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G'Day All --

Global Thermonuclear War:  "The Only Winning Move Is ...."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4wk6jSNZU8

For further related information, try visiting:

The Faces of War -- Why Irresponsible or Fanatical Individuals and/or Governments Must Never Gain Control of Nuclear Weapons
http://civact6.tigblog.org/post/417257

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Dave Matthews,  Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building:  Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address:  civact6@yahoo.com


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Sensibilidade arrasada pela "Moral da Civilização Infeliz"!!



As pessoas devem se preocupar mais, muito mais, com suas Próprias Vidas! Alguém disse (não consigo lembrar o nome certo, pois são inúmeros os depoimentos) que Michael Jackson agora não está mais sendo torturado pela "moral da civilização".

Julgamento com piadas infelizes que nunca entendi! A civilização "criou" seu manual de conduta moral se achando dona do certo e do errado. Grande tragédia!
Eu espero que todos aqueles que julgaram, fofocaram possam sentir na pele como foi o calvário e a tortura que Michael enfrentou. E, graças a Deus, Ninguém Morre, essa certeza eu tenho.



"Michael Jackson é bom exemplo do que pior tem acontecido. A IMPRENSA DEVE DESCULPAS a ele pela forma horrível como o tratou. Ele começou a morrer quando as acusações ganharam as manchetes. Em conluio com os acusadores, estava a mídia americana. Todos se lamentam, como se fosse uma tragédia nacional...Ninguém o ajudou. Viveu em infâmia."
(Gay Talese - jornalista e escritor norte-americano)

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Kenya on Monday confirmed the first case of Swine Flu




NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 29 - Kenya on Monday confirmed the first case of Swine Flu involving 20-year-old British student who is on a field trip in Kisumu.

Public Health Minister Beth Mugo broke the news on Monday, saying that the patient may have had contact with the initial suspected case that turned negative on Saturday in Nairobi.

“The patient has been quarantined at a hotel in Kisumu,” she told a press conference at her Afya House office.

On Saturday a suspected case of Swine Flu in Kenya tested negative after momentarily spreading panic across Nairobi.

Ministry of Public Health officials said tests conducted at the Kenya Medical Research Institute – based Centre for Disease Control produced no traces of the H1N1 influenza virus.

Samples were taken from a 20-year old Kenyan female student who had arrived from London and reported that she may have come into contact with someone exhibiting symptoms of the flu.

She was rushed to the AAR Health Clinic at Sarit Centre, Westlands where doctors immediately alerted KEMRI officials who took over the case.

AAR Public Relations Officer Juliet Ratemo said: “We closed the AAR Health Centre and took all measures to ensure that our staff and other patients present did not come into further unprotected contact with the patient.”

News about the patient had spread across Nairobi via SMS overnight on Friday, spreading panic as people sought to know the authenticity of the text messages.

In mid this month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the Pandemic alert status from phase 5 to phase 6, which meant that the disease had reached the emergency level.

“It’s not killing more people, it’s not more aggressive than before so don’t think because we have elevated the phase to 6 the disease has become more severe, no! It is about geographical spread. We have been expecting the worst, we are lucky it’s not that bad,” Dr David Okello, WHO Kenya Director had said.

After the alert was raised, Public Health Minister Beth Mugo said the government had stepped up surveillance of the influenza H1N1 and over 50,000 doses of the drug Tamiflu was in the stock pile for use in case of an outbreak in the country.

She had also said there was a ready isolation facility at the Kenyatta National Hospital in case of an outbreak.

The first case of influenza H1N1 virus was reported in late April in Mexico.

According to the WHO website, by Friday, there were 59,814 confirmed cases of the swine flu around the world. 263 people have died of the disease.

The H1N1 strain is a new type of virus that has not circulated previously in humans. The virus is contagious, spreading easily from one person to another and from one country to another.

Young people under the age of 25 years are the main casualties in all the countries.
A similar outbreak occurred in 1918 but was more severe than the current epidemic but the WHO warned that this may change hence the need for more vigilance.

Kenyans can get more information on the disease through the following contacts: 0722- 331 548,020-204 0542, 271 8292.

HOW IT SPREADS AND SYMPTOMS


The virus typically spreads from coughs and sneezes or by touching contaminated surfaces and then touching the nose or mouth. Symptoms are similar to those of the seasonal flu, and may include fever, sneezes, coughs, headache, muscles or joint pain, sore throat, chills, fatigue and runny nose.

The CDC notes that most hospitalizations have been people with underlying conditions such as asthma, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, or a weakened immune systems. In an attempt to slow the spread of the illness, a number of countries, especially in Asia, have enforced strict quarantines on travellers showing any symptoms, along with travellers seated nearby any infected persons.


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Green Computing in Uganda and in the U.S.A.



Screen 1.  Green Computing in Uganda

Screen 2.  Green Computing in Ohio, U.S.A.

