Monday, November 23, 2020

OBAMA, UMA ENTREVISTA OPORTUNA

 

                                                                             AQUI

QUEM TEM RABOS DE PEIXE?

Rabo de Peixe,uma freguesia de Ribeira Grande, Açores, apareceu, recentemente, a boiar na espuma dos dias de discussão política provocada pelos resultados eleitorais para o governo do arquipélago, a propósito da, para alguns, excessiva subsídio dependência e, para outros, dos subsídios necessários para suprir os meios mínimos de subsistência, esta notícia de Dezembro de 2017:

Documentário em Espanha, AQUI, dedica-se ao naufrágio que levou cocaína a Rabo de Peixe. Em 2001, uma embarcação que transportaria meia tonelada de cocaína naufragou ao largo dos Açores. O acidente desencadeou uma caça à droga na vila de Rabo de Peixe. As marcas ainda se notam, 17 anos depois. Duas jornalistas espanholas dedicam-lhe um documentário.AQUI

Em 2001, era presidente do Governo Regional dos Açores, desde 1996, o sr. Carlos César. Cessou essas funções em 2012; em 2014 foi eleito Presidente do Partido Socialista em 2014 a convite de António Costa. Sucedeu-lhe na presidência do Governo Regional o sr. Vasco Cordeiro, desde 2012 até amanhã,  24 de Novembro de 2020.

Em 2001 era primeiro-ministro, António Guterres, foi até 2002; Durão Barroso e Santana Lopes entre 2002 e 2005; José Sócrates desde 2005 até 2011; Passos Coelho de 2011 a 2015; António Costa de 2015 até agora.

 

                                                                  Rabo de Peixe

Sunday, November 22, 2020

50 ROSTOS PARA UM CÂNONE

Agustina Bessa-Luís, Alexandre Herculano, Alexandre O’Neill, Almada Negreiros, Almeida Garrett, Antero de Quental, António José da Silva, António Nobre, António Vieira, Aquilino Ribeiro, Bernardim Ribeiro, Bocage, Camilo Castelo Branco, Camilo Pessanha, Carlos de Oliveira, Cesário Verde, Dom Duarte, Eça de Queirós, Fernando Pessoa, Fernão Lopes, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Florbela Espanca, Frei Luís de Sousa, Gil Vicente, Gomes Leal, Herberto Helder, Irene Lisboa, João de Deus, Jorge de Sena, José Régio, José Rodrigues Miguéis, José Saramago, Júlio Dinis, Luís de Camões, Luiza Neto Jorge, Maria Judite de Carvalho, Mário Cesariny, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Miguel Torga, Oliveira Martins, Raul Brandão, Ruben A., Ruy Belo, Sá de Miranda, Teixeira de Pascoaes, As Três Marias, Vitorino Nemésio.


Apresentação : AQUI

Sugere-se avançar o cursor no YouTube para não aguardar cerca de 25 minutos.

Friday, November 20, 2020

OS AMIGOS SÃO PARA OUTRAS OCASIÕES

 21 Agosto 2020

“No dia em que a subsistência deste Governo depender de um acordo com o PSD, nesse dia este Governo acabou” - António Costa em entrevista do Expresso - aqui

 Hoje, 20 Novembro 2020

O Parlamento aprovou esta sexta-feira a renovação do estado de emergência, que permitirá ao Governo apresentar medidas de combate à pandemia em função do concelho. Na Assembleia, só PS, PSD e a deputada não inscrita Cristina Rodrigues votaram a favor, mas o ministro da Administração Interna, Eduardo Cabrita, quis salientar o apoio de “mais de 90%” dos deputados para a viabilização da renovação do estado de emergência, numa altura em que um estudo aponta para a redução do apoio dos portugueses às medidas adoptadas pelo executivo. - c/p aqui

PCP não fará testes nem medição de temperatura no congresso e, mesmo que haja recolher obrigatório para Loures, as reuniões dos órgãos partidários não estão suspensas

 



Thursday, November 19, 2020

E VOCÊ, SE TIVESSE UMA FILHA E ELA CASASSE COM UM CIGANO, O QUE PENSAVA?

“Se tivesse uma filha e ela casasse com um cigano, o que pensava?”, questiona Miguel Sousa Tavares. “Não ia gostar”, responde de imediato o deputado (André Ventura). “Não vou ser politicamente correto. Não ia gostar!”

