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Brazil's Banana Scoundrels Will Now Win Their Olympics by Pepe Escobar

Image: Yet another US coup d'état in a latin american country. Dilma Rousseff's terminator, Michel Temer, was an embassy informant for US intelligence by Miguel Villalba Sanchez.

Brazil's Banana Scoundrels Will Now Win Their Olympics
by Pepe Escobar* first published on Strategic Cuture.

"The Rio Olympics are gone – Bolt, Phelps, Neymar, the green pool, the Ugly American Lochte and all – but a global audience may have been spared a shameful last act.

Mediocre incompetent opportunist, corrupt coward traitor, and certified political usurper, interim President Michel Temer, refused to go to the closing ceremony, afraid of being booed out of a packed Maracana stadium. According to the latest polls, 79% of Brazilians want Temer The Usurper out. Now.

Thus Temer The Usurper was not able, according to protocol, to pass the baton (for Tokyo in 2020) to visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Team Temer offered a meeting later on in the capital, Brasilia. Japanese diplomats flatly refused; who wants your Prime Minister to meet a coward in hiding?

Former President Lula lobbied hard to bring the Olympics to Rio, and preparations went on under President Dilma Rousseff. Coupled with Temer The Usurper’s primal fear of being booed just as in the Olympics opening ceremony, which led to his subsequent diplomatic humiliation, a noxious, pathetic political propaganda campaign was deployed right to the end of the games, trying to diminish or even extinguish Lula’s and Dilma’s role. Quite a few Brazilian athletes with great performances at the games benefited from government-supported sport programs.

Now the Scoundrel Games are back in Brazil – with a parliamentary junta disputing gold medals with an institutional racket involving big banks, big business, corporate media and sectors of the Judiciary and the Federal Police. The farce is being sold as a trial in the Senate of President Rousseff, accused – without proof – of financially embellishing the state budget.

Unlike the cowardly usurper, Rousseff is going to the Senate to stare all 81 members in the face; these are the people who by the end of this month will for all practical purposes save or bury Brazilian democracy for good. Rousseff, in case of – miraculously – not being impeached, proposes a referendum leading to new elections.

As it stands, it does not look good. The late, great Jean Baudrillard – a great lover of Brazil – would characterize Rousseff’s impeachment drive as a simulacrum, obliterating the real crime; the parliamentary/institutional coup orchestrated by a notorious bunch of scoundrels, Temer included.

The multi-layered coup, with modified Hybrid War elements, comes with a prearranged finale. It does not matter that even Brazilian Public Ministry experts have repeatedly admitted there’s no juridical basis for Rousseff’s impeachment. Even the federal prosecutor on the case concluded a few weeks ago that she did not commit a crime – «responsibility» or otherwise.

The prosecutorial gang includes two of every three members of the Brazilian Congress who are facing an array of scandals. The overall institutional farce points to the Legislative, the Judiciary and the Public Ministry dragging their feet on indicting the legislative scoundrels while accelerating the procedure against Rousseff. That’s the definition of organized crime.

The endgame, from the point of view of the coup plotter galaxy, is to criminalize and finish off with the Workers’ Party for good – from Lula and Rousseff downwards – under an upcoming barrage of hazy «obstruction of Justice» allegations.

And the Obama administration loves it

The president of construction company giant Odebrecht, incarcerated for months now, accused Temer The Usurper of pleading for – and receiving – undeclared «electoral help», in cash, for his party, the PMDB. Temer has already been convicted for violating election finance laws and banned from running for office for eight years.

Interim Foreign Minister Jose Serra also received «electoral help» for his presidential campaign in 2010; part of the loot was paid overseas, something that properly investigated could lead his party, the PSDB, to lose its registration.

In these past few weeks, Temer The Usurper took no prisoners to turbo charge the impeachment timetable farce, at the same time preventing Dilma to mount a detailed defense. His excuse; he needs to go to Hangzhou, China, for the G20 summit starting on September 4. And he needs to go as president-in-charge – not as «leader» of an unelected caretaker government acting like they’ve earned their mandate in the polling booth.

