Fukushima reactors 2,3 AND 6 HIGH temp's! update 2/6/12 - YouTube

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Tokyo exodus nuke report's worst scenario | The Japan Times Online

Areas as far as 170 km away from the Fukushima nuclear plant faced the potential risk of being declared permanent evacuation zones, according to a worst-case scenario drawn up at the height of the crisis by the chief of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission.

The report, compiled March 25 at the request of then Prime Minister Naoto Kan, also said areas 250 km away — including central Tokyo — could have been tainted by radiation and require the government to assist those electing to voluntarily "migrate" away from the area.

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AdNews - Presidente do Google diz que a internet vai transformar o mundo

FONTE => AdNews - Presidente do Google diz que a internet vai transformar o mundo

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Web no centro do poder

Eric Schmidt, o presidente executivo do Google, esteve em um evento do The Economic Club of Washington no início deste mês e falou sobre suas crenças em relação ao futuro, que pode ser fortalecido com a ajuda da tecnologia.

A internet, segundo ele, será o carro-chefe das transformações que estão prestes a atingir o mundo, já que proporciona mais transparência de informações e valores. "As coisas que [os EUA] podem trazer para o mundo realmente vão mudar muita coisa (...) e tirar as pessoas da pobreza financeira e da pobreza de informações", disse.

Para Schmidt, surgiram dois sistemas rivais por conta da web que explicam essas alterações: instituições offline (como governo, política e Justiça) e o ciberespaço. "Você pode pensar nisso como uma comunidade de cidadãos e uma comunidade de governos."

Porém, o desenvolvimento gradativo da tecnologia acaba servindo a ambas as comunidades. No caso do ciberespaço, sua função é manter os governos mais honestos. Do outro lado, o governo possui influência sobre as coisas negativas que acontecem no ciberespaço.

Google, Apple, Facebook e Amazon são, na sua visão, as quatro empresas donas de plataformas com maior potencial para encabeçar essa revolução - e que, na verdade, já estão fazendo isso.

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Descubra Rio das Ostras - YouTube

Um lugar de natureza exuberante. A jovem cidade de 105 mil habitantes é uma das que mais crescem no Brasil. Praias, sol, muitos atrativos e localização estratégica na Região dos Lagos, a Costa do Sol. Situada a 170 km da capital fluminense, Rio das Ostras conquista visitantes de todo o país

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Graphic detail | The Economist

Emerging economies will import more than the rich world in 2012

AN ENTERPRISING Englishman in the 1850s famously said that if he “could add an inch of material to every Chinaman’s shirt-tail, the mills of Lancashire could be kept busy for a generation.” Sadly, those mills have since turned to rust, but in the years to come selling to China and the world’s other emerging markets are expected to keep many Western firms busy for years to come. In 2012, an important new milestone will be reached when emerging-markets import more goods and services than the rich economies combined. That is a dramatic change since 2000, when they imported barely half as much as rich countries did. Policymakers will hope that the rapid growth in developing countries’ buying power will boost the profits of companies in rich economies over the coming
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Solar Trees Bloom at GM's Tech Facility Event

The installation consists of Envision's Solar Tree structure which will shade and charge six electric vehicles while providing renewable, solarelectric energy to GM'S facility.

The deployment includes Solar Tree structures which incorporate Envision's CleanChargeT CIT, "column-integrated" electric vehicle charging stations.

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DENVER, November 1, 2011—Schlumberger today announced the release of the Avocet* 2012 production operations software platform. The Avocet platform has been engineered to combine a complete and up-to-date picture of operations with engineering analysis capabilities to pinpoint the reasons for production shortfalls, enabling producing assets to hit production targets consistently.

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Commodity Trading Terms

CIF ASWP

CIF ASWP stands for Cost Insurance and Freight to Any Safe World Port. This is a flawed term which does NOT exist in the real market. When you get asked for (or offered) the CIF ASWP price, you know right then and there that you are either dealing with a scammer or more often a person who does not know much about import/export business – a beginner who picked up the term from other beginners and is throwing it around in hopes to land his first deal and get his big commission. People who use this term are known as “time wasters” or “joker brokers” and usually do not get a reply from anyone other than fellow time wasters. There have been “intermediaries” who have been caught in time wasting circles for years, not realizing that what they are doing cannot possibly lead to closure of a real deal.

