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Thousands Crowd Brazil's Streets: Demand Military Intervention & Rousseff Resignation, Impeachment
It appears the 'people' are growing more and more dissatisfied with their corrupt and greedy leaders across the world. As we noted recently, Brazil's economy is imploding, consumer sentiment is at record lows, and with the Petrobras scandal providing a glimpse at just how deep the corruption might go, Brazilians are revolting. Hundreds of thousands are crowding the streets in several regional Brazilian capitals, dominated ironically by the middle and upper classes. Demands for "Dilma Out" and "Impeach Dilma" are also interspersed with calls for a quasi-coup and "military intervention."
Hundreds of thousands of people protested today against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff , in Rio de Janeiro, within a day of demonstrations in dozens of cities across the country.
The protest in Rio de Janeiro started at 9:30 local time (12:30 GMT) on the beach of Copacabana and far exceeded the expectations of the public of the organizers, which are groups of citizens without opposition political parties declared link.
The man ifestantes chanted slogans against Rousseff and the ruling Workers Party (PT) and rejection of corruption.
"Out PT", "PT stole" and "PT anymore" were songs sung in repeatedly by the Cariocas protesters, who were dressed mostly in yellow and green colors of the Brazilian flag.
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The vast majority of the protesters in Rio were citizens of middle and upper class, a group that in elections last October voted en masse to the opposition.
Many protesters carried signs calling for impeachment to start Rousseff f towards the removal of the president, who began his second term last January 1st.
Besides Rio de Janeiro, morning mass demonstrations were reported, with tens of thousands of people, in Brasilia, Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais), Salvador (Bahia), Recife (Pernambuco) and other regional capitals of the country.
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#Brazil Protest against the government of president Dilma Rousseff. Photo @YasuyoshiChiba #AFP #Copacabana pic.twitter.com/ayg1dYcFuE
— AFP Photo Department (@AFPphoto) March 15, 2015
Cientos de miles de brasileños protestan contra #DilmaRousseff en Río de Janeiro. http://t.co/QufoeiQMTM pic.twitter.com/qlQgjqbEqS
— Revista Vistazo (@revistavistazo) March 15, 2015
Alerta: miles de brasileños salen a las calles para manifestarse en contra de Dilma Rousseff http://t.co/20nDtiGoRy pic.twitter.com/rtXPSx8s4M
— Infobae América (@infobaeamerica) March 15, 2015
Miles piden la destitución de Rousseff en Brasil. pic.twitter.com/9fbvHdpLNu
— Héctor Sandoval (@HectorSandu) March 15, 2015
Rio de Janeiro en este momento. Manifestación contra Dilma Rousseff pic.twitter.com/jX1WrgkZzw
— El Cipayo Argentino (@ElCipayo) March 15, 2015
@AleAlejajandra Rio de Janeiro diz NÃO ao Bolivarianismo Comunista de Dilma Rousseff e Maduro ! pic.twitter.com/53PQ85vfVq
— Marcos Venezuelano (@MarcosVenezuel) March 15, 2015
Miles protestan en Río de Janeiro contra Dilma Rousseff http://t.co/Bmy367Ab7R pic.twitter.com/ZBEEpKEaeD
— AZUCENA AYALA (@azu_ayala) March 15, 2015
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Of course, shouold Dilma resign or be over-run, it will be a disaster for Miami's burgeoing condo market...
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As we concluded previously,
If the Petrobras affair doesn’t bring Rousseff down, her decisions will. You have to be an exceptional politician to survive the kind of huge economic downturn that Brazil finds itself in. Rousseff is no such exceptional politician. And of course most ‘leaders’ are not (that makes the few exceptional). That in turn means we will see increasing numbers of leadership changes as economies go downhill. Argentina went through 5 presidents in less than 3.5 years at the beginning of the century. Don’t be surprised if Brazil goes down that path too. And many other countries.
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Is the World Cup starting?
no they have just realized that they lost the world cup and billions $ with it :-) you know sun sea beach caipirinha they need time to understand
Apparently Brazilian citizens are a helluva lot smarte than U.S. sheeple...
Probably not. It's just the right-handed control freaks upset because they don't get to tell everyone else what to do.
Plus they're not getting their fair share of the spoils.
The CIA's handwrite is all over this protest.
F**k this : As the US-led opposition puppet can't manage to get elected democratically, so now it's yet another coup.
