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Hello friend!
I was missing you!
Yap, I was out for some long months, mostly due to time issues, excess of work and browser problems (both my Chrome and the built-in Microsoft one were not displaying DA right 9 out of 10 times I tried to access the site...).
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If you are curious (and not bored from my last journals), the political situation in Brazil is still pretty tense, with the 2016 Olympics running parallel to the governmental circus instituted by the Coup in progress.
By the law the president Dilma Rousseff is still the president, but she must remain out of presidential activities until the Senate judge her (waited to be around the end of August). Meanwhile the vice-president, instead of keeping the same policies and orientations, decided to rule as a new president, name a new cabinet, new ministries and adopt a neo-liberal reformation completely against the programs of Dilma and Lula terms.
He just invented (with help of the media) a "debt" of 120 billion out of thin air (funny that before the Coup the country had a surplus of about 360 billions...), rose the salaries of federal judges, politicians from the legislative branch and himself, cut 45% of the Education budget (money that would go to all the hundreds of federal universities, schools and colleges...), 58% of the Health budget and now his ministers are pushing for even more cuts while rising their own earnings...
States governed by the vice president Temer's party or his new friends (the defeated right-wing parties of 2014 elections) are using heavy police enforcement against protesters and demonstrations in favor of democracy, Dilma, Worker's Party or against the Coup while the media plainly cover all up and don't even mention any protests or demonstrations at all.
By now it have become clear that law means nothing in this fake impeachment, and it's very unlikely the elected president will be reinstated. The investigations about the crime claims against her (of "fiscal bike") concluded there was no crime and even if there was any, she didn't signed anything or gave any directive that resulted in the monetary maneuvers. But even then, the senate insists in going ahead with the process and making a public trial of a "crime-less crime"...
Meanwhile some corrupt businessman that was dealing with the Senate leader, the Vice President and other politicians in shady stuff decided to "bug" them and record their conversations, probably to use as blackmail. The guy got arrested, probably failed to blackmail them and his recordings got "out", being widely spread around the internet, despite media efforts to dismiss them.
The "Making Of" of the Coup shows clearly how people like Aécio Neves, Renan Calheiros (the actual leader of the Senate), Eduardo Cunha and the Vice President Michael Temer, united to make a fake impeachment, take Dilma out of the presidency and them build a network to protect them against any and all the corruption investigations being conducted.
Shockingly, as the Supreme Court and top brass of Brazilian Armed Forces are also in the same paycheck, absolutely zero things have being done to the conspirators after their conspiracy got public. Without the media and their brainwashed zombie masses to make protests and appear on TV, few to no pressure at all seems to come from the people, and the combined action of police repression and media selective blindness have made most demonstrations seem futile. Most "not-brainwashed" people are relying in international news (mostly the Intercept, Al Jazeera and even the russian Pravda...) for local news, and Facebook became, together with Watsapp, Instagram and the russian Telegram, a chaotic and convoluted web of fake news, old stories, weird theories and independent media running in all directions...
In the same day you can read about 30 contradictory and mutually exclusive "news" about government and political characters in these online platforms, every single one with eyewitness accounts, cellphone-filmed videos, photos and "credible" sources. It became quite usual to log in and see how Lula/ Aecio/ Temer/ Renan/ Cunha/ Dilma were arrested, not arrested, found guilty, arrested, seized power, defused the Coup, not defused the Coup, were behind, were victims, were criminals, were just spectators, came back, escaped, suicide, blamed someone, got blamed, framed, got framed and/or any combination of them... And often all this schizophrenic news are more believable and trustworthy than the "big media" of TV, newspapers and magazines, that by now are oscillating from the completely fictional to downright irresponsible...
At least for Warhammer 40.000 fans like me, reality seems to have caught up with British Sci-Fi, and I believe it's a pretty accurate depiction of how it looks like to live in the depths of the Eye of Terror... XD
I was missing you!
Yap, I was out for some long months, mostly due to time issues, excess of work and browser problems (both my Chrome and the built-in Microsoft one were not displaying DA right 9 out of 10 times I tried to access the site...).
If you want to take a look at some more recent stuff I have done, you can follow me in:
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If you are curious (and not bored from my last journals), the political situation in Brazil is still pretty tense, with the 2016 Olympics running parallel to the governmental circus instituted by the Coup in progress.
By the law the president Dilma Rousseff is still the president, but she must remain out of presidential activities until the Senate judge her (waited to be around the end of August). Meanwhile the vice-president, instead of keeping the same policies and orientations, decided to rule as a new president, name a new cabinet, new ministries and adopt a neo-liberal reformation completely against the programs of Dilma and Lula terms.
He just invented (with help of the media) a "debt" of 120 billion out of thin air (funny that before the Coup the country had a surplus of about 360 billions...), rose the salaries of federal judges, politicians from the legislative branch and himself, cut 45% of the Education budget (money that would go to all the hundreds of federal universities, schools and colleges...), 58% of the Health budget and now his ministers are pushing for even more cuts while rising their own earnings...
States governed by the vice president Temer's party or his new friends (the defeated right-wing parties of 2014 elections) are using heavy police enforcement against protesters and demonstrations in favor of democracy, Dilma, Worker's Party or against the Coup while the media plainly cover all up and don't even mention any protests or demonstrations at all.
By now it have become clear that law means nothing in this fake impeachment, and it's very unlikely the elected president will be reinstated. The investigations about the crime claims against her (of "fiscal bike") concluded there was no crime and even if there was any, she didn't signed anything or gave any directive that resulted in the monetary maneuvers. But even then, the senate insists in going ahead with the process and making a public trial of a "crime-less crime"...
Meanwhile some corrupt businessman that was dealing with the Senate leader, the Vice President and other politicians in shady stuff decided to "bug" them and record their conversations, probably to use as blackmail. The guy got arrested, probably failed to blackmail them and his recordings got "out", being widely spread around the internet, despite media efforts to dismiss them.
The "Making Of" of the Coup shows clearly how people like Aécio Neves, Renan Calheiros (the actual leader of the Senate), Eduardo Cunha and the Vice President Michael Temer, united to make a fake impeachment, take Dilma out of the presidency and them build a network to protect them against any and all the corruption investigations being conducted.
Shockingly, as the Supreme Court and top brass of Brazilian Armed Forces are also in the same paycheck, absolutely zero things have being done to the conspirators after their conspiracy got public. Without the media and their brainwashed zombie masses to make protests and appear on TV, few to no pressure at all seems to come from the people, and the combined action of police repression and media selective blindness have made most demonstrations seem futile. Most "not-brainwashed" people are relying in international news (mostly the Intercept, Al Jazeera and even the russian Pravda...) for local news, and Facebook became, together with Watsapp, Instagram and the russian Telegram, a chaotic and convoluted web of fake news, old stories, weird theories and independent media running in all directions...
In the same day you can read about 30 contradictory and mutually exclusive "news" about government and political characters in these online platforms, every single one with eyewitness accounts, cellphone-filmed videos, photos and "credible" sources. It became quite usual to log in and see how Lula/ Aecio/ Temer/ Renan/ Cunha/ Dilma were arrested, not arrested, found guilty, arrested, seized power, defused the Coup, not defused the Coup, were behind, were victims, were criminals, were just spectators, came back, escaped, suicide, blamed someone, got blamed, framed, got framed and/or any combination of them... And often all this schizophrenic news are more believable and trustworthy than the "big media" of TV, newspapers and magazines, that by now are oscillating from the completely fictional to downright irresponsible...
At least for Warhammer 40.000 fans like me, reality seems to have caught up with British Sci-Fi, and I believe it's a pretty accurate depiction of how it looks like to live in the depths of the Eye of Terror... XD
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...and the Coup happens
9 min read
Hello friend, stay a while and listen...
Since 2014's end a coup d'etat was in course in Brazil, a country you probably know (soccer, Pele, Carnaval, Ronaldo...does it ring a bell?), and that was for the last 14 years under the presidency of the Worker's Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT), a left-wing Keynesian slightly socialist party. Unlike the governments before, the PT made heavy investments in improving the lives and the wealth of the lower classes, with lots of social programs, new universities, new public schools, alternative energy sources (mostly winds, tidal wave and solar powerplants) and opening markets all across the globe. The country jumped from 79º to 6º in the world's economic ranking and from the second country with worse unemployment to the sixth with more employed people.
