First Venezuela and now Brazil. Brain dead liberals are intellectually incapable of understanding the economic consequences of their socialist agenda. Socialism destroys countries and the lives of their citizens. Poverty, hopelessness, starvation and ultimately revolution are the consequences. Eight more years of Obama/Clinton will put us well down the path to Rio.
Riots In Rio: Police Unleash Tear-Gas, Rubber Bullets As Poor Brazilians Block Olympic Torch Route
Just 24 hours before the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, police have been forced to use tear-gas and rubber bullets to clear protesters from the path of the Olympic torch through a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro. As The Guardian reports, police said anti-government protesters in Duque de Caixas, on Rio’s north side, threw rocks and blocked the torch’s path; and 3 people (including a 10-year-old girl) were injured.
Hundreds of people blocked the streets in the north of Rio to protest about the high cost of the Games in a country already struggling with recession, corruption and political crisis. Footage showed crowds, including children, fleeing from the police, who reportedly said a group refused to leave one lane of the road open for the torch, the BBC reported. Riot police used tear gas to disperse the crowd and video footage appeared to show a policeman firing a projectile directly at a protester. The video you won’t see on mainstream media coverage of the The Olympics…
As The Guardian details, Olympic Brazilian sailors earlier delivered the torch to the host city’s mayor after crossing Guanabara Bay near the end of a 20,000km (12,400-mile) journey through one of the world’s largest and most diverse countries.
The flame landed at 9.15am local time while a few kilometres away 450 heavily armed police battled drug traffickers to carry out dozens of arrest orders in the Alemao slum, an area near the international airport and close to the main road to Olympic venues.
Armed soldiers stood patrol on highways and on many corners throughout the city.
Police said anti-government protesters in Duque de Caixas, on Rio’s north side, threw rocks and blocked the torch’s path. Police dispersed them with pepper spray and rubber bullets.
Three people were injured by rubber bullets, including a 10-year-old girl, local media reported.
The clash, which came a day after anti-torch protests in nearby towns and amid several days of gang violence in northern Brazil, underscored social tension in the massive country.
The world’s largest sporting event comes to Brazil in the midst of the country’s worst recession in at least a quarter of a century and an impeachment trial of a suspended president. Many residents struggling with the dire economy question the wisdom of hosting the Olympics, a bid Brazil won in 2009 while the economy was booming.
Some 85,000 police, soldiers and security personnel are being deployed in Rio, more than double the amount in London in 2012, to deter both violent street crime and the threat of attacks by extremists.
In the pics and videos, notice who is still fat, sassy and carrying new smartphones, carrying new equipment and driving new vehicles: the regime’s guard dogs: copfuks and goldbrickin military LIFERs.
The common people starve while the state’s functionaries strut around, fatter and sassier than ever. What say you, socialistas? Who does the state serve?
Maybe so but the pictures look the opposite to me; USA Urban Jungles & Brazil seem to suffer the same the same blight.
I don’t care what country you’re in – don’t have kids if you can’t take care of them.
Iska, the nanny state will take care of them for you. Just bow down and worship the golden image.
Instead of the Olympics there should be an International Infrastructure Committee (IIC). That Committee would have funded and selected a contractor to build sewage systems for Brazil.
Doubtful. That is what was supposed to happen with part of the billions sent to Haiti after the big one. Money’s gone and the clean water/sanitation infrastructure is MIA.
Why in the world did they decide to have the games there anyway. Makes you worry about the other decisions the world leaders make huh.
If you consider the IOC “world leaders”…
after listening to how avery bundage climbed the ladder for his efforts convincing AAU to go to Berlin in 36 it became apparent corruption is the name of the game.
Check out Venezuela: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/starving-venezuelans-break-into-zoo-to-butcher-animal_082016
What you are seeing in Brazil and Venezuela is the CIA at work. Any country that does not go along with the agenda of the U.S. gets their government overthrown one way or the other. By being a part of BRICS, Brazil presents a threat to US world hegemony. By opposing U.S. foreign policy, Venezuela does the same. No country is allowed to oppose the U.S. foreign policy agenda nor to even remain neutral. The claim that these countries have collapsed due to socialist policies is a red herring. They are not as socialist as our allies in Western Europe.
Does the CIA throw garbage everywhere or does the CIA tell the people to throw garbage everywhere? I didn’t know the CIA could make oil prices drop by 70%.
B, yes, I wouldnt underestimate the same forces at work in Europe as well, though.