From the trial of former presidents

From the trial of former presidents

Cacildo Marques - Sao Paulo

     On August 20^th, 2019, a 20-year-old hijacker, Willian Augusto da Silva, stopped a 38-passenger bus over the Rio-Niteroi Bridge and threatened to set it ablaze. He carried a toy gun, lighter and gasoline. The action lasted four hours, until a police sniper killed him.

      Many law enforcement experts said the police acted correctly, with no other way out. This is true if we take into account that weapons in the hands of the police are lethal, and there is still no concern in Brazil about replacing lead ammunition with taser weapons, for example.

     The state government has deployed a feminine police major to make contact with the family of the sacrificed young. The officer learned that the boy suffered from depression and the family feared that he would commit suicide. After his mother's insistence that he take care of himself and set aside his obsession with suicide, he promised that he would not kill himself, but would set up a situation that would solve the problem of his life.

    The police and the government were therefore trapped by a young man with serious mental problems. He forged a scheme that led the police to take his life, and the police promptly responded to the demand.

     President. In 2018, another Mr. Da Silva played a similar game, with the difference that the result would not be death on either side, but only conviction.

    The object of several criminal prosecutions for corruption, former President Luiz Inacio da Silva (aka Lula) tried to throw his voters against the police and justice when he was arrested, taking refuge in the Sao Bernardo do Campo Metallurgists' Union, of which he was president before being led to partisan politics by economist and representative Aloisio Mercadante.

    After nearly a day of resisting among his supporters, and making fiery speeches against the prosecution and the judge, he realized at night that the large crowd he expected of voters around him was shrinking rather than increasing. Police surrounded the area and expected only an order to act, and arrest the convict who was striving to circumvent the court order. He would willingly pay the price, but aides and politicians close to him, who accompanied him throughout the day, assessed the risk of a bloody outcome as high, and then persuaded him to surrender.

    It is not difficult to find that for the simple man of very rudimentary instruction there are few crimes that are understood as crimes: murder, rape, theft, robbery, and lacerny. Of course, every adult man today knows that will pay haigh price if he denies financial child support. But beyond these faults, almost every legal wording that characterizes criminal offenses makes little sense to the general public. Concussion, malfeasance, perjury, peculate, administrative misconduct, ideological falsehood, money laundering, prevarication, defamation, embezzlement, and misrepresentation are all too abstract for the average citizen. Those involved in white-collar crime seek popular support anchored in this ignorance.

    The report made so far does not seem to show identity with the case of the youth of the Rio-Niteroi Bridge. And if the case was just under this information, it's not related, really. The problem is in the course of the court proceedings.

    Conviction. The lower court judge sentenced him to nine and a half years of detention. With the case raising to the FRC-4, Federal Regional Court of Porto Alegre, this board increased the dosimetry, condemning it to 12 years and a month.

    Taken to the city of Curitiba, to serve his sentence in the imprisonment of the Federal Police of the region, he saw in the following months new lawsuits appear against him. Counting on what he had already condemned, he was now liable for ten lawsuits around the country. Also during this period the Superior Court of Justice, Brazil's third court, upheld the conviction.

    This condemnation occurred for “concealment of ownership” of immovable property. This was an apartment in a condominium in the coastal city of Guaruja, which, according to the prosecution found, was given to him by a construction company hoping to win government millionaire contracts. While the other units in the building were being sold, the one intended for him was still in the builder's name. He would enjoy the property but not the formal property.

    Several dozen testimonials and many pieces of supporting documents made up the process. It would be up to the defense to contradict the case and seek to minimize as much as possible the accusation against the defendant and, consequently, the extension of the sentence. It would be like this if the former president had not set a trap, much like the young of Rio de Janeiro.

    Strategy. He was in a financial position to hire undisputed and competent lawyers. But these would not obey him. Without obeying him, they would dismantle all the flaws in the process, because every legal piece has them. And his sentence would almost certainly be less than four years in prison. Under current rules in Brazil, he would not be arrested.

