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Almost 19 million urban Brazilians live with no access to drinking water of sewage

Friday, May 25th 2012 - 21:40 UTC
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Almost 19 million Brazilians live in precarious housing with no running water, sewage or any basic public services, according to a report on urban infrastructure by the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute, IBGE. Read full article

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  • PirateLove

    “drinking water of sewage” no thanks id rather have Argenswine wine, but only just.

    May 25th, 2012 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Steve-32-uk

    And Brazil want a seat on the UN security council? think not, at least until this is sorted.

    TBH 5 is more than enough on the security council there is a strong argument to get rid of France, and replace them with Brazil, I'm open minded on that, what do others think?

    May 25th, 2012 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Sullivan

    Brasil should never join the UN. It is worthless.
    My country has a long way to go, but is making progress. I am proud. Poverty is still high, but improved so much while in other countries got worse.

    “drinking water of sewage” no thanks id rather have Argenswine wine, but only just.”

    Why you hate Argentina? Argentine wine is good, also Chilean, and we in Brasil also have wine, good wine. long way to go to become popular with wine.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNtFCygTfbA&feature=plcp

    May 26th, 2012 - 01:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • skåre

    @3 Sullivan

    “Brasil [sic] should never join the UN. It is worthless.”

    Sorry to disappoint you, imbecile, but Brazil is already a member of the UN. So I guess that settles it: the UN isn't as worthless as your brain *rolls eyes*

    May 26th, 2012 - 05:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Max

    & 4

    he says “” should “” not “” isn't“”

    don't say over the word in your 2nd paragraph 5th word tells what you are.

    May 26th, 2012 - 09:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • skåre

    @Max

    Back to spewing gibberish again are you? His statement clearly implied that Brazil is not a member of the UN .. but perhaps that is a subtlety of language that is beyond your self-evident limitations in both intellect and linguistic skills.

    If he was wanting to assert that Brazil should not have joined the UN, then that is what he should have said. Why so keen to defend his glaring ignorance? Is it because Sullivan is yet another of your many banal alter egos and that it embarrasses you as much as it embarrasses us to read your streams of incomprehensible drivel? You really are an imbecile.

    May 26th, 2012 - 10:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    skåre
    Both you and I (and the rest of the readers) fully understood that he meant the UN security council. It is there, between the lines...

    May 26th, 2012 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    It is important to note that the UN is no longer a legal entity. On another thread Maxie stated, unequivocally, that no treaty could continue for more than 30-40 years. The UN was created by treaties in 1945. QED, it was defunct by 1985. This is a very important interpretation and everyone should note the implications. ALL UN resolutions are now INVALID. ALL UN-sponsored organisations are defunct. Those portions of “international law” created by the United Nations can be ignored.

    The important thing now is that the world is controlled by those nations with the most destructive and most numerous weapons. There are a number of countries that are on continents that do not fulfill this crieria. Therefore, Africa is “controlled”. So is South America. And Oceania. The world's “controllers” are in North America, Asia, Europe and, notably, the British Isles. The “controlled” need to amend their attitudes to reflect this reality. Otherwise the “controlled” may swiftly become the “dead”. Fortunately, the new reality foreshadows a new economic future. The “controlled” can easily become the world's new “slaves”. Africans, South Americans and Oceanics are particularly suitable for this economic “class” as, historically, they are accustomed to it. They may offer some initial resistance, but even a limited amount of research shows that that resistance is futile. For demographic reasons, the first area to be subjugated should be South America. They have quantities of semi-modern military equipment, but are disjointed and incompetent. The objective should be to obtain the maximum number of “indentured contract workers” (slaves). Once this has been done in SA, the ICWs can be used to subjugate other regions because they are prone to “herd” behaviour and are easily “re-educated”.

    May 26th, 2012 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • skåre

    @Guzz

    The stupid plank neither meant that nor wrote that, because like all of Max's personalities he is thicker than frozen pig shit on a stick in deepest Arctic winter.

    May 26th, 2012 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Fido Dido

    skare, I think he meant to type here, Brazil should not be a permanent member of the UN. He's right about that and the only troll here from scandinavia who believes the UN is worth and believe his own nonsense, is you.

    “The world's “controllers” are in North America, Asia, Europe and, notably, the British Isles. ”

    Lolz..Conquerer aka typhoon buffoon, seriously, stop playing video games. Europe can't even control itself.

    May 26th, 2012 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • skåre

    Hi Fido Dido .. yet another incarnation of the Spastic Spammer Max(imum Brain-rot)

    May 26th, 2012 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    The 19 million poor sods who live in Brasil (skåre - notice how they spell it) include “many middle and low class neighbourhoods”. Wow, you can be middle class in Brasil and have no sewage, etc!

    “IBGE also admits that in the favelas the living conditions are even worse” AND these have been excluded.

    “cities such as Belen the capital of the state of Para, less than half of the surveyed homes have access to sewage.” So for the dummies that is MORE than 50% have NO ACCESS to sewage.

    SO. Just how many people in Brasil have no access to sewage, 50M, a 100M, does anyone know because these pillocks certainly do not AND “Sullivan” is proud they have achieved so much.

    If I was not an atheist I would say 'God help them' because the government certainly is not by the look of these damnable figures.

    May 26th, 2012 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • skåre

    @ChrisR

    Thanks, but this is an English-language forum and in English it is 'Brazil' .. you wouldn't expect me to write Storbritannia whenever I was discussing Great Britain would you? ;)

    May 26th, 2012 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    Sullivan
    You are quite right to be proud of Brazil, you guys are doing great!
    Don't listen to the titwits on these threads, they just see their good days ending, and it's understandable they are quite sour about it...

    May 26th, 2012 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • skåre

    Brazil is indeed a nice country that will prosper; unlike Uruguay and Argentina which have faded and withered before they even had a chance of any 'good days'.

    May 26th, 2012 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    Hey titwit, it isn't us killing our adolescents like in Norway or beating the crap out of them like in Denmark. We are doing quite fine, thank you very much :)

    You better get back to your daily rejection at Istedgade...

    May 26th, 2012 - 11:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • v for victory

    Brazil (or Brasil if you're there) are making great strides in pulling millions out of poverty, and good luck to them with that, this report shows they (Brasileiros) aren't hiding the issues that need addressing. The point is they have a stable gov, they just need to avoid the protectionist trap that's creeping into SA at the moment.
    @12 the capital of Pará is Belém (literally “Bethlehem” pronounced “bel-eng”) my partner's home town which I'm going to later this year - never been to SA.

    May 27th, 2012 - 02:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    13 skåre
    ”you wouldn't expect me to write Storbritannia whenever I was discussing Great Britain would you? ;)” It's entirely up to you.

    However I live in Uruguay which I am confident you know has Brasil as a neighbour. :o)

    May 27th, 2012 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Sullivan

    skåre>>http://www.skjoldlodge.com/trolls.html

    I do not like UN as much as you.

    May 28th, 2012 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    But the UN does not exist. It can't exist. Max(imily) said so! He is quite clear. “Treaties cannot continue for more than 30-40 years.” His words. The United Nations was established by treaties. Therefore it's over! Surely Max(imily) couldn't have been LYING could he? Is he not an argie? When do argies ever lie?

    May 28th, 2012 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guzz

    Conquerory
    Max is just about as intelligent as you in that comment, go along you two, go along and create your alternative reality...

    May 28th, 2012 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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