BRAZIL: A Disaster in the Making
Mar. 19th, 2020 06:28 pmA lot of people have issues with Glenn Greenwald, and yet...
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/488066-glenn-greenwald-its-virtually-homicidal-that-bolsonaro-physically-interacted
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/488066-glenn-greenwald-its-virtually-homicidal-that-bolsonaro-physically-interacted
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james_davis_nicoll just alerted me to this thing going on in Kitchener-Waterloo that Facebook management doesn't seem to want the word getting out about.Quoth the report by CBC News Kitchener-Waterloo's Jackie Sharkey:
"Organizers of a fledgling theatre festival with more than 40 events in March across Kitchener and Waterloo say they're having a hard time getting the word out after Facebook blocked the festival's ads on its platforms.
The social network, which also owns Instagram, said Pat the Dog Theatre Creation wasn't authorized to run its ad for the Femme Folks Fest.
The automated message goes on to say Facebook "requires people to complete an ID confirmation to run ads about social issues, elections or politics.""
Meanwhile, I'm listening to a report on Spark dealing with censorship and walling-off as it's being done to the larger global internet by national governments, corporate bosses, etc. right now.
In Brasil, we see another sort of madness: protests against democracy.
BRAZIL: Bolsonaro is Still an Idiot
Nov. 29th, 2019 06:44 pmTaking verbal shots at Leonardo diCaprio?
Tch.
On what I hope to be a positive note of curiosity, what more can anyone tell me of Ivan Valente and Randolfe Rodrigues, also quoted in the same article as linked?
Tch.
On what I hope to be a positive note of curiosity, what more can anyone tell me of Ivan Valente and Randolfe Rodrigues, also quoted in the same article as linked?
Brazil, Organized Religion, and Comics
Sep. 9th, 2019 06:55 pmSpecifically Avengers: the Childrens' Crusade. There's the mayor of Rio, who's tied to an evangelical outfit based out of Brazil, a friend to the would-be tyrant Jair Bolsonaro...and he decided to pick a fight with a book fair - specifically the 19th International Book Biennial of Rio de Janeiro - over the trade collection of that mini-series, translated into Portuguese. And by going after an Avengers book, Marcelo Crivella has therefore targeted Marvel and Disney.
The biggest newspaper in Brazil decided to throw it right back in the bigots' faces.
Further info in these links. The first of which is from CBC News circa 2016, filed by Matt Kwong. It's included for some historical context.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brazil-evangelical-christianity-prosperity-theology-rio-de-janeiro-1.3706704
https://www.themarysue.com/rio-de-janeiro-mayor-bans-wiccan-and-hulking-kiss/
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/09/09/brazils-biggest-newspaper-puts-marvel-gay-kiss-its-cover-in-defiance-of-brazilian-mayor/
The biggest newspaper in Brazil decided to throw it right back in the bigots' faces.
Further info in these links. The first of which is from CBC News circa 2016, filed by Matt Kwong. It's included for some historical context.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brazil-evangelical-christianity-prosperity-theology-rio-de-janeiro-1.3706704
https://www.themarysue.com/rio-de-janeiro-mayor-bans-wiccan-and-hulking-kiss/
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/09/09/brazils-biggest-newspaper-puts-marvel-gay-kiss-its-cover-in-defiance-of-brazilian-mayor/
