I don't want to sound alarmist, but there is a serious attempt at a coup happening in the open right now in Brazil. The Federal Traffic Police along with state police and elements of the army are trying to suppress the vote across the country. I will continue to post updates
If Lula wins despite all the billions spent on buying votes, police shenanigans, disinformation and the politicized prosecution and jailing, it will be the greatest political comeback of all time.
RICHARLISON: "It is a basic right to have food on the table, healthcare, education and housing. I position myself in support and show my indignation for a minimum of dignity and equality for all the Brazilians that did not have the same type of luck as I did"
RICHARLISON: "É um direito básico ter comida na mesa, saúde, educação e moradia. Eu me posiciono e mostro a minha indignação pelo mínimo de dignidade e igualdade para todos os brasileiros que não tiveram a mesma sorte que eu." Craque dentro e fora do campo!
I leave South Africa today wearing my Bok jersey, I have never felt prouder to be South African. We are on the right side of history and let's hope the ICJ recognises this.
Lula has won this election, it might have been close and Bolsonaro will almost certainly contest the results, but he was in prison two years ago and Bolsonaro changed the constitution by buying off Congress and spent over 12 billion to stop this from happening. This is historic!
Here is the supposed order from the Bolsonaro supporting Director General of the Federal Traffic Police to ignore the Electoral Court and carry-out operations against public transport. This is the time to sound the alarm bells
Aqui está o ofício circular, assinado às 2h43 desta madrugada, em que o diretor-geral da PRF, Silvanei Vasques, diz que não irá cumprir a ordem proferida pelo
@TSEjusbr
.
I am a Jew living in London & because of the 200,000 strong anti-Jewish march about to take place, I don't feel comfortable going into the city centre on the weekend.
Its 2024 and parts of London have become no-go areas for Jews.
Godwin Law alert:
15 minutes into Jair Bolsonaro's interview on Jovem Pan, a far-right radio: Rodrigo Constantino compares the Brazilian Supreme Court to the Gestapo.
Quick though: Nobody else but the greatest Brazilian political mind of all time could have beaten Bolsonaro in this election and even then it is far too close to comfort. That's truly terrifying.
Collapse by Vladislav Zubok is one of the most disturbing books I have ever read, I am convinced now more than ever that the end of the Soviet Union was the single most disastrous process of de-development of my lifetime the main fruits are reactionary nationalism and oligarchy
I am old enough to remember when Western liberals held up the ICC and ICJ as paragons of international justice and morality and UN bodies as part of delivering global justice.
The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.
Here is footage showing the military working with the police to illegally suppress votes outside the city of Niteroi just on the other side of the bay from Rio
South Africa has done it, this is a significant victory for the ideal of International Justice. The ICJ has ruled that at least some of the acts committed by Israel do fall under the genocide convention.
Bolsonaro's son stole his dad's password for his social media accounts is currently sulking at a shooting range because daddy is trying to undo the damage his son caused by going to war with his vice-president on behalf of his deranged ex-astrologist guru
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”
The head of the electoral court is about to speak, but this is the guy responsible for the attempted coup the director general of the Federal Traffic Police
IMPORTANT 🚨
Silvinei Vasques, the head of Brazil’s Federal Highway Police, asked his Instagram followers to vote for President Bolsonaro. He later deleted the post. Earlier on Sunday, the Superior Electoral Court subpoenaed Vasques to explain cases of alleged voter suppression.
The latest reporting indicates more than 560 took place with as many as over 3 million voters affected. They were distracting us with talk over the electronic voting booths and stolen radio adverts while planning this
Pelo menos 560 operações da PRF pelo país, afrontando decisão do TSE. A polícia rodoviária descumpre a lei e comete crime para sabotar a votação. Não há prova mais contundente de que o Estado foi capturado pela milícia bolsonarista. O golpe pode fracassar, mas está caracterizado.
I will never forgive Sergio Moro for locking up Lula the week we were supposed to interview him. Lula remains the greatest working class leader to have emerged anywhere of the last 50 years or so.
