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I would like to remind all those who placed senseless replies to my point here, that it was simply my opinion about the political in question here, how I see his types, how they always behave when finally manage to take the power they so eagerly fight for, and how they always end up treating those below them. Anything else other than this, come from your compromised and badly biased ideas and points of view.
Also, I'd like to say I live in the city of Rio de Janeiro, so I do not have to travel anywhere else to reach some of the nicest and charming beaches in this whole planet. Right?
guest-inieleo wrote:
"I'd like to say I live in the city of Rio de Janeiro, so I do not have to travel anywhere else to reach some of the nicest and charming beaches in this whole planet."
(1)Watch minute 3:28 to 5:22.
Ross Kemp shows from the air what the enthralled
tourists will never see. Furthermore, from his
upscale hotel near the beach, his British
accented Pavao, Cantagalo, Tapajara, Santa Marta
clearly illustrates how surrounded by favelas
tourists will be during the World Cup and Olympics.
(2)Rio hides its poverty by pushing it to the
hills, and by populating the seashore hugging the
Those not familiar with Rio will automatically assume that
the hillsides are like back home. In other words, nicer than
the seashore because in OECD countries, the wealthy inhabit
the hillsides.
This is Rio's hillside...
This is the OECD hillside...
(3)Marriott Hotel in Rio is surrounded by favelas.
Again, don't be angry at Google for placing each
and every favela name on the map. They are just
reporting facts without propaganda.
Welcome back James!
Keep the good stuff coming.
We need you here.
Let's set aside the Taiwan crap and focus on Brazil and be happy, ok?
First of all, I am not James.
Secondly, other than you and a couple of
disgruntled Brazilians posters, no one
else mentioned Taiwan here. You are
the only ones off topic (i.e. not focusing
on Brazil).
Speaking of Brazil, Mr. Presidential Candidate,
could you explain to your Chinese friends why
Brazilian Police (a Police in a Democratic country)
shoots unarmed and handcuffed suspects for no
apparent reason?
Would it happen in London with the unarmed Bobbies?
See the difference.
Who said Brazil is democratic?
So, you think that people going every 4 years or so pressing colored buttons in the voting machine means they have a say?
How naive.
Centuries of a warped mediocre, abusive and selfish culture / mentality that treats the public office and property as a private feudal estate have been embedded in the core behavior of most Nordestinos (and of most Brazilians in general).
I am convinced that most of the "oppressed" (the "poor") will do exactly what their "oppressors" (the "elites") have done, if just given the chance. That is a fact - not a hypothesis or an opinion. And it has been made even more evident since the rise to power of the "Workers Party", the PT, which proved itself just as corrupt and addicted to the benesses, sinecures and opportunities for sacking public coffers that are provided by the ascension to power in Brazilian municipal, state and federal offices as all other political parties it used to criticize.
I strongly support plutonian's comment, for being a sad portrait of the reality in Brazil's politics.
Crystalline and precise truth.
THAT is the big disappointment of the sad clowns known as PT: they did exactly what they were fighting against for decades. AS soon as they sat on the big seat, they became what they said they hated the most.
Which goes on to prove that the real problem of brazil isnt party A or party B, but our Macunaima complex: heroes without morals.
Brazil has a serious lack not only of leaders but also of new ideas. Each president makes a few tiny changes but the overall "national project" remains the same: a loose federation of States, with a non-workable Constitution, with non-workable political and judiciary systems, but with the weight of the tradition of centuries.
We enjoy State capitalism and production of raw materials since before we existed as a nation, as that was the Portuguese model of the Revolution of Avis in the XIV century (the Portuguese seem to have copied it from Venice, and it was then a very modern model). Now this model, with the addition of a free market sector ruled by the State, is totally outdated. Even so few politicians and parties in Brazil dare to oppose it. Collor and Fernando Henrique did something, Lula undid some of these changes as they were too "liberal". Having a large role for the State in the economy provides many weell paid jobs for politicians and for public servants, so the top 10% does not want change, although wanting to look otherwise.
I wouldn't call the Brazilian Constitution unworkable. It and the Estatuto da Crianca e do Adolescente work to the favor of criminals and are largely responsible for the carnage that takes the lives of thousands of innocent, law abiding citizens every year. Despite large reductions in poverty and unemployment, the decades old crime wave continues unabated. Fourteen of the top 50 cities in the world for homicides are in Brazil (28%). Absurdities like the releasing of prison inmates for home visits after they have completed at least one sixth of their sentence, blanket immunity for under 18yr. olds regardless of how many or the severity of the crimes and/or murders they committed, prohibition on arrests before elections, 30 yr. limit on prison sentences and other constitutionally guaranteed "rights" and restrictions on law enforcement have led to this deplorable situation. Brazilians seem to accept this as normal and there is no outcry to revise or better yet trash the lunacy of 1988 and 1990. In an over-reaction to the military regime, this Constitution (which includes much that should have been legislated), shackles law enforcement and the justice system, putting hardened criminals back on the street in record time or impeding their imprisonment entirely. Perhaps the authors forgot about the realities of Brazilian malandragem and thought they were still in exile in Stockholm. What might have worked in Scandinavia, became in Brazil the cause of countless families mourning their loved ones. Of course, the security companies, funeral homes, and car armoring businesses prosper.
Brazil, 6th largest economy in the world.
53 million Brazilians left without electricity
As reported on Reuters about what happened on Friday.
"In the city of Recife residents left without air
conditioning and ventilators complained they could
not sleep due to the heat and mosquitoes."
Another excerpt [from the link above] to open up
naive and awestruck eyes.
"The power shortages have added to concerns that
the South American country will not be ready to host
two major global sports events, the World Cup soccer
tournament in 2014 and the 2016 Olympic Games.
The power outage, which affected 11 Brazilian
states in the northern regions of the country,
follows two other blackouts in as many months
that affected millions of customers across
the nation."There was a total collapse of the
northeastern grid," acting Energy Minister
Marcio Zimmermann said."
Brazil, the dysfunctional nation OECD wannabe.
