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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hugo Chávez en 'Presidentes de Latinoámerica'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pequeno trecho usado na série de chamadas para o excelente Ciclo de Documentários 'Presidentes de Latinoámerica' produzidos em 2009 pela Occidente Producciones para as emissoras Canal  Encuentro e Canal 7 da Argentina retratando alguns dos principais  Presidentes da América Latina.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;CONHEÇA MAIS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/documentario-presidentes-de.html" style="color: #0b5394;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lula da Silva en 'Presidentes de Latinoamérica'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;VEJA TAMBÉM:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;ol style="color: #444444; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-homem-mais-sabio-que-conheci-em-toda.html" target="_blank"&gt;"O Homem Mais Sábio Que Conhecí em Toda Minha Vida..."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/oliver-stone-um-momento-historico-da.html" target="_blank"&gt;Um Momento Histórico "Ao Sul da Fronteira"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/homenaje-lula-da-silva-xx-cumbre.html" target="_blank"&gt;¡Quando Hermanos Se Quedan Irmãos...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/adelante-cristina-estaremos-juntos.html" target="_blank"&gt;¡Hasta La Victoria Siempre!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/honra-ao-merito.html" target="_blank"&gt;Honra ao Mérito&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;INDICAMOS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="color: #666666; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brasilianas.org/luisnassif" target="_blank"&gt;Luis Nassif Online (POR)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.conversaafiada.com.br/" target="_blank"&gt;Conversa Afiada (POR)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dowbor.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Ladislau Dowbor (ENG|ESP|FRA|POL|POR)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itamaraty.gov.br/" target="_blank"&gt;Itamaraty (POR)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politicaexterna.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Política Externa Brasileira (POR)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-3822728253677500818?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3822728253677500818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/hugo-chavez-e-morte.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3822728253677500818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3822728253677500818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/hugo-chavez-e-morte.html' title='Hugo Chávez y La Muerte'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-9079263709595968456</id><published>2010-12-24T15:58:00.009-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-26T07:10:23.561-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Presidentes de Latinoamérica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='América Latna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Luís Inácio Lula da Silva'/><title type='text'>Lula da Silva en 'Presidentes de Latinoamérica'</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;| &lt;a href="http://seressemmedo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Sem Medo de Ser &lt;/a&gt; | 101223-02 | &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;| Minha Gente Agora é Estrela | 101223-01 |&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;| O Novo Novo Mundo | 101223-01 | &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Ciclo de Documentários&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;'Presidentes de Latinoamérica'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Ciclo de documentários muito bem produzidos em 2009 pela Occidente Producciones para as emissoras Canal Encuentro e Canal 7 da Argentina retratando alguns dos principais Presidentes da América Latina:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;ul style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_fernandez.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Argentina - Cristina Fernández de Kirchner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_morales.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Bolívia - Evo Morales Ayma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_lula.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Brasil - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_bachelet.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Chile - Michelle Bachelet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_uribe.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Colômbia - Álvaro Uribe Vélez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_arias.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Costa Rica - Óscar Rafael de Jesús Arias Sánchez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_correa.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Equador - Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_ortega.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Nicarágua - Daniel Ortega&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_lugo.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Paraguai - Fernando Armido Lugo Méndez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_vazquez.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Uruguai - Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/esp/presidentes_chavez.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Venezuela - Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TRAILLER OFICIAL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7kRnEsIxa68?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7kRnEsIxa68?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA - PARTE 01&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U45C1bVVs3Q?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U45C1bVVs3Q?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA - PARTE 02&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YqVsHl0wWT8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YqVsHl0wWT8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA - PARTE 03&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/u-ZWGILU2GI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/u-ZWGILU2GI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA - PARTE 04&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ekCqySFRLDM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ekCqySFRLDM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA - PARTE 05&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o6xt18wR7n4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o6xt18wR7n4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA - PARTE 06&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KzAv9bwZKcI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KzAv9bwZKcI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA - PARTE 07&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zQUwW52NL_s?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zQUwW52NL_s?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA - PARTE 08&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7_YrI6jR03s?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7_YrI6jR03s?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA - PARTE 09&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XMNr1OI5jZ8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XMNr1OI5jZ8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LULA DA SILVA - PARTE 10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E30pHqV2bEU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E30pHqV2bEU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;CONHEÇA MAIS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b style="color: #073763;"&gt;Presidentes de Latinoamérica&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.presidentestv.com.ar/" style="color: #0b5394;" target="_blank"&gt;Site Oficial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; | &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/presidentestv" style="color: #0b5394;" target="_blank"&gt;Canal no YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b style="color: #073763;"&gt;Occidente Producciones&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.occidente.tv/" style="color: #0b5394;" target="_blank"&gt;Site Oficial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; | &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b style="color: #073763;"&gt;Canal Encuentro (Argentina)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.encuentro.gov.ar/" style="color: #0b5394;" target="_blank"&gt;Site Oficial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; | &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/encuentro" style="color: #0b5394;" target="_blank"&gt;Canal no YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b style="color: #073763;"&gt;Canal 7 - TV Pública Argentina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.tvpublica.com.ar/tvpublica/" style="color: #0b5394;" target="_blank"&gt;Site Oficial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; | &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TVPublicaArgentina" style="color: #0b5394;" target="_blank"&gt;Canal no YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/hugo-chavez-e-morte.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Hugo Chávez y La Muerte"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;VEJA TAMBÉM:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;ol style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-homem-mais-sabio-que-conheci-em-toda.html" target="_blank"&gt;"O Homem Mais Sábio Que Conhecí em Toda Minha Vida..."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/oliver-stone-um-momento-historico-da.html" target="_blank"&gt;Um Momento Histórico "Ao Sul da Fronteira"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/homenaje-lula-da-silva-xx-cumbre.html" target="_blank"&gt;¡Quando Hermanos Se Quedan Irmãos...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/adelante-cristina-estaremos-juntos.html" target="_blank"&gt;¡Hasta La Victoria Siempre!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/honra-ao-merito.html" target="_blank"&gt;Honra ao Mérito&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;INDICAMOS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brasilianas.org/luisnassif" target="_blank"&gt;Luis Nassif Online (POR)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.conversaafiada.com.br/" target="_blank"&gt;Conversa Afiada (POR)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dowbor.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Ladislau Dowbor (ENG|ESP|FRA|POL|POR)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itamaraty.gov.br/" target="_blank"&gt;Itamaraty (POR)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politicaexterna.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Política Externa Brasileira (POR)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-9079263709595968456?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/9079263709595968456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/documentario-presidentes-de.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/9079263709595968456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/9079263709595968456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/documentario-presidentes-de.html' title='Lula da Silva en &apos;Presidentes de Latinoamérica&apos;'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-6555331845329459665</id><published>2010-12-19T01:51:00.012-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-23T14:59:30.349-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sem Medo de Ser'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Darcy Ribeiro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vídeo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Glauber Rocha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='O Guarani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carlos Gomes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='A Profecia Brasileira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elis Regina'/><title type='text'>Entre Deus e o Diabo, A Terra do Sol</title><content type='html'>| &lt;a href="http://seressemmedo.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sem Medo de Ser&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://seressemmedo.blogspot.com/search/label/A%20Profecia%20Brasileira"&gt;A Profecia Brasileira&lt;/a&gt; | 101219-01 |&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Indignar-se é preciso.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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profetas de um Brasil que virá.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-6555331845329459665?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6555331845329459665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/entre-deus-e-o-diabo-terra-do-sol.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/6555331845329459665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/6555331845329459665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/entre-deus-e-o-diabo-terra-do-sol.html' title='Entre Deus e o Diabo, A Terra do Sol'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/TQ37YWFf3KI/AAAAAAAAAHc/iUhHPFC54cQ/s72-c/glauber+rocha.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-117268707674794309</id><published>2010-12-17T00:41:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-23T18:00:18.415-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Royal Courts of Justice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Julian Assange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WikiLeaks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>WikiLeaks' Assange First Words Freed</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Source:&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/"&gt;The Lede&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; @&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/"&gt;The New York Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/video-of-julian-assanges-statement-after-his-release-on-bail/?src=twt&amp;amp;twt=thelede"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;[GO]]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, walking out from The Royal Courts of Justice in London, &lt;br /&gt;
Thursday, December 16, 2010, at night:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"...if justice is not always an outcome at least it is not dead yet..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;"...people around the world... in conditions... more difficult than those faced by me... also need your attention and support..." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"...Thank You!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="caption"&gt;Video of Julian Assange speaking on Thursday night in London, from &lt;a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/wikileaks-julian-assange-freed-on-bail"&gt;Britain’s Channel 4 News&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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FULL TRANSCRIPT:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.7468732244745653" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"Well, it’s great to smell the fresh air of London again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;First,  some thank yous: to all the people around the world who have had faith  in me, who have supported my team while I have been away; to my lawyers,  who have put up a brave and ultimately successful fight, to our  sureties and people who have provided money, in the face of great  difficulty and aversion; and to members of the press who were not all  taken in, and considered to look deeper in their work; and I guess  finally, to the British justice system itself, where, if justice is not  always an outcome at least it is not dead yet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;During  my time in solitary confinement ,in the bottom of a Victorian prison, I  had time to reflect on the conditions of those people around the world  also in solitary confinement, also on remand, in conditions that are  more difficult than those faced by me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Those people also need your attention and support.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;And  with that, I hope to continue my work and continue to protest my  innocence in this matter and to reveal — as we get it, which we have not  yet — the evidence from these allegations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Thank you."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
SEE ALSO:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
-----------------------------------&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-assange-freed-while-alleged.html"&gt;As WikiLeaks’ Assange Freed on Bail, &lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-assange-freed-while-alleged.html"&gt;Alleged Military Leaker Bradley Manning Imprisoned under Inhumane Conditions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/brazilian-president-lula-da-silva-pays.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Brazilian President Lula da Silva pays public solidarity to WikiLeaks&lt;/b&gt;, condemns the "hunt" and attacks to Julian Assange, and yells at the Brazilian Big Media for not doing the same for the sake of The Freedom of Speech.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/mastercard-e-visa-bloqueim-doacoes-para.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MasterCard and Visa blocked donations for WikiLeaks. Meanwhile... for Ku Klux Klan it remains all right!&lt;/b&gt; &amp;gt; Stephen Colbert clips some of the "best" (actually, worst) abominable talks and threatens made on Assange, and &lt;b&gt;interviews Daniel Ellsberg, "The Most Dangerous Man In America".&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/video-entrevista-wikileaks-julho2010.html"&gt;"Capable, generous men do not create victims; they nurture victims." - in July, 2010, &lt;b&gt;Julian Assange talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what drives him.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/09/1109-tue-viva-chile-and-peace-be-upon.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;11/09 (Tue) &amp;gt; ¡Viva Chile! And peace be upon US as so!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;WE SUGGEST:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.democracynow.org/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Democracy Now! (ENG)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.apexbrasil.com.br/portal/publicacao/engine.wsp?tmp.area=478"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Apex Brasil (ENG|POR)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brasilianas.org/luisnassif"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Luis Nassif Online (POR)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.conversaafiada.com.br/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conversa Afiada (POR)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dowbor.org/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ladislau Dowbor (ENG|ESP|FRA|POL|POR)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-117268707674794309?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/117268707674794309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-assange-first-words-freed.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/117268707674794309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/117268707674794309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-assange-first-words-freed.html' title='WikiLeaks&apos; Assange First Words Freed'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-29399447137362919</id><published>2010-12-17T00:38:00.005-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-17T00:53:26.182-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Glenn Greenwald'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Julian Assange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Juan Gonzalez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Empires of Ghosts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Afghanistan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='United States of America'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy Now'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amy Goodman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Salon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Human Rights'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bradley Manning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WikiLeaks'/><title type='text'>WikiLeaks’ Assange Freed while Alleged Leaker Bradley Manning Imprisoned under Inhumane Conditions</title><content type='html'>-----------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/16/alleged_wikileaks_whistleblower_bradley_manning_imprisoned"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Democracy Now!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(with full transcript and related stories- ENG)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, walking out from The Royal Courts of Justice in London, &lt;br /&gt;
Thursday, December 16, 2010, at night:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"...he’s been held for seven months without being convicted of  any crime..." &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"...he is in solitary confinement,  and &lt;br /&gt;
he’s not only in solitary confinement..." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"...&lt;b&gt;released for one hour a day only&lt;/b&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;barred from even&lt;/b&gt; doing things like &lt;b&gt;exercising inside  of his cell&lt;/b&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;
being  &lt;b&gt;denied&lt;/b&gt; just the most &lt;b&gt;basic attributes&lt;/b&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #4c1130; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;such as  a &lt;b&gt;pillow and sheets&lt;/b&gt;..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"...&lt;b&gt;prolonged solitary confinement&lt;/b&gt;, which &lt;b&gt; is something that the United States does almost more than any other  country in the Western world...&lt;/b&gt; can have a &lt;b&gt;very long-term psychological damage&lt;/b&gt;, including &lt;b&gt;driving  people to insanity&lt;/b&gt; and the like&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"...and there are case laws — cases in E.U. jurisprudence where they have  refused to extradite prisoners to some countries, such as Bulgaria, on  the grounds that &lt;b&gt;solitary confinement is a form of torture&lt;/b&gt;..."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/12/14/manning"&gt;UPDATE II (excerpt)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;by&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/author/glenn_greenwald/index.html"&gt;Glenn Greenwald&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;for&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/"&gt;Salon Magazine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime.  Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture.  Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard) who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries.&lt;br /&gt;
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Since his arrest in May, Manning has been a model detainee, without any episodes of violence or disciplinary problems.  He nonetheless was declared from the start to be a "Maximum Custody Detainee," the highest and most repressive level of military detention, which then became the basis for the series of inhumane measures imposed on him.&lt;br /&gt;
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From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement.  For 23 out of 24 hours every day -- for seven straight months and counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell.  Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from exercising and is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions.  For reasons that appear completely punitive, he's being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch).  For the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs.  Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions are not "like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole," but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;View the whole story and continue reading at Salon...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
SEE ALSO:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-assange-first-words-freed.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"...if justice is not always an outcome at least it is not dead yet..."&lt;/b&gt; - Some of the first words of a WikiLeaks’ Assange Freed on Bail&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/brazilian-president-lula-da-silva-pays.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Brazilian President Lula da Silva pays public solidarity to WikiLeaks&lt;/b&gt;, condemns the "hunt" and attacks to Julian Assange, and yells at the Brazilian Big Media for not doing the same for the sake of The Freedom of Speech.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/sera-que-idolatro-meu-presidente.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;60 Minutes with H.E. Lula da Silva &amp;amp; Eike Batista @ CBS&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/mastercard-e-visa-bloqueim-doacoes-para.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MasterCard and Visa blocked donations for WikiLeaks. Meanwhile... for Ku Klux Klan it remains all right!&lt;/b&gt; &amp;gt; Stephen Colbert clips some of the "best" (actually, worst) abominable talks and threatens made on Assange, and &lt;b&gt;interviews Daniel Ellsberg, "The Most Dangerous Man In America"&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/justice-for-haiti-beyond-aid-and-debt.html" style="color: #073763;"&gt;Justice for Haiti: Beyond Aid and Debt Forgiveness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;WE SUGGEST:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.democracynow.org/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Democracy Now! (ENG)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brasil.gov.br/whybrazil"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Why Brazil? (ENG|POR)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brasilianas.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Brasilianas (POR)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.conversaafiada.com.br/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Conversa Afiada (POR)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bahia.com.br/en/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bahia (ENG|ESP|POR)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-29399447137362919?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/29399447137362919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-assange-freed-while-alleged.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/29399447137362919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/29399447137362919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-assange-freed-while-alleged.html' title='WikiLeaks’ Assange Freed while Alleged Leaker Bradley Manning Imprisoned under Inhumane Conditions'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-4736487228068028825</id><published>2010-12-15T15:30:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-15T15:38:25.985-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sem Medo de Ser'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='auto-estima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Franklin Martins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OsicraN'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coragem'/><title type='text'>Lula, o homem que soube dizer 'não', 'por que não?' e 'sim, nós podemos'!</title><content type='html'>&lt;b style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SEM MEDO DE SER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style="color: #274e13;"&gt;Memórias de Um Futuro Memórável Que Vivi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Eu Vivi para Ver Brilhar Nossa Estrêla&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Trecho do discurso do ministro Franklin Martins durante cerimônia em que  as ações dos oito anos do governo Lula foram registradas em cartório. O  evento foi realizado no Salão Nobre do Palácio do Planalto, em Brasília  (DF).&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Veja Também:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/o-1-barrilzinho-gente-nunca-esquece.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;gt; O Petróleo É Nosso, Pai!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/sera-que-idolatro-meu-presidente.html"&gt;&amp;gt; Brazil: The Rising Star&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/homenaje-lula-da-silva-xx-cumbre.html"&gt;&amp;gt; ¡Cuando Os Hermanos Són Irmãos...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-homem-mais-sabio-que-conheci-em-toda.html"&gt;&amp;gt; "O Homem Mais Sábio Que Conhecí..." (por José Saramago)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/honra-ao-merito.html"&gt;&amp;gt; Honra ao Mérito&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;-------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;INDICAMOS:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.conversaafiada.com.br/"&gt;&amp;gt; Conversa Afiada - Paulo Henrique Amorim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/index.asp"&gt;&amp;gt; Observatório da Imprensa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brasilianas.org/home"&gt;&amp;gt; Brasilianas.org&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-4736487228068028825?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4736487228068028825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/lula-o-homem-que-soube-dizer-nao-por.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4736487228068028825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4736487228068028825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/lula-o-homem-que-soube-dizer-nao-por.html' title='Lula, o homem que soube dizer &apos;não&apos;, &apos;por que não?&apos; e &apos;sim, nós podemos&apos;!'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-1870483280172633425</id><published>2010-12-15T13:06:00.011-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-15T15:21:05.654-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Imagem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='auto-estima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mídia Global'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Luís Inácio Lula da Silva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vídeo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OsicraN'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eike Batista'/><title type='text'>Será Que Idolatro Meu Presidente? Estranho Encontrar Assemelhados a Toda Hora em Tão Inesperadas Exposições (60 Minutes - CBS)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7143554n"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Brazil's Rising Star / A Estrêla Ascendente do Brasil&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml"&gt;60 Minutes - com Steve Kroft - CBS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Veiculado em 12 de Dezembro de 2010 às 17:20&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Exmo. Sr. Presidente Lula e Eike Batista "vitrinam" o Brasil mais uma vez.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Afora o brilhante historiador com titica na cabeça que, apesar de brilhante historiador, quer brilhar mais que a&amp;nbsp; história e cai na eterna armadilha burra da eterna burrice vira-latas nacional que acha parecer inteligente - como já disse Nélson Rodigues - cuspir no espelho (de preferência em público), todas as manhãs antes de escovar os dentes.&amp;nbsp; Que resolve gritar seu brilho de intelectual ante seus pares ao destacar a dor-de-barriga do nosso Defensor Perpétuo a caminho do seu e nosso Grito do Ypiranga, este sim de uma importância que o pseudo-sábio-mais-real-que-o-rei historiador jamais esmaecerá &lt;i&gt;(como se quaisquer outros quadros históricos fossem inteiramente perfeitos como pintados pelas tintas dos seus melhores retratistas empenhados em emprestar ainda mais côr à auto-estima e respeito próprio de cada povo e nação).&lt;/i&gt; Que faz côro aos tantos outros "&lt;i&gt;Querendo-Pareceres"&lt;/i&gt; - às vezes até já sendo, ao menos, tão somente inteligentes- inteligências superiores na preocupação com os banhos, ou ausência deles, do &lt;b&gt;Príncipe Regente D. João de Portugal (meu mui digníssimo, na minha visão, Imperador Zerézimo do Brasil), maior estrategísta do seu tempo, mais visionário Imperador Colonial de todos&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;(como se o asseio fosse um hábito minimanete conhecido pelas nobres casas reais do mundo civilizado - e civilizador, o que é mais importante - europeu)&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pois, enfim, afora algumas bobagens ditas pelo brilhate porém bobo historiador, as demais críticas são pertinentes e até benvindas pelo bom humor com que colocadas (e mesmo que não o fossem dessa forma).&lt;br /&gt;
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No mais, &lt;b&gt;mais um de incontáveis, mais um reconhecimento e mais uma baita propaganda do Brasil em rede, digamos (quando somada a tantas outras "mensagens" a pipocar a toda a hora em todo lugar mundo afora nos últimos anos), mais uma senhora propaganda do Brasil em Rede Global.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Desta feita, ainda contando com o pesado peso de &lt;b&gt;Eike Batista - adorado, e merecidamente, da mídia "Maiores &amp;amp;; Melhores / Ricos &amp;amp; Famosos"&amp;nbsp; (seja do lado lá, seja do lado cá do Equador)&lt;/b&gt;, a avalizar o chamado: &lt;b style="color: #274e13;"&gt;"Invista No Brasil", ou, melhor, Brazil!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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E a caravana passa...&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Clique para ler a Matéria Complementar da Entrevista (em inglês):&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/09/60minutes/main7134185.shtml?tag=currentVideoInfo;segmentTitle"&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;b&gt;Brazil: The World's Next Economic Superpower? / Brasil: A Próxima Superpotência Econômica do Mundo?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;-------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Veja Também:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/o-1-barrilzinho-gente-nunca-esquece.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;gt; O Petróleo É Nosso, Pai!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;-------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;INDICAMOS:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.conversaafiada.com.br/"&gt;&amp;gt; Conversa Afiada - Paulo Henrique Amorim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/index.asp"&gt;&amp;gt; Observatório da Imprensa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brasilianas.org/home"&gt;&amp;gt; Brasilianas.org&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-1870483280172633425?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1870483280172633425/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/sera-que-idolatro-meu-presidente.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1870483280172633425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1870483280172633425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/sera-que-idolatro-meu-presidente.html' title='Será Que Idolatro Meu Presidente? Estranho Encontrar Assemelhados a Toda Hora em Tão Inesperadas Exposições (60 Minutes - CBS)'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-4046679253111393432</id><published>2010-12-14T19:21:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-15T10:55:25.387-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Petrobrás'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pré-sal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma'/><title type='text'>O 1º Barrilzinho a Gente Nunca Esquece</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"&gt;O Petróleo É Nosso, Pai!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Pela coragem de brasileiros que sonhavam um Brasil com um amor próprio à altura de sua gente.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pela bala que um Presidente da República foi capaz de cravar no próprio peito.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pelos milhares de brasileiros que foram às ruas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pelas tintas roubadas do Pica-Pau verde e Amarelo pelo escritor que sonhava com esperança de criança o futuro de seu país.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pelos peões, puxas-de-sonda, técnicos, pelo pessoal administrativo e de apoio e engenheiros do gênio brasileiro que tiveram sim que reinventar a roda porque nada funcionava como nos livros e o mundo se fechava em nos ajudar torcendo para nada funcionar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Por meu pai - Profº Engº Euvaldo Baptista Pereira, pioneiro fundador do CNP, Petrobrás e CENPES - que egoisticamente&amp;nbsp; faço aqui representante de todos os seus irmãos e colegas, mestres e alunos, de políticos brasileiros verdadeiros, miltares patriotas, jornalistas, militantes, estudantes e cidadãos engajados que fizeram esse sonho jorrar, não do fundo mar, mas de dentro de suas próprias veias sempre saltadas pelo trabalho duro.&lt;br /&gt;
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Somente quem já viu seu Pai sair de casa alegre, corado e saudável e voltar uma quinzena depois morto-vivo, trêmulo, esquálido, para passar uma semana inteira entre a inanição e a depressão até se recuperar, sabe do que estou falando.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ou ainda, quem viu seu Pai voltar do Campo em prantos porque perdeu seu novo melhor amigo - qua já estava quase substituíndo seu melhor amigo anterior falecido pela exata mesma causa - depois de uma faísca, um brevísimo quase imperceptível clarão e um simultâneo e também brevíssimo som de forte sôpro, suficientes para queimaduras em mais de 70% do corpo de quem se descuidou da proteção por um único instante e pagou com a vida. Ou por causa de um outro amigo caído da "cêsta" e perdido em alto-mar... para sempre.&lt;br /&gt;
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Quantas vezes ouvi você, Pai, você dizer que vocês sabiam que ele estava aqui e era muito, que vocês quase já sabiam onde estava a melhor parte e que a Natureza tinha apenas nos resolvido colocar à prova e feito tudo mais difícil para nos testar e acordar nossa auto-estima.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas, ao contrário do côro serviçal dos negadores de si mesmos, você sempre dizia que a Natureza, a mãe gentil, "podia esperar para se orgulhar de seus filhos mestiços dos trópicos porque só a gente junto tem teimosia de índio, força e destemor de africano e espírito aventureiro, de navegador, de descobridor lusitano".&lt;br /&gt;
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Quantas vezes, Pai, doeu mais em mim que em você - que nem ligava - o descaso de tanto que li ou ouvi de tantos Lacerdas, Kaisheks, Bobs Campos e,&amp;nbsp; mais recentemente, de Casoys, FHs, Serras, Guerras e outros tantos.&lt;br /&gt;
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E os olhares e insinuações - que você fingia que nem via mas sei o quanto doíam - que rotulavam a vocês todos como loucos e obcecados.&lt;br /&gt;
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Louco - aliás muito canalha e sínico - é quem olha o mapa-mundi, enxerga nossa pequena imensidão no mapa e tem a desfaçatez de dizer que papai-do-céu resolveu secar tão vasto subsolo e abolir a bilenar transformação orgânica exata, específica e tão "somentemente" deste florão da América iluminado ao sol do Novo Mundo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Que o óleo verde escuro do nosso Brasil jorre vigoroso por nosso futuro adiante e inunde seu túmulo de merecido orgulho e amarele o sorriso subalterno desses outros, amantes do alheio.&lt;br /&gt;
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Posso, hoje, gritar o orgulho de ser criança e ver meu pai ser convidado para ganhar o quíntuplo no Texas e na Holanda, disneylândias que fazem babar a babacada geral, e colocá-los a todos para fora de nossa casa a gentis e educados pontapés.&lt;br /&gt;
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Posso hoje livrar-me da mágoa da perseguição implacável da Ditadura que acusava de Comunista a um homem que nunca pensou em política porque só pensava em rochas, tubos e brocas. Tudo em nome do interesse de outras&amp;nbsp; nações.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas eles conseguiram. Conseguiram fabricar no seu filho um Comunista.&lt;br /&gt;
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Que bom! Serviu para algo positivo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lembra do MegaCampo Majnoon descoberto pela BrasPetro no Iraque? Pela equipe comandada pelo Engº Kachan que, com muita ombridade, reputou publicamente a descorbeta ao uso das teorias desenvolvidas pela equipe comandada por você? E que quase vai preso por isso?&lt;br /&gt;
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Pois é Pai, os Estados Unidos destruíram o Iraque mas o campo continua lá e eles o deram de "presente" para a Shell explorar. Começa a operar em definitivo, quase 30 anos depois, em 2011. Quase desmaio quando vi a notícia.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas o que valeram foram, assim, sem nem dar tempo de respirar, a notícia da autossuficiência (a palavra que acho que mais ouvi em toda a minha vida) seguida da notícia do Pré-sal.&lt;br /&gt;
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Todas me trouxeram lágrimas alegres de recordação de você.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lágrimas, contudo, que rolaram sobre algumas rugas de preocupação quanto aos abutres que por certo começariam a rondar - e começaram - a carniça.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas a solução desse "contudo" já tinha um nome.&lt;br /&gt;
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E nossa mãe Natureza - como prêmio diante de tanto esforço, brilho e superação - mandou seu filho Tempo nos ofertar esse presente.&lt;br /&gt;
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E acho que até mandou um sinal para nossos mergulhadores lá pelas águas de Campos e Macaé.&lt;br /&gt;
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Devem ter passado, aliás, vários sinais por eles mas eles não poderiam advinhar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lula!&lt;br /&gt;
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O nome da solução era Lula.&lt;br /&gt;
