Global jurists call for Lula's freedom - Lula was not tried, was the victim of political persecution

"A group of 17 international jurists, among the most renowned in the world, issued a manifesto calling for the freedom of former President Lula, who was arrested last April to be barred from running and winning the 2018 presidential election. “We were shocked to see how the fundamental rules of the due Brazilian legal process were violated without any shame,” they also say in the text."
August 11, 2019, 05:36 h

I want to remember that impartiality is a conditio sine qua non for a trial to be considered as valid. In case of partiality the jurisprudence considers that it didn't happen.

Lula was not tried, was the victim of political persecution

"We, lawyers, jurists, former ministers of justice and former members of Supreme Courts of Justice from various countries, would like to call for consideration the judges of the Supreme Court and, more broadly, the public opinion of Brazil for the serious vices of the proceedings. filed against Lula.

The recent revelations by journalist Glenn Greenwald and staff at The Intercept news site, in partnership with Folha de Sao Paulo and El País newspapers, Veja magazine and other media, have appalled all legal professionals. We were shocked to see how the fundamental rules of Brazilian due process were violated without any shame. In a country where justice is the same for everyone, a judge cannot be both judge and party to proceedings.

Sérgio Moro not only conducted the process partially, he led the prosecution from the outset. He manipulated the mechanisms of the award, directed the work of the prosecutor, demanded the replacement of a prosecutor he was not satisfied with, and directed the prosecution’s communication strategy.

In addition, it placed Lula’s lawyers on the phone and decided not to comply with the decision of a judge who ordered Lula’s release, thus grossly violating the law.

Today, it is clear that Lula was not entitled to a fair trial. It should be noted that, according to Sergio Moro himself, he was convicted of “undetermined facts”. A businessman whose testimony gave rise to one of the former president’s convictions even admitted that he was forced to construct a narrative that would incriminate Lula under pressure from prosecutors. In fact, Lula has not been tried, was and is the victim of political persecution.

Because of these illegal and immoral practices, Brazilian justice is currently experiencing a serious credibility crisis within the international legal community.

It is indispensable that the judges of the Federal Supreme Court fully exercise their functions and are the guarantors of respect for the Constitution. At the same time, we expect the Brazilian authorities to take all necessary steps to identify those responsible for these very serious procedural deviations.

The fight against corruption is today an essential issue for all citizens of the world, as is the defense of democracy. However, in Lula’s case, not only was justice instrumentalized for political ends, but the rule of law was clearly disrespected in order to eliminate the former president from the political dispute.

There is no rule of law without due process of law. And there is no respect for due process when a judge is not impartial but acts as head of the prosecution. In order for the Brazilian judiciary to restore its credibility, the Federal Supreme Court has a duty to release Lula and nullify these convictions."

List of Signatories

Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

John Ackerman, Professor of Law and Political Science, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Susan Rose-Ackerman, Emeritus Professor Henry R. Luce of Jurisprudence, Yale University School of Law

Alfredo Beltrán, Former President of the Constitutional Court of Colombia

William Bourdon, lawyer registered with the Paris Bar

Pablo Cáceres, former president of the Colombian Supreme Court

Alberto Costa, Lawyer, Former Minister of Justice of Portugal

Herta Daubler-Gmelin, lawyer, former Minister of Justice of Germany

Luigi Ferrajoli, Professor Emeritus of Law, Rome Three University

Baltasar Garzón, lawyer registered with the Madrid Order

António Marinho e Pinto, lawyer, former president (president) of the Portuguese Bar Association

Christophe Marchand, lawyer registered with the Brussels Order

Jean-Pierre Mignard, lawyer registered with the Paris Bar

Eduardo Montealegre, former president of the Constitutional Court of Colombia

Philippe Texier, Former Judge, Honorary Counsel of the Court of Cassassan of France, Former President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council 

Diego Valadés, Former Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico, Former Attorney General of the Republic

Gustavo Zafra, former ad hoc judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Chris Hedges - America - How the World sees US - 2011/2013

"The scars I carry within me are the whispers of these dead. They are the faint marks of those who never had a chance to become men or women, to fall in love and have children of their own. I carried these scars to the doors of Goldman Sachs. I placed myself at the feet of these commodity traders to call for justice because the dead, and those who are dying in slums and refugee camps across the planet, could not make this journey. I see their faces. They haunt me in the day and come to me in the dark. They force me to remember. They make me choose sides."
Chris Hedges

That's how this video starts. As always I'm moved, angry and ready to fight when I listen to Chris Hedges. His universe touches me, says a lot of what I feel and think. Below the origin of the article Chris wrote:

Finding Freedom in Handcuffs
Truthdig November 7, 2011
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, an activist, an author and a member of a reporting team that won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize, wrote this article after he was released from custody following his arrest last Thursday. He and about 15 other participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement were detained as they protested outside the global headquarters of Goldman Sachs in lower Manhattan.

