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Levy Izhak Rosenbaum claimed to be in the business of buying and selling real estate, but he really bought and sold human kidneys for transplant, according to a federal complaint filed Thursday. The 58-year-old Brooklyn man was accused of trafficking in human organs, after a sting by an undercover FBI agent who agreed to pay $160,000 for a kidney from a live Israeli donor for her sick New Jersey "uncle." Investigators said Rosenbaum bragged about doing "quite a lot" of transplants over the last 10 years. "I am what you call a matchmaker," the complaint said the man, also known...

Explosions tonight in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv... At least 39 dead in flooding in southern Brazil... A Palestinian doctor dying in Israel custody... A Hamas delegation in Cairo this weekend holding talks with Egypt, the United States and Qatar... Police in Canada arresting members of an alleged hit squad tasked with killing Sikh nationalist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.... Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife Imelda accused of bribery... Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer joining House Speaker Mike Johnson with an invite for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warning British...

Multinational automaker Stellantis is making a big hiring push for low-wage engineers in Brazil, India, Mexico, and Morocco after laying off 400 Americans in its engineering, software, and technology departments in March. On March 22, Stellantis executives announced that 400 salaried engineering and software employees in Auburn Hills, Michigan, would be laid off to cut costs. An industry insider told Automotive News that Stellantis is making gradual layoffs in the United States to avoid WARN Act disclosures. Following layoffs of its American employees, Stellantis executives are looking to hire engineers for a fraction of the cost by hiring in Brazil,...

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes is enraged that X (which will forever still be known as Twitter) allows the free flow of information because he labels some of it "disinformation" which he cannot tolerate. Therefore de Moraes has demanded that Twitter remove a number of accounts.In the old obedient days of Twitter when the management treated "disinformation" (which is mostly information contrary to liberal views) to be one of the great sins of our world, they would have immediately acceded to the request. However the new owner, Elon Musk, refused to take down the accounts which should make...

VIDEOIf you combined Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg and CORRUPT Judge Juan Merchan into one person you could come up with the highly evil Brazilian Chrome Dome Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes who has been attempting to force Elon Musk take down Twitter accounts of Brazilian journalists who dare to criticize that government. Unfortunately for the Chrome Dome Justice, Musk is NOT complying and the backlash in Brazil threatens to not only cut off the power of that tyrant but is also turning him into an object of well-deserved worldwide mockery.

It should have been a dead giveaway. The Brazilian woman who took her dead uncle into a bank to sign a loan in her name arrived there by taxi — with video even showing the driver helping her move the corpse from his car. Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes was arrested Tuesday after taking the body of her 68-year-old uncle, Paulo Roberto Braga, into a bank and then moving his hand to sign a key document to get her a $3,400 loan. Newly emerged video now shows Nunes — who reportedly told cops that she didn’t know her uncle...

Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted last August that a drop in the importance of the U.S. dollar was "irreversible"—but there appears to be no sign that the global economy is turning its back on the greenback. "The U.S. Dollar was used in 48% of international payment transactions last year, the highest level in more than a decade. But Brics...," it said next to the graph, which showed the euro making 23.2 percent of transactions and the Chinese yuan way behind at 3.47 percent. "BRICS countries would like their currencies to be used in world trade, but each has a major...

As Brazil rapidly descends into authoritarianism, courting the favor of the world’s worst dictatorship (Chinese Communists), meanwhile, journalist Michael Shellenberger warns Americans that we, too, are heading down Brazil’s path. From allegedly aiming to criminalize “lying” to threatening to arrest those who exposed the country’s increasingly tyrannical judiciary, Brazil’s government under President Lula is trying to turn itself into a perfect Orwellian dystopia. That’s exactly why Shellenberger, who wrote the Twitter Files that exposed the corruption, is so concerned. Brazil might be more rapid in crushing rights and freedoms, but the US government is also blatantly violating rights while pandering...

In the midst of all its other woes, the Islamic Republic of Iran has just suffered the worst economic collapse of its existence: the Iranian rial has lost 30% of its value overnight.

