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notícias da queda
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na janela do tempo
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a aparência se altera
mas as sombras tem se mantido
no dia permanentemente enevoado
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para permanecer o mesmo";
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https://vanres1974.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-world-is-in-fact-very-distracted-by.html
@vanres2023
10-13dez21
“E o mundo está de facto muito distraído com a situação em Taiwan, na Ucrânia, com um novo primeiro-ministro alemão, com os escândalos de Boris Johnson no Reino Unido, com a constante guerra política interna dos EUA – e, claro, com as novas ondas de coronavírus” (Jerusalem Post).
10/12/2021 - anecdotal reports already suggest that large indoor gatherings of fully vaccinated people can become super-spreader events in the age of Omicron.
Subjects to follow
Assange extradiction 10/12/2021
The Assange Case Is The US Defending Its Right To Lie: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Caitlin Johnstone
Banksy designs t-shirts to help Bristol's Colston statue defendants as trial begins. The artist – who is a Bristolian himself – has created to help four defendants charged over the toppling of a local statue of a slave trader during the peak of Britain's Black Lives Matter protests in June last year. ... The trial of the 'Colston Four' starts on December 13 and is expected to last 8 days.
Anti-Woke culture 13/12/2021 (Anti-BLM)
Is Wokeness Almost Over? at American Conservative: "November’s off year elections revealed that the rollback of wokeness, if not imminent, may be nearer than many had hoped. Voters rejected decisively two of wokeness’s core policy components:
Defunding the police
lost badly in heavily Democratic cities from Seattle to Minneapolis to Buffalo, while Republican Glenn Youngkin’s vow to curb
critical race theory
in Virginia schools was central to his surprise win in the blue state. ...
The United States has free elections, a First Amendment, and political norms which remain more or less intact, and wokeness is an ideological movement which has managed to humiliate its victims and get them fired from their jobs, not to kill them. But it is not a stretch to see in it
parallels to the totalitarian movements of the past century:
the preening self-righteousness of its enforcers;
their seeking of forced confessions, depicted as apologies from their victims;
the attempted politicization of every aspect of social life, including language;
the insistence that the traditional mores of their own country are utterly debased.
Never in American history has so much energy been devoted to getting people fired for expressing an opinion. "
Craig Murray's freed 10/12/2021
Trump's 2024 13/12/2021
Hillary
Clinton says she would ‘bet on’ Trump running for president again in
2024 after new poll finds Trump and Biden would end up in near-dead heat
for White House Daily Mail " In a potential rematch of last year's presidential race, President Joe Biden leads Trump by just a single percentage point, according to a recent Wall Street Journal poll. It splits the candidates 46 percent to 45 percent. The survey's margin of error is a significantly larger gap of 2.5 percent. "
Artificial Intelligence
“Meet your new A.I. best friend” [Fortune]. “Imagine a future where people elect to have an A.I. companion whose relationship with you begins at birth, reading everything from your grades at school to analyzing your emotions after social interactions. Connecting your diary, your medical data, your smart home, and your social media platforms, the companion can know you as well as you know yourself. It can even become a skilled coach helping you to overcome your negative thinking patterns or bad habits. It can provide guidance and gently nudge you towards what you want to accomplish, encouraging you to overcome what’s holding you back. Drawing on data gathered across your lifetime, a predictive algorithm could activate when you reach a crossroads. Your life trajectory, if you choose to study politics over economics, or start a career in engineering over coding, could be mapped before your eyes. By illustrating your potential futures, these emerging technologies could empower you to make the most informed decisions and help you be the best version of yourself. For some, this may seem like a tech invasion, an infringement of our capabilities as independent beings. But a new generation of digital natives is welcoming these new technologies, with studies from KPMG [I’ll bet] revealing that Gen Z and millennials are almost twice as trusting of A.I. than their boomer counterparts. By deeply integrating A.I. into our everyday lives from birth, it can become a second self who can take us on a journey and even give us a glimpse into our future.” [from Naked Capitalism]
Climate change
“Climate change increases rare earth elements in Colorado’s Snake River” [High Country News].
