O Homem tem dedicado muito menos tempo à exploração espacial do que deveria. Pensa pequeno; e por isso não se arrisca, não vai por aí fora, rumo à Lua, a Marte e a outros corpos celestes.
O Universo existe há 15 mil milhões de anos, o Sol e a Terra há 4.500 milhões de anos; e nós estamos sós, pois que ainda não nos atrevemos a tentar o contacto com outros que por aí possam ter surgido, pelo Cosmos fora.
Nos últimos mil milhões de anos, animais semelhantes a vermes evoluíram até se tornarem humanos. E se a vida noutros planetas, ou noutras galáxias, estiver mil milhões de anos mais avançada, poderá ser que criaturas de lá olhem para nós como se fôssemos uns simples vermes.
Os mais importantes desenvolvimentos da vida na Terra poderão estar ainda por acontecer; e o Homem não pode ser tão mesquinho, tão tacanho, que não se prepare para eles.
Para muitos de nós, a era espacial só começou há uns 58 anos, aproximadamente. E não nos demos ao trabalho de explorar mais intensivamente a Lua, de colonizar Marte, de estudar diferentes asteroides, de colocar o pé em cometas...
Depois da Apollo 17, tornámo-nos provincianos, mais preocupados com as guerras no Vietname e no Iraque do que com o conhecimento de Júpiter e de Saturno, de cujos mundos ainda tanto ignoramos.
Numa noite de Julho de 1969 estivemos com Neil Armstrong e Edwin Aldrin; mas depois estagnámos, não vimos que era preciso continuar a ir à Lua e desvendar os caminhos de Marte, de Io, Europa, Titã. Perdemos o fôlego.
Sabemos nós quais as verdadeiras dimensões do Universo? Quando é que ele na verdade começou a existir? Quantos os milhares de milhões de anos-luz que nos separam de determinada galáxia?
Perdemos tempo com os conflitos na Síria e na Líbia, não nos sobrando energias para estudar melhor os telescópios que nos mostram certas regiões do Universo tal como elas eram há 5.000 milhões de anos.
Não sabemos viajar no Tempo e no Espaço, quedando-nos antes pelas tricas da União Europeia e pelas investidas russas no Leste da Ucrânia.
Pensamos em pequenino, deixando de parte os mistérios do Cosmos. Ignoramos, por exemplo, a maior parte de nós, que há galáxias que se movem a milhões de quilómetros por hora, afastando-se cada vez mais da Terra, do Sol, da Via Láctea.
O Universo inteiro expande-se, parecendo querer explodir, e nós debatemos se a Índia irá ter mais habitantes do que a China ou se a Nigéria conseguirá um lugar de membro permanente no Conselho de Segurança das Nações Unidas.
Acordem, senhores. Acordem de uma vez por todas, para a forte realidade de que a Terra não é, de forma alguma, o centro do Universo, mas apenas um simples grão de poeira cósmica. Um planeta que daqui a 6.000 milhões de anos poderá ser pura e simplesmente vapor, quando o Sol, velho e inchado, se transformar numa gigante vermelha.
Jorge Heitor 31 de Agosto de 2014
domingo, 31 de agosto de 2014
Iraque: ISIS vende mulheres
By Reissa Su | August 18, 2014 11:09 AM EST
As ISIS continues to take over more towns in Iraq, at least 500 women believed to be Christians were allegedly kidnapped from Mosul to be sold as "sex slaves." Reports said the Islamic militants have overrun Qaraqosh, Iraq's largest Christian city. Believers have reportedly flocked to the city to escape the militants.
Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah
A Christian woman, who fled from the violence in Mosul two days ago, holds her daughter as her baby sleeps at a school in Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region June 27, 2014.
A Christian woman, who fled from the violence in Mosul two days ago, holds her daughter as her baby sleeps at a school in Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region June 27, 2014.
A spokesman from the Kurdish forces said ISIS has kidnapped Yazidi and Christian women to be turned as "Sabaya" or "war booty slaves." He added that ISIS also plans to sell the women. According to accounts of witnesses, the most beautiful of the kidnapped women were handed to "ISIS princes."
