Feliz Ano Novo! Happy New Year!

Clássicos do cinema - "Shoah" - 1 e 2

"A Balada do Mar Salgado" - 2

Livro Recomendado - "Milagrário Pessoal"

De José Eduardo Agualusa

Sida

AIDES - GRAFFITI from Yoann Lemoine on Vimeo.
O melhor vídeo que vi até hoje sobre campanhas de protecção contra a SIDA

Disco Recomendado - "Dezembros"

Maria Bethânia

"A Balada do Mar Salgado" - 1

Benazir Bhutto

3 anos

Mensagem de Natal

Muito Bom!

Livro Recomendado - "A Solidão dos Números Primos"

De Paolo Giordano

Frases célebres 32 - Platão

Podemos facilmente perdoar uma criança que tem medo do escuro; a real tragédia da vida é quando os homens têm medo da luz.

Platão

Ai Lisboa, Lisboa!

Movimento não desiste de parar 'mono' do Rato - E nós também não!

Clássicos do cinema - "It's a Wonderful Life"

Realização de Frank Capra

"Ladainha dos póstumos Natais"

Há-de vir um Natal e será o primeiro
em que se veja à mesa o meu lugar vazio

Há-de vir um Natal e será o primeiro
em que hão-de me lembrar de modo menos nítido

Há-de vir um Natal e será o primeiro
em que só uma voz me evoque a sós consigo

Há-de vir um Natal e será o primeiro
em que não viva já ninguém meu conhecido

Há-de vir um Natal e será o primeiro
em que nem vivo esteja um verso deste livro

Há-de vir um Natal e será o primeiro
em que terei de novo o Nada a sós comigo

Há-de vir um Natal e será o primeiro
em que nem o Natal terá qualquer sentido

Há-de vir um Natal e será o primeiro
em que o Nada retome a cor do Infinito

David Mourão-Ferreira

"Silent Night"

Feliz Natal!

O Eclipse anteontem

Assim vai a Europa - Grécia

Assim vai a Europa - Itália

Começou o Inverno

Declaração Universal dos Direitos do Homem

Petição - "Queremos o "Viver no Trânsito" na RTP"

Porque a Segurança Rodoviária somos todos nós, porque em Portugal os números da sinistralidade rodoviária nos envergonham, vamos obrigar a RTP a apoiar a campanha de Prevenção da Segurança Rodoviária "Viver no Transito". Todos nós que pagamos mensalmente para a estação pública exigimos que o Serviço Publico seja uma realidade naquela estação televisiva. Este concurso que visa EDUCAR, através de novas regras de conduta na estrada, e ENSINAR o Código da Estrada, é de extrema necessidade para um problema que já deixou de ser cidadania para ser de Saúde Pública. E a RTP a assobiar para o ar. O concurso foi aprovado há 5 anos e está a ser adiado "ad-eternum" por uma direcção de programas que não considera que a Segurança Rodoviária se enquadra na lógica do Serviço Público. É tempo de todos os que financiam o canal do Estado, os portugueses, terem uma palavra de exigencia. Só entretenimento não chega. O "Viver no Transito" vai ajudar Portugal ! Em nome de todos quantos perderam a vida nas estradas, por todos os que ficaram incapacitados, por todos os familiares de vitimas, por todos nós !

Assine!

"Árvore da Consciência"

Bem Vindo!

Afinal, que história é esta da PIDE?

A Joana Lopes explica. E não há mais explicações!
Cavaco, personagem de "Conta-me como foi?"

Notícias de Cuba - "EL ESTRUCTURALISMO SOCIALISTA ( a propósito del discurso del dictador Raúl Castro )"

Um artigo de Julio César Soler Baró no Misceláneas de Cuba

EUA e sionismo

Para conhecer melhor o que se passa no Médio Oriente.

"Extra Ordinary Christmas"

Eu e Carlos Pinto Coelho - Vergílio Ferreira

Adeus Meu Amigo!!!!!

Parabéns Oscar!!!!!

Oscar Niemeyer

Curiosidades da língua portuguesa - "Dar trela"

Dar Trela

Significado: Encorajar alguém a falar, geralmente para obter informações; dar confiança; dar liberdade; manter conversa longa e despretensiosa; alimentar pretensões amorosas.

Origem: O termo trela, registado na nossa língua desde o século XV, deriva do latim tragella, diminutivo de tragulla “rede de arrasto, dardo com correia”. é daqui que vem o sentido actual de corrente de metal ou tira de couro a que se prende um animal, geralmente um cão.

