Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's Impeachment = Complete Reversal of Democracy
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This week, a gang of corrupt criminals is going to overthrow one of the world's largest democracies in the most brazen imaginable way, by abuse of legislative power with a completely fabricated lie.Will the people of Brazil tolerate this? I doubt it. Expect a revolution.
Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is slated to testify today at her impeachment trial—a trial that many are calling a coup by her right-wing political rivals. Rousseff has denounced the proceedings and called for early elections to unite the country. Rousseff’s impeachment stems from accusations she tampered with government accounts to hide a budget deficit. She was suspended earlier this year and has maintained her innocence, accusing her political opponents of spearheading the proceedings to shield themselves from prosecution and undo years of progressive policies. The Brazilian group Transparency Brazil says 60 percent of Brazilian lawmakers are currently under criminal investigation or have already been convicted of crimes ranging from corruption to election fraud. Rousseff’s opponents now need 54 votes, or two-thirds of the 81-seat Senate, to convict her of violating budget laws. Her impeachment would end 13 years of left-wing Workers’ Party rule in Brazil and bring to power interim President Michel Temer for the remaining two years of Rousseff’s term. Temer is also deeply unpopular and currently under investigation himself, accused of receiving illegal campaign contributions linked to the state oil company Petrobras.
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Impeachment - Sessão Extraordinária - 29/08/2016
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were about Dilma, and that was only to pimp some non-existent U.S. angle...
If Greenwald was *REALLY* writing about what's going on in Brazil, he'd have to sleep in a bulletproof vest... 
After Trump was advised "Three Brazilian soldiers were killed, recently." He said, THAT'S TERRIBLE! Then, he quietly asked an aid, "How many trillion is there in a brazillion?"
With sex scandals on the horizon and his Drumpf name changed into Trump, watch this wall he plans to build around "NEW MEXICO" according to comments made by Teflon Don. The animated gif appears to keep time with the song.
Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American lawyer, journalist, speaker and author. He is best known for his role in a series of reports in The Guardian newspaper on the classified information made public by whistleblower Edward Snowden, a series which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize ... wiki
I did not say I did not know who Jonathan Watts is, I asked you to provide some support for what you said. You have not done so, you just attacked me instead with the sort of bogus charges that characterize the impeachment of Dilma, groundless and invented.
The Guardian series with Greenwald as a writer won the Pulitzer, not the Guardian without anyone writing anything. You do understand writers wrote the series, right?
But feel free to think what you wish to think.
"too much to hope for" 
I would love nothing more than to spend my Thanksgiving dinner apologizing for having doubted that Dems can take the House.
Tamo junto.
meaning there aren't legions of V-for-Vendetta masked goons running around wrecking the place 
But it's still bad news.
46 years later.
Conversa Afiada Verified account ?@ConversaAfiada 6 hours ago Sao Paulo, Brazil
#pelademocracia continua a liderar trend topics
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Nas lutas ?@PersonalEscrito 2 hours ago
#Brazil: Dumpsters are set on fire by anti-coup protesters after brutal crackdown in Paulista Ave. #PelaDemocracia
#Brazil: Cops throw tear gas at protesters in #SãoPaulo. #PelaDemocracia VIDEO
#Brazil: A protester from the @mtst_ injured by a tear gas canister, in Paulista, #SãoPaulo. Pic @Brasil_de_Fato
Brasil Wire ?@BrasilWire 2 hours ago
Anti-Coup crowd growing in front of the Parliament in Brasilia. via @j_livres #PelaDemocracia
Nas lutas ?@PersonalEscrito 2 hours ago
#Brazil: Repression against a demo "for democracy" in Paulista Ave, #SãoPaulo just now. #PelaDemocracia
Leomagno ?@Leomagnoleo 1 minute ago
O que falar de uma mulher que aguenta 14 horas de interrogatório e derruba todos os seus oponentes.
#PelaDemocracia
What to speak of a woman who can handle 14 hours of interrogation and drop all your opponents.
