Crossposting this to the UK political thread, if you don’t mind
The summits will also spotlight international figures, such as the chairman of the American Conservative Union Matt Schlapp and ex-TV anchor and Republican figure Kari Lake, as well as former Brazilian president’s son Eduardo Bolsonaro.
Among the more extreme speakers is Michael Anton, an American right-wing commentator who has defended the fascist pressure group American First Committee and spread antisemitic conspiracy theories about George Soros funding a deep-state coup d’état by the Democratic Party.
Speaking of Right Wingers…
A bill proposed to fight so called fake news is stirring controversies in Brazil.
Wait, I’m having a flashback to the end credits of that show Kung Fu, only with a lot more people wandering the countryside! What is it with folks in the government and private industry who think unfilled jobs are just everywhere out there, and people can easily find them? 
History might not be repeating itself, but it does strike a familiar refrain.
This is not about finding jobs elsewhere. This is about dispersing people to prevent them from forming the critical mass needed to start registering their displeasure with their situation.
Whether this will work as intended in the age of mobile communications and social networks is another thing, but then jobs in monitoring those are jobs for lots of young people too.
Good point. There are advantages to being more spread out, since that makes it more difficult to round folks up. On the age of social networks, well they can be controlled:
However, there are alternatives:
17:11 - Dailymotion doesn’t do the queuing thing:
Something, something, good artists copy, great artists steal…
For the last 30 years or so the unspoken agreement between the CCP and the population was: you play along and and work hard and don’t get decadent ideas about democracy and personal freedoms, and we give you nice things and food and stuff. And don’t kill you.
To make that happen while simultaneously building up their hard power (military might) and their soft power (trade deals with developing countries etc.) and make their own cut they need annual growth rates in excess of 10%. And that’s a problem right now.