Em português, a palavra trela é também usada como sinónimo de tagarelice. Esta última acepção está subjacente à expressão “dar trela a alguém“.

Ambos os sentidos acabam por se cruzar, pois, ao dar-se trela ao cão, dá-se-lhe espaço para se movimentar com mais liberdade; dando trela a alguém, dá-se-lhe a oportunidade de falar com mais à vontade.

Uma ideia peregrina

O Executivo anunciou hoje que vai propor à concertação social a fixação de tectos máximos para as indemnizações em caso de despedimento.

Uma boa ideia para diminuir os despedimentos: pagar menos de indemnização. Uma boa ideia para aumentar o desemprego. Muito bom!!!!!

Wikileaks - Mapa dos documentos

Aqui toda a informação.

Livro Recomendado - "O Século XX Esquecido"

Tony Judt

Portugal é possível - Jessica Augusto

Jessica Augusto - Campeã europeia de corta-mato

"WikiRebels – The Documentary"

"Eu sou a Wikileaks" - Manifestação em Lisboa, 11/12/2010

"The Tadpole"

The Tadpole from Passion Pictures on Vimeo.

"The Voice" - 95 anos

Frank Sinatra

102 anos!

Parabéns Manoel de Oliveira!

Dossier África - Week of Action For Sudan

De 5 de Dezembro até Janeiro de 2011

"Story of Stuff"

Liu Xiaobo - Prémio Nobel da Paz 2010

I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement

In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of ‘'77). From BA to MA and on to PhD, my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing NormalUniversity. As a teacher, I was well received by the students. At the same time, I was a public intellectual, writing articles and books that created quite a stir during the 1980s, frequently receiving invitations to give talks around the country, and going abroad as a visiting scholar upon invitation from Europe and America. What I demanded of myself was this: whether as a person or as a writer, I would lead a life of honesty, responsibility, and dignity. After that, because I had returned from the U.S. to take part in the 1989 Movement, I was thrown into prison for "the crime of counter revolutionary propaganda and incitement." I also lost my beloved lectern and could no longer publish essays or give talks in China. Merely for publishing different political views and taking part in a peaceful democracy movement, a teacher lost his lectern, a writer lost his right to publish, and a public intellectual lost the opportunity to give talks publicly. This is a tragedy, both for me personally and for a China that has already seen thirty years of Reform and Opening Up.

When I think about it, my most dramatic experiences after June Fourth have been, surprisingly, associated with courts: My two opportunities to address the public have both been provided by trial sessions at the Beijing Municipal Intermediate People's Court, once in January 1991, and again today.

Twenty years have passed, but the ghosts of June Fourth have not yet been laid to rest. Upon release from Qincheng Prison in 1991, I, who had been led onto the path of political dissent by the psychological chains of June Fourth, lost the right to speak publicly in my own country and could only speak through the foreign media. Because of this, I was subjected to year round monitoring, kept under residential surveillance (May 1995 to January 1996) and sent to Reeducation Through Labor (October 1996 to October 1999). And now I have been once again shoved into the dock by the enemy mentality of the regime. But I still want to say to this regime, which is depriving me of my freedom, that I stand by the convictions I expressed in my "June Second Hunger Strike Declaration" twenty years ago I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies. Although there is no way I can accept your monitoring, arrests, indictments, and verdicts, I respect your professions and your integrity, including those of the two prosecutors, Zhang Rongge and Pan Xueqing, who are now bringing charges against me on behalf of the prosecution. During interrogation on December 3, I could sense your respect and your good faith.

Hatred can rot away at a person's intelligence and conscience. Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation, incite cruel mortal struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and hinder a nation's progress toward freedom and democracy. That is why I hope to be able to transcend my personal experiences as i look upon our nation's development and social change, to counter the regime's hostility with utmost goodwill, and to dispel hatred with love.

