Brazil Lula is persecuting Michael Shellenberger
We Exposed Censorship By Brazil’s Supreme Court, And Now President Lula Is Persecuting Me
PLUS: Brazil’s Attorney General Is Seeking To Entirely Shut Down X, Formerly Known As Twitter
Thirty years ago this year, I asked Brazil’s current president, who goes by the single name “Lula,” if he would turn his country into Cuba, complete with censorship. He said "no" and that he and the Brazilian people loved their freedom too much.
At no point since then did I ever imagine that I would be the victim of Cuba-style censorship and repression at the hands of @LulaOficial . And yet, that is precisely what is happening.
All of this is happening at the same time that Brazil’s Attorney General and Supreme Court are reportedly seeking a way to entirely shut down X, Brazil’s only free speech platform. The Brazilian government recently retaliated against X by cutting off advertising on X. X’s top attorney in Brazil resigned to protect his safety less than two weeks ago.
Yesterday, Brazil’s attorney general, Jorge Messias, urged the Supreme Court to pursue “criminal prosecution” and investigation to “identify and punish the possible culprits.” My alleged crime was publishing the “Twitter Files - Brazil.” At no point does the Attorney General suggest that either I or my coauthors Eli Vieira and David Ágape lied or presented inaccurate information in the Twitter Files - Brazil.
Rather, the Attorney General office’s six-page memo, released publicly, claims that I released “excerpts of content from confidential judicial decisions” in an “attempt to destabilize the democratic state.” This is untrue. None of the Twitter Files - Brazil contained “confidential judicial decisions.” The Twitter Files - Brazil were strictly emails between Twitter staff. There is not a single instance where we published “confidential judicial decisions.”
But even if we had, the Brazilian constitution says, “the law may only restrict the publicity of procedural acts when the defense of privacy or social interests so require" (Article 5, LX). In this case, it was imperative that we publish the Twitter Files precisely to protect the public’s right to privacy, freedom of speech, and democracy.
What’s more, the attack on me is highly selective. Brazilian news media have, for years, reported on confidential judiciary decisions and have not been subjected to such an outrageous criminal investigation as the one I am under.
Finally, there is no law against attempting to “destabilize the democratic state” through non-violent methods. The law only prohibits violent attacks on democracy. As such, the Attorney General abuses his powers and acts as a lawmaker, usurping Brazil’s Congress.
And just imagine if Brazil criminalized something as vague as “destabilizing the democratic state.” Such a law would allow President Lula to lock up nonviolent protesters, journalists, and his political rivals. Why is the Attorney General doing this? The first thing to understand is
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Brazil group of infiltrators Capital Brasília
Capitol II Brazil - Group of infiltrators in coordinated action, black blocs vandalizing, protesters clashing with leftist infiltrators and helping the police capture them. Meanwhile innocents are imprisoned"
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The dictatorship that exists in Brazil
DANIEL SILVEIRA: see the story of the deputy who was censored, persecuted, condemned and arrested by the Brazilian dictatorship, simply for thinking and expressing his opinions.
#Brazil #efsnews1
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Copacabana RJ Brazil 04/21/2024
Millions of Brazilians in Copacabana RJ fight for freedom in Brazil against the dictatorship of the Supreme Court and support Jair Bolsonaro.
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Joe Biden 🤣🤣🤣
ELECTIONS 2024 🇺🇸 — Joe Biden says he sees 'F*** Joe Biden' posters and also sees children giving him the middle finger all the time.
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Intelligence Planning Behind Sweeping Brazil Censorship, Evidence Suggests Suggests
Years Of US-UK Military And Intelligence Planning Behind Sweeping Brazil Censorship, Evidence Suggests
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Brazil - Moraes interfered in the elections
🚨URGENT🚨 Elon Musk has just stated on X that Alexandre de Moraes interfered in the Brazilian elections. “De Moraes absolutely interfered in the elections in Brazil.” 🔥🔥🔥
#twitterfilesbrazil #Brazil #efsnews1
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HAPPENING TODAY IN JAPAN
Thousands attend public demonstration against WHO and New World Order across multiple locations in Japan!
