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This part of the comment made by ljijijs(weird name)is very illustrative of how Brazilian fascists work, and the kind of state they would like to see in place:
"There is a new corruption scandal every day. The latest involves - believe it or not - a woman called Rose who was an extra marital affair of president"
Lets assume this is all true, that police investigations discovered a corruption scandal involving a lover of former president Lula. In that case, what we have is the Brazilian state investigating the private life of a citizen and then leaking its details to the press. What kind of police state is this, in which citizens have their privacy violated in such a manner?
I don´t know if Lula and this woman are lovers or not, but I strongly repudiate that my tax money be spent investigating the private life of a fellow Brazilian, specially to be used by political purposes.
On the other hand, this kind of accusation is not new, the investigations concerning the Cachoeira mob revealed that this kind of empty accusation was the modus operandi of his criminal organization, in association with the Brazilian press, right-wing politicians and sectors of the judiciary.
Take the case of Erenice Guerra, assistant of then candidate Dilma Roussef. In the weeks previous to the presidential elections, the same thing happened, accusations of corruption against Erenice, insinuations that Erenice and Dilma were lovers(by the way, the fact that Dilma was a woman was deeply explored by people like ljijijs during the campaign, an article of the newspaper Folha de São Paulo even place a picture of then candidate Dilma and senator Marta Suplicy under headlines saying "Sluts", that is the kind of opposition practiced by the Brazilian right.
Needless to say, as events developed(AFTER the elections, of course)it was shown that all accusations against Erenice were false, and she was absolved of everything. But by then, elections were over, and Dilma was elected, despite of the defamation campaign carried out by the opposition.
The Cachoeira investigation showed that this was their method, came up with accusations, close to elections or directed against specific people, and make a big fuzz out of it, since, by the time they would be found out to be false, they would already have achieved their objectives. In Brazil, this happens all the time.
Pathetic speech, even convicted people already confessed their crimes, with details, example:
And even the government doesn't want to talk about the crimes, where is Dilma? Where is Lula? Why doesn't he go to TV and give interviews to protect "the innocent" instead of keep running away from little reporters and hiding all the time with the tail between his legs? Where is PT, the party in power? Dirceu just lost their support against the STF, if they are believers like you, are they a bunch of chickens or what?
If PT really believes their gangsters are innocent, I've never seen cowards like that in my life.
Lula's silence is by far the ultimate proof that crimes really happened.
Netto S.:"ow, but wait a minute, the "entire Brazilian press" is against the government, they will manipulate the interviews for the poor people."
Great, are the entire World press against Lula?? Cuba press included??
Haha, keep trying, believer...
ps.: by the way, if you love those gangsters that much, bake cakes to them and deliver them in prison. Dirceu might love the "mobile flavor", since he claims that he wants to "keep the fight going" while in prison, showing that he still loves to keep ignoring laws, since he wants to break the most basic rule in prison.
"pathetic speech", "hahhahaha", those are the only arguments Bottel is able to come up with.
I think he's arguing that your defence of corrupt Brazilian politicians by suggesting that there is a fascist conspiracy is pathetic, because the facts of the case suggest otherwise. I happen to agree. It think he's laughing at you because your comments are, well, are laughable. I happen to agree.
I guess this fascist conspiracy is the work of FGV, Datafolha, and other institutes that have shown how the majority of Brazilians really feel about the behavior of the judiciary and the media during this mensalao trial.
I guess many legal specialists, like Dalmo Dallari and Luiz Flavio Gomes, who have pointed out the serious flwas in the process, along with serious violations of fundamental rights by the supreme court(being a matter of concern in the Brazilian society, there was even a manifesto of intelletuals agains the violations of fundamental rights by the supreme court)are also part of this conspiracy.
The only ones telling the truth are the unbiased Brazilian media, formed by a small oligopoly of corporate companies, historically involved in coup attempts, collaboration with the dictatorship and unorthodox business(to say the least)with top Brazilian politicians, specially during the dictatorship and the privatization process during president Cardoso´s mandate.
Supreme judge Gilmar Mendes, who is currently negotiating with PSDB and DEM to run for governor in the state of Mato Grosso, is another example of an impartial judge of the mensalao trial.
Do you believe that the defendants in the mensalão case were guilty or not Netto?
FGV, a very important research center in Brazil, has shown that, during the mensalão trial, the confidence of Brazilians on the judiciary has dropped from 41% to 39%, which contradicts the wishful thinking present in The Economist article. In the same period, Datafolha, an institute linked to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo(the main newspaper in Brazil)has shown that the percentage of Brazilians who do not trust the press have skyrocketed, increasing by 10 points, reaching almost 30%.
As the Brazilian saying goes, "a mentira tem pernas curtas".
Reading the posts in this topic, it is clear that the Brazilian fascists, people who miss the dictatorship years, when people like Dirceu and Genoino could be arrested, tortured(as they were)and killed, are devout readers of The Economist, which speaks volumes of the political leanings of this publication.
Man.. what a biased opinion. Why link readers of the Economist with fascists? lame...
Because they defend a fascist state, a state where the private life of citizens is investigated by the police, where members of the parliament can be arrested without the consent of Congress, where the most basic rights can be ignored by truly inquisitional tribunals.
An interesting update on minister Joaquim Barbosa, who seems to be very concerned about the firing of a group supreme judges in Honduras, apparently involved in the "judiciary coup" that overthrew democratically elected president Zelaya.
Barbosa pede informações sobre destituições em Honduras
O ministro Joquim Barbosa, presidente do Supremo Tribunal Federal, encaminhou ofício a Antonio Patriota, ministro de Estado das Relações Exteriores, pedindo informações sobre a destituição de quatro juízes da Suprema Corte de Honduras pelo congresso do país.
Segundo Barbosa, a destituição foi uma represália a votos recentes proferidos pelos magistrados.
"Um Judiciário independente é essencial para a proteção dos direitos constitucionais dos cidadãos e a defesa dos direitos humanos fundamentais", afirma o ministro. "Tal princípio", assinala ele, "está consagrado na Constituição Federal brasileira e em diversos instrumentos internacionais, como a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos e o Pacto Internacional sobre Direitos Civis e Políticos".
