Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (who is already ineligible) becomes defendant in coup investigation. Bolsonaro complains after the verdict, accuses the Chinese government, the University of São Paulo, the Workers' Party (Lula's party) and Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes of persecuting him.

Bolsonaro says that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes personally attacked him by mentioning the day Bolsonaro got up on a stage and shouted that he was “infuckable”. And Bolsonaro also insists that there was fraud in the 2018 and 2022 elections, in the case of 2018, he says he won in the first round, but never presented proof. Bolsonaro also said that Lula da Silva and Vice President Geraldo Alckimin were terrorists because they had both met with members of Hamas in Iran. He also said that Lula sold Brazil to China and that he needs support from the United States.

He also accuses the Chinese government and the Brazilian left of having lobbied to block any attempt to grant amnesty to him, his sons and his allies who were arrested for the January 8th coup attempt. Bolsonaro once again calls Lula corrupt and says that Lula's voters are criminals who take government handouts instead of working. He also says that his last demonstration in Rio de Janeiro had 3.5 million people present there in favor of amnesty, while the University of São Paulo said there were only 18,000 people.

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Sometimes it feels like he just wants to the word "tariff" as much as possible. The orangeman-in-chief announces "secondary tariffs" of 25% for any country that "purchases oil/gas from Venezuela." First off, Venezuela sells oil to private companies. And secondly, tariffs are imposed on imports, so it's not really those countries that end up paying for it.

So to see if we understand correctly, Trump is going to impose 25% tariffs on US imports of rice noodles from China because there are Chinese refiners that buy Venezuelan crude? We'd call it absurd, but in these times.

The plan is also very impractical to say the least. For example, Venezuelan crude reportedly gets shipped to Malaysia, rebranded and sent to China. Who gets slapped with tariffs in this case? And also how do you even prove it? Or maybe that's besides the point.

All in all, this is a scare tactic to drive up overcompliance and impose even more control over the oil market. Only companies that get US approval can buy Venezuelan crude. Could be a prelude to push for special deals for US corporations too. It could even be framed in Trump terms, "they're getting a great deal to help us cover the expenses on the migrant crackdown"

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Partick Lancaster had a Run in With a Ukrainian Drone - soo "We Live ! We Live ! Russia is Power! Akmath is Power Allahu Akbar! .....well Click like and Subscribe"

Denmark Lowers the Bar

Denmark is facing shortages of nurses and childcare workers, and the regime is unable to recruit the number of soldiers needed to carry out their grandiose plans of accessible military buildup — yet rather than improving wages or working conditions, the government has opted to simply lower the standards.

Iran might get nuked tonight or tomorrow .. there are 5-7 B2 on diego garcia and Russia has send the strategic coperation Agreement to the Parlament for Approval . So the Timewindow for a Act like this is closing fast.

In news for Bloodline enthusiasts - 23 and me filed fore Bancrupy...

Trump has blown up the world order - and left Europe's leaders scrabbling https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2er9j83x0zo

Check out the rap album graphic they went with lol

Pretty good article. Especially the conclusion.

• Ken Klippenstein's "Iran War" by Evan Carroll

Spoiler: we're not at war with Iran, and the empire is doing nothing new... yet anyway

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I will focus on three articles as a body of work and argue that they create a false sensationalist narrative that can only exist in a vacuum devoid of context.

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What I see in the above three articles is a desire to conflate being at war, undergoing special preparations for war, and the Empire’s routine bellicose statecraft. This gives readers a near existential-threat which widens the window of acceptable non-war responses, and distracts from other material issues.

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The goal here isn’t to defend Trump. It’s to refocus liberals that I feel would otherwise run around pretending like they’re hippie pacifists, all while defending a genocide in Palestine. If you don’t want a War with Iran, and you want an explicit and principled anti-war peace ticket, you need to look at least as far left as the Green Party. Rest assured, the GOP’s rhetoric is always going to be threats and chest pounding. The Democratic rhetoric is always going to trail the GOP by a single hair.

This USA is in bed with Israel and Saudi Arabia both of which view Iran as an existential threat. If The Empire continues to exist in its current form, war will never be off the table and there will always be well maintained plans for a nuclear strike on Iran. A strike which will result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands with an invasion that will easily kill a million. At least until a Mullah figures out how to refine enough Uranium to secure the regime.

If you think Trump is the worst president ever, you’re wrong. George W. Bush ran circles around Trump. I remember George W. Bush. When we’re seriously considering a war with Iran, they’ll bring back Section 9528 of No Child Left Behind (2002) or some similar Obama-era nonsense with a nicer veneer. Then we will again have military recruiters at our high school lunch tables. I remember those days. Iran won’t be a cake walk. If and when we get serious, we’ll give high school kids invitations to the imperial meat grinder.

Good stuff on the rhetoric, nuclear doctrine, etc. in the elided sections. But this summarizes the essence of the message, I think.

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