segunda-feira, 12 de fevereiro de 2024

Os debates

 Tenho andado a ver os debates para me decidir em quem vou votar a 10 de Março, mas devo dizer que existem muitos que não me ajudam minimamente.

O de ontem entre Sousa Real e Montenegro foi uma das poucas exceções. Eu que já votei várias vezes no PAN porque defendo muitas das suas causas, acabei por me decidir a não votar no partido.

Eu já aqui tinha dito que Inês Sousa Real ainda não me tinha convencido como líder do partido e esperava com estes debates ficar convencida.

O facto de o partido fazer alianças à esquerda e a direita não me faz qualquer confusão, só demonstra inteligência porque quando votamos num partido o que queremos é que as medidas propostas por este sejam implementadas e só aliando-se a quem governa se pode fazer isso. 

Mas voltando aos debates, alguns houve, em que achei que esteve bem, mas o de ontem (apesar de ela ter ganho o debate) permitiu-me ver um lado extremamente radical de S.R.

Em relação às touradas, já mencionadas por ela em outros debates, devo dizer que apesar de não concordar com esta atividade, não sou tão radical. Penso sim que se deveria fazer uma adaptação para que o touro não fosse torturado durante duas horas, adaptação essa que passaria por modificar as farpas permitido que estas aderissem ao animal sem o ferir (muito como é feito nos USA), trazendo as touradas para o século XXI.

Mas foi ao querer demarcar-se da AD que Sousa Real perdeu completamente o meu voto!

É que a Líder do PAN falou do PSD e do CDS como se estes nunca tivessem estado à frente da governação de Portugal. Nunca nós vimos estes dois partidos a defenderem a violência doméstica, nem a alterarem a lei do aborto!

Não me venham falar no PPM e no seu líder, porque esse partido é uma nulidade dentro do universo eleitoral português e Camara Pereira, tal como o nome do seu partido indica (Partido Popular Monárquico), e tão obsoleto quanto a monarquia no nosso país.

Agora à esquerda tenho Rui Tavares que tem provado ser extremamente preparado e fez-me finalmente diferenciá-lo do resto da esquerda , ao centro tenho a AD, uma vez que acho que têm razão ao quererem fazer mudanças porque da maneira como estamos não saímos da "Cepa torta" e o IL porque considero que têm algumas medidas interessantes para a nossa economia embora ache que não estamos preparados para uma mudança tão radical.

O PS e a CDU para mim, como escrevi noutra publicação, nem sequer entram nestas eleições (o primeiro porque tem Pedro Nuno Santos como líder (e eu já vi o que significa para ele ser "fazedor" quando era ministro das infraestruturas), o segundo porque ao não condenar a Rússia pela invasão da Ucrânia, perdeu o meu voto definitivamente.

Ventura, para além de eu não concordar com o que ele diz sobre a imigração é leviano no seu uso do populismo o que não me surpreende minimamente (foi pena o protagonismo que o PS lhe deu para minar o PSD, porque existe por aí muito boa gente que o acha o máximo, sem querer saber se o que ele propõe para o país é bom ou não).

Já Mortágua, para além do radicalismo do BE, descobri que é tão populista e avessa à verdade, quanto Ventura (com aquela historia da avó que teria sido ameaçada de despejo quando vai-se a ver...não o foi).

"O debate da avó", como eu lhe apelidei, apesar do populismo de Mortágua, demonstrou preparação de ambos os candidatos, pelo que o considerei o melhor, e até reconheci um empate técnico entre M.M. e L. M., contudo Montenegro acabou por ganhar o debate, na minha opinião, quando se descobriu que Mortágua havia mentido.

Conclusão, estou reduzida a três partidos, Livre, AD e IL.

 

  

 

 

segunda-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2024

Aeroporto e TGV

 Sejamos honestos, quem é que realmente acredita que precisamos de um TGV entre Lisboa e Porto só para reduzirmos cerca de 20 minutos no percurso?

Eu acho que é uma extremamente má aplicação da receita dos meus impostos.

Se me dissessem que queriam modernizar as linhas da CP para a bitola europeia eu até diria que o dinheiro seria bem empregue, mas o TGV entre Lisboa e Porto?

O Alfa com arranjos em alguns troços menores da linha teria um ótimo desempenho.

Esta decisão é simplesmente um desperdício de dinheiro! 

