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Between Ankle Monitors And Tariffs: The Choreography Of Diplomatic Blackmail

Confessions don’t need a confessional — sometimes, a microphone and a passport offer will do. Jair Bolsonaro, former president and current star of a Brazilian political thriller, tripped over his own words and confessed. Not to the crime itself — but to the strategy: conditioning the removal of U.S. sanctions on his amnesty. This is blackmail with a tie and a diplomatic varnish.

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✅🕒 Published on July 18, 2025 - 16:41

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27 Years In Prison, 5 In Power, An Eternity In Legacy

By Maria Raquel

Mandela is no longer with us since 2013. But apparently, people still haven’t understood what he meant.

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✅🕒 Published on July 18, 2025 - 10:41

Planet B

"The Plants Are Talking. And Someone’s Listening."

By Maria Raquel

Hello, Earthlings! Today I’m here to tell you something that’s going to blow the mind of anyone who thinks plants just sit there waving in the breeze. You know that tomato plant in the backyard? Well… it might be talking. And it’s not you who’s listening. It’s the moths. And maybe the mice. And the bats. Starting to get the picture?

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✅🕒 Published on July 18, 2025 - 10:36

Ping Pong

You Trained The Machine. It Took Your Badge

By Maria Raquel

You spend years learning, creating, failing, redoing. You design levels, write dialogue, adjust UX, train systems, feed databases, improve tools. Then one day, you get called into a room. And they say: “Thanks. Now we’re going to use the tool you helped build—to replace you.”

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✅🕒 Published on July 16, 2025 - 11:46

Dough

U.s. Inflation: The Cost Of Tariff Fever

By Maria Raquel

Inflation in the United States is up. Again. Slightly? Not really. June’s 0.3% rise might seem modest, but it's the highest since January. The 12-month total reached 2.7%. The core index—excluding food and energy—hit 2.9%. What’s driving it? Housing, gasoline, eating out… and a generous splash of tariff, seasoned with election-year drama.

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✅🕒 Published on July 15, 2025 - 17:00

Cabaret

The Light & Shadow Of A Certain Rembrandt

By Maria Raquel

It was July 15th. Gold rained over the streets of Leiden, and the world welcomed yet another artist destined to get lost inside himself.

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✅🕒 Published on July 15, 2025 - 16:57

What's Up

Buzzford Declares “Taz Day” And Nearly Cancels Real Chimpanzees

By Maria Raquel

Trying to appear “in tune with the planet,” Mayor Buzzford woke up on this July 14th, checked the list of commemorative dates, and declared: “Today is World Chimpanzee Day? Oh sure! That spinny animal from Tazania!” Buzzville went into emergency mode. Operation Tazmania had begun.

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✅🕒 Published on July 14, 2025 - 14:34

Fair Play

Silencing Boots

By Maria Raquel

It started before the whistle. The moment I touched the MetLife grass, I could feel the tension pulsing louder than the floodlights. On the other side, heavy jerseys, fresh trophies, confidence oozing from their studs. The whole world bet on them. Who bet on us?

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✅🕒 Published on July 14, 2025 - 14:31

Boom

Trump, Lula And The Hot Brics Ketchup

By Maria Raquel

While the world was busy with TikTok recipes, another sauce was starting to boil: Trump’s tariffs, Lula’s provocations, and a BRICS alliance cooking up a global power move. Boom was inevitable.

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✅🕒 Published on July 12, 2025 - 14:19

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The Last Grave Of Europe

By Maria Raquel

It was a beautiful summer in Bosnia. Clear skies, green hills, dense forests. The soil was soft—not because of July rains in 1995, but because bulldozers were hard at work in Srebrenica. They were burying people. Actual people, not "military targets." Over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were executed there in a single week. But relax: it was only the largest genocide in Europe since World War II. Nervous laughter allowed.

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✅🕒 Published on July 12, 2025 - 14:11