A destituição dos cargos dos juízes Antonio Gutierrez Navas, Francisco Ruiz, Rosalinda Cruz e Gustavo Enrique Bustillo foi feita com a justificativa de que eles "colocam em perigo imediato a segurança cidadã e porque sua conduta é manifestadamente contrária ao interesse do Estado de Honduras". Enquanto 97 parlamentares hondurenhos votaram a favor da cassação, 31 foram contra. Com informações da Assessoria de Imprensa do STF
I agree with "Espetinho de Gato". These are lame arguments...
Hahaha! Yes that's right. The Economist is a fascist publication and its readers are all fascists because we think it's good that corrupt politicians in Brazil are being brought to justice. You just have take to look at history to see how incredibly fascist the British people are and always have been:
41 to 39. Margin of error? Does not look very different.
30% do not trust the press, which means 70% trust the press?
Mr. Netto probably is a paid hand from the PT as shown by the lack of logic reasoning and poor literacy.
No, because they think it is good for fundamental rights to be violated in order to persecute certain political parties.
Margin of error?Which means that, in the next poll(FGV carries them out every three months)the approval ratings will be higher?
For the Datafolha poll, only 20% of people said they trust the press, the majority said they trust "a little bit", and 30%(from previous 20%, before the shameful manipulation of the mensalao trial)do not trust the press. The most important point is that the level of distrust Braziians have on the press have skyrocketed during the mensalão converage, which shows how most Brazilians highly disapprove how the press convered the trial.
As for your ad hominem attacks, it just shows your lack of arguments.
Would you rather that the PT were not prosecuted for corruption?
I would rather they would be prosecuted based on proof, not on assumptions, supported by a distorted interpretation of the "teoria do dominio dos fatos".
No wonder minister Joaquim Barbosa is so worried about this trial being taken to the American Court of Human Rights.
Why are you against human rights and our civil liberties, UKExpat?
I would also prefer they were not prosecuted by someone who is having his ethics questioned by members of the Supreme Court, like prosecutor Roberto Gurgel, who has a lot to explain(and is working very hard to evade the questions about his conduct being raised in the Congress)about his condtc and that of his wife(believe it or not, she is the assistant prosecutor, indicated by her husband, that is right, the two top prosecutors in Brazil are husband and wife)on the investigations of the Cachoeira criminal organization, specially in relation to the parts concenring impeached senator Demostenes Torres, of the party DEM(former PFL, allied to PSDB).
"Because they defend a fascist state, a state where the private life of citizens is investigated by the police, where members of the parliament can be arrested without the consent of Congress, where the most basic rights can be ignored by truly inquisitional tribunals."
So, what about Lula and Dilma's and PT defense of Fidel, Chavez and other asshats?
They all do exactly what you accuse the "fascist state" does.
Seems like you don't have a lot of historical perspective in your arguments.
Netto said: "Why are you against human rights and our civil liberties, UKExpat?"
If PT is so concerned about human rights and civil liberties, why do they support Fidel and Chavez?
Kinda hypocritical no?
"I would also prefer they were not prosecuted by someone who is having his ethics questioned"
If you (and presumably PT) are so concerned about ethics why are they allies of Sarney and Collor?
Doesn't make sense does it?
People are getting tired of this 'left x right' argument which Dirceu and most PT members love. Do you consider people like Sarney, Maluf, Temer, Renan Calheiros and Jader Barbalho left-wingers? And who are fascists? Presumably, the Supreme Court, right? Get over it, whenever someone criticises Lula or a PT politician, they start throwing the same old rubbish: 'It's a coup! You are a fascist! You hate Lula because he comes from a poor background! You miss the military regime!'. Come on, if you can't deal with criticism and opposition, who is the fascist here? Do you think Lula or the PT can do no wrong? We no longer live in an absolutist state where the king can do no wrong, so drop your old, lame argument and let the police and the prosecutors do their job.
Dila is not president of Venezuela or Cuba, just as she is not the president of the USA(a big violator of human rights in the world over), it is not her business to intervene on the internal matters of those countries. Lula receive Chavez and Fidel in Brazil, just like he received president Bush.
The official position of the Brazilian government regarding human rights is that the UN should elaborate annual reports for ALL COUNTRIES, and not to single out only the countries who are not in agreement with US interests. I agree with this position, human rights should be observed everywhere, not only in Cuba and Venezuela.
However, the main violator of human rights in the Americas is Colombia, where the opposition is murdered and then buried in mass graves, I don´t think we will see you complaining, right?
It's a overstatement to say that the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) of Lula is the largest criminal organization in the country. The Lula government has federal police more efficient, and unlike its predecessors, did not interfered with public supervisers organs like PRG. The proof is that the judges of the Supreme Court STF and PRG (they are judging the Mensalao) were nominated by Lula and Dilma. Greater transparency and oversight allowed by the governments of the PT are the real reason greatest discovery of corruption cases. In previous administrations, corruption was also huge, but it was not discovered, and PRG nominated by the government not proceeded with complaints against the government.
I agree with you. It would be quite a miracle if the "PT Era" of Lula and Dilma was really the most corrupt and criminal government in Brazil's History, as some insist, at the very same time Brazil started to gain better positions in the Transparency International ranking of perception of corruption and the institutions that largely depend on how the Federal Government is willing to let them work are becoming more functional and effective in their fight against wrongdoers (the Federal Police, the Supreme Court formed by judges nominated by the President him/herself, the PGR etc.). I don't believe in "political miracles", and the fact is that the PT administration has been marred by corruption and inefficiency just like every other governments in Brazil and elsewhere in the emerging world, but it is undeniable all the democratic and investigative insitutions have been working much better under the PT than under the previous governments. I don't think it may be only due to the PT itself, but at the least that party and government hasn't impeded the flourishing of institutions as previous powerful politicians and governments (the fact that almost all the judges nominated by Lula and Dilma voted against PT's interests clearly show they chose judges that are independent enough from political ties with those who favored them).
"better positions in the Transparency International ranking of perception of corruption "
Funny. A few posts ago you discredited statistics and said that we couldn't analyze them absolutely.
Now here you are, yet again, basing your argument on statistics and rankings.
How predictable. When statistics don't support your point, they shan't be used, when they do, you spread'em thin in your "argument".
Puh-lease Ygor BS, spare us.