But, as the Hue Hue meme's (knowyourmeme.com/memes/huahueh…) and racist stereotype goes, Brazilians are unable to behave or think logically... So in 2013 the TV network Globo, magazines as Veja, Istoe and Epoca, together with the newspapers Folha de Sao Paulo and Estadao started a defamatory campaign against the government, giving a lot of focus over supposed corruption scandals, some that don't even had anything to do with the PT, and others that didn't even existed at all, with the intention of overthrowing the president.
Last year and until now the propaganda kept going as strong as possible, with the media creating a surreal idea of Brazil as a "broken" and "bankrupt" nation, ruled by a "communist dictatorship" that did nothing at all besides stealing people's money and oppressing the masses, despite Brazil being very well economically (in comparison to US and most of Europe) and the government being kept as democratic as possible. Protests and demonstrations were incited and covered by the media, uniting the most bizarre mix of people (jokingly known as "coxinhas", or "fried chicken leg", a very popular and cheap dish), from neonazis to integralists (Brazilian version of 1930's Italian fascism), from rich trophy wives to upper middle class supporters of the 1960's military dictatorship.
Instead of a violent coup, like the one from 1964, when US sponsored military generals seized the government with tanks and jets, the 2016 coup went more in the way of the "white coup" of 1930's Nazi Germany, with stuff being done "seemly" inside the law, but bizarrely out of any logic or reason. In the beginning of this year the leader of the House of Representatives (we call it Camara dos Deputados) decided to blackmail the president. He, a old gangster named Eduardo Cunha, was to be judged for corruption, and wanted the president Dilma Rousseff to intervene in his favor to save him from the Court, or he would start an impeachment process against her. Dilma didn't agreed and Cunha started the impeachment.
Under Brazilian law an impeachment can only occur if the president is found guilty of fiscal crimes, like stealing public money or tinkering with the monetary system (like the ex-president Fernando Collor did in 1992). So Cunha and the media tried to create something to blame her, and took a series of usual administrative routines (known as "pedaladas fiscais" something like "fiscal bike") that consist in making a surplus saving fund to use when you need extra money, and tried to convince everybody it was some kind of crime.
Usually, in the civilized world, when you are charged of a crime that isn't a crime (like, let's say, eating bacon in US), the process doesn't even get started in the Judiciary. But down here in the Rabbit's Hole, the unthinkable can happen, and the president Dilma suffered a weird and completely nonsensical judgement in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate, with deputies and senators voting for her impeachment and giving the most stupid and unimaginable reasons ("I vote for her impeachment because of my family", "because I promised my daughter", "in honor to the 1964's dictators", "against Bolivarianism!") and absolutely nothing about the "crime" she was being charged.
So, this friday 13th (quite unlucky) the president was forced to leave the office, with the High Court ignoring all pleas and appeals. Her vice-president, Michael Temer (weirdly "temer" is portuguese for the verb "to fear"), was already openly conspiring against her, seeking politicians to be ministers and making government plans long before the Impeachment process even began, and now he took the charge of President. Dilma will have to remain out of office for 180 days while preparing her defense and then be judged by the High Court, that will decide to ban her permanently from the office or put her back on charge.
But in the meanwhile Temer is already fucking up 14 years of economic and social growth. In his first day at office he appointed as ministers seven politicians that were charged with corruption, a lawyer that worked for a powerful drug dealing gang called PCC (for Justice Minister), an ex-cop with 36 charges of crimes against humanity (from kidnapping to cold blooded execution of suspects and torture)(for Human Rights Minister), and a tele-evangelist preacher famous for "curing" a guy supposedly suffering from AIDS, Cancer and with just one cell in the body (!!!)(for Science and Technology Minister).
Also he announced he will cut all the social programs, lift the laws that make obligatory to invest at least 15% of government money in public health system and more 15% in public education, rise taxes, quit the BRICS (the club of prominent wealthy countries including besides Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and India), sell all state-owned businesses to international corporations, privatize the highways, ports and airports and end the current investigations about corruption. He also took the friday 13th to extinguish two ministerial branches, the Culture Ministry and the Minorities Right's Ministry, together with the General Account Supervisory House, responsible for taking care of the government money and searching for irregularities.
Bizarrely TV stations, magazines and newspapers suddenly stopped talking about any and all "economic crisis" and started praising Temer as if he was a "New Messiah", the High Court decided to not accept charges against some of the most corrupt politicians from parties that support the coup (including Aecio Neves, the defeated candidate to 2014 presidential elections, that is a well known drug lord and was being charged with stealing 14 BILLIONS from public health money when he was governor of Minas Gerais state).
Major cities like Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre are being overtaken by protests against Temer (despite the TV and newspapers ignoring it all), and some public organs like the Health Ministry decided to make a "passive resistance", not obeying anything the new minister, president or Legislative send them. Unluckily Brazil's people is tame as a castrated 30 years old ox, I guess that places in Middle East or even Europe would rise in civil war in a moment like this, take the usurper out of his chair and hang him with his own intestines... But here there are plenty of idiots that swallowed the media schizophrenic delirium and think Temer is taking "the right measures" to "fix the country PT broke", and the media uses this fucktards in the news coverage to make it appear as "all" or at least a majority of Brazilians think like that.
For me... well... I'm pretty shocked. It feels like being dumped by a girlfriend, I'm feeling without any "ground" at all, as I see the brutal and stupid way the law was just thrown away and ignored by the Judges, Deputies and Senators, and how these usurpers managed to "convince" (probably "bribe") the highest powers in the nation to act like that... What else can be done? What laws to follow? How will politics work from now on? What can you invest on? Can I start a business without knowing how, or if, the laws regulating it are worth anything?
It's also a very, very bad omen of what is to come. If Temer and his bastards really implement all they are saying, life standards will start to fall quickly... When he abolish the Worker's Rights and the laws regulating contracts and jobs, we will be at the risk of going back to 1800's Industrial Revolution, with no "minimum" wage the businesses can pay what they see fit, and no law regulation they can fire anyone they want, anytime, don't give a fuck about pregnancy leaves, vacations and implement insane work shifts of 7 days a week and all hours they wish for per day. Without the social programs the lower middle class and poor will fall back to miserable, starvation will become a problem again, as it was in 1990's, small business will probably crumble and unemployment will rise... It's just insane, seems almost like a bad joke... How and why to just ruin the whole country like that?
I'm quite distressed about this coup... Last days I was thinking quite a lot about immigrating to a more civilized place, and even took a look at Finland and Canada immigration policies... But seems quite hard to just exile myself there, as I didn't have much cash on me to start a business abroad and I don't know much people in these countries to try getting a job offer or something that could ease the bureaucracy... and for Finland, I don't speak the language, so there is one more problem...
I though about Germany too, but besides the language barrier, I don't know how hard it is now, as waves of Middle Eastern immigrants are crossing the Mediterranean inside Europe and countries are getting pretty scared, full or just unable to receive new foreigners. UK would have the same situation I guess...
I'm quite worried, because for now on the Temer coup can install some repressive measures against any attempt to take him out of office and Brazil can quickly fall back into a no-rights police state like in 1960's... or maybe the people can rise and start a civil war like in Syria or France during the French Revolution... It's quite thin the possibility of some improvement in the current situation, and even smaller the chance of things getting back to normal without a very problematic period...
Since 2014's end a coup d'etat was in course in Brazil, a country you probably know (soccer, Pele, Carnaval, Ronaldo...does it ring a bell?), and that was for the last 14 years under the presidency of the Worker's Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT), a left-wing Keynesian slightly socialist party. Unlike the governments before, the PT made heavy investments in improving the lives and the wealth of the lower classes, with lots of social programs, new universities, new public schools, alternative energy sources (mostly winds, tidal wave and solar powerplants) and opening markets all across the globe. The country jumped from 79º to 6º in the world's economic ranking and from the second country with worse unemployment to the sixth with more employed people.
But, as the Hue Hue meme's (knowyourmeme.com/memes/huahueh…) and racist stereotype goes, Brazilians are unable to behave or think logically... So in 2013 the TV network Globo, magazines as Veja, Istoe and Epoca, together with the newspapers Folha de Sao Paulo and Estadao started a defamatory campaign against the government, giving a lot of focus over supposed corruption scandals, some that don't even had anything to do with the PT, and others that didn't even existed at all, with the intention of overthrowing the president.
Last year and until now the propaganda kept going as strong as possible, with the media creating a surreal idea of Brazil as a "broken" and "bankrupt" nation, ruled by a "communist dictatorship" that did nothing at all besides stealing people's money and oppressing the masses, despite Brazil being very well economically (in comparison to US and most of Europe) and the government being kept as democratic as possible. Protests and demonstrations were incited and covered by the media, uniting the most bizarre mix of people (jokingly known as "coxinhas", or "fried chicken leg", a very popular and cheap dish), from neonazis to integralists (Brazilian version of 1930's Italian fascism), from rich trophy wives to upper middle class supporters of the 1960's military dictatorship.
