[Raev]

I have been very busy with other things and have not been able to give this thread the love it deserves. Probably you guys can only look forward to my updates every month or so now.

Italy is supporting the Yellow Vest movement.

Luigi di Maio, leader of the anti-establishment party, is planning meetings with a number of emerging movements across the Continent in order to create a “group of direct democracy” to challenge the current crop of elitist EU parties. He will also call on the so-called ‘Yellow Vest’ movement, which has threatened to sink Emmanuel Macron’s reign as French president, to help spearhead the peoples’ revolution in Brussels, according to Laura Agea, Five Star’s most senior figure in the Belgian capital. She said: “The meeting between the political leader of Five Star Movement Luigi di Maio and the leaders of three other European emerging formations is a fundamental step of a work that comes from far. In the last months we have been talking with anyone, like our attitude has ever been, and we found very important convergence with Kukiz’15 from Poland, Zivi zig from Croatia and the Finnish Liike Nyt.

Alexandria OC trolls Joe Lieberman.

James Woods trolls Jim Acosta

Donald Trump trolls the EU.

The US State Department lowered the diplomatic importance of EU officials working in Washington, lowering the status of the delegation from member state to international organisation. EU diplomats only learnt of stinging rebuke after they noticed their ambassador to Washington, David O’Sullivan, had not been invited to a number high-profile events. The Brussels delegation believes the downgrade must have been implemented by the US President’s administration in late October or early November.

Greeks riot during Merkel's visit

Mrs Merkel is in Greece to inspect the desert she made and to call it... recovery. Ironically, her Greek triumph unleashed deflationary forces that hit Germany (eg negative interest rates) and wrecked her career. Never before has a German Chancellor wasted so much political capital

Brazil's gangs go nuts over Bolsonaro. And yet this will only make Brazilians feel more threatened and thus support him more.

The global k-shift continues.