THE GIANT NO ONE SEES: RED REVOLUTION COMES TO "GREEN GIANT" BRAZIL

INATODAY.com - INTERNATIONAL NEWS ANALYSIS TODAY ^ | November 3, 2009 | Toby Westerman

[Cindy]

SNIPPET: "Lula and Chavez have established a "strategic relationship," and recently agreed upon a joint Brazilian-Venezuelan oil venture worth billions of dollars. Lula and Chavez have joined with Daniel Ortega, the returned Nicaraguan Marxist dictator, to form an anti-U.S. Latin American military alliance - all with Russian assistance - funded by the region's abundant oil reserves.

Brazil is engaged in its own arms build-up and Lula is determined that Brazil will become at least a first-rate regional power. Unfortunately, Lula is establishing Brazil as an anti-American military power by aligning with nations hostile or potentially hostile to the U.S. Lula has developed close ties with not only Chavez, but also with his political clones, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Rafael Correa in Ecuador.

Lula supports the international pariah, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and defends the right of the Islamic Republic of Iran to develop a nuclear capability. Iran has expressed its willingness to share its atomic technology with Brazil - as well as with Venezuela."

[kittykat77]

to form an anti-U.S. Latin American military alliance - all with Russian assistance - funded by the region's abundant oil reserves.

Ah, it's always good to have abundant oil reserves. Anyway, could all these guys be forming this anti-U.S. Latin American Military alliance to keep us away from their abundant oil reserves? I mean, what else could it be for? I'm assuming they're not planning to invade us for our wonderful cable programming.

[TigersEye]

"Lula and Chavez have established a "strategic relationship," and recently agreed upon a joint Brazilian-Venezuelan oil venture worth billions of dollars. Lula and Chavez have joined with Daniel Ortega, the returned Nicaraguan Marxist dictator, to form an anti-U.S. Latin American military alliance - all with Russian assistance - funded by the region's abundant oil reserves.

0ba-Mao supports that too as evidenced by his arrangement to loan Brazil's Petrobras billions of dollars for offshore drilling.

This also explains why Lula joined Chavez, Ortega, the Castro brothers and 0ba-Mao to support the return of Honduras' traitor Mel Zelaya to power.

[Cindy]

OPINION:

Sometimes countries don't like the U.S.A. (for whatever reason they designate), but in the past, for the most part -- they did respect us for our power and perseverance.

Today, some countries just hate us because they can and because they perceive us to as weak and declining.

'Nuff said.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“I mean, what else could it be for?”

To murder their own people with.

[nathanbedford]

Did we endure the Cuban missile crisis for nothing?

For many months now I've been posting that a realpolitik vision of the world would certainly anticipate an alliance between Moscow, Caracas, Cuba and assorted South American communist dictatorships. This is moving closer and closer to reality but the addition of Brazil with its elephantine oil find offshore radically redefines the equation. Now this axis can be funded not only by Russian oil but also by Venezuelan and Brazilian oil.

One day before this advertisement is published here on Free Republic (that's really what the article is) we have the spectacle of the vice president of the United States gratuitously assailing Sarah Palin for her support of domestic drilling in a congressional race in which the vice president's remark appeared to be entirely out of context. But are they?

A couple of months ago we have the revelation that George Soros has invested heavily in Brazilian oil drilling. This was then followed by an announcement that the Obama administration is underwriting the costs of such drilling ventures. My concern goes far beyond possible corruption involved in George Soros leveraging his influence with this administration to subsidize his investments, it extends to the national security threat posed to this country by these developments.

While all of this is going on and while the vulnerability to foreign oil production grows organically, we have the Obama administration affirmatively shutting down and discouraging drilling domestically whereever it can. Why is the administration accelerating our dependency on producers of oil who explicitly state their hatred of the United States?

It is conceivable that this Russian- New World axis might produce a alternative market of oil suppliers competing with the Muslim dominated suppliers. But that is certainly only a possibility and not one upon which a prudent American government would bet the very survival of the nation.

