Heterologias

quinta-feira, fevereiro 18, 2010

 

Massa fresca com nero di seppia

Reconstituição das páginas da edição angolana do primeiro caderno do semanário Sol de 12 de Fevereiro de 2010 que por cá andam esquivas, segundo afamado especialista estrangeiro em arqueologia industrial (que pediu anonimato: diz que não gosta de chocos com tinta)



A PARÁBOLA DO JUIZ E DA JORNALISTA

- A JORNALISTA
O sôtor não acha que o primeiro valor de uma sociedade democrática é a liberdade de expressão?

- O JUIZ (do Norte)
Não.

- A JORNALISTA
... a liberdade de pensamento?

- O JUIZ (do Norte)
Não.

- A JORNALISTA
...a liberdade de opinião?

- O JUIZ (do Norte)
Não. Não. O primeiro valor é o direito à vida.
E deixemo-nos de coisas, porque eu já ouvi dizer... que é... O único valor, o primeiro valor, o único valor que não tem limitações, em algumas sociedades, porque tem, por exemplo, nos sítios onde há pena de morte, é o direito à vida e à integridade física...

- A JORNALISTA
Está a fugir à minha pergunta.

Da tradição popular

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sexta-feira, março 06, 2009

 

La Mariée était en noir

Jean Boulogne, "O Rapto das Sabinas", 1574-82, Firenze, Loggia della Signoria

'There he is, up to his neck, Jabotinsky, up with the leaders of the intellectual west? You didn't ever even get to where the Greeks were with their ethical & political debate, when yeer crowd were barely straggling back from Babylon, all misery & grudges, weren't they well shut of ye. Where's your Legal Title? What's this it says? Deuteronomy ch.20? Joshua ch.10 vv.28-42. You despise & slander the writings of the New Testament, yet you cite as your title to other people's land a rabid fairytale written down 700 years after the events it purports to describe? And you say your values are western? Your last two civilised rabbi emissaries, despatched to inspect the locale after the 1897 Zionist Congress in Basel reported back: "the bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man." Viktor Klemperer the Dresden Diarist wrote in 1934: the Nazis got their stupid Blut und Boden romanticism from ye.'

Sydney Bernard Smith, Sauce for the Gander, Lulu, 2007, p. 61

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terça-feira, março 03, 2009

 

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Rembrandt, "A Noiva Judia", c. 1667, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam


As in the scriptural story itself, the precise location of the promised land remained vague, and for a time the desert lands of Arab Palestine seemed too far a stretch for the imagination. Alberto Gerchunoff was one of the pioneering Zionists who fled the steppes of Russia for the pampas of Argentina, to help found there, with earnest Argentine government encouragement, the Jewish settlement of "Moisesville." "Argentina is the Promised Land reached after a New Exodus," he declared in his book Los Gauchos Judios (The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas). "Here, in Argentina," he exulted, "we will work hard, we will eat the bread made with our own wheat, and will be farmers like the old time Jews, the ones in tne Bible."
If Palestine seemed too alien for these Europeans, it also brought with it another problem: it was already inhabited, by an Arab population of hundreds of thousands of people whose families had lived there for centuries. The small community of Jews who already resided in Jerusalem, like the more sizable Jewish enclave in Baghdad, had long ago made its accommodations with Arab culture and strongly opposed Zionist pretensions that might, in arousing Arab antipathies, threaten their relatively stable existence.
In the early years of the Zionist movement, two rabbis from Vienna were sent on a scouting mission to Palestine to estimate the possibilities of creating a Jewish state there. The rabbis wired back, "The bride is beautiful but she is married to another man." But for the more zealous, and focused, Zionists, this was no fatal obstacle. After all, in the very same chapter of Genesis in which the Lord first calls Abraham to the promised land, there is the explicit acknowledgement that "the Canaanite was then in the land."
Nevertheless, the Lord immediately thereafter appears to Abraham and declares to him, "Unto thy seed will I give this land." In the next chapter the sequence is repeated, and elaborated. "And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land." And the Lord said to Abraham, "Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever." The biblical message could not be any clearer: the imagined land took precedence over the inhabited land.

David F. Noble, Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth, Toronto, Between The Lines, 2005, pp. 41-42

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quarta-feira, janeiro 14, 2009

 

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terça-feira, janeiro 06, 2009

 

Re-ligar (3)

Palestina, 18 de Janeiro de 2008 - 20 de Dezembro de 2008

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quinta-feira, novembro 27, 2008

 

My worthy Mr. Engineer! Do you really believe that all the bloggers of the whole world are actually such simpletons?



