Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians rallied on Sunday in the country&#8217;s biggest city to show support for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who flew an Israeli flag in a rebuttal of anti-Semitic remarks made by the country&#8217;s current president, <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/why-did-global-media-give-brazils-lula-free-pass-corruption">corrupt</a> socialist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The rally comes as Brazil&#8217;s federal government investigates Bolsonaro over whether he was involved in orchestrating riots on government buildings last January, the Associated Press reported, adding that he&#8217;s also under investigation for allegedly receiving illegal gifts from Saudi Arabia during his presidency.
Bolsonaro, who is barred from running for office until 2030, wants those who have been locked up from the riot to be pardoned and released from jail.
“What I seek is pacification, it is erasing the past,” he said. “It is to seek a way for us to live in peace and stop being so jumpy. Amnesty for those poor people who are jailed in Brasilia. We ask all 513 congressmen, 81 senators for a bill of amnesty so justice can be made in Brazil.”
He also shot down allegations that there was ever a coup attempted in the country: “What is a coup? It is tanks on the streets, weapons, conspiracy. None of that happened in Brazil.”
Roughly 750,000 people attended the rally, according to estimates from the Public Security Secretariat.
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➡ Ato bolsonarista reuniu 750 mil na Avenida Paulista, diz SSP
Estimativa da Secretaria da Segurança Pública contabiliza ruas adjacentes; reportagem observou 10 quarteirões com público na Paulista
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Bolsonaro also waved an Israeli flag at the rally in a clear rebuttal of Lula, who was condemned last week for engaging in anti-Semitic Holocaust denial.
Lula’s remarks come as Israel continues to conduct military operations inside Gaza to recover hostages who were kidnapped during the unprecedented October 7 terrorist attack and to eliminate Hamas terrorists and infrastructure. During the early morning surprise attack, Hamas murdered 1,200 people in Israel, injured 5,300+, and kidnapped hundreds.
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🚨A DEMOCRACIA TEM LADO: Ex-presidente Bolsonaro exibe bandeira de Israel em gesto de solidariedade na Av. Paulista
Solidariedade à nação israelense. <a href="https://t.co/JbrWppAntQ">pic.twitter.com/JbrWppAntQ</a>
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“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide,” Lula told reporters at an African Union summit in Ethiopia. “It’s not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children.”
“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment in history,” he said. “Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.”
Israel has taken unprecedented measures to minimize the loss of civilian life during the war, including dropping hundreds of thousands of leaflets urging Gazans to leave specific areas, calling Gazans and urging them to evacuate, opening up safe corridors so they can travel without being fired upon by Hamas, and calling off airstrikes after civilians were located near a designated target.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to Lula’s remarks with a statement posted to social media, saying that Israel would take diplomatic action over the incident.
“The words of the president of Brazil are shameful and serious. This is about trivializing the Holocaust and trying to harm the Jewish people and Israel’s right to defend itself,” Netanyahu said. “Comparing Israel to the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler is crossing a red line. Israel fights for its defense and securing its future until complete victory and it does so while upholding international law.”
“I decided with Foreign Minister Israel Katz to summon the Brazilian ambassador to Israel for a stern reprimand conversation immediately,” he added.

