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Last night in New York, three men shared a stage. What they represent will shape U.S.-Brazil relations more than any treaty between our two countries. Wesley Batista, chairman of JBS, the largest protein company on earth. André Esteves, founder of BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America....

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American Rancher shares HUGE threats to our National Security ‌ - JBS and National Beef are 2 of the largest beef producers here in the US, they are owned by Brazil - Brazil also owns Cargill's Pork Production, which is the second largest pork producer here in the US (Cargill sold its US pork assets to JBS USA, a subsidiary of JBS S.A., a Brazilian company) - America’s largest pork processor and hog producer Smithfield Foods is owned by China. Smithfield Foods is 100% owned by WH Group Limited, a Chinese multinational company based in Hong Kong - Only 4 meat packers control 85% of the American market, JBS and National Beef (Both owned by Brazil) along with Tyson and Cargill. This means roughly 50% of the American meat distribution is owned by Brazil “Very alarming and very alarming to the US public. Let me know what you guys think about this in the comments”
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American Rancher shares HUGE threats to our National Security ‌ - JBS and National Beef are 2 of the largest beef producers here in the US, they are owned by Brazil - Brazil also owns Cargill's Pork Production, which is the second largest pork producer here in the US (Cargill sold its US pork assets to JBS USA, a subsidiary of JBS S.A., a Brazilian company) - America’s largest pork processor and hog producer Smithfield Foods is owned by China. Smithfield Foods is 100% owned by WH Group Limited, a Chinese multinational company based in Hong Kong - Only 4 meat packers control 85% of the American market, JBS and National Beef (Both owned by Brazil) along with Tyson and Cargill. This means roughly 50% of the American meat distribution is owned by Brazil “Very alarming and very alarming to the US public. Let me know what you guys think about this in the comments”

Wall Street Apes

262,447 views • 1 year ago

This is extremely important As early as May 23rd it will be decided if JBS, the largest meat packer in the world, will be allowed to trade on the New York Stock Exchange This is a foreign owned company that has captured and controls our meat supply It gets worse: “If there is one company that should never be allowed on the New York Stock Exchange, it's JBS, and here's why. In case you don't know, JBS is the largest meatpacking company in the world. And as recent as last September in my home state of Colorado, they have been brought up on some pretty serious allegations by the union leader for human trafficking. They've also been found guilty of corruption charges as well, and they've served time. The Batista brothers who own JBS, they are Brazilian. This is a completely foreign owned company. Here's some of the recent allegations that they're facing of cramming between 40 and 50 people in a apartment to live, charging them between $60 and $120 bucks a week per head to live there, then charging them $40 or $50 bucks to go to and from work and it's a 5 mile trip. These guys are convicted criminals charged with bribery in America and Brazil. — They're having a meeting May 23rd or as early as May 23rd to decide whether or not JBS gets to be on the New York Stock Exchange. Please share this video. We got to get the word out and keep this corrupt company from owning more of your food supply than they already do. — Let's stop JBS from getting on the New York Stock Exchange.”
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This is extremely important As early as May 23rd it will be decided if JBS, the largest meat packer in the world, will be allowed to trade on the New York Stock Exchange This is a foreign owned company that has captured and controls our meat supply It gets worse: “If there is one company that should never be allowed on the New York Stock Exchange, it's JBS, and here's why. In case you don't know, JBS is the largest meatpacking company in the world. And as recent as last September in my home state of Colorado, they have been brought up on some pretty serious allegations by the union leader for human trafficking. They've also been found guilty of corruption charges as well, and they've served time. The Batista brothers who own JBS, they are Brazilian. This is a completely foreign owned company. Here's some of the recent allegations that they're facing of cramming between 40 and 50 people in a apartment to live, charging them between $60 and $120 bucks a week per head to live there, then charging them $40 or $50 bucks to go to and from work and it's a 5 mile trip. These guys are convicted criminals charged with bribery in America and Brazil. — They're having a meeting May 23rd or as early as May 23rd to decide whether or not JBS gets to be on the New York Stock Exchange. Please share this video. We got to get the word out and keep this corrupt company from owning more of your food supply than they already do. — Let's stop JBS from getting on the New York Stock Exchange.”