One can only ask, why would a Marxist president make the nation more vulnerable to oil producing Marxist countries?

[KitJ]

Brazil keeps coming up in the strangest places lately:

Aug 31 (Financial Times) - - The World Trade Organisation gave Brazil the green light on Monday to impose $295m (€206m, £181m) of sanctions on US goods over Washington’s failure to scrap illegal subsidies to its cotton farmers.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a583eb44-9658-11de-84d1-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

The US Department of Justice has alleged that an employee of Brown Brothers Harriman, a US private bank, helped Brazilian clients avoid measures to detect money laundering and conceal the proceeds of crimes including fraud and tax evasion. The DoJ made the allegation in an application to freeze about $450m in an account held at BBH in New York in the name of Tiger Eye Investments Limited, a company registered in the Cayman Islands.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/183060f8-940d-11de-9c57-00144feabdc0.html

Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund’s largest holding.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aFHPjfeUvtl8

The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html

We said George Soros is more of a speculator than an investor. When come to the long equity position, he is willing to take some very concentrated positions in one or two industry. Right now, Oil and Gas is the name of the game, and Consumer Services names are catching up. George Soros’s top five holding as of March 31, 2009 include: Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.Petrobras (PBR), Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (POT), Hess Corp. (HES), ConocoPhillips (COP), Lowe’s Companies Inc. (LOW)”
http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=57768

(July 16th)
General Motors is spending more money where it counts: Latin America. The Latin American market has been generous to the struggling automaker despite struggles at home. Today, GM announced a $1 billion plan to expand its vehicle lineup in Brazil.
http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2009/07/general_motors_announces_1_bil.html

If a tree falls in Brazil, it will, in fact, be heard in the U.S. - at least if a little-noticed provision in the pending climate-change bill in Congress becomes law. As part of the far-reaching climate bill, the House is set to vote Friday on a plan to pay companies billions of dollars not to chop down trees around the world, as a way to reduce global warming.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/climate-bill-gives-billions-to-foreign-foliage/

(June 17th)
The global financial crisis has reduced the differences between nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday. [This was at the ‘BRIC’ conference - Brazil, Russia, India, China - for developing nations]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.db1c3a82d0827b5cdf05eea3ba146af8.511&show_article=1

Brazil purchases 250 German Leopard tanks to guard its borders The Brazilian army purchased 250 German leopard 1 A5 tanks which will be displayed mainly along the country’s 16.000 kilometres of land and fluvial borders thus reinforcing its dissuasive capacity in the event of foreign attacks.
http://en.mercopress.com/2009/08/04/brazil-purchases-250-german-leopard-tanks-to-guard-its-borders

French, Swedish and US defense companies pursuing a four-billion-dollar deal to replace Brazil’s aging fleet of fighter jets are stepping up lobbying efforts ahead of a decision expected within the next couple of months.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hcWS3yUEGTtRQuN20bJ93-gqioiQ

Aug 31 (Financial Times) - - The World Trade Organisation gave Brazil the green light on Monday to impose $295m (€206m, £181m) of sanctions on US goods over Washington’s failure to scrap illegal subsidies to its cotton farmers.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a583eb44-9658-11de-84d1-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

The US Department of Justice has alleged that an employee of Brown Brothers Harriman, a US private bank, helped Brazilian clients avoid measures to detect money laundering and conceal the proceeds of crimes including fraud and tax evasion. The DoJ made the allegation in an application to freeze about $450m in an account held at BBH in New York in the name of Tiger Eye Investments Limited, a company registered in the Cayman Islands.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/183060f8-940d-11de-9c57-00144feabdc0.html

Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund’s largest holding.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aFHPjfeUvtl8

The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html

We said George Soros is more of a speculator than an investor. When come to the long equity position, he is willing to take some very concentrated positions in one or two industry. Right now, Oil and Gas is the name of the game, and Consumer Services names are catching up. George Soros’s top five holding as of March 31, 2009 include: Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.Petrobras (PBR), Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (POT), Hess Corp. (HES), ConocoPhillips (COP), Lowe’s Companies Inc. (LOW)”
http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=57768