Instead of a violent coup, like the one from 1964, when US sponsored military generals seized the government with tanks and jets, the 2016 coup went more in the way of the "white coup" of 1930's Nazi Germany, with stuff being done "seemly" inside the law, but bizarrely out of any logic or reason. In the beginning of this year the leader of the House of Representatives (we call it Camara dos Deputados) decided to blackmail the president. He, a old gangster named Eduardo Cunha, was to be judged for corruption, and wanted the president Dilma Rousseff to intervene in his favor to save him from the Court, or he would start an impeachment process against her. Dilma didn't agreed and Cunha started the impeachment.
Under Brazilian law an impeachment can only occur if the president is found guilty of fiscal crimes, like stealing public money or tinkering with the monetary system (like the ex-president Fernando Collor did in 1992). So Cunha and the media tried to create something to blame her, and took a series of usual administrative routines (known as "pedaladas fiscais" something like "fiscal bike") that consist in making a surplus saving fund to use when you need extra money, and tried to convince everybody it was some kind of crime.
Usually, in the civilized world, when you are charged of a crime that isn't a crime (like, let's say, eating bacon in US), the process doesn't even get started in the Judiciary. But down here in the Rabbit's Hole, the unthinkable can happen, and the president Dilma suffered a weird and completely nonsensical judgement in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate, with deputies and senators voting for her impeachment and giving the most stupid and unimaginable reasons ("I vote for her impeachment because of my family", "because I promised my daughter", "in honor to the 1964's dictators", "against Bolivarianism!") and absolutely nothing about the "crime" she was being charged.
So, this friday 13th (quite unlucky) the president was forced to leave the office, with the High Court ignoring all pleas and appeals. Her vice-president, Michael Temer (weirdly "temer" is portuguese for the verb "to fear"), was already openly conspiring against her, seeking politicians to be ministers and making government plans long before the Impeachment process even began, and now he took the charge of President. Dilma will have to remain out of office for 180 days while preparing her defense and then be judged by the High Court, that will decide to ban her permanently from the office or put her back on charge.
But in the meanwhile Temer is already fucking up 14 years of economic and social growth. In his first day at office he appointed as ministers seven politicians that were charged with corruption, a lawyer that worked for a powerful drug dealing gang called PCC (for Justice Minister), an ex-cop with 36 charges of crimes against humanity (from kidnapping to cold blooded execution of suspects and torture)(for Human Rights Minister), and a tele-evangelist preacher famous for "curing" a guy supposedly suffering from AIDS, Cancer and with just one cell in the body (!!!)(for Science and Technology Minister).
Also he announced he will cut all the social programs, lift the laws that make obligatory to invest at least 15% of government money in public health system and more 15% in public education, rise taxes, quit the BRICS (the club of prominent wealthy countries including besides Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and India), sell all state-owned businesses to international corporations, privatize the highways, ports and airports and end the current investigations about corruption. He also took the friday 13th to extinguish two ministerial branches, the Culture Ministry and the Minorities Right's Ministry, together with the General Account Supervisory House, responsible for taking care of the government money and searching for irregularities.
Bizarrely TV stations, magazines and newspapers suddenly stopped talking about any and all "economic crisis" and started praising Temer as if he was a "New Messiah", the High Court decided to not accept charges against some of the most corrupt politicians from parties that support the coup (including Aecio Neves, the defeated candidate to 2014 presidential elections, that is a well known drug lord and was being charged with stealing 14 BILLIONS from public health money when he was governor of Minas Gerais state).
Major cities like Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre are being overtaken by protests against Temer (despite the TV and newspapers ignoring it all), and some public organs like the Health Ministry decided to make a "passive resistance", not obeying anything the new minister, president or Legislative send them. Unluckily Brazil's people is tame as a castrated 30 years old ox, I guess that places in Middle East or even Europe would rise in civil war in a moment like this, take the usurper out of his chair and hang him with his own intestines... But here there are plenty of idiots that swallowed the media schizophrenic delirium and think Temer is taking "the right measures" to "fix the country PT broke", and the media uses this fucktards in the news coverage to make it appear as "all" or at least a majority of Brazilians think like that.
For me... well... I'm pretty shocked. It feels like being dumped by a girlfriend, I'm feeling without any "ground" at all, as I see the brutal and stupid way the law was just thrown away and ignored by the Judges, Deputies and Senators, and how these usurpers managed to "convince" (probably "bribe") the highest powers in the nation to act like that... What else can be done? What laws to follow? How will politics work from now on? What can you invest on? Can I start a business without knowing how, or if, the laws regulating it are worth anything?
It's also a very, very bad omen of what is to come. If Temer and his bastards really implement all they are saying, life standards will start to fall quickly... When he abolish the Worker's Rights and the laws regulating contracts and jobs, we will be at the risk of going back to 1800's Industrial Revolution, with no "minimum" wage the businesses can pay what they see fit, and no law regulation they can fire anyone they want, anytime, don't give a fuck about pregnancy leaves, vacations and implement insane work shifts of 7 days a week and all hours they wish for per day. Without the social programs the lower middle class and poor will fall back to miserable, starvation will become a problem again, as it was in 1990's, small business will probably crumble and unemployment will rise... It's just insane, seems almost like a bad joke... How and why to just ruin the whole country like that?
I'm quite distressed about this coup... Last days I was thinking quite a lot about immigrating to a more civilized place, and even took a look at Finland and Canada immigration policies... But seems quite hard to just exile myself there, as I didn't have much cash on me to start a business abroad and I don't know much people in these countries to try getting a job offer or something that could ease the bureaucracy... and for Finland, I don't speak the language, so there is one more problem...
I though about Germany too, but besides the language barrier, I don't know how hard it is now, as waves of Middle Eastern immigrants are crossing the Mediterranean inside Europe and countries are getting pretty scared, full or just unable to receive new foreigners. UK would have the same situation I guess...
I'm quite worried, because for now on the Temer coup can install some repressive measures against any attempt to take him out of office and Brazil can quickly fall back into a no-rights police state like in 1960's... or maybe the people can rise and start a civil war like in Syria or France during the French Revolution... It's quite thin the possibility of some improvement in the current situation, and even smaller the chance of things getting back to normal without a very problematic period...
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News from the front - Brazil 2016 Coup
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Hello my friend!
Well, I believe you may be curious about all the news about the Coup that is going on here in Brazil... So who better to tell you the latest and saddest and most bizarre news about it than a (unhappily) inhabitant of this country like me?
So, sit thigh and prepare your stomach, because Brazil is not a country for the weak of heart or the sane...
If you didn't heard about it in the news, the story goes like this... In the end of 2014 we had presidencial elections here, and the major candidates were Dilma Rousseff, the current president (running for reelection) and Aecio Neves, a politician known for corruption, being a drug lord and running major TV stations and internacional drug trade (mostly cocaine... as Brazil is nonsensical enough, he also seems to enjoy a lot of his product, and twice went to hospitals with overdose...).
Dilma won the election by 54 million votes against 40 something millions for Aecio. Then you ask me "But how could someone vote for a drug lord?! And how isn't he in jail?". Well, things are complicated, and it goes back to 2013, when the media (including Aecio's part owned TV Globo) started a hate campaign against the government, spreading some really nasty neo-fascist ideals. As money talks loud, and Aecio's family is in politics since the beginning of XX century, he is suspect of bribing the judiciary for loooong time.
In 2014 and 2015 the hate campaign got a lot of momentum, with some investigations about corruption (the infamous "Car Wash" among them, an operation by Federal Police to uncover corruption in the state-owned oil company) being perverted to clash and intimidate high ranking members of the Labor's Party (PT), Dilma's party, going to the extreme of "kidnapping" the ex-president Lula with real-time TV coverage for questioning (and to this day nothing was discovered...), sending to TV Globo a tape with phone chat between Lula and the president, arresting people with no charges and other absurd actions. At the same time, any and all accusations, leads and material proof about the parties against the Worker's Party, Aecio Neves and other politicians being implicated in the corruption schemes were just "not investigated" (aka. totally ignored).
During 2015 and 2016 the opposition's parties kept trying to take Dilma out of the presidency, starting with allegations of fraud (no proof was found...), street demonstrations, virulent campaign in the media, sabotage (politicians from these parties just refuses to work, leading to key decisions and applications of government founds being late to not happening at all)... And now "Impeachment".
