No Zimbabwe, as ratazanas são caras

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Killing Them Softly
by James Kirchick
Post date 03.08.07

A menos de 16Km da mansão de Robert Mugabe, Presidente do Zimbabwe em Harare – a maior residência privada do continente africano - Cleophus Masxigora caça ratos. Num dia bom, disse-me ele, consegue apanhar entre 100 a 200 ratos. Para os capturar, ele incendeia mato para os imobilizar, matando-os então à pazada. Esta prática tem-se tornado tão generalizada no Zimbabwe que, de acordo com o que um jornalista me disse, a televisão estatal emitiu avisos contra cidadãos que pegam fogo ao mato. Masxigora começou a caçar ratos para alimentar a sua esposa e os seus três filhos logo após Mugabe ter começado a confiscar, em 2000, milhares de quintas produtivas, propriedade de brancos, uma política que tem levado à fome generalizada. Há não muito tempo o Zimbabwe, o “celeiro de África”, exportava comida e produzia o que eram considerados os melhores víveres de África. Hoje, Masxigora diz-me que cada rato vale 30 dólares do Zimbabwe, cerca de 12 cêntimos, o que faz dele, no Zimbabwe, um homem rico. ”Isto, para nós, é bife”, disse-me em Agosto ...


Less than ten miles from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's mansion in Harare--the largest private residence on the African continent--Cleophus Masxigora digs for mice. On a good day, he told me, he can find 100 to 200. To capture the vermin, he burns brush to immobilize them, then kills them with several thumps of a shovel. This practice has become so widespread in Zimbabwe that, as a Zimbabwean journalist informed me, state-run television has broadcast warnings against citizens setting brush fires. Masxigora began hunting mice to support (and feed) his wife and three children soon after Mugabe began confiscating thousands of productive, white-owned farms in 2000, a policy that has since led to mass starvation. Not long ago, Zimbabwe, the "breadbasket of Africa," exported meat and produced what was widely considered to be Africa's finest livestock. Today, Masxigora tells me that each mouse nets $30 Zim dollars, about 12 cents, which makes him a wealthy man in Zimbabwe. "This is beef to us," he told me in August...

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Zapatero pelos trilhos de Franco

Os querubins zapaterianos continuam a defender os métodos do ditador Franco.

La mayoría del pleno de la Cámara se opuso a la moción del principal partido de la oposición, en la que pedía al Ejecutivo español que exigiera al Gobierno cubano la “inmediata” liberación de 134 “presos políticos” condenados “por defender la democracia, la libertad y los derechos humanos” en la isla.

Porquê?

... acusó al PP de ser el “representante” en España del “imperio” estadounidense.

... que giro!

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Da novilíngua

França: a escumalha continua a divertir-se.

Definições:
- Escumalha:
Grupo de artistas equipados com a crença de que a escolha não lhes interessa.

- Divertir-se:
Queimar tudo aquilo que não é deles, que gostavam de ter, mas que nada fazem no sentido de o conseguir (se exceptuarmos o caso que implica o uso de gazuas).

Notas finais:
Se a escumalha fosse de extrema direita, já teria caído o Carmo e a Trindade.

Ler: O que a gente aprende.

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Eles mentem, eles perdem

Os que têm ganho, ou ainda ocupam o poder:

George W. Bush
Nicholas Sarkozy
Tony Blair
Durão Barroso
Angela Merkel


Os que têm perdido:

Al Gore
Ségolène Royal
Gerhard Schröder


Os que podiam ter ganho, mas decidiram afastar-se:
José María Aznar


Os que ganharam pela mão da Jihad:
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

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Pela máxima expressa pelo título percebe-se quem tem mentido.

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Da má-fé

Por me parecer digna de reflexão, transcrevo esta resposta do Lidador, a um comentário meu.

Caro Range-o-Dente, o conceito de Sartre aplica-se a alguém que acredita ser aquilo que não é.

Há uma crença, a pessoa é genuína.
Tem fé.

O conceito que o Range o Dente refere, não radica na crença.

Pode ser hipocrisia, cinismo ou então, já no campo da psicologia, mera dissonância cognitiva, isto é, a pessoa recusa tomar conhecimento de algo que contraria as suas íntimas convicções, ou pulsões.

A hipocrisia e o cinismo são racionais, a pessoa sabe que o está a ser.

A má-fé e a ignorância cognitiva não são racionais.

Por exemplo, têm aparecido aqui comentadores que sendo objectivamente anti-semitas, uma vez que verbalizam o ódio, justificam-no, relativizam as posturas de Hitler, etc, não se assumem como tal, porque não acreditam que o são.

É má-fé. São facticamente aquilo que não acreditam ser, transcendentalmente.

E é evidente que este desfasamento entre o ser e o crer, introduz uma perturbação na racionalidade que é resolvida racionalizando o ódio.