Faces appeared to me moments before the New York City police arrested us Thursday in front of Goldman Sachs. They were not the faces of the smug Goldman Sachs employees, who peered at us through the revolving glass doors and lobby windows, a pathetic collection of middle-aged fraternity and sorority members. They were not the faces of the blue-uniformed police with their dangling cords of white and black plastic handcuffs, or the thuggish Goldman Sachs security personnel, whose buzz cuts and dead eyes reminded me of the East German secret police, the Stasi. They were not the faces of the demonstrators around me, the ones with massive student debts and no jobs, the ones whose broken dreams weigh them down like a cross, the ones whose anger and betrayal triggered the street demonstrations and occupations for justice. They were not the faces of the onlookers — the construction workers, who seemed cheered by the march on Goldman Sachs, or the suited businessmen who did not. They were faraway faces. They were the faces of children dying. They were tiny, confused, bewildered faces I had seen in the southern Sudan, Gaza and the slums of Brazzaville, Nairobi, Cairo and Delhi and the wars I covered. They were faces with large, glassy eyes, above bloated bellies. They were the small faces of children convulsed by the ravages of starvation and disease.

I carry these faces. They do not leave me. I look at my own children and cannot forget them, these other children who never had a chance. War brings with it a host of horrors, including famine, but the worst is always the human detritus that war and famine leave behind, the small, frail bodies whose tangled limbs and vacant eyes condemn us all. The wealthy and the powerful, the ones behind the glass at Goldman Sachs, laughed and snapped pictures of us as if we were a brief and odd lunchtime diversion from commodities trading, from hoarding and profit, from this collective sickness of money worship, as if we were creatures in a cage, which in fact we soon were.

A glass tower filled with people carefully selected for the polish and self-assurance that come with having been formed in institutions of privilege, whose primary attributes are a lack of consciousness, a penchant for deception and an incapacity for empathy or remorse. The curious onlookers behind the windows and we, arms locked in a circle on the concrete outside, did not speak the same language. Profit. Globalization. War. National security. These are the words they use to justify the snuffing out of tiny lives, acts of radical evil. Goldman Sachs’ commodities index is the most heavily traded in the world. Those who trade it have, by buying up and hoarding commodities futures, doubled and tripled the costs of wheat, rice and corn. Hundreds of millions of poor across the globe are going hungry to feed this mania for profit. The technical jargon, learned in business schools and on trading floors, effectively masks the reality of what is happening — murder. These are words designed to make systems operate, even systems of death, with a cold neutrality. Peace, love and all sane affirmative speech in temples like Goldman Sachs are, as W.H. Auden understood, “soiled, profaned, debased to a horrid mechanical screech.”

We seemed to have lost, at least until the advent of the Occupy Wall Street movement, not only all personal responsibility but all capacity for personal judgment. Corporate culture absolves all of responsibility. This is part of its appeal. It relieves all from moral choice. There is an unequivocal acceptance of ruling principles such as unregulated capitalism and globalization as a kind of natural law. The steady march of corporate capitalism requires a passive acceptance of new laws and demolished regulations, of bailouts in the trillions of dollars and the systematic looting of public funds, of lies and deceit. The corporate culture, epitomized by Goldman Sachs, has seeped into our classrooms, our newsrooms, our entertainment systems and our consciousness. This corporate culture has stripped us of the right to express ourselves outside of the narrowly accepted confines of the established political order. It has turned us into compliant consumers. We are forced to surrender our voice. These corporate machines, like fraternities and sororities, also haze new recruits in company rituals, force them to adopt an unrelenting cheerfulness, a childish optimism and obsequiousness to authority. These corporate rituals, bolstered by retreats and training seminars, by grueling days that sometimes end with initiates curled up under their desks to sleep, ensure that only the most morally supine remain. The strong and independent are weeded out early so only the unquestioning advance upward. Corporate culture serves a faceless system. It is, as Hannah Arendt writes, “the rule of nobody and for this very reason perhaps the least human and most cruel form of rulership.”Our political class, and its courtiers on the airwaves, insists that if we refuse to comply, if we step outside of the Democratic Party, if we rebel, we will make things worse. This game of accepting the lesser evil enables the steady erosion of justice and corporate plundering. It enables corporations to harvest the nation and finally the global economy, reconfiguring the world into neofeudalism, one of masters and serfs. This game goes on until there is hardly any action carried out by the power elite that is not a crime. It goes on until corporate predators, who long ago decided the nation and the planet were not worth salvaging, seize the last drops of wealth. It goes on until moral acts, such as calling for those inside the corporate headquarters of Goldman Sachs to be tried, see you jailed, and the crimes of financial fraud and perjury are upheld as lawful and rewarded by the courts, the U.S. Treasury and the Congress. And all this is done so a handful of rapacious, immoral plutocrats like Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs who sucks down about $250,000 a day and who lied to the U.S. Congress as well as his investors and the public, can use their dirty money to retreat into their own Forbidden City or Versailles while their underlings, basking in the arrogance of power, snap amusing photos of the rabble outside their gates being hauled away by the police and company goons.

