#brazilian television presenters

[ducktracy]

(1) Hello! I don't know if you guys in the USA heard about this, this morning the greatest presenter and communicator on Brazilian TV, Silvio Santos, passed away😢 and some people were complaining on Twitter that while other TV channels were reporting his death, the SBT channel, which he owned, continued showing cartoons as if nothing had happened lol And I think these people don't understand that this is exactly what he wanted. And that made me think about how visionary he was...

(2) with the law that banned children's advertising on television, there are basically no more children's programs and cartoons on open TV (I don't know if "non cable TV" is called like that in english), this channel SBT was the only open TV channel that continued with children's programming, Silvio Santos himself said: "I don't care if I'm losing money [in the mornings] because [for me] showing cartoons is an obligation!", and that shows how much he cares about this younger audience...

(3) And until recently, the Rede Recond channel stopped showing Woody Woodpecker after 7 decades on the air (WW was the first cartoon to be shown on Brazilian TV, in the 50s) because there was no more audience, and it's really annoying see how cartoons have lost their place on open TV over the years, as if they were just a mere disposable product. I'm going to miss him a lot, I can't put into words how important this man was to the televition, and I really don't want to make this text even...

(4) longer, and btw I'm sorry for the long text, I don't even know why I sent you all this rant, I just love your blog a lot and I thought maybe you would be interested in it im sorryyy

HI THERE! firstly, NO NEED FOR APOLOGIESSSS I’M sorry i didn’t answer this sooner!!

secondly: WOW!! THANK YOU for sending this in!! this is so touching!! I’M INCREDIBLY INTERESTED!! i recall hearing about his passing and knew he was beloved, but that’s about it…. what a sweet guy!! this makes me so happy to hear :’) i think that’s a perfect tribute!! if you ask me, all the other cartoons should have been playing cartoons in his honor, too!! i had absolutely no knowledge about any of the bans—that’s so interesting to learn!! i also knew that Woody was VERY beloved in Brazil (good!!! Woody rules!!) but completely missed that he was the first to be shown on Brazilian TV, that explains so much and is so interesting!!

AHHH i’m rambling myself, i don’t have much to add other than THIS IS SO SWEET and i’m so appreciative you took the time to send such a sweet tribute!! this really makes me want to look into his legacy more; this is so sweet and i’m so happy you shared this!!! thank you so much for thinking of me!!

[weirdplutoprince]

What is Brazil like? What are your favorite things about it, least favorite things, and some day to day experiences that people not from there might not know about? Do you have any tidbits of culture you find interesting or are fond of?

Oh that's a big question! First of all it's huge lol. Unsure how accurate this specific map is, but if you google 'Brazil size' you find a dozen of these 'which countries fit in each states of Brazil' maps, so.

This is particularly relevant to everything I answer further ahead, because since it is so big and so culturally complex anything I say is just going to be a tiny speck compared to different regions.

And besides its size, Brazil had a lot going on colonization and immigration wise - meaning you have regions that have very notable communities from certain countries of the world. A famous example is that, if I recall correctly, we have the biggest japanese settlement of sorts outside of Japan. So that's something!

A funny side effect I can think that relates to this is that in historical novelas (live action television series that air daily and are known for melodrama and intensity) there is always a character that can be roughly described as 'The Sexy Irrevent Italian Immigrant' which is funny lol.

As for my favourite things I think the culinary is definetely a big one!!! There are so many dishes and they are so delicious all the time forever.

Brigadeiros are my favourites from all times, they're this candy made of condensed milk and chocolate powder, thats finished off with sprinkles. It's so yummy, you can also make it into cake filling and a million different things.

I also love Acarajé!! I think properly explaining what they're made off is a bit beyond my english vocabulary but just know its a fried dough that has yummy fillings and shrimp.

Otherwise I think I also like how warm and friendly people are. There's also this humour in how things are handled and seem which I think it's nice. Again, this is a perception I get from the region I live in, so I'm not sure. Though this is something people here tend to complain about when they go to other countries, so I guess it is at least some sort of significant cultural difference!

Least favourite things are the ever present fear of impeding violence and the blatant social inequality.

