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Far-right leader's shares footage in apparent attempt to discredit Carnival following protests

Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro has posted a sexually explicit video on Twitter in an apparent attempt to discredit Sao Paulo Carnival, the city's annual street festival, which has seen protests against his far-right agenda.

The footage, which he shared late on Tuesday evening, shows one man urinating on another person in front of a crowd of people.

"I don't feel comfortable showing it, but we have to expose the truth so the population are aware of their priorities," Mr Bolsonaro tweeted. "This is what Brazilian carnival street parties have turned into," he said."

He followed it up with another tweet on Wednesday morning, in which he asked, "What is a golden shower?". 

Critics accused the president of using the incident [as a gross misrepresentation of the festival] to tar protests which have sprung up at carnivals across the country, in which many attendees dressed up to mock a money-laundering scandal involving Mr Bolsonaro.

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That’s extremely late, but it wouldn’t be me if its not late

But nods to @beyond-far-horizons : well said my dear :3 happy B-day to our dear Vivi

So here I come… I’m so sorry for not having any sort of gift as you deserve all good this world has to offer, but I just wanted to wish the best for you, happiness and realization in all endeavors you are having and success on your next projects

Now I’ll just open my heart and be honest here:

Not only on your birthday but every single day I want you to feel great and know that I’m glad and eternally thankful the universe provided me a chance to meet and know someone like you, someone who I consider a guiding light and someone I look up to and love immensely…

For real, I get such a caring aura from you and talking to you has healing properties (lol) but for real. You just make life more interesting and colorful to me and for that I feel like the luckiest person alive :3 Some of the interactions we had here and with our friends made me feel at home and welcomed like I never felt in any other place, I mean, I feel accepted and valid/understood on some other magical level I never knew was even possible (OwO)

Like, I mean.. it never ceases to amaze me how its almost unbelievable that we managed to connect through the vastness of space and time and I keep thinking about it ever since I saw it was your birthday so I just wanted to have a heartfelt letter to you…. this bond is so strong and pure for me.

Also I read on your tags that you were kinda sad about getting older, and I just wanted to say, its natural I also started feeling this in the past few years and I think we are allowed to feel anything but know that no matter the number of years, you’re as awesome as ever and only growing more and more beautiful to my eyes. A truly beautiful person that I want to know more and more and that each facet I get to know is more interesting and exciting than the last…. lol. I’m dramatic as hell but I’d like to tell you that..

Keep being this awesome and I’ll keep adoring and cherishing you for eternity and beyond.. lots of love and care from your old birdy brained friend here :D

Talk about being extremely late ... oh my.  >_<

This has been lingering in my drafts for almost a year now. Embarrassing!

As with all posts of a very personal and emotional nature, these are especially prone to occurring procrastination when it comes to replying - simply because I really struggle to find the right words to convey how I feel about them.

With this one ... oh my, how should I even begin. *sigh*

Admittedly, it had me in tears when I read it ... not being able to comprehend how I deserve all the kind words, and even praise, you had for me here.

Even so, I cannot thank you enough for it, for the well-wishes, and support concerning my “endeavours” & “projects” (and since I reckon you know what those are, I appreciate it all the more).

The heart-opening part was just the most moving one.

I don’t know what to say ...

It is rather hard for me to believe this - not because I don’t think you’re being genuine, but rather that I - the way I see myself, knowing the flaws of my character (which are, at times, also on display here - especially if I’m in a bad state, emotionally) - feel quite undeserving of it, and I can’t help but think “Why!?”. But to see you telling me, that you actually feel this way about me, is rather humbling, and it makes me really happy - happy and grateful!

Thank you! Thank you so, so much!!!

I cannot stress enough that every sentiment expressed by you here, is very much a mutual thing!

It makes me glad to see that you benefit so much, as you said, from our interactions.

As for the caring aura ... well, you’re in a rather small and select company then, I suppose. ^^;;  There are not many people I actually care about, and I’m not the warmest person, either, tbh. But those I do love - I love very much.

Talking to me has healing properties? Really!? I’m really glad that I, at times, can have this effect on you (certainly not when I’m complaining about personal issues, though, I guess ^^;; ) - actually being able to make you feel better. I like this ability! That is what I want my friends to feel. ^^

The same can be said vice versa, of course.

And, true - as you also mentioned - our little constellation of friends is quite a nice one, that complements each other in personality, as well as abilities. There indeed is a level of understanding there, that is quite extraordinary - also compared to other encounters, and certainly so for people, that “only” know each other through the internet (”only” my ass) - but for many years now. It is always a pleasure to be, and talk, with each of you!

It has been a blessing to have met you - and one of the things that make life worth living for me. That the universe has granted me such a connection, and with someone you wouldn’t quite expect - living so far away, on the other side of the globe (or even someone in another country in general, even though on the same continent, in the case of dear Jess), was indeed a stroke of really good luck - one that I’m very grateful for!

I know, I’m repeating myself on some parts, but it cannot be mentioned and stressed enough, I feel.

Because you are my very adored and cherished “birdy brained friend” (lol, cute), and I don’t want you to forget this!

Again, thank you so much for this very adorable and moving message! It means a lot to me!