Most politicians in Brazil are corrupt selling favors, jobs, land concessions, whatever. In turn, they get kickbacks. Look to the old timers like Sarney and examine how rich they became over the years from such trafficking. The same applies to Lula, his family and associates. Joaquim Barbosa and the Brazilian Supreme Court are to be congratulated but remains to be seen if new maneuvers from corrupt politicians will in effect make a new pizza. Corruption such as these are a form of genocide depriving millions of socioeconomic opportunities. Civil societies and governments go OECD countries should enact measures to impose sanctions in countries where government corruption and impunity prevail, such as in Brazil.
The popular saying "God writes right over askew lines" has been confirmed in the "mensalão" case.
Ministro Barbosa the process writer and main piece of it was indicated to the Brazilian High Court ("STF") by Lula due to his very high qualification, poor origin and for being black - the first black man ever to reach the highest Brazilian Justice Court position as Minister and now its President.
Despite his acute attitude during the whole process and what may come out forward he has already marked our brazilian history and we all hope the politicians behavior shall never be as before.
I just believe in justice when José Dirceu and friends are locked and rotting in a filthy cage. These famous PT leaders are all getting so old, soon they will all be very dead, and thats is the real great improvement to Brazil.
How pathetic is to end you shameful life inside a cage? Don´t feel sorry, they deserve that and their Godfather, Lula, should be inside a cage too. But you know what, I won´t be that sad if Lula and the other gang members don´t go to prison. Yesterday Lula was bragging about that, saying "they didn't catch me when I didn't have my beard, imagine if they will get me now that its growing back again".
Ow, smart boy, he got game, he got skills. What about the caged "companheiros", they must be real fools, according to Lula's ways.
Well, you can grow your beard and wash it with the most expensive shampoo ever sold, travel first class only, go to all VIP parties all around the world, cause envy to Paris Hilton, but there is one thing you can´t do, you can´t change the pitiful life of the ones inside that filthy cage, they will be watching your moves, thinking and knowing who's the main responsible for that situation, at the end of their lives. You can't fix that just bringing souvenirs from your party all night all day life.
Thats not to talk about the "new communist generation", take a look where Fernando Haddad(elected the greatest Brazilian city mayor 2 months ago) is hanging out right now till the next year, he's in Estrela D'Agua, one of the most expensive and fancy elite resorts in the Northeast(Trancoso is a "elite paulistano territory" in the state of Bahia) , a place famous for being the multi-millionaires(construction companies, huge Corporations CEOs) favorite resort:
Take a look Dirceu, hope Lula call his pupil and ask him to bring you some of that sand, in a mayonnaise glass, so you can smell it in your cage when you want to know how your "companheiros" life smells like.
We (the brazilians) all know that they will NOT spend time on jail.
Perhaps a couple of weeks, if there´s a best case scenario. After that, Toffoli or some other crook will let them free based on our laws
So, the case will run for ever, then, Dirceu will be 70 yrs old and than set free. Case closed.
To be fair no matter if you are PT, PSDB or PP (Maluf is a "by the book" example). There is no jail. End of story.
How can we explain our laws to someone not from here? You can kill but if its your first murder, you might not go to the jail. It is a fact.
Just have an address, a job and a good lawyer that´s all you need.
Or even worst, you kill someone, accept the fact but takes more than 10 years to face jail time and after a couple of years serving time you are free.
The only way you would face a long jail time is if you fulfill the 3 P rule. Poor, Preto (black) and Prostitute. If so, be prepared. Jail is waiting for you.
This country is a joke
This article was written by someone who obviously knows nothing of what happened, or is purposely trying to mislead its readers.
There was no proof whatsoever on the involvement of Jose Dirceu and others in the so called mensalao scandal, prosecutor Gurgel said so in his ridiculous accusation piece, saying that ~there was no proof, becase the organized crime leaves no proof". The inconsistencies and flaws are widely acknowledged by many experts in legal issues, being a matter of concern in the Brazilian society, even having a group of intellectuals publishing a manifesto expressing their concerns over the true exceptional tribunal implemented by the Braziian political right, with support from the corporate media.
The mensalao case refers to the slush fund commonly kept by Brazilian political parties during elections. The mensalão slush fund was organized by the company of Marcos Valerio, who started working for Brazilian political parties during the 90s, when he worked for PSDB during Fernando Henrique Cardoso presidential campaign. The Economist "forgot" to mention this detial, also that the PSDB mensalao scandal is receving a totally different treatment from the Brazilian judiciary, allowing the accused a series of privileges denied to the people involved in the PT mensalao, and not judging the case, even though it began long before than the PT mensalao, in the hope that those crimes will prescribe. The main accused in the PSDB mensalao case is Eduardo Azeredo, former president of PSDB during Fernando Henrique Cardoso presidential campaign.
The PT mensalao case was marked by serious violations on the due legal process, many specialists have noted that this process is likely to be reversed in the American Court of Human Rights, which brought the wrath of minister Joaquim Barbosa, who said he wouldn´t admit to have his decisions analyzed by the American Court of Human Rights.
More recently, until carrying the momentum provided by the arbitrary mensalao trial(something Brazilians haven´t seen since the dictatorship years)the Brazilian Supreme Court decided they have the right to revoke the mandate of members of the Brazilian Congress, initiating an institutional crisis still underway.
The Economist article is incorrect and biased, much more a product of this publication political leanings than good journalism.
It is unbelievable as PT activists lie in any language!!
The person who wrote this comment is the one who is taking advantage of the understandable lack of information overseas about Brazilian politics.
The mensalao was an elaborate scam created by PT to take over Brazilian Parliament as an institution. Justice was well served and there was an abundance of evidence against the defendants.
As a matter of fact what this infamous party is doing in Brazil is marching fast in the direction of a totalitarian regimen, following in the footsteps of Chavez and Fidel, who are their role models.
PT has been winning election after election in Brazil because the Country has enjoyed some increase in equality due to economical growth, which is pretty much based on international commodities trade and economical and political stability - the later was the great achievement of FHC. Lula expropriated it and has portrayed himself as the big savior of our beloved country.
