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Mediocridade Consagrada
Mediocrity established
Em inglês, a palavra “sanctuary” nesse contexto significa “refúgio”, ou seja, um lugar onde alguém possa se sentir em segurança, livre de ameaças. Mas… você sabe como é, a Lei do Menor Esforço existe.
In English, the word “sanctuary” means “refuge” in this context. In other words, it is a place where someone (human being or animal) could feel safe, free from any threats. But, you know, there is the “Path of Least Resistance” to be taken…
PT x PT, ou… Bandido contra Bandido
PT x PT, or… criminal versus criminal
O Blog do Lessa acrescenta que as pedaladas continuam em 2015, desafiando frontalmente a LRF.
The story above, published by Folha de S.Paulo newspaper, indicates that former president Lula da Silva, a.k.a. Brahma, personally encouraged the TCU (federal accounting office) minister in charge of analyzing Dilma Rousseff’s numbers to go on the record against the so called “pedaladas fiscais” (a term used to describe the criminal scheme set up by Dilma’s team where the payments to be disbursed by the Treasury were being actually paid by official banks, like Banco do Brasil and Caixa Economica Federal, in express violation of the Fiscal Responsibility Act). Lula’s action occurred at the same time he started to openly criticize his protegé’s administration. The Folha de S.Paulo newspaper reports that Lula told TCU minister Jose Mucio Monteiro, a close ally, he thought it was reasonable that the TCU requested additional explanation regarding the fiscal maneuvers. As described above, public banks use their own resources to make payments for the administration, which is illegal. Tha Lula-Mucio talks occurred when the minister’s vote, criticizing the delay in transfers from the Treasury to the banks, was already written. According to some reports, Lula said that this “would give the president a scare”. Mucio’s vote concluded that the fiscal maneuvers by former Finance minister Guido Mantega’s team in 2013 and 2014 caused harm to the Fiscal Responsibility Act.
The Lessa Blog adds that the illegal maneuvers have continued unabated throughout 2015, challenging the Fiscal Responsibility Act. In the next weeks, it is expected that TCU formally decides against the maneuvers, opening the door for Rousseff’s impeachment proceedings in Congress.
Os Ratos Já Abandonam o Navio…
The rats are already abandoning ship…
Dizem que os primeiros a abandonar o navio que afunda são os ratos. O rato da foto, assassino fugitivo italiano Cesare Battisti, refugiado no Brasil com o apoio expresso da organização criminosa com registro político (você sabe, os iguais se atraem e se ajudam), já percebeu que o mar não está para peixe. Com a iminente mudança de governo, uma das primeiras vítimas seria ele, enviado de volta à Itália. O que fazer? Casar-se com uma brasileira, no melhor estilo de criminosos famosos do passado, para garantir sua permanência no fazendão.
They say that when a ship is sinking, the rats are the first ones to abandon the vessel. The rat pictured above, Italian fugitive murderer Cesare Battisti, obtained asylum in Brazil fully supported by the criminal organization disguised as a political party (you know, equals attract and help themselves). Well, Mr. Battisti has already sensed that the tide is about to turn — even before the criminals currently in power. When that happens, he can become one of the first “victims”, being duly deported back to Italy to serve his long time prison sentence. What to do, then? Get married to a Brazilian, in a style set by other famous criminals of the past, to guarantee his residency in this huge farm.
Cortina de Fumaça
Smokescreen
A reação da tropa de choque brancaleone montada pela Mulher-Sapiens Dilma Rousseff, após a demolidora divulgação dos detalhes iniciais da delação premiada do empreiteiro Ricardo Pessoa, não passa de uma patética cortina de fumaça. Edinho Silva e José Eduardo Cardozo tiveram tempo para pensar no que dizer, mas não conseguiram mais do que o seguinte: disseram que Pessoa mentiu e que, por isso, pode perder os benefícios da delação premiada. Entretanto, para desespero dos petralhas, há planilhas, recibos, documentos e vídeos que comprovam o que o dono da UTC afirmou aos investigadores da Lava-Jato.
