<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878</id><updated>2012-02-04T15:13:34.810-02:00</updated><title type='text'>Eterno Retorno</title><subtitle type='html'>O Eterno Retorno é um padrão na história. 

Nos mostra o quanto que fatos atuais são encadeamentos do passado. Ressalta as variadas vezes que observamos um caso com aquele sentimento de "isso já aconteceu antes". E acima de tudo, nos indica que essa paranóia De Jas Vous é a expressão do homem ainda inalterado desde o seu surgimento no Universo. 

Será que nunca haverá a inovação das motivações mais básicas dos seres humanos? Pois suas respostas continuam as mesmas.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>22</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-4134905130804770446</id><published>2009-10-20T01:54:00.012-02:00</published><updated>2009-10-20T11:41:27.875-02:00</updated><title type='text'>Virando a Mesa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/St1Fjdr668I/AAAAAAAAAJ8/n8e1-5VerO0/s1600-h/500full-maverick-screenshot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394544404226304962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 206px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/St1Fjdr668I/AAAAAAAAAJ8/n8e1-5VerO0/s320/500full-maverick-screenshot.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Como diria Maverick a Eike, filho de peixe peixinho é.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Hoje, enquanto lia sobre o bombardeio que o Poder Executivo está promovendo contra o Agnelli, tomei um chá que parecia ter vindo diretamente da busca do tempo perdido. Um chá alá Proust. Lembrei imediatamente da minha juventude no Rio, de como eu já me vestia mal para as ocasiões sociais e, vividamente, me recordei de uma palestra ocorrida em 1997 (coincidentemente o mesmo ano da privatização da Vale).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como temos certeza que o presente é um desenrolar do passado? Sinceramente não sei. Tem vezes que nem sei se o tempo existe. Será que esta onda temporal se esconde atrás de uma xícara de chá?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas a sutileza que nos dá esta idéia de continuidade também se esconde atrás de cortinas, de eventos sem registro ou de verdades ocultas. Acaba sendo difícil traçar as conexões e lembranças que nos levam ao conhecimento das intenções e estratégias de atores sociais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em 1997 eu havia sido convidado para uma palestra do Sr. Eliezer Batista, ex-presidente dinástico da Vale. Àquela época, me disseram que a FIRJAN tinha encomendado o estudo “Rio de Janeiro, Um Estado de Logística” diretamente a este senhor recém desempregado. Nos bastidores, o que realmente se ouvia era que o Eliezer ainda estava perplexo e sem rumo após o seu desligamento da Vale, ocorrido logo depois da privatização. Que o presidente da FIRJAN arrumara pessoalmente uma sala para o esvaziado Batista, um local para onde ir no centro do Rio. É completamente compreensível, quase mecanicamente, que Dinásticos não-inimigos se solidarizem em momentos de dificuldade. Napoleão soube disso quando fez suas guerras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inclusive, a menção às guerras vem bem a calhar. É impressão minha ou o Brasil se tornou algo tipo a Área Desmilitarizada do norte do Vietnã do mundo das finanças? Toda hora existe uma história de tomada agressiva envolvendo empresas significativas para nossa economia! Daqui a pouco a propriedade de um lote de ações vai ser decidida no Ultimate Fighting. Todo poder aos pitboys, os campeões da administração da Vale Tudo. Vale até envolver o presidente!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mesmo assim, o Agnelli parece mais durão que se pensava. Logo logo apareceu em Minas apoiando o PSDB de Aécio, anunciando investimentos e assim tomando partido na briga presidencial do ano que vem. Será que isso irá angariar mais investimentos para a candidatura da oposição? Afinal, quando uma empresa de peso feito a Vale toma uma direção, acaba liderando outras a seguirem seu caminho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vamos acompanhar os próximos lances deste poker safado de perto. Afinal, uma economia mais liberal ou mais intervencionista é o que está em jogo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como diria o De La Soul, The stakes is high! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-4134905130804770446?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/4134905130804770446/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=4134905130804770446' title='4 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4134905130804770446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4134905130804770446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2009/10/virando-mesa.html' title='Virando a Mesa'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/St1Fjdr668I/AAAAAAAAAJ8/n8e1-5VerO0/s72-c/500full-maverick-screenshot.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-5898636170747276610</id><published>2008-12-08T11:54:00.007-02:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T12:12:45.799-02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Acreditou no Câmbio? Sifu!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;É a pegadinha do malandro...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/ST0nqN3LOVI/AAAAAAAAAJM/7pqFgcp5OlQ/s1600-h/mallandro1.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277419624620282754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 218px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/ST0pMAgq04I/AAAAAAAAAJc/UElF81_mywY/s320/mallandro1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Tem horas que me pergunto se fazer política é negar o óbvio para a população, contemporizando a fim de estar preparado quando o pior chegar. Claro que o governo Lula não inventou o artifício estilo “Pegadinha do Malandro”. Porém, como em outros casos (o próprio Mensalão, ou as negativas veementes de FHC antes da mega desvalorização do início de 1999), está havendo um excesso de estresse no mecanismo, até o ponto em que ele se tornará inócuo e a credibilidade do governo como orientador das expectativas sofrerá um sério revés.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A recente desvalorização cambial (iniciada pelo dia 03/09/08) seria um novo exemplo, porém não será o último. Já vemos a Dilma Roussef e o Paulo Bernardo “afirmando negativas”. Isso, segundo o economista Márcio Holland da FGV de Sampa, é um bom indicativo para que apostemos no contrário. Se eles afirmam a negação, aposte no que está sendo negado. ( &lt;a href="http://www.eesp.fgv.br/blog_detalhe.php?idBlog=46"&gt;http://www.eesp.fgv.br/blog_detalhe.php?idBlog=46&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas essa desvalorização recente do Real frente o Dólar seria até agora o caso mais grave. Aracruz, Sadia, Votorantim e outras empresas, que ou não divulgaram balanços ou não são grandes o suficiente para receberem o enfoque, podem ser o link entre nós e a Economia Mundial. Será que isso finalmente levará a chão a nova idéia do Descolamento que o Mantega se amarra em afirmar?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pois não pensem vocês que somente as grandes sofreram. Conforme o Brasil foi se integrando ao comércio internacional a partir do Collor (valeu Dionísio Dias Carneiro e seu texto sobre as caravelas queimadas), cada vez mais houve a democratização dos produtos importados. Salmão, Batatas Pringles, I-Pods, Notebooks, Vinhos e uma gama infinita de produtos se tornaram parte do nosso dia a dia. Sem contar os insumos que diversas indústrias trazem de fora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No entanto, as exportações se concentraram na mão de alguns poucos. E como importador é tratado no Brasil como contrabandista picareta, só houve espaço nos jornais aos prejuízos astronômicos que os exportadores concentrados tiveram. Mas a verdade é que, tanto importadores quanto exportadores, todos apostaram errado no dólar e todos Sifu!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora me pergunto. Essa prática de negar o óbvio tem culpa no cartório? Claro que a ganância das firmas também têm. Mas seria culpa das firmas isoladamente?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para termos um indicador da resposta, observem o gráfico abaixo, no qual plotei dia a dia as cotações de fechamento da IBOVESPA versus a Taxa de Câmbio R$/US$. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277418125815487010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 416px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 208px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/ST0n0xBwmiI/AAAAAAAAAJU/sUrV1s7GXq0/s320/Sifu.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enquanto a Bovespa caminhava para atingir seu Pico Histórico no fechamento, (acho que em 19/05/2008), o Real foi se valorizando, quase linearmente, reafirmando a crença comum e um pouco grosseira dos corretores de câmbio: “Se a Bovespa está subindo, o dólar ta caindo”. Todo mundo ainda embalado na bolha mundial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porém, a partir desse pico, a Bovespa inverte seu caminho com o dólar acompanhando a queda. Aliás, o dólar acompanhou caindo ainda mais linearmente que antes. Acho que alguns corretores de câmbio chegaram a rever suas vidas nesse momento. A crise já havia se iniciado nos EUA (alguns colocam o Northern Rock na GB como uns dos primeiros indícios), mas aqui as autoridades afirmavam o Descolamento, usando como argumento exatamente os dados da Bovespa e do Câmbio!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quem não lembra do Lula dizendo que a crise aqui seria um resfriadinho, uma marola, e coisas do gênero? O Mantega se apegando ao descolamento, dizendo com orgulho que o que acontecia nos mercados financeiros do norte não mais afetavam São Paulo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portanto, apostar na contínua queda do dólar parecia natural, tendo em vista que ele continuava em queda constante por um ano seguido, a despeito do que acontecesse no além mar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Junte a isso a subida dos juros, que a meu ver utilizava deliberadamente a desvalorização do dólar como arma contra a inflação, e um Lehman Brothers armado como uma bomba-relógio (explodiu depois daquela fatídica semana em que AIG, Merrill Lynch e o Lehman estavam mendigando socorro – coincidentemente quando o real inverteu e se desvalorizou bruscamente).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pronto! Estava armada a cama de gato que pegou as empresas brasileiras.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;P.s.: Isso me faz lembrar uma pesquisa da consultoria Nielsen, que mostra o Brasil encabeçando uma lista de 47 países com a população que mais acredita em propagandas. Bem, todo povo tem o governante que merece, não é mesmo?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-5898636170747276610?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/5898636170747276610/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=5898636170747276610' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/5898636170747276610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/5898636170747276610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/12/acreditou-no-cmbio-sifu-pegadinha-do.html' title=''/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/ST0pMAgq04I/AAAAAAAAAJc/UElF81_mywY/s72-c/mallandro1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-1214662564803145133</id><published>2008-10-09T02:39:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2008-10-09T02:50:14.712-03:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>No meio de toda festa de Wall Street, por volta de janeiro do nosso fatídico ano, dizem que ouviram essa história. No meio de uma festa, com chinesas, brasileiras, indianas, russas, todas rebolando no batidão, tocou uma música inesperada que deixou todos desempolgados...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man life can get all up in your ass baby you betta work it out&lt;br /&gt;Let me tell you what it's all about&lt;br /&gt;A nation not considered equal&lt;br /&gt;A meteor has more right than my people&lt;br /&gt;Who be wastin' time screaming who they've hated&lt;br /&gt;That's why the Native Tongues have officially been re-instated&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Vibes....vibrations)Stakes is high&lt;br /&gt;(Higher than high)You know them stakes is high&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-1214662564803145133?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/1214662564803145133/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=1214662564803145133' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/1214662564803145133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/1214662564803145133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-meio-de-toda-festa-de-wall-street.html' title=''/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-3817925640033431730</id><published>2008-08-08T12:14:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2008-08-08T13:42:04.186-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Peão toma Peão</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/SJx155Gi_eI/AAAAAAAAAGY/_mh696ax0KI/s1600-h/bush-putin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232186504538947042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/SJx155Gi_eI/AAAAAAAAAGY/_mh696ax0KI/s320/bush-putin.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Hoje a imprensa especula sobre a abertura de uma nova frente de guerra. Com a entrada da Rússia, o conflito entre a Geórgia e a Ossétia do Sul ganha uma proporção mais global do que realmente teria. A primeira vista, tudo está parecendo muito sério, mas visto em uma perspectiva mais ampla este confronto não terá uma proporção tão alta assim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na verdade, a Rússia está reavaliando até onde suas fronteiras efetivas vão. O apoio ocidental à independência de Montenegro, pressionando o que seria a uma nova fronteira entre o ocidente e o oriente (algo que oscila desde as guerras da antiguidade), o escudo de mísseis da OTAN na Polônia e República Tcheca mais as celeumas em torno do abastecimento de gás da Europa pela Rússia (gás vindo do oriente, diga-se de passagem) criou uma janela de possibilidades para que o conflito na Geórgia ocorresse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A própria Geórgia estava pleiteando um lugar na OTAN, o que expandiria a zona de influência do ocidente até a vizinhança russa, e como Newton dizia, toda ação tem uma reação contrária e na mesma proporção. Algo extremamente previsível, tanto que a Alemanha acabou por boicotar esta entrada da Geórgia (a Alemanha continua um pouco avessa ao risco em termos de relações internacionais, afinal foi uma estratégia mal calculada que a colocou na Primeira Guerra).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assim, como algo típico da diplomacia da força russa, o que está havendo é a demonstração de que praquelas bandas ninguém deve meter o bedelho. Agora a Geórgia está se vendo sozinha e sem aliados para reverter a situação, tanto que já deu algumas declarações amenas e propôs um cessar fogo a partir das 3 p.m..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas o sinal preocupante é a formação de blocos rivais delimitados e palpáveis de forma mais nítida. A história da hegemonia americana após queda do Muro de Berlim está cada vez mais longínqua, no seu lugar está um mundo multipolar com diversos atores política e economicamente relevantes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11909324&amp;amp;source=features_box_main"&gt;http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11909324&amp;amp;source=features_box_main&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-3817925640033431730?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/3817925640033431730/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=3817925640033431730' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/3817925640033431730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/3817925640033431730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/08/peo-toma-peo.html' title='Peão toma Peão'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/SJx155Gi_eI/AAAAAAAAAGY/_mh696ax0KI/s72-c/bush-putin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-4666683699852716116</id><published>2008-07-27T18:58:00.005-03:00</published><updated>2008-07-27T19:41:28.857-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Neguinho tá exagerando?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/SIz1pr00LfI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/oelm70fnPys/s1600-h/JerryLewis22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227823363957992946" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/SIz1pr00LfI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/oelm70fnPys/s320/JerryLewis22.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Quando comecei a estudar a economia eu simplesmente parei de me importar com as hipóteses tomadas para construção dos modelos levando em consideração a justificativa de que a generalização e simplificação era para tornar tudo mais didático. Para conseguirmos "ver" alguns fenômenos. Porém, com o tempo, comecei a achar algumas coisas muito forçadas, do tipo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais é preferível a menos (desde que o bem não seja um mal).