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E, para alívio ainda maior, o nome ganhou sobrenome.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dilma!&lt;br /&gt;
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O sobrenome era Dilma, que agora passa a ser o primeiro nome.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas Lula continua também.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dilma, Lula, muitos outros e a maioria de nós!&lt;br /&gt;
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É Pai, podem até existir vários pré-sais por ai mundo afora.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas, graças a vocês, &lt;b&gt;somente nós somos capazes de ir tão longe e tão fundo.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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O Petróleo É Nosso Pai!&lt;br /&gt;
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A luta, entretanto, continua.&lt;br /&gt;
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Os abutres continurão a pairar sobre nossas cabeças.&lt;br /&gt;
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Alguns andam disfarçados. Resolveram se apropriar e usar o nome de outras aves.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas fique tranquilo, Pai, que O Desafio é a Nossa Energia.&lt;br /&gt;
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Saberemos honrar seus nomes e nossos Pais e nosso País.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mesmo que seja preciso que ofereçamos nosso sangue, suor e lágrimas como vocês o fizeram.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Viva Nós!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Viva o Brasil!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-4046679253111393432?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4046679253111393432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/o-1-barrilzinho-gente-nunca-esquece.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4046679253111393432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4046679253111393432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/o-1-barrilzinho-gente-nunca-esquece.html' title='O 1º Barrilzinho a Gente Nunca Esquece'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-3690228208296958616</id><published>2010-12-14T02:01:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-14T02:34:28.575-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daniel Ellsberg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Julian Assange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Colbert Nation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ku Klux Klan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comedy Central'/><title type='text'>MasterCard e Visa bloqueiam doações para o WikiLeaks. Para a Ku Klux Klan: sem problemas.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Caçada Humana Internacional por Julian Assange - Daniel Ellsberg&amp;nbsp; [ Colbert Nation / Comedy Central ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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"...Julian Assange é um terrorista? &lt;b style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;Julian Assange é algo muito mais sinistro: uma jornalista!..."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style="color: #134f5c;"&gt;"...você não pode mais fazer doações para o WikiLeaks com o seu cartão &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;Visa&lt;/span&gt; ou &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;MasterCard&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; Eles colocaram uma 'barreira moral' impedindo a transação. &lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;Mas, felizmente, você ainda pode usar ambos para fazer suas doações para a &lt;span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Ku Klux Klan&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; Definitivamente o MasterCard é o cartão perfeito da 'Raça Master'..."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-3690228208296958616?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3690228208296958616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/mastercard-e-visa-bloqueim-doacoes-para.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3690228208296958616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3690228208296958616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/mastercard-e-visa-bloqueim-doacoes-para.html' title='MasterCard e Visa bloqueiam doações para o WikiLeaks. Para a Ku Klux Klan: sem problemas.'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-2372430303510880123</id><published>2010-12-14T00:15:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-14T00:15:19.019-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Recursos Humanos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emprego'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Treinamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Psicologia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seleção'/><title type='text'>Entrevista para Treinamento e Emprego</title><content type='html'>Graaande Monty Python!&lt;br /&gt;
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Essa entrevista é até moderada.&lt;br /&gt;
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Já faz algum tempo, uma amiga voltou de um fim-de-semana de seleção para uma empresa petroquímica. &lt;br /&gt;
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Tava um lixo, tadinha. &lt;br /&gt;
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Ela simplesmente passou uma semana fazendo o treinamento e se submetendo a algumas das mais difíceis avaliações do B.O.P.E. &lt;br /&gt;
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Sei que sou do século passado... &lt;br /&gt;
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Mas acho que meus amados psicológos, terapêutas comportamentais e assemelhados especializados em Recursos Humanos andam perdendo um pouco a noção das coisas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Será que já lhes passou pelas cabeças, algumas conversas mais demoradas e humanas, e menos "matemáticas", com os candidatos e, principalmente - e com mais atenção e tempo também - com seus ex-chefes e empregadores? &lt;br /&gt;
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O que a gente a contrata é gente. &lt;br /&gt;
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Técnicos e métodos a gente treina, e avalia, depois!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-2372430303510880123?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2372430303510880123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/entrevista-para-treinamento-e-emprego.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/2372430303510880123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/2372430303510880123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/entrevista-para-treinamento-e-emprego.html' title='Entrevista para Treinamento e Emprego'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-1829149260918208251</id><published>2010-12-09T20:24:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2011-01-02T21:57:52.827-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freedom of Expression'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cables'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Julian Assange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WikiLeaks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lula da Silva'/><title type='text'>Brazilian President Lula da Silva pays public solidarity to WikiLeaks, criticizes prosecution and atacks against Assange, and Brazilian media for not  claiming on Freedom of Expression.</title><content type='html'>In Ceremony celebrating the success of PAC (National Program for Growth Acceleration), Brazilian President Lula da Silva pays public solidarity to WikiLeaks, condemns the "hunt" and attacks to Julian Assange, and yells at the Brazilian Big Media for not doing the same for the sake of The Freedom of Speech.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;(Vídeo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Entrevista a&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;Chris Anderson&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/" style="color: #990000;"&gt;(TED)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Legendas (Português-Brasil) por&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;Daniel Soltero&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Revisão por&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;Durval Castro&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;Big ou Brother?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Acorde e Escolha!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;
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Juntamente com seu último artigo, publicado na Austrália, quase que simultâneamente à sua prisão em Londres nesta última semana &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/o-ultimo-texto-dinamite-pura-de-julian.html" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;(após assitir ao vídeo clique aqui para ler o artigo traduzido e comentários introdutórios)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, a entrevista a seguir, concedida em julho ao essencial site da empresa de eventos e vídeos TED, revela bastante da história, das motivações e, acima de tudo e muito mais importante, nos permitem que espaireçamos, arejemos corações e mentes e nos libertemos um pouco de toda a cortina de fumaça, toda a rede de desinformação e o velho "jogo-de-espelhos" que insiste em nos cercar e prender entre as imagens extremas da mitificação e da demonização.&lt;br /&gt;
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Entrevista e artigo juntos (contrapostos sintéticamente a toda imensidão de informação, contra-informação, desinformação, deformação e de todas as linhas - engajadamente interessadas ou não - de opiniões disponíveis) nos oferecem em conjunto &lt;b&gt;um bom ponto de partida para questionarmos e nos questionarmos sobre a necesidade de reformularmos as regras que nos são impostas goela abaixo quanto ao poder sobre a produção, manipulação e distribuição das toneladas de informação que absorvemos todos os dias, e a necessidade de repensarmos o mundo em que vivemos, repensarmos nossas relações uns com os outros, nossas relações com a tecnologia que criamos, nossa relação com o mundo que podemos e pretendemos criar a partir dela, e, enfim, nos repensarmos a nós mesmos.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000;"&gt;LEGENDAS EM PORTUGUÊS:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; clique em &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="color: red;"&gt;View subtitles&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; acima e clique no menu em &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Portuguese (Brazil)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Ao contrário de todo sensacionalismo extravagante, feito em torno e sobre ele, não por ele, Julian Assange não é exatamente um fato novo, uma revolução em si ou o inventor ou descobridor deste fato novo ou revolução.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ao contrário, Julian Assange é tão somente - ainda que talvez uma importante e brilhante liderança ou vanguarda - um produto, uma invenção e decorrência dessa revolução - feita de várias outras evoluções e revoluções menores - que milhares, milhões de nós vimos fazendo acontecer há anos, décadas e, até, séculos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Outra vez, ao contrário do que as luzes sobre o espetáculo, turvando nossa visão, nos façam parecer, não está nas mãos de Julian a nossa liberdade - de expressão, de acesso à informação, de opções transparentes para o julgamento e escolha soberanos e equilibrados do que possa(m) ser nossa(s) verdade(s) individual(is) ou coletiva(s).&lt;br /&gt;
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Ao contrário, é a liberdade de Julian que está em nossas mãos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Para prosseguir - e prosseguirmos -, ora acertando ora errando, na busca conjunta pelo equilíbrio da sua liberdade com a liberdade do(s) outro(s) todo(s).&lt;br /&gt;
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Equilíbrio sobre o qual ainda precisaremos ponderar muito para evoluirmos até qualquer conclusão que seja no mínimo razoável&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;É a liberdade de Julian que está em nossas mãos.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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E a nossa também.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vivemos um momento único na história:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Nossa liberdade está em nossas mãos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Por mais impressionate que pareça, isso é impressionante!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nossa liberdade está em nossas mãos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Precisamos, então e urgentemente, acordarmos para usá-la.&lt;br /&gt;
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E que saibamos usá-la.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Que fiquemos de olho nos &lt;i&gt;Big&lt;/i&gt;s.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mas que nosso único objetivo sejam os &lt;i&gt;Brother&lt;/i&gt;s.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/o-ultimo-texto-dinamite-pura-de-julian.html" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;gt; Clique para ler o último artigo de Julian Assange e nossos humildes comentários.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/06/falsa-democracia-por-jose-saramago-e.html"&gt;&lt;b style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;gt; A Falsa Democracia (por José Saramago) e a força do Brasil &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Veja também:   &amp;gt; Big ou Brother? Acorde e Escolha!  VÍDEO ENTREVISTA WIKILEAKS (Julho/2010) &amp;gt; Assange explica importância do Wikileaks, Imagens Chocantes (Iraque) e "Premunição" sobre O Que Está Acontecendo! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;O Editorial-Opinião a seguir foi publicado na Austrália, sua terra natal, aproximadamente ao mesmo tempo em que Julian Assange se entregava para sua detenção em Londres.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;O jornalista é, enfim, estratégicamente impressionamente.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Vale ainda ressaltar alguns pontos:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; No mínimo, e talvez tão somente por ser conterrâneo ou para tentar puxar a memória do sujeito, é bastante interessante - para não dizer provocativa - a referência feita por Julian Assange a &lt;b style="color: #666666;"&gt;Rupert Murdoch&lt;/b&gt;, visto este último ter se tornado o mais perfeito anti-herói, ícone antítese, antônimo exato, modelo reverso de tudo o que o primeiro defende, prega e vem fazendo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Murdoch, ao comando do seu imensurável Império da Informação que vai da Fox (TV, cinema e muito mais), The Wall Street Journal, MySpace e inúmeras partes ou inteiros de empresas individuais e/ou conglomerados de mídia mundo afora, incluíndo sua participação na Sky e no canal Telecine no Brasil, se tornou um símbolo mundial do &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;jornalismo de interesses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; ou &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;massacre ao jornalismo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, por outra perspectiva, o que lhe valeu o premiado documentário &lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428#"&gt;"OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism"&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Este humilde blogueiro já havia lido, visto ou assistido e/ou teve o cuidado de conferir cada uma das afirmações que Assange faz no seu texto, sendo todas absolutamente irrefutáveis. Quanto às ameaças eu as assiti a todas. Quanto às informações dos documentos, bem, estas foram os próprios diplomatas americanos que escreveram.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Quanto ao prometido, vem sendo cumprido.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Ainda hoje,&lt;/b&gt; Julian Assange provavelmente já nos braços do "Morfeu das Prisões" se é que isso existe (mas certamente com a consciência tranquila), &lt;b&gt;foi divulgado mais um "carregamento" de documentos, entre os quais cerca de duas dezenas com citações ao "Brazil",&lt;/b&gt; emitidos a partir do Consulado no Rio de Janeiro e em boa parte concernentes à Segurança Pública.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;4.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Antes do caso atual, Assange já havia assombrado o mundo com a divulgação de documentos sobre a atuação das forças da OTAN no Iraque e Afeganistão, o que revelou inimagináveis abominações mesmo para as mentes mais maquiavélicamente férteis e iniciou a relação de &lt;i&gt;"amôr explícito"&lt;/i&gt; para com sua pessoa, por parte dos Departamentos de Estado e Defesa bem como das agências de inteligência, assemelhados e coligados tanto nos Estados Unidos como nos seus aliados, alinhados ou &lt;i&gt;"sublinhados"&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;5.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; São posteriores a este período as acusações de abuso e estrupo supostamente praticados por ele na Suécia.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Vale, ainda, ressaltar que as palavras acima - exaustivamente usadas pelos nossos meios de comunicação -&amp;nbsp; não correspondem em significado à realidade legal da maioria dos países não escadinavos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;O caso, enfim, se trata da manutenção de relações sexuais sem o uso de camisinha o que, na Suécia, pode ser enquadrado na Lei de Estupro.&lt;/b&gt; Este humilde blogueiro pretende obter informações mais esclarecedoras sobre a legal pendenga nada "legal".&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Entretanto, isso não justificaria nada. Se ele se recusou a atender ao pedido das parceiras, se ele "forçou a barra", ou forçou algo mais, que pague por isso.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas... por isso.&lt;br /&gt;
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E que se averigue com cautela se não houve nenhuma intenção de exploração reversa do fato e se, realmente, houve fato.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;6.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Em paralelo, se alega que não há precedentes na solicitação de cooperação e/ou emissão de mandado de busca internacional, envolvendo Interpol, neste tipo de casos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tanto que, ao contrário do que se faz parecer, Assange não foi "caçado e prêso" mas apenas negociou e se entregou.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;7.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;O Acórdão da Suprema Côrte&lt;/b&gt; a que Julian faz referência - como sempre, muito oportuna - ao final do seu texto, diz respeito a &lt;b&gt;um caso precedente de extrema semelhança&lt;/b&gt; com o atual "WikiLeaks' US Diplomatic Cables".&lt;br /&gt;
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Trata-se do que ficou conhecido como &lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;"The Pentagon Papers"&lt;/b&gt;, iniciado em 1971, quando &lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;Daniel Ellsberg&lt;/b&gt; - economista por Harvard, ex-militar e diretamente ligado à Inteligência dos EUA - indignado com a atuação e a persistência na demência (quase que, &lt;i&gt;"OTAN-afegã"&lt;/i&gt;, fazendo aqui um paralelo os dias de hoje, 40 anos depois), decidiu começar a "vazar" ("leak" que dizer "vazamento"), junto ao jornalista &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;Neil Sheenan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; do &lt;i style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The New York Times&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;o mais secreto dos documentos dos Estados Unidos à época.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Em março de 1971, Ellsberg disponibilizou para o jornalista a primeira remessa (para se ter uma idéia da quantidade de informações) com 40 volumes do extenso relatório do Departamento de Defesa sobre as relações e intromissões dos EUA no Vietnã desde 1945 (quando o Vietnã apenas queria sua independência, e dos outros) até 1967.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Estava lançada, pela primeira vez na história, alguma luz mais esclarecedora sobre os usos e abusos do Estado Conspirador - Infiltrado e Subversor da Ordem e Soberania Alheias, a qualquer custo (pago pelos outros povos, é óbvio), e Totalmente Bélica e Miltarmente Focado e Dirigido - que os Estados Unidos da América se tornaram, especialmente após a 2ª Guerra Mundial.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Outros militares, agentes da Inteligência, jornais e grande parte da Sociedade Civil não só se sodalizaram como entraram na luta, dividindo o esforço com Ellsberg.&lt;br /&gt;
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A maratona pela sanidade ganhou novo fôlego na "guerra" pela paz, no esforço para pôr fim àquela Guerra insana.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Uma Guerra, porém, não menos insana que as que continuam em andamento agora, exatamente agora, inapelável e inadiávelmente agora, enquanto Julian Assange jaz na cadeia, todos nós gastamos nossos teclados e salivas em discussões inúteis sobre a psicologia do "vazador", dos canos, dos furos e dos "vazados", enquanto sonhos continuam a vazar por entre as mãos de milhões de pessoas, pessoas e famílias (inclusive irmãs/ões estadunidenses) continuam sofrendo ou parando &lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;definitivamente&lt;/span&gt; de sofrer &lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;via morte&lt;/span&gt; (apesar de tudo, não desejada e, muito menos - tal qual a "Democracia do Iraque" -, não solicitada) e, enfim, enquanto este humilde blogueiro escreve seu texto para talvez ninguém).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;É impressionante como a História gira sem sair do lugar por muito e muito tempo seguidamente.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;São precisos sempre "loucos" e "irresponsáveis" (ou líderes, como os "anafalbetos" e "ditadores" do nosso Continente - pois tenha a certeza de que uma coisa precipita a outra e tudo está inteligado, como nós via essa Rede, tudo ao mesmo tempo agora)&amp;nbsp; para que todos - como na mitologia recente ou na fraseologia da Revolução Chinesa - para que todos batamos os pés ao chão todos ao mesmo tempo e que a História desloque, ao menos um pouco, seu eixo.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;Impressiona pois a similaridade - diferenciada somente pela tecnologia disponível em cada época - tanto dos fatos motivadores, gatilhos detonadores, causas e interesses envolvidos bem como as ações, reações, manhas, artimanhas e a movimentação dos atores como num tabuleiro de xadrez. Com certeza, o bom enxadrista, o estudioso - neste caso, o conhecedor profundo da história recente -&amp;nbsp; já deve ter em mente os próximos lances deste desumano humano jogo de poder e querer a verdade. Com a consciente ressalva, é claro, de que o jogador muda o jogo e existe jogador consciente também do outro lado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Assim que a informação do vazamento vazou, o The New York Times recebeu um aviso de que estava proibido de publicar uma linha sequer sobre o assunto.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Máquinas rodando, o primeiro artigo foi para as ruas em 13 de junho de 1971.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Prevendo céus de chumbo, o Senador Democrata pelo Alaska, &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;Mike Gravel&lt;/span&gt;, deu entrada em mais de 4.000 páginas do relatório nos registros de uma Subcomissão sem nenhuma imaginável possível ou impossível relação com o assunto&lt;/b&gt; (como se eu protocolasse, por exemplo, o atestado de óbito de minha tataravó na Comissão de Relações Exteriores e Defesa Nacional do Senado da República).&lt;br /&gt;
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Com isso, o Senador conseguiu, simples e silenciosamente, como desejava, que os Papéis passassem a existir oficialmente.&lt;br /&gt;
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Escondidos, "invisíveis", mas prontos param serem "sacados" assim que os inimigos sacassem suas armas na desqualificação do jornalista ou na qualificação do primeiro artigo como ato político, de vingança ou loucura, como um acesso de paranóia.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mais ou menos o que Julian Assange e sua empresa vêm fazendo em colaboração com os jornais que o apóiam, espalhando "leaks" para todo lado, inclusive para o meu pobre computadorzinho que já hospeda uma pequena montanha deles.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Como previa o Senador, as nuvens cizentas cobriram todos os Estados Unidos da América, todos os envolvidos foram ameaçados, perseguidos, processados.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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O The New York Times encarou a parada, &lt;i&gt;parada militar&lt;/i&gt;, e aos trancos, barrancos &lt;i&gt;e muitos advogados&lt;/i&gt;, seguiu em frente.&lt;br /&gt;
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Outras publicações, de toda sorte, aderiram e começaram a publicar novas partes do relatório ou simplesmente repercutir o NYT.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;O povo foi para as ruas, o país incendiou e a história daquela guerra interna contra a guerra externa nós já conhecemos.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Como Julian, Ellsberg também, depois de algum tempo, processado por roubo e guarda de papéis sigilosos do Governo, entregou-se à polícia, em 1973.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nunca nos foi dado conhecer, entretanto, a história real da guerra externa de então, a Guerra do Vietnã, a de verdade, apesar de alguns fragmentos &lt;span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;paridos a fórceps&lt;/span&gt; que nos chegam de tempos e tempos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Precisaremos, ainda, de centenas e talvez milhares de Platoons e mais e outros Platoons, com outras e múltiplas abordagens, para que cheguemos à noção mínima da história real.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;E, mais difícil, conseguirmos desvestir as vestes da história com que vestiram a nossa história e que já nos agasalham tão confortávelmente o nosso "conhecimento consolidado".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Desaprender, por exemplo, que a Guerra nunca começou porque os Comunistas do Norte invadiram o Sul.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;E reaprender, por exemplo, que o &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;General Ho Chi Min&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt; foi um dos mais transigentes, pacientes, tolerantes e pacíficos guerreiros da História.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Além do grande líder, estrategista, militar, político e diplomata que ele foi e excessivamente tudo isso.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Com certeza, entre os maiores homens da História.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fiquei muito orgulhoso e feliz quando das palavras do Exmo. Sr. Presidente da República Luís Inácio Lula da Silva de justa homenagem, respeito e quase devoção para com um dos remanescentes do Estado-maior do Grande General.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Essa História precisa ser recuperada.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Precisa ser salva pois tem o poder de salvar.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Por isso, os Julians Assanges são muito importantes.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Para que os vestais da história não consigam assim tão facilmente vestir nossas cabeças.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Entre outras coisas, para que nossos filhos e netos não venham a andar por aí tão maltrapilhos, tão mal vestidos como andamos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ou sejam vítimas de jocosos maltratos por causa de uma aparente "vocação" para a manipulação e a subserviência.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tenho a certêza que todos desejamos deixar como herança um mundo onde a ignorância e a burrice estejam sempre fora de moda.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Como fizeram, e continuam fazendo, os homens e mulheres dos "Papéis do Pentágono".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Com seus "Leaks" de 1971 eles ajudaram a mudar o curso da História.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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E todos os envolvidos continuaram a ser incansávelmente perseguidos pela Casa Branca até, pelo menos, o fim da admnistração Nixon.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Já neste ano, quando a WikiLeaks vazou as imagens de atrocidades cometidas por helicópteros dos EUA no Iraque &lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/video-entrevista-wikileaks-julho2010.html"&gt;(veja trecho na entrevista de Assange ao TED)&lt;/a&gt;, Ellsberg, do alto de seus 79 anos de idade, não se furtou a vir a público (onde encontrou espaço numa cada vez mais rarefeita mídia livre e corajosa) em defesa da WikiLeaks, de Assange e, principalmente, &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;do abandonado, jogado aos leões, oficial &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Bradley Manning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; que está preso (em Guantânamo, no Afeganistão ou quem sabe onde, se vivo) acusado de ter sido o responsável tanto pelo vazamento das imagens quanto das Mensagens Diplomáticas, os "Cables".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;E, ainda ontem, 08 de dezembro, Ellsberg e algumas instituições que ele, outros envolvidos no "Pentagon Papers" e diversas outras autoridades e representates da sociedade fundaram ao longo desse tempo - como o "Instituto pela Retidão Pública" e os "Associados Samuel Adams pela Integridade na Inteligência" -, além de ex-agentes de Serviços de Inteligência, &lt;i style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;divulgaram forte &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ellsberg.net/archive/public-accuracy-press-release#more-451" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;Nota Pública&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; em apoio ao WikiLeaks e total repúdio às perseguições e ataques em curso contra os envolvidos no caso:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #666666;"&gt;"QUALQUER ataque feito a partir de agora contra a WikiLeaks e Julian Assange &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;terá sido feito contra mim&lt;/span&gt; e contra a divulgação dos 'Pentagon Papers' a seu tempo"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Daniel Ellsberg&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Como se anda dizendo por aí, Julian Assange pode ser até perigoso.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas ainda lhe resta uma longa estrada a trilhar para que possa ser comparado ao "velho" e &lt;i&gt;"muito mau"&lt;/i&gt; e bom Ellsberg que entre outras tantas centenas de homenagens e dezenas de reportagens e filmes contando sua história e a história dos "Pentagon Papers", é a personagem protagonista de um premiado documentário, já indicado ao Oscar, com um título muito sugestivo:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O Homem Mais Perigoso da América:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Daniel Ellsberg e os Papéis do Pentágono.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Torço, firme e convictamente, para que Julian Assange chegue lá.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;E que surja logo - e mais de um(a) - O Homem Mais Perigoso do Brasil!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Acho, entrentanto, que já vêm surgindo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Na Polícia Federal, no Ministério Público, no Congresso Nacional e no próprio Executivo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Precisamos, enfim, lutar por uma mídia livre para que nossos jornalistas livres possam também se libertar.&lt;br /&gt;
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A &lt;i style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Revolução Dilmagital de Outubro&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; já deu mostras disso.&lt;br /&gt;
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E, por enquanto, &lt;b&gt;viva os blogueiros - principalmente os "sujos" - do Brasil!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;E Viva Nós. O Povo Brasileiro!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;8.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Assusta, como já não deveria mais de tão comum, aberturas, chamadas, manchetes como a do Jornal Nacional na noite deste 07 de dezembro que proclamou: &lt;b style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;"o homem que divulgou uma lista de alvos estratégicos para o terrorismo é prêso na Inglaterra..."&lt;/b&gt;. (como se o WikiLeaks fosse parceiro da Al Qaeda - ou do Governo dos Estados Unidos da América, ou Reino Unido, entre outros, o que parece dar no mesmo - e não do The Guardian, El País e meu!)&lt;br /&gt;
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Foi uma das coisas mais absurdamente sensacionalistas e manipuladoras que já ouvi.&lt;br /&gt;
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No "miolo" do JN, a matéria se conduziu até em tons razoáveis.&lt;br /&gt;
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Contudo, não é preciso ser nenhum &lt;i&gt;expert&lt;/i&gt; em Psicologia Comportamental, Manipulação da Informação, Goebbels ou &lt;i&gt;"propaganda na Guerra Fria"&lt;/i&gt; para entendermos como funciona esse &lt;b&gt;jogo de espelhos&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Neste caso de frontal afronta (redundância proposital ainda que insuficiente) ao jornalismo objetivado em esclarecer e não turvar os fatos&amp;nbsp; (como Assange defende abaixo quando fala do seu "Jornalismo Científico"), basta apenas a superior sabedoria popular: &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;a primeira e a última impressão são as que ficam&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A Rede Globo está aqui citada apenas por ter sido o exemplo que acabei de presenciar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Fui conferir e, procurando mais sobre o assunto, encontrei a matéria escrita, para a Internet, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;num cantinho discreto provavelmente reservado aos fatos que estão &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;abalando o mundo&lt;/span&gt; mas são protagonizados somente por "Big Brothers" de verdade.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Os textos se encontravam sob a rubrica "SITE POLÊMICO"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Que meigo!&lt;br /&gt;
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É exatamente como o Julian Assange reporta abaixo: numa hora ele é um terrorista perigosíssimo ameaçando a vida de bilhões de pessoas para, no minuto seguinte, se tornar apenas o editor-chefe daquele "sitezinho" polêmico que publica aqueles vazamentos sem importância nenhuma.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;É.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Acho que ele está na cadeia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Mas tem um monte de gente, e já há algum tempo, começando a sentir-se sem a mínima noção de onde fica a saída.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Isso sem me furtar a esclarecer que o WikiLeaks do Julian Assange está divulgando mais de 250.000 documentos e em parceria com alguns dos mais prestigiosos jornais do planeta.&lt;br /&gt;
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Em alguns documentos, há listas de áreas que a diplomacia americana considera estratégicas (de cabos de transmissão de dados a estações de trem).&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas isso não que dizer absolutamente nada e serve para absolutamente coisa nenhuma, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;principalmente diante das monstruosas aberrações que estão vindo à tona dia após dia.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;9.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Entre elas, a última (pelo menos até cerca de 01 hora atrás, enquanto escrevo, porque é sempre possível que algo ainda pior já deva ter emergido dos esgotos do mundo), ou &lt;b&gt;uma das últimas, está fazendo os representantes dos Estados Unidos fugirem dos jornalitas&lt;/b&gt; como J. Serra de bolinhas-de-papel (quando há cinegrafistas por perto, é claro) &lt;b&gt;durante a Conferência do Clima que está acontecendo agora em Cancún, México.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;O fato é que o Governo dos Estados Unidos da América foi muito além de negociar, pressionar ou até chantagear delegações para fazer valer seus interesses às vésperas e durante a Conferência anterior de Copenhague,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;onde o Brasil foi o único país a chegar com uma proposta pronta, arrojada, independente de negociações ou barganhas com segundos ou terceiros e metas claras que já estão sendo cumpridas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #134f5c;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;E onde o Exmo. Sr. Presidente Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, com sua autoridade moral e o apoio do seu &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;Chanceler d'Ouro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, obrigou o trabalho noite adentro de vários Chefes-de-Estado (os mais importantes do mundo, diga-se de passagem) para ainda oferecer-lhes um desabrido pito geral pela manhã à Plenária da Conferência, visto que "ninguém parecia é querer acôrdo nenhum".&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;E não queriam mesmo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;É isso que alguns documentos diplomáticos dos EUA revelam nos vazamentos do WikiLeaks.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Enquanto Brasil, Bolívia, Noruega e muitos outros se arrebentavam de trabalhar e escarneciam por não chegar ao acordo,&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt;o "Governo da Solidariedade", defensor incansável da liberdade e da democracia, guardião da paz e do meio ambiente, defensor perpétuo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;(perdoe-me a blasfêmia Sua Majestade Meu Imperador D. Pedro I)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt;do Planeta Terra,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;passava o rôdo na boa vontade alheia, subornando, oferecendo propina deletéria, corrompendo convictamente com dinheiro vivo os chefes-de-estado e representantes das delegações de países menores para que nenhum acôrdo passasse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;b style="color: #741b47;"&gt;e os donos mundo pudessem continuar a dispor do seu mundo e matar nosso mundo sem maiores prejuízos imediatos.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Como sempre, arrogância e burrice, sinônimos inseparáveis.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;E, como nunca, numa espécie de elegia abortiva,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;dinheiro vivo abertamente dedicado à morte humana.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;À minha morte.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;À sua morte, caro leitor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;À morte de nossos filhos.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;10.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Contudo, o terrorista aqui é &lt;b&gt;Julian Assange&lt;/b&gt; com sua &lt;i&gt;arma de destruição em massa&lt;/i&gt;: o &lt;b&gt;WikiLeaks&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Talvez esse seu "texto-bomba" abaixo lhe justifique, de alguma forma, a deferente alcunha.&lt;br /&gt;
E que seja o último antes de uma prisão sua.&lt;br /&gt;
Mas que seja o último tão somente antes do próximo.&lt;br /&gt;