“[T]he Snake [River] could be heading for troubled waters: According to
a recent study, climate change-driven changes in its hydrology are
releasing more rare earth elements. It’s a finding that could have
broader implications for water quality across the West. The study,
published last month in the journal Environmental Science &
Technology, found that higher levels of rare earth elements — a group of
chemically similar metals — are ending up in Colorado’s water supply
due to lower stream flows caused by drought and a shrinking winter
snowpack. Lower stream flows mean that metals are not as diluted as
they’ve been in the past. While previous research has connected this
phenomenon to an increase in zinc concentrations, the latest study is
the first to look at rare earth elements.” [from Naked Capitalism]
Covid-19 10/12/2021 12/12
"Şahin: ... three doses significantly neutralize the virus [omicron variant]. Further data will show how strong the protection is and how long it lasts."
Boris Johnson just announced that he wants to accelerate the booster dose rollout in the coming weeks – but there are already reports of the campaign stalling. ... The government has made it clear that the booster programme is now Britain’s primary form of defence against the new Covid variant Omicron.
cujo programa [Ponte para o futuro] são reforma da Previdência, reforma trabalhista, autonomia do Banco Central, discussão do PL do Câmbio. Ele pontuou que para cada uma dessas medidas eram prometidos milhões de empregos, enxurrada do capital estrangeiro e nada disso aconteceu. “O que a gente tem é um cenário que a cobertura do INSS diminui na população brasileira, porque a informalidade explode, situação de desemprego, massa salarial caindo, a política de valorização de salário mínimo foi liquidada efetivamente”, avaliou. ... De acordo com Raul, superar efetivamente a pobreza e mudar essa marca do Brasil passa por reformas estruturais como reforma agrária e reforma do sistema tributário que efetivamente cobre dos ricos e desonere o consumo.
Sudeste
Minas Gerais 10/12/2021
O PT mineiro está pronto e disposto a abrir mão da candidatura própria a governador para apoiar a candidatura do prefeito de BH, Alexandre Kalil (PSD). Mas tem uma condição. Kalil terá que apoiar a candidatura presidencial de Lula em Minas Gerais. Esses serão o recado e o tom da conversa, na manhã desta quinta (9), entre a presidente nacional do PT, deputada federal Gleise Hoffmann, e os petistas mineiros em um hotel na capital mineira. A orientação é nacional. Kalil está com dificuldades em começar sua pré-campanha e a definir um rumo. Ele quer o apoio do PT, mas não quer assumir um casamento de papel passado. Prefere uma amizade colorida.
Nordeste
Ceará 10/12/2021
Um dia após o governador Camilo Santana (PT) se mostrar como um entusiasta da manutenção da aliança que governa o Ceará, que tem como composição central PT e PDT, deputados pedetistas saíram em defesa da união. Já os petistas procurados pelo O POVO - José Guimarães, Luizianne Lins e Airton Cirilo - silenciaram diante dos questionamentos sobre a manutenção da parceria entre os partidos. ... Procurado pela reportagem, os deputados federais José Airton Cirilo e Luizianne Lins não se manifestaram até o fechamento desta matéria. Ambos estão entre as lideranças locais que defendem uma candidatura própria para a sucessão de Camilo diante desavenças do partido com Ciro Gomes e os demais Ferreira Gomes.
Norte e centro oeste
O deputado estadual Fausto Jr. (MDB) fez hoje (9) um desafio ao senador Omar Aziz (PSD), durante coletiva de imprensa na Assembleia Legislativa do Estado (ALE). “Desafio o senador Omar Aziz a provar que não é investigado pela Polícia Federal e que não está ligado aos escândalos de corrupção na Saúde do Amazonas”, afirmou Fausto. O desafio foi feito após o senador processar o deputado, sob acusação de danos morais. Em julho deste ano, Fausto disse, nas redes sociais, que Omar “é corrupto”.
RS bdfrs 12/12/2021
Uma família que tem um casal e uma criança vai receber os R$ 400, 00, mas você também vai ter uma família de um casal e três filhos que vai receber os mesmos R$ 400,00. Você não está usando de uma forma equilibrada o recurso público e de forma equânime ente as diferentes famílias buscando garantir um mínimo de sobrevivência”, ressalta o economista e integrante do Movimento dos Pequenos Agricultores (MPA), Raul Krauser.