You forgot to mention those 53 million Brazilians were without eletricity for a mere 3 hours during one night. You talk as if blackouts were exclusively Brazilian or never happened in more developed places. Stop kidding yourself. Exaggeration is a lie, and a very ridiculous one at that.
But wasn't blackouts "coisa do FHC"?
PT once again betrayed by the incompetency that only comes from being too long studying failed political and economical systems without actually running anything. We saw that in 1917 already, and several times thereafter.
You forgot to read the Reuters article.
They stated Thursday and Friday. The
quote above on Marcio Zimmermann came
from the article. If you have a problem,
don't take out on the messenger. Reality
is neither an exaggeration nor a lie.
Brazilian Sugarcoating (BS) is often
an exaggeration, a lie, and a very
ridiculous one at that.
Come on, I live in the region where that blackout occurred, so, please, spare me from your arrogant "revelations of truth". You are the one who misread the article, which is very clear about that the blackout happened "late Thursday and early Friday". So, you thought "Wow, it took two days to solve the problem", was it? The blackout lasted about 3 hours, beginning at about 23:30h, so it of course lasted until early Friday.
Eduardo Campos is one of the most modern and skilled Brazilian politic. He works with a professional public management program and really has what to show. The results can be expressed in numbers and there are goals to be reach in all fields of public policy.
Brazil, in 2014 or 2018, should choose him as president and I really believe that it will be a new age to public management in our country.
He is an insider. Just like Odorico
You really don't know the serious and brilliant work done by Eduardo's government in Pernambuco. Certainly he will do the same to our country!
From TE:
"Mr Campos's critics say he should do more to tackle poverty. Alongside the opulent residential blocks towering over its palm-fringed beaches, Recife has 600 favelas (slums), and its lagoons are fetid with untreated sewage."
Rio de Janeiro is 3/4 favelas. Do a Google maps search.
All favelas are labeled by name on the map. Don't be
angry at Google. They are just reporting facts.
The most watched politician in Brazil is Aécio Neves for sure.
I would never vote for any new-colonelist like Campos. Nor will anyone here in Minas Gerais.
It just bothers me that there is no rejuvenation in Brazilian politics (José Serra is still the face of the PSDB!?), and it is very prone to dynastic rulership. Eduardo Campos is the grandson of Miguel Arraes, ACM Neto is the grandson of Antonio Carlos Magalhães, and Aécio Neves is the grandson of Tancredo Neves. Can't any newcomers emerge to take the country's helm with new, progressive ideas?
It seems more like this trend is catching here also... Proof? Bush, Romney, Ryan, the Kennedy's, etc
Progress, growth and advance are words that obviously are meant as processes, not as static realities, unlike, for example, the ideas of development, wealth and welfare. So, there is nothing wrong with talking about the growth and progress in Brazil's Northeast, because it remains very poor and underdeveloped, but the fact is that it grew and improved at a much faster rate than all the rest of the country. What is this difficulty of some people to understand this simple distinction: social and economic advances don't mean a high quality level was already reached?
What is difficult to understand? Well,
Self glorifying Brazilian propaganda.
It is difficult to understand how a
country with more natural resources
than 10 medium sized ones and with
a 48% population comprising of European
and Asian stock being so backwards.
Little games and petty politics.
Brazilians have proudly boasted on TE
and other forums that they are better
than UK, US. They have stated that their
economic policies is better than OECD
Do you want to know what real progress
looks like? Here it is, Shenzhen, China.
Shenzhen was a cow pasture in 1980. In less
than ten years, it already had skyscrapers.
Another example, Laughlin, Nevada. A city started
by a MAN not a GOVERNMENT.
Braziians have lower standards for everything while
thinking of themselves as beating existing world standards.
I agree. Every time anyone posts "You know what? Brazil is a lot better than it was 20 years ago..." you get a flood of nonsense from other posters, mostly Taiwanese nationalists. The lack of logic in their posts is that no one, no me, not you or some of the other critical optimisms here are trying to say that Brazil is an earthly paradise, and that the country's many problems are likely to be solved soon.
Brazil is mostly a better place to live than at any stage in it's history. This is the result of good policies from both the PSDB and the PT and riding the economic stability that followed. Personally I couldn't care less which is in power they are both about the same.
The number one rule in getting involved with threads on Brazil is to blank out the pointless static being produced by a number of Taiwanese ultra-nationalists that try to highjack every single thread.
Dear Taiwanese,
Brazilians have nothing against you, in fact I doubt any have even thought about you before...
I think it is very clear that the weird anti-Brazilian posts from our Taiwanese friends is just a rather boringly obvious facet of Taiwanese nationalism in relation to China. "Brazil is a mayor supplier of resources to China therefore lets attack Brazil". I never follow any of the threads on Chinese articles but I would hazard a guess that many of the same Taiwanese posters here frequent these with a similar tone.
I think you seem to lack depth to understand what is it JAmes is talking about.
Anyway, first let's talk about Shenzhen: I've been there many times and anyone who's ever been there will confirm it is a rathole like few. IT is a horribly polluted place with criminality similar to Rio. The best thing about Shenzhen is that it is at the gates of heaven (Hong Kong).
Now, does Shenzen have skyscrappers? Yes. Does it make it civilized? Not really.
This is another communist propaganda BS that only fools fall for. Take Shanghai for example: tourists / businessman arrive, take the maglev then go to the Bund and think China is that skyline, not realizing, for lazyness or else, that if they walked one block past the glitz they would be back in Osasco or a Guarulhos like city. Why? Because the Chinese are too caught up in their own crap with Sun Tzu and all that and they really really think that "deception is the best strategy" and all that will cut in the modern world. Turns out it doesnt, and that's how you see the total lack of respect, appreciating and most important trust that is given to them.
Now about the "Taiwan nationalist" BS you talk about: first of all I am Brazilian and have nothing against Taiwan BUT what you have to understand is that the Taiwanese really believe they did it all alone but nobody gives them credit. So, they see a backwards, lazy, and mostly incompetent country like Brazil, who has been dealt a fairly good hand and squandered it, and then they see the press it gets and they get very p1ssed off about it, understandably.
Reality to me seems to be that it's neither Brazil is a total waste or Taiwan a complete self made miracle, but with this said I met many, many condescending Taiwanese that disdained Brazil while riding some of the biggest slave factories in all of China.
