Maduro cancelling the Lula meeting is really interesting. What might these actions suggest to us? I’d boldly state that Maduro smells a rat in Lula.

In 2024 we saw Lula taking a pro western stance in the Venezuela elections

How to understand Brazil’s stance on Venezuela’s election

“the administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has decided to join Mexico and Colombia to help facilitate a dialogue between the Maduro administration and the opposition.”

The US and friends, Canada included, were very clearly making yet another attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government in a Juan Guido 2.0 episode. Facilitating a dialogue with the opposition? To what end?

Lula not attending BRICS summit– faces diplomatic challenge

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 78, faced an unforeseen setback when he suffered a head injury at his Brasilia home on Saturday. Doctors at the Sirio-Lebanese Hospital diagnosed Lula with a contusion on his head.

Brazil’s Lula cancelling BRICS summit

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Sunday he will no longer travel to Kazan, Russia, for the Brics summit after medical advice to temporarily avoid long-haul flights.

Yes, I find the head contusion excuse an avoidance tactic on the part of Brazil- given the previous goings on.

BRICS Balancing Act Getting Harder

October 21/24

Recent developments in the BRICS grouping, however, have the potential to undermine this relatively broad consensus in Brazil vis-à-vis the benefits of membership. Until last year, Brazil had, along with India, successfully prevented the bloc’s expansion, promoted by Beijing since 2017.

Yet during last year’s summit in South Africa, China ran out of patience and, with Russian support, not only pushed through expansion but also ignored Brazil’s request not to include explicitly anti-Western countries such as Iran.

So Brazil did not want Iran to be included in the BRICS? Did Chinese diplomats at BRICS get a sense of Brazil being duplicitous?

None of this will lead Brazil to abandon the grouping abruptly. Yet behind closed doors, it is now common to hear Brazilian diplomats express concern about Brazil’s diminishing capacity to control intra-BRICS dynamics and to use the outfit to its benefits.

Brazil wanting to control intra BRICS dynamics?

I’m going to ignore what is being claimed about India in this America-centric article. As China and India have just signed a new border agreement, announced today! A move that could only serve to annoy Pax Americana

Brazil’s leading business daily, recognized the benefits BRICS membership had produced for Brazil, but warned that the grouping was “ceasing to be a source of opportunities and becoming a source of risk” if it became a club of largely authoritarian regimes with anti-Western positions.

Next year, it will be Brazil’s turn to host the BRICS Summit, forcing the Lula government to decide whether to invite Putin, against whom the International Criminal Court, of which Brazil is a member, has issued an arrest warrant—a situation which leaves little space for fence-sitting. The time when BRICS membership had only upsides and virtually no downsides for Brazil seems to have come to an end.

Making a prediction based on present day information- Brazil, if they host BRICS at all, will not invite Putin.

Of course, I have a completely different opinion!

BRICS

Elon is aiding the Atlanticists, in their goal of targeting the BRICS nations for destabilization. Using a powerful weapon of influence, social media, in this case the rebranded twitter known as X.

BRICS = BRAZIL, RUSSIA, INDIA, CHINA, SOUTH AFRICA

All above nations are on the globalist radar. BRICS as a collective is an economic cartel that challenges the authority and hegemony of the Global World order led by the US.

This is all in your face, out in the open, geo political machinations

Let’s go back to an article from Bloomberg published in 2023

The US-Led World Order Faces a New Challenge

The BRICS group of emerging nations is accelerating its drive to become a serious economic and political force.

It’s been a long time coming.

BRICS nations have already agreed to pool $100 billion of foreign currency, funds they can tap during emergencies, and founded their own bank that’s approved more than $30 billion of loans for water, transportation and other infrastructure projects since 2015.

Existing BRICS members represent more than 42% of the world’s population and account for 23% of global gross domestic product. Some 19 other countries have expressed interest in joining, with Saudi Arabia among those that have formally applied, bolstering the BRICS’ claim to a bigger seat at the global table.

Targeting Brazil is a way for the hegemony to regain lost power and control in South America. Part of the Global South.

The Return of the Monroe Doctrine

• The plane that crashed was manufactured by a Brazilian company
• Russia is NOT required to have international investigators involved because this was a domestic flight.
• I’m going to repeat this, Russia is not required to have an international investigation for a domestic flight.

Globe and Mail via Archive.ph

Russia has informed Brazil’s aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules “at the moment,” the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday.

Brazil’s Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (CENIPA), in the interests of improving aviation safety, had said it would join a Russian-led investigation if it were invited and the probe held under international rules.