In a report by CNN, Qaraqosh is about 20 miles from southeast Mosul with a population of 50,000. Since ISIS has invaded the city, members of the Christian community have fled like the people of Mosul.
In other reports caught on video, an eyewitness tells of girls jumping to their deaths after they were raped by Islamic militants. A woman said three of her daughters were raped then allowed to return to Mount Shingal. She told media that her daughters urged people to "kill" them but no one had responded. They committed suicide instead.
In a report by CNN, Qaraqosh is about 20 miles from southeast Mosul with a population of 50,000. Since ISIS has invaded the city, members of the Christian community have fled like the people of Mosul.
In other reports caught on video, an eyewitness tells of girls jumping to their deaths after they were raped by Islamic militants. A woman said three of her daughters were raped then allowed to return to Mount Shingal. She told media that her daughters urged people to "kill" them but no one had responded. They committed suicide instead.
U.S. President Obama has announced the ISIS siege of Iraq against religious minorities has been "broken" but the mission did not end there. Mr Obama said he expected the airstrikes and a specific operation at Mount Sinjar to wrap up. However, he declared that U.S. involvement will not end there as ISIS continues to strike violence against the people of Iraq.
He said airstrikes will continue to protect American facilities and remaining personnel in Iraq.
U.S. politicians have expressed their fears of an impending attack by ISIS on American territory. According to a statement from U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham, unless a more "decisive action" was taken against ISIS, the terror threat will always be present.
Reports said ISIS had slain at least 500 Yazidis for refusing to denounce their religion and convert to Islam. U.S. lawmakers believe the Islamic militants will continue to remain a threat to the United States. International Business Times, Austrália
He said airstrikes will continue to protect American facilities and remaining personnel in Iraq.
U.S. politicians have expressed their fears of an impending attack by ISIS on American territory. According to a statement from U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham, unless a more "decisive action" was taken against ISIS, the terror threat will always be present.
Reports said ISIS had slain at least 500 Yazidis for refusing to denounce their religion and convert to Islam. U.S. lawmakers believe the Islamic militants will continue to remain a threat to the United States. International Business Times, Austrália
sábado, 30 de agosto de 2014
Uma clínica para cegos timorenses
Jose′ Ramos-Horta Opens Artificial Eye Clinic in Timor-Leste
August 29th, 2014 by JennyThankfully the President recovered and I did eventually make it to Timor in July later that year. It was an extremely challenging experience and I wasn’t as prepared as I needed to be. The country had been through so much trauma and upheaval that arranging things was far more difficult than I’d anticipated.
On that first visit I had six blind patients who spoke no English and I did not have access a translator. The room I worked in had no running water so between patients I washed my hands out the window with bottled water. Just about every aspect of running the clinic was complicated in one way or another. For me it was a bit of a trial by fire. To be honest, after the challenges of that first visit I found it hard to go back.
Fast forward six years and several clinic visits later and so much progress has been made. I’m a lot more organised and I have had help from my husband Michael who helps me run the clinic and sort out unexpected things that come up. I’ve also had a lot of fantastic support from Rotary and the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (RACS). Over the years I’ve worked from several different locations. This past year it has progressed in leaps and bounds. RMS Engineering donated a sea container and RACS applied for a grant through Lions First Sight Foundation to fit the container out as an Artificial Eye Lab. The National Eye Clinic arranged five applicants for the position of trainee ocularist for the new clinic. My thanks to RACS, Lions First Sight, Timor Leste National Eye Clinic and Aus Aid for all their wonderful support.
Now another important milestone has been achieved. I’m very excited that the new clinic has just been officially opened in it’s permanent new home by Jose′ Ramos-Horta. We have two trainees from that clinic coming to Perth soon to continue their training. It’s been a long journey and it’s so satisfying to see the clinic very close to being able to run independently.
Timor itself continues to go from strength to strength and it’s been such a privilege for me to visit each year and see this growth. I’m so relieved Jose′ Ramos-Horta is fully recovered and so very pleased we’ve got this clinic to a point where it is there to serve the lovely people of Timor.