It's complicated...
It's complicated...
Also if you are Brazilian you know there are many "Brazils", simply saying Brazil is lazy and wasted a good hand really seem to ignore the extremely difficult history of Brazil: Colony, monarchy, waves of dictators. I think if you consider that Brazil has had basically 20 years to clean up from 500 years of criminally incompetent ruling classes then I think she is doing much better than you would expect.
You are welcome to your self-hatred of your own country, but I love Brazil for all her problems. Most of these are structural issues that have created the need for corruption/Jeitinho. These are being solved, slowly. The STF are finally doing what they should once the first Mensalão if complete and they move on to the Mensalão mineiro then the Cachoeira and few people get jail sentences this should have a cooling effect. The globalisation of Brazilian business and inclusion of foreign companies in upgrading ports, railways, roads etc will help as well. I could write a lot more but spending more than 10 minutes responding to a internet post is a waste of my time. I think that Brazil is at the beginning of a virtuous cycle, note: I said "the beginning" The problem with much of the weird attacks is that they set up a strawman argument that everyone is saying Brazil has arrived, it hasn't, it has - as this magazine say - taken off. The transformation will take decades. You can't just flick a switch and turn Brazil into Sweden.
To say "Taiwan did it by itself" is naive in the extreme. The country was a US funded dictatorship for 80% of its existence.
If the Taiwanese are upset that Brazil get "press" and then my only suggestion is that they grow up a little and get over it.
Can you really compare an island like Formosa to Brazil? I mean, apart from being small regarding just about everything, Formosa is even not that rich. Their per capita is similar to Brasilia or São Paulo city. They should compare themselves with Singapore or Hong Kong. It would be more adequate. Brazil has all this press not because the country is "fantastic", but because it is very big and have mastodontic numbers (like being the largest market for Nestlé in the world, for example).
It's like Denmark being better than China regarding absolutely everything, but never being talked about it like China is.
Sorry, Formosa! Your numbers are just too tiny. Not my fault! Why don't you take Mainland China back? Then we might take you seriously.
I think you definitely can compare starting points and current positions and the hands that were given to each one.
"Sorry, Formosa! Your numbers are just too tiny. Not my fault! Why don't you take Mainland China back? Then we might take you seriously."
Well, the industrial heartland of China is mostly run by Taiwanese to a considerable degree. Go to the Pearl River Delta and Zhejiang and you will see the impact of the Taiwanese in China's modernization. It's undeniable. Granted, the Taiwanese treat Mainlanders worst than Mainlanders treat Mainlanders, which is quite an achievement, but to think the two countries aren't fully integrated is completely naive.
Pernambuco's progress is a reality. The state is a growing machine.
Campos is responsible for good achievements. But i'm still disagreeing with his approach to deal with his workers in all of State departments.
The last Recife's election was a clear demonstration of his prestigious and power.
He is very ambitious and a Power seeker man. Sometimes his methods are very old-fashioned. Its a visionary manager but sometimes I'm afraid of his methods.
Posted August 2012 PM Pernambuco (Military Police).
Yup. Looks like Basel, Switzerland. ;-p Don't you agree?
Of course, you either have to be a Brazilian propagandist
or a totally naive gringo to believe that Pernambuco's
progress is a reality.
Posted August 2012 PM Pernambuco (Military Police).
Yup. Looks like Basel, Switzerland. ;-p Don't you agree?
Of course, you either have to be a Brazilian propagandist
or a totally naive gringo to believe that Pernambuco's
progress is a reality.
Dilma is pretty strong for 2014. I think the populist wave that came to power with Lula in 2002 will remain for about 30-40 years. The bad reputation of the free market after the 2008 panic and the solid China state capitalism model will help them.
This follows an anti-populist hegemony from 1964 to 2002, when people like Lula or Brizola were feared as a great danger that could lead the Country to the abyss.
And from 1930 to 1964 a previous populist wave had its roots in the European anti-liberal regimes, including the former Soviet Union. It started just after the great depression.
Reuters published the following video on Pernambuco
If you take the video at face value, you would come
to the perception that Pernambuco has a middle class
approaching European levels.
Here is the reality in numbers.
From the article above:
"The U.S. Factbook estimates the sixth largest economy in
the world had an average per capita GDP of R$20,000
(US$11,600) in 2011, and ranks 100th in the world just
ahead of Costa Rica and behind countries like Iran, Romania
and Venezuela. Even with a low unemployment rate of 6.1 percent,
26 percent of the population lives below poverty
line in Brazil."
Counterpoint to the video
Re watch the video again after reading the economic data above.
First, Those brand new high rises are populated by folks from the
$outh, Ex-pats, and other pied-à-terre travelers. Pernambuco does
not match Sao Paulo (USD$21,000 per capita income) as reported by TE.
Someone earning Pernambuco wages (i.e. the so called middle class)
would not be able to populate those high rise condominiums.
Therefore, the video has been designed to enthrall rather than inform.
Secondly, TE reported on the South deindustrialisation in this article.
"While the rest of Brazil worries about deindustrialisation,
Pernambuco does not:"
Why not? Because those are mostly European companies investing in
Brazil and taking advantage of cheap labor. Would you work in
Europe on Brazilian wages??
The video mentioned that American Companies are largely
absent from Pernambuco. If it were a winning proposition like the
video entails, many U.S. companies would have settled there already.
In addition, there were no mentions of Brazil's largest trade partner
setting up factories in Pernambuco like the Europeans mentioned.
Something to investigate further, no?
Finally, if one were to read the comments here in this article,
and the comments posted on the video, one would see the charade
in full.
To further illustrate the situation above:
(1)Bureaucracy in Brazil works against the
small and middle size companies. Regardless of
either being domestic or foreign. A French Chef
Pierre Cornet-Verne explained to BBC how hard
it was to open his confectionery in a posh
neighborhood in Rio. It seems Bureaucrats never learn.
(2)Brazilians consumers are flocking to Miami to
buy all sorts of products (from mundane to upscale).
To show that even that is not a big deal, Argentines are
outspending Brazilians in Miami.