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The socialist mayor of South Fulton, Georgia, was arrested Saturday morning and charged with first-degree criminal trespass and burglary. 
South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Saturday but was released later in the day after posting $11,000 bond, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-mayor-arrested-trespassing-burglary-charges-thought-house-abandoned" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox News. The mayor reportedly entered a house that he thought was abandoned. 
&#8220;The City of South Fulton is committed to upholding the law and ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their position, are subject to the same fair and just treatment,&#8221; a statement from the City of South Fulton said. &#8220;As the investigation is still ongoing, we are unable to provide further details at this time.&#8221;
The homeowner reportedly received a notification on his phone saying there had been movement on his property before 7 a.m., <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/police-report-details-events-leading-120528738.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WSB-TV after reviewing the police report. The homeowner called the police and then approached Kamau as he was allegedly exiting the house and ordered him to &#8220;stay put,&#8221; the outlet says, to which the mayor replied, “Do you know who the f*** I am? I’m the Mayor, and I’ll wait for my police to get here and see what happens then,” according to the homeowner&#8217;s account.
According to WSB, the mayor was on his way to a dog park when he made the stop, and his version of events describes the homeowner telling him, “No motherf***ker, you stay right there,&#8221; and threatening to shoot him if he didn&#8217;t listen. “Are you going to shoot me while I’m walking away?” the mayor reportedly asked.
Reporters confronted Kamau as he was being escorted by officers, handcuffed, into a police car. When asked why he was on the property, he said he “just wanted to see the house” and apologized to the owners, saying he “thought it was abandoned.” 
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EXCLUSIVE: As police led South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau away in handcuffs, he apologized to his voters for the “negative attention.&quot; He&#39;s been charged with felony burglary and criminal trespass. <a href="https://twitter.com/DeidraDukesFOX5?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeidraDukesFOX5</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/ELenzPhotog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ELenzPhotog</a> tracked him down for answers. At 6 on <a href="https://twitter.com/FOX5Atlanta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FOX5Atlanta</a> <a href="https://t.co/XYImU6JCYq">pic.twitter.com/XYImU6JCYq</a>
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&#8220;I apologize for the negative attention that this is brought to our city,&#8221; Kamau <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1677878057137258496?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a Fox 5 reporter. &#8220;I hope that the spotlight on our city right now will highlight some of the inequities that have been happening.&#8221;
When asked if he was guilty of the charges, Kamau said, “I think that’s for the voters to decide.” 
The City of South Fulton website <a href="https://www.cityofsouthfultonga.gov/2167/Mayor-khalid-kamau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> Kamau as “a college-educated, community activist and Southern, Black, Christian Socialist.” He was sworn in as mayor in January 2022 and had served on the city council since 2017. 
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“America&#8217;s first #BlackLivesMatter organizer elected to public office, Mayor khalid (pronounced cuh-LEED) is leading a generation of young activists from protests to politics,” the city website says. 
The website also says Kamau is on a “mission” to make “America&#8217;s Blackest City Black. On Purpose,” which means “a city that is not just unapologetic about its demographics, but moving on purpose to be a laboratory for economic, housing and restorative justice policies aimed at improving the lives of African Americans.” The city is 92% black, <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/southfultoncitygeorgia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the U.S. Census Bureau. 
Councilwoman Natasha Williams-Brown will serve as acting mayor, 11Alive news <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/councilwoman-natasha-williams-brown-now-acting-mayor-city-of-south-fulton/85-91b5fae1-b4ef-4c13-a856-d20bfe99ba01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.