    But he wanted none of that. The strategy of his lawyers, which is not of them, but his own, went through the following procedures: a) alleging total innocence in the case, b) accusing the judge of bias and political persecution, c) refusing to analyze the court's plea prosecution, arguing that all the evidence was forged.

    With the prosecution file intact, the lower court judge played tennis with the net down, while having on the other side an opponent who made a point of acting with his hands tied. It cannot be ignored that in a white-collar crime against the State, the judge weighs not two antagonistic sides of civil society, but one side of the State, which he himself represents, along with the prosecution, against another of society, which in this case is the defendant.

    For this reason, in the previous corruption case, the case of the “Big Monthly”, 2006, which dealt with allowances paid improperly to congressmen to vote on matters of government interest, in which dozens of politicians and businessmen were arrested, the then president, who in 2018 would be arrested, passed unharmed. He represented the State. The complainant, Representative Roberto Jefferson, knew that he should not involve him in the problem, once this would have served as support to the others involved. But all the great work of justice was left with a huge gap: Where did the money come from?

    The origin of the money would only be ascertained in the 2018 process, when the chief of State was already out of office.

    While he was serving the first year of his sentence, a second conviction was provided, in a similar process, concerning the enjoyment of a site in the city of Atibaia. As for the apartment that earned the first sentence, the court has already seized it from the construction company and has auctioned it off. The owner of the construction company is avowed defendant and has already obtained his freedom, having ratified his award-winning treaty by the courts after spending almost a year in prison.

    If the prosecutors had forged sufficient evidence to impute him 800 years in prison, that would have been valid, because the "strategy" was to completely deny the relevance of the process.

    This type of attitude is unprecedented in the history of case law, so that the Code of Criminal Procedure does not yet have a mechanism to circumvent the situation. The sentence is issued after the judge becomes aware of the prosecution's case and the defense's allegations. If the defense, following the defendant's guidance, refuses to analyze the case and prefers to attack the judge's fairness and boast that the whole process is a scam, the sentence could be compared to a tidal wave that has not faced any barrier to destroy beach populations.

    Certainly, it never crossed the former president's mind that dismissing the process and accusing the judge is, for practical purposes, what matters, to a confession of guilt. And confession compounded by enormous arrogance.

    Decades of coexistence with various leftist leaders have not turned the former president into a leftist. But he has learned and incorporated notorious lessons from the infantism leftism, and he applied in this case one of the main ones, which is the behavior of rejecting negotiations with "the other side", always maintaining the "all or nothing" perspective.

    Leaks. Almost a year after the sentence began, there were leaks of talks between the judge and prosecutors about the progress of the case. The prisoner and his close supporters built the assurance that these conversations served as a demonstration that the evidence collected against him was false, which should lead to the overturning of the sentence and a proper reparation. Moreover, according to the prisoner's own statement, he should leave prison and be replaced there by the chief prosecutor and the lower court judge who convicted him. This judge did give some reason to the defendant's arguments that his judgment was political when he accepted to be a minister of a party-line government contrary to that of the convict. The reason, however, that this minister, who vowed not to pursue a political career, to climb the federal government was the same as years before had the former president to the top of his civilian life: Both were famous, one judging big names involved. in corruption, another leading strikes against large industrial corporations.

    Other former presidents of popular election systems, such as in South Korea, were arrested and even  committed suicide over allegations of corruption. But the only one in the world to swear eternal innocence was Mr. Luiz Inacio da Silva.

    In order to corroborate the omniscience situation that affected him, after completing the necessary period for the progression of the sentence, in which he would have to move to the semi-open regime, the prosecution advanced and demanded the execution of the procedure to justice. He, with the help of lawyers, drafted a handwritten letter stating that he did not accept the "bargain", implying that he believes the prosecutors are trapped and on the verge of facing the reversal of history, having to acknowledge that all evidence has been "forged", to deceive the public, the regional court, and the higher court.