Just like the propagandized image that China is a nation
of 1.3 billion consumers, the video mentioned above
is trying to do a similar propaganda with Brazil. Out of
1.3 billion Chinese, only a few can afford Western goods.
Likewise, most Brazilians are not middle class. At least
not by Western standards (U.S. and European nations).
In addition, just look up Australia and Canada GDP per
Capita versus Brazil. All three sell commodities to China.
However, salaries in Brazil are quite low in comparison.
The price of goods and services is more expensive in Brazil
thanks to its bureaucracy and corruption.
After being knocked by social policies implemented in the last decade, the Brazilian right is completely lost. With Serra's probable defeat in the most important city of Brazil(which means the defeat of the PSDB), the situation became darker and darker. Dilma's popularity remains very high. Certainly, the opposition's next defeat will be in its green zone, the State of Sao Paulo.
Obviously, The Economist plays in the same team of Globo TV, Folha de S. Paulo, Estado de São Paulo, Veja, etc.
The question is that this strategy is wrong, because Eduardo Campos has already confirmed his support to Dilma's reelection in 2014. He is not ungrateful. He thanks Lula and Dilma for the special attention conceded to Pernambuco after decades of abandon.
I totally agre with you Lucio, but do not fully trust Eduardo Campos.
Have a good weedend, and Kind regards!
The new hobby of the Brazilian media opposed to PT is to boost Eduardo Campos' ego (a self-admitted socialist but not from PT, the government party) in order to keep him going against Dilma Russeff in 2014, since there's not a strong candidate for the opposition, as the right-wing in Brazil (DEM-PL-PTB-PP etc)is dead - as in almost all South America - and the centre-right (PSDB-PMDB, etc) is in coma.
So, for the sequence of articles published in the last two weeks by the "big press" (traditional and conservative one, as The Economist here) is notorious that there is a coordination and intention among them to do so, as you can see in the following:
Estado de São Paulo – 14.10.12 – Na cabeceira da pista
IG/Poder Online – 18.10.12 – De Pernambuco para o mundo
O Globo – 20.10.12 – Aécio Neves e Eduardo se unem de olho em 2014
Valor Econômico – 23.10.12 – O fator Eduardo Campos na sucessão
The Economist (republished in Portuguese by Agência Estado) – 25.10.12 - Campos ameaça reeleição de Dilma
So, good luck.
a must read article!!!!
This is a "desperate" move from a collapsing oligarchy after the political death of DEM and PSDB. The "brasilian tories" are wasting their money betting in this horse. As they did paying for this article.
hahah. finally, an original user who doesn't try to impress with pseudo crap like "As for the industrial policy in Brasil that is related to protectionism, it should be thought of as a form of social welfare."
I bet you also think Dirceu is innocent, right?
Hi Hank, I'm glad you replied.
Dirceu indeed committed the crimes of active corruption, money laundry, and much more!
In order to get Congress approval for projects that led an "opressed and quasi feudal" area to a place less painful to live now, to get money to finance Lula and Dilma presidential campaigns, and fight the conservative power that controls the media and the Court by the way, all those crimes were committed.
By your comments here I can see you have some knowledge about Brazil, but you are unable to see the whole picture. I can assure you that those crimes have been committed by the "elites"since much before I was born, but never judged I'm 42 now. Just to give 1example.
-TV Globo dedicates a large amount of time campaigning against Lula Government, and the so called Mensalao, is guity in a US$ 1 Billion tax evasion process – approximately 6 x the Mensalao case.
The Brazilian elite(the fascists that are responsible for the misery you mentioned in your other comments,and the military cue in 1964 with the CIA suppport) are doing whatever they can to defeat a Government that is shaking the status quo, including sabotage, war propaganda, and even violence. I can give you examples if you want.
So, do you really think that the Brazilian Workers Party should play "angel" against those guys?
Assuming you are interested in Brazil's affairs I would like to suggest you to watch on youtube the english documentary prohibited in Brazil called "Beyond Citizen Kane" , and to get information about a book called "A privataria tucana". It will help you to get a better picture about my country.
Kind regards,
Well, at least your choice of pen name is consistent with your, well, ideas...
You seem to think that I criticize PT because I am pro PSDB (or else), but that's not it.
The result of PT's failure in power (or imminent failure, to be precise) is this: we tried the right, we tried the left, we tried a dictatorship and the result was the same: a turd sandwich, sometimes with corn in it, sometimes without, but a turd sandwich nevertheless (forgive me for being graphic). No more, no less.
So, by exclusion, if we tried all political currents and all of them failed or all of them were plagued by our vice (corruption, laziness, inefficiency, lack of character), then the problem isn't really politics is it?
To me the culprit isn't this or that party, but Brazilians themselves, who are incapable of deciding to become anything other than a half-assed 3rd world armpit when it could be so much better.
Privataria Tucana, Mensalao, doesn't matter. The only thing this all proves is that we, as a people, are pathetic, we aren't serious and we are incapable of "getting our sh!t together".
Now, here's where apologists will say "Oh but we have Santos Dumont / Pixinguinha / Ze do Caixao / Eike Batista / Didi Moco / Machado de Assis" to justify NOT admitting they have a terrible moral disfunction (the other alternative being to say "yeah but country XYZ also has problems", which is ridiculous).
Everybody agrees that Brazil has amazing potential, right?
That's undeniable, isn't it?
If so, and if we define success as "how close you get to your potential" THEN we must admit, even if we don't want to, that Brazil is an utter failure. There's no other way to put it. Celebrating the micro victories is PART OF THE PROBLEM. It delays the realization that no we aren't "great" and no we aren't serious and no, the world will never allow a bunch of asshats like ourselves to have a permanent seat in the Security Counsil, despite what Nizan Guanaes, a crackpot if there was ever one, says.
Look at the article: they are celebrating the fact that now in Northeast they have A SUGAR MILL!!!!! Woa! Look at those nordestinos, man! They have a sugar mill, nobody can stop them!
I mean, in 500 years they couldn't go beyond that?
Is this something to celebrate?
I lived in China for many years. 30-40 years ago they were in the middle of a civil war where millions of people died of hunger. People ate tree bark, dead bodies of their own family.