Russia’s aviation authority was not obligated to say yes to CENIPA, but some former investigators said it should, as the U.S. and other Western governments suspect the Kremlin of being behind the Aug. 23 crash of the Embraer Legacy 600, which has a good safety record.

Embraer Legacy 600 good safety record is not known to me. So I can’t verify if this is correct or simply spin to cast shade on the Russian investigation.

According to the Montreal-based United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the flight from Moscow with a destination of St Petersburg was domestic, so it is not subject to international rules known throughout the industry by their legal name “Annex 13.”

A report of this nature is entirely designed to cast Russia and it’s investigation in a negative light. It’s a domestic flight. It’s not subject to international rules. So, why, is normal preceding presented as something newsworthy? Other than for perception managing manipulation.

National Post via Archive.ph

I had previously reported on Brazil’s push to censorship. Either in a post or in the comments. If not, Brazil’s Fake News Lie ….

So we’ll all be ostensibly protected from ‘disinformation’ Canada and the US as well as the UK are well on their tyrannical way.

Politicians, NGOs, and their enablers in the news media claim that their goal is merely to protect the public from “disinformation.” But vague definitions and loopholes in new laws will create avenues for broad application, overreach, and abuse.

In Ireland, for example, the government may soon be able to imprison citizens simply for possessing material that officials decide is “hateful.” Under the RESTRICT Act in the US, the government may soon have the authority to monitor the Internet activity of any American deemed a security risk.

Governments aim for total control. In Canada, a state agency can filter and manipulate what Canadians see online. In Australia, a single government official can compel social media companies to remove posts.

Governments and allied NGOs intend to force tech companies to comply with their rules. UK lawmakers have threatened to imprison social media managers who don’t censor enough content. And Brazil has introduced severe penalties for platforms that fail to remove “fake news.

NGO’s = NO GOOD ORGANIZATIONS

The key area of action is the European Union. It is seeking sweeping new powers to regulate social media companies. And if it acts, it may change how social media companies operate worldwide, given the EU’s economic power and influence globally.

Under the EU’s Digital Services Act, large tech companies must share their data with “vetted researchers” from non-profits and academia, which would cede content moderation to NGOs and their state sponsors.

The US’s RESTRICT Act, sponsored by Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), threatens 20 years in prison or a $250,000 fine for accessing blacklisted websites through “virtual private networks,” or VPNs, which are ways to create a private connection between a computer or phone and the Internet.

There has been no moment similar to this one in the roughly 30 years of widespread public Internet usage in Western societies.

Officials have introduced these policies mostly in the dead of night with little publicity or outcry. There has been a virtual blackout of what’s happening by mainstream news media corporations, with many appearing to support the new laws.

As shown with the Twitter Files, the Censorship Industrial Complex is as much about discrediting accurate facts, true narratives, and content creators who threaten its power while boosting the ones that do.

We are thus witnessing the emergence of a governmental apparatus with the power to control the information environment in ways that determine what people believe to be true and what is false.

As such, it is no exaggeration to say that the West is on the cusp of a new and much more powerful form of totalitarianism than either Communism or Fascism, which were limited in their reach by geography.

The timing of the global crackdown on free speech does not appear to be coincidental.

That global crackdown included Brazil- that’s plainly clear

Last year, the Biden administration tried to create a department of censorship (“Disinformation Governance Board”) at the Department of Homeland Security that triggered a strong enough backlash to shut it down.

The censorship board was the brainchild of “former” CIA Fellow Renee DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory and her allies, including Senator Warner, The Atlantic Council, the University of Washington, and Graphika.

What’s happening now appears to represent the re-grouping of censorship advocacy that occurred after that defeat. With some notable exceptions, the demand for censorship is being driven by center-Left parties, with NGOs playing a subservient role.

Politicians are invoking a woke defense of “preventing harm” that is very different from the older pretext for censorship, national security. The push is race-based, immigration-based (e.g., Ireland), trans-based (e.g., Ireland and Australia), and safety- or health-based (e.g., the EU).

None of the politicians advocating censorship appear to be intellectual heavyweights, much less leaders. (that’s plainly obvious) Rather, they all appear to be tools for powerful government and financial interests, including military and intelligence leaders, hiding in the shadows.

The Brazil law proposes censorship to protect institutions from violence and institutional delegitimation following last year’s attack on Congress, which was eerily similar to the January 6 security failure in Washington, D.C.

In Canada, politicians are advocating censorship in the name of promoting Canadian culture and content, but some critics of the bill speculate that it was crafted in response to the trucker “Freedom Convoy” in 2021. The convoy was celebrated on YouTube and social media and inaccurately maligned as “racist” in the mainstream Canadian press.