The positive international scenario is changing and PT's incompetence is becoming quite apparent - they have turned the entire government into a branch of the party with strategic posts filled by politicians and used as currency with other parties to keep their hold to power. The strategy has changed as paying off the parliament proved a wrong move.
This is slowly taking its toll and with the international tide changing Brazil is falling behind when compared with other emerging countries. There is a new corruption scandal every day. The latest involves - believe it or not - a woman called Rose who was an extra marital affair of president Lula, who had Special Passport and traveled with the President in any Official trip - as long as his wife was not present. Due to her "professional skills" she had a high rank job and ended up forming an new gang inside the government, taking advantage of her position.
This is what is really happening in Brazil - it is ruled by an incompetent left wing autocratic government. This decision by the Supreme Court is a breath of fresh air which, however, probably will have little impact on the general picture, as the political situation above is unlikely to change in the short term..
FGV, an important reserach institute in Brazil, has shown that the confidence of Brazilians on the judiciary has dropped during the mensalao trial, from 41% to 39%. Datafolha, an institute linked to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo(notorious for its strong opposition to the Workers Party, going to the point of publishing a false document regarding then candidate Dilma Roussef, in the week previous to the last presidential election)has shown that the percentage of Brazilians who distrust the media have skyrocketed during the mensalao trial, increasing by 10 points, reaching almost 30%.
Lets not forget that, even though the mensalao trial was purposely set to coincide with the 2012 municipal elections, Lula´s party was the big winner of those elections, becoming, for the first time, the biggest party in Brazil, and winning in the main city, São Paulo.
PT becoming the biggest party in Brazil, less confidence on the judiciary and the media, that is the true perspective Brazilians hold on the scam that was the mensalao trial, carried out in complete disrespect of the due process of law, a scam set up by the Brazilian right.
Another important event of 2012 was the Cachoeira case, which the Brazilian media, for obvious reasons, did everything it could to conceal from the public eye. It turns out that Cachoeira(a mobster from the state of Goias)has a criminal organization articulated with Brazilian right-wing parties(PSDB and DEM), the judiciary and the Brazilian media, specially the magazine Veja, linked to the Abril Group, a huge media conglomerate in Brazil.
It turns out that all the evidence against the wrong-doings of senator Demostenes Torres of the party DEM(strong oppositor of Lula)with the Cachoeira mob, has been kept concealed from the public by prosecutor Roberto Gurgel(the same one who accused PT in the mensalao trial)for 3 years, allowing Cachoeira and his gang to keep their criminal activities going. The investigation also shown that Cachoeira had strong ties with governor Marconi Perillo, of PSDB, and the Brazioian media, specially the magazine Veja, who worked along with Cachoeira to help him pursue his criminal enterprises.
Unfortunately, people believe that the Supreme Court has many proofs about accusation of buying parliamentary votes. There are 8 years the media is talking this lie to the brazilian people. If you ask where are the proofs, no one answers. Where are the proofs?
"How can we win when fools can be kings"
Muse: Knights of Cydonia
To top it off, we must see these wrongdoers in jail soon. Finally there is some hope for a more decent country. Brasília-DF, Brazil.
This trial was a little victory for transparency and democracy in Brazil. It is a pity that many, many more cases of corruption and robbery of the public money is going on now, and it will be more difficult to catch the criminals. They are very organized and pay the media well.
The leadership role played by Justice Joaquim Barbosa did not surprise me at all. A nice surprise was the fact that most of his STF fellows agreed with his courageous decisions.
Most of the Supreme Court's justices likely believe that political corruption in Brazil is not endemic. Endemic is dengue. Corruption in Brazil is systemic: well planned, programmed, coordinated and implemented by gangs led by well-known politicians. The corruption madness entails more than method; there is system in it, feedback included.
Brazil's STF sent a clear message to the many crooks that dominate politics in Brazil: don't take impunity for granted. Part of the Brazilian media, not yet financially manipulated by state-owned enterprises, was not intimidated by the old-style politicians and their minions, and offered the STF considerable support.
If Lula is such a sly "political fox" (as they say here in Brazil), how come - it turns out - he was surrounded THE WHOLE TIME he held office with the most despicable, lowly, corrupt characters, that included his closest associates (going back years)? Logic commands that: either he's not the cunning politician they claim he is - and hence, he's terribly stupid - or the man is hiding something.
The fact is, throughout the Worker's Party reign and folly, we got used to seeing a slew of - at best - doubtful political practices Brazilians weren't really used to seeing since the Military junta headed the Federal Government in the 70s and 80s: politics tailored to favor some industrial sectors over others, inexplicable tax breaks to Lula's supporters (e.g., in the computer assembly sector, telephony, oil, etc.), and people getting wealthy very quickly (e.g., Delta construction firm, etc.).
Lucky Lula sailed the winds of China during his term. Brazil's poor and disenfranchised voters, obliged by law to go to the urns to place their vote are totally clueless to the evils of the Worker's Party government. In many ways, Lula's and Dilma's terms are a trip to the past.
Finally, something good in this country, where corruption is endemic. That was just the beginning. It's time to learn the Brazilians to vote, leaving out those corrupt Parliament.
Paulo Fidelis, Brasília, Brazil.
The Mensalão trial was of course a very important development, but as others pointed out, it's very unfortunate that true head of the scheme, Lula, was not indicted. It's completely absurd to suppose that the main beneficiary of the corruption scheme - Lula - knew nothing about it. It's preposterous to imagine that his top aides would risk their necks in an illegal scheme to benefit Lula without even getting his OK. He is clearly guilty.
Unfortunately, the fools in the opposition believed it would be too traumatic to impeach him, and the fools at the MP believed he was too popular to be touched (as if such thing can exist under the rule of law). In fact that's the thesis that is being put forward right now by all the paid commentators who constantly defend Lula and the PT from everything (they'll show up in this post too, just wait): they say Lula is loved by the people and thus above the law. Goes to show their understanding of the law.
That's a great article, indeed! However, we are still yet to see these thieves in jail...perhaps then we might jump a few more steps in the ranking of perceived corruption by Transparency. Hope so!!!
I liked the recent headline on the cover of the Brazilian magazine Veja - referring to Rosemary de Noronha and Lula:
"The woman who knew too much, and the man who never knows anything"
Actually 'PT' means Professional Thieves.