Ronaldo Matias @RonaldoMatiasP
#AQueridaVoltou Presidenta convenceu os indecisos e foi APROVADA por senadores!... Ela vai voltar!
#AQueridaVoltou President convinced the doubters and was OK for senators! ... She'll be back!
29 August 2016
"We are 54 million Dilmas," people across the country chanted, alluding to Rousseff's 2014 vote tally and demanding interim President Michel Temer resign.
Thousands of people and many social organizations protested in Brazil's main cities on Monday, the same day suspended President Dilma Rousseff made her final pitch for staying in office to the Brazilian Senate.
In the capital Brasilia, people gathered in front of the parliament, where senators will vote Tuesday on whether or not to remove Rousseff form office. A two-thirds majority, or 54 of 81 senators, is required to seal the impeachment and install the "interim" government of Michel Temer permanently.
When the sun went down Monday night, a brutal crackdown was reported in Paulista Avenue, Sao Paulo, with police throwing tear gas at protesters, while the suspended president was defending her case to the senators in a moving speech. .......
#coup Top news story
Dr. Roy Schestowitz ?@schestowitz 9 hours ago
Glenn #Greenwald on the hypocrisy of Brazil's political crisis
Lost Art ?@lostart 1 hour ago Sao Paulo, Brazil
Protest against interim president Temer on Avenida Paulista ends with police violence. #foratemer #lostart
Nas lutas ?@PersonalEscrito 1 minute ago
"Temer Out" #ForaTemer
Demo against the coup in #SãoPaulo.
#PelaDemocracia #Brazil Photo via @mtst
Anonymous Brasil ?@YourAnonNewsBR 5 minutes ago
Manifestantes ateiam fogo e armam barricadas contra ofensiva da Policia Militar em São Paulo #ForaTemer
Marina. ?@pachecomarina 12 minutes ago
http://a.msn.com/r/2/AAielHQ?a=1&m=PT-BR …
#ForaTemer #SemTemer
Paulisson Miura ?@paulissonmiura 17 minutes ago Cuiabá, Brazil
Arte de https://www.facebook.com/sirlanneynogueira/ … #PelaDemocracia #ForaTemer #GloboGolpista
teleSUR English @telesurenglish
Thousands hit the streets of Brazil and police are cracking down hard. #impeachment
1:12 video in Portuguese
Cristian Chiabotto ?@CrisChiabotto 22 minutes ago
Primeiramente. #fridakahlo #ForaTemer
Dilma Rousseff ?@dilmabr 6 hours ago
Enquanto a presidenta Dilma luta #PelaDemocracia no @SenadoFederal, o povo se manifesta em apoio do lado de fora
The irony of this situation is noteworthy, the impeachment vote against Dilma, a victim of right-wing regime torture, is scheduled for today, the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
Sheyla Kouri ?@SheylaKouri 2 minutes ago
A única saída viável é, e sempre será, à esquerda.
Estou nessa, com todas as minhas células. #ForaTemer
The only viable solution is, and will always be on the left.
I'm in this with all my cells. #ForaTemer
Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. He writes for RT, Sputnik and TomDispatch, and is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the former roving correspondent for Asia Times Online. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of "Globalistan" (2007), "Red Zone Blues" (2007), "Obama does Globalistan" (2009) and "Empire of Chaos" (2014), all published by Nimble Books. His latest book is "2030", also by Nimble Books, out in December 2015.
Dilma Rousseff entered the Senate and calmly stared down her accusers. She left with her head held high after exhorting those Senators to vote with their conscience.
Most of those politicians present probably had no idea what conscience means; they’re no more than corrupt messenger boys. But the Brazilian collective unconscious – Jung to the rescue – will be marked.
President Dilma Rousseff, in a detailed, occasionally emotional speech, defended herself with honor and dignity from accusations she committed a “crime of responsibility”. She was not actually facing a political cesspool, but that ‘Angel of History’ so beloved by Walter Benjamin. History will judge her kindly.