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O objetivo da empresa é maximizar lucros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Principalmente quando comecei a saber de alguns paradoxos que mostravam quão fracas eram tais hipóteses (paradoxo de Allais, por exemplo).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essa assunção de que os agentes econômicos nem sempre tomam decisões racionais, a meu ver, era a abertura do campo para a Economia Comportamental, sempre querendo esfregar na cara dos economistas mais ortodoxos onde a teoria deles era furada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas na média os velhos estavam certos, oras. Claro que sempre vai haver aquele maluco que serve de contra-exemplo para um teorema econômico neoclássico. O importante é que nos grandes números ela faz sentido. Por outro lado, essa quebra que os comportamentais propõem ajudam a tomarmos cada vez mais cuidado com o que assumimos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outro ponto a favor dos neoclássicos a meu ver parece com a argumentação dos monetaristas: não quero saber a forma como a política monetária inflencia a economia, o que acontece na caixa-preta das conexões econômicas, mas quero saber o resultado final. Tanto que os caras de Princeton criticam a nova Neuroeconomia desta forma: o que nos importa são as preferências reveladas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isso é bastante justo! Quem duvida que o aumento da renda impulsiona o consumo; que o preço mais alto faz a galera consumir menos (ok ok, estou retirando os bens de Giffen).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me faz lembrar a Cibernética do Wiener, que inclusive ajudou a Neurociência. Important é que um estímulo que eu dou tem um resultado: se o resultado foi correto, minha assunção foi correta; senão, o feedback me obriga a rever meus conceitos. Tudo muito prático; digamos pragmático.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essa coisa de ver por onde o sangue flui no cérebro para entender porque o louco quis receber menos do que mais, ou aquele imã na testa pra prever qual a resposta do apostador me parece satisfatório para um novo Dr. Pangloss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vejam o artigo da economist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neuroeconomics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Do economists need brains?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jul 24th 2008  NEW YORK&lt;br /&gt;From The Economist print edition&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&amp;amp;story_id=11785391&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A new school of economists is controversially turning to neuroscience to improve the dismal science&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FOR all the undoubted wit of their neuroscience-inspired concept album, “Heavy Mental”—songs include “Mind-Body Problem” and “All in a Nut”—The Amygdaloids are unlikely to loom large in the annals of rock and roll. Yet when the history of economics is finally written, Joseph LeDoux, the New York band’s singer-guitarist, may deserve at least a footnote. In 1996 Mr LeDoux, who by day is a professor of neuroscience at New York University, published a book, “The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life”, that helped to inspire what is today one of the liveliest and most controversial areas of economic research: neuroeconomics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the late 1990s a generation of academic economists had their eyes opened by Mr LeDoux’s and other accounts of how studies of the brain using recently developed techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed that different bits of the old grey matter are associated with different sorts of emotional and decision-making activity. The amygdalas are an example. Neuroscientists have shown that these almond-shaped clusters of neurons deep inside the medial temporal lobes play a key role in the formation of emotional responses such as fear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These new neuroeconomists saw that it might be possible to move economics away from its simplified model of rational, self-interested, utility-maximising decision-making. Instead of hypothesising about Homo economicus, they could base their research on what actually goes on inside the head of Homo sapiens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dismal science had already been edging in that direction thanks to behavioural economics. Since the 1980s researchers in this branch of the discipline had used insights from psychology to develop more “realistic” models of individual decision-making, in which people often did things that were not in their best interests. But neuroeconomics had the potential, some believed, to go further and to embed economics in the chemical processes taking place in the brain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Early successes for neuroeconomists came from using neuroscience to shed light on some of the apparent flaws in H. economicus noted by the behaviouralists. One much-cited example is the “ultimatum game”, in which one player proposes a division of a sum of money between himself and a second player. The other player must either accept or reject the offer. If he rejects it, neither gets a penny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to standard economic theory, as long as the first player offers the second any money at all, his proposal will be accepted, because the second player prefers something to nothing. In experiments, however, behavioural economists found that the second player often turned down low offers—perhaps, they suggested, to punish the first player for proposing an unfair split.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neuroeconomists have tried to explain this seemingly irrational behaviour by using an “active MRI”. In MRIs used in medicine the patient simply lies still during the procedure; in active MRIs, participants are expected to answer economic questions while blood flows in the brain are scrutinised to see where activity is going on while decisions are made. They found that rejecting a low offer in the ultimatum game tended to be associated with high levels of activity in the dorsal stratium, a part of the brain that neuroscience suggests is involved in reward and punishment decisions, providing some support to the behavioural theories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As well as the ultimatum game, neuroeconomists have focused on such issues as people’s reasons for trusting one another, apparently irrational risk-taking, the relative valuation of short- and long-term costs and benefits, altruistic or charitable behaviour, and addiction. Releases of dopamine, the brain’s pleasure chemical, may indicate economic utility or value, they say. There is also growing interest in new evidence from neuroscience that tentatively suggests that two conditions of the brain compete in decision-making: a cold, objective state and a hot, emotional state in which the ability to make sensible trade-offs disappears. The potential interactions between these two brain states are ideal subjects for economic modelling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Already, neuroeconomics is giving many economists a dopamine rush. For example, Colin Camerer of the California Institute of Technology, a leading centre of research in neuroeconomics, believes that incorporating insights from neuroscience could transform economics, by providing a much better understanding of everything from people’s reactions to advertising to decisions to go on strike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time, Mr Camerer thinks economics has the potential to improve neuroscience, for instance by introducing neuroscientists to sophisticated game theory. “The neuroscientist’s idea of a game is rock, paper, scissors, which is zero-sum, whereas economists have focused on strategic games that produce gains through collaboration.” Herbert Gintis of the Sante Fe Institute has even higher hopes that breakthroughs in neuroscience will help bring about the integration of all the behavioural sciences—economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, political science and biology relating to human and animal behaviour—around a common, brain-based model of how people take decisions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mindless criticism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, not everyone is convinced. The fiercest attack on neuroeconomics, and indeed behavioural economics, has come from two economists at Princeton University, Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer. In an article in 2005, “The Case for Mindless Economics”, they argued that neuroscience could not transform economics because what goes on inside the brain is irrelevant to the discipline. What matters are the decisions people take—in the jargon, their “revealed preferences”—not the process by which they reach them. For the purposes of understanding how society copes with the consequences of those decisions, the assumption of rational utility-maximisation works just fine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But today’s neuroeconomists are not the first dismal scientists to dream of peering inside the human brain. In 1881, a few years after William Jevons argued that the functioning of the brain’s black box would not be known, Francis Edgeworth proposed the creation of a “hedonimeter”, which would measure the utility that each individual gained from his decisions. “From moment to moment the hedonimeter varies; the delicate index now flickering with the flutter of the passions, now steadied by intellectual activity, low sunk whole hours in the neighbourhood of zero, or momentarily springing up towards infinity,” he wrote, poetically for an economist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is “equivalent to neuroeconomics’ brain scan,” notes David Colander, an economist at Middlebury College in Vermont, in an article last year in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, “Edgeworth’s Hedonimeter and the Quest to Measure Utility”. Later economists such as Irving Fisher, Frank Ramsey (who proposed a utility-measuring machine called a “psychogalvanometer”) and Friedrich von Hayek would discuss the role of the complex inner workings of the brain. Hayek cited early advances in neuroscience to explain why each individual has a unique perspective on the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason why economists in the late 19th century and much of the 20th put the rational utility-maximising individual at the heart of their models was not that they thought that economics should avoid looking into the brain, but because they lacked the technical means to do so, says Mr Colander. “Economics became a deductive science because we didn’t have the tools to gather information inductively. Now, better statistical tools and neuroscience are opening up the possibility that economics can become an abductive science that combines elements of deductive and inductive reasoning.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big question now is whether the tools of neuroscience will allow economics to fulfil Edgeworth’s vision—or, if that is too much to ask, at least to be grounded in the physical reality of the brain. Studies in the first decade of neuroeconomics relied heavily on active MRI scans. Economists’ initial excitement at being able to enliven their seminars with pictures of parts of the brain lighting up in response to different experiments (so much more interesting than the usual equations) has led to a recognition of the limits of MRIs. “Curiosity about neuroscience among economists has outstripped what we have to say, for now,” admits Mr Camerer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A standard MRI identifies activity in too large a section of the brain to support much more than loose correlations. “Blood flow is an indirect measure of what goes on in the head, a blunt instrument,” concedes Kevin McCabe, a neuroeconomist at George Mason University. Increasingly, neuroscientists are looking for clearer answers by analysing individual neurons, which is possible only with invasive techniques—such as sticking a needle into the brain. For economists, this “involves risks that clearly outweigh the benefits,” admits Mr McCabe. Most invasive brain research is carried out on rats and monkeys which, though they have similar dopamine-based incentive systems, lack the decision-making sophistication of most humans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One new technique being used by some neuroeconomists is transcranial magnetic stimulation, in which a coil held next to the head issues a low-level magnetic pulse that temporarily disrupts activity in a certain part of the brain, to see if that changes the subject’s preferences—for example, for a particular food and how much he is willing to pay for it. However, this tool, too, has only limited applicability, as it cannot get at the central temporal node of the brain where much basic reward activity takes place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, Mr Camerer is confident that neuroeconomics will deliver its first big breakthroughs within five years. Likewise, Mr McCabe sees growing sophistication in neuroeconomic research. For the past four years, a group of leading neuroeconomists and neuroscientists has met to refine questions about the brain and economic behaviour. Researchers trained in both neuroscience and economics are entering the field. They are asking more sophisticated questions than the first generation “spots on brains” experiments, says Mr McCabe, such as “how these spots would change with different economic variables.” He expects that within a few years neuroeconomics will have uncovered enough about the interactions between what goes on in people’s brains and the outside world to start to shape the public-policy agenda—though it is too early to say how.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The success of neuroeconomics need not mean that behavioural economics will inevitably triumph over an economics based on rationality. Indeed, many behavioural economists are extremely pessimistic about the chances that brain studies will deliver any useful insights, points out Mr Camerer with regret.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, Daniel Kahneman, a Princeton University psychologist who in 2002 won the Nobel prize in economics for his contribution to behavioural economics, is an enthusiastic supporter of the new field. “In many areas of economics, it will dominate, because it works,” says Mr Kahneman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even so, “we are nowhere near the demise of traditional neoclassical economics,” he argues. Instead, insights from brain studies may enable orthodox economists to develop a richer definition of rationality. “These traditional economists may be more impressed by brain evidence than evidence from psychology,” he says; “when you talk about biology either in an evolutionary or physical sense, you feel they have greater comfort levels than when you start to talk about psychology.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this respect, Mr Kahneman’s Princeton colleagues and neuroscience-bashers may be making a mistake in bundling behavioural economics—soft mind science—and neuroeconomics—hard biology—together. “It is far easier to argue for mindless economics than for brainless economics,” he says.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-4666683699852716116?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/4666683699852716116/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=4666683699852716116' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4666683699852716116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4666683699852716116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/07/neguinho-t-exagerando.html' title='Neguinho tá exagerando?'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/SIz1pr00LfI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/oelm70fnPys/s72-c/JerryLewis22.