    Faced with the old Roman principle of “dura lex, sed lex”, the demand for a sentence that acquitted the defendant, who considered himself a political prisoner, was not met, but, even so, nothing prevents another Brazilian leader from using in the future the same kind of confrontation against the courts. In Brazil, where citizens who commit crimes often deny everything - with the exception of former Rio governor Sergio Cabral Filho, - perfecting the art of dissimulation as a way of life, the way to prevent the repetition of this episode is to add to the Criminal Procedure Code a provision that obliges the court system to appoint dative attorney whenever the defendant's defense refuses to review the items of the case, alleging total innocence of the client. The judge considers not only this allegation of absolute honesty, but also the contradictory one presented by the dative lawyer. Even if he is also a state official, he is performing a necessary task that the defendant's defense has refused to fulfill. And justice will no longer be the victim of popular players who treat the institution with gusto.

As a state-paid official, although working in the opposite direction, this judge-appointed professional has a role similar to that of the “devil's advocate” in the canonization processes at the Vatican.

In short, there are three major novelties in cases that prosecute acts of corruption.

    1) "Suspect". The object of the trial is a defendant who, in theory, acted against the State, which is the employer of the judge. He will have the task of working exemptly while belonging to one side. It is easy for the defendant's defense to form the interpretation that he works with suspicion.

    2) Stubborn. If the defendant was once chief of State, he has great difficulty, as it happened to Iraqi Saddam Russein, though not to South Korea's Park Geun-hye, in accepting that the seat he now sits on is the villain's.

    3) Balance. Chances are that the defendant, having been someone powerful, would not recognize the validity of the state court case against him - Saddam Hussein shouted that his antagonist was the US government - imposing that understanding on the defense. In such a case, it should be up to the judge of the case, as a procedural novelty, to fill the gap by appointing a dative lawyer, so that he can draw up his challenge piece based on the case file.

UFOs don't come from another planet

UFO in Manchester

UFOs don't come from another planet

Cacildo Marques – Sao Paulo

      Since Governor John Winthrop, of Massachusetts, wrote accounts of men who saw light objects flying at high speed in January, 1639, the stories of UFO encounters in the Americas have grown.

      These contacts have many points in common, which should be taken into account for the formulation of valid hypotheses to explain the phenomenon.

      The most important fact is that all these UFOs, whether manned or unmanned, take great care not to interfere with the visited environment. Even if the person who sees them has the feeling that might experience a shock, which can be fatal, such a thing never happened. In fact, UFOs do not even need to be careful. They do not really interfere.

      The other common points in the reports are that these objects suddenly stop in the air in a way that no modern human vehicle can do. As soon as they stop, they start at very high speed. They are always very luminous objects. Their shape is cylindrical, oval or saucer-shaped, always rounded, never cubic, what obviously facilitates their rapid locomotion.

      It is necessary to be aware that, although UFOs work with technologies that until now science does not dominate, such as the use of some very advanced form of energy and engineering resources of Taguchi that do not yet apply to the transport of humans, others aspects of the vehicles are compatible with the aerodynamics and displacement that would be expected from flying machines manufactured by the current industry.

      We must also be aware that flight safety has made very little progress since the important contributions of Jerome Fox Lederer in the 1950s - such as the introduction of radio in aircraft cabins - and the reason for this paralysis is the interest of airlines in bragging about the excellence of the current system, mounted on convenient statistics, without the concern of pushing for improvements. All this is the effect of the so-called "installed base". If companies are to demand from the factories equipment with new forms of take-off and landing and new mechanisms for guaranteeing individual safety for passengers, this simple act will denounce an uncertainty that they will not allow to be revealed. This phase, however, will not last for many decades.

      As soon as companies are willing to test new inventions, not only with incremental advances, as it has been since the creation of the jet turbine, but with revolutionary novelties, then we will be facing the future of air transport. We will come to understand how UFOs work and we will stop looking at them as a great mystery.