Meanwhile, it ain’t over till a dodgy politico sings. As I write, Rousseff is on the way to be stripped from the presidency of the world’s 8th largest economy by a bunch of scoundrel-cum-coward politicos. Her only fear, she said, was the “death of democracy”. Rousseff’s impeachment means in practice that democratic voting in one of the world’s largest democracies will be cancelled by a parliamentary coup remote-controlled by oligarchic interests. This is not, and never was, about justice; it’s about dirty, nasty politics.
There is no techno-bureaucrat argument whatsoever capable of proving the President should be impeached ..............
............ Testifying in her own defence before a predominantly opposition senate, the Workers’ party leader said she had withstood torture in her fight for democracy and would not back down even though she is widely expected to lose a final impeachment vote likely to occur within the next two days.
A warrior to the end: Dilma Rousseff a sinner and saint in impeachment fight
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“I fought against dictatorship. I have the mark of torture on my body,” she reminded senators of the abuse she suffered during imprisonment by the military government. “At almost 70 years of age, it’s not going to be now, after becoming a mother and grandmother, that I will abandon the principles that have always guided me.”
Her comparison with the military tribunals that condemned her to prison more than 40 years ago was in keeping with the suspended president’s consistent claim throughout the nearly 10-month impeachment debate that she is the victim of a coup. ............
Brazil Senate braces for Rousseff impeachment vote
AFP | 31 August, 2016 07:54
Supporters of Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff, hold signs that reads "Out Temer" in
reference to interim President Michel Temer, during a protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 30, 2016.
Image by: NACHO DOCE / REUTERS
Senators loyal to Brazil's first female president debated into the night Tuesday in a final attempt to halt the apparently unstoppable momentum toward her dismissal.
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Rousseff's counsel, veteran lawyer Jose Eduardo Cardozo, retorted that the charges were trumped up to punish the president's support for a huge corruption investigation that has snared many of Brazil's elite.
"This is a farce," he said in a speech during which his voice alternated between shouts and near whispers.
"We should ask her forgiveness if she is convicted," he added. "History will treat her fairly. History will absolve Dilma Rousseff if you convict her."
More:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2016/08/31/Brazil-Senate-braces-for-Rousseff-impeachment-vote
Cocaine or Sugar? Brazil Debates Senator's Bag of White Powder
A hand is seen on the lower right corner with a bag of white powder. | Photo: TV Senado
Published 30 August 2016
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A video that was published Tuesday shows a Brazilian senator shaking a bag of white powder during Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment defense, sparking debate on the origin of the substance.
The video was taken Monday, when suspended President Rousseff addressed the Senate in her impeachment trial. Dilma’s defense was broadcast live throughout the country.
More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cocaine-or-Sugar-Brazil-Debates-Senators-Bag-of-White-Powder-20160830-0027.html
.... If the impeachment is approved, Senate-imposed interim President Michel Temer will be installed until 2018. For Brazil's left, the interim Temer administration has made its plans heard loud and clear: roll back economic, social and political rights and empower the nation's oligarchy.
But Temer's government is clearly waiting in the wings for the Senate to permanently oust Rousseff before formally announcing cuts to key social programs and ultimately impose neoliberalism. ...........
By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Aug. 30, 2016
Watchdog groups say about 60 percent of the 594 legislators in both chambers of Congress are being investigated for wrongdoing or are facing corruption charges, including the three men in line to replace Rousseff if she is removed from office. ..........
FIRST IN LINE: Vice President Michel Temer. ... a former senator who had been a director of state-run oil company Transpetro made a direct link between Temer and the massive corruption probe centered on the main government oil company, Petrobras. .... Temer asked him to channel $400,000 in Petrobras kickbacks to 2012 Sao Paulo mayoral candidate, Gabriel Chalita, a member of Temer's party. ....
SECOND IN LINE: Speaker of the lower house of Congress, Rodrigo Maia .... received illegal campaign donations. .........
THIRD IN LINE: Senate President Renan Calheiros ... Supreme Federal Tribunal currently has several open investigations against Calheiros in the Petrobras probe. ... Calheiros received almost $10 million in bribes over 10 years ... Calheiros was paid $1.7 million through a Petrobras lobbyist in a case related to drill ship contracts. .......
