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Brazil Escalates: Authorities Pull 2 US Olympic Swimmers From Rio Flight

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– Brazil Escalates: Authorities Pull 2 US Olympic Swimmers From Rio Flight:

It appears Brazilian officials are not simply going to let this one go. With Ryan Lochte reportedly back in the US (and teammate James Feigen unaccounted for) following the Brazilain judge’s search-and-seizure warrant, CNN reports that two fellow swimmers involved in the alleged robbery – Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz – were removed by Brazilian authorities on Wednesday night from their flight before it departed Rio de Janeiro to the United States, according to US Olympic Committee spokesman Patrick Sandusky.

Authorities Pull 2 US Olympic Swimmers From Rio Flight

As a reminder, Lochte, a gold-medal winner, said his wallet was stolen as he and three of his American teammates — Bentz, Conger and James Feigen — were returning to Rio’s Olympic Village in a taxi. They said they were robbed by men posing as police officers, adding that the group initially didn’t contact the U.S. Olympic Committee because they were “afraid (they’d) get in trouble.” The story made quick waves Sunday, especially after Lochte, 32, detailed the alleged encounter on the “Today” show. Lochte’s account has come under increased scrutiny since then. Embarrassed Rio police said they have found little evidence to support the accounts, and a police source said they are unable to find the taxi driver or witnesses.

And now as NBC reports,

Multiple sources told NBC Sports that Conger and Bentz cleared security and were in their seats on the plane when authorities came on to the aircraft shortly before takeoff and removed the swimmers.

They are being held at the airport but are being treated well and cordially, the sources said.

Authorities have indicated they don’t want to hold the swimmers long, but do want to know what happened during the early morning robbery, the sources said.

“We can confirm that Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were removed from their flight to the United States by Brazilian authorities,” U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman Patrick Sandusky said. “We are gathering further information.”

Lochte’s lawyer Ostrow said Lochte gave police a statement as representatives from the U.S. State Department, United States Olympic Committee and the FBI observed. Lochte signed the statement to attest to its truthfulness, Ostrow said.

Police have not asked Lochte for more information, and they did not ask him to remain in Brazil, Ostrow said.

“They never said, ‘Stay around,'” Ostrow said. “Otherwise, I would have advised Ryan to stay.”

He accused Brazilian authorities of trying to “save face” after allowing the incident to become “a circus.”

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Of course, if one were truly wearing their tin foil hat, one might wonder if this is somehow retribution for Washington’s alleged hand in Rousseff’s downfall…

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Hunger Games: This One Olympic Photo Sums up Everything Wrong with Society

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– Hunger Games: This One Olympic Photo Sums up Everything Wrong with Society:

The 31st Olympic summer games are underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and thousands of athletes and spectators from around the world have gathered for the event which will serve as prime time entertainment for the next couple of weeks. Every four years an insane amount of money is dumped into the spectacle as host cities and the Olympic committee construct arenas, stadiums and press quarters, leaving megalithic ruins in their wake.

Most of the news coverage about the events in Rio are centered around the pomp and splendor of athleticism, hoping to portray the affair as an opportunity for the world to feel united in sport, yet the truth is always hidden from the highlights and coverage: the world is suffering from terrible inequality and the fallout of economic tyranny, and the divide between the haves and have-nots is now greater than it has ever been.

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US Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Lochte Reportedly Held At Gunpoint At Rio Party

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– US Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Lochte Reportedly Held At Gunpoint At Rio Party:

Update: Reuters adds that Lochte was robbed in a taxi hold-up in Rio de Janeiro after leaving a party where he had been celebrating the end of the Olympic swimming program, he told fellow competitor Thiago Pereira. A spokesman for Brazilian Pereira told Reuters on Sunday Pereira had called Lochte after hearing reports the U.S. swimmer had been the victim of a gun-point robbery the night before.

“Thiago and his wife went yesterday night to a birthday party for a common friend with Lochte in the France House,” the spokesman said. “He parted ways with Lochte when he returned to his hotel with his wife. “Today in the morning he received the news about Lochte’s incident, so he called him and Lochte told him he was fine and said the taxi he was in got robbed.”

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AND NOW: Athlete with No Womb or Ovaries but Internal Testes Will Compete with Women in Rio

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– Athlete with No Womb or Ovaries but Internal Testes Will Compete with Women in Rio:

With reports of dead bodies and excrement floating in the water, the threat of Zika and the Russian doping scandal, the Rio Olympics appears the Frankenstein of athletic events. And now Rio seems dopey in another way: owing to political correctness, a runner with, reportedly, no womb or ovaries but internal testes will be allowed to compete with women.

This person is South African middle-distance competitor Caster Semenya. Iwrote of Semenya in 2009, back when Semenya (I’m not satisfied that Semenya is female, so henceforth I’ll refer to the runner not with pronouns but as “CS”) was an 18-year-old phenom who’d just set a record while winning a world title, dusting female opponents in the process. These outstanding results, along with CS’s masculine physique, caused suspicion and led to tests to determine the athlete’s sexual status.