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>>>  If you want to forward this material to others, the correct URL is:

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Best wishes to all,

Dave Matthews,  Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building:  Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address:  civact6@yahoo.com


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A record-shattering vinyl album and its moonwalking maestro. A paper poster of a golden-haired beauty in a one-piece swimsuit that was gossamer and clingy in all the right places.

It all seems so quaint now, the fragmented dream memories of a fleeting micro-era that began with words like "bicentennial" and "pet rock" and ended with MTV, Atari and absurdly thin cans of super-hold mousse.

The man-child named Michael Jackson and the luminous girl known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors jumped into our consciousness at a plastic moment in American culture — a time when the celebrity juggernaut we know today was still in diapers. When they departed Thursday, just a few hours and a few miles apart, they left an entire generation — a very strange generation indeed — without two of its defining figures.

"These people were on our lunchboxes," said Gary Giovannetti, 38, a manager at HBO who grew up on Long Island awash in Farrah and MJ iconography. "This," he said, "is the moment when Generation X realizes they're grown up."

It was a long time coming. Cynical, disaffected, rife with ADD, lost between Boomers and millennials and sandwiched between Vietnam and the war on terror, Gen X has always been an oddity. It was the product of a transitional age when we were still putting people on celebrity pedestals but only starting to make an industry out of dragging them down.

Its memorable moments were diffuse and confusing — the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt, the dawn of AIDS, the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It had no protest movement, no opponent to unite it, none of the things that typically shape the ill-defined beast we call an American generation.

These were the people who sent to the top of the charts a song called "We Don't Need Another Hero," then figured out how to churn them out wholesale, launching the celebrity obsession that is now an accepted part of American cultural fabric.

And that was personified nowhere better than in the two people who died Thursday.

She was, perhaps, the last in a line that began with Betty Grable in World War II — the bathing beauty who seemed kissed by the sun and exuded a potent combination of innocence and sexuality. But her "Charlie's Angels" jiggle-show image presaged another world entirely. It was the one that would come to be dominated first by Brooke and her Calvins and ultimately, as the hunger grew tawdrier, by American Apparel ads and the celebrity sex videos of Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton.

She struggled for credibility after the poster and the Angels. She got it in 1984 with a dramatic turn as an abused wife in "The Burning Bed." But her last stand — a documentary about the cancer that killed her — was tainted by her run-ins with insatiable paparazzi and tabloids.

He was another thing entirely — perhaps the most recognizable face in the world, even more so than the pope or Barack Obama. His musical genius and energy seemed boundless for a time. They were rivaled only by his quirks, which consumed him.

He had a bumpy, extraordinarily public childhood. Then he spent an off-the-wall lifetime trying to get it back, erecting a ranch named after the fantasy land of Peter Pan and inviting children to share his life and his bed — with results that some said drifted into the criminal.

He caught fire in a Pepsi commercial. He shrouded his children in full-body coverings and dangled one over a balcony to show his fans below. His fabled multiple plastic surgeries turned him into someone almost unrecognizable. Nose sunk into face, cheekbones became caricature, ebony drifted into ivory.

Yet through it all, even when the years of his quirks outstripped the years of his glory, he remained one of the planet's most popular figures, selling out shows wherever he went. "Icon," the Rev. Al Sharpton said, was "only a fraction of what he was." But icon was, of course, what he always acted as if he wanted to be.

Today, celebrities aren't merely created for our consumption. Audiences are passive no longer. We demand a part in creating our icons: Jon and Kate Gosselin and their ilk might as well be publicly held companies, and we all insist upon buying a few shares. Farrah and Michael Jackson were other — above us, maybe, or apart from us. Now, when we crown new icons, we want them to BE us.

"We want everything right now, and there's a blurring of reality. When does the celebrity world stop and our world begin?" said Penni Pier, an associate professor of communications at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.

When Farrah gazed at us in her swimsuit and, a single moment in history later, MJ dared us to moonwalk, they commanded giant audiences. The world had not yet become fragmented into the microcommunities that exist today. We liked them or we hated them, but we shared the experience just as Walter Cronkite told us each night that "that's the way it is."

Today, when Lindsay Lohan Twitters pictures of herself to her legions of followers, the notion that a paper poster bought in a shopping-mall Spencer Gifts could change the celebrity game seems rustic. And the vinyl version of "Thriller," redolent of raw materials and production lines, is a ghost in the virtual world of iTunes — a world that the generation after X negotiates with the fluidity of natives.

In the 1990s, members of Generation X would often laugh in bars about how the time of the Boomers was passing — about how the quaintness and naivete that made up the 1960s was, finally, a grave being danced on by Kurt Cobain. Today, members of that same generation sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings of pop.

A sexy poster upon a boy's wall in which a young woman grins wholesomely. A record album called "Thriller" and its attendant music videos, built upon the notion that sexiness came in the frisson of hints and suggestions rather than in cutting directly to the big reveal.

In the end, finally, they stand as the relics of a generation — one that struggled to find its place and now, suddenly, while still young, one that must wonder if it is as passe as the paper and vinyl that its icons' most memorable moments were etched upon.

We don't need another hero? After this week, are we sure?


