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Well I don't know about Brazil much but they still value the commons in Mother Russia............especially the Grandmothers........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4_5R75N5Mg
They speak portugese, no espanol dorkos del mundo.
What?!!!! No dancing girls skimply clad. Its Brazil for crying out loud. Just a butt lift or something. Slipping.....
I'm not going to load my post with skimpy clad Brazilian women when videos like this are circulating.
That's not me.
Those pigs fucked up that reporter girl's eye something awful.
This is why I don't believe in peaceful protesting. If they bring weapons I bring weapons & armor. If I am best advised not to try I will not protest.
At a public place where police expect to lay down chemical weapons, rubber bullets and other violence they should be faced with equal violence. Police should never be treated with kid gloves when their purpose is to do violence to the people who pay their salaries - also by force.
One can argue that the US "lost" the Viet Nam war due to US television and/or the media's selection of what to broadcast. Things were actually going pretty well until the Tet offensive - which the US actually "won." It is just that the US populace had the image that the matter was pretty was very "under control" and "victory" assured. The TV broadcasts showed differently - or at least gave the impression that things were not quite "sewn up." Also lots of grisly images of what happens to human beings when they take fire. One wouldn't/shouldn't have been surprised by that given the photographic imagery that came out of the US Civil War 100 years earlier. That is what happens in wars and we were in one. (I remember some mother complaining about her son being sent off to Gulf War I. He was on a reservist scholarship. She said, "I didn't think he could have to go to war." Ah well.)
My point is that what the internet will show of the developing world-wide protests will be very telling. Given small cell phone cameras, there is no stopping the video material being gathered. I think that the press was rather tightly controlled in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no formal press to control here - just inconspicuous civilians in street clothes. No press credentials to present. The governments' hope would be to shut down the Internet. That in itself will be very telling/condemning.
Then we have the NSA and 2 billion hollow point rounds.
Grant McEwan
Psyops
I don't know anything about the state security apparatus in Brazil. But I am sure we will be hearing shortly.
I sometimes take note of the FEMEN babes:
https://www.google.com/search?q=femen+photos&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&...
They did conduct a "topless jihad," a few months running half naked through the Muslim sections of Paris. They had things like "f*^k sharia" (law) painted on their exposed, above waist anatomy. Twisted sisters. The Muslim women are so incensed that they have started an anti-FEMEN group, except they don't take it off to make their point. Not to worry, the FEMEN protesters are ecumenical, stripping in Notre Dame cathedral and St Peter's square to protest the existence of the papacy.
Attention-seeking middle-class brats who should respect other people's right to live as they want to (however backwards ass and repressed others may find it).
I'd be more impressed if they were working to help single muslim mother's seeking asylum find a safe place for their children so they don't end up jihadists than this pointless display of their tatas.
femen, like pussy riot, is just zionist psy-op crap... Putin took care of business with the latter.
Well here are some lovely South American women ... with a profound story
Wonderful documentary on women in a prison in Medellin, Colombia, South America, holding a beauty pageant
Making something wonderful despite the pain and sometimes violent acts in their past lives
Superb ... about 25 minutes 'Beauty Behind Bars'
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2013/06/2013616124725850582....
Here is a little primer.
https://www.google.com/search?q=brazil+festival&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=EkvEUY-TJcidyQHn7YCgCg&sqi=2&ved=0CDoQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=899
Silicone Valley...
Sepp Blatter at the inaugural FIFA Confederation game with Dilma, telling everybody in the stadium in his broken Spanish to "show respect", would make excellent copy!
Ditto an out-of-touch (and old) Pelé telling all that they should just be quiet and support the local side in the games.
Sepp Blatter [ ... ]
telling everybody in the stadium in his broken Spanish to "show respect" - especially as it's Portuguese they speak in Brasil, not Spanish.
Oh, never mind.
Blatter is another crook and FIFA like the IOC, UN, FIA (car racing), IMF, Wolrd Bank, EU, NBA, NFL, MBL, et al are all criminals. Blatter really spoke Spanish in Brazil? LOL!
The fact that he is still around says it all.