And if the coup fail ... sanctions
We will have a better idea who is behind the protests when the snipers open up.
"The CIA's handwrite is all over this protest. "
Do you really think that the CIA can muster that many people into the streets?
The US might well have paid provocateurs in the crowds, snipers in the buildings, certainly advisers or advocates in certain salons; but, IMHO -people cannot be motivated to turn out in these numbers merely from CIA or other covert provocation or influence.
"Apparently a Brazilian citizens..."
That sounds like a lot, is that more or less than a million?
Let's see..
Brazil,...
Russia?.
Just India, S.A., and China to go USA..
USA, USA, USA!
Exactly!
SA ?
Hint: Kruggerrand
He forgot the Very Powerful Nation of Indonesia in BRIICS.
coconut oil, right ?
don't meant to poop on a joke
but Indonesia is doing quite well growth-wise, and is indeed on-track to be on par with the BRICs, they may not be there yet and everyone ignores them because they can't find it on a map, but Indonesia's potential is looking quite upbeat and they are not even suffering from half the problems other EM nations are suffering from atm.
plenty of people say India will be next up and comer after China, but looking at India's problems, I'm not 100% confident of that predication, I'd rather give the dark horse Indonesia some thought instead
Dilma Rousseff is communist. She is half bulgarian - her father was bulgarian communist (I doubt that he was real bulgarian - seems like he was serbian pecheneg, anyway...). Communism is jooish contagion - very similar to the leprosy the gang of Osarseph (aka Moses) had - it is soul contamination of deadly parasitic/demonic virus.
Oh look, another religious nutjob.
That's so UNUSUAL for Zerohedge.
It was carnival that apparently just finish few days ago so folks are up for more party ! However this government change stinks US underground intervention... Dilma was talking too much about changes in the internet security and pushing for the Bricks IMF alternative, not a smart thing to do as a puppet state.
Military intervention? As if the military cares for anyone but themselves. People have really jumped the shark here. But, perhaps, it is a measure of deep desperation.
The military's hand is probably behind it..
Military: "You want us to pick your next government? Mmmmm.... OK."
was deposed in April 1964 by a coup that resulted in a military regime.[116]
The repression was not limited only to those who resorted to guerrilla tactics to fight the regime, but also reached institutional opponents, artists, journalists and other members of civil society,[119][120] inside and outside the country (through the infamous "Operation Condor").
Civilians returned to power in 1985 when José Sarney assumed the presidency, becoming unpopular during his tenure due to his failure in controlling the economic crisis and hyperinflation inherited from the military regime.[126] They got a new constitution in 1988. But wasn't until 1994 that a good Financial Plan appeared resulting in a president that was recognized as good for the country.
So 1964 -1994 30 Years lost to Military Coup.
What are Brazilians Smoking? On the other hand 1994 - 2014 is just 20 years... a flash in the pan that hide the Rot, Corruption, Social Problems, Government Problems, Budget Problems, Poverty Problems and Industrial Problems.
Brazil = a Flash in the Pan OR a Target of More powerful Players?
It is worth recalling the famous suicide in 1954 of Getulio Vargas who ruled Brazil for over 20 years.
Trudat. Too bad this is how the cycle goes:
Start -> Protest -> Old puppet is removed and next puppet is put in place -> Thing still suck -> Back to Start
Hopefully they're blasting Iron Maiden (one of their favorites):
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight
"...To the tune of starving millions, to make a better kind of gun..."
p.s. an aside as an addendum to yesterday's comment on meditation: it struck me why the closed-eyed 'meditation' is lumped in with yoga: pure subterfuge by those who mean to commoditize and distort spiritual-self-awareness.
"We oil the jaws of the War Machine and feed it with our babies"
- Iron Maiden, Two Minutes to Midnight
pure subterfuge by those who mean to commoditize and distort spiritual-self-awareness.
True - many Gurus are fake. They are only interested in their own power and aggrandizement.
You need no Guru as you are timeless, spaceless Pure Being (Awareness) yourself. Anyway, an external Guru will become available if needed but she/he will want nothing from you.
If a Guru wants something from you, he/she is a false Guru.
Excellent comment, JO. That's a good bookend for that topic.
Bruce Dickinson is my guru. He flies Ed Force One. Singer, pilot, businessman, champion fencer and smart too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3seZHG15Pc
Loads of videos of him flying into Manchester in shitty weather too.
