Brazil As an Economic Superpower?: Understanding Brazil's Changing Role in the Global Economy
Z-Word Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a guest post by Kenneth Bandler of AJC. Wrapping up his whirlwind Latin America tour, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must have been very pleased that he had cancelled his previously planned visit to Brazil in May. No doubt his host, Brazilian President President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is similarly delighted. Each is enjoying [...]
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
The world's most successful footballing country last night delivered a fresh lifeline to England's under-fire bid to host the World Cup in 2018.
Sify (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A team of Hungarian marine archaeologists has found the wreckage of a Dutch cargo ship that sank near the Brazilian coast over three centuries ago.
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday
A tight Brazilian title race will go to the wire next weekend when Flamengo went top for the first time with a 2-0 away win over Corinthians.
Danwei (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hu's head is the biggest Foreign Policy magazine has compiled a list of ' top 100 global thinkers '. They got 63 of them to participate in a survey, blurbed thusly: Want to know what former President Bill Clinton, Gen. David Petraeus, three Nobel Prize-winners, best-selling authors such as Thomas Friedman and Fareed Zakaria, and thought leaders from China and Canada to India and Indonesia think about...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rio de Janeiro - The battle between preservation and development is red-hot in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest. In the Xingu region, indigenous communities are getting their war paint ready: they are furious about Brazilian President L...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
WE are now moving into the endgame of Iran's decade-long drive to acquire the hardware and technology to build a nuclear bomb. What happens next could determine whether Iran becomes a nuclear-armed state, whether the region is plunged into another war, or whether Iran and the Arab world embark on a nuclear arms race. Yesterday's announcement showed that President Ahmadinejad has once again calculated...
OPNTALK (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
ANYONE who is still propagating the whole GWBS Hey folks, Since the news came out, not in the Mainstream Media Drones Reports, but the News came out non-the-less, that the Chicken Little Crowd {Official Scientist paid to continue the scam of Global Warming} have been Emailing each other as to how to continue the SCAM that is Global Warming, keep those REAL Scientist out of publications that PROVE it...
Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The wallpaper of this week is a very cool design created by Matt Venhuizen, a graphic and web designer from Ontario, Canada. Matt runs a design studio called Venhuizen Studios. Matt sent the wallpaper suggestion via email and you can do the same ;) For more information visit Matt's profile on Behance and stay tunned because the new Venhuizen Studios website will be up very soon. Desktop Version iPhone...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has authorised spending six billion reais ($3.43 billion) to finance construction of 2,285 amphibious armoured vehicles for the Brazilian army, officials said.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The favorite in Honduras' weekend presidential election said on Friday he will try to persuade the world and especially Brazil to recognize him if he wins to end Central America's worst political crisis in decades.
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Fighting poverty in emerging markets The gloves go on Lessons from Brazil, China and India AT THE recent food summit in Rome, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva donned a pair of bright-red boxing gloves labelled “Hunger Free” and waved to the cameras. They were his prize—if that is the right term—for Brazil’s success in topping a league table drawn up by ActionAid,...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Brazil's unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent in October, the lowest level of the year, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, or IBGE, said.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
MANAUS, Brazil — Brazil's president said that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the comments Thursday just before an Amazon summit in which...
Mirror On America (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Hat tip to the Open Left blog for first alerting me to this item. The American right wing’s accusations of President Barack Obama and his policies as Socialist has always baffled me. Because Obama has demonstrated through his Cabinet appointments, attempts at bipartisanship with obstructionist Republicans, and actual policies that he is no Socialist – nor even a leftist. He is very much...
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 11/23/2009
Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 Cheats & Cheats Code | Modern Warfare 2 Game Hints The game picks up 5 years after the previous installment, where a new counter-terrorist group, Task Force 141, must fight a Russian ultranationalist terrorist organisation and counter a Russian invasion of the United States. Several settings for the game include Afghanistan, Rio de Janeiro, Siberia, and Washington D.C.
aarkstore | 11/23/2009
Summary Bombril SA (Bombril) is a Brazil-based cleaning products manufacturing company. The company is principally engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of cleaning products. It offers a broad range of cleaning products like detergents, sponges, steel wool, air fresheners, insect repellents, disinfectants and soaps. Bombril offers 196 various items under 18 brands including Bom Bril, Brillo,...
wei08 | 11/10/2009
The host of a Brazilian TV crime show has been accused of ordering a series of execution-style murders to snuff out rival drug traffickers – and boost his own ratings. Police say that Wallace Souza, a former policeman who built a political career as the scourge of crime in the lawless Amazonas state, would feature their killings on his Canal Livre show. For years the show had an uncanny knack for being...
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