The CIF part of the term is valid, the ASWP however is wrong. There is a simple logic behind this – the shipment cost cannot be the same to ANY World’s Port! For example the CIF price to ship sugar from Brazil to China would be double compared to if it was shipped to South Africa. In only one small ship load (12.500 MT) that makes over half a million dollars price difference. No buyer would be willing to pay extra just to get a an “easily” quoted CIF ASWP price. The “CIF ASWP” was probably developed by scammers because they did not have access to the ever changing real prices so they needed something more “general” they could quote on the fly.

ICPO (also LOI)

ICPO stands for Irrevocable Corporate Purchase Order while LOI is supposed to mean Letter of Intent while in fact the proper meaning would be Letter of Indemnity (international trade and carriage business). These documents are frequently used in some countries and some industries to establish corporate intent for certain undertaking – such as to purchase real estate, or to enter into some sort of deal, but there is no standard usage of these documents in International Trade! This is used by “joker brokers” because the phrase “Irrevocable Corporate Purchase Order” sounds barbarous, “strong” or “professional” if you will. In reality there is no need for anything other than Quote, Offer, Contract, Payments and Exchange of goods.

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Corporate care

But for a supply-chain-financing programme to work most effectively, the anchor client not only needs to carefully select the suppliers — some firms look at suppliers’ operating cash flows and debt- to-equity ratio of their suppliers or ask for up-front payment or deposit before they sign off a contract — but must also stay actively involved in the management of the supply chain. Heads of supply chains in multinational corporations (MNCs) also tend to enjoy more seniority and access to CFOs and treasurers than do their counterparties in Asian firms, but this too is changing.

“The factors ensuring a successful supply chain finance programme would be the dynamics of the supply chain — corporate-supplier/buyer relationship, the strength on the product, the length and depth of the relationship. This relationship should be viewed as an ecosystem where it is a symbiotic relationship,” said Ashutosh Kumar, global head of corporate cash and trade at Standard Chartered. “The corporation will have to have a view that a successful supply chain programme involves their participation and not a programme solely conducted by a financial institution, as the financial institution relies on the cooperation and information flow from the corporation to mitigate the risks.”

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Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns - One News Page [UK] Health

Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns

Tuesday, 13 September 2011 (10 hours ago) (NaturalNews) Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it's right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it's that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially devastating consequences for life on Earth. To date, Fukushima has already released *168 times* the total radiation released from the Hiroshima nuclear bomb detonated in 1945, and the Fukushima catastrophe is now undeniably the worst nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization. But what if human civilization faced a far greater threat than a single tsunami destroying a nuclear power facility? What if a *global tidal wave* could destroy the power generating capacities of all the world's power plants, all at once? Such a scenario is not merely possible, but factually inevitable. And the global tidal wave threatening all the nuclear power plants of the world isn't made of water but *solar emissions*. The sun, you see, is acting up again. NASA recently warned that solar activity is surging, with a peak expected to happen in 2013 that could generate enormous radiation levels that sweep across planet Earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has even issued an urgent warning about solar flares due to strike in 2012 and 2013. IBtimes wrote, "With solar activity expected to peak around 2013, the Sun is entering a particularly active time and big flares like the recent one will likely be common during the next few years. ...A major flare in the mid-19th century blocked the nascent telegraph system, and some scientists believe that another such event is now overdue." (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194166/20110808/solar-storms-severe-solar-storms-earth-paralyse-carrington-event.htm) The story goes on to explain: "Several federal government studies suggest that this extreme solar activity and emissions may result in complete blackouts for years in some areas of the nation. Moreover, there may also be disruption of power supply for years, or even decades, as geomagnetic currents attracted by the storm could debilitate the transformers." Why does all this matter? To understand that, you have to understand how nuclear power plants function. Or, put another way, how is nuclear material prevented from "going nuclear" every single day across our planet? *Every nuclear power plant operates in a near-meltdown state* All nuclear power plants are operated in a near-meltdown status. They operate at very high heat, relying on nuclear fission to boil water that produces steam to drive the turbines that generate electricity. Critically, the nuclear fuel is prevented from melting down through the steady circulation of *coolants* which are pushed through the cooling system using very high powered *electric pumps*. If you stop the electric pumps, the coolant stops flowing and the fuel rods go critical (and then melt down). This is what happened in Fukushima, where the melted fuel rods dropped through the concrete floor of the containment vessels, unleashing enormous quantities of ionizing radiation into the surrounding environment. The full extent of the Fukushima contamination is not even known yet, as the facility is still emitting radiation. It's crucial to understand that nuclear coolant pumps are usually driven by *power from the electrical grid*. They are not normally driven by power generated locally from the nuclear power plant itself. Instead, they're connected to the grid. In other words, even though nuclear power plants are generating megawatts of electricity for the grid, they are also dependant on the grid to run their own coolant pumps. If the grid goes down, the coolant pumps go down, too, which is why they are quickly switched to emergency backup power -- either generators or batteries. As we learned with Fukushima, the on-site batteries can only drive the coolant pumps for around eight hours. After that, the nuclear facility is dependent on *diesel generators* (or sometimes propane) to run the pumps that circulate the coolant which prevents the whole site from going Chernobyl. And yet, critically, this depends on something rather obvious: The delivery of diesel fuel to the site. If diesel cannot be delivered, the generators can't be fired up and the coolant can't be circulated. When you grasp the importance of this supply line dependency, you will instantly understand why a single solar flare could unleash a nuclear holocaust across the planet. When the generators fail and the coolant pumps stop pumping, nuclear fuel rods begin to melt through their containment rods, unleashing ungodly amounts of life-destroying radiation directly into the atmosphere. This is precisely why Japanese engineers worked so hard to reconnect the local power grid to the Fukushima facility after the tidal wave -- they needed to bring power back to the generators to run the pumps that circulate the coolant. This effort failed, of course, which is why Fukushima became such a nuclear disaster and released countless becquerels of radiation into the environment (with no end in sight). And yet, despite the destruction we've already seen with Fukushima, U.S. nuclear power plants are nowhere near being prepared to handle sustained power grid failures. As IBtimes reports: "Last month, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said U.S. plants affected by a blackout should be able to cope without electricity for at least eight hours and should have procedures to keep the reactor and spent-fuel pool cool for 72 hours. Nuclear plants depend on standby batteries and backup diesel generators. Most standby power systems would continue to function after a severe solar storm, but supplying the standby power systems with adequate fuel, when the main power grids are offline for years, could become a very critical problem. If the spent fuel rod pools at the country's 104 nuclear power plants lose their connection to the power grid, the current regulations aren't sufficient to guarantee those pools won't boil over -- exposing the hot, zirconium-clad rods and sparking fires that would release deadly radiation." (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194166/20110808/solar-storms-severe-solar-storms-earth-paralyse-carrington-event.htm) Now, what