Centro Oeste
Distrito Federal cb bdf df 12/12/2021
Há um ano, em leilão realizado na B3 (antiga Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo), era privatizada a CEB Distribuição S.A, subsidiária estatal responsável pelo abastecimento de energia elétrica no Distrito Federal. Precedida da narrativa de desconstrução utilizada em qualquer processo de privatização, a venda ilegal da CEB ocorreu sob forte resistência dos eletricitários do DF e de segmentos da sociedade, preocupados com as consequências dessa medida para a qualidade dos serviços e, sobretudo, para o preço da energia elétrica na capital do país.
Argentina - 08/12/2021 09/12 12/12
Bolivia 10/12/2021
Since the 2020 election campaign, Arce pledged the people that he would work tirelessly to rebuild the economy, tackle the pandemic and recover democracy, and along these lines he is closing his first year in office with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth projections of over 5%, higher than the 4.4% initially forecast by the Ministry of Economy.
Chile 07/12/2021 12/12
Colombia 07/12/2021 10/12
Paraguay
Peru 08/12/2021
Venezuela 07/12/2021
Uruguay
President Joe Biden received heavy criticism from
the American public in his handling of the economy [mostly inflation and economic recovery], COVID-19 and gun
violence, in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday. ... While a majority of Americans (53%) still approve of Biden’s response,
45% disapprove, marking the most since he took office and a nearly 20 percentage point drop from March, when 72% of Americans approved of his response.
BRICS
Russia urges NATO to formally drop Ukraine & Georgia ascension plans(RT) Russia has called upon NATO to publicly reverse its previously stated intent to take former Soviet states Ukraine and Georgia into its ranks, arguing that doing so would benefit the “fundamental interests of European security.”
G7 nations warn Russia of ‘massive consequences’ if it invades Ukraine Hindustan Times
What Putin really told Biden Asia Times Pepe Escobar
South Africa's last apartheid president, FW de Klerk, was on Sunday
lauded for his bravery and his role in the negotiations for the
country's Constitution. De Klerk, who served as deputy president under former president Nelson
Mandela from 1994 to 1996 in the Government of National Unity, died last
month at the age of 85 after a battle against cancer. ... The DA's federal chairperson, Helen Zille, who was a journalist at
the time when De Klerk ... "It's
worth mentioning that it was De Klerk who dismantled all the laws
underpinning apartheid and he triggered the constitutional negotiations.
Without these major events, the South Africa we are working on today
would not be possible," she said.
Without a clear framework on closure of coal mines, India’s transition to renewables will be messy Scroll
China 08/12/2021 10/12
12/12Amid Tensions With Turkey, China Is Putting the Kurdish Issue in Play The Diplomat " Responding to Turkey’s stepped up rhetoric on Uyghurs, Beijing is taking aim at an ethnic issue sensitive to Ankara. ... After Turkey’s remarks on the Uyghur situation, China retaliated by focusing on the regions where Kurds live and accusing Turkey of human rights abuses in these regions. The Chinese actions sent a clear message to Turkey that China will retaliate if Ankara continues to meddle in the Uyghur issue. China’s playbook is simple: If Ankara continues to criticize China over the Uyghur issue, then Beijing will bring Turkey’s actions in Iraq and Syria to the international agenda.
13/12 China in Africa: no more hard cash as debt-hit nations battle Covid-19 disruptions South China Morning Post "China has traditionally made large financial commitments during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) meetings over the past two decades, with the money going into mega infrastructure projects, including ports, railways, highways and power dams. But, at this year’s forum in the Senegalese capital Dakar, it became evident that that financing model was set to change."
Central America and Caribe
Cuba 07/12/2021
Canada 08/12/2021 10/12
The three countries have said they won’t send government dignitaries to the games, which run Feb. 4-20, to protest human rights abuses in China, while New Zealand said it informed Beijing earlier that it wouldn’t be sending any officials due to pandemic travel restrictions but had also communicated its human rights concerns. Under the diplomatic boycott, the countries will still send their athletes to compete. Rights groups have called for a total boycott of the Beijing Winter Games, citing Chinese human rights abuses against its Uyghur minority in the northwest Xinjiang region, which some have called genocide. They also point to Beijing’s suppression of democratic protests in Hong Kong and a sweeping crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous territory.