It is vital that the occupation movements direct attention away from their encampments and tent cities, beset with the usual problems of hastily formed open societies where no one is turned away. Attention must be directed through street protests, civil disobedience and occupations toward the institutions that are carrying out the assaults against the 99 percent. Banks, insurance companies, courts where families are being foreclosed from their homes, city offices that put these homes up for auction, schools, libraries and firehouses that are being closed, and corporations such as General Electric that funnel taxpayer dollars into useless weapons systems and do not pay taxes, as well as propaganda outlets such as the New York Post and its evil twin, Fox News, which have unleashed a vicious propaganda war against us, all need to be targeted, shut down and occupied. Goldman Sachs is the poster child of all that is wrong with global capitalism, but there are many other companies whose degradation and destruction of human life are no less egregious.

It is always the respectable classes, the polished Ivy League graduates, the prep school boys and girls who grew up in Greenwich, Conn., or Short Hills, N.J., who are the most susceptible to evil. To be intelligent, as many are at least in a narrow, analytical way, is morally neutral. These respectable citizens are inculcated in their elitist enclaves with “values” and “norms,” including pious acts of charity used to justify their privilege, and a belief in the innate goodness of American power. They are trained to pay deference to systems of authority. They are taught to believe in their own goodness, unable to see or comprehend — and are perhaps indifferent to — the cruelty inflicted on others by the exclusive systems they serve. And as norms mutate and change, as the world is steadily transformed by corporate forces into one of a small cabal of predators and a vast herd of human prey, these elites seamlessly replace one set of “values” with another. These elites obey the rules. They make the system work. And they are rewarded for this. In return, they do not question.

Those who resist — the doubters, outcasts, renegades, skeptics and rebels — rarely come from the elite. They ask different questions. They seek something else — a life of meaning. They have grasped Immanuel Kant’s dictum, “If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.” And in their search they come to the conclusion that, as Socrates said, it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong. This conclusion is rational, yet cannot be rationally defended. It makes a leap into the moral, which is beyond rational thought. It refuses to place a monetary value on human life. It acknowledges human life, indeed all life, as sacred. And this is why, as Arendt points out, the only morally reliable people when the chips are down are not those who say “this is wrong,” or “this should not be done,” but those who say “I can’t.”

“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,” Arendt writes. “For human beings, thinking of past matters means moving in the dimension of depth, striking roots and thus stabilizing ourselves, so as not to be swept away by whatever may occur — the Zeitgeist or History or simple temptation. The greatest evil is not radical, it has no roots, and because it has no roots it has no limitations, it can go to unthinkable extremes and sweep over the whole world.”

There are streaks in my lungs, traces of the tuberculosis that I picked up around hundreds of dying Sudanese during the famine I covered as a foreign correspondent. I was strong and privileged and fought off the disease. They were not and did not. The bodies, most of them children, were dumped into hastily dug mass graves. The scars I carry within me are the whispers of these dead. They are the faint marks of those who never had a chance to become men or women, to fall in love and have children of their own. I carried these scars to the doors of Goldman Sachs. I had returned to living. Those whose last breaths had marked my lungs had not. I placed myself at the feet of these commodity traders to call for justice because the dead, and those who are dying in slums and refugee camps across the planet, could not make this journey. I see their faces. They haunt me in the day and come to me in the dark. They force me to remember. They make me choose sides. As the metal handcuffs were fastened around my wrists I thought of them, as I often think of them, and I said to myself: “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, I am free at last.”


Chris Hedges is a weekly Truthdig columnist and a fellow at The Nation Institute. His newest book is “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.”