As Noites Árabes, de Miguel Gomes
A Scheherazade in Today’s Portugal
Miguel Gomes’s ‘Arabian Nights’ Looks at a Gloomy Nation
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LISBON — On a cool night last month, Miguel Gomes, one of Portugal’s most prominent film directors, was shooting a scene for his latest movie in an outdoor amphitheater, high above the Tagus River here. Pall Mall cigarette in hand, he told an actress to look more beleaguered before she began a crucial monologue that captures the country’s dark mood.
“She can’t stand it anymore; she feels all this weight,” Mr. Gomes said before calling “Acção!” (pronounced as-AUW), Portuguese for “Action!” It was the final day in Lisbon for the shoot of “As 1,001 Noites,” or “Arabian Nights,” an experimental yearlong project in which the director has blended fact and fiction to examine contemporary Portugal in the throes of its debt crisis.
Mr. Gomes’s films, including the critically acclaimed “Tabu” (2012), have often featured documentary-style footage. But for “Arabian Nights,” which is expected to be released next year, he took this approach to a new level, bringing on a team of three journalists to research real reports from the Portuguese press and develop them with screenwriters into around a dozen fictional episodes, all narrated by a contemporary Scheherazade.
“I thought maybe that I should make a film with Portuguese stories that are popping up, appearing at this moment,” Mr. Gomes said. “Arabian Nights” is one of the first films to take on the euro crisis. It attempts to hold a mirror, albeit a convex one, to a country struggling with unemployment, emigration and general gloom.
While television coverage of the crisis has been “superficial,” a film can add “a level of depth that only cinema can bring,” said Vasco Câmara, a film critic and editor at Público, a Lisbon daily, who has been tracking the movie since Mr. Gomes announced it.
For the movie’s structure, Mr. Gomes turned to “The Arabian Nights,” whose heroine tells stories to her new husband, the king, to delay her death sentence. Despite working with factual material, Mr. Gomes, 42, said he had wanted to transcend the real and create a kind of diversion — a complex, more self-aware kind of fiction.
“The idea is not to give back this kind of reality that we are living in my country, but to recreate it as fiction,” he said. “That’s Scheherazade’s job.”
The euro crisis may be less dominant in the headlines today, but the social toll of the tax increases, wage cuts and reductions to social services that came in exchange for a foreign bailout in 2011 is still felt in Portugal. Although unemployment has dropped to 13.9 percent, down from above 17 percent last year, it remains higher than the European average. But the picture is more complex. Hundreds of thousands of Portuguese don’t figure on the unemployment rolls because they have emigrated to seek work abroad. In 2012 about 120,000 people emigrated from Portugal, which has a population of 10 million and a labor force of 5.5 million, according to the country’s statistics agency.
To find reports that might inspire episodes in the film, the journalists — Maria José Oliveira, João de Almeida Dias and Rita Ferreira — scoured local papers and produced daily news roundups for the screenwriters. They also produced reported articles and published them on the movie’s websitewebsite. One is the story of a married couple outside Lisbon who committed suicide in October, a complicated event that captured the country’s pervasive pessimism. Another tells of a songbird competition held by working-class men in Lisbon.
“It’s a different country from 2009 or 2010,” Ms. Oliveira said, sitting in the film’s makeshift newsroom, beneath a map of Portugal with pins on the 40 towns the team had visited. Back in 2012, there were huge public demonstrations in Portugal, but now people have grown tired.
“There’s a silent poverty,” Mr. Dias said. “The middle class almost disappeared.” Ms. Oliveira said the project had no political slant.
The journalists began researching articles last fall. Before filming began in November, Mr. Gomes chose about two dozen actors — men and women, old and young — to build the characters as they progressed, said Luis Urbano, a co-producer of the film. Along the way they were joined by many nonactors and extras.
The monologue for which Mr. Gomes was giving direction is part of a trial scene that was inspired by the real story of a Portuguese judge who began to cry after pronouncing the sentence of a man accused last year of robbing people at knife-point outside A.T.M.s.
“I’m feeling sick,” the judge (the Portuguese actress Luísa Cruz) says in the film. “This grotesque chain of stupidity, evil, desperation is beginning to test my competence and above all my patience.”