According to Brazilian law, a president can only suffer an impeachment if it's proven he/she committed a "fiscal crime" (some crime in managing government founds, like deviating founds, stealing from these founds and similar stuff).
As Dilma had committed no "fiscal crimes", the opposition parties "invented" some. Brazil have two state-owned banks, and law forbids the government to borrow money from them (as in 1990's many states did this and bankrupt the banks), but all presidents have used a shared fund were they deposit money that is not used along the month and reach for this fund when there is no money to pay all governmental expenses. This practice is called, playfully, "Fiscal Bike". So the opposition decided to state that the "fiscal bikes" are equal to borrowing money, and that it is a "fiscal crime"... even though it makes no sense...
Last sunday (16/04) the process went to the "Camara dos Deputados" (international media calls it "Lower House"), one of the two instances of the Legislative, and more than 2/3 of the Federal Deputies had to vote for the Impeachment for it to continue existing...
And it was a very nasty, insane and crazy freak show... Before this session more than 200 Federal Deputies (there are around 500 of them) came out publicly to state they were against the Impeachment, and that this process was nonsense and a coup... But suddenly, in the session, they started voting in favor of it. Some just mere minutes after stating their position...
It would already be strange, but the horror goes much, much deeper...
Eduardo Cunha, the president of the Camara, is a notorious corrupt, being charged with bribery, stealing funds, fraud, intimidation and tax evasion since 1991, and more than 400 of the 500 deputies are also accused of all sorts of crimes, from racism to being drug lords and murder. Once there was even one of them accused of cutting people in half with a chainsaw (Yes! Leatherface was a Brazilian politician! Luckily he ended up arrested some years ago).
And in the session each federal deputy had to walk up to a tribune and say his vote and why he was voting for or against the impeachment process. Mostly only 90 of them spoke something about the "fiscal bike" and the accusations against the president (all of them voted against the impeachment). The other 410 gave a show of nonsense, behaving like if they were in a game show, and stating they were voting for the impeachment for "the love of their children", "for their family", "for their grandchildren", "for the birthday of his daughter", "for the peace in Israel" (!), "against corruption" (one that said that woke up to find her husband being arrested for corruption in the next morning... and another one had his bank accounts blocked as police investigates corruption charges... ironically...) and... well... it goes worse...
In 1964 there was an CIA-sponsored coup in Brazil, and Dilma (with 15 years old) became a freedom fighter and was arrested and brutally tortured by CIA trained secret police. A deputy called Jair Bolsonaro, a known extreme-right neo-nazi homophobic dude, stated that his vote for the impeachment was "an homage to the torturers that put dread into Dilma's heart", and that "we won at the 1964 coup, we will won now, again!".
Then a deputy against the Impeachment, Jean Wyllys, a sociologist and activist for GLBT rights, spit at Bolsonaro's face, and Bolsonaro spit back... like some elementary school children spit fight! (!!!)
Also a morbidly obese deputy for the impeachment was walking around the chamber while someone (it's not possible to see in the video) put the foot in front of him and dropped him to the ground like Milley Cirrus demolition ball (funny to see, but dangerous and also like elementary school children prank... come on! The guy is corrupt but he could have broken some bones there...)
In the end, the Camara dos Deputados approved the impeachment process and now it goes to the Senate, were again the senators have to vote for or against it. And the previsions are not the best ones, as the president of the Senate is also a known corrupt and from the same party of Eduardo Cunha...
This guy, Renan Calheiros, is most known for having a bastard son with a Playboy cover girl and (as Brazilian law obligates the father of a bastard child to pay a monthly income to the mother) used public funds to pay the child support. Also the head of the process in the Senate, Jose Perella, is famous for having his personal helicopter taken down by police and over a HALF TON of cocaine paste being found inside.
Meanwhile the Supremo Tribunal Federal, the Brazilian High Court, that should put an end to this circus, is playing deaf, blind and dumb, occupying themselves with a lot of illegal actions (like not allowing the ex-president Lula and another guy to assume their sits as ministers, chosen by Dilma, when there is nothing in the law that would prevent them of doing so...) and just ignoring the matter completely...
Also the vice-president, Michael Temer, decided to betray Dilma in front of everybody, and started choosing people to compose "his government" and spreading notes about the actions he wants to take as soon as he takes the charge of the presidency. And most of this actions are... well... very bleak. Brazil have, since the 1930's, a very advanced law to support the workers, that includes license for maternity, an extra salary at December, insurance against unemployment, forbids firing the worker without good reasons (there is a list of them in the law) and regulates the retirement. And that's one of the main targets of Temer, that wants to petition the Legislative to erase this laws.
Also the minimum wage is in Temer's black list, as he wants to end a "minimum" for workers salary, allowing bosses to pay what they see fit, as low as they want. State-owned free healthcare (one of the most efficient and complete ones in the world) and state-owned education (from preschools to universities) will be closed, along with the oil company Petrobras, that received a lot of awards lately and it's one of the most valuable oil companies in the world.
Even the internet is under attack, as Eduardo Cunha, from the same party as Temer, wants to pass a law allowing internet providers to sell "packs" of data instead of unlimited internet access. Instead of paying for a month of unlimited internet access, people would buy "packs" of GBs of data they could access and would be forced to buy more after that pack goes "empty" (someone that watched Netflix or plays internet games would end them pretty soon...).
And to add insult to injury, everyone in the planet that is not Brazilian and not a "coxinha" (literally "chicken fried upper leg", a nickname for fascists and people that hate the government because of TV and newspapers influence), loves ex-president Lula and Dilma, as they both solved the starvation problem in the country, took 36 million people out of misery (not killing them, but giving them jobs and education), made Brazil the seventh economy in the world and the sixth country with more people employed (in 2002 Brazil was the second country in the planet in unemployment). Also Lula and Dilma opened markets for Brazilian products in most of Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Americas, as before them only US and some dozen European countries used to buy stuff from Brazil. A coup that put an end to their governments is doomed to see boycotts appearing all over the world and most countries becoming unwilling to deal with the new "government".
Also there is always the real threat of the military, that were starved of resources before the Workers Party won the presidency in 2003, and now have acquired a lot of new equipment and funds, decide to make a coup against the coup and take the political powers for themselves, like they did in 1964 under CIA support... Or even more problematic, a lot of regimes around here loves Lula and Dilma for opening markets to them, and guys like Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba or even Argentina and Chile could try to "reinstate" the Worker's Party with their military strength. Usually Brazil military would keep them at home, but if the generals just decide to not oppose or even support the international intervention, most likely a civil war would ensure...
And in this topic there is always Russia. Before this political shitstorm, Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa and China were building up a "club" named BRICS, the most powerful emergent economies in the world, and accorded to have a common international bank, free trade and possibly, a new common money. And between them all, Russia was always the most friendly to Lula and Dilma, and both Brazil and them were seen as the "leaders" of the BRICS. A coup that challenges these projects, most dear to Vladmir Putin, could convince the Russians to try using military power to fight the new "government"...
Even without international interference, if the coup succeeds at taking Dilma out of the presidency for no legal reason, the next years would be of strife. Workers would not take lightly a government cancelling their rights, and most poor and middle class would not get happy without free healthcare and education... Protests and strikes will go on forever, the internal market will collapse and bankruptcy will get most, if not all, national businesses, while international industries will just run away, leaving only the most basic exportation ones, like oil, minerals and maybe farming...
Also the new "government" will be plagued by people trying to call for impeachments every single day. And it will probably continue forever, at all next governments, as the process against Dilma would have shown that no crime is needed for it to be installed and take the president out...
So far, the only best scenario I can see, if Dilma is in fact taken out, is Vladmir Putin or our neighbors putting her back in power... and when you consider a foreign invasion the "best case scenario", that's a clear indication of how bad things are going...
Well, I believe you may be curious about all the news about the Coup that is going on here in Brazil... So who better to tell you the latest and saddest and most bizarre news about it than a (unhappily) inhabitant of this country like me?
So, sit thigh and prepare your stomach, because Brazil is not a country for the weak of heart or the sane...
If you didn't heard about it in the news, the story goes like this... In the end of 2014 we had presidencial elections here, and the major candidates were Dilma Rousseff, the current president (running for reelection) and Aecio Neves, a politician known for corruption, being a drug lord and running major TV stations and internacional drug trade (mostly cocaine... as Brazil is nonsensical enough, he also seems to enjoy a lot of his product, and twice went to hospitals with overdose...).
