A IMPRENSA BRASILEIRA E OUTRAS CONSIDERAÇÕES

Porque a imprensa, sem excessão, quando fala em juros americanos, se omite propositadamente em revelar os valores porcentuais desses juros, em todas as modalidades de empréstimos ou financiamentos de curto e longo prazos ?. É medo de comparar com os juros reais praticadas pelo Banco Central do Brasil?. Os EUA pagam, hoje, remuneração para os seus títulos de até 10 anos, juros que não passam de 2,5% ao ano (Bonds) e, acima de 10 a 30 anos, pouco mais de 4% ao ano. E, na pesquisa google - Bancos Centrais do Mundo - você vai ver que o Brasil, em situação privilegiada e economia saudável em relação ao restante do Mundo, é lamentavelmente uma liderança no pagamento da maiores taxas Juros. E, o G-20, em nome da Crise, ao invés de aumentar, está pagando os menores ágios do mundo. Para uma dívida de 9,5 trilhões de US$ , os americanos estão pagando juros anuais de mais ou menos US$ 320 bilhões e, o Brasil, com somente 7,5% da dívida americana, paga juros de quase US$ 100 bilhões anuais ou seja, um terço dos juros pagos pelos EUA. Como pode não existir denúncia para tamanha anormalidade ?.
A imprensa, quando falar em juros altos americanos, para a rolagem da sua dívida, para esclarecer melhor o leitor, deveria mostrar os valores porcentuais, inclusive comparando as taxas americanas com as taxas Brasileiras.

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COMO MAIOR ÁREA ARÁVEL DO MUNDO, NÃO PRODUZIMOS, NO BRASIL, ARROZ E FEIJÃO PARA ATENDER O MERCADO INTERNO.

Veja que somente a incompetência de uma Equipe de Governo, é capaz de não enfrentar e sanar os problemas que afetam diretamente as necesidades primárias do cidadão(ã). Como o maior celeiro do mundo, não estamos sendo capazes de produzir alimentos suficientes para alimentar o nosso povo.

China e Índia produziram em 2007, 580 milhões de toneladas de Arroz ( O Brasil, 11 milhões); produziram 200 milhões de tonelas de Milho ( O Brasil, 55 milhões) e 210 milhões de toneladas de Trigo ( O Brasil, 4 milhões de toneladas). E o Banco Central, para manter a taxa Selic, como a mais elevada do mundo ( Bancos Centrais do Mundo - consulta google) usa os alimentos como responsáveis por tal aberração.

O país gasta R$ 15 bilhões mensais com juros ( um Pac anual a cada mês), R$ 500 milhões dia, mas não tem dinheiro suficiente para implantar um transporte urbano de massa e de qualidade; milhares de pobres ainda pagam escolas privadas do ensino fundamental, por falta de vagas nas escolas públicas; milhões de brasileiros não tem um teto dígno para morar e, por aí ..vai.

E com um rastreamento de somente 20 anos passados, iremos constatar que bilhões de reais do Tesouro ( do povo) foram gastos com projetos de irrigação em quase todas as regiões do país. E para que ou para quem estão servindo ?

O povo brasileiro, abençoado por Deus, não pode deixar que os governantes continuem gastando o seu dinheiro sem uma criteriosa análise de custo/beneficio, além de uma rigorosa fiscalização nas aplicações. As estatísticas são meios, não fins.Os Internautas podem ajudar o país a sair da letargia e partir para exigir do governo o aumento na produção de grãos, que atenda à demanda interna e exportações

A CHINA NÃO É UM MAL, MAS UM BEM PARA A SOCIEDADE

CHINA BRECA AUMENTOS ABUSIVOS NO AÇO, COMO BRECOU INFLAÇÃO MUNDIAL ABUSIVA. E VEJA MAIS :

Será a primeira em fabricação de computadores portáteis e de televisão e a primeira produtora e consumidora de carvão e aço, mundialmente.

- Disputa o primeiro lugar da poluição mundial com os EUA, embora só tenha um terço da frota automotiva americana e esteja destacando voltosos recursos para a proteção do meio ambiente. Antes, os americanos respondiam por 1/3 da poluição mundial e a imprensa não criticava e se omitia completamente.

