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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Because he's the Brazilian baldy orange cunto. Are you a bit fucking thick or what? You seem to need even the most basic things explained to you.
    again.........

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    Never ever made/makes a difference. The loser/s (trump) lost


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    Were you in your cave on January 6th 2021 by any chance?


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    again........

    Never ever made/makes a difference. The loser/s (trump) lost

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    again........

    Never ever made/makes a difference. The loser/s (trump) lost
    I'm beginning to understand why Cujo thinks you're an idiot.

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    ^Desperate to have the last word.

    And again you’re wrong.

    Never ever made/makes a difference. The loser/s (trump) lost


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    Losers are going to lose




    More than three weeks after losing a reelection bid, President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday blamed a software bug and demanded the electoral authority annul votes cast on most of Brazil’s nation’s electronic voting machines, though independent experts say the bug doesn’t affect the reliability of results.

    Such an action would leave Bolsonaro with 51% of the remaining valid votes — and a reelection victory, Marcelo de Bessa, the lawyer who filed the 33-page request on behalf of the president and his Liberal Party, told reporters.

    The electoral authority has already declared victory for Bolsonaro’s nemesis, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and even many of the president’s allies have accepted the results. Protesters in cities across the country have steadfastly refused to do the same, particularly with Bolsonaro declining to concede.

    Liberal Party leader Valdemar Costa and an auditor hired by the party told reporters in Brasilia that their evaluation found all machines dating from before 2020 — nearly 280,000 of them, or about 59% of the total used in the Oct. 30 runoff — lacked individual identification numbers in internal logs.

    Neither explained how that might have affected election results, but said they were asking the electoral authority to invalidate all votes cast on those machines.

    The complaint characterized the bug as “irreparable non-compliance due to malfunction” that called into question the authenticity of the results.

    Immediately afterward, the head of the electoral authority issued a ruling that implicitly raised the possibility that Bolsonaro’s own party could suffer from such a challenge.

    Alexandre de Moraes said the court would not consider the complaint unless the party offers an amended report within 24 hours that would include results from the first electoral round on Oct. 2, in which the Liberal Party won more seats in both congressional houses than any other.

    The bug hadn’t been known previously, yet experts said it also doesn’t affect results. Each voting machine can still be easily identified through other means, like its city and voting district, according to Wilson Ruggiero, a professor of computer engineering and digital systems at the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo.

    Diego Aranha, an associate professor of systems security at Aarhus University in Denmark, who has participated in official security tests of Brazil’s electoral system, agreed.

    “It does not undermine the reliability or credibility in any way,” Ruggiero told The Associated Press by phone. “The key point that guarantees correctness is the digital signature associated with each voting machine.”

    While the machines don’t have individual identification numbers in their internal logs, those numbers do appear on printed receipts that show the sum of all votes cast for each candidate, said Aranha, adding the bug was only detected due to the efforts by the electoral authority to provide greater transparency.
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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    More than three weeks after losing a reelection bid, President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday blamed a software bug and demanded the electoral authority annul votes cast on most of Brazil’s nation’s electronic voting machines, though independent experts say the bug doesn’t affect the reliability of results.
    He's got until the end of the year to pull a baldy.

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    and will still be a loser at the end of the day

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    and will still be a loser at the end of the day
    So was baldy when he sent people to ransack the capitol and hang Pence.

    And people died.

    You gormless fuck.

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    and the loser is still going to lose

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    On Wednesday 23 November, Brazil’s top electoral authority threw out a challenge by president Jair Bolsonaro’s party against his election defeat – and fined it more than $4 million for bringing the case “in bad faith”.

    The head of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), judge Alexandre de Moraes, ruled the far-right president’s Liberal Party had presented “absolutely false” arguments in its case. He said the arguments aimed at “encouraging criminal and anti-democratic movements” by Bolsonaro supporters seeking to fight the election result.