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The world&#8217;s largest gathering of busybodies  — AKA <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-world-economic-forum-meets-in-davos-this-week-heres-what-to-expect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the World Economic Forum</a> — is happening right now in Davos, Switzerland, leaving many to wonder who will step up and tell these know-it-alls to kick rocks.
This year&#8217;s invite-only guest list includes leftists such as ex-CNN host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brian-stelter-talks-disinformation-at-world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Stelter</a>, Special Climate Envoy John Kerry, Al Gore, propagandists for the Chinese Communist Party, and every Western leader intent on keeping the war in Ukraine going as long as possible.
The general principle of each panel assembled remains the same: The common man is a dumbo and credentialed experts should dictate how the entire world operates.
So, in turn, they navel-gaze about the kind of car you should own — if you are to have any vehicle at all — whether you should eat bugs, and why you need to live in a pod while pondering how they can best censor &#8220;misinformation&#8221; for your own good.
They rarely admit their faults or past failed predictions, but when they do, they blame it on the data and promise to get it right next time.
Who exactly are these people? Well, they&#8217;re not so different from the men and women in your daily life who offer advice unsolicited or are all too eager to enforce the rules. You&#8217;ve known these hall monitor types since middle school. You probably avoid following them on social media now because they are so darn annoying and self-righteous.
Except, unlike the people you know, this Davos group is hoisted up as elite leaders and connected to billions upon billions of dollars. So, there is a little more to be concerned with, to be fair.
Regardless, the WEF crowd is a bunch of totalitarian freaks of every political stripe who enjoy the company of other totalitarian freaks because it makes them feel special. America&#8217;s climate czar Kerry practically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-davos-john-kerry-praises-select-group-of-people-for-saving-the-planet-but-says-they-need-money-money-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> as much on Tuesday while praising a &#8220;select group of people&#8221; for supposedly saving the world.
Of course, if their plans were ever put in place across the globe, we&#8217;d see disastrous results. A top-down society that doesn&#8217;t tolerate liberty or freedom in the name of the &#8220;greater good&#8221; always fails — whether it be communism, socialism, or fascism.
Considering that we&#8217;ve been hearing about their plan for world domination for decades now, it has to be questioned how effective this group is.
One conservative leader raising that point is Chris Rufo, the man who woke up the American Right to the true threat and nature of Critical Race Theory.
&#8220;Unpopular opinion: the obsession with Klaus Schwab, Davos, and the WEF is misguided, as they have little real power over life in America,&#8221; he tweeted.&#8221;It&#8217;s also enervating, as it shifts the locus of control to far-away figures, while constructive action can be taken at home. Stay focused.&#8221;
While some might say that the WEF pushed for the catastrophic lockdowns during COVID, Rufo argued that nobody forced the U.S. to go along with this.
&#8220;Ultimately, Trump endorsed mass lockdowns and most governors went along with him, with DeSantis providing a notable exception,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t have to follow the China playbook. The fault is our own.&#8221;
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Ultimately, Trump endorsed mass lockdowns and most governors went along with him, with DeSantis providing a notable exception. We didn&#39;t have to follow the China playbook. The fault is our own.<a href="https://t.co/z9ghODJSWz">https://t.co/z9ghODJSWz</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1615138965358804994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The extent to which Trump &#8220;endorsed mass lockdowns&#8221; can and should be debated, but Rufo&#8217;s general line of thinking is correct: We just needed more elected officials to dismiss WEF&#8217;s suggestions on pandemic measures entirely, and we could have avoided misery.
The WEF isn&#8217;t really the main source of collectivist plans for global unity, it just serves as a convenient meeting place to gather thoughts. It&#8217;s one giant party, replete with champagne, flashy clothes, and ladies of the night.
More than 1,000 private jets fly in each year for the event, so you have to wonder how seriously they actually take their own concerns about things like climate change.  It seems most of these people like to &#8220;see and be seen&#8221; at this event.
So, one way to view these people is to worry that they&#8217;re going to control your life. To be clear, these sorts of folks wouldn&#8217;t hesitate at a moment&#8217;s notice to impose government dominance over every aspect of your life if given &#8220;emergency powers to do so.&#8221; We saw that during COVID.
Another way to look at this situation though is to view the attendees of WEF as garden variety-type busybodies, as mentioned in the title and opening lede.
These folks aren&#8217;t so different than that lady on the parish council who demands &#8220;Go Make A Difference&#8221; gets played each mass instead of a Gregorian chant. You probably have had a nosy neighbor at some point in your life who asks intrusive questions. Perhaps you know a mom at school who is a little judgmental of how you raise your children — as if hers are perfect.
As Elon Musk put it in response to Rufo, &#8220;We shouldn’t be obsessed with WEF/Davos, but they take themselves sooo seriously that making fun of them is awesome.&#8221;
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Sensible thread. 
We shouldn’t be obsessed with WEF/Davos, but they take themselves sooo seriously that making fun of them is awesome 😎
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1615184768123146240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In other words, we just need to tell them to pound sand. That&#8217;s easy to do in your personal life, but American citizens need elected leaders who put America first — not follow the Davos crowd — for that to happen on the world stage.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Won’t Somebody Tell The Busybodies At The World Economic Forum To Kick Rocks?

Won't Somebody Tell The Busybodies At The World Economic Forum To Kick Rocks?