Well, he framed his closest competitor, Bin Hammad for what else, corruption, a few years back!
Pre-emptive strike by Blatter!
oops! double post
Hey Pele' has to do something ,,, Xuxa's getting pretty old..
Different country, same problem, different response (out in the streets). We could learn from this.
We could but we won't.
Learning from things is just another job Americans dont want to do.
Don't worry people are sheep they'll figure it out when collapse ensues.
Good try, but for once, a little missing the real atmosphere- a bit too European-earnest in attitude.
Try something with more humour, as well as with an intergenerational overtone- between the old traditionalists, and the younger middle class who will be slowly assuming the reins. Perhaps Paris '68- but thankfully without a Cohn-Bendit.
This is Brasil after all- not Europe (demographically as well as culturally)
Ahem, that photograph was taken in Rio this week.. It's all over the wires.
And that statue? It ain't French or Spanish or Greek. Neither are the flags.
But I guess that's not Brazil enough for you.
This is Brazil!
thanks for doing what you do Dub-Bee7. big ups from San Bernardino CA. pay no mind to these MARKS
I personally always greatly appreciate your art- and was just making suggestions for a slightly different perspective. You remain, however, totally free to focus on what you see as the main points!
I'm just getting started with this. There are other images I have seen this week that are high impact. But this one caught my eye for the reasons stated.
The world cup was touted as an opportunity for social progress, but evidently it has turned into a different statist/crony opportunity that we are all very familiar with.
Respect
I'm amazed they didn't bring Jerry Jones in to show them how to bulldoze poor people's houses.
Yes relocating the so called slum people to housing tracts in the jungle.
Touchy, aren't we. A little dose of humility enhances greatness.
You can see that photo at the beginning of this news clip.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2488114341001/does-chaos-in-brazil-threaten-world-cup-olympics/
They call it chaos, it is not chaos. It is social blowback. I waited earlier in the week, thinking this can't be just about bus fares. That was the tipping point.
"They call it chaos, it is not chaos. It is social blowback. I waited earlier in the week, thinking this can't be just about bus fares. That was the tipping point." Damn right Will B., and as I commented earlier this week: it's not about "students" either.
I was reading a bunch of short interviews. And one interesting one was a University Student who said she was scared shitless but would keep going back.
The interesting thing was that her proud parents told her to keep at it.
Yes they reached their tipping point
They feel anger
And They are not afraid anymore
That's what happening when gov's instead of talking to the people try to cheat them,
fool them; uses NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) and similar techniques
This is - Straw that broke the camel's back -a gota que fez transbordar o copo
I love how the govt has painted the story.
"They protested over bus fares, we gave them what they wanted, now they are being unreasonable."
Right... Sure the bus fare story isn't a straw man, there, Brazilian gov't?
I love doing the samba to the smell of napalm at night.
Burning government vehicals always gets the girls hot! So I hear.
No, I think those people are showing us something that deserves our respect.
Instead of imitating they are setting the gold standard.
That picture is for them.
Guillermo Fawkes!
That would be Guilherme.
Guilherme...
True that, portuguese...I forgot, how raessssssit of me!!
DaddyO
Jesus Christ is the Church's symbol of eternal failure, a religous (ethereal) project gone so badly wrong the dreary pontificating twat got crucified
"the meak shall inherit the Earth"
2,000 years and the Church still haven't delivered on that false promise enshrined in the Bible to its ever meaker followers
give us a break from these dribbling idiots/failures
I don't think Jesus Christ has anything to do with the church.
What we see is a subversion by organized religion, the original corporate enterpise.
Right with you, brother.
Though I was raised in one of the Christian churches, I now refer to myself as a "non-sectarian" Christian. I try to live as the man preached, although I don't claim to be a saint. As Monty Python made clear, there is nothing so pure that the charlatans won't try to make a buck off it. Every branch of Christianity I've encountered pays lip service to the man's ideals, and then acts venially and immorally.
But that seems to be true of every religion I've encountered. The first casualty of organized religion is humility, apparently.
Yes, they nailed it all in that movie...pun intended ;-)