Monday, May 30, 2011

The U.S. Military Industrial Complex

August 9, 2010

The US Military Industrial Complex became a very important piece of the US economy for about the last 70 years, since the 1940’s.

For a long time the United States has been the number one arms dealer around the world.

Why peace on the Middle East it is just a mirage?

Here is the actual US government strategy for a few decades:

The US taxpayer supplies Israel with foreign aid – mostly military armaments. In turn that creates more demand from the US Military Industrial Complex to supply armaments to countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, and so on…

Now we go back to the original question: What is the role of the state?

Is it part of the role of the state, as it is the case in the United States, to cause conflict around the world to keep its Military Industrial Complex busy at home building all kinds of toys to sell around the world?

The US government has been doing a great job in that area: Iraq, Afghanistan, Middle East in general, Taiwan, North Korea, Iran, many parts of Africa, Venezuela, Colombia, Germany, Japan and so on…

In a Nutshell:

Today the United States has an old and aging economy which is becoming obsolete very fast with a dying manufacturing sector, and many parts of the economy is being outsourced to other countries – there's only one area that still surviving and doing well, and today makes the core of the United States economy: the Military Industrial Complex.

The reality is, the US government needs to create on a constant basis the perception that some kind of threat is out there against the United States.

The Military Industrial Complex is a very important part of the US economy. This is one of the few remaining areas that the United States still has a comparative advantage regarding the other countries around the world.

Today we can define the core of the US economy as being: War, Inc.

Just in the next 2 years the US Military Industrial Complex is going to supply about US$ 100 billion in new toys to countries such as Saudi, Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait. The Military Industrial Complex is an important source of business for American banks, and for job creation in the old USA.

It's a waste of time to talk about peace on the Middle East, since there are too many American businesses that are interested that the Middle East mess keep going on forever.

The Military Industrial Complex in the United States it is a very interesting subject for anyone to study in itself. From the US annual Defense Budget – a source of money for important research and development done in companies and universities in the United States – to the impact that the arms industry (industry that manufacturers weapons of war) has in the creation of jobs and economic activity.

Various corporations in the US, some publicly held, others private, bid for these defense contracts, which are often worth many billions of dollars. Then there is the global arms exports, and the United States has over 60 percent share of the international market.

Looking at the changes in the regional distribution of the Top 100 arms-producing companies, the dominance of US-listed companies is consistent: they made up 60 per cent of arms sales in 1990 and 63 per cent in 2003. The share for European companies declined from 33 per cent to 29 per cent over the same period.

Concentration of arms production in the USA

In the United States, there was an intensive period of concentration between 1993 and 1998, when a number of large-scale mergers and acquisitions took place. While this was made possible by changes in government policy, the financial sector also had a major role in this process. The catalyst of this development was a change in US defense industry policy in 1993 when the Deputy Secretary of Defense, William J. Perry, addressed a dinner attended by defense industry executives and openly encouraged consolidation—this became known as the ‘last supper’. The presence of financiers at this meeting illustrates the increasing role of financial capital in the arms industry. To promote the consolidation, the DOD allowed companies to write off restructuring costs against military contracts, with the expectation of large costs savings which never materialized.

The policy ended when the DOD decided it had gone far enough and blocked the merger of Lockheed Martin with Northrop Grumman in early 1997. This left four major US contractors in 1998: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon—which are now four of the top five arms-producing companies in the world.

The concentration of the arms industry in the USA and Western Europe since the early 1990s has resulted in some very large companies, comparable in size to the national output of most developing countries and even exceeding many of them.

Sustained high levels of military expenditure (especially in the USA―the largest military spender and arms procurer) and the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq partly explain the continuing increase. However, the monopsonistic* structure of the arms industry, the consequent strong relationship between arms producers and governments and the industry’s perceived importance to national security also shield it from the immediate impact of severe economic downturns. This status is reflected in the continued high levels of arms sales, high profits, large backlogs and strong cash flows generated by arms production.

The global arms exports, which the United States has over 60 percent share of the international market it's also a very profitable business for the financial sector including the major players in banking and the insurance industry.

It is very important for the US economy that the US government creates on a constant basis the perception that some kind of threat is out there against any self-interest of the United States anywhere around the world.

For example: Even though the United States depend on China for financing of it's massive annual US government budget deficit – The US government a few months ago sold billions of US dollars in armament to Taiwan's military – an arms deal that pissed the Chinese government of Mainland China.

I remember about 4 or 5 years ago when the president of South Korea came to the United States to announce that the 2-Koreas were going to start official talks about the merge of the 2-Koreas.

The president of South Korea thought that this was a very good news that would please the United States. Then he got a ear full in Washington that in no way in hell the United States approved the merge of the 2-Koreas – and the president of South Korea went back to his country really pissed with the Bush administration.

In the last few months Hillary Clinton has been going nuts and made a big deal about the accusation of the sinking of the South Korean navy ship by the North Koreans. The US government still are harping on that false news on their efforts of creating a crisis between the 2-Koreas.

Turned out North Korea was telling the truth all along when they said they had nothing to do with the sinking of the South Korea navy ship.

The politicians in South Korea investigated the evidence presented regarding that ship, the recovered body of the sailors, and the bomb that they were claiming that had hit that ship, and they found out that there was no evidence that the ship had been sunk by a bomb, the ship had actually hit a reef and split into 2 pieces, and the body of the sailors that they recovered head died from drowning and not a single one had evidence that his body had been damaged by a bomb of any kind.

Then they found out that the South Korean government had made up that story for local political purposes, and the bomb that they had provided for evidence of the sinking of that ship, the recovered pieces of the torpedo had been recovered from the bottom of the sea many decades ago, and had been in storage in some warehouse for the last 40 years.

Since the fiasco became public, a few days later he proposed a new business tax in South Korea to finance the future merge of the 2-Koreas.

But to this day the American mainstream media, and Hillary Clinton for that matter still are talking about North Korea sinking that South Korean navy ship.

If you connect the dots we still are talking about the same subject; the US Military Industrial Complex and its importance to the US economy, and when we are talking about the Middle East, we are talking about US made armament to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Egypt, Iraq, and US military bases in many places around the Middle East.

And when we are talking about China and North Korea, we are talking about also the US Military bases in Japan, and in South Korea, and a very good business in arms trade with Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

We are talking about how important the US Military Industrial Complex has become to the US economy; if they are selling their military toys for the US Defense Department, or selling to governments around the world.

