“Ultimately, Brazil’s elite political and media classes are toying with the mechanics of democracy. That’s a dangerous, unpredictable game to play anywhere, but particularly so in a very young democracy with a recent history of political instability and tyranny, and where millions are furious over their economic deprivation.”
~ I’m pleased to see that the foreign press has awakened to the “legalized coup” (my description) underway in Brazil.
The real reason Dilma Rousseff’s enemies want her impeached
Dilma Rousseff
Corruption is just the pretext for a wealthy elite who failed to defeat Brazil’s president at the ballot box
The story of Brazil’s political crisis, and the rapidly changing global perception of it, begins with its national media. The country’s dominant broadcast and print outlets are owned by a tiny handful of Brazil’s richest families, and are steadfastly conservative. For decades, those media outlets have been used to agitate for the Brazilian rich, ensuring that severe wealth inequality (and the political inequality that results) remains firmly in place.
Indeed, most of today’s largest media outlets – that appear respectable to outsiders – supported the 1964 military coup that ushered in two decades of rightwing dictatorship and further enriched the nation’s oligarchs. This key historical event still casts…
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Three Worlds One Vision 
“Elites” cannot exist if they cannot rule and control resources, read: the world. Because they are nothing but parasites, they are defending their lifestyle when they subjugate and subdue the peoples’ hopes and dreams of real democracy – something which the world has never, ever seen, for democracy means equality for ALL. You cannot have an elite, or even a partial elite, in a democratic landscape. In fake democracies (all current “democratic” nations are fake) when a rank and file person somehow manages to rise into the ranks of the powerful – a construction labourer becomes president, for example – that person is immediately, if reluctantly, ensconced among the elitist apparatus (until they can get rid of her/him) and very swiftly the great promises of radical change shift and shift ever in favour of the Status quo. To have a democracy you have to rid your political sphere of all elitist membership. This of course is impossible because, as France discovered post-1789, how the elites retain possession of power is through the sowing of bureaucracies throughout the realm. Bureaucrats are the tools of the elites; are unaccountable to any but those who installed them in their little spheres of personal power. They are not elected but chosen for the purpose of maintaining the status quo. These bureaucracies are the military, health and welfare, universal education, police and judiciary, and that trickles down into the lives of every member of every fake democracy. A change at the top is like the chop on top of those massive waves in an ocean storm. Those white caps may look impressive, and they are very noisy. They are great for picture taking and get much talk from the passengers but it’s the height and depth of the waves a ship’s captain had better be concerned about. In politics no one, ever, considers the waves, only the top fluff. And that is why all revolutions eventually fail. All bureaucracies tend towards conservatism because bureaucrats have to be by nature self-protecting. This is why elected officials like to surround themselves with so much apparent deadwood. Here’s a quote from “The 500, by Matthew Quirk” (not recommending this book-waste of time) but this quote is priceless: “He was a deputy assistant secretary, under the assistant secretary, under the under-secretary who was under the deputy under the actual secretary.” Consider, first of all, the immense target this presents to lobbyists; the ease with which one or more of these influential people can be suborned, bribed, and subsequently blackmailed or shaken down. Consider that layer of protection – and consider that this waste is being paid for out of the pocket of the real working tax payer. That, plus tax havens, ensures that real change can never happen by using politics to make changes within the political process; too much energy is lost even before a revolution begins so that it peters out. It was this realization that drove the anarchists to take other, equally doomed, measures to try to topple the system. It was this realization that fired the Russian revolution. Millions of deaths and nothing accomplished: the bureaucracies re-instated the elites so they could carry on feeding at the public trough.
After that string of words, I’m not saying mankind is necessarily doomed. There are alternatives available that can actually destroy the elitist apparatus, but never, ever, by fixing, certainly never through “election” which hava always been a joke and a fraud. If you have a broken hammer you can’t use another hammer to fix it. You need a different, more esoteric tool… OR… you need to find a way to evolve without the need for the hammer. That requires real courage, real wisdom and selfless commitment to self empowerment.
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A perceptive analysis, and I would contend a “revolution in consciousness” is taking place, under which a true citizen’s democracy could result. Simply stated, I don’t believe in paying people to boss me around, and others are beginning to wake up to this modern slavery, too.
People have been afraid of true freedom. It means taking responsibility for your own actions and consequences. Historically, uneducated and naïve people have trusted external authority–like churches, kings, governments, and other institutions–to act as moral compasses, yet these illusions are crumbling across the board.
