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Millions of Brazilians have taken
to the streets, around that country,
to demand the resignation or the
impeachment of their current
President, Dilma Rousseff. Meanwhile,
her Chief-of-Staff has been indicted
on corruption charges, stemming
from his stint a few years ago, at the
state-owned petroleum company,
Petrobras.
Rousseff was the Country's Secretary
of Energy at the time and must have
known all about it, although this remains
unproven, as of yet. Her mentor and
former President, Lula is facing charges
of money laundering for his role in an
elaborate kick-back scheme with
Petrobras, totaling over 3 billion USD.
Those under investigation and indicted
are all exponents of the Worker's Party
(PT), which was finally able to get into
power with the election of Lula in 2003.
This followed the disjointed interregnum
that occurred after the 1985 dissolution
of the CIA-installed military dictatorship,
starting in 1964, which destroyed the
economy of Brazil, although it'd previously
had a higher average standard of living
than most of Europe, at the time.
The Worker's Party ran on a populist
platform and over the course of 12 years,
it did raise 40M people out of poverty and
eradicate hunger, in what has been
described as the greatest transfer of wealth,
of all time (or perhaps second to the
offshoring of the US' manufacturing base
to China).
This was made possible by the first-time
ever discovery of crude petroleum in
extremely deepwater reserves off the coast
of Rio de Janeiro. Despite this arguably good
deed, much else that the Worker's Party
did was not in the interest of the nation,
beating its own previously-set records
of heretofore unimaginable graft.
Dilma and Lula now find themselves trying
to rapidly cobble together a scheme, where
she can replace her Chief-of Staff with Lula,
so that he might avoid prosecution except
by a mighty effort of the Supreme Court.
From the personal standpoints of Dilma and
Lula and from the larger view, they're both
simultaneously fighting for their own lives
and against the NWO. But from a local
perspective, everyone, except for the very
poor (of which there are many) HATES THEM
for being so unbelievably corrupt.
What's not getting enough play, in the local
media or elsewhere are the right-wing, rich
Brazilians, who own the media - and who are
also on the take from the US and international
corporations; THOSE corrupt people have also
contributed mightily to the overall dysfunction
of a country that should be extremely wealthy.
Despite all of the robbery and the Socialist
policies, which make it almost impossible to
run a business there, the country still manages
to have the 7th largest GDP of all nations.
The elites are not getting the attention that
they deserve for their part in this unholy mess
because they own the media.
It was heartening, however that the US
lapdog candidate, Aecio Neves who lost his
presidential bid against Dilma in November
2014, was booed loudly when he tried to get
up and speak during the recent protests in
Sao Paulo. It seems that he's caught up in a
coke-snorting scandal, on top of an even
worse corruption scandal of his own, from
his term as Governor of the large State of
Minas Gerais.
What's REALLY great, is that Brazil's version
of the Department of Justice, in a massive
investigation called "Operation Carwash", is
now investigating ALL of the rotten politicians
- they're not like the lousy, mobbed-up DOJ
we have in the US - or at least, they've
ceased to be, for now. The Curitiba branch of
Brazil's Federal Police are the only truly
patriotic and democratic force currently in
the Brazilian government, who along with the
majority of the Brazilian people have totally
had it with the entire political class and
completely want to fire all the bums and toss
them all out - which makes me really proud
of them.
If only Americans had the balls to do the
same, considering that with almost double
the population of Brazil, there are probably
more people in the US who feel similarly
about our own political class, the Emperors
of Chaos, who daily sponsor needless
carnage in the Middle East. The lives of
people in the West become incrementally
less secure, with every unjust, bloodthirsty
act committed by ISIS, who have been
fully financed, trained, equipped and
maintained by the US and NATO, as has
already been proven over and over and is
plainly seen, in this video shot by the Syrian
Army, during a raid of an ISIS hideout in
Palmyra.
The Brazilian people are standing up and
taking it to the streets. Americans are
probably just as annoyed but instead, we
vote for protest candidates who are totally
bonkers - but possibly less bonkers than
the "approved" line-up.
The US only seems less corrupt because it
is so much wealthier - but trust me, it's
not less corrupt. The wages of US corruption
may soon be coming home to roost and
somehow, I don't think we have the
experience of mass partying that fosters
the kind peaceful protests that we're seeing
in Brazil, if the relatively minor kerfuffle in
Chicago is any indication.
Video: (5 mins):
3.6 Million People Take to The Streets, Demand
Revolution In Brazil
http://fktv.is/3-6-million-people-take-to-the-streets-demand-revolution-in-brazil-27600
- Alexandra
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