Perhaps balsa wood, which incidentally grows in Brazil ?

At least Obama put a stop to it. Except for the CIA facility at Mogadishu's airport where they held people in an underground dungeon and comforted them with some electric current through the genitals. Yeah, except for that.

Also, let's not talk about the torture camps run by the military, by contractors or by the Iraqi forces trained and instructed by folks like Colonels James Steele, who had already run Salvadoran death squads. And while we're at it, let's not talk about the outsourcing of torture to the goons of Gaddafi, Assad and Mubarak.

By the way, Brazil just published documents about 20 years of torture. Who trained the torturers? The usual suspects...

Both Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton broke the pole lap record for the Interlagos circuit of Brazil this year with the new hybrid engines. Previously held by the good man Rubens Barichello so I doubt that made them very popular with the locals! The race lap record is still held by Montoya.

The future of transport (from Brazil) has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo.

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I think the two sides presented here were actually in more agreement than either felt they were.

Affleck's comment at the end was great -- but I don't think that Harris or Maher are really guilty of conflating Muslims with Islam. Maher said "if 90% of Brazilians..." not to suggest that we would/should be critical of Brazil or Brazilians at large in such a scenario, but to suggest that IF that was true, we'd need to take a good hard look at what is producing those trends. And particularly, we would need to be free to criticize and bring the root problems under scrutiny.

To me, that is pretty much exactly what the end of your comment is saying -- "there clearly is a cultural problem within the Muslim world, and it needs to be addressed." Maher and especially Harris (his books are largely on this topic, with regards to Christianity and religion in general) are saying exactly that -- if there are dangerously bad ideas / cultural trends in Islam, or Christianity, or any other group, we need to be free to point out those issues and bring them under scrutiny.

Islam frequently gets a pass because A) it is a religion, and we are taught that criticizing a religion is OFF LIMITS, and B) not only that, but it isn't OUR religion. In the American/Western media, we're getting a little more ready to accept criticism of Christianity, because that feels more like self-criticism (and therefore carries less of a stigma) to Westerners. But the moment the topic turns to Islam, the PC part of all of us gets a lot more uncomfortable.

Not at all convinced by the ID here. The spider in the video doesn't look a lot like a brazilian wandering spider. The video is from brazil it seems, but they have a lot of other spiders there too.

Wandering spiders are proportionally very different to the spider in this video, and colouration is different too. The one in the video above seems a uniform dark brown/black colour, without any of the bands on the legs that would help ID a wandering spider.

Have a look at this video of an actual wandering spider:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noLn2gK3fzY#t=50

Wiki disagrees
China's GDP is apparently 4 times higher than Brazil's and more than half that of the US's.

I also found it interesting they highlighted the Ryugyong Hotel (the huge pyramid building). It's been under construction for 25 years, largely halted since the Soviet Union collapsed and the slush fund train ended. While the exterior is done according to wikipedia, the interior is not and it's always be unoccupied.

China's metropolises feed a similar misconception. They are similarly impressive that it's easy to forget that the country as a whole is still very poor. China's GDP per capita is half of Brazil, a quarter of South Korea and a tenth that of the US.

While China is obviously not as repressive as NK, the hukou dual citizenship system has a similar effect of segregation rural and urban dwellers. While rural workers may be able to move to work in the cities, they will enjoy none of the social benefits and protections that local citizens do. This has a lot to do with China's disparity of income and accretion of wealth to the large cities.

Sorry to burst your bubble..
Love Gilliam an all, but I saw, and it's kind of a b-side Gilliam
It looks cool, but it doesn't go anywhere or add up to much...
(unlike Brazil or Time Bandits)
but then, its is called Zero Theorem....

No fair!
Brazil scored too, I was waiting for a mystery ball pattern after the ball leaving a German's player foot....

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Brazil didn't have their two/2 star players due to injuries.

I swear Brazil threw this game. It was so one-sided.

That's actually a good way to look at it. All his friends are rooting for Brazil because they enjoy the team and want to. He has to because his father bet a shit-ton on them and he'd like to not be poor. Or something.