If you meet Buddha on the Road, Kill Him.
Transcend the Samsara.
Forget .... Demonstration to succeed in Brazil needs more than a million people on the streets of Sao Paulo. 25,000 people is walk in the park. hehe.
The military today resent the sale of some state-owned companies such as Vale do Rio Doce, the world's largest mining sold at a bargain price.
Probably the only state institution that wasn't getting GSE Petrobas bucks under the table.
When you hear Military, it immediately makes you think of the long arm of the CIA. I do not know Brazil's politics, but if the present government is unliked by Washington, then the CIA would be funding and fueling all groups who oppose their government. When a military coup seems likely, it is usually the CIA that is behind the scenes. Perhaps the USA sees a chance to derail the BRICKS, starting with Brazil. Afterall, open economic warfare on Russia is already well underway.
Quite the contrary actually. Brazil has been very open to foreign cash flow and investment, especially USD investment, just as Wall Street and Washington demand. I have friends in Brazil, who work in the poorest neighborhoods running Christian charities. This has been coming for a long time and is only the beginning. Brazil is a mess, in part the problem is cultural, but in part, the problem is hot flows of USD and other foreign capital have helped divide Brazil into 2 countries: the is a small corrupt elite, uber-wealthy, but the majority of the population lives in incredible poverty.
"... In part the problem is..."
Population size & Density.
Overshoot
you mean BRICS
The Workers Party is definitely not installed by our blacksiting brethren of the beltway.
Countdown to "communist" bomb detonation in 3...2...
The next government will be better. Promise.
Check Dilma's swiss bank a/cs. That's the first port of call.
I see RICS in the future. Maybe swap Brazil for Bolivia.
nah brazil will stay .
They lied to some folks.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you...
Let's focus on potential contagion, the consequences of which could be dire. Or, put another way, will Starbucks still have coffee beans for tomorrow morning's coffee?
Time for the IMF to step in and "lend a hand". How do you say 'troika" in Portugese?
Chile, 1973. Rings any bells?
Naomi Klein, " The Shock Doctrine " ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg
911 launched a kind of bubble like the dot com bubble. It is a Security Bubble. She called it like an IPO.
39:30 minutes into the video. She is always amazing.
Looks like she has a new book of some kind out.
The thing about Naomi though is that she - for some amazing reason - is unable to join certain strings of dots. For instance had names like Greenspan, Rubin, Dimon and Blankfein instead been Trafficante, Corleone, Genovese and Capone I'm sure the bulb would have gone off in her pretty little head.
September 11th 1973 no less...
dt
The first 9/11
"It appears the 'people' are growing more and more dissatisfied with their corrupt and greedy leaders across the world"
Not in the USA! We are gearing up for another election cycle where we exercise our freedom to change our leaders and take back freedom, justice, free markets and equal justice under the law.
I pity nations where people must take to the streets! Here in America, we the people govern through free, fair and open elections where we pick our leaders who serve our interests!
I admire your sarcasm sir....to the utmost.
How is the water supply in Jamaica Jim?
Always want to hear more about living there. I read a novel about how the population always wanted to rise up against the British Colonial Establishment. I guess they call part of the Population Maroon. Escaped Slaves eventually worked their way from Island to Island and Jamaica was a big winner for these free Slaves that had to learn to survive all on their own with sometimes help from indigenous peoples.
But I'm sort of afraid of Porto Rico and Jamaica so far since I often travel alone.
I heard a lot of Navy Guys retire to Porto Rico.
Oh here is a question: Can you live in Jamaica on $800 a month full time? Maybe a one room with a kitchen, shower, toilet, and room for a bed... maybe on 3rd story with Balcony??
Water good.
Meat good.
Fire hot.
Irie~
$800 a month? Sure...if you live like a Jamaican..............
All I need is water, meat, fire, spirit, and community.
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The Rastafari movement is an Abrahamic religion which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, following the coronation of Haile Selassie I as Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930. Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia (ruled 1930–1974), some as Jesus in his Second Advent, or as God the Father.[1] Members of the Rastafari way of life are known as Rastas, or the Rastafari. The way of life is sometimes referred to as "Rastafarianism", but this term is considered offensive by most Rastafari, who, being critical of "isms" (which they see as a typical part of "Babylon culture"), dislike being labelled as an "ism" themselves.[2]
- Sounds like I have to fit in. I have to try. I have to do some work. I have to understand some things and grow in spirit to live in Jamaica
Yeah, my vision is living like the regular people since I don't have the money to live like a Norte American. I would have to research the crime, hospitals, government, corruption, and comfort... probably is Hurricane Zone also meaning have to live in good concrete building with hurricane windows that don't break.
