RÚSSIA V - RUTHENIA V - RUSSIA V

«Mother Russia» by the sculptor Yevgeni Vuchetich (1967) in a photo by Vali - Wikipedia - licence of use (http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FDL) - Volgograd

Last days, one more time, the Persons of Russia are victims of the horrible terrorism, now and again in Volgograd, the sacrificied city of an horrible destruction by III Reich forces in 1942 and 1943. The terror was created in public transports by manipulation of persons as weapons. God bless all victims and them families. 

Homage to victims of rail station of Volgograd (photo by Kirill Braga - RIA Novosti)

 The city of Volvograd have many beautiful sculptures

«Fountain Friendship of Peoples» in Volgograd - photo by Redboston (Wikipedia) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

«Fountain of Love» - Peace Street - Volgograd in a photo by XVodolazx (Wikipedia)(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)
ONE DAY LOVE OF WOMAN AND MAN AND FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN PERSONS AND NATIONS WILL RULL THE WORLD!


«The Children’s Dance fountain» (1939) in Volgograd under destruction by III Reich (1942-1943) and in front of rail station that in 2013 have again an attack of destructive forces that don´t respect the sacred Life of Persons, included them supporters ...

Photo of RIA Novosti http://visualrian.ru/en/images/zooms/RIAN_2269578.jpg

ECONOMIA POLÍTICA - OECONOMIA POLITICA - POLITICAL ECONOMY

«Main trade routes of late medieval Europe» Lampman (Wikipedia)

«Inter-Regional Capital Flows» Twisted MBA (http://www.twistedmba.com/2012/05/18/money-its-a-gas/)

Financial jungle of the eighties years of XX century create objective conditions for capitals moves for distant spaces of economic creation of value, of real support social and sustainable needs of Persons! Financial system leaded by banks created direct and indirectly, strong spaces of speculation without a real regulation. Crisis showed the deep distance between prices and values of a lot of merchandises, papers, futures, electronic mouvements.
But a lot of players as usual, win a lot of money in games of negative or null sum.
Political Societies and General Government of many countries deep linked to banks, supported big bubbles of speculation and the consequences over financial system with a big transfer to debt and taxes of the damages with strong processes of devaluation or fall of empolated prices.

Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy import, with cumplicity of Political Societies, a lot of problems of a not balanced economic system inside European Union that benefit Germany (submarines purchases is an example of corruption).

The answer of European Comission (EC) and European Central Bank (ECB) determinated by German Government and Bundesbank with the cumplicity of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and by the Governments of the countries was a disaster, with a badly linkage with Economists that legitimate the actions of strong devaluation of the Economies without a strong reforms in Political Societies and General Governments.

The incredible «front loading» was a great disaster that create more public debt with a laundering of the big mistakes of central banks and banks that don´t knew failures by a not liberal injection of a lot of money or by nationalization of losses.

The situation implicate that who win with bubbles pay the dammages and not the Persons by brutal taxes, that implicate the stop of freedom circulation of capitals!

Economists go on with empirical and pseudo scientifics points of view, with so many limits that turn them supports to ideological manipulation for defence of interests of lobbies. Liberal ideology are abused, freedom with not balanced powers create more fortunes and more poorness in countries, regions, cities, families, persons.

An example was Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff linked to IMF with errors and inflection of them point of view about austerity (http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=41173.0):

«Financial and Sovereign Debt Crises: Some Lessons Learned and Those Forgotten»
Author/Editor:	Carmen Reinhart ; Kenneth Rogoff
Publication Date:	December 24, 2013
Electronic Access:	Free Full text

«Summary: Even after one of the most severe multi-year crises on record in the advanced economies, the received wisdom in policy circles clings to the notion that high-income countries are completely different from their emerging market counterparts. The current phase of the official policy approach is predicated on the assumption that debt sustainability can be achieved through a mix of austerity, forbearance and growth. The claim is that advanced countries do not need to resort to the standard toolkit of emerging markets, including debt restructurings and conversions, higher inflation, capital controls and other forms of financial repression. As we document, this claim is at odds with the historical track record of most advanced economies, where debt restructuring or conversions, financial Repression, and a tolerance for higher inflation, or a combination of these were an integral part of the resolution of significant past debt overhangs.»

We need another alternative approaches that link better micro, meso and macroeconomic analyses with political points of view: Political Economy where empirical methoods are one more mean and not a goal! Is not possible a pure approach in human world. Economic Science must acept it assumptions link subjectivity with objectivity, link expertise with statics. The macroeconomic models must change with qualitative variables and more complex points of view link micro, meso to macro levels ...