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For his legions of fans, he was the Peter Pan of pop music: the little boy who refused to grow up. But on the verge of another attempted comeback, he is suddenly gone, this time for good.



Michael Jackson, whose quintessentially American tale of celebrity and excess took him from musical boy wonder to global pop superstar to sad figure haunted by lawsuits, paparazzi and failed plastic surgery, was pronounced dead on Thursday afternoon at U.C.L.A. Medical Center after arriving in a coma, a city official said. Mr. Jackson was 50, having spent 40 of those years in the public eye he loved.

The singer was rushed to the hospital, a six-minute drive from the rented Bel-Air home in which he was living, shortly after noon by paramedics for the Los Angeles Fire Department. A hospital spokesman would not confirm reports of cardiac arrest. He was pronounced dead at 2:26 pm.

As with Elvis Presley or the Beatles, it is impossible to calculate the full effect Mr. Jackson had on the world of music. At the height of his career, he was indisputably the biggest star in the world; he has sold more than 750 million albums. Radio stations across the country reacted to his death with marathon sessions of his songs. MTV, which grew successful in part as a result of Mr. Jackson’s groundbreaking videos, reprised its early days as a music channel by showing his biggest hits.

From his days as the youngest brother in the Jackson 5 to his solo career in the 1980s and early 1990s, Mr. Jackson was responsible for a string of hits like “I Want You Back,” “I’ll Be There” “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” “Billie Jean” and “Black and White” that exploited his high voice, infectious energy and ear for irresistible hooks.

As a solo performer, Mr. Jackson ushered in the age of pop as a global product — not to mention an age of spectacle and pop culture celebrity. He became more character than singer: his sequined glove, his whitened face, his moonwalk dance move became embedded in the cultural firmament.

His entertainment career hit high-water marks with the release of “Thriller,” from 1982, which has been certified 28 times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and with the “Victory” world tour that reunited him with his brothers in 1984.

But soon afterward, his career started a bizarre disintegration. His darkest moment undoubtedly came in 2003, when he was indicted on child molesting charges. A young cancer patient claimed the singer had befriended him and then groped him at his Neverland estate near Santa Barbara, Calif., but Mr. Jackson was acquitted on all charges.

Reaction to his death started trickling in from the entertainment community late Thursday.

“I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news,” the music producer Quincy Jones said in a statement. “I’ve lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him.”

Berry Gordy, the Motown founder who helped develop the Jackson 5, told CNN that Mr. Jackson, as a boy, “always wanted to be the best, and he was willing to work as hard as it took to be that. And we could all see that he was a winner at that age.

Tommy Mottola, a former head of Sony Music, called Mr. Jackson “the cornerstone to the entire music business.”

“He bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and pop music and made it into a global culture,” said Mr. Mottola, who worked with Mr. Jackson until the singer cut his ties with Sony in 2001.

Impromptu vigils broke out around the world, from Portland, Ore., where fans organized a one-gloved bike ride (“glittery costumes strongly encouraged”) to Hong Kong, where fans gathered with candles and sang his songs.

In Los Angeles, hundreds of fans — some chanting Mr. Jackson’s name, some doing the “Thriller” dance — descended on the hospital and on the hillside house where he was staying.

Jeremy Vargas, 38, hoisted his wife, Erica Renaud, 38, on his shoulders and they danced and bopped to “Man in the Mirror” playing from an onlooker’s iPod connected to external speakers — the boom boxes of Mr. Jackson’s heyday long past their day.

“I am in shock and awe,” said Ms. Renaud, who was visiting from Red Hook, Brooklyn, with her family. “He was like a family member to me.”

Dreams of a Comeback

Mr. Jackson was an object of fascination for the news media since the Jackson 5’s first hit, “I Want You Back,” in 1969. His public image wavered between that of the musical naif, who wanted only to recapture his youth by riding on roller-coasters and having sleepovers with his friends, to the calculated mogul who carefully constructed his persona around his often-baffling public behavior.

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Algumas pessoas perguntam se existem mais textos criados por mim pela internet afora...apenas aqui na Panorama, quem quiser ler é só clicar:
http://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/search.html?AuthorID=101652&Search=Search

Ah! Aproveito para destacar o Livro "Mulheres que Correm com os Lobos" (Clarissa Pinkola Estés)! Não deixe de Recuperar, Resgatar, colocar em Prática a Mulher Selvagem no seu sentido mais penetrante, latente, xamânico, seja qual for sua idade! Tenha orgulho da Natureza que habita seu Ser!

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A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her poodle along for company.

One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a hungry-looking leopard heading rapidly in his direction.

The poodle thinks, "Oh, oh!" Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap, the poodle exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more around here?"

Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees. "Whew!", says the leopard, "That was close! That poodle nearly had me!"

Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So off he goes, but the poodle sees him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.

The leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, monkey, hop on my back so you can watch me chew that poodle to bits!"

Now, the poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do now?", but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet, and waits until they get just close enough to hear.

"Where's that damn monkey?" the poodle says, "I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!"

