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POPSThe Flying Priest If it were not for the fact that he had actually pulled this off before, I would say this guy is a good candidate for the Darwin Award.
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POPSSuperInteressante The popular Brazilian magazine SuperInteressante has made all of it's back issues available online...for free. I think it just got more popular.
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POPSChico Bento A couple panels from my favorite Maurício character, Chico Bento--including the classic mispronunciation of "problema". The neat thing about Maruícios work is that I know people with the characteristics that he puts in his creations. They represent a nice cross-section of Brazilian culture.
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POPSMaricio de Sousa creates Japanese Character I love de Sousa's work. I learned Portuguese reading Monica, Cebolinha, and Cascão--althought my all-time favorite character is Chico Bento. His work gave me some good insights into Brazilian culture as well.
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POPSTraffic in Brazil Just a little something to cheer you up on your morning commute...unless you happen to live in São Paulo.
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POPSShould Brazil Fear Venezuela? A pretty funny (IMHO) video clip that ran on Globo television a while back. It is causing quite a stir here--perhaps it will get people to think. A subtitled version can be seen at http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=n3nmajrym7a6
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POPSCPMF to IOF Classic smoke-and-mirros on the part of the Brazilian government.
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POPSCurrent situation in Brazil This article is a great analysis of the current economic and social situation in Brazil. The whole thing is worth a read. The clipped portions offer just a taste of the author's observations.
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POPSPersecution of Christian Congressman in Brazil Here in Brazil the pro-gay movement is not just interested in obtaining equal rights--they are trying to shut up anybody who might disagree with them. This is just one of many such instances throughout the country, on all social levels.
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POPSBanned Textbook in Brazil The fact that this book was banned is amazing. It must have had some real off-the-wall stuff to get banned in Brazil. The leftists have almost total control of the educational system here.
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POPSLula's Geography Different than I learned in school. Apparently the US is separated from Brazil by the Atlantic Ocean.
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POPSProtesters Blame Lula I am not really sure how much of the blame actually is his. His biggest negligence, perhaps, was allowing the incompetents who run the air system in Brazil to stay on after the Gol accident.
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POPSHeads Roll in Brasilia (Clip in Portuguese) Waldir Pires, who has shown nothing but incompetence and a talent for shifting blame in the face of the air crisis here, has been removed. And it only took close to 400 deaths to make it happen.
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POPSChoro Music in New York I like the comparison of Choro to a "tropical Dixieland". This is my absolute favorite style of Brazilian music.
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POPSBrazil Refuses International Help This takes the "two-thirds world" notion of "saving face" to a whole new level. In less than a year close to four hundred people have died in Brazilian airspace due to incompetence--and yet Carlos Pereira calls the foreign air traffic controllers a "bunch of idiots". Amazing.
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POPSVideo of TAM Crash in São Paulo This is a sobering report (in Portuguese) that shows the last minutes of the TAM flight that crashed last week. The final clip shows the plane passing the camera--followed by the flashes of the explosion from the left side of the screen.
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POPSEarthquake in Brazil? One of the reasons given for the popular phrase "God is Brazilian" is that Brazil suffers no natural disasters such as typhoons, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.
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POPSPalestinian Refugees in Brazil Two observaions: 1. Is this a good idea? Put a whole lot of disenfranchised Palestinians in the same general vicinity as a network of terror cells working in the tri-border area? 2. Brazil, New Zealand, and Canada--where are all the oil-rich Arab countries who supposedly care the most about the plight of the Palestinians?
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POPSSay What? Sure...even the animals down here use Google Earth. Perhaps the headline should have been thought through a little more...
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