does all this have to do with solar flares? *How the end of modern civilization will most likely occur* As any sufficiently informed scientist will readily admit, solar flares have the potential to *blow out the transformers* throughout the national power grid. That's because solar flares *induce geomagnetic currents* (powerful electromagnetic impulses) which overload the transformers and cause them to explode. You've probably witnessed this yourself during a lightning storm when lightning unleashes a powerful electromagnetic pulse that causes a local transformer to explode. Solar flares do the same thing on a much larger scale. A global scale, in fact. The upshot of this situation is that suddenly and without warning, the power grid infrastructure across nearly the entire planet could be destroyed. As a bonus, nearly all satellites will be fried, too, leaving GPS inoperable and causing millions of clueless drivers to become forever lost in their own neighborhoods because they never paid attention to the streets and always relied on a GPS voice to tell them, "In fifty feet, turn right." Communications satellites will be obliterated, too. This, of course, will halt nearly all news propaganda distribution across the planet, causing tens of thousands of people to instantly die out of the sheer fear of suddenly having to think for themselves. As another bonus, nearly all mobile phone service will be disrupted, too, meaning all the teenage text junkies of the world will, for the first time in their lives, be forced to lay down their iPhones and interact with real people in the real world. But the real kicker in all this is that *the power grid will be destroyed nearly everywhere*. *What happens when there's no electricity?* Imagine *a world without electricity*. Even for just a week. Imagine New York City with no electricity, or Los Angeles, or Sao Paulo. Within 72 hours, most cities around the world will devolve into total chaos, complete with looting, violent crime, and runaway fires. And if you think you can just drive away from the chaos, think again: The solar flare will *fry all automobiles that rely on ignition electronics*, which means probably 98% of the vehicles on the road today will be instantly rendered scrap metal (or plastic, as it turns out). But that's not even the bad news. Even if all the major cities of the world burned to the ground for some other reason, humanity could still recover because it has the farmlands: the soils, the seeds, and the potential to recover, right? And yet the real crisis here stems from the realization that once there is no power grid, all the nuclear power plants of the world suddenly go into "emergency mode" and are forced to rely on their on-site emergency power backups to circulate coolants and prevent nuclear meltdowns from occurring. And yet, as we've already established, these facilities typically have only a few hours of battery power available, followed by perhaps a few days worth of diesel fuel to run their generators (or propane, in some cases). Did I also mention that half the people who work at nuclear power facilities have no idea what they're doing in the first place? Most of the veterans who really know the facilities inside and out have been forced into retirement due to reaching their *lifetime limits* of on-the-job radiation exposure, so most of the workers at nuclear facilities right now are newbies who really have no clue what they're doing. There are *440 nuclear power plants* operating across 30 countries around the world today. There are an additional 250 so-called "research reactors" in existence, making a total of roughly *700 nuclear reactors* to be dealt with (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf01.html). Now imagine the scenario: You've got a massive solar flare that knocks out the world power grid and destroys the majority of the power grid transformers, thrusting the world into darkness. Cities collapse into chaos and rioting, martial law is quickly declared (but it hardly matters), and every nation in the world is on full emergency. But that doesn't solve the really big problem, which is that you've got *700 nuclear reactors* that can't feed power into the grid (because all the transformers are blown up) and yet simultaneously have to be fed a steady stream of emergency fuels to run the generators the keep the coolant pumps functioning. How long does the coolant need to circulate in these facilities to cool the nuclear fuel? *Months.* This is also the lesson of Fukushima: You can't cool nuclear fuel in mere hours or days. It takes months to bring these nuclear facilities to a state of cold shutdown. And that means in order to avoid a multitude of Fukushima-style meltdowns from occurring around the world, you need to *truck diesel fuel*, generator parts and nuclear plant workers to every nuclear facility on the planet, ON TIME, every time, without fail, for months on end. Now remember, this must be done in the middle of the total chaos breakdown of modern civilization, where there is no power, where law enforcement and emergency services are totally overrun, where people are starving because food deliveries have been disrupted (all the vehicles got fried in the solar flare, remember?), and when looting and violent crime runs rampant in the streets of every major city in the world. Somehow, despite all this, you have to run these diesel fuel caravans to the nuclear power plants and keep the pumps running. Except there's a problem in all this, even if you assume you can somehow work a logistical miracle and actually deliver the diesel fuel to the backup generators on time (which you probably can't). The problem is this: *Where do you get diesel fuel?* *Why refineries will be shut down, too* From *petroleum refineries.