Dilma invited former comrades in jail for possession

The president Rousseff included on the guest list for his inauguration, on Jan. 1, all his former fellow prisoners.

The ceremonial of the Foreign Ministry has already sent the invitations.

Dilma has a great affection for his former colleagues in prison and makes a point of presence in possession of them all.

Dilma was imprisoned for nearly three years, from 1970 to 1972, including the dreaded DOPS, São Paulo.

Structural economic change

Measures stimulating the long-term credit announced by the Ministry of Finance and constitute a structural change in both our economy - a more taken by the Lula government, along with many others adopted since its inception in 2003.

Among many, and a quick overview that occurs to me, that this government ends in exactly 15 days is responsible, among others, by changes in the Corporate Recovery Act, the laws of the property market, the approval of Positive Credit ( which facilitates access to funding of good payers), the reform of the Council for Economic Defense (CADE) and the institution of the payroll credit.

How do you see are all measures which has guaranteed the financing of the economy and institutional security, throwing in the garbage dumps of the past and it always resulted in a north: the maintenance of economic growth, generating more than 14 million jobs during 2003 -2010, increased income, social inclusion, finally, the development of the country.

Reduction of taxation on capital market

The package announced today brings a reduction in taxes on the capital market, through the review of the new division of taxes to increase the liquidity (available resources) enabling the development of the secondary market (buying and selling between companies and people) of government securities and Private.

Another measure is directed to the financing of infrastructure, is the exemption of income tax due on the bonds issued by Special Purpose Companies (SPCs) for projects in the sector.

By current standards, individuals who pay 15% to 22.5% in these applications, will be exempted from the acquisition of the debentures. The companies, which currently pays the rates of Income Tax of Legal Persons (PIT) and
Social Contribution on Net Profits (CSL) will be taxed at 15%.

The Finance Ministry also announced the direction of three percentage points from the compulsory deposits (which are retained in the Central Bank) on time deposits, to create a fund to increase liquidity in the secondary market for private securities. The government said there may be additional contributions by the BNDES.

Another measure is the regulation by the Securities Commission (CVM), the public offering of call letters
financial instruments for banks' funding over longer periods. "We had already taken out of the mandatory Financial Letters. CVM will now regulate the public offering, so that the letters make more financial scale. This is
a long-term funding for financial institutions, "said Finance Minister Guido Mantega.

Brazil has to grow accustomed "body bags" coming home from war

The above sentence was handed down by the Minister of Institutional Security Cabinet, General Jorge Armando Felix, to explain that Brazil has to "pay a price"if it wants to be a world leader. According to the report by Ambassador Clifford Sobel, the conversation was in January 2007 as he detailed in a telegram sent to the State Department at 16:40 on 15 February 2007, to be published today by WikiLeaks.

The secret telegram describing a dinner given by Ambassador Felix and the Deputy Chief Executive of GSI, the Division Major General Ruben Peixoto Alexandre.
Discussing the application of diplomacy to mediate a meeting between Felix the Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff and the Advocate General American - besides the prospect of Brazil to cooperate with the NATO military alliance which includes countries in Europe and the United States .

Price to pay
"Felix was relaxed and quite frankly, while Alexander remained silent during most of the night, " described Sobel. He asked about the benefits of Brazil cooperate militarily with NATO.

"Felix seemed circumspect and said the Brazilians must face the fact that" a price must be paid 'for a global leadership role. Brazil must be willing to modernize and deploy its forces in international operations and confront the prospect of 'body bags returning to Brazil. Felix said that, both personally and as a soldier, he believed it was time to pay the price of Brazil and take the leadership position in the global scenario ", says the telegram.

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Holocaust Israel can

At least 195 people died and more than 200 injured after the Israeli Air Force to launch at least 30 rockets at the facilities of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, medics reported.

Among the dead was responsible for the Hamas police in the region, Taufiq Jaber, sources said.

The attacks came a day after Hamas re-launch missiles against Israel and accidentally killing children in Gaza.

On Friday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert authorized the reopening of borders with Gaza to the entry of humanitarian aid.

The dead include 120 in Gaza City and another 23 in Khan Younis and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, medics said.

Unlike the White House did not request that Israel stop attacks and yes, to avoid civilian casualties, authorities around the world have offered assistance to Gaza.

Egypt opened the Rafah crossing on the border with the Gaza Strip to allow humanitarian aid to enter and exit the wounded from the bombing.

Cowards!

The empire in the dock

Julian Assange, a man who several months ago few knew in the world, is showing that the most powerful empire that has existed in the story could be challenged.

The bold challenge came not from a superpower rival of a state with more than one hundred nuclear weapons in a country with hundreds of millions of inhabitants of a group of nations with vast natural resources, including the United States could not do without, or of a revolutionary doctrine able to shake the very foundations of the empire that is based on the plunder and exploitation of the world.

It was just a person who had barely heard of in the media. Although it is well-known, little is known about him except the much publicized allegation of an affair with two women, without due caution in a world with HIV. Has not yet written a book about his origin, education, or their philosophical and political ideas.

Not known, even the motivations that led to the crushing blow dealt to the empire. Just know that morally it has brought to its knees.

AFP news agency reported today that the "creator of Wikileaks will remain in prison despite [...] get bail but must remain in jail pending resolution of the appeal filed by Sweden, which claimed his extradition for alleged crimes sex. "

"... The lawyer representing the Swedish state, [...] announced its intention to appeal the decision to release him."

"... Judge Riddle set as conditions for the payment of $ 380,000 bail, the use of an electronic bracelet and enforcement of a curfew."

The very office reported that if released "... shall reside in a property of Vaughan Smith, his friend and chairman of the Frontline Club, London club where journalists from Wikileaks has established his headquarters for weeks ..."

