quinta-feira, 28 de julho de 2011
O declínio do mundo desenvolvido e o sucesso dos emergentes
domingo, 24 de julho de 2011
Norway's Tragedy



Residents in Norway are turning to God to find answers and comfort after one of Europe’s worst lone-wolf terrorist attacks in history.
"This is a national tragedy," one bishop told reporters on Saturday.
Reporters on the scene say the mood is disbelief in the aftermath of the attacks that took the lives of nearly 100 people, many of them teenagers. The mass murders have left the country in shock and dismay.
The first atrocity was the car bombing. Then, two hours later, came the attack on the island.
Hours after a bomb exploded in Oslo City center in Norway, another terror attack has taken place as scores of teenagers were gunned down at a youth camp 20 miles away.
For Helen Andreassen, a 21-year-old aspiring politician, a celebration of bright futures became something horrifyingly different when she and her friends jumped from a second-story window to escape the bullets of a man who was hunting them specifically because of their politics.
They ran for their lives, she said, tumbling down the rocky heights to the sea shore, hoping the man in the police officer’s uniform would not pursue them into the water. But he kept shooting
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“He was standing just by the water, using his rifle, just taking his time, aiming and shooting,” Ms. Andreassen said. “It was a slaughter of young children."
For more than an hour, the gunman stalked the forests and steep, rocky shores of the island. There were no bridges to provide escape. Time was on his side.
The young people desperately silenced their cellphones and stripped off colorful clothing. But the shooter was methodical. After killing several people on one part of the island, he went to the other, and, dressed in his police uniform, calmly convinced the children huddled there that he meant to save them. When they emerged into the open, he fired again and again.
“He shot a boy in the back,” said Stine Renate Haaheim, 27, a member of Parliament who was also among those hiding. “I saw that some people were falling, and we turned around and ran. At that point I didn’t look back.”
The police have identified the suspect as Anders Behring Breivik, who in his writings has portrayed himself as a modern knight, charged with driving out Islam and immigrants and the political correctness that he said had been wrongly invited into Norway and was thriving there.
The campers at Utoya appeared to be the embodiment of his hatred.
Organized by the youth wing of the ruling Labor Party, the camp has become a kind of multicultural incubator in recent years. Many of the victims in Friday’s shooting were the children of immigrants from Africa and Asia who have begun to stake out a greater role for themselves in Norwegian society.
Khamshajiny Gunaratnam, 23, a camp member, was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Norway when she was 3. She is dark-skinned, wears a nose stud and speaks both Norwegian and English in seemingly native accents.
She described a Norway that was increasingly divided along class and ethnic lines, and said there was a growing hostility toward people who were not ethnically Norwegian, even those born in the country.
But she saw the camp on Utoya as a sanctuary, a promise of a better country. “It was for me the safest place in the world,” she said.
For her, and hundreds of others trapped with her, and generations of current and former Labor leaders, the island’s personal significance now includes a national tragedy.
Norway’s prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, was scheduled to speak to the campers this week. A former leader of Labor’s youth wing, he had attended the camp every summer since the 1970s. The killer “turned a paradise of my youth into hell,” Mr. Stoltenberg said Saturday when he went to the area to meet with survivors and their families, as did King Harald V and Queen Sonja.
The police are working on the assumption that Mr. Breivik, having drawn security services to central Oslo when he exploded a car bomb outside government offices, traveled to Utoya, taking one of the regular ferries that brought campers and others over from the mainland.
When he arrived, about 600 people were there, most gathered in the main assembly building for a briefing on the bombing. Many came from political families and were frantically trying to get a hold of relatives who worked at the site of the blast.
Ms. Andreassen was able to get in touch with her father, Lasse Kristiansen, a labor union worker, to determine that he was uninjured in the blast. But a short time later, he received a text message telling him to call the police.
“After that, time stood still,” Mr. Kristiansen said.
His daughter’s cellphone went silent, and it was hours before he knew that she and another daughter had saved themselves by swimming until they were picked up by a passing boat.
There was little shelter or chance for those caught back on the island. Witnesses told Norwegian news agencies that the shooter sprayed bullets into piles of dead bodies, apparently seeking those that were hiding among them. On Saturday night, the authorities knew that 85 had been killed, and still sought bodies in the water, or in an unchecked corner of Utoya.
“He seemed he was enjoying it” Magnus Stenseth, a youth leader, told the Norwegian newspaper VG. “He walked around the island as if he had absolute power.”
It took police about 40 minutes to reach the island, but once they confronted Mr. Breivik, his lethal animation seemed to melt away, they said. He surrendered without a struggle, seemingly content.
sábado, 23 de julho de 2011
E a Grécia respira aliviada... Por enquanto
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Primeiro-ministro grego, George Papandreou |
quarta-feira, 20 de julho de 2011
O fim do desespero

