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Having fled Brazil on the advice of his lawyers, soon to be ex-president Jair Bolsonaro is seeing in the new year at the Orlando home of former UFC fighter José Aldo.
One of Aldo's bedrooms is "minion" themed.
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Jair Bolsonaro tried to take a plane.
This is how it went.
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This evening, Brazil’s extreme-right President Jair Bolsonaro went out and about in Brasilia, tried to eat a hotdog, was called a murderer, and got run out of town.
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Huge demonstration in São Paulo wraps up another day of mass protests across Brazil, against the US-backed Bolsonaro regime.
#24JForaBolsonaro
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Urgent: In addition to last minute cancelation of public transport in certain locations, reports now coming in that Brazilian Highway Police are blocking voters from reaching polling stations in the North East of Brazil - Lula's stronghold.
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A reminder that Greenwald omitted both open and covert US involvement in Lava Jato from his book about Lava Jato.
His last known writing on US inferference in Brazil was in mid 2015, despite having access to massive amounts of evidence.
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The funeral of murdered João Alberto Silveira Freitas in Porto Alegre.
Rest in peace.
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Brazilian YouTube is now overflowing with Bolsonaro ads.
A Rio University study has found Google's YouTube platform pushing Pro-Bolsonaro content to Brazilian voters during the election, above and beyond what can be explained by the algorithm.
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Brazil’s worst ever president just appointed Brazil’s second worst ever president as an economic advisor.
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Sound truck at a minor protest in São Paulo today flew the flag of Ukrainian Neonazis “Right Sector”. Members of the Brazilian extreme-right have been trained in Ukraine, as reported by the
@FT
in January 2017.
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Buenos Aires Metro Station "Rio de Janeiro" renamed "Rio de Janeiro-Marielle Franco" by Argentine activists in solidarity.
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Breaking: Jair Bolsonaro has embarked for the United States, on the advice of his lawyers, under threat of arrest.
He's gone.
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Some artist impressions of how Bolsonaro's New Years Eve - and final night as president - might look.
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Thanks for your concern, NYT.
What happened is that Brazil suffered a US-backed coup which resulted in a neofascist president leading an incompetent military government.
Your newspaper omitted, supported, or normalized the process that caused this.
🇧🇷🇺🇸
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"In June, Dilma Rousseff gave a 2 hour interview to the Guardian in which she described how Lula’s prosecution was “phase 2” of the Coup which removed her, and that it would open the door for Neofascist Jair Bolsonaro. The Guardian did not publish it."
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London: Bolsonaro supporter tells British protester to "go and live in Venezuela"...
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Timelapse shows the enormous scale of yesterday's anti-government protest in São Paulo. (Fotógrafos Pela Democracia)
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White House admits CIA involvement in “War on Corruption” which jailed Lula and elected Bolsonaro.
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White House admits to CIA involvement in the "War on Corruption" which jailed Lula and elected Bolsonaro.
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Comparing an area of Yanomami indigenous territory before the 2016 coup, to 8 months into the Bolsonaro Predidency - ravaged by logging and international mining interests.
@Survival
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As burning rainforest turns day to night in São Paulo, who are the sinister forces benefitting from Bolsonaro’s catastrophic environmental policy?
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This disingenuous defence of neofascist Bolsonaro as a "victim of censorship" is the final sorry end of Glenn Greenwald's reputation as a reliable source on Brazil.
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Perhaps you should not have supported his election,
@ianbremmer
.
Trump would have to fire Fauci and his successor, attend anti-pandemic rallies, and expand chloroquine as COVID treatment to approach the level of crisis incompetence of Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Glenn Greenwald has clashed with the Brazilian Petroleum Workers Union, calling them "privileged leftists" for questioning libertarian billionaire Jack Dorsey's investment in Rio favelas.
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We are watching Bolsonaro’s presidential mandate evaporate in real time.
#panelaco18M
#ForaBolsonaros
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As Brazil records half a million dead, Sergio Moro, the US-trained judge who brought Bolsonaro to power, is spotted in his new home of Washington DC, and accused of destroying the country.
His prosecution of Lula was called "a gift from the CIA".
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We are devastated at the passing of our dear friend and comrade, journalist and broadcaster
@_michaelbrooks
.
Rest in power, Michael.
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Brasília celebrating last night ahead of Lula's inauguration, as news spread that Bolsonaro's escape flight had landed in Florida.
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The peoples of the Xingu call on the World to help in the fight for the Amazon.
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Brazil's Post-Coup President Michel Temer depicted as "Neoliberal Vampire" in Carnaval 2018 parade.
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2017, with Lula facing jail and US DoJ role openly admitted, Greenwald presents far right Lava Jato task force with Allard prize, lauding their "courage".
They privately called Lula's arrest, which kept him out of 2018 election, "a gift from the CIA".
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You are no position whatsoever to lecture the Brazilian left on what it should do, not least 5 months after Lula's defeat of a fascist whom the UK government fully supported.