O indivíduo já não odeia porque é racista, mas porque o objecto do ódio o obriga a odiar.

É como uma mulher que põe os palitos ao marido. De um modo geral não diz que o faz porque queria variar ou porque lhe apeteceu, mas sim porque ele, o marido, a "obrigou" a isso, pelo seu desinteresse ou atitude.

A culpa não é dela, é do marido. Ela, que facticamente se enrolou com outro gajo, é, transcendentalmente a vítima, e a vítima passa a culpado.

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Arauto

Na sequência disto, Israel e o ataque ao Irão [Kontratempos]. Mais uma vitória do multilateralismo.

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Não há espiga!

Não há espiga: estes são dos nossos. Se fossem americanos a vender, isso sim: seria o lobi armamentista a preparar-se para provocar guerras para poder manter as fábricas de armamento em funcionamento.

[Via Da Rússia]

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Duas bostas

Dois belos pedaços de lixo:

1 . Fahrenheit 9/11

2 - Uma Verdade Inconveniente (An Inconvenient Truth)

O último é hoje distribuído (vendido) pelo Diário de Notícias.

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O "pacifista"

Que imagem sugestiva. O gajo é pacifista, tá bom de ver.

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Pokemon

Autoridades islâmicas (?) lançaram uma Fatwa contra o boneco Pokemon [BBC].

As "razões" parecem ser duas: estar relacionado com os sionistas e também com a teoria da evolução (Darwin), que o Islão também rejeita.

Segundo ouvi hoje num programa sobre ciência, na RDP, parece que a coisa está agora a aquecer em França.

Aguardemos desenvolvimentos.
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Ferroadas

Distribuí mais umas ferroadas aqui.

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Arauto

Voos da CIA: os gambozinos continuam à solta - [via O Triunfo dos Porcos]

Aqui, são os OVNIS que as deixam maluquinhas.

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Ferroada

Debitei umas ferroadas neste post.

... e mais uns quantos estragos por aqui.

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IRS, demografia, aborto e progressismo

Isto não pode, de facto, deixar de ser tido em conta.

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"God bless America" afirmou este muçulmano

Tradução deste vídeo [via Observatório da Jihad]

[A Negro – entrevistado, a azul – jornalista, a castanho – tradução]
[Tenho dificuldade nalguns termos. Alguns deles, em que as dúvidas são maiores, são acompanhados por (?) - por favor, corrijam-me]

Blessed be America for giving Saddam a good kick, sending him straight into the abyss of jail.

Abençoada seja a América por ter dado a Saddam um pontapé, enviando-o para o abismo da cadeia.

Blessed be America for giving Mula Omar a good slap, sending him straight into the garbage bin of history and into the dunghills of oblivion.

Abençoada seja a América por ter dado a Lmula Omar uma boa bofetada, enviando-o direitinho à pasta de lixo da história e às masmorras do esquecimento eterno.

These people were tiny idols, who humiliated their peoples, and turn Allah’s property into states and His servants into slaves.

Estas pessoas eram ídolos pequeninos , que humilharam os seus povos e tornaram a propriedade de Allah em estados e os seus servos em escravos.

It was the moral duty of America, as the greatest and strongest power in this world, to topple these rodents, who treated their people ferociously.

Era obrigação moral da América, como a maior e mais forte potência do mundo, derrubar estes ratos que tratavam ferozmente os seus povos.

We should be happy.

Devíamos estar felizes.

Instead of going to Britain to ask for asylum and to beg for food, we should welcome them, so they can ride us of these despicable dictators, who have plundered Iraq’s resources and turned the Iraqis into their slaves.

Em vez de irmos para Inglaterra pedir asilo e esmolar comida, deveríamos dar-lhes as boas-vindas , para que eles pudessem livrar-nos daqueles ditadores detestáveis, que se apoderaram dos recursos do Iraque e transformaram os iraquianos em seus escravos.

Now there is freedom in Iraq, there are elections.

Há agora liberdade no Iraque, há eleições.

People who never even dreamt of being ministers have become ministers though free elections.

Pessoas que nunca sequer sonharam ser ministros, tornaram-se ministros através de eleições livres.

We did not know what democracy was until America brought it against our will.

Não sabíamos o que era democracia até que a América no la trouxesse contra nossa vontade.

We did not want democracy of freedom …

Não sabíamos o que era a liberdade …

At the same time, one can claim that there is much violence in Iraq, and this might even lead to a civil war. Some officials have acknowledged this.

Ao mesmo tempo pode reclamar-se que há muita violência no Iraque e que isto pode até levar a uma guerra civil. Alguns oficiais admitiram-no.

Blood is spilled in Iraq every day.

É derramado sangue, diariamente, no Iraque.