-- Nos Jogos Olímpicos de Pequim, o mundo
passará a ter uma verdadeira visão do País, que já é o segundo enderêço preferido para o turismo internacional.

A China não é problema para Brasil e também não é problema para o mundo:

- É o maior exportador mundial de aço e aumentou a sua produção, nos últimos três anos em mais de 40%;
- O aumento de sua produção foi p/evitar a escalada de aumentos internacionais abusivos ( mais de 170%) nos últimos quatro anos e essa iniciativa não beneficiou a China, isoladamente.

Já é o terceiro maior importador de produtos brasileiros, atrás somente dos EUA e da Argentina e, com certeza, será o primeiro em pouco tempo e nos últimos quatro anos deixaram um saldo positivo de mais de US$ 1,7 bilhões em nossa balança comercial.

- Como maior exportador de aço do mundo, a China irá forçar uma redução considerável nos prêços internacionais do produto.

- As reservas internacionais da china, superiores a USD 1,3 trilhões ( a maior do mundo), e com recursos proprios, já financiam mais de 10% do deficit americano;

- É o 2o. país em acesso à Internet;

- Produz 8 em cada 10 tratares do mundo, 7 em cada 10 relógios, uma em cada 2 máquinas fotográficas.

- Embora com somente um terço da área arável do Brasil, pode se tornar uma das primeiras produtoras agrícolas do mundo. O consumo de milho, no país, é superior a 140 milhões de toneladas ou seja, 7% acima de toda a produção nacional de grãos, embora com volume de chuvas anuais de 600 mm e Brasil c/ média de 1,300mm ( mais que o dobro).

- Tem desigualdades sociais gritantes como o Brasil e está corrigindo, inclusive combatendo a corrupção. Mas lá, eles penalizam os infratores e as riquezas ainda estão concentradas em mãos do Estado e não de uma privilegiada minoria capitalista. O mundo vai entender que a China é de importância fundamental para o equilíbrio entre o capitalismo selvagem e o socialismo democrático

O GOVERNO AMERICANO AGIU A FAVOR DO POVO

QUEREM CRIAR UMA AMPLA RECESSÃO, DE QUALQUER JEITO

Pela primeira vez, em décadas, o Tesouro Americano deixou de tutelar, de fato, as sugestões e iniciativas dos grandes cartéis financeiros. E essa inesperada reação, com o anúncio de um pacote de medidas pelo governo americano, que não beneficia bancos, mas a economia do país e milhões de americanos, está acarretando, em cadeia,uma forte transformação no mercado financeiro mundial cartelizado.

O governo americano entendeu e outras nações também devem entender, que a fragilidade dos Bancos Centrais no monitoramento
do sistema financeiro, é que está causando tanta tempestade e rebordosa.

O mundo se cartelizou no sistema financeiro, no petróleo, nas bolsas de valores e de mercadorias e em uma dezena de outras atividades e os governantes das principais nações do mundo, ficaram escravos e impotentes para agirem na defesa dos interesses dos povos de suas nações.

E, agora, estamos vendo, com transparência,como o sistema financeiro agia em absoluta tranquilidade e, em, alguns casos, com irresponsabilidade total e impunidade que continua até hoje. E esse alvoroço todo só tem um culpado, o próprio sistema financeiro, sofisticado, competente, ágil e se comunicando para iniciativas de um mesmo comando e On line.Por outro lado, os Bancos Centrais não foram capazes de acompanhar e de monitorar essa evolução que beneficia milhares, em detrimento de bilhões de pessoas.

Os cartéis estão tentando, de todas as formas, um maior envolvimento do Tesouro americano, com a crise que os próprios bancos criarem, alimentarem e se beneficiaram dela, auferindo lucros de alguns bilhões de dólares. Agora, terão que voltar ao mundo real,entendendo que o dinheiro de bilhões de pessoas não pode mais ser transferido para milhares de pessoas da especulação volátil, improdutiva, sem custo, mas com sacrificio e a troco de que ou de quem ?

