Backwardness has moved to Davos

By RS Urgente

Belem sees, in a very peculiar way, the atmosphere that Porto Alegre met in 2001, when received for the first time the World Social Forum. There are, for sure, important differences. One of them is not a detail: the world has changed. When WSF was born, as a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum in Davos, globalization still used to be sung in prose and verse, and its critics, rated as anachronistic, enemies of technology and fools. At the time, the then Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso even wrote an article calling luddites the organizers and participants of the Forum (referring to the English workers’ movement in early nineteenth century, which used to destroy the machinery for fear losing their jobs for them).

Brazilian ambassador says that social area should be the new cooperation front between Brazil and USA

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Mylena Fiori
Repórter da Agência Brasil

Brasilia – Social area should be one of the new cooperation fronts between Brazil and USA during Barack Obama government. The expectation is due to the history of Condoleezza Rice’s substitute to the position of  North American State Secretary, ex-first lady Hillary Clinton.

Perfil de Protógenes Queiroz

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“Protógenes Queiroz é delegado da Polícia Federal. Foi quem efetuou a prisão de Paulo Maluf, do contrabandista Law Kin Chong, de Daniel Dantas (banqueiro), de Naji Nahas e do ex-prefeito de São Paulo Celso Pitta.

Estiveram sob sua coordenação, em parceria com a Promotoria de São Paulo as investigações do caso Corinthians/MSI , por evasão de divisas e lavagem de dinheiro. Os envolvidos nas fraudes da arbitragem do futebol Brasileiro, em 2005, foram investigados por ele e pelos promotores Roberto Porto e José Reinaldo Guimarães Carneiro, do Gaeco.

The President of Mercosul Parliament upholds commercial sanctions against Israel

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Agência Brasil de Fato 01/16/2009
Fernando César Oliveira

The Member of Brazilian Parliament Dr. Rosinha (Workers’ Party), president of Mercosul Parliament, upheld this Thursday the adoption of commercial sanctions against Israel on the part of international community on account of the military attacks against Palestinians in Gaza Strip.

Since last December 27th, within nearly three weeks of attacks, the Israeli army have already killed more than one thousand Palestinians, and hurt approximately another 4 thousand. According to medical sources, at least 40% of the dead are civilians.

Brazil Starts in February Enriched Uranium Production in Industrial Scale

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Agencia Brasil

January 13, 2008

Brasilia – The state owned company Nuclear Industries of Brazil (INB) is going to produce enriched uranium in Resende, in the southwest of the state of Rio de Janeiro, as from next month. Until the end of year, production might reach 12 tons of the raw material of the fuel used in nuclear power plants. INB expectation is to produce, till 2012, all enriched uranium used in the nuclear power plant of Angra I and 20% of the fuel for Angra II.