It began using the legend Workers Party, but President Lula created a very complex corruption plan called "Mensalao", that became the greatest case of corruption in Brazilian history. This complex plan intended to make possible to PT never to loose its power by creating politic aliances by using public money.
We are very happy that Joaquim Barbosa (Minister of Higher Federal Court ) did not get afraid to condemn powerful politicians.
Thank you for the article. This is the signal that the world is discovering our country: the Big Brazil. Our media was always censured for the corrupt government of PT (Workers Party). There isn't PT, there is Slaves Party because its militants only work making terrorism and provocating disorder in our country. The Government protect all bandits, thieves, murderers and corrupt politics. Hope you don't forget that our country is falling to the big hole coming from socialism, as Cuba and Venezuela. We need help and only you can do that.
The big truth is, were the condemned from the Brazilian elite, it would all have ended in pizza one more time. But these men are leftists and middle-classers, so for them the strict letter of the law must apply.
Although I can understand your views based on what, traditionally, have been the Brazilian view of the rule of law of "to friends, everything; to enemies, the law!"(para os amigos, tudo; para os inimigos, a lei!), I reckon the Brazilian "Supreme Federal Court" ("STF", in Portuguese) got it right this time.
Brazil lacks the rule of law when the criminals are white collar regardless of party or anything and I am actually happy to see that there are still judges left in the country with enough courage to place these crooks behind bars for a long time. We can just wish that it permeates to other crimes and other legal processes and, one day - who knows? - we, expatriated Brazilians who left the country for, among other reasons, the corruption, actually consider moving back and raising a family there, like our forefathers?
Finally, let us not forget that Joaquim Barbosa, a member of the working class, a poor boy who's ticket to a better life was education, was pointed by the Lula administration and there was an expectation that he would look the other way when the matter was finally judged. It is almost poetic if you ask me that a black man who worked his way up through education can someday judge Lula, a white-man who worked his way up in life through corruption while posing as a representative of the Brazilian people.
This whole process lacked the rule of law, from the beginning to the end, getting to the point where people were convicted without proof(just read prosecutor Gurgel´s accusation piece), passing by the misuse of the "teoria do domínio de fato", developed so the poeple who ordered crimes would not get lighter sentences than the ones who carried it out, and not to convict people without proof, on the assumption that "he must have known", as was the case with Jose Dirceu.
As you well know, the mensalao of PSDB is receiving a totally different treatment from the Supreme Court, so much so that, even though it is older than the PT mensalao, it has not yet been finished, nor do they have any perspective when it will be concluded, most likely those crimes will prescribe.
Prosecutor Gurgel is also known for not presenting accusations against right-wing politicians, like former senator Demostenes Torres, of DEM, involved with the organized crime, whose case was held back by mr. Gurgel for three years.
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Last Thursday, BTIG LLC, a premier institutional brokerage and fund services company, hosted its eighth annual Commissions for Charity Day. The firm's last Commissions for Charity Day raised more than $3 million, and BTIG has donated more than $10 million to various organizations, including Autism Speaks.
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Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached this level for the first time in millions of years. What does this portend? »
If the power plant goes away, so do the jobs, and then the town. That's the fear in New Haven, West Virginia, home to the hulking Mountaineer coal-fired power plant conveniently located next to a coal mine. And that's why, back in 2009, the power plant's owner American Electric Power went to the trouble and expense of installing a giant chemistry set to capture 20 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution from burning coal.
But that experiment came to an end in 2011, stopped by state officials who proved unwilling to pay to continue the experiment and the lack of any federal program to impose a cost on spewing CO2. That calculus could change in the wake of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new clean power plan unveiled on June 2.
The question EPA set out to answer is how to combat climate change and improve public health while providing flexibility for individual states—ranging from West Virginia, which gets almost all of its electricity from coal, to Vermont which hosts no coal-fired power plants—to meet new CO2 pollution standards. The answer to that all-of-the-above style question is not the kind of carbon capture and storage once employed by Mountaineer but instead is mostly to burn more natural gas.
That's because the new rules focus on the rate of CO2—more specifically, the number of pounds of global warming pollution emitted per megawatt-hour of electricity generated in a given state. The EPA noted the rate at which the nation's roughly 1,000 coal-fired power plants belched CO2 in 2012 and then set a goal for 2030, similar to rate-based programs that already exist in California, New York, Oregon and Washington State.
This is also how the other pollution standards developed over the last 40 years under the Clean Air Act work, combating things like smog-forming nitrogen oxides or acid-rain causing sulfur dioxides that also come from burning coal.
The new goals range from a more than 60 percent drop in Washington State (predicated in part on the fact that a big coal-fired power plant there is already scheduled to retire before 2030) to no goal at all for Vermont.
How did the Green Mountain State escape regulation? Simple: it is home to zero fossil fuel burning power plants. Instead, it hosts the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant capable of producing nearly 400,000 MWh of no-carbon electricity each year. As it stands, nuclear power provides roughly 70 percent of the zero-CO2 electricity currently generated in the U.S. (and because Georgia and South Carolina are building new reactors, they receive relatively big emission cuts under this new EPA plan.)
But Vermont Yankee has had its troubles and its owner—utility Entergy—plans to shut the old boiling water reactor down at the end of this year. Other aging nuclear reactors forced to compete with newly cheap natural gas are shutting down as well. This will make it even more difficult for some states to meet their new targets and, if power plants that burn natural gas are built instead, may increase CO2 pollution. So the EPA has judged the subsidy required to keep those nuclear power plants open in California, Florida, Wisconsin and New Jersey as a "reasonable cost" (up to $6 per MWh) and therefore required the pollution avoided by those nuclear plants to remain in those states goals.
Once the EPA rule is in place in 2015—lawsuits will begin as soon as the rule is in force that likely will delay implementation further and political foes have already vowed legislative action—states will have a variety of options like subsidizing old nuclear power plants to meet their goals. Each state will have a unique goal (dubbed a "best system of emission reduction" in agency-ese) based on its current mix of energy supply and will have to submit a plan by June 30, 2016 to meet it. Energy efficiency and a switch to renewables (other members of the EPA's set of four "building blocks" for such a system) will likely play a role in most states, especially since the rates are in part predicated on targets for renewable energy (in some cases set at levels below those already achieved in 2012, such as in Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, and South Dakota.)