Yellow vests Hold Protests for 39nd Consecutive Weekend in Paris

Another Saturday, another protest. "Police partout, justice nulle part."
This is the beginning of the protest and the number of policemen armed as if they were in war is appalling.
Watch here or here live now.

Free Lula Vigil

The day Lula was imprisoned. He is in the center in blue shirt surrounded by the people that didn't want him to go.

"On April 7, a year was completed that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is unjustly imprisoned – charged and convicted of a non-existent crime. Lula, one of the world’s greatest popular leaders, was the victim of an illegal and illegitimate trial that, far from representing any attempt to obtain justice, served from the outset as a procedural fraud aimed at preventing him from competing in presidential elections last year – in which he appeared as a frank favorite in all opinion polls. Lula represents a development model that distributes income and promotes social justice." (read the details here)

Since Lula is imprisoned in the Curitiba State people have surrounded the federal police headquarters where Lula is in prison.

Every morning they say together "Good Morning President Lula". In the afternoon and finally at night: "Good Night President Lula".

Not a single day after Lula's imprisonment this ritual didn't happen.

It is called "Free Lula Vigil". Lula can hear people's saying together as a chorus.

This is a very beautiful action among many that is happening for Lula and for the country for it was Lula who put the country in another level in the international scene which became the fifty economy of the world in his governments. Four million Brazilians were no longer below poverty line.

Know more about Lula here. 

Lula is being tortured in jail despite numerous proves of his innocence

Lula is a political prisoner.
It is crystal clear for all of those who understand lesson number one of laws.
And he is also being tortured as I have explained here with just a few details.
Lula needs to be free. Justice must prevail. As a Brazilian citizen I ask for those who can help this country to make justice, please, do what you can.
Remember that Lula is 73 years old. He is facing all of this with incredible resilience.
Crime against humanity that is what Lula in prison is.

The Intercept 

Judge Sergio Moro repeatedly counseled prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol via Telegram during more than two years of Operation Car Wash.

"A LARGE TROVE of documents furnished exclusively to The Intercept Brasil reveals serious ethical violations and legally prohibited collaboration between the judge and prosecutors who last year convicted and imprisoned former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on corruption charges — a conviction that resulted in Lula being barred from the 2018 presidential election. These materials also contain evidence that the prosecution had serious doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to establish Lula’s guilt.


The archive, provided to The Intercept by an anonymous source, includes years of internal files and private conversations from the prosecutorial team behind Brazil’s sprawling Operation Car Wash, an ongoing corruption investigation that has yielded dozens of major convictions, including those of top corporate executives and powerful politicians."

Read the whole coverage at "The Intercept"
#FreeLula

Federal Court Judge Wants to Transfer Lula from Curitiba to São Paulo

This event has raised many questions among them the security of president Lula. Brazil is facing a dark side in it's history where the state is turning into a land of laws created by judges according to their will not the codes, the constitution and the rule of law was forgotten. Lula's lawyers and politicians are working to stop this absurd for it was sudden without advising the lawyers and with no date.
In September Lula's habeas corpus will be appreciated by the Supreme Court. Why this sudden move? 
One of the reasons is the a kind of torture that Lula has been facing. One of his brothers died and they denied Lula to go to the funeral.
This is just another in a great number of deeds done to president Lula who shouldn't even be in jail for there is not a single prove in this whole conviction and former judge Sergio Moro, put Lula in jail, he even promised his father after his death that he would put Lula in jail, because Lula was going to win 2018 elections.
Bolsonaro who had promise Sergio Moro the Ministry of Justice won the election in a fraudulent way.

The Rio Times
By Contributing Reporter -August 7, 2019

"SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be transferred from Curitiba to São Paulo. The order was signed by substitute judge Carolina Lebbos, of the 12th Federal Court of Curitiba, on the morning of Wednesday, August 7th.

The decision does not state where Lula will be held in São Paulo; rather, it will be up to the judicial authorities there to decide; similarly, the police must adopt the necessary security measures for the transfer, for which no date was fixed.

According to the decision, the transfer petition came from the Federal Police in Curitiba*, which alleged that maintaining Lula imprisoned in Curitiba generates damage to the public interest, and that the police headquarters were not appropriate for long-term prison sentences.

Specifically, the petition for transfer alleges that the “presence of antagonistic groups” around the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba began to require permanent action by security agencies in order to avoid confrontation and ensure the safety of citizens and facilities.

The judge also took into consideration Lula’s defense counsel’s argument that, in São Paulo, Lula would be closer to his family and friends. The decision also states that “once under state tutelage, it is the duty of the State to guarantee his physical, moral and psychological integrity — as should be the case for any imprisoned citizen.”