Sit down, Paul. You have embarrassed yourself enough.
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On the geopolitical stage Lula is acting like a clown. He's making the most naked attempt to turn Brazil into a semi-colony of China, and a client state for a doomed fascist regime... the next iteration of Brazil's left needs to break with this BS 👇🏽
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Breaking: IPEC presidential election poll.
🔴 Lula 51%
🟤 Bozo 37%
🟡 Ciro 5%
🔵 Tebet 5%
🚨Lula outright win tomorrow🚨
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Protests across Brazil for the removal of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro began during his televised press conference earlier today, and are intensifying across the country.
#panelaco18M
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For FIFA's Socrates award, former footballer Raí makes the "L for Lula" sign and says "everyone knows which side" his late brother would be on.
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Incredible footage from São Paulo as demonstrators massed on Avenida Paulista make it very clear why they are there: "Bolsonaro out".
#19JForaBolsonaro
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🇨🇱Chileans have made history, voting to scrap Pinochet’s 1980 constitution.
Message for Council of the Americas (
@ascoa
) which was actively involved in the 1973 coup:
You just lost in Chile
You just lost in Bolivia
You will lose in Brazil
#ChileVota
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With Lula 20 points ahead in polls, the Brazilian Armed Forces sign deal with Israeli cybersecurity firm to help “supervise" election process.
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The statue of Borba Gato in São Paulo has been set on fire.
The statue commemorates one of the most famous 'Bandeirantes', or flag carriers - a settler militia which captured and enslaved native populations as colonial Brazil expanded into the interior.
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Anti-Bolsonaro protesters march down São Paulo's Avenida Consolacão last night.
Demonstrations against Brazil's neofascist president were held in 200 cities across the country.
#29MForaBolsonaro
#29MPovoNasRuas
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Brazilian neofascist president Jair Bolsonaro's sons, Councillor Carlos and Congressman Eduardo, pictured together on a trip to Israel wearing Mossad and IDF shirts respectively.
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Now, if you will excuse us, after 8 years work we are going to enjoy the party...
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Pro-Bolsonaro demonstrators were met with Antifascist resistance: Porto Alegre.
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Anti-Fascist demonstration taking place now on Avenida Paulista, São Paulo.
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When Brazil uncovered a Neo-Nazi network inciting a wave of school massacres on Hitler's birthday, Musk's X/Twitter refused to remove their accounts.
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Bolsonaro's attempt to buy the election cost in excess of US$54 billion in public funds and (known) private donations.
That Lula still won by over 2 million votes is extraordinary.
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Breaking: The Brazilian government will now cancel contracts with Elon Musk's Starlink following the billionaire's attempted attacks on the country's democratic institutions.
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Will new BBC documentary “Rise of the Bolsonaros” mention UK Government holding secret meetings with them when he trailed Lula by 20%, or as early as 2014 when not even a contender?
Redacted names suspected to include new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.
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Pelé in 1984 supporting the 'Diretas Já' movement to end the military dictatorship and restore Brazil to democracy.
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Deeply deceptive new BBC/PBS documentary "Rise of the Bolsonaros" is a whitewash disguised as critique of how the former Army captain came to power.
Shockingly it does not once mention Sergio Moro, the man who made Bolsonaro president by jailing Lula.
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Breaking up the BRICS alliance of Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa was a major motivation behind US support for removing PT from power.
Certain US journalists ridiculed that idea 5 years ago. Here it is from their own Secretary of State...
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Remember BRICS? Well, thanks to
@jairbolsonaro
and
@narendramodi
the B and the I both get that the C and the R are threats to their people.
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Breaking: Latest Datafolha poll has former president Lula beating Bolsonaro by 55% to 32% in a second round runoff.
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[Breaking] Donald Trump just unfollowed Jair Bolsonaro on Twitter.
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Exclusive: British Parliament denounces Bolsonaro-Military threats and wave of political violence undermining Brazil's election.
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Breaking: In an interview with french magazine Paris Match, former president
@LulaOficial
has confirmed for the first time that he will run for the presidency in 2022.
Lula currently leads all opinion polls.
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Breaking: Reports from Curitiba that Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be released from his politically motivated imprisonment imminently.
#LulaLivre
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Neofascist Jair Bolsonaro is set to win the Presidency. This is a catastrophe for Brazil and for the world.
#Eleicoes2018
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Santiago, Chile 12/11/2019. 26 days and counting of protest against the Neoliberal system President Sebastian Piñera represents, and his regime’s brutal repression of resistance to it.
#ChileDesperto
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What could possibly attract Jair Bolsonaro to Italian football club S.S. Lazio...
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Jair Bolsonaro's sons, senator Flávio and congressman Eduardo, today visited the Italian embassy in Brasília, an effort to quickly obtain Italian citizenship...
