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(Português) Democracia, transparência e a crise

30 May

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(Português) Lixo eletrônico em Gana e Paquistão

26 Jan

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Starts in Davos the World Economic Forum

20 Jan

The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos evolved from discussionsDavos a small number of economists and politicians in the 1970s, for academic initiative Klaus Schwab, and which now hosts over 2,500 participants and more than 40 world leaders including people from the Brazilian government, thousands of managers or CEOs, as well as a number of Nobel laureates, the vast majority of Economy.

 

As we have said on the blog theme is the recommended Fourth Industrial Revolution, the robots entry and ciberizadas structures in production, daily and family life, some speak in the loss of 5 million jobs, but at the same time would generate about 3 million the that still gives a 2 million deficit, an economy at idle, the estimate is a global growth of 2.6% this year, which is still little.

 

Davos is a small and rather high city in Switzerland, with good infrastructure of tourism, because it is a traditional ski, and very cold this time of year.

 

Beyond the fourth industrial revolution, increasing immigration issue in Europe, the global security issues, ecology with the recent agreement of cop21, wars beyond the economy itself must be present at this meeting, the general mood is not very optimistic.

 

The Brazilian delegation will there headed by Finance Minister Nelson Barbosa, with a mission to recover the reliability of investors in Brazil, between the heads of state have confirmed the prime minister of France Manuel Valls, President of Germany Joachim Gauch, the Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Löfven and the head of government of Greece Alexis Tsipras.

 

The US, wrapped with the primary elections, choices of which candidates are running for parties, send Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and the Defense Ashton Cartes, Israel will have Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

 

We did our analysis in previous posts, is now trying to understand what they will say.

 

(Português) Retrospectiva mundial em 5 fotos

30 Dec

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A sea of mud crosses Brazil

17 Nov

Government refutes criticisms of negligence, but the dam Samarco RioDoce(mineral enterprise) that poured into the center of the country a “sea of mud” may happen again in the region itself or in 138 other dams in the country that still use primitive methods of dams.

Second report of the ANA (National Water Agency), dated September 30, 2014, only in Bahia State has 33 dams in the high risk category.

When passing helicopter the area hit by the “sea of mud”, made a week after the rupture of dams, the president said he had sent the Minister of National Integration and the National Secretary of Civil Defense in the region on the first day, but nothing was done.

The sea of mud has reached the populous regions of Governador Valadares and Colatina (ES), and the water supply is compromised, the region is too large to be supplied only by water kites trucks.

In a report of a television program on Sunday (15/10) cracks were shown in another dam Samarco mining company, and has been shown as they are poorly monitored another 700 dams that exist in the country.

In São Paulo State, there is a similar risk to the Mariana in the city of Aluminio, near Sorocaba, the municipality of aluminum, has a dam located behind a massive rock wall, near the village FEPASA, the tailings dam Mining Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio (CBA), part of the Votorantim Group.

The dam Palmital Votorantim Metals stores the generated red mud from bauxite residue conversion aluminum oxide (alumina), can break due to the intensive use of caustic soda in the separation of components.

 

COP21 and G7

30 Oct

The cop21 and G7 Warm weather (at least in Brazil), heats up the race cop21Parisfor COP21, the Paris Conference on Climate Change, but the G7 wants to cool all, the club of the 7 richest nations in the world.

According to a study, which involved the Brazilian rooted in Switzerland, Marcia Rocha, which the G7 is proposing will not serve to stop the 2 degrees Celsius that greenhouse gas emissions will lead to the planet by 2030, the target will have accomplished something around 30 % of needed as inform the Centre’s Climate brazilian blog.

Analyses of Climate Analitics show that following the combined current policies, only achieve 5% of the “ambition gap” Canada a member of G & said with the target for 2020 would be increased by 35% the so-called INDC (Contributions Nationally Certain Intended) compared to 1990.

The report proposes three recommendations to the G7: significantly increase the ambition of their INDCs here to the Paris conference in December; to strengthen the current targets, the shear stress becomes smaller after 2020; arguing that review cycles of the new agreement targets are five years, not ten, to prevent unambitious goals end up running for a long time.

While the big mobilize, social networks too, around the world there will be demonstrations, in Brazil there is already a call by the networks in a demonstration for the 29th of November.

 

Technologies that can change our lives

27 Oct

Many things can impact our lives and change the way the market and evenMoleculaCO2 people behave, it is the case with many technologies, but there is still something to happen.

3D printers, grew 35% since 2011, the figures were moved around US $ 1.7 billion is over $ 3 billion this year and could reach 6.5 billion by 2019, according to assessment of Alliance Bernstein, and this may affect up to production mode.