Dilma won the election by 54 million votes against 40 something millions for Aecio. Then you ask me "But how could someone vote for a drug lord?! And how isn't he in jail?". Well, things are complicated, and it goes back to 2013, when the media (including Aecio's part owned TV Globo) started a hate campaign against the government, spreading some really nasty neo-fascist ideals. As money talks loud, and Aecio's family is in politics since the beginning of XX century, he is suspect of bribing the judiciary for loooong time.
In 2014 and 2015 the hate campaign got a lot of momentum, with some investigations about corruption (the infamous "Car Wash" among them, an operation by Federal Police to uncover corruption in the state-owned oil company) being perverted to clash and intimidate high ranking members of the Labor's Party (PT), Dilma's party, going to the extreme of "kidnapping" the ex-president Lula with real-time TV coverage for questioning (and to this day nothing was discovered...), sending to TV Globo a tape with phone chat between Lula and the president, arresting people with no charges and other absurd actions. At the same time, any and all accusations, leads and material proof about the parties against the Worker's Party, Aecio Neves and other politicians being implicated in the corruption schemes were just "not investigated" (aka. totally ignored).
During 2015 and 2016 the opposition's parties kept trying to take Dilma out of the presidency, starting with allegations of fraud (no proof was found...), street demonstrations, virulent campaign in the media, sabotage (politicians from these parties just refuses to work, leading to key decisions and applications of government founds being late to not happening at all)... And now "Impeachment".
According to Brazilian law, a president can only suffer an impeachment if it's proven he/she committed a "fiscal crime" (some crime in managing government founds, like deviating founds, stealing from these founds and similar stuff).
As Dilma had committed no "fiscal crimes", the opposition parties "invented" some. Brazil have two state-owned banks, and law forbids the government to borrow money from them (as in 1990's many states did this and bankrupt the banks), but all presidents have used a shared fund were they deposit money that is not used along the month and reach for this fund when there is no money to pay all governmental expenses. This practice is called, playfully, "Fiscal Bike". So the opposition decided to state that the "fiscal bikes" are equal to borrowing money, and that it is a "fiscal crime"... even though it makes no sense...
Last sunday (16/04) the process went to the "Camara dos Deputados" (international media calls it "Lower House"), one of the two instances of the Legislative, and more than 2/3 of the Federal Deputies had to vote for the Impeachment for it to continue existing...
And it was a very nasty, insane and crazy freak show... Before this session more than 200 Federal Deputies (there are around 500 of them) came out publicly to state they were against the Impeachment, and that this process was nonsense and a coup... But suddenly, in the session, they started voting in favor of it. Some just mere minutes after stating their position...
It would already be strange, but the horror goes much, much deeper...
Eduardo Cunha, the president of the Camara, is a notorious corrupt, being charged with bribery, stealing funds, fraud, intimidation and tax evasion since 1991, and more than 400 of the 500 deputies are also accused of all sorts of crimes, from racism to being drug lords and murder. Once there was even one of them accused of cutting people in half with a chainsaw (Yes! Leatherface was a Brazilian politician! Luckily he ended up arrested some years ago).
And in the session each federal deputy had to walk up to a tribune and say his vote and why he was voting for or against the impeachment process. Mostly only 90 of them spoke something about the "fiscal bike" and the accusations against the president (all of them voted against the impeachment). The other 410 gave a show of nonsense, behaving like if they were in a game show, and stating they were voting for the impeachment for "the love of their children", "for their family", "for their grandchildren", "for the birthday of his daughter", "for the peace in Israel" (!), "against corruption" (one that said that woke up to find her husband being arrested for corruption in the next morning... and another one had his bank accounts blocked as police investigates corruption charges... ironically...) and... well... it goes worse...
In 1964 there was an CIA-sponsored coup in Brazil, and Dilma (with 15 years old) became a freedom fighter and was arrested and brutally tortured by CIA trained secret police. A deputy called Jair Bolsonaro, a known extreme-right neo-nazi homophobic dude, stated that his vote for the impeachment was "an homage to the torturers that put dread into Dilma's heart", and that "we won at the 1964 coup, we will won now, again!".
Then a deputy against the Impeachment, Jean Wyllys, a sociologist and activist for GLBT rights, spit at Bolsonaro's face, and Bolsonaro spit back... like some elementary school children spit fight! (!!!)
Also a morbidly obese deputy for the impeachment was walking around the chamber while someone (it's not possible to see in the video) put the foot in front of him and dropped him to the ground like Milley Cirrus demolition ball (funny to see, but dangerous and also like elementary school children prank... come on! The guy is corrupt but he could have broken some bones there...)
In the end, the Camara dos Deputados approved the impeachment process and now it goes to the Senate, were again the senators have to vote for or against it. And the previsions are not the best ones, as the president of the Senate is also a known corrupt and from the same party of Eduardo Cunha...
This guy, Renan Calheiros, is most known for having a bastard son with a Playboy cover girl and (as Brazilian law obligates the father of a bastard child to pay a monthly income to the mother) used public funds to pay the child support. Also the head of the process in the Senate, Jose Perella, is famous for having his personal helicopter taken down by police and over a HALF TON of cocaine paste being found inside.
Meanwhile the Supremo Tribunal Federal, the Brazilian High Court, that should put an end to this circus, is playing deaf, blind and dumb, occupying themselves with a lot of illegal actions (like not allowing the ex-president Lula and another guy to assume their sits as ministers, chosen by Dilma, when there is nothing in the law that would prevent them of doing so...) and just ignoring the matter completely...
Also the vice-president, Michael Temer, decided to betray Dilma in front of everybody, and started choosing people to compose "his government" and spreading notes about the actions he wants to take as soon as he takes the charge of the presidency. And most of this actions are... well... very bleak. Brazil have, since the 1930's, a very advanced law to support the workers, that includes license for maternity, an extra salary at December, insurance against unemployment, forbids firing the worker without good reasons (there is a list of them in the law) and regulates the retirement. And that's one of the main targets of Temer, that wants to petition the Legislative to erase this laws.
Also the minimum wage is in Temer's black list, as he wants to end a "minimum" for workers salary, allowing bosses to pay what they see fit, as low as they want. State-owned free healthcare (one of the most efficient and complete ones in the world) and state-owned education (from preschools to universities) will be closed, along with the oil company Petrobras, that received a lot of awards lately and it's one of the most valuable oil companies in the world.
Even the internet is under attack, as Eduardo Cunha, from the same party as Temer, wants to pass a law allowing internet providers to sell "packs" of data instead of unlimited internet access. Instead of paying for a month of unlimited internet access, people would buy "packs" of GBs of data they could access and would be forced to buy more after that pack goes "empty" (someone that watched Netflix or plays internet games would end them pretty soon...).
And to add insult to injury, everyone in the planet that is not Brazilian and not a "coxinha" (literally "chicken fried upper leg", a nickname for fascists and people that hate the government because of TV and newspapers influence), loves ex-president Lula and Dilma, as they both solved the starvation problem in the country, took 36 million people out of misery (not killing them, but giving them jobs and education), made Brazil the seventh economy in the world and the sixth country with more people employed (in 2002 Brazil was the second country in the planet in unemployment). Also Lula and Dilma opened markets for Brazilian products in most of Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Americas, as before them only US and some dozen European countries used to buy stuff from Brazil. A coup that put an end to their governments is doomed to see boycotts appearing all over the world and most countries becoming unwilling to deal with the new "government".
Also there is always the real threat of the military, that were starved of resources before the Workers Party won the presidency in 2003, and now have acquired a lot of new equipment and funds, decide to make a coup against the coup and take the political powers for themselves, like they did in 1964 under CIA support... Or even more problematic, a lot of regimes around here loves Lula and Dilma for opening markets to them, and guys like Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba or even Argentina and Chile could try to "reinstate" the Worker's Party with their military strength. Usually Brazil military would keep them at home, but if the generals just decide to not oppose or even support the international intervention, most likely a civil war would ensure...
And in this topic there is always Russia. Before this political shitstorm, Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa and China were building up a "club" named BRICS, the most powerful emergent economies in the world, and accorded to have a common international bank, free trade and possibly, a new common money. And between them all, Russia was always the most friendly to Lula and Dilma, and both Brazil and them were seen as the "leaders" of the BRICS. A coup that challenges these projects, most dear to Vladmir Putin, could convince the Russians to try using military power to fight the new "government"...