    The Liberal Party (PL) brought the case on Tuesday, saying an auditing firm it hired had found “irreparable operating discrepancies” in around 280,000 electronic voting machines used in the October 30 runoff election, which Bolsonaro lost to veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (commonly known as Lula).

    The PL called for electoral authorities to exclude all votes cast on five models of voting machine manufactured before 2020, alleging they gave a suspiciously large advantage of nearly five percentage points to Lula. Party lawyer Marcelo Bessa said excluding those votes would change the election result, from a 1.8-percentage-point win for Lula to a 2.1-percentage-point win for Bolsonaro.

    Brazil election court throws out Bolsonaro challenge and fines party - Canary
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    real simple..........

    the loser lost

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    real simple..........

    the loser lost
    Fucking hell, nothing gets past you does it.


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    All your hyperventilating questioning the loser’s next move added nothing to this thread you silly school girl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    All your hyperventilating questioning the loser’s next move added nothing to this thread you silly school girl.
    Fortunately I don't need your permission to post anything, you whiny little bitch.

    You can go and join skidmark in my ignore list, I'd tired of your girlie squealing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    You can go and join skidmark in my ignore list, I'd tired of your girlie squealing.
    an upset silly school girl

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    Sore losers and time on their hands




    The two men were sitting at a bar on Nov. 21, sipping drinks for relief from the scorching heat of Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, when police officers barged in and arrested them for allegedly torching trucks and an ambulance with Molotov cocktails.

    One man attempted to flee and ditch his illegal firearm. Inside their pickup truck, officers found jugs of gasoline, knives, a pistol, slingshots and hundreds of stones — as well as 9,999 reais (nearly $1,900) in cash.

    A federal judge ordered their preventive detention, noting that their apparent motive for the violence was “dissatisfaction with the result of the last presidential election and pursuit of its undemocratic reversal,” according to court documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

    For more than three weeks, supporters of incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his narrow defeat in October’s election have blocked roads and camped outside military buildings in Mato Grosso, Brazil’s soy-producing powerhouse. They also have protested in other states across the nation, while pleading for intervention from the armed forces or marching orders from their commander in chief.

    Since his election loss, Bolsonaro has only addressed the nation twice, to say that the protests are legitimate and encourage them to continue, as long as they don’t prevent people from coming and going.

    Bolsonaro has not disavowed the recent emergence of violence, either. He has, however, challenged the election results — which the electoral authority’s president said appears aimed at stoking protests.

    While most demonstrations are peaceful, tactics deployed by hardcore participants have begun concerning authorities. José Antônio Borges, chief state prosecutor in Mato Grosso, compared their actions to that of guerrilla fighters, militia groups and domestic terrorists.

    Mato Grosso is one of the nation’s hotbeds for unrest. The chief targets, Borges says, are soy trucks from Grupo Maggi, owned by a tycoon who declared support for President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. There are also indications that people and companies from the state may be fueling protests elsewhere.

    Road blockades and acts of violence have been reported in the states of Rondonia, Para, Parana and Santa Catarina. In the latter, federal highway police said protesters blocking highways have employed “terrorist” methods including homemade bombs, fireworks, nails, stones and barricades made of burnt tires.

    Police also noted that roadblocks over the weekend were different from those carried out immediately after the Oct. 30 runoff election, when truckers blocked more than 1,000 roads and highways across the country, with only isolated incidents.

    Now, most acts of resistance are taking place at night, carried out by “extremely violent and coordinated hooded men,” acting in different regions of the state at the same time, federal highway police said.

    “The situation is getting very critical” in Mato Grosso state, chief state prosecutor Borges told the AP. Among other examples, he noted that protesters in Sinop, the state’s second most populous city, this week ordered shops and businesses to close in support of the movement. “Whoever doesn’t shut down suffers reprisals,” he said.

    Since the vote, Bolsonaro has dropped out of public view and his daily agenda has been largely vacant, prompting speculation as to whether he is stewing or scheming.

