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Showing posts with label Operation Car Wash. Show all posts
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May 15, 2016

Brazil Coup: Despicable Hybrid War Hyenas Usurp Democracy







Brazil Coup:  
Despicable Hybrid War Hyenas
Usurp Democracy


Following condemn Brazil Coup:
  • OAS - Organization of American States
  • Mercosur - sub-regional bloc:  Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela (+ Brazil)
  • Unasur - Union of South American Nations
  • BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa


https://www.rt.com/op-edge/342821-brazil-dilma-rousseff-impeachment/


RT News

Dilma out: Brazilian plutocracy sets 54mn votes on fire

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


Published time: 12 May, 2016 16:00


Never in modern political history has it been so easy to “abolish the people” and simply erase 54 million votes cast in a free and fair presidential election.

Forget about hanging chads, as in Florida 2000. This is a day that will live in infamy all across the Global South – when what was one of its most dynamic democracies veered into a plutocratic regime, under a flimsy parliamentary/judicial veneer, with legal and constitutional guarantees now at the mercy of lowly comprador elites[comment:  comprador = intermediary / middleman]

After the proverbial marathon, the Brazilian Senate voted 55-22 to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for “crimes of responsibility” – related to alleged window dressing of the government’s budget.

This is the culmination of a drawn-out process that started even before Rousseff won re-election in late 2014 with over 54 million votes. I have described the bunch of perpetrators of what Brazilian creativity has termed ‘golpeachment’ (a mix of coup – “golpe” in Portuguese – and impeachment) as Hybrid War hyenas[comment:  ie coup+impeachment]

Sophisticated golpeachment – supported by what amounts to an Electoral Inquisition College – has propelled Hybrid War to whole new levels.

Hybrid War as applied to Brazil exhibited classic elements of a color revolution. Of course there was no need for no-fly zones or humanitarian imperialism to “protect human rights” – not to mention provoking a civil war. But considering the high resistance level of the victim state, where civil society is very dynamic, Hybrid War designers in this case bet on a mix of capitulation – and betrayal – of local elites, mixed with “peaceful protests” and a relentless mainstream media campaign. Call it ‘Civil War Light.’

That carried with it a fabulous cost-benefit ratio. Now the (immensely corrupt) Brazilian political system and the current executive/legislative/judiciary/mainstream media alignment can be used by the usual suspects for their geopolitical agenda.

Welcome to regime change lightpolitics, in a nutshell – as war by other means on the BRICS. A new software, a new operating system. Carrying a pathetic corollary; if the US is the Empire of Chaos, Brazil has now gloriously reached the status of Sub-Empire of Scoundrels.
 

Scoundrels galore

Rousseff may be accused of serious economic mismanagement, and of being incapable of political articulation among the shark pool that is (immensely corrupt) Brazilian politics. But she is not corrupt. She made a serious mistake in fighting inflation, allowing interest rates to rise to an unsustainable level; so demand in Brazil dramatically dropped, and recession became the norm. She is the (convenient) scapegoat for Brazil’s recession.

She certainly may be blamed for not having a Plan B to fight the global recession. Brazil essentially works on two pillars; commodity exports and local companies relying on the teats of the state. Infrastructure in general is dismal – adding to what is described as the “Brazilian cost” of doing business. With the commodity slump, state funds dwindled and everything was paralyzed – credit, investment, consumption.   

The pretext for Rousseff’s impeachment – allegedly transferring loans from public banks to the Treasury in order to disguise the size of Brazil’s fiscal deficit – is flimsy at best. Every administration in the West does it – and that includes Clinton’s, Bush’s and Obama’s.

The Operation Car Wash investigation, dragging on for two years now, was supposed to uncover corruption in the Brazilian political system – as in the collusion of oil giant Petrobras executives, Brazilian construction companies, and political campaign financing. Car Wash has nothing to do with the golpeachment drive. Yet these have been two parallel highways converging to one destination: the criminalization of the Workers’ Party, and the definitive – if possible – political assassination of Rousseff and her mentor, former President Lula.

When golpeachment reached the lower house of Congress – an appalling spectacle – Rousseff was eviscerated by Hybrid War hyenas of the BBC variety; “BBC,” in English, stands for “bullet,”“bible” and “cattle,” where “bullet” refers to the weapons and private security industry, “bible” to pastors and evangelical fanatics, and “cattle” to the powerful agribusiness lobby.

The “BBC” hyenas are members of almost all Brazilian political parties, paperboys for major corporations, and – last but not least – corruption stalwarts. They all benefited from millionaire political campaigning. The whole Car Wash investigation ultimately revolves around campaign financing, which in Brazil, unlike the US with its legalized lobbies, is a Tarantino-worthy Wild West.   

The Brazilian Senate is not exactly an “upper” – as in more polished – house. Eighty percent of members are white men – in a country where miscegenation rules. A staggering 58 percent is under criminal investigation – linked to Car Wash. Sixty percent hail from political dynasties. And 13 percent – as alternates – were not elected at all. Among those favoring impeachment, 30 out of 49 are in trouble with the law. Charges include mostly money laundering, financial crimes and outright corruption. Renan Calheiros, the president of the Senate – who oversaw today’s impeachment vote – is the target of no fewer than nine separate money laundering/corruption Car Wash lines of investigation, plus another two criminal probes. 


