Showing posts with label Civic Rights duty and freedoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civic Rights duty and freedoms. Show all posts

Friday, 12 October 2018

Uma Petição: é de a ler, e, assinar por favor. Regresso após um periodo de ''pausa'' / Re-opening this blog - Public Petition, Judicial Exemption, Sports, Society


[Post idioms: PT / EN]


Há cerca de um ano que não tenho cá vindo. É verdade. É um artigo sobre futebol?
Sim, também o é, só que é bem mais que isso, como se sabe.
Parece-me justo reabrir isto com um assunto (aparentemente) desportivo. E, em certo aspecto até é bem feita (para mim). Quem me mandou amuar no meio das cinzas de um país que arde e que arde e... que arde?
Se é preciso sentir um valente pontapé nos direitos de cada um, e, se é preciso de forma cristalina ver bem a dimensão de certos tentáculos  que estrangulam tudo e mais alguma coisa, assim num caso, então que o seja.

Muito bem. Está aqui a petição.




Não tem nada a ver, naturalmente, com o se ser militante de quaisquer clubes, ou, de se ser ''anti'' este ou aquele.. Tem a ver com transparência, e, evidentemente com isenção na magistratura que num caso como este, fica mais fácil se averiguar, mesmo.

É portanto de ler, e de assinar, por favor.

Ah, e não nos esqueçamos que, para que se leve a mesma à AR, a plataforma envia para o nosso Email uma mensagem, instantes após a assinar, a fim de podermos validar as nossas assinaturas.



Eu sei que a nível internacional as coisas estão a ferver. E é preocupante.  Irei deixar esse assunto,  embora se possa possivelmente fazer certas ilações para o que aqui trago, para outra publicação. Espero que, caso me desejem ler sobre essa matéria, me entendam.
imagem - © G. A.


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É um caso grave e sabe-se mesmo muito bem que o é, de resto, daí tanta perfídia trabalhar para tapar como se com uma peneira o que se vê ao sol de qualquer um. Tal como muitos têm referido, com muita razão, não é apenas um assunto que diz respeito a quaisquer clubes de Futebol. E está mais que escancarado, e evidente, que não. 

Tem-se também sempre assistido a umas mãos veladas surgirem, e bem ao estilo de Goebbels, a fim de torcer e entortar no que podem, e onde podem.
E, claro está, sempre torcendo como estamos fartos  (todos estamos tão fartos) de saber coisas a nível do próprio Estado -(do estado e da Política, e da política de Estado), e essa/s ao ponto que se sabe, e tudo o mais...

Pega-se, também, em classes inteiras de profissionais (quaisquer delas), e, pela mão de uns poucos, leva-se tudo para a lama com aquela bizarra facilidade, na sua totalidade (disso estamos fartos de  saber, também).
Tão útil isto, a alguns.
Também o foi no tempo do Sidónio Pais entre outros, não foi?   Pois foi.
(Ah pois foi.)

Para além disto, pidescos seres proliferam, empoderados pelo crime que se esconde, (aliás os crimes,  e os atropelos cometidos contra o - Direito).
Só nos faltava isto, não é?
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Já que no caso supra, que envolve e implica não apenas o mundo do futebol, estando a coisa tão escancarada como nunca, dada a dimensão e gravidade da coisa, façamos então isto chegar à AR, pois.
Como diz um ente querido:  «A descrição e isensão dos masgistrados não é uma questão de clube, é uma questão de estado»








E eles que se amanhem como conseguirem, para nos dar explicações e, ou, para averiguar. (porque lá chegando, o têm de fazer. E o fazer perante nós - à sociedade civil).

Eu assinei isto que vos trago, há dias. Assinem por favor.

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Basta!





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The matter at hand written above has to do with a petition for people to read, and, if they be holders of a valid Portuguese citizenship number,  to sign.
We wish to seek a better democracy. The state of one's judiciary is of paramount importance, thus a petition (the one given above) has been raised inasmuch as to attain proof of judiciary exemption  in legal proceedings. In the aforementioned case, described above in Portuguese, said proof is requested by its signing petitioners.   It must be demanded in said case as it verily should be in all cases. We hope it serves to do just that.

 (Judicial Exemption - that timeless and necessary asset for equal treatment due, and fairness, in any and all proceedings).

Thank you for stopping by.








