2008/5/30 Lucena, Ivan <<a href="mailto:ivan.lucena@pmldnet.com">ivan.lucena@pmldnet.com</a>>:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Gavin,<br>
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My South Africans friends here in the US and I are deeply concern about that situation too. I just wanted to add that thanks to economic growth and social reforms, Brazil is now a moving target on what concern wealth concentration index. Brazilian business, factories and agriculture are investing now in Africa. I hope that Word Cup, tourism, conferences and other business could bring more opportunities to South African of all ethnicity and that will result in peace and prosperity.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>Gavin and Ivan,<br><br>The last 14 years have been extremely profitable for banks and financial investors. So, I an quite pessimist regarding wealth distribution.<br>Also, there are some concerns regarding the political climate here. Many seem it as getting more and more unfriendly to private property and civil liberties.<br>
<br>For instance, what you call realID is a reality here since unremembered times, and that is also a police issued document. No one seems to give a rat's ass about that.<br><br>talk about police state... we are far more down that road than the US, or even the UK, AFAIK.<br>
The only thing we don't have so far is a no-fly list.<br clear="all"><br>the cup is half empty,<br>-- <br>Paulo Marcondes = PU1/PU2PIX<br>-22.915 -42.224 = GG86jc