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Be-bop-a-LULA, he's our baby...be-bop-a-LULA, don't mean maybe...

I am so proud of my president, Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva!!!

I was reading the Brazilian press--which is every bit as slavish as the MSM in the US, in fact--and most of it was a dirge lamenting «the sad turn in Brazilian diplomacy», bla, bla, bla...

Most of the press in Brazil is shamelessly right-wing and to read Brazilian newspapers and magazines and television is like watching Fox News 24/7.

So, like an equation in mathematics, to get at the truth, all you have to do is put a «-» sign in front of it - (bla-bla-bla)= the truth. So for example:

- («Lula's insistence on the reinstatement of Zelaya represents a setback in Brazilian diplomacy, yadayadayadayaa...») = Lula is doing the righteous thing.

Ordem e Progresso, bitches!!! Kudos to Borev, as always!!!

I like Correa:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=348322&CategoryId=14089

Correa, a U.S.-trained economist, said the Chinese representatives asked in the talks that Ecuador list “the inventory of assets” that it will put up “as a guarantee” for the loan and that “the Central Bank put up its assets as a guarantee,” which he called “outrageous things that are really humiliating for the country.”

Thus, he asked for an answer as to whether the two countries “are working as friendly countries in mutual cooperation or (as) rivals” to “make the pertinent decisions, because those funds can be obtained from another source (by) changing Ecuador’s international policy.”

It IS déjà vu all over again...Honduras ca. 30-35 years ago, to be exact.

Guatemala's not a bad comparison either, although there it was Mayans...in Honduras, it's the Garífuna and assorted campesinos that are the most at risk in the eyes of the undeclared junta.

This is about past events, but contain important revelations about responsibility for Guatemala's scorched earth campaign of the 80s:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB297/index.htm

They were presided over by a prestigious (or is that notorious?) military junta, but we all know that they were paid with Hillary and Barack's checkbook.
This feels like deja vu all over again.

Oh, what the heck, here's the extended clip of Laura Carlsen's experience of the AWSUM powr of civil DEMKRASEE in Hondurastan:

I was asked to appear as an analyst on Al Jazeera television, out of Washington, on a live block at 8:00 p.m. We were filming in the middle of the hotel Marriott, second floor hallway, where the Electoral Tribunal and the media were announcing preliminary results. There were many people around and although I didn't notice at the time, apparently many gathered to watch the filming.

When asked by the interviewer my opinion of the elections, I stated that I did not think that the elections could resolve the deep political crisis in the country, that many people were not satisfied with the process since democratic order was not restored prior to the elections and that many countries were not recognizing the process. It was only about a 4-5 minute interview. As soon as we were off the air, the people gathered around pressed in on me and began to scream "liar," "why do you lie to the world," "here we have democracy," etc. A national observer, and many other people were yelling that I had given false information (I actually gave no information on elections results since there are no reliable data out yet and said that we would be seeing a war of statistics where one side will proclaim high abstention and the other high turn-out, and indeed that is already happening). They began to literally scream in my face, especially an "international observer" who said he was from the Chamber of Commerce. The press continued to ask questions, in part to shield me from the hostility of the crowd. I was willing to engage in conversation despite the aggressiveness and ugliness of the mob at first.

Then the crowd, led by national observers began to chant "democracy" to which I replied that there, we were in complete agreement. They pressed in more and more, screaming louder and louder at me, everyone chanting "fuera del país" "que se vaya" "sácala de aquí" etc. I said I felt in danger and wanted to leave. Some people including a man who apparently was from the security of the Electoral Tribunal escorted me downstairs and we managed to get out of the crowd, which followed me to the elevators, still screaming. When I got downstairs, I was shocked and dismayed to discover that people on the ground floor who had not even taken part in the incident upstairs knew me and began yelling for me to leave the country as well. No one followed me or physically assaulted me and I was able to leave the area.

Later many people called to say they saw a clip of the incident on television. It really was a small riot in the hotel. Despite the fact that i clearly identified myself as a US citizen and political analyst, the Honduran press reported that I was Venezuelan—a complete fabrication of course—I´ve never even set foot in that country. Some apparently said I was with Telesur, and others that I was an Al Jazeera reporter, when in fact this agency simply engaged me as an analyst.

This is a completely undemocratic way of silencing dissent.

Clearly the proper, civil, democratic response to this representative of Hugo Chavez and the reincarnation of Joseph Stalin would be to have the army storm her hotel room and put her on a plane to Costa Rica in the early morning hours and then have the Honduran Congress vote to 'promote' a new representative of the Center for International Policy to serve as the interviewee for news media.

The U.S. would immediately send down its troubled but happy congratulations for the CIP's new spokesperson and insult Carlsen for causing all this mess in the first place.

The truly objective "observers" in Honduras to sanctify the coup are not pleased when someone in Honduras talks on the TV machine and says stuff they don't like.

The brilliant and beautiful Laura Carlsen writing on 30 November:

I have been here in Honduras watching the development of the elections since Friday, Nov. 27. Last night I gave a television interview to an international agency. A group of credentialed elections observers gathered around and immediately began yelling insults at me when we finished the filming. I am attaching a letter to the U.S. Embassy that I sent last night. These are the highlights of what occurred:

* Supposedly impartial observers call for me to be thrown out of the country for criticizing the elections * Over fifty people surround me and order me to "tell the truth about our democracy" (which I readily agree to do) and accuse me of being a "liar" and "enemy of Hondurans" * Tribunal Court security escorts me out of angry crowd * Honduran press reports that I am Venezuelan and an agent of Chavez

The letter follows. I am now involved in submitting a human rights complaint and trying to correct all the rumors and errors that are circulating in the press. I will be writing on the elections themselves very soon.

Remember -- if you do things unpalatable to the Honduran right, you are by default an 'agent of Chavez', because, you know, shut up, and also DEMOCRACY!

¿Qué tiene Meeeeel?
¡¡Que la burguesía no puede con él!!

And we all thought Hugo would be the one to corrupt sweet, pragmatic Brazil...
It turns out the red Caballero's no match for Mel's badass Stetson!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLABCYO3tO4

Manuel makes the good-left go bad!

[He makes Brazil go baaadddd!]

Lula was hangin' in the corner his lame-ass gringo friends!
He heard that Mel was trouble, but he couldn't resist...

[Good left goes ehhh!...ehhh!!...ehhh!!!]

Mel Zelaya makes the good-left go baaaaddd!

BTW, check this out:

http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/mayoral-update-san-pedro-sula.html

The total vote in San Pedro Sula alone promises to be lower than the lowest of the lowball estimates. Hmmm...

Apropos Honduras and Brazil, get a load of this:

http://www.vtv.gob.ve/videos-emisiones-anteriores/26837

Watch the segment with Mel, in particular--about 9 minutes in. He makes it clear that the Honduran congress does not have the powers to depose OR restore a president.

In other words, this is illegal from toppum to bottomus.

Didn't my LORD deliver Daniel deliver Daniel deliver Daniel ... and why not everyman ...

Fruity flag: WIN!