I am sure that if they could get away with they would sell armament for war to both sides of a conflict and let them kill each other.

In the United States the US Military Industrial Complex has become a major juggernaut, but in Brazil we need to increase the budget for Defense spending to around US$ 80 billion per year.

There's very important benefits for the Brazilian economy that would be the result of this massive new defense spending.


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monopsonistic*= a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer


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Note: all the above I wrote on the comments section of an article on Brazzil Magazine when we were discussing this subject in August/September 2010.


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Originally, I had posted this information on the web site of the Financial Times (UK) when Martin Wolf had raised that question on his Financial Times forum: “What is the role of the state?”

Martin Wolf asked the following question on his forum: What is the role of the state?
I posted the following in response to his question:

August 8, 2010

It is my understanding that our modern notion of the role of the state started in France at the time around the French Revolution.

 
The French Revolution was a major turning point in world history, and that was the revolution that changed the world.

What is the role of the state? What is the number one priority?

Most people would say it is defense of the country against foreign invasion of any kind.

 
One hundred years ago we had the saying “the sun never goes down on the British Empire” – because at that time we had 25 percent of mankind under British domination.

What happened to such a powerful empire?

That Empire was not beaten on the battlefield by another country. That empire imploded – death by taxes – at the end of the day someone had to pay the bills for the British adventurers around the world.

Here is another example: the Soviet Empire.

In the case of the Soviets as well – a long term of over spending on military expenses also placed the Soviet Union on the poor house.


Overblown defense expenditures year after year were the “Achilles heel” that put the last two superpowers on the poor house and out of business – first, the British Empire, and second the “Soviet Union Empire”, and now the United States it has been following on the footsteps of these former superpowers, and the United states is on the same path and right on schedule to also become very soon a former superpower.

Did Americans learn a lesson from past history?

No, Americans have adopted the same path into extinction. Here is just a reminder on the road to extinction:

It is a very sad state of affairs - Living on borrowed money from foreigners and at the same time thinking that they are very wealthy. Since George W. Bush became president on January 20, 2001 to the day when he ended his 2nd term, the US government added to its outstanding debt $ 5 trillion dollars.

It is no coincidence, but as you can see by the enclosed actual figures the total adjusted amount of US defense spending during the 8-years of the Bush administration was over US$ 4 trillion dollar.

My question is: for how many more years do you think foreigners are going to continue funding the defense spending of the United States?

 
Never mind foreigners funding American military adventures around the world – who is going to fund all the trillions and trillions of dollars of US domestic expenses that are coming due very fast from now on – liabilities related to the Baby Boom generation?

The Soviet Union economic system collapsed around 1990. The US capitalist system collapsed in 2008. Today China is reinventing a new economic and social system for its people.

I have no idea what the world is going to look like in 20 years when you take in consideration that the largest economy in the world today – for all practical purposes – is on a imploding mode and it will become less and less important over the coming years in terms of the total global economy.

We have passed the point of no return, and I don’t care about anybody say “That is the real truth
for the US economy. On top of all the problems that we already had related to the US economy, what happened in the last 3 years when Wall Street had to be bailout from its massive bets that went sour to the tune of trillions of US dollars, plus incompetence in the US financial markets that are mind boggling to me – there is only one word that comes to mind when I think about the future of the US economy: Titanic.

In 2004 I read with interest the book by Immanuel Todd “After the Empire” - The Breakdown of the American Order.” Six years later the sinking of the Titanic is right on schedule.

After reading the book by Nomi Prins “It Takes a Pillage” published in October 2009 then one understands the magnitude of the Wall Street bailout – basically the last nail on the coffin of the US economy.

 
If you want further information about how Wall Street is laughing all the way to the bank at the expense of American taxpayers, and how Wall Street went back to business as usual then you should read the latest article by Matt Taibbi on Rolling Stone magazine “Wall Street Big Win”. ( http://www.rolling.../news/17390/188551 )
 
Anyway, all I can say is that during the coming financial and economic collapse we are not going to have the safety net of the US government anymore. This time around we are going to go down to hell in a hand basket – with the compliments of an incompetent US government and all the welfare programs that the US taxpayer is giving to Wall Street.
 


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As of Date - US Government Total Public Debt Outstanding

05/07/2009 $11,256,266,640,050.20
01/16/2009 $10,628,881,485,510.23
09/30/2008 $10,024,724,896,912.49
09/28/2007 $9,007,653,372,262.48
09/30/2006 $8,506,973,899,215.23
09/30/2005 $7,932,709,661,723.50
09/30/2004 $7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003 $6,783,231,062,743.62
09/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06
01/19/2001 $5,727,776,738,304.64

Total public debt outstanding on 01/19/2001 was $5,727,776,738,304.64 and since George W. Bush became president on January 20, 2001 the US government added to its outstanding debt $ 5 trillion dollars.

 

http://www.treasur...gin?application=np 

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United States government actual budget figures during the 8-year Bush administration.
 
United States Government Annual Budget during the Bush administration. Each year, on the first Monday in February, the President of the United States submits his budget request to Congress for the following fiscal year:

United States federal budget, 2009 - $3.0 trillion (submitted 2008 by President Bush)
United States federal budget, 2008 - $2.9 trillion (submitted 2007 by President Bush)
United States federal budget, 2007 - $2.8 trillion (submitted 2006 by President Bush)
United States federal budget, 2006 - $2.6 trillion (submitted 2005 by President Bush)
United States federal budget, 2005 - $2.4 trillion (submitted 2004 by President Bush)
United States federal budget, 2004 - $2.2 trillion (submitted 2003 by President Bush)
United States federal budget, 2003 - $2.1 trillion (submitted 2002 by President Bush)
United States federal budget, 2002 - $2.0 trillion (submitted 2001 by President Bush)

Total US government Budget for period year 2001 to year 2008 = US$ 20 trillion.

The cumulative total actual US Government budget for the 8-year period of the Bush administration was US$ 20 trillion dollars.

