The Post-Partisan Emporium

Social credit Brazilian style: All UBI recipients must be vaxxed BY  MARK E. JEFTOVIC   This is what CBDC’s are being built for Anybody who seriously thinks that  Universal Basic Income  (UBI) programs of the future won’t be full blown  social credit systems  need look no further than Brazil, where newly  s elected socialist / globalist Lula da Silva just decreed that the Bolsa Familia program will require family members to be vaccinated in order to continue receiving benefits. “We can’t play, it’s a question of science. If I have 10 covid vaccines to take, I will take all that is necessary ”. The news  comes via The Rio Times , which describes the Bolsa program as “a social welfare program for the poorest families in Brazil” and “a kind of Universal Basic Income”. UBI is considered by many to be beneficent and inevitable. I personally believe the latter but not the former. However it shouldn’t surprise anyone that if you’re dependent on The Savio...

Races, Tribes, Nations Divide and rule Carlos Ramalhete Photo ©  Brian Snelson Once I wrote that no self-respecting “race” could ever accept me. After all, I am Brazilian — the mongrel of mongrels. But what is a race? Moreover, what is a tribe? A nation? These questions are quite important these days, as the American construct of race is being forced down the throats of every other country, even if it cannot be applied to the local situation. Down here in Brazil, for instance, while people do have ancestors from all over the world, the American concept of “race” makes no sense at all. Brazilians see themselves as a nation, and neither tribes nor races can exist within this national identity. The same goes for other countries; in France, for instance, it is simply forbidden to divide people into  races . But, as I asked in the beginning, what does  race  mean? The  Wikipedia definition  is that a “ race  is a categorization of humans based on shared phy...