A cornucopia of love - hugs & purrs,

your “kitty brained” friend 

YES

Her name is Iolene Lima and she’s an evangelical pastor. She was a principal in a school, and here’s how she described the education there, dubbed “education by principles”:

“It is an education based on principles, that is, based on the word of God. It is a Christian worldview. The student learns that the author of history is God. The director of geography is God. God made the flat lands, made the reliefs, made the climate. The greatest mathematician was God. One thing is for you to hear that you cannot brush your teeth with the faucet open. Another is for the student to hear that they can’t because there’s a principle in the Bible that says you have to take care of everything, which is the principle of stewardship. God has given it to you, but it is not for you to squander, it’s for you to cherish. The first year juniors, the first contact they have with math is from the book of Genesis. The entire school curriculum is organized from the standpoint of Scripture. They do not limit knowledge, it is from them that the teacher invades the areas of knowledge and presents the formal knowledge to the students. Only in Christ can we educate well".

Well, that sounds an awful lot like a not secular state thing and at least uncomfortably indoctrinating. But all that matters is that president Jair Bolsonaro is prioritizingly working on “breaking the cycle” of the lefties™ in universities, on “stopping at once the evil that has come so close to destroying our country”, stopping the “innate and organized malice” that comes from “only one side” (the lefties™) “from coming back with force”.

Indoctrination is over, y’all!!!

Jair Bolsonaro’s messianic brand of capitalism threatens minorities and the rainforest that protects the planet

The world needs to understand what Brazil has become, before it’s too late. Jair Messias Bolsonaro’s Brazil is not just another country that elected a far-right president at a time when the world’s most powerful nation is led by Donald Trump. It’s not simply a peripheral nation with a pathetic leader. Brazil has become the apocalyptic vanguard that signals how radical this moment is – one with the power to worsen the climate crisis at top speed and blight the entire planet.

Bolsonaro was elected in October, on his pledge to go back “50 years”. Fifty years ago, Brazil lived under a military dictatorship. For Bolsonaro and his followers, who are outright defenders of torture and the elimination of adversaries, it was a glorious era. Despite the terrifying menace of nuclear war, the world was still a place where science promised nothing but progress and solutions – it delivered no bad news, like global warming, that led to limitations on an individual’s daily life or on government actions. It was a time when white, heterosexual men held power and knew precisely who they were. They may have faced some resistance from minorities, but they still enjoyed absolute hegemony.

Soon after Bolsonaro’s inauguration last week, the minister of women, family, and human rights, Damares Alves – an evangelical pastor – stated in a video that now “girls wear pink and boys, blue”.

Ernesto Araújo, the dogmatic foreign minister, said Bolsonaro’s rise will be marked by “God through the nation”. He has also written that climate change is an “ideology” dreamed up so imperialist nations could determine Brazil’s future. 

In his first days in power, the president shifted responsibility for demarcation of indigenous and quilombola territory – which makes up a large part of the protected Amazon – to the agriculture ministry. This government sector is controlled by agribusiness, responsible for much of deforestation and eager to get their hands on the remaining forest. 

Deputy of the rural caucus Valdir Colatto (from Brazilian Democratic Movement party), known for defending causes such as the liberalization of professional wildlife hunting in Brazil, was appointed on Wednesday, January 16 2019, to head the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB), that was transferred from the Ministry of the Environment to the Ministry of Agriculture by President Jair Bolsonaro. He’s taking office on February 1.

The Forest Service is primarily responsible for implementing the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), a tool created in the reform of the Forest Code in 2012, whereby landowners have to provide information on their property, how much land is in the formats of Legal Reserve and Permanent Preservation Area (APP), and how much was converted for agricultural use.

Colatto has acted against the Rural Environmental Registry several times when deputy - he tried re-election last year but failed. He worked to extend the term of registration of the properties in the cadastre and defended that the data of rural owners in this cadastre should not be made public. He was also one of the most active deputies in making the Forest Code less restrictive than it previously was.

The transfer of the Forest Service from the Ministry of Environment to the Ministry of Agriculture was already made in the first presidential decree on January 1, amid the restructuring of conservative Jair Bolsonaro’s government. It drew immediate criticism from environmentalists, who saw in the change a way to weaken environmental regulation. Colatto’s indication was received negatively by some agribusiness representatives as well, who see a risk that the agenda of the Forest Code will be paralyzed.

The Rural Environmental Registry is considered one of the main instruments to prevent illegal deforestation, since it is supplied with satellite images that allow easy verification of changes that occur in rural properties. It also serves to establish policies to recover illegally deforested areas, and adequacy to it is linked to obtaining rural credit.

In his speech inauguring his the new function, Colatto affirmed that the Rural Environmental Registry will bring a strategic plan for the territorial occupation. "With this data we can plan the issue of water, forests, agriculture."

His second priority, he said, will be to work with the national forest areas that now go through concession processes for forest management - the exploitation of timber under certain criteria.

Responding to criticism of the transfer of the Forest Service to the Ministry of Agriculture and of his appointment to the organ as a fox tending the chicken coop, he replied: "People are talking nonsense, working with biased information. The only sector that preserves in practice in Brazil is the rural sector. Who else preserves 20%, 35%, 80% of their assets? Only the rural producer. "

New Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina said she saw no conflict in his statement. She affirmed he is "a very experienced deputy in this area and will greatly help the ministry in fostering agricultural activity, always with respect to the Forest Code and the Rural Environmental Registry, which establish strict environmental legislation, unique in the world." The minister also said that a pejorative connotation was given to the term "ruralist", which would be an attempt to disqualify all those who represent agribusiness.

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