Everyone knows that it was Reform and Opening Up that brought about our country's development and social change. In my view, Reform and Opening Up began with the abandonment of the "using class struggle as guiding principle" government policy of the Mao era and, in its place, a commitment to economic development and social harmony. The process of abandoning the "philosophy of struggle" was also a process of gradual weakening of the enemy mentality and elimination of the psychology of hatred, and a process of squeezing out the "wolf's milk" that had seeped into human nature. It was this process that provided a relaxed climate, at home and abroad, for Reform and Opening Up, gentle and humane grounds for restoring mutual affection among people and peaceful coexistence among those with different interests and values, thereby providing encouragement in keeping with humanity for the bursting forth of creativity and the restoration of compassion among our countrymen. One could say that relinquishing the "anti imperialist and anti revisionist" stance in foreign relations and "class struggle" at home has been the basic premise that has enabled Reform and Opening Up to continue to this very day. The market trend in the economy, the diversification of culture, and the gradual shift in social order toward the rule of law have all benefitted from the weakening of the “enemy mentality." Even in the political arena, where progress is slowest, the weakening of the enemy mentality has led to an ever growing tolerance for social pluralism on the part of the regime and substantial decrease in the force of persecution of political dissidents, and the official designation of the 1989 Movement has also been changed from "turmoil and riot" to "political disturbance." The weakening of the enemy mentality has paved the way for the regime to gradually accept the universality of human rights. In [1997 and] 1998 the Chinese government made a commitment to sign two major United Nations international human rights covenants, signaling China's acceptance of universal human rights standards. In 2004, the National People's Congress (NPC) amended the Constitution, writing into the Constitution for the first time that "the state respects and guarantees human rights," signaling that human rights have already become one of the fundamental principles of China's rule of law. At the same time, the current regime puts forth the ideas of “putting people first" and "Creating a harmonious society," signaling progress in the CPC's concept of rule.

I have also been able to feel this progress on the macro level through my own personal experience since my arrest.

Although I continue to maintain that I am innocent and that the charges against me are unconstitutional, during the one plus year since I have lost my freedom, I have been locked up at two different locations and gone through four pretrial police interrogators, three prosecutors, and two judges, but in handling my case, they have not been disrespectful, overstepped time limitations, or tried to force a confession. Their manner has been moderate and reasonable; moreover, they have often shown goodwill. On June 23, I was moved from a location where I was kept under residential surveillance to the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau's No. 1 Detention Center, known as "Beikan." During my six months at Beikan, I saw improvements in prison management.

In 1996, I spent time at the old Beikan (located at Banbuqiao). Compared to the old Beikan of more than a decade ago, the present Beikan is a huge improvement, both in terms of the "hard¬ware" the facilities and the "software" the management. In particular, the humane management pioneered by the new Beikan, based on respect for the rights an integrity of detainees, has brought flexible management to bear on every aspect of the behavior of the correctional staff, and has found expression in the "comforting broadcasts," Repentance magazine, and music before meals, on waking and at bedtime. This style of management allows detainees to experience a sense of dignity and warmth, and stirs their consciousness in maintaining prison order and opposing the bullies among inmates. Not only has it provided a humane living environment for detainees, it has also greatly improved the environment for their litigation to take place and their state of mind. I've had close contact with correctional officer Liu Zheng, who has been in charge of me in my cell, and his respect and care for detainees could be seen in every detail of his work, permeating his every word and deed, and giving one a warm feeling. It was perhaps my good fortune to have gotten to know this sincere, honest, conscien¬tious, and kind correctional officer during my time at Beikan.

It is precisely because of such convictions and personal experience that I firmly believe that China's political progress will not stop, and I, filled with optimism, look forward to the advent of a future free China. For there is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will in the end become.a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme. I also hope that this sort of progress can be reflected in this trial as I await the impartial ruling of the
collegial bench a ruling that will withstand the test of history.

If I may be permitted to say so, the most fortunate experience of these past twenty years has been the selfless love I have received from my wife, Liu Xia. She could not be present as an observer in court today, but I still want to say to you, my dear, that I firmly believe your love for me will remain the same as it has always been. Throughout all these years that I have lived without freedom, our love was full of bitterness imposed by outside circumstances, but as I savor its aftertaste, it remains boundless. I am serving my sentence in a tangible prison, while you wait in the intangible prison of the heart. Your love is the sunlight that leaps over high walls and penetrates the iron bars of my prison window, stroking every inch of my skin, warming every cell of my body, allowing me to always keep peace, openness, and brightness in my heart, and filling every minute of my time in prison with meaning. My love for you, on the other hand, is so full of remorse and regret that it at times makes me stagger under its weight. I am an insensate stone in the wilderness, whipped by fierce wind and torrential rain, so cold that no one dares touch me. But my love is solid and sharp, capable of piercing through any obstacle. Even if I were crushed into powder, I would still use my ashes to embrace you.
My dear, with your love I can calmly face my impending trial, having no regrets about the choices I've made and optimistically awaiting tomorrow. I look forward to [the day] when my country is a land with freedom of expression, where the speech of every citizen will be treated equally well; where different values, ideas, beliefs, and political views ... can both compete with each other and peacefully coexist; where both majority and minority views will be equally guaranteed, and where the political views that differ from those currently in power, in particular, will be fully respected and protected; where all political views will spread out under the sun for people to choose from, where every citizen can state political views without fear, and where no one can under any circumstances suffer political persecution for voicing divergent political views. I hope that I will be the last victim of China's endless literary inquisitions and that from now on no one will be incriminated because of speech.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.

