Tear gas and pepper spray against World Cup demonstrators in Rio do Janeiro

Monday, June 16th 2014 - 06:37 UTC

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Brazilian police used tear gas and pepper spray to prevent some 200 protestors from getting near Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium Sunday during the Argentina-Bosnia World Cup game. Read full article

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Briton
What a shame,
great football but bad after effects.
Jun 16th, 2014 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Escoses Doido
The chant rhymes in Portuguese by the way.....
Jun 16th, 2014 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Once the World Cup is over, the protests won't die down.

“Will the consensus on Brazil’s economy never bottom out? For the third week in a row, market economists have cut their outlook for GDP growth this year, to 1.24 per cent, according to a central bank survey. That’s down from 1.44 per cent last week and 1.62 per cent four weeks ago.

The consensus for next year is down, too, to 1.73 per cent, from 1.8 per cent last week and 2 per cent four weeks ago.

This week’s survey has a sharp cut in industrial production for 2014, which is now expected to grow by just 0.51 per cent during the year, down from 0.96 per cent last week and 1.4 per cent four weeks ago.”
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2014/06/16/brazils-gdp-onwards-and-downwards/
Jun 16th, 2014 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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JimHandley
For: 126 ilsen, 127 ANGLOTONTO, et al,

ANGLOTONTO: I’m not QUITE pig ignorant (I leave that to you) about the Chinese –I lived amongst them for long enough.

ILSEN: Re: “I don't believe the PRC will 'foreclose' at anytime in the near future simply because the rest of the 'western' would cease trading” et cetra

Wrong! China won’t foreclose because –like a Bank that’s loaned far too much money to a number of clients who can’t afford to repay –it has NO OPTION but to keep lending every more money to its debtors, in the HOPE that things will sooner or later improve and that they will EVENTUALLY be able to reimburse the debt. However, if that hope is not realized, there will be another 1929 Wall Street type crash but this time, it will be of an infinitely greater magnitude. And as in 1929, the only way conventional capitalism can use to rebuild the global economy, is to provoke another World War as it did in 1939. In fact, in my view we already see the present day “signal” precursors to WWIII, in the armed uprisings presently afflicting the Arab/Muslim World (including India/Pakistan) et cetera. Remember events in Japan/China, Italy/Abyssinia, Spain, Germany, et cetera, prior to WWII.

Another, possible disaster that could put the kybosh on the present fragile world order is a civil war amongst the Chinese. Most people view China as a highly cohesive stable country. Is is certainly not. Rather, it a huge continent inhabited by peoples of widely diverse cultures, who speak more than 800 different major languages and dialects. This human menagerie is kept in its cage by the Beijing’s all-powerful Communist Party. But the workers are becoming ever more restless over the lack of basic human rights and increasing, capitalist-style, widening of the gap between the rich elite and the still painfully poor masses.

Watch this space!

Jim, in Madrid.
Jun 17th, 2014 - 11:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Wrong thread Jim.
Jun 18th, 2014 - 12:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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