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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...

Human rights has been a huge topic of the twenty-first century but is all the conversation really worth it? Human rights movements all over the world argue that there are certain laws and beliefs that should be globally recognised by every nation in the world. This is good at a face value but a huge problem arises when these beliefs are pushed worldwide onto many different cultures that have opposing values.  A world of cultures Imagine this: Western society, the culture and people who are the source of most human rights movements globally decide: We are going to push the idea that there should be a few minimalistic laws that govern the whole world. Sounds good right? Sure. A massive underlying problem would appear.  Humanity for the longest time has been tribal. By that I mean; the first form of human togetherness was in tribes, made of anywhere between 20-100 people who scoured the earth for her food and water. Only in the last few thousand years have we - as a species - off...

Qatar world cup has done many controversial things, but is all the buzz and conversation good for awareness? I believe that if you're prejudiced against 3 women you're being sexist to all women. I think it's the same for everything, if you're prejudiced against 4 trans people then you're being transphobic to all trans people, if you're being prejudiced against 5 men, it's offensive to all men. So when a issue of people being sexist or homophobic in a certain culture or country comes up, in my opinion it would effect people who are not part of that belief system.  One Love armband The global conversation that's being had right now about Qatar and the World Cup is a good example of this. The basics of this discussion is that people are questioning if Qatar is ‘worthy’ of being the host of the world cup because of its morals and the culture within the country.  An example of bad morals is the stadiums that for the last 12 years they have been building, but ...

On the eve of the World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino caused a stir by launching into a passionate defence of the host nation Qatar, and criticising the attacks on them, which have come largely from the western nations, regarding their position on the LGBTQIA+ community there, and their treatment of the migrant workers who came to Qatar to build the stadiums (passports taken, 14-16 hour working days, unventilated, basic accommodation). The conditions that the Qatari migrant workers lived(and live) in. Infantino said, “This moral lesson giving, one-sided…It’s just hypocrisy. I think for what we Europeans have been doing for the last 3000 years we should be apologising for 3000 years before starting to give moral lessons to others.” So is it right of us to tell Qatar what’s right and wrong? Or is this another case of ‘We’re superior, follow us.’ Are some things moral absolutes? Some things are basic human rights. Many Qataris have gotten annoyed at western ‘disrespect’ to the...

A person in power says, to one single big society, that people shouldn’t be able to give moral criticism and advice if they have done wrong themselves. But there is no perfect person like that, therefore no one can give any criticism and advice. Gianni Infantino: Fifa President We are seeing a lot of problems with the Qatar world cup so far. On a larger scale and on a smaller scale. Examples are: the mistreatment of migrant workers who built the stadiums, the ignorance towards inclusivity of LGBTQIA+ communities and other specific nations, and even bribing actors to act as hardcore Qatar fans in the stadium.  The backlash to these issues, and simply the fact that the world cup 2022 is in Qatar, has been huge. People worldwide have been criticising and grumbling about both Qatar and FIFA, many people also boycotting the event.  In response to all of this, the day before the football started, FIFA president ‘Gianno Infantino’ turned a news conference into a rant defending Qatar....