As he watched that night’s shooting, Mr. Urbano said, “In general, it’s about the situation, the loss of innocence.” Ever since Portugal signed its loan agreement in 2011, much of the national conversation has revolved around assigning blame for the mess. “That nobody is innocent in the country” is an idea that gained traction, Mr. Urbano added. “The people blame bankers; the bankers blame politicians.”
In September Mr. Gomes will shoot a final scene near Marseille, whose regional government has contributed funding for “Arabian Nights.” The movie also has some financing from the state-run Portuguese film institute, but more than half of its budget, three million euros (about $4 million), comes from abroad, Mr. Urbano said, including government money from France and Switzerland.
Portugal has been a constant source of inspiration for Mr. Gomes, who studied film in Lisbon and began his career as a critic before moving behind the camera. His first feature, “The Face You Deserve,” appeared in 2004. In 2008 “Our Beloved Month of August,” which revealed his melancholic style and his love-hate relationship with his native country, put him on the international map.
Obsessed with the unreliability of memory, individual and collective, Mr. Gomes in “Tabu” used flashbacks to tell the story of an elderly woman in Lisbon. Filmed in black and white, “Tabu” used voice-overs and a quasi-documentary style, akin to that of an old newsreel. That year, at the Berlin Film Festival, it won the Critics’ Prize and the Alfred Bauer Prize for opening “new perspectives on cinematic art.” His 26-minute film “Redemption,” shown at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is shot like a home movie from the pasts of four European leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany.
Rui Vieira Nery, the director of Portuguese language and culture programs at the Gulbenkian Institute in Lisbon, the country’s pre-eminent cultural institution, described Mr. Gomes’s work as “very ambivalent.” He said the director was inspired by, but also departed from, Portugal’s Cinema Novo of the 1960s and 1970s, which had drawn on Italian neorealism and the French New Wave and had become more political after the Carnation Revolution of 1974 toppled Portugal’s dictatorship.
“There’s a certain disenchantment with the great narratives of the traditional left — the need for utopian goals and moral values, of something to believe in,” Mr. Nery said of Mr. Gomes’s films. “On the other hand, there’s a certain feeling of defeat” and a “disenchantment that’s combined with this urge for a project we can believe in.”
domingo, 24 de agosto de 2014
Argélia: Futebol assassino
L’attaquant camerounais de la JS Kabylie, Albert Ebossé est décédé samedi soir, atteint par un projectile parti des tribunes à l’issue de la défaite à domicile de son équipe face à l’USM Alger (2-1), lors la 2e journée du championnat d’Algérie de football, a annoncé l'agence de presse APS.
Le joueur camerounais, 24 ans, a succombé à ses blessures à l’hôpital de Tizi Ouzou, en Kabylie (110 km à l'est d'Alger) où il avait été admis après avoir été touché par un projectile. Albert Ebossé avait marqué l'unique but de son équipe dont la défaite à domicile a provoqué la colère des supporters de la JSK qui ont commencé à jeter des projectiles depuis les tribunes du stade de Tizi Ouzou alors que les joueurs regagnaient les vestiaires, dont un a touché mortellement le joueur camerounais, selon la même source.Albert Ebossé a rejoint la JS Kabylie en 2013, atteignant la finale la coupe d’Algérie 2014 avant de terminer vice-champion d’Algérie avec, à la clé, 17 réalisations qui lui permettent de remporter le titre de meilleur buteur du championnat 2013-2014. Le ministère de l'intérieur a ordonné l'ouverture d'une enquête judiciaire sur ce décès, selon le président de la Ligue de football professionnel Mahfoud Kerbadj.
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sábado, 23 de agosto de 2014
MH370: Ainda nada foi descoberto
The next phase of the hunt for the
missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 will be very challenging in places.
Detailed information being gathered about the shape of the ocean floor west of Australia confirms the seabed in some locations to be extremely rugged.
Two vessels - the Fugro Equator and the Zhu Kezhen - are currently mapping an area covering 60,000 sq km.
This survey will guide a metre-by-metre search using towed instruments and submersibles.