States can even band together, much as states in the northeastern U.S., including Vermont, joined to create the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap-and-trade market started in 2009 and covering nine states that allows the buying and selling of CO2 permits to meet an overall ceiling on such pollution.
"If we do nothing, in our grandkids' lifetimes, temperatures could rise 10 degrees [Fahrenheit] and seas could rise four feet," noted EPA administrator Gina McCarthy when announcing the rules to a gathering at the agency's headquarters on June 2. "The most costly thing we can do, is to do nothing."
The folks at EPA treated McCarthy like a rock star as she strode out to announce the new clean power plan, cheering, whistling and clapping for the historic day. "As a bonus, we'll cut the pollution that causes smog and soot by 25 percent more than if we didn't have this rule in place," McCarthy added. "Now that's a great added bonus."
That bonus comes as a result of the most likely actions on the power plant side: improving the efficiency with which the heat from burning coal is used to create steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity (known to industry as a "heat rate improvement" if you want to keep up with your jargon).
Much of the rest will be the continuation of a trend to shut down coal-fired power plants and fire up natural gas generators instead, a shift that, paired with the Great Recession, has already helped drop U.S. emissions from power plants from roughly 2,400 teragrams of CO2 in 2005 to roughly 2,000 Tg of CO2 in 2012.
Simply put, existing natural gas-fired power plants will be run more often and new ones will be built. Burning natural gas instead of coal emits 40 percent less CO2, the bulk of the CO2 savings assumed under this plan.
That comes at a cost: communities around those natural gas-fired power plants now running more often could expect more frequent episodes of high local concentrations of soot and smog.
The EPA also tried to predict the future. By 2030, the agency's crystal ball foresees a country that gets 9 percent of its electricity from the sun, wind and heat underground. "Coal and natural gas would remain the two leading sources of electricity generation in the U.S., with each providing more than 30 percent of the projected generation," the proposed rule reads. As a result of all this, the CO2 intensity of power production will have dropped across the 50 states by 30 percent in 2030 compared to 2005 levels.
Of course, natural gas is mostly methane. And methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, which means if the power plants—or the pipelines and wells that supply them—are leaky the climate may not be helped as much.
And the U.S. in 2030 will still be contributing a hefty chunk of global warming pollution. If followed, the plan would drop pollution to roughly the same amount spewed in 1990. That leaves the U.S. still well short of its goal of an 80 percent drop by 2050. The thick sheaf of 645 papers McCarthy signed on June 2 may be a complicated extension of the Clean Air Act, dwelling significantly on state implementation, accounting, enforcement and costs versus benefits, but it is just the beginning of a bid to combat climate change.
Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have already reached new highs—sitting above 400 parts-per-million across the Northern hemisphere for the month of April and much of May—a concentration never before breathed by our species. By 2016, on present trends, 400 ppm and beyond will become the annual averages. "The answer is quite simple and plain: the reason is the unabated emissions from fossil fuel burning and from changes in land," says Martin Heimann, a biogeochmeist at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany. As it stands, concentrations tick up by roughly 2 ppm per year.
The clean power rule will not slow that rise much, restraining total global CO2 emissions by roughly 2 percent, at best. "Yes, our climate crisis is a global problem that demands a global solution, and there's no Hail Mary play we can call to reverse its effects," McCarthy said, and there is some hope that at least the world's largest polluter—China—will also cut CO2, if only to get that bonus of also cutting down on the other forms of choking air pollution that comes with it.
The EPA's clean power plan is another step taken on the long road to the end of an atmosphere that no longer serves as an open sewer. But to burn coal or even natural gas without exacerbating global warming requires CO2 capture and storage whether in India or Indiana, like the project demonstrated at Mountaineer in West Virginia. The EPA, because of the cost of such CCS technology, will not go that far.
Just testing. Is this going to be another newspiece or blog which strangely enough gets closed for comments just after Sault18 has said his piece? At :
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A casual visitor to the SciAm blogs might not realise that Sault18′s challenge in that piece :"Many EU countries are NOT experiencing "massive cost issues for alternatives[sic] Please provide the hard evidence " has been met many times. His weasely worded sentence includes of course the EU countries which have a low penetration of renewables. Those with the highest penetration, Germany and Denmark, have the highest electricity costs.
Spain is experiencing right now a crisis with solar:
Spain's solar plants are located at by-far-and-away the most favourable location in the whole of Europe.
All this is not really so off-topic: it's just to make it clear that nuclear is the only real option : above natural gas as well. As David Biello points out natural gas would require CCS. But that would reduce its efficacy over coal because of the extra energy for the capture process.
You acknowledge that methane is a greenhouse gas much worse than CO2 yet you think that the problem is solved by saying the companies need to be careful. First of all, they won't be, they are not now, the regulators are almost non-existent and the amount of methane now leaking is already catastrophic. It is well established that the methane leaked at every stage of extraction and transportation far exceeds the supposed benefit of burning gas rather than coal.
Link to this"If we do nothing, in our grandkids' lifetimes, temperatures could rise 10 degrees [Fahrenheit] and seas could rise four feet," noted EPA administrator Gina McCarthy"
What pile of BS. If she said 3 degrees Fahrenheit and one foot she would still off but at least it could happen if the CO2 is as evil as she says. The problem is, even if the US stopped producing CO2 it would make no difference as China and India have already filled the gap.
Link to thisChina is building one new coal-fired power plant PER WEEK to provide electricity to their growing population and growing middle class. All this political grandstanding from the US EPA will do NOTHING relative to stopping global CO2 emissions. Gina McCarthy and Obama seem to think China and India are located on Mars. They aren't.
Link to thisg-minor wrote: "…It is well established that the methane leaked at every stage of extraction and transportation far exceeds the supposed benefit of burning gas rather than coal…"
I'm wondering where this is "well established", aside from within Mr. minor's own mind.
Do we need greater monitoring for leaks at all stages of extraction & transport? Yes. As environmentalists, we should insist that our states & our nation do that.
But environmentalists also need to quit crying wolf about CH4. Yes, a CH4 molecule in the atmosphere has more greenhouse effect than a CO2 molecule, at any one moment in time. But their respective residence times are 12 years for CH4 & >1000 years for CO2. The CO2 is consequently a far more impactful greenhouse gas.