Eu espero. E defenderei isso.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;"A Verdade Vencerá Sempre"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;Em 1958, um jovem &lt;b style="color: #666666;"&gt;Rupert Murdoch&lt;/b&gt;, então proprietário e editor do  "Adelaide's The News", escreveu:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Na corrida entre o segredo e a verdade,  parece inevitável que a verdade sempre vença"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;Sua observação,  talvez, refletia o empenho de seu pai Keith Murdoch em expor que as  tropas australianas estavam sendo desnecessariamente sacrificadas por  incompetentes comandantes britânicos às margens do Gallipoli. Os  britânicos tentaram calá-lo, mas Keith Murdoch não seria silenciado e  seus esforços levaram ao encerramento da campanha desastrosa de  Gallipoli.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Quase um século mais tarde, também o WikiLeaks vem publicando sem medo os fatos que precisam ser tornados públicos.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;Eu cresci em uma cidade do interior de Queensland, onde as pessoas  falavam sem rodeios o que tinham em suas mentes. Eles desconfiavam do  &lt;i&gt;grande governo&lt;/i&gt; como algo que pode ser corrompido, se não monitorado  cuidadosamente. Os dias cinzentos da corrupção no governo de Queensland  antes do inquérito Fitzgerald são testemunho do que acontece quando os  políticos amordaçam e a imprensa não reporta a verdade.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Essas  coisas ficaram comigo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O WikiLeaks foi criado em torno desses valores  fundamentais.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A idéia, concebida na Austrália, foi a utilização das  tecnologias de Internet em novas maneiras para comunicar a verdade.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O WikiLeaks cunhou um novo tipo de jornalismo:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;O Jornalismo Científico&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trabalhamos com outros meios de comunicação para levar até as pessoas a  notícia, mas também para provar que a notícia publicada é verdade.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O  Jornalismo Científico permite a leitura de uma notícia, seguida  imediatamente de um simples clique levando diretamente ao(s)  documento(s) original(is) e/ou fonte(s) que a basearam.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dessa forma  você pode julgar por si mesmo:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A história verdadeira?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Será que o relato  do jornalista foi preciso? &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;As sociedades democráticas precisam  de uma mídia forte e o WikiLeaks é parte dessa mídia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;A mídia ajuda a  manter honestos os governos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O WikiLeaks revelou algumas duras verdades sobre o Iraque e o  Afeganistão, e histórias sobre a doentia corrupção corporativa. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;As pessoas têm dito que eu sou contra a guerra. Pois que conste: eu não  sou. Algumas vezes, as nações precisam ir à guerra, e existem guerras  justas. Mas &lt;i&gt;&lt;b style="color: #444444;"&gt;não há nada mais errado do que um governo mentir para o seu  povo sobre essas guerras para, em seguida, pedir a esses mesmos cidadãos  que coloquem as suas vidas e o dinheiro de seus impostos na  linha-de-fogo em nome daquelas mentiras. Se uma guerra for justificável,  então, diga a verdade e as pessoas decidirão apoiá-lo ou  não.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;Se você já leu alguma das entradas sobre o Afeganistão ou a  Guerra do Iraque, as mensagens diplomáticas dos EUA ou qualquer das  histórias sobre as coisas que o WikiLeaks revelou, considere o quão  importante é para todos os meios a capacidade de poder relatar essas  coisas livremente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O WikiLeaks não é o único editor das  mensagens diplomáticas das embaixadas dos EUA.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Outros meios, incluindo o  The Guardian (Grã-Bretanha), The New York Times (EUA), El Pais (Espanha), Der Spiegel (Alemanha), têm publicado as mesmas mensagens  revisadas.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;No entanto, vem sendo o WikiLeaks, como o  coordenador dos outros grupos, quem tem apanhado dos ataques mais  viciosos e ferozes e recebido todas as acusações do governo dos EUA e  de seus coroinhas.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tenho sido acusado de traição, mesmo sendo um  australiano, e não um cidadão dos EUA.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;Foram dezenas de telefonemas  graves dos Estados Unidos da América para que eu seja "levado embora"  por forças especiais dos EUA.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sarah Palin diz que eu deveria ser "caçado  como Osama bin Laden".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Um projeto-de-lei do Partido Republicano tramita no  Senado dos Estados Unidos da América para que eu seja declarado uma "ameaça  transnacional" e, em conformidade, eliminado.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;Um assessor de gabinete do  Primeiro-Ministro do Canadá tem clamado, na Televisão pública Nacional,  pelo meu assassinato.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Um blogueiro americano pediu para que meu filho  de 20 anos, aqui na Austrália, fosse seqüestrado e maltrado por nenhuma  outra razão que não seja chegarem até mim. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;E o povo australiano  precisa estar atento para &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;nossa desgraça e vergonha diante da sensibilidade de  alcoviteiros como do Primeiro-Ministro Gillard (Austrália) e da Secretária de Estado dos  EUA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; que não tiveram uma palavra sequer de crítica dirigida às outras  organizações de mídia.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isso porque o The Guardian, The New York Times e  Der Spiegel são antigos e grandes, enquanto o WikiLeaks é ainda jovem e  pequeno. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nós somos os oprimidos.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O governo Gillard está  tentando matar o mensageiro porque não quer a verdade da mensagem  revelada, incluindo as informações sobre suas próprias negociações  diplomáticas e políticas.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Houve qualquer resposta do governo  australiano para as numerosas ameaças públicas de violência contra mim e  outros profissionais da equipe WikiLeaks?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O mínimo que deveríamos  esperar de um Primeiro-Ministro australiano seria defender seus cidadãos  contra tais coisas, mas houve apenas alegações inteiramente infundadas  de ilegalidade.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O Primeiro-Ministro e, especialmente, o Procurador-Geral  têm o mandado e a obrigação de exercer as suas funções com dignidade e  acima da brigas.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Restos assegurados,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;esses dois apenas pensam em salvar  suas peles.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eles não salvarão! &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Toda vez que o WikiLeaks publica  a verdade sobre os abusos cometidos pelas agências dos EUA, os  políticos australianos cantam um refrão comprovadamente falso em côro  com o Departamento de Estado dos EUA:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Você vai por vidas em risco!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;E a  Segurança Nacional?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Você vai colocar tropas em perigo!" &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Imediatamente depois, logo em seguida, eles dizem  que:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;"...não há nada de importante&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;no que o WikiLeaks publica..."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;É impossível coexistirem&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ambas as "verdades".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Qual delas é "verdade" então?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nenhuma!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O WikiLeaks  tem uma história editorial de quatro anos.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Durante esse tempo, nós  mudamos governos inteiros, mas nem uma única pessoa que se saiba foi  prejudicada individualmente.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Enquanto isso, os EUA - com a conivência do  governo australiano - assassinaram sozinhos milhares de pessoas somente  nos últimos meses. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;O Secretário de Defesa dos EUA, Robert  Gates, admitiu em uma carta ao seu Congresso que nenhuma fonte sensível  de informação ou métodos foram comprometidos pela nossa divulgação dos  documentos  sobre a guerra no Afeganistão.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;O Pentágono afirmou que não  havia nenhuma evidência de que os relatórios do WikiLeaks tenham levado  a que qualquer indivíduo tenha sido prejudicado no Afeganistão.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;A OTAN, em Kabul, disse  à CNN que não conseguiu encontrar uma única pessoa que precisasse de  proteção.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;O Departamento de Defesa da Austrália, disse a mesma coisa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;Nenhuma tropa ou fonte australiana foi ferida em decorrência de qualquer  coisa que nós tenhamos publicado.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Mas as nossas publicações  estão longe de ser desimportantes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;As mensagens diplomáticas dos EUA  vêm revelar alguns fatos surpreendentes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Os EUA pediram a seus  diplomatas para roubar material humano e informações pessoais de  funcionários da ONU e grupos de direitos humanos, incluindo o DNA,  impressões digitais, escaneamento de íris, números de  cartões-de-crédito, senhas de internet e fotos de identificação, em  violação de tratados internacionais. Presumivelmente, os diplomatas  australianos na ONU devem fazer parte dos "alvos". &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;O rei  Abdullah da Arábia Saudita pediu às autoridades dos EUA na Jordânia e  Bahrein que o programa nuclear do Irã seja interrompido por "quaisquer  meios disponíveis". &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;O inquérito na Grã-Bretanha sobre o Iraque foi "ajustado" para proteger "os interesses dos EUA". &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #351c75;"&gt;A Suécia é um membro secreto da OTAN e sua cooperação com a Inteligência dos EUA é mantida "à parte" do Parlamento. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Os EUA estão jogando duro para conseguir que outros países "tomem  conta" dos detidos libertados de Guantânamo. Barack Obama concordou em  encontrar com o presidente esloveno somente se a Eslovênia "adotasse" um  prisioneiro. Nosso vizinho do Pacífico, Kiribati, recebeu oferta de  milhões de dólares para aceitar detidos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;No seu acórdão  proferido quanto ao caso "Papéis do Pentágono", a Suprema Corte dos  Estados Unidos da América afirmou que "só uma imprensa livre e sem restrições pode efetivamente  expor fraudes no governo".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;A tempestade que hoje envolve o WikiLeaks  reforça a necessidade de defender o direito de todos os meios em revelar  a verdade.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;Julian Assange&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; é o editor-chefe do &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763;"&gt;Wikileaks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-1031463212550240059?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1031463212550240059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/o-ultimo-texto-dinamite-pura-de-julian.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1031463212550240059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1031463212550240059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/o-ultimo-texto-dinamite-pura-de-julian.html' title='O último texto (dinamite pura) de Julian Assange, fundador do WikiLeaks, antes de ser prêso. E antes do próximo, em breve, espero.'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/TP8r1giZi6I/AAAAAAAAAFc/_uPdyrd7fXw/s72-c/AssangeFree-PORT02.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-6969202715024627614</id><published>2010-12-07T09:03:00.007-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T11:07:06.938-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Julian Assange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WikiLeaks'/><title type='text'>Julian Assange está prêso: fundador do WikiLeaks levado sob custódia para Londres</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/julian-assange-arrested-w_n_792956.html"&gt;Ver matéria original no Huffington Post (em inglês) &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;OBS.: A TRADUÇÃO ABAIXO É LIVRE, COM MUDANÇAS NA SEQUÊNCIA DO TEXTO E INCLUÍ COMENTÁRIOS&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
LONDRES - O fundador do WikiLeaks, Julian Assange se entregou à polícia de Londres nesta terça-feira como parte de uma investigação sueca sobre crimes sexuais.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Este constitui o mais recente revés para uma organização que enfrenta desafios legais, financeiros e tecnológicos depois de liberar centenas de mensagens secretas da diplomacia dos Estados Unidos.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Desde o início do vazamento via Internet das mensagens secretas desde a semana passada, o WikiLeaks viu suas contas bancárias canceladas, seus sites atacados e o governo dos EUA iniciarem uma investigação criminal dizendo que o grupo colocou em perigo a segurança nacional e os esforços diplomáticos do país em todo o mundo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ele também viu, em contrapartida, apoiadores correrem em sua ajuda através da criação de mais de 500 sites espelhos ao redor do mundo.&lt;br /&gt;
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O WikiLeaks irou o governo dos EUA quando divulgou - há cêrca de um ano - dezenas de milhares de documentos secretos militares dos EUA, principalmente sobre infinitos abusos no Iraque e Afeganistão.&lt;br /&gt;
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E, agora, multiplica a dose com o lançamento em curso do que ele diz que totalizará, eventualmente, um quarto de milhão de "cabos" (telegramas ou, simplesmente, mensagens) diplomáticas dos EUA enviadas secretamente nos últimos anos por todo e sobre todo o mundo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Os documentos foram compartilhados com cinco jornais, que têm trabalhado junto ao WikiLeaks para organizar, classificar, editar e preparar os documentos para sua publicação gradativa.&lt;br /&gt;
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A campanha contra a WikiLeaks começou com um esforço para bloquear o site quando os documentos estavam sendo liberados.&lt;br /&gt;
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Empresas de internet dos EUA como Amazon.com, Inc., EveryDNS e PayPal, Inc., foram rápida e sucessivamente cortando os seus laços com o WikiLeaks, forçando-o a saltar para novos servidores e adotar novos endereços primários na Web, como o wikileaks.ch na Suíça.&lt;br /&gt;
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Autoridades suíças fecharam as contas bancárias de Assange na segunda-feira. &lt;br /&gt;
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A MasterCard vem "desconectando o plug" dos pagamentos e doações online para o WikiLeaks, de acordo com com o gigante de notícias sobre tecnologia CNET. Um representante europeu da empresa de cartões-de-crédito não retornou a ligação da reportagem em busca de esclarecimentos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Os ataques parecem ter sido pelo menos parcialmente bem sucedidos em estancar o fluxo de segredos: o WikiLeaks passou mais de 24 horas sem publicar novos documentos, embora as histórias sobre eles continuem a ser publicadas no The New York Times e no britânico The Guardian, dois dos jornais com acesso antecipado aos cabos.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Obs.: Ainda nesta manhã de terça-feira, 07 de dezembro, este humilde blogueiro - contestando o que diz a matéria - e pouco antes de receber a notícia da prisão, teve acesso a alguns novos "vazamentos" ("leak" quer dizer "vazamento") através de um dos sites-espelho. Foram cerca de apenas 30 novos documentos, mas houve sim publicação hoje e não através dos jornais parceiros.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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O Twitter do WikiLeaks, geralmente repleto de atualizações, recursos e comentários, tem estado em silêncio desde segunda-feira à noite, quando o grupo alertou que a prisão de Assange era iminente.&lt;br /&gt;
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Finalmente, os problemas legais pessoais alegados que, hoje, enfim, o levaram à detenção, resultam de denúncias feitas contra ele por duas mulheres que ele conheceu na Suécia durante o verão.&lt;br /&gt;
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Assange, um australiano de 39 anos de idade, é acusado de estupro e abuso sexual em um caso e de abuso sexual e coerção ilegal em outro.&lt;br /&gt;
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Assange nega as acusações, que seu advogado britânico Mark Stephens, diz ser baseada numa discussão legal sobre "disputa sobre sexo consensual, mas sem proteção."&lt;br /&gt;
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Assange e Stephens têm sugerido que o processo está sendo manipulado por razões políticas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Assange foi prometido à Côrte de Magistrados de Westminster ainda na tarde desta terça &lt;i&gt;(02 horas a mais em relação a Brasília - com o horário de verão)&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Se ele contestar sua extradição para a Suécia, ele provavelmente permanecerá detido sob custódia ou será libertado sob fiança até que outro juiz decida sobre a extradição, disse anônimamente um porta-voz do departamento responsável por extradições.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Um porta-voz do WikiLeaks chamou a prisão Assange de um ataque à liberdade de imprensa e disse que isso não vai impedir a organização de liberar mais documentos secretos.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;"Isso não vai mudar a nossa operação", Kristinn Hrafnsson disse à Associated Press.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;JULIAN ASSANGE ESTÁ PRÊSO.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MAS A VERDADE ESTÁ LIVRE.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Que saibamos fazer a força da nossa verdade juntos,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #45818e;"&gt; lhe devolver a liberdade e a muitos outros.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/oliver-stone-um-momento-historico-da.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Um momento histórico da América do Sul.  &lt;br /&gt;
Nada parecido desde Bolívar, desde 1820..."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/hasta-la-victoria-siempre.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;¡Hasta La Victoria Siempre!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-7087029974537759033?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7087029974537759033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/homenaje-lula-da-silva-xx-cumbre.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7087029974537759033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7087029974537759033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/homenaje-lula-da-silva-xx-cumbre.html' title='Homenaje a Lula Da Silva. XX Cumbre Iberoamericana. Mar de Plata (Video Oficial - Casa Rosada)'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-812168954278406810</id><published>2010-12-06T05:28:00.006-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T08:56:36.222-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guevara'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma Roussef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fidel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Che'/><title type='text'>¡Hasta La Victoria Siempre!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/lula-guerreiro-do-povo-brasileiro.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Lula, Guerreiro do Povo Brasileiro!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kxf4rRFjVI8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kxf4rRFjVI8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/diima-guerreira-da-gente-brasileira.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Dilma, Guerrilheira da Gente Brasileira!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-812168954278406810?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/812168954278406810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/hasta-la-victoria-siempre.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/812168954278406810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/812168954278406810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/hasta-la-victoria-siempre.html' title='¡Hasta La Victoria Siempre!'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-7064768637908095235</id><published>2010-12-01T16:26:00.005-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T05:29:55.305-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='América do sul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cristina Fernadez Kirchner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Néstor Kirchner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma Vana Roussef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='América del Sur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Argentina'/><title type='text'>¡Adelante Cristina! Estaremos Juntos!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;¡&lt;span gtbtooltiptext="Click for suggestions" id="gtbmisp_6" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;&lt;span id="gtbmisp_6" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;Quando&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Los Hermanos Son &lt;span id="gtbmisp_7" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;&lt;span id="gtbmisp_7" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;Irmãos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;... &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;Ni oigas a el que &lt;span id="gtbmisp_8" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;&lt;span id="gtbmisp_8" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;Wikileaks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ha mostrado que hablaran de ti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;Tu &lt;span gtbtooltiptext="Click for suggestions" id="gtbmisp_9" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;es&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span id="gtbmisp_10" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;muí&lt;/span&gt; más grande que cualquier uno o una que pueda tenerla defamada.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;Tu tienes el tamaño de tuya Argentina y mi Brasil juntos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;La grandeza de nuestra América en nuestro Sur.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;¡Como es bueno saber que a la &lt;span id="gtbmisp_11" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;continuación&lt;/span&gt; del trabajo de los hermanos  Néstor y Lula, &lt;span id="gtbmisp_13" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;teñiremos&lt;/span&gt; ahora la ternura fuerte de dos mujeres sin iguales en la&amp;nbsp;&lt;span id="gtbmisp_14" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;dirección&lt;/span&gt; de nuestro grandioso futuro!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;Como ya ha dicho otro hermano inolvidable:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/hasta-la-victoria-siempre.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;¡Hasta La &lt;span id="gtbmisp_16" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;&lt;span id="gtbmisp_10" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;Victoria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Siempre!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;Todo el respecto y &lt;span id="gtbmisp_17" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;&lt;span id="gtbmisp_11" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;admiración&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; de nosotros Brasileños por esto gran maestro, &lt;span id="gtbmisp_18" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;&lt;span id="gtbmisp_12" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;líder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; de nuestro continente, conductor de primera hora en la marcha histórica que &lt;span id="gtbmisp_19" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;&lt;span id="gtbmisp_13" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; cursor: pointer; display: none; font-family: serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;"&gt;enfin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; volvemos a empezar juntos por el más que posible sueño﻿ de una América del Sur con la digna altura y grandeza de sus riquezas y sus gentes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;¡Viva para siempre Néstor!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;¡Y Viva Argentina*! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;*(afuera, solamente, cuando hablemos de fútbol :))&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-7064768637908095235?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7064768637908095235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/adelante-cristina-estaremos-juntos.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7064768637908095235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7064768637908095235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/adelante-cristina-estaremos-juntos.html' title='&lt;b style=&quot;color: #3d85c6;&quot;&gt;¡Adelante Cristina! Estaremos Juntos!&lt;/b&gt;'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-3364953580191037518</id><published>2010-11-30T19:07:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-01T06:56:44.860-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ultimatum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Álvaro de Campos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maria Bethânia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fernando Pessoa'/><title type='text'>Mandado de despejo aos mandarins do Mundo</title><content type='html'>75 anos sem(pre com) &lt;b&gt;Fernando&lt;/b&gt; António Nogueira de Seabra &lt;b&gt;Pessoa&lt;/b&gt;, pensador imenso tão tardia e póstumamente reconhecido exatamente pela sua obra no estilo em que menos escreveu. Não conheço outro, entretanto, que tenha sido tanto e tantos em tão pouco tempo.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;(adptação de trechos do texto 'Ultimatum' do heterônimo Álvaro de Campos - Fernando Pessoa - com interpretação de Maria Bethânia sobre imagens extraídas dos créditos finais do documentário 'Pedrinha de Aruanda' de Andrucha Waddington)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #666666;"&gt;"...A morte é a curva da estrada,&lt;br /&gt;
Morrer é só não ser visto..." &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i style="color: black;"&gt;Fernando Pessoa (13/06/1888 - 30/11/1935)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-3364953580191037518?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3364953580191037518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/mandado-de-despejo-aos-mandarins-do.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3364953580191037518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3364953580191037518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/mandado-de-despejo-aos-mandarins-do.html' title='Mandado de despejo aos mandarins do Mundo'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-634092606869737918</id><published>2010-11-24T17:45:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2010-11-24T17:51:36.849-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Save Me'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tanzania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zanzibar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Farrokh Bulsara'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stone Town'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freddie Mercury'/><title type='text'>19 anos sem a voz muito especial do AFRICANO Farrokh Bulsara, aka Freddie Mercury</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Música: "Save Me" @ Montreal Concert, 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nascido em 05/09/1946, Stone Town, &lt;br /&gt;
Zanzibar (Tanzania)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Falecido em: 24/11/91, London, England&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(IN MEMORIAM)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-634092606869737918?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/634092606869737918/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/19-anos-sem-voz-muito-especial-do.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/634092606869737918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/634092606869737918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/19-anos-sem-voz-muito-especial-do.html' title='19 anos sem a voz muito especial do AFRICANO Farrokh Bulsara, aka Freddie Mercury'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-8970549942272829363</id><published>2010-11-23T09:51:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T22:50:20.448-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gilberto Gil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='racismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='xenofobia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Desmond Tutu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fascismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mais...preconceito'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homofobia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nazismo'/><title type='text'>Salve a batina do Bispo Tutu!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Homófobos, "classófobos", "etnófobos", "gênerófobos", xenófobos, "nordestófobos", todos "teófobos", "antropófobos" e "autófobos", ora pois, que vão todos reclamar ao Bispo!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-8970549942272829363?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8970549942272829363/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/deus-salve-batina-do-bispo-tutu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/8970549942272829363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/8970549942272829363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/deus-salve-batina-do-bispo-tutu.html' title='Salve a batina do Bispo Tutu!'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-3894268048060811484</id><published>2010-11-22T18:02:00.012-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-24T14:48:40.014-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saramago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='preconceito'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma Roussef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='legado'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nobel'/><title type='text'>"O homem mais sábio que conheci em toda a minha vida não sabia ler nem escrever..."</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Esta é a abertura do discurso de recebimento de um Prêmio Nobel.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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No  discurso o laureado referia-se a seu avô.&lt;br /&gt;
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Como nosso Exmo. Sr.  Presidente da República Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, os pais do laureado  também eram muito pobres e analfabetos (dormiam com os porcos para  esquentá-los - aos porcos - com medo que perecessem no inverno, seu  único sustento).&lt;br /&gt;
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Como nosso Exmo. Sr. Presidente, o laureado com o Nobel  acima, somente logrou conquistar em toda a sua vida um único diploma,  um diploma de ofício como é o mesmo caso do nosso Exmo. Sr. Presidente  e, para ainda maior coincidência, ambos os diplomas são de "Mecânico".&lt;br /&gt;
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O  do nosso Exmo. Sr. Presidente, como sabemos, é mui dignamente de  "Torneiro Mecânico" enquanto é de "Mecânico de Automóveis" o único  diploma do Sr. José Saramago, único filho do nosso idioma laureado com o  Prêmio Nobel.&lt;br /&gt;
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Do nosso "Mecânico" deste lado do Atlântico já fomos laureados com O Melhor Governo da História e ele com o fato de já ter sido O Presidente do Brasil mais laureado, respeitado e influente em todos os tempos mundo afora, apesar de jamais se ter descuidado, por um instante sequer, da defesa firme - e muitas vezes tensa - dos interesses nacionais indo ainda além, ao ocupar o espaço que renegamos por séculos de liderança na defesa dos interesses continentais e hemisféricos. &lt;br /&gt;
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Ao final do seu segundo e exitosíssimo mandato o Exmo. Sr. Presidente ainda nos presenteia com um caso raro - senão único - de democracia meritocrática na história da política, ao fazer sua sucessora (pela magnitude de sua liderança e grandeza de seus pares políticos históricos) o primeiro Servidor Público de Carreira a se eleger Presidente pela sucessiva promoção de um cargo para o cargo imediatamente acima. Um fato de grande valor simbólico para todos que servem ao nosso País.&lt;br /&gt;
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Entretanto, o imenso legado do Exmo. Sr.  Presidente (o primeiro que faço questão de chamar sempre assim) terá  sido ainda maior que tudo isso.&lt;br /&gt;
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Terá sido ele mesmo, sua história, seu comportamento, seu exemplo...&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas,  infelizmente, toda evidência do mundo não parece suficiente para  arrefecer a ira cega do preconceito...&lt;br /&gt;
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Ainda ouvimos - e não pouco nem isoladamente - as mesmas palavras estúpidas que ouvíamos quando da sua primeira candidatura há mais de 20 anos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Palavras que não mereciam ser ditas nem ouvidas àqueles tempos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Palavras que carregam ainda menos inteligência, humanidade e respeito ao Brasil e seu povo, quando repetidas ainda hoje.&lt;br /&gt;
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Palavras como algumas que ele cita no desabafo que faz no comício a seguir &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;(aliás, acho que esperei ansiosamente 20 anos e 10 votos para Presidente somente para ouvir este desabafo)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; com todas as licenças de descontração naturais a um comício e com o seu jeito único que mesmo num desabafo forte, firme, convicto, sincero e verdadeiro, consegue ser leve e até bem humorado. &lt;br /&gt;
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Ele nos deu a exemplaridade da  sua história e a incontestabilidade dos fatos...&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas ainda caberá a nós  todos, insistirmos, persistirmos em difundir e sedimentar estas verdades  por mais óbvias que elas sejam!&lt;br /&gt;
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A ira cega do preconceito é cega demais para, pelo menos, querer enxergar.&lt;br /&gt;
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E são exatamente sobre esta mesma cegueira, as sábias palavras do nosso outro amado "Mecânico", o d'Além-Mar, ao encerrar aquele seu mesmo discurso (que entitula este texto), ao receber o Prêmio Nobel:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Cegos. O aprendiz pensou: "Estamos cegos", e sentou-se a escrever   o &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ensaio sobre a Cegueira para recordar a quem o viesse a   ler que usamos perversamente a razão quando humilhamos a   vida, que a dignidade do ser humano é todos os dias   insultada pelos poderosos do nosso mundo, que a mentira universal   tomou o lugar das verdades plurais, que o homem deixou de   respeitar-se a si mesmo quando perdeu o respeito que devia ao seu   semelhante. Depois, o aprendiz, como se tentasse exorcizar os   monstros engendrados pela cegueira da razão, pôs-se a   escrever a mais simples de todas as histórias: uma pessoa   que vai à procura de outra pessoa apenas porque compreendeu   que a vida não tem nada mais importante que pedir a um ser   humano. O livro chama-se &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Todos os Nomes. Não   escritos, todos os nossos nomes estão lá. Os nomes dos   vivos e os nomes dos mortos.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Termino. A voz que leu estas páginas quis ser o eco das   vozes conjuntas das minhas personagens. Não tenho, a bem   dizer, mais voz que a voz que elas tiverem. Perdoai-me se vos   pareceu pouco isto que para mim é tudo."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/lecture-p.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;- Ver discurso completo de José Saramago pelo recebimento de Prêmio Nobel &amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Veja também:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;b style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/oliver-stone-um-momento-historico-da.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&amp;gt; "Hey... Esses caras estão mudando a América do Sul...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/oliver-stone-um-momento-historico-da.html"&gt; Antes, nós expulsávamos os reformadores, um após outro..."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-grande-lancamento-do-ano-num-cinema.html"&gt;&amp;gt; O Grande Lançamento do Ano - Num Cinema Bem LONGE de Você!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/deus-salve-batina-do-bispo-tutu.html"&gt;&amp;gt; Homófobos, "classófobos", "etnófobos", "gênerófobos", xenófobos, "nordestófobos", todos "teófobos", "antropófobos" e "autófobos", ora pois, que vão todos reclamar ao Bispo!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-serraran.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;gt; ¡No Serrarán! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/tudo-o-que-eu-queria-ter-escrito-eu-e-o.html"&gt;&amp;gt; Tudo o que eu queria ter escrito! Eu e o Exmo. Sr. Deputado Tiririca.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/honra-ao-merito.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;gt; Honra ao Mérito &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/fabricas-de-mitos-moinhos-de-herois.html"&gt;&amp;gt; O "Choque de Civilizações"&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/09/enquanto-serra-discursa-como-um.html"&gt;&amp;gt; Eike sobre Evo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/06/falsa-democracia-por-jose-saramago-e.html"&gt;&amp;gt; A Falsa Democracia (por José Saramago) e a força do Brasil &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/09/1109-tue-viva-chile-and-peace-be-upon.html"&gt;&amp;gt; 9/11 (Tue) &amp;gt; ¡Viva Chile! And peace be upon US as so!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-3894268048060811484?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3894268048060811484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-homem-mais-sabio-que-conheci-em-toda.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3894268048060811484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3894268048060811484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-homem-mais-sabio-que-conheci-em-toda.html' title='&quot;O homem mais sábio que conheci em toda a minha vida não sabia ler nem escrever...&quot;'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-602287856142576964</id><published>2010-11-22T17:09:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-09T15:00:40.774-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mark Weisbrot'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Juan Gonzalez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mídia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chávez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Morales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='South of The Border'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kirchner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy Now'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amy Goodman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='América do sul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UNASUR'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tariq Aziz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oliver Stone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='América Latina'/><title type='text'>Oliver Stone: "Um momento histórico da América do Sul. Nada parecido desde Bolívar, desde 1820..."</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #bf9000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Hey... Esses caras estão mudando a América do Sul...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Antes, nós expulsávamos os reformadores, um após outro..."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Oliver Stone &amp;amp; Tariq Aziz &lt;br /&gt;
"Ao Sul da Fronteira" &lt;br /&gt;
no Democracy Now!&lt;br /&gt;
PARTE II&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Assista à Parte 01 &amp;gt; &lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-grande-lancamento-do-ano-num-cinema.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O Grande Lançamento do Ano: Num Cinema Bem LONGE de Você!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Entenda, no trecho de entrevista a seguir, como um cidadão de alto nível, herói de guerra, chega a se indignar com o seu próprio país ao ver de perto tanto mal sendo feito por tanto tempo, em tantos lugares, o tempo todo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ao ponto de empregar o melhor de seu reconhecido talento como ferramenta de conscientização para que todos possam abrir os olhos e reagir a tantas injustiças e distorções sendo "exportadas" - ou distorcidas internamente - para prejudicar tantos países irmãos ou, talvez ainda pior, patrícios irmãos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Países e gentes que podem perfeitamente compartilhar harmônica, próspera, pacífica e democráticamente um vasto continente abundante em recursos, capaz de propiciar um desenvolvimento pujante e, ao mesmo tempo, sustentável, solidário e justo para todos.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;object height="325" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XAeZzWc4CFM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XAeZzWc4CFM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Dos recordistas em Oscars de Melhor Diretor, desde o início da premiação  em 1928, apenas 01 foi laureado 04 vezes e apenas 02 foram laureados 03  vezes, todos falecidos. Dos laureados com 02 Oscars, apenas 04 continuam vivos, Oliver Stone entre eles, laureado por &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Platoon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, em 1986, e &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nascido em 04 de Julho&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, em 1989.&lt;br /&gt;