This is likely to get under way towards the end of September.
The Australian authorities have warned that this could take a year to complete.
The Dutch-owned Fugro Equator and the Chinese naval vessel Zhu Kezhen are presently assembling a bathymetric (depth) map.
It covers the general location in the southern Indian Ocean where investigators believe MH370 is most likely to have come down.
The map is akin to a broad canvas - a first-ever proper look at a terrain about which there is the slimmest of knowledge.
It is essential work. Without this map, which has a resolution of roughly 25m in the deepest depths, it would not be safe to put down submersibles, as there is a high risk these vehicles would be lost.
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End Quote Paul Kennedy Fugro Survey Pty LtdThe biggest heave we've had so far is 13m. That's a big wave”
"There are volcanoes down there we've found which were
unknown before," says Paul Kennedy from Fugro
Survey Pty Ltd.
"There are all sorts of new features that are appearing," the company's project director for the MH370 search told BBC News.
The Fugro Equator is equipped with a state-of-the-art multibeam echosounder.
The vast majority of the area it is covering has never been sampled before.
It has recorded depths near to 6,000m. Even the shallow regions are more than 1,000m down.
But it is the craggy nature of the seabed that will prompt extreme caution to be exercised in the next phase of operations.
Fugro has been contracted by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau to conduct this part of the search as well.
It will involve the Equator and another ship, the Fugro Discovery. Both ships will pull a deep-tow instrument very close to the sea floor using a 10,000m armoured fibre-optic cable.
"There are areas that are benign and are going to be fairly straightforward. But then there are some areas that we know are going to be really hard work," explained Mr Kennedy.
"There are some huge valleys between big mountains, and it's going to be really hard to tow our device through those areas. We can do it; it's just going to take a bit longer."
Mr Kennedy likens the deep-tow's capabilities to human senses.
Echosounders are its ears; cameras represent its eyes; and a chemical sensor works like a nose.
This nose will "sniff" for the presence of any jet fuel in the water, down to a few parts per billion in concentration.
Assembling the bathymetric map has been a tough job in itself.
The Equator has had to contend with some terrible winter weather.
"Heave is the vertical displacement of a vessel - that's how you measure the size of the waves," Mr Kennedy said.
"We record it, and you correct for it when computing the bathymetric depth. The biggest heave we've had so far is 13m. That's a big wave.
"Fortunately, the vessel has anti-roll tanks, which push water from side to side inside the ship with great big pumps, and that helps tremendously.
"To get a clean map of the sea floor, we must know the attitude of the ship very accurately, to 0.02 of a degree."
The Malaysian plane was lost on 8 March as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 239 people.
Its disappearance has become one the biggest mysteries in aviation history.
The best information investigators have for its whereabouts come for a series of brief satellite communications with the jet during its flight.
The last of these connections suggests MH370 crashed into the water inside the "high priority" search zone now being surveyed by the Dutch and Chinese vessels. BBC
terça-feira, 19 de agosto de 2014
Rotura de medicamento no mercado
Acusamos
e agradecemos o e-mail enviado ao Infarmed/CIMI a 16-08-2014, o qual
mereceu a nossa melhor atenção.
Em
resposta à solicitação, confirmamos que o medicamento Cloreto de Potássio
Secalan Retard, 600 mg, comprimido de libertação prolongada, está em rutura de
stock, desde o dia 21/07/2014, não existindo data prevista para reposição do
mercado.
Mais
se informa que, o Infarmed está a desencadear várias ações para que este
medicamento, ou outro similar, volte a estar disponível no mercado.
De
acordo com a legislação em vigor [1], as empresas responsáveis pela
comercialização dos medicamentos são obrigadas a comunicar ao Infarmed a data de
suspensão ou cessação da comercialização efetiva do medicamento.
Por
outro lado, os armazenistas devem dispor permanentemente de medicamentos em
quantidade e variedade suficientes para garantir o fornecimento adequado e
contínuo do mercado, de forma a garantir a satisfação das necessidades dos
doentes.
Todavia,
e apesar das obrigações legais, existem por vezes situações de dificuldade em
manter o normal funcionamento, com a consequente rutura de stock de
medicamentos.