@alx ELON MUSK: “They have threatened to cut off 𝕏 entirely from Brazil, they’ve also threatened to arrest our employees, and they have applied a $20,000 a day fine… This is judicial authority going far beyond judicial authority to executive authority”

Some stunning courage from Musk in standing up to, undermining, and even mocking Brazil's pettiest tyrant judge. Given all the cowardice we see, it was a thing of beauty seeing someone standing up to the sleazy little tyrants who want to shut down free speech. Which is what we see from Elon Musk, who literally vowed to defy a Brazilian Supreme Court Chief Justice's demand that he secretly ban certain prominent Brazilians from his site 'X,' formerly known as Twitter, or face criminal charges. According to the Associated Press: RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice...

Brazil is moving to regulate X after Elon Musk refused to comply with their anti-free speech demands. Brazil Attorney-General Jorge Messias is lashing out after Musk refused to bend the knee. “We cannot live in a society in which billionaires domiciled abroad have control of social networks and put themselves in a position to violate the rule of law, failing to comply with court orders and threatening our authorities.” “It is urgent to regulate social networks.”

The ‘Twitter Files Brazil’ reveal how Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes led a ‘sweeping crackdown on free speech’ and targeted conservative voices in the lead-up to the presidential election. (LifeSiteNews) — Internal information from Twitter has shown how the deep state in Brazil pressured the platform to censor content and interfered in the 2022 presidential election. Journalist and author Michael Shellenberger released the “Twitter Files Brazil,” which show “a sweeping crackdown on free speech led by a Supreme Court justice named Alexandre de Moraes.” Online censorship has been a known issue in Brazil for a while. According to...

Disturbing video shows the moment a revenge-seeking son guns down his father’s accused killer in the middle of a courtroom. Cristiano Alves Terto, 27, was seen unloading six shots into Francisco Cleidivaldo Mariano De Moura, 38, during a jury session for his father’s murder trial in São José do Belmonte, Brazil, according to CNN Brasil. Footage from inside the courtroom depicts Terto bolting toward the front with a .38-caliber revolver pointed directly at De Moura — who is sitting only steps away from a juror and an attorney — and firing at least two shots while charging him. Video The...

The Brazilian Supreme Court denying a request from former President Jair Bolsonaro... In southern Russia three foreign nationals detained accused of planning a terrorist attack... The Indian Navy rescuing 23 Pakistani nationals from Somali pirates... Russian Aerospace Forces attacked a terrorist base in Syria's Homs Region... The US is sending more bombs and F-35 fighter jets to Israel... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorizing Israel's foreign and domestic spy chiefs to resume hostage talks... In Rockford, Illinois Christian Soto...suspect in series of stabbing attacks, speaking of "laced" marijuana... The Moscow terrorists were headed for Kiev Ukraine's capital city... A 16-year...

The Brazilian newspaper O Globo revealed on Wednesday that prosecutors in the country are pursuing charges of money laundering and fraud against 25-year-old Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the youngest son of the nation’s eponymous ex-president. An attorney for the younger Bolsonaro appeared to confirm the charges in remarks to the Globo-affiliated G1 news outlet, objecting that the improper leaking of the details of the case to the media was “very detrimental to the defense, due process, the presumption of innocence and, thus, the image of those who have the right to defend themselves.” The Brazilian newspaper Estadao independently confirmed the criminal...

‘Getz/Gilberto’ is now a jazz classic, but when it was recorded no one expected it to become one of the best selling jazz albums of all time.As the five musicians, one of whom was accompanied by his wife, arrived at A&R Studios in New York City on Monday evening March 18, 1963, none would have guessed that they were about to give jazz an almost unprecedented shot in the arm with Getz/Gilberto. Jazz was still, at this point, closer to the mainstream of popular taste, but it was still a minority interest. Stan Getz and João Gilberto were, however, about...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused Tuesday of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination data, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store. The federal police indictment released by the Supreme Court alleged that Bolsonaro and 16 others inserted false information into a public health database to make it appear as though the then-president, his 12-year-old daughter and several others in his circle had received the COVID-19 vaccine. Police detective Fábio Alvarez Shor, who signed the indictment, said in his report that Bolsonaro and his aides changed their vaccination records in order to...

BODYBUILDER Denis Yoshio has been shot dead in a hit and run by assassins on motorbikes. The Brazilian fitness influencer, 32, was gunned down by two men outside his home in Vila Matilde, a district of Sao Paulo, on Saturday night

My summary of the one minute twenty-nine second video:Interview with obviously highly intelligent and articulate cattle farmer who says 85% of the US meat packing industry has been consolidated under two companies that are owned by China and Brazil, catastrophically jeopardizing the food security of the USA.