Black Jamaican (including Black, Mulatto/Mixed, Black-Indian and Black-Chinese) 91.4%
Asian Jamaican 3.4%
White/European Jamaican 1.2%
Other 0.8%
In recent years, immigration has increased, coming mainly from China, Haiti, Cuba, Colombia, and Latin American countries; 20,000 Latin Americans reside in Jamaica.[citation needed] About 7,000 Americans also reside in Jamaica,[citation needed] as well as many first-generation American, British and Canadians of Jamaican descent.[58]
Jamaica has had one of the highest murder rates in the world for many years, according to UN estimates.[63][64] Some areas of Jamaica, particularly cities such as Kingston, experience high levels of crime and violence.[65] Many Jamaicans are hostile toward LGBT and intersex people.[66] Various mob attacks against gay people have been reported,[67][68][69] prompting human-rights groups to call Jamaica "the most homophobic place on earth."[70]
Jamaica is a mixed economy with both state enterprises and private sector businesses. Major sectors of the Jamaican economy include agriculture, mining, manufacturing, tourism, and financial and insurance services. Tourism and mining are the leading earners of foreign exchange. Half the Jamaican economy relies on services, with half of its income coming from services such as tourism. An estimated 1.3 million foreign tourists visit Jamaica every year.[96]
Since 1991, the government has followed a programme of economic liberalization and stabilization by removing exchange controls, floating the exchange rate, cutting tariffs, stabilising the Jamaican currency, reducing inflation and removing restrictions on foreign investment. Emphasis has been placed on maintaining strict fiscal discipline, greater openness to trade and financial flows, market liberalisation and reduction in the size of government. During this period, a large share of the economy was returned to private sector ownership through divestment and privatisation programmes.
The macroeconomic stabilisation programme introduced in 1991, which focused on tight fiscal and monetary policies, has contributed to a controlled reduction in the rate of inflation. The annual inflation rate decreased from a high of 80.2% in 1991 to 7.9% in 1998. Inflation for FY1998/99 was 6.2% compared to 7.2% in the corresponding period in CUU1997/98.
ALCOA is big in Jamaica.
The aviation industry is able to perform most routine aircraft maintenance, except for heavy structural repairs. Jamaica has a considerable amount of industrial engineering, light manufacturing, including metal fabrication, metal roofing, and furniture manufacturing.
The Jamaican construction industry is entirely self-sufficient, with professional technical standards and guidance.[98]
Sounds like Jamaica had a big problem with Inflation. So probably restaurant prices are high. Might be a place where you need the Income from a Business or to work for a corporation to pay for the life you want.
Go in peace.
Filling in for MDB today?
Sometimes a bit of SARC is the best way to make a point. I present the US Establishment's position and let it's absurdity speak for itself. And yes, MDB is just such a poster, his posts are pure satire of the Establishment Interpretation of the USA in 2015.
* "we" is defined as people with holdings requiring more than two commas.
Grow a giant, bloated government that attracts nothing but criminals and sociopaths to the highest offices and then "protest" to one arm of the government to fix the other arm of the government.
Sure, that'll work.
Grow a giant, bloated corporation that attracts nothing but criminals and sociopaths to the highest offices and then...
Hundreds of thousands in the streets demanding impeachment.
One can only dream.
Hundreds of thousands protesting couldn't stop a stupid American war. I'll keep breathing in the meantime.
Sao Paulo Brazil one of their great cities is on the verge of a major crisis. Drought, brought on by stuck high pressure patterns due to Jet Stream dislocation, are drying out the whole Sao Paulo region and city. IF the rains don't return and last for months, civil disorder will tear apart 20 million people who can't find a drop of clean water.
"Home to some 20 million people, the sprawling city of Sao Paulo continues to grow. But the failure of city services and basic infrastructure to keep pace merely exacerbates the problems, in particular the dwindling supplies of clean water.
Open sewers mean that Sao Paulo's rivers are completely polluted. They're now part of the problem rather than, as should be in times of drought, part of the solution.'