The Ottawhiners and the state financed media were the most disgraceful and malignant abusers and disinformation spreaders in Canada

The article is lengthy and indepth. My suggestion is that everyone reads it in full- Or one day, places like mine, will simply be disappeared down the state sponsored censorship hole. It’s already happened to me once.

Foreign Policy- So, it’s an American perspective

By Jorge Heine, a professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and Thiago Rodrigues, a professor of security studies at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro state.

The United States and its allies seem confused that many countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America refuse to join the sanctions campaign against Russia or ship weapons to Ukraine. Many Latin American countries’ neutrality—and their unwillingness to become de facto belligerents in a European war—is described as shameful, if not a moral failure. Some even go so far as to say that the region’s overwhelmingly nonaligned stance puts the rules-based international order at risk.

Brazil—Latin America’s largest country and diplomatic heavyweight—has come under particular scrutiny for its position on Ukraine. While the United States has pledged to support the war in Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has vocally pressed for a truce and peaceful solution to the conflict

The Foreign Policy piece presents Lula as an individual pressing for a truce and peaceful resolution- He has, sort of. But he’s not been entirely unbiased

Lula got to work on his peace proposal quickly after his inauguration in January. During a February visit to Washington, Lula suggested to U.S. President Joe Biden that Brazil create a so-called “peace club”—a group of countries that would facilitate peace talks

In March, a 30-minute video call between Lula and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed that Brazil means business.

Brazil means business?

Lula used the opportunity to convey to Zelensky the urgency of a negotiated solution to the war. Then, in April, Lula’s chief advisor Celso Amorim traveled to Moscow, where—breaking all protocol—he was received by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself. On the same trip, Amorim met with a top foreign affairs advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron has also appeared interested in negotiating an end to the conflict.

The result of Amorim’s Putin meeting was uncertain at best, with Amorim acknowledging that neither side is ready to sit down for talks

So I guess him telling Zelensky that Brazil “means business” was a non starter?

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s recent trip to Brazil—indicate how seriously Moscow is taking proposals from the government in Brasília.

Maybe? Or maybe Lavrov let Brazil know they don’t take their proposals seriously? I don’t know.

In the end, whether negotiations happen will come down to whether the West has an interest in bringing an end to this tragic war, or whether it prefers to fight it as long as is necessary “to weaken Russia permanently,” as U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin described his aims in April 2022. Until now, Ukraine’s preference has been to not give up any territory. Yet that could prove a costly wager for the country’s people—and its economy

A stalemated war—which is where Ukraine may be headed—is ultimately about economic resilience. There, Russia has the upper hand.

The Brazilian mediation initiative to bring the conflict to an end soon may be an opportunity to save Ukraine—rather than the naive, misguided undertaking many in the West describe it to be.

Save Ukraine? Because Brazil has offered up a mediation initiative? The US can “save Ukraine” or what ever is left of it without Brazil’s help. Stop shipping arms. Stop training soldiers. Stop upping the ante against Russia. See, from where I sit, this is a war between the US and Russia using Ukrainians as proxies. And Brazil is simply not a factor. So this piece feels like a sales pitch/promotional for Brazil’s Lula to play a role he simply isn’t needed for

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday he will not visit Russia or Ukraine due to the ongoing war but he remained committed to a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

The leftist leader added at an event in the capital Brasilia that the conflict triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should be unthinkable.

So, Russia entering Ukraine is over small things? Let’s ask the people in the east, who had been being bombed and killed regularly by Kiev’s nazi goons, if those relentless attacks were ‘small things’?

I don’t know about you all, but, it’s super impressive to me that Mark Ruffalo supports Lula (NOT)

He’s been a virtue signalling mask and jab pusher so that put’s him on the same page as Lula

Virtue signalling is not virtue.

Lula is a man. He is fallible like all of us. He is not a god. He is not a saviour. He is a politician. Always questionable characters in my opinion. His election win in Brazil- was certainly not a resounding win by any measure. The January 6 rerun served Lula in the way the Jan 6 original show served Biden. Same trick. Different country. Therefore I cannot understand what I perceive as a messianic form of hero worship around this man? It makes zero sense to me.

Lula actions that leave me scratching my head:

• Since Lula’s been at the helm of Brazil I’ve noticed his appeasing of Ukraine’s activities in a way his predecessor was not.
  The most recent stunner came from none other than the Ukrainian Congress

Lula da Silva condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine; media cite UWC and UBCR

“During a visit to Argentina on Monday, the newly elected President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory, Universo Online (UOL), one of the most famous Brazilian publications, reported.