Even without international interference, if the coup succeeds at taking Dilma out of the presidency for no legal reason, the next years would be of strife. Workers would not take lightly a government cancelling their rights, and most poor and middle class would not get happy without free healthcare and education... Protests and strikes will go on forever, the internal market will collapse and bankruptcy will get most, if not all, national businesses, while international industries will just run away, leaving only the most basic exportation ones, like oil, minerals and maybe farming...
Also the new "government" will be plagued by people trying to call for impeachments every single day. And it will probably continue forever, at all next governments, as the process against Dilma would have shown that no crime is needed for it to be installed and take the president out...
So far, the only best scenario I can see, if Dilma is in fact taken out, is Vladmir Putin or our neighbors putting her back in power... and when you consider a foreign invasion the "best case scenario", that's a clear indication of how bad things are going...
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News from the front - Brazil 2016 Coup
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Hello my friend!
Well, I believe you may be curious about all the news about the Coup that is going on here in Brazil... So who better to tell you the latest and saddest and most bizarre news about it than a (unhappily) inhabitant of this country like me?
So, sit thigh and prepare your stomach, because Brazil is not a country for the weak of heart or the sane...
If you didn't heard about it in the news, the story goes like this... In the end of 2014 we had presidencial elections here, and the major candidates were Dilma Rousseff, the current president (running for reelection) and Aecio Neves, a politician known for corruption, being a drug lord and running major TV stations and internacional drug trade (mostly cocaine... as Brazil is nonsensical enough, he also seems to enjoy a lot of his product, and twice went to hospitals with overdose...).
Dilma won the election by 54 million votes against 40 something millions for Aecio. Then you ask me "But how could someone vote for a drug lord?! And how isn't he in jail?". Well, things are complicated, and it goes back to 2013, when the media (including Aecio's part owned TV Globo) started a hate campaign against the government, spreading some really nasty neo-fascist ideals. As money talks loud, and Aecio's family is in politics since the beginning of XX century, he is suspect of bribing the judiciary for loooong time.
In 2014 and 2015 the hate campaign got a lot of momentum, with some investigations about corruption (the infamous "Car Wash" among them, an operation by Federal Police to uncover corruption in the state-owned oil company) being perverted to clash and intimidate high ranking members of the Labor's Party (PT), Dilma's party, going to the extreme of "kidnapping" the ex-president Lula with real-time TV coverage for questioning (and to this day nothing was discovered...), sending to TV Globo a tape with phone chat between Lula and the president, arresting people with no charges and other absurd actions. At the same time, any and all accusations, leads and material proof about the parties against the Worker's Party, Aecio Neves and other politicians being implicated in the corruption schemes were just "not investigated" (aka. totally ignored).
During 2015 and 2016 the opposition's parties kept trying to take Dilma out of the presidency, starting with allegations of fraud (no proof was found...), street demonstrations, virulent campaign in the media, sabotage (politicians from these parties just refuses to work, leading to key decisions and applications of government founds being late to not happening at all)... And now "Impeachment".
According to Brazilian law, a president can only suffer an impeachment if it's proven he/she committed a "fiscal crime" (some crime in managing government founds, like deviating founds, stealing from these founds and similar stuff).
As Dilma had committed no "fiscal crimes", the opposition parties "invented" some. Brazil have two state-owned banks, and law forbids the government to borrow money from them (as in 1990's many states did this and bankrupt the banks), but all presidents have used a shared fund were they deposit money that is not used along the month and reach for this fund when there is no money to pay all governmental expenses. This practice is called, playfully, "Fiscal Bike". So the opposition decided to state that the "fiscal bikes" are equal to borrowing money, and that it is a "fiscal crime"... even though it makes no sense...
Last sunday (16/04) the process went to the "Camara dos Deputados" (international media calls it "Lower House"), one of the two instances of the Legislative, and more than 2/3 of the Federal Deputies had to vote for the Impeachment for it to continue existing...
And it was a very nasty, insane and crazy freak show... Before this session more than 200 Federal Deputies (there are around 500 of them) came out publicly to state they were against the Impeachment, and that this process was nonsense and a coup... But suddenly, in the session, they started voting in favor of it. Some just mere minutes after stating their position...
It would already be strange, but the horror goes much, much deeper...
Eduardo Cunha, the president of the Camara, is a notorious corrupt, being charged with bribery, stealing funds, fraud, intimidation and tax evasion since 1991, and more than 400 of the 500 deputies are also accused of all sorts of crimes, from racism to being drug lords and murder. Once there was even one of them accused of cutting people in half with a chainsaw (Yes! Leatherface was a Brazilian politician! Luckily he ended up arrested some years ago).
And in the session each federal deputy had to walk up to a tribune and say his vote and why he was voting for or against the impeachment process. Mostly only 90 of them spoke something about the "fiscal bike" and the accusations against the president (all of them voted against the impeachment). The other 410 gave a show of nonsense, behaving like if they were in a game show, and stating they were voting for the impeachment for "the love of their children", "for their family", "for their grandchildren", "for the birthday of his daughter", "for the peace in Israel" (!), "against corruption" (one that said that woke up to find her husband being arrested for corruption in the next morning... and another one had his bank accounts blocked as police investigates corruption charges... ironically...) and... well... it goes worse...
In 1964 there was an CIA-sponsored coup in Brazil, and Dilma (with 15 years old) became a freedom fighter and was arrested and brutally tortured by CIA trained secret police. A deputy called Jair Bolsonaro, a known extreme-right neo-nazi homophobic dude, stated that his vote for the impeachment was "an homage to the torturers that put dread into Dilma's heart", and that "we won at the 1964 coup, we will won now, again!".
Then a deputy against the Impeachment, Jean Wyllys, a sociologist and activist for GLBT rights, spit at Bolsonaro's face, and Bolsonaro spit back... like some elementary school children spit fight! (!!!)
Also a morbidly obese deputy for the impeachment was walking around the chamber while someone (it's not possible to see in the video) put the foot in front of him and dropped him to the ground like Milley Cirrus demolition ball (funny to see, but dangerous and also like elementary school children prank... come on! The guy is corrupt but he could have broken some bones there...)
In the end, the Camara dos Deputados approved the impeachment process and now it goes to the Senate, were again the senators have to vote for or against it. And the previsions are not the best ones, as the president of the Senate is also a known corrupt and from the same party of Eduardo Cunha...
This guy, Renan Calheiros, is most known for having a bastard son with a Playboy cover girl and (as Brazilian law obligates the father of a bastard child to pay a monthly income to the mother) used public funds to pay the child support. Also the head of the process in the Senate, Jose Perella, is famous for having his personal helicopter taken down by police and over a HALF TON of cocaine paste being found inside.
Meanwhile the Supremo Tribunal Federal, the Brazilian High Court, that should put an end to this circus, is playing deaf, blind and dumb, occupying themselves with a lot of illegal actions (like not allowing the ex-president Lula and another guy to assume their sits as ministers, chosen by Dilma, when there is nothing in the law that would prevent them of doing so...) and just ignoring the matter completely...
Also the vice-president, Michael Temer, decided to betray Dilma in front of everybody, and started choosing people to compose "his government" and spreading notes about the actions he wants to take as soon as he takes the charge of the presidency. And most of this actions are... well... very bleak. Brazil have, since the 1930's, a very advanced law to support the workers, that includes license for maternity, an extra salary at December, insurance against unemployment, forbids firing the worker without good reasons (there is a list of them in the law) and regulates the retirement. And that's one of the main targets of Temer, that wants to petition the Legislative to erase this laws.
Also the minimum wage is in Temer's black list, as he wants to end a "minimum" for workers salary, allowing bosses to pay what they see fit, as low as they want. State-owned free healthcare (one of the most efficient and complete ones in the world) and state-owned education (from preschools to universities) will be closed, along with the oil company Petrobras, that received a lot of awards lately and it's one of the most valuable oil companies in the world.
Even the internet is under attack, as Eduardo Cunha, from the same party as Temer, wants to pass a law allowing internet providers to sell "packs" of data instead of unlimited internet access. Instead of paying for a month of unlimited internet access, people would buy "packs" of GBs of data they could access and would be forced to buy more after that pack goes "empty" (someone that watched Netflix or plays internet games would end them pretty soon...).
