Brazil: Dilma – Don’t Let Go!
Open Letter to President Dilma Rousseff
By Peter Koenig
Dear President Rousseff,
April 28, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - Please do not let go!
Don’t let the corrupt neoliberal right wing with the help – no, at the
instigation of Washington steal your country – take away Brazil from the
Brazilians, rip-off and destroy all you and Lula have achieved in the last 14
years, free education, health services, efficient and modern public
transportation, a basic social safety net – a more equal society. During the
past decade and a half, you were able to distribute the benefits of Brazil’s
riches to the majority of Brazilians, slowly turning the tide from the
oligarchs, the latifundios – to the people, to those who
work the lands, who have built and are still building and are eager to
continue building a Brazil for all Brazilians.
The dying beast in the North is roaring; it
cannot tolerate a free and autonomous ‘backyard’. A new sort of ‘coups’ is
being invented – less blood, more fraud, election fraud, like in Argentina ), and in Venezuela
In the case of Brazil, it is legislative
fraud, buying and putting into key positions crook-politicians, like
Vice-President Michel Temer and Eduardo Cunha, President of the Lower House,
who miraculously ascended (was ‘elected’) to his current position in February
2015 – and this in the midst of the huge, so-called ‘Car Wash’ corruption
scandal, in which he is involved with bribes amounting to tens of millions of
dollars allegedly from Petrobras. A similar parliamentary impeachment coup
was carried out in Uruguay in 2012, removing President Fernando Lugo, by the
same US instigators. The pattern is notorious.
The accusations – and proofs – against
Eduardo Cunha, are disproportionally graver than the mild accusations of
‘administrative accounting’ manipulation that Dilma Rousseff is alleged
having committed. Though there is no proof of this in the case of President
Rousseff, every country and its neighbor does it. Among the worst offenders
of this practice is the North American creation of NATO in Europe.
Please, Dilma, do not allow the oligarchs and latifundios to
return and to run Brazil under the direction of Washington. Mr. Temer has
already mentioned how, as new President, he would undo the social benefits
and equality you and your predecessor have let Brazilians enjoy; he would
return Brazil to the bankers, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, and of course to
the IMF – back to the debt trap, call it the death knell.
Just look what is happening to your southern
neighbor Argentina under the neoliberal, also Washington imposed Mauricio
Macri, who is selling the country back to the debt czars, Wall Street, the
FED and – of course – also the all commanding IMF. In his four months in
government, he has already rolled back Argentina’s economy – some call it
‘fast-forwarded’ – to the levels of 2004 / 2005, with poverty levels at 34%
by end of March 2016, up from about 12% last November. Unemployment and
inflation are exploding after Macri terminated contracts of over 120,000
state employees, giving an example to private industry to do likewise. He
also vowed more was to come.
On the day of his inauguration, 10 December,
as he promised before, Macri set the peso afloat, triggering a devaluation of
at one point close to 60% (from about 9.4 pesos to the US dollar in November
2015 to 15.8 pesos at the end of February 2016). It has since recovered
slightly, hovering presently at around 14 pesos to the dollar (30%
devaluation from pre-December 10 levels). The ensuing inflation is enormous,
sinking already a vast segment of Argentinians into poverty. And this is only
the beginning.
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Brazil’s Attorney General, Eduardo Cardozo,
declared the impeachment process against
you, President Rousseff, illegal. He calls it an attempted ‘coup
d’état’
This is done as an outright state
delinquency, hardly evidenced anywhere in the world. The Brazilian coup
executioners, puppets of the Washington masters, are crooks, with corruption
trials around their necks. Yet they proceed, of course with the full
in-country political support of the chief instigators sitting in and around the
White House in Washington. The world is just a silent onlooker. The six
Anglo-Saxon western media giants which literally control 90% of all the
‘news’ consumed by the west, make sure there is no mainstream paper or TV
station that dares questioning this flagrantly illegal and anti-democratic
process. – If it wasn’t such a horrendous fraud on the Brazilian people, it
could be seen as a previously unheard-of laughable political soap opera.
You, Dilma, and Lula have liberated Brazil
from western colonization – which was maintained by US-supported military
dictatorships during the last century. Don’t let it go back. Defend your
position; with force if it must be. I join my friend Andre Vltchek, when he calls on
you to use muscle to counter this coup of the neo-oligarchs and latifundios, and protect Brazilians from
another onslaught of neoliberal economic fascism.
