Politics

In less than five months, Brazil is expected to host the Summer Olympics.

If you follow LatAm politics, you know that that is an absolute joke. Last summer, the country descended into political turmoil and the economy sank into what might as well be a depression. Nine months later, inflation is running in the double digits, output is in freefall, and unemployment is soaring. On Wednesday, the government reported its widest primary budget deficit in history and less than 24 hours later, the central bank delivered a dire outlook for growth and inflation.

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Qaddafi on his way out, Bashar al Assad is next.

— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) August 21, 2011

Israel continues to transport injured terrorists for treatment in the occupied territories before sending them back to continue committing atrocities against the Syrian people, according to Syria’s official news agency According to the report, Israel’s Channel 2 quoted Israeli officer Ilan Glazberg as saying that the Israeli forces transferred a wounded terrorists into Nahariya hospital in the occupied territories two days ago. Press TV reports: The officer added that the injured militant met his wounded brother who had been transferred to Israel’s Ziv hospital three weeks before.

For the second day in a row, the security team working for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, clashed with opposing protesters in Washington, DC Security staff removed journalists and even confronted city police when the officers refused to remove protesters from the area.

Thursday was a rough day for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

At a pre-recorded town hall meeting hosted by MSNBC and Chris Matthews, Trump got tripped up over a question about illegal abortion.

“Should [illegal] abortion be punished?,” Matthews quizzed. “This is not something you can dodge,” he added.

“There has to be some form of punishment,” Trump responded, when pressed.

“For the woman?” Matthews asked, just so there would be no ambiguity.

“Yeah,” Trump responded.