And to add insult to injury, everyone in the planet that is not Brazilian and not a "coxinha" (literally "chicken fried upper leg", a nickname for fascists and people that hate the government because of TV and newspapers influence), loves ex-president Lula and Dilma, as they both solved the starvation problem in the country, took 36 million people out of misery (not killing them, but giving them jobs and education), made Brazil the seventh economy in the world and the sixth country with more people employed (in 2002 Brazil was the second country in the planet in unemployment). Also Lula and Dilma opened markets for Brazilian products in most of Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Americas, as before them only US and some dozen European countries used to buy stuff from Brazil. A coup that put an end to their governments is doomed to see boycotts appearing all over the world and most countries becoming unwilling to deal with the new "government".
Also there is always the real threat of the military, that were starved of resources before the Workers Party won the presidency in 2003, and now have acquired a lot of new equipment and funds, decide to make a coup against the coup and take the political powers for themselves, like they did in 1964 under CIA support... Or even more problematic, a lot of regimes around here loves Lula and Dilma for opening markets to them, and guys like Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba or even Argentina and Chile could try to "reinstate" the Worker's Party with their military strength. Usually Brazil military would keep them at home, but if the generals just decide to not oppose or even support the international intervention, most likely a civil war would ensure...
And in this topic there is always Russia. Before this political shitstorm, Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa and China were building up a "club" named BRICS, the most powerful emergent economies in the world, and accorded to have a common international bank, free trade and possibly, a new common money. And between them all, Russia was always the most friendly to Lula and Dilma, and both Brazil and them were seen as the "leaders" of the BRICS. A coup that challenges these projects, most dear to Vladmir Putin, could convince the Russians to try using military power to fight the new "government"...
Even without international interference, if the coup succeeds at taking Dilma out of the presidency for no legal reason, the next years would be of strife. Workers would not take lightly a government cancelling their rights, and most poor and middle class would not get happy without free healthcare and education... Protests and strikes will go on forever, the internal market will collapse and bankruptcy will get most, if not all, national businesses, while international industries will just run away, leaving only the most basic exportation ones, like oil, minerals and maybe farming...
Also the new "government" will be plagued by people trying to call for impeachments every single day. And it will probably continue forever, at all next governments, as the process against Dilma would have shown that no crime is needed for it to be installed and take the president out...
So far, the only best scenario I can see, if Dilma is in fact taken out, is Vladmir Putin or our neighbors putting her back in power... and when you consider a foreign invasion the "best case scenario", that's a clear indication of how bad things are going...
Well, I believe you may be curious about all the news about the Coup that is going on here in Brazil... So who better to tell you the latest and saddest and most bizarre news about it than a (unhappily) inhabitant of this country like me?
So, sit thigh and prepare your stomach, because Brazil is not a country for the weak of heart or the sane...
If you didn't heard about it in the news, the story goes like this... In the end of 2014 we had presidencial elections here, and the major candidates were Dilma Rousseff, the current president (running for reelection) and Aecio Neves, a politician known for corruption, being a drug lord and running major TV stations and internacional drug trade (mostly cocaine... as Brazil is nonsensical enough, he also seems to enjoy a lot of his product, and twice went to hospitals with overdose...).
Dilma won the election by 54 million votes against 40 something millions for Aecio. Then you ask me "But how could someone vote for a drug lord?! And how isn't he in jail?". Well, things are complicated, and it goes back to 2013, when the media (including Aecio's part owned TV Globo) started a hate campaign against the government, spreading some really nasty neo-fascist ideals. As money talks loud, and Aecio's family is in politics since the beginning of XX century, he is suspect of bribing the judiciary for loooong time.
In 2014 and 2015 the hate campaign got a lot of momentum, with some investigations about corruption (the infamous "Car Wash" among them, an operation by Federal Police to uncover corruption in the state-owned oil company) being perverted to clash and intimidate high ranking members of the Labor's Party (PT), Dilma's party, going to the extreme of "kidnapping" the ex-president Lula with real-time TV coverage for questioning (and to this day nothing was discovered...), sending to TV Globo a tape with phone chat between Lula and the president, arresting people with no charges and other absurd actions. At the same time, any and all accusations, leads and material proof about the parties against the Worker's Party, Aecio Neves and other politicians being implicated in the corruption schemes were just "not investigated" (aka. totally ignored).
During 2015 and 2016 the opposition's parties kept trying to take Dilma out of the presidency, starting with allegations of fraud (no proof was found...), street demonstrations, virulent campaign in the media, sabotage (politicians from these parties just refuses to work, leading to key decisions and applications of government founds being late to not happening at all)... And now "Impeachment".
According to Brazilian law, a president can only suffer an impeachment if it's proven he/she committed a "fiscal crime" (some crime in managing government founds, like deviating founds, stealing from these founds and similar stuff).
As Dilma had committed no "fiscal crimes", the opposition parties "invented" some. Brazil have two state-owned banks, and law forbids the government to borrow money from them (as in 1990's many states did this and bankrupt the banks), but all presidents have used a shared fund were they deposit money that is not used along the month and reach for this fund when there is no money to pay all governmental expenses. This practice is called, playfully, "Fiscal Bike". So the opposition decided to state that the "fiscal bikes" are equal to borrowing money, and that it is a "fiscal crime"... even though it makes no sense...
Last sunday (16/04) the process went to the "Camara dos Deputados" (international media calls it "Lower House"), one of the two instances of the Legislative, and more than 2/3 of the Federal Deputies had to vote for the Impeachment for it to continue existing...
And it was a very nasty, insane and crazy freak show... Before this session more than 200 Federal Deputies (there are around 500 of them) came out publicly to state they were against the Impeachment, and that this process was nonsense and a coup... But suddenly, in the session, they started voting in favor of it. Some just mere minutes after stating their position...
It would already be strange, but the horror goes much, much deeper...
Eduardo Cunha, the president of the Camara, is a notorious corrupt, being charged with bribery, stealing funds, fraud, intimidation and tax evasion since 1991, and more than 400 of the 500 deputies are also accused of all sorts of crimes, from racism to being drug lords and murder. Once there was even one of them accused of cutting people in half with a chainsaw (Yes! Leatherface was a Brazilian politician! Luckily he ended up arrested some years ago).
And in the session each federal deputy had to walk up to a tribune and say his vote and why he was voting for or against the impeachment process. Mostly only 90 of them spoke something about the "fiscal bike" and the accusations against the president (all of them voted against the impeachment). The other 410 gave a show of nonsense, behaving like if they were in a game show, and stating they were voting for the impeachment for "the love of their children", "for their family", "for their grandchildren", "for the birthday of his daughter", "for the peace in Israel" (!), "against corruption" (one that said that woke up to find her husband being arrested for corruption in the next morning... and another one had his bank accounts blocked as police investigates corruption charges... ironically...) and... well... it goes worse...
In 1964 there was an CIA-sponsored coup in Brazil, and Dilma (with 15 years old) became a freedom fighter and was arrested and brutally tortured by CIA trained secret police. A deputy called Jair Bolsonaro, a known extreme-right neo-nazi homophobic dude, stated that his vote for the impeachment was "an homage to the torturers that put dread into Dilma's heart", and that "we won at the 1964 coup, we will won now, again!".
Then a deputy against the Impeachment, Jean Wyllys, a sociologist and activist for GLBT rights, spit at Bolsonaro's face, and Bolsonaro spit back... like some elementary school children spit fight! (!!!)
Also a morbidly obese deputy for the impeachment was walking around the chamber while someone (it's not possible to see in the video) put the foot in front of him and dropped him to the ground like Milley Cirrus demolition ball (funny to see, but dangerous and also like elementary school children prank... come on! The guy is corrupt but he could have broken some bones there...)
In the end, the Camara dos Deputados approved the impeachment process and now it goes to the Senate, were again the senators have to vote for or against it. And the previsions are not the best ones, as the president of the Senate is also a known corrupt and from the same party of Eduardo Cunha...
This guy, Renan Calheiros, is most known for having a bastard son with a Playboy cover girl and (as Brazilian law obligates the father of a bastard child to pay a monthly income to the mother) used public funds to pay the child support. Also the head of the process in the Senate, Jose Perella, is famous for having his personal helicopter taken down by police and over a HALF TON of cocaine paste being found inside.
Meanwhile the Supremo Tribunal Federal, the Brazilian High Court, that should put an end to this circus, is playing deaf, blind and dumb, occupying themselves with a lot of illegal actions (like not allowing the ex-president Lula and another guy to assume their sits as ministers, chosen by Dilma, when there is nothing in the law that would prevent them of doing so...) and just ignoring the matter completely...