Pre-demonstration speeches:
Prof: Masayasu Inoue: ...there indeed exists something very evil. It's often dismissed with a single phrase as a 'conspiracy', but in reality, conspiracies have been part of our genetics and culture since the Age of Exploration, continuing to this day. I came to realize this. In that sense, my message for today is about vaccines that use our genetics to make our bodies produce pathogens or proteins, even if they're disguised as vaccines, for example, next could be influenza. And now, there's panic over sugar and various other things, but the strategy to use messenger types for everything has become the basic strategy of American global pharmaceutical companies. To everyone here, among friends and acquaintances, introducing genetic vaccines into the body should not be done, regardless of the type. Take this as the key message home; by doing so, I hope you can protect your children and grandchildren. In this sense, half a century later, what was then WHO, has over these last four years been guiding us through some absurd directions. Upon investigation, over 85% of WHO's budget turns out to be funded by pharmaceutical companies and stakeholders like Bill Gates Foundation, indicating that it's being directed towards their interests. This means our health is being used as a weapon, and now we're in the midst of a third world war fought with information, questioning whether responsible adults are aware and able to protect themselves accordingly.
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Let's stop the third atomic bomb with our hands, in the hands of the Japanese people. Shall we not? This national movement actually has four objectives. First, a pledge and declaration. Here, we vow to protect our children, to protect Japan. We stand against WHO, global totalitarianism, pandemic treaties, submarine IHR, genetic vaccines, plandemic, control of information, and declare to eliminate all these. Figures such as Tedros, Gates, Schwab, Biden, representatives of the New World Order. One of their primary agents, Fumio Kishida. And Kamikawa, further, Japan's Fauci, Takemi, Takemi, Takemi. The term New World Order came up earlier, but though it has 'New' in its name, it's actually an old order. It's an order that should collapse.
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Lula wants to ban lying in Brazil 🤣
BREAKING: LULA WANTS TO BAN LYING IN BRAZIL. 🇧🇷🇺🇸
LULA: 'If I had the power, I would issue a decree: It is forbidden to lie! Whoever "lies" will be ARRESTED.'
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Elon Musk expressed his perplexity abuse Judiciary in Brazil
In a room at Space opened by Mario Newfall, Australian entrepreneur and investor, this Wednesday night, April 10, gathered Elon Musk, Allan dos Santos, Rodrigo Constantino, Ana Paula Henkel, senator Eduardo Girão, deputy Luis Felipe Orleans de Bragança and deputy Nikolas Ferreira to discuss the illegal censorship of X in Brazil. Elon Musk expressed his perplexity at the abuse of the Judiciary in Brazil, classifying it as an “extreme degree” and said: “I have never seen anything of this magnitude”. Musk once again said that X employees were threatened with arrest. Elon Musk is exposing all the evidence and showing the world the regime that was implemented in Brazil - a nefarious, criminal regime that suffocates free thought and condemns the entire society to perpetual slavery. A regime that, if not stopped immediately, could spread to the rest of the world, after all, global tyranny is the ultimate goal of tyrants.
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Brazil is no longe Democracy Rob Roos
The Dutch Rob Roos, one of the best-known MEPs, said today that "Brazil is no longer a Democracy" and that Lula da Silva is a puppet of Alexandre de Morais. "The elections had direct interference from Morais", he said. Exclusive report in Brussels, at the European Parliament (10.04.2024)
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Freedom for Brazil
🇧🇷FREEDOM FOR BRAZIL🇧🇷
The full video now on X with English subtitles ❤️
Brazil's freedom of speech has never been more at stake than now!
Some of the last people standing between Brazil and tyranny: @elonmusk @nikolas_dm @TradutordoBR @goddeketal @shellenberger @JamileDavies @flferronato
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Portugal Alexandre Moraes denunciado no Parlamento
André Ventura anunciou hoje que irá denunciar o ministro do TSE, Alexandre de Moraes, no Parlamento português, por ataques à Liberdade e aos direitos dos brasileiros, após a rede X (ex Twitter) expor provas de atos anti-democráticos desse magistrado.
