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Brazil: Sometimes it sinks
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  • The left remains stubbornly headed by president Dilma and her incapable management and the right is waiting on the disaster to profit.

    Of course, but management have few options here, energy and resources issues will become even more severe as top countries will demand more and will left less.

  • @Vitaly_Kiselev We are stuck in here... The whole country is awaiting the end of Carnival for the year really begin. And we have no good news whatsoever. The left remains stubbornly headed by president Dilma and her incapable management and the right is waiting on the disaster to profit. Many people I know lost their jobs and the informal works are geting saturated... Tough times...

  • The economic slide continues. The number of jobs in the formal sector fell by 1.5m in 2015, the fastest pace of job destruction since comparable records began in 1992. Another 1m could be lost this year, analysts reckon. Sales of vehicles dropped by a fifth last year. The IMF now predicts that GDP will shrink by 3.5% in 2016, more than three times as much as it expected in October

  • Something does not add up

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  • Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff will face impeachment proceedings in Congress, marking a deepening of the political crisis that is dragging Latin America’s largest economy further into recession.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-02/rousseff-to-face-impeachment-in-brazil-congress-speaker-says

  • So you have privileged access to that Putin's secret folder heee, :-)

    OK it's fair. But for the record, casualty don't exist, and there is a plan don't know exactly from where or who, even though it's clear the direction we are heading.

    Improvement? yes, learn to value the cost of important things...

  • Indeed, but if so, can you please share your opinion on why is this happening in Brazil (and rest of the world and where are we all heading?

    You can check http://ourfiniteworld.com/ on that is happening. It is best matching model that I know (may be some other exist I am not aware of).

    Extreme volatility in commodities indicate fundamental problems.

    For me is an well planned strategy, where chaos comes as first goal of the elite, then let them kill each other (regular mortals) we push from the shadows, when things arrive to that state where more vulnerable we are, they come in as saviors, allowing to use whatever brainwash methods and cloaked slavery, available. And lastly global control with some kind of nazi weird philosophy. Guys we need to stop this B...S... plans somehow...

    I do not think that it is super advanced plan. All elites just go with the flow. Any error on their side can cost them their lives.

    For extremely long time life level improvement came from the skies, sorry, from the earth :-) ) Now you need to be extremely educated, have very good execution command chain and also be quite lucky to even keep same level.

  • Indeed, but if so, can you please share your opinion on why is this happening in Brazil (and rest of the world and where are we all heading?

    This is where I was trying to go to. ;-)

    For me is an well planned strategy, where chaos comes as first goal of the elite, then let them kill each other (regular mortals) we push from the shadows, when things arrive to that state where more vulnerable we are, they come in as saviors, allowing to use whatever brainwash methods and cloaked slavery, available. And lastly global control with some kind of nazi weird philosophy. Guys we need to stop this B...S... plans somehow...

  • Yes there is definitely a huge issue where the demand for more and more energy and resources got out of desired proportion, and power and "control" (aka death) is what is needed today for the rising population problem.

    I think that elites are still confused. Old usual methods do not work.

    Thing is, capitalism is a "name" for a method of bad decisions made in preference for economic and market value instead of Human value. This is why for me at least is dying and fast, economics and market values, are not essentially needed for individual survival, and when "control" from market minds start to take place, no matter the human value cost, survival of individual will also take place.

    Well, capitalism is natural thing occurring from development of production tools. Ruling class require certain values (priority of individual interests, fake democracy) to keep control. Any proposals that this can be changed keeping capitalism is just wishful thinking.

    The Symptoms are clear look at 3rd world countries being squeezed for the sustainability of the 1st world, How long will this last?

    3rd world countries worked to 1st world for long long time. :-) Not only you must be oppressed to rise against oppression, you also must understand your interests and know that to do to fight for them.

  • Yes there is definitely a huge issue where the demand for more and more energy and resources got out of desired proportion, and power and "control" (aka death) is what is needed today for the rising population problem. Question is problem for who?

