, Bride, when summer comes again. Beira represents female wisdom, power, and regeneration. Hers is a strength that endures during the difficult times, but her myth contains the promise that they will not last for ever."

It has taken a year of hard work by Rowling and her team to get it off the ground, and I was delighted to be invited to the top-secret launch on Saturday alongside the crème de la crème of Scottish feminists and many other supporters. Today is the first that anyone, aside from those who have had some kind of involvement in the project, will hear about Beira's Place.

Comment: Good on Rowling for using her money, creativity, and heart to help out women who are looking for a means to heal and move past the terrible things that happened to them. That transgender women, i.e. men who wear dresses and demand access to women's spaces, disregard and violate traumatized women's need for sanctuary from all males reveals just how right those women are to not want trans women in their spaces. See also:

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Newspaper

Indian, Chinese troops clash in Arunachal Pradesh, minor injuries reported

Ajay Banerjee
Tribune India
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:35 UTC
india army
© PTIA file photo shows Indian Army personnel carrying out drills at Kibithu, close to the LAC in Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh.
A clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Arunachal Pradesh has broken the tense lull along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). There have been injuries to soldiers on both sides. The incident occurred on December 9, sources in the Indian Army said, adding that the area was well defended against any such misadventure.

There are no reports of any deaths so far. This is the first physical clash between the two armies since August 2020 when the two sides had a clash near Rinchen La in eastern Ladakh. The major clash at Galwan occurred in June 2020 while the one near Pangong Tso occurred in April 2020.

Sources confirmed to The Tribune that a clash occurred between the two armies on December 9 along the disputed section of the LAC at Yangtse, some 35 km north-east of Tawang in the western part of Arunachal Pradesh.

Comment: Just a few months ago it was reported that the US took part in an exercise along the border in nearby Auli, Uttarakhand.

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Question

Who is purposely sabotaging power plants all over America?

Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00 UTC
power station
Someone has been attacking power plants all over the country, and federal authorities are trying to determine who it is. In recent days, we have seen significant sabotage on both the east and west coasts, and so it can't just be one individual that is responsible. During the first eight months of this year, there were a total of 106 attacks on the electrical grid in the United States, and that represents the highest number ever recorded in a single year. Hopefully authorities will be able to get to the bottom of this mystery, because winter will soon officially begin. If power goes out in your neck of the woods for an extended period of time during the months ahead, what will you do?

Nobody is trying to claim that the string of attacks that we have been witnessing is "accidental", and ABC News is reporting that "federal authorities are investigating" this very disturbing trend...
Federal authorities are investigating a number of recent reported acts of sabotage on utility companies, a senior law enforcement source told ABC News.

The move comes in the wake of substations being riddled with bullets in North Carolina, leaving tens of thousands without power for days.

After the incident, the utility companies reached out to federal authorities in recent days to investigate, the source said.
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Pirates

Shocking video shows "huge migrant caravan" crossing into El Paso


Zerohedge
Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:05 UTC
el paso migrant carravan
A shocking video emerged on social media early Monday of more than 1,000 migrants illegally crossing into El Paso, Texas, on Sunday night.

Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin tweeted, "A huge migrant caravan of over 1,000 people crossed illegally into El Paso, TX last night, making it the largest single group we have ever seen."

Melugin posted the video that even Elon Musk replied, "WoW."


Comment: It all seems to be "part of the plan":

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Mr. Potato

Eco-idiots strike again: Activist removed from German street with jackhammer


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 05:11 UTC
eco activist glued hand street germany
© Twitter / AufstandLastGenPolice remove a climate activist who glued himself to a street in Mainz, Germany, December 9, 2022
The climate protester glued himself to a busy thoroughfare in Mainz, disrupting rush-hour traffic

Police in the German city of Mainz had to use a jackhammer to move a climate activist who had glued himself to a busy street on Friday. Three of his accomplices were removed with less effort, after their stunt caused major traffic jams.

Six members of a group calling itself Letzte Generation (Last Generation) sat down on Mainz's Binger Street on Friday morning, with four of the group gluing their hands to the asphalt, Germany's SWR broadcaster reported. As traffic into the city built up behind them, they held a banner demanding a lower speed limit and subsidized public transit tickets.

Comment: And recently:



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