 

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Here is Bushes’ actual military spending - this does not include ANY costs related to Afghanistan or Iraq as they are all in supplemental spending bills:

For Fiscal Year 2008 it is $481.4 billion
For Fiscal Year 2007 it is $470.0 billion
For Fiscal Year 2006 it was $441.6 billion
For Fiscal Year 2005 it was $420.7 billion
For Fiscal Year 2004 it was $399.1 billion
For Fiscal Year 2003 it was $396.1 billion.
For Fiscal Year 2002 it was $343.2 billion.
For Fiscal Year 2001 it was $ 296.0 billion

Note: The Iraq and Afghanistan supplementary spending as of end December 2008 = over $ 650 billion.

Total Bush administration actual defense spending for 8-year period 2001 to 2008 = US$ 3,898 billion

Plus other supplementary amounts that the government requested the total adjusted amount for defense spending for the 8-years of the Bush administration it will reach over the US$ 4 trillion dollar level.

 
Note: The cumulative total actual US Government budget for the 8-year period of the Bush administration was US$ 20 trillion dollars and the actual defense spending for the 8-years was US$ 4 trillion dollar equal to 20 percent of the total.


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Here are the actual figures for US Defense Spending from the Clinton years up to today, including Barack Obama as follows:

United States Government Annual Budget during the Obama administration. Each year, on the first Monday in February, the President of the United States submits his budget request to Congress for the following fiscal year:

United States federal budget, 2012 - $3.
73 trillion (submitted 2011 by President Obama)
United States federal budget, 2011 - $3.83 trillion (submitted 2010 by President Obama)
United States federal budget, 2010 - $3.55 trillion (submitted 2009 by President Obama)
Total US government Budget for period year 2009 to year 2011 = US$ 11.11 trillion US dollars


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Here is Obama’ actual military spending:
For Fiscal Year 2011 it is $ 708 billion
For Fiscal Year 2010 it is $ 691 billion
For Fiscal Year 2009 it is $ 515.4 billion
Note: An additional $37 billion supplemental bill to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was passed in 2010.
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Total Obama administration actual defense spending for 3-year period 2009 to 2011 = US$ 1,951 billion US dollars.


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Total Bush administration actual defense spending for 8-year period 2001 to 2008 = US$ 3,898 billion

Total Obama administration actual defense spending for 3-year period 2009 to 2011 = US$ 1,951 billion US dollars.
Total Defense Spending 2001 – 2011 = US$ 5,849 billion US dollars = US$ 6 trillion


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Note: By the way, here are the actual figures for Defense Spending for the Bill Clinton years and the estimated figures for the following 7 years.

President Bill Clinton administration (Jan’93 – Jan’01)

Actual figures total annual defense budget during the Clinton administration.

Year - Amount in billions of US dollars
1993 - US$ 267.4
1994………251.4
1995………255.7
1996………251.8
1997………242.6
1998………250.7
1999………257.3
2000………263.6
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Total cumulative actual amount for 8-year period Jan’93 – Jan’01 = US$ 1,773.1 billion.


On the year 2000 Defense Department Annual Report – The Defense Dept. projected the following amounts for Defense spending for the 7-years period from 2001 to 2008.

Year - Amount in billions of US dollars

2001 - US$ 272
2002………276
2003………285
2004………292
2005………299
2006………307
2007………314
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Total cumulative amount for 7-year period Jan’01 – Jan’08 = US$ 2,045 billion.

Note: Based on these estimates they probably would have estimated the year 2008 for US$ 321 billion for a total cumulative amount for 8-year period Jan’01 – Jan’09 = US$ 2,366 billion.

These figures were provided by the US government as part of the last Budget of the Clinton administration – these figures were included with the Defense budget for that year, and they also provided the best estimates for Defense budget for the following 7 years – when the Clinton administration passed that final budget they did not know as yet which political party was going to win the election of year 2000.

If Al Gore had become the new president of the United States in 2000, then the Defense budget probably would have keep its downward trend, or would have been closer to that final Defense budget estimate from the Clinton administration.


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Anyway, at the end of the Clinton administration they were talking about cutting the Defense Budget in the coming years.

Actual Bush administration 8-year cumulative Defense Spending = US$ 3,898 billion

Clinton administration estimated figure for total cumulative Defense Spending for 8-year period Jan’01 – Jan’09 = US$ 2,366 billion.

Osama bin Laden effect on US Defense spending during the 8-year Bush administration = US$ 1,532 billion.

Then if you on top of that the Osama bin Laden effect on the 3-year Obama administration = US$ 1 trillion.

The total Osama bin Laden effect on the US Defense budget from 2001 to 2011 is at least = US$ 2.5 trillion

Conclusion: Out of the total US$ 6 trillion dollar US Defense spending for 2001 to 2011 the figure includes US$ 2.5 trillion dollars as the Osama bin Laden effect.

That means that without Osama bin Laden and 9/11, instead of spending $ 6 trillion US dollars in Defense spending for the period 2001 – 2011, the United States would have spent US$ 3.5 trillion dollars or less in Defense spending for that same period.

The “Bin Laden effect” it would be even greater if we add on top of the Defense budget, the budget for the Department of Homeland Security for all these years.


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Noam Chomsky has suggested that "military-industrial complex" is a misnomer because (as he considers it) the phenomenon in question "is not specifically military." He claims, "There is no military-industrial complex: it's just the industrial system operating under one or another pretext (defense was a pretext for a long time)." Though this might be true, the problem is that different forms of power are extended by real, exaggerated or imagined crises, and in the state military-capitalist society, there is a hierarchy between political (state) and economic (market) power, where state capitalists have directive power in orchestrating crises. In other words, the power of the military machine is somewhat autonomous from corporate-sponsored politicians, and this autonomy is used to reproduce the system through a differential and superior ability to generate crises. Furthermore, the autonomy is supported by economic exchanges in which the military state bureaucracy extends power by producing commodities.

The privatization of the production and invention of military technology also leads to a complicated relationship with significant research and development of many technologies. The defense industry tends to contribute heavily to incumbent members of Congress.


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March 29, 2011

Ricardo: A few months ago I was watching C-Span and during the debate one of the senators mentioned that 60 percent of US government jobs has something to do with the US military Industrial Complex.

Here is a documentary produced by the BBC on the commerce of war, and how the military industrial complex profits so much from war, that it must create wars to continue the growth of it's business.

