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Embattled Rousseff argues countries are not defined by their credit ratings
Embattled and leaner Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Wednesday that a country is not defined by its credit rating, downplaying Standard & Poor's decision to assign junk status to Latin American largest economy's sovereign debt. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWe want Brazil away from Western speculative markets! Investment grade never again!
Sep 17th, 2015 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNzRlHbQwxA
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Sep 17th, 2015 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Great laugh to the start of my day!
DumbAss Dilma and The Chief Idiot of the Brazil Nuts vying for who can be considered the most stupid person on the planet: it's going to be a close call!
What is this stupid woman smoking?
Still the stinking poor will believe her, after all they voted her in for a second time.
No mention of The Chief Crook, Lula, stabbing her in the back then?
@1 Brasshole
Sep 17th, 2015 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry to disappoint you, but that is EXACTLY the opposite of what fatass wants to do. Anyway, if Rouseff's argument that “countries are not defined by their credit ratings” were credible , then why is she getting her knickers in such a twist , about it ??
At this point, the best thing she could for Brazil, would be to admit she f*cked-up regally, get on her fat knees and apologise to the country, begging forgiveness, telling the petistas that “lulopetismo” is a dirty lie, and then resign. Then disappear.
Brazil does not want to break ties with the West abruptly. But we're doing it smoothly and safely. The West is a delay for the peoples of mankind.
Sep 17th, 2015 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://thebricspost.com/brazil-russia-cabinet-meeting-in-moscow-takes-stock-of-ties/#.VfsaMhFVhBc
http://thebricspost.com/brazil-russia-cabinet-meeting-in-moscow-takes-stock-of-ties/#.VfsaMhFVhBc
@4 brasshole
Sep 17th, 2015 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry to disappoint you again. When are you going to realize that just about everything in Brazil today, is 99% the result of imported technology, and unless Brazil becomes the world's most important research centre in all fields of activity - which is highly unlikely - Brazil will keep on depending on it. So don't get your hopes up. Brazil will never isolate itself from the 'civilized' world , in order to form one big socialist nightmare in South America, especially after Dilma is ousted and Lula is imprisoned. If he lives that long. Repeat after me, “Brazil is bigger than the PT”, again, “Brazil is bigger than the PT”... until the cows come home.
5 Jack Bauer
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Amazing that you seem to be a little behind the eight-ball when it comes to the the technology sector of your adopted country. In particular the quite respectable aircraft manufacturing sector.
“Total Flex was the first flexible-fuel car capable of running on any blend of gasoline and ethanol.”
http://thebrazilbusiness.com/article/7-most-famous-brazilian-inventions
http://thebrazilbusiness.com/article/7-most-famous-brazilian-inventions
@6 Terence
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 10:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Behind the eight-ball ? don't make me laugh...
By your link, you expect me to believe that Brazilians are responsible for all the important advances in all fields of technology ? Get lost !
But let's see :
Automatic Transmission : Perfected by a Brazilian but - invented by an American.
DRE voting machine : its concept may be Brazilian, but it's based on a computer programme, and last time I checked, the computer was not invented by a Brazilian. Not to mention the machine's vulnerability to tampering and to hackers.
Stereobelt : invented by Pavel, German born....but let's give Brazil the credit as he came here as a young boy.
Hot-air balloon, Snake venom antidotes...OK, Brazilian.
Brain-machine interface : Miguel Nicolelis , Brazilian, but he owes his success largely to the team of neuroscientists at Duke University...in the US. D'you really think he would have managed it alone, in Brazil ? Doubtful.
First aircraft : if you want to believe it was invented by Santos Dumont, be my guest. I credit it to the Wright Brothers. With regards to Brazil's “quite respectable aircraft manufacturing sector”, I am quite capable of realizing its importance to Brazil, but perhaps you should not forget that while Brazil may design the fuselage etc, it basically still assembles them, using imported technology - not to mention that Brazil only went ahead in this sector because they filled a niche long-abandoned by the other manufacturers, which went on the build more advanced aircraft.
And just fyi : the first flex-fuel vehicle was the Ford 'T', manufactured 1908 to 1927. Henry Ford produced engines which could run on gasoline and/or ethanol, or a mixture of both, and the only reason that the ethanol didn't go ahead was because oil was very cheap and gasoline prevailed.
7 Jack Bauer
Sep 24th, 2015 - 02:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Brazilians are responsible for all the important advances in all fields of technology”. Your statement is a reinterpretation to suit your own ends and you proffer the resulting fallacy as truth. What I stated is “a little behind the eight-ball when it comes to the the technology sector of your adopted country.” Further, very little of any inventiveness is the result of a single capsulated idea. A second untruth by you “First aircraft : if you want to believe it was invented by Santos Dumont” as no one has made such a claim. What was claimed was “which can project itself from the ground by its own impulses, overcoming the Earth's gravity, air friction and the basic laws of physics.”
The claim for flex fuel was that Brazil created the capability of a car running on any combination of petroleum or ethanol, the site was in fact inaccurate. What would have been accurate was the fact that it handled either/or fuels automatically, but thanks in advance for the update.
@8 Terence
Sep 24th, 2015 - 04:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can keep on splitting hairs until the cows come home. Still doesn't change the image you project....that of an idiot with an enormous inferiority complex.
What about the PT ? in your expert opinion, are they still a minority party ?
9 Jack Bauer
Sep 24th, 2015 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah ha an admission by you that nothing posted by me is untrue, and conversely a failure by you to a deny that your post is untrue, confirms my claim. So congratulations, you're at the top of your game now. As you've the champion sophist and fallacy producer on this site, even beating most Argentine supporters. So much falar, falar and a complete absence of proof as is per usual, which is in line with all your other utterances. So I'm delighted that you have revealed the real you which is not dependent on your imagened perceptions . But, on what you prove not what claim to be true, as those to entities are poles apart and you can't fudge them.
@10 Terence
Sep 24th, 2015 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Ah ha , bla-bla-bla.....” a lot of BS for just one person. Your posts are plain silly.
So you are delighted. Great . Did you try your new dress on ? does it show off your pudgy little thighs ?
Terence, why don't you go and play with your dolls, you don't need a brain for that.
11 Jack Bauer
Sep 25th, 2015 - 01:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0So you have conceded yet another argument and leave the field with nothing but personal vindictives behind you as go. Well so long loser.
@12 Terence
Sep 25th, 2015 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only in your wee brain have I conceded anything. But if it makes you feel superior, good for you.
13 Jack Bauer
Sep 25th, 2015 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When you are old enough to understand the accepted format for posting and supporting opinions you'll eventually catch on to what's happening around you.
“The best way to win an argument is to begin by being by being right.”Jill Ruckeshaus, Saturday evening Post, March 3, 1973
“The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.” Howe, Edgar Watson
“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.” Hugo, Victor
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. E. B. White
@14 Terence
Sep 26th, 2015 - 11:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“when I am old enough....” ? And how old would that be Terence ? tell me. 10 or 11 ?
Just more quotes..... while to you, they are clearly the end-all of everything, in fact they prove nothing....except that you are incapable of thinking for yourself.
But since you love them, here's one you should really pay attention to :-
“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt”....
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