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Muito antes, porém, Oliver Stone já havia recebido seu primeiro Oscar, em 1978, pelo Melhor Roteiro Adaptado para o legendário &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Expresso da Meia-Noite&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Outro de seus de filmes, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wall Street&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, deu o Oscar de Melhor Ator para ninguém menos que Michael Douglas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Entre suas quase duas dezenas de sucessos aclamados por Hollywood, os filmes investigativos sobre a história, a história do presente sobretudo, acabaram virando uma de suas especialidades.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="goog-gtc-unit" id="goog-gtc-unit-159"&gt;&lt;span class="goog-gtc-translatable goog-gtc-from-human" dir="ltr"&gt;Ele já levou para as telas três presidentes americanos em &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;JFK&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Nixon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; e &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;W.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Já focou na ganância do setor financeiro em &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wall Street&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, "hit" de Hollywood, e na sua seqüência, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, lançado no Festival de Cannes em maio. &lt;span class="goog-gtc-unit" id="goog-gtc-unit-159"&gt;&lt;span class="goog-gtc-translatable goog-gtc-from-human" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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E abordou os aspectos mais controversos da guerra, em seus clássicos &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Platoon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; e &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nascido em Quatro de Julho&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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O aclamado &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Platoon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; é, de certa forma, autobiográfico.&lt;br /&gt;
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Oliver Stone viveu os horrores da guerra por dentro.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ele é Veterano da Guerra do Vietnã. E duas vezes condecorado.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Com a &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Estrela de Bronze e com o Coração Púrpura.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Foi exatamente depois de voltar daquela guerra sem o&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;mínimo sentido, que Oliver Stone "sentiu-se chocado" ao não ver sentido nenhum na presença de tantos soldados do seu país, como ele o fora um dia, em tantos lugares das Américas Central e do Sul por onde ele passava, viajando, 15 anos depois de voltar do inferno no Vietnã.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Perplexo, começou a se interessar pelo assunto e buscar respostas, ou melhor, como cineasta, tentar documentar respostas em película.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Daí nasceram vários filmes sobre o continente como &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Salvador&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Comandante&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; e &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Looking for Fidel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Em seu último filme, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;South of The Border&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;Ao Sul da Fronteira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), lançado em junho tanto nos Festivais de Veneza e Cannes quanto na América Latina e Estados Unidos, Oliver Stone pega a estrada pela América do Sul e se encontra com 07 Presidentes no continente.&lt;br /&gt;
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Suas impressões - bem como as do co-roteirista do filme, o comentarista político, historiador, ativista, cineasta, romancista e editor britânico-paquistanês &lt;b&gt;Tariq Ali&lt;/b&gt; - não poderiam estar postas com mais clareza quanto nesta entrevista modelar concedida em junho de 2010 a Amy Goodman e Juan Gonzalez do Democracy Now!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Seu testemunho vivo, presencial, seu olhar "estrangeiro", sobre o que se passa em nosso país e em nossa tão próxima e ao mesmo tempo distante vizinhança, bem como a sua convivência permanente com as mensagens e percepções difundidas pelos meios de comunicação desde o Alaska até a Patagônia, nos dão a tão necessária medida, o contraponto equilibrado e a transparência há tanto turvada e omitida, para que possamos - em contrapêso ao côro uníssono das outras muitas fontes que, entrentanto, comungam obviamente de interesses convergentes - para que possamos balancear pesos e contrapesos e chegarmos a nossas próprias independentes e soberanas conclusões.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;E que as câmeras de Oliver Stone nos tragam um pouco mais de luz para nossa ação!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Finalmente, cabe aqui repetir a assertiva: nada justifica que um filme  dirigido por um dos mais premiados diretores de Hollywood e que é  exatamente sobre nós e nossa história do presente, não seja divulgado e  promovido exatamente entre nós como qualquer outro filme muito menos  qualificado o seria.&lt;br /&gt;
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Continuarei a legendar a brilhante entrevista de Oliver Stone e Tariq Aziz para o Democracy Now.&lt;br /&gt;
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Para quem quiser antecipar-se, entretanto, ela pode ser encontrada com transcrição em inglês em:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/21/academy_award_winning_filmmaker_oliver_stone"&gt;Democracy Now! &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Diante da virulência com que o filme foi recebido, Oliver Stone montou  um "site de guerra" extremanete bem lastreado quanto às distorções na  Grande Mídia Estadunidense e trazendo documentos que envolvem  diretamente a CIA no Golpe-de-Estado contra Chávez em 2002. Vale  conferir (em inglês) em:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://southoftheborderdoc.com/"&gt;South of The Border&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Esta é uma discussão bastante ampla.&lt;br /&gt;
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Engrenada à máquina da Grande Mídia estão as máquinas da Distribuição  Cinematográfica, da Produção Fonográfica, da Realização de Eventos e  muitas outras.&lt;br /&gt;
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A manipulação da informação dentro de nossas fronteiras não se dissocia  da mesma manipulação interna a cada país e da máquina global de  propaganda, estejam todas e cada uma coordenadas ou não.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;As Grandes Fábricas de Mitos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Os Grandes Moinhos de Heróis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"&gt;Veja também:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-grande-lancamento-do-ano-num-cinema.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;O Grande Lançamento do Ano - Num Cinema Bem LONGE de Você!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/fabricas-de-mitos-moinhos-de-herois.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"&gt;O "Choque de Civilizações"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/09/enquanto-serra-discursa-como-um.html"&gt;&lt;b style="color: black;"&gt;Eike sobre Evo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/06/falsa-democracia-por-jose-saramago-e.html"&gt;&lt;b style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;A Falsa Democracia (por José Saramago) e a força do Brasil &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6611599853863976637&amp;amp;postID=602287856142576964"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/09/1109-tue-viva-chile-and-peace-be-upon.html"&gt;&lt;b style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;9/11 (Tue) &amp;gt; ¡Viva Chile! And peace be upon US as so!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-602287856142576964?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/602287856142576964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/oliver-stone-um-momento-historico-da.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/602287856142576964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/602287856142576964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/oliver-stone-um-momento-historico-da.html' title='Oliver Stone: &quot;Um momento histórico da América do Sul. Nada parecido desde Bolívar, desde 1820...&quot;'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-6744438188596433077</id><published>2010-11-22T11:59:00.018-03:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T22:52:08.730-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Analfabetismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='preconceito'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tiririca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eleições 2010'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Congresso Nacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Justiça'/><title type='text'>Tudo o que eu queria ter escrito! Eu e o Exmo. Sr. Deputado Tiririca.!</title><content type='html'>Nesta última campanha, como nunca em intensidade por mais de 20 anos, o odor de um Brasil mal-cheiroso se fez escapar e espalhar dos esgotos da arrogância, da soberba, da ganância, da intolerância, da segregação, da desfaçatez, do preconceito, do ódio, da burrice.&lt;br /&gt;
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De uma espécie de gente que não quer seu País, que não quer entender seu País, que não vê a grandeza de seu País e, acima de tudo, a grandeza, a beleza e a unicidade de sua Gente. Uma Gente da qual - queiram ou não - fazem parte, mas insistem em pensar ou insistem em não fazer. Preferem pensar serem e pertencerem ao alheio.&lt;br /&gt;
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Para estes, contudo, já me basta uma única frase:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;"quem tanto persiste em fixar-se no alheio, &lt;br /&gt;
só pode tender a ladrão".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Entretanto, desde o fim do 1º Turno, um fato, um único fato, catalizou meu mal-estar, enfiou-me numa angústia de dar dó e, ao mesmo tempo, me carregou de sentimentos opostos como ira e angústia, disposição para a luta e uma tristeza quase depressiva, fé no Brasil e nos brasileiros e desprezo pelo ser humano.&lt;br /&gt;
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Acredito que isso se passou comigo por dois motivos principais:&lt;br /&gt;
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1. Por se tratar não mais de palavras na boca de um candidato, comportamentos de meios de comunicação etc, mas de um fato concreto, com trâmites objetivos e desfecho factual: denúncia, processo e sentença. E tudo baseado nas premissas horrendas advindas do fedor vazado dos esgotos como citado acima. E o tema em si representando a própria síntese essencial das referidas premissas.&lt;br /&gt;
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2. Por ter sentido uma imensa vontade, por ter sentido mais que uma imensa vontade um visceral e urgente senso de obrigação, de pôr minha voz à luta, à disposição, de gritar minha indignação, de me alinhar aos humanos. Sei que minha voz é rouca e são muito poucos os ouvidos à minha volta. Sei que meu texto é mal escrito e pouco lido. Mas a questão é outra. Não estaria escrevendo para mim mas para meu País e em nome do senso de pertinência, da consciência de pertencer e de livremente nos pertencermos que nos faz um País, único caminho que nos pode fazer e manter grandes. E estar ausente, ficar calado, não participar, significa enfim fazer parte de nada e egoísticamente ter tudo aquilo que o nada pode oferecer. Enquanto gritar mesmo que silente, participar mesmo que invisível, significa guardar para sempre no inviolável altar de sí próprio toda a grandeza de uma História com o valor e a grandeza de 200 milhões. Mas nada, nem todo o tempo, nem todo o esforço do mundo me fez conseguir expressar algo que me parecesse claro, útil, digno de ser expresso. A frustração frustrou minha capacidade de ação. E frustrado fiquei. E frustrado continuei. Até que...&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Até que... me salvou o Sr. VANRAZ.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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O Sr. VANRAZ, no seu texto, expressou tudo o que eu queria - e muito mais - com uma precisão cirúrgica, uma firmeza equilibrada e um brilho luminoso que molharam meus olhos para lavarem minha alma. E me trouxe, leve e novo, de volta à lida.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tudo o que eu queria ter dito, muito mais e melhor do que eu o teria.&lt;br /&gt;
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É o texto que orgulhosamente transcrevo agora.&lt;br /&gt;
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Aliás, com um sincero pedido de desculpas pelo longo "intróito" acima, visto que o texto abaixo é o que diz tudo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Terá sido minha comemoração (o "intróito" acima) pelo desabafo do Sr. VANRAZ (abaixo) que me "desabafou" junto.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sugiro ainda, caro leitor, que o leia direto no original, no Blog do Sr. VANRAZ que é simplesmente excelente!&lt;br /&gt;
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De qualquer sorte, segue o link do Blog do Sr. VANRAZ:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://vanraz.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PALAVRAS HUMANAS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
E segue a transcrição do texto que me salvou:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A APROVAÇÃO DO POVO &lt;br /&gt;
PRECISA SER APROVADA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Desabafo!&lt;br /&gt;
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O Quê? Não estão satisfeitos com a prova de que o Tiririca não é analfabeto?&lt;br /&gt;
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Por que estão fazendo isso com esse cidadão?&lt;br /&gt;
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Quando alguém lava o rosto e cospe na podridão da política deste país  é porque é analfabeto? Ignorante, imbecil? Quem faz isso não pode ser  deputado? Por que os anões do orçamento puderam? Roberto Arruda foi pego  recebendo dinheiro, ele era analfabeto, ele era palhaço?&lt;br /&gt;
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Que mal esse comediante fez? Só porque traduziu a voz do povo em sua campanha ele não pode ser diplomado?&lt;br /&gt;
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Quem nunca ouviu aquelas frases ditas por ele&amp;nbsp;em cada esquina desse  país? Será que não aprenderam com o iluminado Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva  que não devemos esconder o lixo embaixo do tapete?&lt;br /&gt;
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Somos um povo livre! Nossa opinião não pode ser reprimida! Já não bastam os terríveis anos de ditadura?&lt;br /&gt;
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Eu nunca vi candidato que tenha mais a cara do povo do que o  Tiririca. Eu nunca vi a voz do povo tão bem traduzida quanto nas  palavras daquele comediante. Comediante, diga-se de passagem, que foi  chamado de “palhaço”. Quem é “palhaço”? Quem fez palhaçada nessas  eleições? Tiririca foi o único que não fez palhaçada! Foi o único que  não gozou com a nossa cara! Foi o único que não tentou nos enganar! Foi o  único verdadeiro!&lt;br /&gt;
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Ele brincou com os políticos e a política, coisa que fazemos no  dia-dia e que temos vontade de fazer isso para um auditório maior e não  temos oportunidade.&lt;br /&gt;
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O que ele fez foi uma crítica &amp;nbsp;que considero construtiva.  CONSTRUTIVA!! Cada político deve agora descer do palanque e tentar  mostrar para o povo que o desenho que o Tiririca mostrou deles não vai se  repetir!&lt;br /&gt;
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Agora virou moda chamar os outros de analfabeto. Oh! Que grande coisa  ter um título universitário!! Que grande coisa ser um doutor letrado!  Que grande coisa ser um intelectual! Que grande Coisa!!!!!!! Não defendo  aqui de maneira alguma o analfabetismo. Não é isso. O que não tolero é o  uso dessa palavra como meio para discriminar, &amp;nbsp;para menosprezar as  pessoas, para ofendê-las, constrangê-las.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tenho dois cursos superiores e estou fazendo um terceiro nem por isso  sou melhor do que ninguém. Graaaaaaaande coisa está formado e agir como  um brutamontes quando valoriza excessivamente um título e agride os  humildes!!!!! Não sou nem melhor nem pior do que ninguém. Mas eu poderia  me questionar e tenho argumentos de sobra para isso. Quem sou eu no  meio do povo? O que fiz com todos os meus títulos pelo benefício do meu  povo? Tenho certeza de muitas coisas:&lt;br /&gt;
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Eu não equilibrei as contas do meu país! Eu não tirei milhões de  brasileiros da miséria! Eu não quitei a dívida com o maldito FMI! Eu não  ampliei as Universidades nem as escolas técnicas! Eu não acabei com as  palafitas de Brasília Teimosa, no Recife! Eu não gerei 15 milhos de  empregos! Eu não construí plataformas de petróleo! Eu não reergui a  indústria naval brasileira, os estaleiros do Rio de Janeiro e nem  construí novos estaleiros em Pernambuco! Eu nunca fui chamado de “o  cara” nem pelo porteiro! Eu não fiz o Bolsa Família! Eu não ajudei os  estudantes pobres deste país a entrarem nas universidades públicas e nas  particulares com tudo pago! Eu nunca pensei em zerar a alíquota do IPI  para as pessoas comprarem veículos e ajudar meu país a não entrar na  crise mundial! Eu nunca conseguiria fazer o sonho de D. Pedro II de  fazer a transposição do Rio São Francisco sair do papel! Eu nunca criei o  PAC para gerar emprego e renda para meus irmãos brasileiros. Eu não  ganhei diversos prêmios e reconhecimento internacionais! Eu nunca teria  nem pensado em fazer a ferrovia Transnordestina! Eu não criei o programa  minha casa minha vida! Eu não fiz novas hidrelétricas para evitar o  apagão em nosso país! Eu não conquistei a realização da Copa do Mundo e  das Olimpíadas para o meu país!&lt;br /&gt;
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Meu deus, são tantas coisas que eu não fiz! O que é que eu fiz nesses meus quarenta anos pelo meu país?&lt;br /&gt;
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Vocês pensam que eu estou triste com isso? Eu não estou. Eu fiz muito  pelo meu país. Eu ajudei a eleger a pessoa mais criticada e acusada de  ser cachaceiro e analfabeto neste país. Eu tenho a honra de dizer para  meu filho que ajudei a colocar no comando central do meu país o maior  presidente da República que esse país já teve: O NADA MAIS NADA MENOS  QUE O EXCELENTÍSSIMO SENHOR LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA, a quem sempre  considerarei, até a morte, como sendo MEU LÍDER!&lt;br /&gt;
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Não defendo o Tiririca, defendo a democracia, a vontade do povo. Ele foi escolhido, então cumpra-se a vontade popular.&lt;br /&gt;
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Se ele não atender às expectativas do eleitorado de São Paulo, então  que se esperem novas eleições. Se ele&amp;nbsp;cometer algum erro ou ilegalidade  no exercício de suas funções, então que se cassem o seu mandato. No  momento o que eu e mutos civilizados esperamos é que as leis sejam  cumpridas, que a vontade do povo seja respeitada, pois, o Poder emana do  povo.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;VANRAZ&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Já foram judeus. Já foram alemães. &lt;br /&gt;
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Antes e depois os russos. Eles, também, fizeram parecido mas, nós, aqui, não vimos. &lt;br /&gt;
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Agora são os mulçumanos (que todos viraram árabes) e os árabes (que todos viraram mulçumanos) que (ambos) viraram todos feios, gordos, sujos, fedorentos, maus, psicopatas, violentos e tudo de menor e pior pelas telas dos cinemas e dos noticiários de televisão e páginas de jornal e internet do mundo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sem falar nos "zoombies" das telas que assombram o diametralmente oposto Vodou seja no Haiti seja em New Orleans. &lt;br /&gt;
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Se imagine criança, se assistindo assim por todo lugar.&lt;br /&gt;
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E as etnias indígenas cujo "inocente assassinato" foi por décadas - e ainda hoje em muitas sobras - o inocente objetivo dos inocentes jogos infantis tais como "Forte Apache" e sua prole infinita.&lt;br /&gt;
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E minhas gentes, tradições e fés da minha tão brasilera e maior cidade africana fora d'África ainda tão escrava de imagens e percepções sempre diminuidoras, denegridoras (até em simples palavras herdadas), rotuladoras exceto quando "generosamente" folclorizantes.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pois que todos, juntos, todos e cada um, precisamos reconsagrar nossos Deuses. &lt;br /&gt;
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Para que eles ressuscitem e resgatem nossos heróis das tumbas. &lt;br /&gt;
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E que nossos corações possam retumbar para muito além do tambor.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-1921663790000540640?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1921663790000540640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/fabricas-de-mitos-moinhos-de-herois.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1921663790000540640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1921663790000540640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/fabricas-de-mitos-moinhos-de-herois.html' title='Fábricas de Mitos. Moinhos de Heróis.'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-7161223322594658912</id><published>2010-11-20T07:33:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T22:56:08.422-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jorge Portugal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bahia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='20 de Novembro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alegria da Cidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Margareth Menezes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montreaux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Consciência Negra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Salvador'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lazzo matumbi'/><title type='text'>Salve Zumbi dos Palmares, Salve Margareth Menezes - Alegria da Cidade</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Margareth Menezes - Alegria da Cidade - Montreux Jazz Festival 2006&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Composição: Lazzo Matumbi / Jorge Portugal&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A minha pele de ébano é...&lt;br /&gt;
A minha alma nua&lt;br /&gt;
Espalhando a luz do sol&lt;br /&gt;
Espelhando a luz da lua (2x)&lt;br /&gt;
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Tem a plumagem da noite&lt;br /&gt;
E a liberdade da rua&lt;br /&gt;
Minha pele é linguagem&lt;br /&gt;
E a leitura é toda sua&lt;br /&gt;
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Será que você não viu&lt;br /&gt;
Não entendeu o meu toque&lt;br /&gt;
No coração da América eu sou o jazz, sou o rock&lt;br /&gt;
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Eu sou parte de você, mesmo que você me negue&lt;br /&gt;
Na beleza do afoxé, ou no balanço no reggae&lt;br /&gt;
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Eu sou o sol da Jamaica&lt;br /&gt;
Sou a cor da Bahia&lt;br /&gt;
Eu sou você e você não sabia&lt;br /&gt;
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Liberdade, Curuzu, Harlem, Palmares, Soweto&lt;br /&gt;
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Nosso céu é todo blue e o mundo é um grande gueto&lt;br /&gt;
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Apesar de tanto não&lt;br /&gt;
Tanta dor que nos invade, somos nós a alegria da cidade&lt;br /&gt;
Apesar de tanto não&lt;br /&gt;
Tanta marginalidade, somos nós a alegria da cidade (2x)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-7161223322594658912?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7161223322594658912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/salve-zumbi-dos-palmares-salve.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7161223322594658912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7161223322594658912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/salve-zumbi-dos-palmares-salve.html' title='Salve Zumbi dos Palmares, Salve Margareth Menezes - Alegria da Cidade'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-6903768260754795131</id><published>2010-11-20T01:44:00.011-03:00</published><updated>2010-11-21T11:48:31.650-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Evo Morales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Juan Gonzalez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kichner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mídia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chávez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ao Sul da Fronteira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='South of The Border'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cinema'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amy Goodman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meios'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tariq Aziz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oliver Stone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Propaganda'/><title type='text'>O Grande Lançamento do Ano - Num Cinema Bem LONGE de Você!</title><content type='html'>Dos recordistas em Oscars de Melhor Diretor, desde o início da premiação em 1928, apenas 01 foi laureado 04 vezes e apenas 02 foram laureados 03 vezes, todos falecidos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dos laureados 02 vezes, apenas 04 continuam vivos: Steven Spielberg, 63 anos; Clint Eastwood, 80 anos; Miloš Forman, 78 anos; e Oliver Stone, 64 anos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Como é de se esperar, um filme de qualquer um dos 04 é sucesso de bilheteria na certa.&lt;br /&gt;
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E, como é de se esperar, um filme de qualquer um dos 04 significa todo o gigantismo em esforço promocional no melhor estilo de Hollywood: visita do Diretor e entrevistas nos principais programas e espaços da mídia eletrônica e impressa, merchandising em tudo que é lugar, banners por toda a Internet e promoções nas Redes Sociais, chamadas nas locadoras e disponibilização imediata após o lançamento nos cinemas e chamadas desde já para a exibição que só vai acontecer no ano que vem nos canais de televisão aberta e por assinatura.&lt;br /&gt;
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Normal. Nada além do normal.&lt;br /&gt;
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Agora, imagine que o referido diretor, um dos únicos 04 vivos com 02 Oscars, também já foi premiado com um terceiro por Melhor Roteiro Adaptado (por Expresso da Meia Noite), é o mais polêmico de todos os 04 e um de seus outros filmes também já deu o Oscar de Melhor Ator a ninguém menos que Michael Douglas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Finalmente, para apimentar definitivamente a história, vamos dizer que este seu último filme seja específicamente sobre nosso Continente, incluíndo nosso País.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sobre a América do Sul e sobre nós, o Brasil.&lt;br /&gt;
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E não sobre uma história de ficção ou sobre nossa história do passado.&lt;br /&gt;
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É sobre o agora, sobre nossa história do presente.&lt;br /&gt;
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Um prato cheio para o gigantismo da máquina promocional no melhor estilo de Hollywood e chamadas até a exaustão na mídia brasileira, não é verdade?&lt;br /&gt;
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Não!&lt;br /&gt;
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Alguém me perdoe se em outras praças algo tiver se passado diferente. E por favor me corrijam.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas o novo filme de Oliver Stone - o mesmo diretor de Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Nascido em 04 de Julho etc etc etc - que é um "documentário-de-estrada" sobre a nova América do Sul que nasce, estrelando 07 Presidentes, inclusive o nosso - o Exmo. Sr. Presidente da República Luís Inácio Lula da Silva - lançado em junho deste ano, não mereceu nem sequer um "piu" da mídia e não entrou em cartaz em nenhuma sala de Salvador, Bahia.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sexta-feira, 19 de novembro, fui até uma boa locadora tentar localizá-lo. Existe uma prateleira inteira dedicada somente a Oliver Stone. Mas ninguém sequer ouviu falar do filme!&lt;br /&gt;
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Tem explicação?&lt;br /&gt;
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Tem sim!&lt;br /&gt;
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Ele mesmo explica nesta entrevista exemplar - em um trecho posterior a este minúsculo início que comecei a legendar - como outro de seus filmes: "Comandante" -, passou na Europa mas foi censurado sutilmente na Grande Democracia Estadunidense.&lt;br /&gt;
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Simplesmente a HBO comprou os direitos do filme e, quando Stone o entregou finalizado - a pretexto de dizer que o mesmo não estava pronto -, simplesmente o trancou e não distribuiu.&lt;br /&gt;
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Por outro lado, que interesse tem nossa Grande Mídia em promover um filme - por mais sucesso que vá ser e lucro que possa trazer - que "desdemoniza" Hugo Chávez que "cassou" uma concessão de TV e "continua a cercear a Liberdade de Imprensa" no exato momento em que esquenta o clamor por uma "Ley de Medios" para o Brasil?&lt;br /&gt;
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Não vou aqui dizer que Hugo Chávez é um santo. Mas posso garantir que "El Diablo" ele não é.&lt;br /&gt;
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E, realmente, acho um absurdo ele não ter renovado (porque ele não cassou nada - aliás o que queriam cassar era o seu legítimo mandato) a concessão. O que ele tinha que ter feito é demolido o prédio e encarcerado todo mundo. Porque conheço as cenas da emissora anunciando o "novo Presidente" e o reconhecimento do "novo Governo" por Washington e Madrí com o Presidente eleito ainda dentro do Palácio.&lt;br /&gt;
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Outro dia assistí a Sean Penn respondendo a David Letterman o por quê de ter visitado Chávez diante do cerceamento à Liberdade de Imprensa naquele país. Penn apenas respondeu alguma coisa como: que foi para distrair El Señor Presidente enquanto a Fox continuava a transmitir direto de Caracas falando barbaridades dele. Letterman encerrou a entrevista.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas isso é outra história.&lt;br /&gt;
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Por enquanto, a única assertiva que faço é: nada justifica que um filme dirigido por um dos mais premiados diretores de Hollywood e que é exatamente sobre nós e nossa história do presente, não seja divulgado e promovido exatamente entre nós como qualquer outro filme muito menos qualificado o seria.&lt;br /&gt;
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Continuarei a legendar a brilhante a entrevista de Oliver Stone e Tariq Aziz para o Democracy Now.&lt;br /&gt;
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Para quem quiser antecipar-se, entretanto, ela pode ser encontrada com transcrição em inglês em:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/21/academy_award_winning_filmmaker_oliver_stone"&gt;Democracy Now! &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Diante da virulência com que o filme foi recebido, Oliver Stone montou um "site de guerra" extremanete bem lastreado quanto às distorções na Grande Mídia Estadunidense e trazendo documentos que envolvem diretamente a CIA no Golpe-de-Estado contra Chávez em 2002. Vale conferir (em inglês) em:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://southoftheborderdoc.com/"&gt;South of The Border&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Esta é uma discussão bastante ampla.&lt;br /&gt;
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Engrenada à máquina da Grande Mídia estão as máquinas da Distribuição Cinematográfica, da Produção Fonográfica, da Realização de Eventos e muitas outras.&lt;br /&gt;
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A manipulação da informação dentro de nossas fronteiras não se dissocia da mesma manipulação interna a cada país e da máquina global de propaganda, estejam todas e cada uma coordenadas ou não.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;As Grandes Fábricas de Mitos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Os Grandes Moinhos de Heróis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-6903768260754795131?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6903768260754795131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-grande-lancamento-do-ano-num-cinema.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/6903768260754795131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/6903768260754795131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-grande-lancamento-do-ano-num-cinema.html' title='O Grande Lançamento do Ano - Num Cinema Bem LONGE de Você!'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-7801756950685620609</id><published>2010-11-17T06:08:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-11-17T06:08:18.607-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eleições'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma Roussef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MTV'/><title type='text'>Desabafo Eleitoral MTV (from Caracas, Bahia)</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="250" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jrUVle5wdPY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jrUVle5wdPY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="250"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Um Show de Marcelo Adnet!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-7801756950685620609?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7801756950685620609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/desabafo-eleitoral-mtv-from-caracas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7801756950685620609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7801756950685620609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/desabafo-eleitoral-mtv-from-caracas.html' title='Desabafo Eleitoral MTV (from Caracas, Bahia)'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-6525910541833893439</id><published>2010-11-17T05:37:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2010-11-17T05:38:13.149-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rbs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='preconceito'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mídia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prates'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fascismo'/><title type='text'>MANIFESTO ELITISTA*</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;*Obs.: O “elitista”  aqui refere-se a dinheiro, dinheiro mesmo, nada de pose, tataravó  baronêsa, fama efêmera, presença em festas e colunas sociais, amizades  importantes ou similares do gênero.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #999999; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;[IMPORTANTE:  Na reunião para aprovação do presente Manifesto, caro confrade, durante  a apresentação do vídeo gostaríamos de lembrá-lo de ter sempre à mão o  seu saquinho-de-vômito que estará devidamente disponível sobre a mesa à  sua frente. Obrigado.]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Brasil, Novembro de 2010,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Prezados Confrades Ricos, Milionários e Biliardários Brasileiros,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
As forças do atraso e da obscurescência conspiram numa espiral tôsca,  sórdida, cega e crescente que já beira o descontrole e ameaça  seriamente o nosso porvir.&lt;br /&gt;
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Acostumados como somos ao pensamento e ao investimento de longo  prazo, não podemos arcar com os prejuízos que recaírão sobre nossas  costas no eminente (caso tal espiral não seja controlada) retorno à  pre-história.&lt;br /&gt;
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Urge que mobilizemos mundos e fundos e ajamos firme e prontamente para conter tamanha insanidade.&lt;br /&gt;
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Como ponto exemplar, se apresenta o conjunto de idéias disseminadas –  como entre tantos outros casos – por esse tal Sr. Estultício Prutz,  empregado da RBS (Reich Brasil Sul).&lt;br /&gt;
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Este Sr. é um atentado vivo às nossas vendas e à saude econômica nacional como um todo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Parece pretender destruir nossa indústria automobilística, no melhor  momento de sua história, gerando impactos nefastos na indústria de  autopeças, metal-mecânica, mecatrônica, eletrônica e, em cadeia, assim  por diante.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pior, este nefasto parlapatão pretende confinar nossos consumidores  em gaiolas, mantendo casais em exercício permanente de espancamento  mútuo e sem direitos a sair, divertir-se, obter crédito e, por  conseguinte, consumir o que quer que seja.&lt;br /&gt;
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Nem, ao menos, quer permitir-lhes viver dignamente como cidadãos  saudáveis física, intelectual e psicológicamente, aptos a se tornarem  trabalhadores produtivos para que nossas empresas sejam mais  competitivas, empreendedores criativos para que nossa economia se  dinamize e enriqueça enriquecendo-nos ainda mais ou, ainda, tornando-se  pela abertura de oportunidades e através de suas capacidades, quiçá,  ricos, milionários e/ou bilionários como nós, todos juntos num patarmar  acima por termos assim uma economia muito mais rica e, todos juntos,  muito mais fortes por podermos fazer um côro muito mais consistente que  seja ouvido em alto e bom som na defesa de nossos interesses comuns  junto ao competitivo mercado global.&lt;br /&gt;
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Este Sr. Estutílcio, da Reich, que tanto fala em livros não deve jamais ter lido nada escrito após o século XVIII.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pois não consegue sequer apreender os princípios rudimentares que  levaram à compreensâo da incompatibilidade entre Revolução Industrial e  escravidão&lt;br /&gt;
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Quanto mais compreender a nova dinâmica geo-sócio-político-econômica  que se impõe frente aos desafios da Era do Conhecimento em que a largos  passos adentramos.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Desta forma, decidimos:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;I. Como medidas exemplares destinadas pontualmente ao caso em foco:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
a) Exigir a incondicional e irrevogável demissão do Sr. Estultício  Prutz bem como do seu chefe, do chefe do seu chefe, do chefe do chefe do  seu chefe e, assim por diante até a demissão do próprio Führer em  pessoa.&lt;br /&gt;
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b) A suspensão ad eternum et pos mortem de todo e qualquer anúncio,  promoção, patrocínio, enfim, de qualquer negócio com o referido Grupo  Reich Brasil Sul até sua retratação veemente, consistente e redobrada.&lt;br /&gt;
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c) Disponibilizar helicópteros para bombardear o Sr. Estultício com  bolinhas-de-papel, o que nos parece (dado seu “miolo-mole”) suficiente  para afastá-lo de qualquer outro emprego que tente conseguir. Caso seja  frustrada a tentativa, o bombardearemos com os 03 volumes (500 páginas  cada, aproximadamente) de “Ascenção e Queda do III Reich” para que ele  constate definitivamente a teoria implícita no seu comentário de “como  um bom livro pode mexer com a cabeça de uma pessoa”.&lt;br /&gt;
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d) Exigir que a Reich Brasil Sul, em vez de comentários espúrios,  exija do Governo dos estados onde atua que fiscalizem com todo rigor a  aplicação da legislação conhecida como “Lei Sêca” proposta pelo Governo  do Exmo. Sr. Presidente da República Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, isso  sim, resultando em significativa redução do número de acidentes fatais  em nossas estradas.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;2. Como Medida Permanente, Ampla, Geral e Irrestrita&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;Criação com receita permanente própria oriunda de 0,1% da Receita  Operacional Líquida de nossas empresas e gestão absolutamente  independente baseada em pleno Controle Social do Instituto Brasileiro de  Igualdade, Justiça e Liberdade de Expressão com as finalidades de:&lt;br /&gt;
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a) Abertura de Centro de Investigações e Auditoria Independente de  instituições e autoridades do judiciário com a publicação de relatórios.&lt;br /&gt;
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b) Centro de Monitoramento do Preconceito com a finalidade de  monitorar permanente e independentemente a mídia, igrejas e demais  instituições e denunciar quaisquer abusos.&lt;br /&gt;
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c) Abertura, operação e manutenção no estado-da-arte de veículos de  comunicação em todos os meios existentes e em todos os estados  brasileiros. Os veículos representarão tão somente “veículos” (a  infraestrutura física, tecnológica e operacional). Os conteúdos para os  horários franqueados serão fornecidos independentemente por terceiros  através de seleção feita por comissões da sociedade a definir e sob  regulamentação que imponha a pluralidade, a democracia, o impedimento de  acumulações (trustes e similares) etc e o estímulo a conteúdos locais,  culturais, debates e educacionais.&lt;br /&gt;
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Que Divulgue-se e Aja-se.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Associação Brasileira das Pessoas com Dinheiro, Muito Dinheiro, Mas Muito Dinheiro Mesmo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Viva o Brasil!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
