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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Premchand and his Eidgah

A four-year-old orphan, Hamid was living with his grandmother, Amina, who was barely able to provide him with two square meals a day. His parents …

Premchand and his Eidgah

Na « Utopia » de Thomas More, publicada em 1516, ouro e pedras preciosas não têm valor. Na verdade, eles têm o peso do sangue, da escravidão e da …

Montagem de fotos: série “Pas de Cartier” – Barbara Crane Navarro – com anúncio da Cartier, foto de João Laet de garimpo em território Indígena de …

Na « Utopia » de Thomas More, publicada em 1516, ouro e pedras preciosas não têm valor. Na verdade, eles têm o peso do sangue, da escravidão e da …

Brazil: killing of Lula’s party treasurer raises fears of violent runup to election | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The Guardian

Marcelo de Arruda was killed at his own 50th birthday party on Sunday morning when a Bolsonaro supporter invaded the event and shot him three times. Arruda, a municipal guard who had organised a Lula-themed party, returned fire before his death, leaving his assailant in a serious condition in hospital.

The attack came just two days after another Bolsonaro supporter threw a crude home-made device containing faeces into the crowd at a Lula campaign rally in Rio de Janeiro. In another incident in Minas Gerais state three weeks previously, a drone dropped what was reported to be raw sewage on a pro-Lula gathering.

The attacks are in keeping with a polarisation in Brazilian politics that gathered speed in 2016 with the impeachment of Lula’s hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff, and the jailing of Lula two years later for crimes of corruption – convictions that were quashed in 2019 after the prosecutors were found to have colluded with the judge.

What has changed since then, according to experts, is the growing sense, especially from the right, that political differences cannot be resolved through debate.

“This far-right group, a lot of whom, including the president, have fascist ideas, doesn’t want to recognise institutions and the established rules of the game,” said Darci Frigo, president of Brazil’s National Human Rights Council. “Bolsonaro has made a decision to eliminate the left and he has allowed his supporters to use violence to do that, to divide and hate.

“What happened in Foz de Iguaçu is not an isolated case, it was encouraged by the president’s rhetoric.”

 

Source: Brazil: killing of Lula’s party treasurer raises fears of violent runup to election | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The Guardian

The LA Dem’s endorse Luna over Villanueva, & Board of Supes vote 4 to 1 to ask county voters to give the board authority to remove the sheriff |

First, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion giving the go-ahead for a special election in November to ask county voters to grant the board the authority to remove the county’s sheriff with a four fifths vote if they deem it necessary, “for cause…”

The concept of a county board of supervisors having the power to fire an elected sheriff has already been tested in San Bernardino County, where the SB Board acquired similar powers to remove their sheriff.  Sheriff Gary Penrod challenged the board’s new power, and got firmly shot down by California’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Source: The LA Dem’s endorse Luna over Villanueva, & Board of Supes vote 4 to 1 to ask county voters to give the board authority to remove the sheriff |

José Saramago

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

“Cada um de nós vê o mundo com os olhos que tem, e os olhos veem o que querem, os olhos fazem a diversidade do mundo e fabricam as maravilhas, ainda que sejam de pedra, e altas proas, ainda que sejam de ilusão. “

José Saramago

https://www.pensador.com

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem: pinterest/ Stefano Maraschini

Santarém, Pá 14 de julho de 2022

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Abortion: P. Lazos + Privilege + Pod40: Blog Tips + Loan Words

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Blog post title over photo of a woman holding a sign that reads, "Mandatory Vasectomies: Life Begins at Ejaculation."

https://anchor.fm/depe9

Click H-E-R-E for my podcast page at AnchorFM. This week’s show is the audio version of 27 Blog Tips + Borrowed Words by da-AL.

At the Happiness Between Tails podcast page,you’ll also find links to subscribe, hear, and share it via most any platform, fromSpotify andApple Podcasts,toGoogle Podcastsand Pocket Casts,along withRadioPublicand Castbox andStitcherand more, plus anRSS feed. Check out the full list of 50+ places.

While fooling around — erhem, doing research — for my novels, I wandered across findings that conclude many well-off white guys want equality and equity for all. The problem is, since they don’t see it regarding them, their time is all full up with making and enjoying their inherent privileges.

“Humans are rational; we rationalize whatever we want,” or something to that effect, is how noted

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