The real reason for the rush, though, is that Temer feared the serious Odebrecht corruption charge like the plague. Other charges may be imminent. Yet he’s protected – at least for now; the Mob – as in the Goddess of the Market, Brazil’s big banking and their shills in corporate media – is on his side.

Brazil remains totally paralyzed by the political/institutional farce. The 8th largest economy in the world, second largest exporter of food products, and largest industrial platform in the developing West is bleeding, badly. Oil workers are accusing the Mob for 1.5 million lost jobs. Huge infrastructure projects are stalled. Large construction companies are virtually broke; Odebrecht by itself fired over 70,000 workers.

In parallel Temer The Usurper’s «government» has already started to enact its masterplan – straight from disaster capitalism’s playbook. One of the key «policies» is to sell out Petrobras – and the pre-salt reserves – to foreign, as in US corporate, interests. Lula correctly identified the pre-salt reserves – the largest oil discovery in the 21st century so far – as the privileged source for a new development drive for Brazil.

But there are way more disasters in store; selling out indigenous Brazilian industrial development via hardcore privatization, abandoning the defense of Brazilian engineering know-how; severe cuts on education, health, science and technology; «flexibilization» of workers’ rights, as in attacking them on all fronts; a regressive attack on pensions; and sabotaging Mercosur – the South American common market – to the benefit of vassal subordination to US interests.

The – legitimate – Uruguayan Foreign Minister, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, was even compelled to denounced the – illegitimate – Brazilian Foreign Minister, the lowly Serra, for trying to buy Montevideo’s help to prevent Venezuela from stepping up to the temporary presidency of Mercosur. In a little over three months, Serra managed to reduce Brazilian diplomacy to a heap of rotten bananas.

And then, of course, there’s the cherry in the cheesecake; the lame duck Obama administration’s full support for the coup and the impeachment farce.

Obama did not have the balls to say it upfront. That came in the form of Secretary of State John Kerry meeting with the repellent Serra in a trip to Brazil in early August. Kerry even issued a long statement – for all practical purposes legitimizing the coup.

Kerry did not have the balls to meet Temer The Usurper. So what; the whole Global South now knows where Washington stands. Parliamentary / institutional regime change is of course OK. As long as it prevents BRICS integration and Chinese trade/commercial advance in Latin America.

Move on, nothing to see here – as Washington proceeds to the serious business of negotiating two crucial military bases with Argentina’s neoliberal vassal Mauricio Macri; one in resource-rich Patagonia, the other smack into the Brazil / Argentina / Paraguay triple border, right by the largest aquifer on the planet.

And there’s all that pre-salt oil about to go to Chevron! How not to love the smell of regime change in the morning? Definitely smells like victory. And you don’t even need to send the Marines for it."

*Independent geopolitical analyst, writer and journalist

On Reincarnation

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Great critters by Princefala at DeviantArt

You have to visit Princefala's gallery at Deviart! As there are numerous great pieces it is
hard to choose so I did it by theme: smoking.
This is how he described the right work:

"I don't care what anyone says, Tabitha is ace. She's doing her thing and never saying sorry for it. She probably doesn't even smoke, but if you've got a cigarette, you know she's going to want it. Why? Because it's yours. And anything Kurt's got is at the top of her list, naturellement. Flippin' tarty klepto. Most people hate her. I think she's damn hilarious ^_^

I also love her and Kurt as a pairing that easily could have been but wasn't. He obviously had it bad for her. I wonder how Todd feels about that . . . :P

By the by, if you can not read it and are curious, Todd's paper says "girlie swot." And he doesn't mean Tabitha. ::sigh:: And here all poor Kurt wanted to do was get together for some studying. Ha.

Meh, not my usual lush colouring job, but I thought a slightly simpler approach worked better here. I might use this as a header if I ever get a website up and running."

photoshop, ballpoint pen

The Simpsons' revolutionary subliminal messages

Flanders? OMY!

He is a commie and she, a lefty! Capitalism and democracy are safe words

Oh My God! What a terrible combination.
Please, how can it be that these words are still being used to put people in jail?
We remember the sixties and seventies and in my country "communist" was a word people
could not say aloud.
This is ridiculous. As if  "capitalist" assures us that no crime is committed and human rights are respected.
Capitalism and democracy are the two lethal words. It is under a capitalist democracy that US and allies
are committing the crimes against humanity in the name of humanitarian aid or safety.
This is hypocrisy.