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Personally I wouldn't marry someone I don't know. You need to know what
you are committing yourself to. After all we are talking about a
life-long commitment. Like the author, I also don't believe that one
should be in a relationship for five years before committing without a
sound reason, whatever that means. The point is: five years is too long a
time for two people to be involved without any progress.

They stay in relationships with hope. My advice to all the women is:
Start from now and ask your long relationship partner what he thinks about
you!

I am a man myself but I am sure that it will not take me years to marry a
woman Once I get a right woman with all the qualities or I need, I will
get married immediately. It will not take years, a year will be too long,
and a delay will be caused by arrangements. I also blame you women why
don't you ask your partners?

There are plenty guys who are interested in you but you always tell them
about your boyfriend that you have been involved for 4yrs and you are
happy, my question is if you are happy why are you in relationship for so
long
(4yrs) without marriage Women are not clever enough when it comes to do a
feasibility study about men.

WAKE UP AND ASK HIM (boyfriend): What will be my future with you? Do not
take excuses? Tell him your future plans Enough is enough ask him what
he is waiting for? If possible give him your parents' address and he must
tell them what he wants from you. If he came to play around with you he
will never come back. You must rather stay without a man rather than
wasting your time with someone who will hurt you and leave you, for how
long will you live like that? Once you are able to do that you will see
the future you were dreaming of.

A RIGHT MAN WHO LOVES YOU WILL COME AND DO THAT. You ladies with
long-term relationships ask your boyfriends today, if he is mumbling,
leave him because you will be depressed one day if you find out that he is
getting married to someone whom he met within 4 months. Imagine (4years =
4months) I am just picturing how your feeling will be? Ladies stay away
from those relationships, they are 3% useful and 97% wasting your time.
There could be someone out there who was going to marry you during this
4yrs maybe it was going to take him a year to marry you but you refused
you wanted to stay in a relationship with no due date. We are all working
according to time
(Projects, Deliveries, Purchasing, Contracts, etc.) Why Not Love Affairs?


I have sisters I always tell them because I want the best for them. Some
of you might not agree but I am sure this can help some of you.

PLEASE REMEMBER THIS: "IF A MAN IS STABLE IN LIFE, IN A RELATIONSHIP, BUT
NOT MARRIED, THEN IT IS BECAUSE HE IS NOT SURE ABOUT THE WOMAN THAT HE IS
WITH."

He is not willing to commit to her and constantly has his eye open for
something better or is waiting for her to become something better. Point
blank. When he finds a woman that he is satisfied with, he will make her
his wife. And ladies, sorry to tell some of you, but it doesn't take 4 or
5 years for that man to figure it out. It doesn't take 2 or 3 years
either.
The only reason that a man will get married after that long of a time is
because he's tired of looking for something better. And trust me, that's
definitely what he was doing all of those years. So if you should happen
to find yourself in one of those "long term" relationships then maybe you
should step back, take a look at yourself and wonder what it is that
you're missing by doing favors for this man who is not willing to fully
commit.

Don't make excuses to yourself and your girlfriends saying things like "Oh
he's waiting 'til he gets a better job" or "he's waiting to finish school"
or "he's waiting until he moves from his apartment to a house".

DON'T FOOL YOURSELF, IT'S NOT THAT COMPLICATED!!

Which one of those things can't be done with a wife or fiancé' by your side?
So ladies, when you read this think about your situation and that man that
you are living with, or the one that you spend many nights over his house
or him over yours. Think about your baby's father that you are still in a
sexual relationship with. Think about your "ex" that you are in a sexual
relationship with. Think about your "boyfriend". And definitely think
twice before you brag on a relationship that's a couple of years long and
you still have no commitment.

Like I've said before, I'm a man and I know the situation. I've been
there and I know that we can come up with some extremely reasonable
excuses, but.... DON'T FOOL YOURSELF, IT'S NOT THAT COMPLICATED!

"Ladies, can i hear you say Amen!!"

And

"Guys, let's be honest"

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G'Day All --

Homeland (Vatan) -- Iran's Song of Freedom, by Dariush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uYwEZb5Xao&feature=related

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Farsi/Persian Language  (in PDF format)
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=prs

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Persepolis Recreated

Persepolis Recreated -- Part (1 of 5) English version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwxJsk14e4

Persepolis Recreated -- Part (2 of 5) English version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGeJRTw7mW8&feature=channel_page

Persepolis Recreated -- Part (3 of 5) English version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIPHEb9lWXA&feature=channel_page

Persepolis Recreated -- Part (4 of 5) English version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXLaeZnJzVY&feature=channel_page

Persepolis Recreated -- Part (5 of 5) English version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqQH56JcEhE&feature=channel_page

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Best wishes to all,

Dave Matthews,  Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building:  Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address:  civact6@yahoo.com


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O Frigorífico Bertin, maior exportador de carne e um dos maiores grupos do setor no mundo, está envolvido em uma série de escândalos relacionados às atividades na região Amazônica, financiadas pelo IFC (sigla em inglês para Corporação Financeira Internacional) – braço financeiro do Banco Mundial. De acordo com o jornal O Estado de S. Paulo, o frigorífico teria negociado com autoridades do Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama) para evitar pagar multas por não respeitar leis ambientais e adquirir gado apreendido por um preço abaixo do mercado.