In order to exercise the right to freedom of speech conferred by the Constitution, one should fulfill the social responsibility of a Chinese citizen. There is nothing criminal in anything I have done. [But] if charges are brought against me because of this, I have no complaints.

Thank you, everyone.

10 de Dezembro - Dia Mundial dos Direitos Humanos

"Eu sou a Wikileaks"

No próximo sábado, e em consonância com todo um movimento internacional de mobilização, convidamos todos os cidadãos que pensam que a liberdade de expressão e o livre acesso à informação são direitos inalienáveis, a concentrarem-se a partir das 15h no Largo do Chiado, em Lisboa.

Apelamos ao fim do bloqueio da Wikileaks que tem vindo a suceder por parte de várias empresas; apelamos ainda à não extradição de Julian Assange pelos riscos de vir a ser desrespeitado o seu direito a um julgamento justo devido a pressões internacionais.

Mas a WikiLeaks é mais do que uma pessoa, a WikiLeaks somos todos nós. Todos aqueles que acreditam na liberdade de expressão e na transparência da informação.

Todos somos a WikiLeaks.

Livro Recomendado - "Navegação ponto por ponto"

Gore Vidal

Cartoons - "Uma imagem que dispensa 1.000 palavras"

Cartoons - "Os alvos de Wikileaks"

"The Wikileaks scandal is more than just a diplomatic scuffle; it’s a war for the future of the Internet"

You’ll have been following the Wikileaks saga, of course, because it is novel and interesting. Maybe you like it because it looks like a live action retelling of Enemy Of The State, or because history seems to be in the making. It feels big, doesn’t it? It is, but it’s bigger than that, too: what we’re witnessing right now is the opening of hostilities in the first big infowar. The war for the Internet is very big indeed.

"WikiLeaks: Serviços consulares australianos confirmam ajuda a Assange "

Os serviços consulares australianos darão a sua ajuda ao fundador da WikiLeaks Julian Assange, de nacionalidade australiana, após a sua detenção em Londres, assegurou hoje o ministro australiano dos Negócios estrangeiros, Kevin Rudd.

"Wikileaks: Stop the crackdown"

To the U.S. government, and corporations linked to Wikileaks:

We call on you to stop the crackdown on WikiLeaks and its partners immediately. We urge you to respect democratic principles and laws of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. If Wikileaks and the journalists it works with have violated any laws they should be pursued in the courts with due process. They should not be subjected to an extra-judicial campaign of intimidation.

Assinem!

"Este blogue é a WikiLeaks"

WikiLeaks

O Cinema está de luto - Virgílio Teixeira - (26/10/1917 - 06/12/2010)

Virgílio Teixeira

Óscares - a história dos melhores filmes em posters - 1950

Realização de Joseph L. Mankiewicz

"Malditos controladores?"

Divulgo aqui este post do blogue Entre as brumas da memória, porque me identifico com ele.

Nota: Esta identificação é só minha e não do outro membro do blogue.

"Guernica"

Assim vai a Europa - Inglaterra: "Adversário de vulto para Cameron"

Why Ed Miliband shouldn't be underestimated

Disco Recomendado - "Vinicius 90 anos"

Vinicius de Moraes

Filme recomendado - "Cela 211"

Realização de Daniel Monzón

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner- "Paesaggi Urbani"

5 de Dezembro - Dia Internacional do Voluntariado

Hoje é o Dia Internacional do Voluntariado

Assim vai a Europa - Inglaterra

Assim vai a Europa - Espanha

Militares vão controlar espaço aéreo espanhol

3 de Dezembro - Dia Mundial das Pessoas com deficiência

Deficientes: 80% reside nos países mais pobres, diz OMS