* Most people don't realize it, but petroleum refineries *run on electricity*. Without the power grid, the refineries don't produce a drop of diesel. With no diesel, there are no generators keeping the coolant running in the nuclear power facilities. But wait, you say: Maybe we could just acquire diesel from all the gas stations in the world. Pump it out of the ground, load it into trucks and use that to power the generators, right? Except there are other problems here: How do you pump all that fuel without electricity? How do you acquire all the tires and spare parts needed to keep trucks running if there's no electricity to keep the supply businesses running? How do you maintain a truck delivery infrastructure when the electrical infrastructure is totally wiped out? Some countries might be able to pull it off with some degree of success. With *military escorts* and the total government control over all fuel supplies, a few nations will be able to keep a few nuclear power facilities from melting down. But here's the real issue: There are 700 nuclear power facilities in the world, remember? Let's suppose that in the aftermath of a massive solar flare, the nations of the world are somehow able to control half of those facilities and nurse them into cold shutdown status. That still leaves roughly 350 nuclear facilities at risk. Now let's suppose half of those are somehow luckily offline and not even functioning when the solar flare hits, so they need no special attention. This is a very optimistic assumption, but that still leaves *175 nuclear power plants* where all attempts fail. Let's be outrageously optimistic and suppose that a third of those somehow don't go into a total meltdown by some miracle of God, or some bizarre twist in the laws of physics. So we're still left with *115 nuclear power plants* that "go Chernobyl." Fukushima was one power plant. Imagine the devastation of 100+ nuclear power plants, all going into meltdown all at once across the planet. It's not the loss of electricity that's the real problem; it's the *global tidal wave of invisible radiation* that blankets the planet, permeates the topsoil, irradiates everything that breathes and delivers the final crushing blow to human civilization as we know it today. Because if you have *100 simultaneous global nuclear meltdowns*, the tidal wave of radiation will make farming nearly impossible for years. That means no food production for several years in a row. And that, in turn, means a near-total collapse of the human population on our planet. How many people can survive an entire year with no food from the farms? Not one in a hundred people. Even beyond that, how many people can essentially *live underground* and be safe enough from the radiation that they can have viable children and repopulate the planet? It's a very, very small fraction of the total population. *Solar flares far more likely to hit nuclear power plants than tidal waves or earthquakes* What's the chance of all this actually happening? A report by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory said that "...over the standard 40-year license term of nuclear power plants, *solar flare activity enables a 33 percent chance of long-term power loss, a risk that significantly outweighs that of major earthquakes and tsunamis*." (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194166/20110808/solar-storms-severe-solar-storms-earth-paralyse-carrington-event.htm) The world's reliance on nuclear power, you see, has doomed us to destroy our own civilization. Of course, this is all preventable if we would only *dismantle and shut down ALL nuclear power plants on the planet*. But what are the chances of that happening? Zero, of course. There are too many commercial and political interests invested in nuclear power. So the power plants will stay, and we will therefore be vulnerable to a solar flare which could strike us at any time and unleash a global nuclear holocaust. Planet Earth has been struck by solar flares before, of course, but all the big hits in recorded human history took place *long before the age of modern electronics*, so the impacts were minimal. Today, society cannot function without electronics. Nor can nuclear facility coolant pumps. Once you realize that, you begin to understand the true danger in which humanity has placed itself by relying on nuclear power. By relying on nuclear power, we are risking everything. And we're doing it blindly, with no real acknowledgement of the dangers of running 700+ nuclear facilities in a constant state of "near meltdown" while foolishly relying on the steady flow of electricity to keep the fuel rods cool. If Fukushima, all by itself, could unleash a tidal wave of deadly radiation all by itself, imagine a world where *hundreds of nuclear facilities* go into a total meltdown simultaneously. A repeat of the 1859 solar storm -- called the Carrington Event -- would "devastate the modern world," admits a National Geographic article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110302-solar-flares-sun-storms-earth-danger-carrington-event-science/ What can you do about any of this? *Build yourself an underground bunker* and prepare to live in it for an extended period of time. (Just a few feet of soil protects you from most radiation.) The good news is that if you survive it all and one day return to the surface to plant your non-hybrid seeds and begin rebuilding human society, *real estate will be really, really cheap*. Especially in the radiation zones. *Take this seriously! Read more from NASA* http://www.space.com/12580-sun-unleashes-major-solar-flare.html http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare/ From NASA: "Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii. Even more disconcerting, telegraph systems worldwide went haywire. Spark discharges shocked telegraph operators and set the telegraph paper on fire. Even when telegraphers disconnected the batteries powering the lines, aurora-induced electric currents in the wires still allowed messages to be transmitted..." "...as electronic technologies have become more sophisticated and more embedded into everyday life, they have also become more vulnerable to solar activity. On Earth, power lines and long-distance telephone cables might be affected by auroral currents, as happened in 1989. Radar, cell phone communications, and GPS receivers could be disrupted by solar radio noise. Experts who have studied the question say there is little to be done to protect satellites from a Carrington-class flare. In fact, a recent paper estimates potential damage to the 900-plus satellites currently in orbit could cost between $30 billion and $70 billion."

