Parts of France are unliveable because of migrants, we don’t want that in Brazil – Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil’s president-elect has lashed out at France and its migration policy, the Daily Mail reports.

Jair Bolsonaro said on Facebook:

“Everybody knows what is happening in France. Some parts of France are simply unliveable.

“You know how those people are, right? They have something in them, they don’t give up their roots and they want to make their culture, their acquired rights and their privileges prevail.

“France is suffering because of that. Part of the population, part of the military, some of the institutions are starting to complain about that. We don’t want that for Brazil,” Bolsonaro said.

Brazil’s next President, who won the election in October, is known for his powerful rhetoric against crime and migration.

He also advocates taking back schools from liberal teachers, stimulating entrepreneurship; to reduce public funding of media and artists; allow civilians to purchase guns to protect their families and to redirect resources from cultural projects to infra-structure.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/parts-of-france-are-unliveable-because-of-migrants-we-dont-want-that-in-brazil-jair-bolsonaro/

Spanish right-wing party breaks all-time record gaining 50 times more support

Spain’s socialist government could be in trouble as a populist party is storming the polls in the country.

The right-wing VOX (ECR) party in Spain has been gaining strength and every poll they seem to rank higher. Yesterday it was revealed that VOX have reached an all-time record high in Metroscopia’s poll.

They are now at 11.5 per cent which would mean they could form a government if there was a vote today. The last election, they garnered 0.2 per cent

Since Spain’s socialist government allowed excessive migration into the country and signed the UN Migration Pact could it be that the people of Spain are signalling disapproval?

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/spanish-right-wing-party-breaks-all-time-record-gaining-50-times-more-support/

Either the EU Ditches Neoliberalism or its People Will Ditch the EU

We live in a world fashioned by Washington, and as 2019 approaches the dire consequences remain woefully evident.

In 1948 US State Department mandarin George Kennan – the man credited with devising the policy of containment vis-à-vis the Soviet Union at the end of WWII, – laid bare the focus of US foreign policy in the postwar period:

The “pattern of relationships” advocated by Kennan is embodied in the panoply of international institutions that have governed our world and dominated the planet’s economic, geopolitical, and military architecture in the seven decades since.

The World Bank and the IMF came out of the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, along with the establishment of the dollar as the world’s primary international reserve currency.

The Truman administration’s 1947 National Security Act gave birth to a US military-industrial complex that married the nation’s economy to what was destined to become and remain a vast security and intelligence apparatus.

https://geopolitics.co/2018/12/19/either-the-eu-ditches-neoliberalism-or-its-people-will-ditch-the-eu/

EXCLUSIVE: Why UK Fraud Office isn’t prosecuting billionaire Indimi’s oil firm named in criminal conviction

An investigation by PREMIUM TIMES has established reasons why the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) did not prosecute oil and gas firm, Oriental Energy, after it was named in a UK criminal conviction.

Oriental Energy is an indigenous firm owned by Nigeria’s billionaire oil magnate, Muhammadu Indimi.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how the oil firm was named in a money laundering and fraud case involving Osman Shahenshah and Shahid Ullah, two former top executives of energy firm, Afren.

The duo were in October convicted after they were found guilty of money laundering offences in the United Kingdom.

Prosecutors said Messrs Shahenshah and Ullah illegally received more than $17 million in a case involving Oriental Energy and they committed the offences whilst serving as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Afren, respectively.

The officials were said to have laundered more than $45 million from a $300 million deal they recommended to Afren, using their illicit proceeds to purchase luxury properties in the Caribbean, without the knowledge of Afren’s Board.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/297938-exclusive-why-uk-fraud-office-isnt-prosecuting-billionaire-indimis-oil-firm-named-in-criminal-conviction.html

I didn't do any digs to see who owns it but usually its connected some way

Huge fire guts historic Machrihanish Golf Club

A huge blaze has destroyed a historic Scots golf club.

Footage widely shared on social media show Machrihanish Golf Club ablaze.

Emergency services were called out just before 1.30pm on Wednesday and firefighters that night remained at the scene at the clubhouse, situated at the southern tip of the Mull of Kintyre.

It is the base for the full 18 hole championship golf course with its famous first hole that allows golfers to tee off over the Atlantic.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17309679.huge-fire-guts-historic-machrihanish-golf-club/

The stock market really hates Fed Chairman Jerome Powell

The stock market's reactions to the Federal Reserve's decisions under Chairman Jerome Powell have been negative across the board, according to an analysis from Bespoke Investment Group.

"The S&P 500 has now fallen for a record 7th straight Fed Day, which is a streak that began when Powell became Chair," the firm wrote in a note to clients on Wednesday afternoon.

The stock market turned sharply lower Wednesday after Powell spoke at his press conference that followed the Fed's latest interest-rate hike.

The stock market really doesn't like Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

The S&P 500 has posted a loss each day the Fed has announced an interest-rate decision under Powell's watch — a record seven straight Fed days — according to an analysis from Bespoke Investment Group.

"That's not a great track record so far!" the firm wrote in a note to clients Wednesday afternoon, illustrating the stark difference in the market's behavior under Powell compared with his predecessors.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/federal-reserve-system-stock-market-hates-jerome-powell-2018-12-1027825691