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Brazilian Justice gives Rousseff ten days to reply the claims of “a coup”
Brazils Supreme Tribunal (STF) Justice Rosa Weber has given suspended president Dilma Rousseff ten days to explain her repeated statements that the impeachment process started against her is a “coup”. Rousseff is not obliged to respond. The STF decision follows a request from a group of lawmakers via the House's prosecution office. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhat the Justice means, but is far too polite to say is STFU!
May 19th, 2016 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The New York Times pointed out, Dilma Rousseff is maybe the one politician who hasn’t—leading politician who hasn’t stolen in order to benefit herself. She’s being charged with manipulations in the budget, which are pretty standard in many countries, taking from one pocket and putting it into another. Maybe it’s a misdeed of some kind, but certainly doesn’t justify impeachment. In fact, she’s—we have the one leading politician who hasn’t stolen to enrich herself, who’s being impeached by a gang of thieves, who have done so. That does count as a kind of soft coup. I think that’s correct.” NOAM CHOMSKY http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/17/noam_chomsky_brazils_president_dilma_rousseff
May 19th, 2016 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“which are pretty standard in many countries”
May 19th, 2016 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh that must make it right.
Pathetic!
Dubbed as the most-cited living source from 1980 to 1992, Noam Chomsky
May 19th, 2016 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.prosebeforehos.com/quote-of-the-day/02/13/best-noam-chomsky-quotes/
http://www.prosebeforehos.com/quote-of-the-day/02/13/best-noam-chomsky-quotes/
“which are pretty standard in many countries”
May 20th, 2016 - 03:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh that must make it right.
Pathetic!
Interview with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff:
May 20th, 2016 - 03:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0https://theintercept.com/2016/05/19/watch-first-interview-with-brazils-president-dilma-rousseff-since-the-senates-impeachment-vote/
If you require it you can select sub-titles in English.
May 20th, 2016 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Watch: First Interview With Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff Since the Senate’s Impeachment Vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1n
The Intercept Glenn Greenwald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1n
@2, 7. I read the Chomsky article. A lovely blend. Just about admitted that the members of the PT were seduced by opportunity into being corrupt. But mostly it's all someone else's fault. Mostly the US.
May 20th, 2016 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0But here's a thought. Suppose you find an appropriate place in your quote and insert the word “yet”. As I read reports, it seems that prosecutors are getting closer to Lula. Hasn't there already been a request to investigate him? And Rousseff's his protege. That would mean he mentored her. Wouldn't he have mentioned all the “little” fiddles the president can get away with? So we'll wait and see how he fares. And it seems to me that she's headed toward the same madness that afflicts Maduro. Claiming it's a “coup”, for heavens sake! Smacks of wild desperation.
8 Conqueror
May 20th, 2016 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“But mostly it's all someone else's fault. Mostly the US.” Theres a very good reason for that, as the US has a long and checkered of history of interference in other countries internal affairs.
“Nelson Mandela: CIA tip-off led to 1962 Durban arrest”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36296551
“Imperial Designs? Current US Ambassador to Brazil Served in Paraguay Prior to 2012 Coup”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36296551
“Is the U.S. Backing Rousseff's Ouster in Brazil? Opposition Holds Talks in D.C. as Obama Stays Quiet”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36296551
“Brazil and CIA by Peter Gribbin” http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36296551
@9. Expand your mind a little. Have you heard of “national interest”? Tell us about argieland's approaches to Scotland and Wales in an attempt to create division. Come to think of it, can we see any correlation between argieland's approach to Scotland and the rise of the SNP? What similarities are there between Kirchner and Sturgeon? For instance, the UK government gave Scotland an extra £15 million to spend on aid after the floods. Sturgeon was reported promising the Scottish people £12 million in aid. Where's the other £3 million?
May 22nd, 2016 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not sure what your links are supposed to prove. Never mind what's in the articles. I have to be in the right mood to waste time reading the garbage that conspiracy theorists come out with or are put forward by those with “an agenda”.
What was Mandela's status in 1962? Whatever we think now, at the time the government in office said he was a criminal and a terrorist. The CIA is a law enforcement agency, isn't it? Don't diplomatic personnel move from post to post? And, let's face it, in 2012 argieland was leading the charge in doing what it says it won't do now. Interfering in another country's internal affairs. So the Brazilian opposition is having talks in Washington. Argieland sent representatives to Scotland and Wales in an attempt to create division and weaken the UK government. It's only a factor but Peter Gribbin is so expert and influential that he can't be found by Google and doesn't appear in Wikipedia. Is he another blogger with an axe to grind? Regarding your post @7, Greenwald is the last person I would listen to. He is, after all, anti-American and, quite possibly, well in with Rousseff's party.
10 Conqueror
May 22nd, 2016 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0By 1962 South Africa was considered a pariah state by the international community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_South_Africa_during_apartheid
“The CIA is a law enforcement agency” what ever the CIA is, it is not considered a law enforcement agency by any of the international community agencies.
Ref.: 2225(XXI);The General Assembly,
“Recognizing that full observance of the principle of the non-intervention of States in the internal and external affairs of other States is essential to the fulfilment of the purposes and principles of the United Nations,
1. No State has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the internal or external affairs of any other State. Consequently, armed intervention and all other forms of interference or attempted threats against the personality of the State or against its political, economic and cultural elements, are condemned.
2. No State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights or to secure from it advantages of any kind. Also, no State shall organize, assist, foment, Finance, incite or tolerate subversive, terrorist or armed activities directed towards the violent overthrow of the regime of another State, or interfere in civil strife in another State.”
The application of US foreign policy is applied directly into the internal affairs of countries contrary to Resolution 2225
There is no comparison between the US and Argentina, it's comparing apples and oranges. Argentina hasn't staged any coups whereas the US has.
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/05/19/brazilian-justice-gives-rousseff-ten-days-to-reply-the-claims-of-a-coup#comment441171: The CIA is not considered a law enforcement agency by the US government either.
May 23rd, 2016 - 03:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Call it “a coup” or by whatever other catchy names she prefers. If she & her party flushed the economy down the drain and created all the mess in the first place; they deserve a kick on their derrieres.
May 23rd, 2016 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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