Why we fight Part 1 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm1B7x5JZfE

Why we fight Part 2 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2N3BuDAT0k&NR=1

Why we fight Part 3 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbdUZPdqQjk&NR=1

Why we fight Part 4 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqnkj9m_m9c&NR=1

Why we fight Part 5 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKp3FhD5vUY&NR=1

Why we fight Part 6 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9wMa5q0JGc&NR=1

Why we fight Part 7 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djebtXs1Wl4&NR=1

Why we fight Part 8 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chs9NJGN4Og&NR=1

Why we fight Part 9 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGK3ZdlqTiM&NR=1

Why we fight Part 10 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dzQNWKwlM0&NR=1

Why we fight Part 11 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAhhlzJrMlw&NR=1

Why we fight Part 12 of 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pxETccMtkQ&NR=1


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Overblown defense expenditures year after year were the “Achilles heel” that put the last two superpowers on the poor house and out of business – first, the British Empire, and second the “Soviet Union Empire”, and today the United States is following the same path – the path to extinction.

Crash Course: Chapter 10 - Inflation (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xCy6sDxnhs&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 9 min.


Crash Course: Chapter 10 - Inflation (Part 2 of 2)
& Chapter 11 - How Much is a Trillion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEDkFDeJ_A&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 6 min.


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Red Flag:

After reading all the above material and watch the videos, then you will understand why the United States might be setting the stage to create another Vietnam War - this time around in South America.

Alarm bells are ringing:

The U.S. is setting the stage to wage war against South America
http://thefinalcollapseoftheusdollar.blogspot.com/2011/05/collapsing-us-economic-and-financial.html

What has been happening in Libya in the last few months can happen to any country around the world - as long as your country is rich in natural resources, then your country might be the next prey of the United States.


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This video gives a very good explanation about what is behind the war against Syria.

In the second half of the video they also give interesting information about "War Inc."

Corbett Report – August 30, 2013

Who Is Really Behind the Syrian War?

Given that the pretext for attacking Syria is falling apart before the public's eyes, why is the US preparing to wage war on that country? Who benefits from the ongoing destabilization of Assad's government? What will the Middle East look like if the Sunnis take over Syria? What is Israel's role in this? What do Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have to gain from a war in Syria? And what does Bandar Bush have to do with all of this? Join us today on The Corbett Report as we discuss these and other pressing issues as the world stands on the brink of yet another US-led Middle Eastern military adventure.


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Friday, May 20, 2011

The Andrada Dynasty

Here is what I posted on Brazzil magazine and in the Elite Trader Economics Forum in June 2008 regarding the “Andrada” branch of our family from Minas Gerais, Brazil.
June 14, 2008

SouthAmerica: In the Brazzil magazine website one of the members asked me a few questions and also if Marina Andrada wrote a book about the Revolutions of 1922 or 1964.

Here is my answer:

I believe that Marina Andrada is the only great great granddaughter of Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (The Patriarch) who still alive – she is part of the 4th generation.

My grandmother’s grandfather Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (O Moco - 1827 to 1886) era irmao do avo de Marina Andrada – Antonio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada (1836 to 1893).

All the politicians of the Andrada Family that have been monopolizing the political scene in the state of Minas Gerais for the last 150 years – they are all descendents of this particular grandfather of Marina Andrada.

Marina’s father had been vereador in Barbacena, then Deputado Federal representing Minas Gerais, and later he was Brazilian ambassador in various countries including the US and France.

Because her father was ambassador Marina had the opportunity to live in many countries and meet through her father a lot of important people over the years.

Her brother also was an important figure in Brazilian politics Jose Bonifacio Lafayette de Andrada (nickname Zezinho) (1904 – 1986) – He was Deputado Federal da UDN (1945) and president of the Camara dos Deputados (1968) – he was reelected in 1970 and finaly gave up political life in 1979.

Today Bonifacio Jose Tamm de Andrada is serving his 7th term as Deputado Federal for the state of Minas Gerais and he is also the Reitor Unipac an important institution of higher learning in the State of Minas Gerais – this important university with 55,000 students has been created and managed with the efforts of the Andrada family.

You can read about Unipac here:


http://www.unipaclafaiete.edu.br/te...f&pagina=bonlaf

http://www3.unipaclafaiete.edu.br/ul2/layout_01/


Bonifacio Jose Tamm de Andrada was a son of Deputado Jose Bonifacio Lafayette de Andrada – and Bonifacio Jose Tamm de Andrada has 4 sons also involved in politics in the state of Minas Gerais. And the new generation of 20-year olds, in that branch of the family, is also taking their first steps towards their new career in politics.

Going back to your question: I have only the last 2 books that Marina Andrada had published and they are great since she documents a lot of things that happened to all these politicians with pictures and letters, and copy of many documents. She did a terrific job on her books.

Over the last 60 years she accumulated a lot of material related to the Andrada Family since friends and relatives, and other people when they found letters, documents, pictures, and had interesting stories to tell her about something related to the Andradas – all these people sent her all this material that became an important repository of Brazilian history.

Since Marina Andrada lived her entire life among politicians, ambassadors, and all kinds of important people not only in Brazil, but also in other countries around the world – I can hear her tell stories for hours.

Every time we talk on the telephone we end up talking for 2 or 3 hours – she has an amazing memory she tells me stories one after another about the politics in Brazil of the 1920’s, and 1930’s in detail and she remember the dates and all the people involved in the events – she talk about events in the early 1900’s as if the events had happened yesterday – I don’t know how she manage to recall the names of so many people and all the detail of the stories from a time long gone.

I am sure that she knows very well about the revolution of 1930 when regional leaderships in several states dissatisfied with the state of SĂŁo Paulo's political dominance for the last 100 years joined together in opposition and they placed Getulio Vargas in power and she also must know in detail the story of Luiz Carlos Prestes and his failed 1922 tenente rebellion against the coffee oligarchs.

The great depression also helped to create the economic environment that gave the opportunity of someone such as Getulio Vargas to rise into power.

Getulio Vargas had the right ideas and during his tenure he did a lot of good things for Brazil. I would put Getulio Vargas on the category of benevolent dictators.

My family the Souza Queiroz and the Andradas had dominated political life in the state of Sao Paulo and in Brazil for over 100 years up to the early 1930’s - Only the Minas Gerais branch of the Andrada Family still going strong to this day in Brazilian politics.

You can see the Andrada Family tree on this website:
The new generation of Andradas is very close to the current governor of the state of Minas Gerais – Aecio Neves – and they have been friends since they were kids.

