Por melhor que seja, nenhum «lar» é um lar. A “Unidade de Saúde de Coimbra”, estabelecimento privado, é exemplo no cuidar bem dos internados em regime de média ou longa duração. A Drª Marisa, assistente social, e toda a equipa de psicólogas, enfermagem, animadoras culturais e auxiliares são raras pela humanidade e respeito e dedicação aos utentes. A família sempre informada das necessidades dos amores que ali permanecem devido a maleitas injustas que não se vêem mas degradam ao ponto da casa própria ou as de filhos não serem solução. Não impede, todavia, que seja dito a cada saída, sempre acompanhada, para o exterior: _ “Sol! Que saudades do Sol!” Óculos escuros dispensados para fruição da luz inteira. E dói ouvir. Tantos euros para a estrela que faz o dia ser impedida de entrar nos espaços! O Nicola, na mesma cidade, acaba por ser «lar» outro de amigos que vivem sós ou com damas de companhia, uma delas ali presente, ou conjugalidades em bodas de ouro ou internados na U.S.C. cuja família faz questão de lhes manterem o hábito da meia de leite morna e uma nata nas companhias amigas de anos muitos. Pelas onze, está reunida a tertúlia. Quem falha justifica. Não são mencionadas doenças, nem arrelias, tão pouco mágoas - aquele é lugar de alegria, de novas, de partilha, de reflexão sobre o nacional e internacional, filhos, netos, bisnetos.
No desembocar do Almedina, o fado de Coimbra magnificamente interpretado por estudantes de Direito e Economia. Estrangeiros e nativos sem arredarem pé da beira do espectáculo. Pixéis em labor constante. Vozes e música de deuses é presunção: ignoro como tocam e cantam por nunca, Deo Gratias!, ter visitado o além.
CAFÉ DA MANHÃ
Em memória de Zeca Afonso e de Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (o segundo vídeo descoberto pelo Veneno C. substitui o mau gosto do que escolhi; o terceiro resulta da colaboração do Acuçar C. e o quarto do Cão do Nilo).
Morreu Gadaffi, financiador do Partido Socialista Português (segundo Rui Mateus autor de livro sobre o PS "desconhecido")... Que em paz descanse... . Famously dubbed the "mad dog of the Middle East" by former President Ronald Reagan, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hada reputation that has run the gamut from eccentric revolutionary to international pariah over his long career.
Often seen swathed in animal skins and surrounded by a posse of virgin female bodyguards, the colorful leader has become as well known for his unusual personality as for his controversial political moves, the latest of which included celebrating convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi's return to Libya. Never one to stray far from the limelight, Gaddafi marked his 40th year in power on Sept. 1 — a milestone that made him the third longest serving head of state in the world after King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
• Born in 1942 to a Bedouin family in the Libyan desert region of Sirte, he graduated with honors from the University of Libya before pursuing a British military education.
• Inspired by the pan-Arabism ideals of nationalistic Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser, a 27-year-old Gaddafi successfully organized a coup to overthrow Libyan King Idris I in 1969.
• Gaddafi is the longest-serving head of state in the Arab world.
• After taking power, he launched a "cultural revolution" during which he removed all traces of former colonial and foreign influence, ranging from street signs and village names to the economic and political structure of the country.
• In 1977, Gaddafi invented a system of government unique to Libya called the "Jamahiriya," or state of the masses, in which the nation is supposedly governed by the populace through local councils. Though Gaddafi technically holded no formal office through this system and is officially known only by the title Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution, he was still considered the de facto leader of the nation. The Jamahiriya, however, has been dismissed by several international observers, including the CIA, as a military dictatorship.
• Gaddafi has sponsored revolutionary efforts in Chad, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Morocco, the Philippines and Iran, including providing financial support to the IRA and the Palestinian Black September movement responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic killings.
• His adopted daughter was killed in 1986 in a U.S.-led bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for the Libyan government's suspected involvement in the bombing of a German disco that killed several U.S. service members.
• His daughter Aisha was part of late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's defense team during Saddam's 2005 trial.
• After two Libyans were accused of planting a bomb in 1988 on Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded ever Lockerbie, Scotland, and killed 270 people, Gaddafi's refusal to extradite the suspects to America or Britain led to drastic U.N. sanctions. Gaddafi finally admitted responsibility for the attack in 2003 and paid more than $2.7 billion to the families of the victims, initiating the end of Libya's international isolation.
Quotes By:
• "The whole world knows that it was a premeditated murder. The file contains enough evidence for the world." — On his firm belief that Princess Diana's death was not an accident. (BBC, Dec. 4, 1998)
• "The important thing is why the medical team injected the children with AIDS. Who ordered you — was it Libyan intelligence, American intelligence, Israeli intelligence or Bulgarian intelligence? This is what we have to find out." — Following the 2006 decision to sentence five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for allegedly infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV. Gaddafi's decision to release the medics to Bulgarian authorities in 2007 further bolstered Libya's relations with Europe. (Washington Post, Dec. 29, 2006).
Será que é de muito mau gosto trazer aqui um aproveitamento humorístico de alguém que até estaria a dizer coisas bem sérias e agora aguarda, tão só, que o enterrem com algum resto de dignidade?
Ainda mais verdades , desta vez dum que não tem medo da NATO...
http://youtu.be/kOm9PF7-3eY
O mais difícil só agora começou...com a morte da única pessoa que mantinha unidos os rebeldes de Bengasi, os berberes das montanhas, os islamitas, os intelectuais, os milicianos de Misrata etc,ou seja já deu para ver que há muitas divisões entre eles.E os métodos seguidos pela resistência não diferem dos de Kaddafi.. Na prisão de Saadun em Misrata ,vários presos leais a Kadaffi foram torturados . A metodologia foi a mesma empregue sob o regime de Kadaffi.Como o homem também era poeta (mau)mas esperto que nem um alho aqui vai poesia do berbere que não fugiu...
Translated by Professor Sam Hamod, Ph.D. on April 8th, 2011
Recollections of My Life: Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi, The Leader of the Revolution. April 5, 2011. In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful..
for 40 years, or was it longer, I can’t remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food, I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child, then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union, did all I could to help people understand the concept of real democracy, where people’s committees ran our country, but that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more, and they told Americans and other visitors, they needed “democracy,” and “freedom,” never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest, but they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food,except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup, no, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we’ve had since Salah’ a’ Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination—from thieves who would steal from us—
now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called “capitalism,” but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer, so, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following his path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters to work here with us, in the Libyan Jammohouriyah,
I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.
let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stood up to betrayal, stood up the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light, when others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent, I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah’a’deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself…
in the West, some have called me “mad,” “crazy,” but they know the truth but continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah almighty help us to remain faithful and free