RÚSSIA IV - RUTHENIA IV - RUSSIA IV

Press conference in Moscow by Alekhina and Tolokonnikova 27-12-2013 (REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva)

Nadia Tolokonnikova: «No que diz respeito ao Presidente Vladimir Putin, não mudámos de posição: a nossa intenção é continuar a protestar até ele cair do poder (...) Se não nos tivessem metido na cadeia, não teríamos deixado de fazer o que fazemos. Não é agora que vamos parar»

Maria Alekhina: «(...) teve a mão da igreja Ortodoxa Russa (...) obsessão de Putin em limpar a sua imagem (...)»

Nadia Tolokonnikova: «As autoridades só tomaram esta decisão por estarem debaixo de intensa pressão, tanto na Rússia como nos países ocidentais. Não há aqui nada de humanitário. Depois da olimpíada, a repressão continua (...)
Quer se goste, quer não, a participação nos Jogos Olímpicos é uma aceitação tácita da situação política interna na Rússia e a aceitação do caminho que está a ser seguido por uma pessoa que está mais interessada nos jogos do que em tudo o resto: Vladimir Putin»

Maria Alekhina; «O mundo de Putin está repleto de desconfianças e conspirações. Acho que ele realmente acredita que o Ocidente é uma grande ameaça para a Rússia (...). Putin é um cheka, fechado, opaco, com uma infinidade de crenças e realmente com medo de muita coisa (...).»

Nadia Tolokonnikova: «Ele pensa que pode controlar tudo, mas isso é impossível e mais cedo ou mais tarde o controlo vai-lhe escapar de entre as mãos (...)»

REINO DE PORTUGAL III - REGNUM PORTUGALLIS III - KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL III

Coat of arms of the king Sebastião of Portugal and Filipe II of Castilla and Aragón

REINO DE PORTUGAL (III: 1495-1640)

O que tinha sido uma sustentada eleição
Passou de novo a ser uma hereditária sucessão
Enredada nas teias de Castela de então
Sem uma boa base de sustentação

Manuel I o «venturoso»
Deixa Portugal saudoso
Dos tempos em que o mérito prevalecia
Sobre as redes da confiança que se tecia

Todos os caminhos iam dar a Castela
Que em termos culturais invadiu o Luso Reino
Com o fanatismo religioso dela
Tão do agrado de qualquer tirano

A «Santa Inquisição» ascendeu
A Liberdade retrocedeu
A Criatividade desfaleceu
Um fogo de negatividade se acendeu

Em nome de Deus contra a sua criação
Que tenebrosa e vil negação
Depois do apogeu humano só poderia vir a depressão
Depois de tanto trabalho de criativa ascensão

Manuel I lidera a colheita de frutos bons
Mas vai desperdiçá-los em demonstrações de poder
Para quem quiser as ter e as e ver
E lançar sementes más, sem dons

A vergonha invade o Reino
Pessoas por pessoas são massacradas
Por fanáticos religiosos instigadas
Vão-se perder e fugir muitas alarmadas

Cujas gerações tinham ajudado os desenvolvimentos
Que permitiram os grandes descobrimentos
O que Portugal tinha conseguido mais pelo consenso
Vai realizá-lo cada vez mais pela força sem senso

O poder agora conquistado é cada vez mais efémero
E o poder anteriormente desenvolvido na luz
Pela ciência, arte e saber que tanto seduz
Vai pelas trevas ser destruído, a pessoa passa a número

Mas a criatividade desenvolvida ao longo do XVI século?
Tem raízes no passado e vai perder o seu futuro
Num Portugal cada vez mais sisudo e duro
O espaço vai ser cada vez menor para o incrédulo

Luís Vaz de Camões e o seu «fogo que arde sem se ver»
Vai ser cada vez mais substituído pelo fogo material
O primado do Criador, o sagrado Amor
Vai ser cada vez mais substituído pela desumana dor

Manuel, Emnuel, Immanuel ligado por Isaías a Jesus
Que nome tão falso o do Rei, que nos vai desligar de Cristo
E da sua cultura da Vida e do Amor
Portugal vai sofrer cada vez mais o temor e o terror

Com que filhas casa sucessivamente Manuel?
Com as dos «católicos» Fernando e Isabel!
O feitiço vai-se virar contra o feiticeiro
Mais um potencial luso herdeiro