Also the vice-president, Michael Temer, decided to betray Dilma in front of everybody, and started choosing people to compose "his government" and spreading notes about the actions he wants to take as soon as he takes the charge of the presidency. And most of this actions are... well... very bleak. Brazil have, since the 1930's, a very advanced law to support the workers, that includes license for maternity, an extra salary at December, insurance against unemployment, forbids firing the worker without good reasons (there is a list of them in the law) and regulates the retirement. And that's one of the main targets of Temer, that wants to petition the Legislative to erase this laws.
Also the minimum wage is in Temer's black list, as he wants to end a "minimum" for workers salary, allowing bosses to pay what they see fit, as low as they want. State-owned free healthcare (one of the most efficient and complete ones in the world) and state-owned education (from preschools to universities) will be closed, along with the oil company Petrobras, that received a lot of awards lately and it's one of the most valuable oil companies in the world.
Even the internet is under attack, as Eduardo Cunha, from the same party as Temer, wants to pass a law allowing internet providers to sell "packs" of data instead of unlimited internet access. Instead of paying for a month of unlimited internet access, people would buy "packs" of GBs of data they could access and would be forced to buy more after that pack goes "empty" (someone that watched Netflix or plays internet games would end them pretty soon...).
And to add insult to injury, everyone in the planet that is not Brazilian and not a "coxinha" (literally "chicken fried upper leg", a nickname for fascists and people that hate the government because of TV and newspapers influence), loves ex-president Lula and Dilma, as they both solved the starvation problem in the country, took 36 million people out of misery (not killing them, but giving them jobs and education), made Brazil the seventh economy in the world and the sixth country with more people employed (in 2002 Brazil was the second country in the planet in unemployment). Also Lula and Dilma opened markets for Brazilian products in most of Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Americas, as before them only US and some dozen European countries used to buy stuff from Brazil. A coup that put an end to their governments is doomed to see boycotts appearing all over the world and most countries becoming unwilling to deal with the new "government".
Also there is always the real threat of the military, that were starved of resources before the Workers Party won the presidency in 2003, and now have acquired a lot of new equipment and funds, decide to make a coup against the coup and take the political powers for themselves, like they did in 1964 under CIA support... Or even more problematic, a lot of regimes around here loves Lula and Dilma for opening markets to them, and guys like Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba or even Argentina and Chile could try to "reinstate" the Worker's Party with their military strength. Usually Brazil military would keep them at home, but if the generals just decide to not oppose or even support the international intervention, most likely a civil war would ensure...
And in this topic there is always Russia. Before this political shitstorm, Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa and China were building up a "club" named BRICS, the most powerful emergent economies in the world, and accorded to have a common international bank, free trade and possibly, a new common money. And between them all, Russia was always the most friendly to Lula and Dilma, and both Brazil and them were seen as the "leaders" of the BRICS. A coup that challenges these projects, most dear to Vladmir Putin, could convince the Russians to try using military power to fight the new "government"...
Even without international interference, if the coup succeeds at taking Dilma out of the presidency for no legal reason, the next years would be of strife. Workers would not take lightly a government cancelling their rights, and most poor and middle class would not get happy without free healthcare and education... Protests and strikes will go on forever, the internal market will collapse and bankruptcy will get most, if not all, national businesses, while international industries will just run away, leaving only the most basic exportation ones, like oil, minerals and maybe farming...
Also the new "government" will be plagued by people trying to call for impeachments every single day. And it will probably continue forever, at all next governments, as the process against Dilma would have shown that no crime is needed for it to be installed and take the president out...
So far, the only best scenario I can see, if Dilma is in fact taken out, is Vladmir Putin or our neighbors putting her back in power... and when you consider a foreign invasion the "best case scenario", that's a clear indication of how bad things are going...
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1 what tattoos and/or piercings do you have?
None.
2 what tattoos and/or piercings do you want?
Well... I'm not decided yet... I though once about making the "Om Mani Padme Hum" in nepalese writing in my wrist, maybe a Qlipoth in my back and the eight-pointed chaos star at my triceps... But I'm not really sure about any of them... XD
3 do you like owls?
Yes. There are plenty of them in my city, and there was a huge one living at the attic of the house I used to live in.
4 if you were given a chance to have sex with a owl-man hybrid, would you?
Why would I?! Oo
5 if you were a dog, what breed would you be?
I'm not very fan of dogs... but maybe a Bull Terrier, I find their long nose and small eyes quite funny XD
6 what would you write a erotic story about?
Hummmmm... I'm not that good at writing erotic stuff... Usually I'm over polite and scientific or I use a horrible slang. But I think some lesbian BDSM would be fun XD
7 would you like to see a erotic story about homosexual owls?
Nope
8 whats your favorite operation ivy song?
Operation? Ivy? I don't know it... Oo
9 have you ever been homeless?
Nope... well... I was quite poor once, but not that poor...
10 if so, how long?
N/A
11 do you like dogs?
Not much... They often smell like wet carpet, shit all over the place and needs to be washed. But I think some breeds like the Bull Terrier look cool...
12 do you like cats?
Yap, very very much! I have five of them at my house XD
13 do you like owls?
Hummmmm... seems to be repeated here...
14 what color is your hair?
Dark blonde to light brown
15 favorite fallout enemy?
Humans are cool, mostly the ones that looks like Mad Max punks... I like the Deathclaw aesthetics too
16 have you ever killed someone in cold blood?
No... I barely if ever kill insects and other small creatures... I think the biggest creature I ever killed was a giant Wolf Spider that my cat captured, the poor monster was so messed up that I decided to give it a mercy kill. Problem was the spider was so fucking huge that I couldn't crush it stepping over it's body (I'm about 80 kg), so I had to use a machete to cut it in half...
17 do you like snow?
A lot! Sadly there is no snow in Brazil, only a small bit in the far far south... I wish I could live in Europe to see more snow
18 do you like rain?
Yap, mostly if it falls at dawn... During the day rain usually messes up my schedule
19 do you like the sun?
Nope. I'm too fucking white, and the sun at my city is horrible strong... Everytime I go out I get horrible sunburns...
20 would you like to live in a country run by owls?
How would owls run a country?! They just eat small animals and sleep all day long... They can't even write... XD
Awnser all questions"
Credit
as the original person!1 what tattoos and/or piercings do you have?
None.
2 what tattoos and/or piercings do you want?
Well... I'm not decided yet... I though once about making the "Om Mani Padme Hum" in nepalese writing in my wrist, maybe a Qlipoth in my back and the eight-pointed chaos star at my triceps... But I'm not really sure about any of them... XD
3 do you like owls?
Yes. There are plenty of them in my city, and there was a huge one living at the attic of the house I used to live in.
4 if you were given a chance to have sex with a owl-man hybrid, would you?
Why would I?! Oo
5 if you were a dog, what breed would you be?
I'm not very fan of dogs... but maybe a Bull Terrier, I find their long nose and small eyes quite funny XD
6 what would you write a erotic story about?
Hummmmm... I'm not that good at writing erotic stuff... Usually I'm over polite and scientific or I use a horrible slang. But I think some lesbian BDSM would be fun XD
7 would you like to see a erotic story about homosexual owls?
Nope
8 whats your favorite operation ivy song?
Operation? Ivy? I don't know it... Oo
9 have you ever been homeless?
Nope... well... I was quite poor once, but not that poor...
10 if so, how long?
N/A
11 do you like dogs?
Not much... They often smell like wet carpet, shit all over the place and needs to be washed. But I think some breeds like the Bull Terrier look cool...
12 do you like cats?
Yap, very very much! I have five of them at my house XD
13 do you like owls?
Hummmmm... seems to be repeated here...
14 what color is your hair?
Dark blonde to light brown
15 favorite fallout enemy?
Humans are cool, mostly the ones that looks like Mad Max punks... I like the Deathclaw aesthetics too
16 have you ever killed someone in cold blood?
No... I barely if ever kill insects and other small creatures... I think the biggest creature I ever killed was a giant Wolf Spider that my cat captured, the poor monster was so messed up that I decided to give it a mercy kill. Problem was the spider was so fucking huge that I couldn't crush it stepping over it's body (I'm about 80 kg), so I had to use a machete to cut it in half...
17 do you like snow?
A lot! Sadly there is no snow in Brazil, only a small bit in the far far south... I wish I could live in Europe to see more snow
18 do you like rain?
Yap, mostly if it falls at dawn... During the day rain usually messes up my schedule
19 do you like the sun?
Nope. I'm too fucking white, and the sun at my city is horrible strong... Everytime I go out I get horrible sunburns...
20 would you like to live in a country run by owls?
How would owls run a country?! They just eat small animals and sleep all day long... They can't even write... XD
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