Now chumps in Brazil are buying Chinese cars, while the nordestinos are still planting sugarcane, 500 years later.
(Here's where people will say "oh but they aren't a democracy", which Brazil isn't either as the mensalao proved).
If you google the Equation of Change you will see that the first factor to get change made is to have dissatisfaction with the current state (and then a vision to what you want to achieve, followed by a process to get there).
Every time we celebrate something meaningless like nordestinos celebrating "THEIR" success (which is ludicrous by the way), we get farther and farther away from true everlasting change.
You should run for office.
fascinating post. for a minute i forgot you were describing brazil and felt like i was reading about mexico.
Dilma - Aecio - Campos.
God all mighty! Are these the three contenders in the upcoming Brazilian presidential elections in 2014? Wait...I can't think of anyone else...This is so depressing, every time I think Brazil has hit the bottom it manages to go a bit lower.
Dilma x (Aecio + Campos)
Aecio + Campos = Russomano + Roriz.
Who does remember when the corrupt religious fanatic Garotinho did try the presidency in 2002 under PSB flag?!!
He's a new Ciro Gomes.
Precisely what I was going to comment!
This is frightening.
Modern, coherent and honest. Three very rare adjectives for a politician nowadays. But this one, Eduardo Campos, is really making the difference by attuning development and social policies.
It will certainly be interesting to see over the next two years how the political scene shakes out, as there seem to be three major players for the presidency in 2014: Dilma, Eduardo Campos, and Aecio Neves.
Despite what you say about the PSDB and PT not having new faces, Serra's upcoming defeat this weekend has virtually guaranteed the PSDB nomination for Aecio (a very popular ex-governor of Minas Gerais), and Dilma has certainly been coming into her own as a new leader with a different ruling style than Lula, something which this magazine has written several articles on. Both look like very dynamic candidates.
Dilma is definitely a favorite for reelection right now, although I wonder if Brazil's prolonged economic slump could start to eat into the PT's base of support. However, while Economic growth may be down, unemployment remains low. Just today it was reported to be at a mere 5.4%. I suspect that the run-up to the World Cup will keep the economy moving along through the elections, though there could definitely be profound aftershocks (housing bubble anyone?) in 2015. I suspect that both Campos and Neves are really positioning themselves for 2018. At that point, PT leadership will certainly have run its course and people will be ready for a change.
Personally, I plan to support whichever person makes a firm commitment to reducing protectionism, implementing meaningful tax reform (not the sort of piecemeal targeted tax cuts Dilma has been implementing), and reducing and simplifying the mind-bogglingly complex Brazilian bureaucracy. It sure would be nice to hear a Brazilian politician champion free trade, for once. Or at least talk about improving the business environment. And hey, maybe if Mauricio Macri comes to power in Argentina in 2015, we could start talking about the Free Trade Area of the Americas again. Or maybe I'm just being too optimistic. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Great comment, often comments in Brasil are pretty terrible. One point on Brasil's protectionist policy. Firstly Brasil isn't the only guilt one, the US and EU both have massive subsidies that are basically protectionism in reverse. So the US can start accusing Brasil of protectionism when it stops it's massive farming subsidies and the EU... well until the Common Agricultural Policy is abolished it is impossible to take them seriously. To the US and EU only trade is only "free" when it massively is in their favour.
As for the industrial policy in Brasil that is related to protectionism, it should be thought of as a form of social welfare. Affectively Brasilians pay higher prices on imported goods to maintain the employment of Brasilian industrial workers. People with jobs pay taxes and have a much better chance at improving their lives than if they live off State handouts. The PT are linked to the Labour Unions therefore they focus on the industrial base... The US and UK have all but abandoned the idea of having an industrial work force and pushed millions into the services sector, where organising is more difficult and therefore real wages in the Anglo-saxon economies have stagnated basically so they could by cheap TVs and cars from the east.
Now... this isn't an advocation, but I'm just putting forwards the logic of Brasil's current policy. To me there are things to agree and disagree within this... life is complicated. Basically it's Import Substitution industrialization for the 21st century...
I certainly agree with the problems of US and EU agricultural subsidies. Definitely unfair and should be done away with immediately. I'm also an optimist on this front, as I believe the pressing fiscal problems in both regions will eventually force governments to cut back on these programs. Tea Partiers in the US have been railing against agricultural subsidies, which I think is a pretty good sign as it used to be anathema for anyone to discuss the issue. (Not that I defend the tea party whatsoever, but I do think it's nice that a debate on the issue is finally being joined.)
I certainly agree on your analysis of Brazilian industrial policy. And it is true that in Latin American countries that have taken the opposite approach (Mexico, for example), wages have stagnated and inequality has grown. There is certainly a logic to the PT's system. But there has to be a better way forward than this in the long run. It is absolutely absurd how expensive things are in Brazil (the only Latin American country whose GDP shrinks when adjusted for PPP). Just look at the boatloads of Brazilian tourists flocking to the US to buy thing imported from China. As any Brazilian knows, when you travel to the US you have about 10-20 friends who will ask you to bring things back for them. Not even fancy products, we're talking about basic things. I even had a friend ask for a can opener recently. It makes living in the country an absurd pain, and Brazil is kind of a protectionist dystopia in this regard.
Ultimately, the problems of industrial employment in the global economy are very complex and won't be solved simply by protectionist industrial policies. I happen to think that the way forward is actually deepening globalization to promote a fully integrated world economy (shameless self-promotion note: I've written about this issue on my blog before - http://www.patricktalkstrash.blogspot.com.br/2012/10/globalization-past-...). But I think it's definitely time for Brazil to change course, and the country's industrial policy definitely won't look as good in 5 or 10 years if they can't get the economy growing again.
I just realized I wrote "I certainly agree" twice in a row. I guess that means I liked your points!
"As for the industrial policy in Brasil that is related to protectionism, it should be thought of as a form of social welfare."
If you mean welfare for the already wealthy members of the brazilian government and for certain rich people from the industrial sector who also happen to have good ties with the government, then you are correct.
It is also good to remember that this form of "social welfare" comes at the expense of everyone else who don't happen to be part of the groups I mentioned.