E que sejam benvindos todos os novos proprietários de carros ou de  qualquer outra coisa, todos os novos consumidores, todos os novos  integrantes da classe média, os novos ricos, novos milionários, novos  bilionários e, tomara, novos trilionários. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;E todo dinheirinho honesto e produtivo também seja benvindo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-6525910541833893439?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6525910541833893439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/manifesto-elitista.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/6525910541833893439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/6525910541833893439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/manifesto-elitista.html' title='MANIFESTO ELITISTA*'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-7950603055756313928</id><published>2010-11-16T02:06:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-11-16T02:06:17.168-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fundamentalismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='religião'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paz'/><title type='text'>O Presidente Barack Obama acaba finalmente de ganhar o Prêmio Nobel da Paz</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;All The Gods of All The Peoples Bless You Mr. President!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pela grandeza, pela sensatez - das quais quase todos hoje abdicam por medo de serem demonizados enquanto ajudam a construir o Inferno na Terra -, pela coragem, Sr. Presidente, seu Prêmio Nobel é agora, merecida e definitivamente seu. &lt;br /&gt;
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E é ainda pouco para sua atitude digna de todas as fés e religiões ao tentar furar o cêrco dos que as violentam em nome de algum Deus.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Axé!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-7950603055756313928?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7950603055756313928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-presidente-barack-obama-acaba.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7950603055756313928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7950603055756313928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-presidente-barack-obama-acaba.html' title='O Presidente Barack Obama acaba finalmente de ganhar o Prêmio Nobel da Paz'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-8815754255027299935</id><published>2010-11-10T17:45:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-11-10T17:45:46.053-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ayiti'/><title type='text'>Haiti I Am Sorry</title><content type='html'>&lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;Haiti I Am Sorry: Hurricane Tomas - Cholera - Earthquake&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Artwork; Haitian-Artist/Activist: SMITH GEORGES &lt;br /&gt;
Song: Trinidadian singer: DAVID RUDDER&lt;br /&gt;
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LYRICS&lt;br /&gt;
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HAITI  I  AM  SORRY&lt;br /&gt;
By David Rudder (Trinidadian)&lt;br /&gt;
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Toussaint was a mighty man&lt;br /&gt;
And to make matters worse he was black&lt;br /&gt;
Black and back in the days when black men knew&lt;br /&gt;
Their place was in the back&lt;br /&gt;
But this rebel, he walked through Napoleon&lt;br /&gt;
Who thought it wasn't very nice&lt;br /&gt;
And so today my brothers in Haiti&lt;br /&gt;
They still pay the price...yeah, yeah...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Chorus:&lt;br /&gt;
Haiti, I'm sorry&lt;br /&gt;
We misunderstood you&lt;br /&gt;
One day we'll turn our heads&lt;br /&gt;
And look inside you&lt;br /&gt;
Haiti, I'm sorry. Haiti, I'm sorry&lt;br /&gt;
One day we'll turn our heads&lt;br /&gt;
Restore your glory.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Many hands reach out to St. George's&lt;br /&gt;
And are still reaching out&lt;br /&gt;
To those frightened,&lt;br /&gt;
Foolish men of Pretoria&lt;br /&gt;
We still scream and shout&lt;br /&gt;
We came together in song&lt;br /&gt;
To steady the Horn of Africa&lt;br /&gt;
But the papaloa come and the babyloa go&lt;br /&gt;
And still, we don't seem to care...No, no...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Chorus:&lt;br /&gt;
Haiti, I'm sorry&lt;br /&gt;
We misunderstood you&lt;br /&gt;
But one day we'll turn our heads&lt;br /&gt;
And look inside you&lt;br /&gt;
Haiti, I'm sorry. Haiti, I'm sorry&lt;br /&gt;
One day we'll turn our heads&lt;br /&gt;
Restore your glory.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When there is anguish in Port au Prince&lt;br /&gt;
It's still Africa crying&lt;br /&gt;
We are outing fires in far away places&lt;br /&gt;
When our neighbors are just burning.&lt;br /&gt;
They say the Middle Passage is gone&lt;br /&gt;
So how come overcrowded boats still haunt our lives&lt;br /&gt;
I refuse to believe that we good people&lt;br /&gt;
Will forever turn our hearts&lt;br /&gt;
And our eyes...away...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Chorus:&lt;br /&gt;
Haiti, I'm sorry&lt;br /&gt;
We misunderstood you&lt;br /&gt;
One day we'll turn our heads&lt;br /&gt;
And look inside you&lt;br /&gt;
Haiti, I'm sorry. Haiti, I'm sorry&lt;br /&gt;
One day we'll turn our heads&lt;br /&gt;
Restore your glory.&lt;br /&gt;
Haiti, I'm sorry, sorry...&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #38761d;"&gt;De volta à luta, ainda que tarde Ayiti! Perdoe-nos!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-8815754255027299935?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8815754255027299935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/haiti-i-am-sorry.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/8815754255027299935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/8815754255027299935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/haiti-i-am-sorry.html' title='Haiti I Am Sorry'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-1943220982983169955</id><published>2010-11-10T13:10:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-11-10T13:10:41.729-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mundo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma Roussef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Novo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pero Vaz de Caminha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='A Carta'/><title type='text'>A Carta</title><content type='html'>De: &lt;b&gt;O Novo Mundo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Para: &lt;b&gt;Um Mundo Novo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A/C:&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Exmo. Sr. Luís Inácio Lula da Silva&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; / &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Exma. Sra. Dilma Vana Roussef&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;"...a terra em si é de muito bons ares frescos (...) em tal maneira é  graciosa que, querendo-a aproveitar, dar-se-á nela tudo; (...) &lt;b style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Contudo, o  melhor fruto que dela se pode tirar parece-me que será salvar esta  gente.&lt;/b&gt; E esta deve ser a principal semente que Vossa Alteza em ela deve  lançar..."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogln.ning.com/video/video"&gt;Ache outros vídeos como este em &lt;i&gt;Portal Luis Nassif&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-1943220982983169955?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1943220982983169955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/carta.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1943220982983169955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1943220982983169955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/carta.html' title='A Carta'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-3830327130618958586</id><published>2010-11-06T12:56:00.006-03:00</published><updated>2010-11-06T13:20:16.210-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imprensa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='expressão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mídia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='liberdade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sociedade do conhecimento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inclusão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comunicação'/><title type='text'>O Lado de Cá visto do Lado de Lá</title><content type='html'>&lt;b style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Brasil: campaña mediática derechista contra Dilma Rousseff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;(ou só é permitido criticar -&amp;nbsp; e cutucar - em Português?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="color: #134f5c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;E como conheço melhor o lado cá, vejo a crítica como razoavelmente equilibrada e pertinente.&lt;/span&gt; Bem mais serena, por exemplo, que nossa incessante contrapartida demonizadora. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Diante de tantos erros e/ou desvios, &lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;que não caiamos na armadilha sob qualquer hipótese do cerceamento de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="color: #741b47;"&gt;meios&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;, mas que tenhamos o descortínio que urge, a abertura plena e a boa vontade sensata (que pressupõe a disposição sincera de todos os atores) para encontrarmos os melhores &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="color: #741b47;"&gt;meios&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; para pluralizar e proliferar mais, melhores e novos &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="color: #741b47;"&gt;meios&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Em velhos e novos modelos (mais importante ainda que tecnologias).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;Carecemos inexorável e inadiávelmente de&lt;/span&gt; meios&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;democratizados, não setorizados, não sectários, balanceados pela força da sua pulverização.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ou continuaremos eternamente reféns de meias verdades, eternamente meios cidadãos.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;É preciso que os meios de hoje entendam por inteiro essa mensagem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;span style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;participem por inteiro dessa re-evolução&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;para&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;que jamais outros meios possam justificar estes tão necessários fins.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Ao contrário do que possam temer, engajados, eles somente têm à crescer com o&amp;nbsp; país.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Por paradoxal que pareça, a mítico-proclamada &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;Liberdade de Imprensa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; é hoje o maior - senão único - obstáculo para a &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;Liberdade de Expressão&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; plena no Brasil.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;E esta última, para além de qualquer rancor revisionista do passado ou resistência conservadora contra o futuro, esta é, no Brasil que precisa saltar de cabeça na &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;Sociedade do Conhecimento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, um grande &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;Imperativo Nacional&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Que estes novos &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;meios&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;que inapelávelmente virão&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - sejam nossa mensagem.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Vamos Juntos!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-3830327130618958586?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3830327130618958586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-lado-de-ca-visto-do-lado-de-la.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3830327130618958586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3830327130618958586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/o-lado-de-ca-visto-do-lado-de-la.html' title='O Lado de Cá visto do Lado de Lá'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-4031490063142841510</id><published>2010-11-06T01:28:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-24T16:09:03.510-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eleições'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meritocracia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='presidente'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma Roussef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='história'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='servidor público'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carreira'/><title type='text'>Honra ao Mérito</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/TNTSiu_yiNI/AAAAAAAAAE4/HBQN898Ibtw/s1600/dilma-e-lula.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="170" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/TNTSiu_yiNI/AAAAAAAAAE4/HBQN898Ibtw/s200/dilma-e-lula.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Meu Excelentíssimo Senhor Presidente da República Luís Inácio Lula da Silva consegue ser superação e surprêsa até sempre. É, portanto, o primeiro que me dá - até como provocação aos que tanto e tão estupidamente já o provocaram - vontade de chamar assim.&lt;br /&gt;
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E essas tantas palavras não se me ocupam em representar pronomes de tratamento.&lt;br /&gt;
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Para mim, são tão somente sinceros e carinhosos adjetivos dedicados ao&amp;nbsp; meu Presidente cujo legado é muito maior que seu grande Governo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Seu maior legado está na sua própria história, seu exemplo e sua preocupação em nos mostrar que somos todos iguais sem perdermos a riqueza e beleza de nossas diferenças.&lt;br /&gt;
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Irmãos e brasileiros!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Que sempre poderemos ser o que fizermos por merecer...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;Mais uma vez, já ao fim do seu segundo mandato, ele vai muito além de vencer outro grande preconceito ao transferir o cargo para a &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Primeira&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt; Presidente do Brasil.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;Este é o fato que está marcando a História.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mas é outro o imenso detalhe que mais me orgulha e chama atenção.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Esta sucessão irá nos propiciar um raro - talvez único - espetáculo de meritocracia na política.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Um exemplar espetáculo somente possível pela credibilidade da sua liderança e pela grandeza de seus pares históricos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pela primeira vez, um Servidor Público de carreira se tornará Presidente pela sua simples promoção para o cargo imediatamente superior ao que exercia!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Um mérito do Presidente Lula que muito nos honra ao Brasil.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;E Viva Nós!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;E Viva Nossa Presidente!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;E Viva o Povo Brasileiro!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-4031490063142841510?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4031490063142841510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/honra-ao-merito.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4031490063142841510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4031490063142841510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/honra-ao-merito.html' title='Honra ao Mérito'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/TNTSiu_yiNI/AAAAAAAAAE4/HBQN898Ibtw/s72-c/dilma-e-lula.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-6035736172423709609</id><published>2010-11-05T06:19:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T22:57:42.075-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eleições'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='são paulo para os paulistas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='xenofobia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fascismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nordestinos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='José Serra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nazismo'/><title type='text'>¡No Serrarán!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paratodos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O Brasil para Todos os Brasileiros.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
E não  somente para os "vermelhinhos" ou "azuizinhos" dos mapas eleitorais  simplistas e manipuladores que tentam "Serrar" o Brasil ao meio.&lt;br /&gt;
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Os assinantes do tal &lt;a href="http://www.advivo.com.br/blog/luisnassif/o-inacreditavel-movimento-sp-para-paulistas" style="color: #990000;"&gt;"Manifesto São Paulo para os Paulistas"&lt;/a&gt; podem até  se considerar seres superiores porque devem morar em andares mais altos  nos edifícios "construídos por peões nordestinos".&lt;br /&gt;
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Contudo, não me parecem muito inteligentes como se pensam (aliás, se pensar muito inteligente já é um bom sinal do contrário).&lt;br /&gt;
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Caso o fossem, teriam votado e feito ardorosa campanha para a Exma.  Sra. Presidente Dilma Roussef visto que a sua eleição, como o fora o  Governo do Exmo. Sr. Presidente Lula, significará um ainda maior  reequilíbrio entre as regiões do Brasil, um continuado crescimento a  "taxas chinesas" do Nordeste e, por conseguinte, um Movimento  "Retro-Migratório" que acabará por trazer todos os "vermelhinhos" de  volta para seus lugares no Mapa da Discórdia e deixando São Paulo só  para os paulistas...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Até, por exemplo - pois é assim que começa  - que o bairro da Liberdade se auto-proclame "Província Autônoma da  Mãe-China" exigindo o mesmo status de Macao e Hong Kong (após sangrenta  Guerra Civil massacrando os contingentes nipônicos e coreanos) e assim  por diante.&lt;br /&gt;
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Querem Serrar o Brasil?&lt;br /&gt;
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Que coisa feia...&lt;br /&gt;
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Pero...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
¡No Serrarán!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Em 05 de novembro de 2010,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Desta Cidade do Salvador da Bahía de Todos os Santos, Orixás, Maíras e  Tupãs, Roma Negra, Terra Mãe do Brasil, Filha, Mãe e Irmã Orgulhosa da  mistura brasileira, de todos Amazônidas, Nordestinos, Sulistas,  Paulistas, Capixabas, Mineiros, Fluminenses, do Centro e Oeste, e de  todos que chegarem de onde chegarem de todos os cantos do Mundo. Estado  estimado por si mesmo e acolhedoramente feliz por ser governado por um  "carioca judeu", não menos brasileiro baiano humano por isso. Maior  cidade Nordestina. Maior Cidade Africana fora d'África. Maior Ciudad  Gallega afuera España. Recôncavo de onde dezenas de milhares de homens e  mulheres, brancos, negros, índios, mestiços, nativos, estrangeiros,  cativos e libertos convocaram todos os seus Deuses, suas heranças  históricas e o máximo de sua coragem para sacrificar, todos juntos,  dezenas de milhares de vidas dos seus e oferecer, numa luta sangrenta e  desigual, a liberdade, a independência, a integridade, a identidade, a  unidade ao Brasil.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Axé.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Aos que começam a se  contaminar pelo ódio regional ou religioso, oferecemos humildemente  nosso carnaval da mistura, nossos 700 km de mar, nossos 5 séculos de  sincretismo resistente a todo tipo de nefasto fundamentalismo, nossa  bandeira que já harmoniza o vermelho e o azul que hoje tentam ostentar  como símbolo da separação e, acima de tudo, nosso quente e aconchegante  coração verde e amarelo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sejam benvindos.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Sra.  Presidente Dilma Roussef visto que a sua eleição, como o fora o Governo  do Exmo. Sr. Presidente Lula, significará um ainda maior reequilíbrio  entre as regiões do Brasil, um continuado crescimento a "taxas chinesas"  do Nordeste e, por conseguinte, um Movimento "Retro-Migratório" que  acabará por trazer todos o "vermelhinhos" de volta para seus lugares no  Mapa da Discórdia e deixando São Paulo só para os paulistas...&amp;lt;br  /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; Até, por exemplo - pois é assim que começa - que o bairro da Liberdade  se auto-proclame "Província Autônoma da Mãe-China" exigindo o mesmo  statuus de Macao e Hong Kong (após sangrenta Guerra Civil massacrando os  contingentes nipônicos e coreanos) e assim por diante.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; Querem Serrar o Brasil?&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; Que coisa feia...&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; Pero...&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; ¡No Serrarán!&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Em 05 de novembro de 2010,&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br  /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; Desta Cidade do Salvador da Bahía de Todos os Santos, Orixás, Maíras e  Tupãs, Roma Negra, Terra Mãe do Brasil, Filha, Mãe e Irmã Orgulhosa da  mistura brasileira, de todos Amazônidas, Nordestinos, Sulistas,  Paulistas, Capixabas, Mineiros, Fluminenses, do Centro e Oeste, e de  todos que chegarem de onde chegarem de todos os cantos do Mundo. Estado  estimado por si mesmo e acolhedoramente feliz por ser governado por um  "carioca judeu", não menos brasileiro baiano humano por isso. Maior  cidade Nordestina. Maior Cidade Africana fora d'África, Maior Cidade  Gallega afuera España. Recôncavo de onde dezenas de milhares de homens e  mulheres, brancos, negros, índios, mestiços, nativos, estrangeiros,  cativos e libertos convocaram todos os seus Deuses, suas heranças  históricas e o máximo de sua coragem para sacrificar, todos juntos,  dezenas de milhares de vidas dos seus e oferecer, numa luta sangrenta e  desigual, a liberdade, a independência, a integridade, a identidade, a  unidade ao Brasil.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; Axé.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; Aos que começam a se contaminar pelo ódio regional ou religioso,  oferecemos humildemente nosso carnaval da mistura, nossos 700 km de mar,  nossos 5 séculos de sincretismo resistente a todo tipo de nefasto  fundamentalismo, nossa bandeira que já harmoniza o vermelho e o azul que  hoje tentam ostentar como símbolo da separação e, acima de tudo, nosso  quente e aconchegante coração verde e amarelo.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; Sejam benvindos.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="buttongroup"&gt;&lt;input class="button action-primary submit" type="submit" value="Salvar" /&gt;                         &lt;a class="cancellink action-secondary" href="http://blogln.ning.com/forum/topics/manifesto-dos-comentaristas-do?xg_source=msg_com_forum&amp;amp;id=2189391%3ATopic%3A442632&amp;amp;page=46#"&gt;Cancelar&lt;/a&gt;                     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-6035736172423709609?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6035736172423709609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-serraran.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/6035736172423709609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/6035736172423709609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-serraran.html' title='¡No Serrarán!'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-4812297682837011641</id><published>2010-10-30T07:13:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2010-11-05T07:19:37.119-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eleições'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boatos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma Roussef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='panfletos'/><title type='text'>1m 49cm. 76 anos. Mãe Gentil. Que não foge à luta!</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dilmanarede.com.br/guialarcon/blog/1m49cm.-76-anos.-mae-gentil.-que-nao-foge-a-luta"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span class="created-at"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dilmanarede.com.br/guialarcon/blog/1m49cm.-76-anos.-mae-gentil.-que-nao-foge-a-luta#comments_list"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: #274e13;"&gt;Brava Gente! Minha Mãe!&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Apenas um desabafo orgulhoso.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ainda que eu só vá me sentir  desabafado mesmo na segunda-feira.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ontem, ao descer a rampa do  supermercado ao lado de minha casa, vejo uma intensa balbúrdia em torno  de minha querida mãe.&lt;br /&gt;
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Corro em desespero e encontro papéis ao chão junto  a um único pé  solitário de sapato e um senhor sorridente a beijar sem  cessar as mãos  de minha mãe que, dedo em riste, gesticulava para um  policial também  sorridente de pé.&lt;br /&gt;
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Do alto dos seus 1m 49cm e 76 anos de  idade ela, simplesmente havia  dado "voz-de-prisão" a um distribuidor de  panfletos apócrifos que  acusavam Dilma, entre outras coisas, de  "sapatão", "assassina de  militares", "terrorrista", "golpista" etc etc  etc.&lt;br /&gt;
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D. Marlene, minha mãe, simplesmente vira o homem meio desconfiado   distribuindo os tais panfletos, aproximou-se sorrateiramente, pediu-lhe   um, leu, perguntou de onde vinham, onde ele os recebera e, sem contar   conversa, teclando ao celular, disse: o senhor está prêso!&lt;br /&gt;
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O homem  esboçou reação ao que o abordado no carro abriu a porta e o  panfletador  largou panfletos, um sapato e continua correndo  provavelmente até agora!&lt;br /&gt;
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A enxurrada de folhetos e outras peças de campanha nazi-fascista   continua, faltam 02 dias mas ainda não nos podemos desmobilizar.&lt;br /&gt;
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E que  segunda-feira tenhamos no Planalto, pela primeira vez, alguém -  modéstia  à parte - como minha querida mãe de quem tanto ainda mais me  orgulho -:  mãe gentil... que não foge à luta!&lt;br /&gt;
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Desculpem mas, precisava  compartilhar!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;P.S.:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Perguntei: mããããããe, mas como voz de prisão? Você é nutricionista!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Resposta:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Todo cidadão brasileiro tem o direito de prender outro em   flagrante diante de um crime... principalmente quando se trata de um   crime contra seu país!&lt;br /&gt;
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É isso! Dá medo mas, é isso!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-4812297682837011641?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4812297682837011641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/10/1m-49cm-76-anos-mae-gentil-que-nao-foge.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4812297682837011641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4812297682837011641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/10/1m-49cm-76-anos-mae-gentil-que-nao-foge.html' title='1m 49cm. 76 anos. Mãe Gentil. Que não foge à luta!'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-9181772461474052286</id><published>2010-10-13T22:43:00.026-03:00</published><updated>2010-10-13T22:55:22.720-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='José Serra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Humor'/><title type='text'>José Serra após o resgate no Chile: "Eu também já fiquei preso numa mina. E por vários meses..."</title><content type='html'>----------:::----------&lt;br /&gt;
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Fontes que preferiram não revelar seus nomes dizem ter assistido espantadas ao comentário do candidato diante das cenas transmitidas pela televisão.&lt;br /&gt;
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Segundo eles, Serra assistiu emocionado - pelo carinho especial que tem com o povo chileno - às cenas heróicas e aos momentos testemunhos da força, coragem, fé e esperança no ser humano a todos nós oferecidas pelos mineiros resgatados.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ao final, contudo, teria feito o surpreendente comentário: &lt;i style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Eu também já fiquei preso numa mina. E por vários meses... Aliás, quem conhece minha história - que é transparente - sabe, inclusive, que não foram poucas as vezes em que isso aconteceu"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, concluiu.&lt;br /&gt;
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Amigos próximos de J. Serra, &lt;b style="color: #274e13;"&gt;"O Beato Verde"&lt;/b&gt;, descartaram qualquer hipótese de mais um surto da sua nova &lt;i&gt;Circensis-Mania&lt;/i&gt; ("viro-qualquer-coisa-que-fôr-preciso-na-hora-desde-criancinha").&lt;br /&gt;
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E afirmam ter conhecimento do fato.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tratava-se de umas "&lt;i&gt;mina&lt;/i&gt;" da UNE a quem o jovem militante se "&lt;i&gt;ligava&lt;/i&gt;" profundamente nos tempos do movimento estudantil e ficava totalmente prêso à paixão até que surgisse um novo amôr que o libertasse.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTA DA REDAÇÃO: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Obs - Até o fechamento desta edição, não conseguuimos confirmar a estória.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-9181772461474052286?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/9181772461474052286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/10/jose-serra-apos-o-resgate-no-chile-eu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/9181772461474052286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/9181772461474052286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/10/jose-serra-apos-o-resgate-no-chile-eu.html' title='José Serra após o resgate no Chile: &quot;Eu também já fiquei preso numa mina. E por vários meses...&quot;'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-2593023926211068745</id><published>2010-10-11T14:13:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-10-11T14:13:35.705-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma Roussef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Frei Betto'/><title type='text'>Frei Betto: Dilma e a fé cristã</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt; &lt;a href="http://altamiroborges.blogspot.com/2010/10/frei-betto-dilma-e-fe-crista.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reproduzo artigo de Frei Betto, publicado na coluna "Tendências/Debates" da Folha:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Fonte: &lt;a href="http://altamiroborges.blogspot.com/2010/10/frei-betto-dilma-e-fe-crista.html"&gt;Blog do Miro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Conheço  Dilma Rousseff desde criança. Éramos vizinhos na rua Major Lopes, em  Belo Horizonte. Ela e Thereza, minha irmã, foram amigas de adolescência.  Anos depois, nos encontramos no presídio Tiradentes, em São Paulo.  Ex-aluna de colégio religioso, dirigido por freiras de Sion, Dilma, no  cárcere, participava de orações e comentários do Evangelho. Nada tinha  de "marxista ateia".&lt;br /&gt;
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Nossos torturadores, sim, praticavam o  ateísmo militante ao profanar, com violência, os templos vivos de Deus:  as vítimas levadas ao pau-de-arara, ao choque elétrico, ao afogamento e à  morte.&lt;br /&gt;
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Em 2003, deu-se meu terceiro encontro com Dilma, em  Brasília, nos dois anos em que participei do governo Lula. De nossa  amizade, posso assegurar que não passa de campanha difamatória - diria,  terrorista - acusar Dilma Rousseff de "abortista" ou contrária aos  princípios evangélicos. Se um ou outro bispo critica Dilma, há que se  lembrar que, por ser bispo, ninguém é dono da verdade.&lt;br /&gt;
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Nem tem o  direito de julgar o foro íntimo do próximo. Dilma, como Lula, é pessoa  de fé cristã, formada na Igreja Católica. Na linha do que recomenda  Jesus, ela e Lula não saem por aí propalando, como fariseus, suas  convicções religiosas. Preferem comprovar, por suas atitudes, que "a  árvore se conhece pelos frutos", como acentua o Evangelho.&lt;br /&gt;
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É na  coerência de suas ações, na ética de procedimentos políticos e na  dedicação ao povo brasileiro que políticos como Dilma e Lula testemunham  a fé que abraçam. Sobre Lula, desde as greves do ABC, espalharam  horrores: se eleito, tomaria as mansões do Morumbi, em São Paulo;  expropriaria fazendas e sítios produtivos; implantaria o socialismo por  decreto... &lt;br /&gt;
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Passados quase oito anos, o que vemos? Um Brasil mais  justo, com menos miséria e mais distribuição de renda, sem criminalizar  movimentos sociais ou privatizar o patrimônio público, respeitado  internacionalmente. &lt;br /&gt;
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Até o segundo turno, nichos da oposição ao  governo Lula haverão de ecoar boataria e mentiras. Mas não podem alterar  a essência de uma pessoa. Em tudo o que Dilma realizou, falou ou  escreveu, jamais se encontrará uma única linha contrária ao conteúdo da  fé cristã e aos princípios do Evangelho. &lt;br /&gt;
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Certa vez indagaram a  Jesus quem haveria de se salvar. Ele não respondeu que seriam aqueles  que vivem batendo no peito e proclamando o nome de Deus. Nem os que vão à  missa ou ao culto todos os domingos. Nem quem se julga dono da doutrina  cristã e se arvora em juiz de seus semelhantes. &lt;br /&gt;
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A resposta de  Jesus surpreendeu: "Eu tive fome e me destes de comer; tive sede e me  destes de beber; estive enfermo e me visitastes; oprimido, e me  libertastes..." (Mateus 25, 31-46). Jesus se colocou no lugar dos mais  pobres e frisou que a salvação está ao alcance de quem, por amor, busca  saciar a fome dos miseráveis, não se omite diante das opressões, procura  assegurar a todos vida digna e feliz. &lt;br /&gt;
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Isso o governo Lula tem  feito, segundo a opinião de 77% da população brasileira, como demonstram  as pesquisas. Com certeza, Dilma, se eleita presidente, prosseguirá na  mesma direção.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-2593023926211068745?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2593023926211068745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/10/frei-betto-dilma-e-fe-crista.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/2593023926211068745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/2593023926211068745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/10/frei-betto-dilma-e-fe-crista.html' title='Frei Betto: Dilma e a fé cristã'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-1556289391420536978</id><published>2010-10-02T17:56:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-10-02T17:56:09.699-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bulgária'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dilma Roussef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eleições 2010'/><title type='text'>Bulgária em pêso torce por "Dilmano Rusef". E por motivos menos peculiares, a América Latina, a África e todos os que querem um planeta mais justo e equilibrado.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="author"&gt;MIHAILINA DIMITROVA AND VESSELIN ZHELEV&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;BRUSSELS - She was a Marxist and a guerrilla. She  was in jail. She was twice divorced.&lt;br /&gt;
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She is half-Bulgarian.&lt;br /&gt;
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And, bar an  upset, she is sure to head the wold's fifth most populous state and  eighth largest economy.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sixty-two year old Dilma Rousseff is expected to  become Brazil's first female president, possibly from the first round  of the election scheduled for 3 October.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div id="artimage" style="width: 230px;"&gt;                 &lt;img alt="" height="153" src="http://waz.euobserver.com/onm/media/file3/8930403edb0d.png" width="230" /&gt;                 &lt;div class="caption"&gt;Brazilian presidential election front-runner Dilma Rousseff poses in the presidential plane   (Photo: 24 Chasa)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="caption"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The latest victory she won was a year ago against lymph node cancer.&lt;br /&gt;
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She began her election campaign straight from chemotherapy.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the Balkan homeland of her late father Petar Rusev (known also as  Pedro Rousseff), news about Brazil has so far been limited to the Rio  Carnival, football and samba. Now papers dedicate whole pages to "our  kinswoman" tipped to become one of the world's most influential leaders.&lt;br /&gt;
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And people proudly read about her extraordinary path in life.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pedro Rousseff, who died in 1962, emigrated from his native town of   Gabrovo in central Bulgaria to France in 1929.&lt;br /&gt;
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Later he settled in Belo  Horizonte, south eastern Brazil, where he became a rancher and married  Dilma Jane Silva, Ms Rousseff's mother.&lt;br /&gt;
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Just finished boarding school, French and piano lessons, 17-year old  Ms Rousseff headed a guerrilla group fighting Brazil's 1964-1985  military junta.&lt;br /&gt;
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She led men who stole $2.5 million from the office of  the Sao Paolo Governor in 1969.&lt;br /&gt;
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She then served a prison sentence from  1970 to 1973 and was repeatedly tortured.&lt;br /&gt;
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Once out of jail, she graduated in economics and, after the  restoration of democracy in the mid-1980s, helped re-establish the  Workers' Party of current President  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva where she  rose to become his chief of staff.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mr Lula, the most popular Brazilian leader ever, is not allowed to  run for a third term. He  threw all his weight behind Ms Rousseff  voicing confidence she would continue his pragmatic economic policies  that fostered growth and delivered aid to low income groups.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pollsters give Ms Rousseff 51 percent of the vote compared to just  over 25 percent for her main contender Sao Paolo governor Jose Serra,  who lost the 2002 presidential polls to Mr Lula.&lt;br /&gt;
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If she wins, she will be the third consecutive female state leader  over recent years in Latin America where politics is predominantly a  male world. Ms Rousseff will follow in the footsteps of  Argentina's  President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her former colleague from  Chile, Michele Bachelet.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although she speaks no Bulgarian, Ms Rouseff's Bulgarian background  became a colourful detail in the Brazilian media coverage of her  campaign. In an interview for the SBT TV she sent her love to all  Bulgarians. "I had a brother who lived in Bulgaria," said Ms Rousseff  referring to Lyuben Rousseff. "He died recently. I'm sorry, I have no  other relatives in Bulgaria."&lt;br /&gt;
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However, the Sofia daily, Trud, proved her wrong. Its reporters found  Mr Rousseff's nephew Bozhidar Baikushev, who said he would be proud to  see his distant relative elected president of Brazil.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-1556289391420536978?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1556289391420536978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/10/bulgaria-em-peso-torce-por-dilmano.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1556289391420536978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1556289391420536978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/10/bulgaria-em-peso-torce-por-dilmano.html' title='Bulgária em pêso torce por &quot;Dilmano Rusef&quot;. E por motivos menos peculiares, a América Latina, a África e todos os que querem um planeta mais justo e equilibrado.'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/TKeYJ1wXoSI/AAAAAAAAAEk/zKRV7t3_bBo/s72-c/trud.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-2570142692804661436</id><published>2010-09-11T10:34:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-09-11T10:34:07.962-03:00</updated><title type='text'>♫ ::: Yamandu '50 Fingers' Costa - Disparada</title><content type='html'>&lt;object style="background-image: url(&amp;quot;http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/XVYzEWjveF4/hqdefault.jpg&amp;quot;);" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XVYzEWjveF4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XVYzEWjveF4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-2570142692804661436?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2570142692804661436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/09/yamandu-50-fingers-costa-disparada.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/2570142692804661436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/2570142692804661436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/09/yamandu-50-fingers-costa-disparada.html' title='♫ ::: Yamandu &apos;50 Fingers&apos; Costa - Disparada'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-4442019436750095867</id><published>2010-09-11T03:26:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-26T06:11:23.565-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Allende'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='United States'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pinochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='9/11'/><title type='text'>11/09 (Tue) &gt; ¡Viva Chile! And peace be upon US as so!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;September, 11th, Tuesday. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Which one should we remind today?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I guess both.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;¡Viva Chile! And peace be upon US as so!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Terça-feira, 11 de setembro.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Qual das duas devemos lembrar hoje?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Acho que ambas. &lt;b&gt;¡Viva Chile! And peace be upon US as so!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Seja no Brasil, seja em qualquer potência populacional, territorial, econômica ou bélica do mundo, não me parece muito inteligente que um candidato a Presidente faça sua campanha atacando meia vizinhança (com quem hoje se convive na melhor possível das harmonias) do país que se diz pronto para governar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dos 10 países vizinhos, o que é "muita vizinhança" para qualquer país, o estadista-mirim candidato oposicionista (que no desespero da beira do abismo, também tem a desfaçatez de sucumbir à tentação de rememorar sua ligação de amizade com o Exmo. Sr. Presidente Lula da Silva num passado longínquo) já depreciou verbalmente, de alguma ou outra forma, metade dos países e/ou governos vizinhos como nos casos de Uruguai, Paraguai, Bolívia, Equador (quase vizinho) e Venezuela.&lt;br /&gt;