Miguel da Paz, depois de sua mãe Isabel de Aragão
Em 1500, com dois anos, também nos vai deixar
E no mesmo ano Manuel com Maria de Aragão vai casar
Com todas as condições da trama vão reafirmar a Inquisição

O fatum está definido
Para Castela num só sentido
O seu filho João III tão pio como o pai
Vai fazer perder muito pio com ai

E vai casar com quem então?
Com Catarina filha de Joana I e Filipe I de Castela
Terceira filha dos reis católicos e rainha de Castela e Aragão
Vai unificar os dois reinos, que vêem  o poder ser afastado dela

A teia de aranha de genes castelhanos eram pouco saudáveis
Física e espiritualmente, João III vai deixar o Reino por um fio
Todos os filhos e filhas falecem antes dele, muito pio
A frágil sucessão monárquica não tem contornos estáveis

Toda a esperança fica depositada no neto Sebastião
Cuja imaturidade vai provocar uma trágica desilusão
Rodeado de Catarina e do cardeal Henrique também muito pio
Que eram a sua avó castelhana e o seu inquisidor tio

Encara o império português com megalomania
Como não pode ir para a Índia pelas armas triunfar
Escolhe o Norte de África para pela força tentar mandar
O «velho do Restelo» dos «Lusíadas» já o pressentia

O seu primo Filipe II de Castela e Aragão
Com negociações secretas com o crescente otomano
Tenta hipocritamente, dissuadir ou o cingir a Larache das Hisperíades, Sebastião
Mas promete-lhe algum apoio condicionado pelo limite mês de Augusto, no verano

Prazo impossível de oito meses que fazem correr o Rei imprudente
Que lhe pediu uma das suas filha em casamento
Que o ambicioso primo adia para depois do «cruzado» tormento
Que com hipocrisia o aconselha a não comandar, o«Prudente»

São conselhos de 1577 que no jovem Sebastião o incitam a ir mais além
Que a leitura dos «Lusíadas» por Camões em 1572 o torna refém
Tem que ficar na História como o último cavaleiro «cruzado»
E por Ela depois muito, mas muito amado

Corre, corre Sebastião
Ao papa e clero a pedir a sua «santa» adesão
À nobreza o seu empenho e adesão
Ao povo a sua déspota violentação e expoliação

Catarina e o Cardeal Henrique estão desta vez unidos contra
Mas quanto mais obstáculos mais arde o desejo
De um fogo consumidor que o projecta na acção pronta
Mais uma vez, um líder e o seu grupo tem mais poder que mérito e ensejo

As parcas sortes até têm pena de tamanha ingenuidade nos actos
Os fios da trama estão preparados
E na altura mais ou menos certa serão cortados
Vénus e suas ninfas já nada podem fazer, perante os destinos traçados

O prazo do hipócrita primo é ultrapassado
Tudo é demasiado precipitado
Tudo é violentamente roubado
Ou na melhor das hipóteses aliciado

Ainda por cima, como era de esperar
O alvo não vai ser o local do antigo jardim das maças de ouro a brilhar
Vai ser em pleno mês de Augusto, no Verão de 1578, com muito calor
Um ano depois do hipócrita limite, pasme-se, um espaço no interior

Alcácer Quibir e suas areias em Marrocos ficam tristemente célebres
O crescente otomano com o seu aliado marroquino
Formam uma meia lua à espera do luso quadrado, tudo facilita o destino
As parcas sentem-se mais do que nunca autómatos que correm como lebres

Para os seus tramados fios tão finos e tão fortes
Desejosos dos seus esperados cortes
Até cansados, exaustos e cheios de sede chegam às suas sortes
Os portugueses, italianos, espanhóis, valões e alemães com os seus portes

A meia lua é mais vulnerável no seu centro na linha avançada pelo quadrado
Mas esquece-se na sua bravura liderada por um Távora o seu envolvimento
O «êxito» inicial vai ser transformado num grande lamento
O quadrado avançado vai ser tragado

O Rei numa leviana honra avança sem salvação
Faz tudo o que não devia fazer
Desde o amanhecer até ao ao entardecer
Parecia uma marionete de falsos valores sem potencial de realização

O hipócrita e familiar abutre
Cheio de força da desgraça se nutre
Vai colher o que Isabel de Castela tinha semeado
E que Afonso V, apesar de João II, tinha propiciado

A dinastia de Avis eleita na luta contra Castela
Tinha sido substituída e já não era mais que uma aguarela
João II foi o seu último líder e Manuel já estava enredado
A partir dele e através de teias hereditárias e religiosas o Reino foi tramado

