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BrianMier

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Aug 21, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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President Bolsonaro's elite supporters, under guidance from Steve Bannon/Mike Lindell, appear to be planning a Jan. 6 style invasion of the Supreme Court building in Brasilia on September 7th - Brazilian Independence day.

"I'm worried about September 7," says former Foreign Chancellor/Defense Minister Celso Amorim. "I want to see if the armed forces are defending Bolsonaro as a person, or if they are defending the Constitution."

Sept. 7 Supreme Court protest planner Bruno Semczeszm recently met with Beatrix Von Storch. Were they comparing Sturmabteilung-influenced tactics? Bolsonaro is already aligned with paramilitary militias.

Yesterday Federal Police raided 9 people's homes, including right-wing multimillionaire pop singer Sergio Reis and Congressman Otoni de Paula (PSC-RJ) - both rabid Bolsonaro supporters - as part of an investigation over a possible violent attack on the Supreme Court on Sept. 7.

Last month, the Supreme Court authorized an investigation of President Bolsonaro for felony malfeasance in the Covaxin vaccine fraud case. This has his supporters clamoring for a fascist shut down of the Supreme Court.

During his on-stage encounter with Mike Lindell and Jair Bolsonaro's son Eduardo in Sioux Falls earlier this month, Steve Bannon said, "The elections in Brazil are the 2nd most important in the World (after the US). Bolsonaro will win, unless the election is stolen by machines."

Of course, this statement has absolutely 0 correspondence with reality. The most recent polls show Lula ahead of Bolsonaro by nearly 20 points. brasildefato.com.br/2021/07/28/lul…

Meanwhile, 12 former Brazilian Ministers of Justice have issued a note repudiating President Bolsonaro's legally groundless impeachment request against Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. You can't impeach someone just because he authorized an investigation against you.

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Apr 25

Using out of context information and a Delaware-based NGO with 0 financial transparency called Coffee Watch, the New York Times and Guardian are running a coordinated hit job on Brazil's coffee industry. Recently hit by Trump tariffs, the sector employs an estimated 1.5 million.+

Like many countries, including the US, Brazil has forced labor problems. Police regularly raid coffee farms to rescue workers in these conditions. The highest annual number of rescued workers since 2000 was 313 in 2023, according to Coffee Watch's own partner Reporter Brasil.

Studies on Brazilian workers suffering in slave-like conditions estimate that for every rescued worker, an estimated 2-3 go unreported. Let's estimate that 939 (313x3), out of 1.5 million workers in 2023 were forced laborers. That's 0.063% - a far cry from "most", Guardian.

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Apr 19

The death knell chimes for the PSDB (Social Democratic Party of Brazil). Once the most powerful party in Brazil and perennial favorite of US Democrats. After a series of dismal elections, it announced it's merging with another right-wing party, Podemos. How did it fall so fast?

1) Like Gorbachev, Brazil's ex-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso had a better reputation abroad than at home. In Brazil, he's despised for his privatizations, like state mining company Vale do Rio Doce, sold to a group of cronies for the equivalent of 1/4 of its annual profits

2) In the 2000s, Cardoso’s PSDB successor, José Serra—seen here faking an injury after being hit by a paper ball—adopted an electoral strategy called "anti-PTism": smearing PT leaders under an anti-corruption banner, with full U.S. media backing.

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Apr 3

Valério Arcary, one of Brazil's greatest Marxist historians, unaffiliated with the PT since 1991, warns radicals from repeating the errors of 2013-2016: "Unfortunately, a segment of the radical militant left does not agree that we need to buy time, much less that we need Lula+

"Some declare themselves independent of the government, while others adopt the strategy of left-wing opposition. Independence means criticizing what one believes is wrong while prioritizing the defense of the government against Bolsonarism...

"Those who argue that the government maintains an intact neoliberal economic policy and relies on the bourgeoisie against the workers have chosen to be in opposition...

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Apr 1

https://twitter.com/BRASILWIRE/status/1614264572092760067

Glenn Greenwald may by whining about protecting the political rights of fascists now, but in 2017 a billionaire allegedly flew him to Canada so he could promote a US DOJ-backed lawfare operation in Brazil.

https://twitter.com/BRASILWIRE/status/1614264572092760067

His role in Operation Spoofing later turn the public against the prosecutors he awarded the Allard Prize to. However it seems like he sat on a massive trove of evidence of US collaboration w/ Lava Jato until Intercept lost its monopoly on the info+ fair.org/home/greenwald…

Greewald likes to brag about "getting Lula out of jail." As I explained to Eoin Higgins, when he interviewed me for his excellent new book "Owned" the real story is a little more complicated.

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Mar 28

Here's "Owned" Glenn Greenwald misleading Americans about Brazil, while revealing his true, millionaire nature by engaging in the long tradition of US elites denying coups in Latin America: 1) Jair Bolsonaro was not declared "guilty" of anything;+

2) This weeks Court procedure was not a trial. It was a formal review of evidence;

3) It’s routine for Supreme Court panels—groups of 5 justices—to review evidence. So much so that when Bolsonaro’s defense petitioned to move the review to the full plenary, his appointee Nunes Marques voted against it, resulting in a 9-1 ruling to keep it in the 1st Panel;

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Mar 26

After ex-President Jair Bolsonaro was formally charged with leading an armed criminal organization to plot a military coup by the Supreme Court today, he said, "discussing hypotheses isn't a crime." Not only is he wrong, he's confessed again. I'll explain why here.+

Bolsonaro's argument that merely discussing a coup is not illegal fails because, 1) Intent matters: If discussions involve planning, recruitment, or incitement, they cross into criminal conspiracy;

2) National security laws do not require the coup to succeed—preparatory acts (like organizing meetings, securing weapons, or drafting plans) are already crimes; and

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