Uma nova paginação para os Bancos Centrais e para o sistema financeiro é imperativa, urgente e passa necessariamente por profundas transformações, benéficas para as Contas do Tesouro de países pobres e ricos, totalmente factíveis e de efeito imediato, dependendo apenas da vontade política das Nações.

Como os cartéis que atuam em todas as áreas, estão cada vez mais fortes e os governos cada vez mais fracos para enfrentá-los, basta simplesmente a criação do Cartel do Povo,via Tratado ou qualquer outro instrumento, através dos governantes do G-20, para defender os direitos de mais de 6 bilhões de pessoas, apenas limitando o ágio, acima da inflação, a um porcentual máximo de 3%, para rolagem ou assunção de dividas. É uma iniciativa de efeito multiplicador, democrática, capitalista e de cunho também profundamente social e que pode gerar economia de mais de USD 1 trilhão para os cofres de países ricos e pobres e os matemáticos podem confirmar. E com isso, com certeza, não haverá mais a necessidade da costumeira democratização de lucros e da socialização de prejuízos( em nome do mercado livre) e o mundo viverá em tranquilidade para gerar mais riquezas e reduzir as gritantes desigualdades entre nações ricas e nações pobres e para extinguir a categoria de indigentes. Em consequencia, a vergonhosa ratificação estatística de que somente 2% da população mundial responde por 50% da riquezas, será compulsoriamente reduzida, ano a ano. E o Brasil, que assumirá, em poucos dias, a Presidencia Financeira do G-20, poderá entrar para a história das nações, se conseguir criar esse Cartel que defenderá os interesses de bilhões de pessoas, para que tenham condições dígnas de vida.

Quanto ao sistema financeiro, que ganhou muito com as Letras Hipotecárias, em Investimentos de alto risco e ainda acumula lucros de bilhões de dólares nos últimos cinco anos, é natural que devolva agora parte dessa gordura que está bem localizada e que não levará o paciente à UTI. E países como o Brasil, devem refletir,com calma, sobre a importancia da iniciativa do governo americano ao cortar o cordão umbilical atado ao pernicuioso protecionismo ao capital especutivo mundial. Essa corrente americana começou e deve continuar e se fortalecer, mesmo com as fortes pressões de todos os lados, porque está no correto caminho de defender bilhões para não continuar privilegiando somente milhares de pessoas. O capitalismo de hoje nunca mais será o capitalismo perverso de ontem, felizmente.Esperamos que o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, não deixe que o noticiário da imprensa mundial e dirigido, atrapalhe a tragetória de queda da Selic, em decorrencia das frágeis argumentações. Façamos uma corrente prá frente, Brasil.E PARA ONDE IRÁ O CAPITAL APÁTRIDA DE TRILHÕES DE DÓLARES ?

Come to Poland and try "Mocne" for 6.2 PLN/25pcs.

try that again

i want to know what you are all smoking?

it must be good!

i want to know hat you are all smoking.. it must be good..

It is really sad that all these political affairs distract us from things truly important. People all over the world are pretty much the same when it comes to personal terms, no matter whether they are Russians, Americans or Iraqis. Would you consider killing your brother tomorrow simply because he lives in Arkanzas, not in Florida like you do, and you don't like their governor or you consider he has some WMD under his pillow?

Russia must, Russia should... Russia has changed, it is not listening to outsiders anymore. Russia knows what it is doing and it is on its way. No way you can beat it. So Putin was offering you to join instead.

No recommendations may exist for NATO either. This is a military alliance, and it is destined to expand. This is the sole definition of NATO. So be it. NATO can do whatever it wants and as it pleases. We in Russia no longer expect NATO would give it a try to listen to what we think and to consider things we are concerned about. We have come up with better ideas what to do this time.