      Yes, because UFOs do not come from other planets. They are - strictly, will be - manufactured by our industry.

      Will be they? Exactly. Where do UFOs come from? From here, but from future times.

     Given the working hypothesis that they do not come from outside the Earth, there would still be the possibility of a civilization developing outside our radars, perhaps in some underground environments, or at the bottom of some ocean. With all the screening tools we have today scouring without finding anything in these places, the chance of such civilization exists is practically negligible. There remains the journey in time.

      UFOs are vehicles that the humans of the future use to research what is past for them, and also to research their future.

      By the paradox of the grandfather, they cannot interfere in the facts that are already part of the past. One or another person who receives the visit of them can faint of fright, but soon recovers the senses, without keeping sequels. If the person is alone and believes in ETs, he can imagine that he was abducted while this fainting lasts. (Paradox of the grandfather: a traveler who travels to the past and interferes in it can kill his own grandfather, so that the traveler himself cannot exist.)

      Researchers of the future visit our time and also times from a more remote past, gathering and imparting information. Since the seventeenth century, when we were already trying out advanced means of transportation, we came to understand that these vehicles could contain people. Those who saw them in previous centuries saw them as luminous phenomena of nature or as manifestations of the supernatural world.

      UFOs, however, do not come from other planets nor from the world of spirits. They are vehicles used by our fellow researchers a few decades later.

      This is not the case of Galileo's relativity, nor of Poincaré's relativity, but since Einstein's Theory of General Relativity of 1916, the whole study of Mechanics is directed, directly or indirectly, to the possibility of time travel. Just it is necessary to find the passage. Stephen Hawking thought it might be in the wormholes, which connect the folds of spacetime. We do not know yet, but if we do not speculate we will not achieve the feat.

      Time travel, which by current understanding is limited only by the grandfather's paradox, will bring about an unprecedented revolution in human life. In addition to clarifying the historical facts of the past, they will search the future and eliminate, almost completely, the possibilities of epidemics, war conflicts and major accidents, because the uncertainty will be reduced to almost zero. The etiologies will all be unraveled in a short period of time. And, of course, national lotteries, major sporting championships and other chance-based practices will disappear, because they will be obsolete. The great robberies and the great financial deviations will no longer be practiced, because they would be quickly clarified. Democracy, with marked letters or not, will no longer be a game, giving way to more appropriate methods of choice. However, small committee games and small draws will continue to run smoothly, because the vehicles that will lead researchers to the future will not be concerned about them.

      The most alarming conclusion to this, that of the impending time travel, is that in addition to the cure for human diseases, the environment will also be healed, and the Earth will be saved. And how free will will be? It will be where it has always been, without major changes in everyday life.

The cheating of the Social Security Reform in Brazil

The cheating of the Social Security Reform in Brazil

Cacildo Marques - Sao Paulo

     There is a massive and almost complete lack of information within the population about the current laws of Public Pensions in Brazil, which allows permanent manipulation by rulers and the press.

     First of all, there is already retirement by age: 65 for men and 60 for women. In the case of rural workers, one decreases five years in each genre.

     There is also retirement for contribution time: 35 years of contribution, for those over 53 years old, if male, and 30 years, for 48 years old, at least, if a woman.

     The above clarifications, followed by more details, are in the FAQs of the Caixa Economica Federal (CEF) website.

     The most recent reform, adopted in 2015, adds a requirement to prevent early retirements, which is the rule 85-95, which since January 2019 became 86-96, as planned. The meaning of this is that someone only has the right to apply for retirement if, being a man, when adding up the contribution years to the years of age gets a total of at least 96. If the person is a woman, should reach a total of 86.

     The difference of five years between men and women did not come, as it was justified many years later, because of the double female journey, in the employment and at home. It was an invention of Colonel Jarbas Passarinho, who, as a parliamentarian, by voting in the 1980s for reform that created Special Retirement of Teachers, at 25 years of contribution, said he did not agree with such low time for men, and made the project determining 25 years for women and 30 years for men. Since then, the discriminatory idea, aiming protection and discrimination of women was extended to all subsequent social security laws. Today, this special retirement at the 25 years of contribution was swallowed by the minimum age of 60 years for male teachers and 55 years for female teachers, according to the reform that entered into force at the end of 2003.