The former president is currently serving a sentence of eight years, ten months, and twenty days in prison, after his conviction for the crimes of passive corruption and money laundering, in regard to a triplex apartment in Guarujá (SP).**

Lula’s defense counsel had opposed the Federal Police petition, claiming that transfer was not appropriate before his habeas corpus appeal to the STF had been heard, and that if he were transferred, it should be to a General Staff military prison, based on his status as a former president."

Corrections (mine):
* This petition was made one year ago and this judge just took it out of the drawer for reasons nobody understand.

** The conviction was made with no proves and followed political reasons as it is being proved with the leaks of chats of "The Intercept"

Hiroshima 74 years ago...

...the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 70,000 people instantly. A second ...
You know. We all know...

Scientist who called out Bolsonaro on Amazon deforestation is fired

It seems that the actual Brazilian president wants to fight satellite images or pretend to make them show what he wants. I am not joking. The mind of this man works in a way that every day he says something that outrages those who are not part of his fewer and fewer supporters, finally the number is decreasing, of his craziness (not a joke either just a constatation for someone who behaves the way he does can't have the same logic and common sense of the vast majority of us).

Scientist who called out Bolsonaro on Amazon deforestation is fired
He maintains validity of satellite data
By:  Sheena McKenzie, Daniel Silva Fernandez and Elizabeth Wells
Posted: Aug 03, 2019 07:15 AM CDT Updated: Aug 03, 2019 07:15 AM CDT

(CNN) - Brazil has fired the head of a government agency that found a steep rise in deforestation in the Amazon, following a public spat with far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

Ricardo Galvão, the director of Brazil's National Space and Research Institute (INPE), said he was terminated on Friday after defending satellite data that showed deforestation was 88% higher in June compared to a year ago.

Galvão said in a video statement on Facebook that the agency let him go after a meeting with Brazil's Minister of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications, Marcos Pontes.

He added that the scientific institute would continue to operate and it would now be up to Pontes to decide on his successor. An advisor to Pontes confirmed Galvão's comments to state news agency Agencia Brasil.

Bolsonaro claims the data is wrong

The scientist butted heads with Bolsonaro after the damning satellite data was released earlier in June, turning the international spotlight on the President's controversial plans to open up the world's largest rainforest to industry.

Bolsonaro called the INPE's findings "lies" and said they were harmful for trade negotiations, according to Agencia Brasil.

But Galvão stood firm, reaffirming the validity of his scientific institute, which has been monitoring the country's forests since the 1970s. He said the president had made "inappropriate accusations [of] people of the highest level of Brazilian science," in an interview with newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. (emphasis mine)

CNN contacted the Brazilian government for comment but has not received a response.

Brazil's opposition leader in the lower house of Congress, Alessandro Molon, said in a tweet that Galvão "was attacked by the president and the environment minister for monitoring deforestation in the Amazon," adding that Bolsonaro wanted to "hide under his lies."

Controversial environmental policies 

Bolsonaro, a former army captain, took office in January on the heels of a campaign pledging to restore the country's economy by exploring the Amazon's economic potential.

Brazil is home to two-thirds of the Amazon, and during the first few months of Bolsonaro's presidency, the rate of rainforest destruction remained stable, according to the INPE. But it began to soar in May and June, the agency said.

Some 769.1 square kilometers were lost in June, six months after Bolsonaro took power -- a stark increase from the 488.4 square kilometers lost in the same month the previous year, according to the INPE. It equates to an area larger than one and a half soccer fields, being destroyed every minute of every day.

Source: News8000.

Amazon Deforestation is close to it's tipping point

Amazon Deforestation is close to it's tipping point

Uncontacted indigenous tribe in the brazilian state of Acre. Credit: Gleilson Miranda / Governo do Acre / Wikipedia
March, 20 2018 by Fapesp-Brazil
PhysOrg

“Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region’s tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse, shrubby plant cover and low biodiversity. This warning derives from an editorial published in the journal Science Advances co-authored by Thomas Lovejoy, a professor at George Mason University in the United States, and Carlos Nobre, chair of Brazil’s National Institute of Science & Technology (INCT) for Climate Change.

