Teachers Against the Coup!
Belo Horizonte – Brazil – September 22, 2016
Photo Credit: Twitter/@Reginaldo Lopes
Anti-Coup Protests Erupt Again in Brazil
teleSUR, September 22, 2016
Readout of Vice President Biden’s Meeting with President Michel Temer of Brazil
The White House, Office of the Vice President, September 22, 2016
Three Worlds One Vision 
How far will they take it, how deep will they run it; how much are they willing to sacrifice this time? This is calling the whole world to join in protest against all neo-cons, but meanwhile Biden and Temer are making love pretending nothing is going on except “the best of times” – and forget the rest of the sentence, and the presstitutes of Lamestream media are licking ice-cream cones or sipping wine in between make-up sessions. Sadly, lack of leadership means the movement missed a golden opportunity to strike: the time to do this was during the Olympfix when even the blind, deaf and definitely dumb and dumber “Western” media could not have avoided bumping into it.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’m not sure leadership is the answer. “Leadership” usually means exchanging one tyranny for another. Not that I have a better answer, but it’s encouraging to see so many people waking up to the strategies used by the tyrants to enslave them.
In the US, it appears the lower classes are bringing the fortresses down, by dropping out, doing drugs, and otherwise exploiting the hypocritical system we have created. We’re all feeling the brunt of promises betrayed.
LikeLike
Oh, I know leadership isn’t the answer but I use it in the sense that people expect because without self-empowerment or mob rule, they need leaders. As for the US role globally, much of the unrest is US-made to accommodate what were once US-based multinationals. Certainly ALL Central and South American political troubles since the demise of the Spanish empire can be sourced to the CIA or US corporation private goon squads spreading torture, assassinations and mass murder. That’s undeniable history. The best thing that could happen to the world is for the US to lose their military power, go home, mind their own business and maybe, just maybe, spend what’s left on fixing home problems. With the stress of building a defense against US interests greatly diminished it’s possible the others would become more balanced, not exactly sane, but keep their violence to a limited local scale, like the North Korean numb-nut what’s his Ill name. Of course it may not go that way either, the craziness and madness of man’s rulership knows no bounds after all, but what’s the alternative: a US Hunger Games hegemon?
LikeLiked by 1 person
“The best thing that could happen to the world is for the US to lose their military power, go home, mind their own business and maybe, just maybe, spend what’s left on fixing home problems.”
~ Sha’Tara, we in the US have been fed so many lies about what our government is doing for our national security and defense that your suggestion would be difficult for the majority of us to accept. How I wish we could use half of our bloated defense budget for ending hunger and homelessness here at home and putting our unemployed back to work in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure!
LikeLike
We must read the same books. The experiment that has never been tried is mass cooperation for everyone’s good. Income, personal, and power equality because it’s hard to enjoy your gourmet meal when the guy next to you is starving.
LikeLike
Katharine, while dining out in open-air restaurants in Fortaleza (capital of the Northeast State of Ceara), the inequality is right up in nose when street children approach your table asking for leftovers or small change.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’m aware it happens in many parts of the world, but Americans aren’t used to seeing it at home. I was really talking symbolically.
I don’t think Americans would be so frivolously excessive if they were forced to see what other countries lack. (And what we may be facing if we don’t wake up.)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Promises. Promises. Promises. For how much longer will we keep believing in their promises?
LikeLiked by 1 person
If we take the broadest possible view, which I always try to do, and admit that this latest attempt by man to create a new civilization is failing everywhere before our very eyes with or without the “media” to interpret the signs, then the question is, what to do now? Brazil is just another in a series of overt attacks upon a sovereign nation to turn it into a failed state, then a slave pit.
LikeLike
Sha’Tara, I observe with trepidation and sadness the growing number of failed states across South America, Africa, the Middle East, and forages into Asia. Not only is the violence of our War on Terror returning home to the US and our European allies, but the “slave pit” of prison labor and low wages has also taken hold in vulnerable communities in our so-called advanced nations. With a complicit Mainstream Media that spreads false narratives or remain silent on the issues, those who live in secure and comfortable upscale neighborhoods are unaware of what the 90-95 Percent face daily to survive.
