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The parallel government that Master exposed There is something much more sinister in the Master scandal than the negotiations themselves. O Globo revealed messages from Vorcaro's cell phone in which his then-lawyer, Walfrido Warde, reports the construction of a dialogue with Lula's government. In April 2024, he said that Marcola, Lula's chief of staff, was asking for the email with the "group's interests." In September: "I was with President Lula for a long time yesterday. You'll like it." In January 2025, he reported that the president had "once again thanked for the whisky." The Planalto denies the whisky and the messages. It only admits what it cannot deny: Lula received Vorcaro on December 4, 2024, outside the official agenda. Warde now says he was dealing with Marcola and other government members, not directly with Lula. In other words, the dialogue with the Planalto existed. And look who the messenger is. Warde's office had Roberta Rangel as a partner, who was then Toffoli's wife. Toffoli later took on the rapporteurship of the Master case and only let go of it when links between his family environment and characters and funds related to the case came to light. Moraes's wife's office had a contract worth R$ 131 million with Master, R$ 3.6 million per month, to act in inquiries from the Federal Police, the Central Bank, the Revenue Service, the CADE, and Congress. The Lewandowski family's office received R$ 250,000 monthly from the bank, a contract that continued while he was Minister of Justice. In December 2024, Vorcaro instructed his legal director to call the minister's son: "We have a contract. He needs to be called urgently. [...] And give some case or opinion for him to do." Here is the exposed juristocracy: powerful lawyers, former ministers, and relatives of ministers circulating between the Planalto, Esplanada, and Supreme Court, with the same key for all doors. This is not the lobby that has always existed, however nefarious it may be. The traditional lobby sought interests: a contract, a favorable rule. It pressured power but remained outside. The network exposed by Master evolved to exercise effective political control of the country: it defines who is investigated and who is spared, who is censored, who goes to prison, and who can run for election. It became a parallel government that swallowed the institutions and holds the power in fact, without ever having received a vote. And it took the authoritarian path in 2019 when the Supreme Court opened an inquiry into fake news by decree, without the Public Prosecutor's Office. One of its first acts was to censor a report linking Toffoli to Marcelo Odebrecht. To protect the network, it was necessary to silence those who exposed it. After that, repression only expanded. In the name of combating "antidemocratic acts," thousands went through the machine of inquiries and processes, profiles were censored, and hundreds ended up behind bars. The exceptional became permanent: questioning the system came to mean being treated as its enemy. The most serious: no control mechanism stopped the network in time. It only emerged when Master collapsed. And even when exposed, it does not correct itself. In December 2025, Gonet shelved the investigation request on Moraes's wife's contract. Now, claiming procedural vice, he seeks the annulment of the Federal Police report that dedicated almost 190 out of 218 pages to Moraes. Detail: Gonet's own name appears in the messages. The offensive for protection is open. Four ministers have already aligned: Gilmar, Zanin, and Moraes himself voted to unite, thus tying Moraes's case to the judgment of supposed irregularities of Mendonça, the minister who exposed the report; Dino, who also expressed support for the union, requested a pause and interrupted the judgment. And Zanin has just denied, for now, the injunction that would force the Senate to install the CPI on Moraes, Toffoli, and Vorcaro, which has been stalled since March with 41 signatures. And who holds the CPI? The president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre. According to Veja, in a rejected plea bargain proposed to the Federal Police, Vorcaro reported paying US$ 30 million to the senator, in an overseas account, in exchange for support for the bank's interests. Alcolumbre denies it. It is the same Alcolumbre who, according to a message from Fábio Faria to Vorcaro obtained by the Federal Police, was "crazy asking if the Swiss will come" to a banker’s party. It was precisely his alleged omission that Zanin deemed unproven. Seven years have passed selling us "defense of democracy." Few businesses in Brazil yield so much. (translated)