UOL notes that the day before, the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) and the Ukrainian-Brazilian Central Representation (UBCR) appealed to the president to increase support for Ukraine in 2023″

And he obliged by condemning Russia

Ukrainian Congress included this in their statement:

“Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s previous president, refused to give public assessments of Russian Federation’s actions in Ukraine and to condemn the criminal Russian military aggression.”

Bolsonaro didn’t

Petrobas

Lula has attempted to stop the privatization of public assets. From the most recent reports it appears his moves may have come to late to change what Bolsanaro had put into place. I disagree with Bolsanaro having done this in principal because state assets are always more profitable for the state to hold onto. That said if this had already been signed off on Lula would have known this. He’s been around the block quite a few times. Did he claim this asset will not be sold as a PR move only to claim afterwards his hands were tied? Which maybe they are. But if they are he would have known when he made his declaration. He has adviser and lawyers to inform him every step of the way.

Petrobas faces legal risks

“Petrobras (PETR4.SA) could face lawsuits for breach of contract after the company halted planned asset sales at the request of Brazilian leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government, specialist lawyers said on Friday.”

“Lula appointee Petrobras Chief Executive Jean Paul Prates told reporters on Thursday “everything is halted for analysis.” Petrobras has yet to formally confirm its decision to the government.”

Halted for analysis- decision to stop the sale unconfirmed

“”There is no possibility of suspending signed contracts. There is no stipulation for that,” Alexandre Calmon, lead partner of law firm Campos Mello Advogados’ energy area, told Reuters.

“That would be a breach of contract,” he said, adding if “Petrobras fails to do something that it is obligated to do, it can be held responsible.”

What’s going to come of this situation? I don’t know. It may be very costly to get out of these contracts. So costly, in fact, that it may not be worth hanging on to Petrobas.

National Vaccine Program and Food Card

Lula is also more pro vaccine than his predecessor. Focusing on Covid vaccines. Note the child friendly mascot?

Brazil reports

Brazil launched a new national vaccination campaign on Monday that aims to recover vaccination rates lost during the administration of former President Jair Bolsonaro, a vaccine skeptic.

The campaign focuses on vaccination against Covid-19, but also childhood immunizations such as polio and measles.

To mark the launch of the campaign, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received a booster dose of the bivalent vaccine against Covid-19.

A better friend to big pharma then Bolsnaro.

Lula will be reinstating a food program for the poor- but it will have conditions. I’m anticipating, but am not certain, the food program will be tied to his new national vaccine campaign. Because Lula is a jab pusher, including the experimental covid vaccine and the food program would be the way to guarantee compliance.

Brazil can walk and chew gum at the same time so there’s no real excuse, in my opinion, for the delay.

and

You are free to believe as you wish regarding Lula’s running of Brazil. I’ll not judge, chastise or lambaste you for your own thoughts. My only request is that you share them in the comment section!
Thank You

https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2021/01/president-elect-joe-biden-heros-journey.html

So yesterday’s theatre … How did protestors get through 4 layers of security? Repeatedly stated. A feat never accomplished previously.

“Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building – fighting federal police who are overrun This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can’t stop them.”

Oh really? Wow. That’s a threatening mob. Right?  But have no fear, this adversity will be overcome. Light will shine through the darkness

Joe Biden and his ‘righteous’ caring, humanitarian do gooders have endured such trials and tribulations, at the hands of Trump and his crew of ‘deplorables’. Good vs Evil.

Until finally, after overcoming this, the last ordeal, Joe Biden, hero, has taken his sword, his reward, his exalted position. And is set to become the next President!

And the Hero’s Journey has come to it’s rightful end. 

Yup, and then the angels sang.

Cui Bono?

No one but the Biden camp benefited from that dog and pony show yesterday.

Loved the “shaman” in attendance. Nothing says magic ritual like a shaman figure.

Was I the only one who noticed the common trope playing out in real time? There are a myriad of variations within the theme, but, the theme was unmistakable. At least, in my opinion.

The same Hero’s Journey mythos/trope psyop played out in Brazil with the intel operation that took place before Lula took power. You can agree or disagree as you wish. As it was for Joe Biden, so it is for Lula. Once implanted, repeating propaganda is the best way to reinforce certain ideas, thoughts and agendas in the minds of the targeted audience. Which, in the case of Brazil, appears to be largely western audiences.