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Portugal recently passed new labor laws which make it illegal for employers to contact their employees outside of working hours, except in emergency situations.
“The new labor laws were passed by Portugal’s Parliament earlier this month and were introduced following an increase in people working from home amid the coronavirus pandemic,” reported <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/portugal-bans-bosses-from-contacting-employees-outside-working-hours.html">CNBC</a>.
The outlet added that an October <a href="http://bte.gep.msess.gov.pt/separatas/sep33_2021.pdf">document</a> that proposed the legislation “explained that workers should have the right to at least 11 consecutive hours of ‘night rest,’ during which they should not be interrupted unless for emergencies.”
These rules will also force employers to contribute to employees’ “work-from-home” expenses, such as electricity and internet, as well as requiring in-person meetings between managers and staff every two months. Young parents are also given the right to work from home without preliminary approval if their child is less than 8 years old.
“​​The legislation, approved in Parliament on Friday and coming into effect this weekend, was drafted by Portugal’s Socialist-led government as an attempt to preserve work-life balance. Pandemic lockdowns kept uncountable millions of people working from home over the past two years, but Portugal is the rare country to enact laws seeking to formally protect workers’ off-clock hours and contain their work-related costs,” reported <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/world/europe/portugal-remote-work-law-pandemic.html">The New York Times</a>. “The legislation was presented by Portugal’s labor minister, Ana Mendes Godinho, as a way not only to protect domestic workers but to encourage more foreigners to select Portugal as a location for working remotely. Portugal has become a major destination for so-called digital nomads, in part because it is offering them special temporary resident visas to work from Portugal.”
“‘We consider Portugal one of the best places in the world for these digital nomads and remote workers to choose to live in, we want to attract them to Portugal,’ Ms. Godinho said at a conference in Lisbon this month.”
Under this legislation, employers can be fined if they fail to comply.
As <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/nov/15/portugal-boss-texts-work-us-employment">The Guardian</a> noted, “Portugal isn’t the only country modernizing its labor laws; citizens of France, Spain, Belgium, Slovakia, Italy, the Philippines, Argentina, India and more, all currently enjoy ‘the right to disconnect’ — or abstain without punishment from working and communicating with their employers during designated rest periods.”
On the subject of whether such legislation could be enforced in the United States, University of San Diego professor of law, Orly Lobel, said, “I don’t think that we’ll see a firm requirement of employers to not at all contact employees during non-work hours.”
“I just don’t see it as a frontier right now when there are so many things that could be better,” she added.
“It is absolutely legally possible for US lawmakers to pass a law similar to the one passed in Portugal,” said Veena Dubal, a professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. “The impediment is twofold. One is rooted in the power of industry; the business lobby would never allow something like this to pass. The second is simply that US lawmakers and courts have historically been very reticent to interfere in business decisions.”

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The Democratic Socialists of America’s national organization thanked Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) for her role in extending the federal government’s eviction moratorium.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-reinstates-ban-on-evicting-renters-threatens-landlords-with-jail-time-up-to-250k-fines">The Daily Wire</a> reported on Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an order barring landlords from evicting their tenants — a policy originally passed by the Trump administration under the guise of stopping the spread of COVID-19. According to the agency, a person violating the order “may be subject to a fine of no more than $100,000 or one year in jail, or both, if the violation does not result in a death, or a fine of no more than $250,000 or one year in jail, or both if the violation results in a death.”
Leadership in the Democratic Socialists of America — which <a href="https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/">seeks</a> to build “progressive movements for social change while establishing an openly democratic socialist presence in American communities and politics” — lauded Bush for the victory. 
The group’s <a href="https://www.dsausa.org/statements/no-time-for-games/">statement</a> reads:
<blockquote>The National Political Committee of DSA would like to congratulate Congresswoman Cori Bush on the pivotal role she played in ensuring that millions of people, covering 90% of those renting, can continue living in their homes. This expansion of the eviction moratorium, specifically targeting counties with higher COVID infection rates, is a necessary step for keeping our communities safe. We cannot effectively end the pandemic without ensuring that everyone has safe and stable housing. Despite her own traumatic experiences with being unhoused, Congresswoman Cori Bush slept outside on the steps of the Capitol building, using her position to move the Biden administration to do what they previously said they could not, all while $1 million in real estate money was funneled into the House Dems super PAC and Republicans continued their inaction.
There is no time for games: people’s lives are at stake. As an organization that believes housing is a human right, we remain committed to our demands to cancel rent and will continue working to build out tenant unions and other local organizing. We are proud to call the Congresswoman a comrade and fellow DSA member and applaud her leadership.</blockquote>
As some — including Campus Reform reporter and commentator Addison Smith — have <a href="https://twitter.com/_addisonsmith1/status/1423287597825073164">noticed</a>, the Democratic Socialists of America were incorrect in asserting that tenants own their landlords’ property. 
Nevertheless, Bush has also applied the phrase “their homes” to tenants rather than landlords. She <a href="https://bush.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-cori-bushs-statement-eviction-emergency">argued</a> in a Tuesday statement that “each day that passes without a federal moratorium is another day of evictions, uncertainty, and instability for millions of people who are at risk of being removed from their homes.”