Monday, 7 August 2017

Um espelho

É de ler.. (e ler bem, pelo espelho que nos dá da sociedade que se construiu e se constrói)


Nem mais nada digo, aqui nesta publicação (até porque não tenho nada que sinta que possa merecer atenção ou de relevo a dizer, ou a acrescentar, pelo menos para já),
apenas vos deixo a ligação
- para um admirável artigo (na minha opinião, isto é), na Estátua de Sal, que nos traz o excelente pensar e raciocínio de quem a fonte cita).











imagem:  Robert Doisneau. | ''El Infierno''. Paris 1952.


Monday, 5 December 2016

A Three-Part Pre-Christmas Note (post idioms: EN / PT / SP)

EN / PT / SP .




















POST  ◄ (link to Neil Young's statement)


The whole post in the above link which is not very long is, in my opinion, of utmost pertinence, all of it, every single word, however, I shall also leave just below this something he himself included therein, a link to a Bussinesswire news article from yesterday.






 Bussinesswire News - Dec. 4, 2016 - Water Protectors take ye heed, for these are the current standings on the dirty deed.











Thank you Neil.







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Deixo de seguida um artigo que contem, a meu ver, uma incisiva e sucinta visão do mundo que se apresenta.  
 



(Ligação para o referido artigo no ESTÁTUA DE SAL - ''A caminho do caos?'' ) - AQUI 










La romeria de San Isidro - Goya (c.1819 - 1823)



  








E segue, desde já, o meu agradecimento a quem contribuiu para a publicação contida na dita ligação.




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 Y para la tercera parte, voy a terminar  con esto aqui porque siento una necesidad de lo escuchar.













     




   


Thursday, 24 November 2016

Thanksgiving (and - A Tale Of Two Leonards)





Hello New Zealand









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Well I do believe this is my first Thanksgiving post ever, on this blog.




Ah yes - freezing temperatures and a water cannon - on to whom?
(let me rub my eyes, and shake my brain to fathom this for a minute..)


I know he's leaving but, the man did veto the thing on February, 2015. The attempt to override his veto failed, and now it seems Presidents in that country are absolutely meaningless.
Conservatives (really? Conservatives? - I'd like to see that definition of ''conservatives'' as it is hard to see what such people are ''conserving'')
Some (I suspect many) self-proclaimed  ''conservatives'' seem to be confounded as they actually fight for what by any standard of historic record would be ''progressive'' (even if that notion of being ''progressive'' be foolish to say the least) . 
I mean really, can such people think they can be more ''conservative'' than a native American citizen?
Really?
(ok - I'll try not to laugh, especially since the malignancy of what has been happening is so tragic, to the point of murderous intent. Shooting a water canon at people in freezing temperature is ''murderous intent'', not to mention through means of torture.)


Funny isn't it? That Mr. Lincoln's political party is backed by (among others), the ummmmm... (now what's their name? ...) Ah, yes, the KKK. Cute isn't it? Mr. Lincoln, his party, now backed by whom?
(oh yes, some of them prefer a new name - the ''Alt Right'') .
Ok, no irony there (of course not).


Now what was this post about?
Oh I remember - Thanksgiving (yes, that's it).





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I know it could have been an October post (a Monday post), but, November is just as fine a time (a Thursday greeting).

Why? First of all, as two Leonards come to mind (one thankfully still gracing the earth with his presence), among other things, the idea of what is going on in Standing Rock as we come to this time of year seems so incredibly ironic, that it curdles the blood. 




Despite any actual historic distortions,  perpetrated by sociopolitical agendas along the ages, including the typical  ''old school - Hollywood'' backdrops depicting (its) their versions of what happened to warrant such a celebration, the underlying message (beyond and even despite any actual and historic ''truths'') is one of
► «Giving thanks: to the creator, to the harmony and respect between peoples, et cetera».


This is allegedly what is taught and held in mind as families and close friends come together in North America. In one Leonard's land it happens in October, in the other Leonard's land it occurs in November.
I'm pretty sure that it is not an easy thing to deal with if you're a native American, but they too as a people have been ''taught'' to think of it as such,  (as Bob Dylan says in - All Along The Watchtower) so *let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

October Thanksgiving LINK                                          November Thanksgiving LINK




So really? Standing Rock, I'm supposed to believe this to be a normal thing? Acceptable? Ah yes, I almost forgot, it must be a Thankgiving type of thing.

Honor the Treaties, for Pete's sake!

Honour the Treaties !!!!!!!!!!!

(further North, from 2014)

















So, am I (or anyone) supposed to believe that in those lands Thanksgiving has ''a meaning''?
Really?







Ok- Peace and goodness be with you.













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Oh, I almost forgot.