Already posted here that Skype will be doing translations online in an attempt to compete in a space filled increasingly by WhatsApp, the sense of citizenship world will increase with this and the global village will becoming a homeland-world, as predicted Edgar Morin .

The company Joule Biotechnologies instead of using organic matter, we must stop the organic production for fuels unfortunately is the case of sugarcane and corn, are trying to accomplish genetic modification to photosynthetic organisms that use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol and diesel which is carbon, and oxygen (C02). This may change the supply chain that depends on fossil fuels.

A changing world depends on the technology and they can and should affect human life, but of course, all decisions are taken by men (and women).

 

Cynical political in Brazilian ministerial reform

02 Oct

While the company expected a government nod on making reforms that PoliticagemPoliticking pulled the belt also in the huge state machine, which finally saw there was a huge give and take with the most area linked to personal interests of the legislative bodies.

The PMDB is strengthened, though a small group of 20 MPs have protested against the take there gives here, to the Ministry of Science and Technology will the unknown (will that made at least one college) Congressman Celso Pansera in Civil Aviation, Eliseu Padilha, did not change his “high-flying” by Science and Technology and favored the PMDB drawing play in the country’s infrastructure, read manipulating their interests, as required by the party leader in the House, Leonardo Picciani (RJ).

Pansera was quoted by the money changer Alberto Yousseff in plea bargaining in the operation Lava-Jato (rober public Money) as “tariff warrant” the mayor, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), which denies the deputy, also of the PMDB Congressman Marcelo Castro (PMDB-PI) will for Health folder that has a fat budget, it should be for people’s health.

The son of the mega-landowner Jader Barbalho see his son get out of Fishing Minister (joke) to go to the Havens Minister, hélder barbalho he was confirmed in the Ports Department, as was her request.

There is still an expectation to announce Congressman André Figueiredo (PDT-EC) to take over the Ministry of Communications, is a nod to the lottery, misdemeanor games and other militants of the unofficial economy of “gambling”.

Renato Janine Ribeiro left to give vague Mercadante, less evil.The car wash operation complete cynicism of this game, not bad luck, to dismember the complaints process and then sew the quilt as the official interests.You can fool some for some time, but not all for all time.

 

Os memes como arte

03 Sep

Enquanto os puristas ficam criticam e mal usando a internet,oPhotobombing pessoas bem intencionadas tentam por um pouco de humor e descontração na Web, existe muita gente tentando por bom humor, brincadeiras saudáveis e fazer bom uso da internet e da Web.  

O termo meme é uma ampliação do conceito de Richard Dawkings sobre um termo que ampliava a teoria de informações culturais em seu livro The Selfish Gene.  

Mas meme virou uma forma de pixação e em tempos de fanatismo político, isto se ampliou ainda mais e ao contrário de ampliar o conceito de informação cultura, o deturpa.

  Uma versão mais “light” de ilustração nas fotos da Web ficou conhecida no jargão da Web como “photobombing”, que no sentido negativo é arruinar uma foto por uma ação planejada ou mesmo acidental, mas que pode muito bem ser positiva, é o caso do artista Lucas Levitan.  

Suas intervenções curiosas e bem humoradas estão de acordo com aquele conceito de Dawkins.

 

Whatsapp poderá ser cobrado

24 Aug

Em muitos países que não são em desenvolvimento não há cobrança, o Whatsapp Whatsappsempre foi cobrado, em geral oferecem um período de testes de um ano e depois há um pagamento de US$ 0,99 após este período, mas no Brasil a dúvida paira no ar, antes diziam que era um vírus, mas agora …

Agora não é vírus nem mentira, a notícia foi veiculada pela Agência de Notícias Reuters, então parece que as operadoras já caras e que prestam mau serviço aos brasileiros, querem também cobrar pelo Whatsapp.

Segundo a agencia de notícias em menos dois meses elas vão entregarão às autoridades do Brasil, um documento, segundo elas com fundamentos jurídicos e econômicos não apenas querem cobrar, mas também sendo contra o funcionamento do aplicativo.

O lobbie vai atuar junto à Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) e embora não cite será o principal alvo é o aplicativo de voz do WhatsApp, a troca de mensagens não é citado.

As caras operadoras (o Brasil tem um dos serviços mais caros do mundo) esperam questionar o o serviço e passar a cobrá-lo ou impedir que funcione para chamadas. No WhatsApp dá um número de telefone móvel do usuário e por esta brecha que as operadoras querem se defender, enquanto em outros serviços, há um login sem número.

Não bastasse a inflação e carestia, todo mundo quer meter a mão em nosso bolso.