Good coment, but as for the piecemeal tax reform Dilma is trying to do, it should be added that she's trying this way because previously the tax reform projects were never developed further because of their extremely broad and complex tasks, and they finally failed to have the tax reform made, and then again because a big part of the problem lays with the reluctancy of the state governors, in whose power are the most urgent needs of change and perhaps the most problematic of all Brazilian taxes, the ICMS. So, it is one of those things in politics that must be done in another way because to do the right thing straight and fast is either impossible or sounds beautiful in a theoretical government project, but almos certainly fails in real life.
Right, I've certainly seen the argument made that piecemeal is the only way to move forward, and that a broader reform wouldn't work. I'm sympathetic to the argument, but I still feel like there is a better way to go about it. Constantly renewing the IPI cut every two months is a very temporary stimulus measure and does nothing to help businesses plan long term, because it just prolongs the uncertainty.
The real question about Brazil's tax reform that I almost never hear mentioned is, what exactly is the goal of such an initiative? Is the goal just to reduce the overall tax burden (currently at 36% of GDP, if I remember correctly), or is it to simplify the tax system? If the goal is the former, just reducing rates of specific taxes (such as the new electricity tariffs) can certainly work. But when you look at Brazil's tax issue, I think the real issue is not simply the overall tax burden but rather the monstrous complexity of the system. There are so many different taxes to pay, so many complex rules and procedures, that businesses have to hire armies of accountants to sort through the process. In its new "Ease of Doing Business" report, the World Bank put Brazil at 156 (!) out of 185 countries in terms of the ease of paying taxes.
So while I do support Dilma's effort to ease the tax burden by targeted cuts, I don't think it gets to the root of the problem. The Economist commented recently that Dilma's vaunted electricity tax reform only dealt with 4 of the 28 taxes levied on the energy sector. For me, the real key to tax reform here is tax simplification.
In a lot of ways, the debate actually mirrors the issue right now in the U.S. Talk to most people about tax reform in this current election cycle, and they will talk about the overall tax take, rates for millionaires, capital gains, etc. But as far as economic efficiency is concerned, the real issue in the U.S. is not necessarily the overall tax burden but rather the complexity of the tax system, filled with tax expenditures, loopholes, etc. In that same World Bank "Ease of Doing Business" report, the U.S. came in as the 4th best country, but in 65th place in terms of ease of paying taxes. Any real talk of tax reform in the U.S. needs to include a tax simplification component as well, although I guess we'll see what happens in the inevitable "grand bargain" that should pass next year, regardless of who wins the election.
Right, I've certainly seen the argument made that piecemeal is the only way to move forward, and that a broader reform wouldn't work. I'm sympathetic to the argument, but I still feel like there is a better way to go about it. Constantly renewing the IPI cut every two months is a very temporary stimulus measure and does nothing to help businesses plan long term, because it just prolongs the uncertainty.
The real question about Brazil's tax reform that I almost never hear mentioned is, what exactly is the goal of such an initiative? Is the goal just to reduce the overall tax burden (currently at 36% of GDP, if I remember correctly), or is it to simplify the tax system? If the goal is the former, just reducing rates of specific taxes (such as the new electricity tariffs) can certainly work. But when you look at Brazil's tax issue, I think the real issue is not simply the overall tax burden but rather the monstrous complexity of the system. There are so many different taxes to pay, so many complex rules and procedures, that businesses have to hire armies of accountants to sort through the process. In its new "Ease of Doing Business" report, the World Bank put Brazil at 156 (!) out of 185 countries in terms of the ease of paying taxes.
So while I do support Dilma's effort to ease the tax burden by targeted cuts, I don't think it gets to the root of the problem. The Economist commented recently that Dilma's vaunted electricity tax reform only dealt with 4 of the 28 taxes levied on the energy sector. For me, the real key to tax reform here is tax simplification.
In a lot of ways, the debate actually mirrors the issue right now in the U.S. Talk to most people about tax reform in this current election cycle, and they will talk about the overall tax take, rates for millionaires, capital gains, etc. But as far as economic efficiency is concerned, the real issue in the U.S. is not necessarily the overall tax burden but rather the complexity of the tax system, filled with tax expenditures, loopholes, etc. In that same World Bank "Ease of Doing Business" report, the U.S. came in as the 4th best country, but in 65th place in terms of ease of paying taxes. Any real talk of tax reform in the U.S. needs to include a tax simplification component as well, although I guess we'll see what happens in the inevitable "grand bargain" that should pass next year, regardless of who wins the election.
Great blog!
Congratulations to BR-NZ, Ygor C.S., Ferromanganese and others for their efforts to keep this discussion thread sane and civil.
That's a hard task, amid the blind right-wingers, Brazil-haters and weird "anti-BR" trolls that usually hijack every forum about Brazil on this website.
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Posted on January 24 at 9:08 p.m.
Where do I start? Firstly, this is a very old refinery that specializes in high-sulfur content crude and gases (it actually extracts and sells elemental sulfur from the crude oil liquids and gases) and only makes intermediate products (no gasoline or diesel fuel is produced there). It has been plagued with environmental pollution problems since at least the 1980s, perhaps before that. The air quality on the Nipomo Mesa is unhealthful due to the pollution from that refinery. The facility produces a highly toxic waste product call petroleum coke, which they used to sell in raw and calcined versions but the market for which has severely declined so that it is now simply piles of toxic waste. Secondly, rail transport of petroleum products is inherently more dangerous than either pipelines or ships (I draw this conclusion simply from the comparative numbers of spills and explosions from those three petroleum liquid transportation methods). Thirdly, if Phillips wants the mention of Bakken crude removed from the EIR, then they should be able to live with a condition that no Bakken crude will ever be received at the Santa Maria Refinery, a condition which I am sure they would refuse to accept. Finally, this refinery was built to refine (into intermediate products) crude oil from southern Monterey County, San Luis Obispo County, Northern Santa Barbara County, and the San Joaquin Valley. If those fields are played out, then the refinery as come to end of its natural and intended life. As some native American tribe used to opine (maybe it was just a movie line), "nothing lasts forever but the mountains and the sky."