“The Amazon system is close to a tipping point,” Lovejoy said. According to the authors, since the 1970s, when studies conducted by Professor Eneas Salati demonstrated that the Amazon generates approximately half of its own rainfall, the question has been raised of how much deforestation would be required to degrade the region’s hydrological cycle to the point at which it would be unable to support rainforest ecosystems. The first models developed to answer this question showed that the tipping point would be reached if approximately 40 percent of the region were deforested. In this case, central, southern and eastern Amazonia would experience diminished rainfall and a lengthier dry season. Moreover, the vegetation in the southern and eastern parts of the region would become similar to savanna.

…The calculation derives from a study published in 2016 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and conducted by Nobre and other researchers at the INPE, the National Space Research Institute (from which Nobre is a retired researcher), the Natural Disaster Surveillance & Early Warning Center (CEMADEN) and the University of Brasília (UnB). “Although we don’t know the exact tipping point, we estimate that the Amazon is very close to this irreversible limit,” Nobre said. “Deforestation of the Amazon has already reached 20 percent, equivalent to 1 million square kilometers, although 15 percent [150,000 km²] is recovering.”

According to the researchers, the mega-droughts of 2005, 2010 and 2015-16 could well represent the first signs that this tipping point is about to be reached. These events, together with major floods in 2009, 2012 and 2014, suggest the entire Amazon system is oscillating. “Human action intensifies the disturbances to the region’s hydrological cycle,” Nobre said…”

Read on at: Phys.org

Progressive Brazilians are discussing the Amazon problem on a daily basis. Indigenous people are being attacked - two deaths already - and the outrage is reaching a high scale. This last president is destroying Brazil.
#FreeLula

The silencing of independent media

Globalresearch sent it's readers an e-mail asking for donation:

Dear Readers,                                                                                                                        An increasing number of search engines implement algorithms which are negatively biased against independent news and analysis websites such as Global Research. Our website gets filtered out from their results, making our articles harder to find, which reduces website traffic and, therefore, website revenue. The diverse coverage we provide has always been made available free of charge and, with your help, we would like to keep it that way. (excerpt)

It is not only by algorithms that independent media is being attacked. There are think-tanks writing articles, lawsuits against journalists who were doing their work for a long time and a purge from site such as YouTube making some good journalists migrate to other platforms such as Bitchute.

Reporting the truth became a threat to globalists who all of a sudden are in such a hurry to implement their agenda that I wonder if I'll be alive to see people being treated nicely in this lifetime.

Since the word "Globalresearch" is in this post no visit for it and this blog. Ironic.  Even Alex Jones the once darling independent journalist is under attack. "We are Change". There! Black listed! Bye bye visitors, I'll blog for myself. Crazy!

Way to Blue by Nick Drake

Don't you have a word to show what may be done
Have you never heard a way to find the sun
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Won't you come and say
If you know the way to blue?

Have you seen the land living by the breeze
Can you understand a light among the trees
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Tell us all today
If you know the way to blue?

Look through time and find your rhyme
Tell us what you find
We will wait at your gate
Hoping like the blind.

Can you now recall all that you have known?
Will you never fall
When the light has flown?
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Won't you come and say
If you know the way to blue?

Image: Greeting card by Nicholas Thompson. 

Yellow vests Hold Protests for 38nd Consecutive Weekend in Paris

Another Saturday for the Yellow Vests protests this time an homage to Steve Maia Caniço, killed one month ago, and remembrance of Zineb and Adama. "Who killed them?" is a question that will always be at the protests from now on.
In Nantes the police attacked the manifestants. In Paris they are at the Republic Square but no violence till now.
To be updated.

The Temples of Cambodia

I just came across with this picture. It is Bayon Temple in Cambodia. There are countless amazing sculptures like this

Do a little research to see more temples and sculptures and you'll end up with a smile on your face and at peace.

Paul Craig solution to stop decades of the Amazon rainforest deforestation: invade Brazil

Everything was going right when I started reading Paul Craig's article "Brazil’s Massive Crime Against Humanity".
Yes, for numerous reasons Bolsonaro was elected in a fraudulent election fact that Mr. Craig seems to have forgotten as well as the absurd that Bolsonaro is Trump's doormat and do what US tells him to do.
Bolsonaro wants his son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, to the Brazilian embassy in US.  
A scandal we are trying to prevent.
The ambassador candidate has already said: “We don’t think we’re going to do everything by ourselves in the Amazon.”

The American Department of Justice has helped former judge Sergio Moro in the Car Wash operation strategy that led the imprisonment of former president Lula who committed no crime but would win the election a result that Washington didn't want and Steven Bannon helped prevent.

It seems that Mr Craig forgot decades of destruction of the tropical rainforests with the help of US such as:

"US imports of crude oil from the Amazon are driving the destruction of some of the rainforest ecosystem’s most pristine areas and releasing copious amounts of greenhouse gases, according to a new report.