Nestas
situações, e caso as opções terapêuticas disponíveis não sejam suficientes, e
sempre que o médico tem necessidade de prescrever um medicamento que não tem
Autorização de Introdução no Mercado (AIM) ou não está a ser comercializado em
Portugal, a aquisição do medicamento poderá ser efetuada através de Autorização
de Utilização Excecional (AUE) ou de aquisição pela farmácia de
oficina.
A
farmácia é excecionalmente autorizada a adquirir medicamentos que se destinem a
um doente específico, de acordo com prescrição médica, desde que não existam
alternativas terapêuticas em Portugal e se provenientes da União Europeia. Para
tal deverá ser apresentado na farmácia uma receita médica devidamente
preenchida, especificando a quantidade de embalagens a adquirir, que deverá ser
compatível com o regime terapêutico e com a duração do tratamento prevista, mas
nunca superior à quantidade necessária para seis meses.
A
prescrição médica deve ser acompanhada de uma justificação clínica do prescritor
que mencione, nomeadamente, a imprescindibilidade e tratamento e que o
medicamento prescrito se destina a uma indicação sem similar disponível nem
alternativa terapêutica em Portugal.
Para
mais informações sugerimos a consulta à Deliberação n.º 105/CA/2007.
Face
ao exposto, sugerimos o contacto com o V. médico assistente.
Ficamos
ao dispor para quaisquer esclarecimentos adicionais.
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os melhores cumprimentos,
Vanda
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Rumo à beatificação de Monsenhor Romero
Depois de muita polémica, um antigo arcebispo católico de El Salvador, na América Central, está em vias de ser beatificado pela Igreja.
Jorge Heitor
O arcebispo Vincenzo Paglia, que na Cidade do Vaticano é o responsável oficial pela causa da beatificação do arcebispo Óscar Romero, anunciou neste último mês de Agosto que a causa da promoção aos altares de semelhante figura foi desbloqueada pelo Papa Francisco, crendo-se assim que o processo vai finalmente avançar.
Ao falar na cidade italiana de Molfetta, durante o vigésimo aniversário da morte do bispo Antonio "Tonino" Bello, Vincenzo Paglia, presidente do Conselho Pontifício para a Família, levantou o véu sobre a hipótese de se avançar finalmente num processo que tem deparado com dificuldades na Congregação para as Causas dos Santos.
O arcebispo Paglia disse que o Papa, ele próprio latino-americano, decidira desbloquear o processo de Óscar Belo, abatido a tiro no dia 24 de Março de 1980, enquanto celebrava missa.
Visto por muita gente como um herói, devido à sua solidariedade com os pobres e à sua denúncia dos abusos de que eram alvo os direitos humanos, Monsenhor Romero não era bem encarado em alguns sectores mais conservadores, devido às suas ligações com o movimento designado por Teologia da Libertação.
Se bem que os papas João Paulo II e Bento XVI tenham dito publicamente que Óscar Romero fora um mártir da fé, algumas pessoas alegam que ele foi morto por motivos sociais e políticos; e não pelo simples facto de ser um sacerdote católico.
Se realmente se confirmar que a Igreja Católica o considera mesmo um mártir, ele poderá vir a ser beatificado sem ter de estar à espera que se confirme se algum milagre foi ou não conseguido por seu intermédio.
Desde que o cardeal argentino Jorge Mário Bergóglio foi eleito Papa com o nome de Francisco, tem-se especulado no Vaticano e em El Salvador que será agora mais fácil beatificar Óscar Romero.
O antigo arcebispo de San Salvador tem sido encarado como alguém que nunca evitou dizer o que na verdade pensava, a favor de um mundo mais justo; sem nunca se importar se isso colocaria ou não em risco a sua vida.
Óscar Arnulfo Romero Galdámez, conhecido como Monsenhor Romero, nasceu em Ciudad Barrios, zona de San Miguel, em 15 de agosto de 1917 e foi o quarto arcebispo metropolitano de San Salvador, de 1977 a 1980).