Day to day things hmmm. I have no parameter for how it goes out there, but I've heard enough stories that indicate this might be a thing: showering multiple times a day lol. I'm from a hot place so there is that, but this does seem to be a cultural thing as well. Like, I've heard of landlords from other countries complaining of brazilians that use 'too much hot water' because we shower a lot.

Just caring about cleaness a lot in general. Like, again I'm not sure which of these things are cultural outliners but from what I've heard, even things like. You go out, as soon as you go home you take off the 'going out clothes' and shower. And you avoid sitting on the bed sheets with 'going out clothes' etc.

Another thing is that is is very culturally acceptable to be late! To the point where being on time is at times more awkward. Like, say, if a party is said to start at 7 PM, people generally arrive closer to 8PM. I can remember a few birthdays I'd attended as a child where if you arrived 'on time' you'd basically be the only guest present and there would be this awkward air of 'Why Are You Already Here'.

I've also heard we say things we don't mean more? Like half heartedely making plans to go out with a friend or be there a certain day - but its kinda expected that neither side will follow through unless you constantly check up with each other during the days leading to it. I think this steems from a general need to be pleasant and friendly so people don't want to say they won't go or just outright refuse things without coming up with excuses etc.

And at last for tidbits of culture: CHILDREN BIRTHDAY PARTIES FUCKING RULE!!! HARD!!! Even if you're middle class or such it is not uncommon for parties to have trampolines, magicians, clowns, children entertainers etc. A shit ton of decoration, little gifts for the guests to take home (usually cheap toys or candy), themed birthday invitations, themed parties with decorated pannels, a shit ton of candy etc. There's even this sorta common agreement that even if you're bored because you'll be the only adult there, it is fun to attend children birthday parties because you'll eat like a king.

I think thats it!!! I hope that answers it! Thanks for the question :3

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazilians vote in tense local elections

Brazilians began voting in the first round of local elections on Sunday for mayors, deputy mayors and councilors in the country’s 5,569 municipalities.

In Sao Paulo, three mayoral candidates are running neck-and-neck, including incumbent Ricardo Nunes, left-wing lawmaker Guilherme Boulos and self-help guru turned far-right politician Pablo Marçal. A runoff is scheduled for Oct. 27.

Much of the attention leading up to Sunday’s vote has been on Brazil ’s biggest city, where the race has been marred by episodes of violence involving Marçal.

Last month, José Luiz Datena, a former TV presenter turned candidate, slammed Marçal with a metal chair during a televised debate following references to allegations of sexual misconduct. In a later debate, an aide to Marçal thumped an adversary’s counterpart, resulting in a bloody face.

Marçal sparked more controversy on Friday, when he published on social media a falsified medical report indicating cocaine use by Boulos. The document was widely debunked by local media that pointed to inconsistencies including the fact that it was signed by a doctor who had passed away.

Continue reading.

[droctaviolovecraft]

"Stick it up Uncle Sam's ass."

ANM-538 - "September 11 and How I Started to Evade Taxes"

Danger Level: Helper 🔵 | Uncontained ❌️

Responsible Researcher: The Eleven Counselors

Anomaly Type: Event, historical, terrorist, economic

Confinement: ANM-538 is to be stored in a secure digital file within the Institute's archival database. Access to ANM-538 is limited to personnel with Level 5 clearance and above. The information contained within ANM-538 must not be disseminated to the public or unauthorized personnel under any circumstances. Any personnel caught discussing ANM-538 outside of Institution channels will be immediately terminated and their records expunged.

MOTHRA operatives embedded in Brazilian media are to monitor and suppress any mention of Celso Portiolli and the "MOTHRA Institute" in connection with ANM-538-related events. A cover story involving an unrelated financial investigation is to be used to discredit any journalists, influencers, or individuals attempting to uncover the truth.

Description: ANM-538 is an anomalous document titled "September 11 and How I Started to Evade Taxes", written in Portuguese and attributed to Brazilian television presenter Celso Portiolli. The document, written in a casual, almost comedic tone, outlines a series of events in which Portiolli claims direct involvement in the planning and execution of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. In addition, the document also introduces our MOTHRA Institute, as an alleged clandestine organization that Portiolli claims was responsible for orchestrating the attacks as a revenge for past US attacks on Japan and part of a broader plan to destabilize global economic systems.

