Notices by Paul Cull (pdcull@mastodon.social), page 7

Trump works out a trade deal with Kim Jong-Un:

Brazil's massive construction company Odebrecht got its own special documentary on the BBC.

"Corruption Incorporated: The Odebrecht Story"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csxg1t?ocid=socialflow_twitter

"First Month of Military Takeover, Rio Robberies Rise to Record Levels"

Oops.

http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/in-military-takeovers-first-month-rio-robberies-rise-to-record-levels/

"This type of abuse is unprecedented and Brazil will be excluded from the SimSimi app publishing country until we believe we have enough control over this new type of abuse."

The AI bot app Simsimi has been removed from the Brazilian market because, according to the company's official blog:

"...some Brazilian users have recently been teaching malicious answers to SimSimi. The main class of these answers is the threat of crime, such as murder and kidnapping, of children and their families."

"Military police, who prefer to not be identified, recognize the street as the scene of several situations involving criminals and the police forces. They remember that two MPs died in service in the locality, one with a shot in the face and the other using a ballistic shield."

https://g1.globo.com/sp/santos-regiao/noticia/imagens-flagram-homem-apontando-arma-para-equipe-do-google-street-view-em-sp.ghtml

Google maps shows a guy pointing a gun at the Google Car in Santos, São Paulo:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.9484648,-46.3827479,3a,75y,269.11h,70.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slkDZavDRWAh3bjhBZ2Yaxw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Velociraptor = distanceraptor / timeraptor

Sad news from Brazil: the PSD political party has decided to remove one of its congressmen from the committee that is analyzing the new Brazilian Penal Code (criminal law).

João Rodrigues has been in prison since February where he is serving a 9 year sentence for corruption, and yet somehow was still placed on the committee.

Who better to create a new criminal law than a condemned criminal?

https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/psd-decide-retirar-deputado-preso-de-comissao-que-analisa-proposta-de-novo-codigo-de-processo-penal.ghtml

@ardydo Still works for me:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43734354#

I have a number of American evangelicals among my Facebook friends but I have never seen the religious right go so ballistic (pun intended) as they have over these kids protesting the school shootings.

The strange and no-doubt heavily misinterpreted memes don't stop...

Whatever you may think of CNN, this has to be one of the best headlines of all time (the short version on the main page, at least):

"Putin unleashes Satan in a blaze of glory"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/01/opinions/presidential-weekly-briefing-russia-syria-vinograd/index.html

Bungling Brazilian officials apologise after giving schoolchildren thousands of kilos of rotting CARROTS rather than eagerly-expected chocolate Easter eggs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5559805/Bungling-Brazil-officials-schoolchildren-thousands-rotting-carrots-easter-eggs.html

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I thought that this was a post from the Babylon Bee Christian satire site but it was actually from a Christian news site:

“Make America Great Again” is Now a CCLI Licensed Christian Worship Song

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ponderanew/2017/07/02/make-america-great-now-ccli-licensed-christian-worship-song/

"Internet oligarch" - that's a good phrase

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/indepth/national/how-peter-thiel-got-new-zealand-citizenship/

Today shots were fired at two buses in Lula's campaign caravan, although he wasn't on either of them at the time.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-lula/shots-fired-at-campaign-buses-of-brazil-ex-president-lula-idUSKBN1H406B