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To See the Real Story in Brazil, Look at Who is Being Installed as President and Finance Chiefs
Glenn Greenwald writes for The Intercept: […] As my partner, David Miranda, wrote this morning in his Guardian op-ed: “It has now become clear that corruption is not the cause of the effort to oust Brazil’s twice-elected president; rather, corruption is merely the … Continue reading
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The coup unfolds
On Wednesday, three supreme court judges publicly scolded President Dilma Rousseff for describing the impeachment vote in the house of deputies as a coup. They were Celso de Mello, Dias Toffoli, and, no surprise, Gilmar Mendes. The judges’ grounds for … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, Congress, crisis, impeachment, judiciary, Politics, usa
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Normal life or Ninja spiders?
I always have a problem writing the last blog of a trip – I’m home by this point and my damn normal life gets in the way! So I’m stuck grabbing spare moments to write this which isn’t ideal for … Continue reading
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Tagged birding, Brazil, Caipirinha, Moths, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, REGUA, spiders, travel
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New Brazilian species (2)
The second paper is describing a new species from western Bahia State, with an emended description of the recently described genus Kora, with a revision of species ascribed to it. “A new species of land snail was recently found in … Continue reading
Shakespeare
Do you know who Shakespeare is? He died 400 years ago and he is considered one of the best writers in the history of literatura, but why?. Watch this video https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/william-shakespeare https://bilinguismopedrera.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/shakespeare/
DRAWING MUSIC (free) at festival SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY – IN Salford
Originally posted on life drawing+:
Do you want to be part of this free live drawing project? In an age of digital, we at SFTOC want to document this year’s festival in a different manner, through drawings of the live…
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Hybrid war hyenas tearing Brazil apart – Pepe Escobar
Originally posted on UPROOTED PALESTINIANS: SALAM ALQUDS ALAYKUM:
by Pepe Escobar for RT April 19, 2016 The gloomy and repulsive night when the female president of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to…
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Olympic torch for Rio games lit at ancient Greek site
Originally posted on HypeJudge:
The flame for the Olympic Games in Brazil has been lit in southern Greece. An actor performing the role of high priestess lit the torch by using the sun’s rays. The torch will be taken by…
Salvador, Bahia.
One of the things I liked most of Salvador it’s downtown; Pelourinho, full of colors, people and life. I loved those nooks, ups and downs and narrow streets that invite you to take a coconut water hiding of sun. As…
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How is Brazil doing?
Not too good, it seems: (Photographed at the Carnival Cemetery on La Maddalena, Sardinia.) https://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/brazil-flag/
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