No Brasil, Alain de Botton / In Brazil, Alain de Botton

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O que mais você faria se comandasse o país?

Além da reforma geral na arquitetura, contrataria alguns tecnocratas alemães para vigiar o dinheiro e acabar com a corrupção de uma vez. Definiria que, a partir de 31 de janeiro, não haverá mais corrupção, vamos investigar tudo até o fim e essa se tornaria a primeira sociedade 100% transparente do mundo, usaríamos a internet para abrir todas as contas públicas.

Por que tecnocratas alemães?

A Alemanha tem o menor nível de corrupção do mundo, seu sistema de impostos é extraordinário, eles não perdem um centavo, não há furos. Por isso são tão poderosos. Então vamos precisar de um pouco de alemães aqui, talvez os de Porto Alegre possam ser usados para isso.

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Folha.com - Ilustrada - No Brasil, Alain de Botton critica elite, caos de SP e desigualdade - 26/11/2011

The 2012 Failed States Index - Interactive Map and Rankings | Foreign Policy

The 2012 Failed States Index - Interactive Map and Rankings | Foreign Policy

Como produzir felicidade

Excelente!

BBC Mundo - Narcotráfico: industria global

BBC Mundo - Narcotráfico: industria global

Trees: New Ways to Look at an Old Resource / Árvores: Novas Maneiras de Olhar para um Velho Recurso

Trees: New Ways to Look at an Old Resource

The World’s Most Corrupt Nations 2009. | Crystal Kiss - Strange News and more...

The World’s Most Corrupt Nations 2009. | Crystal Kiss - Strange News and more...

Brasil e Argentina ameaçam predomínio indiano na terceirização » Opinião e Notícia

Brasil e Argentina ameaçam predomínio indiano na terceirização » Opinião e Notícia

Os recursos naturais estão acabando? / Natural resources are running out?

Alexsander Rosa: O Colapso da URSS / The Collapse of the USSR

Alexsander Rosa: O Colapso da URSS

America the Fixable - The Atlantic

America the Fixable - The Atlantic

China and America: Not the G2, But the Big Two by Chas W. Freeman - The Globalist

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Self-fulfilling paranoia is not a sound basis for cooperative relations between nations. China and America need to cooperate with each other.

In recent years, U.S. exports to China have been growing at an annual average of 21%. They are projected to continue to rise at a much faster rate than imports during the rest of this decade, as China overtakes the United States as the world's largest market.

China and America are now married to each other economically. As anyone who is married can attest, interdependence — even affectionate interdependence — begets bickering.

It's an election year in the United States. In such years, we are accustomed to hearing our politicians blame foreigners for all our ills and belabor yesterday's problems as though they were tomorrow's.

It's already clear that 2012 will be no exception to this practice. We are hearing a lot about China, but much of what has or will be said has been or is being overtaken by events. Of course, as the issues shift, the political whining and posturing will just change focus.

But, barring extraordinary lapses of judgment by one or the other of us, the United States and China seem destined to become more, not less intimate. The world economy will be the better for that and so will we.

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China and America: Not the G2, But the Big Two by Chas W. Freeman - The Globalist

Um plano secreto dos EUA na Síria » Opinião e Notícia / A secret U.S. plan in Syria »News and Opinion

Um plano secreto dos EUA na Síria » Opinião e Notícia


A fonte original com os quadrinhos [The original source with the comic:]:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2012/04/syrian_violence_was_the_cia_involved_in_the_1949_coup_that_plunged_the_country_into_decades_of_turmoil_.html

Syrian violence: Was the CIA involved in the 1949 coup that plunged the country into decades of tur

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