(July 16th)
General Motors is spending more money where it counts: Latin America. The Latin American market has been generous to the struggling automaker despite struggles at home. Today, GM announced a $1 billion plan to expand its vehicle lineup in Brazil.
http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2009/07/general_motors_announces_1_bil.html

If a tree falls in Brazil, it will, in fact, be heard in the U.S. - at least if a little-noticed provision in the pending climate-change bill in Congress becomes law. As part of the far-reaching climate bill, the House is set to vote Friday on a plan to pay companies billions of dollars not to chop down trees around the world, as a way to reduce global warming.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/climate-bill-gives-billions-to-foreign-foliage/

(June 17th)
The global financial crisis has reduced the differences between nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday. [This was at the ‘BRIC’ conference - Brazil, Russia, India, China - for developing nations]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.db1c3a82d0827b5cdf05eea3ba146af8.511&show_article=1

Brazil purchases 250 German Leopard tanks to guard its borders The Brazilian army purchased 250 German leopard 1 A5 tanks which will be displayed mainly along the country’s 16.000 kilometres of land and fluvial borders thus reinforcing its dissuasive capacity in the event of foreign attacks.
http://en.mercopress.com/2009/08/04/brazil-purchases-250-german-leopard-tanks-to-guard-its-borders

French, Swedish and US defense companies pursuing a four-billion-dollar deal to replace Brazil’s aging fleet of fighter jets are stepping up lobbying efforts ahead of a decision expected within the next couple of months.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hcWS3yUEGTtRQuN20bJ93-gqioiQ

Aug 31 (Financial Times) - - The World Trade Organisation gave Brazil the green light on Monday to impose $295m (€206m, £181m) of sanctions on US goods over Washington’s failure to scrap illegal subsidies to its cotton farmers.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a583eb44-9658-11de-84d1-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

The US Department of Justice has alleged that an employee of Brown Brothers Harriman, a US private bank, helped Brazilian clients avoid measures to detect money laundering and conceal the proceeds of crimes including fraud and tax evasion. The DoJ made the allegation in an application to freeze about $450m in an account held at BBH in New York in the name of Tiger Eye Investments Limited, a company registered in the Cayman Islands.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/183060f8-940d-11de-9c57-00144feabdc0.html

Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund’s largest holding.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aFHPjfeUvtl8

The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html

We said George Soros is more of a speculator than an investor. When come to the long equity position, he is willing to take some very concentrated positions in one or two industry. Right now, Oil and Gas is the name of the game, and Consumer Services names are catching up. George Soros’s top five holding as of March 31, 2009 include: Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.Petrobras (PBR), Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (POT), Hess Corp. (HES), ConocoPhillips (COP), Lowe’s Companies Inc. (LOW)”
http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=57768

(July 16th)
General Motors is spending more money where it counts: Latin America. The Latin American market has been generous to the struggling automaker despite struggles at home. Today, GM announced a $1 billion plan to expand its vehicle lineup in Brazil.
http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2009/07/general_motors_announces_1_bil.html

If a tree falls in Brazil, it will, in fact, be heard in the U.S. - at least if a little-noticed provision in the pending climate-change bill in Congress becomes law. As part of the far-reaching climate bill, the House is set to vote Friday on a plan to pay companies billions of dollars not to chop down trees around the world, as a way to reduce global warming.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/climate-bill-gives-billions-to-foreign-foliage/

(June 17th)
The global financial crisis has reduced the differences between nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday. [This was at the ‘BRIC’ conference - Brazil, Russia, India, China - for developing nations]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.db1c3a82d0827b5cdf05eea3ba146af8.511&show_article=1

Brazil purchases 250 German Leopard tanks to guard its borders The Brazilian army purchased 250 German leopard 1 A5 tanks which will be displayed mainly along the country’s 16.000 kilometres of land and fluvial borders thus reinforcing its dissuasive capacity in the event of foreign attacks.
http://en.mercopress.com/2009/08/04/brazil-purchases-250-german-leopard-tanks-to-guard-its-borders

French, Swedish and US defense companies pursuing a four-billion-dollar deal to replace Brazil’s aging fleet of fighter jets are stepping up lobbying efforts ahead of a decision expected within the next couple of months.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hcWS3yUEGTtRQuN20bJ93-gqioiQ

[KitJ]

All - sorry about the double or triple pasting in my post. Ooops - the information is repeated more than twice.