Wall Street Apes

180,131 views • 1 year ago

Brazil just signed 15 deals with Spain in a single afternoon. The agreements cover critical minerals, satellites, and AI infrastructure built to last decades. Spain is one of the top three foreign investors in Brazil and still needed this more than Lula did. Brazil holds the world's second largest rare earth reserves on the planet. Every electric vehicle, missile, and smartphone runs on materials Brazil sits on top of. The U.S., EU, India, and China are all circling the same country right now. Brazil's new rule: you can access our minerals, but you process them inside Brazil or the deal dies. That one condition is how a raw materials exporter becomes an industrial power. Brazil has not signed with Washington yet and is using every other deal as leverage before that moment comes. The country the world called "the country of the future" for 85 years just started collecting on that debt.
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Brazil just signed 15 deals with Spain in a single afternoon. The agreements cover critical minerals, satellites, and AI infrastructure built to last decades. Spain is one of the top three foreign investors in Brazil and still needed this more than Lula did. Brazil holds the world's second largest rare earth reserves on the planet. Every electric vehicle, missile, and smartphone runs on materials Brazil sits on top of. The U.S., EU, India, and China are all circling the same country right now. Brazil's new rule: you can access our minerals, but you process them inside Brazil or the deal dies. That one condition is how a raw materials exporter becomes an industrial power. Brazil has not signed with Washington yet and is using every other deal as leverage before that moment comes. The country the world called "the country of the future" for 85 years just started collecting on that debt.

Drew Crawford

210,460 views • 4 months ago

President Trump is reportedly planning a massive handout to two Brazilian billionaires at the expense of American ranchers. Meet the Batista brothers. They own JBS, the largest meatpacking company in the world. Their rise was fueled by rampant corruption, bribery, and fraud. And they directly brokered Trump’s new plan to lower tariffs on imported beef in a vain attempt to lower the cost of beef. Make no mistake: This plan would not actually lower prices for consumers. It would drive even more American ranchers out of the market, directly reward the Batista brothers’ criminal enterprise, and further consolidate the beef industry. JBS has already paid “hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for price gouging consumers at the grocery store.” Trump has now reportedly delayed the plan, which is a sign the pressure is working. But this fight is far from over. Hear Farm Action President Angela Huffman break down the endless scandals that define JBS: “JBS bribed more than 1,800 Brazilian politicians to secure the money they needed to begin buying up meat packing competitors in the US.” “Then, they bribed meat inspectors to allow them to sell and export rotten and tainted meat around the world.” “They’ve been caught tampering with scales to cheat America’s farmers and ranchers out of the real value of their cattle.” “They’ve racked up hundreds of violations for workplace safety, employment discrimination, unfair wages, and environmental abuses.” “No one would want to work with a company like JBS.” “But because they’re so dominant, there are parts of the country where farmers have no choice but to sell their livestock to them.” Angela Huffman
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President Trump is reportedly planning a massive handout to two Brazilian billionaires at the expense of American ranchers. Meet the Batista brothers. They own JBS, the largest meatpacking company in the world. Their rise was fueled by rampant corruption, bribery, and fraud. And they directly brokered Trump’s new plan to lower tariffs on imported beef in a vain attempt to lower the cost of beef. Make no mistake: This plan would not actually lower prices for consumers. It would drive even more American ranchers out of the market, directly reward the Batista brothers’ criminal enterprise, and further consolidate the beef industry. JBS has already paid “hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for price gouging consumers at the grocery store.” Trump has now reportedly delayed the plan, which is a sign the pressure is working. But this fight is far from over. Hear Farm Action President Angela Huffman break down the endless scandals that define JBS: “JBS bribed more than 1,800 Brazilian politicians to secure the money they needed to begin buying up meat packing competitors in the US.” “Then, they bribed meat inspectors to allow them to sell and export rotten and tainted meat around the world.” “They’ve been caught tampering with scales to cheat America’s farmers and ranchers out of the real value of their cattle.” “They’ve racked up hundreds of violations for workplace safety, employment discrimination, unfair wages, and environmental abuses.” “No one would want to work with a company like JBS.” “But because they’re so dominant, there are parts of the country where farmers have no choice but to sell their livestock to them.” Angela Huffman