Posted on January 19 at 3:04 p.m.
Dr. Dan, it has been a while since I read the Dworkin, but as I recall he based his arguments on the fact that feelings like awe and rapture were real regardless of whether or not science could explain them (my memory may not be accurate here). In fact he rejected the position of most materialists that things are real only if they can be subject to scientific inquiry and scrutiny. He was a very smart guy, but I don't buy his argument. Belief in things for which there is no scientific evidence and which are in fact contradicted by all scientific evidence (such as magic, the survival of individual consciousness after death, and so on) is simply relying on faith. Unlike religious folk, I am not wedded to my current world view, if things that I believe are so can be shown by science to be untrue, I will drop those believes like trash into a bin. Religious people, in my experience, hold on to precepts with tenacity and vigor despite evidence that the beliefs are not true. You are correct about one thing though, I am an ignorant lout and there is not enough time in my life to learn all that I wish to learn.
Posted on January 19 at 1:49 p.m.
There are two reasons why this conversation is silly. Firstly, it is silly to attempt a rational conversation about religion because, for some reason, the proponents of religious ideas are exempt from the process of the scientific method and rules of rational discourse. Since acceptance of religious precepts requires only faith and no proof or reason it follows that whatever a religious person believes about the world is inherently true. That does not leave anything about which to argue. Secondly, humans have been merrily slaughtering each other ever since we have walked on the Earth, long before we invented religion. Considering how frequently we engage in murder and choose depictions of it as entertainment, one could conclude that it is our second favorite activity, next to the act of procreation. Humans have never needed and currently do not need religion as an excuse to kill each other. If Christianity, Islam, and Judaism were to somehow vanish off the face of the Earth, the tribal tensions that are responsible for all the violent conflicts among humans would not be suddenly resolved. Now there I've gone and put much more time into this silly string of posts than I ever intended to do.
Posted on January 18 at 8:43 p.m.
Like all religion, this is silly and really not worth even a smidgen of any person's time. Silly, silly, silly.
Posted on January 14 at 7:33 p.m.
This is just another case where Wallar's arrogant, autocratic, and inept management style proved to be a disaster for Santa Barbara County. She was a disaster in San Diego as well, but San Diego County sources (except a few who blabbed to friends) kept their mouths shut in order to get rid of her. She thought that she could fire a perfectly competent employee who just happened to get cancer and need a little accommodation while he recovered. The whole issue of having the professional engineer designation on his business card being the best excuse to fire him demonstrates how weak her grounds were. During my career, I used to role my eyes at the PE appellation on business cards (especially those from certain states that were famous for having simple testing requirements). My first boss got a PE in California despite the fact that is bachelors degree was in biology and he never took a single engineering class (ok, he was a very smart guy, but still...). The County is going to have to pay a pretty penny for Wallar's malfeasance and she will never be held accountable for it. How she ever rose to the positions she held, I will never be able to discern.
Posted on January 13 at 9:10 p.m.
Well John Tieber I just don't know where to start. My first instinct was to attack you as a danger to society. But I'm not going there. Let me you tell you a personal story. Both of my parents barely survived childhood due to infection (my father suffered from osteomyelitis and my mother suffered from a kidney infection) before there were antibiotics. It is amazing that they both survived to have children. My father was a career military officer and by the time I turned 14 I had lived all over the U.S., in Europe, and Asia. My siblings and I have been vaccinated much more than most children. I have been vaccinated against diseases that no longer plague the mainland U.S. I was once vaccinated against 6 strains of flu all in the same day (three shots in each arm). While living in Asia, the medical personnel came to our school and we lined up to get our booster shots. My siblings and I remained robust and healthy. We are now all old and retain our general good health despite the depredation of age. My military brat friends, as a group, never seemed to be the worse for all the vaccinations we received. If an epidemiologist really wants to study the effects of vaccinations, they should round up all the old military brats from the 50s and 60s and see how we did. By the way, I never contracted pertussis or polio or small pox, or cholera, or yellow fever, or any of the dozens of strains of Asian flu against which I was vaccinated (I did get measles and chicken pox for which there were no vaccinations when I was young). Neither did my siblings and neither did any of my military brat friends. Based on the experiences of my life, I had my children vaccinated against all the common diseases. They are today healthy adults who have never contracted polio, pertussis, small pox, chicken pox, measles, or mumps despite being exposed to all these diseases. So I am the first to admit that the experience of my siblings and me and that of my children does not constitute a scientific study. However, John Tieber needs to address such anecdotal data in order to provide any validity to his claims.
Posted on January 13 at 5:52 p.m.
Congratulations Eric! I remember Eric from the late 80s when he looked like scruffy surfer, his hair all bleached out and frizzy above his ears and that untrimmed moustache. He was always a bright kid and now he's Chief. Good on ya Eric!
Posted on January 13 at 2:45 p.m.
We are such a mobile society that diseases such as pertussis could come from nearly anywhere. The most important thing is for people to get their children vaccinated. People who opt out not only put their own children in danger but they also endanger the entire community. When I was a kid we were all vaccinated and nobody was given an option not to be vaccinated. Thus diseases like polio and pertussis which had been common became rare and were nearly eradicated. Even if we "closed the border," which is impossible (the Soviet Union and East Germany could not even accomplished closed borders with severe military dictatorships), we could not prevent the movement of diseases around the globe. The only way to combat these diseases is through preventative vaccination. Make sure your kids get their shots.
Posted on January 11 at 9:15 p.m.
Yikes! Get the Winchester out of the attic mother, the Minutemen are coming to town. Honestly, my father was a hunter and I grew up with guns and have owned many during my life. But I gave them up as one gives up childish things. Are we now to put up with fanatic gun nuts roaming about Del la Guerra Plaza at all hours protecting the News Press building from tagging? Can we just go back to being a small fishing village with a university and some high tech defense business out in Goleta and few rich people in Montecito and a little tourism business on the side? Life used to be so simple. I'm beginning to wonder what it would be like to have the lights back on Highway 101. Those were the days.
Posted on January 10 at 9:27 p.m.