Scapegoating popular leaders like Dilma Rousseff is such old strategy that I’m surprised no one has caught on by now. The political manipulators (backed by the central bankers) are using the political processes to extort as much labor and money from taxpayers as possible.
Brazil is suffering because it took on too much debt, at the expense of growing the local economy. It was the fashionable thing to do, before the 2007 crisis.
Debt is a tool used by all the manipulators to trap individuals, companies, corporations, and governments into compromising situations. “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” by John Perkins, shows how the United States uses the debt trap to benefit US corporations and military.
Also, about the bureaucracies: I have heard that bureaucracies (and the resulting overhead) caused the USSR’s collapse. Even Adam Smith, in “Wealth of Nations” admitted government jobs were highly desirable because of the security and the “perks” that came with them. Smith was appointed Commissioner of Customs in Edinburgh after “Wealth of Nations” was published.
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Quote: People have been afraid of true freedom. It means taking responsibility for your own actions and consequences. Historically, uneducated and naïve people have trusted external authority–like churches, kings, governments, and other institutions–to act as moral compasses, yet these illusions are crumbling across the board.}}
So true. People have been afraid, and as a consequence became apathetic. They didn’t bother looking for alternative – NEW – ways to pilot a global civilization. Even now a majority sits complacently in the stands, relying on old ways and means to put everything right, even while it is so obvious that’s not happening. The illusions are crumbling, but what’s going to replace them? Are we going to fall way back into the Dark Ages, or even the Stone Age, or are people going to struggle forward with new ideas? What new ideas, I ask myself. I have them for myself as an individual, but they are NOT APPLICABLE to collective functions requiring leadership. So… ???
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According to what I hear, this coup in Brazil has major backing from the US – it appears all Latin America’s populist governments are currently under attack from Wall Street and the US.
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I’ve heard the same thing, Dr. Bramhall.
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The way I see it, the US-based military-industrial complex, (MIC) or its leaders anyway, has become a rabid animal gone out of control with greed and from its awareness that however much it thrashes about it’s days are numbered. As with the downfall of many other empires, perhaps all (let’s remember that the Brutish Empire (oh, did I write that, well maybe I meant British) has not yet collapsed, only morphed itself into a greater USK empire so we can’t use it’s retrenchment as a downfall) there is a mad period of attempted resurgence to “greatness” through rhetoric, the making and breaking of alliances and the launching of endless wars against any and all forces that would contend with the Empire. The US-based MIC won’t stop until it has turned the non-US mainland Americas into another Middle Eastern blood bath. Until now the MIC has been able to crush all of its opponents, or buy them outright. It can’t conceive of a situation where this might end. Populist, i.e., sovereign governments are the enemy and that enemy has to be defeated. Remember Chile under Allende; remember the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua; remember the FMLN in El Salvador, and remember the clown Reagan’s invasion of the tiny island of Grenada – and how Americans celebrated the fact that they had finally won a great war against “communism.” Let’s also remember that America has never been called to account for its endless violations of human rights and its war crimes because might makes right.
There is no limit to the lies people can absorb from their imperial leaders and there are no limits to the amount of terror and bloodshed a dying empire can unleash upon a world it fancies as belonging to itself by right of might. The only force that can shorten the end is in a military alliance between Russia and China and the taking of military action – and that would mean nuclear war. Are we ready for that?
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Sha’Tara, I wish I could disagree with you. Those in control of our world have drunk the Kool-Aid of madness. As you have noted, our current situation cannot end well. Our species will not survive a nuclear war.
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Partial nuking with tactical nukes (as I understand it) maybe, but a “total war” using the available stockpiles? No surviving, at least not as we are now, there’d be too many mutations and too much missing in nature’s balance. Think Chernobyl even today – that’s just one nuclear power plant, and Fukushima, that nightmare continues to get worse – just one other nuclear power plant. These are not weapons; they are not designed to kill people. So we should know what to expect from nuclear war. And in my mind, knowing the mindset of the controllers on Kool Aid madness, it’s a wonder they are still sitting on their stockpiles and haven’t launched yet. Scared to put their own asses on the line? Scared of the MAD effect (Mutually Assured Destruction)?
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Thank you for this, Rosaline, without which I wouldn’t have known of this perspective.
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