After preliminary — and demolishing — details of the plea bargain documents offered by Mr. Ricardo Pessoa have been made public, the reaction offered by the pathetic storm troopers enlisted by Dilma Rousseff, the Woman-Sapiens, is nothng short of a smokescreen. Mr. Edinho Silva (minister in charge of public affairs and himself accused of taking a lot of money in the imbroglio) and Mr. José Eduardo Cardozo (Justice minister) had a lot of time to think about what to say, but were able to come up only with the following: they said that Mr. Pessoa lied and for that reason he may lose the privileges obtained with the plea bargain. However, for the petralhas’ desperation, there are spreadsheets, receipts, documents and even videos to prove all the accusations Mr. Pessoa has delievered so far during the “Car Wash” investigation.
Hora do Impeachment!
Impeachment Time!
O jornal O Estado de São Paulo acaba de publicar: Ricardo Pessoa, empreiteiro dono da UTC que fez acordo de delação premiada, revelou ter pago um total de R$3,6 milhões de reais por meio de caixa dois à campanha presidencial de Dilma Rousseff entre 2010 e 2014. Pessoa detalhou os pagamentos feitos aos então tesoureiros da campanha (José Filippi) e do PT, João Vaccari Neto, entregando uma planilha intitulada “Pagamentos ao PT por Caixa Dois”, relacionando os nomes dos ex-tesoureiros e os valores repassados. De acordo com a delação de Ricardo Pessoa, ele entregou 500 mil reais ao PT em fevereiro de 2011; em março do mesmo ano, mais 500 mil reais; em março de 2012, foram 220 mil reais. Já em 2013, foram 350 mil reais em abril, dois pagamentos (350 mil reais e 500 mil reais) em julho e mais 500 mil reais em agosto. Os outros 680 mil reais teriam sido repassados também por caixa dois fora da campanha eleitoral.
Em outras palavras… é o fim. A pergunta que fica é: esse desgoverno petralha dura até quando?
“O Estado de Sao Paulo”newspaper informs that imprisoned Mr. Ricardo Pessoa, owner of UTC (a construction firm heavily involved in the bribery scandal known as “Car Wash”) started to talk after his plea bargain agreement has been finalized by the Brazilian Supreme Court. Mr. Pessoa revealed having paid a total of 3.6 million reais (slush funds) to Dilma Rousseff’s presidential campaign in 2010. Mr. Pessoa detailed the payments made to then treasurers of the presidential campaign (Mr. José Filippi, a close aide of former president Lula da Silva) and of the Workers Party (Mr. Joao Vaccari Neto, currently in jail for participating in several criminal activities under the scope of the “Car Wash”investigation). Mr. Pessoa delivered a spreadsheet to investigators titled “Slush Fund Payments to the PT”where names and amounts are listed. According to Mr. Pessoa, he delivered 500 thousand reais to the PT in February, 2011; in March, other 500 thousand; in March, 2012, 220 thousand reais. In 2013, 350 thousand were delivered in April, two deliveries (350 thousand and 500 thousand reais) in July and 500 thousand more in August. The remaining 680 thousand were allegedly delivered via slush fund outside the electoral campaign.
In other words… this is the end. The question remaining is: how much more will this petralha ungovernment still last?
Sim, o Brahma pode ser preso
Yes, Lula can be arrested
Segundo o jornal O Estado de S.Paulo, o habeas corpus impetrado em nome do Brahma pelo consultor Mauricio Ramos Thomaz, de Campinas, foi rejeitado pela autoridade competente. O HC não passa de uma “aventura jurídica que em nada contribui para o presente momento”, de acordo com o desembargador João Pedro Gebran Neto. Ainda bem. Prevaleceu o bom senso. Afinal, o Brahma é o número 1 na hierarquia da quadrilha.
According to O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper, the habeas corpus requested by Mr. Mauricio Ramos Thomaz, a consultant from Campinas, Sao Paulo, has been rejected by the authority in charge of the case. The HC is nothing more than a “legal adventure that contributes nothing to the current situation”, said appeals court judge Joao Pedro Gebran Neto. So far, so good: common sense prevailed. After all, Lula, a.k.a. Brahma (nicknamed for the popular Brazilian beer) is number 1 in the hierarchy of the gang disguised as a political party, just as the beer’s slogan states.
