Explosion at a Brazilian naval base in Antarctica. Two people were missing and another was injured

Two people were missing, and another person was injured Saturday after an explosion caused a fire at a Brazilian naval base in Antarctica, military sources announced.
The accident led to the evacuation of about 40 researchers.
The Brazilian Navy, the fire in the building's electrical generators Comandante Ferraz base, located on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula near the top.
Wounded soldier, whose condition is stable, has received initial care to the polish, being later transferred to the Chilean Eduardo Frei, Brazilian Navy announced in a statement.

Brazilian Navy personnel working to control the fire.
About 30 researchers, a alipinist a Brazilian Environment Ministry representative present in the plant when the accident were evacuated Chilean territory, according to the Brazilian Navy.
Air Force of Chile have said, in turn, that 48 Brazilian and two Spaniards were evacuated by helicopter to the Chilean city of Punta Arenas, located about 3090 kilometers south of Santiago.
"The information we have, the would be completely destroyed," said Chilean Defense Minister Andrés Allamanda CNN Chile. He added that in total 45 people were evacuated from the Brazilian.
Allamanda said that the two missing people were "probably dead" and that the Chilean provided care to a wounded, while other aprozimativ ten people received medical care at the Frei.
In addition, polar research ship Almirante Maximiano Brazilian left Punta Arenas heading towards the scene.
Base Comandante Ferraz performs scientific research on marine ecosystems, especially in the coastal zone.

Dramatic picture of a Brazilian helicopter to dismantle immediately after landing - VIDEO

A helicopter was shot intervention while broke just a few seconds after he landed in Brazil, a video capturing the dramatic moment, the doors have just fallen on the ground, while the rotor continues to operate , reports Sky News Online.
Crew members were in the cabin during the incident, which was recorded with a video camera by a member of intervention team.
One crew member suffered a slight injury to the leg, but no one else was injured in the incident which took place in Para State (North).
Brazilian investigators of the incident said that the helicopter suffered a phenomenon known as

"ground resonance". Central gear box became unstable, and vibrations have destroyed the aircraft.
The helicopter belonged to Para state intervention team.

Google, target of worldwide surveillance and takedown requests(Photos)

Google continued to demonstrate its commitment to transparency on Monday by releasing fresh statistics on the number of times it has disclosed private user data to a government, or removed content at government request. The country-by-country report covers the second half of 2010.
During that period, the United States was the top requester of user information (4,601 requests), while Brazil was the leader in takedowns, with 263 requests leading to the removal of 12,363 items.

Google has committed to releasing such data at six-month intervals, and the data now goes back 18 months. US data requests were up about 30 percent in the second half of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009. Brazil, which requested the most data in the second half of 2009, actually saw its data requests fall since then.
For the first time, Google is also disclosing the fraction of user data requests it has complied with in addition to the total number of requests (it has always provided compliance statistics on takedowns). It complied with the highest fraction—94 percent—of American requests. It also complied with more than 80 percent of requests in Japan, Singapore, and Australia. At the opposite extreme, Google refused to comply with any of Turkey and Hungary's information requests, and it complied with fewer than half of the requests in South Korea, Portugal, Argentina, and Poland.
The section on takedown requests provides an interesting window into the different types of censorship that occur around the world. For example, Google complied with a request from the Thai government to remove 43 items "mocking or criticizing the king," which is illegal in that country. It removed an Italian video that depicted the assassination of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, but refused to remove videos criticizing politicians in India.

 The relative market share of various Google products varies significantly between countries, which makes country-to-country comparisons difficult. For example, Brazil's high figures are at least partly explained by the phenomenal popularity of Google's Orkut social network in that country. Without similar statistics from Google's competitors, such as Facebook in the United States, it's hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison among countries.
A drop in the bucket
To help us put the report into perspective, Ars talked to Chris Soghoian, a researcher at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University who has written extensively about government surveillance in the United States. Soghoian praised Google for supporting transparency.
"No other company regularly releases stats like this," he said. He urged Google's competitors, such as Facebook, to follow suit.

 But Soghoian also emphasized that the bulk of government surveillance likely isn't done via Google or its competitors. Rather, law enforcement officials seeking access to private communications primarily go to telecommunications companies like AT&T and Verizon, each of which receive tens of thousands of requests annually. So even if Facebook, Microsoft, and other Internet companies followed Google's lead, our understanding of government information requests would still be limited.
Soghoian has argued that Congress and the public will not be able to fully understand the scope of government surveillance unless government agencies themselves are required to collect and disclose statistics about the types and numbers of requests they submit to all private companies. Legislation to that effect circulated the halls of Congress last year, but was not formally introduced.

Ancient Amazonian Tribal Community Discovered Deep in Brazilian Rainforest(Photos)

Just when you thought every nook and cranny of the globe was explored, news out of Brazil on Monday revealed a previously unknown tribe hidden deep in the jungle.
Brazilian authorities claim to have pinpointed the location of a community of ancient and uncontacted tribespeople in one of the most remote corners of the world's largest rainforest.
This indigenous Amazonian community was discovered after three small forest clearings were detected on

satellite images, according to Fabricio Amorim, a regional coordinator for Brazil's indigenous foundation, Funai. Flyover expeditions commenced in April, confirming the community's existence.
The government agency, known by its Portuguese acronym Funai, uses airplanes to avoid disrupting isolated groups. Brazil has a policy of not contacting such tribes but working to prevent the invasion of their land to preserve their autonomy. Funai estimates 68 isolated populations live in the Amazon.
Four straw-roofed huts, flanked by banana trees and encircled in thick jungle are seen in photographs taken in the flyovers. The recently identified tribe, estimated at around 200 individuals, lives in these four structures and grows corn, bananas, peanuts, and other crops. According to Funai, preliminary observation indicates the population likely belongs to the pano language group, which extends from the Brazilian Amazon into the Peruvian and Bolivian jungle.
The community is near the border with Peru in the massive Vale do Javari reservation, which is nearly the size of Portugal and is home to at least 14 uncontacted tribes or around 2000 individuals. It is believed that this region is home to the greatest concentration of isolated groups not just in the Amazon, but the world.
Government officials seek to avoid direct contact with these groups, instead working to protect their lands from afar. However, some contact may become necessary. José Carlos Meirelles, a veteran Funai official who has spent more than two decades working in the Javari region, explained to the Guardian in 2009: "If this situation continues, contact will become inevitable, and it is better that it happens with us than with loggers or goldpanners."
Their culture and even their survival is threatened by illegal fishing, hunting, and mining in the area along with deforestation by farmers, missionary activity and drug trafficking along Brazil's borders. Yet, despite the threats, most of these groups maintain their distinct languages and traditions.
Check out this extraordinary film footage, narrated by movie star Gillian Anderson, that has launched Survival International's new campaign to protect some of the world's last uncontacted tribes.