Accurate news source! My kingdom for accurate news source!

Someone shared this piece at FB a while ago but I cannot find who is the author.

I decided to share it because this is the way we feel sometimes. Fortunately there are some good sources at the internet now, some of them at my sidebar

My kingdom for accurate news? Irony. Those who have a kingdom to trade are the liars that create fictitious news, false flag events and stage disasters that that kill innocent civilians to manipulate hearts and minds so that they can do whatever they want with the most evil intentions.

Information is power.

Marge Simpson in Playboy Magazine

We love when Marge wears a new dress and I'm sure that most of the Simpsons fans
remember the episode, it was in 1989, where she bought the pink channel suit she
resewed to go to the Country Club.
Marge was at Playboy cover in 2009 and the news was all over the media.
She was the only cartoon character in Playboy's history.
These two pictures are from the magazine.

The Simpsons by Matt Groening

I was going to post Marge Simpson but came across with this .gif animated. I loved it! I'm a huge fan of The Simpsons and I've been watching it daily.
I'm always amazed by the creativity and quality of each episode.
I have to watch from the beginning because the couch gags of the opening credits are extremely good.  I love when they depict or make references to masterpieces.

Some people say that it is a series for adults but I believe it is for the whole family. It's rare to unite humor and all the elements The Simpsons do. I want to congratulate Matt Groening for this achievement.

Corporate Media vs. Reading

Garfield and Sleepy

Which is your favorite angry Garfield or drowsy Sleepy?

The Simpsons: Law and Order's Elevator Inspectors Unity

Only 26 seconds. Hilarious.

Wordless morning

2011 top news in cartoon

These are two cartoons by Giacomo Cardelli that I did choose to start the series of posts about 2011 top news. The first one was a good news but we have witnessed some events that show how barbarian, brutal, irrational and cruel the system that rules this world is.

The right cartoon... bloodshed in north Africa had Libya as the most documented by independent journalist and it was a demonstration of brutality with the help of the mainstream media making fictitious stories to explain the need of crimes against humanity (here, here and here).

Reports of famine in Somalia, caused by drought - lie, lie, lie - were announced but forgotten. Africa is going backwards but the same is happening in America.

Left: Wow! United Nations! Nothing changed. The assemblies are held, nothing changes and in the end the security council, five permanent member China, France, Russia, UK and US decide what to do and if you do the maths(?) three is the exact number of nations that really decide.

If you follow this blog you might have noticed that I stopped posting about politics as I explained in a prior post and I pretend keep this way for a while because looking closely to what is being done requires a lot of cold blood.

I don't have it and a lot of physical and mental energy is consumed by watching and reading barbaric attitudes. Some people like blood but I can't hardly see mine because I feel like fainting.

The possibility of the WW3 is on the horizon and I never thought I would witness one in this lifetime.

On the contrary, I thought some of the images I saw when I was a teenager would be banished but... no. It didn't happen.

One of the reasons holidays are not the best of times

As I said at this post holidays is not only about happiness for many and it can really triggers some deep feelings. For some it can be hell.

Twist-tongue and cartoon for clever men

"A thousand twice three thousand trees.

Six thousand trees there were.

They thought the task through thoroughly though,

and now think thrice they need.

Thrice or twice, the thinkers thought,

through thick and thoughtful thinkings.

Twice or thrice they thought and thought,

a thousand times rethinking.

Twice thought they was quite enough,

Three thought thrice and two thought twice,

The thinking would not cease."

Almost wordless Thursday about Occupy Wall Street

Wordless Wednesday on lies and truths

Moebius strip cartoon by Jim Woodring

It is so good when we find something amazing even when we feel a fool because the work of the person is famous.

I just came across with Jim Woodring work and I'm so happy to discover someone who speaks to children and adult's imagination and enchantment. Jim is the creator of the famous Frank comic that I still don't know.

This cartooned moebius strip is great is still enchanting me and I feel like doing one.