Farm Action

39,756 views • 3 months ago

Professor Marta Fernandez: Only Brazil🇧🇷, Uruguay🇺🇾 and Mexico🇲🇽 in Latin America REFUSE to align with the US🇺🇸, and Trump is retaliating 'Cuba now is in a very complicated situation. It is without energy. The last energy supply came from Russia. And in fact there is a certain passivity related to Cuba in the case of Brazil. But you have to understand what's happening in Latin America now, because all the kinds of retaliation of Trump, it's because Brazil and probably Uruguay and a little bit Mexico are the only countries that are not automatically aligned with the United States in Latin America. What's happened is that Brazil is surrounded by countries like Argentina. Brazil this last week downgraded the position of Argentina because Milei went to Brazil to do propaganda for the candidate that is in the opposition, disrespecting our President and also people from the judicial system in Brazil.' -Professor Marta Fernandez, Former Director of the BRICS Policy Center, on the latest episode of New Order. Watch the full interview in the quoted post below. 👇
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Professor Marta Fernandez: Only Brazil🇧🇷, Uruguay🇺🇾 and Mexico🇲🇽 in Latin America REFUSE to align with the US🇺🇸, and Trump is retaliating 'Cuba now is in a very complicated situation. It is without energy. The last energy supply came from Russia. And in fact there is a certain passivity related to Cuba in the case of Brazil. But you have to understand what's happening in Latin America now, because all the kinds of retaliation of Trump, it's because Brazil and probably Uruguay and a little bit Mexico are the only countries that are not automatically aligned with the United States in Latin America. What's happened is that Brazil is surrounded by countries like Argentina. Brazil this last week downgraded the position of Argentina because Milei went to Brazil to do propaganda for the candidate that is in the opposition, disrespecting our President and also people from the judicial system in Brazil.' -Professor Marta Fernandez, Former Director of the BRICS Policy Center, on the latest episode of New Order. Watch the full interview in the quoted post below. 👇

New Order with Afshin Rattansi

34,117 views • 19 days ago

Most U.S. money managers own less than 1% of Brazil. That number will look crazy in 10 years. Brazil has more farmable land than any country on Earth. It holds 12% of the world's fresh water. 87% of its power comes from clean sources, the cleanest grid of any major economy. One Brazilian company in Minas Gerais, called CBMM, makes more than 80% of the world's niobium. Niobium is the metal jet engines, oil pipelines, and the next wave of EV batteries cannot work without. Brazil sits on 30 to 40 billion barrels of pre-salt oil under the Atlantic. That oil ships out through open water, far from every place a hostile country could close. Two governors, a room full of allocators, and 10 minutes to make the case U.S. capital still misses. Brazil Week 2026, Harvard Club. Three reasons keep the money out. 1. Wall Street watches Brazil's elections and ignores its soil, water, energy, minerals, and carbon. 2. China controls the refining of the world's most important minerals. Brazil holds the reserves. Most serious investors stop reading after the first sentence. 3. Owning the Bovespa index leaves out where the real money lives, in family-owned factories across Southern Brazil and farmland across MATOPIBA.
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Most U.S. money managers own less than 1% of Brazil. That number will look crazy in 10 years. Brazil has more farmable land than any country on Earth. It holds 12% of the world's fresh water. 87% of its power comes from clean sources, the cleanest grid of any major economy. One Brazilian company in Minas Gerais, called CBMM, makes more than 80% of the world's niobium. Niobium is the metal jet engines, oil pipelines, and the next wave of EV batteries cannot work without. Brazil sits on 30 to 40 billion barrels of pre-salt oil under the Atlantic. That oil ships out through open water, far from every place a hostile country could close. Two governors, a room full of allocators, and 10 minutes to make the case U.S. capital still misses. Brazil Week 2026, Harvard Club. Three reasons keep the money out. 1. Wall Street watches Brazil's elections and ignores its soil, water, energy, minerals, and carbon. 2. China controls the refining of the world's most important minerals. Brazil holds the reserves. Most serious investors stop reading after the first sentence. 3. Owning the Bovespa index leaves out where the real money lives, in family-owned factories across Southern Brazil and farmland across MATOPIBA.

Drew Crawford

148,663 views • 3 months ago

This is what Donald Trump is talking about with our beef industry JBS is the largest meat packing company in the world, they’re foreign owned and have been charged with price fixing and bribing government officials MULTIPE TIMES overseas Now they’re doing it in America “Brazilian owned JBS just got the green light to go public in the New York Stock Exchange. What this means for future markets in the beef, pork and poultry industry and why this potentially could be a bad idea. Let's go through it. ‌ - Number one, a greater foreign influence in the U. S Food supply they're going to have and establish enough power to control and dominate the US Meat market. National security and food sovereignty issues are going to be up on the table. ‌ - Number two, JBS has been involved in major corruption scandals with price fixing and bribery both here in the United States and in Brazil. If you guys want quick Google search, go look it up for yourselves ‌ - Number three, with more capital and more influence within the U. S markets, they can engage in aggressive price tactics which would be undercutting the local small producers and forcing out the competition. ‌ Let me know what you guys think about this. This could be bad, could be good. I'm curious to see what y' all think. Let me know down in the comments below. And as always guys, buy American, buy local.”
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This is what Donald Trump is talking about with our beef industry JBS is the largest meat packing company in the world, they’re foreign owned and have been charged with price fixing and bribing government officials MULTIPE TIMES overseas Now they’re doing it in America “Brazilian owned JBS just got the green light to go public in the New York Stock Exchange. What this means for future markets in the beef, pork and poultry industry and why this potentially could be a bad idea. Let's go through it. ‌ - Number one, a greater foreign influence in the U. S Food supply they're going to have and establish enough power to control and dominate the US Meat market. National security and food sovereignty issues are going to be up on the table. ‌ - Number two, JBS has been involved in major corruption scandals with price fixing and bribery both here in the United States and in Brazil. If you guys want quick Google search, go look it up for yourselves ‌ - Number three, with more capital and more influence within the U. S markets, they can engage in aggressive price tactics which would be undercutting the local small producers and forcing out the competition. ‌ Let me know what you guys think about this. This could be bad, could be good. I'm curious to see what y' all think. Let me know down in the comments below. And as always guys, buy American, buy local.”

