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The Sisko Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 See, they've impeached one president and on their way to a second while we're still dilly dallying with ours. They've got us beat by a mile in that department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Metalhead Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Seeing a national museum destroyed is soul-crushing. So many artifacts gone, including priceless treasures were loaned/owned by other countries. There is no excuse for leaving a building such as this so vulnerable to fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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StillUnknown Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 the world continues to go to **** faster than I keep up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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visionary Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 Quote Moro, a former star anti-corruption judge, also called for more severe punishment for illegal campaign financing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 (edited) Poop less for a cleaner planet, says Brazil's president Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested Friday that people "poop every other day" as a way to save the environment, after he came under fire for a surge in deforestation of the Amazon since he came to power. What pooping less may make you look like The far-right leader offered this idea in response to a journalist's question as to whether it was possible to simultaneously spur economic growth, feed the world's hungry and also preserve the environment. "It's enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It's enough to poop every other day. That will be better for the whole world," said Bolsonaro, who earlier this month sacked the head of a government agency that had reported a major increase in Amazon deforestation. Click on the link for the full article Edited August 10, 2019 by China 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozo the kKklown Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Not sure if you all care but Brazil had an American style of corruption to put corn Lula da Silva. It was all intercepted and involved Supreme Court Justices, etc https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-car-wash-prosecutors-workers-party-lula/ Quote AN ENORMOUS TROVE of secret documents reveals that Brazil’s most powerful prosecutors, who have spent years insisting they are apolitical, instead plotted to prevent the Workers’ Party, or PT, from winning the 2018 presidential election by blocking or weakening a pre-election interview with former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with the explicit purpose of affecting the outcome of the election. The massive archive, provided exclusively to The Intercept, shows multiple examples of politicized abuse of prosecutorial powers by those who led the country’s sweeping Operation Car Wash corruption probe since 2014. It also reveals a long-denied political and ideological agenda. One glaring example occurred 10 days before the first round of presidential voting last year, when a Supreme Court justice granted a petition from the country’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo, to interview Lula, who was in prison on corruption charges brought by the Car Wash task force. Immediately upon learning of that decision on September 28, 2018, the team of prosecutors who handled Lula’s corruption case — who spent years vehemently denying that they were driven by political motives of any kind — began discussing in a private Telegram chat group how to block, subvert, or undermine the Supreme Court decision. This was based on their expressed fear that the decision would help the PT — Lula’s party — win the election. Based on their stated desire to prevent the PT’s return to power, they spent hours debating strategies to prevent or dilute the political impact of Lula’s interview. The Car Wash prosecutors explicitly said that their motive in stopping Lula’s interview was to prevent the PT from winning. One of the prosecutors, Laura Tessler, exclaimed upon learning of the decision, “What a joke!” and then explained the urgency of preventing or undermining the decision. “A press conference before the second round of voting could help elect Haddad,” she wrote in the chat group, referring to the PT’s candidate Fernando Haddad. The chief of the prosecutor task force, Deltan Dallagnol, conducted a separate conversation with a longtime confidant, also a prosecutor, and they agreed that they would “pray” together that the events of that day would not usher in the PT’s return to power. More in the article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest - space agency Brazil's Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of fires this year, new space agency data suggests. The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) said its satellite data showed an 84% increase on the same period in 2018. It comes weeks after President Jair Bolsonaro sacked the head of the agency amid rows over its deforestation data. The largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon is a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming. It is also home to about three million species of plants and animals, and one million indigenous people. Mr Bolsonaro brushed off the latest data, saying it was the "season of the queimada", when farmers use fire to clear land. "I used to be called Captain Chainsaw. Now I am Nero, setting the Amazon aflame," he was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. Later he appeared to suggest that non-governmental organisations had set fires, as revenge for his government slashing their funding. He presented no evidence and gave no names to support this theory, saying there were "no written records about the suspicions". "So, there could be..., I'm not affirming it, criminal action by these 'NGOers' to call attention against my person, against the government of Brazil. This is the war that we are facing," he said in a Facebook Live on Wednesday. Inpe noted that the number of fires was not in line with those normally reported during the dry season. "There is nothing abnormal about the climate this year or the rainfall in the Amazon region, which is just a little below average," Inpe researcher Alberto Setzer told Reuters. "The dry season creates the favourable conditions for the use and spread of fire, but starting a fire is the work of humans, either deliberately or by accident." Ricardo Mello, head of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Amazon Programme, said the fires were "a consequence of the increase in deforestation seen in recent figures". Why is Bolsonaro being criticised? The reports of a rise in forest fires come amid criticism over Mr Bolsonaro's environmental policies. Scientists say the Amazon has suffered losses at an accelerated rate since the president took office in January, with policies favouring development over conservation. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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