Ban all western mainstream media in Brazil! –
This is not censuring ‘free expression’- this is stopping the lie propaganda
machine against your government, against your achievements. Prevent the
manipulation of people’s minds by the presstitute western communication
systems. There is hardly anybody in the world who does not know that this
so-called ‘information media’ has nothing to do any more with the old believe
of the ‘right to free speech’ and ‘free expression’ as an essential virtue of
democracy.
This type of democracy, the one that was
thought out by Greek philosophers in Delphi some 2,500 years ago, doesn’t
exist anymore. It was hijacked long ago, gradually, almost imperceptibly, by
Washington and its allies and vassals. Now it’s a shell of propaganda; words
that can be manipulated to fit any believe – and people at large still
swallow it as ‘democracy’.
Bring the tanks to the streets, surrounding
the ‘Palácio do Planalto’ – by no means for provoking violence,
but for showing the President’s power to protect the people and the country
from theft by the neo-fascists and foremost from the interests of Washington,
who are behind this incredible spectacle of literally ordering and directing
a bunch of crooks – criminal crooks that is – to take over Brazil and its
riches, as proxies for US interests – and of course, to break apart the block of the BRICS countries
that together with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the
Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) are seriously threating the western
dollar-based casino system.
Brazil is rich alright, in natural resources,
and so is Argentina, and so is Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia Ecuador – all of
Latin America is rich in those resources the west covets for its lush
standard of living and to feed its war machine – almost the only generator of
GDP, plus consumption, of course; an endless and ever growing circle of armed
conflicts and globe destructive consumption.
The Amazon and Guarani Basins
But what is the particular resource of which
Brazil has arguably one of the largest reservoirs? Water. Fresh water.
Water fit for drinking after relatively simple purification. The entire
Amazon Basin, almost half of the country’s surface, is covered with a nearly
endless stream of waterways. The FAO estimates that about 12% of the world’s
surface fresh water is located in Brazil. This amounts to a total of about
8.2 billion cubic meters (BCM) per year, of renewable water, of which 6.3 BCM
originate in Brazil. This corresponds to a per capita availability of more
than 43,000 m3 per year, compared with the world average of about 8,200 m3. –
In addition, Brazil counts with 112,000 km3 of good quality renewable
groundwater.
Another little known, and especially little
talked about fresh water groundwater reserve is the Guarani aquifer,
named after the Guarani people. It covers 1.2 million km2 and lays beneath
the surface of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Its water volume is
estimated at 37,000 km3 (37 BCM), by far exceeding the surface water in
Brazil. It is arguably the world’s largest single body of underground water,
with an annual recharge rate of an estimated 170 km3 (The Great Artesian
Basin in Australia, below 23% of the Continent’s surface, contains about
65,000 km3 (65 BCM) of fresh water, but is not comprised in a single aquifer
and is vulnerable to cyclical droughts).
These enormous water reservoirs are
invaluable. They far exceed already today the value of all the world’s known
hydrocarbon deposits. In less than 20 years the earth is expected to suffer
serious water shortages. Some areas have suffered from water scarcities
already for years, and they are growing and expanding gradually to other
regions of the globe.
Not because water is actually disappearing
from the world’s ecosystems. Not at all. The total amount of water on Mother
Earth is constant. But it is ever more contaminated by our consumption and
greed driven industry. The powers that be, and responsible for most of the
resources’ pollution, know about it, and are attempting to appropriate the
still existing unspoiled waters to feed their elites, when We, the People,
are perishing from lack of water and lack of food due to lack of water.
No wonder, the Unites States of Chaos and
Greed has a vital but, of course, unspoken interest in these water resources,
especially those in its southern ‘backyard’. One could revise Henry
Kissinger’s infamous edict on controlling the world, ‘who controls the
water controls the universe’.
Dear Dilma – please do not let go! – Do not
allow the neo-fascist elite, driven by the northern empire take over your
country, the country of Brazilians, and their invaluable resources –
especially humanity’s lifeline – water.
Peter Koenig is an economist and
geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked
extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water
resources. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik,
PressTV, CounterPunch, TeleSur, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other
internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller
about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed– fiction based on facts and on 30
years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! –
Essays from the Resistance.
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