Temas de relações internacionais, de política externa e de diplomacia brasileira, com ênfase em políticas econômicas, em viagens, livros e cultura em geral. Um quilombo de resistência intelectual em defesa da racionalidade, da inteligência e das liberdades democráticas.
O que é este blog?
Este blog trata basicamente de ideias, se possível inteligentes, para pessoas inteligentes. Ele também se ocupa de ideias aplicadas à política, em especial à política econômica. Ele constitui uma tentativa de manter um pensamento crítico e independente sobre livros, sobre questões culturais em geral, focando numa discussão bem informada sobre temas de relações internacionais e de política externa do Brasil. Para meus livros e ensaios ver o website: www.pralmeida.org. Para a maior parte de meus textos, ver minha página na plataforma Academia.edu, link: https://itamaraty.academia.edu/PauloRobertodeAlmeida.
terça-feira, 15 de julho de 2014
Deu no Shanghai Daily: herois alemaes da Copa saudados por centenas de milhares
quinta-feira, 10 de julho de 2014
Futebol: governo promete intervir - agora a coisa vai piorar de vez
Pronto: lá se foi o último reduto da espontaneidade...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Após 'lição' na Copa, governo quer intervir no futebol
Ministro cita organização do calendário e de clubes
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Copa do Mundo: a ultima ofensa, Argentina no Maracana - Le Monde
Mondial 2014 : l'Argentine au Maracana, affront ultime pour les Brésiliens
« Brésil, dis-moi ce que ça fait d'avoir papa à la maison … Tu vas voir Messi, il va nous ramener la Coupe. Maradona est plus grand que Pelé ». Le chant entonné par les nombreux supporteurs argentins présents au Brésil depuis le début du Mondial 2014 risque de raisonner de plus belle dans les rues de Sao Paulo et de Rio. Mercredi, malgré un Lionel Messi très discret et une demi-finale ennuyeuse (0-0, 4 tab à 2), l'Albiceleste s'est qualifiée aux dépens des Pays-Bas pour la finale de la compétition organisée chez leur rival brésilien.
- Anthony Hernandez
Journaliste au Monde
quarta-feira, 9 de julho de 2014
Nunca Antes na Historia do Brasil: a maior vergonha futebolistica
http://imgur.com/a/Hs88z#XqFD8jV
Bem, os argentinos devem estar contentes, não é mesmo?
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Copa do Mundo: Brasil: 5 (sobre 10); Governo: 0 (ZERO)
terça-feira, 8 de julho de 2014
Copa do Mundo 2014: Nunca Antes na Historia do Brasil - Nao era para ser um Hexa?
7 a 0, repito, SETE a ZERO, sem dúvida essa é inédita na história das copas, e na história das copas brasileiras (aliás em todas elas): sete a zero é um feito, só uma equipe perfeitamente entrosada para a derrota seria capaz de conseguir.
Quem teria sido o pé frio?
Certamente não foi a soberana, que mesmo sem ter ido ao Mineirão, tomou mais uma vaia, ou melhor, xingamentos ofensivos (totalmente de mau gosto) quando estava 5 a 0 "apenas".
Teria sido o guia genial dos povos? Teria sido ele, o homem do nunca antes, e que nunca apareceu em uma só partida, o homem que trouxe a Copa para o Brasil, e que de certa forma foi responsável pelo início dos protestos contra o governo, no ano passado?
Terá sido a psicóloga, que inventaram de contratar para a seleção?
Só pode ser ela: psicólogas, em geral, só atrapalham a vida das pessoas.
Bem, só nos resta ver algum documentário sobre a Segunda Guerra, que é quando a Alemanha perde...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
P.S.: Em tempo: Oscar salvou a honra da pátria, fazendo um gol, um mísero golzinho...
Bem, sempre se poderá dormir com esse..
Copa do Mundo: com brasileiro nao ha quem possa - Guilherme Fiuza
terça-feira, 1 de julho de 2014
A Exame faz o exame das contas companheiras: gastaram USD 15 bilhoes para ganhar USD 400 milhoes
Somando tudo, eis o que Lula e Dilma produziram.
Só gastaram "30 bilhões", como relatado mais abaixo, porque não conseguiram completar 70% dos empreendimentos, por pura incompetência. Do contrário, imaginem o que teriam gasto...
Mais uma herança maldita dos companheiros.
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
segunda-feira, 30 de junho de 2014
Football, or rather, soccer: the beautifull game comes to America - Steven Malanga (City Journal)
All this, however, vastly underestimates how popular soccer has become in the United States. More broadly, it misunderstands how cultural trends emerge and reshape society. A sport doesn’t grab the public from the top down, reflected first in TV ratings for those playing at elite levels. Like a political movement, a game gathers adherents from the bottom up, as a grassroots crusade. And at the grassroots level, soccer has sown impressive seeds in the last few decades.