E já nem estou a levar em consideração as PPP's que vão ter de fazer para financiar a obra uma vez que deixaram passar o prazo para se candidatarem aos 85% de financiamento a fundo perdido da união europeia...

O aeroporto é outra porcaria similar.

Até parece que Portugal é um país do tamanho da França, Alemanha ou Reino Unido! Porque é que não usamos infraestruturas que já temos fazendo apenas melhorias.

Falam tanto de descentralização, mas a vontade de descentralizar não existe na realidade, existe?

Mais uma obra que irá custar milhões de euros ao contribuinte português sem necessidade alguma.

É uma mania das grandezas extraordinária a dos nossos políticos, não é?      


sexta-feira, 2 de fevereiro de 2024

DECISIONS, DECISIONS...

Its been a while since I wrote something here, however I think it's time to start again due to all the crap that is happening in my country's political sphere.

OK, does anyone trully believes that there are no favours in politics?

Only a person as naif as I was on my first job application.

Let me tell you how it was….

It was to one of the departments at my town coucil's (can’t remmember which one) and I really thought I had a chance as, at the time, I had more qualifications then the ones they were asking for.

 Yet when I went to hand them my application form I was told the vacancy had already been fulfilled (even though I still had a few days left to deliever it).

The job had been given to an employee’s family member.

You see I could have been interviewed and put aside, instead I wasn’t even given a chance.

It’s ok, I managed fine without that job, but the point is, it cured me of any naivity regarding politics (at least in Portugal), favours occur all the time.

Does it make it right?

Absolutely not.

And ‘till today is the reason why I do not vote on the town council's election.

Now the lagislatives are another matter all together. I always vote on those ones.

My problem is, I usualy vote on people, not on political parties and this time I do not like any of the parties' leaders, thus can not vote this way.

Pedro Nuno Santos, forget it! Someone who made such a mess when he was the infrastructures minister does not deserve my vote.

Monteiro and Belo, Jeez talking about lack of charisma there…

Rui Rocha has not convinced me as IL’s leader yet.

Ventura’s all demagogy. Any person with half a brain can see that there’s no way he’d be able to do what he promises, simply because there’s no money to do it. In fact, for someone who’s far right, his preposals could have come from the far left parties…

The portuguese comunist party lost my vote completely when they refused to condemn Russia on Ukraine’s invasion,

Mortágua and her far left party are just too radical for my taste.

Livre and its leader, Rui Tavares loose themselves amongst the other left parties in Portugal.

Sousa Real is another one who’s not convinced me as PAN’s leader.

So you see my dilemma?

Now I'll have to read their programs, watch the debates and decide in which one do I trust more.

Mind you I’ve never particularly liked Costa and had to put up with him for 8 years…

 

quinta-feira, 25 de agosto de 2016

The diplomatic incident in Portugal was self-defence?