Aecio Neves is the grandson of former president Tancredo Neves. In 1987, Neves was elected to the Federal Chamber of Deputies (House of Representatives) from his home state of Minas Gerais and
served until 2002.

He was president of the Chamber of Deputies (Speaker of the House) in 2001. He was elected governor of Minas Gerais in 2003.

Today, Aecio Neves is considered a strong potential candidate for the 2010 Brazilian Presidential Elections.
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Biography:

Bonifácio José Tamm de Andrada


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Andrada Family Dynasty

Primeira geração
Segunda geração
Terceira geração
Quarta geração
  • JosĂ© Bonifácio Lafayette de Andrada (1904–1986) – constituinte de 1946 e presidente da Câmara dos Deputados.
  • AntĂ´nio Carlos Lafayette de Andrada (1900–1974) – magistrado, presidente do Supremo Tribunal Federal.
  • JosĂ© Maria de Andrada Serpa - general-de-exĂ©rcito, ministro-chefe do Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas.
  • Fábio Bonifácio Olinda de Andrada - deputado estadual por Minas Gerais.
  • JosĂ© Bonifácio Olinda de Andrada - secretário de estado da educação e saĂşde publica de Minas Gerais
  • Amadeu Andrada de Lacerda Rodrigues - constituinte estadual em 1947, por Minas Gerais.
Quinta geração
  • JosĂ© Bonifácio Diniz de Andrada (1929–2002) – presidente da Câmara Municipal e da AssemblĂ©ia Legislativa do Rio de Janeiro, deputado federal.
  • Bonifácio JosĂ© Tamm de Andrada (1930) – presidente da AssemblĂ©ia de Minas, secretário de estado, deputado estadual e federal, constituinte de 1988.
  • JosĂ© Bonifácio Tamm de Andrada (1937–2008) – deputado constituinte estadual por Minas Gerais e vereador.
Sexta geração
  • JosĂ© Bonifácio Borges de Andrada (1956) – ministro advogado-geral da UniĂŁo e vereador.
  • Antonio Carlos Doorgal de Andrada (1960) – prefeito, deputado estadual e conselheiro do Tribunal de Contas de Minas Gerais.
  • Martim Francisco Borges de Andrada (1964) – vereador e prefeito de Barbacena.
  • Lafayette LuĂ­z Doorgal de Andrada (1966) – vereador e deputado estadual por Minas Gerais.

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The connection of the “Andrada” family with the “English Royal family”
At the time of the Royal wedding of Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton on April 29, 2011
I posted the following on my cousins' Facebook page regarding the connection of the “Andrada” family with the English Royal family:

Andrada Dynasty - Tuesday, September 22, 2009

...I am 18th generation from John the Gaunt (Lancaster Dynasty) father of Queen Philippa.
(He is the father of Queen Philippa of Lancaster) (English Nobility)
Luciana, that means that you are 20th generation from John the Gaunt (Lancaster Dynasty) father of Queen Philippa. (He is the father of Queen Philippa of Lancaster) (English Nobility)
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...It was during the reign of Dom JoĂŁo l that the Portuguese aristocracy began to be officially ranked by the categories and titles typical of the French and English nobility. JoĂŁo l was fortunate in possessing the qualities of a successful prince, and in having ministers and a family of the highest quality. He was himself a cultured and learned man, prudent almost to a fault, and astute in his political dealings.
JoĂŁo I's English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John the Gaunt, was a most exemplary princess, both as a wife and a queen. Their five sons were the most talented and imaginative generation of heirs in Portuguese history.

The Bragança Dynasty
The first dukedom in Portuguese aristocratic history had been created by the crown during the reign of D. João I (1384-1433), and given to his son Afonso who became the first Duke of Bragança.

Royal House:
John the Gaunt was king of England from the Lancaster Dynasty.

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva and his Aviz, Bragança and Lancaster Dynasty Ancestry
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva was a great/great-grandson of the 7th Duke of Bragança, and his great-grandfather was the youngest brother of the 8th Duke of Bragança who became in 1640, Dom João IV king of Portugal.
José Bonifácio's great-grandfather also was a great-grandson of Dom João III (1521-1557), a Portuguese king from the Aviz dynasty. Dom João III ruled Portugal at the height of Portuguese power.
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva and his brothers Martim Francisco and Antonio Carlos were descendants of the Aviz Dynasty. The Andrada brothers were the 6th generation direct descendants of Dom João III.
On the Bragança side they were direct descendants of the 7th Duke of Bragança, and going back many generations they also were descendants of D. João I of the Aviz Dynasty, and of his British queen of the Lancaster Dynasty.

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House of Lancaster


John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster

His other legitimate descendants included his daughters Queen Philippa of Portugal, wife of John I of Portugal and mother of King Edward of Portugal, and Elizabeth, Duchess of Exeter, mother of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, through his first wife, Blanche; and by his second wife, Constance, John was father of Queen Catherine of Castile, wife of Henry III of Castile and mother of John II of Castile.

England

Kingdoms after the Union of the Crowns (1603-1707)
The crown of the Kingdom of England and Ireland merged with that of the Kingdom of Scotland to form a personal union between England-Ireland and Scotland (the former a personal union itself)
Personal Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1707-1801)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801-1921)
Personal Union of the UK [of GB and NI] and several other Irish states (1921-1949)
UK [of GB and NI] (Without the personal union with Ireland) (1949-present)
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The U.S. economic and financial system is collapsing just like the Soviet Union


The final collapse of the US dollar it is just around the corner

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3189995#post3189995


May 20, 2011

SouthAmerica: If you are capable of connecting the dots then there is more and more obvious evidence, and it is all over the place for you to see it that the United States government is reaching the panic state regarding the coming collapse of the US dollar.

It is just a matter of time for the herd to get spooked and start the final stampede out of the US dollar.


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Strauss-Kahn victim of 'dollar lobby'? - May 19, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSV27b_87nQ&feature=relmfu


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Keiser Report: Suicide Banking - May 19, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3mW1eGBeoE&feature=relmfu


Among other things Keiser mentioned on this report of the possibility of a country such as Brazil to go back to the gold standard regarding its currency the real.


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Noam Chomsky - History of US Rule in Latin America – December 19, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKwJI9axblQ

Time: 1 hr. 15 min.