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Por decorrência, ataca veladamente também a Argentina, nosso maior vizinho que, como no caso da Bolívia, nossa maior fronteira, segue hoje em perfeita sintonia com o projeto comum que - depois de trezentos anos de saque, submissão, subversões totalitárias em série e corrupção - vem mudando a face do continente como um todo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Não se trata aqui de gostar ou não, aprovar ou não as lideranças democraticamente eleitas dos nossos sócios no Projeto América do Sul.&lt;br /&gt;
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Trata-se apenas de bom senso e do respeito à soberania que devemos e, por outro lado, queremos.&lt;br /&gt;
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No caso da Bolívia, qualquer comentário como os feitos ultrapassam o limiar do asqueroso, eivados que são, no fundo, de preconceitos contra o primeiro Presidente boliviano que tem a "cara" da maioria absoluta do seu povo e, talvez por isso mesmo, vem fazendo o melhor Governo de toda a história do seu país no&amp;nbsp; mínimo desde os tempos imemoriais de Bolívar, El Libertador.&lt;br /&gt;
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Quando fala de controle de fronteiras então, o candidato (como já tem sido costumeiro ouvirmos asneiras semelhantes de tempos em tempos e de vários "gênios" da geopolítica sempre que se debate nossos problemas internos de Segurança Pública) chega ao limiar do rídiculo ou, quem sabe, mas pouco provável, ao limiar da ignorância.&lt;br /&gt;
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Será que o candidato desconhece que a fronteira do México - "limpa" (sem maiores barreiras visuais) e ainda dotada de barreiras naturais como uma grande extensão do Rio Grande em posição transversal (muito mais fácil de monitorar) - que os Estados Unidos da América tentam nazistamente (chegando ao absurdo de muros, cêrcas e vistas grossas para fazendeiros "matadores") e não conseguem "fechar" mesmo com todo seu gigantesco aparato tecnológico-aeroespacial, policial e militar...&lt;br /&gt;
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Será que o candidato&amp;nbsp; desconhece que aquela fronteira tem simplesmente menos que a metade da extensão que as fronteiras de apenas um (01) de nossos 27 estados com apenas um (01) de nossos 10 vizinhos?&lt;br /&gt;
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E que nossas fronteiras, em sua maior parte, são "vivas", invísíveis à vigilia espacial por causa das mais diversas formas de cobertura vegetal e dotadas, em vez de barreiras, de pontes naturais como trilhas na floresta, áreas pantanosas alagadas, floresta tropical densa, cidades-gêmeas e/ou rios em posição longitiudinal?&lt;br /&gt;
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Será que o sujeito não consegue perceber que nenhum país do mundo pode controlar esse tipo de fronteira senão pela cooperação e integração ativa, colaborativa e respeitosa com o "lado de lá"?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;E que qualquer outro discurso é pura demagogia factóide fascista?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Será que o candidato não consegue ter a grandeza necessária para perceber que nossos crescimento, estabilidade e segurança estão inexorávelmente atados ao mesmo para nossos vizinhos?&lt;br /&gt;
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Em contrapartida, que nos salve a visão moderna, ponderada e sensata de gente crescida como o empresário Eike Batista que demonstra a consciência lúcida e translúcida de que ser grande pressupõe saber que pouco vale querer ser grande sozinho apequenando gente aos milhões, com milhões e por milhões que nunca, sob esta perspectiva, chegarão a bilhões.&lt;br /&gt;
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Com a palavra, quem já chegou lá, aos bilhões, e está apenas começando.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;P.S.: Enquanto escrevia este "post", acabei de ouvir mais uma "pérola" de sinismo desesperado (ou desespero simplesmente): o 'de cujus' candidato acabou de insinuar que sua eleição seria a única forma de viabilizar a volta do Exmo. Sr. Presidente Lula da Silva em 2014 pois "...caso a Dilma seja eleita, Lula não se elege mais nem deputado..." O ex-Governador de São Paulo agora pretende angariar votos como pseudo-cabo (acho que está mais para caco) eleitoral, ou sei lá o que ele quis dizer, do seu "grande amigo" Presidente, em 2014. Que me desculpem a expressão, mas: "pirou o cabeção" de vez!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-209650988484480650?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/209650988484480650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/09/enquanto-serra-discursa-como-um.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/209650988484480650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/209650988484480650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/09/enquanto-serra-discursa-como-um.html' title='Enquanto Serra discursa como um &quot;estadista&quot; 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Existe, já há algum tempo, uma crescente concretização da busca possível  por "verdadeirizar" ainda que pouco a pouco essa democracia.&lt;br /&gt;
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Nos  últimos anos, sob a liderança do Presidente Lula e a impressionante  (porém invisível para nós) mobilidade do Ministro Amorim nos  subterrâneos e entranhas da ONU e adjacências o Brasil exerce um papel  ainda maior do que aparenta nessa busca.&lt;br /&gt;
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Por mais que o velho Complexo  de OsicraN (Narciso ao contrário), de vira-latas, e a vocação para  mulher de malandro gritem "não", o Projeto Brasil é sim essencial para o  Projeto Mundo.&lt;br /&gt;
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E sem Projeto Mundo, tudo continua igual, tudo por aqui  continua quintal.&lt;br /&gt;
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Defender (ponderadamente como foi feito, é claro) a  soberania iraniana, por exemplo, não tem nada a ver com defender o Irã  (o que aliás não teria nada de errado).&lt;br /&gt;
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Significa nos defender a nós  mesmos.&lt;br /&gt;
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"Nunca na história desse planeta" pudemos construir  oportunidades tão possíveis de fazermos da Linha do Equador algo  realmente mais próximo de uma linha imaginária e não um talho profundo  jorrando sangue das vísceras do Sul.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas preocupa muito quando ouvimos  discursos subalternos sobre a "aproximação do Brasil com ditaduras...".&lt;br /&gt;
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Qualquer meio bilionésimo de milímetro de distanciamento crítico não  oferece o mínimo suporte lógico ou moral a este tipo de análise.&lt;br /&gt;
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Queira-se ou não, goste-se ou não o Irã é a coisa mais próxima que  existe de democracia em toda sua região.&lt;br /&gt;
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E, hoje, diante da  irresponsabilidade gigantesca da auto-proclamada "Comunidade  Internacional" que não chega a 30% da Comunidade Internacional, a única  opção responsável e coerente que vejo restar ao Presidente Ahmadinejad  como líder de seu país, será apressar ao máximo possível a produção e  preparação de suas ogivas nucleares.&lt;br /&gt;
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Seria isso que eu esperaria ou,  melhor, exigiria do Governo do meu país não para atacar ninguém mas como  única salvaguarda razoavelmente segura visto meu país ser grande e  rico, localizado numa região tensa, absolutamente cercado por ogivas  nucleares inimigas (de países nucleares ou ocupados por países  nucleares) e tendo há pouquíssimo tempo assistido a um horrível filme  que se passou e passa até hoje no país vizinho e que começou igualzinho  igualzinho.&lt;br /&gt;
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O Irã não ataca ninguém há 200 anos e há 60 vivia uma  democracia vibrante que foi destruída exatamente por estes países que o  acusam de ditatorial.&lt;br /&gt;
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É muita hipocrisia para um mundo só.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mudando o  continente, o Presidente Chávez pode ter perfil ditatorial e ser isso e  aquilo mas não conheço nenhum outro Chefe de Estado no planeta que tenha  enfrentado sucessivamente tantas eleições e todas com supervisão  internacional.&lt;br /&gt;
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Quando ele der um golpe de estado ai nós o tratamos como  ditador.&lt;br /&gt;
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Por enquanto, ele somente foi vítima de uma tentativa.&lt;br /&gt;
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E que o  povo da Venezuela o avalie soberanamente lá por suas besteiras.&lt;br /&gt;
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No caso  da Bolívia, vejo as insinuações como asquerosas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Por fim, o  Governo do Brasil vem mantendo um distanciamento extremamente balanceado de todas as partes e progredindo muito - dentro do quase  impossível - na hercúlea tarefa de ser talvez o principal líder na  evolução para uma governança global mais equânime.&lt;br /&gt;
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Eu via estas eleições  como algo para nos orgulharmos com candidatos de valor por todos os lados.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hoje, fecho questão e de forma totalmente radical.&lt;br /&gt;
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Se fosse dado ao  mesmo chantagismo, hipocrisia, relativismo moral e preconceito faria  como os empresários quando disseram que se mudariam no caso da eleição  do candidato Lula.&lt;br /&gt;
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Contudo, desta vez a questão seria muito mais grave.&lt;br /&gt;
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Eu diria que mudaria sim mas de Planeta no caso de uma não eleição da  Ministra Dilma.&lt;br /&gt;
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Em memória, até, do meu amado José Saramago.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-4940370207127629606?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4940370207127629606/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/06/falsa-democracia-por-jose-saramago-e.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4940370207127629606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4940370207127629606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/06/falsa-democracia-por-jose-saramago-e.html' title='A Falsa Democracia (por José Saramago) e a força do Brasil'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-4334933949852157561</id><published>2010-04-20T20:01:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-20T20:01:37.836-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='United States'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sovereignity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Analysis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sustainability'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Millennium Development Goals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History'/><title type='text'>Justice for Haiti: Beyond Aid and Debt Forgiveness</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2 class="single"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.coha.org/justice-for-haiti-beyond-aid-and-debt-forgiveness/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;COHA - Council on Hemisperic Affairs &amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="single"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;"&gt;by COHA Research Associate Ethan Katz and Visiting Scholar Daniel  Boscov-Ellen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;begin&gt;Over the last few months there has been a surfeit of  talk in the international community over  what should be done for Haiti.  However, in almost all of these discussions Haiti’s historical context  is completely excised – it is almost as if the country had only come  into being as a result of January’s earthquake.&lt;endshort&gt; This  collective amnesia is damning. The hurricanes of 2008 and the recent  earthquake brought unfathomable damage upon Haiti, but their effects  have been greatly exacerbated by Haiti’s widespread poverty, lack of  adequate public infrastructure, food insecurity and an utterly bleak  horizon. Unlike the hurricanes and earthquake, these are not natural  phenomena. &lt;span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The devastating nature of these natural disasters cannot be  understood apart from over two centuries of Haiti’s colonial and  postcolonial subjugation, foreign occupation, economic exploitation and  the degrading conditions faced by most of its population.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;endlong&gt;&lt;/endlong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/endshort&gt;&lt;/begin&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"&gt;If one chooses wisely (and not selectively), one can learn from  Haiti’s history in order to assure that this cycle of oppression,  destitution, and destruction is not repeated.&lt;/span&gt; As a first step, providing  Haiti with unconditional disaster relief on an urgent basis remains  critical. However, so long as the developed countries that played such a  significant role in creating Haiti’s present ruinous political and  economic conditions continue to ignore and evade their responsibility  for Haiti’s impoverishment, the country will remain vulnerable.  &lt;span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"&gt;Recognition of and restitution for past wrongs, coupled with an  authentic commitment to end the sabotage and exploitation of this  tortured nation, would be the best way to help Haiti achieve the  stability and freedom to determine its own future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;endlonger&gt;&lt;/endlonger&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;endlonger&gt;&lt;/endlonger&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;endlonger&gt;&lt;/endlonger&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;endlonger&gt;&lt;span id="more-8595"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/endlonger&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Regrettably, such a recognition rarely can be found in the mainstream  reporting on Haiti’s situation.&lt;/b&gt; In the words of Noam Chomsky, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;“the  facts are extensively documented, appalling, and shameful.&lt;/span&gt; And they are  deemed irrelevant for the usual reasons: they do not conform to the  required self-image, and so are efficiently dispatched deep into the  memory hole…”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  However, if we are to talk in good faith about what must  be done for Haiti, we must first confront what we already have rendered  there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From Columbus to Napoleon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Spanish were the first Europeans to land on present day Haiti,  arriving in 1492 on Christopher Columbus’ first voyage. Columbus named  the island &lt;em&gt;La Española&lt;/em&gt;, from which the Latinized &lt;em&gt;Hispaniola  &lt;/em&gt;was derived. &lt;b&gt;At that time, there were an estimated one million  Taínos living there and on the surrounding islands.&lt;/b&gt; Columbus launched a  devastating military campaign against the indigenous peoples, and within  a few decades the Taínos population had been utterly decimated,  scarcely numbering in the thousands.  Diseases such as smallpox, forced  labor in the mines and fields and tributes of gold demanded by the  Spaniards took a fearful toll on the indigenous population.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The French did not arrive to Haiti until 1625. They eventually were  ceded the western third by the Spanish in 1697, upon the signing of the  Treaty of Ryswick, which ended the Nine Years’ War waged between the two  colonial rivals. The result was a divided Hispaniola consisting of the  separate colonies of Santo Domingo and Saint-Domingue. &lt;b&gt;French  Saint-Domingue quickly became the most profitable colonial possession in  the world. This wealth, though, was only made possible by the forced  labor of more than 800,000 slaves brought from Africa in chains to work  on giant sugar and coffee plantations.&lt;/b&gt;  At the time of the American  Revolution, Saint-Domingue was estimated to be more profitable than all  thirteen American colonies combined. &lt;b&gt;During the French Revolution, the  colony was the world’s leading source of coffee, produced roughly 75% of  the world’s sugar and supplied about two-thirds of Europe’s tropical  produce.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This lavish productivity came at a terrible price. Conditions on  Saint-Domingue’s plantations were especially harsh, and the white  slave-owners, who were outnumbered by slaves at least by 10 to 1,  resorted to spectacular cruelty and violence to keep their slaves  tractable.   The environment eventually became so intolerable that a  slave rebellion erupted in 1791. &lt;b&gt;After 13 years of struggle, &lt;em&gt;gens de  couleur &lt;/em&gt;and &lt;em&gt;affranchis&lt;/em&gt; under the leadership of Toussaint  L’Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines liberated Saint-Domingue from  the French, thus establishing Haiti as the first free black republic in  modern history.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;As opposed to the rhetorical notions of liberty of nations such as  France and the United States, both of which still tolerated slavery at  the time, &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;“Only in Haiti was the declaration of human freedom  universally consistent,”&lt;/span&gt; writes Peter Hallward. &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;“Only in Haiti was this  declaration sustained at all costs, in direct opposition to the social  order and economic logic of the day. Only in Haiti were the consequences  of this declaration – the end of slavery, of colonialism, of racial  inequality – upheld in terms that directly embraced the world as a  whole.”&lt;/span&gt;  Indeed, as Paul Farmer points out, Haiti &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;“declared itself a  haven not only for all runaway slaves but also for indigenous people,”&lt;/span&gt;   though few were to be found after the French-led genocide.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shorn of respect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;In response to their defeat and subsequent expulsion, the French placed  an embargo on Haiti, fearful that its successful fight for independence  might encourage slaves elsewhere to demand their freedom. Almost all of  the world’s powers shared this apprehension, including the United  States, which sided with France and refused to recognize Haiti’s  independence.&lt;/b&gt; As a Senator from South Carolina explained it at the time,  “Our policy with regard to Haiti is plain. We never can acknowledge her  independence… the peace and safety of a large portion of our union  forbids us even to discuss it.”  Similarly, in a letter to  then-Secretary of State James Madison, French Foreign Minister Charles  Talleyrand decried Haiti as “a horrible spectacle for all white  nations.”   &lt;b&gt;The embargo, supported by the United States, remained in  place until 1825. Given that virtually all of Haiti’s economy was based  on the export of tropical produce and sugar, the embargo was utterly  crippling.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Strangled by the embargo imposed by France and the U.S. and under the  threat of military invasion, Haiti acquiesced to Paris’ demands for  reimbursement for the losses resulting from the Haitian Revolution  (demands supported by the United States). From land to the value of the  slaves themselves, to the exorbitant sum of 150 million gold francs,  France sought reparations. Consider for a moment the severity of these  demands in light of the fact that the Louisiana territory, nearly thirty  times the size of the entire island of Hispaniola, was sold by the  French to Thomas Jefferson for a mere 60 million francs and the  cancellation of 18 million francs worth of French debt. In fact, Haiti  was a mainstay of Napoleon’s ambitions in the Western hemisphere and the  loss of it played a decisive role in the monarch’s decision to  relinquish its huge North American territory.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thus Haiti’s slave revolt, won at tremendous cost, actually had the  unforeseen consequence of doubling the size of the United States. The  U.S. repaid Haiti by supporting the embargo and France’s decades-long  extortion of the impoverished island.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;While the amount Haiti “owed” to France was later reduced to 90  million francs in 1838, it would take the nation the next 122 years to  repay the debt, primarily by way of loans from French and other European  banks. One third of these loans came from France itself, at a rate of  6% interest.  &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Demands, most recently made by then-President Aristide in  2004, that these funds (estimated by Aristide at $21 billion, adjusted  for inflation and with 5% interest) be returned to Haiti were scornfully  dismissed at the time by French authorities. Yet Aristide’s estimate  may in fact be on the low side – another recent calculation found that  if Haiti were to charge 7.5% interest, France would owe $4 trillion  today.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  Considering the fact that the embargo and subsequent extortion  permanently submerged Haiti’s previously profitable economy, leaving the  nation under a dark and suffocating economic shadow that persists to  this day, perhaps this is not an unreasonable rate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wilsonian idealism?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; The story of 20th century Haiti will be sadly familiar for students of  Latin American history. &lt;b&gt;It took the U.S. until 1862 (shortly after the  outbreak of its own Civil War) to recognize Haiti’s independence and  eventually to appoint Frederick Douglass as Foreign Minister in 1889.   But in 1915, the U.S. again rejected Haitian autonomy under the  principles of the Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary, which were  used to justify intervention.&lt;/b&gt; At the time, Germany controlled roughly  80% of Haiti’s international trade and was making strong inroads into  the nation’s utilities and overall infrastructure, while both France and  Britain represented their own interests in the country. &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Haiti’s  proximity to the &lt;b style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;Windward Passage&lt;/b&gt;, which was significant as a shipping  route joining the newly completed &lt;span style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;Panama Canal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and the &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;Atlantic Ocean&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;  and the country’s general political and economic instability convinced  the U.S. that more active intervention on the island had become a  necessity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On July 28, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson sent in troops to protect  U.S. commercial interests and prevent further foreign interference in  Haiti, or elsewhere in the hemisphere.&lt;/b&gt; Wilson’s intervention in Haiti  was reminiscent of his prior invasion of Mexico, and was a harbinger of  subsequent forays into the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua,  and Mexico again (10 more times in all by the end of his presidency) –  interventions which made possible the rise of the age of dictators –  Batista, Trujillo, the Duvaliers, and the Somozas.  &lt;b&gt;The U.S. perception  of Haiti at the time was perhaps best expressed in the words of  then-Secretary of State and three-time presidential candidate &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;William  Jennings Bryan:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;“Dear me, think of it…Niggers speaking French.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The U.S. began its occupation by installing the Haitian president of  the Senate as head of state in a snap election in August of 1915. Within  two months a treaty was signed to legalize the U.S. occupation for the  next 20 years. &lt;b&gt;Haiti’s finances and entire government apparatus were  placed in U.S. hands. Even its army was disbanded in favor of a  3,000-man marine force under the control of the Secretary of the State.  &lt;/b&gt;Historians at times have defended the U.S. occupation by citing the  construction of infrastructure and public works during this period.  While it is true that significant progress was made in these respects,  such good works were incidental development and held little long term  significance. &lt;b&gt;Progress was accomplished only through the institution of a  corvée, requiring the forced labor of those who could not buy their way  out of such service.&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conditions deteriorated to such a degree that a revolt was undertaken  by the Cacos, nationalist peasant militias to be found in the  mountainous north, who were opposed to the occupation and the &lt;em&gt;corvée&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;  After an unsuccessful initial attempt to repel the American invaders,  the Cacos regrouped and carried on a stronger campaign of resistance in  1918, in which they were led by Charlemagne Masséna Péralte, a former  politician and general in the National Army, who had escaped from  imprisonment after being apprehended during the original failed revolt.   The Cacos, numbering in the thousands, were so successful that they  began to establish a parallel government in the northern part of the  country, which had remained largely under their control.  Eventually,  two raids on Port-au-Prince failed, and Péralte was killed after being  betrayed by a cunning Haitian spy. Not long after, the same fate befell  Péralte’s successor and the insurgency was at an end. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It is estimated that, by the time the Marines departed in 1934, they  were responsible for the deaths of between 15,000 and 30,000 Haitians.&lt;/b&gt;   Accusations of abuses of power during the occupation led the U.S. Senate  to hold an “Inquiry into the occupation and administration of Haiti and  Santo Domingo” in 1921. Although the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt; reported  that “the committee found that on the whole American administration in  Haiti had been of great benefit to the Haitians and was so regarded, it  said, by a vast majority,” the testimony heard in the Senate did not  entirely support this cheerful evaluation.   &lt;b style="color: #660000;"&gt;Roger L. Farnham,  Vice-President of the National City Bank of New York (which owned the  National Bank of the Republic of Haiti and which eventually became part  of Citibank), provided a damning description of Washington’s occupation  of Haiti to the Senate Committee: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: #660000; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Occupation was always drifting in the absence of any  policy in Washington. As far as I know nothing was ever done for the  economic rehabilitation of the country, the establishment of schools  generally, the development of agriculture, or the development of the  capacity of the Haitian people for self-government. The Occupation was a  failure and, when I say a failure, I mean the failure of the United  States Government. Washington, not Port au Prince, was to blame.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Understanding the implications of the U.S. occupation is imperative  if one wants to understand the trajectory of 20th century Haiti. Perhaps  the greatest legacy of the occupation was the role of the military,  which persisted as the central locus of power in Haiti until President  Aristide abolished it in 1995.&lt;/b&gt; The Haitian military historically  functioned as a means of controlling, intimidating, and assuring the  obedience of the poor. As Paul Farmer points out, &lt;i style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“from its founding  during the U.S. occupation until it was demobilized by Aristide, the  Haitian army has never known a non-Haitian enemy. Internal enemies,  however, it had aplenty.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;Haiti remained an authoritarian  military-police state from the beginning of the U.S. occupation, through  the rule of the U.S.-backed anti-Communist Duvalier dictatorships,  until the direct military rule that ended with Aristide’s first election  in 1990.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It’s the economy, stupid&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The U.S. legacy of military rule is directly related to another  anti-democratic legacy: economic intervention. In 1917, Haiti’s  legislature was dissolved to prevent the adoption of a Haitian-authored  constitution, thus paving the way for a U.S.-drafted document that  reversed the prohibition on foreign ownership of land that had been in  effect since Dessalines. &lt;/b&gt;The new constitution was passed by a public  referendum – the final tally an impressive 98,225 to 768.  Needless to  say, this “decision” opened the door for nearly a century of economic  exploitation by the United States. Given that U.S.-championed economic  policies benefited only the Haitian elite and foreign businesses and was  not backed up by any sort of popular support, &lt;b&gt;this exploitation was  accomplished through the usual means: direct military intervention,  overt support for dictators, and the covert training, funding, and  arming of paramilitary forces. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The growing new oligarchy, whose origins date back to the reversal of  the ban on foreign ownership of land, found the military to be an  excellent incubator for investment. Marine General Smedley Butler, who  had dissolved the National Assembly when it refused the U.S.-authored  constitution, bragged that he “helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place  for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.”  And indeed it  was – in 1926, a business paper in New York described Haiti as “a  marvelous opportunity for American investment . . . the run-of-the-mill  Haitian is handy, easily directed, and gives a hard day’s labor for 20  cents, while in Panama the same day’s work cost $3.”  While it is true  that public infrastructure (such as roads, bridges, and hospitals) and  investment made significant strides forward during this period, &lt;b&gt;the new  wealth was created on the backs of the poor through the &lt;em&gt;corvée &lt;/em&gt;and  was concentrated in the elite classes, which were aligned with the  military.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The symbiotic relationship between the growing oligarchy and the  military continued after the official end of the U.S. occupation. For  example, the Tonton Macoutes, the roughly 10,000 murderous thugs that  reported directly to the Duvaliers, took advantage of the military  infrastructure left behind after the Marines exited in 1934.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Through the  use of terror, the Macoutes assured the obedience of the slums as  Jean-Claude Duvalier opened the country for foreign investment by  imposing “minimal taxes, a virtual ban on trade unions, the preservation  of starvation wages, [and] the removal of any restrictions on the  repatriation of profits.”&lt;/b&gt;  True, private investment soared during this  period: in 1967 there were less than 10 foreign firms in Haiti, but by  1990 this number had increased to 300.  &lt;b&gt;But a further stake was driven  between the plight of the poor and the wealth of the rich by the  neoliberal reforms (or as Haitians call them, “death plans”) imposed by  the International Monetary Fund, which began to hit the island in the  1970s and were accelerated in the 1980s. GDP per capita dropped from  approximately $750 in the ’60s, to just over $600 in 1990, and well  under $500 in 1994. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The rise of Aristide &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In 1990, after several failed elections in which the military gunned  down those who lined up for the polls, Haiti finally held its first free  and fair democratic ballot. &lt;b&gt;Jean-Bertrand Aristide, enemy of military  rule and preacher of liberation theology, won by a landslide, with 67%  of the vote (with eleven other candidates on the ballot) and with a  greater than 80% rate of participation.&lt;/b&gt;  As a preacher, Aristide was a  vocal champion for the poor: in an interview in 1988, he affirmed that:  &lt;i style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“The solution is revolution, first in the spirit of the Gospel; Jesus  could not accept people going hungry. It is a conflict between classes,  rich and poor. My role is to preach and organize. They can kill a  thousand people but they can’t kill everybody. Only with a conversion of  the heart will come a change in social structure.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Aristide and his loose-knit political coalition, Lavalas, advocated  “growth with equity” – and given his concern for equity, Father Aristide  was strongly opposed to the neoliberal policies being imposed on  countries throughout the region. Although he had the overwhelming  support of the Haitian people, and even the initial blessing of  institutions like the World Bank and the Inter-American Development  Bank, Aristide’s victory was not celebrated in the U.S. As Chomsky  writes, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Washington was appalled by the election of a populist candidate  with a grass-roots constituency just as it had been appalled by the  prospect of the hemisphere’s first free country on its doorstep two  centuries earlier.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Concerned about the “the ‘virus’ effect of successful independent  development,” the first Bush administration reacted to Aristide’s  election by withdrawing its aid to Port-au-Prince and funding opposition  groups – those almost entirely composed of Haiti’s business elites and  members of the military, who already were responsible for the torture  and death of countless Haitians.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt; After a failed coup in January of  1991, the army, led by General Raoul Cédras, seized power in September.  Following the coup, the CIA then played an integral role in creating,  funding and arming a vicious paramilitary group, FRAPH (Front for the  Advancement and Progress of Haiti), to maintain the ascendency of the  junta and eliminate resistance.&lt;/b&gt; Framed as a “political balance” to  Lavalas and commanded by CIA asset Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, FRAPH  brought state terror in the country to new heights (the most infamous  example of which was the Raboteau massacre of April 1994), killing  thousands of civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands more to flee.  Although Constant theoretically is wanted for the death of between 4,000  and 5,000 people and was petitioned by Haitian authorities to be made  to return to Haiti, the Department of Justice denied the request on the  contrived grounds that he would not receive a fair trial if returned  there. Both Presidents Clinton and Bush II have also refused to  extradite him “because he would reveal [further] U.S. ties to the  murderous junta, it is widely assumed.” While in November of 2000  Constant was convicted for his role in the Raboteau massacre in absentia  by a Haitian court, he is currently incarcerated in New York for  mortgage fraud. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Not satisfied with merely facilitating Aristide’s removal and  essentially looking the other way as the junta ruled by terror, the  CIA’s Brian Latell went so far as to prepare a completely fabricated  intelligence briefing for Senator Jesse Helms, alleging that Aristide  had received treatment at a psychiatric hospital in Montreal in 1980. In  fact, however, Aristide was in Israel at the time studying Hebrew. This  justified the Republican senator to describe Aristide as a “psychopath”  and running a vicious smear campaign against him.  Although the CIA’s  report has been completely discredited (the hospital denied ever  treating him), Aristide’s policies must indeed have seemed crazy to  Washington.  &lt;b&gt;Despite crippling economic interference, outside connivance  and plots against his presidency, his accomplishments still managed to  include some impressive political feats: greatly expanding access to  health care and education for the poor, reducing illiteracy from 85% to  55%, improving the judicial system, dissolving the repressive Haitian  military, more than doubling the minimum wage, creating community stores  and restaurants to drive down prices and reduce malnutrition, and  implementing agricultural reforms to help Haiti’s impoverished farmers. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In the wake of the coup against Aristide, the OAS declared an embargo  against Haiti’s military rulers. However, Bush announced that he would  be making an exception for all U.S. corporations in the country, and in  fact under Clinton, trade with the junta greatly increased. Indeed, the  Clinton administration knowingly undermined one of the most important  aspects of the embargo – the restriction on oil shipments.&lt;/b&gt; This was  accomplished by secretly authorizing Texaco “to ship oil to the junta,  in violation of presidential directives,” even as the CIA was testifying  to Congress that the junta “probably will be out of fuel and power very  shortly,” and proclaiming that their intelligence efforts were “focused  on detecting attempts to circumvent the embargo and monitoring its  impact.”  &lt;b&gt;In another revealing violation of the embargo, FRAPH was  provided significant quantities of weapons from the U.S. through Miami.   Even as President Clinton denounced Cédras and his cohorts as “armed  thugs,” the U.S. was helping to keep the junta in power. When Cédras  later agreed to resign, the U.S. awarded him at least  $1 million and  even agreed to rent out his three homes in Haiti for him while he was in  exile in Panama.   &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The result of this deceptive strategy employed by the Clinton  administration was that &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;the U.S. was able to make a show of returning  Aristide to power and “restoring democracy” in 1994, while  simultaneously compelling him to accept the terms set by Washington for  reinstating him. Aristide was forced to adopt a neoliberal economic  program which was unpopular among all Haitians but the business elite&lt;/span&gt;.  The U.S.-backed candidate in the 1990 elections who campaigned on a  similar platform won just 14% of the vote, even though the U.S.  contributed $36 million to his campaign.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Under the “Paris Plan,” which promised a package of aid to Haiti  totaling $770 million and paved a way for Aristide’s return, “tariffs  were to be ‘drastically’ reduced, wages frozen, around half of the civil  service to be laid off, and all nine of Haiti’s remaining public  utilities . . . were to be sold off.”   Aristide fought hard to soften  these harsh provisions, successfully negotiating progressive clauses to  be inserted in the pending agreement to limit the damage and ensure some  help for Haiti’s poor. For instance, the plan specified that the  privatization of utilities “must be implemented in a way that will  prevent increased concentration of wealth within the country.”  Had the  Paris Plan been implemented as Aristide negotiated it, it might not have  been disastrous. However, as soon as he returned to Haiti, “the U.S.  and [international financial institutions] put huge pressure on his  government to abandon all of the social conditions and compensations  that has just been agreed to in Paris, and threatened to suspend the  disbursement of the promised funds unless he moved forward with the  immediate and unadulterated privatization of state assets.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The results were typical of such neoliberal reforms: the agricultural  sector was decimated by cheap imports of subsidized produce from the  U.S. This drove Haitian farmers off their land, created widespread  hunger and caused the loss of agricultural autonomy, a problem  exacerbated by illegal “dumping” of surplus products from the U.S.   Take, for example, rice, cornerstone of the ordinary Haitians diet.  Under the Paris Plan, Haiti’s rice tariffs were cut from 35% to 3%.  