#brazilian television presenters

[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.

[fuckyeahfightlock]

Scary movie today was The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968). An anthology of three short exploitation films, nominally hosted by Coffin Joe (Zé do Caixão), a character created by Brazilian filmmaker Jose Mojica Marins, who was featured in some of Brazil's first horror films and later became a horror host on television. With his wolfish unibrow, thick beard, and long, curled fingernails (as well as his anti-Catholic, amoral philosophy), Coffin Joe became a sort of boogeyman in Brazil, sometimes called "Brazil's Freddy Krueger."

The Strange World of Coffin Joe (after a long opening credits sequence playing under a ballad about Coffin Joe, full of horror stills that don't come from this film) comprises first "The Dollmaker," a simple morality play wherein four men overhear that a local dollmaker, whose dolls are known for their beautiful eyes, has four daughters and a lot of cash. They rob the dollmaker, causing him to faint from his heart problems, then rape his daughters, each of whom exclaims that her attacker has such lovely eyes! You guessed it. . .the dolls' eyes are human eyes. Full of gratuitous nudity and simulated sex, ending with a gotcha that reminds the viewer what doing the wrong thing can lead to (your severed, eyeless head lying on a barn floor), this is typical 1960s unrated horror with a heaping side helping of sex.

The second and perhaps most compelling film is "Obsession," in which a vagrant selling toy balloons on the street becomes enamoured of a local woman, whom he watches from a distance, through her windows, following her around, etc. One day she goes shopping and drops one of her many packages, a shoebox. The vagrant tries to return the shoes but fails as the woman drives away. Later he watches from the sidewalk as she and her groom emerge from the church on her wedding day. A woman (presumably the groom's jilted ex?) stabs and kills her, and she is laid out in her coffin in her wedding gown. Once the mourners leave the mausoleum, the vagrant enters, undresses and rapes her corpse (there is one unintentionally hilarious shot from the side of the coffin where all we can see is a single, impossibly upright naked breast above the level of the casket's sidewall), then produces her lost pair of shoes and places them on her bare feet. The film contains no dialogue, only music, and while the subject matter is ultimately as unsettling as it can get, the acting is quite good (though in typical 1960s presentational style) and the obsessed vagrant comes across more as a teary-eyed, lost soul than a mwahaha! villain stalking a pretty girl, which makes the scenario that much more distressing to watch.

The final film in the anthology, "Theory," features "the professor" (Coffin Joe himself, professing all his Nietschian philosophy; I'm not sure why the character is a professor and not just Coffin Joe) inviting a couple to his home to discuss his theories. He shows them a living display of depravity in his cellar--a couple of orgies with and without sado/masochistic whipping and piercing, zombie-like men abusing a chained-up woman, man-on-man cannibalism, all the tropes of exploitation horror--while he drones on about breaking humans' wills to reveal their basest instincts, then takes the couple captive and tortures them for seven days, pitting them against each other in tests of their devotion, removing the civility and religion that prevents them from their true, animal nature. The visuals are repellant--more nudity, simulated sex, sado/masochism, etc, etc--but I'm sure the anti-religious aspect was equally horrifying to largely Catholic audiences in the 1960s.

This interested me as a film buff and horror buff (I also remembered Coffin Joe from mentions of the character in a book my ex owned in the early '90s called Incredibly Strange Films), but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to a casual horror fan as it's a very particular kind of horror film (moral horror, copious gore, sex sex sex where only the women are nude [or wearing huge white underpants and conical bras] and 80% of it is nonconsensual, just pure horror/exploitation) and there are more entertaining films in the genre, as well as better anthology films.

I might try one of the actual Coffin Joe movies (At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul; This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse, Embodiment of Evil) someday, but no time soon. This film is a curiosity, firmly of its time and place, predictable and un-frightening, though at times truly unsettling.

[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!!!!!!!!

[ariel-seagull-wings]

MY HISTORY WITH JIM HENSON PRODUCTIONS

@thealmightyemprex @goodanswerfoxmonster @angelixgutz @princesssarisa @softlytowardthesun @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @amalthea9

So the first production by the Jim Henson studios that I camed into contact with was Dinosaurs

Is one of my favorite shows to this day (and also a family favorite) and i can still rewatch both for comfort laughs and for poignant drama and social satire.

There was also the first two Teenage Mutant Turtles movies on television

Than my first contact with Jim Henson's most famous creation, The Muppets, with a televised exibition of The Muppets Take Manhattan.

And my grandmother, a huge fan of David Bowie, introduced me to Labyrinth.

In 2007, there was a reboot of the brazilian version of Sesame Street, Vila Sesamo, where Garibaldo (how we called Big Bird), becamed yellow like its original american version instead of blue like in the 1972 brazilian version.

In 2008 I asked my relatives to rent a DVD of The Dark Crystal because I liked the look of the Gelflings in the cover and in sayed cover was written From the creators of Labyrinth.

And I also received a pirated DVD copy of The Muppets Christmas Carol.

And Discovery Kids presented two CGI edutainment cartoons created by the Jim Henson Company:

Dinosaur Train

And Sid the Science Kid

So that is how my childhood story with the Jim Henson Company creations happened.

[celebrityshine]

Sabrina Sato Rahal is a Brazilian television presenter.

[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

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.2 (after 1960)

1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case. 1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup. 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal. 1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war. 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. 1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war. 1982 – Channel 4 starts broadcasting. 1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962. 1986 – Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity. 1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. 1988 – LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more. 1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses. 1997 – Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths. 1999 – Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven. 2000 – Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted. 2008 – Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race. 2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years. 2022 – A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Was the Military Police protecting the Brazilian rioters?

Bolsonaro supporters arrived in the capital city on buses escorted by the same security forces responsible for public safety

One of the big differences between the January 6 assault on the US Capitol two years ago and the January 8 attack on Praça dos Três Poderes (Three Powers Plaza) in Brasília this year is that the element of surprise was crucial for the Trumpist insurrection. The police guarding the US Capitol couldn’t believe what was happening, and some lost their lives trying to stop the attack. Millions of stunned people around the world watching it all unfold on television couldn’t believe it either. But in Brazil, the threat had been clear and present for months. The surprise in Brasília was not the riot itself, but that supporters of defeated former president Jair Bolsonaro were escorted to the gates of the three branches of government by the Military Police, the same force responsible for maintaining public security.

The rioters swarmed the ramps designed by architect Óscar Niemeyer to symbolize the link between society and its democratic institutions. It was the most serious attack on Brazilian democracy since the final dark chapter of the military dictatorship ended in 1985. The assault happened a week after Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva was sworn in as president and before some government ministers had assumed their roles.

Several facts are important for understanding the posture of the security forces and the politicians that give them their orders. First, the governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha, was an early ally of Bolsonaro; second, the chief of police of the Federal Police, Anderson Torres, served as Minister of Justice and Public Security under Bolsonaro; and third, the Military Police have long been a reliable source of votes for the far-right leader. In Brazil, there are countless numbers of security forces, both state and federal. Piauí magazine estimated a few years ago that the police, the military and all their families comprise almost 9% of the nation’s population.

Brazil’s secret service (ABIN) had infiltrated the ranks of the Bolsonaro supporters, and warned of an attack the day before. But the feeble security force deployment was helpless before the furious mob demanding a military intervention to oust Lula.

Continue reading.

[droctaviolovecraft]

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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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.