Brazil Elects First Woman President: Dilma Roussef

São Paulo - Polls have been closed in Brazil for a couple of hours and Dilma Roussef has just been announced that she has become the first woman to occupy the presidential seat in this continental country.  Dilma Roussef will succeed the over popular Luiz Inacio Lula...

Brazil - Live Battle for Votes

Dilma Rousseff x José Serra The first debate took place last night, candidates to the highest government post in Brazil were given the opportunity to show the public what their proposal for the...

Brazil - presidential elections

October 3, 2010. Today is election day in Brazil. About 137 million Brazilians are right now voting. The pulls started at 8 am and will finish at 5 pm. Check in the video what it is like to go voting in...

Shark Conservation - ICCAT, Brazil

Urgent Need for Shark Conservation - ICCAT, Brazil 9 - 15 November 2009 The United Nations has passed eight resolutions calling on Regional Fishery Management Organizations (RFMOs) to improve the management of...

Not Whales, To Blame For Shortage Of Fish

Fisheries, Not Whales, To Blame For Shortage Of FishHarpoon on the bow of a whale hunting ship. The Humane Society International, WWF and the Lenfest Ocean Program have presented three new reports debunking the...

Mercury In Packaged Whale Meat Across Japan May Be A Major Health

Mercury In Packaged Whale Meat Across Japan May Be A Major Health Problem ScienceDaily (May 20, 2003) — Dangerous levels of mercury appear to be present in whale, dolphin and porpoise meat sold widely as food in Japan, according to a study by Japanese...

Brazilian Constitution Forbids Calling Blacks "Monkeys"

Brazilian Constitution Forbids "Racist" Speech and BehaviorAccording to an article at NowPublic.com, "A doll depicting an African-American child wearing a hat that reads "lil' monkey" was pulled from Costco shelves following a customer complaint. The toy, called "Cuddle...

National Health ID Will Promote Patient Health and Savings

This article was subsequently republished by the author at the Public Option Health Care Now blog.NowPublic participant Peter.Sande has pointed out in an article here today that one of the health bills moving through the US Congress would: "'enable the real-time (or near...

Can Blacks be "Racist" or Color-Aroused?

  Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr Arrested for Demanding Officer's Name and Badge NumberThe afrosphere is very much abuzz with conversation about the arrest and release without charges of Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by the Cambridge Police Department. But, there are many who...

Malia O., President Obama's Daughter, Frees Her African Hair

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and the American Journal of Color Arousal. Must Blacks Try to Look Like Michael Jackson to be Acceptedby Whites and by Ourselves?The Vancouver Sun is reporting that some color-aroused extremist whitosphere blogs are up in arms that...

Brazilian Government Has Free Pharmacies for All

The sign above the window says "Pharmacy for Basic Health" Cross-posted at Public Option Health Care Now.Yesterday afternoon in Brazil, I went to a Brazilian Government public pharmacy (see above) to fill receive the medicine prescribed for me last week by the doctor at the...

Can USA Provide Free, Public Medical Care Like Brazil? (w/fotos)

"""Free public neighborhood health clinic in Brazilwhere treatment is provided to all as fundamental right."I am not convinced that single payer is necessary to dramatically improve health care in the US. I believe that making health care a right (like the right to vote) - a...

Brazil joins USA in Conferation Cup Final

David met Goliath this afternoon in the second semifinal of the Confederation Cup.  With FIFA rankings over 70 apart.  Brasil was the clear favourite.  This is not how this hard fought game...

EasyWidget Leads to Petition on Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation

Click here to get the HTML code for the above EasyWidget.Progressive are strongly supporting "wise Latina woman" Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination for the US Supreme Court.  For example, African American blogger Atty. Francis L. Holland, whose previous efforts toward...

Spalinger - The Last Survivor

The most active glide club in Brazil, the Aeroclube de Bauru, is 350 km from São Paulo. Officially recognized in April of 1939, the club is already part of the history of brazilian aviation. When talking about...

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