Imports of rice from the U.S., humanitarian donations not withstanding,  increased by more than a factor of 30 between 1985 and 2002.  By 2005,  rice dumping from the U.S. accounted for 75% of all rice in Haiti.   Since two-thirds of Haitians relied on farming for their income, such  changes were particularly damaging. Many farmers and peasants, driven  out of business by these policies, moved to shanty towns in and around  Port-au-Prince, where the population exploded from 760,000 in the early  1980s to around 3 million in January of 2010. Haiti was already one of  the poorest countries in the world, but the Paris Plan’s  corporate-friendly program, which focused on helping “Civil Society” and  the “more open, enlightened business class,” exacerbated the situation  by placing emphasis on privatization and opening Haiti to market forces,  hamstringing Aristide’s efforts to alleviate the country’s poverty. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clinton’s mea culpa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Recently, Clinton admitted that strategy “may have been good for some of  my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake.”   These policies, which brought on the bargain-based sell-off of  subsistence farm plots to large landholders were supported by only a  very small percentage of the Haitian population (the same ones who  benefited), and would never have been put in place had the removal of  Haiti’s democratically elected leader not been an objective of U.S.  policy. Yet Chomsky points out that the American press described  Clinton’s show of returning Aristide as “‘restoring democracy,’ a prime  illustration of how U.S. foreign policy has entered a ‘noble phase’ with  a ’saintly glow.’”  A more accurate interpretation of events is that  after secretly supporting, or at least doing nothing to prevent the  ouster of a democratically elected and immensely popular president,  Clinton and his advisers took advantage of the crisis to impose programs  of economic architecture friendly to U.S. business interests while  capitalizing politically on his return.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Along with the neoliberal reforms, drastic cuts in Haiti’s aid  further impeded efforts to lift the country out of its desperate  poverty.&lt;/b&gt; Just a few weeks after Aristide’s return, Congressional  Republicans, who were uniformly opposed to the Haitian president and  greeted him with great enmity, worked to block aid to Haiti. &lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;By May  2000, all direct U.S. aid to Haiti was suspended.&lt;/b&gt; According to Paul  Farmer, “the cuts in bilateral aid and the diversion of monies to the  opposition meant there could be, in a country as poor as Haiti, little  effort to build schools, health care infrastructure, roads, ports,  telecommunications, or airports.”  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;Although assistance to the Haitian government was suspended, aid to  Aristide’s opposition flowed freely – between 2000 and 2003,  opposition-linked NGOs received an average of $68 million a year from  USAID.&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;It is a sad irony that most of the money that was guaranteed to  Aristide (and for which he made such painful concessions in the Paris  Plan) was put to the use of further undermining his government through  the IFIs, USAID and NED, and various NGOs that were “pro-elite, pro-US,  as well as pro-business private sector groups whose political opposition  to Lavalas was already explicit.”  For example, in a classic  implementation of Washington newspeak, USAID began a program of  “Democratic Enhancement,” with the goal of “assist[ing] political  parties develop (sic) the necessary political skills and organization to  compete effectively at the local, municipal, legislative, and national  level.”&lt;/b&gt;  But in fact, the program was designed to “fund those sectors of  the Haitian political spectrum where opposition to the Aristide  government could be encouraged.”  The International Republican Institute  (“Advancing Democracy Worldwide”), funded by the State Department,  USAID, and the Reagan-minted National Endowment for Democracy, had a  similar euphemistic goal: to “foster a level political playing field for  smaller opposition parties.”  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The interesting thing here is the strange definition of democracy –  it seems that helping to amplify the voice and influence of an elite  affluent minority to override the clearly expressed wishes of Haiti’s  poor majority hardly constitutes “enhancing democracy.” Of course,  often, democracy has simply designated that which is in the interest of  the United States, so perhaps the deployment of the term here should not  be surprising. The Haitian elite, which had received funds from the  U.S., adopted the same twisted terminology as used by Washington,  eventually forming an opposition coalition called the Democratic  Convergence. The DC, a coalition of around 200 political groups united  in their opposition to Aristide, who had became the only major candidate  in the 2000 elections. Knowing that they would be swapped in a  landslide, anti-Aristide politicians sat out the election under the  pretense of protesting a few disputed congressional election outcomes.  &lt;b&gt;Thus, in November 2000, Aristide was reelected with 92% of the vote  under the now institutionalized political party of Fanmi Lavalas.  Despite the fact that he was the only major candidate on the ballot, two  USAID-commissioned Gallup polls found that the turnout for the election  was around 61%,  thus validating Aristide’s victory.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;That same year, George W. Bush, although at first failing to win his  reelection, was installed as president of the United States by a  conservative Supreme Court. The Bush II administration, together with  his team from the days of the Reagan and Bush I presidencies (including  Otto Reich, Elliot Abrams, John Negroponte and Roger Noriega), proved to  be an even greater foe of Aristide and his populist following than his  father’s or even Clinton had been. &lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;Not content only to cut off U.S. aid,  in 2001, Bush’s team worked to block international aid to Haiti,  secretly (and illegally) getting the Inter-American Development Bank to  institute a funding freeze. Nevertheless, the IDB continued to require  Haiti to pay interest on their loans, even though it would not disburse  any new funds.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #990000; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In fact, in 2003, Haiti was forced to send “over 90% of all its  foreign reserves to Washington to pay these arrears,”  despite the fact  that no new aid money would be forthcoming. This freeze had a huge  impact on a country which was already the poorest in the Western  hemisphere, with 78% living on $2 a day or less by 2001. Haiti also,  thanks largely to the past role of the U.S. military and economic  interventions, came to be one of the most unequal countries in the  world, with a handful of elite owning a disproportionate share of the  country’s wealth.  The IDB’s economic freeze amounted, in essence, to  “the world’s most powerful nations joining forces to block aid and  humanitarian assistance to one of its poorest.” &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The IDB freeze, combined with the onerous interest payments on the  country’s debt, made any investments in public infrastructure by Haiti’s  authorities all but impossible. &lt;b&gt;While whatever precious funds Haiti may  have had flowed to foreign creditors, there was no budget available for  health care, education, or infrastructure – facts which are highly  relevant when talking about the impact of the recent earthquake.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;The IDB  funding freeze remained in place until 2004 when, after allowing for  the arming and training of anti-Aristide paramilitary forces and  countenancing a rebellion led by ex-military man and former police chief  Guy Philippe and former FRAPH deputy commander Louis-Jodel Chamblain,  the U.S. sent military personnel to scatter Aristide’s privately hired  security forces.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;This was meant to intimidate President Aristide into  boarding a chartered plane to fly him to the Central African Republic  which was to provide asylum. He was not told where he was being taken  until an hour before landing. It should be noted that just before the  paramilitary renegades entered Port-au-Prince and were bearing down on a  defenseless Aristide, the Haitian president beseeched the Clinton  administration for anti-riot gear, a request the White House summarily  turned down. The U.S. still denies involvement, but its version of  events has been thoroughly discredited by a number of blatant  inconsistencies as well as by eyewitness accounts which tell a different  story. As a result of the two U.S.-backed coups alone, more than 13,000  Haitians lost their lives.&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Since Aristide’s removal, most of his  administration’s hard-fought accomplishments have been reversed, as  President René Préval has become but the latest figure in this drama to  turn on his former ally.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Earthquake and aftershocks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The January 12th earthquake was an unimaginable tragedy, the  consequences of which will plague Haiti for at least a generation. The  death toll now has surpassed 230,000, and President Préval has suggested  it could reach as high as 300,000.  The human destruction  overwhelmingly has eclipsed the suffering caused by other more powerful  earthquakes, like the one which recently rocked Chile (with a death toll  likely to approach under 500 victims), or the 1994 Southern California  earthquake of a similar magnitude which killed just 72 people. In an  editorial on Haiti (with the unironic subtitle “The U.S. Military Will  Provide Relief, as Ever”), the &lt;em&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/em&gt; recently  compared that California quake to the one in Haiti: “The difference is a  functioning of a wealth-generating and law-abiding society that can  afford, among other things, the expense of proper building codes.”  In a  perverse way, this piece has some merit. It is true that the utter  devastation wrought on Haiti is a direct result of its rank near the  bottom of the global South, with its extreme poverty and seemingly  eternal lack of political stability. What the &lt;em&gt;Journal &lt;/em&gt;fails to  address, beyond the entire history of U.S-Haiti relations, is its own  clear and direct complicity in this lamentable situation. Outlets like  the &lt;em&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;, whose  economic allegiances are quite clear, were all along instrumental in  twisting reality and manipulating public opinion in the U.S. against  Aristide and the bona fide interests of the Haitian people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;We must bear in mind the international community’s historical  relationship with Haiti when we hear the media describe Haiti as a  “failed state.”&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;The implicit (and often explicit) message in such  post-earthquake commentaries is often that Haitians lack the capacity to  rebuild their own country.&lt;/b&gt; For example, after discussing the inefficacy  of macro and microdevelopment aid to reduce poverty, David Brooks of  the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt; suggests that perhaps Haitians, by virtue of  their natural culture, are simply “progress resistant,” and the U.S.  should therefore concentrate on exporting its “culture of achievement.”   &lt;b&gt;For those familiar with the country’s history, this argument mixes bad  history with a failed memory of how U.S. self-serving policy destroyed  Haiti’s rural agricultural economy and deprived Haitians of their  political voice.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"&gt;The sad truth is that during the past two hundred  years, some of the richest countries in the world have worked to destroy  any hope of a politically and economically autonomous Haiti.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;b style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;If the  Haitian people were given the opportunity to freely determine their own  future, the Haiti of the 21st century might have had a chance to be  radically different from its recent past.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Capitalizing (on) disaster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In the months following the quake, many of the guilty parties –  conservative think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation, media outlets  such as the &lt;em&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;,  as well as ex-Presidents Clinton and Bush II (who apparently had proven  his mettle for disaster relief in responding to Hurricane Katrina) –  are offering their own visions for &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;how, not to help Haiti rebuild, but  how to help rebuild Haiti&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;b&gt;Immediately following the earthquake, the  Heritage Foundation advised how to use the present opportunity for  “reforms” in Haiti: “In addition to providing immediate humanitarian  assistance, the U.S. response to &lt;i&gt;the tragic earthquake in Haiti offers  opportunities to re-shape Haiti’s long-dysfunctional government and  economy as well as &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;to improve the public image of the United States in  the region.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  The essay was quickly removed, edited, and reposted, as it  was perhaps a little too distastefully forward in its avarice, even for  Heritage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This idea of pushing through extreme and unpopular, but artfully  self-serving, policies after a disaster is, as the Heritage Foundation  well knows, not a new strategy. In fact, this model of change is perhaps  one of the greatest legacies of University of Chicago Professor Milton  Friedman, pioneer of fundamentalist free-market capitalism. In terms of  implementing policy, Friedman believed that &lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“only a crisis – actual or  perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions  that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I  believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing  policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically  impossible becomes politically inevitable.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  This has been deemed  &lt;b&gt;“disaster capitalism”&lt;/b&gt; by Naomi Klein. In other words, &lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“using moments of  collective trauma to engage in radical social and economic engineering.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;   Friedman’s strategy of using settings that are characterized by mass  disorganization and confusion to push through radical and unpopular  policies has been employed in countries as diverse as Chile under  Pinochet, Russia’s transition to a market economy under Boris Yeltsin,  and the U.S. invasion and resulting reconstruction of Iraq (to name just  a few of a number of examples). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Much of the international brainstorming for reconstruction, including  the plan ironically offered by UN Special Envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton,  has centered around the idea of increasing private investment. But if  history has taught us anything (which it apparently may not have in  Clinton’s case), it is that &lt;b style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;promoting economic growth by exploiting the  low costs of labor in international markets will do nothing other than  further stratify a society that already is starkly divided along class  lines and could worsen the plight of Haiti’s poor (if that is even  possible)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;b&gt;As David Harvey shows conclusively in “A Brief History of  Neoliberalism,” in nearly every instance neoliberal policies have  resulted in increasingly unequal distributions of wealth and  dramatically weakened social programs. &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;More of the same is not an  acceptable option for Haiti when its very survival is at stake. The  continuation or expansion of neoliberal economic policies will only tee  the island up for another disaster.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Liberal communists”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Many of those who suggest encouraging the expansion of private  investment as the most effective way to rebuild Haiti barely veils a  desire to exploit the disaster for profit in the language of development  and economic growth.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;A less brazen and more socially acceptable  approach could begin by advocating a mix of aid and debt forgiveness.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Following the earthquake, $1.2 of the roughly $2 billion Haiti still  owes to both foreign governments and international institutions was  annulled.&lt;/b&gt;  This is clearly a step in the right direction – toward  allowing Haiti the space and opportunity to begin to construct new and  authentic economic and political institutions. &lt;b&gt;But it is just a first  step, one which should not have required a catastrophe for the  international community to take. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Forgiving” the country’s debt sounds quite generous, until one  considers the origins of this debt. Almost half of the money Haiti owed  was ‘odious debt’ incurred under the Duvalier regime – about $844  million.&lt;/b&gt;  Some Haitian critics have asked why should the people of Haiti  be responsible for the debt of past dictators like the Duvaliers, who  were supported by the U.S. for their anti-communist agenda? They forged a  welcome environment for foreign business at the expense of the  country’s poor majority and employed a ruthless paramilitary police  force to terrorize this majority into obedience – hardly a legacy for  which Haiti should be held accountable. The Duvaliers and their thugs  killed an estimated 60,000 civilians during their rule, while torturing  countless others.  For this service, it would be quite unseemly for the  U.S. to demand payment, with interest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In fact, does the very discussion of debt forgiveness not already  pre-suppose a certain ideological viewpoint? Is not the wrong question  being asked? &lt;i style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Instead of asking how much is owed by Haiti, perhaps one  should really be asking, what is the magnitude of our debt to Haiti?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;In  addition to the long history of military occupation, political  manipulation, economic exploitation, and illicit lending, one would have  to add to this already long list the debt arising from climate change.&lt;/b&gt;  The United States is by far the world’s biggest contributor to climate  change, whereas Haiti’s impact on the climate has been truly negligible.  Per capita, Haiti’s carbon emissions are just one percent of the United  States’. &lt;b&gt;Yet, as Naomi Klein points out, &lt;span style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;“Haiti is among the hardest  hit countries – according to one index, only Somalia is more vulnerable  to climate change.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Complementing the annulment of debts, there was almost immediately a  tremendous outpouring of donations of aid in the wake of the quake. At  the recent UN Donors’ Conference in New York, pledges of $5 billion in  short-term aid and $10 billion in long-term aid were made by the  international community, which will be allocated by a commission run by  former-President Clinton and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.   Such aid is significant and will certainly help the afflicted Haitian  people. But this mode of giving often simultaneously serves to conceal  subtle forms of violence. Political philosopher and cultural critic  Slavoj Zizek describes the agents of this process as &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;“liberal  communists,” those who “give away with one hand what they first took  with the other.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  People like Bill Clinton and George W. Bush may be two  prime examples of these “liberal communists,” and they played key roles  in depriving the Haitian people of their political voice and running  off with Haiti’s economy in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Both Clinton and Bush  helped to maintain Haiti as an excellent incubator for private  investment for foreign industries by cultivating low wages and a  basically unemployed population, kept in check by the terror of military  or paramilitary forces as well as the firepower of the Brazilian-led  MINUSTAH forces.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Therefore, when we see the two former U.S. presidents join forces to  tell us that they “. . . are partnering to help the Haitian people  reclaim their country and rebuild their lives,” in fact, &lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;to “build back  better” (better for whom?)&lt;/b&gt;, we must maintain a wider perspective of  their roles in Haiti’s history.  Here cause and cure unite as one, where  “the thing itself [Bush and Clinton's pledges of aid] is the remedy  against the threat it poses [decades of manipulation and subjugation]. .  . &lt;b&gt;In liberal communist ethics, the ruthless pursuit of profit is  counteracted by charity. Charity is the humanitarian mask hiding the  face of economic exploitation.”  In this sense, charity and aid, in a  perverse way, can serve to further weaken a country. Looking at the  historical correlation between the hegemony of neoliberalism and the  dramatic rise of NGOs, David Harvey explains that &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;the non-profits and  aid groups usually step in to fill “the vacuum in social provision left  by the withdrawal of the state from such activities . . . in some  instances this has helped accelerate further state withdrawal from  social provision. NGOs thereby function as ‘Trojan horses for global  neoliberalism.’”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Haiti has more NGOs per capita than any other country in the world,  with &lt;span style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;one NGO for every 3,000 Haitians&lt;/span&gt;. Some estimate that &lt;span style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;75% of the  USAID money given to Haiti makes its way back to the United States  through NGOs&lt;/span&gt;. Meanwhile, &lt;span style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;less than one cent of every dollar of U.S.  disaster aid currently goes directly to the Haitian government&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Prime  Minister Bellerive, recently expressed his concern that “the NGOs don’t  tell us . . . where the money’s coming from or how they’re spending it.  Too many people are raising money without any controls, and don’t  explain what they’re doing with it.”&lt;/b&gt;  Of course, one cannot minimize the  care that must be taken that such funds given to the central government  are not wasted by nepotism, corruption, or cronyism – admittedly no  easy task. Critics such as highly regarded Haitian specialist Brian  Concannon, director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti,  have stressed that &lt;b&gt;the Haitian people must be allowed to lead the way  for their country’s rehabilitation.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"&gt;If we are genuinely interested in  helping the Haitian people, more money must be directed away from the  NGOs and towards a legitimate and functioning government and &lt;em&gt;organisations  populaires&lt;/em&gt;, community based groups established in the 1980s to  defend the poor majority from paramilitary violence while at the same  time providing basic living necessities and social services. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reconstruction or reoccupation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Where the aid money goes and what it is used for makes a huge  difference. While only a trifle goes to the Haitian government, &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;a full  third of U.S. money earmarked for the relief effort was allocated for  defense and security.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; When the U.S. personnel arrived in Haiti, several  days after &lt;b style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;Venezuela and Cuba were already set up on the ground saving  lives and providing assistance&lt;/b&gt;, the emphasis they placed on security and  military aid at first compromised the distribution of humanitarian aid.   Groups like Doctors Without Borders and the UN World Food Program have  complained that their shipments of aid were delayed at the airport,  even in some cases turned away, because the deployment of U.S. troops  took priority over their incoming flights.  With so much U.S. money for  Haiti being allocated to military funding, “security and defense” have  eclipsed what should be the clear focus: importing and distributing  humanitarian aid to a desperately needy population. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;To many critics, the heavy military presence of the U.S. in Haiti and  efforts to effectively bypass the Haitian government &lt;b style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;increasingly  appear as the groundwork for a new “death plan.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; But the U.S. military  presence may be less troubling than what is already starting to follow  in its wake. &lt;b style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;Just as private security contractors profited from  disasters in New Orleans and Iraq, these mercenary groups are now  salivating at their current prospects in Haiti.  The International Peace  Operations Association, a security contractor trade association,  recently held a trade show in Miami, giving roughly 20 private security  companies the opportunity to advertise their services to government  representatives, IFIs, NGOs, private companies and other parties  involved in the Haiti recovery effort.&lt;/b&gt;  The modern-day, privatized  equivalent of Wilson’s marines, they will no doubt ensure a hospitable  environment for future foreign investment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Even if the military presence is not meant to be the hallmark of  renewed economic exploitation, the almost single-minded focus on  security illustrates that the U.S. perception of Haiti has changed  little since the days of William Jennings Bryan. &lt;b&gt;From many accounts in  the mainstream media, one would think that since the earthquake, Haiti  has become a vicious battleground for thieves, rapists, and murderers.&lt;/b&gt;  While CNN’s Anderson Cooper described Port-au-Prince as a “frenzy of  looting,”  FOX News spoke of “small bands of young men and teenagers  with machetes,” who “roamed downtown streets and helped themselves to  whatever they could find in wrecked homes.” &lt;b&gt;This is an addition to 4,000  escapees from the capital’s main prison.&lt;/b&gt;   U.S. troops and mercenaries  have been sent to Haiti, in large part, to keep order and prevent  looting. &lt;b&gt;This emphasis on looting should remind us of the reporting on  Hurricane Katrina, where distinctions were often drawn between white  families, who were “looking for food,” and black families, who were  “looting.” Even if the stories of wide-spread looting in Haiti were  true, would that justify the militarization?&lt;/b&gt; Should the first priority  of the U.S. be securing the private property of businesses from Haiti’s  hungry and homeless, those who have already lost everything? The  question is entirely hypothetical – &lt;b&gt;the reality of the situation is  that, much like in the aftermath of Katrina, most of these reports have  little or no basis in reality. The vast majority of Haitians, almost  unbelievably, remained calm, even tranquil, in the midst of the utter  destruction that surrounded them. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #b45f06; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A group of reporters and academics recently there to assess  conditions wrote that “while the US media has portrayed Haiti as a place  of chaos and helplessness, we found just the opposite.”   In a week  spent there after the earthquake, they encountered no gangs of roving  bandits – instead, they found long but orderly lines waiting for food,  water, and money transfers, and communities organizing “makeshift  roadblocks to protect those sleeping in the streets from cars. In many  cases, people stood guard over the sleeping. After dark the most  prominent sounds were dogs barking and roosters crowing. We heard no  gunshots in the air.” The militarization of aid may reveal as much about  our collective perception of the Haitian people as it does about our  national priorities.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Breaking the cycle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;One needn’t belittle the outstanding contributions of aid that have been  given in the past months, or malign the good intentions of the millions  of Americans who have donated money.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;But as Richard Kim argued in a  recent piece published in &lt;em&gt;The Nation&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;b style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;the dialogue in the  international community must shift from discussing charity to demanding  justice.&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Justice for Haiti requires more than debt forgiveness and  pledges of aid.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;It requires the creation of the conditions for  self-sufficiency and self-determination rather than further subjugation  and exploitation.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Rather than only appealing for foreign investment,  creating sustainable and equitable growth in Haiti necessitates  accomplishments like raising the minimum wage, improving a decimated and  woeful natural environment, instituting agricultural policies that  support local farmers, and rebuilding and constructing new public  infrastructure, including schools, roads, hospitals, public utilities,  and housing.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;If this is to occur, the Haitian people must be allowed to  determine their own political future, and to provide the appropriate  resources to help them rebuild their own lives – resources owed to them  with interest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This is not to say that the U.S. has no role to play in recovery  efforts. In fact, Haiti needs help from the U.S. now more than ever.&lt;/b&gt; It  is estimated that the cost for demolition efforts alone could run as  high as $1 billion.  Without commitments from the U.S. and the rest of  the international community that it will avoid the advent of donor  fatigue, the Haitian government will be effectively paralyzed. It cannot  face these challenges alone. But the U.S. role in Haiti’s  reconstruction must not be the same as it has been in the past –  manipulating the political process and depriving Haitians of a voice,  using USAID funds to prompt militias and studiously ignoring the use of  terror against civilians. &lt;b&gt;Rather, the U.S. must pledge not to interfere  in any democratic election in any self-serving way, including through  selective funding.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Once the Haitian people have chosen a representative  in a free and fair election, the U.S., France, Canada, and the U.N.  might begin to redress their shoddy treatment in the past and pledge to  provide all the direct support that the new government requires to get  back on its feet. They must also work with international economic  institutions to ensure that no “austerity measures” are imposed on any  further development aid to the country.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #444444;"&gt;Up until this point, the U.S. has been successful in preventing Haiti  from engaging in even an iota of economic and political  self-determination. What Washington cannot undo is its former misguided  actions which brought great grief to the nation and its people. But by  taking responsibility for its part in the disaster,&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;the time may come  where Washington can, for once, play a constructive role when it comes  to Haiti.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-4334933949852157561?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4334933949852157561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/justice-for-haiti-beyond-aid-and-debt.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4334933949852157561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4334933949852157561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/justice-for-haiti-beyond-aid-and-debt.html' title='Justice for Haiti: Beyond Aid and Debt Forgiveness'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-6833468644167524019</id><published>2010-04-17T13:54:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T01:55:04.766-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kréyol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elections'/><title type='text'>Will the Haiti Donors Countries' Citizens to be allowed to vote in Haitian next elections?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Plants, People, and Nations&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;need strong roots so that&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;they can be able to grow".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Rosy L. Bornhausen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"&gt;Brazilian Writer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
When the boundaries of the respect for independence, sovereignty and freedom are so shameful and causeless invaded, any absurd can be thought or, worst, any absurd may happen.&lt;br /&gt;
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We can imagine the most unimaginable wonders, we can think the most marvelous plans, we can design the most beautiful projects, we can deploy the best conceived endeavors.&lt;br /&gt;
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But if we do not strongly and definitively address the structural problems, the hidden issues, and take control over the internal and external forces that lead Haiti to became what She was by January, 11, 2010, &lt;b style="color: #660000;"&gt;we will only get to be as unhappy as that one which coined that unhappiest, sad, horrible, terrible, the ugliest phrase ever coined given the subject: &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;"Building Back Better"&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;"Building Back Better" WHAT? "The Poorest Nation in The Western Hemisphere"&lt;/b&gt; as they also tireless proclaim? &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;Would it be that 2009 Haiti with a bit of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="maquiagem"&gt;makeup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The elections issue is back again.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Nothing against elections.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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When it was talked right after the earthquake, we thought it was too soon as there was no conditions and there would be planned elections for the end of year.&lt;br /&gt;
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But elections just for having elections means just nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
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Or, worse, when the issue is repeatedly raised by foreigners, it means at least the unleashing of some hidden interests and agendas of some specific groups.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Elections only make sense when they are Democratic, inclusive, participative, and sovereign elections.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The first time the issue came up, it was by the streets, within a full destruction scenario, just a few days after the earthquake, with the presence of H. E. The President of Haiti, but by the voice of H. E. The U.S. Secretary of State.&lt;br /&gt;
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And since than, all the time, the issue is pushed by an US representative or by an UN or OAS representative, and always by a non-Haitian representative.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sometimes, called to answer, H. E. Mr. President Préval, or H. E. P. M. Jean-Max Bellerive confirms something as "pushed against the wall".&lt;br /&gt;
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Why this continuous insistence?&lt;br /&gt;
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The most we like Her Excellency, is imperative to remind that the &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Haiti's elections are not United States business!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Neither US' nor UN's! Neither Cuba's nor China's? Neither Brazil's nor Seychelles'! &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It is important to remind that this kind of external 'help' or alike, in the close past, joint together with other kinds of external interferences, helped to build the miryad of problems that multiplied at least by 10 the killing strength of the January, 12, earthquake.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is not a problem of wants and ifs, of likes and dislikes, of right or left.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is just a matter of what is Democracy, of what is right and what is wrong, of what works and what not, and &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;what are we all here for:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;to rebuild a "landmass" so-called Haiti for the uses of some interests,&lt;/i&gt; or to help 9 million Ayisian brothers to rebuild an inclusive, democratic, hopeful, and prosperous Nation?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;The elections being prepared&lt;/b&gt; - and may be this is the why for the "foreign" rush - will be prepared by a Permanent Electoral Council (CEP) that &lt;b&gt;hurts the Haitian Constitution&lt;/b&gt; as it should be Permanent and this one was instituted during H. E. Mr. President René Préval term in Office.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;The elections being prepared&lt;/b&gt; - and may be this is the why for the  "foreign" rush - will be probably prepared without the participation of the party &lt;b&gt;Fanmi Lavalas and the other 14 political parties&lt;/b&gt; that have been  arbitrarily excluded by the CEP from participating in the planned  election. No need to say that the Fanmi Lavalas party is not that beloved by the USA, Canada, and French Governmental authorities.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;The elections being prepared&lt;/b&gt; - and may be this is the why for the  "foreign" rush - will be probably prepared and run without the participation or even the presence of the by far - we like it or not - main political leadership of the Country: the former Priest &lt;b&gt;Jean-Bertrand Aristide&lt;/b&gt;, the first democratic elected President of Haiti, ousted (kidnapped as every evidence indicates) in exercise of his mandate, actually "exhilated" and official Host of The Governmant of South Africa. No need to say that H. E. Mr. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is not that beloved man by the  USA, Canada, and French Governmental authorities. His kidnapping is attributed to a joint operation of those Governments.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Everyone knows the risks and implications of his prompt return. And he is the one that is keeping it easy for not exploding Haiti.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;But those of us here from the close southerner tropics that recently (for 50 years) payed the hard price for Democracy, are live proofs of what it takes to make and what it takes to keep. We know for instance that is possible to keep a fake democracy for a while. But that is impossible to build a fake one.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Instead of trying to hidden the elephant behind the strawberry tree and fake-build a pseudo-Democracy it is, given the circumstances, completely feasible for those really compromised with the people of Haiti, to call all the parts to discuss a contract for peace mediated by some unsuspected Governments as Norway, or Sweden and call Mr.Aristide to talk together with Mr. Préval and their partisans in Haiti to lead healthy elections and productive, proactive and collaborative rebuilding efforts for the next 5 to 10 years (despite all politics, no one can neglect how useful Titid's simple presence could be in Haiti at this so hard times). It won't be easy. But the alternative that just seems easy, is actually a fabricated and bad-intentioned illusion. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;The elections being prepared&lt;/b&gt; - and may be this is the why for the  "foreign" rush - will be prepared - that is the most concerning - &lt;b&gt;without the participation of the voters, of the people of Haiti&lt;/b&gt;. The people of Haiti that will be called to vote in a process in which they did not was called to participate in its construction.&lt;br /&gt;
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And the big mess will be finished and done.&lt;br /&gt;
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The people of Haiti has developed during the last decades their own ways of self-organization, and I feel they won't cope with this, and they will be right, and I will be with them, but the world will listen again through the big media how Haitians are belligerents, how they are usual to violence, and even: how they are "savages".&lt;br /&gt;