Is this the price of democracy and freedom?

É este o custo da democracia e da liberdade?

Yes, because we do not know what freedom is or what to do with it.

Sim, porque nós não sabemos o que é a democracia ou o que fazer com ela.

We are like a tiny bird born in a cage. Its father and mother were born in the same cage, and so were its ancestors – for the past 1400 years.

Somos como um passarinho numa gaiola. Os pais e mães dele nasceram na mesma gaiola, assim como os seus antepassados – desde há 1400 anos.

Along came America and broke the cage open, but the bird does not know how to fly, because it has never used its wings.

Chega então América e rebenta a gaiola, mas o pássaro não sabe como voar, nunca usou as asas.

We do not know what to do with the values of freedom, because we here born slaves, the sons of slaves, the sons of slaves, for the past 1400 years, with this inferior culture.

Não sabemos o que fazer com os valores da liberdade porque nascemos escravos, filhos de escravos, netos de escravos, desde há 1400 anos, nesta cultura inferior.

I am not talking about the beautiful, tolerant, Islamic religion, which respects humanity. But there is an Arab Islamic culture, which, in many of its aspects …

Não falo da bela e tolerante cultura islâmica que respeita o humanismo. Mas há uma cultura Árabe islamita que em muitos dos seus aspectos ...

I don’t mean all its aspects, because there is a Sufi culture, which is wonderful.

Não me refiro a todos os seus aspectos porque há uma cultura mística(?) – sufista (?) que é maravilhosa.

But the official culture teaches you to become a slave to the ruler, and to obsolete values and traditions.

Mas a cultura oficial ensina-nos a tornar-nos escravos dos lideres e a esquecer valores e tradições.

This is why we do not know what to do with the modern values of freedom and democracy.

É por isso que não sabemos que fazer com os valores modernos de liberdade e da democracia.

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Politicamente correcto

Se Daniel Oliveira tivesse poder na RTP, esta limitar-se-ia a transmitir leituras do Livro Vermelho de Mao Tse-tung. Tudo o resto seria, para ele, politicamente incorrecto e, como tal, censurado.

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"Aquecimento Global" - o mito vai rachando

Excerto(?) de uma entrevista ao Presidente Checo sobre aquecimento global, retirado daqui.

[Gostaria de ter tempo para traduzir - via O Insurgente].

[Questions and answers about European politics are omitted]

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Q: On Wednesday, the European Commission has approved carbon dioxide caps for new cars. One week earlier, the U.N. IPCC climate panel released a report that has described, once again, the global warming as one of the major threats for the whole civilization. The Stern report about similar threats was published before that. And you suddenly say that the global warming is a myth. Try to explain, how did you get this idea, Mr President?

A: It's not my idea. Global warming is a myth and I think that every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment. Also, it's an undignified slapstick that people don't wait for the full report in May 2007 but instead respond, in such a serious way, to the summary for policymakers where all the "but's" and "if's" are scratched, removed, and replaced by oversimplified theses.

This is clearly such an incredible failure of so many people, from journalists to politicians... If the European Commission is instantly going to buy such a trick, we have another very good reason to think that the countries themselves, not the Commission, should be deciding about similar issues.

Q: How do you explain that there is no other comparably senior statesman in Europe who would advocate this viewpoint? No one else has such strong opinions...

A: My opinions about this issue simply are strong. Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

Q: But you're not a climate scientist. Do you have a sufficient knowledge and enough information?

A: Environmentalism as a metaphysical ideology and as a worldview has absolutely nothing to do with natural sciences or with the climate. Sadly, it has nothing to do with social sciences either. Still, it is becoming fashionable and this fact scares me. The second part of the sentence should be: we also have lots of reports, studies, and books of climatologists whose conclusions are diametrally opposite.

Indeed, I never measure the thickness of ice in Antarctica. I really don't know how to do it, I don't plan to learn it, and I don't pretend to be an expert in such measurements. However, as a scientifically oriented person, I know how to read science reports about these questions, for example about ice in Antarctica. I don't have to be a climate scientist myself to read them. And inside the papers I have read, the conclusions we may see in the media simply don't appear. But let me promise you something: this topic troubles me which is why I started to write an article about it last Christmas. The article grew in size and it became a book. In a couple of months, it will be published. One chapter out of seven will organize my opinions about the climate change.

Environmentalism and green ideology is something very different from climate science. Various findings and screams of scientists are abused by this ideology.

Q: How do you explain that conservative media are skeptical while the left-wing media view the global warming as a done deal?

A: It is not quite exactly divided to the left-wingers and right-wingers. Nevertheless it's obvious that environmentalism is a new incarnation of modern leftism.

Q: If you look at all these things, even if you were right ...

A: ...I am right...