Todo o mundo está sabendo o que se passa no Brasil 🇧🇷
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Elon Musk Is All That Stands In The Way Of Totalitarianism
Last night, around 8 p.m. local time in São Paulo, Brazil, Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes announced a criminal investigation into Elon Musk, the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, for allegedly spreading disinformation, obstructing justice, and allowing people who De Moraes had banned from social media to freely express their views. De Moraes said he would fine X twenty thousand dollars per day for every banned person Musk allows to speak.
As such, De Moraes has taken Brazil one step closer to being a dictatorship. What’s more, the events of the last few weeks make clear that Elon Musk is the only thing standing in the way of global totalitarianism. Without free speech, there can be no democracy.
If X goes down, we must continue to fight. We can continue to communicate through email and other social media platforms, such as Facebook.
But email is no substitute for social media platforms' capacity to share information with millions of people. Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, abandoned his principled free speech position in 2020 after three years of relentless pressure from activist NGOs, Democrats, and corporate advertisers. Today, Facebook actively represses the spread of news.
The mainstream corporate news media have never been more corrupt and totalitarian. With few exceptions, they spread government propaganda as a matter of policy. Nobody demands censorship more than the corporate media, which benefit from governments shutting down their competitors.
Governments are either not protecting free speech or actively participating in the war upon it.
Last month, the US Supreme Court held a hearing where justices made clear that they were fine with the US government pressuring social media companies to censor. Last week, the Scottish government implemented a law to crack down on so-called hate speech, including jokes by comedians. In Ireland, the government wants the power to send police into people’s homes to search computers and phones for hate speech. In Canada, the governing Liberal party wants the power to send people to prison for life for things they’ve said. And the European Union has empowered a tiny group of bureaucrats to decide what is true and false and engage in mass censorship.
All of this is happening at the very same moment that my colleagues and I have revealed that government intelligence organizations are working through NGOs to interfere in elections by spreading disinformation about populist activists and political candidates. In other words, governments are demanding censorship in order to protect their ability to spread disinformation.
Making matters worse, governments are directly financing corporate news media. The current Brazilian government is spending 30 times more than the previous government on media advertising in order to spread its disinformation.
I never in my life thought I would live to see the rise of totalitarianism in Western countries. A powerful minority of educated elites around the world are demanding the censorship, persecution, and incarceration of their political enemies. Naturally, they are doing so in the name of saving democracy. I am shocked and embarrassed that I used to call many of these totalitarians friends and allies. The only explanation is that they are in the grip of mass psychosis after years of media propaganda and government disinformation falsely claiming that populist political movements are undemocratic.
The fact that the future of free speech rests upon the shoulders of a single individual is not something any of us should want. I do not think that this is a responsibility Elon Musk wants. He would be a far richer person had he never bought Twitter. He would also be living a more peaceful life. After Musk bought Twitter, the Biden administration and the Democratic Party declared war on him. Various government agencies filed multiple frivolous lawsuits against Musk and his companies in ways very similar to the war the Brazilian government is waging against X.
What all of this reveals is that, until Musk bought Twitter, we didn’t really have freedom of expression. The US government felt that it controlled both the corporate news media and social media companies. We saw in the Twitter Files that the FBI orchestrated a disinformation and censorship campaign in order to protect Joe Biden.
Starting with the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, operatives working for the US Department of Defense and the British Ministry of Defense sought to hide their censorship and disinformation efforts as “cyber security.” After that, the US Department of Homeland Security and the Stanford Internet Observatory engaged in a mass censorship effort around the 2020 elections and Covid.
It is today clear that intelligence and security agencies have been working together around the world to gain control over social media platforms in order to discredit, prosecute, and incarcerate populist leaders. The evidence is now overwhelming that the FBI and Secret Service are covering up evidence related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot in Washington DC. And there is still much we do not know about the eerily similar riot in Brazil’s capitol on January 8, 2023.
There is much we need to do to fight back....
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Australiana TV STF BRAZIL
Australian TV presenters classify STF decisions as “totalitarianism”. Clash between Elon Musk and the Supreme Court was the topic of ‘The Late Debate’. “Can you get more totalitarian than that?” asked one of the commentators. (🎥: Sky News Australia)
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Brasil STF interferência in the election 2022
O que o Elon Musk está prestes a expor no twitter não chega aos pés do que vimos meses antes da eleição 2022, quando a censura reinava aqui..(08/31/2022)
This minister's external interference in the election was so great that even the mainstream media broke its silence @elonmusk
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Brasil a beira da ditadura
Este é Michael Shellenberger, e estou reportando a vocês ao vivo do Brasil, onde uma série dramática de eventos está em andamento.