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It is impressive how the wheel-of-history never stops of repeating itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;And the people of Haiti have been astonishing sidelined since the beginning of this "path for the future".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sometimes I ask myself when will we realize that this future we are talking is all about them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Moreover, that this future we all are talking about is fully for them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;That this future we are all talking about, finally, is them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;They are the owners, the stake, and share holders.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;There is no others.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Meanwhile, during the Donors Conference, there was only one document - among more than 15 - concerned about their opinions - which came there after a big effort of some Civil Society entities.&lt;br /&gt;
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The document was called &lt;b&gt;"The Voices of The Voiceless"&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As we know, Haiti has two official languages: French and Kréyol.&lt;br /&gt;
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But only one is the National Language: the Kréyol; that is the ONLY language fluently understood and spoken by more than 85% of the Haitians.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;We simply can not suppose to help the reconstruction of a nation beginning by ignoring its National Identity that is tightly tied to its National Language.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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But even the document cited above was written in English.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;The plenty of Official Documents (as The Flash Appeal, The Reconstruction Plan, The Assessment Report - PDNA etc) are issued by the Official Authorities in charge of managing both the emergency and reconstruction subjects only in English and French, and sometimes in Spanish, and Portuguese.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;The United Nations, World Bank, OAS and subordinated agencies' documents and web sites related to Haiti are written in English, French, and, sometimes, in Spanish.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Impressive is the UN Special Envoy for Haiti Office web site. English  only. Not even a bit of French for the 10 to 15% elite of Haitians.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Astonishing is the Government of Haiti web site. English and  French. No word in Kréyol.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Google, that is a private  company, that has no duty with anything, rushed to deploy an Alpha  version of its Kréyol online translation tool. That, by the way, seems  to be working very well.&lt;br /&gt;
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USAHIDI that now is being used by the authorities, but is a  volunteer open source mapping/emergency reporting tool and  others alike, with also no duty of any order, rushed to absorb the  Kréyol.&lt;br /&gt;
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Simon &amp;amp; Schuster, a private company, once again with no  obligations of any kind, rushed to offer its Pimsleur Approach Kréyol  Course for free.&lt;br /&gt;
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And following this line many other private, Commons licensed, or  volunteer-based companies and tools.&lt;br /&gt;
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That is why, the real friends of Haiti need to understand the History of Haiti.&lt;br /&gt;
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Because there is no benefit in healing roads, houses, ports if we can not heal the social distortions and the distorted foreign relations that are at the core heart of everything.&lt;br /&gt;
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The idea is not revenging back anything.&lt;br /&gt;
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The idea is preventing ourselves of allowing repeating errors.&lt;br /&gt;
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There is good will as never, there is union as never, but there is also the old mindset and the hidden prejudices entrenched within us even when we do not know.&lt;br /&gt;
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And that is why we should be always tireless informing ourselves (through as many perspectives as possible) to be always awakened.&lt;br /&gt;
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And we, the friends of Haiti, with our mouses by our hands, can do a lot.&lt;br /&gt;
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Alerting our network about those issues.&lt;br /&gt;
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Demanding the authorities in charge to translate the documents to Kréyol.&lt;br /&gt;
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To keep a translational network among us that can pass some information from and for the people on the ground working close to the tent camps.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is time, for instance, to demand community radio speakers by the tent camps transmitting instructions, educational messages and comprehensive parts of the the defined plans for the future.&lt;br /&gt;
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Let's think.&lt;br /&gt;
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We can find ways of bridging the peoples of Haiti with the future of Haiti that, finally, are them themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
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We just need to clean the noise around.&lt;br /&gt;
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And, finally, if the Haitian elections take the directions they are showing to take, let's ask our Governments to demand authorization for us to vote also. Then we will go to the &lt;b&gt;tent camps&lt;/b&gt; and humble ask for the real owners of the elections their authorizations for us to vote and their indication about the candidates...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-6833468644167524019?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6833468644167524019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/will-haiti-donors-countries-citizens-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/6833468644167524019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/6833468644167524019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/will-haiti-donors-countries-citizens-to.html' title='Will the Haiti Donors Countries&apos; Citizens to be allowed to vote in Haitian next elections?'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-1672082146121069302</id><published>2010-04-12T01:00:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T08:55:08.564-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Honor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dominican Republic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pride'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Resilience'/><title type='text'>MASTERPIECE (Official Version)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fondationfiershaitiens.org/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;SUPPORT &lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;THE FOUNDATION LES FIERS HAÏTIENS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &amp;gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A Masterpiece of Art and Hope.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;As Haiti herself is a Masterpiece&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;of Liberty and Hope&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Haïti Get Back Up | Ayiti Leve Kanpe | Haiti Levántate | Haiti Releve Toi | Levantai Haiti&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span onclick="document.location.href='/watch?v=GV0YDWgoFO4'" onmouseout="this.style.textDecoration='none'" onmouseover="this.style.textDecoration='underline'" style="cursor: pointer; margin-right: 7px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b style="color: #660000;"&gt;Official Version&lt;/b&gt; with a &lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b style="color: #990000;"&gt;Special Introduction by Danny Glover.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;An  8min time capsule of Haiti, Pre/Post Earthquake!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Jean Jean-Pierre&lt;/b&gt;  and the &lt;b style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;Dominican Republic Symphonic Orchestra&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conductor: José  Antonio Molina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Dominican Republic National Choir&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #134f5c;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conductor:  José Enrique Espin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Composer/Producer: Jean Jean-Pierre&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b style="color: #351c75;"&gt;Director:  Yvetot Gouin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;"In Memoriam: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;A tribute to those  who perished on January 12, 2010.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Each and every one  of us, who survived the January 12, 2010 earthquake which took the lives  of thousands and ravaged several cities in Haiti, has a story to tell.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Some barely made it. Some were missed by seconds.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Some made it with  missing limbs or/and loved ones.&lt;br /&gt;
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What, however, binds  us all so firmly is a collective responsibility to use this tragedy as a  catalyst for change.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Real change.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;No more business as usual.&lt;br /&gt;
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We’ve got to make  sense out of the deaths of so many folks who only wanted to have a  decent life like everyone else around the world.&lt;br /&gt;
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We must grab this  “opportunity” to enhance our circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;
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The system has failed the  people of Haiti for too long. Yes we must rebuild.&lt;br /&gt;
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No we cannot just  rebuild physically for the reconstruction of Haiti cannot be complete  without the reinforcement of its citizenry.&lt;br /&gt;
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We must reshape ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;
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We must remake ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;
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But we must all play our parts.&lt;br /&gt;
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Here’s mine: I  want to use my music as an impetus to help implement a national civic  and environmental education campaign.&lt;br /&gt;
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A new Haitian  citizen is needed today for Haiti.&lt;br /&gt;
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Our hands shall embrace our  neighbours from the Dominican Republic.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the aftermath of  the worst tragedy that has befallen Haiti, the Dominican Republic was  the first country to come to our help.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The Dominicans did not ask for  permission to land nor to cross the border.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bolstered by a deep sense of  gratitude, and armed with my music, I traveled to the Dominican  Republic to thank my neighbours.&lt;br /&gt;
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When I met for the first time Mr. José  Rafael Lantigua, the country’s Minister of Culture, he did not hesitate  for a second to introduce me to the great conductor and arranger,  Maestro Jose Antonio Molina.&lt;br /&gt;
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This is what we did  together."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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J e a n - J e a n&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; P i e r r e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-1672082146121069302?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1672082146121069302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/masterpiece.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1672082146121069302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/1672082146121069302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/masterpiece.html' title='MASTERPIECE (Official Version)'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-4368681312883790920</id><published>2010-04-08T12:07:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-08T12:34:17.144-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Agriculture'/><title type='text'>Using Food Aid to Support, Not Harm, Haitian Agriculture</title><content type='html'>From &lt;a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/relief-and-reconstruction-watch/using-food-aid-to-support-not-harm-haitian-agriculture/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;CEPR - Center for Economic and Policy Research &amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/S73sHZrbzqI/AAAAAAAAADs/TkN3wYlYzZ8/s1600/CEPR.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/S73sHZrbzqI/AAAAAAAAADs/TkN3wYlYzZ8/s200/CEPR.JPG" width="144" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;This is a very special report from CEPR that can help to save thousands of lives in Haiti and boost the economy &lt;br /&gt;
of the Country.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Please, if you can,  send it&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;to your Government Foreign Affairs,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Trade, and Agriculture  Ministries.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;VIEW/DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT BELOW] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Wednesday, 07 April 2010 14:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;0&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #274e13; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A new&lt;a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/using-food-aid-to-support-haiti/" target="_blank"&gt;  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/haiti-2010-04.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;issue  brief from CEPR&lt;/a&gt; (PDF) proposes that international donors seeking to  support Haiti’s agricultural sector and provide food to those in need  could help Haiti become more self-sufficient by purchasing the entire  Haitian rice crop over the next two years. The paper finds that buying  up all of Haiti’s rice should be close to the amount of food aid for  rice that the international community is likely to provide this year,  and would provide a tremendous boost to Haitian farmers, who currently  are unable to compete with low-cost rice imports from the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;
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The paper suggests the aid donors buy the rice at a price that is  high enough to encourage local production. Even though this would have  to be somewhat higher than an average of past years’ market prices, the  cost would only be between $62.1 million and $82.8 million per year.  Since international donors have committed $5.3 billion in aid for the  next 18 months, or $3.53 billion annually, the cost of buying Haiti’s  rice crop would be only 1.76 to 2.35 percent of committed international  aid funds.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;A new&lt;a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/using-food-aid-to-support-haiti/" target="_blank"&gt;  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/haiti-2010-04.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;issue  brief from CEPR&lt;/a&gt; (PDF) proposes that international donors seeking to  support Haiti’s agricultural sector and provide food to those in need  could help Haiti become more self-sufficient by purchasing the entire  Haitian rice crop over the next two years. The paper finds that buying  up all of Haiti’s rice should be close to the amount of food aid for  rice that the international community is likely to provide this year,  and would provide a tremendous boost to Haitian farmers, who currently  are unable to compete with low-cost rice imports from the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;
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The paper suggests the aid donors buy the rice at a price that is  high enough to encourage local production. Even though this would have  to be somewhat higher than an average of past years’ market prices, the  cost would only be between $62.1 million and $82.8 million per year.  Since international donors have committed $5.3 billion in aid for the  next 18 months, or $3.53 billion annually, the cost of buying Haiti’s  rice crop would be only 1.76 to 2.35 percent of committed international  aid funds.&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;A new&lt;a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/using-food-aid-to-support-haiti/" target="_blank"&gt;  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/haiti-2010-04.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;issue  brief from CEPR&lt;/a&gt; (PDF) proposes that international donors seeking to  support Haiti’s agricultural sector and provide food to those in need  could help Haiti become more self-sufficient by purchasing the entire  Haitian rice crop over the next two years. The paper finds that buying  up all of Haiti’s rice should be close to the amount of food aid for  rice that the international community is likely to provide this year,  and would provide a tremendous boost to Haitian farmers, who currently  are unable to compete with low-cost rice imports from the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;
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The paper suggests the aid donors buy the rice at a price that is  high enough to encourage local production. Even though this would have  to be somewhat higher than an average of past years’ market prices, the  cost would only be between $62.1 million and $82.8 million per year.  Since international donors have committed $5.3 billion in aid for the  next 18 months, or $3.53 billion annually, the cost of buying Haiti’s  rice crop would be only 1.76 to 2.35 percent of committed international  aid funds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/relief-and-reconstruction-watch/using-food-aid-to-support-not-harm-haitian-agriculture/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;CEPR  - Center for Economic and Policy Research &amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-4368681312883790920?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4368681312883790920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-food-aid-to-support-not-harm.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4368681312883790920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/4368681312883790920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-food-aid-to-support-not-harm.html' title='Using Food Aid to Support, Not Harm, Haitian Agriculture'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/S73sHZrbzqI/AAAAAAAAADs/TkN3wYlYzZ8/s72-c/CEPR.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-7606462422618675695</id><published>2010-04-07T09:11:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T09:11:12.468-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Disabilities'/><title type='text'>Still invisible: Persons with disabilities in post-quake Haiti</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1757456199" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;From&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;FOCAL Point&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focal.ca/publications/focalpoint/fp0410/?article=article4&amp;amp;lang=e" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;by Cassandra Phillips, Steven Estey and Mary Ennis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="style1"&gt;&lt;span class="style8"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Photo: With permission © World  Vision, 2010&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style1"&gt;&lt;span class="style8"&gt;It is expected that the number of persons living with physical  disabilities will continue to rise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="style11"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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When the world was attentive to the shocking reports and images out  of Haiti in the aftermath of the January earthquake, nothing was heard  about what was happening to people already living with disabilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the injured were dug out from the rubble, many were horrified  to discover that hundreds of amputations were performed under canvas,  without proper equipment.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now that the camera crews have packed up and  moved on, how much will be done for people with existing and  newly-acquired disabilities?&lt;br /&gt;
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And how will they be included in the  rebuilding of Haiti?&lt;br /&gt;
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The quake killed up to 200,000 people, injured many others and left  one-third of the country’s population of nine million in need of  emergency aid.&lt;br /&gt;
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Approximately 800,000 Haitians were already living with a  disability, and in the first few weeks after the quake, 2,000 to 4,000  amputations were performed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sadly, it is expected that the number of persons living with  physical disabilities will continue to rise.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lack of mobility aids, such  as crutches, can lead to limb shortage and permanent disability.&lt;br /&gt;
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The  lack of clean water and poor sanitation can result in secondary wound  infection, gangrene and amputation.&lt;br /&gt;
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For the same reason, those with  newly-acquired amputations may need another amputation higher up on the  body if the stump gets infected.&lt;br /&gt;
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In Haiti, myths about disability pose barriers to assistance for  persons with disabilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Many Haitians view disability as a curse or  punishment.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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For instance, children experiencing epileptic seizures are  presumed possessed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Family hardship is blamed on the child with a  disability.&lt;br /&gt;
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As a result, children with disabilities are either hidden  from sight or abandoned in sewers.&lt;br /&gt;
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In this context, what type of protection is available for persons  with disabilities?&lt;br /&gt;
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of  Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) that came into force in 2008 is an  international human rights instrument that should guide both relief work  and long-term reconstruction in Haiti.&lt;br /&gt;
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The CRPD outlines state  obligations to persons with disabilities during humanitarian crisis,  including right to life, right to access, right to protection of  integrity and right to community inclusion.&lt;br /&gt;
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Immediately following any major disaster, many persons with  disabilities flee their homes, leaving behind wheelchairs, braces and  crutches. They rely on others to carry them to safety and to fetch them  food and water in the makeshift camps. These settings are too often a  breeding ground for the violation of their human rights.&lt;br /&gt;
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Later, in post-disaster situations when people are moved out of  camps into outlying areas, transition can be difficult for persons with  disabilities; they may have longer distances to travel to find food,  pump water and obtain medical care or rehabilitation services. Even when  they are able to access basic necessities, some lack the stamina to  carry them home.&lt;br /&gt;
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People with existing and newly-acquired disabilities may be  physically unable to continue with their previous employment. New homes  or schools may be inaccessible, increasing once again their dependence  on others.&lt;br /&gt;
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In Haiti today, Valerie Scherrer of the German NGO Christian Blind  Missions (CBM) states that “persons living with disabilities before the  earthquake remain invisible. They are not given priority since everyone  is trying to survive.” &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://www.focal.ca/publications/focalpoint/fp0410/Estey%20photo%201.JPG" width="250" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="style1"&gt;&lt;span class="style8"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Photo: With permission © World  Vision, 2010&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style1"&gt;&lt;span class="style8"&gt;Amidst the destruction of the earthquake, roughly 800,000 Haitians  were already living with disability. In the first few weeks after the  quake, 2,000 to 4,000 amputations were performed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Nonetheless, the intent of international humanitarian organizations  is to reach all those in need. Patrick Sooma at World Vision  International (WVI) reports from Haiti that, “disability is considered  in all aspects of the humanitarian response effort.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;A Protection Team  supervises food distribution to ensure equal access, and outlying  communities are given advance notice of deliveries so that persons with  disabilities can get someone to pick up their supplies.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Clearly this is a step in the right direction, but is it enough?&lt;br /&gt;
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WVI’s efforts are an excellent start, yet Scherrer claims that food  baskets are often too heavy for persons with disabilities to lift.&lt;br /&gt;
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Others state that orphaned children with post-traumatic stress disorder  wander their ramshackle villages, stealing food from neighbours.&lt;br /&gt;
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Co-ordinating the relief effort in a country with an already weak  infrastructure is no easy task.&lt;br /&gt;
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At this time, there are many  stakeholders, both international and local, who want to be involved.&lt;br /&gt;
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Scherrer notes that many of these groups have no disability-related  experience.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rebuilding Haiti will be a complex process.&lt;br /&gt;
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Disabled Peoples’  International (DPI) views persons with disabilities as the experts on  disability issues.&lt;br /&gt;
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As such, they should be consulted on reconstruction,  education, employment training and accommodation needs.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hopefully,  funding for rehabilitation programs will respond to adults and children  with a variety of disabilities, not just children with amputations.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Yet  to be addressed are educational programs to shatter cultural myths and  stereotypes about persons with disabilities.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Finally, greater respect  for international humanitarian law as a means of enhancing the  protection of those who have had to flee their homes will go a long way  to ensure that the rights of persons with disabilities are &lt;br /&gt;
upheld.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="none"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Steven Estey is Human Rights Officer, Disabled  Peoples’ International (DPI). Mary Ennis is Executive Director, DPI.  Cassandra Phillips, PhD (University of Saskatchewan) is the Editor of  Disability International, a publication of DPI, and the Editor of DPI’s  Electronic Newsletter. DPI is the largest cross-disability grassroots  organization in the world with a network of 134 national assemblies,  mostly in developing nations. For more information, visit &lt;a href="http://www.dpi.org/"&gt;http://www.dpi.org&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-7606462422618675695?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7606462422618675695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/still-invisible-persons-with.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7606462422618675695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/7606462422618675695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/still-invisible-persons-with.html' title='Still invisible: Persons with disabilities in post-quake Haiti'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-3912587761854330623</id><published>2010-04-06T15:48:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-06T15:48:24.413-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rights'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Workers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Labor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unins'/><title type='text'>World Unions will Urge Respect for Workers' Rights in Haiti Reconstruction this week in Santo Domingo</title><content type='html'>From &lt;a href="http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/04/04/respect-workers-rights-when-rebuilding-haiti/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;'American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations' Blog &amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div id="BlogTitle" style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Respect Workers’ Rights When Rebuilding Haiti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Posted By &lt;u&gt;James Parks&lt;/u&gt; On April 4, 2010 @  9:00 am&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="10"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold;" width="250"&gt;Dominican  union truck drivers carry supplies to Haitian workers in Port-au-Prince.&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="10"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This week, trade unionists from around the world will meet in Santo  Domingo, Dominican Republic, to draft a road map for rebuilding Haiti.  Unions have already made it clear the reconstruction and future  development of Haiti must include social protections, creation of &lt;a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/-decent-work-.html" rel="external"&gt;decent  work&lt;/a&gt; and respect for workers’ rights.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In a statement to the U.N. Donor’s Conference last week, the  International Trade Union Confederation ( &lt;a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/" rel="external"&gt;ITUC&lt;/a&gt;) called for a  major international aid mobilization to rebuild the country’s devastated  infrastructure and economy. At the Donor’s Conference,&amp;nbsp;Secretary of  State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the United States has pledged  $1.15 billion for Haiti’s reconstruction.&lt;br /&gt;
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ITUC is organizing the Santo Domingo meeting along with its regional  organization for the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA)  and Global Union Federations PSI and EI.&lt;br /&gt;
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ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder said:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;Rebuilding and defining a new development model for Haiti  is a huge task that will require sustained international support.  Today, trade unions, particularly in Haiti, must be involved in it.&amp;nbsp;In  the past, the country was characterized by a huge informal economy,  severe poverty and hazardous and poorly paid work for much of the  workforce in the formal economy. There is now an opportunity to change  that for the better, and we are calling on international institutions,  donor governments and the Haitian government to provide decent economic  opportunities for Haitians.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Following the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, trade unions around the  world mobilized support on an unprecedented scale. The AFL-CIO &lt;a href="http://www.solidaritycenter.org/" rel="external"&gt;Solidarity Center&lt;/a&gt;  acted quickly to &lt;a href="http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/02/16/solidarity-centers-union-to-union-relief-effort-helps-haitian-workers" rel="external"&gt;send needed supplies and support&lt;/a&gt; to its Haitian  partners through a union-to-union effort that provides short-term  emergency aid and builds toward long-term reconstruction and  strengthening of Haiti’s union movement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Some Interesting Comments Found at The Blog: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ol class="yatcp_commentlist"&gt;&lt;li class="alt" id="comment-18793"&gt;&lt;div class="authorline"&gt;&lt;b&gt;bikini28 on 05.04.2010 at 15:42&lt;/b&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I think you’re missing the point that over all the past history  of this poor country, Haiti was the foremost haven for the Market  Fundalmentalist Milton Friedman laissez faire policies and that example  should be promoted. Labor unions? are you kidding? Health Care, Schools,  child labor, rape, criminal courts, minimum wage? Screw you you’re on  your own! Parks, civil enforcement,  Sanitary and Plumbing  regulation,Building Codes? “We don need no stinkin codes! This was the  perfect “Free Market” petri dish that acolytes can’t roll out the old  canard of “deregulation didn’t go far enough.” This is what the  Republican Party wants for our country because they care more for the  “purity” of their idealogical adherence than the fact that their  idealogy is why the whole building has collapsed on their heads. In  Haiti, it was more than the roof, it was the whole nation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li class="even" id="comment-18813"&gt;    &lt;div class="authorline"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Retired nurse on 05.04.2010 at 19:18&lt;/b&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;Another thing.  Let’s get some earthquake resistant building  there.  We need cooperation from designers, architects and the unions.   Good construction materials should be used.  New clinics, hospitals and  low income housing should be planned.  Sewage systems and other  infrastructure needs to be considered.  Officials need to be monitored  by the UN or some decent entity. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6611599853863976637-3912587761854330623?l=otherstreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3912587761854330623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/world-unions-will-urge-respect-for.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3912587761854330623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6611599853863976637/posts/default/3912587761854330623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://otherstreams.blogspot.com/2010/04/world-unions-will-urge-respect-for.html' title='World Unions will Urge Respect for Workers&apos; Rights in Haiti Reconstruction this week in Santo Domingo'/><author><name>ContraMaré</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thcoGtTPSh0/SnZngVehWNI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8UhYNr13iRQ/S220/Guilherme.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611599853863976637.post-6311668082505128416</id><published>2010-04-06T12:41:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-06T12:41:43.604-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='People'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Future'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Analysis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Research'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Document'/><title type='text'>A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS ::: YOUN VWA POU PEP LA</title><content type='html'>Our Beloved People of Ayiti is simply astonishing. Breathtaking. One of a kind. Each time, more and more, I understand the most, that our key role is just to hear and strongly support our brothers in their envisioning and determinations. They know where and how they want to go. And, after all, the whatever, the however, the wherever, the whenever they choose, it is up to them, they own their destiny, and, finally, if we really want to show up our solidarity we should be present, tireless, and conscious solidary coadjuvants.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Some quotes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;“We saw the National Palace destroyed. I would like to see Haitian engineers rebuild it not foreign engineers so we can look at the Palace proudly in the future and say that Haitians built the National Palace.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(Grande Ravine, Port-au-Prince)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;“A child who is not educated has no tools for the future, he/she is not important in the society”.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(Grande Ravine, Port-au-Prince)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Even if the country has been destroyed it will not die”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(Port-au-Prince)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Since the earthquake, we are all homeless, whether rich or poor. I would like to see the country rebuilt as one, without divisions.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(Port-au-Prince)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;EXCERPTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[FULL DOCUMENT VIEW/DOWNLOAD BELOW]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;SUMMARY:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;By conducting a series of focus groups in Haiti’s ten departments, six partner organizations have sought to capture the opinions and aspirations of Haitian citizens who are not members of organized civil society groups and, as such, would not be included in any of the consultation mechanisms conducted for the donor conference. The purpose of this exercise was to attempt to ensure that the opinions of average Haitian citizens on the country’s reconstruction and development could be heard. In the course of 156 focus groups, 1750 Haitian citizens articulated several clear messages:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;There is a strong demand for participation and an end to exclusion.&lt;/b&gt; The exercise was an opportunity, often for the first time, for people to express themselves on issues of concern to their communities and to themselves as individual citizens. After 12 January, the quest of the common man/woman to put an end to exclusion and be part of the decision-making process on the way forward is stronger than ever. There is now a firm expectation from people at grassroots level that they should be consulted on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Haitian people insist on decentralization and deconcentration of public services with increased participation of local management.&lt;/b&gt; There is a common demand that the reconstruction package benefit all Haitians, regardless of their status and location. Most want job opportunities closer to home, no matter how remote their communities and demand a say in the development of their regions. Such aspirations are generally expressed in terms of “decentralization” and “deconcentration” seen by nearly all as the only way to rebuild Haiti better.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;A clear majority of focus group participants, from both rural and urban areas, strongly believe that there is a critical need to invest in people (“investisman nan moun”). &lt;/b&gt;The main priorities should be the creation of jobs, the support to agriculture in order to generate development, the building of schools, hospitals, roads and increased access to micro-credit, the main objective being to enable citizens to assume their own family responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Responsible aid must reinforce Haiti’s sovereignty.&lt;/b&gt; A clear majority of focus group participants, from both rural and urban areas, strongly believe that there is a critical need to focus on support to agriculture in order to generate development and create jobs. Other priorities in the economic recovery are the building of roads and increased access to micro-credit. The overall purpose of reconstruction should be to enable the country to progress while avoiding aid dependency. Haitians do not see their future as being passive recipients of foreign aid.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Haitian people insist on being treated equally and with dignity.&lt;/b&gt; Any reconstruction programme should be designed to correct existing inequalities between poor/rich, rural/urban and the capital/regions.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Focus groups highlighted the following five key immediate priorities in reconstruction:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Housing&lt;/b&gt;: new dwellings for displaced people and the introduction of earthquake resistant&lt;br /&gt;
building methods;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Education&lt;/b&gt;: overhaul of the education system throughout the country, the reestablishment and regionalization of universities, larger schools to accommodate the children of the displaced people, civic education;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Health&lt;/b&gt;: better health care, building of primary health care facilities and hospitals;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Local public services&lt;/b&gt;: potable water, sanitation, electricity;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Communication infrastructure&lt;/b&gt;: primarily roads to link cities and the countryside, but also national ports and airports.&lt;/li&gt;
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