Diário Ateísta reloaded
Etiquetas: ateísmo
«Entre le fort et le faible, entre le riche et le pauvre, c´est la liberté qui opprime et la loi qui affranchit.»
(Lacordaire)
Etiquetas: ateísmo
A imaginação voa quando se põe a pensar onde foi parar tanta bagalhoça... Projectos caritativos, sem dúvida.
Etiquetas: capitalismo, contas, direita, Madeira
Ditto Baucus’ health plan. And Kennedy’s. And Wyden’s.
Why? Norman Markowitz, a contributing editor at PoliticalAffairs.net (motto: “Marxist Thought Online”), makes an interesting point about how making citizens dependent on the government for their medical care can change the fates of political parties:
A “single payer” national health system – known as “socialized medicine” in the rest of the developed world – should be an essential part of the change that the core constituencies which elected Obama desperately need. Britain serves as an important political lesson for strategists. After the Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low-income people under religious and other influences who tended to support the Conservatives were much more likely to vote for the Labor Party…
I’m no student of British history, but that sounds about right. Markowitz continues:
The best way to win over the the portion of the working class in the South or the West that supported McCain and the Republicans is to create important new public programs and improve the social safety net. National health care [and other measures] will bring reluctant voters into the Obama coalition. That is how progress works.
Republicans might want to take note.
(Anyone who thinks that Obama’s plan is not socialized medicine should read this.)
Etiquetas: capitalismo, direita, sarcasmo
Etiquetas: capitalismo, direita
Ora bem. Uma ditadura provisória? Provisória quando começar ou quando acabar? E para durar quanto tempo? E com quem? Com a Manuela como ditadora? Ou outro(a)? São só perguntas inocentes. Por enquanto ainda se podem fazer. Se a Manuela partir para a ditadura, já não sei se as poderemos fazer...
Etiquetas: democracia, direita
Etiquetas: capitalismo
Etiquetas: anti-racismo, Recortes, África
Etiquetas: animalismo, Direitos do Homem, humanismo, ética

(...) So it is essential to ensure that everyone can live up to their potential, which requires educational opportunities for all. A modern economy also requires risk-taking. Individuals are more willing to take risks if there is a good safety net. If not, citizens may demand protection from foreign competition. Social protection is more efficient than protectionism. (...) A second major difference between left and right concerns the role of the state in promoting development. The left understands that the government’s role in providing infrastructure and education, developing technology, and even acting as an entrepreneur is vital. (...) The final difference may seem odd: the left now understands markets, and the role that they can and should play in the economy. The right, especially in America, does not. (...) They believe in a strong state with robust executive powers, but one used in defense of established interests, with little attention to market principles. The list of examples is long, but it includes subsidies to large corporate farms, tariffs to protect the steel industry, and, most recently, the mega-bail-outs of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. (...) Markets are not self-correcting in the relevant time frame. No government can sit idly by as a country goes into recession or depression, even when caused by the excessive greed of bankers or misjudgment of risks by security markets and rating agencies. (...) Even in his era, businesses found that they could increase profits more easily by conspiring to raise prices than by producing innovative products more efficiently. There is a need for strong anti-trust laws.» (Joseph Stiglitz)
Etiquetas: esquerda, neoliberalismo, Recortes, Stiglitz
Etiquetas: Direitos do Homem, judaísmo
Resposta: claro que não. Também não é indiferente dizer «os humanos têm direitos» e «os animais têm responsabilidades perante os humanos». É que quem tem direitos, tem também a responsabilidade de respeitar nos outros os direitos que detém em si. E não vejo os animais (não humanos) a respeitarem os nossos direitos(!).
Etiquetas: animalismo, Direitos do Homem
Etiquetas: Europa de Leste, império, Rússia

Etiquetas: anti-racismo, ateísmo, esquerda, EUA, Iraque, Laicidade, neoliberalismo
O fundador e líder histórico do BPN era Oliveira Costa (ex-secretário de Estado do cavaquismo, sob Miguel Cadilhe), que foi substituído por Abdul Vakil (o wahabita dirigente da Comunidade Islâmica de Lisboa), que foi substituído por Cadilhe (ver parêntesis mais atrás). Nos quadros do BPN aparecem também Rui Machete (Opus Dei), e outros ex-ministros do PSD: Arlindo de Carvalho, Amílcar Theias, Daniel Sanches e Dias Loureiro, o padrinho. E mais, o BPN tinha ligações ao sub-mundo do futebol.
E o que fez toda esta gente? Isto:
E porquê? Talvez aqui se entenda:
Agora, parece que o PS os vai safar da falência. E da prisão?
Etiquetas: Islão, neoliberalismo, Opus Dei
Etiquetas: neoliberalismo