P.S. - Will somebody remember to free Leonard?
Please?
(Hasn't that temper tantrum lasted long enough?)




 Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity.
  But silence is impossible.
  Silence screams,
  Silence is a message,
  Just as doing nothing is an act. 

 Let who you are ring out and resonate
  in every word and every deed.
  Yes, become who you are.
  There’s no sidestepping your own being
  or your own responsibility. 

 What you do is who you are.
  You are your own comeuppance.
  You become your own message. 

 You are the message. 
 May the Great Spirit Make Sunrise in Your Heart . . . 
 Hoka Hey!  
    (Poem: ''My Life Is My Sundance" by Mr. Leonard Peltier ) 










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We are not separate beings, you and I
We are different strands of the same being
You are me and I am you
and we are they and they are us
This is how we’re meant to be,
each of us one
each of us all
You reach out across the void of Otherness to me
and you touch your own soul! 


 (Poem: ''We are Not Separate'' by L. Peltier 






LINK 


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Friday, 24 June 2016

''Europa'' (um campeonato engraçado) championship - from what she calls the foundation of her thought as does - the rest of the West


Thought / founding tenets / founding amendments / and ''championships''.


image credits: found this here





Interesting, isn't it,  so much talk of ''the West'' and ''Western Thought'' and the tenets thereof when considering a group that calls itself a union of countries with their continent's name, and the choice of being led by an elected or by a non-elected entity, is viewed?

Whether one likes or not the outcome of an election, if one deems and calls themselves to be ''democratic'' - and (more than that even) how people look at and discuss things after another nation votes concerning their own matters, (unless those thus worried with that other nation have a ''conquering'' instinct to take the land of those others and rule them (over them that is). In any case, it reveals much of the person who speaks like that. 

To rule over others, now there is a concept.

Recently for one or another reason I've been led to that timeless author Michel Foucault regarding that which he so eloquently defined as Biopower.
To be master of another, of their body - individually or as a collective of bodies (of people), now there's an issue. 

Another issue (though one can tie it to the former) is what he thought of as being Fascism - not the State as a definition of it's form of rule, but the seed any one individual can have
(enclosed in one's ''thought'' / that everyone can or does have) within his or her persona.

The only difference being how one recognizes that element and thus keeps it at bay - or not.
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Let us consider a referendum (any referendum) - We all know what that is so I won't insult your intelligence by explaining it.


I have written my thoughts and opinion regarding this element of democratic rule (well, if we really look at it - it does mirror the form of rule that sprung forth from Solon's land  (Solon and his famous points, as groundwork for the proto-demoicracy that lead to the famed Athenian democracy) .

So, we all wear the shirt that says ''Euro'', or, we all wear the shirt that says ''Western Thought'', or the shirt that says ''The kangaroo-like jumping people that comb their hair backwards and hang flowers on their ears'', or ''People who wear trousers when their large frock that holds their gardening gear is in the wash'', or whatever the group within the larger group calls itself ◄

 (in this case the larger group being a group of nations that grouped themselves into a union of countries - that has long gone past the notion of being  ''a larger group of peoples, that do and wear this or that, that exchange beans, milk, steaks, fish, cars and cauliflower amongst themselves'')

► and we give our opinions (yes, opinions - some of which are fiery opinions containing bullet and blade, and other kinds imbued with '"harsher words" that we allegedly left behind in past centuries)
regarding one of our groups ''within'' - when they wish to employ decision-making by the ''demos''.


Going back to what we all call the foundations of ''Western Thought'' - the kind that the Romans spread around, taken from the Hellenes and in turn adopted, and adapted, by where the roads would take them by through hand of others.


We've all become ''friends'' and decided not to shoot each other up, but it seems - (and it seems more and more each day) - that how we define that ''friendship'' is just that. ►We have decided to stop shooting each other up.




When we considered that it would be good to be ''good neighbours'', and exchange a cup of flour or sugar with a smile and more ease, we somehow forgot about the mentioned issues brought up by one of our ''thinkers'' - in this case Mr. Foucault. Of course, one must bear in mind that this specific union of ''good neighbours'' was born in Rome in the aftermath of WWII, in 1957 (if I'm not mistaken), and that Mr Foucault hadn't made his thoughts public before that date (that I'm aware of), but we've had plenty of ''thinkers'' publishing their thoughts beforehand that we could have kept in mind and a person's literacy hasn't enough significance to make them more or less inclined to rule and be master over another (over others).