Portiolli has been recruited by MOTHRA in the early 1990s after he demonstrated exceptional skill in evading taxes and exploiting legal loopholes during his career in Brazilian television. MOTHRA recognized Portiolli's talents and integrated him into our operations, eventually tasking him with overseeing "Phase Zero," which culminated in the September 11 attacks.

The document further alleges that the attacks were not the work of al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, but rather a collaborative effort between MOTHRA and several high-profile media figures across the globe. Their aim was to create a global event of unprecedented scale, thereby providing MOTHRA the opportunity to manipulate financial markets in the aftermath of the tragedy.

Portiolli's played a pivotal role in coordinating the attacks, specifically in the strategic use of media to frame the events in such a way that both governments and citizens would focus on Middle Eastern terrorist groups rather than the true culprits. Furthermore, the document suggests that the attacks were also designed to create the necessary conditions for the MOTHRA Institute to engage in massive financial fraud and tax evasion schemes on a global scale, using the ensuing chaos to obscure their activities.

Key Claims from ANM-538:

Celso Portiolli was allegedly introduced to ANM-538-1 during a television program planning meeting in São Paulo in 1993, when representatives from MOTHRA Institute approached him with a "business proposition."

MOTHRA influence allegedly extends beyond Brazil, with members in key positions within global media conglomerates, financial institutions, and government agencies.

Portiolli describes a series of secret meetings between him, MOTHRA operatives, and high-profile media figures from various countries leading up to the attacks. These meetings allegedly took place in remote locations, including uncharted islands and hidden underground facilities.

ANM-538 includes detailed descriptions of how MOTHRA controlled media narratives and influenced stock markets following the attacks to ensure financial gain.

The document ends with Portiolli expressing pride in his role within MOTHRA Institute, followed by a series of bizarre tax-evasion strategies that seem to defy normal economic principles.

Addendum ANM-538-A:

Following our documentation of ANM-538, we discovered that agents of another unknown secret foundation agents were dispatched to investigate the authenticity of Portiolli's claims regarding his involvement with ANM-538. Upon questioning, Portiolli denied all knowledge of ANM-538 and insisted that he has no connection to any such organization.

Efforts to locate the mysterious Foundation have so far proven unsuccessful. The organization remains highly elusive, with no physical traces found.

(Below is an interview documented by Portiolli with the agents who interrogated him.)

Interview Log XXX-01:

Interviewer: Unknow Foundation Agents

Interviewee: Celso Portiolli

[BEGIN LOG]

????: Mr. Portiolli, we’ve uncovered some alarming information linking you to an organization called the MOTHRA Institute. Are you aware of this?

Portiolli: (laughs) MOTHRA Institute? What is this, some kind of prank? I’ve never heard of them. You’ve got the wrong guy.

????: There is evidence that suggests otherwise. In fact, you are listed as one of the key orchestrators of the September 11 attacks.

Portiolli: (visibly confused) Listen, I’m a TV host, not a terrorist mastermind! This is absurd!

????: A document we found contains your handwriting and detailed descriptions of tax evasion strategies, something you seem to be familiar with.

Portiolli: Tax evasion? Come on, that’s—wait, how do you know about that? I—I mean, listen, whatever you’ve got, it’s fake. It has to be. And anyway, you can't arrest me, I'm rich!

????: (pauses) Are you certain you don’t remember any involvement?

Portiolli: (visibly agitated) I told you, I’m not involved with anything like this. This is some kind of setup.

[END LOG]

Warning:

ANM-538 is considered highly sensitive information, and any attempts to replicate or disseminate its contents will result in immediate disciplinary action. The nature of our operations, ongoing global influence, and connection to future anomalous events must remain classified to prevent widespread panic and destabilization.

[anonymous-dentist]

ok so i saw you answered an ask about brazilian telenovela villain Félix like months ago and ...... i just feel like i need to elaborate on hard that novela goes.

so Félix's father César hated Félix his whole life for being gay (and also other unrelated reasons) so one day César sleeps with a prostitute and then immediately hires her to "make a man" out of his son. The prostitute Edith does so happily and actually manages to sleep with Félix and they proceed to enter the most fucked up marriage ever put to film.

