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Thousands Crowd Brazil's Streets: Demand Military Intervention & Rousseff Resignation, Impeachment
Zerohedge ^ | 3-15-2015 | Durden

Posted on 03/15/2015 12:52:28 PM PDT by tcrlaf

It appears the 'people' are growing more and more dissatisfied with their corrupt and greedy leaders across the world. As we noted recently, Brazil's economy is imploding, consumer sentiment is at record lows, and with the Petrobras scandal providing a glimpse at just how deep the corruption might go, Brazilians are revolting.

Hundreds of thousands are crowding the streets in several regional Brazilian capitals, dominated ironically by the middle and upper classes. Demands for "Dilma Out" and "Impeach Dilma" are also interspersed with calls for a quasi-coup and "military intervention."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brazil
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To: jsanders2001

To this day, Soros would be well advised to avoid Malaysia and Thailand. The 1997 financial collapse further empoverished the working poor to the point of starvation when his money games threw them out of their low paying jobs.


21 posted on 03/15/2015 2:49:08 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: tcrlaf

If this gets entirely out of hand, the Germans might have to send the soccer team back over to restore order.


22 posted on 03/15/2015 4:03:59 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Repeal The 17th
The list of civilized 1st world countries located between Capricorn and Cancer is very short, indeed.

1) Singapore.
2) ...well, there must be another one somewhere! :)

23 posted on 03/15/2015 4:11:37 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Australia pokes up in there.


24 posted on 03/15/2015 4:12:53 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy, and he is us.)
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To: tcrlaf
Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party received up to $200 million skimmed from contracts with the state-run oil company

Because this is what Workers' Parties DO.

Sheesh.

25 posted on 03/15/2015 4:14:35 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Repeal The 17th
Australia pokes up in there.

Yeah, but that's the crocodile part - so calling it civilized is a stretch. :)

26 posted on 03/15/2015 4:21:24 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Caipirabob

Thanks for your attention to these events in Brazil. (I haven’t been following at all)


27 posted on 03/15/2015 4:51:14 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: tcrlaf

Looks like a swell 2016 Olympics coming up!


28 posted on 03/15/2015 5:11:14 PM PDT by golf lover (goingf)
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To: tcrlaf

#ThongsMatter


29 posted on 03/15/2015 5:13:22 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: tcrlaf

Not exactly correct. You should check your facts about the Im/Ex bank transaction.


30 posted on 03/15/2015 6:06:54 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: PGalt

Well, what gets my attention is that these folksOn FB...I’ve known them since Clinton was president and they could not understand why we impeached him. Nigh 20 plus years later and they are still complaining about their governments corruption. The complaints on Dilma have continued from 2 years prior to her stealing the last election. The complaints are getting louder and more consistent, but the majority of Brasilians never seen to catch on to full conservatism in the end. I can’t see it happening here either.

I have personally witnessed the nation during one of their collapses with 300% inflation. Good deals for us shopping but one friend down there lost everything they had in the bank, deposited one day, worth nothing the next. The family still voted for leftist candidates...


31 posted on 03/15/2015 6:52:16 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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