Meet the three Banana Republic amigos

Rousseff is now suspended for a maximum 180 days while a Senate committee decides whether to impeach her for good. Enter President-in-Waiting Michel Temer – a dodgy, shady operator – who has been branded a “usurper” by Rousseff. And usurper this provincial Brutus certainly is – according to his own words. On March 30 last year, he was tweeting that, “Impeachment is unthinkable, it would create an institutional crisis. There is no judicial or political basis for it.

His administration is born with the original sin of being illegal and massively unpopular; his approval rating floats between an epic 1 percent and 2 percent. He was already fined last week for violating campaign finance limits. And, predictably, he’s drowning in a corruption swamp – named in two Car Wash plea bargains and accused of being part of an illegal scheme of ethanol buying; he may become ineligible for the next eight years. Almost 60 percent of Brazilians also want him impeached – on the same charges leveled against Rousseff.

Brutus 1 (Temer) would not bask in the glow of his 15 minutes of fame without the shenanigans of Brutus 2 (Brazil’s number one crook, former speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha, facing charges of bribery and perjury, holder of illegal Swiss accounts, and now finally sidelined by the Supreme Court). It was Brutus 2 who fast-tracked impeachment as pure vengeance; the Workers’ Party did not cover his back as he was facing a tsunami of corruption charges. Brutus 2 used all his vast powers – he runs a campaign financing scam inside Congress – to obstruct the Car Wash investigation. His replacement, the interim speaker, is also under investigation for bribery.

So meet Temer, Cunha, Calheiros; these three amigos are the true stars of the Banana Republic of Scoundrels/Crooks.

As if the Supreme Court would be rascal-free. Judge Gilmar Mendes, for instance, is a lowly plutocrat vassal. When an attorney for the government entered a motion to suspend impeachment, he quipped, “Ah, they can go to heaven, to the Pope, or to hell.” Another pompous judge received a request to sideline Cunha as early as December 2015. He only examined the request over four months later, when the whole golpeachment scam was in its decisive phase. And still he argued, “there’s no proof Cunha contaminated the impeachment process.”

Finally, complementing the whole scam, we find Brazilian mainstream media, with the toxic Globo media empire – which lavishly profited from the 1964 military coup – at the forefront.  [comment:  Grupo Globo]


All hail the neoliberal restoration 

Wall Street – as well as the City of London – could not hide its excitement with golpeachment, believing Brutus 1 Temer will be an economic upgrade. Arguably, he might dare to tweak Brazil’s Kafkaesque tax code and do something about the enormous hole in the pension system. But what that mythical entity – the “markets” – and myriad “investors” are salivating about is the prospect of fabulous rates of return in a reopened-for-speculation Brazil. The Brutus 1 game will be a neoliberal feast, actually a restoration, with no popular representation whatsoever.  

The golpeachment gang gets really incensed when they are identified as coup plotters. Still, they could not give a damn about the OAS, Mercosur, Unasur – all of them condemned the coup – not to mention the Holy Grail: the BRICS. Under Brutus 1, the Foreign Ministry, to be led by a sore loser senator, is bound to sink Brazil’s key role in BRICS cooperation, to the benefit of Exceptionalistan.

All one needs to know is that neither Nobel Peace Prize-winner Barack “kill list” Obama nor Queen of Chaos Hillary “We came, we saw, he died” Clinton condemned the ongoing regime change light/golpeachment. That’s predictable, considering Exceptionalistan’s NSA spied on Petrobras and Dilma Rousseff personally – the genesis of what would develop as the Car Wash investigation.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest limited himself to the proverbial platitudes: “challenging moment”; “trust in Brazilian democratic institutions”; or even “mature democracy.” Yet he added, significantly, that Brazil is “under scrutiny.”

Of course, the current stage of a very sophisticated Hybrid War strategy has been accomplished. But there are countless cliffhangers ahead. The Car Wash investigation – currently in slow motion – will pick up speed as a rash of dodgy plea bargains is already in store to create the conditions to criminalize for good not only Dilma Rousseff but the key piece in the chessboard: Lula.

Game over? Not so fast. The anti-golpeachment front does have a strategy: to imprint especially in “deep Brazil,” the vast masses of the working poor, the notion of illegality; to rebuild Rousseff’s image as the victim of a profound injustice; to re-energize the progressive political front; to make sure the Brutus 1 government will fail; and to create the conditions for the man who will come in from the cold to win the 2018 presidential elections.

Brazilian House of Cards? Bets could be made this may even end up as Anaconda, with Lula immobilizing the Hybrid War hyenas in a cobra clutch.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


https://www.rt.com/op-edge/342821-brazil-dilma-rousseff-impeachment/


COMMENT

Hope this ends badly for the Hybrid War hyenas.





