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Tem de se concordar que, para um Portugal dos Pequeninos representando 0,13% da população e 0,28% do PIB nominal mundial, não é coisa pouca ter 5 mestrados em gestão entre os 100 melhores.
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Continuação de (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12)
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«Few, if any, security forces are as ruthlessly effective as Israel’s. Its military and intelligence services strike against enemies even at extreme distances. In the past couple of years alone Israel has assassinated dozens of opponents inside Iran, plus proxy militia leaders in Lebanon and Yemen. Israel’s martial capabilities earn respect even from its bitterest enemies.
Yet this superiority seems to count for little closer to home. Those same forces are responsible for a dire failure in the occupied West Bank, where violent Israeli settlers have been attacking Palestinian residents with increasing brutality. Settlers want to force Palestinians from their land and claim it for themselves.
Israel’s failure in the West Bank can hardly be put down to a lack of resources. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) deploy 25 combat battalions there. Shin Bet, the powerful security agency, has networks of agents and informers throughout. But these are used mostly to protect the 500,000 or so Israeli settlers, and against the threat of terrorist attacks, not to assist the more than 3m Palestinians who live in the territory. This has largely been the case since Israel replaced Jordan as occupier of the West Bank in 1967.
What has changed is the behaviour of many “outlaw” settlers. Never before have they acted as violently as today. Crucially, never before have they enjoyed the impunity the current government gives them. Since the Hamas attack in October 2023, which triggered the war in Gaza, over 1,100 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank. Only rarely does the IDF intervene against settlers. In Qusra, for example, an entire battalion was recently deployed against those who were invading Palestinian homes. But the soldiers found themselves fruitlessly chasing youngsters over the hills. Troops from another unit joined the settlers in prayers. No arrests were made.
The ineffectual response can be explained by the stance of Israel’s government. The IDF knows that Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, sides squarely with the most extreme settlers. It appears that the IDF was dispatched to Qusra only after American diplomatic pressure which arose because an American citizen owns a home there.»
«Almost exactly a year ago to the day, my colleagues and I uncovered in The Free Press that a dozen of the most viral images presented as evidence of famine in Gaza in fact showed children with unrelated medical issues, including cystic fibrosis and autoimmune conditions.
The investigation earned me death threats, calls for me to be tried at The Hague, and jabs by a high-profile comedian on national TV—despite the fact that we’ve had to issue exactly zero corrections on our story. That wasn’t the case for three of the news organizations that had run the images, which either updated or corrected their work because of what we reported.
Our point was simply to tell readers that if there was a famine in Gaza, photographs of these children were not evidence of it.
What is indisputable today is that there is currently no famine in Gaza. That is the major finding from a UNICEF-led team that recently produced the most comprehensive and robust nutrition survey of Gaza since the war began. It found that, less than a year after a famine was declared in Gaza, the territory has one of the lowest malnutrition rates in the region. A recovery that swift is not just “miraculous,” in the words of a malnutrition researcher I spoke with—it raises questions in and of itself. Questions like: How can a war-torn territory go from famine to showing some of the lowest rates of child malnutrition in the region in less than a year?»
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«Algo incrível aconteceu: o Irã tentou matar um dos meus filhos», disse o primeiro-ministro israelita Benjamin Netanyahu em entrevista ao Canal 14.
Certamente por modéstia, Netanyahu não mencionou o ataque que ordenou à força aérea israelita para eliminar o aiatolá Ali Khamenei, a sua mulher, uma filha, um genro, uma nora e uma neta de 14 meses.
Num registo mais banal, o Dr. Eduardo Cabrita, amigo do peito do Dr. Costa e seu ministro da Administração Interna durante quatro anos, acusou o Dr. Montenegro de «degradar completamente os padrões éticos da governação” — e criou um “padrão Spinumviva».
Talvez por esquecimento, o Dr. Cabrita não mencionou os "padrões" marido e mulher no mesmo governo, golas de proteção antifumo feitas com material inflamável, atropelamento a 200 km/h pelo carro onde viajava, homicídio pelo SEF de um imigrante ucraniano, entre muitos outros "padrões" ocorridos durante os governos do seu amigo Dr. Costa.
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[Este post é uma espécie de continuação de Comparar a beira da estrada com a Estrada da Beira]
Cinco dias antes de ser conhecido o relatório sobre a sustentabilidade do sistema de pensões, o semanário de reverência, no seu papel de órgão oficial do militante socialista anónimo, citava o PS que já classificava o relatório como «enviesado» e se declarava preocupado por o estudo ter sido coordenado por «duas pessoas que têm uma inclinação ideológica e política muito clara».
Fiquei confundido, sem perceber qual seria o papel da inclinação ideológica e política na avaliação da sustentabilidade financeira de um sistema público de pensões. Admiti que essa confusão se devesse a não estar iluminado pela ciência das jornalistas de causas que assinam o artigo (duas economistas portadoras de mestrados pelo ISEG e uma cientista da comunicação da equipa das Redes Sociais e Online). Vergado ao peso dessa ciência, resolvi pedir a um agente de IA para descrever um modelo teórico geral de repartição (Pay-As-You-Go ou PAYG), em que os trabalhadores activos financiam diretamente as pensões dos reformados do mesmo período.
Eis a descrição do modelo que, surpreendentemente, não contém a variável inclinação ideológica e política.
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