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On August 18, a petition was launched to recall Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant, an open socialist, from her position. On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council voted to pay for Sawant’s legal defense, 7-1, with Councilmember Debora Juarez the only member to vote against the idea.
Councilmember Alex Pedersen stated, “Councilmember Sawant was reelected less than a year ago. Adequate legal counsel should be available to a duly elected official defending a recall petition whether or not they can afford such representation.” Councilmember Andrew Lewis <a href="https://www.seattlepi.com/local/seattlenews/article/city-council-approves-kshama-sawant-legal-defense-15569376.php">echoed</a>, &#8220;I want to be clear that I&#8217;m voting yes and in doing so not commenting on the merits of the recall&#8217;s allegations and voting for the values of our democracy here in Seattle. It&#8217;s a slippery slope if we start picking and choosing who does or doesn&#8217;t receive this legal representation.&#8221;
Council President Lorena Gonzalez said, “For those people who think it is extraordinary to use taxpayer dollars to pay for legal defense, this is not a novel idea, as we have a criminal justice system built on the concept of providing free legal defense to those who request it.&#8221;
“The ordinance would cover the costs of the outside lawyers Sawant has already hired to fight the recall effort, the city attorney’s office said, a sum City Council staff <a href="http://seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&amp;ID=8787667&amp;GUID=3504D195-BA6E-4DC7-BDD5-7FE1A654989B">estimated at $75,000</a>,” <a href="http://v">The Seattle Times</a> noted.
<a href="https://mynorthwest.com/2164607/seattle-city-council-cover-kshama-sawant-legal-defense/">MyNorthwest</a> outlined the allegations in the petition:
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<li>That Sawant misused council resources to promote a ballot initiative <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1713863/sawant-ethics-complaint-tax-amazon/?">in early February</a></li>
<li>That she violated City hiring rules by <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1241514/sawant-faces-ethics-complaint-socialists-fire-staffer/?">giving decision-making authority to Socialist Alternative</a></li>
<li>That she revealed the address of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s home to protesters who later marched to her home</li>
<li>That she endangered City employees by admitting hundreds of protesters into City Hall after hours</li>
<li>That she “created a criminal environment” in the East Precinct area of Capitol Hill that ultimately led to the creation of the CHOP</li>
</ul>
On July 2, My Northwest reported that Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1989057/seattle-mayor-durkan-calls-to-investigate-sawant/">issued a letter</a> to Gonzalez urging her to investigate allegations against Sawant; Gonzalez refused, <a href="https://council.seattle.gov/2020/07/01/council-president-m-lorena-gonzalez-responds-to-mayor-durkans-letter-regarding-councilmember-kshama-sawant/">writing</a>, “The public airing of issues amongst and between independently elected officials will not advance solutions on the deepening needs of our constituents. I remain focused on finding solutions and would welcome a letter from Mayor Durkan detailing her vision on how we can work together on enacting concrete solutions that meaningfully address these crises.”
The Seattle Times noted that a hearing will be held Wednesday to determine whether the recall effort can continue; Judge Jim Rogers must decide whether the accusations against Sawant are verifiable and serious enough to justify a recall.
In June, after a shooting in the &#8220;Capitol Hill Occupied Protest&#8221; zone in Seattle that left one protester dead and one in critical condition, Sawant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/seattle-council-member-who-encouraged-chop-claims-shooting-could-be-right-wing-attack-says-president-trump-bears-direct-responsibility">ranted</a>, &#8220;It is no accident that right-wing hate and violence has grown dramatically with Donald Trump in the White House. If this killing turns out to be a right-wing attack, President Trump bears direct responsibility, since he has fomented reactionary hatred specifically against the peaceful Capitol Hill occupation, and even threatened to intervene with federal troops.&#8221;