🚨 Agora! Santos teme colapso financeiro após fracassar com "plano all-in". A eliminação para o Atlético-MG na Sul-Americana fez o Peixe deixar de faturar 800 mil dólares (R$ 4,1 milhões) pela semifinal, além de uma bilheteria que elevaria a perda para mais de R$ 5 milhões. Se fosse campeão, receberia outros US$ 10 milhões (R$ 50 milhões). A diretoria adotou ESTRATÉGIA DE RISCO e apostou na Sul-Americana para bancar reforços, que aumentaram uma folha já alta. Rodinei, Arthur, Lima, Philippe Coutinho e Everton Cebolinha estão entre os contratados. Agora, sem receitas suficientes, o Santos faz contas para pagar uma folha salarial de quase R$ 30 MILHÕES POR MÊS e teme colapso financeiro. O clube deve uma parcela de direitos de imagem aos jogadores, que pode representar até 40% dos ganhos de cada atleta, e não tem dinheiro para pagar a próxima, que vence dia 20. O Santos admitiu a dívida, mas afirmou estar em dia com salários em carteira e FGTS. A situação também impede a troca dos gramados da Vila Belmiro e do CT Rei Pelé, orçada em pouco mais de R$ 11 milhões. A diretoria busca investidor ou acordo com empresa. A World Sports, que cuida do gramado, não recebe há 5 MESES. Para viabilizar as últimas contratações, a NR Sports, empresa da família de Neymar, assumiu dívida de R$ 12 milhões do Santos com o Monaco por Jean Lucas, em troca de espaços do uniforme. O Santos fechou o 2º trimestre com déficit 62% acima do orçado e dívida superior a R$ 1,2 BILHÃO. A diretoria também admitiu que pagará R$ 17,3 milhões a Zé Rafael pela rescisão do contrato, em 48 parcelas de R$ 361 mil. Em 10º no Brasileirão, o Peixe terá mais 12 jogos para tentar uma vaga na pré-Libertadores. 🗞️ @placar 📸 Reinaldo Campos/SFC #SantosFC #ColapsoFinanceiro #FutebolBrasileiro

É simplesmente absurdo. O PGR é citado várias vezes nas conversas extraídas do celular de Vorcaro. Nas mensagens, "ele vai para Londres com a gente", na expectativa de "charuto e macalan". E é esse mesmo PGR, convidado do convescote do Macallan, que vai participar do julgamento sobre o material que o coloca no centro do escândalo? O personagem das provas dando parecer sobre as provas... é o colapso completo da justiça brasileira. #Justiça #Escândalo #Corrupção

The police in Ceuta report an extreme situation and absolute collapse due to long working hours and extreme pressure, following the heart attack of an officer who is in the ICU, urgently demanding government intervention in what they describe as an overwhelming and dangerous migration crisis. (translated)

🚨 DANA: Hubo un 'Plan Hidrológico' en marcha que solucionaba, entre otras cosas, el riesgo de inundaciones y barrancadas en Valencia. Zapatero lo paralizó. ​🚨 APAGÓN: Las eléctricas avisaron de "severos picos de tensión" 12 días antes. ​🚨 ADAMUZ: Los maquinistas alertaron por escrito del "grave deterioro de la red". 🚨 CEUTA: Inteligencia y el Cenif avisaron de "riesgo extremo" de colapso y una "entrada masiva". ​El problema no es que las crisis no avisen, el problema es que quien está al mando no escucha. Y las consecuencias, claro, las paga el pueblo. #Crisis #Inundaciones #Valencia

A CRISE DO STF: DO COMEÇO AO COLAPSO. Tudo o que aconteceu até agora, SEM CORTES e SEM FILTROS. Assista até o final Compartilhe para fazer essa mensagem chegar a todos os brasileiros. https://t.co/fuhO3rqSYa #STF #Crise #Brasil

The warning about the potential collapse that artificial intelligence could cause in the future raises questions about Anthropic's valuation, which aims to reach a valuation of two trillion dollars, while its own researchers acknowledge the risks associated with creating more advanced autonomous systems. (translated)