But we have a saying that the strength of God is the truth behind him, not his power. If you lie once, you are on your knees already, no matter how powerful you are and how big your military budget is. This is a simple truth to learn. And this is what we are trying to tell you all the time recently. All these broken non-expansion promises and other hypocritical dream making. We don't trust you anymore - also on this particular occasion when you say your newly-planned NMD bases in Poland and Czech Republic are not agaist Russia. They are against us, this is what we think and this is what we learned. It would be no problem for us if you openly admit this fact. It would not make any surprises for us. This would not spoil our relations, because there are simply no relations. Only some business talk to consider, a pragmatic one. It fact, you can say whatever you want and on any subject you like and we would not trust a single word out of it. Should it be Litvinenko or any other bluff. Should it be Iran, Iraq or North Korea. There is simply no reliable negotiating partner to talk to on the other side of the table. This is what happened to the Soviet Union, this is what is happening to the US these days.

But American people deserve as much sympathy as Russians do - also including their homeless war vets (we in Russia had similar problem after Afghan in 80s and 90s). We all are brothers, even if our governments and media are not.

bobster,

the "defense" budget of the u.s. is higher than the next 17 largest spenderes COMBINED.

while the u.s. spends close to $600B on "defense," russia spends close to $60B.

if we are to list countries that have bombed or invaded other countries since the end of the cold war, the big winner would be the u.s.

not to mention treaties it has broken (abm, geneva convention) and failed to sign (anti-land mine).

the u.s. has talked the talk of war and walked the walk. at least one of its wars is an illegitimate war for oil on made-up pretenses.

american abuses abroad (abu graib, guantanomo, cia detention sites in europe, a half a million collateral victims in iraq) and domestically (patriot act, domestic spying) are unprecedendent.

but it's not like america's democracy had any leg to stand on anyway -- the two party system assures continuation of an expansionist foreign policy supported by all hawks, no matter how fiscally irresponsible it is. the democrats and republicans are the the heads of the same beast.

let's not even mention morality, education, and madison ave. culture.

all of these are undistiputable facts.

"A few madmen hungry for power and control of other people were already plottting, and building for the next war, world warII." -- YUP, THE U.S.

Ms. Lipman,

Only one major bone to pick with you. You stated that "the cold war is over, it will not come back", and "the world has changed to much".
After the Great War, the war to end all wars was over. All the politicians from all countries told everyone to rejoice! That war would no longer be a plague that the nations would have to endure.
The concept back then was that the world had become educated into how dangerous war was, and under no circumstances would war ever be allowed to happen again. I think we all know how naive and terribly wrong they all were now. Even as most of the politicians where shouting "The end of war!". A few madmen hungry for power and control of other people were already plottting, and building for the next war, world warII. And what is so sad these madmen built the instruments of the next war from the ashes of the first war, and with the same old promise's that we are hearing today from Russia, Iran, N. Korea, to name a few.
The promise that they are only doing what they do for peaceful purposes's. And like idoits, our politicians are there in the thick of it, actually helping them to build the weapons that they will one day turn on us. It never ends.

The Kremlin continues to station troops in countries which oppose their presence. Consider the Russian troops stationed on Georgian territory.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20061002&articleId=3365

The USA and western countries have been very happy when the Soviet Union demised. It was a right way in my opinion too. Many nations have got freedom. The world have become more free. In my view if in the world there are a less number of monsters like Soviet Union, Russia, China and USA which live at the expense of small countries and nations, the world would be more safe, prosperous and multinational. The Soviet Union has fallen, next must be the USA. Why? Because the USA behaves now in the same way like the Soviet Union and Germany. In some places it does things quite similar Germany under rule of Hitler. It fully disregards human rights, the right on sovereighty of other countries. It fully believes that by promoting democracy in the world even through inhuman bloodshed it is doing right things. it truly believes that killing the dosen Iraqus or attacking Iran even by using nuclear wepons is a right things given by God. Hitler had done all miseries in the same way. He had announced that germans should have had full safety, social support, prosperity and germans should have been the founders of law for all of the world. But how about the prosperity and welfare of other nations. Yeah they are the axes of evil and third sort of people, who might be disrespected and attacked. The USA is the new country with a nascist face and fascist ideas.

