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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 18 2016, 02:03 PM (3,194 Views) | |
| W A Mozart | Mar 18 2016, 02:03 PM Post #1 |
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A Brazilian judge has blocked the appointment of ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as chief of staff to his successor, Dilma Rousseff, shortly after he was sworn in. The judge's injunction said there was a risk a federal investigation could be derailed if Lula was a minister. In Brazil, cabinet members can only be investigated by the Supreme Court, not by federal courts. Lula is under investigation in connection with a corruption scandal. The government has appealed against the decision. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35835795 |
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| Che On The Rocks | Mar 19 2016, 10:38 PM Post #2 |
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Brazil: Masses Defend Against Right-Wing Attacks on Government
![]() Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of the main cities of Brazil this Friday. | Photo: Reuters ![]() Regime Change in Brazil? Right Wing Protest Movement Funded by US Billionaire Foundations, Training in US
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| jake58 | Mar 19 2016, 11:57 PM Post #3 |
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Is this the chick with the 11% approval rating? Where do they find these morons? They seem to have an inexhaustible supply. |
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| W A Mozart | Mar 20 2016, 03:03 AM Post #4 |
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![]() One down, two to go! Er, sorry, sorry, .....four to go (Correa and Morales) Mozart Edited by W A Mozart, Mar 20 2016, 03:07 AM.
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| W A Mozart | Mar 20 2016, 07:28 PM Post #5 |
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There is a brief, momentary time-out, ...as we move from Brasil to Switzerland to honor Lara Gut! Today Lara Gut WON the overall world championship in skiing! Got the glass globe and everything. Won it all. A few weeks back Lindsey Vonn had to back away from racing again this season because of a knee injury. Gut and Vonn were tied at the time. Vonn and Gut do NOT like one another. They traded nasty tweets a few weeks ago, especially when Vonn was forced to retire. Vonn, however, did show-up in St. Moritz this week to collect her "Downhill Globe," but I suspect she was there more as an intimidating factor to Gut than anything else. Oh my, having these two women in the same room at the same time simply invites a cat fight. But, anyway, raise your wine glass to Lara Gut tonight, the reigning world champion in skiing. Bravo Lara...! ![]() Youtube video put-out today.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6mX1wk6OfM&feature=youtu.be Mozart |
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| jake58 | Mar 20 2016, 08:14 PM Post #6 |
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Hey Mozzie, could you post the one of her in a wet t shirt? |
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| W A Mozart | Mar 20 2016, 09:18 PM Post #7 |
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![]() ![]() Please Jake, this is a family forum we have here. You'll just need to take a cold shower, ...or something. I don't wanna know.... Mozart Edited by W A Mozart, Mar 20 2016, 09:20 PM.
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| jake58 | Mar 20 2016, 09:45 PM Post #8 |
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| That which can be asserted without evidence; can be dismissed without evidence- Christopher Hitchens | |
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| W A Mozart | Mar 22 2016, 08:08 PM Post #9 |
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Sorry to follow the above lovely photo with this...![]() The ding-a-ling now claims there's a "coup d'etat" afoot....! (dontchaknow) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35877230 Every South American left-winger shrieks "coup" every time the money has run out. It's now become a tradition. Mozart Edited by W A Mozart, Mar 22 2016, 08:09 PM.
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| Che On The Rocks | Mar 23 2016, 05:59 AM Post #10 |
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Diversity: The Great Divide Between Protest Groups in Brazil
![]() Brazilians have mobilized in support of Rousseff, Lula and Democracy | Photo: @LemusteleSUR Puajjj!!! The coupist are racists, too! How gross! |
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| jake58 | Mar 23 2016, 08:08 AM Post #11 |
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there are 'millions' of white, wealthy, conservative Brazilians???? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.... |
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| Che On The Rocks | Mar 23 2016, 08:28 PM Post #12 |
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In a country with a population of +200 millions? Yep, easily. The 1%.
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| Che On The Rocks | Mar 23 2016, 08:33 PM Post #13 |
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Lula: 'We Will Not Permit a Coup Against Dilma!'
![]() Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a T-shirt that reads "There will be no coup" during an event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 23, 2016. | Photo: Reuters |
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| Che On The Rocks | Mar 23 2016, 09:24 PM Post #14 |
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Brazil's Lula Corruption Probe Goes to the Supreme Court
![]() Demonstrators rally in support of President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Lula da Silva in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 18, 2016. | Photo: EFE |
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| jake58 | Mar 23 2016, 09:43 PM Post #15 |
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He's not looking too fresh there, che. Does he have any teeth left? What's going on in his corruption trial anyway, money laundering and fraud wasn't it? Any news on that? The return to public office of Lula, who stepped down in 2010 after eight years in power as one of the world's most popular leaders, was slammed by critics as a desperate attempt to shore up support for Rousseff as she faces impeachment proceedings in Congress. Rousseff's popularity has been pummeled by Brazil's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and the spreading corruption investigation focused on state-run oil company Petrobras. More than a million people marched in demonstrations across Brazil on Sunday, calling for her ouster and voicing support for the investigations into kickbacks by contractors to political leaders in exchange for work with Petrobras. Plans to announce Lula`s appointment were overtaken by the publication of damaging new allegations from a Workers' Party senator in plea bargain testimony made public by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The testimony by Senator Delcídio do Amaral, a close ally of the president until he was arrested last year, accused both Rousseff and Lula of being aware of corruption at Petroleo Brasileiro SA and said the president had tried to hamper the investigation. In the most damaging allegations, Amaral said Aloísio Mercadante, a Workers' Party veteran who has served as Rousseff's chief-of-staff and is now education minister, offered to pay him to keep quiet last year. http://www.newsweek.com/brazil-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva-corruption-dilma-rousseff-437223 |
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| W A Mozart | Mar 24 2016, 03:17 AM Post #16 |
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Yes, and what's fascinating here is that one of the most prominent engineering firms in the world, Odebrecht, is now in the center of this scandal.