     The most significant change in this 2003 reform was the establishment of the ceiling for benefit receiving. In current values, the ceiling is at BRL 5,800 per month (US $ 1,555 in February 2019). For a system that until 2003 paid pensions of judges with values ​​of up to BRL 35,000 monthly ($ 9,383), this ceiling now solves the great problem of expenditures with a range of public servants regarded as privileged. It is necessary to remember that the immense mass of retirees receives minimum salary, that currently is of BRL 954 monthly (US $ 256).

     What would cause the pension fund to maintain financial health? Let us see some necessary steps.

First, what is collected from the employee and employer's share, in equal proportion, is not a tax, but a "contribution". Not being a tax, it should not be mixed with national treasury money, but keep in own cash, managed by a federal autarky.

     Second, the value of the employer's quota works as indirect wages, which could never be postponed or denied, which means that the government must never waive (dismiss) any employer to deposit this amount.

     Third, informal jobs, which almost never collect the contribution, should be hard pressed to become formal jobs, and, even when informal, monthly contributions should not be neglected. Large numbers of informal employment or unemployment should not be allowed, so as not to provoke a vacuum in the pension fund.

     Fourth, it is okay to pass money from the social security fund to the national treasury, but this should only be done as loan, to be paid according to the Central Bank's basic interest rate, at least.

     Fifth, any beneficiary whose value received does not derive from his social security contributions, according to the minimum requirements, must have his amounts paid for another type of cash, being part of another type of government account other than the social security authority account. This should be the case with the BCC (Benefit of Continuing Care for the elderly), pensions for family members, etc.

     Sixth, employers with old debts, discounting the failed companies, should be called upon to sign a plan of monthly pensions payment, in order to pay off their debt over a number of years.

     Seventh, companies that do not collect the employer's social security quota must lose the bank credit, until the fulfillment of the obligations.

     Eighth, the employee who requires retirement must "retire" in fact, as soon as the service of his demand is published, being absolutely prohibited from continuing to work in the same company and in the same place, even if disguised as a legal entity.

     Ninth, there must be an annual audit, or at least a biannual one, in December, of all the assets of the social security authority.

     Tenth, there must be a short time for the state and municipal systems to adapt to their constitutions and organic laws the existing laws of federal funds.

     All ten of the above measures are designed to enforce current law, preventing drill holes from leaking social security. There is, therefore, no need for constitutional reform to detract more resources from employers or public servants.

     Why then do they want so much a new reform? Because the sanitation measures listed above are not applied. Contributions are mixed with taxes and social security benefits payments are made with national treasury funds, in clear disregard for the rite of separation of accounts. And as formal employment is gradually disappearing, with acceleration guaranteed by the new labor laws, the contributions of employees and employers, tend to be reduced to an almost negligible amount in relation to the total payments that pensions must make on a monthly basis, both to direct payers of its cash and to beneficiaries with no relation to contributions based on the salary.

     As these problems are not corrected, because one does not intend to do so, one can make a new constitutional reform every four years, with the objective of deceiving foreign investors, that the collapse will continue to increase.

     The dogma bragged by the government that without the social security reform the country returns to recession is talk without nexus, fruit of futurology of reading coffee grounds. None of the reform topics submitted to the National Congress in 2019 is positive for the country. Subtract more resources from wage earners will only reduce national income, what is, now yes, a faster way to return to recession.