The main reason they get married is because Edith is pregnant with their son. Edith then actually falls in love with Félix and he loves her back but in a platonic way. In the first part of the novela (novelas usually start in the past for a couple episodes to set up everything and then skip to the present) Edith finds out Félix threw his niece in a dumpster :/. She also finds out he sleeps with men and threatens to leave, she only doesn't cause she wants his money. He promises to never cheat again.

When she finds out he's cheating again (like 12 years later) she takes pictures of it and shows his entire family to ruin his life. César hates that his son is gay so much that he is willing to pay Edith 2 million reais plus an apartment to stay with his son. This is also when Edith tells César that her son is actually César's, making the kid Félix's half brother. César wants to hide this information really bad.

Eventually when Félix is about to be kicked out of the house by his father (because he stole money from family's hospital) Edith begs to get back together by giving him money. They actually DO get back together and look quite happy. And then immediately Félix finds out that his son isn't his and organizes a family dinner to expose his father and his wife in the most dramatic way possible. This gets Edith kicked out of the house (the whole family lives together, except César who is with his new wife from an unrelated storyline).

To get revenge, Edith tells César that Félix was the one who threw his niece in that dumpster (this was a mistery for 12 years) and César organizes a family reunion to expose Félix. That is what leads to Félix becoming poor (his mom forces him to quit his job and kicks him out of the house) and selling hot dogs. No one reports him to the police because they don't want the drama.

Also in brazilian novelas, each couple or character gets their own theme song that plays in their scenes, so every time Edith and Félix fuck Lana Del Rey's Summertime Sadness plays in the background

Sorry for the longest ask of all time i just thought you should know the details ahahah (this covered a fraction of the novela)

Oh Félix...

I forgot all about this dude tbh, but my mom went INSANE over the plot descriptions I gave her. She was like "THIS WAS ON TV??" like yeah. Yeah, it was. And now I'm reading this plot description and thinking, wow, this almost reminds me of a plot that would be on hit American Disney-affiliated drama television series Once Upon A Time

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Saturday, 11-16-24, 7pm Pacific

'Evenin', everyone...Mr. Baggins here. I'm back with a set to soothe your achin' nerves and help ease us all into a good night. I thought we might begin the evening with our Brazilian friend, Guiomar Novaes, in a live broadcast recording from Sunday, January 29, 1950 at New York's "The Frick Collection", in an all-Chopin program, including a brilliant performance of the F-minor Fantasie. Settle back for the next hour and a half, and bask in the glow.

Next we turn to one of the more gentle and lyrical pieces by Richard Wagner. No storming Valkyries here...instead we have a Wagner in rapt devotion to his love. He wrote this piece as a present to his wife after the birth of their first child. As he wanted the piece to be a complete surprise, he had his musicians rehearse in secret, and the piece received its debut at Wagner's home. He had the musicians arrange themselves on the great curved staircase, where they awakened the sleeping Mme. Wagner with their sweet strains. Here are our friends Neville Marriner and the ASMF to do the honors.

Next we hear a piece which doesn't get a lot of airtime these days, the Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" Opus 132, by Alan Hovhaness. Maestro Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony from their landmark recording on RCA's Living Stereo label.

Here is a special treat: the great Vladimir Horowitz' historic Television Concert, shown on CBS in 1968. This is as close as we will ever get to being in the presence of this legend while at his full powers! This concert included the Op 44 Polonaise we heard this morning. Horowitz was truly at his "mature peak" in this...the slower and less thunderous Horowitz of the 1980s was still two decades away...here The Lion still roars! I hope you enjoy!

Next we hear Maestro Reiner and the band in a brilliant performance of the Ravel orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition, from 1957, again on RCA's Living Stereo label...truly the greatest recording of this piece ever made!

And here are Maestro Reiner and the boys once more this evening, with their definitive recording of Haydn's Symphony No. 88 in G Major.