    Government transition duties have been led by his chief of staff, while Vice President Hamilton Mourão has stepped in to preside over official ceremonies. In an interview with newspaper O Globo, Mourão chalked up Bolsonaro’s absence to erysipelas, a skin infection on his legs that he said prevents the president from wearing pants.

    But even Bolsonaro’s social media accounts have gone silent – aside from generic posts about his administration, apparently from his communications team. And the live social media broadcasts that, with rare exception, he conducted every Thursday night during his administration have ceased. The silence marks an abrupt about-face for the bombastic Brazilian leader whose legions of supporters hang on his every word.

    Still, demonstrators, who have camped outside military barracks across Brazil for weeks, are certain they have his tacit support.

    “We understand perfectly well why he doesn’t want to talk: They (the news media) distort his words,” said a 49-year-old woman who identified herself only as Joelma during a protest outside the monumental regional military command center in Rio de Janeiro. She declined to give her full name, claiming the protest had been infiltrated by informants.

    Joelma and others say they are outraged with Bolsonaro’s loss and claim the election was rigged, echoing the incumbent president’s claims — made without evidence — that the electronic voting system is prone to fraud.

    Scenes of large barbecues with free food and portable bathrooms at several protests, plus reports of free bus rides bringing demonstrators to the capital, Brasilia, have prompted investigations into the people and companies financing and organizing the gatherings and roadblocks.

    The Supreme Court has frozen at least 43 bank accounts for suspicion of involvement, news site G1 reported, saying most are from Mato Grosso. Borges cited the involvement of agribusiness players in the protests, many of whom support Bolsonaro’s push for development of the Amazon rainforest and his authorization of previously banned pesticides. By contrast, President-elect da Silva has pledged to rebuild environmental protections.

    Most recently, protesters have been emboldened by the president’s decision to officially contest the election results.

    On Tuesday, Bolsonaro and his party filed a request for the electoral authority to annul votes cast on nearly 60% of electronic voting machines, citing a software bug in older models. Independent experts have said the bug, while newly discovered, doesn’t affect the results and the electoral authority’s president, Alexandre de Moraes swiftly rejected the “bizarre and illicit” request.

    De Moraes, who is also a Supreme Court justice, called it “an attack on the Democratic Rule of Law ... with the purpose of encouraging criminal and anti-democratic movements.”

    On Nov. 21, Prosecutor-general Augusto Aras summoned federal prosecutors from states where roadblocks and violence have become more intense for a crisis meeting. Aras, who is widely seen as a Bolsonaro stalwart, said he received intelligence reports from local prosecutors and instructed Mato Grosso’s governor to request federal backup to clear its blocked highways.

    Ultimately that wasn’t necessary, as local law enforcement managed to break up demonstrations and, by Monday night, roads in Mato Grosso and elsewhere were all liberated, according to the federal highway police. It was unclear how long this would last, however, amid Bolsonaro’s continued silence, said Guilherme Casarões, a political science professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation university.

    “With his silence, he keeps people in the streets,” Casarões said. “This is the great advantage he has today: a very mobilized, and very radical base.”

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    I'd stick to cutting and pasting, clearly you're not a details man.
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    ^you seem to be very upset
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    Why, because I posted actual facts that made you look stupid?

    Nah, I rather enjoyed it.
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    All your hyperventilating questioning the loser’s next move added nothing to this thread you silly school girl.
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    You can go and join skidmark in my ignore list, I'd tired of your girlie squealing.

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    Aides to Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are in talks with Britain, Switzerland and France, seeking donations for an international fund to protect the Amazon rainforest, a bulwark against climate change, a Lula adviser said.

    The British embassy said its government was studying the invitation to join the Amazon Fund, which already has about 3 billion reais ($563.71 million).