Vichy: The Ravenna of the Third Reich

Center of Vichy - France

Vichy: The Ravenna of the Third Reich

Cacildo Marques – Sao Paulo

    The Ravenna Effect is, almost certainly, the most decisive causal relation of Social Psychology to guide the paths of history. It is configured by the shock of years or decades caused by the transfer of the chief of State from his traditional capital to a city without historical secular status of capital, with the ensuing disruption of the services and symbols of stability already built for the conduction of the State, with highlight for the currency. Through the Versailles Effect (Prof. Malcolm H. Wiener), the problem spreads over the countries of the area of influence. The localization of the government does not matter (Bonn Effect), provided that the residence of the chief of State functions effectively in the secular capital (for Germany, it is Berlin).

    Fall. The name Ravenna Effect comes from the set of events that in the fifth century, from the year 402 to the year 476, led to the fall of the Roman Empire. In the year 402, Emperor Honorius transferred the court to Ravenna, leaving the city of Rome to its fate. Since then, frequent wars, uprisings, invasions by other peoples, famine, shortages, epidemics, and many other problems devastated the Italian Peninsula in such a way that when Odoacer, leading his barbarian soldiers, entered Rome, to set up his imperial court, he was received with relief and feast in the streets, by a population that then had great contempt for its distant emperor, Romulus Augustulus.

    Thirteen centuries later, the same mechanism that left the Old Age behind and ushered in the Medieval Age acted to kick-start the Contemporary Age, with the key episode of the French Revolution, which was the Fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789.

    Versailles. Who played the part of the Ravenna of France at that time was the city of Versailles, where the chief of State Louis XVI resided. After three months, in the heat of the agitation of a rumored protest against the rise of prices, amid rumors that the aristocracy planned deliberately to kill the poor with hunger, there was the Women's March, or October March, in which the Parisian ladies, united with revolutionaries who looted the official weapons depot of Paris, went to Versailles on the evening of October 5 and, after many battles in which a protester was killed and, in response, two guards of the palace had their heads cut off and propped up in stakes, in the afternoon of the October 6 they demanded that Louis XVI was with the protesters to Paris, to settle in the old Tuileries Palace.

    The Ravenna Effect was over, but less than two years later, Louis XVI and his wife Marie-Antoinette fled towards Varennes, when they were intercepted. In a few more months they were sentenced to death in the guillotine.

    Washington. A decade later it began the saga of the Ravenna of the United States, that was its capital Washington. Unlike Ravenna and Versailles, Washington was consolidated, because the citizens of the country had no way of knowing the origin of their misfortunes. Washington was built in 1800 and twelve years later it occurred the Great Anglo-American War, in which English soldiers, attempting to retake the colony, set the city aflame. The Americans rebuilt Washington with a greater commitment than the one shown in 1800, remaking the Capitol, the White House and many other buildings with better designs and in a more reinforced way. In the sixth decade it came the War of Secession, which inside the country is called the American Civil War. It was the greatest civil war in the New World. In the final phase, President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery and was later murdered, but no one distrusted the Ravenna Effect. And Washington continued its history toward consolidation as a historic capital, which happened with the last capital-newist vicissitude of the country, which was the Great Depression in 1929.

    Tokyo. The time elapsed between the exchange of Rome by Ravenna and the moment of the fall of the empire was 74 years. From the transfer of Louis XIV to Versailles, in 1682, until the withdrawal there of his grandson Louis XVI 107 years passed. The French suffered the cost of the new "capital" for 11 decades. The United States suffered this for 13 decades, lessened by the clever adoption of the gold standard. Japan, which had its capital transferred to Tokyo in 1869, had, 13 decades later, the highest real estate prices in the world, which have declined since then, that is, since the beginning of the 21st century. The problems experienced by Japan in this interval are no secret to anyone, but it is easy to remember, for example, the Sino-Japanese war of 1894 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, which received Washington's response nearly four years later with the spill of two atomic bombs.

    Bad. Before this tragic outcome, which was part of the World War II, the world went through World War I, triggered by the attempt of the activist Gavrilo Prinkip against Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, then part of the Autro-Hungarian Empire, which went through a serious problem of dearness. The Ravenna of Emperor Franz Joseph I is not as gaudy as Versailles was in the eighteenth century. It is because he moved in order to stay overnight with his mistress in the city of Bad Itschl, leaving the official capital, Vienna, and Empress Sissi in second plan. Bad Itschl was the most discreet Ravenna in history.