Wall Street Apes

68,037 views • 9 months ago

Brazil sits on a metal that the modern world cannot run without. This ad from 1988 made a promise about it that sounds impossible. Brazil will not run out of niobium until the year 2700. The company that ran the ad is CBMM, based in a small town called Araxá. They were not bluffing. Eight years later, in 1996, the man in this video was warning his whole country about the same metal. His name was Dr. Enéas Carneiro. He spent his airtime on national TV saying almost all of the world's niobium sits under Brazilian soil. His famous line was that Brazil sold this metal to other nations "for the price of a banana." People treated him like a clown. He was right. Niobium is the reason much of modern life holds together. You add a tiny bit to steel (around 0.05%) and that steel becomes about 30% stronger. That stronger steel builds pipelines, bridges, car frames, and jet engines. The metal also goes into rocket nozzles and the magnets inside MRI machines. There is no good replacement for it. And Brazil controls the supply. The country produces close to 90% of all the niobium on Earth. Europe now buys about 92% of its niobium from Brazil alone. CBMM makes most of the world's supply by itself. The largest economies saw the risk and moved fast. In 2011, steel giants from China, Japan, and South Korea paid around 3.9 billion dollars for just 30% of CBMM. The United States and Europe were left out of that deal. So the 1988 ad told the truth. The supply really will last for centuries. And the man warning everyone in 1996 told the truth too. Brazil quietly controls one of the most important metals of this century, and the capital that understands this early tends to act before the headlines do. Most still have not noticed.
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Brazil sits on a metal that the modern world cannot run without. This ad from 1988 made a promise about it that sounds impossible. Brazil will not run out of niobium until the year 2700. The company that ran the ad is CBMM, based in a small town called Araxá. They were not bluffing. Eight years later, in 1996, the man in this video was warning his whole country about the same metal. His name was Dr. Enéas Carneiro. He spent his airtime on national TV saying almost all of the world's niobium sits under Brazilian soil. His famous line was that Brazil sold this metal to other nations "for the price of a banana." People treated him like a clown. He was right. Niobium is the reason much of modern life holds together. You add a tiny bit to steel (around 0.05%) and that steel becomes about 30% stronger. That stronger steel builds pipelines, bridges, car frames, and jet engines. The metal also goes into rocket nozzles and the magnets inside MRI machines. There is no good replacement for it. And Brazil controls the supply. The country produces close to 90% of all the niobium on Earth. Europe now buys about 92% of its niobium from Brazil alone. CBMM makes most of the world's supply by itself. The largest economies saw the risk and moved fast. In 2011, steel giants from China, Japan, and South Korea paid around 3.9 billion dollars for just 30% of CBMM. The United States and Europe were left out of that deal. So the 1988 ad told the truth. The supply really will last for centuries. And the man warning everyone in 1996 told the truth too. Brazil quietly controls one of the most important metals of this century, and the capital that understands this early tends to act before the headlines do. Most still have not noticed.

Drew Crawford

13,984 views • 2 months ago

BREAKING: The Bank of Japan is about to dump $2,860,000,000 in U.S. Treasuries. The largest Japanese Treasury liquidation in 30 years. The last time Japan did this. The stock market crashed 15%. Japan is the second largest holder of U.S. debt on earth. When they sell. Yields spike. When yields spike. Everything breaks. China reducing Treasuries to 2008 lows. Japan dumping at a 30 year record. The two largest foreign holders of U.S. debt. Selling at the same time. The Fed will have to buy everything they're selling. More printing. More inflation. More pressure. The system is breaking in slow motion. And nobody is talking about it.
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BREAKING: The Bank of Japan is about to dump $2,860,000,000 in U.S. Treasuries. The largest Japanese Treasury liquidation in 30 years. The last time Japan did this. The stock market crashed 15%. Japan is the second largest holder of U.S. debt on earth. When they sell. Yields spike. When yields spike. Everything breaks. China reducing Treasuries to 2008 lows. Japan dumping at a 30 year record. The two largest foreign holders of U.S. debt. Selling at the same time. The Fed will have to buy everything they're selling. More printing. More inflation. More pressure. The system is breaking in slow motion. And nobody is talking about it.