    The fund, which was launched under Lula’s first administration from 2003-2010, bankrolled conservation projects and counts Norway and Germany as its biggest donors.

    Right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro froze the fund, citing unspecified spending irregularities among fund-backed projects run by nongovernmental organizations, without providing evidence.

    Protecting the Amazon, which absorbs vast amounts of planet-warming greenhouse gas, is part of Lula’s sweeping plan for Brazil to reclaim leadership in the fight against climate change.

    Izabella Teixeira, Lula’s former environment minister and current climate change adviser, told Reuters she had met with Norwegian and German officials on Monday about restarting the fund.

    Norway’s Environment Minster Espen Barth Eide said at a United Nations climate summit in Egypt this month that he expects the fund to restart “very soon after the 1st of January,” when Lula assumes office.

    Teixeira confirmed that Britain, France and Switzerland had expressed interest in the fund, which was first reported by Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.

    The former minister said she had lunch with the British ambassador to Brazil and the head of the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) about new bilateral cooperation, including on the Amazon Fund.

    UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to visit Brazil in the first half of 2023 to discuss potential cooperation before his country makes a final decision on joining the fund, she said.

    “There’s much to discuss,” Teixeira said.

    The British embassy said its climate and environment ministers had been approached by Brazilian Senator Randolfe Rodrigues and Para state governor Helder Barbalho at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt about donating to the fund.

    The Swiss and French embassies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    Deforestation soared to a 15-year high under Bolsonaro, who rolled back environmental protections and called for more farming and mining in the Amazon region.

    Lula has pledged to eliminate deforestation by using every tool at his disposal, pledging more money and officials for enforcing environmental laws. – Rappler.com

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    The administration of leftist Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wants to establish a new Federal Police unit focused on deterring environmental crimes, Reuters reported Wednesday.

    "The crimes that happened during the current government will now be combated."

    The news outlet cited Sen.-elect Flavio Dino, who is widely considered a top candidate to be Lula's next justice minister and currently runs the transition team's task force aimed at reducing violent crime, restricting gun ownership, and protecting the Amazon rainforest, roughly 60% of which is located in Brazil.

    In an interview with Reuters, Dino said that "there is now a specific complexity of environmental crimes, in which there is, a kind of combo of crimes in the Amazon," referring to the interconnected nature of illegal deforestation, drug trafficking, money laundering, and gang violence. "We no longer have isolated environmental crimes."

    "You have this sophistication and there is a transnationality, because it involves other countries in the Amazon," Dino continued. "So the idea is a specialized unit for greater efficiency and greater articulation with neighboring countries."

    While environmental crimes are currently addressed by the Federal Police's organized crime department, Dino said that creating a new unit would be a "practical proposal, which shows a sense of priority for this environmental issue."

    Lula, a Workers' Party member who recently defeated Brazil's outgoing far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, said two weeks ago at the United Nations COP27 summit that "there's no climate security for the world without a protected Amazon" and outlined his plan to achieve "zero deforestation."

    Parts of the Amazon—nicknamed the "lungs of the Earth" because of its unmatched capacity to provide oxygen and absorb planet-heating carbon dioxide—recently passed a key tipping point after Bolsonaro spent his four-year reign intensifying the destruction of the tropical rainforest. Bolsonaro's regressive policy changes pushed deforestation in Brazil to a 15-year high last year, helping to drive the country's greenhouse gas emissions to their highest level in almost two decades.

    "The past four years have been marked by Bolsonaro government's anti-environment and anti-Indigenous agenda, and by the irreparable damage caused to the Amazon, biodiversity, and to the rights and lives of Indigenous people," André Freitas, Amazon campaign coordinator for Greenpeace Brazil, said Wednesday in a statement.

    "Reverting the destruction from the past administration and taking meaningful action to protect the Amazon and the climate must be a priority of the new government," said Freitas.