My friends, who run a group of churches and charities in Sao Paolo, confirm this account. The situation has lingered on the verge of a grave humanitarian crisis for some time. The overcrowding, the unsanitary conditions are ghastly and are the equal of anything that you will find in Eastern or Sub-Saharan Africa. Of course, the government is cozy-cozy with Wall Street and the global elite, so you never read or hear anything about this in the U.S. press. All you ever hear is talk about the BRICS and the wonders of Brazilian economy. The reality is that, outside of Gaza, Sao Paolo is the closest thing that you will find to hell on earth.
"The overcrowding, the unsanitary conditions are ghastly and are the equal of anything that you will find in Eastern or Sub-Saharan Africa. "
Now I wonder why that would be? (Scratchin' ma haid).
According to the CIA and the Central Bank of Somalia, despite experiencing civil unrest, Somalia has maintained a healthy informal economy, based mainly on livestock, remittance/money transfer companies and telecommunications.[3][29]
Money transfers in Somalia.
Now doesn't that just sound like London or Wall Street. Each Country, City, Island, Port, or Ocean is a resource. We just take what want. Actually a City State might be more correct in most places today. The Money Interest is only interested in a small part after all.
Screw Brazil, Screw Syria, Screw Libya... we only want the ports, the oil & gas, the water if we need it, and land for pipelines if we need it. S/
You need labor. We got Labor big time and cheap as dirt. S/
They'd better run a water pipeline from up north or start desalinating fast.
Mother Nature has never been big on rewarding Dumb or Complacent/Lazy, especially in combination. You know what they say: "Fortune favors the prepared".
<-----Brazilians are revolting
<-----Brazilians are revolting
wtf ?
He's A Lunatic, are you questioning his lunacy?
I question everything, including your nick.
Why bother with elections when you can have street riots instead? The hand of Soros and Rothschild is so evident. Kiev encore.
You are ignorant of what Soros is doing if you think he was in any way connected to those protests.
She will see this as a validation of cultural marxism and the need to deepen the marxist footprint
People in Brazil are at least smart enough to see what's happening and try to make change through massive protests. Here in the US we still sit our fat asses at home, watch American Idol and wonder what the Kardashians are wearing while talking on our Free O'bama phones, eating cheetos via our EBT cards.
The vast majority of the population in the USA are simply ignorant and have no spines.
Maybe FreedomWorks can loan them a bus.
Dang, it looks like a fire ant nest that was just stepped on.
Maybe drop some bombs, or drone somebody, that always has a soothing effect.
Oh, and we need to secure their gold and store it in Ft Knox for safekeeping.
For those who don't know: Dilma is from the worker's party. Her voters are menial workers, the poor, etc. This is essentially a welfare fight. Aecio (wealthy "white" guy from the richest state) and Marina (poor rural black woman from one of the poorest states) had the gall to question the worker's party's agenda of "promise even more free shit, forever". Worker's party supporters went ape-shit over the possibility of losing a single penny of their bennies (sound familiar?). Now that Brazil is running out of other people's money and the state oil industry isn't making up the difference (sound familiar?), and the decade of worker's party social programs have failed to accomplish anything. Of course the worker's party and unions have mobilized the always-reliable "gimmedats" crowd in counter-protests. The anti-Dilma protestors are tired of being taxed out the ass and high living costs for a third-rate banana republic welfare state, but they don't fundamentally oppose virtually any part of the dominant political agenda. They're all compulsiely anti-corruption (no shit) and yet largely in favor of state ownership and a state-controlled economy.
Impeaching Dilma won't solve a single one of Brazil's problems. The worker's party will remain strong without her. Again, this is a welfare fight. Virtually no one is actually challenging the assumption that brazil should be a more or less socialist state, at least no one who doesn't want to get laughed out of the country. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the more right-wing elements are on board, a good scam is a good scam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew8Dhpwy-5E
Maybe they just need some honest Germans, Jews, Italians and French to bring Engineering, Civil Planning, Financing, and Organizational Skills.
Well, they probably have enough Germans, Jews, and Italians already. So not sure maybe their social melting pot isn't working well enough to fix their problems. ??
Brazil probably is led by Elites who come from the Families who owned the Haciendas. They are just cheap, inhuman bastards in part.
Workers Party, WP, isn't it. Dilma was a Rebel and the Horn of South America had Military Coups and Dirty Wars. Dilma must represent a Reform Government, but did they clean out the old Guard Properly... or is the Coalition Government still full of Rats ????
