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BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA CALLS ISRAEL'S ACTIONS IN THE GAZA STRIP A "GENOCIDE"

📹 Brazilian President, Lula Da Silva, speaking to a crowd in Rio De Janeiro, condemns Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip, adding that "what the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinian people is not war, it's a genocide because they are killing women and children."

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This whole situation with brazil and twitter is like. Elon Musk is a nutcase and thinks he can do anything he wants with no consequences whatsoever. We, however, have a judge who is even more of a nutcase than he is.He saw elon trying to break the law and was like oh. So you think YOU are a nutcase? Watch me. And that's why here we say "o remédio pra um doido é um doido e meio" and I think that's beautiful.

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Brazil bridge collapse: at least two dead, dozen missing

The Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira bridge connecting two northern Brazilian states collapsed, killing at least two people and leaving a dozen others missing, according to AP News.

A sulfuric acid spill is complicating the rescue operation. Police operating on the border of the northern states of Maranhão and Tocantins said eight vehicles were missing: four trucks, two cars and two motorbikes.

Magnum Coelho, a colonel in the local fire service, told reporters it was dangerous to send divers for rescue operations, as the Tocantins River could have been contaminated with sulphuric acid from one of the missing trucks that fell off the bridge.

The bridge collapse was one of several tragedies that struck Brazil over the weekend. On Saturday, a collision between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais killed dozens of people. On Sunday night, authorities confirmed the death toll had risen to 41.

The Minas Gerais State Fire Department reported that several people were taken to hospitals in the area of the city of Teófilo Otoni. The bus was reportedly travelling from São Paulo and was carrying 45 passengers.

Also on Sunday, at least 10 people were killed after a small plane crashed in Gramado, a southern town popular with tourists. The plane was piloted by Luiz Claudio Galeazzi, a Brazilian businessman who was travelling with his family to São Paulo State.

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lrb Brazil is not a starter country. People are making memes of the guy who blew himself up in a terrorist attack

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Argentina tops all matches won in this decade, Brazil out of twenty

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BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT AGAIN SLAMS ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER FOR COMMITTING GENOCIDE IN GAZA

📹 Brazil's President, Lula Da Silva, slams Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for committing a genocide in the Gaza Strip, telling a reporter, "what I want to say is loud and clear, the Prime Minister of Israel is carrying out a genocide against women and children," adding that "this is a historical fact."

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Pra quem não sabe ainda, o Datena deu uma cadeirada no Pablo Marçal no meio de um debate

Aqui o único vídeo que eu achei no tiktok com um ângulo bom, mas passou até na tv

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One dead after two explosions near Brazil’s Supreme Court

A man detonated a bomb outside Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday after trying to enter the building, heightening security concerns before the country hosts world leaders from the Group of 20 major economies.

The two bombings in the Brazilian capital outside the Supreme Court and Chamber of Deputies were carried out by one man – 59-year-old Francisco Vanderley Luis, once a candidate for Santa Catarina municipality for the Liberal Party. He ran in 2020 but didn’t get enough votes and now he arrived in the centre of Brasilia to take out politicians he didn’t like.

Immediately after setting fire to a car in a car park near the Supreme Court, he threw explosives at the building and blew himself up at the entrance, according to a story in the Metropoles portal. The booby-trapped car also belonged to Luis. It is noteworthy that the suicide bomber warned of his intentions – relevant records appeared in his social networks under the nickname Tiu França. He wrote:

Shall we play? Federal Police, you have 72 hours to defuse the bomb in the house of the communists: William Bonner, Jose Sarney, Geraldo Alckmin, Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

In one post, Luis promised that his “game” would end on November 16. It is not known if he had accomplices and whether the death of the perpetrator would disrupt his plans. Francisco’s body was completely disfigured by the fire, the blast wave threw the man several metres away, where he remained lying on the pavement.

Two explosions with a difference of 20 seconds the day before took place in different points of the square Praça dos Tres Poderes, which in addition to the court is adjacent to the working residence of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The press noted that at the time, parliament was considering an amendment expanding tax breaks for the church. The staff of the Supreme Court was evacuated, emergency services arrived on the scene. Eyewitness footage began to appear on social media. The police initiated an investigation and involved other agencies.

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Pictured: Luis Cassiano is the founder of Teto Verde Favela, a nonprofit that teaches favela residents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, how to build their own green roofs as a way to beat the heat. He's photographed at his house, which has a green roof.

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"Cassiano is the founder of Teto Verde Favela, a nonprofit that teaches favela residents how to build their own green roofs as a way to beat the heat without overloading electrical grids or spending money on fans and air conditioners. He came across the concept over a decade ago while researching how to make his own home bearable during a particularly scorching summer in Rio.

A method that's been around for thousands of years and that was perfected in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, green roofs weren't uncommon in more affluent neighborhoods when Cassiano first heard about them. But in Rio's more than 1,000 low-income favelas, their high cost and heavy weight meant they weren't even considered a possibility.