Ordenado sacerdote em 4 de abril de 1942, foi nomeado bispo auxiliar de San Salvador em 25 de abril de 1970 e chegou a arcebispo em 3 de fevereiro de 1977, tendo aderido aos ideais da não-violência, posição que o levou a ser comparado ao Mahatma Gandhi e a Martin Luther King. E passou a denunciar, nas suas homilias dominicais, as numerosas violações de direitos humanos que eram cometidas em El Salvador, um pobre país da América Latina.
Monsenhor Romero defendeu que a Igreja Católica se deveria identificar com os pobres, em vez de alinhar com as classes mais abastadas. E por isso foi morto pela tropa de elite do Exército salvadorenho.
Em 2010, a Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas proclamou o dia 24 de março como o Dia Internacional pelo Direito à Verdade sobre as Graves Violações dos Direitos Humanos, em reconhecimento à atuação de Dom Óscar Romero em defesa dos direitos humanos.
Em 1997 o prelado vítima da violência militar foi declarado um "Servo de Deus" pelo papa João Paulo II. A sua beatificação e posterior canonização foram propostas à Santa Sé, mas depararam com grandes obstáculos porque em certos círculos das Américas e da própria Igreja Católica os que mais lutam pela justiça nem sempre são muito bem vistos.
Espera-se agora que o clima esteja finalmente a mudar um pouco, de modo a que daqui a algum tempo possamos ver nas igrejas imagens do Beato Óscar Romero, que aos olhos de muitos dos seus admiradores já é retratado mesmo como um santo, antes de formalmente ser proclamado como tal.
Jorge Heitor
O arcebispo Vincenzo Paglia, que na Cidade do Vaticano é o responsável oficial pela causa da beatificação do arcebispo Óscar Romero, anunciou neste último mês de Agosto que a causa da promoção aos altares de semelhante figura foi desbloqueada pelo Papa Francisco, crendo-se assim que o processo vai finalmente avançar.
Ao falar na cidade italiana de Molfetta, durante o vigésimo aniversário da morte do bispo Antonio "Tonino" Bello, Vincenzo Paglia, presidente do Conselho Pontifício para a Família, levantou o véu sobre a hipótese de se avançar finalmente num processo que tem deparado com dificuldades na Congregação para as Causas dos Santos.
O arcebispo Paglia disse que o Papa, ele próprio latino-americano, decidira desbloquear o processo de Óscar Belo, abatido a tiro no dia 24 de Março de 1980, enquanto celebrava missa.
Visto por muita gente como um herói, devido à sua solidariedade com os pobres e à sua denúncia dos abusos de que eram alvo os direitos humanos, Monsenhor Romero não era bem encarado em alguns sectores mais conservadores, devido às suas ligações com o movimento designado por Teologia da Libertação.
Se bem que os papas João Paulo II e Bento XVI tenham dito publicamente que Óscar Romero fora um mártir da fé, algumas pessoas alegam que ele foi morto por motivos sociais e políticos; e não pelo simples facto de ser um sacerdote católico.
Se realmente se confirmar que a Igreja Católica o considera mesmo um mártir, ele poderá vir a ser beatificado sem ter de estar à espera que se confirme se algum milagre foi ou não conseguido por seu intermédio.
Desde que o cardeal argentino Jorge Mário Bergóglio foi eleito Papa com o nome de Francisco, tem-se especulado no Vaticano e em El Salvador que será agora mais fácil beatificar Óscar Romero.
O antigo arcebispo de San Salvador tem sido encarado como alguém que nunca evitou dizer o que na verdade pensava, a favor de um mundo mais justo; sem nunca se importar se isso colocaria ou não em risco a sua vida.
Óscar Arnulfo Romero Galdámez, conhecido como Monsenhor Romero, nasceu em Ciudad Barrios, zona de San Miguel, em 15 de agosto de 1917 e foi o quarto arcebispo metropolitano de San Salvador, de 1977 a 1980).