Ah, they just need some Germany Financial Tricks. Print your own money for projects overseas. Plus add some new Derivatives for Housing and other stuff. S/
Fuck the military, just drag out the politicians and string them along light poles. High-level politicians held to no accountability [as is the rule in the United States of Absolution] are the MOST destructive forces in the universe. Giving a few some rope neckties would certainly broadcast the message that you assholes will be held accountable...
Worked great the last how many times that path has been used? Oh, yeah, never once.
You really slept through every history class you got close to, didn't ya.
So they're vehemently opposed to corruption that affects them.
Nailed it!
Riomaidan ?
In the fotos they say "military coup, now !"
what colour shall the revolution be ?
rainbow revolution ?
They are singing the national anthem. Brazilians are too dumbed down to improve anything. It has been so for the last 400 years. Brazil will always be the great country of the future. My father told me that is what was said back in his days (1950s) and we are now in 2015 and still an "Emerging Market"!
I'm happy with my leaders. They feed me, pay for my education, let me do research. Today I went jogging around the Santa Monica mountains, shopped at Trader Joe's and am at home comfortably writing an essay for my final exam at UCLA. All for free. My leaders must love me and I love them.
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have. Thomas Jefferson
Brazil has been described by numerous scholars as the "world's most decentralized democracy" courtesy of the complete re-write of their constitution in 1988. They had a national pro gun-control election there in 2005 that failed by 70+%.
But Brazil is terribly corrupt.
BRICs ? I am a sceptic : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JSZ66uMRwc
While Zerohedge kept printing Paul-Singer propaganda about Argentina, I kept insisting that the real problem in South America was in Brazil. Now you see what I was talking about. In large part, Brazil's problems stem from incredible cultural decadence. There is a just a general lawlessness and disorder endemic in Brazilian social and cultural life and in the Brazilian mind. It is just hard to find a Brazilian who thinks clearly and logically on any subject. They are a people governed almost exclusively by their passions.
In part, however, the economic problems in Brazil stem from openness to foreign cash flow and investment, especially USD investment and USD debt. This has created a class of corrupt uber-wealthy in Brazil (those who have profited from foreign capital investment) while the majority of the population lives in abject poverty. Every South American country that has allowed its economic and political life to be dominated by the USD, foreign capital markets, etc., has eventually found itself in this same situation. The average person, on the street in South America, never sees any benefit from the inflow of USD. It all ends up in the hands of corrupt elites (many of whom find their way into government and create more policies to open doors to foreign capital for their other elite friends).
Now you understand why Argentina has sealed itself off from USD capital markets and USD investment. Because this is always and everywhere the inevitable result. Argentina had to go through years of military dictatorships (installed and propped up by the CIA- as part of Operation Condor, the USD, and Wall Street), corrupt crony capitalist government, and economic crisis to finally seal itself off from Babylon. Unfortunately, with the end of Kirchner reign fast-approaching, every indication is that Argentina will remove its hermetic seal. With everyone chasing any kind of yield, if Argentina opens the door to the USD, the flood of hot money will be terrifying to behold, creating an incredible boom in real estate and other commodities and some industries (Argentina's shoe industry, for example could be competitive with Nike, Adidas, et al) but as the boom enriches a few, it will eventually bust, bankrupting the majority and the nation again.
This is only the beginning for Brazil, unfortunately, I fear. Other nations, who have linked their futures exclusively to foreign capital flows and the USD-based global financial market will soon follow suit as no more leverage is available to sustain the corrupt, inefficient investments and partners that the global elite have made for themselves around the world. Chile will follow in short order, though Chile is a more orderly and conservative society than Brazil, and I do not think that the chaos there will ever reach the levels that it is likely to in Brazil. Sadly, I do not think Argentina will be able to maintain itself as an oasis amidst this tumult, as the USD-based system begins to rend and tear itself apart.
These are only the first tremors now. The same corruption, that corruption at the heart of the global fiat-capital USD financial-banking system, will rend the world in twane. First one country here. Then another there, until the whole dilapidated structure comes tumbling down. Today it is Brazil. Tomorrow Japan. Then Europe. Welcome to the new normal.
In the old days of the Haciendas or the two class system in South America I have this vision of the Wealthy living in big buildings with Balconies or Terraces. They just throw trash down on the street where the poor live.
This must do something to the Psyche.
