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To: energyplay who wrote (67272)	10/17/2010 3:00:54 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218776

People, most non-educated people, or desperate people, are dreamers. The world had a couple of billion of such people. They look for a solution for their problems faraway from where they are. The US has captured the imagination of those millions of people and they have taken the US thing com gusto. That is why we had many trying to escape communism. But we know only a few : a ballerina, a tennis champion, a top scientist. Those who have no chance to escape dreamt. And adopted the US things, rights for this and rights for that. Nothing wrong with people adopting foreign things. I adopted a lot. And I am grateful for what other people handed over to me free of charge. I used to say to my friends -who disliked Germans- I've been taking from the Germans the best what they have and disregarding everything else. The ignorant masses the world over take what is easy to adopt. Thus the importation of the social: women's rights, gay rights, near unlimited free speech.

To: energyplay who wrote (67272)	10/17/2010 4:07:20 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218776

I used to read lots of futuroloques. They were entertaining and the authors had a big imagination on how they could shape things in the years ahead. But I was an outsider looking in. Late 80s, I start seeing flaws, big flaws, in their futurologists thing. There was this future of barely half billion people in a planet of 5 or so billions. Where were the shirtless in this future? What? Future defined by Swedes and Californians? Please! Europe 1992, a project that would create a superboom? I was the only one laughing!! Well, eplay, I stopped reading them. I have my own view on how this thing is going to turn into and I can tell you it is not like Alvin Toffler -a great futurologue, mind you- said it will be.

To: energyplay who wrote (67272)	11/24/2010 1:47:51 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218776

Stalinist economy is to throw capital and labor on natural resources and country skyrockets. Country grows on oil, iron and cement. PBR is the chance for Brazil to grow Stalinist style. Throw capital and labor at pre-salt oil. Brazil Petrobras To Raise $30B-$40 Bln Over Next 5 Years -CEO online.wsj.com Of course Brazil lives a complete different situation that the Stalinist economy: Extract from rural sector and throw massively capital to try to bridge the gap with the west. In the case of Brazil it will add a significant momentum to the economic growth in the next decades.