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New Twist in Global Warming Madness: Olympic Records Won’t Come Easy

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– Brazilian Arabica Coffee Crop 36% Loss from Cold, Bananas 70%, Argentina 30% Raisin Losses (Video)

– Brazil: Cold to impact coffee production – “Takes away the sleep of farmers”

– New Twist in Global Warming Madness: Olympic Records Won’t Come Easy:

Bloomberg writer Jessica Shankleman is willing to push global warming silliness up another notch with “politically correct” nonsense that Olympic Records Won’t Come Easy in Rio Because of Climate Change.

Athletes at the Olympic Games may struggle to break world records as they compete with Brazil’s rising temperatures caused by climate change.

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Riots In Rio: Police Unleash Tear-Gas, Rubber Bullets As Poor Brazilians Block Olympic Torch Route

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– Riots In Rio: Police Unleash Tear-Gas, Rubber Bullets As Poor Brazilians Block Olympic Torch Route:

Just 24 hours before the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, police have been forced to use tear-gas and rubber bullets to clear protesters from the path of the Olympic torch through a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro. As The Guardian reports, police said anti-government protesters in Duque de Caixas, on Rio’s north side, threw rocks and blocked the torch’s path; and 3 people (including a 10-year-old girl) were injured.

Hundreds of people blocked the streets in the north of Rio to protest about the high cost of the Games in a country already struggling with recession, corruption and political crisis. Footage showed crowds, including children, fleeing from the police, who reportedly said a group refused to leave one lane of the road open for the torch, the BBC reported. Riot police used tear gas to disperse the crowd and video footage appeared to show a policeman firing a projectile directly at a protester. The video you won’t see on mainstream media coverage of the The Olympics..

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Staged Zika pandemic was engineered by globalist governments to justify the aerial bombardment of awakening populations with toxic chemicals

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“75% of the population in some countries have been infected with Zika, with NO BIRTH DEFECTS resulting”

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– Staged Zika pandemic was engineered by globalist governments to justify the aerial bombardment of awakening populations with toxic chemicals:

In case you didn’t already know, everything is rigged these days, meaning it’s contrived, fabricated or distorted to fit an official narrative that feeds a nefarious agenda. The Zika virus hysteria is no different: it was all engineered from the start for a specific purpose, and this article explains exactly what’s really behind the Zika pandemic and why it’s being pushed so aggressively by globalist governments nearing collapse.

First, a little background that you won’t get from any mainstream news source. The Zika virus has been around for more than 70 years, and it was originally harvested, isolated and turned into a research product by none other than the Rockefeller Foundation, the same globalist cabal of medical criminals who sought to destroy alternative medicine and grant western chemical medicine a monopoly over society.

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Welcome To Rio: Olympic Village Catches Fire, Athletes Robbed, & Water “Teeming With Dangerous Viruses”

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– Welcome To Rio: Olympic Village Catches Fire, Athletes Robbed, & Water “Teeming With Dangerous Viruses”:

As the Olympic Games are set to get underway in Rio de Janeiro, the host country is experiencing a couple of “minor glitches.”  Already reports have come in of gas leaks in athlete rooms (rooms which the Australians have labeled “uninhabitable”), athletes being robbed, a collapse of the main boat ramp intended for use in sailing competitions and a minor problem with water quality which an AP study found to be “contaminated with raw human sewage teeming with dangerous viruses and bacteria.” 

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AND NOW: ‘They’ve already won’: Refugee Olympic Team arrives in Rio (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

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– ‘They’ve already won’: Refugee Olympic Team arrives in Rio (VIDEO, PHOTOS):

The 10 members of the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), the first of its kind, have arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Olympic Games. The group will march as an independent team under the Olympic flag when the opening ceremony takes place on August 5.

The team is made up of two swimmers from Syria, two judo fighters from Democratic Republic of Congo, five runners from South Sudan and a marathon runner from Ethiopia.

ROT coach Geraldo Bernardes said that regardless of whether they win a medal, getting to Rio is already a great achievement for each team member.

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Brazil: Olympians Will ‘Literally be Swimming in Human Crap’

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– Brazil: Olympians Will ‘Literally be Swimming in Human Crap’:

Olympians set to compete in the multicultural haven of Brazil will “literally be swimming in human crap,” scientists say.

From the Sun Herald:

Olympians headed to Rio de Janeiro have already been told to be cautious of the virus Zika.

But Olympic swimmers, sailors and windsurfers will have to look out for more than that, because the city’s waters have what health experts are calling a “petri dish of pathogens,” including bacterias that cause diarrhea, vomiting and even death to those with weakened immune systems.

“Foreign athletes will literally be swimming in human crap, and they risk getting sick from all those microorganisms,” Dr. Daniel Becker, a local pediatrician who works in poor neighborhoods, told the New York Times. “It’s sad but also worrisome.”