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Colombian Senator Gustavo Petro, one of the leaders of the far-left socialist movement in the country, championed presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden&#8217;s candidacy on Monday, saying that if he were able to vote in U.S. elections that he would vote for Biden.
&#8220;Did you endorse Joe Biden as a candidate for President of the United States?&#8221; CNN host Juan Carlos Lopez asked.
&#8220;Well, if I could vote, which I cannot. I’m not a citizen of the United States,&#8221; Petro responded. &#8220;But if I could vote in the United States, in the interest of my Latin American people, I would vote for Biden, without a doubt.&#8221;
Reuters reported that Petro spent &#8220;years in the now-defunct M19 rebel group &#8211; which stormed the Supreme Court in 1985, leading to the deaths of more than 100 people,&#8221; Reuters <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/uk-colombia-election-petro/colombias-leftist-petro-the-candidate-who-wants-to-upset-the-status-quo-idUKKCN1IP22R">reported</a>.
The Terrorism Research &amp; Analysis Consortium (TRAC) wrote the following brief <a href="https://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/m-19">summary</a> about the terror group:
<blockquote>M19 was founded on 19 April 1970, mostly by students. It became the second largest guerrilla group in Colombia after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In the late 1970s, the M-19 began to kidnap drug traffickers, or their children, for ransom. In retaliation, a group of traffickers, including Pablo Escobar, created the death squad, Death to Kidnappers (Muerte a Secuestradores, MAS). The police cooperated with the traffickers by capturing suspected M-19 guerrillas, their associates, and innocent victims, who were then turned over to MAS to be tortured and killed. M-19 essentially ceased to exist in 1990. M-19, under intense pressure from the Colombian government&#8217;s security forces, as well as right-leaning paramilitary groups, agreed to a ceasefire.</blockquote>
TRAC listed the group under &#8220;Left Wing Terrorist Groups (Maoist, Marxist, Communist, Socialist).&#8221;
When he was Mayor of Bogota, which is the capital of Colombia, Colombian media reported that he was the &#8220;<a href="https://colombiareports.com/bogotas-unpopular-mayor-wants-to-run-for-president-aide/">least popular</a>&#8221; mayor in the entire country.
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The Soviet Union reportedly viewed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as a person that they could exploit to promote their propaganda because of his political views and his positive views of the communist nation.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/bernie-sanders-soviet-russia.html">reported</a> on Thursday night that newly discovered documents from Russia showed that Soviet officials sought to &#8220;exploit Mr. Sanders’ antiwar agenda for their own propaganda purposes.&#8221;
The Times noted that the Russian communists sought to exploit Sanders while he was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, after he wrote that he wanted the U.S. and the U.S.S.R to “live together as friends.”
&#8220;They also show how the Kremlin viewed these sister city relationships as vehicles to sway American public opinion about the Soviet Union,&#8221; the Times reported. &#8220;Nothing in the documents suggests that Mr. Sanders was the only local American official targeted for propaganda, or even that he was particularly receptive to it, though they do describe him as a socialist. But the documents do show the Soviets’ intensive preparation to use Mr. Sanders’ interest in their country to their advantage.&#8221;
A Soviet Foreign Ministry document discovered by the Times stated: “One of the most useful channels, in practice, for actively carrying out information-propaganda efforts has proved to be sister-city contact.”
The Times noted that Sanders aggressively sought out the sister-city program with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Sanders even led a Burlington delegation to Yaroslavl to try to establish the basis for the sister-city relationship.
&#8220;But the trip wasn’t enough to cinch the sister-city relationship,&#8221; the Times added. &#8220;Mr. Sanders still had to convince Soviet officials in Moscow to grant their approval and allow Yaroslavl representatives to travel to Burlington. He offered glowing reviews in public and ratcheted up his lobbying effort in private.&#8221;
Sanders, still aggressively pursuing the program, wrote a glowing review about the communist nation, saying, “People there seemed reasonably happy and content. I didn’t notice much deprivation.”
Soviet officials coordinated all their responses to Sanders with Soviet officials in Moscow.
The Times reported that the Soviets created a seven-point “plan for information-propaganda work” for their trip to Burlington.
The document said, &#8220;When carrying out propaganda measures abroad, the forms and methods of the information-propaganda work and its concrete contents must be approved by the Soviet Embassy and take into account the Soviet Union’s relationship with the given country.”
Last Month, The Washington Post reported that the Russians were reportedly engaged in trying to boost Sanders&#8217; campaign.
Top officials “have repeatedly warned that Russia has ongoing plans to interfere in U.S. elections and foster divisions among Americans, part of a strategic goal to undermine U.S. standing in the world,” The Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/bernie-sanders-briefed-by-us-officials-that-russia-is-trying-to-help-his-presidential-campaign/2020/02/21/5ad396a6-54bd-11ea-929a-64efa7482a77_story.html">reported</a>. “Some analysts believe that the Kremlin’s goal is to cause the maximum disruption within the United States, and it throws the support of its hackers and trolls behind candidates based on that goal, not any particular affinity for the persons running.”
The Post highlighted Sanders&#8217; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/03/bernie-sanderss-foreign-policy-is-risk-democrats-against-trump/">connections</a> to Russia early last month:
<blockquote>One issue involves Sanders’s stance toward the former Soviet Union, a record that could undercut Democrats’ ability to criticize Trump for being too close to Russia today.
The documents from the Sanders archives include a letter from Soviet Embassy First Secretary Vadim Kuznetsov in March 1983, congratulating Sanders on his reelection as mayor and thanking Sanders for receiving him in Sanders’s office. Kuznetsov had been in Burlington to attend a conference on nuclear disarmament at the University of Vermont a few days earlier. Neither Sanders nor conference organizers appear to have read a 1976 Time magazine article that identified Kuznetsov as a member of a “Soviet intelligence squad” posing as diplomats to infiltrate U.S. politics.
In 1988, Sanders traveled to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon and forged a “sister city” cooperation program there. Many believe he gave a rosy depiction of conditions there just a few years before the communist system collapsed.</blockquote>