If environmentalists succeed in limiting our use of natural gas, for example because we/they think that fracking is purely evil, then we pave the way for America's CO2 emissions to shoot up, as the 100 power plants that converted from burning coal to burning natural gas all have to convert back.
We can all agree that solar & wind are the future, but those of us who are realists know that it's not the future yet. This country will run on fossil fuels for awhile longer. The only question is, do we want it to be 40% more CO2-producing (coal), or not (natural gas).
Link to thisMechanical energy in the world, roughly 85% of all energy used by man.
Electricity, 15%.
Eliminate the use of coal to generate electricity, only exempts to USA of being an accomplice to global warming, and not on be a leader, not even contributor, to help reduce global warming.
The solution, OCEANOGENIC POWER OF PANAMA
Link to thisObama seems to think that nuclear energy is a good solution to global warming. Could that be because he was heavily backed by the nuke company, Exelon, in his political career in Illinois (the state with the highest number of nuke power plants, per square mile, of any state in the U.S.)? Obama was involved in reducing obstacles on behalf of Exelon.
Who amongst would choose the risks of radiation poisoning over increasingly hot weather? Maybe there are some, maybe many. But what I'm not hearing is an honest public discussion of the risks and benefits. Dinosaurs lived at a time when global temps were way higher than anything currently projected. Our ancestors in Europe just 1000 years ago lived in higher temps than those projected for the end of the 21st century. The charts never show this, but we're at a relatively cool point right now considering the history of the planet.
I don't personallty have a firm position nor a horse in this race. But I'm dismayed at the polarization and inability of the scientific or public policy communities to talk straight with us about it.
Link to thisDavid Cameron took Britain closer to the exit door of the European Union last night following a tumultuous EU summit at which his fellow leaders inflicted a crushing defeat on the prime minister by nominating Jean-Claude Juncker for one of the most powerful jobs in Brussels.
In what marked a rift in the UK's long and troubled relationship with the continent, Cameron was left isolated as 26 of 28 countries endorsed Juncker as head of the European commission for the next five years. "This is a bad day for Europe," said the prime minister as he voiced bitterness over the nomination of Juncker. "Of course I'm disappointed." He described the nominee disparagingly as "the career insider of Brussels" and criticised other EU national leaders who he said had "taken different views along the way".
Accusing the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and another 23 countries of making "a serious mistake" by abandoning an approach that could have brought consensus on an alternative to the former prime minister of Luxembourg, Cameron said: "We must accept the result … Jean-Claude Juncker is going to run the commission.
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Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corp. (A)
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On October 15, 1996, Virginia-based CSX and Pennsylvania-based Consolidated Rail (Conrail), the first and third largest railroads in the eastern United States, announced their intent to merge in a friendly deal worth $8.3 billion. This deal was part of an industry-wide trend toward consolidation and promised to change the competitive dynamics of the Eastern rail market. Students, as shareholders, must decide whether to tender shares into the front-end of a two-tiered acquisition offer. To make this decision, they must value Conrail as an acquisition target and understand the structure of CSX's offer.
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Provides an opportunity to value a large-scale acquisition using comparable transactions and discounted merger synergies. In addition, it illustrates the mechanics of a two-tiered offer and provides a vehicle to discuss various anti-takeover provisions including poison pills, lock-up options, break-up fees, and no-talk clauses.
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- Company Employee Count: 77,500
- Company Revenue: $19 billion revenues
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During a stop in Boston for his latest tour run Kid Cudi and the crew put together a little documentary. Directed by Jason Goldwatch/DECON, the video goes to the tune of Cudi's latest song "cudderisback". It's pure jokes so enjoy and laugh a bit.
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During a stop in Boston for his latest tour run Kid Cudi and the crew put together a little documentary. Directed by Jason Goldwatch/DECON, the video goes to the tune of Cudi's latest song "cudderisback". It's pure jokes so enjoy and laugh a bit.
exposingthewicked, your point is valid, i agree with you to an extent. i don't smoke, i won't ever smoke and i don't support artists that promote smoking. but you don't have to be such a jackass about it. no ones going to agree with you if your just being an asshole. Kid Cudi makes good music and I like his music. If you don't like it, that's fine you don't have to, don't listen to it. and just because you like an artist doesn't mean you support all of the messages they promote. smoking is a choice that Kid Cudi made. Hes living life the way he wants and hes not forcing anyone to smoke. yeah, he influences the youth but he's not the only one. would you rather he made fake music that's against smoking even though he does it? He makes real music and if you cant recognize and respect that then why do you even listen to music? Your just part of the unthinking minority. stop acting like your better then everyone and either be positive, or leave. being a negative asshole doesn't accomplish anything
hahahahaha @exposingthewicked what do u even do in life? it seems like ur a bum that stays on this site 24/7 that tries to sound like u know what ur talking about when really u sound like a complete dumbass lol. kid cudi is doin better than u are with ur life so u might wanna check ur own shit and get off his...obviously hes doing something right hahaha
exposingthewicked youre trying too hard. i understand what youre trying to prove and thats cool but you should respect kid cudi as an artist although you may not respect him as a person. he is creative and has worked hard to have gotten to where he is.
and if youre really concerned about educating our children and promoting good morals there are much better ways than over this website, your not gonna change many opinions with your keyboard ;)
You're one of those kids that doesnt enjoy girls. And what kind of music do you listen to. Im guessing since you're a lupe fan you enjoy rap. Do I really need to name rap artists that smoke weed you fucking moron. And I can bet money you would love to be him. Thats why you hate on him so much. Its obvious jackass.
Exposingthewicked. You are a complete homo. Smoking weed does not destroy you unless you let it do so you fucking idiot. Kid Cudi enjoys to smoke weed and hes more successful than you will ever be so shut your mouth. Dont bash people for what they enjoy to do. Just cuz you know one fuck up, you think you know the world. I myself smoke weed all of the time and I am getting really good grades in college. I agree with the youth looking up to these people but in the end, they dont have to do drugs. That is their problem if they are going to be followers. Dont bash an artist just because they do drugs because I can bet you that plenty of the artists you enjoy do plenty of drugs themselves. So please just shut the fuck up and enjoy the music. If you dont like it then dont listen. Music can be whatever an artist wants to make it.