    Because if more equal distribution of energy and resources, took place in a society educated on values, where the correct comprehension in the management of technology, resources, waste, etc. where considered a priority instead of commodity and profit as for today. It wouldn't be a an issue in first place. The word here is education.

    Thing is, capitalism is a "name" for a method of bad decisions made in preference for economic and market value instead of Human value. This is why for me at least is dying and fast, economics and market values, are not essentially needed for individual survival, and when "control" from market minds start to take place, no matter the human value cost, survival of individual will also take place. And that's not a nice scenario. Maybe that's why at least America Continent is already fully militarized.

    This is why I say it's an interesting part of history we leave in.

    Just look at the cause of the problem, it's there where the attention must be at. The Symptoms are clear look at 3rd world countries being squeezed for the sustainability of the 1st world, How long will this last? Look at wars starting to happen, how long can they be maintained?

  • My two cents, capitalism peaking down in an irreversible way (for some time now), many countries is this situation today and tomorrow it will get worse.

    My view is different - while capitalism make things worse and do not allow to solve many things in principle, current issue arise from situation with resources and energy and their affordability to rising population.

  • My two cents, capitalism peaking down in an irreversible way (for some time now), many countries is this situation today and tomorrow it will get worse. War is the only way to try to balance the economy, except this time it wont work as in the past. It's not possible to maintain this frenzy pace of "growth" without slavery and/or less rights and people. And as fantastic as this may sound we are about to live a very interesting slice of history, lets make the best out of it.

    It's an economic, power and classes war, way ahead of politics and social figures and names.

    It wont be more than 5 years for this system total collapse.

    Any guess on what will prevail as the new world social organization philosophy ???

  • Gross domestic product in Brazil contracted 1.7 percent in the three months ended in September, after a revised 2.1 percent drop the previous quarter, the national statistics institute said in Rio de Janeiro

    Private consumption has now declined for three consecutive quarters (at an average quarterly rate of -8.5% qoq sa, annualized), and investment spending for nine consecutive quarters (at an average rate of -10.0% qoq sa, annualized). Overall, gross fixed investment declined by a cumulative 21% from 2Q2013.

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  • Another two fully corrupt companies :-) (must be)

    Statoil says it is pulling out of Arctic leases north of Alaska two months after Shell drilled a dry hole in a nearby region, the latest setback in the petroleum industry’s efforts to tame U.S. Arctic waters.

    The Norwegian oil company has held leases and studied drilling conditions in the oil-rich Chukchi Sea north of Alaska for seven years, though it never drilled any wells there. The failure of Royal Dutch Shell’s $7 billion drilling expedition was discouraging, and it meant the Anglo-Dutch oil major would never build underwater pipes and other infrastructure that Statoil could have used to help transport its crude from below the frigid waters to land.

    http://fuelfix.com/blog/2015/11/17/statoil-exits-arctic-leases-north-of-alaska/#26612101=0

  • I guess those fields never had all that oil as promised... and they knew it.

    Something tells me that all other similar companies are similar. :-)
    And projections about oil fields are like twins.
    Yet I think that managers know almost nothing. They now just hope.
    And corruption scandal is good cloud cover to divert public attention from real energy issues.

  • Petrobras has been a source of corruption feeding for decades... It just became worse in the last one. I guess those fields never had all that oil as promised... and they knew it.

  • Endemic corruption, indeed :-(

    All $130 billions?

    May be this guys also drank all oil from failed fields?

  • Endemic corruption, indeed :-(

  • When oilworkers began their strike Nov. 1, their main grievance regarded Petrobras' plans to cut investments and sell assets to bring its massive $130 billion debt under control.

    Petrobras on Thursday reported a $1.01 billion third-quarter loss, the third loss in the past five quarters.

    Otherwise it is all pure corruption. :-)

  • "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Churchill

    You forget to add part that this guy prefer to omit - it is best only for bourgeoisie :-)

  • "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Churchill

  • Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly .... he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

  • This is not good news at all. The PMDB party is worse than PT, been in power for the last 33 years and it is one of the responsible for what is hapening. They´re just pretending otherwise...