    Weimar. As for the city of Weimar, it did not overthrow an empire, since it was the center of a Republic, which proved to be frustrated, but the superinflation experienced there, leading Germany to an unprecedented impoverishment in the phenomenon called the Weimar Effect (Professor Philip David Cagan), made the Germans search for a mountebank who offered himself as a savior of the homeland, Adolf Hitler, after the problem was already resolved by a descendant of Martin Luther, President Paul von Hindenburg, already installed in the traditional capital, Berlin. The President noted that the voters were being confused, not realizing that Germany was already rerouted, and tried in every way to prevent the rise of the Austrian man, who had been arrested in 1923 for attempted coup. Hindenburg did not succeed because he was taking a solitary fight. On here, a human fault is formed that is explained by the phenomenon of hysteresis: The impulse of the effect ceases, but the effect continues for some more time. In this case of Social Psychology, what occurs is a sensation of hysteresis, not hysteresis itself. The solution is obtained, but popular perception is that everything remains the same. An example of this, there in the same region, was the destruction of Budapest, ordered by Hitler. He died in 1945, but his soldiers proceeded to the destruction of the Hungarian capital in 1946. This is a pure sensation of hysteresis. For those insiders, the Nazism was still in force.

    Hitler, therefore, grew politically along the road opened by Hindenburg. When he died in 1934, Hitler, there was one year as Prime Minister (Chancellor), took his place, through the plebiscite of self-referral, in which he obtained 88% support from the electorate.

    Free from the moorings of the Ravenna Effect represented by Weimar, Germany was growing in the stern. Emma Goldman, a Jewish writer, promoted marches in New York charging the United States government to take action against Hitler, who was chasing Jews. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt despised this demand, because the economic growth of Germany favored much the American companies, among them IBM, or "Big Blue". Hitler feared only one event, as he himself told the advisors at his country house, on the scene shown in the documentary "Swastika": The possible election of Winston Churchill as premier of England.

    Vichy. And what was the Hitler's Ravenna? Now, in obtaining the collaboration of Marshal Philippe Pétain, who agreed to govern France as a province of the Third Reich, Hitler saw no problem in setting up the French government in Vichy. Joan of Arc considered in 1429 that France without Paris did not be France. Pétain ignored it. He did not consider that in the Hundred Years War, after Joan of Arc obtained the coronation of the dauphin as king Charles VII, she demanded him to finance the resumption of Paris, without his giving in to the appeal. She has undertaken on her own day, and was captured in the immediate vicinity of the city. It must be understood that France was in shambles for having its chief of State far from the historical capital. And even with the later retake of the city, the Hundred Years' War left Western Europe broken and unguarded, opening the doors to the materialization of the old dream of the Turks of taking Constantinople, which happened to take place in 1453. There the Medieval Era was closed, and the Modern Age was beginning.

    Pétain and the Nazis saw it as a salutary move to let rebellious Parisians relegated to the basement of history. The new era was with the Vichy Regime, from 1940.

    It was the Ravenna Effect (or Versailles-Weimar Effect) generated from Vichy that showed the French that Nazism - demagogic, uncultivated, racist and authoritarian regime - was a disgrace, something that only 12% of the Germans seemed to agree, by the voting in the plebiscite of the self-referral.

    Resistance grew from France. When the United States, Britain, and the French Resistance decided to disembark to the D-Day on June 6, 1944, they did this in Normandy, French territory, because the initial priority was to free France, a result obtained in the first month of battle. The easiest part for allied troops was to take Paris, because the Parisians, animated by the entry of allies into French territory, had already done the service inside the city, expelling the Nazis.