History of US Rule in Latin America; Elections and Resistance to the Coup in Honduras - Professor Noam Chomsky PhD. - Filmed by Paul Hubbard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 12-15-09

Excellent lecture by Noam Chomsky about Latin America history and United States military intervention in that area of the world.



Boston University School of Law - April 24, 2008.

Noam Chomsky Lectures on Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&feature=related

Time: 2 hrs.

Noam Chomsky, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a well-known political activist critical of U.S. foreign policy, traces modern-day American imperialism to its earliest roots, 25 years before the American Revolution, and he explains how the United States has lived up to its reputation as "the most frightening and dangerous country in the world."

Hosted by Boston University School of Law and the Boston University Anti-War Coalition on April 24, 2008.


Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy and US Politics – October 26, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwqkvF7umpk&feature=fvsr

Time: 24 min.

The Young Turks interviews Noam Chomsky.


Brazil, Spain Challenge U.S. Bases in Colombia - August 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgIC2x2Rxjk


Insight: New US military bases in Columbia - CCTV 081609

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vakgOdQzJw&NR=1


South American leaders oppose US military base in Columbia - CCTV 082909

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwHqAzOKeHA&NR=1


Noam Chomsky - What Right Does the US Have to Intervene? - September 17, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVpmpufWbZM&feature=related


Noam Chomsky - US 'War on Drugs' in Latin America - December 19, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Xa8Irev2E&feature=related


Fault Lines - U.S. Colombia Base Agreement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZow3x646cE

At the end of October 2009, the United States quietly signed a deal with Colombia -- its staunchest ally in Latin America, and the largest recipient of US military aid in the hemisphere. The agreement guarantees the United States access to Colombian military bases for the next ten years. The event went practically unnoticed in Washington. But it raised a storm of protest from South American governments threatened by the specter of US military intervention in the region. Fault Lines traveled to Colombia to investigate why US access to the bases is a cause for so much consternation.

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It is no secret to anyone today (at least to people who use their brain to think) that the US dollar has finally reached the end of the line as the main world reserve currency.

It is no surprise that at the end of October 2009 the United States signed an agreement with the Colombian government that guarantees the United States access to seven Colombian military bases for the next ten years.

Since today the Amazon region is home to the largest untapped reserve of gold in the world.

For the people who aren't smart enough to connect the dots to get the picture.


In a Nutshell:


1) The world is waking up to the fact that the US economy and financial system is in intensive care (in a deep coma) and is being kept alive only by massive US government intervention, and the US is getting away with the debasement of its currency only because of the special status of the US dollar as the main world reserve currency.

But for all practical purposes the US dollar has finally reached the end of the road, and the collapse and meltdown of the US dollar can happen at any time.

It's no coincidence that the United States (a desperate country) has started to wage wars all over the place, such as in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and so on...And the United States government is confiscating billions, and billions of all kinds of assets from all these Middle East countries.

The handwriting is on the wall: If you look around then you realize that it's just a matter of time for countries such as Saudi Arabia to have all its assets including the Saudi government, or any member of the Saudi Royal family to be confiscated in the name of some silly excuse but the real reason it is to pillage their resources.

2) Do I need to spell out the reason why the United States is building 7 military bases in Colombia, and at the same time the US has reactivated the 4th fleet which main responsibility is related to the North of South America ? (The 4th fleet had been dis-activated since the end of WW II).


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Brazil Gold Mining

http://www1.american.edu/TED/bragold.htm
...Currently, Brazil is the world's fourth largest producer of gold and the other countries of the region have begun to increase their investment in discovering and utilizing gold resources.  ...the Amazon region is home to the largest untapped reserve of gold in the world.


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"In Amazon Jungle, a Gold Rush Like None Before"

The New York Times - April 25, 1988

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/25/world/in-amazon-jungle-a-gold-rush-like-none-before.html?scp=9&sq=gold+%2BBrazil+%2Bhistory&st=nyt


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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Final Collapse of the US Dollar

By Author and Columnist: Ricardo C. Amaral


There are many reasons why the US economic and financial system is heading into the “Perfect Storm” resulting in the final collapse and meltdown of the US dollar.

The United States had a good run during the last 60 years, and enjoyed it's very special status as the main world reserve currency, but if you are smart enough to connect the dots then you will realize that the US dollar has reached the end of the line.

There's no safety nets left today in the United States, and when the stampede starts out of the US dollar it will create the biggest international monetary crisis the world has ever seen. The “Mother” of all international monetary crisis, and the final collapse and massive meltdown of the US dollar.

The world economy and financial system is a very complex system, it's like a dynamic jigsaw puzzle where the parts keep moving, and the jigsaw puzzle evolve into something else.

I will add on a regular basis more pieces to this constant evolving jigsaw puzzle.

Here are some very important principals that are under the foundations supporting the US economic, and financial system:

This crash course was prepared by Chris Martenson - February 23, 2011

CrashCourse: Chapter 2 - The Three E's

Time: 2 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 3 - Exponential Growth

Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 4 - The Power of Compounding

Time: 3 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 5 - Growth vs. Prosperity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1KsFDLZ3B4&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 3 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 6 - What is Money?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dq1bH1X6s&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 6 min

Crash Course: Chapter 7 - Money Creation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIxhsF6JLEA&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 4 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 8 - The Fed & Money Creation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3_Q1SiRN-A&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 9 - A Brief History of U.S. Money

Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 10 - Inflation (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xCy6sDxnhs&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 9 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 10 - Inflation (Part 2 of 2)
& Chapter 11 - How Much is a Trillion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEDkFDeJ_A&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 12 - Debt (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsTblStwiuM&feature=relmfu
Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 12 - Debt (Part 2 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8ECro3HwPo&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 13 - A National Failure to Save (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKn3jROgznM&feature=relmfu
Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 13 - A National Failure to Save (Part 2 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJIEscbKGI&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 4 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 14 - Assets & Demographics (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23zmnocxdM&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 14 - Assets & Demographics (Part 2 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EcXKzRNBVE&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 15 - Bubbles (Part 1 of 2)

Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 15 - Bubbles (Part 2 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0QStbuLRLc&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 8 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 16 - Fuzzy Numbers (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsNgJVD8KgY&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 16 - Fuzzy Numbers (Part 2 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01KIOjTe2CM&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 8 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 17a - Peak Oil (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8s7orGZbY&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 8 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 17a - Peak Oil (Part 2 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoFTNurAcws&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 10 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 17b - Energy Budgeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeBtdwPpTQM&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 12 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 17c - Energy and the Economy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w6gf3tSGTg&NR=1
Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 18 - Environment Data (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lRkB6gvBC0&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time 9 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 18 - Environment Data (Part 2 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BafOxXU13sk&NR=1
Time: 8 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 19 - Future Shock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDNvr82gqd0&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Time: 7 min.