Bertin, que em 2007 recebeu R$ 90 milhões do IFC para desenvolver atividades da pecuária na Amazônia, foi multado três vezes pelo órgão nos últimos nove meses devido a irregularidades ambientais em seus frigoríficos localizados no Pará. No entanto, as multas que totalizam o valor de R$ 3, 4 milhões, não foram pagas. De acordo com Luciano Evaristo, diretor de Proteção Ambiental do instituto, as multas foram “esquecidas” pelos agentes locais do Ibama. Já a funcionária do órgão, Cleonice Aires Pereira, negou a afirmação de Evaristo, dizendo que a o “esquecimento das multas” foi uma decisão deliberada pelo Ibama.

O jornal descobriu ainda que, alguns dias depois de ser multado, o frigorífico comprou do instituto 3.046 cabeças de gado, que tinham sido apreendidas pelo Ibama. Bertin teria pago cerca de um quarto do preço de mercado, R$ 1,2 milhões. De acordo com funcionários do Ibama, o órgão teria deixado de cobrar as multas para vender, ilegalmente, o gado apreendido.

Segundo o deputado federal, Luciano Pizzatto (DEM), o ministro do Meio Ambiente, Carlos Minc, teria sido avisado pelo parlamentar sobre a negociação ilegal entre Bertin e o Ibama que, após o vazamento da informação, registrou, no final de abril de 2008, as multas oficialmente. A execução do registro no sistema do órgão foi feita em agosto de 2008.

Financiamento
As atividades do frigorífico começaram a se expandir na região amazônica em 2006. Atualmente, ela opera no Pará, Rondônia e Mato Grosso. Inicialmente, sua expansão foi financiada por um empréstimo controverso do IFC.

No último ano, Bertin recebeu um financiamento de US$ 1,7 bi, equivalente a R$ 3,3 bilhões. De acordo com um documento feito organizações não governamentais ao Banco Mundial, em março de 2007, o empréstimo do IFC foi aprovado sem respeitar os procedimentos internos no banco – omitindo a maior parte dos estudos ambientais e dando informação incompleta e enganosa ao conselho.

Segundo um estudo do Greenpeace que será lançado na segunda-feira (1), grande parte do gado do frigorífico é ilegal. A empresa, segundo o relatório, também está envolvida com o trabalho escravo.

A Associação Brasileira dos Exportadores de Carnes - em resposta ao estudo A Hora da Conta, feito pela organização Amigos da Terra - Amazônia Brasileira, reconheceu que seria impossível para qualquer grande frigorífico operar legalmente na Amazônia.

Segundo o diretor da organização, Roberto Smeraldi, esta situação “é uma consequência óbvia da deliberada falta de uma efetiva diligência por parte de brasileiros e instituições financeiras internacionais que subsidiam atividades pouco rentáveis se conduzidas na legalidade”

http://www.amazonia.org.br
Copyright © 2009 Amigos da Terra - Amazônia Brasileira. - Todos os direitos reservados.

OBS: Carta aberta da senadora Marina Silva ao presidente da República - MP 458 - Amazônia
http://www.greenpeace.org/brasil/amazonia/noticias/carta-aberta-da-senadora-marin

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Breaking News: Argentina, Fiji, France, Samoa and Japan set for Safari
Sevens 2009.

Reliable sources within the Kenya 7's team have confirmed that 5 high
profile IRB Series teams named above will participate in this years
tournament.

Confirmations are being awaited from world champions Wales and
Scotland while England have declined citing fatigue. New Zealand All
Blacks and Australia have indicated they will consider participating
in the near future while South Africa have continued with their policy
of sending the Junior Boks. How long they can avoid sending the main
Boks 7's team remains to be seen. The IRB Sevens Series champions
would be a welcome addition to the event.

With Uganda, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia filling
the African quarter this promises to be a very competitive competition
with defending champions Kenya the star attraction this time.
Scorpions will be the other Kenyan side. With so many IRB teams coming
this must be the best tournament ever.

Kopo's injury sustained against KCB is a worry as he was stretchered
off in the second half. We hope he will recover and be part of the
Kenya 7's squad. With Ayimba as the Mean Machine coach, he will surely
be monitoring his fitness closely.


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It's funny how life is never settled. The "ebb and flow" is not a cliche -- it is a reality.

It is the dichotomy. It is the duality. It is the yin and yang. It is the dialectics.

It really is, and what a comfort. You are never alone. Even holed up, shelled up, tucked away, buried in, you are NOT alone. There is always something to come out of, and that struggle ensures your survival and the fight to live. It's the right to live.

Everything's changing right now... lots of turmoil and tension around the world, but also lots of hope + prosperity. Maybe the universe is shifting gears, what a cosmic crunch.