May 14, 2016

Brazil Coup




Brazil Coup



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Brazil Coup


Michel Temer
-- Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia
-- lawyer, politician
-- VP Brazil since 2011
-- Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB)
-- centrist 'big tent' party with no defined ideology / seeking to appeal to diverse

-- assumed the presidential role as 'acting president'
-- on suspension of Dilma Rousseff during impeachment trial
-- Maronite Lebanese
-- family migrated to Brazil, 1920s from north Lebanon
-- due to post-WWI instability
-- children spread over 3 women so far:
--     -- wife #1 - Maria
--     -- journalist
--     -- wife #2 - Marcela (42 years Temer's junior, dating then 60yo at 17)
-- second VP of Lebanese origin
-- Temer subject of corruption investigations
-- 'Operation Car Wash'
-- re construction contracts from Petrobras US$1.5 million alleged kickbacks
-- payments characterised by Temer as 'legal campaign donations'

-- & wrongdoing denied
-- Temer involved in Dilma Rousseff impeachment process
-- 2015 sends letter to President Rousseff complaining he's not consulted enough
-- Temer letter mocked on Brazilian social media
-- Rousseff condemned him as a traitor to her administration
-- 2016 - audio file of Temer leaked to media
-- Temer speaks as if impeachment process under-way & he was the new president
-- leak came hours before special lower house committee scheduled to vote re impeachment

“Let’s not think that a possible change in government will solve everything in three or four months.” [Michel Temer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Temer

 Operation Car Wash
-- Brazil Federal Police investigation
-- since March 2014
-- money-laundering investigation expanded to allegations of corruption
-- involving state-controlled Petrobas
-- alleging executives accepted bribes

-- for awarding contracts to construction firms at inflated prices
-- alleged ring used currency exchange & money transfer service
-- to move illicit money

-- 2016:  Marcelo Odebrecht, CEO of Odebrecht
-- convicted of paying more than $30 million in bribes to Petrobras executives
-- sentenced 19 years prison


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash


Petrobas
-- 54% govt Brazil owned
-- 5% Brazilian Development Bank
-- 5% Brazil Sovereign Wealth Fund (Fundo Soberano)
-- 36% privately held shares (BM&F Bovespa)

-- f. 1953 under slogan 'the oil is ours' (& not the foreigners)
-- 92% production = Brazil holdings
-- significant oil & energy assets:  x16 countries, Africa, North & South America, Europe, Asia
-- began processing oil shale 1953
-- Petrobas almost went bankrupt 1973 oil crisis
-- 2005 joint venture Japan + supply ethanol
-- 2007 & 2009 SEVERAL MAJOR OIL DISCOVERIES
-- partnership incl: 
--     Royal Dutch Shell (Anglo-Dutch multinational)
--     Shell:  world's second largest oil company
--     Galp Energia (Portuguese)
-- 2009:  loans from China - US$10-bn
-- 2013:  US government spying on Petrobras (US journalist Glenn Greenwald)
-- 2015:  Petrobas accumulated $128-bn debt (84% foreign currencies)
--     Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sue Petrobras
--     and its auditors, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
--     arising from corruption scandal
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrobras
 


'NSA spied on Brazil's oil giant Petrobras' 
[3:49]

[Source - PressTV video (above) / Gloria La Riva, ANSWER Coalition] 
[for quotation purposes, confirm audio] 



SUMMARY


US oil companies & military corporations 

have a decided interest in domination & recapturing of oil resources throughout world.

Spying on Mexico due to struggle in Mexico to privatise Mexican oil.

Pressure from US to dominate oil as it did to 1938, along with British.

US & British working in tandem & using British territory (Ascension) to spy on Brazil.

US militarising several Latin American countries & building more bases Colombia, and trying to pressure Latin American countries to break friendships with anti-imperialist countries in Latin America. 

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The anti-imperialist Latin American nations:
  • Antigua & Barbuda
  • Bolivia
  • Cuba
  • Dominica
  • Ecuador
  • Grenada
  • Nicaragua
  • Saint Kitts & Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • St Vincent & the Grenadines
  • Venezuela
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALBA



NSA’s Top Brazilian Political and Financial Targets Revealed by New WikiLeaks Disclosure
Glenn Greenwald, David Miranda
July 4 2015, 8:59 p.m

Top-secret data from the National Security Agency, shared with The Intercept by WikiLeaks, reveals that the U.S. spy agency targeted the cell phones and other communication devices of more than a dozen top Brazilian political and financial officials, including the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, whose presidential plane telephone was on the list. President Rousseff just yesterday returned to Brazil after a trip to the U.S. that included a meeting with President Obama, a visit she had delayed for almost two years in anger over prior revelations of NSA spying on Brazil.

That Rousseff’s personal cell phone was successfully targeted by NSA spying was previously reported in 2013 by Fantastico, a program on the Brazilian television network Globo Rede. That revelation — along with others exposing NSA mass surveillance on hundreds of millions of Brazilians, and the targeting of the country’s state-owned oil company Petrobras and its Ministry of Mines and Energy — caused a major rupture in relations between the two nations. But Rouseff is now suffering from severe domestic weakness as a result of various scandals and a weak economy, and apparently could no longer resist the perceived benefits of a high-profile state visit to Washington.