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Here is the real reason the United States has attacked Libya to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi:

Gaddafi gold-for-oil, dollar-doom plans behind Libya 'mission'? - May 5, 2011


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The real truth about Libya and Gaddafi:

The Unfair Demonization of Gaddafi by the Western Power - June 25, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaR5lB5BKwQ&NR=1

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Exponential Function and Growth

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 1 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=related
Time: 9 min.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand “The Exponential Function”.
The growth in any doubling time is greater than the total of all preceding growth!

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 2 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3JI8F9LQQ
Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 3 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFyOw9IgtjY
Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 4 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQd-VGYX3-E
Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 5 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-X6EpvWWu8
Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 6 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3y7UlHdhAU
Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 7 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyseLQVpJEI
Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 8 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoiiVnQadwE
Time: 9 min.

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Here is the estimated world population from 10,000 BC to 2011 AD.

Total World Population in Selected Years:

Year…………..# of World Population

10,000 BC…………4 million people
5,000 BC…………..5 million
4,000 BC…………..7 million
3,000 BC…………14 million
2,000 BC…………27 million
1,000 BC…………50 million
500 BC………….100 million
200 BC………….150 million
1 AD…………….170 million
200 AD………….190 million
300 AD………….190 million
400 AD………….190 million
500 AD………….190 million
600 AD………….200 million
700 AD………….210 million
800 AD……….…220 million
900 AD…….……240 million
1,000 AD………..265 million
1,100 AD………..320 million
1,200 AD………..360 million
1,300 AD………..360 million
1,400 AD………..350 million
1,500 AD………..425 million
1,550 AD………..480 million
1,600 AD………..545 million
1,700 AD………..610 million
1,750 AD………..720 million
1,800 AD………..900 million
1,850 AD……...1,200 million or 1.2 billion
1,900 AD……...1,625 million or 1.6 billion
1,925 AD……...2,000 million or 2.0 billion
1,950 AD……...2,500 million or 2.5 billion
1,960 AD……...3,000 million or 3.0 billion
1,975 AD……...4,000 million or 4.0 billion
1,985 AD……...5,000 million or 5.0 billion
1,999 AD……...6,000 million or 6.0 billion
2,006 AD……...6,500 million or 6.5 billion
2,011 AD..........7,000 million or 7.0 billion (people by October 2011)

Note: If you do check various sources regarding the history of world population then you will find out that the various estimates varies a little from source to source for the figures before 1 AD, but at the end of the day their estimates are not too far apart.

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Population:
Brazil: 203,429,773 (July 2011 est.)
Russia: 138,739,892 (July 2011 est.)
India: 1,189,172,906 (July 2011 est.)
China: 1,336,718,015 (July 2011 est.)
Total “BRIC” countries: 2.9 billion people

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Innovation:
Here is an excellent lecture about innovation, that gives in detail the reasons why the United States is falling behind many countries in real innovation.
Americans think that they still are number 1 in the world regarding innovation, but the reality is another story.

Falling Behind: U.S. Competitiveness in a High-Tech World

Time: 1 hr. 10 min.

Robert Atkinsons talk will focus on the United States losing its international economic competitiveness as it falls behind in advanced technologies and the forthcoming green tech revolution. A New College alumnus, he is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, DC-based technology policy think tank.

Atkinson is the author of The Past and Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Drive Cycles of Growth and the State New Economy Index series. He is chair of the Congressionally-created National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission and was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on Workers, Communities, and Economic Change in the New Economy. Before starting ITIF, Atkinson was Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and Director of PPIs Technology & New Economy Project.

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Robert Atkinson: Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage – October 2012

Time: 1 hr. 23 min.

Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage


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Brazzil Magazine - September 06, 2006
“While the American Dream Is Outsourced Brazil Drives the World into the Future”
Written by Ricardo C. Amaral
http://www.brazzil.com/component/content/article/171-september-2006/9684.html

...Technology Changed Everything -
Right now, we are in the middle of a historical turning point. In the last few years we had a revolution in technology, and today we can do things that were not viable only two years ago.… Article about John Maynard Keynes and Joseph A. Schumpeter.

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Porter Stansberry quoted me (Brazilian economist Ricardo C. Amaral) on this video. This was the first time that I heard of Porter Stansberry – but it turned out he is supposed to be a very well known figure to the investment community in Wall Street.

In February 2011, two friends of mine mentioned to me that they had seen the enclosed video, and that Bill Gross, Jim Rogers and I were quoted on this video regarding the US dollar. Since December 2010 over 22,000,000 people (22 million people) have seen this video so far on various locations on the web, and I am quoted around the minute 38 to 41 into the video presentation as follows:


As Brazilian economist and strategist Ricardo C. Amaral wrote recently:

“The US dollar served its purpose since the end of WW II, and became the major foreign exchange reserve currency...[but] the days of the US dollar playing that special role...has reached the end of the line, since today that system is very sick, and it is dying a slow death...

Mr. Amaral added that we will soon see: “the major collapse of the US dollar creating the biggest international monetary crisis the world has ever seen...”


Here is one location where you can watch the video:

Porter Stansberry Research - The End of America – December 14, 2010


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December 14, 2010
Alex Jones & Porter Stansberry - The Economic Implosion of America is Here! Part 1 of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTF5_TRn78c

Alex Jones & Porter Stansberry - The Economic Implosion of America is Here! Part 2 of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq7nRqYAOqc&NR=1

Alex Jones & Porter Stansberry - The Economic Implosion of America is Here! Part 3 of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BioK9LDppg&feature=related

Alex Jones & Porter Stansberry - The Economic Implosion of America is Here! Part 4 of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZxmxpQdJ5Y&feature=related

Alex Jones & Porter Stansberry - The Economic Implosion of America is Here! Part 5 of 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TbJWBOvGt8&feature=related

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January 4, 2011
2011 Death of the Dollar - Porter Stansberry on The Alex Jones Show (Part 1 0f 4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7PZOjXegZA&feature=related

2011 Death of the Dollar - Porter Stansberry on The Alex Jones Show (Part 2 0f 4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmJjMnqinck

2011 Death of the Dollar - Porter Stansberry on The Alex Jones Show (Part 3 0f 4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0mxAOUvPDQ&feature=related

2011 Death of the Dollar - Porter Stansberry on The Alex Jones Show (Part 4 0f 4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvEDqT9ee0

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February 23, 2011
The Alex Jones Show: Porter Stansberry, Lindsey Williams, James Corbett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NYIPWENfic
On February 23, 2011 Alex Jones interviewed various guests on his show, and he interviewed Porter Stansberry around the minute 50 to 1 hr and 34 minutes into this video presentation, and they show my name on the screen (Ricardo C. Amaral) at the point 1 hr and 23 minutes into the video discussion.

