Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

Bush will probably try to get rid of Lula through the global financial schematic or other means.

Under Lula Brazil won a preliminary judgment against the United States at the World Trade Organization in a case involving subsidies to American cotton growers; another pending claim, against the European Union, concerns sugar. Lula has set a dangerous precedent however justified.

With Lula’s help Brazil is going to be the first ever nuclear weapon state (NWS) in the Southern Hemisphere by 2010.
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Lula has cemented a Brazilian alliance with China.
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International creditors do not take well to a leader who understands the poor. The global financial schematic rewards countries that compensate corporations and the wealthy.

Case in point is Aristide of Haiti who championed the poor and was put into exile by Bush. With speech based on the Theology of Liberation and its preferential option for the poor, reclaiming the sovereign right of the country to its self-determination against the domination of the United States, and with “a passionate rhetoric that sometimes incited violence between classes”, as The Wall Street Journal noted with concern, Aristide became a popular tribune and the hope for change among the majority.
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Striking parallels exist between Lula of Brazil and Chavez of Venezuela, both leftist leaders, both sympathetic to the poor. Chavez is of course under U.S. fire and has been for sometime.

It is pertinent that leaders ignore poverty and play to the powers that be or they will be overthrown. This stipulation overrides the fact whether they are democratically elected or not. In truth this stipulation makes a mockery of democracy.

Another way in which the financial empire oppresses can be seen in Nigeria.

Obasanjo of Nigeria complained "They [the creditor countries] hold the debt over us like a sword, so it has become another means of intimidation and control. We reject it."

Western creditor nations were now using debt repayment as an issue to put political pressure on Nigeria, the biggest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa.

According to Obasanjo the United States and other Western creditor nations are keeping Nigeria in poverty and exerting political pressure which has to be for their oil.
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The world is one big sweatshop where the dependent workers are never quite able to buy their way out and remain forever under the constraints of their overlords.