• #Congress voted 232-232 against the urgency of the bill that would allow the implementation of a vaccination passport. 257 votes were needed for it to be approved. When it was presented in the #Senate, in the beginning on June, the bill was approved 72-0. It is inspired on the one approved in the #EuropeanUnion. The vote was against the urgency for creating it, not against creating it. #pandemic #covid
• President #Bolsonaro's ex-sister-in-law, #AndreaSiqueiraValle, disclosed an audio where she says that ex-office assistants paid part of their salaries back to Bolsonaro in return for the favor of giving them a job. This is a common crime pratice among Brazilian politicians. This allegedly happened during all his terms as congressman, from 1991 to 2018. The opposition is trying to form a committee to investigate the accusation. Senator #RenanCalheiros wants her to be heard on the #COVIDProbe ('#CPIdaCOVID') in order to know if this alleged scheme continued during the presidency. Evidence of this scheme prior to Bolsonaro becoming president is yet to be shown, so Calheiros subpoening her is, as of now, based on assumption rather than evidence.
• President #Bolsonaro expressed his wish that the party he's going to choose to run in 2022 be composed of rightwing #Christians as most as possible, but the #PatriotParty, the one he's more inclined to join, is resistant to the idea. The #AliancapeloBrasil Party, the one that was conceived to embrace this formula, won't be legally ready in time. “THE PATRIOT IS A CENTER PARTY AND IT WILL ALWAYS BE,” stated its General-Secretary #JorcelinoBraga. The #BigCenter (#Centrao), an alliance of parties that claim not to be left or right, has shown to align themselves more with the left, based on the policies they defend, bills they propose and back, their politics, and their statements, so the 'center' claim is highly debatable. The Patriot Party's president, #AdilsonBarroso, stated, “IT'S A CENTER-RIGHT PARTY. IT'S NOT A RIGHTWING PARTY SO THAT NO ONE CAN SAY IT'S AN EXTREME RIGHTWING PARTY. NOBODY CAN SAY IT'S A RADICAL PARTY.” This statement seems to tell there's a mentality from top down that implies Bolsonaro and his allies and supporters are radicals, extremists. He goes on, “IT'S A PARTY ALSO COMPOSED BY PEOPLE WHO DOESN'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT RIGHT AND LEFT. IT'S A PARTY THAT RECEIVES EVERYBODY.” This other one kind of nullifies the previous one, giving Bolsonaro no assurance he's going to have a party any better than the one he joined to ran in 2018, the #PSL, which got very devided right after he was elected, forcing him to leave it. The reason for the PSL's fiasco was the same lack of clarity on who they would allow to join them, but they can't be blamed fully because everything happened in a hurry. This time, Bolsonaro had more time to plan better what to demand from the party he's going to join, but although the situation now is better than in 2018, it's far from good enough as of this moment.
• #SupremeCourt (#STF) Justice #RosaWeber authorized an investigation into if President #Bolsonaro prevaricated in the case of the #Covaxin vaccine (we covered this case on a previous date). According to lawyer, professor, and state congresswoman #JanainaPaschoal, Justice Weber is abusing of her power, since an investigation into prevarication could only take place if Bolsonaro had been criminalized for a wrongdoing, which he hasn't.
• #SupremeCourt (#STF) Justice #CarmenLucia will decide if the president of the #Congress, Rep #ArthurLira, can be forced to “at least” analyze one of the impeachment requests against President #Bolsonaro.
• The Federal Police indicted Senator #RenanCalheiros for receiving 1 million reals from the builder #Odebrecht during the time he was the president of the #Senate in order to help approve a bill that would benefit the company. The charges are passive corruption and money laundering. Calheiros is one of the members of the committee on the mismanagement of money during the #pandemic (#CPIdaCOVID, #COVIDProbe). People joke about Calheiros by saying he is a record breaker for number of dismissed charges. Will these latest two be?
• The left went to the streets across the country to protest against the #Bolsonaro administration. The attendance was low in most places, but it was not bad in #SaoPaulo. There were acts of vandalism and violence. So much so that some of the big leftist media couldn't ignore, but they still found some way to minimize them. They avoided mentioning the rallies were in favor of the left and antigovernment, even though the images spoke for themselves (no Brazilian flags, a lot red, pro-#Lula's signs and Bolsonaro-as-a-genocide banners, hammer and sickle paintings, #BLM and #Antifa groups), kind of leaving for the reader that hadn't seen enough images to guess who these people were and, if they were a group, what group was. It couldn't be ignored as is usual because the Military Police of São Paulo tweeted updates on the rally constantly, and they showed the acts of vandalism, among them, spreading trash on the street, setting fire blockades, doing graffiti on bus stops, breaking windows and setting bank agencies on fire, breaking the windows of a #Hyundai car dealer. When it comes violence, subway guards were harassed, some police officers were attacked with molotov cocktails, one picture shows three to five police officers (the picture is not so clear) standing together and holding their shields to protect themselves from stones and garbage thrown at them, fireworks also thrown at them, a big rock thrown and hitting a police officer who had to receive help, protesters swinging bars at them. #PSDB, one of Brazil's biggest parties, condemned the violence and the vandalism, and stated that they reprove both extremisms. PSDB was the stablished opposition to the left between the re-democratization process in 1988 until Bolsonaro's election. In the last 3 years prior to him running, it started to become clear and to spread fast that PSDB has always been what #RINOs have in the #UnitedStates, so they took advantage of these violent rallies to claim they are moderate. We don't think many Brazilians are buying that. #DaniloGentili, a Brazilian comedian that supports the left, tweeted, “CONGRATS TO THE PROTESTERS FOR MAKING PRO-BOLSONARO PROPAGANDA,” referring to the fact that the violence and vandalism didn't weaken the public perception of him, but strengthened it. Bolsonaro tweeted, “NO ESCALATION OF [THE INTENT TO] AUTHORITARIANISM OR 'ANTIDEMOCRATIC' ACT WILL BE MENTIONED. NO ALERT TO A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY WILL BE MADE. NO SEARCHES AND NO ARRESTS WILL BE MADE. NO SECRECY WILL BE DISCLOSED. REMEMBER: IT HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT HEALTH OR DEMOCRACY. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT POWER!” The protesters never did any social distancing. A news host on #GloboTV, the biggest TV network in Brazil, said on Sunday, “THE RALLIES WERE PEACEFUL ALL ACROSS BRAZIL. THERE ARE NO REPORTS OF CONFLICTS.” The #UniversityofMackenzie, in SP, a private institution known for provinding a good quantity of scholarships to people with no means, was also vandalized by the people who say they defend the disadvantaged. #CNNBrasil was criticized for their hypocrisy for posting about people not respecting social distancing in bars and restaurants in #RiodeJaneiro after spending a good deal of the Saturday until Sunday evening posting dozens of material about the rallies without ever criticizing their attendees for not doing social distancing.

