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Massive rallies on Sunday in support of Brazilian Minister of Justice

Monday, July 1st 2019 - 09:54 UTC
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Thousands protested in Brazil on Sunday in support of Justice Minister Sergio Moro, who is battling claims he conspired with prosecutors on his anti-corruption drive to keep former leader Lula da Silva from another presidential run. Read full article

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  • Terence Hill

    “Demonstrators dressed in Brazil's national colors of yellow and green”
    Which is appropriate considering “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” Samuel Johnson

    Jul 01st, 2019 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • :o))

    @Terence Hill

    BRAZIL IS BETTER:
    https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNewsBR/status/1146136451127623680

    Jul 02nd, 2019 - 10:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • imoyaro

    Bit behind the times, are we, Trollence? To quote Ambrose Bierce, “Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”

    Jul 05th, 2019 - 03:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    imoyaro
    “To an enlightened but inferior lexicographer” Why because his statement precedes Ambrose Bierce
    ”By his nickname imoyaro, which could best be translated as “potato bastard”.’ https://drinkinginjapan.net/tag/nomihodai/
    I’ll be a little kinder as I will always remember you affectionately as Mr. Potato-Head.

    Jul 05th, 2019 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • :o))

    Exactly WHAT is a “potato bastard”

    Jul 05th, 2019 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    Dallagnol was among those cautioning colleagues that using procedural power to investigate journalists who had published leaked material would not only be difficult but “virtually impossible,” because “a journalist who leaks is not committing a crime.”
    The Intercept cited a decision by the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region to demonstrate that Dallagnol was right.
    https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/national-politics/intercept-journalist-who-leaks-does-not-commit-a-crime-says-embattled-dallagnol/

    Jul 05th, 2019 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • :o))

    REF: “Massive rallies in support of a Brazilian Minister”:

    Can't these Ignoratent+Retarded+Brainwashed masses invest their time+efforts+energies to organize rallies for their own urgent requirements/demands/rights/privileges?:
    https://www.otempo.com.br/image/contentid/policy:1.2202390:1561766980/CHARGE%20O%20TEMPO.JPG?f=3x2&q=0.6&w=620&$p$f$q$w=904c3fd

    Jul 06th, 2019 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    “Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro was booed on Sunday while attending the final of the Copa America football tournament in Rio de Janeiro.
    Mr Bolsonaro, accompanied by several cabinet ministers, received mostly jeers from the 70,000 fans at Maracana Stadium after Brazil defeated Peru to win their ninth title.
    The hostile response came at the end of a tournament in which the controversial leader has been accused of using the competition for political gain.”
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/copa-america-2019-final-bolsonaro-booed-brazil-peru-president-far-right-a8993211.html

    Jul 08th, 2019 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • :o))

    What does one expect? Of course, a thief is EXPECTED to steal!

    Jul 10th, 2019 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    “Bolsonaro Came to Power in Brazil Through Election Fraud
    An investigation between the US DOJ, the SEC, and the CPO. OCC, laid off 230,000 after Moro paralyzed their operations because of LJ. There’s companies that were crippled in 2015. Brazil lost 2.5 percent GDP that year; it was 500,000 layoffs. This destabilized the economy, causing a drop in popularity of, Rousseff, lan impeachment on a budget infraction technicality that was legalized the day after she left office, by the senate.
    So the US involvement, the tactics they used are the same from the DoJ. These tactics, like arresting family members, creating a media circus, leaking things to the media and suppressing information beneficial to the defense. In the case of LJ, Moro barred 86 defense witnesses for Lula, ..
    What Gramsci used to call the “integral [US] state,” which is the government, the political parties, educational institutions, think tanks and the big media companies. And what I see them doing that this investigation is undermined, that Lula stays in jail, that the PT doesn’t rise back to power and undo the privatizations that governments have enacted in Brazil, that directly benefited all of these huge US companies, like Exxon Mobil, Microsoft, Boeing, Monsanto; they all benefited because of this, which started with LJ, that threw Dilma Rousseff out of office—she wasn’t tied up in L J, the investigators leaked, all of this misinformation about her in the lead-up to the impeachment.
    People don’t talk about, Brazil’s most important nuclear scientist was arrested by LJ, and this killed Brazil’s submarine program. The shipping industry has been destroyed. The five largest construction companies were destroyed or weakened; 75 percent of Brazil’s petroleum reserves, which are huge, have been sold off at below market rates, mostly to American corporations.”
    https://truthout.org/audio/bolsonaro-came-to-power-in-brazil-through-election-fraud/

    Jul 10th, 2019 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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