Q: ...Isn't there enough empirical evidence and facts we can see with our eyes that imply that Man is demolishing the planet and himself?

A: It's such a nonsense that I have probably not heard a bigger nonsense yet.

Q: Don't you believe that we're ruining our planet?

A: I will pretend that I haven't heard you. Perhaps only Mr Al Gore may be saying something along these lines: a sane person hardly. I don't see any ruining of the planet, I have never seen it, and I don't think that a reasonable and serious person could say that he has. Look: you represent the economic media so I expect a certain economical erudition from you. My book will answer these questions. For example, we know that there exists a huge correlation between the care we give to the environment on one side and the wealth and technological prowess on the other side. It's clear that the poorer the society is, the more brutally it behaves with respect to Nature, and vice versa.

It's also true that there exist social systems that are damaging Nature - by eliminating private ownership and similar things - much more than the freer societies. These tendencies become important in the long run. They unambiguously imply that today, on February 8th, 2007, Nature is protected uncomparably more than on February 8th ten years ago or fifty years ago or one hundred years ago.

That's why I ask: how can you pronounce the sentence you said? Perhaps if you're unconscious? Or did you mean it as a provocation only? And maybe I am just too naive and I allowed you to provoke me to give you all these answers, am I not? It is more likely that you simply present your honest opinion.

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[Questions and answers about Czech politics omitted]

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Arauto

Das Arábias [no Cachimbo de Margritte].

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Boas maneiras

Este jornalista (?) da Reuters parece achar "extraordinário" que Otava clarifique as regras locais aos imigrantes (em causa), quer à sua chegada quer aos já residentes. O jornalista(?) não se limita a noticiar, comenta.

Até parece que aquela rapaziada não é capaz disto, e muito mais,

[Se tiver tempo, coisa pouco provável traduzo].

[Via No Pasaran!]

By David Ljunggren

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Immigrants wishing to live in the small Canadian town of Herouxville, Quebec, must not stone women to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules released by the local council.

The declaration, published on the town's Web site, has deepened tensions in the predominantly French-speaking province over how tolerant Quebecers should be toward the customs and traditions of immigrants.

"We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here," said the declaration, which makes clear women are allowed to drive, vote, dance, write checks, dress how they want, work and own property.

"Therefore we consider it completely outside these norms to ... kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc."

No one on the town council was available for comment on Tuesday. Herouxville, which has 1,300 inhabitants, is about 160 km (100 miles) northeast of Montreal.

Andre Drouin, the councilor who devised the declaration, told the National Post newspaper that the town was not racist.

"We invite people from all nationalities, all languages, all sexual orientations, whatever, to come live with us, but we want them to know ahead of time how we live," he said.

The declaration is part of a wider debate over "reasonable accommodation," or how far Quebecers should be prepared to change their customs so as not to offend immigrants. Figures from the 2001 census show that around 10 percent of Quebec's 7.5 million population were born outside Canada.

Earlier this month the Journal de Montreal newspaper published a poll of Quebecers showing that 59 percent admitted to harboring some kind of racist feelings.

The Herouxville regulations say girls and boys can exercise together and people should only be allowed to cover their faces at Halloween. Children must not take weapons to school, it adds, although the Supreme Court of Canada has already ruled that Sikh boys have the right to carry ceremonial daggers.

Salam Elmenyawi, president of the Muslim Council of Montreal, said the declaration had "set the clock back for decades" as far as race relations were concerned.

"I was shocked and insulted to see these kinds of false stereotypes and ignorance about Islam and our religion ... in a public document written by people in authority who discriminate openly," he told Reuters.

Last year a Montreal gym agreed to install frosted windows after a nearby Hasidic synagogue said it was offended by the sight of adults exercising.

Newspapers say a Montreal community center banned men from prenatal classes to respect Hindu and Sikh traditions and an internal police magazine suggested women police officers allow their male colleagues to interview Hasidic Jews.

Montreal's police force is investigating one of its officers after he posted an anti-immigrant song called "That's Enough Already" on the Internet.

"We want to accept ethnics, but not at any price ... if you're not happy with your fate, there's a place called the airport," the officer sings.

An accompanying video shows clips of Muslims and Hasidic Jews and at one point shows shots of a partially nude woman to mock those who wear veils.

The Herouxville declaration is available, in English and French, at the "avis public" section of the town's Web site .

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Quebra do cessar fogo

Ontem, os Hamas da Palestina efectuaram um ataque bombista, em Israel, a civis.

Hoje Israel bombardeou, na Palestina, túneis que permitiriam a entrada de terroristas em Israel.

Alguém me explica porque referiu hoje a comunicação social (TSF) que o ataque israelista interrompeu o cessar fogo de alguns meses, e não o referiu em relação ao ataque bombista palestiniano de ontem?

Jornalismo de causas?

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