Crypto Tice

357,372 views • 3 months ago

Meiselas: Look at what happened in Brazil. Their court heard the case of their former insurrectionist president—Donald Trump’s close ally Jair Bolsonaro—who tried to topple the Lula administration after losing the election. Very similar to the United States. Brazil’s Supreme Court found Bolsonaro guilty and sentenced him to 25+ years, likely the rest of his life in prison. And what did the Trump regime do today? They hit the wife of the Brazilian Supreme Court judge with Magnitsky Act sanctions—as though she were a terrorist or Russian oligarch. The Trump regime is targeting not just the judge, but his wife—freezing her bank accounts and harassing her—because America now identifies with Bolsonaro, the insurrectionist. Despite America having a trade surplus with Brazil, the U.S. has slapped Brazil with 50% tariffs simply because they prosecuted their insurrectionist ex-president. Now China and the rest of the world are buying Brazilian soybeans and produce instead of U.S. goods—and American farmers are suffering.
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Meiselas: Look at what happened in Brazil. Their court heard the case of their former insurrectionist president—Donald Trump’s close ally Jair Bolsonaro—who tried to topple the Lula administration after losing the election. Very similar to the United States. Brazil’s Supreme Court found Bolsonaro guilty and sentenced him to 25+ years, likely the rest of his life in prison. And what did the Trump regime do today? They hit the wife of the Brazilian Supreme Court judge with Magnitsky Act sanctions—as though she were a terrorist or Russian oligarch. The Trump regime is targeting not just the judge, but his wife—freezing her bank accounts and harassing her—because America now identifies with Bolsonaro, the insurrectionist. Despite America having a trade surplus with Brazil, the U.S. has slapped Brazil with 50% tariffs simply because they prosecuted their insurrectionist ex-president. Now China and the rest of the world are buying Brazilian soybeans and produce instead of U.S. goods—and American farmers are suffering.

MeidasTouch

140,268 views • 11 months ago

There is a reason why Trump has been wanting to buy Greenland since his first administration. It's all part of his trade war with China. China used a company called Greenland Minerals to get their hands on valuable minerals in the country. Chinese company, Shenghe Resources Holdings, is the largest stakeholder in Greenland Minerals. So they have been essentially mining and moving their way into Greenland for years now. China is essentially processing rare earth concentrates that contains the radioactive elements uranium and thorium. So this isn't just for some meme that Trump is doing this. The land has strategic value. Around the exact same time that Trump first brought buying Greenland to the forefront, he told reporters that he was the "chosen one" to win the trade wars with China. Listen to him closely in this last clip: "Over the last five years, China has made 500 billion dollars. Ripped it out of the United States. Somebody had to do it. I am the chosen one. So I'm taking on China on trade. And you know what? We are winning. We are the piggy back, we are the ones that all these countries wants to rob and take advantage of. I was put here by people to do a great job and that's what I am doing."
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There is a reason why Trump has been wanting to buy Greenland since his first administration. It's all part of his trade war with China. China used a company called Greenland Minerals to get their hands on valuable minerals in the country. Chinese company, Shenghe Resources Holdings, is the largest stakeholder in Greenland Minerals. So they have been essentially mining and moving their way into Greenland for years now. China is essentially processing rare earth concentrates that contains the radioactive elements uranium and thorium. So this isn't just for some meme that Trump is doing this. The land has strategic value. Around the exact same time that Trump first brought buying Greenland to the forefront, he told reporters that he was the "chosen one" to win the trade wars with China. Listen to him closely in this last clip: "Over the last five years, China has made 500 billion dollars. Ripped it out of the United States. Somebody had to do it. I am the chosen one. So I'm taking on China on trade. And you know what? We are winning. We are the piggy back, we are the ones that all these countries wants to rob and take advantage of. I was put here by people to do a great job and that's what I am doing."