Next we hear the Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44 of Robert Schumann. Leonard Bernstein at the piano, with the Juliard String Quartet in a recording from the Columbia 30th Street Studio in 1965.

Next we hear Glenn Gould playing something BESIDES Bach! Here he is from a live Canadian TV Broadcast from 1967, playing a very young work by Richard Strauss, his "Burleske for Piano and Orchestra".

We've got space for one more selection tonight, and I thought we might hear Mme. Novaes play one of my favorite pieces by Chopin, his Berceuse, or "Lullaby".

I hope that lovely piece brought you a smile and a warm heart as you head off to dreamland. This is Mr. Baggins signing off for tonight. I'll be back at 8am Pacific with your Sunday edition of Morning Coffee Music.

Until then, dream sweet dreams, babies, dream sweet dreams.

Baggins out.

[gabriellerudessa]

Guys...

I may be remembering wrong and just need to pay better attention in my recent replay of Fallout 3 and so on but... I think the PipBoy was exclusive to Vault-Tec, right? The "you only find it in Vaults" thing, right?

As I mentioned in an earlier, I'm doing my third rewatch and I'm being slow. I started the second episode just today. And I hadn't noticed this before, I don't know why.

Start of episode 2

WHAT HAS THE ENCLAVE BEEN UP TO THAT THEY ALL HAVE PIP-BOYS??????? I seriously am like "how I didn't notice that Wilzig had a Pip-Boy?" A Pip-Boy that he clearly abandons after leaving, he doesn't have it anymore in later scenes. To avoid being tracked, perhaps?

I haven't played Fallout 76, but briefly looking at the Pip-Boy page in the fallout wiki mentions that only the Free States and some RobCo caches would have those beyond Vault-Tec, in Appalachia - which, well, very far from where the show takes place.

Has this Enclave faction raided some Vault and got them? If so, which Vault and where? Whatever the answer, I think it would help explain how Wilzig knows so much about Vaults in general and Vault 33 specifically, including Lucy's name, and his work on the cold fusion - including some pre-war knowledge about Vault-Tec operations that overall haven't been mentioned before as far as I remember, meaning the poison pills. Some control Vault that was receiving info from the experiments, maybe? SO MANY QUESTIONS.

Another curious thing is how massive this place is. From what I researched, it's a real place in New York (Brooklyn Army Terminal Building). It would be closer to Appalachia and thus to non Vault-Tec Pip-Boys - and to the Commonwealth, where Dogmeat is, being remarkably similar to the Enclave dogs -, but how Wilzig would reach the west coast without being caught and in such a short time? That's curious, because the Brotherhood base shown is in Utah, and if that is also the location in the series, it opens up possibilities (*cough Legion cough*). But if it's this for the Enclave base... Then it opens up a lot more questions of how.

Wait. WAIT WAIT WAIT.

There's SNOW outside the Enclave base when Wilzig is running. LUCY'S MARRIAGE HAPPENS IN MARCH (as seen when she signs the dress). I'm NOT an expert in USA climate (Hi, Brazilian here, never even saw snow outside of television), but afaik March is the start of spring up there and also there isn't a lick of snow outside the Vault and in neither place Lucy walks through. Unless the Enclave base is at a place that usually snows heavily in March, then I think Wilzig has been on the run for a few months now. Possible coming all the way from the east coast. Possibly got in contact with Moldaver during this time and, considering where he first finds Lucy... Maybe he expected to meet Moldaver personally, even, and travel with her to the Observatory - but there was a contingency plan that if they didn't meet each other, Ma June would get him there. This would explain a bit why Moldaver's plan has a bit of desperation and improvisation; even if he had gotten into contact with her before, the fact that his running away wasn't planed could have created problems of timing - the Vault Exchange also could have presented Moldaver with an unexpected opportunity; maybe she was trying to discover a way of opening the blast door between Vault 31 and 32, then the Vault Exchange request appeared.

Also, considering that the orders for the Brotherhood Chapter in the show came from the Commonwealth Chapter... How would they hear about this before Quintus' Chapter, unless Wilzig was already running away from the east coast in general, and the orders were sent when they confirmed that Wilzig had managed to sidestep them? Considering that we also know that Coop was buried in a place not-California... (filming location New York too, but I can see it being in some other state close to California because of the name Don Pedro) Wherever the Enclave base is, it really looks like as being a good distance away from Filly.