The study, conducted by environmental group Amazon Watch, found that American refineries processed 230,293 barrels of Amazon crude oil a day last year." Source: The Guardian.

Do I need to make the list of US economic  deeds that impacts the health of whole planet putting in danger the mere existence of earth? What about technocracy, the  surveillance, the food and medicines and other threat human beings to extinction?

 In the most diplomatic way Mr. Craig started to attack Brazilians:

"The idiot Brazilian population accepted this.  The fools believed their enemies."

Yes, the average Brazilian is easily brainwashed just like the average human being in other countries that I'll not name for it is not me who has to judge other people's population. 
As far as Americans are concerned I rather quote citizens from the country or choose carefully the adjectives.
I can call my fellow citizens names but not other nationality. It is a question of principles and common sense.

There are some Americans however, that I have to describe: those (called ugly Americans who behave in other people's country as special citizens) who think that the whole population of a Third Worldish country is stupid. I can't forget an American that I met on a virtual world that said to me: 

- "I'm amazed that you are Brazilian and know who James Joyce is." I was appalled listening such a statement and answered him asking if he liked Lawrence Sterne, Trevor Byrne... and others I knew he didn't ever heard about.

Finally in the end I came across with the final solution:

"It is such a massive crime that the countries on Earth should unite and give the corrupt gangster Brazilian government an ultimatum:  Stop the deforestation of the Amazon Rain Forest or be invaded and put on trial for crimes against humanity.There is no greater crime than to make the Earth uninhabitable. There is no better case for war than to protect the global climate and life on earth."

There are numerous solution such as Norway, chief foreign patron of the Amazon Fund, that stopped giving $70 to the fund; boycotts of Amazon products; demand a deforestation moratorium and enforcing it by a constant watch   but... Americans learn geography by invading other people's country and Mr. Craig is an American citizen predisposed to this solutions, it seems. I know many who aren't. Would he do the same to all rainforests?
There is a better approach here.

A freudian sleep revealing the imperialistic core of American minds?
I could suggest Mr. Craig a classical utilitarianism solution: nuke Washington or invade the empire since the role of US in the destruction of the planet if compared to other nations is on the top.
But the empire is about to collapse. Next: China! 

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

I wrote to Mr. Craig and his reply came in one sentence with no signature:
"It is your corrupt President whose policies is destroying the rain forest.  It is the Brazillians (sic) who elected him."

I'll stop here thou I have more to say. It is not worthy. 
Would Mr. Craig respond the same to a French person or... never mind...

Steve Caniço the French man killed by the police

Video shows the police crackdown

On June 21 France celebrates "La fête de la Musique" - Music's party.
This year policemen in Nantes has cracked down on those who were partying in Nantes next to The Loire river.
This video published by the newspaper "Libération" shows the brutality of the police maybe already addicted to severely hurt their fellow citizens each Saturday during the Yellow Vests protests.

Steve Caniço was among these people in the south of l'île de Nantes but he disappeared maybe among the seven who has plunged in the river during the crack down.
One month later his body was found in the river. Yes, it took one month to find his body.

There will be an involuntary homicide investigation, another one putting another death in the list of possible homicides by the French police.

This is Steven. RIP

Letter from Brazil 5

URGENT: Amazon gold miners invade indigenous village in Brazil after its leader is killed

Another crime instigated by Brazilian's president Bolsonaro.
As a Brazilian I ask international institutions, human rights organizations, politicians, human rights tribunals and people around the world to condemn Brazilian president since our judiciary is following US orders that has as agenda the destruction of Brazil in numerous levels.
There has been too many people dying after five months of Bolsonaro's in the presidency.
Everyday there is a terrible news. We are being informed by the independent journalists while mainstream media keeps lying.
I don't know for how long Bolsonaro will be the president but he has to go for the country is being destroyed in numerous ways. He doesn't have the requirements to rule a nation and it seems he is either a psychopath or a narcissist, who knows a combination of the two.
There is no dignity.
US is behind it all. Glenn Greenwald's mother is very sick and the American embassy in Brazil has denied the visa to his two children to US to visit their grandma.
A touch or terror from US since Glenn is leaking the chats that reveals the Car Wash corrupted system.
We are being ruled by a genocidal gang. It has to stop.
Indigenous people are in risk of a second genocide.
I don't recognize my country anymore. We had achieved so many after the end of dictatorship and now we are going backwards.
Hands of Brazil US.