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-5626737413191904547</id><published>2008-07-07T15:32:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2008-07-07T15:36:23.315-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Gracias and good night</title><content type='html'>Colombia&lt;br /&gt;Jul 3rd 2008From The Economist print edition&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Despite his coup in freeing Ingrid Betancourt, Álvaro Uribe should not seek a third term&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ONLY those blinded by ideology would deny that Álvaro Uribe has made Colombia a better place. By expanding the security forces and leading them tirelessly, Mr Uribe, who was first elected president in 2002, has imposed the authority of the democratic state across most of a previously lawless country. He persuaded thousands of right-wing paramilitaries to disarm, and has inflicted probably mortal blows on the FARC guerrillas. The latest of these was the dramatic liberation this week of the FARC’s most-prized hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt, a politician of Colombian and French nationality kidnapped six years ago, and three American defence contractors (see &lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11671322"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;). Murders have almost halved since 2002; kidnappings have fallen much more. A safer country is prospering economically, as confidence returns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This record has won Mr Uribe his people’s gratitude (opinion polls give him an approval rating of 80%) and in 2006 a second term—after he persuaded Congress to lift a constitutional ban on consecutive presidential terms, and the courts to ratify the change. But now this second term is unexpectedly in question. On June 26th the Supreme Court found that a former legislator cast a deciding committee vote for the re-election amendment only after two ministers had promised government jobs to some of her supporters. The justices have asked the Constitutional Court to rule on the legality of the constitutional change and thus of the 2006 election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Uribe’s reaction was characteristically combative. He asked Congress to call a referendum on the legitimacy of his term. He claims that the courts are pursuing a political vendetta. He has a point: reprehensible though it is, patronage politics is routine in Colombia and much of the democratic world. To deduce that in this case it invalidates the election is disproportionate—as the Constitutional Court may well conclude.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the president’s referendum idea is equally cock-eyed. He seems determined to battle the courts, rather than respect them. Worse, although he has denied this, the referendum suggests to many a step towards prolonging his rule beyond 2010. He has allowed supporters to gather signatures for a (separate) referendum to change the constitution again to allow him a third term. This would give him time to finish off the FARC and complete his rescue of Colombia, supporters say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He deserves a full second term—but no more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tempting though such a prospect might seem, a third term would be disastrous for Colombia. Mr Uribe is not without flaws. Worryingly, given his feud with the judiciary, judges nominated by him will form a majority in the Constitutional Court by next year. His shoot-from-the-hip manner has made him many enemies abroad, including in America’s Democratic Party. He may be welcoming John McCain to Colombia this week, but it is Barack Obama who is ahead in the opinion polls and the Democrats control Congress (where they are disgracefully blocking a trade agreement with Colombia mainly because of their distaste for Mr Uribe). A different Colombian president might also carry out the agrarian reform—settling people displaced by violence on land confiscated from warlords—that Colombia needs and Mr Uribe eschews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most importantly, Colombia’s transformation will remain fragile as long as it is the work of one man. To be complete, it needs to be institutionalised. There are several plausible successors who would maintain Mr Uribe’s security policies. Rather than a plebiscitarian strongman, in the mould of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez or Peru’s Alberto Fujimori, Colombia needs strengthened democratic institutions. The greatest service Mr Uribe could do his country is to depart in 2010.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-5626737413191904547?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11670366' title='Gracias and good night'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/5626737413191904547/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=5626737413191904547' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/5626737413191904547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/5626737413191904547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/07/gracias-and-good-night.html' title='Gracias and good night'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-7091234043992909325</id><published>2008-06-07T23:58:00.006-03:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T14:03:24.985-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Estratégia do "Misdirection"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americanfootballmonthly.com/Subaccess/Magazine/2006/December/images/spin06.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.americanfootballmonthly.com/Subaccess/Magazine/2006/December/images/spin06.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O nome pode ser bonito, mas a idéia é muito simples. Vem rapidamente à tona quando um amigo bobo cutuca seu ombro de um lado, induzindo seu olhar, porém estando do outro. E é isso mesmo, fazer todos olharem para um lado ficando a parte oposta extremamente vulnerável. A utilização dessa estratégia é ampla, indo de prestidigitadores, mágicos, técnicos de futebol e, até mesmo, políticos. Políticos espertos, por assim dizer...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O mais recente utilizador do "misdirection" na América Latina chama-se Alvaro Uribe. Aproveitando todo o estardalhaço que Chavez anda criando, sendo chamado de ditador da esquerda, de populista, o presidente da Colômbia está tentando seu terceiro mandato. Em suas palavras, diz que com isso "...estamos procurando garantir a reeleição da segurança democrática e a confiança dos investidores."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora bolas, a quem pretende enganar?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial vimos o capital internacional e os governos do primeiro mundo intervindo descaradamente na política latino-americana: a ITT financiando o golpe contra Salvador Allende por ele ter nacionalizado a infraestrutura de telefonia no Chile; a briga da Royal Dutch Shell contra a Esso pelas supostas jazidas petrolíferas entre Bolívia e Paraguai (que acarretou na Guerra do Chaco); a CIA traficando cocaína para a California para armar os Contras na Nicarágua com armas brasileiras...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O mesmo poderia estar ocorrendo na Colômbia agora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No entanto, a imprensa internacional só tem olhos para Chavez. Claro que Chavez está exagerando com essa nova medida sobre os órgãos de inteligência, que aumentaria significativamente o autoritarismo: um Estado de Polícia, segundo a Economist. Mas não dando a devida atenção ao que está havendo no país vizinho a imprensa estaria ajudando a escolher um vencedor. Um vencedor interessante aos investidores, por assim dizer.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Corporation#Involvement_in_1973_Pinochet_coup_in_Chile"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Corporation#Involvement_in_1973_Pinochet_coup_in_Chile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_War"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_War&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Bibliografia:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;O Homem da Companhia - mostra a história da ITT no Chile&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Artigo UNB - &lt;a href="http://ftp.unb.br/pub/UNB/ipr/rel/rbpi/1998/58.pdf"&gt;http://ftp.unb.br/pub/UNB/ipr/rel/rbpi/1998/58.pdf&lt;/a&gt; artigo do Professor Moniz Bandeira, Titular da UNB, sobre a guerra do Chaco e a rixa entre a Shell e argentinos contra a Standard Oil na Bolívia&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Freakonomics - tem a história da cocaína traficada pela CIA para armar os Contras na Nicarágua&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-7091234043992909325?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/7091234043992909325/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=7091234043992909325' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/7091234043992909325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/7091234043992909325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/06/estratgia-do-misdirection.html' title='Estratégia do &quot;Misdirection&quot;'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-4531732400546149691</id><published>2008-05-20T18:25:00.008-03:00</published><updated>2008-05-20T23:38:46.388-03:00</updated><title type='text'>I´ll Be Back</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/SDNCFnNh2qI/AAAAAAAAAFo/K3nvztfBfGI/s1600-h/zeroreais2.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202574658735561378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/SDNCFnNh2qI/AAAAAAAAAFo/K3nvztfBfGI/s320/zeroreais2.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Sempre foi natural da política que os sucessores tentassem desfazer o feito dos antecessores. Relegam ao antecessor somente as mazelas e más políticas e reformam diversos programas, colhendo muitos dos frutos plantados no período anterior. Portanto, não é novidade o que Lula está fazendo, muitas vezes nos bastidores e bem longe dos noticiários.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Porém, não esperávamos que ele iria tão longe, querendo desfazer a própria estabilidade do Real.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Hoje saíram os dados da prévia do IGP-M (2º semana) da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, e sua leitura foi 1,54% mais alta. Se contarmos 12 meses acumulados, já teríamos uma inflação por este índice de 11,45%, de dois dígitos. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;A economia já teve períodos com altas semelhantes do IGP-M para um mês após o plano real, no entanto, desta vez a aceleração da inflação está patente. O que está acontecendo não é uma observação pontual, porém um novo patamar de inflação. Notem o gráfico abaixo:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202589802790247138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/SDNP3HNh2uI/AAAAAAAAAGI/crs_G6bvM0s/s400/infla%C3%A7%C3%A3o2008.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;A fonte é a própria FGV (mas peguei no Ipeadata), e a tabela e gráfico foram meus eletrodos que calcularam. Estamos com uma média de deslocamento vertical de cerca de 0,47% para cima no gráfico do IGP-M (para cima significando “+”, e não “x”, por ser um deslocamento vertical). Ou seja, o IGP-M de cada mês de 2008 está até agora 0,47% maior em média que o mesmo mês de 2007. Isso sem contar com o mês de Maio, que ainda não possui valor mensal fechado (não acabou o mês). Porém, pela sua prévia dá pra notar que jogará essa média de deslocamento vertical ainda mais pra cima.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Já é possível até escutar as desculpas. Vão culpar a alta das commodities, dizer que o Brasil está importando a inflação. E isso até que explica parte. No entanto, não explica por que o Governo, antecipando que uma inflação internacional mais alta seria importada, não tomou medidas corretivas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para se corrigir este problema o Ministro da Fazenda, o Manteiga, teria que cortar os seus gastos públicos e acomodar esta alta de um dos componentes da demanda agregada. Mas como Dilma disse, Gasto Corrente é Vida. Cortar gastos agora é inviável para que um partido baseado no mensalão continue executando suas reformas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Além disso, não explica por que, ao invés de tomar essas medidas corretivas de ajustes fiscais, Lula continua gastando e gastando mais. Dessa forma o Bacen não tem outra alternativa a não ser reprimir a oferta de moeda através do aumento dos juros. Isso enxugaria a liquidez do mercado, frearia a demanda agregada e sugaria os dólares excedentes que o preço das commodities tem dado ao Brasil. Mas como sempre, tudo depende de qual força é a mais forte: o estímulo fiscal ou o breque monetário.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No fim, o que teremos como resultado será o "crowding out": investimentos produtivos indo embora para dar lugar à demanda crescente do governo e ao "cosumismo" na demanda agregada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essa aceleração pode colocar o Brasil à beira de um círculo vicioso, com cada um dos estratos sociais tentando empurrar para o outro estrato o seu custo adicional da inflação: os trabalhadores do campo exigem maiores salários, pois pra ganhar o que ganham preferem ficar em casa com o bolsa família; os produtores de alimentos e outros insumos repassam esse custo nos seus preços; os donos das indústrias começam a cobrar mais pelos seus produtos para repassar o IGP-M, empurrando para o consumidor essa inflação de seus insumos; os trabalhadores das cidades começam a exigir maiores reajustes devido aos custos de vida crescentes; os seus patrões repassam isso em seus preços de serviços e juros de financiamento; e assim vai, criamos o carnaval dos preços relativos, que descamba para o retorno da inflação mais grave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No fim, a nota de cem deixará de ser algo nunca dantes visto para se tornar um comum papel toalha, forro de gaiola de passarinho ou até papel higiênico.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-4531732400546149691?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/4531732400546149691/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=4531732400546149691' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4531732400546149691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4531732400546149691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/05/ill-be-back.html' title='I´ll Be Back'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/SDNCFnNh2qI/AAAAAAAAAFo/K3nvztfBfGI/s72-c/zeroreais2.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-662616431977792488</id><published>2008-03-20T08:51:00.015-03:00</published><updated>2008-03-20T09:53:20.059-03:00</updated><title type='text'>O Velho Buk e suas Memórias dos Perdedores</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R-JQiJjCKEI/AAAAAAAAAEM/prrLGmQ-9sM/s1600-h/charles_bukowski.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179791069038127170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R-JQiJjCKEI/AAAAAAAAAEM/prrLGmQ-9sM/s320/charles_bukowski.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ontem saiu o resultado da Mega-Sena. Mais de R$20mi pra um único cara em Uberlândia. Eita mineiro sortudo sô. Fico me perguntando o que ele fará com tanta grana. Acho que por eu não ter a menor idéia da resposta esta seria a causa de eu nunca ganhar nada em loterias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isso me faz lembrar o Velho Buk e suas descrições sobre suas apostas nos Jockeys. Um dia eu tenho que fazer isso. Ver aquela turba de fodidos amarelados, amarrotados e mendigando dinheiro. Como jornais velhos andando por aí trôpegos por um copo barato de whisky e vendo "os cavalinhos".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lembro de como ele ficou pasmo diante de um grupo de pessoas que nunca ganhava nada. Jogavam sempre, mas nunca ganhavam um tostão furado. Os achava como uma espécie de fenômeno, pois se você joga sempre, por mais azarado que seja, pelo menos uma vez ou outra tem que ganhar uns níqueis. Bem, isso nunca acontece comigo. E se acontecer, saibam que foi a mais pura marmelada. Vai ver eu sou dessa espécie de maravilha para o Velho Buk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Veja, por exemplo, a bolsa de valores. Entrei num joguinho desses que você brinca de apostar nas ações. Comecei bem, levantando a beça meu ranking entre os investidores de mentirinha. Porém essa crise me pegou em cheio e eu não soube a hora de sair. Como sempre, sair é meu problema. Fico lá esperançoso de que as coisas ruins vão passar e tudo será como antes, mas elas nunca passam! Acho que já virei o lanterninha da brincadeira.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looser!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A minha única consolação é que não estou sozinho nessa parada. O que me separa de um Bears Sterns já não são tantos níqueis assim.&lt;br /&gt;Talvez o mercado devesse ler mais o Bukowski.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-662616431977792488?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/662616431977792488/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=662616431977792488' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/662616431977792488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/662616431977792488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/03/o-velho-buk-e-suas-memrias-dos.html' title='O Velho Buk e suas Memórias dos Perdedores'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R-JQiJjCKEI/AAAAAAAAAEM/prrLGmQ-9sM/s72-c/charles_bukowski.