In remarks that he made while in Buenos Aires on Monday, one of the literal founders of BRICS shockingly declared that “In the same way that I am against territorial occupation, as Russia did to Ukraine, I am against too much interference in the Venezuelan process.”
Quite clearly, Lula was implying that Russia’s military efforts to restore the integrity of its national security red lines in Ukraine after NATO crossed them there are morally equivalent to the US’ unprovoked Hybrid War aggression against Venezuela.

So, that’s an interesting statement from Lula. I went to the original source

https://veja.abril.com.br/mundo/defendendo-maduro-lula-compara-governo-guaido-a-invasao-russa-da-ucrania/

“Da mesma forma que eu sou contra a ocupação territorial, como a Rússia fez à Ucrânia, sou contra muita ingerência no processo da Venezuela”, disse.

Translated it myself via google’s tranlator

DID YOU NOTICE THIS? “I am against too much interference in the Venezuelan process”

Digression: Very obviously he is okay with some interference just not too much of it! So how much interference is acceptable to Lula? Who defines too much interference? Lula keeps looking worse and worse. Digression ended

He is very clearly stating opposition to Russia’s entry into Ukraine.

“In the same way that I am against territorial occupation, as Russia did to Ukraine”

Though Ukraine to Venezuela is apples and oranges.

Andrew Korbyko continues on

“Newly re-elected three-time Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who’s popularly known as Lula, just shattered the foreign policy expectations of his multipolar base by becoming the first BRICS leader to publicly condemn Russia’s special operation. Unlike his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro who refused to do so and thus received a lot of flak in the US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) for his pragmatism, Lula crossed the line and even compared Russia’s involvement in Ukraine to the US’ in Venezuela.”

What makes this all the more interesting is Venezula’s leader Maduro cancelled an upcoming meeting with Lula

Venezuela calls off Maduro meeting with Lula, Brazil govt says

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Venezuela has decided to call off a previously arranged meeting between President Nicolas Maduro and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday, Lula’s press office said.

The Brazilian government had announced earlier in the day the two leaders were set to meet in Buenos Aires this afternoon as they attend a summit of Latin American and Caribbean countries in Buenos Aires.

Later, however, Lula’s team released a new update of his agenda saying the meeting would no longer take place as Venezuela canceled it.

At my big tech censored blog, long time readers might recall my reporting on the fact that Venezuela and Turkey had very good relations. Turkey had helped Venezuela when they were being heavily, heavily abused/oppressed by the Americans.. Much to the ire of the US. Turkey has been resolving issues with Russia. Turkey has long been targeted by the US/NATO terror crew. As has Venezuela. Turkey has been forging it’s own path. As Venezuela has been trying to do for so long now.

Maduro cancelling the Lula meeting is really interesting. What might these actions suggest to us? I’d boldly state that Maduro smells a rat in Lula.

I’d picked up some curious Brazilian news earlier this year

U.S. military officials overseeing operations and defense relations in Central America, South America and the Caribbean see an opportunity to persuade some of those countries to give up their Russian-made weapons and systems and send them to Kyiv.

“We are working with the countries that have the Russian equipment to either donate it or switch it out for United States equipment,” General Laura Richardson, the commander of U.S. Southern Command, told a virtual audience Thursday during an appearance at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

Richardson said discussions with six countries, in particular, “are in the works,” but did not elaborate.

“As a matter of protocol, we are not going to discuss details about the defense resources of sovereign nations or speculate about any support to Ukraine they have not already announced,” SOUTHCOM spokesperson Jose Ruiz told VOA by email Friday.

“Insofar as offering our defense partners opportunities to purchase or receive U.S. defense equipment, we offer what we consider to be a better alternative,” he added. “U.S. defense equipment is superior in both its proven reliability and the level of sustainment support it receives during its operational life.”

“That’ll be a very, very heavy lift,” General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday after a meeting of the Ukraine Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

“The Ukrainians have the personnel, but they have to be trained,” he said. “And if you look at the weather and terrain, et cetera, you can see that you have a relatively short window of time to accomplish both those key tasks.

“I think it can be done, but I think that it will be a challenge. There’s no question about it,” Milley added.

No worries about the ‘carbon footprint’ of war, eh? Greeda Thunberg (fraud) what say you? Oh and the WEF’rs?

“The best examples of that are Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina,” said Ryan Brobst, a research analyst at the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD).

“Specifically, they have a lot of Russian- or Soviet-made helicopters,” he told VOA.

According to data collected by the Swedish-based Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, at least seven Central and South American countries have bought weapons from Russia since 2000, with Brazil and Peru taking delivery of Russian military equipment as recently as 2016.