E você, Miguel Sousa Tavares, se tivesse uma filha e ela casasse com um cigano, o que pensava?

Gostei que ela tenha casado com um filho do Ricardo Salgado.

Correl . - Portugal instado a enfrentar racismo contra os ciganos  


Wednesday, November 18, 2020

A DANÇA DA CABRA CEGA

Juízas fazem leitura errada e põem testes em causa.

"Juízas fazem leitura “errada” de artigos científicos e põem em causa fiabilidade de testes à covid-19

Desembargadoras do Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa fazem leitura “errada” de dois artigos científicos e o consenso científico sobre os PCR é “absoluto”, reagem especialistas."

É relativamente frequente desembargadores e desembargadoras darem que  falar. 

O que era impensável é que metessem o nariz no 19. Mas meteram.


PORQUÊ AS MARTAS - 2

No Público de hoje, pág. 28, uma resposta à questão que coloquei neste caderno de apontamentos em 10 de Junho e na sexta-feira passada, aqui:

"Entre cães e gatos, galinhas e chimpanzés há animais imunes e susceptíveis ao SARS-CoV-2

Estudos de cientistas portugueses identificaram animais que serão susceptíveis e outros que podem ser imunes à infecção pelo SARS-CoV-2 e explicam o que separa e une as outras espécies e os humanos."

Seria muito estranho que ninguém tivesse a pensar e estudar o assunto. Há, e, pelo menos dois, são portugueses, a trabalhar em diferentes instituições nos EUA.

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Correl . Os animais infectam ou são infectados?

O Gorila é uma das espécies com um potencial muito elevado de infecção 

Skip Brown/Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute


Friday, November 13, 2020

PORQUÊ AS MARTAS?

 Covid-19. Dinamarca está a abater todos os visons do país

 A 10 de Junho anotei aqui :

"Perguntas que não vejo perguntadas: 

As martas, só as martas, são transmissoras do vírus? 
E todos os outros animais selvagens ou domésticos com contactos exteriores ao seu habitat normal?
Se as martas são reproduzidas e criadas em cativeiro como foram atingidas pelo vírus?
Se o vírus foi importado por outro exemplar da espécie onde foi ele apanhado?
Está provado que a transmissão do vírus não foi de humano para as martas? Se fosse essa  a conclusão levaria à exponenciação dos perigos de contágio. E ninguém diz nada sobre o assunto?
Devo andar a ver fantasmas ...

Há cerca de três meses a OMS admitia que o vírus tivesse sido transmitido de um morcego para um pangolim e deste para humanos e tinha potencial de pandemia. Ainda hoje não está cientificamente provada esta hipótese.
No caso da martas, condenadas à morte, foi dado como adquirido que a transmissão se deu e em que condições se deu. O que é que falta saber?

Sunday, November 08, 2020

A DESCIDA DE TRUMP

                                                                    AN ANIMATED ESCALATER RIDE THROUGH THE ERA TRUMP

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O DISCURSO DE GRANDE DIGNIDADE

Election 2008 

Transcript Of John McCain's Concession Speech - c/p npr -  November 5, 2008

My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Sen. Barack Obama — to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.

In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans, who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president, is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving.

This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.

I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Sen. Obama believes that, too. But we both recognize that though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.

A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to visit — to dine at the White House — was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States. Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.

Sen. Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day — though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her Creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise.

Sen. Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain. These are difficult times for our country, and I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.

I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.

Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that.

It is natural tonight to feel some disappointment, but tomorrow we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again. We fought — we fought as hard as we could.

And though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours.

I am so deeply grateful to all of you for the great honor of your support and for all you have done for me. I wish the outcome had been different, my friends. The road was a difficult one from the outset. But your support and friendship never wavered. I cannot adequately express how deeply indebted I am to you.

I am especially grateful to my wife, Cindy, my children, my dear mother and all my family and to the many old and dear friends who have stood by my side through the many ups and downs of this long campaign. I have always been a fortunate man, and never more so for the love and encouragement you have given me.

You know, campaigns are often harder on a candidate's family than on the candidate, and that's been true in this campaign. All I can offer in compensation is my love and gratitude, and the promise of more peaceful years ahead.