Amazon gold miners invade indigenous village in Brazil after its leader is killed
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Sun 28 Jul 2019 06.00 BST
The Guardian 

Brazil’s police have been urged to investigate a ‘very tense situation’ in Amapá state

Dozens of gold miners have invaded a remote indigenous reserve in the Brazilian Amazon where a local leader was stabbed to death and have taken over a village after the community fled in fear, local politicians and indigenous leaders said. The authorities said police were on their way to investigate.

Illegal gold mining is at epidemic proportions in the Amazon and the heavily polluting activities of garimpeiros – as miners are called – devastate forests and poison rivers with mercury. About 50 garimpeiros were reported to have invaded the 600,000-hectare Waiãpi indigenous reserve in the state of Amapá on Saturday.

The men were spotted days after the murder of Emyra Waiãpi, a community leader, whose body was found near the village of Mariry early on Wednesday.

Indigenous people evacuated Mariry and fled to the bigger village of Aramirã – where shots were fired on Saturday. Indigenous leaders and local politicians have called for urgent police help, fearing a bloodbath.

“The garimpeiros invaded the indigenous village and are there until today. They are heavily armed, they have machine guns. That is why we asking for help from the federal police,” said Kureni Waiãpi, 26, a member of the tribe who lives in the nearest town of Pedra Branca do Amapari, two hours away and 189km from Amapá state capital Macapá. “If nothing is done they will start to fight.”

“We have a very tense situation,” said Beth Pelaes, mayor of Pedra Branca do Amapari, who said the tribe are very traditional and allow only authorised visitors.

The crisis was revealed on Saturday by Randolfe Rodrigues, a senator for Amapá state, who received desperate audio messages pleading for police and army help from Jawaruwa Waiãpi, a local councillor and leader. Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso was among those who shared the tribe’s appeal for help on Saturday.

“I ask the Brazilian authorities for help, in the name of the dignity of Brazil in the world, hear this cry,” Veloso said in a video recorded in Mexico City, where he is on tour.

Kureni Waiãpi said Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro had encouraged invasions like this. “It is because he, the president, is threatening the indigenous peoples of Brazil,” he said.

Senator Rodrigues blamed Bolsonaro’s repeated promises to allow mining on protected indigenous reserves, where it is currently prohibited, for the first invasion of Waiãpi land in decades. In the 1970s, the tribe was almost wiped out by disease after their land was invaded by gold prospectors. In 2017, the then-president Michel Temer moved to open the vast Renca reserve the tribe’s land falls within to mining but backed off after an international outcry.

“The Jair Bolsonaro government is encouraging this conflict, encouraging garimpeiros to enter. Their hands are dirty,” Senator Rodrigues said.

Recently Bolsonaro compared indigenous people living traditional lives on their reserves to “prehistoric men”. On Saturday he once again talked up the mineral riches in the Raposa Serra do Sol and Yanomami reserves – currently inundated with thousands of garimpeiros.

“I’m looking for the ‘first world’ to explore these areas in partnership and add value. That’s the reason for my approximation with the United States. That’s why I want a person of trust in the embassy in the USA,” Bolsonaro said on Saturday, according to the O Globo newspaper. His plans to appoint his congressman son, Eduardo, as Brazil’s US ambassador have caused an outcry in Brazil.

Kureni Waiãpi said the body of Emyra Waiãpa was found with stab wounds early on Wednesday morning in a river near his village of Mariry. On Friday, local man Arawyra Waiãpa and his wife spotted a group of men they believed to be garimpeiros at their plantation near the village. The community fled to the bigger village of Aramirã. Shots were fired near Aramirã around 6pm local time on Saturday but nobody was hurt. “I think the garimpeiros are shooting to scare the Waiãpi,” Kureni Waiãpi said.

Federal and Amapá police were heading to the area, a spokeswoman from Brazil’s indigenous agency FUNAI said. “For now there are no records of conflict, although a death has been confirmed, but no details of the circumstances. The place is difficult to access,” she said.

The state government of Amapá said it was “engaging all efforts to support federal police in the investigation” and had sent an elite troop of police to accompany officers sent to the area.

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The Guardian has been publishing the indigenous situation under Bolsonaro. 

The uncontacted tribes of Brazil face genocide under Jair Bolsonaro

Fiona Watson

Mon 31 Dec 2018 12.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 31 Dec 2018 15.26 GMT

‘An ‘epidemic’ of goldminers have illegally invaded the territory of the Yanomami people to pillage its riches, bringing disease and death to the tribe.’ 

Read the article on The Guardian.