O desespero da oposição tem fundamento
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Alberto Kopittke, via Sul21
É preciso olhar o atual ataque que a oposição político-midiática-financeira está fazendo ao governo Dilma para além da onda de ódio disseminada em setores da classe média para que se compreenda os seus reais motivos.
As razões para um ataque tão virulento, beirando ilações de apoio a um golpe de estado, obviamente não estão na indignação do PSDB, da Rede Globo, da Veja, ou do capital financeiro em relação a corrupção, com a qual sempre conviveram tranquilamente, quando lhes convinha.
O que a oposição percebeu é que, após atravessar mais um ou dois semestres com dificuldades econômicas, os últimos três anos do governo Dilma podem ser o ápice do atual projeto nacional-desenvolvimentista, iniciado em 2002.
A partir do segundo semestre do ano que vem, o governo começará a inaugurar as grandes obras dos governos Lula e Dilma, como a transposição do Rio São Francisco; as…
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“We Need Your Head”: Muslim Persecution Of Christians, July 2014
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Matthew 10:22, “And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.”
By Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute – “The purge of ancient Christian communities throughout Iraq that started in June culminated in great intolerance in July.
Among other Islamic attacks, a Christian church that had stood Iraq for 1,800 years — a church that was erected less than 200 years after Christ — was reportedly torched by the Islamic State, according to countless news agencies, including Al Arabiya.
Islamic State jihadis also stormed and took over an ancient monastery in northern Iraq. St. Behnam monastery had stood since the fourth century and was one of Iraq’s best-known Christian landmarks. It was built by an Assyrian king as a penance for executing his children Behnam and Sarah for converting to Christianity.
The jihadis expelled its few monks; they…
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Steve McCurry – Colors of Afghanistan
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“A landscape might be denuded, a human settlement abandoned or lost,
but always, just beneath the ground lies history of preposterous grandeur. . .
They are everywhere, these individuals of undaunted humankind,
irrepressibly optimistic and proud.”
– The Carpet Wars, Christopher Kremmer
Photography by Steve McCurry
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The Minotaur in the Labyrinth, poem by Melanie Knippen (Mythic Poetry Series)
6 de Novembro de 2014, 15:24 - sem comentários ainda
The Minotaur in the Labyrinth
by Melanie Knippen
My hybrid-monster snout sniffs
bland hedge-leaves all day.
I run my paws across coniferous walls;
if a thorn gets stuck,
I pull it out with my fangs—
turn roses red.
I kneel in weeds
and long for epic tales.
My tail wags for heroic fantasies:
The Odyssey, Metamorphoses
I pray, “Dear Dionysus,
send Thalia, muse of comedy,
I could use a laugh.”
She appeared once
glimmered in illusion.
I was pacing,
doing my daily circles:
dead-ends.
I couldn’t even chuckle.
I merely aim to find my way out
and meander about everyday
at a melancholic pace—
trapped.
I am incessant motion
a meditation in madness
deep inside this strange form.
It’s a back-
and-forth
black-
and-white
mind-trap.
I answer solely to a bull-horned god,
but I’ve exhausted all my answers.
Enraged, I lash out at branches.
Vindictive beast, I torture swallows.
Thirsty…
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