I have never been prouder to be South African, history will remember it was us who tried to stop genocide. I will also remember all those in South Africa who opposed us standing on the right side of history.
@ggreenwald
and
@TheInterceptBr
are breaking history changing stories right now and are under attack from the most backwards and depraved sections of Brazil. They deserve our support and our solidarity.
Total bullshit, Germany and the United States are not going to destroy all trade with South Africa because of the ICJ. The people saying this are openly hoping it happens as it would validate their support for the horrors taking place in Gaza
Policiais militares do DF tiram foto e batem papo com manifestantes enquanto vândalos invadem Congresso Nacional. Reparem a conversa sobre invadir o
#STF
#brasilia
Meanwhile in Brazil, the rumor is that President Bolsonaro was cuckholded by his wife with a former minister and the memes are flowing like the Amazon river.
Head of Brazil’s electoral court says he believes police operations may have delayed people voting but didn’t stop them voting. Says police chief told him he was trying to enforce the Highway Code by stopping buses with dodgy tires or broken lights…
Brazil's vice-president suggests that slavecatchers and plantation owners created Brazil due to their 'entrepreneurial spirit'. Ted talk meets historical apologia for slavery
Donatários, bandeirantes, senhores e mestres do açúcar, canoeiros e tropeiros, com suas mulheres e famílias, fizeram o Brasil. Só um povo empreendedor constrói um país dessas dimensões que segue o destino manifesto de ser a maior democracia liberal do Hemisfério Sul.
Imagine the future historians who will be tasked to write the story of ex-porn star turned Bolsonaro supporter turned defender of democracy Alexandre Frota if he leads the impeachment of Bolsonaro?
Certain White South Africans' inability to understand the world beyond everything the ANC does is evil and corrupt leads them to cheerleading genocide in Gaza and celebrating insane propaganda as some sort of triumphant rebuke to what looks like a strong ICJ case
Discouraged after finishing 4th in ’82 SP governor race w 10% of vote, Lula considered quitting politics. 3 years later in Cuba Fidel asked how many votes 10% was. About 1.2 million. Fidel told him no union leader anywhere had ever gotten so many votes. Lula got back on the horse
It's almost three months since the most significant event in post-apartheid South Africa and we still know almost nothing about what happened. Who are the 12 instigators, what happened to them? How did the hundreds of people die outside of Phoenix?
Win or lose, South Africa made a strong and well-reasoned case at the ICJ, I remain proud that out of all the countries in the world, we did this. This idea that we were schooled by Israel's 'adult dignified experts' is racialised nonsense. Our team remains world class.
"News24 can, for the first time, reveal that following last July's rampage, the police are seeking to bring treason charges against several high-ranking ANC politicians and businesspeople identified as masterminds."
Okay some news, now that it is basically official: I am moving to London to help run the publishing side of a radical new research institute that will be launching next year focused on the major theoretical and strategic challenges of our day. More on that soon.
A xenophobic vigilante mob torched the historic Yeoville market last night, a place dear to my heart and one of the most Pan-African cosmopolitan places on our planet. This is heartbreaking and the police/political class are complicit in this wave of coming xenophobic pogroms
Like images from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo before them, this will be seen - by much of the world - to sum up the deceit of Western moral supremacy, and radicalise new generations to take up arms.
Bolsonaro spend at least 12 billion dollars on vote buying and still lost this election, that's a major achievement for the left even if it is too close for comfort.
Bolsonaro's anal sex obessed Guru Olavo de Carvalho is dead. Among other things, he believed the world is flat and that Pepsi is flavored with aborted fetuses.
@HistOfTheRight
seen credible reports from Bolsonaro supporting states like Rio, Mato Gross, Parana and Santa Catarina targeting indigenous and working class voters.
