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Who is winning Myanmar′s civil war? | Asia | An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 01.07.2022

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Source: Who is winning Myanmar′s civil war? | Asia | An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 01.07.2022

An American’s Murky Path From Russian Propagandist to Jan. 6 – The New York Times

Central to his transformation was a series of websites he created pushing anti-America, pro-Russia themes, as well as racist and homophobic messaging. Some of his posts have racked up millions of views, and his 5,000-word screed on “the Jewish problem” has been hailed by antisemites around the world and translated into multiple languages…

After surfacing as a voluble defender of Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea, Mr. Bausman became an outspoken Trump supporter. With white nationalism on the rise, he threw himself into promoting it, relocating to rural Pennsylvania and hosting neo-Nazis at his property. He joined Republican protests against coronavirus restrictions and the 2020 election and most recently has reappeared in Russian media to criticize the West’s response to the war in Ukraine.

Royal Navy promoted sailor despite joining neo-Nazi group | Far right | The Guardian (Me: Does Boris care if neo-Nazis in British navy?)

The revelations, however, raise concerns over the navy’s approach to rooting out extremism, along with fresh questions over the effectiveness of the government’s Prevent counter-terrorism programme to which McCourt was referred following the initial claims. The latest data indicates that, in 2019, a total of 14 serving military personnel were referred to Prevent, with 11 of those prompted by far-right concerns.

Last year, McCourt was promoted to the position of petty officer as a weapons engineering technician submariner, allowing him to work with the UK’s “most advanced defence technology”, including ballistic missile systems and potentially Trident, Britain’s nuclear weapons deterrent.

Yet navy sources said that McCourt had refused to be vaccinated against Covid, meaning he had not received the necessary security clearance to be deployed on a submarine, despite still being paid to do so.

Hope Not Hate, whose undercover informant exposed McCourt after infiltrating the UK branch of the pan-European Identitarian movement, said the navy’s inability to force the sailor out of the service sent a message that far-right support was condoned. David Lawrence, senior researcher at Hope Not Hate, said: “The navy’s failure to take disciplinary action against McCourt when we exposed him three years ago sent a message that far-right activism would be tolerated in its ranks.

“The fact that he has since shifted towards an even more fascistic organisation, one that is rife with Holocaust deniers and run by a man who recommends Mein Kampf to his audience, is dismaying but also unsurprising. The forces must move decisively to root out extremism whenever it is found.”

 

Source: Royal Navy promoted sailor despite joining neo-Nazi group | Far right | The Guardian

Covid: UK hospital cases set to rise, says health chief – BBC News (Me: British leadership still pretending people can go “normal” while Covid cases climb again)

Dr Jenny Harries

Dame Jenny said people were being encouraged to “go about their normal lives” but in a “precautionary way”.

In England, almost 9,000 hospital beds were taken up with Covid patients on 30 June, a doubling of admissions since the start of the month. Data from the other UK nations is not as up to date but suggests a similar rise in June.

The latest rise in Covid infections – by about 500,000 cases last week according to survey data by the Office for National Statistics – is being driven by two new fast-spreading sub-variants of the Omicron variant, called BA.4 and BA.5.

 

Source: Covid: UK hospital cases set to rise, says health chief – BBC News

Mário de Andrade

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” Perdoe-me dar algum valor a meu livro. Não há pai que, sendo pai, abandone o filho corcunda que se afoga para salvar o lindo herdeiro do vizinho.”

Mário de Andrade. Literatura Comentada.

Mário de Andrade, seleção de textos,notas, estudos biográfico, histórico e crítico por João Lafetá. 3ed. São Paulo: Nova Cultural, 1990.

Marii Freire Pereira

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Santarém, Pá 3 de julho de 2022

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Término de casamento sempre exige um olhar para trás, e uma nova maneira de mirar no horizonte

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Normalmente se costuma dizer que ” O que Deus uniu, o homem não separa” separa. Separa porque tudo ao redor da relação é cercado de silêncio e mentiras – o que é comum- em todo término de relacionamento amoroso. Mesmo diante de situações onde há consenso entre as duas partes, ainda assim haverá uma sensibilidade maior, por parte de um dos parceiro que se sinta prejudicando de alguma forma. A quebra do vínculo afetivo, geralmente é dramática. Dessa forma, para quem foi omisso ou mesmo negligente, existe sempre um impacto forte, porque gera um sentimento de culpa, constrangimento e outras situações que fragiliza geralmente, aquele que fica digerindo os excessos.

Claro que situações dramáticas são observadas em qualquer tentava de resgatar a memória do que foi vivido outrora. A separação é uma decisão dolorida. E, o pior é que não se encontra muita compreensão nessas horas. A mulher torna-se estigmatizada…

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Patriot Front white supremacist group marches in Boston – UPI.com

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“To the white supremacists who ran through downtown today: When we march, we don’t hide our faces,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said in a statement. “Your hate is as cowardly as it is disgusting, and it goes against all that Boston stands for.”

Source: Patriot Front white supremacist group marches in Boston – UPI.com