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USSR Viewed ‘Socialist’ Bernie As Someone They Could ‘Exploit’ To Push ‘Propaganda,’ Report Says

Bernie Sanders

Russia

Nine Cuban democratic socialists wrote a blistering <a href="https://havanatimesenespanol.org/opinion/socialistas-democraticos-cubanos-escriben-a-sus-semejantes-en-ee-uu/">open letter</a> condemning American democratic socialists such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), blasting the Democratic Socialists of America, a group both women belong to, for their support of Cuba’s Communist government. The nine Cubans writing the letter stated that the American democratic socialists either did “not know the Cuban reality or they are not socialist or democratic,” calling them “poorly-informed.”
The Blaze reported on the letter, in which the nine Cubans wrote:
<blockquote>The support for Castroism revealed in resolution 62 of the recent Convention of the Democratic Socialists of the United States, held in Atlanta, Georgia, can only be explained by two reasons: either the American Socialist Democrats do not know the Cuban reality or they are not socialist or democratic.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dsausa.org/files/2019/06/2019-Resolutions-Approved.pdf">Resolution 62</a> of the DSA stated:
<blockquote>Be it resolved, the DSA formally declares itself in solidarity with the Cuban socialist struggle. The DSA unequivocally condemns the economic blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States and its allies, the American military presence in Guantanamo Bay, and any sanctions and actions that would undermine the self-determination of the Cuban people. Be it further resolved, the DSA will move to join the National Network on Cuba (NNOC), an American progressive organization dedicated to opposing acts of imperialist aggression against the Republic of Cuba. Be it finally resolved, within thirty days after passing, the DSA will submit its application for full membership to the National Network on Cuba (NNOC), and will take active measures to pursue full membership status.”</blockquote>
The open letter continued its attack:
<blockquote>You have been in solidarity with a regime maintained by force of arms, murder, imprisonment, repression and compulsory exile of the opponents, which has not held free and democratic elections for more than 60 years, which systematically violates massive and blatantly the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Cuban people and is sustained by the repression and monopoly of the economy, information, education and public health.
They have supported a regime that appropriated by force all lands, industries, factories and large, medium and small companies, private or associated and made them the property of a bureaucratic state, which exploits the Cuban workers in slavery and it blocks the economic development of the country, of independent companies of the state of all sizes, whether private or cooperative and the welfare of Cubans.
A regime with these characteristics cannot be considered democratic or socialist. The Cuban independence apostle, José Martí, envisioned in his article the Future Slavery, the Cuban reality of today, where the all-powerful state and every decision maker would exploit the Cuban workers as if they were slaves, without rights and dependent on the gifts of a totalitarian government.
In Cuba there is a system of modern slavery, undemocratic, Stalinist. Is that the social justice that the democratic socialists of the United States claim for that brother town? Whoever stands in solidarity with that regime does not know him, does not know what is happening in Cuba or is as imposter as Castroism.
Several Cuban democratic socialists, who have been facing the anti-popular, totalitarian and anti-socialist policies of Castroism for decades, for which some of us have suffered repression and exile, we reject any kind of solidarity with the Castro regime and we do not share the defense of it carried out in that convention for supposed or poorly informed American democratic socialists.</blockquote>
The Blaze wrote that in 2018 National DSA Director Maria Svart “openly called for an elimination of private property and nationalizing (government ownership) of major industries.” The Blaze noted, “Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/19/aocs-sanders-endorsement-2020-229864">recent call</a> for ‘public ownership’ of private property during a rally announcing her endorsement for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).”

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Cuban Democratic Socialists Rip AOC’s Democratic Socialists For Supporting The Cuban Regime: You’re Either Ignorant, Not Socialist Or Not Democratic

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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