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Legalize Drugs Now!

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Body in a trolley: the brutal reality of Rio's drug war

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Brutal Drug War Erupts in Rio

Many residents of some of Rio de Janeiro's worst slums are fleeing their homes to... more

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Rio's drug violence: The Olympics and megacities

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Violence Erupts in Rio de Janeiro

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Rio fortifies streets after deadly shootout

(CNN) -- Some 2,000 police officers patrolled the streets of Rio de Janeiro Sunday after a bloody confrontation between rival drug gangs and authorities that killed 14 over the weekend, including two police officers.

Two suspected drug traffickers were killed and four were arrested in Sunday's operations by Rio de Janeiro's military police, the official news agency Agencia Brasil reported.

But the atmosphere in general appeared calm in the slum known Morro dos Macacos in northern Rio, where the day before crossfire between two gangs left 12 dead, including two police officers who died when their helicopter was shot out of the sky. Residents had also set eight buses on fire during the clashes in an attempt to divert the attention of police.

"This was truly one of the worst incidents of this type," one local resident told CNN en Español, who declined to give his name for fear of his safety. "It was like a scene from a real war. It was like the world would end, lots of bullets, lots of noise."

The violence comes two weeks after Rio, Brazil's second largest city, celebrated winning the 2016 Olympic Games.

The slain officers, Ednei Canavarro and Marcos Stader were buried Sunday, Agencia Brasil reported.

Rio's secretary of public security, Jose Mariano Beltrame, said the helicopter was likely brought down by .30- and .50-caliber machine gunfire, the news agency said. Four other police officers onboard were injured.

Beltrame on Sunday said that despite the city's crime, there is no reason for people to doubt the government's ability to host the Olympics.

"What I say to the (International Olympic Committee) and the public is this: we have historic problems. But we also have projects and proposals. We have security policies both to fight and to pacify," he said.

Last year, a wave of violence in Rio led to protests in December by a group called Rio de Paz. The group said 9,000 people had been slain since January 2007. Many of the deaths were caused by clashes among drug traffickers fighting for territory in Rio's slums and poor neighborhoods, said the group's president, Antonio Carlos Costa.(CNN) -- Some 2,000 police officers patrolled the streets of Rio de Janeiro Sunday... more

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Rio de Janeiro wins the 2016 Olympic bid

COPENHAGEN — The Olympics were awarded to a South American city for the first time,... more

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Rio de Janeiro awarded 2016 Olympics!

In your face Chicago! --------------- Copenhagen, Denmark (Sports Network) - Rio... more

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Chicago, Tokyo lose Olympic bids

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Did Obama try to silence Chicago ANTI-OLYMPICS STORY? (check link)

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Rio de Janeiro by Helicopter

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MC Gringo Rocks Rio's Slums

MC Gringo, a white, German national, fell in love with the music and culture of Rio's... more

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Airplane seat found in Atlantic Ocean along missing jet's route

An airplane seat, a life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel were found in the... more

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Air France Jet Disappears Over Atlantic

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Slum tours: Traveling off the beaten path

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Chronicle of an Environmental Disaster

In November 18th, 2008, agrochemical company Servatis released thousands of liters of... more

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Life not all a Carnival for Rio's drum queens

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War declared over the human brain

"YOU cannot overestimate," thundered psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz, "how threatened the scientific establishment is by the fact that it now looks like the materialist paradigm is genuinely breaking down. You're gonna hear a lot in the next calendar year about... how Darwin's explanation of how human intelligence arose is the only scientific way of doing it... I'm asking us as a world community to go out there and tell the scientific establishment, enough is enough! Materialism needs to start fading away and non-materialist causation needs to be understood as part of natural reality."

His enthusiasm was met with much applause from the audience gathered at the UN's east Manhattan conference hall on 11 September for an international symposium called Beyond the Mind-Body Problem: New Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness. Earlier Mario Beauregard, a researcher in neuroscience at the University of Montreal, Canada, and co-author of The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul, told the audience that the "battle" between "maverick" scientists like himself and those who "believe the mind is what the brain does" is a "cultural war".

Schwartz and Beauregard are part of a growing "non-material neuroscience" movement. They are attempting to resurrect Cartesian dualism - the idea that brain and mind are two fundamentally different kinds of things, material and immaterial - in the hope that it will make room in science both for supernatural forces and for a soul. The two have signed the "Scientific dissent from Darwinism" petition, spearheaded by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, headquarters of the intelligent design movement. ID argues that biological life is too complex to have arisen through evolution.

In August, the Discovery Institute ran its 2008 Insider's Briefing on Intelligent Design, at which Schwartz and Michael Egnor, a neurosurgeon at Stony Brook University in New York, were invited to speak. When two of the five main speakers at an ID meeting are neuroscientists, something is up. Could the next battleground in the ID movement's war on science be the brain?

Well, the movement certainly seems to hope that the study of consciousness will turn out to be "Darwinism's grave", as Denyse O'Leary, co-author with Beauregard of The Spiritual Brain, put it. According to proponents of ID, the "hard problem" of consciousness - how our subjective experiences arise from the objective world of neurons - is the Achilles heel not just of Darwinism but of scientific materialism. This fits with the Discovery Institute's mission as outlined in its "wedge document", which seeks "nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies", to replace the scientific world view with a Christian one.

Now the institute is funding research into "non-material neuroscience". One recipient of its cash is Angus Menuge, a philosophy professor at Concordia University, Wisconsin, a Christian college, who testified in favour of teaching ID in state-funded high-schools at the 2005 "evolution hearings" in Kansas. Using a Discovery Institute grant, Menuge wrote Agents Under Fire, in which he argued that human cognitive capacities "require some non-natural explanation".

In June, James Porter Moreland, a professor at the Talbot School of Theology near Los Angeles and a Discovery Institute fellow, fanned the flames with Consciousness and the Existence of God. "I've been doing a lot of thinking about consciousness," he writes, "and how it might contribute to evidence for the existence of God in light of metaphysical naturalism's failure to provide a helpful explanation." Non-materialist neuroscience provided him with this helpful explanation: since God "is" consciousness, "the theist has no need to explain how consciousness can come from materials bereft of it. Consciousness is there from the beginning."

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A Rio 218 nuove favelas dal 1999

Dal 1999 al 2008 sono sorte 218 nuove favelas intorno al centro urbano di Rio, il che... more

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Rio's drug violence: The Olympics and megacities

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