Um HC para o Brahma
An Habeas Corpus for Lula
O pedido de habeas corpus para o Brahma existe, foi impetrado. O Instituto Lula diz que não foi ele quem fez isso. Seguindo a tradição, temos certeza de que esse pedido de habeas corpus preventivo foi mais uma faca nas costas, mais uma traição, mais uma atitude tomada por alguém sem o conhecimento dele, é claro…
(Atualização às 15:31: O autor do HC foi identificado como Mauricio Ramos Thomaz, de Campinas, SP. Ele já fez o mesmo para Simone Vasconcelos, na época do mensalão. Como Simone continua presa até hoje em regime fechado, imagina-se que esse sr. Thomaz seja uma espécie de Anjo da Morte, e que o Brahma finalmente esteja mesmo, mais dia, menos dia, a caminho da cadeia.)
The request for an Habeas Corpus exists (see image above). The Lula Institute says that it was not Lula who requested the protection against arrest. Following tradition, we will be sure that this request for an Habeas Corpus was one more knife stuck on his back, one more action taken by someone without his knowledge or consent, of course…
(Update at 3:35pm: The person requesting the Habeas Corpus has been identified. He is Mr. Mauricio Ramos Thomaz, from Campinas, in Sao Paulo state. He has already done the same thing for a woman named Simone Vasconcelos, involved up to her ears in the mensalao scandal. Ms. Vasconcelos remains locked up in a federal prison to this date because of her crimes, a fact that leads us to believe that this Mr. Thomaz may be something of a Death Angel — and that Lula da Silva, a.k.a. Brahma, finally may be on his way to jail.)
Impeachment ou Manicômio?
Impeachment or Mental Hospital?
Sim, senhoras e senhores. Esta é a atual presidente do Brasil. A pergunta é: isso é caso de impeachment ou de internação num manicômio judiciário?
For those of you who don’t understand Brazilian Portuguese, here it goes:
“We are promoting a communion of the manioc (or cassava) with corn, and we certainly will have a series of other products that were(sic) essential to the development of the whole human civilization along the century. Therefore, today I pay tribute to the manioc (or cassava). I think that it it one of Brazil’s greatest accomplishments! (…) For me, this ball is the symbol of our evolution. When we create a ball like this, we transform ourselves in homo-sapiens, or women-sapiens.”
Yes, ladies and gentlement, this is Brazil’s current president. The question is: is this a simple case of impeachment or of sending her to a state-controlled mental institution?
A Propósito…
By the way…
Minha opinião a respeito dessa confusão envolvendo Ricardo Boechat e Silas Malafaia é a seguinte:
Ricardo Boechat apelou. E se apelou… perdeu, como se diz por aí. Defendo que ele seja obrigado a fazer uma retratação formal, no mesmo horário da fatídica transmissão. O pedido de desculpas não deve ser apenas a Silas Malafaia (aliás, uma pessoa que não conheço pessoalmente e por quem não tenho a menor simpatia, especialmente por causa dos esquemas pseudo-religiosos que ele monta), mas em especial a toda a população que foi submetida à baixaria naquele momento. Quem estava sintonizando a BandNews FM – em casa, no carro, no trabalho – teve que ouvir, contra a sua vontade, uma grosseria sem tamanho.
Como profissional de comunicação, da mesma forma que eu sou, Ricardo Boechat não poderia jamais ter mandado Silas Malafaia (ou Dilma, ou Lula, ou Bolsonaro, ou Hitler, ou Obama, ou Eike Batista, ou Luana Piovani, ou Stalin) ou qualquer outra pessoa ir “procurar uma r***”. Eu me lembro bem de meus tempos de início de carreira, na TV Globo de Brasília, onde éramos instruídos a ter um comportamento sóbrio, respeitoso, a medir as palavras. Afinal, estávamos entrando na casa das pessoas sem sermos convidados. Ricardo Boechat não agiu assim. Poderia ter mandado Silas Malafaia (ou qualquer outra pessoa) “catar coquinho”, “lamber sabão”, “pentear macaco”, ou usar qualquer outra expressão que indicasse sua irritação sem, contudo, ofender milhões de ouvintes nesse processo. A meu ver, Ricardo Boechat teve um comportamento anti-profissional, e isso é profundamente lamentável.
