Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

The total value of all foreign-owned U.S. Treasury securities is up 3.25% year over year in March 2026, and CNBC says Japan and China retreat from owning them

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The big retreat was actually in the BRICS.  The value of Japanese-owned UST is up 5.4% year over year in March, lol. Meanwhile the value of ...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

This is classic, the Trump administration breaks the law left and right, day in and day out, and his Little Dog Marco Rubio yaps about the rule of law in Brazil

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  The Rule of Law Is Breaking Down in Brazil Marco Rubio, Department of State
Monday, August 11, 2025

The Wall Street Journal's Greg Ip observes America under Trump becoming more like China under Xi

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The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics:  President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending p...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Mad King Ludwig to impose 50% tariff on Brazil but not on Israel lol

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I mean, some countries are more equal than others amirite?    Trump To Impose 50% Brazil Tariff, Citing Bolsonaro "Witch Hunt" Tru...
Friday, May 23, 2025

If ivermectin ever made a difference to COVID-19 outcomes in Africa, it sure didn't in Latin and South America

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Wide distribution of ivermectin in Africa to combat river blindness does not appear to have had anything to do whatsoever with low death ra...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Bug spray and vanilla extract flying off the shelves in South America amid dengue fever outbreak expected to top record 4.5 million cases from 2023

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Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina are the hardest hit, with more than 3.5 million cases, 83% of which are concentrated in Brazil, according to ...
Friday, March 22, 2024

I found the source for Trump's well-founded fear of an auto industry bloodbath

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  CNBC reports today : Why a small China-made EV has global auto execs and politicians on edge : There’s fear among global automakers that C...
Monday, September 4, 2023

There has to be a movement, see, otherwise Democrats have nothing to run against

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  Donna Brazile: We Have To Respect The Fact That Donald Trump Is Leading A "Movement," Like Reagan Or Obama    
Saturday, November 27, 2021

World Health Organization protects Xi Jinping's feelings, adopts Omicron for new South African variant B.1.1.529 instead of Nu or Xi

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alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta theta iota kappa lambda mu nu xi omicron pi  rho sigma tau upsilon phi chi psi omega   This is the f...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Hillary "vast right wing conspiracy" Clinton is still beating that same old, worn out, authoritarian personality drum she bought at a 1950s vintage store in the 1990s

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... there is a plot against the country by people who truly want to turn the clock back. They believe that the progress we’ve made on all k...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Coronavirus deaths in Africa's "ivermectin" states are a fraction of what they are in their counterpart countries Brazil, Peru, and Spain

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Brazil: 3.3m sq mi; population 213m Nigeria: 357k sq mi; population 211m; deaths 0.42% of Brazil's   Peru: 496k sq mi; population 33m An...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

US COVID-19 charts update for Sunday 6/13/21

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 Alles in Ordnung. Cases per million are steady at the new lows. Deaths per million continue to fall to new lows. Hospitalizations are almos...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

COVID-19 in the largest countries by population: Update for Sun 5/2/21

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Countries with 200 million population or more: China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria. Data isn't available i...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Nigeria, Kenya and Angola, all of which have widely used ivermectin for years against parasitical disease, all have enviable COVID records compared with their similarly sized counterparts Brazil, Spain and Peru

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    The constant drumbeat in the US is how coronavirus hurts people of color proportionally more than it does whites, when these African cou...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

So far very few coronavirus cases from variants have been identified in the US, fewer than 3,500

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Monday, March 1, 2021

US COVID-19 update through Feb 2021

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Daily new cases have dropped dramatically in February 2021, but still average 85,863 per day and remain higher than for any month before las...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

We shouldn't really worry too much about China dumping $200 billion worth of US Treasury securities since 2012

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China has cut its holdings of US debt to the lowest level in two years amid trade tensions: The total has fallen by some $200 billion s...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Glenn Greenwald also feels the chill wind blowing from the Assange arrest all the way in Brazil

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Ehhhh ... puto! In the race for most fines for anti-gay slurs, Hispanic soccer fans have everyone else beat

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Well, Spain was ruled by Muslims from 711 to 1492 AD. From the story here : Homophobia and homophobic chants are not exclusive to ...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Visa overstays hit 740,000 through September 2016

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From the story here : Countries with the highest visa overstays during the period from October 2015 to September 2016 were Canada, Mex...