• The president of the #SupremeCourt (#STF) said he accepts an invitation from #Bolsonaro to meet with him this week to discuss a national plan to fight the #pandemic. Although the Brazilian states are not as independent to take decisions on their own as are the American states, the STF ruled early on that the measures would be up to the states. The chairs of the #Congress and the #Senate, and some governors and mayors are also expected to attend this meeting. #COVID
• During #Bolsonaro's daily morning stop to talk to supporters on his way to office, he said, “WHAT HAVE I BEEN SAYING? CHAOS IS COMING. HUNGER WILL TAKE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE PROBLEMS WE NEVER EXPECTED WE WOULD. SERIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEMS. [...] WHERE ARE WE GOING TO END UP? I WONDER IF THE GOV'T WILL HAVE TO TAKE SOME DECISION BEFORE THAT HAPPENS. IS THE POPULATION READY FOR SOME HARSH MEASURE FROM THE GOV'T REGARDING THIS ISSUE? WHAT DO I MEAN BY HARSH? TO GUARANTEE PEOPLE'S FREEDOM, TO GIVE BACK TO THE PEOPLE THEIR RIGHT TO WORK.”
• The Prosecutors Office along with the State Fiscal Court signed a document asking for the temporary removal of President #Bolsonaro's power over decisions related to the fight against the #pandemic, and not only the president's, but also the ministers of health's, of state's, of economy's, and others the Fiscal Court views as to have contributed to the chaos caused by the pandemic. In the document, the Vice-President #HamiltonMourao is asked to occupy Bolsonaro's position. Everything about this document is absurd, and it shows, or confirms, something more important than the fact that the deep state is alive and kicking, which is the fact that the vice-president is not on Bolsonaro's side. #mourao
• The conservative movement in Brazil has been building a self-damaging relationship with #CNN. #CNNBrasil started its operations during the conservative wave, and since then they have opted for showing little to no bias, but TBB believes this has been a tactic to gain popularity. It never made sense to us that CNN Brazil would have a very different approach to politics compared to CNN International and to CNN in the #UnitedStates, which are actively working against conservatives, against the right. Proof of this self-damaging relationship was recently shown in one of #LucianoHulk's tweet. Hulk is widely famous for his TV shows, has been a strong critic of the #Bolsonaro administration, and considers running for president in 2022. He wrote in his tweet, “BRAZIL WAS ALWAYS ADMIRED BY THE WORLD BECAUSE OF THE HAPPINESS OF ITS PEOPLE. TODAY WE ARE SCARING. HOW SAD! CNN AMERICA SEES US AS A THREAT, A COUNTRY GOING AGAINST PROGRESS WITH A GOV'T THAT HAS UNDERESTIMATED SCIENCE AND VACCINE.” If a Brazilian thinks CNN Brazil is reasonably unbiased, how trustful will any other CNN's opinion be for this person? #conservatives #liberals #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation

One of the Brazilian #SupremeCourt's judge-ministers let a high profile drug dealer leave prison and now police doesn't know where he is. Among the crimes #AndrédoRap had committed was the delivery of tons of cocaine to #Europe.

After the House of Representatives dismantled an anticorruption package and voted for it, criminals no longer need to stay in jail before their case is judged by the fourth and last court; the highest, the Supreme Court. Until then, a criminal can remain free, or go back into the streets.

But, in order for the criminal to remain free or go back into the streets, a letter of justification of incarceration has to be sent for the next higher court judge to sign, and this letter has the validity of three months, otherwise the criminal can't leave or remain free. This signature can take time, but if the criminal gets the money to pay for an attorney to rush their case into a superior court, problem solved.

In this drug dealer's case, the justification letter allegedly was not sent, and his attorney wrote a habeas corpus, to which the judge-minister accepted, even though he knew he was dealing with such a high profile criminal.

During an interview to #CNNBrasil on the radio, the judge-minister, #MarcoAurélio, abruptly ended the interview when the interviewer asked him to comment on the fact that the law-firm that wrote the habeas corpus belongs to one of his ex-employees in the Supreme Court.

#brazil #stf #drug #drugdealing #drugdealer #corruption #impunity #cnn