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They've interfered in Brazilian politics since the early 1960s, supported violent coups all over Latin America, and represent the US corporate interests behind Jair Bolsonaro.
Time for a deep dive into the notorious Council of the Americas (
@ascoa
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Bolsonaro incited supporters to invade hospitals during a pandemic. Now he is attempting to have this satirical cartoon of the incident censored.
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The scene in Brasília a few hours before Lula's inauguration.
Supporters still streaming onto the esplanade.
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Watch: Explosive Anti-Bolsonaro election ad viralizing tonight presents the neofascist's "greatest hits" in two minutes.
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Breaking: Supreme Court Minister Edson Fachin has annulled all charges from the Lava Jato task force in Curitiba against former President Lula.
He is now free to run for office after being barred in 2018, which opened the door for Bolsonaro.
Background:
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In April 2018 the BBC was openly normalising Brazilian Neo-Nazis as "snappy dressing young conservatives". Now they are in Government.
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Breaking: Bolsonaro asked Biden for electoral help against Lula, Bloomberg reports.
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Greenwald waited until Lava Jato had already brought Bolsonaro to power before challenging it.
Hacker Walter Delgatti complained that Greenwald refused majority of the "Vaza Jato" leak and he was disappointed by limited scope of Glenn's reporting.
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In its latest leak the Intercept reveals that Lava Jato pretended to investigate ex-President Cardoso, whilst ignoring evidence that his foundation collected illegal donations. Sérgio Moro: “we can’t offend someone who’s support is so important.”
#VazaJato
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Two weeks until vote, with paedophilia scandal rapidly engulfing his re-election bid, desperate Bolsonaro campaign runs web ads to deny he is a paedophile.
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In early 2018 Brasilwire reporting of US involvement in Lava Jato was used in an attempt to acquit Lula.
Greenwald was personally offered an exclusive which could have weakened case against Lula long before Bolsonaro's election.
He ignored it.
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The BBC’s “snappy dressing young Brazilian conservative seeking change” today shared the name, address and hospital of a 10 year old girl seeking an abortion after being raped.
In April 2018, just one week before UK Government representatives met the Bolsonaro family in secret, the BBC was promoting Bolsonaro-supporting Neo-Nazis as “snappy dressing young conservatives who seek change”.
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Today
@BrasilWire
in partnership with
@tmbsfm
met with former President
@LulaOficial
in São Paulo. The revealing interview will be published in the coming days.
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Lula hits 53% in election polls, on course for Brazil's presidency.
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Why is disgraced Lava Jato judge Sérgio Moro participating in secret US-Brazil negotiations over the Amazon rainforest? And on whose behalf?
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Disturbing signals from Biden camp in NYT.
They “seek to revive the anti-corruption campaign that set off political earthquakes across the Americas starting in 2014 but largely stalled in recent years”
That
#Lawfare
strategy put Bolsonaro in power.
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The
@guardian
Latin America correspondent cannot understand why “Brazil’s left” will not accept a US-backed right wing coup in a neighbouring country. This is a complete embarrassment to the standards, origins and history of the newspaper.
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Noam Chomsky’s birthday message to political prisoner and former President of Brazil, Lula da Silva.
#ParabensLula
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365 thousand dead and counting in Brazil and UK broadcaster the BBC thinks it is hilarious.
The British government supported the election of the man responsible, Jair Bolsonaro, holding a series of secret meetings with him before he was a candidate.
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Meet Bolsonaro's Cabinet:
0% Afro-Brazilian
10% Women
40% Military
50% Under investigation on corruption charges.
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In addition to Google/YouTube actively pushing Pro-Bolsonaro content to Brazilian voters, US social media giant Meta has not fulfilled its promise to control electoral disinformation.
@brtthnz
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Colombia’s Duque, and Chile’s Piñera - the key US allies in South America - face charges of crimes against humanity at the Hague.
The left leads election polls in all 3 countries.
What would the US do to prevent another pink tide?
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Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro yet again defies public health safety advice to attend a street BBQ. Despite repeated denials, he is widely suspected of carrying
#Coronavirus
.
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Bolivia’s new Socialist president elect Luis Arce
@LuchoXBolivia
has said that Jair Bolsonaro “owes the Bolivian people an explanation” for Brazil’s role in the 2019 coup.
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Steve Bannon declares war on Lula.
The far right guru is using his political weight to support Jair Bolsonaro’s electoral campaign, and spreading conspiracy theories about Brazil's electronic voting system.
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Demonstrations in support of Bolsonaro’s attempted auto-coup are going ahead today against public health advice (and reason, logic). “Congress and the Supreme Court kill more than Coronavirus”. 🤡🇧🇷
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Defeated Jair Bolsonaro will not hand the sash to nemesis Lula da Silva at his inauguration, UOL reports.
The fascist will instead depart for a two month stay at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
Lula has promised that secrecy orders protecting Bolsonaro will end on Jan 1.
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