Green Lives Matter

28,880 views • 1 year ago

A three-year-old company operating out of a WeWork with reportedly fewer than five employees is being considered for up to $25 BILLION in nuclear energy funds from a trade deal Trump brokered with Japan. The company has never built a nuclear plant or completed a nuclear project of any kind. What does this company bring to the table? The father of its CEO donated $2 million+ to Trump and the GOP, and one of its advisors is a former RNC co-chair and Trump appointee. In this Administration, that’s apparently all you need.
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A three-year-old company operating out of a WeWork with reportedly fewer than five employees is being considered for up to $25 BILLION in nuclear energy funds from a trade deal Trump brokered with Japan. The company has never built a nuclear plant or completed a nuclear project of any kind. What does this company bring to the table? The father of its CEO donated $2 million+ to Trump and the GOP, and one of its advisors is a former RNC co-chair and Trump appointee. In this Administration, that’s apparently all you need.

Rep. Mike Levin

566,064 views • 5 months ago

BRAZIL IS ON THE BRINK I’m reporting to you from Brazil, where a dramatic series of events are underway. At 5:52 pm Eastern Time, today, April 6, 2024, X corporation, formerly known as Twitter, announced that a Brazilian court had forced it to “block certain popular accounts in Brazil.” Then, less than one hour later, the owner of X, Elon Musk announced that X would defy the court’s order, and lift all restrictions. “As a result,” said Musk, “we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there. But principles matter more than profit.” At any moment, Brazil’s Supreme Court could shut off all access to X/Twitter for the people of Brazil. It is not an exaggeration to say that Brazil is on the brink of dictatorship at the hands of a totalitarian Supreme Court Justice named Alexandre de Moraes. President Lula da Silva is participating in the push toward totalitarianism. Since taking office, Lula has massively increased government funding of the mainstream news media, most of which are encouraging increased censorship. What Lula and de Moraes are doing is an outrageous violation of Brazil’s constitution and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. At this moment, Brazil is not yet a dictatorship. It still has elections and the Brazilian people have other means at their disposal to confront authoritarianism. But the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court are directly interfere in those elections through censorship. Three days ago I published the Twitter Files for Brazil. They show that Moraes has violated the Brazilian Constitution. Moraes illegally demanded that Twitter reveal private information about Twitter users who used hashtags he considered inappropriate. He demanded access to Twitter's internal data, violating the platform's policy. He censored, on his own initiative and without any respect for due process, posts on Twitter by parliamentarians from the Brazilian Congress. And Moraes tried to turn Twitter's content moderation policies into a weapon against supporters of then-president Jair Bolsonaro. I say this as an independent and non-partisan journalist. I'm not a fan of either Bolsonaro or Trump. My political views are very moderate. But I know censorship when I see it. The Twitter Files also revealed that Google, Facebook, Uber, WhatsApp and Instagram betrayed the people of Brazil. If such evidence is proven, the executives of these companies behaved like cowards: they provided the Brazilian government with personal registration data and telephone numbers without a court order and, therefore, violating the law. When Twitter refused to provide Brazilian authorities with private user information, including direct messages, the government attempted to sue Twitter's top Brazilian lawyer. When I lived in Brazil in 1992, I was very left-wing. At the time, Lula and the PT's slogans were “Without fear of being happy”. In recent days, I have spoken to dozens of Brazilians, including professors, journalists and respected lawyers. Everyone tells me they are shocked by what is happening. They told me that they are afraid to speak their mind and that the Lula government is complicit in creating this climate of fear. Brazil belongs to the Brazilians. It is not my country. As such, there are limits to what I am capable of doing. But I can say things that many Brazilians do not feel safe saying: Alexandre de Moraes is a tyrant. And the only way to deal with tyrants is to confront them. It is up to Brazil’s senators to confront the tyrant. And it is up to the people of Brazil to demand that their senators do so.
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BRAZIL IS ON THE BRINK I’m reporting to you from Brazil, where a dramatic series of events are underway. At 5:52 pm Eastern Time, today, April 6, 2024, X corporation, formerly known as Twitter, announced that a Brazilian court had forced it to “block certain popular accounts in Brazil.” Then, less than one hour later, the owner of X, Elon Musk announced that X would defy the court’s order, and lift all restrictions. “As a result,” said Musk, “we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there. But principles matter more than profit.” At any moment, Brazil’s Supreme Court could shut off all access to X/Twitter for the people of Brazil. It is not an exaggeration to say that Brazil is on the brink of dictatorship at the hands of a totalitarian Supreme Court Justice named Alexandre de Moraes. President Lula da Silva is participating in the push toward totalitarianism. Since taking office, Lula has massively increased government funding of the mainstream news media, most of which are encouraging increased censorship. What Lula and de Moraes are doing is an outrageous violation of Brazil’s constitution and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. At this moment, Brazil is not yet a dictatorship. It still has elections and the Brazilian people have other means at their disposal to confront authoritarianism. But the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court are directly interfere in those elections through censorship. Three days ago I published the Twitter Files for Brazil. They show that Moraes has violated the Brazilian Constitution. Moraes illegally demanded that Twitter reveal private information about Twitter users who used hashtags he considered inappropriate. He demanded access to Twitter's internal data, violating the platform's policy. He censored, on his own initiative and without any respect for due process, posts on Twitter by parliamentarians from the Brazilian Congress. And Moraes tried to turn Twitter's content moderation policies into a weapon against supporters of then-president Jair Bolsonaro. I say this as an independent and non-partisan journalist. I'm not a fan of either Bolsonaro or Trump. My political views are very moderate. But I know censorship when I see it. The Twitter Files also revealed that Google, Facebook, Uber, WhatsApp and Instagram betrayed the people of Brazil. If such evidence is proven, the executives of these companies behaved like cowards: they provided the Brazilian government with personal registration data and telephone numbers without a court order and, therefore, violating the law. When Twitter refused to provide Brazilian authorities with private user information, including direct messages, the government attempted to sue Twitter's top Brazilian lawyer. When I lived in Brazil in 1992, I was very left-wing. At the time, Lula and the PT's slogans were “Without fear of being happy”. In recent days, I have spoken to dozens of Brazilians, including professors, journalists and respected lawyers. Everyone tells me they are shocked by what is happening. They told me that they are afraid to speak their mind and that the Lula government is complicit in creating this climate of fear. Brazil belongs to the Brazilians. It is not my country. As such, there are limits to what I am capable of doing. But I can say things that many Brazilians do not feel safe saying: Alexandre de Moraes is a tyrant. And the only way to deal with tyrants is to confront them. It is up to Brazil’s senators to confront the tyrant. And it is up to the people of Brazil to demand that their senators do so.

