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Lessons from São Paulo’s Water Shortage
Lessons from São Paulo’s Water Shortage It’s getting harder and harder to separate nature’s role in disasters from our own, and the dire water predicament confronting São Paulo, Brazil, is no exception. But as with the ongoing drought in California, there are important lessons from São Paulo’s grim situation that can help us prepare for the […]
Thousands Crowd Brazil’s Streets: Demand Military Intervention & Rousseff Resignation, Impeachment
Thousands Crowd Brazil’s Streets: Demand Military Intervention & Rousseff Resignation, Impeachment It appears the ‘people’ are growing more and more dissatisfied with their corrupt and greedy leaders across the world. As we noted recently, Brazil’s economy is imploding, consumer sentiment is at record lows, and with the Petrobras scandal providing a glimpse at just how deep the corruption […]
A Day In The Life Of A Falling BRIC
A Day In The Life Of A Falling BRIC It’s not that long ago, in 2001, that Jim O’Neill, then still with Goldman Sachs, coined the term BRICs, for the fast emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. O’Neill saw a global power shift from the west to these four nations happening. Fast forward […]
Global Cooling Alert: Brazil Headed For Worst Economy Since 1930-1931
Global Cooling Alert: Brazil Headed For Worst Economy Since 1930-1931 For all the debt crises, hyperinflation and boom-and-bust cycles Brazil’s economy has suffered in recent decades, the country hasn’t posted two consecutive years of contraction since the Great Depression. But if 2014’s fourth quarter was as bad as many economists think and their expectations for […]
De-Dollarization: Russia Ratifies $100 Billion BRICS Bank
De-Dollarization: Russia Ratifies $100 Billion BRICS Bank A BRICS Bank – as an IMF alternative and to enable nations to become less dependent on the global reserve currency – was originally discussed at The BRICS Summit in 2012. Thenat the 2014 BRICS Summit, the framework for The BRICS Bank was approved as “a system of measures that would help prevent […]
Brazil’s Economy Is On The Verge Of Total Collapse
Brazil’s Economy Is On The Verge Of Total Collapse Back when the BRICs were the source of marginal global growth, the punditry couldn’t stop praising them. However, in the past year, now that China’s housing bubble has burst and its shadow banking system has imploded, those who remember what BRIC actually stood for are about […]
Heatwave in Rio
Heatwave in Rio Heatwave conditions have been affecting southeastern Brazil since the beginning of 2015. This comes after 2014 was declared the warmest, globally, since records began in 1880. The findings from the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) support earlier conclusions from both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the UK Met […]
Over 30 arrests as Sao Paulo erupts in protest over bus fare price
Over 30 arrests as Sao Paulo erupts in protest over bus fare price A massive rally against a bus fare hike has turned violent in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Shops were pillaged and objects thrown, with riot police resorting to tear gas and rubber bullets. This is the first such incident since the World Cup protests […]
Brazil’s Economy Just Imploded | Zero Hedge
Brazil’s Economy Just Imploded | Zero Hedge. China may have mastered the art of fabricating economic data to a level unmatched by anyone except the US Department of Labor, but its derivative countries have much to learn. And none other more so than one of China’s favorite sources of commodities over the past decade: Brazil. […]
Industrial Farming Plows Up Brazil’s ‘Underground Forest’ | Climate Central
Industrial Farming Plows Up Brazil’s ‘Underground Forest’ | Climate Central. PALMAS, Brazil – South and east of Brazil’s famous Amazon, the air becomes dryer and the humid rainforest gives way to emerald green patches of irrigated pasture carved from scrubby woods and native grasslands. As global meat demand increases, farmers are plowing up more of […]
Brazilian Judge Sides With Tribe Over Land Threatened by Dams | Environment News Service
Brazilian Judge Sides With Tribe Over Land Threatened by Dams | Environment News Service. BRASILIA, Brazil, November 6, 2014 (ENS) – In a struggle between a Brazilian indigenous tribe and the federal government over two dams that would flood lands claimed by the tribe, a federal judge has ruled that the government must immediately publish […]
Water crisis squeezes Sao Paulo state – Americas – Al Jazeera English
Water crisis squeezes Sao Paulo state – Americas – Al Jazeera English. Itu, Brazil – The state of Sao Paulo is on the cusp of an unprecedented water crisis stemming in part from one of the worst droughts in decades, leaving millions scrambling to find clean water sources. On Friday, the city of Sao Paulo recorded […]
