Presenting a good soccer skills Brazil had a impressive victory against China, Diego and Thiago Neves(2) scored to Brazil. The victory gave Brazil the lead in the group C with 9 points.

On August 16th Brazil will face Comoros in the quarter final of the competition. It brings the Brazilian people a  very bad recollection when Comoros eliminated Brazil in the quarter final of the tournament 8 years ago in the Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA.

At that time Ronaldinho was only 20 years old and used to wear the jersey #7, the coach was Vanderley Luxemburgo. The game was equal during the regular time and Comoros won the match with a “golden goal”.

Brazil has never won a gold medal for soccer in history. This is the only title missing from Brazil soccer team collection.

It seems that Brazilian politics are always having problem with people posting stuff about sex on the internet. This time one person that embedded one YouTube video on his blog hosted at WordPress.com is being responsible to make the whole WordPress community be banned in Brazil.

The last time stuff like that happen was when someone published a video of Daniela Ciccareli having sex on the beach on YouTube, at that time the repercussion was really bad for Daniela’s career at MTV, many users got together to boycott her TV show.

That’s not the first time WordPress was about to be banned. WordPress is also banned in Turkey and China.

Even though I’m a Brazilian I think that’s a very stupid idea to ban the website because of one user. WordPress should have the rights to be notified and then ban the user that is misusing the service. I hope this process doesn’t goes through and all the Brazilians are able to post whatever they want, of course respecting the rules.

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General thinking is that the term was first prominently used in a thesis of the Goldman Sachs investment bank. The main point of this 2003 paper was to argue that the economies of the BRICs are rapidly developing and by the year 2050 will eclipse most of the current richest countries of the world.

Finally, because of the popularity of the Goldman Sachs thesis “BRIC” and “BRIMC” (M for Mexico), these terms are also extended to “BRICK” (K for Korea) , “BRICS” (S for South Africa), “BRICA” (GCC Arab countries – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE) and “BRICET” (including Eastern Europe and Turkey) have become more generic marketing terms to refer to these emerging markets.
The BRIC thesis

Goldman Sachs argues that the economic potential of Brazil, Russia, India, and China is such that they may become among the four most dominant economies by the year 2050. The thesis was proposed by Jim O’Neill, global economist at Goldman Sachs. These countries encompass over twenty-five percent of the world’s land coverage, forty percent of the world’s population and hold a combined GDP of 15.435 trillion dollars. On almost every scale, they would be the largest entity on the global stage. However, it is important to note that it is not the intent of Goldman Sachs to argue that these four countries are a political alliance (such as the European Union) or any formal trading association, like ASEAN. Nevertheless, they have taken steps to increase their political cooperation, mainly as a way of influencing the United States position on major trade accords, or, through the implicit threat of political cooperation, as a way of extracting political concessions from the United States, such as the proposed nuclear cooperation with India.

Dreaming with BRICs: The Path to 2050

The BRIC thesis (defended in the paper Dreaming with BRICs: The Path to 2050) recognizes that Brazil, Russia, India and China have changed their political systems to embrace global capitalism. Goldman Sachs predicts China and India, respectively, to be the dominant global suppliers of manufactured goods and services while Brazil and Russia would become similarly dominant as suppliers of raw materials. Cooperation is thus hypothesized to be a logical next step among the BRICs because Brazil and Russia together form the logical commodity suppliers to India and China. Thus, the BRICs have the potential to form a powerful economic bloc to the exclusion of the modern-day G8 status. Brazil is dominant in soy and iron ore while Russia has enormous supplies of oil and natural gas. Goldman Sachs’ thesis thus documents how commodities, work, technology, and companies have diffused outward from the United States across the world.

Following the end of the Cold War or even before, the governments comprising BRIC all initiated economic or political reforms to allow their countries to enter the world economy. In order to compete, these countries have simultaneously stressed education, foreign investment, domestic consumption, and domestic entrepreneurship. According to the study, India has the potential to grow the fastest among the four BRIC countries over the next 30 to 50 years. A major reason for this is that the decline in working age population will happen later for India and Brazil than for Russia and China. BRIC is the future.

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