28 | setembro | 2012 | Frumentarius

Boa associação entre a sexta e a sétima economias do globo! Claro que não adianta imaginar que isso significa alguma possibilidade de conseguirmos um assento permanente no Conselho de Segurança da ONU. Se um dia formos, realmente, uma grande potência, lá estaremos! Ou não…

Congratulations, Mr. Cameron! Tem-se aí um movimento, no mínimo, perspicaz, na Política Externa britânica… Os argentinos que se cuidem… De toda maneira, isso vai matar a Cristina de inveja (só por isso já valeu a visita, heheheheh)!

Cameron leads British hunt for business in Brazil

Reuters, 28SEP2012 – 6:30pm EDT

BRASILIA (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron had oil and sports on his mind when he visited Brazil this week seeking business opportunities in the South American nation that overtook Britain last year to become the world’s No. 6 economy.

With the European Union in a slump, Cameron has turned to emerging BRIC nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China – as alternative markets for British exports and investments, with little to show so far. Continuar lendo →

Ainda tentando ler nas entrelinhas da declaração do DNI… De toda maneira, se as ações em Bengazi e no Cairo tiveram alguma participação da Al Qaeda, ficam evidentes as dificuldades que os ocidentais terão com os novos regimes. Ao menos Kadafi e Mubarack eram conhecidos inimigos da Al Qaeda… Será que ninguém vê que a situação na Síria pode ser ainda pior com a queda de Assad?

U.S. intelligence now says Benghazi attack “deliberate and organized”

Reuters, 28SEP2012 6:25pm EDT – By Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. intelligence authority issued an unusual public statement on Friday declaring it now believed the September 11 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, was a “deliberate and organized terrorist attack.”

The statement by the office of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged that it represented a change in the U.S. intelligence assessment of how and why the attack happened. During the attack on two U.S. government compounds in the eastern Libyan city, four U.S. personnel, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed. Continuar lendo →