If President Rousseff passes the forest code, it won't be only Brazil that suffers An approval by her will cast a dark shadow over her presidency and Brazil's authority in these global forums. Worse still, a victory for big business profits over the planet's future will set a frightening precedent for the protection of the last remaining ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/24/president-rousseff-forest-code-brazil -

Silver Spoon Socialists Flex Muscles In Brazil With Argentina and Bolivia expropriating big energy firms and Brazil nationalizing strike ... the way for Lula to become president and for the creation of the Brazil-based World Social Forum, an internationalist vehicle that provides an alternative agenda ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-ehrmann/silver-spoon-socialists-p_b_1504736.html -

Matwork!: Cupcake Armbar World Pro Recap, Brazilian Nationals, 2012 Mundials, Baku Judo, Baku Wrestling Recent happenings in the worlds of sambo, judo, Brazilian jiu jitsu, submission grappling and ... to beat Jordan Burroughs in London this summer. Over on the Sherdog forums, wrestling devotees compiled a nice list of videos documenting Adam's ... http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/5/10/3011008/matwork-cupcake-armbar-world-pro-recap-mundials-baku-judo-baku -

Google experts will be present in MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2012 in Sao Paulo, Brazil Other big names present at the 3rd Seminar Google Earth and Maps for Companies are Clinton Libbey, sales manager of Google's geospatial products, Francisco Gioielli, Google Enterprise executive in Brazil ... the seminars, forums and courses ... http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2012/may/15/news4.html -

We should help solve illegal logging, not be part of the problem The legendary Brazilian conservationist Chico Mendes was also killed ... It's the only way, the report concludes, to combat international criminal syndicates and go after the big fish. And it's about time. The World Bank estimates that illegal ... http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0514-laurance-op-ed-illegal-logging.html -

Afghan role shows we belong on UNSC: Carr "Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina are all big peacekeeping contributors ... The country would invest "blood, sweat and tears in making a contribution in that forum", Senator Carr said. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8472158/afghan-role-shows-we-belong-on-unsc-carr -

New Global Research Council Takes Off A new group of government research funders from around the world announced today that it will try to find common ground on two big issues in its inaugural ... Instead, the goal is to create forum for "high-level discussions" of more general policy issues. http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/05/new-global-research-council-take.html?ref=hp -

Mocktails for moms-to-be: Drinks to enjoy while pregnant While that certainly doesn’t rise to a life-altering dilemma, as I wrote on my blog last July, there’s just something about summertime that calls for a refreshing adult beverage ... Use 1½ ounces rum or cachaça (Brazilian sugarcane liquor) instead ... http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/361780/group/Life/ -

Global council aims to coordinate science From now on, says Glaucius Oliva, president of Brazil’s National ... Organizing the forum was certainly an impressive feat, but it isn’t yet clear how the GRC might develop. “The key thing is that this shouldn’t become a big, expensive, inter ... http://www.nature.com/news/global-council-aims-to-coordinate-science-1.10680 -

People's summit alongside Rio+20 to draw 20,000 daily "It's a new way found by the big corporations to repackage capitalism and they ... Next month's people's summit was announced at the World Social Forum in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre in January. The Forum, which drew around 40,000 ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gQqmqmPI4Wdx0-StBSUxXszhcEkw?docId=CNG.4efdd69cdbb2a6a664e16c152c02eb62.b51 -

Finance forum looks to new horizons Film Finance Forum presented by Winston Baker in association with Variety in Cannes, scrutinized U.S. and worldwide sales and distribution strategies on Friday. IM Global topper Stuart Ford cited markets on the rise such as China, Russia, Brazil and the ... http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118054338.html?cmpid=RSS|News|LatestNews -

Nigeria: We Are Concerned About Substandard Goods From China - Aganga In 2010, we invited the Competitiveness Office of the World Economic Forum and we told them to go through our recommendations ... You were recently in Brazil. What was the highlight of the trip? Brazil, as you know is one of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia ... http://allafrica.com/stories/201205140845.html -

Facilitate a fruitful G20 The G8 forum originated with a 1975 summit that brought ... any solution to major international issues cannot rule out the big emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil. The G8 meeting this time faces many global uncertainties, including the ... http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2012-05/18/content_15326664.htm -

UFC 146: Parlays & Prop Betting Picks For starters, I like a parlay between heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos and Brazilian lightweight Edson Barboza ... Mir’s either getting countered by a big overhand right, or he’s gonna walk right into one of Junior’s lead uppercuts. http://www.sbrforum.com/ufc/free-picks/ufc-146-parlays-prop-betting-picks-a-24997/ -

The Urge to Sext Naked Self-Portraits Is Primal In Brazil ... On the adult networking site Fantasti.cc, 36 percent of men use an image of a penis as their avatar; only 5 percent of women use a vagina. On Reddit’s heterosexual Gone Wild forum in 2010, where users were free to post uncensored ... http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/opinion-naked-sexting/ -