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The Moron vs. The Manager
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Sloganul meu electoral e “Fuck you, România”
Sadly, it looks like everything I predicted in my post Hail to the Thief is coming true. After last Sunday’s elections, Victor Ponta received 40.44% of the vote and Iohannis Klaus 30.37%, meaning the two men will face off in a run-off election next week.
I pretty much learned everything I needed to know about Romanian politics when I lived in a village a few years ago. The only television station we could receive was a free satellite channel of TVR2 (the government station) which ran a nightly newscast at 7:00 pm. Every night, me and this one older lady would sit next to each other and watch it.
If Basescu appeared on the screen, she would grumble and jeer. But if they showed a clip of Cornel Vadim Tudor ranting and raving in Parliament against hoti si mafioti (thieves and the mafia)…
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Friday, November 7th
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blues festival (day five)
Junior Wells (vocals, harmonica), Buddy Guy (guitar), Phil Guy (guitar), et al., “Ships on the Ocean,” live, Chicago (Theresa’s Lounge, 4801 S. Indiana), c. 1975
A mídia não quer que o governo mexa no ‘Bolsa Imprensa’
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por :Paulo Nogueira no DCM
“O PT busca golpear as receitas publicitárias dos veículos de informação – o que poderia redundar, no futuro, no controle de conteúdo pelo governo.”
Está na Veja, e raras vezes ficou tão clara a dependência financeira e mental que as grandes corporações jornalísticas têm do dinheiro público expresso em publicidade federal.
Havia, naquela frase, uma alusão à decisão do governo de deixar de veicular propaganda estatal na Veja, em consequência da capa criminosa que a revista publicou às vésperas das eleições.
Era o mínimo que se poderia fazer diante da tentativa de golpe branco da Abril contra a democracia.
Mas a revista fala em “golpear as receitas publicitárias” da mídia corporativa.
A primeira pergunta é: as empresas consideram direito adquirido o ‘Bolsa Imprensa’, o torrencial dinheiro público que há muitos anos as enriquece – e a seus donos – na forma de anúncios…
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Remembering Meena Kamal: Hope Is The Thing With Feathers.
7 de Novembro de 2014, 6:38 - sem comentários ainda
Hope is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickinson wrote a long time ago. Where does it fly nowadays, does it keep its eyes on Afghanistan? Last night I read poems by Meena Keshwar Kamal (commonly known as Meena). I wanted to type something about Meena right away, but then decided it would be better to do it in the morning, to let her poems stay with me for a while, in the stillness of the night.
Meena was an Afghan revolutionary political activist, feminist and founder of Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). She was only 20 when, in 1977, she launched RAWA, Afghanistan’s first organized movement for women’s rights. Four years later, Meena launched a bilingual feminist magazine called Payam-e-Zan (Women’s Message).
/Meena speaking in 1982, photo via RAWA/
In the beginnings with RAWA, Meena started a campaign against the Russian forces and their…
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