NBF - speaking of Brazil...I think its much bigger than just oil. This is shaping up to be a global-scale money laundering operation from the US taxpayers, through the governments of several countries, with soros at the nexus.

[Cindy]

“One can only ask...”

Yep.

[TigersEye]

One can only ask, why would a Marxist president make the nation more vulnerable to oil producing Marxist countries?

So that those Marxist countries will have the leverage to do to the United States some day what they (and we) are all trying to do to Honduras right now perhaps?

The Democrat "No Domestic Energy Policy!"

• No domestic drilling.
• No new refineries.
• No new nuke plants.
• No new dams for hydro-electric.
• No coal.
• No shale.
• Deplete the SPR.
• Let Iran get nukes.
• Let Iraq fall to Iranian domination.
• No Canadian tar sands oil.

All of that puts the U.S. in a position that war for oil or
complete economic collapse will be our only choices.
You can't frustrate every source of domestic energy
without consequences. Our enemies will blackmail us
to the extent that we are vulnerable to blackmail.

The Democrats are leading us into a real war for oil.
A war we won't have the energy to fight.
A war we don't need to fight because we have our own resources.

[nathanbedford]

No need to regret the duplicate postings, those facts bear repetition.

I had no idea of the extent of all this. Very very scary.

When one begins to connect the dots, I don't know whether I am more frightened because of the financial implications or because the country's sovereignty is becoming so vulnerable under the circumstances.

[Cindy]

Thank you for the additional links and post, Kitj.

[nathanbedford]

I would only add to your list that we subsidize potential Marxist enemies at the same time.

[KitJ]

Brazil started popping up a couple months ago and I started collecting links. These haven’t been updated in a while - I’m sure there are more dots to connect.
Kit

[TigersEye]

I was just thinking I should update it with a mention of the Petrobras deal.

I was also thinking, after absorbing the import of KitJ's post, that the pieces are being put in place on the board to affect a complete transfer of the wealth of the U.S. to those Marxist Latin American countries in one fell swoop. As opposed to the "slow" transfer through Cap & Tax over the next 10-20 years.

My understanding of economics is admittedly poor but the way all those dots connect seems very sinister to me.

[ballplayer]

Yes but we have the Corner on SOLAR PANELS HA ! Thats one thing they never thought of ,Thank You Al Gore for your foresight,What A man ,A Giant for the Betterment of Man

[Travis McGee]

Communism is harder to kill than Dracula.

[riri]

Irony is..the damn oil is only worth what is worth because of American consumption. Who do these morons think is going to buy the oil once we are all living in tin shacks? The Chinese? LOL, they think they didn’t like us?

[WellyP]

Want to kill the myths of Communism that many in S. America still believe? How do you do it?

The first thing that MUST be done is to FREE CUBA and expose what the Castros have done. Until that horror is exposed almost none of the myth can be challenged.

The Castros fall, Chavaz falls. Chavez falls Ortega in Nicaragua and Rafael Correa in Ecuador fall within 6 months. The FARC in Colombia and other rebel groups no longer have funding and collapse! That is how you KILL COMMUNISM IN AMERICA and get Brazil back on a good path. line!

[Thunder90]

This, plus the troubling information coming from the Former Soviet Union about reunification, is bad news for American. Yet Obama is oblivious to it. The "Former" Soviets and Chinese have been rapidly increasing their presence in Latin America.

Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!!!

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