    During his COP27 speech, Lula, who previously served as Brazil's president from 2003 to 2010 and takes office again on January 1, said: "The crimes that happened during the current government will now be combated. We will rebuild our enforcement capabilities and monitoring systems that were dismantled during the past four years."

    Most of the deforestation that occurred under Bolsonaro was illegal, fueled by logging, mining, and agribusiness companies that were given a green light by the outgoing president and often used violence to repress Indigenous forest dwellers and other environmental defenders.

    "We will fight hard against illegal deforestation. We will take care of Indigenous people," said Lula, who drastically slashed clear-cutting and inequality when he governed the country earlier this century. "Brazil is emerging from the cocoon to which it has been subjected for the last four years."

    According to Freitas, "To start rebuilding the climate agenda in Brazil, it is fundamental for the new government to have a robust plan to control deforestation and fight mining and land-grabbing by resuming the creation of protected areas, respecting the rights of Indigenous peoples, and holding those responsible for environmental crimes accountable."

    "It is essential," he added, "that the future government promotes an ecological transition that establishes a predominant economy in the Amazon that can live with the forest standing and that brings real, just development to the region."

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    Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday he is considering traveling to the United States to meet President Joe Biden after his election victory is certified this month.

    Lula told reporters in Brasilia that he wanted to discuss a series of issues with Biden, including the Ukraine War, and may travel to the United States before his inauguration on Jan. 1. His election win will be officially certified on Dec. 12.

    "I want to talk to him about Brazil-U.S. relations, Brazil's geopolitical role in the world, the war in Ukraine - there is no need for a war," Lula said.

    The leftist leader compared the political situation in the two largest democracies in the Western Hemisphere as he criticized former U.S. President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who he defeated in an October vote.

    "The damage Trump has done to U.S. democracy is the same damage that Bolsonaro has done to Brazil's. They have the same behavior," said Lula, who is set to meet with two U.S. envoys on Monday in Brasilia to discuss possible dates for his trip.

    The president-elect also said he would only make final decisions on his cabinet after his certification ceremony. But he added that "deep down I have already (chosen) 80% of the cabinet in mind".

    His election win will be officially certified on Dec. 12.
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    As of now, Bolsonaro has neither conceded nor congratulated his opponent.
    As if ever made a difference you one-liner school girl

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    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    Should be an an interesting speech. He'll have to say something about the election results. If it were Argentina I wouldn't have predicted an easy handover, with Brazil I don't know. I hope da Silva is able to maintain a neutral stance in the political arena. I like what I've seen from da Silva. BRICK could be instrumental in world politics if they stick together.
    I would think that is a non starter. BRICS has lost much of its credibility. No one believes China is an instrument for good or that it can be trusted to keep its word. Russia's reputation under Putin is totally trashed. Bolsonaro dragged Brazil's reputation into the gutter. India has lost credibility with its leaders militant stance on hinduism and its buying and support of Russian oil. South Africa goes from one corrupt President to another in a country with failing infra structure and whose poverty and violence has increased since the end of apartheid. The ANC couldn't organise a chook raffle.

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    fvckin' hick

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    I would think that is a non starter. BRICS has lost much of its credibility. No one believes China is an instrument for good or that it can be trusted to keep its word. Russia's reputation under Putin is totally trashed. Bolsonaro dragged Brazil's reputation into the gutter. India has lost credibility with its leaders militant stance on hinduism and its buying and support of Russian oil. South Africa goes from one corrupt President to another in a country with failing infra structure and whose poverty and violence has increased since the end of apartheid. The ANC couldn't organise a chook raffle.
    Not to mention the chinkies and Putin trust each other about as far as skidmark can throw a marble.

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    another one liner from the school girl who adds nothing to the thread

    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    as of now, Bolsonaro has neither conceded nor congratulated his opponent.
    you must understand by now, it never did matter

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    Looks like Lula could fuck up one of Bolsonaro's backhanders...

    Lula's government set to scrap gas pipelines and power plants

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