Às 18h52, horário do Sao Paulo a corporação X, anteriormente conhecida como Twitter, anunciou que um tribunal brasileiro a forçou a “bloquear certas contas populares no Brasil”.
Menos de uma hora depois, o proprietário do X, Elon Musk, anunciou que o X desafiaria a ordem do tribunal e suspenderia todas as restrições.
“Como resultado”, disse Musk, “provavelmente perderemos todas as receitas no Brasil e teremos que fechar nosso escritório lá. Mas os princípios são mais importantes do que o lucro.”
A qualquer momento, o Supremo Tribunal Federal poderá bloquear todo o acesso ao X/Twitter para o povo brasileiro.
Não é exagero dizer que o Brasil está à beira da ditadura nas mãos de um ministro totalitário do Supremo Tribunal Federal chamado Alexandre de Moraes.
O presidente Lula da Silva está participando desse impulso em direção ao totalitarismo. Desde que assumiu o cargo, Lula aumentou enormemente o financiamento governamental dos principais meios de comunicação, a maioria dos quais incentiva o aumento da censura.
O que Lula e de Moraes estão fazendo é uma violação escandalosa da Constituição do Brasil e da Declaração dos Direitos Humanos das Nações Unidas.
Neste momento, o Brasil ainda não é uma ditadura consolidada. Vocês ainda têm eleições e outros meios de enfrentar o autoritarismo que já não existem em tiranias mais avançadas.
Mas o Supremo Tribunal Federal e o Tribunal Superior Eleitoral interferem em eleições por meio de censura.
Há três dias eu publiquei os Arquivos do Twitter para o Brasil. Eles mostram que Moraes tem violado a Constituição brasileira. Moraes exigiu ilegalmente que o Twitter revelasse informações privadas sobre usuários do Twitter que usaram hashtags que ele considerou impróprias. Ele exigiu acesso aos dados internos do Twitter, violando a política da plataforma. Ele censurou, por iniciativa própria e sem nenhum respeito ao devido processo, postagens no Twitter de parlamentares do Congresso brasileiro. E Moraes tentou transformar as políticas de moderação de conteúdo do Twitter em uma arma contra os apoiadores do então presidente Jair Bolsonaro.
Digo isso como jornalista independente e apartidário. Não sou fã nem de Bolsonaro nem de Trump. As minhas opiniões políticas são muito moderadas. Mas eu reconheço a censura quando a vejo.
Os Arquivos do Twitter também revelaram que Google, Facebook, Uber, WhatsApp e Instagram traíram o povo do Brasil. Se forem comprovados tais indícios, os executivos dessas empresas comportaram-se como covardes: forneceram ao governo brasileiro dados cadastrais pessoais e números de telefone sem ordem judicial e, portanto, violando a lei.
Quando o Twitter se recusou a fornecer informações privadas dos usuários às autoridades brasileiras, incluindo mensagens diretas, o governo tentou processar o principal advogado brasileiro do Twitter.
Quando eu morei no Brasil em 1992, eu era muito de esquerda. Na época, as palavras de ordem de Lula e do PT eram “Sem medo de ser feliz”.
Nos últimos dias, conversei com dezenas de brasileiros, incluindo professores, jornalistas e advogados respeitados. Todos me disseram que estão chocados com o que está acontecendo. Eles me disseram que têm medo de falar o que pensam e que o governo Lula é cúmplice na criação desse clima de medo.
O Brasil é o seu país, não o meu. Existem limites para o que sou capaz de fazer. Sei bem até onde posso ir.
Mas prometo que eu vou apoiar vocês na sua luta pela liberdade. E posso dizer uma coisa que muitos brasileiros não podem mais: Alexandre de Moraes é um tirano. E a única maneira de lidar com os tiranos é enfrentando-os. Cabe aos seus senadores enfrentar o tirano. E cabe ao povo do Brasil pressionar seus senadores para que façam isso.
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