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Dilma Rousseff sacks top officials involved in influence-peddling ring
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff moved quickly and with no consideration for political allies ordered the dismissal on Saturday of all government officials allegedly involved in a bribery ring, including the country's deputy attorney general. Read full article
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Nov 26th, 2012 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Absolutely the correct decision by Rousseff.
Nov 26th, 2012 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It shows just how indoctrinated the masses are though with da Silva that he retains apparent mass support.
But he was not involved, some say. OK, let's go with that, so why didn't he purge them himself?
He didn't know about it others say. OH, really? He is incompetent then: how could he possible have NOT known if he was presiding over the country? Did he walk around the corridors of power with his eyes closed and his ears mufflled?
No, it won't do whichever way his supporters want to play it.
Rousseff is handling this in the way da Silva should have done.
Precisely so, Chris.
Nov 26th, 2012 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He heard of no corruption, smelled no corrupt practices, and never saw corruption going on all around him. Somehow he - and his family members - became very rich. Impossibly rich, considering his declared incomes.
One wonders how his government was able to emplace a country-wide web of organised corruption without him getting a whiff of it in his Corridors of Power and wherever he went throughout Brasil.
Of couse he knew, of course he was implicated .... but like, Jimmy Saville, he was a national institution who could not be officially accused.
Good for Dilma. Tough, smart and incorruptible =) Hope she runs again in 2014 myself
Nov 26th, 2012 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 BSK
Nov 26th, 2012 - 10:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Changed your tune haven't you?
Finally realised what a scammer old Lula is then?
I'm a political atheist and know the left vs right is bogus.
Nov 27th, 2012 - 04:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Dilma is doing the right thing..a great example we need here in the US and in Europe (yes, we really do, because the fraudsters aka banksters and corrupt elected non elected bureaucrats continue with their shams).
both (4 and 5) you “retards” (more brain dead knockleheads) are stuck in the left vs right paradigm and need to grow up. ChrisRetard web based moron in his mom's basement, show us links that Lula was a scammer. He, Lula failed to combat corruption, but he is the man who continue with the same programs and expended them that were created by F.H.C.
#5 No
Nov 27th, 2012 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Too partisan, Fido.
Nov 27th, 2012 - 04:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lula continued the good programmes of FC (Fernando Cardoso),
but maximised the corruptions of FC (Fernando Collor).
Thus we now have a Brasil that is advancing, but needing Dilma to cut out the corruption-cancers in a country where the cancers have been encouraged by Lula to metastase into all sectors of society.
A messy job, but somebody had to do it.
Just because Dilma accepted the PT Ticket in order to get elected doesn't mean she accepted the S.A. far-Left/socialist belief that 'anything goes' when it comes to 'squeeking the pips' of the rich/Right.
But remember that, on appointment, she immediately raised Brasil's political salaries to massively exceed any found anywhere else in the world - probably a precursor to her intended anti-corruption campaign amongst her political classes, and one that was calculated to allow her to survive the process.
@ 6 Fido Dildo
Nov 27th, 2012 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still calling me names eh? I must really have rattled your cage, never mind, you will cool down and the rank stupidity you exhibit will subside to just your normal stupid, hypocritical self.
Yes, from when I was born until I was 9 YO the old run down house my parents had (private landlord who DGAF) did have a basement. Couldn’t play in it though we had the coal dropped into it through an iron grating. Then my parents had to carry the stuff into the kitchen and living room and early in the evening up to the two bedrooms to light the fires in there.
Unlike the poorly built houses you obviously have to survive in that HAVE to have basements to stop them falling apart in 10 years instead of 25 years we moved to a new council house when I was 10.
Fully brick built on the new technique of a ‘floating slab’, the walls never cracked other than settlement of the plaster (easily and permanently fixed) it was where I lived until I moved into my own (purchased) house with a view over the countryside, three large bedrooms and a garage. My new bride, still my wife, was a little younger than I. I was 24 YO.
And how did I get to that position? I worked damned hard at school and passed the eleven plus. I went to my choice of Technical High School, then to a Technical Indentured Apprenticeship at a glassworks, part of Pilkington Glass. I was their apprentice of the year OF THE GROUP when I was 19. I was their youngest ever Divisional Process Engineer (Velo) at the age of 22.
Why am I telling you this? Unlike you, a bitter and twisted person of obvious limited intellect having to leave his home country and survive in one he now hates and detests, I got where I did through perseverance, knowing what I needed to do, did it, often to the consternation of those who had tried and failed before me until I was sought out by top industrial groups to work for them.
Then I started my own businesses which I ran until I retired at the age of 65, so I don't GAF.
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