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Alex Jones says on this video that 10 million people saw the video “End of America” on Current TV.
Censored TV Ad Banned from Airwaves - March 25, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYc8_eUOoEw&feature=ytn%3Amptnews

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Alex Jones: His syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show, based in Austin, Texas, airs via the Genesis Communication Network over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations across the United States and on the Internet.

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On July 6, 2012 a friend of mine called me to tell me that he had just received a investment newsletter from James Dale Davidson, and he noticed that James Dale Davidson had quoted me on this newsletter regarding the US dollar.

Then I checked the web and I found this video and a copy of the newsletter as follows:

James Dale Davidson on minute 35 min. of this video he mentioned Jim Rogers, Bill Gross, and Brazilian economist and strategist Ricardo C. Amaral regarding the US dollar.

James Dale Davidson -- Fall of Capitalism


James Dale Davidson, the author of "Blood in the Streets" predicted on this video the coming fall of capitalism and US dollar

James Dale Davidson is an American investment writer, co-writer of the newsletter Strategic Investment, and co-author with Lord William Rees-Mogg of “The Sovereign Individual” (1999), “The Great Reckoning” (1991), and “Blood in the Streets” (1987). He also wrote “The Plague of the Black Debt – How to survive the Coming Depression” (1993). He is also the founder and former head of the National Taxpayers Union.

James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg edit "Strategic Investment, " one of the world's more widely circulated private investment letters. Davidson is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, with investments in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and New Zealand, as well as high-tech projects in North America.

The legendary London Times editor, Lord William Rees-Mogg attended Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford and was President of the Oxford Union in 1951. He became a writer for The Financial Times in 1952, and then moved to The Sunday Times in 1960. He was first Deputy Editor and then editor of The Times (from 1967 to 1981). He was vice chairman of the BBC and also a member of the BBC's Board of Governors, and chairman of the Arts Council, with James Dale Davidson, he authored such popular, free-market oriented books as “The Sovereign Individual”, “The Great Reckoning”, and “Blood in the Streets”. He is a director of the Private Bank of London. He is Chairman of The Zurich Club and also of the London publishing firm Pickering & Chatto Publishers.


Here is a copy of James Dale Davidson latest investment newsletter, and I quote from that newsletter as follows:

James Dale Davidson's Bold Predictions
Author : David Schectman
Published: May 16th, 2012

In today's daily, I feature a report by James Dale Davidson and I take his warnings very seriously, and so should you!

...A recent report in The New York Times has announced the birth of an entirely new currency in the U.S. - the BerkShare.

Also, Jim Rogers (one of the world's shrewdest investors) has denounced the dollar too, saying if something isn't done soon to resurrect it, it will "lead to a huge decline in the standard of living of U.S. citizens like nothing we've seen in nearly a century."

And Bill Gross, the world's biggest bond investor, has advised all his clients that if they had just one investment idea, it should be an investment in non-dollar, non-euro currency.

As Brazilian economist and strategist Ricardo C. Amaral recently said: "The U.S. dollar served its purpose since the end of WWII and became the major foreign exchange reserve currency...(but) the days of the U.S. dollar playing that special role...has reached the end of the line...today that system is very sick."


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By the way, I read all the books published by authors James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg - when their books were first published.

I enjoyed reading all of their books, but specially one: "“The Sovereign Individual”.

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The Day the Dollar Died

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Fall of the Republic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU&feature=related

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The Crumbling of America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBSPcIGGcIc
The sad reality is that the United States is collapsing just like the Soviet Union – the collapse is already underway, and it is reaching an advanced stage.

The special status of the US dollar being the main global reserve currency it has reached the end of the line – the international monetary system is in deep trouble, and everything it seems to be getting out of control.

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The Economic Collapse – Part 1 of 2 – June 2010

The Economic Collapse – Part 2 of 2 – June 2010

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2012 – The next Great Depression


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The New World Order
Invisible Empire Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgjaAC-b54&NR=1
Time: 6 min.

Invisible Empire Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xjm5Bcy24&NR=1
Time: 8 min.

Invisible Empire Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF0AUGtV2Uc&feature=related
Time: 5 min.

Invisible Empire Part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1hp11pu64c&feature=related
Time: 10 min.

Invisible Empire Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIgP-nkaNQM&NR=1
Time: 7 min.

Invisible Empire Part 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMxljs2twJg
Time: 7 min.

Invisible Empire Part 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYlmfQDToaI&feature=related
Time: 10 min.

Invisible Empire Part 12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE8uiWmgPXE&NR=1
Time: 10 min.

Invisible Empire Part 14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX3hrVneTew&NR=1
Time: 5 min.

Invisible Empire Part 15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDOu5lDKbC8&NR=1
Time: 5 min.


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Here is a list of some of my threads with information that I posted on the Elite Trader Economics Forum since May 2005 on various subjects as follows:
My screen name on that forum is: SouthAmerica

Central Banks and the US Dollar

The final collapse of the US dollar it is just around the corner

The US dollar and the biggest default in history

Over 75 years ago Wall Street Crashed; but today the New Crash is already underway

It’s 2008. The U.S. Has Dragged the World into a Depression

U.S. Economy – Budget Deficits – GDP and Defense Spending

It's Confiscation and Pillage time for the United States

Goldman Sachs is it a Cancer or just a Parasite of the US financial system?

"The China Price" - The best business article I have seen in years

Bretton Woods Conference of April 2011 = Panic Time

In Memorium: John Marks Templeton

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You can see the web links to articles by Ricardo C. Amaral

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