The old Soviet Union was the reason for the existence of NATO. Some countries who were, voluntarily or not, part of the Soviet Union or
strongly within its sphere of influence have decided
that the Soviet Union is not a place that they want
to return. That is the reason that these countries have petitioned NATO for membership. I'm sure that
some Russians must feel a bit humiliated by the way
that it turned out but, they really have only themselves to blame. If your next door neighbor
builds a big fence between his property and yours,
it is perhaps because he does not trust you to stay
off of his property. I'm sure that these feelings
of suspicion can change if Russia acts like a good
neighbor for the next 20 years or so. Deeds, not words will improve understanding and cooperation
between Europe and Russia.

This entry makes some good points, and at least it warns against the larger vein of pro-Westerners hating all things Russian and predicting the imminent collapse of Russia into fascism or whatever. Please. Russia is authoritative sometimes, yes, and is more proactive now that is has more power and oil revunues, yes. But the "West" completely sold out Russia in the botched and hyper-corrupt Yeltsin era and helped in the horrible expropriation of Russia's best assets in a scramble to make money (helping, of course, a very few Russians the West generally loved as "reformers"). And maybe there was something to fear from NATO -- it was not just about bringing down the Soviet Union, but it also was a key in putting Russia down further and eliminating any possible Russian rise (in many ways an understandable goal, cold-war era generals were not interested in playing fair, they wanted to make sure Russia was dead and burried) and part of the overall Western plan that, whether its intent or not, did not "open" Russia up but tried to rip it up and sell it off as fast as humanly possible.

There is a reason Putin is so popular -- he noted the ridiculous rip-off that was being perpetrated on Russia and had the gall to speak out about it. And Russia looks militaristic? Just maybe Russia, like most of the world, looks at the US's invasion of Iraq and sees it as a wanna-be imperial power that's already run amok, but could go further and attack Iran and who knows where else. Sabre-rattling is done on a daily basis by the President of the United States and people in the US just shirk it off. Maybe others outside all actually listen to this and think he's being serious.

Did Russians government goons kill Litvinenko? Maybe, maybe not. Does that compare to the US's current policy, reliving the glory days of death squads in Latin America, propping up Saddam and giving Osama arms, by now supporting whatever random terrorists-to-be it thinks can knock out the current regimes and goon squads it doesn't like? By engaging in extra-judicial killings at will all over the world? Or hunting down "enemies" and shipping them off to black ops cites to be tortured? Not that there are not bad guys, but the sheer scale of extra-juricial killing going on is crazy. And imagine an escaped CIA agent, sitting in Europe somewhere, blabbing away about all the US's secret plans to do this and invade that. Don't you think he might be killed?

Can't one at least see for a second that Russia might look at the US and not see this wonderful, benevolent, open place but see it as a repressive regime (it didn't need to intimidate reporters on WMD, it just exploited kiss-assing and money to get what it wanted, and it tried to intimidate, jail, "expose" anyone who reported otherwise -- and don't forget the widespread deportations of Muslims and increasing lockdown on dissent and "anti-American" behavior)? That maybe some of the West's criticisms have an air of hypocrisy? Not that I really believe the US wants to be an "imperial power" (at least not most of the people in the US), but outsiders could certainly get that impression.

Not that Russia is above reproach -- certainly there are concerns. But Russia bashing seems to be a new pasttime and Masha, though often a Russia-basher herself, has a very good point that continued poor dialogue (or lack of it altogether) and blinders on both sides will only lead to more discord.

"Putin presented a list of Russia’s previous grievances"

I would say Putin presented a chessboard altered a little from the configuration of 1990, (Real Socialist USSR changed to National Socialist Russia, and with a new 2 Queen called China and India) and invite the USA: Shall we play a new game ?

Really clear and to the point analysis. It make the West think you should be silenced by the East and the East stop its own noise and listen for the reaction of the West.