Peace to Iran's upcoming election. Peace to Euna Lee and Laura Ling. Peace to the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C.

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G'Day All --

Kilroy's On-Line Classic Film Festival continues to grow, with several entertaining additions.

Included among the nine Newest Arrivals is (IMHO) one of the most hilarious productions of all time, "The Horse's Mouth," about an eccentric old artist named Gully Jimson, who lives on a decrepit houseboat on the Thames River in London, starring Alec Guinness.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/yourturf3/KilroysFilmFest.htm

I've received a few admonitions from folks who insist that anyone "seriously interested" in watching any of these films would buy the DVDs and view them on their big-screen televisions.  My reply is, "By all means, do so."

On the other hand, the Film Festival web page has received several thousand hits, so it seems to interest some folks -- even if only for purposes of sampling the "merchandise" before acquiring the DVDs.

Enjoy the on-line material whenever it suits your convenience, and forward the site to any of your friends who might like to do the same.

Remember -- whether you watch on-line, or on a TV screen in your house, you are still most welcome to post comments about your favorite films on Kilroy's Movie Buffs' and Film Critics' Forum, that you can access from the link near the bottom of the above web page, or directly at:

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/KilroysMovieBuffsForum/

I hope the above material will be of interest.  If you have questions or comments, please let me know.

>>>  If you want to forward this item to others, the correct URL is:

http://civact6.tigblog.org/post/690889

Best wishes to all,

Dave Matthews,  Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building:  Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address:  civact6@yahoo.com


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Luis Sabini é jornalista, editor da Revista Futuros e coordenador de Ecologia na disciplina de Direitos Humanos da Faculdade de Filosofia e Letras da Universidade de Buenos Aires (UBA), na Argentina. Confira a seguir a entrevista que ele concedeu à ANA.

Agência de Notícias Anarquistas > Como surgiu seu interesse por questões ambientais, natureza...

Luis Sabini < Tenho a impressão que desde muito pequeno, ligado com certo respeito e espanto pela natureza. De pequeno “trabalhei” em casa empacotando talheres de plástico. Causava-me má impressão terminar minhas curtas jornadas com as mãos “coloridas” dos talheres. Parecia-me insensato colocar na boca semelhantes utensílios. Logo, nos anos 60, uma série de artigos sobre doenças “industriais”, o aquecimento global e o derretimento das calotas polares, publicados no semanário Marcha, de Montevidéu (1939-1974), me pus definitivamente no campo ecológico.

ANA > Você também fez parte da Comunidad del Sur no Uruguai, foi preso político, viveu no exílio...

Luis < Falar desses “pequenos capítulos” de minha vida... daria um livro... A Comunidade Del Sur foi um “invento” que abracei em minha juventude, com nenhuma experiência e muita garra. Pouco a pouco fui aprendendo que era praticamente o oposto do que se devia praticar. Como já havia visto que se passava em relação ao catolicismo e ao comunismo, que as ideologias declaravam uma coisa e que na realidade faziam exatamente o contrário.

A Comunidade Del Sur era uma experiência política verticalista que declarava ser horizontalista, foi se convertendo em uma empresa com êxito, que afirmava ser anticapitalista, defendia publicamente a liberdade e vivíamos uma vida cotidiana absolutamente regida por “deveres”. Por isso, a quantidade de pessoas que se interessaram por essa experiência foram centenas, mas a permanência no grupo sempre se reduziu a poucas dezenas, e no momento mais “intenso” apenas dez, ou cinco, fazendo algumas distinções.

Foi um patético engano. Não no sentido vulgar ou jurídico, mas no seu sentido filosófico. Por isso, se chegou a delírios como “a construção do novo homem”, que em geral não se conhece porque o alcance da Comunidade Del Sur tem sido pequeno. Salvo dentro da “família anarquista” onde se há feito muito pouco, mas existe um culto a ela.

ANA > E a revista “Futuros”, como nasce?

Luis < “Futuros” nasceu como uma necessidade minha. Nos anos 90 tive a alegria de ter uma coluna em uma pequena revista, mas com importante valor histórico “Cadernos de Marcha” (“filha” de Marcha, mais precisamente). Ainda que a coluna não fosse assim tão “livre” como eu esperava, era a forma que eu tinha de “ajustar as contas” com muitas questões políticas e ecológicas tão mal argumentadas, segundo o meu modo de ver, claro.

Mas o Cadernos fechou abruptamente depois de um trágico acidente automobilístico, que terminou com a vida da diretora de produção e do diretor editorial (filha e neto do fundador de “Marcha”, Carlos Quijano).

Voltei a estar “bloqueado”, ou melhor dizendo, o tempo de jornalista free-lance, de ter artigos quando são aceitos... Isso fez com que eu me decidisse a “fazer” uma revista.

ANA > A revista aborda temas e lutas ambientais, certo?