OUSTED: Former Chamber of Deputies Speaker Eduardo Cunha. ... spearheaded the impeachment measures against Rousseff, would have been second in line but was removed as speaker by Brazil's highest court while he is investigated in several cases. .........
Nas lutas ?@PersonalEscrito Aug 30
#Brazil: Streets & highways are closed with barricades in protest the coup, in cities across the country. #ForaTemer
A large photo gallery:
As fotos dos protestos contra Temer ontem e hoje em SP
(Photos of the protests against Temer yesterday and today in San Pablo) August 30, 2016
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With at least 60 Senators committed to removing the suspended president, the impeachment is a "foregone conclusion,"... is being decided Wednesday as the country's Senate is voting on whether to impeach suspended President Dilma Rousseff after a trial that many international critics have described as a farce and a parliamentary coup. ....
"We are 54 million Dilmas," read signs at many of the protests, referring to the number of votes Brazil’s first woman president received in 2014. Police are trying to crack down on protesters ahead of Wednesday vote.
Rousseff's dismissal would consolidate a political shift to the right and the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule that helped lift some 30 million Brazilians out of poverty.
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9:16 AM - 31 Aug 2016
PT Senator Farias now speaking in defence of #Dilma, fired up: "Scoundrels! Scoundrels! Scoundrels!" he screams about pro-impecahment bloc
#Dilma removed on a politicized technicality. New top 3 politicos in #Brazil are all accused of *actual* corruption.
12 minutes ago
It puts an end to 13 years in power of her left-wing Workers' Party.
August 31, 2016
Sixty-one senators voted in favor of removing Rousseff from the presidency; 20 voted against her impeachment.
José Miguel Sardo ?@jmsardo 2 minutes ago Retweeted EXAME Brasil
#Brazil #Latest Michel Temer to swear-in at 21h CET after #Dilma impeachment. 3rd PMDB party non elected president.
Estadão @Estadao 10:11 AM - 31 Aug 2016
Dilma perde mandato, mas vai manter o direito de exercer funções públicas http://bit.ly/2bYBygV
(Dilma loses mandate, but will retain the right to hold public office)
Evo Morales Ayma @evoespueblo 10:19 AM - 30 Aug 2016
Si prospera golpe parlamentario contra gobierno democrático de @dilmabr, Bolivia convocará a su embajador. Defendamos la democracia y la paz
(If successful parliamentary coup against the democratic government of @dilmabr, Bolivia summon its ambassador. We defend democracy and peace)
cachi ?@careuszapata 4 minutes ago
Varios países retiran sus embajadores de #brasil #dilma
Pascoe Sabido ?@pascoesabido 56 seconds ago
Wow. Brazil's economic elite no longer need the military to carry out their coups. They've got the senate #Dilma
Gringo Falsi ?@BrasEmDen 2 minutes ago
.@HillaryClinton Brazil's democracy was legally stolen today by greedy old men and special interests. Will this happen to you? #Dilma
Andre Vltchek ?@AndreVltchek 5 minutes ago
#Dilma has been forced out by coup performed by pro-Western elites. IF ANYBODY STILL BELIEVES IN "WESTERN-STYLE DEMOCRACY", WAKE UP!!!
Claudia Salerno ?@cscaldera 6 minutes ago
60 senadores de la derecha barrieron la voluntad de casi 60 Millones de Brasileños. Sin probarle ningún delito, ES GOLPE #Brasil #Dilma
(60 rightist Senators swept the will of nearly 60 million Brazilians. No crime proven, it's a coup.)
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Juan Antonio Tirado @jatirado
#Venezuela retira embajador y congela relaciones con #Brasil tras destitución de Rousseff
http://hrld.us/2c59rLd
(#Venezuela Withdraws ambassador and freezes relations with #Brasil after removal of Rousseff)
800 Noticias ?@800Noticias 7 minutes ago
#Venezuela retira a su embajador en #Brasil http://goo.gl/7gLs1I
Nodal ?@InfoNodal 28 minutes ago
#Brasil Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Venezuela condena la destitución de @dilmabr
Noticias de Brasil ?@NoticiadeBrasil 11 minutes ago
Gobierno evaluará situación con Brasil luego de destitución de ... -
El Diario de Hoy http://goo.gl/fb/0NoVD4 #Brasil
(El Salvador Government to assess situation with Brazil after dismissal.)