Michael Shellenberger

33,888,924 views • 2 years ago

"This is a very bad actor sitting on top of the world's largest known reserves of oil, plus the critical minerals that will fuel the 21st century economy, and he's in bed with our strategic competitors,” former U.S. Ambassador James Story told 60 Minutes in October. He was the last American diplomat at the now-closed U.S. Embassy in Venezuela. Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife landed in New York on Saturday hours after a dramatic U.S. military operation in Caracas that led to their capture.
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"This is a very bad actor sitting on top of the world's largest known reserves of oil, plus the critical minerals that will fuel the 21st century economy, and he's in bed with our strategic competitors,” former U.S. Ambassador James Story told 60 Minutes in October. He was the last American diplomat at the now-closed U.S. Embassy in Venezuela. Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife landed in New York on Saturday hours after a dramatic U.S. military operation in Caracas that led to their capture.

60 Minutes

76,800 views • 7 months ago

Professor Marta Fernandez: The West has made DE-DOLLARISATION a 'forbidden word’', but BRICS is quietly building alternatives 'It's a big debate inside BRICS, especially after the Ukrainian war and all the sanctions imposed on Russia. All the countries of the Global South and of BRICS found themselves very vulnerable, because from one day to another their reserves in dollars can be frozen, and they recognise how the dollar is being used as a weapon to discipline countries. So there is this big discussion about advancing trading in local currencies, and in fact Lula, during our summit last year here in Brazil, said in a very explicit way the need for an alternative currency of BRICS. We have here Pix that is exactly the same as UPI, these digital payments. Pix is from Brazil, and you have been subjected to several kinds of intimidations to abolish Pix.' -Professor Marta Fernandez, Former Director of the BRICS Policy Center, on the latest episode of New Order. Watch the full interview in the quoted post below. 👇
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Professor Marta Fernandez: The West has made DE-DOLLARISATION a 'forbidden word’', but BRICS is quietly building alternatives 'It's a big debate inside BRICS, especially after the Ukrainian war and all the sanctions imposed on Russia. All the countries of the Global South and of BRICS found themselves very vulnerable, because from one day to another their reserves in dollars can be frozen, and they recognise how the dollar is being used as a weapon to discipline countries. So there is this big discussion about advancing trading in local currencies, and in fact Lula, during our summit last year here in Brazil, said in a very explicit way the need for an alternative currency of BRICS. We have here Pix that is exactly the same as UPI, these digital payments. Pix is from Brazil, and you have been subjected to several kinds of intimidations to abolish Pix.' -Professor Marta Fernandez, Former Director of the BRICS Policy Center, on the latest episode of New Order. Watch the full interview in the quoted post below. 👇