terça-feira, 12 de julho de 2011
Blood - The Fluid Of Life

quinta-feira, 7 de julho de 2011
PNBL

domingo, 3 de julho de 2011
A Apple sem Steve Jobs

Isso mostra como Jobs é uma pessoa de suma importância para a estabilidade de sua empresa. Ele não é como o Bill Gates para Microsoft, que consegue sobreviver sem o seu criador. Portanto, se algo ruim acontecer com Mr. Steve, o sonho pode virar um profundo e longo pesadelo.
sexta-feira, 1 de julho de 2011
Marcha das Vadias

Acontecerá amanhã (dia 02 de julho) em Copacabana aqui no Rio de Janeiro a Marcha das Vadias. Antes de qualquer comentário equivocado por parte de quem esteja lendo, o evento vai às ruas protestar contra a violência sofrida pelas mulheres. Segundo informações da Carta Manifesto do movimento somente no estado do Rio – e nos três primeiros meses desse ano – 1246 mulheres e meninas foram estupradas. São quatorze por dia. No Brasil, são 15 mil por ano.
O evento é significativo. Há tempos a mulher busca a igualdade de direitos e, mesmo que em teoria a tenha, todos nós sabemos que a coisa não funciona exatamente assim. A visão da carta manifesto pode parecer um pouco extremista, porém não é contada nenhuma mentira e o ponto de vista defendido pelas idealizadoras do projeto é, independente da sua opinião, louvável.
A marcha surgiu em Toronto, no Canadá depois de a então universitária Jaclyn Friedman ter sido violentada por seus colegas de universidade que saíram impunes. Na situação, um policial responsável pelo caso disse que “Se a mulher não se vestir como uma vadia, reduz-se o risco de ela sofrer um estupro.” Daí o nome Marcha das Vadias (SlutWalk, no original).
A manifestação já aconteceu em vários países, além do Canadá, mulheres dos Estados Unidos, Austrália, Nova Zelândia, a Grã-Bretanha, Holanda, Suécia, Argentina e Índia já foram as ruas gritar o direito do controle sobre os seus corpos. A Marcha também já teve edições nove edições no Brasil e amanhã acontecerá simultânea a do Rio a edição soteropolitana.
O importante disso é mostrar a necessidade de se abolir urgentemente a cultura do estupro. Gente retardada que diz que a mulher foi violentada, porque sua roupa era muito provocativa. Se não se aguenta, animal, vai pro banheiro. O senhor Paulo Maluf já chegou ao cúmulo de dizer “estupra, mas não mata”, como se estuprar fosse algo irrisório. Como se não destruísse a vida de uma pessoa. Eu ia adorar ver alguém estuprando esse cara e depois chegar na cara dele e perguntar: “Não mata, né?”
Exaltei-me. Pois bem... Seria muito legal que quem mora no Rio pudesse ir amanhã às duas horas para o Posto 4 em Copacabana participar do evento. Até agora 1484 pessoas já confirmaram a presença na página do evento no Facebook, além de todas as outras que não confirmaram, mas vão mesmo assim. Eu mesmo farei o que der para ir, além de outros colunitas aqui do Conversa que marcarão presença no evento.
Vou deixar uns links aqui para quem estiver interessado em se aprofundar um pouco mais na Marcha, ou tirar dúvidas sobre a edição carioca.
Ensopados da História: Marcha das Vadias
Página no Facebook (onde encontra a Carta Manifesto)
“Somos todas as mulheres do mundo! Mães, filhas, avós, putas, santas, vadias…todas merecemos respeito!”