Dantas’ Paradise: “Spy Shop Gets a Venue-Swap”

E Dantas leva mais uma…: Score another one for Daniel Valente Dantas, reports Terra Magazine (Brazil)
Daniel Dantas se livrou de mais uma na Justiça. No último dia 28 de outubro, a desembargadora Cecília Mello e a segunda turma do Tribunal Regional Federal da 3.ª Região, em São Paulo, decidiram, por iniciativa [...]

“The Bugger Was Veja’s Source on Bug”: Rumor

OCULAR PROOF OF THE IMPENDING APOCALYPSE: “They are watching us. Even the Presidency and the Supreme Court suspect they have been targeted for espionage. No one is safe. This is the end of privacy in Brazil.” Below the dek: a facsimile of the leaked report by Supreme Court security (full-size available to subscribers only.) The [...]

Dantas’ Inferno: “One End Was Moo, the Other Money”

The cow is of the bovine ilk
One end is moo, the other milk
–Ogden Nash
Analysis of the Dantas’ Inferno case today from the Folha de S. Paulo — whose turn it is to leak the federal police report from the next phase in a series of investigations into alleged bribery, fraud and money-laundering by the Brazilian [...]

Quantum Spin: Veja’s Designated Blogger on Race and Politics

The delusional is no longer marginal. –- Bill Moyers
Entrelinhas is the blog published by DCI political editor and Observatório da Imprensa associate editor Luiz Antônio Magalhães.
In this post, he points out what he argues is some boneheaded quantum massaging of the numbers by Veja.com’s designated neo-Lacerdist blogger Reinaldo Azevedo — Brazil’s most prominent contemporary exponent [...]

Rio Militias: “Lins and Itagiba Cited by CPI; Busts Shed Light on Batman Flight”

Bangue bangue bangue. Bada bingo, bada bicho.

Chefe da policia
Pelo telefone
Manda me avisar
Que na Carioca
Há uma roleta
Para se jogar
–Donga
Itagiba e Lins são citados em documento: The president of a federal congressional probe into supposed “excesses” in the use of electronic surveillance inthe making anticorruption and organized crime cases was the public security secretary of Rio [...]

Brazil: Putting a Bridle on the Black-Hat Lobbyist

Editor of the Jornal do Commercio’s Confidencial column, Ahmed Aziz — often praised as a wily and well-informed gentleman of the press, although I don’t really see it — notes a recent debate over “white-hat” and “black-hat” lobbying here in Brazil.
The Brazilian lobbying profession is completely unregulated.
You have never seen such goings-on in all your [...]