New Order with Afshin Rattansi

221,833 views • 20 days ago

🇺🇸🇨🇳 America's most critical trading partner and America's most heavily militarized target are the same country. Over 200 U.S. military installations, 100,000 troops, the largest airbase in Asia, the 7th Fleet, 9 Philippine bases tightening the South China Sea, 10,000 troops on Guam, and a naval hub in Singapore guarding the Strait of Malacca. All encircling a country the U.S. does half a trillion in trade with every year. Trump just flew to Beijing and called Xi a great friend, while this military architecture built over 80 years surrounds China on every side… China calls it containment, Washington calls it deterrence, the difference is simply a matter of who is doing the framing. The most honest description of U.S.-China relations is this: The world's two largest economies are deeply financially intertwined, and one of them has the other completely surrounded. Source: Wallstreet Research Center YT
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🇺🇸🇨🇳 America's most critical trading partner and America's most heavily militarized target are the same country. Over 200 U.S. military installations, 100,000 troops, the largest airbase in Asia, the 7th Fleet, 9 Philippine bases tightening the South China Sea, 10,000 troops on Guam, and a naval hub in Singapore guarding the Strait of Malacca. All encircling a country the U.S. does half a trillion in trade with every year. Trump just flew to Beijing and called Xi a great friend, while this military architecture built over 80 years surrounds China on every side… China calls it containment, Washington calls it deterrence, the difference is simply a matter of who is doing the framing. The most honest description of U.S.-China relations is this: The world's two largest economies are deeply financially intertwined, and one of them has the other completely surrounded. Source: Wallstreet Research Center YT

Mario Nawfal

65,106 views • 3 months ago

Apple is investing 2x more money in China than the United States invested in saving all of Europe after WW2 (PER YEAR) “Apple investing $55 billion PER YEAR in China” “3 million people are assembling iPhones and other Mac products in China” “Apple is investing quadruple what the Commerce Secretary called a once in a generation investment in America.” “I figured out that Apple was investing by 2015, $55 billion a year into China. So $55 billion is a year.” “I take the Marshall plan spending from 1948 to 1952. This is sort of like America saving, saving Europe after the World War II, and you convert it to 2015 money, and it's half the annual spending of what Apple's investing in China. This is $130 billion in 16 countries. 16 countries versus 1 country. — It's like the modern equivalent of the Soviet Union, like it's our biggest adversary.”
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Apple is investing 2x more money in China than the United States invested in saving all of Europe after WW2 (PER YEAR) “Apple investing $55 billion PER YEAR in China” “3 million people are assembling iPhones and other Mac products in China” “Apple is investing quadruple what the Commerce Secretary called a once in a generation investment in America.” “I figured out that Apple was investing by 2015, $55 billion a year into China. So $55 billion is a year.” “I take the Marshall plan spending from 1948 to 1952. This is sort of like America saving, saving Europe after the World War II, and you convert it to 2015 money, and it's half the annual spending of what Apple's investing in China. This is $130 billion in 16 countries. 16 countries versus 1 country. — It's like the modern equivalent of the Soviet Union, like it's our biggest adversary.”

Wall Street Apes

429,597 views • 1 year ago

Haberman: "Last year the administration signed a critical minerals mining deal with Kazakhstan for a U.S. company. It was agreement that President Trump and Howard Lutnick got tentative approval for with Kazakhstan's president in September. Six days before the deal was signed, which was in November, the president's older sons with other partners took a 20% investment in a company related to the deal. What did the president know about his son's involvement in this arrangement and when did he find out about it?" Leavitt: "Nothing. I've spoken to the president and his family about this. They would absolutely never do anything that would put the president in a place of a conflict of interest." Haberman: "So the president did not learn about this until it was in the media?" Leavitt: "That's my understanding of the matter, yes."
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Haberman: "Last year the administration signed a critical minerals mining deal with Kazakhstan for a U.S. company. It was agreement that President Trump and Howard Lutnick got tentative approval for with Kazakhstan's president in September. Six days before the deal was signed, which was in November, the president's older sons with other partners took a 20% investment in a company related to the deal. What did the president know about his son's involvement in this arrangement and when did he find out about it?" Leavitt: "Nothing. I've spoken to the president and his family about this. They would absolutely never do anything that would put the president in a place of a conflict of interest." Haberman: "So the president did not learn about this until it was in the media?" Leavitt: "That's my understanding of the matter, yes."

The Bulwark

181,598 views • 1 month ago