Fritz Lang, Metropolis, 1927


One of the richest and most eminent American merchants, a certain Edward Albert Filene, Vice-Chairman of the International Congress of Chambers of Commerce, is now touring Paris, Berlin and other big European centres to make personal contact with the most influential people of the commercial world.

At the banquets arranged, as is fitting, by the richest people of Europe in honour of one of the American rich, the latter is developing his “new” ideas on the world power of the merchant. Frankfurter = Zeitung,[1] the organ of German finance capital, reports in detail the ideas of this “advanced” American millionaire.

“We are experiencing a great historic movement,” he proclaims, “that will end in the transfer of all power over the modern world to representatives of commercial capital. We are the people who bear the greatest responsibility in the world and we should, therefore, be politically the most influential.

“Democracy is growing, the power of the masses is growing,” argued Mr. Filene (rather inclined, it seems, to regard those “masses” as simpletons). “The cost of living is rising. Parliamentarism and the newspapers, distributed in millions of copies a day, are providing the masses of the people with ever more detailed information.

“The masses are striving to ensure for themselves participation in political life, the extension of franchise, the introduction of an income-tax, etc. Power over the whole world must pass into the hands of the masses, that is, into the hands of our employees,” is the conclusion drawn by this worthy orator.

“The natural leaders of the masses should be the industrialists and merchants, who are learning more and more to understand the community of their interests and those of the masses.” (We note in parenthesis that the cunning Mr. Filene is the owner of a gigantic commercial house employing 2,500 people, and that he has “organised” his employees in a “democratic” organisation with profit-sharing, etc. Since he considers his employees hopeless simpletons, Mr. Filene is sure that they are completely satisfied and infinitely grateful to their “father-benefactor” ....)

“Wage increases, the improvement of labour conditions, that is what will bind our employees to us,” said Mr. Filene, “that is what will guarantee our power over the whole world. Everybody in the world who is at all talented will come to us to enter our service.

“We need organisation and still more organisation—strong, democratic organisation, both national and inter national,” the American exclaimed. He called upon the commercial world of Paris, Berlin, etc., to reorganise international chambers of commerce. They should unite the merchants and industrialists of all civilised countries in a single, mighty organisation. All important international problems should be discussed and settled by that organisation.

Such are the ideas of an “advanced” capitalist, Mr. Filene.

The reader will see that these ideas are a paltry, narrow, one-sided, selfishly barren approximation to the ideas of Marxism propounded over sixty years ago. “We” are great masters at upsetting and refuting Marx; “we”, the civilised merchants and professors of political economy, have refuted him completely!... And at the same time we steal little bits and pieces from him and boast to the whole world of our “progressiveness”....

My worthy Mr. Filene! Do you really believe that the workers of the whole world are actually such simpletons?

W. [V. I. Lenine], "The Ideas of an Advanced Capitalist", Rabochaya Pravda, No. 4, July 17, 1913. Tradução de George Hanna, Lenin Collected Works, Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1977, volume 19, pages 275-276.

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Hollow shell


"We are watching the rebirth of colonization and a colonial mentality of a new type represented by the ‘human rights’ brigades and their friends in Le Monde and Libération, of which the war in Iraq and the failure of the West to force Israel to retreat from its colonial positions are good examples. And tied to that is the process of neo-liberalism and the neo-liberal economy, which makes democracy itself into a very hollow shell"

Tariq Ali, Naked Punch Review 06

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quinta-feira, novembro 13, 2008

 

Re-ligar (2)

Picolho de choque superiormente dirigido para a porrada na Terra Santa


"Este Des-ligar das pessoas consiste numa guerra permanente, envenenadora e insidiosa sobre tudo o que possa congregá-las ou re-ligá-las. Daí, entre outras, a campanha devidamente orquestrada e premeditada contra a "re-ligião". Porque estorva e dificulta a "des-ligião".
É neste enquadramento que se situam todos os quistos efervescentes de propaganda artificialmente empolada e superiormente dirigida, como são, por exemplo, as organizações LGTB ou as Ligas de Frenéticos e Convulsionários Ateístas. São tropinhas de choque do mercado e da indústria, autómatos-biscateiros programados e segregados pela coligação 'super-apta'".

