Audiatur et altera pas

Audiatur et altera pas – 20 mai 2016

Dinica Roman

 

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May 19 at 10:53pm

Rather than subdued, resigned, and defeated, Rousseff – who was imprisoned and tortured for three years by the U.S.-supported military dictatorship that ruled the country for 21 years – is more combative, defiant, and resolute than ever.

 

 

Watch: First Interview With Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Since the Senate's Impeachment Vote

Suspended and on the verge of impeachment, Brazil's president - calling for…

THEINTERCEPT.COM|BY GLENN GREENWALD

 

Dinica Roman La comentarii se poate vedea noul tip de economie al serviciilor. Din barajul de zgomote am ales:

Si1ver1ock
May 19 2016, 11:01 p.m.
She seems like a very intelligent person. I'm trying to figure out how it came to this. If this is being driven by an economic crisis, what is the response? Does Brazil have a Council of Economic Advisors like the United States? She said they ran out of resources to engage in counter-cyclical operations and that Brazil has been stumbling from crisis to crisis for the last 4 or 5 years? What do her advisors say? Did she take effective action i. e. fire a couple of economists, convene an economic summit? What counter-cyclical policies did she implement?

It looks like they got caught up in an economic commodities bubble of some sort. Richard Wolfe and others are claiming that the crisis will soon come to America. Prof. Wolfe was recently interviewed on RT's SophieCo. I especially like Sophie's facial expressions. Apparently, sitting through an economics lecture is not something she appreciates. Wolfe is a retired economics professor. I keep expecting him to say. "Pay attention young lady. You are going to be tested on this later. You don't want to get impeached like Dilma Rousseff!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lzIb6gEWyE

Congratulations to the Intercept on getting a terrific interview. It is good to see that having a measure of integrity can still earn respect on an international basis.

Socrates
May 19 2016, 9:20 p.m.
Let's keep it simple. In the sixties and seventies the US used the generals (Gorillas) to overthrow democratic elected governments, Obama is more sophisticated, he and the CIA use know public demonstration, they buy opposition politicians who are not very expensive, they meet with them in Miami, the right place to do business with fascists. What happened with the elected president of Brazil was just another CIA Coup d' Etat " a la Obama" like the one that happened in Ukraine a couple of years ago. The next one is Venezuela.

Dan
May 19 2016, 6:59 p.m.
This article indicates a reference to "New President of Brazil, Michel Temer, Signals More Conservative Shift" in the NY Times along with Glenns choice of words "has begun preparing the groundwork for a radical right-wing attack on the country's social safety net,".. There is nothing in that article but opinion on what the "intentions" of Temer "could be" rather than anything substantial. Certainly, nothing that warrants saying "has begun preparing the groundwork for a radical right-wing attack on the country's social safety net,"… The is a first clue that shows the bias of the author.

Glenn is showing true bias for PT. Brazilians want Dilma impeached, and they want Temer impeached. However, Dilma comes first. She's the president. She covered up fiscal holes and won the election by a sliver. We're not talking a large majority win here, we're talking about a sliver. A hair. Most Brazilians believe it's reasonable that by not unlawfully covering up fiscal holes, that the election could have went in favour of the opposition party. That's an impeachable offence.

Anti-Dilma protesters exponentially outnumber Pro-Dilma ones. It's apparent by the numbers at the protests. If this was unbiased journalism, then these facts would not be omitted.

It's fair to have an opinion as long as you report on the facts fairly and objectively. That's not being done here.

Glenn Greenwald ↪ Dan
May 20 2016, 8:13 a.m.
Right, it's all just speculative
http://www.theguardian.com/.../brazil-rightwing...

barabbas
May 19 2016, 5:01 p.m.
Thank you Glenn for doing this interview with Dilma Rousseff.
I am very impressed with Dilma as a person and leader.

GG: (what if…)
DR: Please forgive me for not answering that question.
GG: Because you're still fighting.
DR: Because I'll fight until the end.

She did not sell herself short.

My observation is that criminal minds like Tener and Cunha, who collude and conspire to rob the public of power, always at some point visibly display a willingness to take something via cleverly crafted means, and good people need to believe what they see and hear and not allow the clutter of the con to take them off the truth.

 

 

RT SophieCo interview with Dr Richard Wolff

YOUTUBE.COM

 

Dinica Roman Alexander Woermann
May 19 2016, 4:24 p.m.
When Glen asked about the Terrorist law affecting protesters, and she replied by saying that any abiguity was taken out of the law, and could not be used against protesters, I wondered if Glen had convinced himself that this law could infact be used, and was dangerous to potential protesters.

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Glenn Greenwald ↪ Alexander Woermann
May 19 2016, 4:54 p.m.
I wondered if Glen had convinced himself that this law could infact be used, and was dangerous to potential protesters.

We didn't have time to delve into the specific provisions, but the law is absolutely dangerous to protesters and activists generally. I have zero doubt that this "interim" government will see any form of aggressive protesting as a form of terrorism. It's a horrible, dangerous law she passed – Lula, in a rare moment of public disagreement, explained why very well in his interview with me – and it's a dark, bitter irony that, shortly after it was passed, it endangers the very people protesting in her defense and in defense of the democratic election she won.

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Diogo ↪ Glenn Greenwald
May 19 2016, 7:05 p.m.
Absolutely, people on social media are already calling for the antiterrorism law tonbe used against MST, MTST, protesters blocking highways and burning tires, etc.
There is a real authoritarian streak running through Brazilian society and this law will be used as an instrument of repression against legitimate discontent and civil disobedience.

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Thomas ↪ Glenn Greenwald
May 20 2016, 10:08 a.m.
Glenn, what about the actions of the "black blocks"? Their violence? Their seizing and wrecking of both private and public properties? Their killing of a fellow press colleague of yours – Santiago Andrade? Aiming a rocket against civilians in the middle of a mass protest?

That was protesting and activism? Or plain and simple terrorism?

Should we revoke all laws concerning terrorism, for the sake of these people being able to keep protesting, regardless of their actions??

Should we still let the MST seize rural properties, expel the owners, threatening them with death, and let them set the crops, the utilities and all the property on fire in the name of land reform? Should the MST being able to act as an army, with outlawed weaponry, as so proudly Stedile, Lula and others claims?

Should we still let the MTST seize unoccupied habitational properties, fight the owners, and damage and takeover the properties, in the name of wealth distribution?

Should we still let protestors occupy and block roads, setting fire on nearby cars and tires? Preventing the people's right to move around, preventing let's say, an ambulance getting to the hospital? In the name of God knows what? Maybe against the coup?

Are these cases of activism you are concerned under the terrorism law?