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Brazilian Arabica Coffee Crop 36% Loss from Cold, Bananas 70%, Argentina 30% Raisin Losses (Video)

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Brazil suffering record cold temperatures again in July 2016 after a cold wave that damaged agriculture in June 2016. Arabica coffee beans stand at 36% loss, bananas 70% loss in Ribeira, Argentina 30% loss of raisin production and Chile clementine 30% increase. The grand solar minimum is here, South America is repeating the normal pattern expected climate wise during the GSM.

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Brazil: Cold to impact coffee production – “Takes away the sleep of farmers”

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– Brazil – Cold to impact coffee production:

“Takes away the sleep of farmers.”

18 July 2016 – Frost hit the coffee region in the south – for the second time this year – and should directly impact the next crop. There will be an impact on vegetable crops as well. Although beautiful to the eye, it takes away the sleep of farmers.

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Intense Cold In Brazil: 70% Banana Losses In Ribeira Valley

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– Intense cold in Brazil – 70 percent banana losses in Ribeira Valley:

13 July 2016 – Low temperatures in June influenced the quality of some products in São Paulo, causing losses and consequent price increases. 

Three polar masses of strong intensity caused the temperature to drop below 10 ° C for several consecutive days.

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“This Is A Toilet” – US Rowing Team Will Use Sewage-Proof Suits At Rio Olympics

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– “This Is A Toilet” – US Rowing Team Will Use Sewage-Proof Suits At Rio Olympics:

“It’s a nice sailing area but every time you get some water in your face, it feels like there’s some alien enemy entering your face,“ German Paralympic sailor Heiko Kroger said during a recent visit to Rio. “I keep my nose and my lips closed.”

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Brazil Shivers as Cold Engulfs the Southern Hemisphere | Mini Ice Age 2015-2035 (Video)

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In the first and second week of June 2016, S.E Brazil with 38 cites below 0C, and hundreds of cold temperature records broken. Frost, snow and freezing lakes damage some crops that are ready to harvest.

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“Welcome To Hell” – Angry Unpaid First Responders Warn “Whoever Comes To Rio Will Not Be Safe”

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– “Welcome To Hell” – Angry Unpaid First Responders Warn “Whoever Comes To Rio Will Not Be Safe”:

“I’m optimistic about the games, but I have to show reality. We can have a great Olympics, but if some steps aren’t taken, it can be a big failure… if police and firefighters don’t get paid, whoever comes to Rio De Janeiro will not be safe…“

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Brazilian Telecom Giant Files Largest Bankruptcy In Nation’s History

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– Brazilian Telecom Giant Files Largest Bankruptcy In Nation’s History:

Brazil’s troubled telephone company Oi SA on Monday filed the largest bankruptcy protection request in the country’s history just days after debt restructuring talks with creditors collapsed. The filing of Oi and six subsidiaries lists 65.4 billion reais ($19.26 billion) in debt.

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Rio Declares State Of “Public Calamity”, Warns Of Total Collapse In Security, Health And Transport

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– Rio Declares State Of “Public Calamity”, Warns Of Total Collapse In Security, Health And Transport:

Earlier today, the IAAF announced that Russian track and field athletes would be banned from the Rio Oympics due to allegations of systematic doping. Rune Andersen, who heads the IAAF task force overseeing Russia’s attempts to reform, said that a “deep-seated culture of tolerance, or worse, appears not to be materially changed”. “No athlete will compete in Rio under a Russian flag,” he said.

Perhaps instead of fighting this decision, Putin’s response should be a simple “thanks” because just hours later, and just 49 days before the start of the Olympics, the Rio state government declared a state of “public calamity” (yes, that’s the technical term) warning of a risk of total collapse in public security, health, transport and virtually everything else, because as the local government explained, the financial crisis is preventing it from fulfilling its requirements for the Games.

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Record cold in Brazil city third time this week (Maybe)

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– Record cold in Brazil city third time this week (Maybe):

It’s hard to tell from this article whether they’re talking about the long-term record, or just for this year.

Vitória, capital of Espírito Santo, beats cold record for 2016 for a second day and the third time this week.

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Brazil: Coldest June in Florianópolis in 115 years

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– Brazil – Coldest June in Florianópolis in 115 years:

Waterfalls frozen. “It’s very rare movement in water freezing in Brazil,” explained the agronomist of ClimaTerra Ronaldo Coutinho.

13 June 2016 –  Florianópolis has the largest cold in June of the last 115 years.

Urupema recorded on the morning of Monday, the 13th, the lowest temperature of the year in the state.

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Freezing in tropical Brazil – Record cold in Mandi

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– Freezing in tropical Brazil – Record cold in Mandi:

13 June 2016 – Frost reaches São Paulo area, tropical Brazil.

Itapetininga records -3,3ºC and water freezes on tap.

Housewife Tatiane Aparecida Gomes, 21, was startled when she opened the tap to make coffee at 6 am on Monday, 13, in Itapetininga, São Paulo southwest. Water did not spurt because it was frozen. It was 3.31 degrees below zero in the city, according to the Integrated Centre for Agrometeorology Information (Ciiagro) of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply of São Paulo. It was the lowest temperature since the service began operating in the city in 2007.

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