Eng. César Augusto Dragão Lopes da Silva, "Metapredação", Dragoscópio, 4 de Maio de 2008.

Convulsionários ateístas à bordoada no Santo Sepulcro, em Jerusalém, na Terra Santa

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segunda-feira, novembro 10, 2008

 

Re-ligar (como em "liga-duras")



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quarta-feira, novembro 05, 2008

 

Viva!

Ontem, dia 4 de Novembro de 2008, escreveu-se uma página brilhante da História contemporânea - da História da Civilização Ocidental, tal como os gregos a começaram há já mais de 2.500 anos!

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sexta-feira, outubro 31, 2008

 

High finance satellites (trick and treat)


Miguel Soares, Space Junk beta 1.0, 2001


Just as Jean Baudrillard long ago warned, the hyperreal, simulational world of
derivatives, credit swaps, and mortgage backed securities long ago
blasted off from material reality, reaching escape velocity, and then
orbiting the world as star-like high finance satellites -- purely
virtual satellites which have no real meaning for the rest of us as
long as they stay in space as part of the alienated, recursive loops
of advanced capitalism. But when the meltdown suddenly happens, when
that immense weight of over-indebtedness and toxic mortgages and
credit derivates plunge back into the gravitational weight of real
politics and real economy, we finally know what it is to live within
trajectories of the catastrophic. Economists are quoted as saying the
financial crisis effects "everyone on earth." Is this Virilio's
"global accident?" Quite certainly it is panic finance: that moment
when the credit mechanisms necessary for capitalist liquidity slam
shut, a time made to measure for Virilio's brilliant theory of bunker
archeology, with each bank its own toxic bunker of junk assets, each
banker a born again socialist. For example, always vigilant automatic
circuit breakers working in the darkness of night recently prevented
a global plunge of the futures market. Allan Greenspan throws up his
hands, exclaiming "I'm in shocked disbelief."
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Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, "City of Transformation. Paul Virilio in Obama's America",
CTHEORY: THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, VOL 31, NO 3


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terça-feira, abril 01, 2008

 

Islâmicos e islamitas

(O evangelho segundo S. Valupi (?) explicado à infiel Zazie)
















Um "islâmico"



Um "islamita"

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segunda-feira, março 17, 2008

 

Beijing 2008

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sexta-feira, janeiro 18, 2008

 

Paixão (Stabat Mater Dolorosa / Pietà)

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quarta-feira, outubro 03, 2007

 

Anti-semitas de todo Israel: uni-vos!

Alhambra Decree, also known as the "Edict of Expulsion," March 31, 1492





It is the primary obligation of the [israeli] government to protect Jewish lives. Israel is first and foremost a JEWISH democratic State. It is NOT a non-sectarian, democratic country like the United States. As such, it is absurd for anyone other than Jews to be citizens in the first place! That is why Israel MUST revamp its Constitution making Israel unequivocally a JEWISH State… with NO possibility that any other group will ever become the majority. It is insane to have enemies of the Jewish people living anywhere within its boundaries. So how does Israel put a stop to the explosive Israeli Arab population growth? The same way one puts a stop to a growing cancer… REMOVE IT.

"Israel's Growing Cancer"


We, members of the People's Council, representatives of the Jewish Community of Eretz-Israel and of the Zionist Movement, are here assembled on the day of the termination of the British Mandate over Eretz-Israel and, by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

"The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel", Official Gazette: Number 1; Tel Aviv, 5 Iyar 5708, 14.5.1948 Page 1


LINHA ALERTA INTERNETA SEGURA: chamem a polícia

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sexta-feira, abril 20, 2007

 

Death Camps



"Three days after Munich, Israel ordered a bombing which required the use of some 75 Israeli aircraft (the largest attack since 1967). Their bombings of Palestinian refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon resulted in the killing of more than 200 civilians. And this is not because the Israelis were after a camp north of Sidon that was used for training the Munich attackers. That camp was not even hit (another sign that Israelis had no information about the real culprits of Munich) while other camps with civilians in them were bombed."

"September 9 : Israeli war planes attack Arab terrorist bases in Syria and Lebanon in retaliation for the Munich Olympic massacre. Three Syrian jets are shot down over the Golan Heights. The UN Security Council adopts a resolution calling for an end of military operations by "the parties concerned." A U.S. resolution deploring the München massacre is not considered."

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