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| Pobres já dormem ao relento, não têm tendas nem câmaras digitais |
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| Estudantes que estudam não compram gasolina para queimar caixotes de lixo |
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| Pobres já dormem ao relento, não têm tendas nem câmaras digitais |
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| Estudantes que estudam não compram gasolina para queimar caixotes de lixo |
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| Infografia (adaptada) do Expresso |
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Sequel to (1)
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«Tucker Carlson: O governo do Reino Unido está a punir e a proibir pessoas e ideias de que não gosta. A Rússia não está a fazer isso. Portanto, como é que…
Jacob Rees-Mogg: O quuuêêê? Não pode dizer isso. Na Rússia, estão a fazê-lo em força. Estão a espancar pessoas. Estão a prendê-las.
Tucker Carlson: A Rússia prendeu menos pessoas no último ano por publicações nas redes sociais do que o Reino Unido.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: Na Rússia, elas limitam-se a cair acidentalmente de janelas.
Noutro momento, expondo a sua iliteracia financeira e a sua devoção a Moscovo, Tucker atribui à Rússia um poder económico que ela simplesmente não tem.
Tucker Carlson: A Rússia tem uma economia muito maior do que a da Grã-Bretanha, creio que, basicamente…
Jacob Rees-Mogg: Não, não, não. Não tem uma economia maior do que a da Grã-Bretanha. Tem uma economia menor do que a da Grã-Bretanha. Tem é um poderio militar maior.
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| (Fonte: OCDE, PISA 2025 Results, Volume I, Country Note Portugal) |
O Estado sucial faz o bem sem olhar a quem Ainda pela via do Tribunal de Contas, que, podemos especular, está a cobrar ao governo os conflitos sobre as suas competências, governo a quem acusou de «procurar denegrir a imagem do Tribunal perante a opinião pública», ficámos a saber que o governo torrou mais de meio milhão de euros em subsídios cujos propósitos e beneficiários não são conhecidos. O SNS como lugar geométrico da cunha Cada vez que se escarafuncha um organismo público, rapidamente se encontra uma cloaca de onde emanam odores a cunhas. Aconteceu mais uma vez com o caso das gémeas que espoletou uma investigação do DIAP onde se concluiu que a bolha político-mediática usa recorrentemente a via da cunha. O governo evita uma «hecatombe social» O alerta do Dr. Dominguinhos, presidente da Comissão Nacional de Acompanhamento de que se, com o fim do PRR, «a consequência for a devolução do dinheiro vamos ter uma hecatombe social», não caiu em orelhas moucas e foi escutado pelo Dr. Castro Almeida, ministro da Economia, que já convenceu o governo a aprovar um financiamento de 200 milhões para acabar as obras inacabadas até ao final de 2027, garantindo assim que não haverá um euro dos contribuintes europeus que não seja torrado. Está a ser difícil distinguir as “contas certas” do Dr. Sarmento das do Dr. Centeno As contas do 1.º semestre apresentaram um saldo orçamental positivo equivalente a 0,5% do PIB. Como o Conselho Económico e Social constatou, a coisa foi possível graças à «sobreorçamentação ou subexecução do investimento», por outras palavras, graças à autoestrada mexicana do investimento público.
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Yigal Carmon, founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), publicly warned in August 2023 that a major regional conflict could erupt in September or October. Drawing on Arabic- and Persian-language media, Carmon identified escalating threats, military preparations, increasingly advanced weapons, and public statements by Hamas and other Iranian-backed groups. Officials in Israel and the United States largely dismissed his warning.
Carmon’s new report, Chronicles of a Disaster Foretold, argues that Hamas’s intentions were visible through open sources long before the October 7 attack. It highlights earlier discussions about breaching Israel’s border, increasingly explicit statements about an imminent “decisive battle,” and a large Hamas military exercise in September 2023 that closely resembled the subsequent assault. Carmon acknowledges that he mistakenly expected the war to begin in northern Israel, but maintains that Hamas successfully misled Israeli leaders into believing it prioritized economic development over conflict.
It was Israel’s failure to anticipate the attack to a broader “perceptual failure”: officials assumed that financial support and economic incentives would contain Hamas, while funds were allegedly diverted toward weapons, tunnels, and military capabilities. It also places Carmon’s warnings within current Israeli political disputes, including criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demands for an independent investigation into the October 7 failures, and allegations concerning Qatar’s influence and financial ties. Despite criticism of MEMRI’s methods and accusations from Qatar, Carmon insists that the evidence was publicly available and that Israeli leaders ignored clear warning signs.
(Source The Man Who Raised the Alarm Before October 7)
This is further evidence, in addition to the alleged warnings from the head of Egypt's intelligence services, Abbas Kamel, and the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed, that Bibi and his government used Hamas, first to weaken the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Fatah, and then, anticipating what was coming, ignored the warnings because this could divert attention from corruption charges, save them from the courts, and give them a chance to win the next elections, as well as provide an opportunity to eliminate Hamas and weaken the Ayatollah regime. All of this aligns well with known facts, but some argue that even if true, which they deny, stating this is antisemitism and favors the Shiite dictatorship, meaning that those who say this place the truth on the side of antisemitism and the Shiite dictatorship.
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«The prestigious position might have been awarded this summer to Ricardo Reis of the London School of Economics. But his occasionally blunt media comments reportedly cost him the job. According to the Financial Times, the offending remarks included some orthodox criticisms of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which he said would raise prices and reduce efficiency. In response, the IMF “categorically” denied that “any candidate was disqualified because of their academic views on the detrimental impact of tariffs…It is not credible to suggest we would object to views that our own research has confirmed and publicised.”
Tariffs are not, however, the only targets Mr Reis has hit. In his column for Expresso, a Portuguese newspaper, he once described Mr Trump as a “protofascist”, albeit institutionally constrained. He later suggested that the president likes tariffs partly because of the exemptions he can grant. “Anyone who wants to pay less has to convince Trump with flattery, business deals with his family, gifts…For someone who sees the presidency as a way to enrich himself personally, or even simply to be flattered, tariffs are an excellent tool.” Last year a column entitled “Gringos on the pampas” marvelled at the Trump administration’s willingness to lend to Argentina. The Peronist left, which could reclaim power at the next election, “proudly never pay what they owe”, he wrote.
As an academic, he is entitled to such views. But as an IMF appointee, they might have caused a fuss. America, after all, is the fund’s biggest shareholder; Argentina its biggest borrower.
Mr Reis will not, then, go to Washington, where he would have formed a dynamic Bretton Woods duo with Michael Kremer, a Nobel-prizewinner nominated this week to be chief economist of the World Bank. His influence will instead remain indirect and intellectual. His research sheds light on several of the fund’s preoccupations, such as fiscal limits, the monetary mystique of central banks and the network of currency swap lines between them.»