Diario K ?@DiarioKNoticias 26 minutes ago
Apoyo de @CFKArgentina a @dilmabr | #ForzaDilma #Brasil #Dilma #CFK #PatriaGrande | http://diariok.com
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Prensa Presidencial ?@PresidencialVen 1 hour ago
#VIDEO @NicolasMaduro "En #Brasil se ha dado un golpe de Estado"
Albert Bonau ?@BonauA 2 hours ago
Basta de Golpes de Estados en #Latinoamérica
Ahora fuerza y lucha #Brasil
Sputnik Mundo Verified account ?@SputnikMundo 2 hours ago
Manifestantes salen a las calles de #Brasil para protestar contra #Temer #ForaTemer
http://sptnkne.ws/ccgb
Ecuador, Bolivia y Venezuela congelan relaciones políticas y diplomáticas con Brasil tras el golpe parlamentario contra la mandataria Rousseff. .....
El Gobierno de Venezuela retira "definitivamente a su Embajador de la República Federativa de Brasil" y congela las relaciones políticas y diplomáticas con el Gobierno "surgido de este golpe parlamentario", indica un comunicado de la Cancillería de esta nación.
"Las oligarquías políticas y empresariales que, en alianza con factores imperiales consumaron el Golpe de Estado contra la presidenta Dilma Rousseff", acusó el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro de Venezuela.
Por su parte, Rafael Correa, presidente de Ecuador, decidió retirar este miércoles a su máximo representante diplomático en Brasil ....
... Evo Morales anunció en su cuenta de Twitter que están convocando al embajador de Bolivia para que "tome las medidas necesarias sobre este asunto".
Cuba también se manifestó en contra del golpe ............
CaraotaDigital ?@CaraotaDigital 2 hours ago
Correa retira encargado en la embajada de #Brasil por destitución de Rousseff
http://bit.ly/2c5fZt6
A few white men:
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
The Olympic torch in Rio de Janeiro has been extinguished, and the global spotlight has left Brazil. In the shadow of the games, an extraordinary event has taken place, largely ignored in the U.S. media: a coup d’etat against Brazil’s democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff. Brazil is the fifth-most populous country in the world, with one of its largest economies. Like many Latin American nations, it suffered under a military dictatorship for decades, emerging as a young democracy only 30 years ago. This week’s coup was not carried out by the military, but by the Brazilian Senate. The effect is essentially the same: the president has been impeached, and an unpopular political opponent, Michel Temer, who represents that country’s wealthy elites, has assumed the presidency.
In 1964, the Brazilian military staged a coup against another democratically elected president. After the coup, Dilma Rousseff, as a young woman, joined an armed guerrilla group to fight against the military dictatorship. She was arrested in 1970, and repeatedly tortured during her more than two years of imprisonment. After her release, she remained politically active, but outside the armed resistance .......
.....the people of Brazil deserve a swift repudiation of this coup, by all governments, but most importantly by President Barack Obama and those presidential candidates who aspire to replace him.
New Evidence Clears Brazil's Lula in Petrobras Scandal
Cuba's government defended Brazil's left and its social gains, its fight to end poverty and push for Latin American integration.
The Cuban government "strongly rejects the parliamentary and judicial coup d’état perpetrated against President Dilma Rousseff," according to a statement published Wednesday by Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Relations.
"What happened in Brazil is another expression of the offensive of imperialist forces and the oligarchy against the revolutionary and progressive governments of Latin America and the Caribbean which threatens the peace and stability of nations," the statement said.
Cuba's government said the Senate's vote against Rousseff "is an act of defiance against the sovereign will of the people who voted for her." .......
In Depth The Coup That Ousted Brazilian Democracy