Assange said: "'My convictions do not falter. I remain faithful to the ideals I have expressed. If anything has made this process has been to increase my determination that these are true and correct '... "

The brave and brilliant American filmmaker Michael Moore said he has offered to Wikileaks website, its servers, domain names and all you can provide for "..." keep alive and thriving Wikileaks while working to expose crimes that are plotted in secret and were committed in our name and our tax dollars to "..."

Assange, Moore said, "is suffering" an attack so vicious' [...] 'because it has embarrassed those who have hidden the truth'. "

"... 'Whether guilty or innocent Assange [...] is entitled to be paid his bail and defense." [...] 'I've joined, so the filmmakers, Ken Loach and writer John Pilger and Jemima Khan and I have offered money for bail'. "

Moore's contribution rose to 20 thousand dollars.

The U.S. government's barrage against Wikileaks has been so brutal that, according to polls by ABC News / Washington Post, two of every three Americans want to bring Assange before U.S. courts for disclosing the documents. No one has dared, however, to challenge the truths they contain.

No details of the plan prepared by the strategists of Wikileaks. Assange is known that distributed a large volume of communications to five major transnational media corporations, which currently have a monopoly of many stories, some of them as extremely mercenary pro-fascist reactionary Prisa as the Spanish and the German Der Spiegel, that are using to attack the most revolutionary.

World opinion will monitor everything that happens around Wikileaks.

On the Swedish right wing government and NATO militarist mafia, who are so fond of invoking the freedom of the press and human rights, the responsibility will fall to be able to know the truth or not about the cynical politics of the United States and its allies.

Images can be more powerful than nuclear weapons.

Fidel Castro

Gabrielli of Petrobras leads the way in government Dilma Rousseff

Petrobras President Jose Sergio Gabrielli, you should follow in office during the tenure of Rousseff. According to a source of future government team of PT, "for now, as is." Asked how long he would remain ahead of the company, the source said "it is not being discussed now."

Besides Gabrielli, other names on the government's economic area of Dilma are already defined. The central bank president will be the economist Alexandre Gaucho Tombini. Analysts say his line of thinking than the current president, Henrique Meirelles, and is more akin to the Minister of Finance, Guido Mantega.

Mantega is another name defined as a government minister Dilma. The Genoese who came to Brazil when she was 3 years follow in the Ministry of Finance. Their maintenance is seen as a major sign of continuity in government Rousseff. He held the post since March 2006 when he replaced Antonio Palocci.

The Secretary for Strategic Affairs will be the former governor of Rio Wellington Moreira Franco. He has served as Vice President of Lottery Funds and the Caixa Economica Federal. He left the box to participate as a representative of the PMDB, the coordination of campaign Dilma.

The Ministry of Mines of Energy will have its front Edson Lobao (PMDB-MA). In office between January 2008 and March 2010, the senator is linked to the political group of Senate President Jose Sarney (PMDB-MA), Boden is part of the PMDB in the quota allocation of seats.

The RN Garibaldi Alves Filho lead the Ministry of Welfare. Referred by Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL), the journalist leaves the door open for José Sarney (PMDB-PA) re-run for the Senate presidency in 2011 because it wanted to contest the post if not take over the ministry.

The Minister of Agriculture will be the former president of the National Supply Company (Conab) Wagner Rossi. He took over the Ministry in March 2010 following the departure of Reinhold Stephanes.

The Secretary for Fisheries will Ideli Salvatti. Professor, militancy began in the 1980s, occupying the presidency of the Union of Education Workers and the treasury of the Central Unica dos Trabalhadores (CUT) of Santa Catarina.

Congressman Pedro Novais Lima (PMDB-MA), 80, will be the Minister of Tourism. In his current term in the House, Novak is the owner of the Finance and Taxation Committee and an alternate on Foreign Relations and National Defense.

The first measures the government Dilma Rousseff

All support to the series of economic measures that the Lula government, through the current and future finance minister, Guido Mantega, announced to encourage long-term loans and finance companies in the country, its development and financial modernization. In practice, and even announced in the Lula administration, these measures constitute the first area of the economy to be implemented early in his administration Rousseff in two weeks.
"The goal - explained the Minister - is to facilitate long-term credit, always scarce in the country. In the past, made no difference, because there were few projects financed by. The term was in the past five years to eight years. But with the development cycle that we have deployed in recent years has increased the need to finance long term projects. "
Already today, recognized the owner of the farm, there is greater demand for projects and, therefore, there is also a greater need for funding. "Today, there are projects that require funding of 20, 25 or 30 years. We want to enter a new phase, so that the private sector also may finance, sharing this task with BNDES," he explained. The Treasury Department classifies as a major stimulus package already established to encourage the increased terms of private debt in the country.
It is now lower interest rates
 These initiatives have every reason to work and can work as long as interest rates fall, so that the long-term investments become more profitable than bonds. The Monetary Policy Committee (COPOM) of the Central Bank (BC), may well take its first meeting of new year - also the 1st of the new government - in the second half of January to overturn the Selic rate (10.75% today ).
The announced measures, containment of budget expenditures costing - not investment - which will be set at the beginning of the year and a decline in interest rates are the three ingredients necessary for us to have a peaceful and successful start of government, continuity the Lula administration, which during its eight years, economic growth, employment, income and social inclusion of our population.
Moreover, as stressed in the event of the magazine "Isto" in Sao Paulo yesterday, the president assumes that on June 1, Rousseff, to predict that Brazil will maintain economic growth in coming years. "I believe in Brazil, I think this is our moment, this will undoubtedly be our decade," he said. At the ceremony, Dilma thanked his election to the "millions who have realized that it is possible to transform Brazil, making it a great middle class country."