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The recent riot against Brazil's government may seem like a carbon copy of USA's Jan 6th 'storm the capitol' incident. However, they are not as alike as you might think           On the 6th of January 2021, angry Trump supporters attacked the US capitol after the defeated former president called the election rigged against him. Two years and two days later, in Brasilia, supporters of the Brazilian former president, Jair Bolsonaro, raided Brazil’s Congress building, Supreme Court, and presidential palace, the country’s three main government buildings and US capitol equivalent. Similar to Trump, Bolsonaro is right-wing and had lost the election by the time of the respective riot.  On paper, the general timelines of these two events are very similar, almost spookily so. Both ex-presidents refused to admit defeat, spreading false rumours that the elections were rigged. And they were both very active on social media, promoting or influencing (in one way or ...

Who is this insanely popular figure, and where has he come from? Andrew Tate made his rise to fame far before current day. In 2016 he retired from kickboxing after winning four IKSA world championships and at one point was ranked second best in the world. Only in recent months has he made an extreme resurgence into social media and now mainstream news, so fast and so huge it’s almost unbelievable. But how..? Andrew and his close brother Tristan Tate run an online university called “Hustlers University” or “HU” for short. This university teaches new entrepreneurs “18 modern wealth creation methods” to get rich, enlisting multiple different professors - all successful business men and women - to teach lessons on their field of expertise, the Tate's even have classes themselves.  One of the methods of modern wealth creation they teach on is affiliate marketing - where you are given an affiliate link to a product or brand, and each sale that you make through that link, you get a percen...

 In a country shaken by unrest, is there any hope for divisions to heal, for poverty to reduce and the Amazon to recover? Brazil's great natural wonder- can it come back from the brink? 30th October, 2022. Brazilians went to the polls in the second and final round of what had been a divisive and at times, violent election campaign that drew international attention. Religion had been a running theme through the election in this evangelical christian country- Bolsonaro had pitched himself as God's candidate. The day of the election saw massive disruption, former president and prisoner Lula accusing the authorities of closing roads so buses full of voters wouldn't be able to vote. Bolsonaro had spent the run-up claiming that the electoral system was fraudulent, and then the day before seemed to go back on that, saying whoever won would be the fair winner. It was all rather confusing.  And then, the results started coming in. First one way, then another. And then, the final res...