I believe president bush is going to outlaw russia. bombing will commence in 30 minutes !!

p.s. good piece: NATO Build-Up On Russia's Borders: Worst Treachery Since Munich 1938...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ZOR20070224&articleId=4918

cheers

in my opinion NATO has crossed the line and continued expansion would spell out visions of empire-building and the one thing that all empires have in common is that they collapse (mind you, twice at the hand of the russians).

sure, the motives are many: a) strengthen the military-industrial complex, b) secure the nations that a future adversary might covet later, c) spread anglo-american culture, d) open up markets, and most importantly to cold war veterans who steal hold a large prejudice: e) deal a fatal blow to russia in the progress.

so, military budgets are augmented. illegitimate wars on false pretenses are started. propoganda is created to stir support, against imperialistic, no-good russia and tsar vlad i.

and empire builds. the world takes notice. in munich, the grand plan is partly exposed.

come to think of it, nato is not changing. this is what it wants and it's doing it. we do not need to ask: what should NATO do? and i take back my entire previous post here because the decision has already been made: strengthen, expand, invade. instead of: everlasting peace.

the real question to ask is: what should Russia do? perhaps form an alliance of its own. yup, the SCO, it's doing it with china. furthermore, where do france and germany stand? hmm.

We'll be listnening, Masha, you just enjoy your ability to express your opinion freely while you still have it. You probably won't for much longer.

What should NATO do?
I have been studing NATO intensly for the past year and in my opinion, there is only thing they should do. KEEP on expanding. Russia is a paper tiger. They keep on saying they feel threatened, but will they do anything for this "feeling"? Another thing we should not stop all exapnsition even to countries that are not on the border of Russia.

Actions speak louder then words... If you look at Russia actions towards NATO they show you where Russia really stands. Russia is cooperating with NATO and is providing troops to help in afghanistan and other past missions. NATO also has a Russia-NATO council where they discuss things
and has strong relations.

Look at the benifits of NATO for countries that is expands to. First, there is a high standard that counrties have to attain to get into NATO, then there is the protextion that NATO gives.

The Pros for expanding far outweigh the cons.
We should not cater all of NATO just for Russia, a paper tiger

A comment on the comment above: The goal of a military alliance should NOT be peace. It should be security and safety of the countries involved. That is why NATO is leading in Afghanistan because it is for the security of the US and Europe

As the recent documentary, "Why We Fight" suggested, American commercial interests and its military policies are sometimes awfully hard to tell apart. Nato's expansion might also be seen from an economic perspective.

Is it not true (please correct me if I am wrong), that part of the terms of NATO membership is the requirement that a country purchases its arms from NATO members. Outfitting countries of the former Eastern Bloc is a very lucrative opportunity for American and Western European military contractors.

Thus, perhaps we ought to view the whole matter as one of market share. The Russians are losing market share while NATO is gaining it.

Hi, what should NATO do?

That's a hard question because it cannot shift puprose all of a sudden and, say, fight climate change (there are already enough organizations that are doing that). For one, it should freeze expansion and begin a controlled and fully transparent standdown, meaning destruction of weapons and a gradual closure of bases over several decades (or more, if needed - the keywords are gradual standdown )

The goal for a military alliance in this day and age should be: peace. And I guess a lot of Reagan followers think that agression produces peace because of the wrotten history lesson we received at the end of the Cold War.

So what produces peace? - that is the question that NATO and any other military alliance in existance should ask themselves.

The answer is not expansion.

Hi, the neutrality of the article by the somewhat self-hating Russian is much appreciated, although authoritarian is not a comment I would use to describe Russia. Every country chooses its on path. Like Putin said when asked by a reporter why Russia wasn't as democratic as The Netherlands: "The Netherlands is a monarchy, after all. I have no doubts about the democratic nature of that country. That is certainly a democratic nation, but this is very different from the United States and Russia. There are great differences between Russia and the U.S., as well..." (2/24/05 in Bratislova).

Anyway, comments like those of Lennart Meri are jingoistic propoganda by people who have serious, serious problems stemming from foolish nationalism and hate and/or jealousy of Russia.

I am sure you are right, Masha, that this is not the return of the Cold War, and that Putin was expressing a long-simmering resentment that Russian anxieties about NATO expansion weren't being taken seriously. But the problem remains: What SHOULD NATO do to ease Russian concerns about having this miltary alliance on its doorstep? What can it do? This is a military alliance, after all. Unless Russia becomes some sort of associate member (which is a bit hard to imagine), the anxiety will remain.

So, why is it that most of Mr Putins adversaries
end up in jail or dead?