So, you guys are dealing with a massive recession (the biggest since the 90's - 4.5% is quite a freaking lot), a possible impeachment (which could cause some more economic instability) and a wide-ranging operation which could determine the political future of your country.
I wouldn't like to be in your position, guys. And considering how much of a shit rectangle we've been...
Though, on the other hand, your operation seems be going ok so far. Is Mário Jardel also involved in it, or is it a separate investigation?
edited 2nd Dec '15 3:30:29 PM by Quag15
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I, for one, am expecting things to become worse.
I mean I will have to seek some new employment by the end of this month, it isn't going to be pleasant.
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I'd say good luck, but you'd need to wrangle a lot of saints to get the miracle you need. *hugs*
Muddle through, and I'm rooting for you.
I have to agree with Gaon. It's a dangerous game to play. Even worse, Cunha is doing it to take Dilma down with him. Ugh.
Unrelated: Earlier I had a very long post about the situation in São Paulo, but I lost it. I don't have any of the links anymore, and I was too busy and frustrated for the rest of the day to retype an explanation. In short, Governor Geraldo Alckmin was enforcing a hasty "reorganization" of schools thorough the state. Students replied by occupying schools. The state replied with military police sieges. This has been going on for a few weeks now.
Unrelated 2: Minas Gerais Public Prosecutor's Office organized a magazine against prejudice and discrimination. You can read it here (in Portuguese). Apparently, Minas Gerais' American Embassy helped in the creation of that magazine? Uh, I'm not really sure. It's important enough the American Consul there wrote a small text for the second page.
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The Federal Police raids Eduardo Cunha's house during investigations, in order to seize evidence of corruption schemes, embezzling and involvement in the Lava Jato corruption scheme in which he is being accused of receiving 5 million dollars over the contracts of probe ships for Petrobras.
The link is in Portuguese.
edited 15th Dec '15 6:51:54 AM by AngelusNox
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Well today was set to be the protests in favor of the government.
To summarize, it was pathetically small, with São Paulo having as much as 3 thousand protesters and my college city having...just one.
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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/actor-drug-lord-sean-penn-met-el-chapo-071045745.html
Penn makes a risky move to interview El Chapo.
El Chapo is that just recently rearrested drug lord, yes?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Yep.
Apparently that interview helped the Police track him down.
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So Sean Penn's guilty complex was useful for once.
That is great.
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The Economic class pushes millions back out of the lower middle class and back into the poverty in Brazil [Link in Portuguese]
Between January and November of 2015 the proportion of Brazilians in the lower middle class (class C) dropped to percents, from 56.6% to 54.6%.
This means that roughly 3.7 millions of Brazilians stopped having a monthly family income between 1,646 and 6,585 R$ over the period, and they are not migrating to the higher levels of the social pyramid.
On the same period the low class (class D) grew went from 16.1% to 18.9% and the poor class (class E) went from 15.5% to 16.1%, reversing the poverty drop process lived in the last decade.
Meanwhile the high and upper middle class (A and B class respectively) have been shrinking in size: the former went from 6.8% to 5.9% of the population while the latter went from 5.1% to 4.5%.
The numbers were gathered by the Research department and Economic Studies of the Bradesco Bank, with information of the PNAD and PME from the IBGE (governmental economic statistics agencies)
According to Ana Barufi, the bank's researcher, the main explanatory factor is the worsening of the work market resulted from the economic crisis.
Firs by a methodological question, once that the PME measures only the worker's income and second because the unemployment increase affects firsly the lower classes.
The real income has been decelerating for a few trimesters, reflecting, among other questions, salary negotiations which seek to maintain jobs, even with a nominal lower salary gain. A deceleration and even the reversion of the work force formality makes that less individuals have less access to the unemployment insurance, which can also affect the available income says Ana.
She reminds of another factors of which the family incomes are composed of, like retirement pension and transfers, which didn't suffer from a major impact from the crisis yet.
The retirees and pensioners which receive more than a minimum wage will count with a readjustment of 11.28% in 2016, the variation defined by the National Consumer Price Index (INCP) which will elevate the costs with the retirement welfare in 21.5 Billions R$ this year.
The unemployment will keep growing in 2016 towards two digits, which will affect the income. It is not discarded that the lower middle class will represent less than half of the Brazilian population, which was achieved in 2010.
A Nd yet it doesn't mean that all of the social conquests of the last decades will be easily reverted, due to them not being only related to income but also with education.
A substantial part of the poverty reduction has solid roots. There has the important role of the social politics and the pure and simple access to education, even without mentioning quality. It is also related to the micro economic gains in stability that the country achieved and can certainly recover Said Otaviano Canuto, Brazil's FMI executive director, in an interview during September.
edited 12th Jan '16 10:45:43 AM by AngelusNox
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Just something funny for once.
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HGW XX/7
Things the rest of the world are sick of hearing: HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE
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What a coincidence, that is also some thing I am sick to hear, as a Brazilian.
Serious, cut out the reference to huehue every time you see a Brazilian in the Internet. It is fucking annoying.
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the HUEHUEHUEHUE meme wouldn't be so bad if Brazilians themselves didn't adopt the bloody onomatopoeia.
And yet, all I see online is the "ashuashua" and the "kkkkkkk". Rarely the HU Es.
Great video, though. Can definitely relate to it, despite not being Brazillian ("Where you from?" "Portugal" "Oh, I love Barcelona!" "...").
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I did see the hue often back in the day, but not so much anymore.
Also:
"Hola!" / "Do you speak Spanish?"
"Cristiano Ronaldo!..."
I only see the hue sound in Polandball comics.
edited 4th Feb '16 8:08:50 AM by Quag15
I've seen "hue" being used ironically, or if not ironically, adopted after it became memetic and used due to that fact. "Zoeira"/"zueira" is a similar concept, and I see it way more often.
But isn't Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal? *knows nothing about football* (screw eggball 
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Yes he is but so far he is only one of the few things people know from Portugal, it is like meeting an Yankee starting a conversation with Pelé or Neymar, annoying as fuck.
I can vouch for the first one in the video, in the US people knew I was a foreigner but they didn't expect me to be a Brazilian, I'm not brown enough for that.
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What Angelus said. We know how you guys feel when someone from another country always brings up the name of one of the greatest footballers/celebrities from your country, and not much else.
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Doesn't really help when you personally don't give a shit about soccer :'p
In addition, the ONLY place anybody knows about is Rio. MAYBE Bahia, at best. This in a country with several states.
edited 4th Feb '16 11:20:20 AM by wehrmacht
To be fair, that happen with all countries: how tokio,London and new york and onlyt thing work mention in ficcion all the friking time, here in venezuela there is a saying of "en venezuela esta caracas y lo demas es monte y culebra"(in venezuela there is caraca(the capital) and the rest is grass and snakes) is one of the problem with capital, they are the vocal minority of the international world.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
In short, if this impeachment actually goes through, the fate of this country rests more or less entirely on Operation Lava-Jato and its effectiveness.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."