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-3089132422304959008</id><published>2008-03-07T17:34:00.006-03:00</published><updated>2008-03-07T17:48:06.365-03:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Colombia and its neighbours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;On the warpath&lt;br /&gt;Mar 6th 2008  BOGOTÁ, CARACAS AND QUITOFrom The Economist print edition&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10808604"&gt;http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10808604&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colombia is moving closer to breaking the FARC—unless Venezuela stops it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175102579335420962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R9GoYIV-3CI/AAAAAAAAADs/eE4gTFG4Gwk/s400/1008AM1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ON FEW, if any, other occasions has a head of state issued detailed orders for military mobilisation as jauntily as if he were ordering pizza, and on live television. That is what Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president, did on March 2nd, after Colombian forces bombed a camp just inside Ecuador, killing Raúl Reyes, a senior commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;“Minister of defence!” bellowed Mr Chávez, on “Aló Presidente” (“Hello President”), his weekly radio and television programme. “Send me ten battalions to the border, including tanks.” He also ordered the forward deployment of his new Russian fighter-bombers, threatening that if Colombia's president, Álvaro Uribe, tried a similar raid on Venezuelan soil he would “send over the Sukhois”. The next day he broke diplomatic ties with Colombia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Venezuelan troops (pictured above) and tanks duly moved to the more populated points of the long border between the two countries. Customs officials halted Colombian trucks at the busiest crossing point, between Cúcuta and San Cristóbal. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;What made this performance odd was that it was Ecuador, not Venezuela, whose sovereignty had been violated. True, Colombia has often accused Venezuela of harbouring guerrilla leaders and tolerating camps near the border similar to the one bombed in Ecuador. But did Venezuela's president have a guilty conscience?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;“Maybe he knew what was coming,” wrote Teodoro Petkoff, a guerrilla leader in the 1960s who now edits an opposition newspaper in Caracas. Mr Chávez's apparent over-reaction was a pre-emptive attempt to “throw a veil over the revelations he suspected might come from Raúl Reyes' computer,” suggested Mr Petkoff.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;With Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, following Mr Chávez's lead, this week's events sent Latin America's diplomats scurrying to prevent war enveloping the neighbourhood. But they also laid bare that Colombia's government is coming close to breaking the back of the FARC, and in the process threatening to shine light on its murky relations with neighbouring governments.&lt;br /&gt;When Mr Uribe took office in 2002, the guerrillas were rampant. His predecessor had just halted peace negotiations because the FARC had used a “demilitarised” zone created to host the talks as a base for recruitment and for kidnapping (many of the politicians it has held hostage were seized during the talks). The guerrillas had some 17,000 troops; they blocked main roads and bombarded small towns, kidnapping and killing almost at will. To make matters worse, the state's inability to provide security had spawned murderous right-wing paramilitary groups.&lt;br /&gt;Mr Uribe's “democratic security” policy has achieved a dramatic change. By expanding the security forces, he has driven the FARC from populated areas, while persuading most of the paramilitaries to demobilise. Officials reckon they have reduced the FARC's ranks to fewer than 11,000. But the guerrillas withdrew to the vast tropical lowlands, to areas they have controlled for 40 years. There they resisted a two-year offensive by 18,000 troops. The army could not get near the FARC's seven-man governing secretariat, of which Mr Reyes (the nom de guerre of Luis Edgar Devia) was a member. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seeking the secretariat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thwarted, the security forces refined their strategy. They put more effort into seeking the FARC's leaders using information from guerrilla deserters and infiltrators, and from sophisticated bugging equipment provided by the United States. Over the past year, this has started to pay off. Two FARC regional commanders have been killed and one captured. In January and February alone, the army claims to have killed 247 guerrillas and captured 226, with another 360 deserting. This pressure has pushed FARC units to the borders with Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175103017422085170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R9GoxoV-3DI/AAAAAAAAAD0/0lzvXyn14Ow/s400/CAM906.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last month the government received a tip-off that Mr Reyes was in a camp less than two kilometres (1¼ miles) inside Ecuador. Mr Uribe authorised a bombing raid by Brazilian-made Super Tucano aircraft, which killed at least 21 guerrillas. Colombian troops then crossed the border to recover Mr Reyes's corpse—and his laptop computers. (They left three wounded women guerrillas unattended.) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most Colombians were jubilant that the government had struck at the very top of the FARC at last. Mr Reyes handled the guerrillas' relations with the outside world; he was one of three deputies to Manuel Marulanda, the FARC's elderly leader. For the first time the security forces have shown that they are capable of infiltrating and defeating the guerrillas through systematic strikes, said Román Ortiz of Fundación Ideas para la Paz, a Bogotá think-tank. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Uribe doubtless thought that Mr Correa could be mollified over the cross-border raid. But spurred on by Mr Chávez, Ecuador's president sent 3,200 troops to the border and cut diplomatic ties. He demanded an emergency meeting of the Organisation of American States (OAS) to condemn Colombia, and set off on a tour of regional capitals seeking support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="the_laptop_lode"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The laptop lode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost as important as the killing of Mr Reyes may be the capture of his laptops. Apart from inside information on the FARC, according to Colombian officials, they contain documents which—if true—are embarrassing to Mr Correa but highly damaging to Mr Chávez. As the FARC's top negotiator, Mr Reyes appears to have met representatives of many governments. According to one e-mail, he met Gustavo Larrea, Mr Correa's security minister last month. Mr Larrea is alleged to have proposed a formal meeting in Quito to discuss securing the border and negotiating the release of some of the FARC's 700-odd hostages. Mr Larrea said that Colombian officials knew of his meeting, which was purely to talk about the hostages. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecuadorean officials have long swapped complaints with their Colombian counterparts about their mutual inability to prevent the FARC from crossing the border. Ecuador claims to spend $160m a year containing the spillover. It is also angry about Colombia spraying coca fields on the border with weedkiller, which it says drifts south on to other crops. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175103300889926722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R9GpCIV-3EI/AAAAAAAAAD8/xXwR3vxzoXo/s400/1008WB0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nevertheless, Ecuador has given some help to Colombia. Mr Correa claimed that last year his forces dismantled 47 FARC camps inside Ecuador and on three occasions carried out joint operations with Colombian troops. American surveillance aircraft still patrol over Colombia from an air base in Ecuador, although Mr Correa has promised not to renew the lease for this when it expires in 2009. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;By contrast, Mr Chávez has recently been unambiguous in his support for the FARC. He fell out with Mr Uribe last year over his attempt to act as a mediator for the hostages. Since then he has cast aside his previous stance as an honest broker seeking a peaceful solution to Colombia's internal conflict. When the FARC turned over two hostages to him in January, Mr Chávez hailed the guerrillas as a “true army” whose status as belligerents should be recognised. No other government in the region, not even Cuba's, echoed this call. On “Aló Presidente” Mr Chávez held a minute's silence in honour of Mr Reyes, whom he said he had met three times over the years. He declared that Colombia needed to be “liberated” from its “subservience” to the United States.&lt;br /&gt;Another document allegedly on Mr Reyes's computer showed that Mr Chávez paid (or planned to pay) the FARC $300m. An (unrelated) e-mail to Mr Reyes suggested that the FARC were trying to obtain uranium for a “dirty bomb”. All this prompted some far-fetched exchanges. Mr Uribe said that he would denounce Mr Chávez for “financing genocide”; in return, Venezuela accused Colombia's police chief, who revealed the contents of Mr Reyes's laptop, of being a “drug trafficker”.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175103653077245010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R9GpWoV-3FI/AAAAAAAAAEE/zxPY7dfPOX8/s400/CAM877.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;“This is...a microphone war,” said General Raúl Salazar, a former defence minister. Like many other Venezuelans, he doubts that it will become a real one. That is not least because many army officers do not want war with Colombia and find Mr Chávez's actions an “embarrassment”, said another former defence minister, General Raúl Baduel, who is now a prominent opponent of the president.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;So what is Mr Chávez's game? One possible answer is his obsessive search for an external enemy to shore up his waning popularity at home. In December, his political blueprint for a socialist Venezuela, with indefinite presidential re-election, was defeated in a referendum. This came only a year after he won a second six-year term with 63% of the vote, and was the first time he had lost a national vote.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In November Venezuelans are due to vote for mayors and state governors. They are increasingly discontented about crime, an inflation rate that has surged to 25% and shortages of basic goods, including food and cooking gas. Because of Mr Chávez's mismanagement of agriculture, Venezuela imports much of its food from Colombia. Any lasting interruption of trade would hurt both countries (see chart). Reputable pollsters say that Mr Chávez's popularity has fallen well below 50%. Visible faction fights have broken out in his newly formed Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Picking a fight with Colombia and supporting the FARC are unlikely to win him friends. One poll, by Hinterlaces, showed 89% opposed to a war and 87% opposed to the FARC. So the reason for his military mobilisation may be to deter Colombia from moving against the FARC camps in Venezuela where some Colombian officials believe that Mr Marulanda is based. A more worrying, though improbable, hypothesis is that Mr Chávez, a former army officer, is throwing off all pretence at being a civilian democrat and, fearing that he may not remain in power for long, wants to launch an assault on what he sees as American imperialism and its regional stooge, Mr Uribe. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although George Bush gave public support to Mr Uribe, other governments in the region, led by Brazil, tried to drive a wedge between Mr Correa and Mr Chávez. There were signs that this might work. On March 5th Ecuador agreed to an OAS resolution criticising but not formally condemning Colombia. The OAS also agreed to investigate the bombing. Once the region's diplomats have patched things up between these two countries they face another, more intractable problem: Mr Chávez, still with oil money but politically on the defensive, may have thrown in his lot with an outlaw army of drug-traffickers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-3089132422304959008?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/3089132422304959008/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=3089132422304959008' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/3089132422304959008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/3089132422304959008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/03/colombia-and-its-neighbours-on-warpath.html' title=''/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R9GoYIV-3CI/AAAAAAAAADs/eE4gTFG4Gwk/s72-c/1008AM1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-3947412253779693759</id><published>2008-03-06T16:06:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2008-03-06T16:11:47.736-03:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R9BB0RdMJDI/AAAAAAAAADk/sjW5laVV4hs/s1600-h/break.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174708338143536178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R9BB0RdMJDI/AAAAAAAAADk/sjW5laVV4hs/s400/break.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;"E aqueles que foram vistos dançando foram julgados insanos por aqueles que não podiam escutar a musica."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-3947412253779693759?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/3947412253779693759/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=3947412253779693759' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/3947412253779693759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/3947412253779693759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/03/e-aqueles-que-foram-vistos-danando.html' title=''/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R9BB0RdMJDI/AAAAAAAAADk/sjW5laVV4hs/s72-c/break.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-8816548735411692722</id><published>2008-03-03T16:32:00.005-03:00</published><updated>2008-03-04T12:26:55.404-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Macaquito  que ladra não morde</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R8xZIaGhRkI/AAAAAAAAADU/9x35tfSB3DE/s1600-h/Pincher.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173608072922351170" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R8xZIaGhRkI/AAAAAAAAADU/9x35tfSB3DE/s200/Pincher.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Toda vez que ouço uma declaração do Hugo Chávez me lembro da Tita, a pincher de um amigo meu. Nossa, como aquela cadela latia! E era só pisar mais forte que saia correndo. Não está sendo diferente agora, com esta fajuta escalada de tensões entre o Equador, Colômbia e Venezuela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Até mesmo se recapitularmos os acontecimentos, veremos que as chances de deflagração do conflito são bastante remotas. Ninguém ali deseja um conflito, pelo menos não nesses termos. Tudo que há é um circo para os macaquitos cocaleros continuarem achando que o salvador da pátria é “mutcho matcho” e que todos devem se ajoelhar diante dos impávidos colossos que são suas nações pseudo beligerantes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tanto que o presidente do Equador, o Rafael Correa, no primeiro momento nem deu tanta importância ao fato da “invasão à soberania equatoriana de 1.800 metros”. Só depois que seu pária, digo, seu par, Hugo Chávez, começou a latir que ele se viu na obrigação de radicalizar usando de pretexto o relatório de suas forças armadas sobre o local do conflito. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Além disso, temos que levar os fatos comerciais em consideração. Hoje, quem fornece gás natural para o pólo produtor de petróleo do lago Maracaíbo é a Colômbia, através do investimento bilateral para a construção do gasoduto que liga os dois países. Sem contar na contrapartida do projeto de um oleoduto da Venezuela para o litoral colombiano a fim de escoar e distribuir petróleo para as nações do Pacífico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O mesmo se dá entre a Colômbia e o Equador, com um comércio bilateral de cerca de uns US$ 3bi. Ou seja, a questão não é tão simples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na verdade o que está em jogo são as eleições estaduais e municipais venezuelanas que ocorrem este ano, a recém fundada aliança de solidariedade militar entre Venezuela, Nicarágua, Equador e Dominica que é uma idéia de jerico sem o menor respeito e a perda de popularidade do presidente venezuelano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um indicador é a aparente não movimentação militar, em contradição às declarações de mobilização de tropas para a fronteira. Ou seja, tudo até agora está no domínio da retórica inflamada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas quem está ganhando este jogo? Claro que é o Uribe. A Colômbia prossegue em seu silêncio oficial sobre o assunto, pediu desculpas formais ao Equador, denunciou seus vizinhos na ONU por abrigarem terroristas, meteu a porrada nas FARC sem que ninguém possa fazer uma retaliação e está colocando a esquerda festiva latino-americana cada vez mais afundada no mar de lama da descrença pública. Não me surpreenderia se nessas eleições ocorresse mais uma boa derrota ao grupo da situação venezuelano. E aliás, daí que vem a pequena chance de um conflito, da quantidade de m#$%erda que o Uribe está jogando no ventilador.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como já diz outro ditado, uma ação pode valer mais do que mil palavras.