Luis < Em “Futuros” tratamos de questões que consideramos importantes e que não figuram nas agendas midiáticas, ou, quando sim, estão com idéias enviesadas, graças aos capitalistas de plantão. Falamos de questões como o problema alimentar do mundo, das comidas “sujas”, da invasão de aditivos químicos no cotidiano, ou de outra invasão que sofremos na última década, de alimentos transgênicos, que nos obrigam consumir sem nem ao menos sabermos se são ou não organismos geneticamente modificados.

Claro que não nos atemos somente a esta questão; também ao aquecimento global, as assimétricas relações entre o centro e a periferia, e a fé incondicional no Tecnocientífico...

Mas também abordamos questões diretamente ecológicas, ainda que ligadas a outras questões como o destino das populações aborígenes, tanto na América como na África, a questão Palestina etc.

Relacionando todos esses assuntos: agrotóxicos, transgênicos, o avanço do capitalismo, da monocultura na atividade rural, temos textos muito interessantes com a contribuição de Rui Namorado Rosa, Mohamed Habib e Expresso Zica.

ANA > É possível ser ecologista sem ser anticapitalista?

Luis < Não. Definitivamente, não. Uma verdadeira consciência ecológica enfrenta radicalmente o discurso da propriedade privada e, sobretudo, o do lucro.

ANA > Uma vez o pensador Cornelius Castoriadis disse que a ecologia é subversiva, pois ela é intrinsecamente contra o capitalismo. Concorda?

Luis < Sim, estou de acordo, com a afirmação de Castoriadis. Com essa e com muitas outras de suas reflexões sobre o poder burocrático. Ainda que eu discorde muitíssimo de algumas lamentáveis visões de Castoriadis sobre a ex-União Soviética e os EUA, nos anos 80, quando eram “as duas grandes superpotências” do planeta.

ANA > Qual a sua principal crítica às ONGs ambientalistas?

Luis < A maioria, não todas, são financiadas por grupos que atuam geralmente com fundos dos ditos “primeiro mundo”, para trabalhos nos “subúrbios” do planeta. Isso cria um desequilíbrio, uma desigualdade difícil de superar. Ainda que se fale da igualdade entre todos os seres humanos, esse tipo de suporte só acentua as diferenças.

Por outro lado, o trabalho é de grupos fomentados pela iniciativa privada. Temos aí uma questão importante: combate-se sem querer o estatal e o público, que são coisas diferentes, mas que são “varridas” conjuntamente.

E a imensa maioria das ONGs ambientalistas se dedicam a encarar um único ponto, o tema que “quita” a problemática de seu verdadeiro caráter, inter-relacionado com outras questões ou temas. Fazer um trabalho ambientalista mediante métodos que desconhece o abc ecológico, as interpelações que existem não são muito boas.

ANA > No Brasil há centenas, milhares de ONGs ambientalistas, mas pouca luta ambiental efetiva, agitação de mentes e corpos. A maioria delas está voltada para a “educação ambiental”, com uma perspectiva de consumo, capitalista e financiadas com dinheiro público ou privado. Isso também se passa na Argentina, Uruguai...

Luis < Exatamente. É necessário lembrar-se de onde provém a febre de ONGs... Vem do “primeiro mundo”, quando o mundo enriquecendo se distancia mais do mundo empobrecido e o Banco Mundial e outras organizações filantrópicas decidem “ajudar” aos pobres que têm seus estados destruídos pela dívida e pelo roubo, com organizações não governamentais, é afirmar que organizações privadas que vem “finalizar” a tarefa do neoliberalismo: a destruição do público e o enaltecimento do privado.

ANA > Hoje, as grandes empresas gastam milhões de dólares por ano com publicidade nas TVs, jornais, rádios e Internet para divulgar suas “Políticas de Responsabilidade Social e Ambiental”. E normalmente adornadas com imagens de paisagens exuberantes, crianças sorrindo... Tudo uma hipocrisia?

Luis < Talvez não sejam em todos os casos, ou, ao menos, seja uma minúscula parcela de “bens intencionados”. Em alguns casos quem leva a cabo as tais “políticas de responsabilidade social” acreditam no que querem, na “ajuda” deles. Acredito que a maioria das vezes se trata de gente “boa” que não quer se corromper tanto e que aposta em “medidas corretivas”, menores, para obter a consciência limpa sem mudar radicalmente, sem perder privilégios, sem modificar a imagem do mundo que têm e onde eles são os privilegiados.

“Crises de consciência” e hipocrisia andam muito perto, a linha é tênue. Talvez a hipocrisia seja quando a consciência é a da mentira, e seja franca e forte.

ANA > E o que falar do tal “desenvolvimento sustentável”? Atualmente também não há muita farsa por trás destas palavras?

Luis < Certamente. Por trás das “ataduras” que tratava de explicar na resposta anterior. O empresário quer um desenvolvimento sustentável, mas não quer perder todas as vantagens que lhe é outorgado em sua empresa, seu “capital de giro”, sua ganância. Com isso, o “desenvolvimento sustentável” se faz mais propagandístico, mais espetacular do que qualquer outra coisa.