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This is just a condensed version of what I wrote above regarding a very unfortunate incident involving a nationally known broadcaster (Ricardo Boechat) and a nationally known “religious” preacher (Silas Malafaia). To make a long story short: During his daily early-morning radio broadcast, Mr. Boechat was commenting on religious intolerance — a serious issue that is creating more and more incidents of violence in Brazil. In the middle of his comments, he was told that Mr. Malafaia had just twitted about what he was saying. On Twitter, Mr. Malafaia assumed Mr. Boechat was talking about him (Malafaia) and accusing him of wrongdoing. Mr. Malafaia called Mr. Boechat an idiot and requested a public debate on the subject. Mr. Boeacht was exasperated over Mr. Malafaia’s remarks on Twitter and told him twice, on the air, live, in no uncertain terms, to “go looking for a c**k”.
My opinion about the incident: Mr. Boechat acted unprofessionally and did not care for his immense audience — who was forced to listen to these extremely rude remarks while being unable to do anything about it. As a professional broadcaster, Mr. Boechat had to limit his observations to the level of education and politeness required of all professionals who work in front of a microphone. I remember my first days working as an anchor for Globo TV Network, in Brasilia. I was told to act responsibly, to be polite, to use words that would not offend anyone — after all, I was getting into lots of people’s homes without invitation.
Was Mr. Boechat justified in being extremely angry with Mr. Malafaia? That is beside the point. Mr. Boechat could have manifested his extreme irritation using other words, other expressions that would not offend his listeners. The bottom line is: he could not have told Mr. Malafaia (or anyone else — from the right, left, church or whatever) to “go looking for a c**k”. I firmly believe that BandNews FM radio should force Mr. Boechat to apologize not only to Mr. Malafaia (for whom I couldn’t care less, by the way), but especially to his listeners all over Brazil.
Política de Terra Arrasada?
Scorched Earth Policy?
A pergunta que não quer calar: Depois de destruir o pouco que restava do sistema político por meio do mensalão, além dos fundos de pensão e a Petrobras, o desgoverno agora parte para a destruição dos bancos oficiais (Banco do Brasil & Caixa Econômica) por meio das pedaladas fiscais. Não contente com o arraso promovido em anos anteriores e da situação gravíssima de completo desrespeito à Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal, o desgoverno de Dilma “Devassa”Rousseff continua com a mesma prática em 2015. Isso significa que a petralhada já sentiu que vai ser colocada na rua e está partindo para a política de terra arrasada?
Only one question remains unanswered: after having destroyed whatever was left of the Brazilian political system by implementing the so-called “mensalao” (big monthly allowances to congressmen in exchange for votes), the pension funds and Petrobras (Brazil’s oil company), the petralha ungovernment now is set to destroy the official banks (Banco do Brasil and Caixa Econômica Federal) though a scheme known in Brazil as “fiscal pedalling”(clearly forbidden by the Fiscal Responsibility Act). Not satisfied with all the destruction implemented in previous years, Dilma “Devassa” Rousseff’s ungovernment continues practicing the same forbidden scheme in 2015. Does it mean that the criminal organization disguised as a political party known as Workers Party, now in power and about to be thrown out any minute decided to go for the scorched earth policy, obliterating everything they can put their criminal hands on?
Pobre Joaquim Levy…
Poor Joaquim Levy…
Vamos retomar os trabalhos no Blog do Lessa com música. Esse vídeo-galhofa sobre as trapalhadas de Joaquim Levy só é menos engraçado do que as trapalhadas que ele mesmo protagoniza, tentando ajudar o desgoverno petralha de Devassa Rousseff, a amiguinha do Brahma.
We resume our work at the Lessa Blog with music. This screwy video about Joaquim Levy’s screw-ups is only less funny than Levy’s screw-ups themselves, while trying to help Dilma “Devassa” Rousseff’s un-government. As you know, Devassa is Brahma’s closest friend…