I was going to "wallow" about 14noscams use of the word "subjective" (of which I believe he/she and I must hold different definitions). However, JarvisJarvis, in deference to your desire to have the very last word, there you have it. Indeed, enough bashing a simple target such as an inferior and poorly produced publication that is the Santa Barbara News-Press. Enough of shooting at ducks in a barrel. Indeed, let us cease wallowing and move on something else.


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The following drugs can give a false positive for cannabis...
Ibuprofen; (Advil, Nuprin, Motrin, Excedrin IB etc)
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Promethazine (Phenergan, Promethegan)
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Gottwaldov, 1957. Fu Baoshi (Chinese, 1904-1965). Album leaf, ink and color on paper; 48.7 × 57.1 cm. Nanjing Museum.
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showcases works of art by Fu Baoshi, a preeminent figure in twentieth-century Chinese art, in an exhibition opening this fall. Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) is the first retrospective in the Western Hemisphere of the artist who revolutionized the tradition of Chinese ink painting. The exhibition reveals the process of the artists self-discovery and personal struggle, as well as the complexity of art and politics in Republican and Communist China. Featuring 90 works on loan from the Nanjing Museum, one of the oldest and most comprehensive museums in China, this is the first collaboration between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Nanjing Museum. The exhibition will be on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 16, 2011 through January 8, 2012 and is the first time this work will be viewed outside China. It will then travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from January 30 through April 29, 2012.
Given the strength of the Cleveland Museum of Arts Asian collection and scholarship, were particularly excited to be contributing to the study and exhibition of one of Chinas most important modern artists, says David Franklin, Cleveland Museum of Art Director. Additionally, the project highlights our close relationship with the Nanjing Museum and further attests to our desire to create exhibitions of true originality.
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) considers the full scope of Fu Baoshis artistic career from the 1920s to 1965 within the art‐historical, social, political and cultural contexts. From traditional‐style landscape and figure paintings demonstrating Fus artistic excellence and profundity, to political artwork manifesting state ideology under Chairman Mao Zedong, the wide variety of work that is exhibited demonstrates the artists search for an artistic language capable of speaking for both self and the nation. Fu Baoshis art provides an important insight into the use of native tradition to present modern Chinese ink painting as a discipline distinct from Western and international socialist art of the time. It was symbolic of the Chinese view of their place and national identity in the world during the twentieth century.
Fu Baoshis art represents the quest for beauty even in the most difficult circumstances, says Anita Chung, PhD, curator of Chinese art for the Cleveland Museum of Art. It has an aesthetic appeal that transcends history and distance in time and space, and, in this respect, the exhibition concerns aesthetics as much as context in light of the nationalistic sentiment and political ideology that shaped Fus expression in an age of crisis.
The exhibition focuses on specific aspects of modern Chinese art during revolutionary change, including the reinvention of a national style of Chinese painting (guohua), the role of Japan in Chinas modern art discourses and the new meanings of ink painting in the Peoples Republic of China. It traces the development and transformation of Fus paintings at different stages of his life as he embraced Chinese art history and Eastern aesthetics with his early experiences in Japan, developed individual styles in his 1940s landscapes and figure paintings, transformed ink and brush in service to the masses after the Communist victories in 1949, and captured Chinas territories with patriotic conviction in his late landscapes of the 1950s and 1960s.
Highlights of Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) include:
Qu Yuan, 1942. Fu Baoshi created this compelling image of the ancient poet-statesman Qu Yuan, emphasizing his psychological suffering before his suicide in the Miluo River. The image sheds light on the grievances and pathos of Chinas modern intellectuals in the face of war and political corruption.
Plucking the Yuan, 1945. Beauty embodying refined elegance and music invoking the feeling of ecstasy, this painting portrays three women using music for inner cultivation and self-improvement. It affirms certain human values and cultural ideals in an eventful age.
Whispering Rain at Dusk, 1945. This work represents Fu Baoshis signature style in landscape depiction and shows his sensitive use of the brush, ink, color, light and atmosphere to depict a stormy scene during World War II.
Gottwaldov, 1957. A vivid image of the smoggy, industrial city of Gottwaldov (present day Zlìn) in the Czech Republic, painted during his official visit to Eastern Europe, Fus portrayal is characterized by a dark mystery, which makes it a powerful statement on modern industrialization, subject to the viewers interpretation.
Swimming: Poem of Mao Zedong, 1958. The subject of this painting is Mao swimming across the Yangzi River. He is depicted floating in the river, with only his head visible above the surface of the water. Mao swam across the river many times, in which he found the inspiration for his plan of taming the Yangzi with human structures, as laid out in his 1956 poem Swimming.
Heavenly Lake and Flying Waterfall, 1961. This strikingly simple and abstract composition effectively captures the awe-inspiring beauty of Changbai Falls, which flows from a river outlet of the lake on top of Changbai Mountain in Jilin Province, on the border with North Korea. Glittering in the light, the silvery white water stands out against the deep, black ink washes creating the precipitous cliffs.
Heaven and Earth Glowing Red, 1964. The red globe of the earth floats in rose-colored air. Natural phenomena, including a pine tree, rock, falling leaves, ocean, wind, mist and lightning, are incorporated in an abstract design for romanticizing Chinese communist revolution. This is Fus interpretation of the political abstractions of the time based on Maos poetry. It fulfills the political requirement to direct art in the service of the Party and the masses.
The Nanjing Museum, which is loaning the works, currently houses the most significant collection of Fu Baoshis art that escaped destruction during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), because they were preserved by both the Fu family and the museum after the artists death in 1965.
The Nanjing Museum is delighted to collaborate with the Cleveland Museum of Art in exhibiting across the Pacific the finest of Fus works from our museums collection, says Director Gong Liang of the Nanjing Museum. The American audience will not only experience the beauty of Chinese painting but also come to understand the extraordinary artistic sentiments of this modern Chinese master.
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There are wagon wheels in the yard and Old West artifacts on the interior walls at this restaurant in the Stovepipe Wells Village hotel. A stone fireplace heats the dining room. A full menu, with steaks, chicken, fish, and pasta, is served October–mid-May; breakfast and dinner buffets are laid out during summer. Quench your thirst in the full-service saloon.
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