The Brazilian election is almost a coin flip, Lula enjoys a slight lead in the polls, but there are a significant number of undecided and Bolsonaro's numbers are improving. It's almost unbelievable that after 4 years of disaster and 700,000 dead people Bolsonaro is still popular
The attempted coup actions of today almost certainly will have reduced the margin of victory, but it should never have been close looking at what Bolsonaro has done over the last four years
My response whenever I encounter the question of why they should care about Gaza more than the many other unfolding horrors in our world, is that this genocide is perhaps the biggest driver of global instability right now and is setting a precedent for the horrors of our future
Workers woke up and found that their lives had collapsed with the state, no tax collection, no wages, no future it had all melted away while the elite rushed to grab hold of what ever bits of the USSR they could hack away from the ediface.
Having been in the United States, Brazil and South Africa for campaigns claiming mass electoral fraud, the Zuma disinformation narrative is by far the laziest and least convincing
This might go down as a historic strike for the international labour movement: São Paulo's delivery drivers are on strike today against the dehumanizing and dangerous conditions they have been subjected to as part of the uberization of Brazil's economy
I don't get what HAMAS is trying to achieve by just raiding Israeli streets and slaughtering people on camera.
HAMAS doesn't care about the people of Palestine - it only needs a perpetual war with Israel to stay in power in Gaza forever.
The head of Brazil's Electoral Court claims operations of the Federal Traffic Police were suspended on his orders an hour ago. There are a number of credible reports from multiple locations that these operations are ongoing. Voter Suppression is continuing
"“Many of these deaths were preventable,” Renan Calheiros, the centrist Brazilian senator who was the lead author of the report, said in an interview in his office late Monday. “I am personally convinced that he is responsible for escalating the slaughter.”"
While
@ggreenwald
breaks stories that have the potential to help save Brazilian democracy, there is an absurd crowd of liberals and even leftists in the U.S. trying to cancel him because he doesn't bend the knee to their pieties and was correct on Russiagate. Que vergonha
1. Collins Khosa was killed for the temerity of enjoying a beer on his stoep. We should not let revisionist accounts which divorce his death from the authoritarian militarized prohibitionist lockdown which saw 230,000 arrests of mostly black working class South Africans
It's absurd that the Brazilian Electoral Court is censoring interviews that Bolsonaro gave willingly in which he unprompted suggested he would eat human flesh and made sexual comments about minors...
Adilah Hassism is holding back tears while making the case that Israel is intensifying its genocidal campaign in Gaza. History will remember South Africa kept on trying to end this historic atrocity while Western liberalism enabled it.
1. As a South African Jew who stumbled upon a British passport, I am voting for
@jeremycorbyn
because I know him to be a man of honour and integrity who fought against apartheid while Boris Johnson was playing racist drinking games with his Bullingdon Chums
All the liberal moaning about South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ is because it demonstrates that definitively South Africa is not part of the West (a good thing). There is much to criticize in terms of our foreign policy, but this is a historical stand worth taking.
Bolsonaro is now exiled in Florida and tomorrow Lula will be president. I wonder how the Bolsonarista ultras are reacting now that "mito" has abandoned them?
European Green parties represent one of the most reactionary currents in global politics at this point: neoliberalism, imperialism, anti-nuclear, pro-coal mixed in with the most superficial cultural 'radicalism'
I feel that certain editors in South Africa are upset that are case at the ICJ is in the hands of a world class legal team and has won the respect of most of the world rather than being another embrassesment for the ANC. South Africa is not and will never be a 'Western Nation'
Netwerk24 journalist: "May I please have your reaction to Germany saying it doesn't support
#SouthAfrica
's case at the
#ICJ
against
#Israel
?"
Me: "Are you also going to ask me to react to statements by the many countries that support us?"
Journalist: "Let me speak to the editor
Philosophy professor Nancy Fraser, who is Jewish, has been uninvited from a guest professorship in Germany for signing a public letter in support of Palestine
Fascism is winning in Brazil, Rio has no water, mass repression against activists is intensifying, the economy is still a mess: The Brazilian left's response let's go to war against left leaning publications to defend Lenin.
Brazil is the exception to the Brahmin Left thesis: The more educated you are in Brazil, the more likely you are to be a raging Bolsonarista. An archtypical Bolsonarista formation in some resects would be a São Paulo association of physicians or something along those lines.