European Union
Western Europe
Belgium
Les partis de gauches sont très faibles. Aucun ne s’impose comme le parti pivot. Dans ce désordre, chacun joue sa partition pour tenter de prendre le leadership sur les autres, analyse Olivier Rouquan. ... « Sans candidat à la présidentielle, vous disparaissez »
Italy 09/12/2021 13/12 HP
13/12
Il Presidente Biden ha invitato capi di Governo e pensatori di ogni dove per discutere dello stato della Democrazia. La Cina non è tra gli invitati. L’Italia sì. Questo non significa che in Italia le cose per la Democrazia vadano benissimo. Basti pensare all’insistenza con cui il Presidente Mattarella riceve richieste di accettare un secondo mandato.... Non abbiamo proposte sulla questione climatica e quindi della promozione della sostenibilità; non abbiamo avanzato idee sul futuro dei liberi rapporti civili nell’epoca dell’intelligenza artificiale, del lavoro e del welfare; fatichiamo a promuovere l’innovazione sociale, istituzionale e industriale; siamo lenti sui problemi dell’inclusione e dell’emancipazione; investiamo poco (intellettualmente, non solo finanziariamente) nella scuola e nel suo sviluppo (motore del senso critico e del metodo scientifico); siamo marginali sul fronte geopolitico. E siamo assenti dal dibattito che riguarda la crisi della Democrazia Liberale.
Germany 09/12/2021 12/12
Portugal 12/12
Spain 10/12/2021
Boris Johnson is braced for a major Tory rebellion when he puts his Plan B covid measures before parliament next week. A number of Conservatives have lined up to express scepticism over the plans or have confirmed they will vote against them outright ... nfluential backbencher Steve Baker has confirmed he will vote against the measures when they are put to a parliamentary vote on Tuesday. “I’ll vote against extending mask mandates, and I’ll vote against mandatory vaccination as a condition of NHS employment.
Eastern Europe
Bulgary 10/12/2021
The Balkan country of 7 million has one of the world's fastest-shrinking populations, the highest income inequality in the EU, and the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rate in the 27-nation bloc.
Greece 12/12/2021
Hungary 09/12/2021
Macedonia 13/12
Euroscepticism rises in North Macedonia amid EU membership delays
The country -- which was previously called the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- agreed to change its name in 2018 to settle a long dispute with its southern neighbour Greece, who vetoed EU membership talks starting.
Since changing its name to the Republic of North Macedonia, its accession has been blocked at the EU leader level and then by its eastern neighbour, Bulgaria.
Sofia has disputed the existence of the country's cultural and historical identity. The Bulgarian side claims North Macedonia’s history and language are not separate or distinct from that of Bulgaria.
Could North Macedonia be the graveyard of the EU's ideals?
Ukrayne 10/12/2021
Turkey 09/12/2021 12/12 12/12
Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen made it clear during his 2016-June 2021 term that he disagreed. Cohen felt strongly that Jerusalem has outgrown the earlier concept that Iran creates matchup problems for it for using force and that it must always wait for US approval to act.
[current Mossad chief] Barnea’s Hanukkah (...) believes the Jewish state has the power to use force against Iran whenever it feels necessary and personally promised he would do so to block a nuclear weapon on his watch.
Iraq 13/12/2021
Biden has viewedattacks by Iraqi militias on U.S. troops as having been ordered or approved by Iran, even though U.S. officials have admitted
that Iran’s control over these same militias diminished sharply after
the January 2020 assassinations of the IRGC’s Qods Force commander, Gen.
Qassem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, the head of Iraq’s Popular
Mobilization Forces.
Iran
Afghanistan 12/12/2021
The Secret History of the U.S. Diplomatic Failure in Afghanistan New Yorker
But the farmers refused to call off their protest saying the ..
Australia
Africa 12/12
China in Africa: no more hard cash as debt-hit nations battle Covid-19 disruptions South China Morning Post
Egypt
Ethiopia 09/12/2021
Kenya 10/12/2021
Libya has been wracked by chaos since a NATO-backed uprising toppled longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The oil-rich nation had for years been split between a government in the east, backed by Hifter, and a U.N.-supported administration in Tripoli, aided by western-based Libyan militias. Each side has also had the support of mercenaries and foreign forces from Turkey, Russia and Syria and different regional powers.
The Dec. 24 vote also faces other challenges, including occasional infighting among armed groups, and the deep rift that remains between the country’s east and west, split for years by the war, and the presence of thousands of foreign fighters and troops.
Uganda 09/12/2021
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