Brazil

Why Republicans turned on the environment. Brazil’s likely return to sanity. Good sign for us.

August 16, 2022 by egberto

Economist Paul Krugman deconstructs how the Republicans became anti-environment. Lula’s likely win in Brazil may be a very good sign.

Republicans turn on the environment.

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Why Republicans Turned Against the Environment: In 1990, Congress passed an amendment to the Clean Air Act of 1970, among other things taking action against acid rain, urban smog, and ozone. The legislation was highly successful, greatly reducing pollution at far lower cost than business interest groups had predicted. I sometimes see people trying to use acid rain as an example of environmental alarmism — hey, it was a big issue in the 1980s, but now hardly anyone talks about it. But the reason we don’t talk about it is that policy largely solved the problem.
Lula Holds 12-Point Lead Over Bolsonaro as Brazil’s Presidential Race Heats Up: The leftist champion’s double-digit lead in the polls comes amid fears that the far-right incumbent’s baseless accusations of fraud and threats to stay in office no matter the outcome could lead to violence. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a celebrated leftist who lifted millions out of poverty during his tenure as Brazil’s president, continues to hold a substantial lead over far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, whose preemptive assault on the integrity of the nation’s electronic voting system and refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power has led to heightened fears of political violence as the October election quickly approaches.

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GOP’s disingenuous fear of Biden to then crush him -Should reparations be on the agenda?

June 19, 2019 by egberto

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Is the Democratic Establishment pulling one over the base by allowing GOP’s three-dimensional fear of Biden chess? And Tamara Shealey discusses the reparation debate.

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Democrats must not fall for the GOP’s supposed fear of Biden

I can imagine the laughter in the backrooms of all the GOP planning sessions. They must be astounded by their success in creating the Biden narrative. Damn, Democratic voters and even some Republican voters think this man who could never make it past a Democratic primary with the experienced and the inexperienced would somehow be the answer to Trump. I sure as hell hope more people start listening to those of us that can see through the scam.

But in our first segment, our every-other-Wednesday guest, political activist, and former Georgia State Senatorial candidate Tamara Shealey will discuss the reparation debate. It should be interesting since while I believe reparations are owed, the idea that we can hope that a Plutocracy driven government does the right thing is a high wall to climb

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Progressives want to Impeach Now

Immediately after impeaching the president, change the narrative to policies for the poor and middle-class irrespective of the media obsession. Democratic candidates must just tacitly refer to the impeachment in terms of a president under a cloud and then move on to Medicare for All and other poor and middle-class centric policies. But the most powerful messenger is you. Progressives, let’s beat them all.

Points:

Trump’s federal budget deficit skyrocketed to $207.8 billion in the month of May. “The gap between the amount the government takes in and spends came in at $207.8 billion last month, and the Treasury Department said Wednesday, nearly 42% higher than a year earlier. The increase happened in part because of June 1 falling on a Saturday, a non-business day, meaning some benefit payments were made earlier than usual,” the report said.

Topics:

TruthOut: Want to Be a Principled Billionaire? Stop Being a Billionaire.
MacKenzie Bezos, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has signed the “Giving Pledge,” promising to donate at least half of the fortune she received after her separation from Jeff to charity. This is many billions more than the $2 billion Jeff, literally the richest person in the world, has pledged to give to charity. It’s also not nearly enough.
Big Philanthropy is simply plutocracy, “an exercise of power by the wealthy that is unaccountable, non-transparent, donor-directed, perpetual, and tax-subsidized,” Stanford professor Rob Reich, one of the faculty directors of the university’s Center for Ethics in Society, told The Atlantic. But let’s give Bezos, like we give Bill and Melinda Gates, the benefit of the doubt: Let’s believe that she’s a humanitarian, and that she’s trying to help humanity. Then why isn’t she giving more?
It’s true that half of $37 billion is more money than I’ll ever give to charity in my life, and that I’m unlikely to donate half my net worth anytime soon. But I’m not a capitalist; I don’t exploit workers; and I’m not a billionaire. Statistically speaking, none of us are. Billionaires are simply illogical. Money loses coherency at that level — not to mention numbers themselves.

