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2002-10-30 14:37 | User Profile
Marxists Take Power in Brazil
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002 WASHINGTON ? The election of leftist Lula da Silva as president of Brazil "represents the largest intelligence failure since the end of World War II,? says Constantine C. Menges, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute and a former special assistant for national security affairs to President Ronald Reagan.
Menges? condemnation, delivered at a seminar Tuesday at the Institute of World Politics, included a warning that, left unfettered, Lulu would swiftly cement "a powerful axis of evil right in the Western Hemisphere? that will hold iron sway over 300 million people in several countries.
If that is allowed to happen, Menges told the standing-room-only audience, "George W. Bush will have lost South America.?
The looming new axis would include Cuba?s Fidel Castro, Venezuela?s Hugo Chavez and now Brazil?s Lulu da Silva.
Lulu, a friend of Castro?s for 30 years, will start out slowly, says Menges, putting on a bright face until he consolidates power over the giant country?s secret police and military, while securing what he wants in the way of aid from the International Monetary Fund.
Then, watch out, advises Menges, who notes that already ? shortly after his election ? Lulu has started "sporting a little red star in his lapel.?
Can't Pay Bills but Can Afford Nukes?
Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of the new power in Brazil is the specter of another nuclear arms race just south of the U.S. In a statement Sept. 13, 2002 statement, da Silva said that Brazil?s compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "would make sense only if all countries that already have [nuclear] weapons also gave them up.?
Lulu, then a presidential candidate, added, "if someone asks me to disarm and keep a slingshot and he comes at me with a cannon, what good does that do?? He concluded his remarks by stating, "All of us developing countries are left holding a slingshot while they have atomic bombs.?
Menges said that Lulu?s emergence in Brazil and all that portends to our security as a nation is a perfect example of U.S. intelligence "missing the big picture.?
Menges recalled warning the Clinton administration in June 1998 about the steady rise of the autocratic Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. "I was told that there was no chance that Chavez would win. Later I was told his ?election is inevitable.??
China's Threat
This same missing of the big picture is evident in U.S. relations with China as well, Menges fears. "No one looks at China globally. They have a $120 billion trade surplus, $300 billion in foreign investment,? all owing to a "one-way access to our markets. Yet, all the while China is defining us as their main enemy ? it?s ludicrous.?
As was the case with his warnings on Venezuela, Menges had repeatedly gone on record about the dangers of letting Lulu have his way. Menges counseled "timely political attention? to what was emerging in Brazil.
That political attention should have included "encouragement for the pro-democratic parties in Brazil to unify behind an honest, capable political leader who can represent the hopes of the majority of Brazilians for genuine democracy ??
"Using political means is the true challenge of leadership,? Menges told his Washington audience.
Now that the horse is out of the barn as far a Brazil is concerned, Menges hopes that U.S. intelligence assets are being used to "try to understand the reality? of what Lulu is up to, including playing a sort of political war game involving simulations.
Open Attacks on America
Some of what we can expect is transparent, however, says Menges, who points to the very open Web site of Sao Paulo Forum, a league da Silva and Castro co-founded back in 1990. Periodically the forum convenes a veritable Who?s Who of communists, terrorists and leaders of radical political movements from Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
A great number of the openly listed members appear right on the State Department?s list of active terrorist groups.
"These annual meetings have been used by the participants to coordinate their plans for taking power in their respective countries and for executing actions against the United States,? explains Menges.
Such intrigues include the PLO, says Menges, which along with terror agents of Hezbollah reportedly hide among the large Middle Eastern communities in Brazil and Venezuela.
In his IWP presentation, Menges also points to Iran as another looming "missed opportunity to prepare to help the people of Iran to liberate themselves.?
Although agreeing with intelligence chief George Tenent that the intelligence community is dedicated and hardworking, Menges says there is not enough attention to the "indirect aggression? that has hallmarked anti-U.S. operations since the end of the Second World War.
By way of a prophetic example, he recalls being asked, "Why are we worried about a coup in Kabul??
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2002-10-30 16:53 | User Profile
Now would be the perfect time for covert aid to the southern secession movement in Brazil. Brazil follows the normal pattern of becoming whiter as one goes south towards the temperate zones. Stripped of this area the rump Brazilian equatorial mud masses would be left to wallow in their untermenschlichkeit much as do those left in Castro's Cuba.
The New Monroe Doctrine --- White Western nationalist strongholds in South America.
2002-10-30 17:25 | User Profile
Originally posted by Faust@Oct 30 2002, 14:37 **Marxists Take Power in Brazil
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002 WASHINGTON ? The election of leftist Lula da Silva as president of Brazil "represents the largest intelligence failure since the end of World War II,? says Constantine C. Menges, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute and a former special assistant for national security affairs to President Ronald Reagan.**
Not exactly. As this article shows, everyone has knownabout this, but they've kept quiet, so as not to jeopardize the the prospects for latest round of IMF bailouts of the New York banks.
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**Menges? condemnation, delivered at a seminar Tuesday at the Institute of World Politics, included a warning that, left unfettered, Lulu would swiftly cement "a powerful axis of evil right in the Western Hemisphere? that will hold iron sway over 300 million people in several countries.
If that is allowed to happen, Menges told the standing-room-only audience, "George W. Bush will have lost South America.?**
Pat would say we never wanted to meddle in the fringes of Latin America in the first place, other than to possibly deal with ramifications of the Monroe Doctrine on foreign intervention. Nowadays of course the only threat of foreign intervention is us.
Nevertheless, it appears we better get ready for a new round of military interventions.
The looming new axis would include Cuba?s Fidel Castro, Venezuela?s Hugo Chavez and now Brazil?s Lulu da Silva.
Whoah. The real question is of course, what ends of this "axis of evil" point hostilely toward the Middle East, as we all know, with North Korea in mind. In spite of any neocon bluster about PLO training camps, I doubt we'll do anything to threaten the interests of Citigroup, FleetBoston and J.P. Morgan Chase.