SOURCE: Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns - One News Page [UK] Health

The Marc Rich Group - Marc Rich

Marc Rich was born in Antwerp on December 18, 1934 as the only child of David Rich and Paula Rich-Wang.

Facing the prospects of religious persecution his family began moving when he was a small boy and settled for a while in Vichy, France, before immigrating to the United States in 1941. The family first moved to New York City and lived with a relative, then moved to Philadelphia, then to Kansas City and then returned to the New York City area, living in various neighbourhoods. As a result of the travels, Marc Rich attended a different school virtually every year through primary and secondary schools.

Very affected by his father, a talented businessman with an uncompromising work ethic and a knack for success in a variety of business ventures, Marc Rich spent much of his childhood helping his father in several of his companies.

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O rei do petróleo « The King Of Oil

O rei do petróleo

O REI DO PETROLEO – A VIDA SECRETA DE MARC RICH – Livro de Daniel Ammann – Novo Seculo Editora – 2011 - Obra recem publicada nos EUA e no Brasil com a biografia do maior especulador de petroleo dos tempos modernos, Marc Rich, judeu belga cuja familia fugiu de Antuerpia em 1940 e depois de muitas peripécias chegou a Nova York pelo lendario vapor português Serpa Pinto, cuja historia já postei aqui no blog. Marc Rich começou sua vida na famosa trading de metais Philip Brothers, a PHIBRO, muito conhecida no Brasil e que tinha escritorio em São Paulo.

Marc Rich operava todo tipo de metais mas especializou-se em mercurio, era um ás da negociação e foi ele quem introduziu a PHIBRO na compra e venda de petroleo cru. O momento era a decada de 60, estava terminando uma era de dominação da exploração de petroleo pelas Sete Irmãs, com a nacionalização do setor no Oriente Medio e na America Latina. As novas estatais conseguiam extrair petroleo mas não tinham os canais de comercialização, que eram controlados pelas Sete Irmãs.

u-se então um espaço para compra e venda de petroleo cru por free-lancers e Marc Rich criou como pioneiro no mundo o mercado “spot” de petroleo, a partir da PHIBRO. Lamentavelmente seus patrões não acompanharam sua audacia, o negocio era de altissimo risco e apesar de Rich ganhar quase sempre, os donos da PHIBRO, judeus alemães riquissimos, não aceitavam o nivel de risco desse novo mercado. Marc Rich era então chefe do escritorio da PHIBRO em Madrid e foi a partir de Madrid que criou e operou o novo mercado de oleo. Sua familia espanholizou-se, ele adquiriu cidadania espanhola, sua mulher Denise só falava espanhol com as tres filhas do casal. Marc Rich saiu da PHIBRO e com mais colegas fundou a Marc Rich & Co., com sede em Zug, na Suiça. O sucesso na nova empresa foi imediato e em poucos anos, graças ou seu grande cliente, o Irã, a Marc Rich & Co. ganhou 200 milhões de dolares em um só ano.

Marc Rich não tinha qualquer restrição ideologica, politica, religiosa ou pessoal. Lidava pessoalmente com o Xá da Persia, que comercailizava com ele grande parte da produção da NIOC, a estatal de petroleo do Irã. Até ai nada demais, o fantástico é que a excepcional relação de Rich com o Irã continuou e até aumentou após a queda do Xá, negociava perfeitamente bem com o Ayatollah Komeini, a ponto do Irã ser o principal fornecedor de petroleo para seu arqui-inimigo, Israel, operação que era obviamente secreta e conduzida por Rich, que tambem era cidadão israelense.

Rich passou a ser o grande canal de comercialização de petroleo no meio de conflitos, guerras, embargos, bloqueios, nada o detinha, passou a comercializar petroleo dos novos produtores da Africa, seu volume de negocios era extraordinario em volume e seu socio Pinkus Green era um excepcional expert em logistica, operava os navios petroleiros dia e noite, contratando fretamentos em todo o mundo.