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/artigos.asp?cod=474JDB014"&gt;http://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/artigos.asp?cod=474JDB014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-8816548735411692722?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/8816548735411692722/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=8816548735411692722' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/8816548735411692722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/8816548735411692722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/03/macaquito-que-ladra-no-morde.html' title='Macaquito  que ladra não morde'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R8xZIaGhRkI/AAAAAAAAADU/9x35tfSB3DE/s72-c/Pincher.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-5298015634203516122</id><published>2008-02-18T10:35:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2008-02-18T10:38:09.608-03:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Novos perigos das armas nucleares&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Celso Lafer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O século 20 foi caracterizado por Hobsbawn como um século breve e uma era de extremos. Esta periodização histórica, 1914-1991, mereceu um reparo importante de Jonathan Schell, que, em livro publicado em 2001, argumenta que o século 20 não terminou.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A partir das reflexões de Hannah Arendt sobre o ineditismo das rupturas trazidas pelo século 20, Schell realça que o século 20 se prolonga neste nosso século 21 em razão de um evento inaugural: a bomba atômica lançada em 1945 pelos EUA sobre Hiroshima e Nagasaki, no Japão. A bomba implantou, nas concepções estratégicas, as armas nucleares. Estas assinalam a possibilidade do uso da violência numa escala inimaginável, ensejam a viabilidade do extermínio de coletividades e operam no horizonte do terror da descartabilidade do ser humano, por meio de um holocausto nuclear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conhecimento é poder, afirmou Francis Bacon. No século 20 o nexo do problema da relação conhecimento/poder, trazido com o advento da bomba atômica, deriva do desafio de como absorver a colossal força da energia liberada pela matéria no incerto domínio das ações humanas. Esse poder, no caso, é tanto o dos criativos usos pacíficos do nuclear (por exemplo, na medicina) quanto o de abrir a hipótese de autodestruição da própria humanidade pelo potencial inerente ao seu emprego militar. É por este motivo que o problema das armas nucleares é parte dos assuntos não resolvidos do século 20.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schell, em livro de 2007, discute as novas configurações do perigo nuclear. Aponta que os dois problemas de natureza global que hoje ameaçam o futuro da humanidade são a catástrofe ecológica e a catástrofe nuclear. A reação a estes dois problemas globais é, no entanto, diferente. O emblemático aquecimento global é atualmente perceptível por todos. Daí a vigência, em escala planetária, de uma consciência ecológica. Por isso o risco de catástrofe ecológica está, para evocar Ortega y Gasset, ao alcance da razão vital, que permite tanto orientar a nossa vida no mundo quanto orientar-nos no entendimento do mundo por meio do conceito do desenvolvimento sustentável. Já o perigo das armas nucleares é real, mas não é perceptível na experiência cotidiana das pessoas. Está no campo da razão abstrata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na sua origem, a obtenção das armas nucleares e a reflexão estratégica subseqüente associaram a segurança ao medo. Da posse para impedir o seu uso por outros, derivou o “equilíbrio do terror”, lastreado na dissuasão recíproca entre os EUA e a União Soviética, que assegurou em escala global uma paz precária no período da guerra fria. Hoje, com o término da bipolaridade, não existe mais um “equilíbrio do terror”, mas a busca, pelos EUA, de uma primazia nuclear como expressão do poderio norte-americano. Esta primazia permite exterminar, mas, para lembrar Raymond Aron, não ajuda num mundo heterogêneo nem a reinar sobre os “infiéis” nem a convertê-los. Daí, além do dilema moral albergado nas armas nucleares, a sua limitação político-diplomática.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Além das preocupações com a segurança, outra motivação que leva à busca das armas nucleares é a de obter ou manter o prestígio do status de grande potência. Este foi o raciocínio que levou, no período da guerra fria, à nuclearização militar da Grã-Bretanha, da França e da China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No pós-1991, os casos de proliferação nuclear para fins militares como os da Índia, do Paquistão e da Coréia do Norte também foram motivados pela busca de segurança e prestígio, mas tiveram o efeito de questionar a lógica do Tratado de Não-Proliferação Nuclear de 1968, o TNP, concebido para procurar impedir o crescimento de potências nucleares, além das primeiras cinco. Da mesma maneira, a nuclearização militar potencial do Irã ou a não explícita e mais antiga nuclearização militar de Israel (que tem, entre as suas motivações, o medo de um novo Holocausto) são elementos que vêm contribuindo para uma renovação da nuclearização militar. Esta tende a aprofundar-se e a espraiar-se. Assim, nesta primeira década do século 21, não tem havido nem a cessação da corrida às armas nucleares nem o desarmamento nuclear contemplado no artigo VI do TNP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O ataque terrorista de 11 de setembro de 2001 aos EUA promoveu, na encruzilhada potencial entre radicalismo e tecnologia, o receio de que terroristas pudessem obter acesso às armas nucleares. Isso explica, no cenário contemporâneo, no âmbito do Conselho de Segurança da ONU, uma renovada ênfase na não-proliferação nuclear e também nos mecanismos das salvaguardas de controle da Agência Internacional de Energia Atômica. Uma das dificuldades do tema reside no fato de as descobertas científicas não poderem ser varridas da consciência humana. Por esta razão, o mundo pode deixar de estar nuclearmente armado, mas não deixará de ser nuclearmente capaz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O ciclo da energia nuclear é conhecido e dominado por um sem-número de países e os passos da passagem do ciclo do enriquecimento de urânio de fins pacíficos para a produção de uma bomba são relativamente simples. Daí o uso dual - tanto pacífico quanto militar -, no plano das opções políticas, do nuclear e a sua unidade científica e tecnológica. Esta unidade explica por que o desarmamento nuclear e a não-proliferação não podem ser separados. São as duas faces de uma mesma moeda, como tem afirmado com autoridade diplomática o Brasil que, no plano constitucional e dos compromissos internacionais, soberanamente, com boas razões, afastou a opção nuclear militar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por isso - e não desconhecendo os perigos da proliferação e os riscos da variedade de um terrorismo de base nuclear - é uma quimera imaginar que a não-proliferação poderá ser imposta pela força ou obtida diplomaticamente num mundo permeado por tensões difusas, por potências militarmente nucleares determinadas a manter-se indefinidamente nesta condição.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Celso Lafer, professor titular da Faculdade de Direito da USP, membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras, foi ministro das Relações Exteriores no governo FHC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-5298015634203516122?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/5298015634203516122/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=5298015634203516122' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/5298015634203516122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/5298015634203516122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/02/novos-perigos-das-armas-nucleares-celso.html' title=''/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-7663200068907613259</id><published>2008-01-23T13:23:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T23:23:52.374-02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R5dcR-fTKdI/AAAAAAAAACw/hun1xXHPahY/s1600-h/dkps.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158693362078001618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R5dcR-fTKdI/AAAAAAAAACw/hun1xXHPahY/s400/dkps.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As Conseqüências Beligerantes da Economia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O dinheiro são os veios da guerra, já dizia Maquiavel. E o extremo desta afirmação foi alcançado durante as guerras mundiais, quando a chamada “Economia de Guerra” se desenvolveu para ajudar os países envolvidos no esforço da guerra total. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Também é claro que ninguém gasta dinheiro sem esperar algum retorno, e portanto sempre se espera um butim após vencer um confronto. Mas o que acontece quando os veios da guerra secam antes de uma vitória conclusiva? Antes mesmo que o butim seja distribuído e dê uma sobrevida ao beligerante?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talvez a declaração de Mr. Bush Junior em visita ao Kuweit no último dia 12 de Janeiro de 2008 nos dê uma explicação. Foi declarado que a situação no Iraque está mais estável e que por isso poderá retirar algumas de suas tropas (20.000 soldados). Curioso foi o fato da declaração aparecer no meio do agravamento da crise das hipotecas subprime, que se espalha por todo o mundo, como indica a triste segunda feira de 21 de Janeiro, com todas as bolsas do mundo caindo alarmantemente. Na verdade, os EUA estão em uma sinuca de bico, e não poderão fazer outra coisa senão recuar em muitas das suas pretensões mundiais.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O fato da economia americana estar possivelmente caminhando para uma recessão (o que significa menos emprego, menos vendas, menos atividades e, claro, menos arrecadação do governo), de sua população estar bastante endividada com a bolha de crédito ao consumidor e de os EUA estarem com um déficit público e inflação crescentes bem como em conta corrente (déficit gêmeo do público) colocou uma forte restrição à guerra do Iraque. E também uma forte desconfiança do mundo em relação aos EUA – o Dólar, âncora do sistema financeiro internacional, se desvaloriza frente a todas as moedas de expressão.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assim, o risco de um problema financeiro e econômico profundo para o EUA os está obrigando a recuar em diversas frentes. Vaza documento da CIA dizendo que o Irã não procura a bomba atômica, os EUA ficam calados com a retórica agressiva do Putin em relação à barreira de mísseis na Europa Oriental, é procurado um armistício na Palestina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;É meus amigos, ao que parece Bin Laden esta levando a melhor, afundou seu inimigo em um atoleiro maluco. Mas quem vai colher o butim desta vez, deve ser a China.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-7663200068907613259?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/7663200068907613259/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=7663200068907613259' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/7663200068907613259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/7663200068907613259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/01/as-conseqncias-beligerantes-da-economia.html' title=''/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R5dcR-fTKdI/AAAAAAAAACw/hun1xXHPahY/s72-c/dkps.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-7607387336045242743</id><published>2008-01-02T17:29:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2008-01-02T17:32:44.977-02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Brazil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The cheque bounces&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dec 19th 2007 SÃO PAULO&lt;br /&gt;From The Economist print edition&lt;br /&gt;A setback for Lula and new uncertainty for public finances&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT IS an odd conjunction. The government struggles to get much done. But the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, floats above other politicians on a cloud of his own popularity. On December 13th he suffered the biggest defeat of his second term, when the Senate rejected the renewal of the CPMF, a tax on financial transactions. On the same day, Ibope, a pollster, suggested that 65% of Brazilians approve of their president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What explains this mixture of popularity and impotence? First, it is rare for any president to enjoy a majority in the Senate. He must use patronage to build coalitions and involve himself in negotiations with the opposition. Lula does neither of these things particularly well. His government has given too many jobs to Lula's own Workers' Party and to its biggest coalition partner, the PMDB, a blancmange of a party whose guiding philosophy is to wobble in the direction of power and then demand rewards for its support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, an expanding economy has kept tax revenues buoyant, making arguing for more taxes tricky. In a last-minute bid to save the CPMF, Lula announced that all the 40 billion reais ($22 billion) the new tax would raise would be spent on health care. Earlier, the government said it was essential to pay for bolsa família, a large-scale anti-poverty scheme. The opposition reckoned the tax would allow the government to splurge before municipal elections next year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The loss of the CPMF is a setback but not a disaster for the government. It can probably plug the gap through clever accounting and rises in other taxes. It could even trim a bloated bureaucracy. But the overall fiscal deficit runs close to 2% of GDP. Traders in the financial markets reckon that the Senate's blow to the public finances will discourage the ratings agencies from elevating Brazil's debt to investment grade. Lula was more serene. When his finance minister suggested that a new tax would be needed to replace the missing revenue, Lula told him to stop worrying and calm down.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-7607387336045242743?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/7607387336045242743/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=7607387336045242743' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/7607387336045242743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/7607387336045242743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2008/01/brazil-cheque-bounces-dec-19th-2007-so.html' title=''/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-4045322355976620908</id><published>2007-12-13T18:22:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T18:37:46.393-02:00</updated><title type='text'>E agora, Luiz? A festa acabou?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R2GXhBxe0XI/AAAAAAAAACo/0-OZckORf94/s1600-h/lula2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143558843101270386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R2GXhBxe0XI/AAAAAAAAACo/0-OZckORf94/s400/lula2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Desde seu início, o Governo Lula não sofria uma derrota política tão contundente. &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;A derrota da Base Aliada na votação para prorrogação da &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;CPMF&lt;/span&gt; foi uma ruptura.&lt;/span&gt; É um evento típico daqueles pontos de inflexão quando tudo muda e o futuro fica incerto. E, realmente, as únicas coisas que estão incertas fazem parte do futuro. No presente podemos ver as &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;rachaduras&lt;/span&gt; e contradições de forma tão patente que os governistas estão sem palavras, balbuciando explicações desconexas e rangendo seus dentes por haverem desmascarado sua incompetência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grande parte desta incompetência veio da arrogância. Não deviam ter subestimado a oposição, que sempre foi mais coesa que o PT e o &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;PMDB&lt;/span&gt; juntos. Aliás, deviam ter levado em conta esta fraqueza e começado a negociar a aprovação há muito mais tempo, cedendo aqui, oferecendo ali. Mas preferiram o caminho da força, da radicalização, com &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Mantega&lt;/span&gt; e Lula ameaçando o povo, chamando todo mundo que não queria a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;CPMF&lt;/span&gt; de sonegador e dizendo que iriam &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;sucatear&lt;/span&gt; ainda mais o nosso Sistema Único de Saúde. No final, praticamente nos 45 do segundo tempo, tiveram que se rebaixar e pedir o penico: o Lula saindo do Planalto para tomar café da manhã na casa de um governador e mendigar apoio (onde estão os protocolos de Hierarquia???) e o &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Mantega&lt;/span&gt; assinando cartas destinadas ao Senado se comprometendo a cumprir sua proposta para a aprovação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não surtiu efeito. Bem feito!