Measured by participation, soccer is already among the big four sports in America. Today, nearly 7 million kids under 18 are playing organized soccer in the United States, according to surveys by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. In this regard, soccer is running neck and neck with basketball as America’s most popular sport. Baseball, with its long and glorious history, trails, with about 5.6 million organized players. Football lags well behind these three, with 3 million participants.
Soccer and basketball do so well, in part, because both appeal to girls in great numbers. Soccer, in particular, benefits from being a latecomer. It didn’t begin to approach the participation rates of the other major American sports until the mid-1990s—just as youth programs began reaching out to girls. Nearly as many girls play organized soccer today as boys. Meanwhile, football suffers from the opposite problem—few girls play it and now, with the sport’s well-chronicled concussion problems, the NFL is struggling to stem a decline in boys’ participation, too. And while involvement in youth sports today has leveled out in the U.S. and is declining among many sports (thanks to the rise of computer games and a general dwindling in physical activity among kids), soccer can still boast some recent gains, including a more than 7 percent increase in high school participation over the last five years. The sport’s growth potential remains strong.
None of this should be surprising to anyone who gets out to have a look. On any given Saturday and Sunday morning in the fall or spring, you’ll have little trouble finding youth soccer matches, whether you’re wandering the lots of urban immigrant communities or the tailored green fields of well-to-do suburbs. Many communities boast both recreational leagues—where local boys and girls compete against one another—and more serious teams, where players take on rivals from other towns.
But the numbers, charted over the decades, also tell us why this participation hasn’t yet produced the blockbuster TV ratings we see for the NFL. We are essentially only one generation into the emergence of soccer as a significant participatory sport in America. How long does it take for that to translate into rich media contracts and endorsement deals for players? Well, for one thing, learning to be loyal to a professional sports franchise filled with players with whom you have no personal connection isn’t easy. American football, for instance, was popular at the college and inter-scholastic levels long before the NFL broke through. The league, formed in 1922 with 18 franchises, most of which have since disappeared, struggled for decades to gain a popular foothold. Today, the NFL’s Hall of Fame, in Canton, Ohio, is a reminder of the league’s unstable birth—Canton was the site of one of the early NFL’s failed franchises.
Major League Soccer teams face a similar challenge: staying afloat long enough to create a tradition that kids playing the game today will embrace as adults. Talk to a fan of a pro baseball or football franchise, and they will probably tell you how they developed their rooting interest when a relative introduced them to the game. Something similar happens with soccer around the world. Listen to the opening words of English writer Nick Hornsby’s famous soccer (football) novel, Fever Pitch, and you’ll hear a familiar story: “I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically . . . just after my eleventh birthday, [when] my father asked me if I’d like to go with him to the FA Cup Final.” That generational dynamic hasn’t played out for soccer in the U.S.—not yet.
After several false starts at the professional level in the United States, soccer is making gains that reflect its grassroots popularity. Average match attendance in the MLS—founded in 1993 to fulfill an American commitment to create a professional league in exchange for hosting the 1994 World Cup—is now nearly 19,000, up from about 13,000 a decade ago. That might not sound like much compared with the NFL, but it’s more than the NBA and the NHL average per game and more than what a handful of major league baseball teams drew last year, too. The MLS Seattle Sounders, in fact, draw nearly twice as many fans per match as baseball’s Seattle Mariners. The MLS also sports a brand-new $600 million multiyear TV package with ESPN and Fox. Some 40 percent of MLS TV viewers are under 34, young by comparison with sports like baseball.
But charting soccer’s popularity by media deals and professional stadiums misses the point. The Nobel Prize-winning economist F. A. Hayek once wrote that man’s fatal conceit was to imagine he can discern and understand all the currents of society and organize them from the top down. But whether we’re talking policy, politics, or cultural trends, it’s still a bottom-up world—as the rise of soccer in America shows.
sábado, 21 de junho de 2014
Policia Federal: desvio de funcoes pelo governo companheiro - Leandro Mazzini
Babás de luxo
Com tantas investigações para fazer, o governo obrigou delegados da Polícia Federal e agentes a escoltarem as seleções da Copa, um evento privado
sexta-feira, 20 de junho de 2014
A Copa da Mae Joana - Gil Castello Branco
quarta-feira, 18 de junho de 2014
A elite branca apela para ofensas? Algo de podre no reino dos companheiros - Milton Simon Pires
Paulo Roberto de Almeida