    Here we have a new aspect of the Ravenna Effect. In addition to this new characteristic, we can call the phenomenon as the Vichy Effect: What the new capital without secular status has to unmask and destroy bad governments that deceive the population when sustaining itself in the demagogy using the developmentalism as a trump. Far from being embarrassed to have harbored the collaborationist government of Pétain, Vichy must be proud to have been the spearhead of the revolt that resulted in the destruction of the Nazi horror.

    History. If we consider, like Popper, that the human story they say to be relevant is the history of tragedies, not that of the great discoveries, artistic creations and great philosophical conceptions, then every truly important episode has the Ravena Effect as its background, even before the fate of the city of Aten, of the father of Tutankhamen, passing through Alexandria, which shortened abruptly, by the early death of the titular, the reign of Alexander, until the recent disaster of the administrative city of Robert Mugabe, Borrowdale Brooks, on the outskirts of Harare, which pushed Zimbabwe to the highest hyperinflation in history in 2008. Earlier, the record was exactly with the Hungarians of 1946, that, having its capital destroyed by the late Nazis, installed the residence of their president in the Lake Balaton.

    Nowadays, following Brazil, Myanmar and Nigeria, the focus of the Ravenna Effect is with Tunisia, whose presidential residence is outside the traditional capital.

Vocabulario terraplanista - flat earther glossary

Vocabulario terraplanista - flat earther glossary

Cacildo Marques - Sao Paulo

    (En política no existe ironía, por lo que todo lo que está aquí es definición pura y simple; si el ciudadano concuerda con las entradas abajo y todavía no es terraplanista, está perdiendo tiempo.)

   Género. Núcleo de la expresión terraplanista "ideología de género", que es la técnica escolar que induce a un niño a cambiar de sexo.
   Socialismo. Un sistema económico del siglo XIX, pero que vigoró en Brasil de 1995 a 2018.
   Socialdemocracia. Nombre fantasía del socialismo reciente, también llamado "marxismo cultural".
   Rifle. Instrumento principal de seguridad individual del ciudadano en sociedades libres.
   Copérnico. Un sacerdote loco que escribió que la Tierra gira alrededor del Sol.
   Newton. Autor de una ley disfuncional (dicen que es de Galileo) llamada "Principio de la inercia".
   Einstein. Un científico loco que intentó corregir Newton, pero escribió una teoría que ni él mismo entendió.
   ONU. Una colusión de naciones propuesta por Einstein en 1945, para implantar el "globalismo".
   Globalismo. Tentativa de imponer una religión universal contraria a la tradición judeocristiana.
   Nacionalismo. Rechazo al globalismo, con ejemplificación aplastante en el Brexit, momento glorioso del Partido Conservador británico.
   Ollavismo. La escuela de pensamiento del mayor filósofo vivo, a quien la academia, por despecho, le negó un diploma.
   Internet. Un espacio de comunicación fruto de la inspiración divina, no de la ciencia moderna, que está toda equivocada.
   Nicotina. Sustancia lícita que hace la alegría de los terraplanistas y no provoca enfisema o cualquier otro mal.
   Partido. Una organización política a la cual ninguna mención debe ser permitida en el aula.
   Correcto. Núcleo de la expresión "políticamente correcto", que es el modo como el ciudadano es políticamente incorrecto.
   Muro. Gran pared que se constituye en una solución inteligente contra andrajosos de países pobres.
   Calentamiento. Núcleo de la expresión "calentamiento global", que es una locura de izquierdistas.
   Cuba. Lugar a donde deben ir los adversarios del terraplanismo.
   Terraplanismo. Las fotografías que muestran la esfericidad de la Tierra son simples manipulaciones.
   Satélite. El satélite artificial es una gran mentira de la NASA, para justificar las teorías erróneas de Newton.
   Maestro. Profesional de enseñanza que necesita ser controlado para no enseñar socialismo y homosexualismo a los niños.
   Reportero. Profesional de prensa especializado en la producción de "fake news".
   Artista. Profesional de diversión que vive de dilapidar el erario público.