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Brazil’s Right Wing truth & MSM failures require a robust Independent Progressive Media

June 17, 2019 by egberto

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Bobby Rodrigo discusses the Right Wing takeover in Brazil, and its similarities in the U.S. Mainstream Media continuous appeasement to the Plutocracy necessitates a robust Independent Progressive Media.

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Progressive Media addresses Brazil’s Right Wing

Bobby Rodrigo, Coffee Party Board Member, discusses a subject seldom discussed in the American Mainstream Media even as it presents a stability issue in Latin America and beyond. We will talk about Brazil in segment one.

Segment two will discuss a clip from Chuck Todd on Meet The Press that presents Mainstream Media behavior that has us in the position that we are in right now. We will discuss what needs to be done and how to grow the Progressive Media.

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Points:

Trump’s federal budget deficit skyrocketed to $207.8 billion in the month of May. “The gap between the amount the government takes in and spends came in at $207.8 billion last month, and the Treasury Department said Wednesday, nearly 42% higher than a year earlier. The increase happened in part because of June 1 falling on a Saturday, a non-business day, meaning some benefit payments were made earlier than usual,” the report said.

Topics:

TruthOut: Want to Be a Principled Billionaire? Stop Being a Billionaire.
MacKenzie Bezos, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has signed the “Giving Pledge,” promising to donate at least half of the fortune she received after her separation from Jeff to charity. This is many billions more than the $2 billion Jeff, literally the richest person in the world, has pledged to give to charity. It’s also not nearly enough.
Big Philanthropy is simply plutocracy, “an exercise of power by the wealthy that is unaccountable, non-transparent, donor-directed, perpetual, and tax-subsidized,” Stanford professor Rob Reich, one of the faculty directors of the university’s Center for Ethics in Society, told The Atlantic. But let’s give Bezos, like we give Bill and Melinda Gates, the benefit of the doubt: Let’s believe that she’s a humanitarian, and that she’s trying to help humanity. Then why isn’t she giving more?
It’s true that half of $37 billion is more money than I’ll ever give to charity in my life, and that I’m unlikely to donate half my net worth anytime soon. But I’m not a capitalist; I don’t exploit workers; and I’m not a billionaire. Statistically speaking, none of us are. Billionaires are simply illogical. Money loses coherency at that level — not to mention numbers themselves.

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Professor deconstructs Evangelicals Live & the Brazil’s Lula imprisoned by the Plutocracy

April 23, 2018 by egberto

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Amazing that Lula seems to be what Evangelicals should be representing

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Today we start the show with Dr. Hollis Phelps, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Mercer University in Macon Georgia who wrote the article “Maybe It’s Time to Admit that the ‘Grotesque Caricature’ of White Evangelicals is the Reality” that we covered in the Blog of Week on Friday’s show. He could not appear on Friday but we have him today.

After Professor Hollis, we will proceed to today’s blog of the week. We discuss the travesty in Brazil as the same Plutocracy that ousted President Dilma Rousseff, jailed former President and current presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, for fear of the certainty that the Left would return to power.

We do not follow foreign events as we should in America. Many times they represent realities that will be our own if do not understand and learn from dynamics occurring in other countries which we are falling prey to as well.

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Salon: Responding to Chauncey DeVega, Pulitzer-winning reporter David Cay Johnston said the following. “Let me be very clear and quotable about this. At an absolute minimum, Donald Trump has divided loyalties, and the evidence we already have suggests that Donald Trump is a traitor. In fact, I would say that the evidence we already have, the public materials such as emails for example, strongly indicate that Donald Trump is a traitor. However, I don’t even think he understands what he’s done.”

HuffPost: Travis Reinking, the 29-year-old suspected of killing four people Sunday in a shooting at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, is in police custody. The Metro Nashville Police Department announced in a tweet on Monday that Reinking had been arrested about a mile and a half from the Waffle House, ending a manhunt that began shortly after the shooting early Sunday. Reinking is suspected of opening fire in the restaurant with an AR-15. He faces multiple counts of criminal homicide.