I am also, of course, very thankful to Gov. Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I have ever seen and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength. Her husband, Todd, and their five beautiful children, with their tireless dedication to our cause, and the courage and grace they showed in the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign. We can all look forward with great interest to her future service to Alaska, the Republican Party and our country.

To all my campaign comrades, from Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, to every last volunteer who fought so hard and valiantly month after month in what at times seemed to be the most challenged campaign in modern times — thank you so much. A lost election will never mean more to me than the privilege of your faith and friendship.

I don't know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I'll leave that to others to determine. Every candidate makes mistakes, and I'm sure I made my share of them. But I won't spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been.

This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life. And my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Sen. Obama and my old friend, Sen. Joe Biden, should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.

I would not be an American worthy of the name, should I regret a fate that has allowed me the extraordinary privilege of serving this country for a half a century. Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone and I thank the people of Arizona for it.

Tonight — tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Sen. Obama, I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president.

And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.

Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history. Thank you, and God bless you, and God bless America.

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Saturday, November 07, 2020

BIDEN

 

 Joe Biden Wins 2020 Presidential Election 


 Agora há que aguardar a reacção do touro.

APRENDER COM OS GREGOS

Segunda-feira entra em vigor o estado de emergência. Light, para usar um eufemismo que permite interpretações à la carte. Esperemos que funcione e os serviços de saúde, público e privado,   não venham a ser submergidos por um número de casos  que o colapsem.

Sempre que vejo os números referentes aos níveis de covid atingidos exibidos nas televisões, ou os comentários da evolução da situação, em quadros que fazem lembrar os dos mostrados em noites de resultados eleitorais, estranho que nunca sejam referidos os resultados obtidos na Grécia, - a Grécia tão badalada após a crise financeira, intervencionada pela troica, - na contenção da pandemia. Sobre o assunto coloquei neste caderno de apontamentos comentários em 4 de Junho e, cerca de um mês antes, 23 de Abril.

APRENDER COM OS GREGOS

GRAÇAS A ZEUS 

Ontem li no Expresso: Covid-19. Gregos só podem sair de casa a partir de sábado (hoje) se fizerem o pedido por telemóvel e obtiverem autorização.

Por cá anda-se muito preocupado com as restrições do estado de emergência, a partir de segunda-feira.

Veja-se as diferenças.  

Friday, November 06, 2020

CTT

Quando chegámos, tirámos a senha no interior da loja,  tínhamos oito pessoas à nossa frente na fila de espera no exterior. Pelos nossas contas, o tempo médio de espera e atendimento era de quarenta e cinco minutos.

- Está na fila lá fora uma senhora que diz ser analfabeta e não consegue saber quando é que o número da senha que tirou aparece no quadro.

- Pedi a um colega que fosse lá fora dizer-lhe que já pode entrar.

A senhora seria, pela aparência, septuagenária, talvez tivesse ido aos correios receber a pensão; pensão ou outro recebimento qualquer, percebemos que quem a atendeu, depois de demorados procedimentos, entregou-lhe dinheiro.

- A senhora não quer habilitar-se ao sorteio da Santa Casa?, perguntou a funcionária quando entregava o dinheiro.

- Não, não costumo jogar.

- Nem para a sorte grande do Natal?

- Não, não, não quero.

- E uma raspadinha?

- Uma raspadinha? 

- Sim, uma raspadinha, pode ver logo quanto lhe saiu.

- Hum! Dê-me uma .... e agora como posso ver se me saiu alguma coisa?

- É fácil ... Pega-se numa moeda, ... assim, raspa-se isto aqui ...

- Quanto é que me saiu?

- Desta vez nada.

- Já sabia que não me saía nada.


Thursday, November 05, 2020

POR QUE RAZÃO AINDA NÃO É CONHECIDO O PRÓXIMO PRESIDENTE DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMÉRICA

POR QUE RAZÃO AINDA NÃO É CONHECIDO O PRÓXIMO PRESIDENTE DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMÉRICA

Porque Donald Trump ganhou as eleições na Flórida com os votos dos latino-americanos. Que ele considerou "estúpidos demais para votarem nele".

Trump tinha razão?

Why Donald Trump exceeded expectations with Americas-Latinos?

DONALD TRUMP began his campaign to become America’s president in 2015 by calling Mexicans rapists and drug traffickers. When families crossed America’s southern border, his immigration police separated children from their parents. Before the 2018 midterm elections he tried to scare voters with the prospect of caravans of migrants heading for America. His failure to control covid-19 has caused disproportionate harm to Latino Americans, who are far likelier than whites to be sickened, hospitalised and to die from the virus.