Brazil still has millions living in favelas. People probably feel inclined to Socialism and that having millions of poor people is normal.
I looked at the Education System a little. It seems just like the USA System or Wilhelm Von Humbolt Prussian System from Germany.
https://feltd.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/the-prussian-german-educational-s...
Question is are all countries set up to allow the Elite or wealthy to attract foreign Investment... while holding domestic investment low to keep wages low & control the people. Off Shoring and Out Sourcing overseas also controls wages and suppresses growth of a middle class.
The Dirty Wars, the Military Coups in the Cone of South America, the Chicago Boys, are said to have destroyed a growing middle class and industrialization. So maybe this is how Neoliberals and the Elites plan to keep labor cheap and keep their Hacienda control.
So to sum it up, metastatic elite tumors are developing from the primary elite tumor.
Lawless, disordered, governed by their passions, incapable of clear thought on any subject. I think you mean that Brazil is ungovernable by anything but a dictatorship because most Brazilians are niggers whom the abolition of slavery made impossible to deport or missing links from the Amazon whose tribes have no concept of numbers past two, never mind the finer points of financial engineering.
Unlike Russia, who put away her earnings from the oil boom for a rainy day (say, a war in Ukraine), Brazil under Lula! pissed the money against the wall, giving handouts to the nigger and Indian scum of the favelas left and right. Lula! at least was smart enough to quit while he was ahead. Dilma turned out to be the woman they put in charge of the sinking ship when none of the men want to go down with it. Simple as that.
It is quite possible that the CIA is involved in the plan to stage riots in Brazil nationwide. Over the recent years, BRICS has become the main geopolitical threat to the United States.
In October 2014, Dilma Rousseff initiated the construction of 5,600 kilometer-long fiber-optic telecommunications system across the Atlantic to Europe.The new communication system will guarantee protection against NSA's espionage.
In May 2013, US Vice President Joe Biden paid a visit to Brazil in order to convince Dilma Rousseff to grant US companies access to Brazilian oil fields. Biden returned to the USA empty-handed. Immediately thereafter, a wave of protests swept across Brazil as people were protesting ...
Immediately after Biden's departure from Brazil, it was reported that Dilma Rousseff was implicated in the scandal connected with the state-run oil company Petrobras. Rousseff was accused of receiving a commission on contracts with the oil corporation. The money was allegedly used to buy votes in the parliament.
The US either is given what it wants or creates chaos to get it.
Pepe Escobar has coined the term "Empire of Chaos" to refer to that same phenomenon that you mention.
Interesting that every country that doesn't kowtow to US has internal political problems. CIA been very very busy
Interesting that every country with internal political problems is run by corrupt leftist communists/socialists.
Obelix, I completely agree that "It is quite possible that the CIA is involved in the plan to stage riots in Brazil nationwide."
After all, Dilma Rousseff is not a US flunky, and there are plenty of reasons. Some of these could be that:
She defeated the candidate of the trans-Atlantic banking system, who proposed to re-impose neo-liberal “economic orthodoxy” in Brazil, re-align the country with the Anglo-American war party, and turn against the BRICS by pulling out of the BRICS development bank. Aecio Neves was going to align Brazil within the US foreign policy orbit, open the doors to GMOs, create a "business and capital friendly environment", and all other kinds of neat things.
She has repeatedly dropped any semblance of diplomatic speech and publicly ripped into the US at the United Nations on several occasions.
She supported Russia and increased food trade with Russia to eye-watering levels, thoroughly undermining the US/EU "sanctions".
She very publicly and loudly snubbed Obama, cancelling a summit meeting and uncompromisingly demanding a public apology for spying on her (which she never got).
She unexpectedly cancelled a $5,000,000,000.00 deal for Boeing's F-18 Super Raptors for Brazil's Air Force, going with SAAB Gripens.
She has demanded and pushed very hard for IMF voting rights in line with Brazil's contributions, something the US has flat out rejected and stonewalled on.
She has supported the creation of the parallel BRICS Bank, and has moved away from King Dollar with direct Yuan swaps, and several others (e.g. Argentina, Uruguay, etc. )
She has consistently voted in UNASUR against US interventionism, most recently with Obama's ridiculous Venezuelan "aggression" and "National Emergency" claims.
And on and on...
You forgot to mention that Dilma is a rich communist eltitst who benefited from the corruption at Petrobas along with her fellow Marxist cronies.
You state as fact that which you offer no proof for.