Ordenado sacerdote em 4 de abril de 1942, foi nomeado bispo auxiliar de San Salvador em 25 de abril de 1970 e chegou a arcebispo em 3 de fevereiro de 1977, tendo aderido aos ideais da não-violência, posição que o levou a ser comparado ao Mahatma Gandhi e a Martin Luther King. E passou a denunciar, nas suas homilias dominicais, as numerosas violações de direitos humanos que eram cometidas em El Salvador, um pobre país da América Latina.
Monsenhor Romero defendeu que a Igreja Católica se deveria identificar com os pobres, em vez de alinhar com as classes mais abastadas. E por isso foi morto pela tropa de elite do Exército salvadorenho.
Em 2010, a Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas proclamou o dia 24 de março como o Dia Internacional pelo Direito à Verdade sobre as Graves Violações dos Direitos Humanos, em reconhecimento à atuação de Dom Óscar Romero em defesa dos direitos humanos.
Em 1997 o prelado vítima da violência militar foi declarado um "Servo de Deus" pelo papa João Paulo II. A sua beatificação e posterior canonização foram propostas à Santa Sé, mas depararam com grandes obstáculos porque em certos círculos das Américas e da própria Igreja Católica os que mais lutam pela justiça nem sempre são muito bem vistos.
Espera-se agora que o clima esteja finalmente a mudar um pouco, de modo a que daqui a algum tempo possamos ver nas igrejas imagens do Beato Óscar Romero, que aos olhos de muitos dos seus admiradores já é retratado mesmo como um santo, antes de formalmente ser proclamado como tal.
segunda-feira, 11 de agosto de 2014
De como Putin driblou a banca internacional
The international bankers want Putin’s head and they have $20,000,000,000 painful reasons. A recent revelation by a French source details Putin’s incredible double coup that made Russia gain $20 billion in a few days and recover most of the shares owned by West European and American investors in Russia’s largest energy companies.
The foreign (American and European) ownership of a large portion of shares in the energy industry meant that almost half of the revenues of the gas and oil industry did not go into coffers of the Russian Federation, but into the pockets of Western financial ‘sharks,’ as the French commentator says. It was Yeltsyn’s legacy.
At the beginning of of the Crimean crisis the ruble started to fall but the Central Bank of Russia did nothing to prop it up. Rumors started spreading that Russia simply did not possess the reserves necessary to maintain the ruble.
These rumors and Putin’s declarations of intent to support the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine led to a plunge in the price of the shares in Russian energy companies, which made the “sharks” rush to sell their shares before they might lose their entire value. Putin waited a whole week apparently doing nothing but smiling at press conferences (which was interpreted as trying to show a brave face), but when the shares almost touched bottom he gave instructions to rapidly buy them up from European and American owners.
When the “sharks” realized they had been had it was already too late: the shares were all in Russia’s hands. Not only did Russia gain $20 billion in only a few days, it also brought home the market shares of its industries. Now the revenues from oil and gas will stay in Russia rather than go abroad, the ruble has been restored without having to touch Russia’s gold reserves, and the “sharks” have been thwarted. Ariadna Theokopoulos
The foreign (American and European) ownership of a large portion of shares in the energy industry meant that almost half of the revenues of the gas and oil industry did not go into coffers of the Russian Federation, but into the pockets of Western financial ‘sharks,’ as the French commentator says. It was Yeltsyn’s legacy.
At the beginning of of the Crimean crisis the ruble started to fall but the Central Bank of Russia did nothing to prop it up. Rumors started spreading that Russia simply did not possess the reserves necessary to maintain the ruble.
These rumors and Putin’s declarations of intent to support the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine led to a plunge in the price of the shares in Russian energy companies, which made the “sharks” rush to sell their shares before they might lose their entire value. Putin waited a whole week apparently doing nothing but smiling at press conferences (which was interpreted as trying to show a brave face), but when the shares almost touched bottom he gave instructions to rapidly buy them up from European and American owners.
When the “sharks” realized they had been had it was already too late: the shares were all in Russia’s hands. Not only did Russia gain $20 billion in only a few days, it also brought home the market shares of its industries. Now the revenues from oil and gas will stay in Russia rather than go abroad, the ruble has been restored without having to touch Russia’s gold reserves, and the “sharks” have been thwarted. Ariadna Theokopoulos
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