I doubt that Pol Pot, or Leopold II (the one that inspired ''A Heart of Darkness), Mussolini, Suharto, Cromwell, Franco, Salazar, Napoleon (who after being such a hero became an emperor), Idi Amin, Pinochet, Papa Doc or his son, or others like them were illiterate.  Thought and reading are but a tool - and I'm not sure if the tool makes its maker, or if the maker makes the tool, when considering the quest for power over others.





One thing I know is, if I wish to call myself a democratic person and wish to live in a democratic society, - regardless my not being able to bring myself to vote if I think that no-one in the group of contenders are ''eligeable'' or worthy of my vote, or voting for a person or group of persons I believe in, -  I must accept not ''winning''.

Another thing I know is, regardless the outcome of a referendum, as in the case of one being held in a ''sub-group" to which I do not belong, I must respectfully (if I am in fact as I say: ''a good neighbour'') await and accept their decision over themselves.

Whether they are Greek, British, German, French, Danes, Irish, Spaniards, Italians, or the Portuguese  or any other of the so called ''good neighbours'', indeed whomever they may be, I must surrender to the notion ''it's their own business'' what they do with a referendum that is theirs, and I must respect their decision one way or another. If not, I leave unchecked the will to manipulate or ''rule'' over others as the aforementioned dictators.

The notion of Biopower: see it, check it, and weild it or weild it not -

Western Thought, hmm.... (ok fine - Now going west from  ''the West'')
The other side of the Atlantic (both North and South), hmmmmmmmmmm...
In the North - The American Second Amendment :
(I'll just copy my own thought and words from a day ago on a social media network, regarding Mr. Lewis) ↕ LINK - news article (source - TIME) and place them down below.

(my mentioned words and thought)

- a great warrior, champion for the dignity of Man, as he never has rest whilst fighting a legislation that was written by a small minority of his nation, that in fact is made up of large groups of people - larger than that smaller group that does not mirror them, be they indigenous and precolonial or others that were unspeakably tormented, or others yet, and that for one reason or other never had a say in said legislation made in a time that has no bearing on recent centuries, a small group with a strong lobby... ►
[where blind to reason insistence on maintaining something that makes no sense - a civilian population armed against each other - where even the excuse of an atmosphere due to civil war where everyone hates each other and is thus weary of their fellow man - which is also no excuse whatsoever, as there have been civil wars more recent in other lands (Spain for example, or others in Europe - or other parts of the globe where guns in their civilian population is ''controlled'' - and that use no such excuse and have no such custom nor reckless bloodshed for the financial profit of a few) - a small group that laid down rule and law in that land, habitually persecutors of said other groups in said land, where great men and women have no rest. ]
Even neighbouring countries have a fraction of the problem and sadness created due to insistence on what those of the lobby in this case, in his nation, call freedom.
Freedom? They want to talk of freedom ? ..to this man? )
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Respect ♥ 
(he is a fine example where one actually is in fact able to have high respect for people who end up holding public office - some that for one reason or other have had to enter ''politics''.
Love him.
He is part of the beautiful side of his land.
One doesn't need to share his nationality to be uplifted, even.
♥ Respect






South of that land, Brazil, yes, one of the BRICs, those very same countries that founded that ''counterpoint'' to the IMF (founded in the aftermath of wwii, and until recently with no ''competition''), - that other world bank, the NDB, and along this train of thought - look at recent upheaval, (not to mention the hot spots concerning and/or around other BRICs nations), does this ring any bells?
Biopower.


LINK - http://guidarte.blogspot.pt/2014/03/the-ukrane-new-european-powder-keg.html





LINK - http://guidarte.blogspot.pt/2015/01/liberte-egalite-fraternite-pt-fr-en.html





LINK - http://guidarte.blogspot.pt/2015/11/apontamento-provindo-da-terceira-bola-voadora-em-torno-de-outra-bola-voadora-em-torno-de.html (written in EN, despite the title)





LINK - http://guidarte.blogspot.pt/2011/08/extremism-food-for-thought.html





LINK - http://guidarte.blogspot.pt/2015/09/europe-its-not-that-different-from.html





LINK - http://guidarte.blogspot.pt/2014/03/o-assunto-da-coadocao-votacao-e-um.html
(written in PT / artigo em Português) regarding another form of Biopower






LINK - http://guidarte.blogspot.pt/2016/03/bruxelles-et-les-evenements-en-autre.html
(language: FR/PT/EN) Similar to the other links, concerning Biopower.