That is, until Cassiano decided to team up with a civil engineer who was looking at green roofs as part of his doctoral thesis to figure out a way to make them both safe and affordable for favela residents. Over the next 10 years, his nonprofit was born and green roofs started popping up around the Parque Arará community, on everything from homes and day care centers, to bus stops and food trucks.

When Gomes da Silva heard the story of Teto Verde Favela, he decided then and there that he wanted his home to be the group's next project, not just to cool his own home, but to spread the word to his neighbors about how green roofs could benefit their community and others like it.

Pictured: Jessica Tapre repairs a green roof in a bus stop in Benfica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Relief for a heat island

Like many low-income urban communities, Parque Arará is considered a heat island, an area without greenery that is more likely to suffer from extreme heat. A 2015 study from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro showed a 36-degree difference in land surface temperatures between the city's warmest neighborhoods and nearby vegetated areas. It also found that land surface temperatures in Rio's heat islands had increased by 3 degrees over the previous decade.

That kind of extreme heat can weigh heavily on human health, causing increased rates of dehydration and heat stroke; exacerbating chronic health conditions, like respiratory disorders; impacting brain function; and, ultimately, leading to death.

But with green roofs, less heat is absorbed than with other low-cost roofing materials common in favelas, such as asbestos tiles and corrugated steel sheets, which conduct extreme heat. The sustainable infrastructure also allows for evapotranspiration, a process in which plant roots absorb water and release it as vapor through their leaves, cooling the air in a similar way as sweating does for humans.

The plant-covered roofs can also dampen noise pollution, improve building energy efficiency, prevent flooding by reducing storm water runoff and ease anxiety.

"Just being able to see the greenery is good for mental health," says Marcelo Kozmhinsky, an agronomic engineer in Recife who specializes in sustainable landscaping. "Green roofs have so many positive effects on overall well-being and can be built to so many different specifications. There really are endless possibilities.""

Pictured: Summer heat has been known to melt water tanks during the summer in Rio, which runs from December to March. Pictured is the water tank at Luis Cassiano's house. He covered the tank with bidim, a lightweight material conducive for plantings that will keep things cool.

A lightweight solution

But the several layers required for traditional green roofs — each with its own purpose, like insulation or drainage — can make them quite heavy.

For favelas like Parque Arará, that can be a problem.

"When the elite build, they plan," says Cassiano. "They already consider putting green roofs on new buildings, and old buildings are built to code. But not in the favela. Everything here is low-cost and goes up any way it can."

Without the oversight of engineers or architects, and made with everything from wood scraps and daub, to bricks and cinder blocks, construction in favelas can't necessarily bear the weight of all the layers of a conventional green roof.

That's where the bidim comes in. Lightweight and conducive to plant growth — the roofs are hydroponic, so no soil is needed — it was the perfect material to make green roofs possible in Parque Arará. (Cassiano reiterates that safety comes first with any green roof he helps build. An engineer or architect is always consulted before Teto Verde Favela starts a project.)

And it was cheap. Because of the bidim and the vinyl sheets used as waterproof screening (as opposed to the traditional asphalt blanket), Cassiano's green roofs cost just 5 Brazilian reais, or $1, per square foot. A conventional green roof can cost as much as 53 Brazilian reais, or $11, for the same amount of space.

"It's about making something that has such important health and social benefits possible for everyone," says Ananda Stroke, an environmental engineering student at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro who volunteers with Teto Verde Favela. "Everyone deserves to have access to green roofs, especially people who live in heat islands. They're the ones who need them the most." ...

It hasn't been long since Cassiano and the volunteers helped put the green roof on his house, but he can already feel the difference. It's similar, says Gomes da Silva, to the green roof-covered moto-taxi stand where he sometimes waits for a ride.

"It used to be unbearable when it was really hot out," he says. "But now it's cool enough that I can relax. Now I can breathe again."

-via NPR, January 25, 2025

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Brazil: लाजिन्हा शहर में हाईवे पर बस और ट्रक के बीच हुई भीषण टक्कर, 35 लोगों की मौत; 13 हुए घायल

Brazil News: दक्षिण-पूर्वी ब्राजील में शनिवार तड़के मिनास गेरैस राज्य के लाजिन्हा शहर के पास एक हाईवे पर बस और ट्रक के बीच भीषण टक्कर हुई. इसमें कम से कम 35 लोग मारे गए जबकि 13 लोग घायल हो गए. घायलों को पास के शहर टेओफिलो ओटोनी के अस्पतालों में ले जाया गया. बस साओ पाउलो से रवाना हुई थी. घटना के समय बस में 45 यात्री सवार थे. बताया जा रहा है कि बस का टायर फटने की वजह से यह हादसा हुआ. जानकारी के…

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