Exposingthewicked, you have a valid point. The youth looks up to many of these artists. When they see them doing drugs, drinking alcohol, etc., our society may find it more acceptable. I definitely see the changes in my area from when I was a kid to now.
Though, it sucks; music is still expression. People make quality music by being themselves, and expressing themselves. Smoking marijuana is a lifestyle choice, and affects everyone differently.
As for Lupe posting this on his blog, I see him as an open minded guy. I don't personally know him, but that is what I conclude from hearing his music. He posted up a video of another artist he respects and disregarded his own personal beliefs. It is all love and respect at the end of the day. For all we know, Lupe didn't even post this.
Again, you have a completely valid point. But don't bash on other people for their beliefs. You know what you stand for, and express it with a positive attitude. If you truly want to spread your thoughts, no one will listen when you only offer negative attention.
ok this all began because you think smoking is destroying users well its not destroying me. i also wish everyone acted on there good chances and also make a good life for themselves but people arent going to. you dont like kid cudi fine not everyone is the same i respect you for not having your own opinion
lupe is my favorite artist but i still listen to people like cudi. i think he's different and thats cool. everyone is different and i think we need to be a kinder people. i think its funny and i like it because thats how me and my friends are some nights. we smoke so what we have a good time together and laugh. we act how we want and dont worry about what others say. people can say what they want im still in school and making something of my life. i just dont like when people say its all bad cause in my opinion its not, people who arent mature just look at it wrong and use it wrong.
dont call me a hypocrit and i dont support rappers such as lil wayne or jay-z. I am sorry that many kids do not have parents but that is just the world we live in. i want it to change and try to influece others to be good. i like lupe for his lyrics and how they make me think. i came from a high school that is was very multicultural and saw how kids threw there lives away but they had a chance not too and many supporting teachers that tried. i now go to a school that is quite the opposite and not many kids are not like me here but still like cudi and listen too him. my point is we all have a choice. my mother came here from another country with very little not even knowing the language and had to fight for where she is now and wht she gave me.
i dont approve of smoking weed but this video was funny to me. LOL They wanna coat their poor little brain cells with THC who cares its not my brain. aha
but then again Kid CuDi dosent send a positive message to kids looking up to him.
Its whatever though you cant expect everyone in society to uphold an image that is worthy enough to praise.
ok im not tring to say it keeps people down because it doesnt. I have never used hard drugs and never will. the truthe is only 1 out of every 100 people that smoke use coke and even less use other drugs such as heroin. im not picking any conspiracy theory at all and i dont know how im being a hypocrit. and apparently your friends are idiots if they get fucked by it and smoke all day everyday.
you all are crazy. smoking is a social thing that you can do with your friends. you laugh enjoy yourself and relax a little from the pressures of the world. there is little harm that you are doing to your body. it makes you question the wrongs of the world and it really turns you into more of a pacifist so chill out if you dont do it that cool ur choice


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The Corvette comes with an impressive 430 horsepower, even in base trim. And while the Corvette will never be mistaken for an economy car, it does get a surprising 26 mpg on the highway when equipped with the 6-speed manual transmission. The Corvette's true value comes in its race-tuned engine and handling, its sexy curves and in its grins per mile. All this comes at an entry price of just under $50,000--a terrific performance bargain.
The 2013 Corvette gets a new option package, dubbed the 60th Anniversary package across all model lines, featuring unique badging and some high quality interior bits. Painted black wheels also make their return as an option across most Corvette models. The big news for 2013 though, is the 427 Edition Corvette. Similar to the Z06, the 427 Edition features Chevrolet's LS7 engine and a 6-speed manual transmission. Unlike the Z06, the 427 Edition is a convertible--the fastest soft top Corvette available.
With the Grand Sport, the Z06, the 427 and the ultra-high-performance ZR1, there are plenty of Corvettes to choose from. The base coupe and convertible have a 6.2L, 430-hp V8 engine, known as the LS3, and a standard 6-speed manual transmission. A 6-speed paddle-shift automatic is optional. The paddle shifter includes a 'push and hold' function to make it easier to transition back to automatic after you've had your fun through the chicane.
Braking & Traction |
4-Wheel ABS | Std |
4-Wheel Disc Brakes | Std |
Traction/Stability Control | Std |
Active Suspension System | Opt |
Tire Pressure Monitoring System | Std |
Passenger Restraint |
Driver Air Bag | Std |
Passenger Air Bag | Std |
Side Air Bag | Std |
Road Visibility |
HID Headlights | Std |
Daytime Running Lights | Std |
Fog Lamps | Std |
Electrochromic Rearview Mirror | Std |
Intermittent Wipers | Std |
Accident Prevention |
Handsfree Wireless | Std |
Security |
Alarm | Std |
Anti-theft System | Std |
Telematics | Opt |
Original Warranty |
Basic | 3 Years/36,000 Miles | |
Drivetrain | 5 Years/100,000 Miles | |
Corrosion | 3 Years/36,000 Miles | |
Roadside Assistance | 5 Years/100,000 Miles |
Chevrolet Certified Pre-Owned Warranty |
2-Year/24,000-Mile1 CPO Scheduled Maintenance Plan. 12-Month/12,000-Mile2 Bumper-to-Bumper Limited Warranty. 5-year/100,000-Mile3 Powertrain Limited Warranty. 1Covers only scheduled oil changes with filter, tire rotations and 27 point inspections, according to your vehicle's recommended maintenance schedule for up to 2 years or 24,000 miles, whichever comes first. Does not include air filters. Maximum of 4 service events. See participating dealer for other restrictions and complete details. 2Whichever comes first from date of purchase. See participating dealer for limited warranty details. 3Whichever comes first from original in-service date. See participating dealers for limited warranty details. |
Age/Mileage Eligibility | 2010-2015 model year / Under 75,000 miles |
Lease Term Certified | No |
Point Inspection | 172-Point Vehicle Inspection and Reconditioning Download checklist |
Return/Exchange Program | 3-Day 150-Mile Satisfaction Guarantee |
Roadside Assistance | Yes |
Transferrable Warranty | Yes |
Warranty Deductible | $0 |
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