(if I were to choose one among the above links, though any of them portray my personal way of looking at things, and bare some differences between themselves, I would perhaps be inclined to pick the one with a Portuguese title that is nevertheless written in English. )
photo credits:
I don't know if he's calling us silly,
or if he simply just couldn't catch his own tail - i dunno
-  image
found here







Yes, with concerns to Europe, there are many ''championships'' and, I suppose this is true with respect to other continents. It has been so throughout the ages.










Have a good, and wholesome summer, whomsoever reads my musings.
Take care. 
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Monday, 6 July 2015

Agora vamos ver como funciona o sistema digestivo da Europa, e de outros.. (post language: PT)

Li ontem, foi escrito ainda antes do fecho das urnas, e não podia deixar de partilhar o seguinte texto. 
(autor Joseph Praetorius)


Numa Weuropa posta a ferros (financeiros) testa-se hoje, na Grécia, a resistência política das soluções adoptadas, as que já falharam na América Latina contra a qual se lançam hoje as estratégias de sedução: os USA restabelecem relações diplomáticas com Cuba e Francisco de Roma inicia hoje a digressão que exibirá o seu sorriso humano em toda a América do Sul.
A África sub-sahariana tornou-se um objectivo, porque os chineses estão em toda a parte e a Weuropa em parte nenhuma; e aí temos Hollande rastejando em Luanda por mil milhões de euros que, de resto, conseguiu. Nessa mesma África porém, pairam as sombras do Estado Islâmico, prodigioso mistério da política externa americana, que estende a sua sombra ameaçadora da Nigéria e Argélia ao Afeganistão, passando pelo controlo territorial de vastas zonas do Iraque e da Síria, fazendo-se notar até nos Balkans e anunciando-se no Cáucaso.Na margem noroeste do Mar de Azov prossegue o drama ucraniano, com uma retirada surpreendente das milicias em frente a Mariupol, parecendo hoje evidente que deixou de haver Ucrânia cuja unidade a ocidente e a leste possa manter-se a ferro e fogo na mais negra miséria.
A serena Rússia exibe à Polónia e aos baltas uma prefiguração do que seria a vida deles sem ela. E a UE ainda não se deu conta de que não pode arrostar com os custos de um confronto de que se imagina capaz estando, como está, integralmente dependente da compra de energia àqueles a quem imagina poder conter, se não mesmo vencer. A construção dos gazodutos para a China e para a Weuropa corre a bom ritmo. A Turquia e a Grécia descobrem assim interesses comuns que podem - já não era sem tempo - impor a paz entre ambos com fundamentos muito pragmáticos e isso não é pequena utilidade.
Ao FMI opôem-se soluções em alternativa que já começaram a funcionar, mas que dependem evidentemente da capacidade de resistência política dos países cooperantes dessas novas soluções. As conspirações estão ao rubro em todo o lado. Os serviços de inteligência trepidam e os seus agentes transpiram.
E neste curioso momento, a Grécia emerge da irrelevância do indigente e atinge a glória do nobre rebelde, ao alcance de cuja galhardia estão alguns pontos nevrálgicos do projecto de dominação em curso - mas em refluxo - e hoje, ao fim do dia, teremos ideias mais claras sobre a consistência das forças no terreno. Mas os confrontos atingiram uma fase onde se espera o desempenho de pessoas normais. Creio que acabou a fase das nobrezas palatinas de eunucos e das cortesãs mais envilecidas que envelhecidas. (E que curiosa fase, esta).
As direitas tradicionalistas (posição sobretudo moral) e as esquerdas liberais (outra posição sobretudo moral) convergem em atitudes comuns de resistência contra a miséria imposta pela especulação financeira e pela trama de corrupções que sustenta e onde se sustenta. Os estupores das velhas e os seus bandos de capões parecem já coisa passada. Assim o consinta O Clemente.




Earth photograph - Nasa | Apollo 8 | Dec. 1968 (first photographs taken of our planet)



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Agora que se sabe o resultado: 61,31% não | 38,69% sim , aguarda-se como vão digerir a coisa. Eu tenho uns sais de frutos (a Ginjinha, é só para pessoas amigas.., sais de frutos e já vão com sorte)

Pois..... e conviver com democracia deve ser mesmo complicado para alguns que,
vão ter que se "desobstipar" com isto.

Não sei o que vem amanhã, mas o evento de ontem foi épico e de grande beleza, por isso..










Bom dia.

