#Telegram was blocked in my country (#Brazil) yesterday on all ISPs, and soon they will be removed from App Store and Play Store ... that's why decentralized communication apps are so important, apps like #Session and #Matrix are trending here right now.
🇮🇱 Exporting militarism: how Israeli companies market repression in Latin America
「 In the favelas in Brazil, the militarised police unit BOPE (Special Police Operations Unit) cooperates with ISDS, and the methods of repression in the favelas and in Palestine are very similar. BOPE occupies the rooftops of homes to control and kill people, just as the Israeli military does in Palestinian cities 」
#ClimateDiary I feel stupid - these fires, which have been burning for over a week now in #Brazil’s #Pantanal, the largest #wetlands on the planet, had somehow completely passed me by. The #Heatwave, #Drought and #Wildfires in Brazil are really alarming, yet seem hardly in (my) news. Is lack of coverage going to be another troubling dimension of advancing #ClimateEmergency? Or maybe always been the case. Or maybe just me missing things. Pondering all this.
Climate catastrophe news. This is a before and after of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande del Sul, following four days of relentless torrential rain.
However, in better news, Rishi Sunak's climate policy has been declared unlawful by the High Court this morning (via Adam Bienkov of Byline, see tweet). I'll post the link to the judgment when it surfaces.
Report: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/03/britain-climate-action-plan-unlawful-high-court
This is why, if you can afford it, heatwave mitigation will pay off sooner rather than later:
Al Jazeera: Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro
"A heatwave stifling Brazil has set new records with Rio de Janeiro’s heat index hitting 62.3 degrees Celsius (144.1 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest in a decade, weather authorities say.
The heat index measures what a temperature feels like by taking into account humidity."
First, #nazism is illegal in #Brazil. You cannot walk around wearing a swastika or be part of a #neonazi group. You are going to be prosecuted for that.
Then, in November last year, a teenager killed four people and hurt twelve more in a school-shooting. Earlier in April, a man invaded a kindergarten and killed four children.
After the second episode, on April 14, the government released an ordinance for social networks due to school violence.
#Brazil has ambitious plans to marry greater #industrialisation with the goal of reducing emissions to net zero by 2050. What role can #hydrogen play in this? A new report by Agora Industry and Instituto E+ Transição Energética examines the case of H2 in BRA. 1/7
Alright. Better late than never I guess. I've been using every spare moment I have to watch Drag Race Brazil. So much so I hadn't had time to post the post-episode discussion threads. If anyone is also watching, feel free to take on the mantle!...
A gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering uncovered the biggest corruption scandal in human history.
The Mechanism is an essential work of non-fiction that exposes the rottenness caused when politicians and big businesses believe they are above the law.
Eight Amazon rainforest nations are expected to face divisions over proposals to block new oil drilling and end deforestation when they meet on Tuesday for their first summit in 14 years....
Telegram has always been shady. I don’t use their platform because I don’t trust them. Same as a lot of people. Now they’re showing who they are by harboring a transphobic far-right extremist from Brazil, Nikolas Ferreira.
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Telegram to suspend his account because his followers are using the platform to plan violence and destruction. They refused.
President Volodymr Zelensky requested a meeting with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva while traveling to Argentina for the inauguration of Javier Milei, but the Brazilian leader declined to meet, the Brazilian news outlet O Globo reported Dec. 11.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he intends to bring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin ?to the negotiating table? at the UN General Assembly.
The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the northern coast of Brazil’s Amazon region were buried Thursday with a solemn ceremony in the Para state capital of Belem. Fishermen off the coast of Para found the boat adrift April 13, carrying the bodies that were already decomposing. Brazilian officials later said...
Portugal’s data regulator, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), has imposed a 90-day suspension on Worldcoin’s biometric data collection activities in the country, citing complaints about the unauthorized collection of data from minors, inadequate communications regarding their iris-scanning Orb program...
Russia says no to international probe into Prigozhin crash (www.politico.eu)
The Kremlin is under no obligation to undertake an investigation alongside Brazil, where the Wagner chief’s jet was built.
Drag Race Brazil [Episodes 1 to 8] - (very late) post-episode discussion thread!
Alright. Better late than never I guess. I've been using every spare moment I have to watch Drag Race Brazil. So much so I hadn't had time to post the post-episode discussion threads. If anyone is also watching, feel free to take on the mantle!...
Amazon nations summit faces fault lines on oil, deforestation (www.reuters.com)
Eight Amazon rainforest nations are expected to face divisions over proposals to block new oil drilling and end deforestation when they meet on Tuesday for their first summit in 14 years....
Media: Brazilian president denies Zelensky's request to meet (kyivindependent.com)
President Volodymr Zelensky requested a meeting with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva while traveling to Argentina for the inauguration of Javier Milei, but the Brazilian leader declined to meet, the Brazilian news outlet O Globo reported Dec. 11.
Brazilian President wants to bring Zelenskyy and Putin to negotiations at UN General Assembly (www.pravda.com.ua)
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he intends to bring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin ?to the negotiating table? at the UN General Assembly.
Brazilian authorities bury deceased migrants who drifted in African boat to the Amazon (apnews.com)
The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the northern coast of Brazil’s Amazon region were buried Thursday with a solemn ceremony in the Para state capital of Belem. Fishermen off the coast of Para found the boat adrift April 13, carrying the bodies that were already decomposing. Brazilian officials later said...
Portugal orders Worldcoin to stop collecting iris biometrics for 90 days (www.biometricupdate.com)
Portugal’s data regulator, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), has imposed a 90-day suspension on Worldcoin’s biometric data collection activities in the country, citing complaints about the unauthorized collection of data from minors, inadequate communications regarding their iris-scanning Orb program...