LikeLike
I think you touch on the fact that the “failed state” syndrome is also attacking individual states within the “United States” itself. Since Reaganomics and the complete sell-out of government services to the “free enterprise” private sector more and more poorer states have fallen into irredeemable poverty, the state government saddled with the same brainwash and sell-out as White House big brother unable and unwilling to deal with growing endemic poverty and hopelessness of their own state. Domino effect: Washington sells out to big business and bankers, the onus to govern falls on the states which can’t deal with it and choose to emulate the federal process, leaving the problems to fall further down onto cities and local communities increasingly gutted of tax revenue from business and job losses gone the overseas slave pits… and the process is not being addressed, not being reversed but basically just left to blow in the wind. Meanwhile trillions of dollars are spent on war and literally go unaccounted for or are “lost” by the military and no follow-up: it’s all business as usual over here. And here’s probably the greatest presidential liar of all times pushing for yet another “international” treaty that will finish the job and infrastructure gutting of the nation. Then he can take his Nobel prize and retire in his multi-million dollar mansion and the New World Order can rule under a police and para-military system of “emergency” measures to prevent violent social unrest. Under this system society will be re-categorized by financial status, race and usefulness to the State. Did I get that sketch about right?
LikeLike
Nobody believes them, but when everyone works for , or is dependent on, the government, they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. I don’t think there’s much real difference between Hillary and The Donald on the issues important to me. I’m planning a blog on that soon.
LikeLike
Katharine, I look forward to reading your post. We’re really messed up, when we’re given the choice of the lesser of two evils. They will both be bad for American workers and for people beyond our borders who struggle to survive under daily bombings.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hey everybody: wake up… ding, ding, ding. You are not given the choice of two evils. In fact you can completely ignore Killary and the Donald. Forget them. Since they’re the chosen ones they’re persona non-grata. But Jill Stein, being rejected by the Status Quo becomes de facto the ONLY legitimate representative of “the people.” I don’t mention Mr. “What’s Aleppo” because I think your country has had enough ignorant people in the War House for a while – time to take a break.
LikeLike
I’m fully awake, Sha’Tara. And I’m sure Katharine is too. Our political electoral system has already determined that only these two candidates are viable. Tomorrow, September 26, they will begin the debates before a national audience. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson have been excluded from the process 😦
In my 2016 US Presidential posts, I intentionally present the position of all four candidates on specific issues.
LikeLike
But that’s the whole point! Because they have been excluded by an illegitimate, undemocratic process, it means they are the only logical choice given the voters! Are they telling you how you MUST VOTE now? And under such duress, do you still consider the “process” to be legitimate? Temer in Brazil, Killary and Drumft in the US, what a nice clique, bunched up together by an equally illegitimate lame stream media. You see, they’ve done you a great favour by giving you a real choice now. “…and have you not heard that the stone that was rejected by the builders has become the capstone?…”
LikeLike
Sha’Tara, Rousseff’s supporters did protest during the Olympics. I was still grieving to share updates of the situation. I plan to change that.
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
LikeLike
Cyril, thanks for sharing 🙂
LikeLike
Here is my problem, one opinion on which I expect to receive push-back. Yes, the situation in Brazil is deplorable, tragic; and yes, my instinct is to expect the US to confront it. But, if I imagine myself high-up in government, I would be faced with scores of nations with other deplorable situations, all of which cannot be denounced simultaneously unless the US is simply to become the world’s scold, preoccupied more with all the frank unfairness of the globe, while not focusing on the messes we have at home. One cannot attack all problems at once, whether in a single life (in my specialty of doing psychotherapy) or on the bigger stages of institutions, both public and private. I wish it were otherwise.
LikeLike
Dr. Stein, I’m not suggesting that the US resolve Brazil’s problems. I’m simply raising awareness of the role our government has played in taking down Rousseff’s government for the benefit of their corporate donors. We are fed so many half-truths, disinformation, and lies about our actions across the globe, it is difficult for Americans to awaken to the truth that, in the majority of cases, we are the problem…not the solution.
LikeLike
Dr. Stein’s response is to be expected. The US has the resources and capacities to do so much – too much. And the blame for so much of the misery in the world can be laid down at our feet. Yes, misery is all over but we should not forget the misery we are causing at this moment and in our own futures we will long enough to see.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Angela, thanks for sharing.
LikeLiked by 1 person