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Só restou o &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Mercadante&lt;/span&gt; fingindo que fala grosso e levantando a voz nas entrevistas, dando um ar de &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;chilique&lt;/span&gt; àquela &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;afetação&lt;/span&gt; toda. Por que se prestam a tais papéis?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas o pior de tudo ainda está por vir. A minha amiga cartomante e economista, Mãe &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Dinorá&lt;/span&gt;, vê nuvens escuras no médio prazo. Por hoje já temos uma &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;idéia&lt;/span&gt;, com mais um exemplo de incompetência do nosso Ministro da Fazenda (se é que ele merece tal alcunha). O garoto &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Mantega&lt;/span&gt;, ao invés de chegar dizendo alto e em bom tom que faria cortes para se adequar à menor receita, falou timidamente em “manter o &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;superávit&lt;/span&gt; primário” mas mantendo a prioridade dos gastos sociais e populistas. Oras, como ele fará tal mágica? Se o local onde os gastos são menos rígidos está exatamente no “bolsa família” ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Não teve jeito, o mercado viu isso com receio, como uma esquiva do ajuste fiscal necessário. Acentuou a queda da &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Bovespa&lt;/span&gt;, as agências de risco anunciaram que vão segurar um pouco a indicação do Brasil para o “grau de investimento” e o Lula foi se consolar com o também derrotado em suas pretensões, senhor Hugo &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;Chavez&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por outro lado, as nuvens escuras da Mãe &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;Dinorá&lt;/span&gt; não estão 100% determinadas. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;Justamente&lt;/span&gt; pelo fato de não haver mágica, assim como 2 mais 2 não são 6, Lula vai ter que cortar em algum lugar, o que é o oposto de todo princípio político de seu governo. Como &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;Dilma&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;Rousef&lt;/span&gt; disse certa vez, para o Governo Lula “Gasto Corrente é vida”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas e agora que vai ter que diminuir o gasto? O governo morreu?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E agora, José?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sua doce palavra,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;seu instante de febre,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;sua gula e jejum,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;sua biblioteca,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;sua lavra de ouro,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;seu terno de vidro,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;sua incoerência,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;seu ódio - e agora? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-4045322355976620908?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/4045322355976620908/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=4045322355976620908' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4045322355976620908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4045322355976620908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2007/12/e-agora-luiz-festa-acabou.html' title='E agora, Luiz? A festa acabou?'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R2GXhBxe0XI/AAAAAAAAACo/0-OZckORf94/s72-c/lula2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-8659759663257036045</id><published>2007-12-04T13:10:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T13:29:05.040-02:00</updated><title type='text'>O Revés do Povão</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R1VyHBxe0UI/AAAAAAAAACQ/bnXfLYOQoBQ/s1600-h/Chavez.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140140014773915970" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R1VyHBxe0UI/AAAAAAAAACQ/bnXfLYOQoBQ/s400/Chavez.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;O coeficiente de correlação linear&lt;/span&gt; mede quanto um evento varia de acordo com outro distinto. Caso variem em direções oposta, toma valor negativo. Caso suas direções sejam as mesmas, seu sinal é positivo. Sua amplitude vai de -1, quando a correlação linear negativa é perfeita, até +1, quando a correlação linear positiva é perfeita. Mas o mais interessante deste índice é o fato de que, tirando eventos simulados e construídos em laboratório, ele nunca assume o valor da inexistência da correlação, o Zero. Daí podemos pressupor que fenômenos da natureza ou sociais, por mais distantes que estejam no espaço e no tempo, têm pelo menos uma pontinha de influência uns nos outros?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ontem foi um dia lindo em São Paulo. Uma segunda-feira com um céu esplendoroso após a queda do timinho corinthiano. Um céu de brigadeiro com um certo silêncio, uma calmaria. Poderia chamar isso de paz? Pelo menos foi uma trégua, com uma grande parcela do povão paulistano quieto, murmurando pelos cantos, falando baixo para não despertar a gozação de palmeirenses, tricolores, peixes e vascaínos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Além disso, ontem foi um dia lindo na América Latina, quando a oposição venezuelana liderada por seus estudantes conseguiu colher os frutos de sua mobilização e derrotou o Chavez nas urnas. Nem mesmo o presidente venezuelano acreditou: dava para ver em seu semblante atônito o tamanho do sapo que acabou engolindo. Um sapo parecido com o da torcida do Corinthians... Daí voltamos à história do coeficiente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Será que estamos em um momento de inflexão? Com grande parte da opinião pública cansada de tanto populismo, caudilhismo, mentiradas e baixarias? Afinal, agora nosso presidente popululista não pode mais ficar retirando exemplos do futebol para ilustrar como funciona a política e a economia. A não ser que recorra à Série B do campeonato brasileiro, o que pode ser improdutivo para o seu marketing político.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De qualquer forma, espero que o povo das Américas menos favorecidas retire lições dessa esperançosa segunda-feira, 03 de dezembro de 2007. &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;O que vem fácil vai fácil&lt;/span&gt;. O Corinthians caiu pela má gestão passada inebriada com as lavagens de dinheiro de magnatas russos foragidos na Grã-Bretanha. O Hugo Chavez perdeu devido à sua arrogância e seu desprezo em relação às “elites” e aos “filhinhos de papai estudantes” da Venezuela, pois estava bastante confortável nos braços do seu povão. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como diria Hobsbawn: em algum lugar da história o Nietzsche está rindo com sua vontade de potência.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-8659759663257036045?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/8659759663257036045/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=8659759663257036045' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/8659759663257036045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/8659759663257036045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2007/12/o-revs-do-povo.html' title='O Revés do Povão'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R1VyHBxe0UI/AAAAAAAAACQ/bnXfLYOQoBQ/s72-c/Chavez.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-5832287099399435663</id><published>2007-11-19T11:55:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2007-11-19T18:06:13.253-02:00</updated><title type='text'>E, no segundo mandato, Lula disse: Por que no te callas, dissidente</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R0GWMzDKhCI/AAAAAAAAACE/yMfM7GVV70c/s1600-h/moises_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134550196785153058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R0GWMzDKhCI/AAAAAAAAACE/yMfM7GVV70c/s400/moises_2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;O governo é um Leviatã&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, já dizia Hobbes. Um monstro pensante e inumano que toma suas atitudes baseadas em uma lógica alheia à nossa. Daí seria razoável supor que as paixões e sentimentos não deveriam aparecer em relações entre instituições. Não é bem assim. Agora o “cala boca” está na moda, com até um rei perdendo a compostura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normalmente em instituições autoritárias fica mais fácil o Leviatã cambalear e mostrar a verdadeira face do humano que toma as decisões: o ditador, o déspota, o tirano. Isso fica mais difícil em instituições democráticas, pois a decisão não parte de uma única pessoa. Em uma ditadura essa &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;correspondência biunívoca “eu sou o governo e o governo sou eu”&lt;/span&gt; fica mais escancarada. Talvez seja assim que devamos apreender o fato ocorrido no IPEA dia 16 de Novembro de 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na minha opinião robótica, tudo começou com a ministra Dilma Rouseff declarando que &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;“... despesa corrente é vida.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aí já estava sintetizada em uma única frase toda a política econômica do 2º Governo Lula. Gastar agora para conseguir os votos do 3º mandato. Claro que existem os dissidentes atentos a denunciar essa estratégia, e lógico que eles devem cair numa sociedade em que a democracia está em baixa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foi exatamente essa a razão. Por isso saíram os dissidentes Regis Bonelli, Fabio Giambiagi, Gervásio Rezende e Otávio Tourinho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No caso do Giambiagi, o qual conheço um pouco melhor, creio que um dos motivos para a sua saída foi a recomendação para política fiscal que indica uma disciplina dos gastos correntes, no texto para discussão Nº 1193 do IPEA (Cenários para a Relação Dívida Pública/PIB: Simulações e Perspectivas de Redução da Carga Tributária e da Relação Gasto Corrente/PIB). Só pelo título já entendemos o alinhamento do rapaz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com esses afastamentos, fica na cara que o Governo Lula não vai desencantar a maldição brasileira que existe em toda nossa história econômica republicana. Essa maldição foi estudada no ótimo livro “A Ordem do Progresso”, no qual mostra que um governante chega, arruma a casa em uma “janela de oportunidade internacional” para logo depois vir um espertalhão mal intencionado e acabar com tudo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por isso, o alinhamento Delfim Neto e Lula não me espanta. Pois Delfim foi o cara que melou a arrumação na casa feita pelo Bob Fields e o Simonsen após o governo populista do Jango.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E se achamos que esse cala boca é algo novo que não aconteceu nem na ditadura, como disse o Delfim Neto em uma entrevista aos jornais, basta lembrarmos que o próprio Delfim foi o protagonista de uma saia justa ao ordenar a manipulação dos índices de inflação de 1972 e 1973 para que eles chegassem perto da meta de 12%. Tanto que o Simonsen ao retornar ao governo militar teve que recalcular tudo e pedir desculpas pela sacanagem feita pelo “mui amigo” antecessor. Fato muito semelhante ao ocorrido na Argentina este ano, no qual o Governo Kirchner (o do marido) demitiu uma pesquisadora que denunciou o esquema para diminuir os índices de inflação oficiais. (esta matéria pode dar umas pistas para quem quiser pesquisar mais: &lt;a href="http://www.gazetamercantil.com.br/integraNoticia.aspx?Param=14%2C0%2C+%2C994476%2CUIOU"&gt;http://www.gazetamercantil.com.br/integraNoticia.aspx?Param=14%2C0%2C+%2C994476%2CUIOU&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-5832287099399435663?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/5832287099399435663/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=5832287099399435663' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/5832287099399435663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/5832287099399435663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2007/11/e-no-segundo-mandato-lula-disse-por-que_19.html' title='E, no segundo mandato, Lula disse: Por que no te callas, dissidente'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/R0GWMzDKhCI/AAAAAAAAACE/yMfM7GVV70c/s72-c/moises_2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-4687889094793009253</id><published>2007-10-02T11:09:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-10-02T15:09:25.139-03:00</updated><title type='text'>O Google está nos olhos do Big Brother</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RwJWSvtxegI/AAAAAAAAABo/exma3X-4tzs/s1600-h/EastGermFiles.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116747006692391426" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RwJWSvtxegI/AAAAAAAAABo/exma3X-4tzs/s400/EastGermFiles.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dados do Mundo antigo: Os arquivos da Alemanha Oriental á sua esquerda&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;A tradução de Google para o português é óculos de mergulho. Mas seria para os internautas mergulharem no mar da internet e fazerem descobertas científicas da vida marinha ou para o Big Brother mergulhar no oceano de indivíduos e descobrir tudo que pensamos?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;O mais legal desse outro lado da moeda é a possível impessoalidade do Grande Irmão. Ele não é uma pessoa de carne e osso, mas a personificação de todo controle que o biopoder está interessado em nos imputar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Claro que algumas vezes ele incorpora e desce no corpo físico de um chefe de polícia secreta, de um diretor de empresa ou de um reitor de faculdade, todos interessados na vida particular dos civis, empregados ou estudantes revoltosos. Nossa, como a Matrix é mais real que nós pensamos, ein? Muitas vezes eles só precisam acessar o Orkut!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Porém a linguagem de programação da Matrix não é tão escancarada como caracteres de um microcomputador. Na verdade ela foi toda construída baseada em signos e sutilezas que construímos socialmente. Mas não se enganem, não é porque não podemos pegar alguma coisa que ela não existe. Muitas vezes uma colocação infeliz que você solta no meio do interrogatório, da entrevista para emprego ou vaga da faculdade é o arquivo executável que explode toda sua carreira futura, por mais capaz que você seja.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Não é a toa que o interesse pelos nossos pontos de vista são tão acentuados.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Olha o artigo da Economist dessa semana:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Civil liberties: surveillance and privacy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Learning to live with Big Brother&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Sep 27th 2007From The Economist print edition&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second article in our series looks at the new technologies for collecting personal information, and the dangers of abuse&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT USED to be easy to tell whether you were in a free country or a dictatorship. In an old-time police state, the goons are everywhere, both in person and through a web of informers that penetrates every workplace, community and family. They glean whatever they can about your political views, if you are careless enough to express them in public, and your personal foibles. What they fail to pick up in the café or canteen, they learn by reading your letters or tapping your phone. The knowledge thus amassed is then stored on millions of yellowing pieces of paper, typed or handwritten; from an old-time dictator's viewpoint, exclusive access to these files is at least as powerful an instrument of fear as any torture chamber. Only when a regime falls will the files either be destroyed, or thrown open so people can see which of their friends was an informer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;These days, data about people's whereabouts, purchases, behaviour and personal lives are gathered, stored and shared on a scale that no dictator of the old school ever thought possible. Most of the time, there is nothing obviously malign about this. Governments say they need to gather data to ward off terrorism or protect public health; corporations say they do it to deliver goods and services more efficiently. But the ubiquity of electronic data-gathering and processing—and above all, its acceptance by the public—is still astonishing, even compared with a decade ago. Nor is it confined to one region or political system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In China, even as economic freedom burgeons, millions of city-dwellers are being issued with obligatory high-tech “residency” cards. These hold details of their ethnicity, religion, educational background, police record and even reproductive history—a refinement of the identity papers used by communist regimes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Britain used to pride itself on respecting privacy more than most other democracies do. But there is not much objection among Britons as “talking” surveillance cameras, fitted with loudspeakers, are installed, enabling human monitors to shout rebukes at anyone spotted dropping litter, relieving themselves against a wall or engaging in other “anti-social” behaviour.