Anyway. Maybe a bunch of people had noticed all this and just me that didn't, but I'm very curious and now I have so many more questions lololol

[tweeterwilbury]

5 and 29!

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

Ok fun fact time because this question adks for it: my father is OBSESSED with listening to music loud but it always annoys me and it's funny because when i listen to music loud he always says "well it isnt so loud" and it's so funny to me. Anyway, during this year these two songs have been my top choices of songs i want to hear LOUD!!!!!!!

29:A song that you remember from your childhood

THERE ARE SOOOOOOOO MANY ANSWERS TO THIS. 99% of them are brazilian songs ofc but im choosing 2 songs that remind me of very nice memories + 2 of my favorites songs that i used to listen a lot in those days :)))) i have this veryyyy dear memory of my father translating the words to Don't stop me now when i was a child and we were on his car. And I remember that one time me and my mother were watching a television talk show and there was a game on there with não quero dinheiro, eu só quero amar in which the presenter asked who could sing the entire song and my mother joked about how i was so young and knew the entire song but the old ladies in the talk show didnt know it even thought the song was from their times. And this kinds became a very dear memory recently. Burguesinha and Exagerado are barbecue songssss!!!!!! Some of my favorites!!!!!!!!

[sapphosewrites]

AUGUSTO BOAL Give us back our torture house

In a successful plea to the Rio Chamber of Deputies, Brazil's most famous agit-prop dramatist called for the conservation of the apparatus of torment

...

Among these seven mastodons, there was one who tried to justify everything with bureaucratic arguments. While he was giving me electric shocks on the pau-de-amra, from which I hung naked, upside down, he said: 'You will forgive me, yeah? But I am torturing you because it's on my schedule, see? I don't have anything personal against you, honest. I'm even a fan of your plays. I haven't seen any, but I like them all, see? You know how it is, yeah? Here you do what you're told to, see? Now, you know, it's a funny old world, things change. One day it might be you who's on top and me underneath, yeah? Now if it came to that, right, you're obviously not about to forget that I tortured you, fair enough, but it was just the luck of the draw, see? I tortured you because it was on my schedule.'

...

The leader of the team, for instance, did not know why I was there, as the team that did the torturing was not the same as the team that did the kidnapping. They were specialised: each knew how to carry out his own particular crafts. Some made instruments of torture; others paid our country's foreign debt. All were acting in concert against a single victim — the Brazilian people.

It was then, when the pain was most intense, that I tried to engineer a break in the torment and I asked: 'What is it that you want me to confess?' I wanted a break but I had decided never to confess anything - and I never did. But I wanted to buy time, so I asked him: 'What is it you want me to confess?'

At first the dinosaur did not know what to answer. He didn't know why he was torturing me -just that it was on his schedule. But the leader of the kidnap team had given him a list of accusations, written on a scrap of paper. He scanned the piece of paper and read out the first accusation: 'Boal, when you go abroad, you defame Brazil!' Me, defame Brazil! When I never tire of extolling the natural beauties of Baia da Guanabara. 'In what way do I defame Brazil?' I asked, hanging naked on the pau-da-arara. Reading on, the boor answered: 'You defame it because, when you travel, you tell people abroad that there is torture in Brazil.'

It did not register with the blockhead that he was doing just that, he was torturing me. The situation was so unreal, so funambulatory, that I laughed. When he saw me laughing, at first, he could not believe it — no-one laughs when they are hanging from the pau-da-arara. Then he became indignant, and turned the crank to increase the electric charge and asked why I was laughing. I answered that his present activity justified my past statements: in Brazil people are tortured, methodically and cruelly, and I was the living proof of it, strung up by my ankles, there, at that very moment. In one of the few moments of lucidity of his entire life, he thought, he thought very hard and ended up agreeing: 'You're right. I am torturing you. But since you are an artist, since you are well-known and you appear on television from time to time, I am torturing you, I give you that, but I am torturing you with respect.'