You may well be pulling that out of your ass, because you read the script, or you are paid to do so.
Prove it decisively, or quit wasting my time, newbie.
How many more minutes do we have to wait until we see evidence of the usual dirty tricks of the good ol USA in Brazil, like we see everywhere else?
Your eager and prejudice suggest that you will find/see what you are looking for. That is how the mind works.
How many more minutes do we have to wait until we see evidence of the usual dirty tricks of the Marxist left who refuse to see the corruption of their communist dictators in countries like Brazil?
You dumb asses voted for that Marxist trash. Now you want her out? Enjoy the shit show idiots.
Yeah, replace Dilma by Western/USA goons and your country will be raped 10 times more...
Forget Brazil, we need a military coup in the USSA. If they executed every member of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the entire cabinet along with the VP and President, it would be a day of national liberation which would be celebrated forever. KILL ALL THE FUCKERS NOW!
You know, it's in Latin America that the US could actually be a force for good if it cared to be, helping the productive classes in the region maintain European civilization and white supremacy all the way to Cape Horn, and put down revolts by their FSAs when necessary. Uncle Sugar should maintain his backyard, as it were, rather than tell Russia, Israel and China how to maintain theirs (Europe, the Middle East and the Far East).
Havana, Caracas and Brasilia, not Moscow, are the ones overdue for regime change removing the FSA from power, courtesy of the United States Marines. Whenever you're done with your pissing matches with Putin and Bibi, Barry.
Holy shit dude! What are you, some kind of deluded Neo-Con?
"it's in Latin America that the US could actually be a force for good if it cared to be, helping the productive classes in the region maintain European civilization and white supremacy all the way to Cape Horn"
= Exceptionalist Interventionist/White Man's Burden Zealot
"Uncle Sugar should maintain his backyard, as it were, rather than tell Russia, Israel and China how to maintain theirs"
= Good Old Fashioned Imperialist who thinks Lat Am is "theirs"
"Havana, Caracas and Brasilia, (sic) not Moscow, are the ones overdue for regime change removing the FSA from power, courtesy of the United States Marines."
= Ignorant person who has no knowledge of Latin American History (or US Marine Corp invasions and "pacification" for that matter), and is not aware of the political realities of those countries.
I guess it is too much to ask that you operate in the real world that exists outside your media-induced bubble. After all, you are the same deluded idiot who, like Dick "the dick" Cheney and John "shit-stain" McCain said "We would be welcomed as liberators" in Caracas.
'Nuff said...
Another leftist fool who excuses the corruption of authoritarian, totalitarian dictators in South America and holds them blameless.
'Nuff said...
Greetings and salutations newbie.
The fact that you play the "Right/Left" game tells me you are not serious about truth. It also doesn't help that you are upvoting yourself; your four (really stupid) posts have exactly one vote up.
Btw, ZH etiquette dictates that one should not up-vote oneself. Around here we let others decide the merits of our posts.
You seem to be trolling me, having commented on several of my posts. However, I am less than impressed with you, because all you have done is thrown ad hominem from the cheap seat you sit on.
Perhaps you will be so kind as to actually post something of, you know, substance.
I await for something remotely informed and intelligent from you with bated (not baited) breath.
There will be no fixing any of the uber corrupt .govs of every nation on earth until blood runs in the streets.
Protests? Bullshit, let the killing begin. Then, an only then, will there be hope and change.
You want change? Lead the return of the Mongol hordes. Grab the politicians, lawyers, bankers, and corporate heads, then butcher them in the streets. Over run the gated communities rampage, burn and level the houses of the dwellers therein. Take no prisoners, leave no stone upon another. History shows over and over, when the time comes that a few men, controlling large militarizes, feel it is their god given right to enslave all others, total overthrow is the only way to restore balance. Overlords are psychologically unable to live with balance. They have to be wiped out like a bacterial infection. Bad bacteria never live in harmony with the host. The bacteria have to be eradicated.
Guess we will Go Ahead and Raise the Debt Ceiling. Fires all over the world except the USA, who appears to be making it real hard on countries that are not with us.
Bush and Obama, progressive satans. The devils tools. Destroyed the good name of USA in 14 short years, Anyone feel proud when you see the flag now? I didn't think so. Oh, I know, you guys were born that way. Bush is whale shit and Obama lays under the whale excrement. Clinton studies the excrement in deep sea robotics.