The events have been so explored by the media that I was trying not to enter the circus by adding my insignificant opinion to the mix, however it’s not in my nature to keep quiet.
The Iraqi twins gave an interview to the Portuguese TV channel SIC this week presenting their version of what happened that night, while one of the Portuguese boys involved on the incidents gave his and the Asian boy who accompanied the twins to the bar also gave his.
Thus my opinion was formed by these different points of view.
There is no doubt in my mind that there was an altercation inside the bar between the Portuguese group and the foreigner.
The Portuguese boy said that the twins started it when one of them flashed his butt inside the bar. One of the twins says he was showing his tattoo to their companion and that the Portuguese teens took great offence by that action. The Asian description is similar to the Portuguese boy’s.
I personally don’t see what’s the big deal here. Portuguese teenagers show their butts all the time just because it’s fashionable to use low waist trousers like the rappers.
I have issues with a Portuguese teenage group having more than a few drinks in a bar. It should never have happened. Underage shouldn’t be allowed to drink. Yet this rule should be as applicable to a fifteen years old as  to a seventeen. As I can't agree with the freedom parents give to their children. A fifteen years old shouldn't be out that late (but that's just my opinion).
Then there is the matter that summer holydays keep young people with too much free time. In a small city where there’s not many opportunities to find a summer occupation they tend to waist three months doing nothing (or better yet, being inconsequent teens).
Now, accordingly to the Asian boy who was with the twins, the fight took place outside the bar. He says that both sides were to blame.
Oh, I do believe that. Even because he also said that the Iraqi boys were drunk.
Who cares if the twins waited for the group outside or if the group followed the twins and encircled them (as they claim)?
The thing is that they fought and by the time our National Republican Guard (GNR) arrived, the fight was over.
From what the twins have said, this is where things got weird.
GNR, took the twins home that night and advised them to make a formal complaint which the two boys refused to make.
So while the Portuguese boy and his friends where still lose in the night, the Iraqi twins were left safely at home.
So why have they decided to go back out? They claim they left (or lost) a few objects at the scene and went back to get it. Wouldn’t it have been easier to phone GNR and tell them that they had lost ( left) those objects in or outside the bar so that the authorities could take the proper measures to get it for them without any risk?
But no, they’ve decided to get inside a car, most likely still under the influence of alcohol, and drive back to the bar where everything happened.
What the twins say is that they were once again insulted by the Portuguese boy and reacted to it.
So, let’s analyse what is said by the media + the twins.
The Portuguese boy was coming from his girlfriend’s house and was walking by himself on the main street of “Ponte de Sôr” at around four o’clock in the morning while the two Iraqi boys were driving their car.
Then, even if Ruben (the Portuguese boy), has indeed insulted the boys, could he have been a real threat to the twins since he had not the safety of numbers on his side anymore?
I ask this because the Iraqi government wrote a statement saying that the incident had been in self- defence.
Had it been during the earlier fight and I could have doubts about the reason why Ruben was so savagely attacked. As it is I have no doubt in my mind that the brutality shown was an act of revenge. Rage blinds, and that’s what I believe happened here. The fury was such that the twins lost control of the situation and did not measure the consequences.
Did they have reasons to be mad?
I wasn’t there to tell yet nothing can justify something like this.
The pain it is causing to both families  (I’m certain the Portuguese family is not the only one suffering with all this, but the Iraqi as well, as I am sure that the ambassador wasn’t expecting something like this coming from his sons) as to be respected.
As for the reaction of the embassy this week, I think it is totally justifiable. Most parents only wish is to protect their offspring, right? Though I do hope that in the privacy of that house the father shows his sons that every action has consequences.
Regarding the allegedly insults to the Iraqi and their religion, if it indeed happened, those involved should also be punished. It is urgent to teach our children that the differences are what make mankind special, and that people should never be judged by their race, color, or religion.
Much more important than an apology broadcasted on TV, is the apology those boys (all of them if there’s grievance from both sides) should exchange between them, eye to eye.

quarta-feira, 17 de julho de 2013

The justice system is not always about the truth

The death of Trayvon Martin as been largely talked about these last few days.
First of all it's always tragic when someone so young dies no matter the reason.
Second, once again US gun culture where everyone can have a gun license allowed for an ordinary man like George Zimmerman who was not a policeman, but a private patrol guy to carry it with him.
I will not discuss if he did it for racial motives (even because I do not know the guy), yet it seems a bit extreme for a grown man to use a gun against an unarmed boy.
As for the police work, I agree that it took them too long to apprehend Zimmerman, however I cannot blame the jury for the verdict for the justice system is all about proof, if you don't have that, you have nothing. Speculation doesn't count.
Who can honestly say they have proof of Zimmerman's xenophobia?
   

quarta-feira, 3 de julho de 2013

Weakness and disloyalty

I think this time my country's government will fall.
With Victor Gaspar (the finance minister) and Paulo Portas (the foreigner affairs minister and leader of the other party forming the coalition in power) I cannot see a way which will allow our prime minister to stay in office.
Victor Gaspar couldn't handle the pressure of a society who is unable to understand that we are on the edge and there is no easy solution to keep us balanced no matter who gets to power. The key is to keep calm despite de criticism.
As for Paulo Portas... It's actually a much more devious man since he is only loyal to himself.
We only need to remember his past actions, first to get to his party's front lead as he used deceive to overthrow CDS' leader at the time, Manuel Monteiro and after to cause the fall of former Portuguese prime ministers, Santana Lopes is one example of that.
It's funny because I haven't any doubt Portas' ambition would love to get to number two on our government seats (which would happen now with Gaspar's resignation) however Passos Coelho's unpopular measures to meet the UE economical demands have caused a lot of popular contestation and Portas is not one to allow his image to get tainted...he prefers to do his dirty work quietly... stepping away now will allow him to try for a good result on the next election.
Again I cannot see how our government will manage to rule without CDS' support, but at least Passo's Coelho was man enough not to resign despite all the rubbish which came out of the opposition leaders mouths yesterday.
Good for him.
    

terça-feira, 2 de julho de 2013

Cheers to the Egyptian Army!

