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A leaked video caused the resignation of a minister in the government of Mr. Lula da Silva.

Mr. Gonçalves Dias was the director of the Institutional Security Bureau of the Brazilian Government, an officer with a Minister status, had to resign after a leaked video, in which he appears at Palácio do Planalto, during the infamous invasion of wannabe insurectionists last january. The scenes show the former minister circulating among the coup protesters, apparently without expelling them or at least admonishing them.

Images show the minister’s performance during coup acts on January 8. The Bolsonarist opposition caucus accused Him of being part of a staged invasion, a hoax devised by the leftist government. Some opposition elements were spreading conspiracy theories and asking for the establishment of a congressional investigation to determine what really happened on January 8, 2023 in Brasilia. Now, even members of the government think that this Inquiry will be inevitable.

The resignation request was made after Dias met with Lula and other ministers at the Planalto Palace.

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Hoo boy I can imagine this shit contributing to some serious problems

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It sounds like it would make sense, from a logistical standpoint – and logistics is the biggest part of warfare.

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I guess the faction that wants to see a federal EU isn’t quite dead yet. The Euro was a catastrophe in that programme - deciding to form a mega currency first then work out a common spending policy later nearly broke the whole union.

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A united planetary government is a prerequisite to joining the federation.

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Yeah, well, Curchill floated this in 1950 and it has been tried in earnest in 1952. And then again every ten years or so.

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Given that the EU has strictly neutral Ireland and Austria as members, I can see one or two issues with that proposal.

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The right wing parties in Ireland would love to spend money on high level interceptors. Anything but houses for the poor to be honest. But guns would be good.

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I hope these people don’t want to solve the homeless problem by turning them into kamikaze pilots.

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Don’t give Leo ideas! He’d so go for it.

Charlie Flanagan would be overjoyed at the idea, though he’s gone now.

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Some folks sound a bit tetchy.

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Taiwan asks US if it could chill out on the anti-China rhetoric

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Biden is withholding funds from the UN Human Rights Council for talking about Israel’s human rights crimes and threatening to withhold economic aid to Palestinians if they support an ICC investigation of those crimes

God forbid they try to be recognized as a nation… At least Ukraine has that going for it, which is nice.

  • 1st excerpt: page 867.

[(c) UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL.—None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be made available in support of the United Nations Human Rights Council unless the Secretary of State determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that participation in the Council is important to the national interest of the United States and that such Council is taking significant steps to remove Israel as a permanent agenda item and ensure integrity in the election of members to such Council: Provided, That such report shall include a description of the national interest served and the steps taken to remove Israel as a permanent agenda item and ensure integrity in the election of members to such Council: Provided further, That the Secretary of State shall report to the Committees on Appropriations not later than September 30, 2023, on the resolutions considered in the United Nations Human Rights Council during the previous 12 months, and on steps taken to remove Israel as a permanent agenda item and ensure integrity in the election of members to such council.]

  • 2nd excerpt: page 860.

(i) None of the funds appropriated under the heading “Economic Support Fund” in this Act may be made available for assistance for the Palestinian Authority, if after the date of enactment of this Act— (I) the Palestinians obtain the same standing as member states or full membership as a state in the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof outside an agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians; or (II) the Palestinians initiate an International Criminal Court (ICC) judicially authorized investigation, or actively support such an investigation, that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against Palestinians.

My guess is that she approves of the above, based on the video below. I can’t take any US politcian of either party seriously who condemns racism on one hand, but says nothing about Israel’s apartheid state.They are like cops who watch their partners murder, but do nothing to stop or report it. Rednecks aren’t the only racists affecting US elections. These racists use lobbying and influence to promote an apartheid, fascist state’s agenda. That state is not the US.

This is hard to believe. It looks like her. I can’t verify the translation, so if, like “Wiping Israel off the face of the Earth,” this is misconstrued, I apologize. Racists and their supporters need sunlight, too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/12tzhzg/were_racists_were_racists_because_we_want_to/

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