ANA > O curioso, e irônico, é que quem mais fala em “desenvolvimento sustentável” no Brasil, como a petroleira Petrobras e a mineradora Vale, são exatamente as empresas que mais agridem a natureza. É a mesma coisa na Argentina, não?

Luis < Claro! Isso é quase uma lei! Quem mais tem a ocultar a contaminação, por exemplo, só pode mostrar-se “preocupado” com ela. A literatura nos mostra que na História temos muitos exemplos semelhantes de comportamento. Mercantis que posam de generosos, soberbos que fingem ser humildes...

ANA > Qual é a questão ambiental mais urgente na Argentina?

Luis < A perda da biodiversidade.

ANA > E qual sua avaliação da luta ambiental na Argentina?

Luis < A luta ambiental na Argentina é pobre, pobríssima. Mas está avançando. Há que se pensar na seguinte questão: quando tivemos a “invasão” dos organismos geneticamente modificados em todo o mundo, apenas dois países tiveram sua implementação sem problemas, sem discussões, dentro dos vinte ou mais países que questionam essa questão. Os dois únicos países que nada questionaram foram a Argentina e os EUA. Com proporções pequeníssimas de resistência de pessoas, grupos, jornalistas, que estiveram contra essa abominação.

A Argentina viveu com Menem uma miragem coletiva, que fez pensar que aceitando a tudo, estariam entrando no grupo do “Primeiro Mundo”. Mas, já faz algum tempo, a luta e a consciência ecológica vem aumentando.

O povo de Esquel (Patagônia argentina) enfrentou sozinho ao governo e a uma transnacional mineradora e evitou mediante um referendo que se instalasse nas montanhas vizinhas. Isso foi histórico!

Existem muitas populações enfrentando as mineradoras, que só querem resultados máximos para suas extrações, independente do resultado negativo para os habitantes das regiões que são exploradas.

Há uma incipiente tomada de consciência contra o acúmulo do lixo. E agora, finalmente, em 2009, começamos a ver a consciências do perigo da soja “transgênica”.

ANA > O Mar Aral, que alimentava aos países da URSS agora é um deserto improdutivo, por obra da "revolução verde" do Estado soviético. África vai caminhando pelo mesmo caminho, se transformando em outro deserto, os monocultivos e os transgênicos têm devastado este continente e sua ação se aprofunda cada vez mais. Em sua opinião, por que há grande dificuldade para avançar com o tema, preservação e luta ambiental ante às contundentes evidências para, pelo menos, deter essa destruição?

Luis < Porque os interesses econômicos são muito fortes! E porque os paradigmas dominantes no plano tecnocientífico seguem o mesmo “otimismo” tecnológico e à idéia de progresso. Isso ocorre quando tanto a direita quanto a esquerda utilizam o mesmo “espectro ideológico”. Por isso é tão difícil enfrentar essa situação...

ANA > Acredita que somos testemunhas de um genocídio, suicídio ambiental por obra do capitalismo de Estado ou de mercado?

Luis < Sim. Os grandes laboratórios planetários estão espalhando muito sua influência e a guerra contra as “pragas”, os vírus, as bactérias etc., estão procurando deixar um planeta sem microflora nem microfauna. E essa situação, só tende a piorar e transformar a biodiversidade para finalmente, empobrecer toda a vida planetária. Como já foi explicado em 1974, com a invocação do Cacique Seattle, em 1855, ante os “avanços da civilização”.

ANA > Crê que este planeta pode nos sustentar com nossa atual população, cada vez mais crescente?

Luis < Creio que a humanidade tem perdido em ritmo biológico de crescimento vegetativo. O problema é que alguns querem limitar a população de pobres, outros afirmam que a culpa é do “crescimento demográfico”, quando da verdade o problema maior é a exploração dos países periféricos, o que da natureza, o esgotamento dos recursos naturais pela condição capitalista e a comodidade dos consumidores ricos, a contaminação generalizada...

ANA > Você se identifica com o “decrescimento”?

Luis < Parece-me sensato adotar alguma forma de "decrescimento" ao menos de "crescimento zero", estratégia estacionária contra o impulso tecnológico que nos leva, me parece, a um abismo planetário.

ANA > Efetivamente o tema ambiental conseguiu certo grau de penetração no anarquismo?

Luis < Sim. O anarquismo tem boas condições ideológicas para incorporar o tema ambiental, pela questão de defesa do “natural”, que por certo não existe entre todos os seres humanos, mas mesmo assim, acredito eu, que todos, pelo menos, deveriam tentar aprender a respeitar.

ANA > Uma mensagem final, esperançadora para os leitores? Obrigado!

Luis < Acreditar na vida, aprender que todo o planeta é nosso único barco, e que temos por isso que sermos próximos uns aos outros. Temos que ajudar em todas as vertentes de luta: acabar com o racismo, o chauvinismo e os sentimentos de superioridade que o europocentrismo configurou por mais de meio milênio, como também tantas outras “civilizações” também igualmente racistas como os romanos, os astecas e tantos outros.
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