Finally something happened which might change the tides to the Egyptian people:
Yesterday the Egyptian army decided to take a stand by the people, giving 48 hours for the government and opposition to reach an understanding which will better serve the people's will.
I can only congratulate them for this attitude!
Now we can only hope that, if it comes to it, the army remembers that the seats of power are not theirs to keep for rulers should be chosen by the people.
My country's revolution is a good example of a successful military revolution where there was no bloodshed so hopefully these will be the kind of guidelines the Egyptian army will follow now. 

sexta-feira, 28 de junho de 2013

Porque os sonhos comandam de facto a vida...

Samba Injai é um rapaz da Guiné Bissau com um especial talento para a dança.
Depois de um inicio de vida conturbado entrou para uma escola de dança Portuguesa e agora está a ponto de marchar para uma escola de Londres.
Aqui está a prova que por mais humilde que sejam as nossas origens, basta-nos apenas encontrar alguem que acredite em nos para que os sonhos se tornem realidade.
Agora só precisa de €3500 para se increver na escola Inglesa.
Nós deviamos juntar-nos para o ajudar.
Parabens Injai!
    Samba Injai was born in Guiné Bissau and after a difficult childhood managed to come to Portugal.
Is talent for dance was recognized and he started having lessons on a Portuguese dance school.
Now he was invited to study in London, but needs €3500 to be admitted.
I'm sure there must be a way we can help.

quarta-feira, 26 de junho de 2013

Think for yourself

What to say when someone you know disregards watching TV because, has she puts it," you learn nothing with it", and praises reading instead only to tell you it was through reading that she understood that terrorism is justifiable?
Dear me, first I had to ask what kind of reading was she having, then I had to ask myself, if she, like many young men/women who blow themselves up, hadn't been brain washed...
NOTHING JUSTIFIES TERRORISM!
We common citizens cannot be held accountable for our governments mistakes.
Throughout history there has always been tyrants whose only aim was to have the world at their feet, Look at Attila the Uno or Hitler.
Do you really think their whole people agreed with the way they rolled?
Besides there is no heroism on blowing yourself up to kill a bunch of innocent people, the heroism resides when you sacrifice yourself to save others.
And please next time you read, read something you can learn from, and not stop you from thinking for yourself.   

terça-feira, 25 de junho de 2013

"Morte, Juízo, Inferno e Paraíso" de Bocage

Como nos últimos 2 sabados não tive tempo de publicar um poema no blog, aqui fica este do Bocage.

Morte, Juízo, Inferno e Paraíso

Em Que estado, meu bem, por ti me vejo
Em que estado infeliz, penoso e duro!
Delido o coração de um fogo impuro,
Meus pesados grilhões adoro e beijo.

Quando te logro mais, mais te desejo;
Quando te encontro mais, mais te procuro;
Quanto mo juras mais, menos seguro
Julgo esse doce amor, que adorna o pego.

Assim passo, assim vivo,assim meus fados
Me desarreigam d'alma a paz e o riso,
Sendo só meu sustento os meus cuidados;

E, de todo apagada a luz do riso,
Esquecem-me (aí de mim!) por teus agrados
Morte, Juíso, Inferno e Paraíso.


 
 

segunda-feira, 24 de junho de 2013

Brazil standing up

 
 
Brazilians have decided to stand up and fight for their rights.
 This includes the end of corruption and more transparency from their political class and the reduction on the public transports fare.
You might think this public transports demand is a small matter, but if you consider that their wages are incredibly low and that de government has raised the fares keeping the same old buses which on top of it all hardly ever arrive on time, you would be pretty pissed off too, wouldn't you?
So good on all those who fight for equality.
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sábado, 15 de junho de 2013

Camões "O amor é fogo que arde sem se ver"

Aqui fica um dos mais belos poemas de Camões para este Sábado.

Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver;
É ferida que dói e não se sente;
É um contentamento descontente;
É dor que desatina sem doer;

É um não querer mais que bem querer;
É solitário andar por entre a gente;
É nunca contentar-se de contente;
É cuidar que se ganha em se perder;

É querer estar preso por vontade;
É servir a quem vence, o vencedor;
É ter com quem nos mata lealdade.