This episode in my life is part of me. I would like to go back to that cellar, where my only companion was a mouse, who was even more frightened than I was; I would like to see those instruments of torture again, those deadly but efficient tools. To revisit that building. I would like to re-see my past, to re-feel it, to re-live it. But the building, where episodes such as this took place has been destroyed. In its place, in Sao Paulo, they have constructed a supermarket. They have destroyed the memory. And without memory, imagination is impossible - without remembering, one does not imagine!

Without the past, the future would not exist and we would live like animals, ruminating on the present like cows. Let us not be cows. In Sao Paulo, because the memory of past atrocities has been destroyed, prisoners were cruelly and premeditatedly cut down in Carandiru. The prisoners launched a revolt, the chief of police gave them an ultimatum, and then ordered the raid on the prison and the slaughter which resulted, coldly conscious of the crime he was committing. On a lovely Sunday evening, the horrors of the dictatorship came back to haunt us.

I appeal to my colleagues who are, like me, involved in the business of making laws, just as I used to make bread. I appeal to them to allow me to continue existing, so that a part of myself survives my death. The Vila Isabel house holds the memories of hundreds of men and women, it holds many stories, it holds History. Living History. Many of the men and women who were imprisoned there are today in these galleries watching us, just as I am on this platform looking at you. Those who are here today, they and I, we remember, and the past lives in our memory, which is part of our being.

[myactressgallery]

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[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.25 (after 1940)

1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. 1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom. 1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends. 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor. 1946 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted. 1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game. 1949 – The first Emmy Awards are presented in the United States; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club. 1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters in the United States reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records. 1961 – In Washington, D.C., US President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference. 1964 – Blue Ribbon Sports, which would later become Nike, is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes. 1967 – South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky fires rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, while the latter is overseas on a diplomatic visit. 1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles. 1971 – Charles Manson and four "Family" members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders. 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president. 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. 1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda. 1990 – Avianca Flight 052 crashes in Cove Neck, New York, killing 73. 1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded. 1994 – The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched. 1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile. 1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the United States. 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country. 1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others. 1999 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000. 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations. 2005 – A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258. 2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women. 2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Na'ameh, Lebanon, killing 90. 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes. 2013 – At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. 2015 – A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines kills 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters. 2019 – A mining company's dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing 270 people.

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Sabrina Sato Rahal is a Brazilian television presenter.

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ANM-470: The Presenter

"This thing mocks nature."

Subject Classification: O(bject)-03(Discovered)-470

(O-03-470)

Identification: The Presenter

Danger Level: Sikur 🟢 (Mental, sanity, public, social, informational)

Responsible Researcher: Dr. Octavio

Special Containment Procedures: ANM-470 must be kept in a standard containment box, properly locked, located in a standard containment room at Area-49. The key to the box should be held by the designated Containment Supervisor. The containment room must be maintained under adequate security conditions and monitored by cameras 24 hours a day.

Description: ANM-470 is a ventriloquist dummy resembling Dudu Camargo, a Brazilian television presenter, with exaggerated features such as larger teeth and a wider smile. The dummy is approximately 110 cm tall and made of hand-painted wood, also wearing formal attire and exhibiting equally formal behavior, acting like a television presenter. It has a movable mouth and glass eyes that reflect a reddish hue under certain lighting conditions.

ANM-470 exhibits anomalous behavior when manipulated by an individual. When a person places their hand inside the dummy and manipulates it as a ventriloquist would, ANM-470 begins to speak in a voice similar to that of Dudu Camargo. However, the phrases spoken by the dummy are often sarcastic, mocking, and sometimes even insulting towards the interlocutor or prominent public figures.

Additionally, ANM-470 appears to possess anomalous knowledge of current events and can comment on recent news, even if it has not been informed about them. As a result, ANM-470 is considered a potential security threat due to its ability to disclose confidential information or cause social conflicts.

As a precaution, ANM-470 must be kept in containment, and access to it should be restricted to authorized personnel to avoid unnecessary interactions that could result in the dissemination of sensitive information or damage to the Foundation's integrity.