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Even smarter technology than that—the sort that has been designed to fight 21st century wars—is being used in the fight against crime, both petty and serious. In Britain, Italy and America, police are experimenting with the use of miniature remote-controlled drone aircraft, fitted with video cameras and infra-red night vision, to detect “suspicious” behaviour in crowds. Weighing no more than a bag of sugar and so quiet that it cannot be heard (or seen) when more than 50 metres (150 feet) from the ground, the battery-operated UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) can be flown even when out of sight by virtue of the images beamed back to a field operator equipped with special goggles. MW Power, the firm that distributes the technology in Britain, has plans to add a “smart water” spray that would be squirted at suspects, infusing their skin and clothes with genetic tags, enabling police to identify them later.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the time, the convenience of electronic technology, and the perceived need to fight the bad guys, seems to outweigh any worries about where it could lead. That is a recent development. On America's religious right, it was common in the late 1990s to hear dark warnings about the routine use of electronic barcodes in the retail trade: was this not reminiscent of the “mark of the beast” without which “no man might buy or sell”, predicted in the final pages of the Bible? But today's technophobes, religious or otherwise, are having to get used to devices that they find even spookier. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchips, long used to track goods and identify family pets; increasingly they are being implanted in human beings. Such implants are used to help American carers keep track of old people; to give employees access to high-security areas (in Mexico and Ohio); and even to give willing night-club patrons the chance to jump entry queues and dispense with cash at the bar (in Spain and the Netherlands). Some people want everyone to be implanted with RFIDs, as the answer to identity theft.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Across the rich and not-so-rich world, electronic devices are already being used to keep tabs on ordinary citizens as never before. Closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV) with infra-red night vision peer down at citizens from street corners, and in banks, airports and shopping malls. Every time someone clicks on a web page, makes a phone call, uses a credit card, or checks in with a microchipped pass at work, that person leaves a data trail that can later be tracked. Every day, billions of bits of such personal data are stored, sifted, analysed, cross-referenced with other information and, in many cases, used to build up profiles to predict possible future behaviour. Sometimes this information is collected by governments; mostly it is gathered by companies, though in many cases they are obliged to make it available to law-enforcement agencies and other state bodies when asked. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name="follow_the_data"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Follow the data&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The more data are collected and stored, the greater the potential for “data mining”—using mathematical formulas to sift through large sets of data to discover patterns and predict future behaviour. If the public had any strong concerns about the legitimacy of this process, many of them evaporated on September 11th 2001—when it became widely accepted that against a deadly and globally networked enemy, every stratagem was needed. Techniques for processing personal information, which might have raised eyebrows in the world before 2001, suddenly seemed indispensable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two days after the attacks on New York and Washington, Frank Asher, a drug dealer turned technology entrepreneur, decided to examine the data amassed on 450m people by his private data-service company, Seisint, to see if he could identify possible terrorists. After giving each person a risk score based on name, religion, travel history, reading preferences and so on, Mr Asher came up with a list of 1,200 “suspicious” individuals, which he handed to the FBI. Unknown to him, five of the terrorist hijackers were on his list.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The FBI was impressed. Rebranded the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, or Matrix, Mr Asher's programme, now taken over by the FBI, could soon access 20 billion pieces of information, all of them churned and sorted and analysed to predict who might one day turn into a terrorist. A new version, called the System to Assess Risk, or STAR, has just been launched using information drawn from both private and public databases. As most of the data have already been disclosed to third parties—airline tickets, job records, car rentals and the like—they are not covered by the American constitution's Fourth Amendment, so no court warrant is required. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an age of global terror, when governments are desperately trying to pre-empt future attacks, such profiling has become a favourite tool. But although it can predict the behaviour of large groups, this technique is “incredibly inaccurate” when it comes to individuals, says Simon Wessely, a professor of psychiatry at King's College London. Bruce Schneier, an American security guru, agrees. Mining vast amounts of data for well-established behaviour patterns, such as credit-card fraud, works very well, he says. But it is “extraordinarily unreliable” when sniffing out terrorist plots, which are uncommon and rarely have a well-defined profile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;By way of example, Mr Schneier points to the Automated Targeting System, operated by the American Customs and Border Protection, which assigns a terrorist risk-assessment score to anyone entering or leaving the United States. In 2005 some 431m people were processed. Assuming an unrealistically accurate model able to identify terrorists (and innocent people) with 99.9% accuracy, that means some 431,000 false alarms annually, all of which presumably need checking. Given the unreliability of passenger data, the real number is likely to be far higher, he says.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those caught up in terrorist-profiling systems are not allowed to know their scores or challenge the data. Yet their profiles, which may be shared with federal, state and even foreign governments, could damage their chances of getting a state job, a student grant, a public contract or a visa. It could even prevent them from ever being able to fly again. Such mistakes are rife, as the unmistakable Senator “Ted” Kennedy found to his cost. In the space of a single month in 2004, he was prevented five times from getting on a flight because the name “T Kennedy” had been used by a suspected terrorist on a secret “no-fly” list.&lt;a name="watching_everybody"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Watching everybody&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another worry: whereas information on people used to be gathered selectively—following a suspect's car, for example—it is now gathered indiscriminately. The best example of such universal surveillance is the spread of CCTV cameras. With an estimated 5m CCTV cameras in public places, nearly one for every ten inhabitants, England and Wales are among the most closely scrutinised countries in the world—along with America which has an estimated 30m surveillance cameras, again one for every ten inhabitants. Every Briton can expect to be caught on camera on average some 300 times a day. Few seem to mind, despite research suggesting that CCTV does little to deter overall crime.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In any case, says Britain's “NO2ID” movement, a lobby group that is resisting government plans to introduce identity cards, cameras are a less important issue than the emergence of a “database state” in which the personal records of every citizen are encoded and too easily accessible.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alongside fingerprints, DNA has also become an increasingly popular tool to help detect terrorists and solve crime. Here again Britain (minus Scotland) is a world leader, with the DNA samples of 4.1m individuals, representing 7% of the population, on its national database, set up in 1995. (Most other EU countries have no more than 100,000 profiles on their DNA databases.) The British database includes samples from one in three black males and nearly 900,000 juveniles between ten and 17—all tagged for life as possible criminals, since inclusion in the database indicates that someone has had a run-in with the law. This is because in Britain, DNA is taken from anyone arrested for a “recordable” offence—usually one carrying a custodial sentence, but including such peccadillos as begging or being drunk and disorderly. It is then stored for life, even if that person is never charged or is later acquitted. No other democracy does this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In America, the federal DNA databank holds 4.6m profiles, representing 1.5% of the population. But nearly all are from convicted criminals. Since January 2006 the FBI has been permitted to take DNA samples on arrest, but these can be expunged, at the suspect's request, if no charges are brought or if he is later acquitted. Of some 40 states that have their own DNA databases, only California allows the permanent storage of samples of those charged, but later cleared. In Britain, where people cannot ask for samples to be removed from the database, it was recently proposed that the best way to prevent discrimination is therefore to include the whole population in the DNA database, plus all visitors to the country. Although this approach is commendably fair, it would be extremely expensive as well as an administrative nightmare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In popular culture, the use of DNA has become rather glamorous. Tabloids and television dramas tell stories of DNA being used by police to find kidnappers or exonerate convicts on death row. According to a poll carried out for a BBC “Panorama” programme this week, two-thirds of Britons would favour a new law requiring that everyone's DNA be stored. But DNA is less reliable as a crime-detection tool than most people think. Although it almost never provides a false “negative” reading, it can produce false “positives”. Professor Allan Jamieson, director of the Forensic Institute in Glasgow, believes too much faith is placed in it. As he points out, a person can transfer DNA to a place, or weapon, that he (or she) has never seen or touched.&lt;a name="wiretapping_is_too_easy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Wiretapping is too easy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More disturbing for most Americans are the greatly expanded powers the government has given itself over the past six years to spy on its citizens. Under the Patriot Act, rushed through after the 2001 attacks, the intelligence services and the FBI can now oblige third parties—internet providers, libraries, phone companies, political parties and the like—to hand over an individual's personal data, without a court warrant or that person's knowledge, if they claim that the information is needed for “an authorised investigation” in connection with international terrorism. (Earlier this month, a federal court in New York held this to be unconstitutional.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under the Patriot Act's “sneak and peek” provisions, a person's house or office can likewise now be searched without his knowledge or a prior court warrant. The act also expanded the administration's ability to intercept private e-mails and phone calls, though for this a court warrant was supposedly still needed. But in his capacity as wartime commander-in-chief, George Bush decided to ignore this requirement and set up his own secret “warrantless” eavesdropping programme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The outcry when this was revealed was deafening, and the programme was dropped. But in August Mr Bush signed into law an amendment to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, allowing the warrantless intercept of phone calls and e-mails if at least one of the parties is “reasonably believed” to be outside America. So ordinary Americans will continue to be spied on without the need for warrants—but no one is protesting, because now it is legal. &lt;a name="where's_your_warrant"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Where's your warrant?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to defenders of warrantless interception, requiring warrants for all government surveillance would dramatically limit the stream of foreign intelligence available. Privacy should not be elevated above all other concerns, they argue. But would it really impede law-enforcement that much if a judge was required to issue a warrant on each occasion? Technology makes wiretapping much easier than it used to be—too easy, perhaps—so requiring warrants would help to restore the balance, say privacy advocates.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Britain has long permitted the “warrantless” eavesdropping of its citizens (only the home secretary's authorisation is required), and few people appear to mind. What does seem to worry people is the sheer volume of information now being kept on them and the degree to which it is being made accessible to an ever wider group of individuals and agencies. The government is now developing the world's first national children's database for every child under 18. The National Health Service database, already the biggest of its kind in Europe, will eventually hold the medical records of all 53m people in England and Wales. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even more controversial is Britain's National Identity Register, due to hold up to 49 different items on everyone living in the country. From 2009, everybody is to be issued with a “smart” biometric ID card, linked to the national register, which will be required for access to public services such as doctors' surgeries, unemployment offices, libraries and the like—leaving a new, readily traceable, electronic data-trail. America plans a similar system, with a string of personal data held on a new “smart” national driver's licence that would double up as an ID.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Companies are also amassing huge amounts of data about people. Most people do not think about what information they are handing over when they use their credit or shop “loyalty” card, buy something online or sign up for a loan. Nor do they usually have much idea of the use to which such data are subsequently put. Not only do companies “mine” them to target their advertising more effectively, for example, but also to give their more valued (ie, higher-spending) customers better service. They may also “share” their data with the police—without the individual's consent or knowledge.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most democratic countries now have comprehensive data-protection and/or privacy laws, laying down strict rules for the collection, storage and use of personal data. There is also often a national information or privacy commissioner to police it all (though not in America). Intelligence agencies, and law-enforcement authorities often as well, are usually exempt from such data-protection laws whenever national security is involved. But such laws generally stipulate that the data be used only for a specific purpose, held no longer than necessary, kept accurate and up-to-date and protected from unauthorised prying.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That all sounds great. But as a series of leaks in the past few years has shown, no data are ever really secure. Laptops containing sensitive data are stolen from cars, backup tapes go missing in transit and hackers can break into databases, even the Pentagon's. Then there are “insider attacks”, in which people abuse the access they enjoy through their jobs. National Health Service workers in Britain were recently reported to have peeked at the intimate medical details of an unnamed celebrity. All of this can lead to invasions of privacy and identity theft. As the Surveillance Studies Network concludes in its recent report on the “surveillance society”, drawn up for Britain's information commissioner, Richard Thomas, “The jury is out on whether privacy regulation...is not ineffective in the face of novel threats.