Furthermore, the grandson of the founder of Odebrecht, a supporter of Lula and Rouseff, is now headed to jail for bribery.
http://www.petroleumworld.com/storyt16032301.htm Mozart |
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| Che On The Rocks | Mar 25 2016, 04:17 AM Post #17 |
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Do you? ![]() Yes:
Do you need some clonazepam?
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| Che On The Rocks | Mar 25 2016, 04:23 AM Post #18 |
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Dilma Rousseff defiant amid calls for resignation over corruption scandal
![]() Dilma Rousseff has said she would never resign despite corruption allegations, as the scandal threatening her government escalated with dozens of new arrests. Photograph: Roberto Stuckert/Filho/PR ![]() Rallies in support of Dilma Rouseff in Sao Paulo on Thursday. Photograph: Ricardo Nogueira/EPA |
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| jake58 | Mar 25 2016, 08:19 AM Post #19 |
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In February 2015, month before protests began, Rouseff's approval rating dropped 19 points to 23% with 44% disapproving of her in Datafolha polls. Following the 15 March protests, Rouseff's approval rating fell even further to only 13% with a 62% disapproval rating, one of the highest disapproval ratings in the past 20 years of any president. Other polls by Datafolha performed on 9 and 10 April showed that 63% believed President Rousseff "should face impeachment proceedings" while less than 15% knew that the vice president, Michel Temer, would become president if Rousseff was impeached. In CNT/MDA polls performed in March 2015, 10.8% of Brazilians approved of Rouseff's government and 59.7 wanted her impeached. In July 2015, the CNT/MDA showed a lower approval rating of 7.7% and 62.8% of Brazilians wanting her impeachment. Hey che, how about that leaked phone call between Dilma and Lulu?On 15 March 2016, in a testimony by the former leader of Rousseff's Workers' Party, he stated that Lula da Silva and Rousseff had been trying to block investigation while also alleging that Aécio Neves may have been involved. The next day on 16 March 2016, Rousseff appointed Lula da Silva as her chief of staff in what "was widely seen as an attempt to protect him from the investigation because ministers and lawmakers can only be tried by Brazil’s Supreme Court". Later that day, a leaked phone call of Rousseff and Lula da Silva caused public outrage with Rousseff calling Lula da Silva's "terms of office" a "necessity", with prosecutors stating that this wire tap of Lula da Silva among others showed his attempts to impede investigations The phone call between Rousseff and Lula da Silva went as follows: Rousseff: Hello. Lula da Silva: Hello. Rousseff: Lula, let me tell you something. Lula da Silva: Tell me, my dear. Rousseff: It’s this, I am sending Messias round with the papers, so that we have them, just in case of necessity, that is the terms of office, right? Lula da Silva: Uh-huh. Ok, ok. Rousseff: That’s all, wait there, he is heading there. Lula da Silva: OK, I’m here. I’ll wait. Rousseff: Right? Lula da Silva: OK. Rousseff: Bye. Lula da Silva: Bye, my dear. Lula, a former union leader and two-time president, is being investigated for his alleged role in a multibillion-dollar scheme in which kickbacks and bribes were paid on fat contracts at the state-run oil company, Petrobras. His appointment as Rousseff’s chief of staff was widely seen here as an attempt to protect him legally, because cabinet ministers and lawmakers can be investigated only by Brazil’s Supreme Court. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/brazilians-protest-as-lula-under-investigation-gets-cabinet-position/2016/03/17/4e3dccf2-ebf0-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html funny stuff |
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| W A Mozart | Mar 26 2016, 09:57 AM Post #20 |
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What is fascinating here is that Brasil will be the host to the Olympics in 4 months. Stop and ponder that. This could all turn out to be a mega disaster. They spent all of that transitory oil money on new stadiums and such but, like Greece, will have difficulty paying for it all AFTER the games. The corruption must have been massive. Brasil will once again be pushed back to third world status. Poverty and crime. Whatever happened to those BRICS...? Perhaps those socialists do-gooders (Lula/Dilma) didn't have this economic thing figured-out? Spread the wealth. Everyone will prosper, dontchaknow. Brasil, like Venezuela, is an economic catastrophe. They are dropping like flies all over South America.
Mozart Edited by W A Mozart, Mar 26 2016, 10:01 AM.
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