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Lula was only 33 when he led the strike alongside the metalworkers’ union that challenged Brazil’s military dictatorship. He secured wage increases and was imprisoned.
His rival, the far-right Flávio Bolsonaro, on the other hand, has had only one occupation since the age of 21: spending his wealthy family’s money and engaging in far-right thuggery.
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Lula vs. Bolsonaro: I was held in solitary confinement for 1,901 days for revealing the truth about the U.S. government's killings and espionage, including against Brazil and its industries. Out of power, Lula fought for my freedom. In power, Lula discussed my persecution with Pope Francis, who decided to meet with my family and offer help. After my release, Lula and I met in Rome to mourn the Holy Father's passing. Lula was kind to my children and asked for nothing in return. In contrast, Jair and Flávio Bolsonaro did nothing and said nothing. Yet without the ability to say no to Washington and Tel Aviv, there can be no domestic policy, only foreign instructions. Those orders are always the same: "Expand our theft of resources and wages, and keep your mouths shut about us murdering children." Sellouts will surrender everything in exchange for a cut, even their own tongues.
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The unwritten rule of cricket: NEVER bowl a bouncer to a fast bowler who can bowl 95mph back at you. 😭
After being struck flush on the helmet by a Fanie de Villiers bouncer, the South African slip cordon laughed.
Big Devon looked at them, made a promise, and turned the second innings into an absolute warzone. Allan Donald later called it "the most destructive piece of fast bowling I have ever seen."🤯
Devon Malcolm turned a bruised helmet into a career-defining 9 for 57 demolition. 🔥
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it's worse than that. google cut down the forest WITHOUT A PERMIT because they know they're too big for small countries like ours to fight. they got off with a "oops haha sorry lol"
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Russia produces more oil in a year than the planet will use in two. China does the same with rice. We slaughter more chickens daily than could be eaten even if everyone ate chicken at every meal.
There IS abundance; its just being horded by capitalist slavers and their lackeys.
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Another left leaning brown woman politician sacrificed to the election gods all for labour to lose again because their basic white centrist liberal leader is too proud to step down.
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I truly dgaf about the Kerrin Leoni of it all. Like what, sorry that you’re now eating shit after being so comfortable peddling Hipkins’ sanctimonious bullshit about gangs
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I also don’t think that people realise that a lot of gang members also work… your builders, scaffolders, mechanics etc lots of gang members have blue collar jobs. You wouldn’t even know because for the most part they are regular people who happen to be members.
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Putin🇷🇺: ‘Who gave NATO the right to kill Gaddafi?’
Muammar Gaddafi was killed on this day in 2011 following a NATO regime change war to remove him from power.
On this day in 2011, Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi was assassinated by NATO-backed forces in the Obama-Clinton regime change war.
Under Gaddafi, Libyans benefitted from:
• Free healthcare through the public health system.
• Free education, including university education.
• Subsidised food and fuel for households.
• Public housing and housing assistance schemes.
• Social security, pensions and family welfare benefits.
• State support for employment, with a large public sector.
• Major improvements in literacy and life expectancy compared with Libya’s pre-revolutionary conditions.
Now Libya is a failed state with open-air slave markets, and still without a functioning unified state 15 years after NATO promised ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’, and ‘prosperity’ after they had finished destroying Libya.
Whatever NATO nations touch turns to blood and rubble.
Muammar Gaddafi: "NATO is expanding towards Russia. To reach the gas, oil, coal and iron owned by Russia. To occupy Russia."
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Jason Alexander says he feared visiting Palestine as a Jew until 10 Palestinians protected him during an Israeli army raid in Ramallah
“How much of a risk would I be taking as an American Jew walking into Palestinian cities? And Mohammed said, ‘The greatest dishonor that could happen to a religious Muslim is to allow harm to come to an invited guest’”
“And he said, ‘Jason, if they had to, they’ll take a bullet for you.’ And what was so interesting about that trip is, we were having lunch in Ramallah with a bunch of actors and artists at a sort of outdoor restaurant”
“And the Israeli army was conducting a raid on a bank that they thought had terrorist ties a couple blocks away. And they must have, to announce themselves, just shot into the air. And I remember 10 of those guys at the table surrounding me. And I went, ‘Oh my God, he wasn’t kidding. They’re not going to let me get hurt’”
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Why would European countries ruin their own economies in order to fight to the last Ukrainian? - Prof Richard Wolff
Prof Wolff believes that they want to cash in on the disintegration of Russia.
➡️ They also want to appear powerful; to restore their global image as colonisers. The EU as powerhouse, as a world power.
The opposite will happen. Europe will suffer a hangover for 20 years, which no tablet can cure.