For all of these reasons and more—including Mr Trump’s hostility toward immigrants and his taunting of Mexico—many Democrats assumed he had little hope of winning Latino votes. They were wrong, as his victories in Florida and Texas showed—and in Mr Trump’s overperformance lie some uncomfortable, necessary lessons for Democrats.

For years, Democrats running statewide in Florida have treated diverse, heavily Democratic Miami-Dade county as a place to run up their margins to offset losses up north. Four years ago Hillary Clinton won 63% of the vote there, improving on Barack Obama’s totals (58%, 62%). Joe Biden regressed, winning just 53.3%, en route to a 3.4-point loss in Florida—more than twice Mrs Clinton’s loss margin in 2016.

Two factors drove Mr Trump’s success among Florida’s Latinos. The first is sui generis: Cuban-Americans comprise a uniquely large share of the state’s Latinos, and they tend to vote Republican. Many believed that Mr Obama’s success in south Florida suggested that Cubans’ attachment to the Republican party would fade. That hope proved fond: 52.6% of Cubans in Florida—and 76% of those who arrived in Miami between 2010 and 2015—identify as Republican. Cuban-Americans, along with Venezuelan-, Colombian- and Nicaraguan-Americans—all communities well represented in south Florida—appeared receptive to his falsely casting Mr Biden and Democrats as “socialists.”

The second factor explains why Mr Trump succeeded among Latinos in Texas as well: he paid attention to them. Carlos Odio of EquiLabs, a Latino political consultancy, says that Mr Trump “has made Florida a priority since the moment he got elected.” He followed a path laid down by Florida Republicans such as Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis, the state’s junior senator and governor respectively, who also did well with Latinos (in 2018 Mr DeSantis won 44% of the Latino vote in Florida).

Republicans also invested in Latino voter-registration in Texas this year. That seems to have paid off: whereas Mr Biden won almost 1.3m more votes than Mrs Clinton did in 2016, Mr Trump also improved on his performance, partly by turning out Latinos who vote infrequently. Hidalgo County, for instance, on the Mexican border, is over 90% Latino; Mr Trump won 90,000 votes there, up from 49,000 in 2016, while Mr Biden won 127,000, just 8,000 more than Mrs Clinton won four years ago. Though Mr Biden won Hidalgo County, the relatively slim margin helped Mr Trump offset his losses in the state’s cities and suburbs.

Similarly, in New Mexico, Xochitl Torres Small, a Democratic member of congress, lost a re-election that some polls showed her winning. Ben Ray Lujan, a six-term congressman, won his senate race by just 5.4 points rather than the expected double digits. Pete Saenz, the mayor of Laredo, Texas, believes Mr Trump’s law-and-order message proved effective with Latinos in the south-west, many of whom work in law-enforcement along the Mexican border.

These results have lessons for both political parties. First, Latinos—a category that includes, among others, white Cubans, black Dominicans and indigenous people from Central America—are too diverse to pigeonhole or treat as a monolith. Second, it suggests that many Latinos are following a familiar path. Just as nobody would suggest that, say, the votes of Greek-Americans or Hungarian-Americans should belong to one party, the same is true of Latinos.

What is important to a recently naturalised 25-year-old pregnant immigrant from Mexico in Los Angeles may matter less to a Latino rancher in Wyoming whose family has been in America for seven generations. Ronald Reagan famously said, “Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it.” Many Democrats believed that Mr Trump’s immigration policies would drive Latinos into their arms. Both ideas are wrong: Latino votes, like those of every other American, need to be fought for, not taken for granted.

 Cohen: Trump said Hispanics And Black Peopele Were "Too Stupid" To Vote For Him"

Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime former personal attorney and fixer, calls Trump "a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man" in his new book, and claims that the president stated he will "never get the Hispanic vote," because "like the blacks, they're too stupid to vote for Trump," according to multiple outlets who have obtained early copies of the tell-all memoir.

 

Tuesday, November 03, 2020

A MAIS IMPROVÁVEL NOTÍCIA DE AMANHÃ

 

Biden venceu as eleições, será o próximo presidente dos EUA;

Donald Trump já reconheceu a vitória de Biden e telefonou-lhe a felicitá-lo.