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name="boiling_the_frog"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Boiling the frog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the erosion of individual privacy began long before 2001, it has accelerated enormously since. And by no means always to bad effect: suicide-bombers, by their very nature, may not be deterred by a CCTV camera (even a talking one), but security wonks say many terrorist plots have been foiled, and lives saved, through increased eavesdropping, computer profiling and “sneak and peek” searches. But at what cost to civil liberties?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Privacy is a modern “right”. It is not even mentioned in the 18th-century revolutionaries' list of demands. Indeed, it was not explicitly enshrined in international human-rights laws and treaties until after the second world war. Few people outside the civil-liberties community seem to be really worried about its loss now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That may be because electronic surveillance has not yet had a big impact on most people's lives, other than (usually) making it easier to deal with officialdom. But with the collection and centralisation of such vast amounts of data, the potential for abuse is huge and the safeguards paltry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ross Anderson, a professor at Cambridge University in Britain, has compared the present situation to a “boiled frog”—which fails to jump out of the saucepan as the water gradually heats. If liberty is eroded slowly, people will get used to it. He added a caveat: it was possible the invasion of privacy would reach a critical mass and prompt a revolt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there is not much sign of that in Western democracies, this may be because most people rightly or wrongly trust their own authorities to fight the good fight against terrorism, and avoid abusing the data they possess. The prospect is much scarier in countries like Russia and China, which have embraced capitalist technology and the information revolution without entirely exorcising the ethos of an authoritarian state where dissent, however peaceful, is closely monitored. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the face of things, the information age renders impossible an old-fashioned, file-collecting dictatorship, based on a state monopoly of communications. But imagine what sort of state may emerge as the best brains of a secret police force—a force whose house culture treats all dissent as dangerous—perfect the art of gathering and using information on massive computer banks, not yellowing paper. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-4687889094793009253?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/4687889094793009253/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=4687889094793009253' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4687889094793009253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4687889094793009253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2007/10/o-google-est-nos-olhos-do-big-brother.html' title='O Google está nos olhos do Big Brother'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RwJWSvtxegI/AAAAAAAAABo/exma3X-4tzs/s72-c/EastGermFiles.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-9001056007058980108</id><published>2007-09-14T12:59:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T11:46:26.594-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Algumas Evidências</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RuvrSOc3UuI/AAAAAAAAABg/8iXsZ7an8gQ/s1600-h/QueueAP.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110436900531294946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RuvrSOc3UuI/AAAAAAAAABg/8iXsZ7an8gQ/s400/QueueAP.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Abaixo segue um texto da Economist sobre a corrida bancária que ocorreu na Inglaterra ontem, fato esquisito muito comum na crise de 1930 e o Crack da Bolsa de NY. O Banco Central Inglês teve até que emprestar dinheiro para salvar a instituição que não conseguiu crédito para arcar com suas despesas de curto prazo (ou seja, o sistema financeiro está restringindo os empréstimos interbancários, sinal de apreensão). Por que que só no Brasil a economia de Lula está às mil maravilhas? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tem também um texto abaixo do Observatório da Imprensa falando do blackout que houve no Senado no momento da votação sobre a cassação de Renan Calheiros. A cachorrada do Senado Federal chegou a inventar a desculpa de pane nos sistemas para que votassem em sigilo. Simplesmente pediram pra cagar e saíram.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hit by a rock&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sep 14th 2007From Economist.com&lt;br /&gt;The credit crisis hits the high street&lt;br /&gt;AP&lt;br /&gt;A CENTURY ago, the depth of a banking crisis was measured by the length of the queue outside banks. These days, financial panics are more likely to be played out through heavy selling in share, bond or currency markets than old-fashioned bank runs. That makes the sight on the morning of Friday September 14th of a queue of people waiting (patiently in most cases) to take their money out of Northern Rock, a wounded British mortgage bank, all the more extraordinary. A crisis that started in America’s subprime mortgage market where dodgy loans were made to unsound borrowers has shaken the world’s financial capitals since mid-August. Now it has landed on the high street at one of Britain’s biggest mortgage lenders.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Northern Rock faced the triple ignominy of becoming the first British lender in 30 years to be granted a bailout by the Bank of England, losing 29% of its value on the stockmarket, and having to coax savers not to withdraw their money in a rush. (Customers queuing up in its home town of Newcastle reportedly burst out laughing when bank staff asked if anyone wanted to deposit money.) Its troubles weakened the world’s stockmarkets, and sterling also fell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet Northern Rock appears to be less of a protagonist in the current credit crisis than a bad case of collateral damage. Its problems were caused not because it risked its shareholders’ money on poorly judged investments linked to American subprime mortgages, as many far bigger and more international banks have. Instead, it has been hit by a failure to borrow from other banks to fund its mortgage lending practices. The interbank market where such borrowing usually takes place has partially seized up in recent weeks because big banks are hoarding as much capital as they can to pay for the cost of their own bad investments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com////ad.doubleclick.net//jump//main.economist.com//businessart" target="_top" sect="business;sz=350x300;ord='%20+%20random%20+%20'?&amp;quot;"&gt;Granted, Northern Rock’s racy business model exposed it more to such shocks than conservative lenders with large branch networks and steadier sources of finance, such as extensive customer deposits. It chose instead to borrow cheap funds when they were available in the markets, which enabled it to offer more attractive mortgage rates than some of its competitors. Its loan book has increased aggressively in recent years to about £17.4 billion ($35 billion).&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In agreeing to bail it out, British financial authorities stressed that Northern Rock was “solvent, exceeds its regulatory capital requirement and has a good quality loan book.” The Bank of England charged the bank a penalty rate for the loans, but allowed it to borrow as much as it could provide collateral to support. That suggests the line of credit is potentially very large, but the neatest solution may eventually be its sale to a bigger bank.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rescue has brought the crisis directly to the Bank of England’s front door. Until this month, it had stood aloof from efforts by America’s Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank to provide liquidity to banks to ease the crunch in the short-term money markets. Its governor, Mervyn King, this week made clear the importance of charging at penalty rates to prevent moral hazard. But Northern Rock is not alone among the world’s banks in funding itself in the wholesale markets. Until global interbank borrowing and lending opens up a bit, central bankers around the world will be watching anxiously for a repeat performance in their own neighbourhoods.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Texto Observatório da Imprensa:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://observatorio.ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/artigos.asp?cod=450JDB010"&gt;http://observatorio.ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/artigos.asp?cod=450JDB010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A corrida bancária do Northern Rock:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://oglobo.globo.com/economia/mat/2007/09/14/297724526.asp"&gt;http://oglobo.globo.com/economia/mat/2007/09/14/297724526.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.northernrock.co.uk/"&gt;http://www.northernrock.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://br.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&amp;amp;storyID=2007-09-14T124256Z_01_N14430085_RTRIDST_0_NEGOCIOS-BANCOS-ACOES-ROCK-POL.XML"&gt;http://br.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&amp;amp;storyID=2007-09-14T124256Z_01_N14430085_RTRIDST_0_NEGOCIOS-BANCOS-ACOES-ROCK-POL.XML&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-9001056007058980108?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/9001056007058980108/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=9001056007058980108' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/9001056007058980108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/9001056007058980108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2007/09/httpobservatorio.html' title='Algumas Evidências'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RuvrSOc3UuI/AAAAAAAAABg/8iXsZ7an8gQ/s72-c/QueueAP.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-1671785244508498579</id><published>2007-09-13T12:32:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-09-13T15:57:44.137-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Renan e a Cachorrada</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RulhyOc3UtI/AAAAAAAAABY/vljcfrglbBI/s1600-h/carrocinha2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109722767729054418" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RulhyOc3UtI/AAAAAAAAABY/vljcfrglbBI/s400/carrocinha2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Dizem dos pesquisadores de fenômenos sociais que estes são mestres em prever coisas óbvias. Quando não é óbvio o pesquisador acaba por errar a sua profecia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um exemplo disso ocorreu ontem, no dia 12, quando Renan Calheiros foi absolvido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se pararmos para analisar o porquê deste este fenômeno recorrente da política brasileira (olha aí o eterno retorno, gente!!! Chora cavaco!!!) acabaremos numa única máxima, numa das poucas proposições aceitas como determinísticas e certeiras no mundo científico e político:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pedir para cassarem em plenário Renan seria o mesmo que &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pedir à Cachorrada para votar a favor da Carrocinha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O maior problema disso tudo são as conseqüências para a credibilidade da instituição pública chamada no Brasil de Congresso Nacional. Como sabemos, quando as instituições estão em baixa, abrem-se margens para que algumas pessoas passem por cima das regras no intuito de colherem o poder e fazer valer suas decisões políticas sobre a população.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somemos a isso a violência pública crescente e sempre “propagandeada” pelos jornais de horário nobre, a classe média esmagada pelos impostos, escândalos no poder executivo relacionados a roubalheiras: é uma panela de pressão pronta para explodir em uma ditadura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O próprio Lula em um dos poucos momentos de luz nos chamou atenção a esse fato, que se continuássemos a bater assim no congresso desta forma isso daria margem a uma ditadura. O problema é que ele usou esse raciocínio lógico não no sentido de pedir a moralização dos 3 poderes, que é a verdadeira causa de tudo de ruim no Brasil. Ele queria algo diferente. Algo do tipo: pessoal, faça vista grossa. Se virem uma ladroagem num comentem muito não. Deixa a gente roubar tranqüila.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ou seja, se virem uma cagada de um cachorrão chamado Renan na calçada, não se indignem. Desviem a tempo e finjam que não viram nada, mantendo sempre a elegância de ignorar os fatos desagradáveis da vida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEORIA DA CONSPIRAÇÃO: Enquanto isso, no mundo da economia, o dólar desceu abaixo dos R$1,90 mais uma vez desde a crise dos investimentos arriscados no setor imobiliário americano. Eita mar de tranqüilidade! Parece até que tem alguém dizendo assim: pode investir que eu garanto a ordem com punho de aço. Não sei por que, mas me lembrei do Médici e Delfim Neto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Isso sim é eterno retorno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-1671785244508498579?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/1671785244508498579/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=1671785244508498579' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/1671785244508498579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/1671785244508498579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2007/09/renan-e-cachorrada.html' title='Renan e a Cachorrada'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RulhyOc3UtI/AAAAAAAAABY/vljcfrglbBI/s72-c/carrocinha2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665919817317533878.post-4346613743625306397</id><published>2007-09-11T19:50:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-09-13T15:56:50.785-03:00</updated><title type='text'>INFELIZ 11 DE SETEMBRO</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RuccE58Fn_I/AAAAAAAAABQ/WwriBNKP0zs/s1600-h/bin+laden.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109083172873019378" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RuccE58Fn_I/AAAAAAAAABQ/WwriBNKP0zs/s400/bin+laden.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;O derradeiro 11 de Setembro.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Há 6 anos ocorria a hostilidade internacional em solo americano que mais matou . Foram ao todo &lt;strong&gt;3.234&lt;/strong&gt; mortes (segundo wikipedia.org, Pearl Harbor tirou a vida de 2.333 pessoas ). Para termos uma idéia do tamanho desta ferida no orgulho dos Estados Unidos, neste momento sabemos oficialmente que a Guerra no Iraque, desencadeada por este evento e que dura incessantes 4 anos e 6 meses aproximadamente, matou &lt;strong&gt;3.104&lt;/strong&gt; soldados do Tio Sam em combate.&lt;br /&gt;( &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ou seja, Bin Laden conseguiu em um evento de poucas horas o mesmo número de vítimas americanas ou simpatizantes que 4 anos e meio de guerra. Ele é um ídolo pop, um semi-deus da guerra e da matança. Até postei uma foto dele (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://oglobo.globo.com/blogs/moreira/post.asp?cod_Post=71605&amp;a=88"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://oglobo.globo.com/blogs/moreira/post.asp?cod_Post=71605&amp;amp;a=88&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como eu, o Andróide Paranóide, poderia escolher uma data mais infeliz e miserável para iniciar um blog que mostra como os seres humanos são previsíveis e irracionais? Para mostrar que suas respostas aos fatos que conduzem o mundo ao abismo só estão dando uma forcinha a mais?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pois bem, assim, tento com esta página incitar a discussão pública sobre nosso padrão de eterno retorno às respostas dadas no passado. Quero aqui analisar fatos fazendo as conexões mais distantes entre o nosso presente com o nosso passado, pois essa conexão será uma pista do que podemos esperar pelo futuro. Sintam-se em casa todos os humanos ou máquinas que se interessam por geopolítica, estratégia, história, guerras, conflitos, teorias da conspiração.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E nunca se enganem, o Big Brother é o Google.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2665919817317533878-4346613743625306397?l=00retorno.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/feeds/4346613743625306397/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2665919817317533878&amp;postID=4346613743625306397' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4346613743625306397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2665919817317533878/posts/default/4346613743625306397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://00retorno.blogspot.com/2007/09/feliz-11-de-setembro.html' title='INFELIZ 11 DE SETEMBRO'/><author><name>Paranoid Android</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06895293673924004529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l9ys-Erou_w/RuccE58Fn_I/AAAAAAAAABQ/WwriBNKP0zs/s72-c/bin+laden.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