Rich teve sérios problemas com o imposto de renda dos Estados Unidos que o levaram a fugir do Pais e ser condenado a revelia por sonegação, com o que teve problemas de movimentação, tinha que evitar paises que tinham tratado de extradição com os EUA.. Essa situação durou muitos anos. No ultimo dia do Governo Clinton, o Presidente Bill Clinton o indultou da pena, medida legal mas que foi considerada escandalosa nos EUA e até hoje pesa muito contra a imagem e reputação do ex-Presidente.

A firma Marc Rich & Co. transformou-se na Glencore e os interesses minerais de Rich foram agregados numa empresa separada a XStrata. Só a Glencore tem valor de mercado hoje de US$60 bilhões e obviamente Marc Rich é um dos homens mais ricos do planeta. Rich separou-se de sua esposa Denise e hoje namora a espanhola Dolores Ruiz, neta da grande revolucionária da Guerra Civil de Espanha Dolores Ibarruri, que deixou para a Historia a extraordinaria atuação na defesa de Madrid contra as tropas do General Franco e cunhou o imortal sologan “” No pasarán”", bordão da esquerda revolucionaria mundial.

Um pano de fundo que não está no livro mas que o mundo especializado conhece perfeitamente bem , um dos grandes trunfos do mercado spot é a capacidade de gerar comissões e overprices secretos e é porisso que as estatais do mundo inteiro quase sempre usam “”tradings”" em paraisos fiscais para comprar e vender petroleo e minerios. Uma grande estatal latino-americana, não é a Petrobrás, não vende um barril de petroleo que não passe por tradings suiças, mesmo quando vende para suas proprias subsisdiarias e a trading preferida dessa estatal é a Glencore, as africanas nem precisa dizer que fazem exatamente o mesmo, aliás é essa uma das razões pelas quais o mercado existe, nos contratos de fornecimento a longo prazo fica muito mais dificil embutir essas “operações”.

O livro é bem detalhado , tem 325 paginas e vai interessar quem gosta de historias empresariais, essa é especialmente saborosa

source: http://www.advivo.com.br/blog/luisnassif/o-rei-do-petroleo

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Rio de Janeiro incentiva a produção e uso da energia solar

Postado em 24/08/2011 às 16h41

Algumas das propostas da Carta do sol são isentar a distribuição e transmissão de energia e incentivar programas que capacitem pessoas para trabalharem nas etapas de produção de energia solar fotovoltaica. |Imagem:Luiz Morier

Os secretários estaduais do Ambiente, Carlos Minc, e de Desenvolvimento Econômico, Energia, Indústria e Serviços, Julio Bueno, assinaram na última semana a Carta do Sol. O objetivo do documento é incentivar o uso de energia solar no Rio de Janeiro.

A Carta do Sol foi elaborada pela equipe da Coordenação de Programas de Pós Graduação em Engenharia (Coppe), da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). São 14 propostas reunidas em um documento, que busca estimular a produção e uso de energia a partir da luz solar por meio de painéis fotovoltaicos.

Algumas das propostas da Carta do sol são isentar a distribuição e transmissão de energia e incentivar programas que capacitem pessoas para trabalharem nas etapas de produção de energia solar fotovoltaica.

Segundo o professor da UFRJ e coordenador do documento, Emílio La Rovere, este tipo de energia pode ser gerada diretamente para o consumidor, sem depender de grandes linhas de transmissão. Também haveria uma redução dos custos de geração e distribuição da rede. Ainda de acordo com Rovere, tais benefícios melhorariam os problemas de falta de energia, já que as interrupções no serviço de energia elétrica no Brasil estão relacionadas com problemas na transmissão e distribuição.

Minc afirma que a projeção é de que quatro mil megawatts de energia solar estejam instalados no país nos próximos dez anos. Segundo ele, este setor irá gerar muitos empregos tanto para instalação quanto na operação e manutenção de energia solar.

Bueno, afirma que a Carta do Sol é um avanço para o Rio de Janeiro, mas agora outras iniciativas devem ser tomadas para que a energia solar fotovoltaica não seja apenas uma idealização. “O primeiro passo é definir uma política específica para a energia solar, e o que estamos propondo é um documento que estabelece as linhas principais de uma política e que será levada para o Fórum Nacional dos Secretários de Estado para Assuntos em Energia”, explicou. Com informações do Portal do Governo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

Rio de Janeiro incentiva a produção e uso da energia solar