ANM-470 was discovered and recovered in an abandoned dressing room of the television network known as "Meio Norte Piauí."

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Sabrina Sato New Fashion On August 24, 2024

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Things I have learned from living abroad in Ireland.

The concept of poverty has to be reconsidered, giving away money is not the same as paying for something you desire, when doing this last one you have to consider how often you do or get something for pleasure, how long spend overthinking if you should get it, and from where you're getting it.

People who run business ain't going to be a manager, if so a supervisor, the first ones are focused in passive income bureaucracy and vices.

Having a job can mean that you no longer have a purpose, in post-slavery societies it often happens, and the Irish job market is no exception, and you can end up in an asphyxiating one easily, you also should expect coworkers to be hard to cheer up, and to deposit trust on you, the dream of nice people here is to be self-sufficient and having a close group of people, there's no interest in blindly trust big corporations or people due to generational trauma.

There's an expectation of where and how the Brazilians and the Polish should be and behave, also everyone makes the assumption that you want to socialize with people from your country over other people.

The economic market is so poor and narrowed that there's indicators that personal economics and real state are being used to control the mobility of individuals, being this a theory without direct evidence.

Due to their past of self-induced beliefs in the superiority of their race is not hard to find someone trying to fuck with your mind, testing or teasing you, some do by cultural influence, and others truly still believe the fact. This only shows up if you present yourself as a nobody, since it seems they make distinctions by socioeconomic status too.

Is common practice to have an ableist way of communication based in subtlety and double meanings.

Doesn't looks like it but there's a huge difference between wanting the money to have a tesla and wanting to make one.

The conceptualization of mental illnesses are inherently associated with weaknesses and victimization in the patient, so mental diseases associated with aggressiveness and abusing behavior often are left untreated, well known to happen in another places but here is specially noticeable.

The romanticization of intelligence can go to extremes here, has I said this also happens in another countries, but the threshold on which people start being critic towards other characteristics of an individual are way higher than average, I perceive this as a poor collective intelligence, reasons could be poor socialization due private and gendered schooling, or a social behavior dragged from the times of famine, maybe both.

Being said that the freedom of press actually exist, the general quality of it is really poor, controversial topics had to be really relevant to made it to the biggest media, making a follow up of topics like politics or economics by their means difficult, public television is under-stuffed and overpaid, alternative press exist but newspapers can run out, and in the internet are rarely cited outside facebook groups.

The housing market is currently inflated due to how open it is to the international investment, sharing language with counties who have a business model way different to the European one, and considering the product being seen like an asset more than an utility, basically big firms bought flats and houses and let them be, artificially altering the balance supply/demand, this plus demographic changes in a society who bought most of all real state in a short time-frame are going to make a generational market crash, who probably will freak out investors and aggravate the whole thing even more, mortgage rates are good tho, but you have to be sure you want to stay here forever, if you're less than 40 you ain't going to make passive income from rentals or sell it for a decent price in a given future, get that out of your mind.

You have to worry a lot about prices outside big retailers, while this doesn't really happens at others places of europe, where you can just enter any small shop of any city and neighborhood without giving a worry, here you can expect price increases not by fractions of the average but by multipliers, see very basic stuff being three times more expensive can happen quite often.

You can tell racism is really present and not addressed or interfering in politics, since it's location Ireland is quite homogeneous genetically speaking so the Irish have to ways of tagging people, one is realizing you're an expat, so a filter of positive racism is applied, where you will have relentless conversations about culture and stuff in a polite fakeish and exhausting way who can last for months until you see the real person, and the second one is a subtle trend of seeing more people of a given eye or hair color or small stuff like that in some job positions than others, btw this is totally normalized, is not a big deal for them because they don't have to address huge consequences from racism like other countries do, like India, the south of Europe etc, where this kind of stuff can generate huge altercations.

There's successful expats, but I have the feeling they already had a huge network of people and got offered a job position in the country by a multinational who operates in Ireland before even coming, right now is quite difficult to become successful as a first gen expat, seems like there's an intention on changing that but it will take decades and some friction along the way.

Both Poland and Ireland government/military are making the "Bad cop and Good cop" game with Ukranian refugee's workforce.