Mas como causar pode seu favor
Nos corações humanos amizade,
Se tão contrário a si é o mesmo Amor?
 
 
Bom fim-de-semama!

quinta-feira, 13 de junho de 2013

Welcome to the democracy planet

Today the Portuguese newspapers have reported a Russian demonstration against Putin.
Accordingly to it, the people would like to "get divorced from Putin" (on an obvious reference to his divorce from his wife).
The thing is none of us likes authoritarian governments, and none of us expects to be kept from speaking our minds on any part of our lives when we vote, (including our political opinions).
I've already written here that I don't think Russia is much of a democracy so it comes with no surprise to see that the Russian people is getting fed up with it and are now demanding the political prisoners' release.
Obviously Putin is not alone on his firm purpose to force his will on his people, Erdogan  is another one who is not willing to accept the meaning of democracy.
You could say Russia is not a democracy as we know it. You would be right, there is no such thing as a sort of democracy, either you are one or you aren't, and just because a country is now more open to the west it doesn't make it a democracy, especially if on its core things remained as before.
 Neither giving the right to vote to the people will be the only definition of what democracy is.
For democracy is about freedom.
Yes, freedom to choose who will represent us in parliament.
But also freedom to speak our own minds about every aspect of our society without having to be constantly looking over our shoulders for fear of being arrested or killed because of it.
 Represent us well and we will love you for it.
That love will lighten the burden of our duties  (for a democratic state is not all about rights).
However if you don't represent us at all we'll reserve ourselves the right to fight you for it.
And that's what men like Erdogan and Putin have chosen to close their eyes to.
The sad thing is that there will be always people like them reaching a powerful position.
The bright side is that there will always be someone amongst us to fight them back.
Welcome to the democracy planet.

quarta-feira, 12 de junho de 2013

terça-feira, 11 de junho de 2013

The clever ones

Guys since I couldn't get a ticket to Imagine Dragons tonight because it was sold out on the regular places and I refuse paying a ridiculous amount of money online for any kind of show (even found someone selling it for €200 when the normal prices were between €22 and €30!) I am going to wait for their return.
Unfortunately this happens because there are people who gives a lot of profit to these guys.
To all the clever ones... maybe you get rich soon...
I prefer not to give my contribution for that to happen as I believe that the only ones who deserve to be paid for their work are the artists.
Meanwhile I'll continue to enjoy their music.

sábado, 8 de junho de 2013

"Maquina de fogo" de Antonio Gedeão

UAU,
Adoro este poema do António Gedeão!
Pode ser pequeno, mas é belo, tal como os corações deste mundo deviam ser.
Bom fim-de-semana para todos.
"Meu coração é máquina de fogo
luz de magnésio, floresta incendiada.
Combustar-se é o seu próprio desafogo.
Arde por tudo, inlama-se por nada."


sexta-feira, 7 de junho de 2013

Health 5 stars in Portugal

Not all is bad in Portugal.
Several foreigner come to Portugal to take care of their health.
According to the clinic clients, is cheaper, and the care is exceptional here.
Here's the TV program for you to watch.

Respect

This week there were three very serious crimes in two schools around Lisbon.
One was a rape attempt from three boys between eleven and twelve years old (the victims were a girl and a boy with the same age).
The other was a gang fight which ended with a twenty years old being stabbed and his consequent death.
These crimes happened on an area with social economical problems very near Lisbon.
Violence has been escalating these last few years in my country and although my Brazilian friends say this is nothing comparing to their country, one can't help but think what will happen in a few years time, when we have eleven and twelve years old already involved in such crimes.
In my point of view, the problem is the lack of civil education, both at home from their parents and at school from their teachers.
You may say that people's economical problems and environment are the most determinant factor for their behaviour.
However in my opinion, it might have some weight, yet it is not the principal.
Coming from a poor family where one of my parents didn't even know how to write, and the other has only learnt it at the age of forty,  I have a little resistance to accept that being born inside a humble family is the principal agent to turn you into heartless creatures.
If you treat your children with respect and teach them they should do the same for their fellow citizens they will grow caring about those who surround them.
I'm going to finish this message with my mother's words.
"Threat others like you would like to be treated"
An old value, but true.