Sunday, 1 February 2015

Sophocles seems to bring us a new Play - thank you / Sófocles - voltou e traz consigo uma nova peça

Há alturas em que não se pode cruzar os braços, não se pode ficar à espera, não se pode ficar indiferente.   Já nem é (e por mim, há muito que já nem é) uma questão de "esquerda / direita", é uma questão de humanismo, de livre arbítrio, e de dignidade, neste caso humano (de todos, todos mesmo sem excepção quanto a mim).   Há que agradecer, nem que seja por uns dias enquanto se faz marcha atrás para se estar menos "discrente".  



Thank you Yannis, and at least for the present moment, I also thank the rest of your collegues.  I wish you strength, stamina, courage and that the hard road ahead of you not hurt you in any way.
Thank you.


Obrigada











I shall also leave a LINK with an article written elsewhere in the early morning of January 27, 2015 - Guida Almeida     -  for whomsoever may wish to take a peak.







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The two version of Pitocrito, 200-180 a.C. Yves Klein, 1962 




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- and finally, posted some years ago here in this blog:









Resonance - Liberation

I have walked the walk of millions,
of those who had fallen, of others who had not. 
I've walked the ages, 
counted each imprisoned breath born from ordinal numbers 
and wept at your feet.

These wings on my back, tattered, worn,
Laced,
they hang with the dust of time,
hugging my body,
barely visible.  

 Looking back,  
Conquered, yet "Un-Conquested", 
bedded upon endless gardens, 
taken 
mysteries nearly plundered 
and unveiled... 

I weep at your feet.
Legion surrounding the lake 
as Aegle slumbering in grief, but in numbers, 
a multitude of wooded beings,
sleeping, 
I dreamt of you.

Rivers of time try to erase,
start anew
yet within the steadfast darkness 
of my silence
I have heard your words in Morphic Resonance 

- Come hither.. the world changes. Quick, hurry.. - 
From the shores I return,
we
turn
return
turn
in turn
turnin-g
arriving at each new angle 
360 degrees
... and back
and again
and back again.







poem written by Margarida Costa 
(aka: Guida Almeida, Guida Costa, Maria MFA Costa)
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(the above poem is in this article - LINK)












When the left hand is helped by the right hand I am finally taken to a place of respect I thought didn't exist.





These may be troubled times but for a momment, even if it be fleeting (I truly hope it is not), the darkened, heavy clouds that have been hovering above us seem to dissipate..










Wishing a good day to all.






Bom dia

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Monday, 8 December 2014

Please, please, please (read and) sign.. please / Por favor leiam, e assinem..

That which is below was copied and pasted directly from here - LINK

(please sign - the link contains a petition and can be signed regardless your nationality)



Retirado da seguinte             ligação
(por favor leiam e assinem, pode ser assinado por quaisquer cidadãos de quaisquer países)




Oil exploration threatens narwhals and an entire way of life.








A tiny community is fighting Big Oil, and they need our help.
Off the coast of Clyde River, Nunavut, unspoiled Arctic waters are home to 90% of the world's narwhals. These whales, with their unique tusks that look like a unicorn's horn, take up a important role in the aquatic ecosystem. They are also an important food source for the native Inuit people, many of whom must rely on subsistence hunting to survive. But Clyde River, the narwhals, and everyone whose way of life depends on the ocean are in danger.
The Canadian government just granted oil corporations the right to search for drilling sites in the ocean near Clyde River. The environnmental devastation that comes with offshore drilling is bad enough, but the search is worse – these oil companies will use "seismic testing," setting off huge explosions underwater. Like all whales, narwhals use their hearing to communicate and to find their way safely beneath the Arctic ice. The search for oil will deafen, disorient, and kill any narwhals caught in its path.
Save the narwhals! Sign the petition to stop Big Oil from destroying Arctic habitats.
For generations, big corporations have stripped northern Canada of its natural resources, trampling the rights of native peoples and destroying entire ecosystems for profit. The government has been complicit in this, auctioning off oil and mineral rights to the highest bidder and ignoring the consequences.
The people of Clyde River have had enough. They are standing up to the government and to Big Oil and fighting to protect their home. But there are only 900 people in Clyde River. They need us to stand with them. If we act now, we can stop the oil companies in their tracks before the damage is done.
Sign the petition to the government of Canada, saying NO to Big Oil wrecking the Arctic Ocean. 

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Sign the petition to the Canadian government.

Petition Text:

Oil exploration and offshore drilling destroys aquatic ecosystems, putting the narwhal and Inuit communities both at risk. Don't allow Big Oil to wreck the Arctic Ocean."





All of us, we all need the Arctic.  Please take a stand. Please help stop the unthinkable from happening. 




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