Que alternativas existiam ao abutre, representante da via tramada
A Nação estava extremamente espoliada e endividada
O familiar cardeal Henrique volta de novo à acção, fraco e sem capacidade de decisão,
Sem eleição, tenta um acordo com o abutre, ele que era o líder da «Santa» Inquisição

Filipe II não precisava de ser grande mestre de xadrez
Tinha mais quase um rei, uma dama e mais duas torres num trago de jerez
Em Portugal só haviam bispos, cavalos e peões
E poucos cruzados de ouro e de prata depois da «cruzada» não eram soluções

A nobreza (cavalos), materialmente e espiritualmente vulnerável e aculturada
Foi facilmente presa maioritária do consenso, muitas vezes corrompida
O clero (bispos) alinhado, teve do papado a não permissão
Para Henrique com uma mulher ter união

Os peões (povo, burguesia), mais uma vez eram determinantes
Para tentar lutar contra destinos ainda mais negativos
Faltavam-lhes lideranças e apoios à sua altura
Como existiram nos tempos heróicos da revolução contra Castela e da sua bravura

Pela força e pelo consenso corrupto e traidor
O Reino de Portugal vai ser submetido com profunda dor
A resistência mal estruturada e preparada
Vai ser facilmente tramada

O abutre castelhano ataca a presa
Por terra e mar, sem qualquer surpresa
Campo Maior, Juromenha, Arronches, Olivença, ai Portugal!
Elvas, Estremoz, Montemor-o-Novo, Alcácer do Sal

Setúbal e Palmela também caiem brutalmente
Cascais resiste e cai heroicamente
Bugio e São Julião mais facilmente
No vale de Alcântara cai Lisboa finalmente

«Mudam-se os tempos mudam-se as vontades,
Muda-se o ser, muda-se a confiança;
Todo o mundo é composto de mudança,
Tomando sempre novas qualidades.»

A mudança histórica que Camões expressa é desastrosa
Da independência a Nação fica saudosa
A nobreza e clero que se aliou aos Filipes
Mais ou mais cedo se apercebeu que eram maus os seus apetites

Não participando nas causas favoráveis
Participa e de que maneira, nas desfavoráveis
A sabedoria popular deveria ter sido aprendida com aprofundamento
De Castela «nem bom vento ou bom casamento»
Isabel I e sua filha Joana I de Castela
Joana I de Castela considerada «a louca» após a morte de seu marido Filipe I, unifica o Reino de Castela e o Reino de Aragão. É afastada do poder e encerrada em Tordesilhas com a sua filha Catarina, futura mulher de João III.
 
A horrorosa e terrorista «Santa Inquisição», já enraízada e fanatizada em Castela, entrou em Portugal por via dos muito pios e comprometidos com os reis «católicos» e seus descendentes, Manuel I e seu filho João III, sendo o seu outro filho, o cardeal D.Henrique, seu líder. A negação da Criação de Deus, do Amor de Jesus Cristo, do Humanismo, vão-se afirmar, para desgraça do Reino de Portugal!

Eis a resultante de manipular a Fé Cristã para legitimar o Poder: o Reino de Portugal cai pelas suas decisões e acções nas areias de Marrocos perante o crescente Otomano e o abutre Filipe II de Castela e Aragão, reforçado pela Casa de Habsburgo (Haus von Habsburg), vai colher o semeado por Isabel I de Castela com o apoio involuntário de AfonsoV, ironicamente cognominado «o Africano», pela sua acção em Marrocos.
Não prevaleceu a visão Nacional e Humanista do Infante e regente Pedro, de sua filha Isabel e de seu neto João II, mas sim a negativista e pia de Manuel I, suas rainhas e seus descendentes castelhenizados ...

OLISIPO, SIVE UT PERVETUSTA LAPIDUM INSCRIPTIONES HABENT, ULYSIPPO, VULGO LISBONA FLORENTISSIMUM PORTUGALLIA EMPORIU. Franz Hogenberg in «Civitates Orbis Terrarum» (V, 1598).

«Os Lusíadas» de Luis Vaz de Camões (1572)

ECONOMIA DE PORTUGAL - OECONOMIA LUSITANIAE - ECONOMY OF PORTUGAL

Airplane of TAP with a rainbow in a beautiful photo of Rui Alves (http://www.planespotters.net/Aviation_Photos/photo.show?id=120114)

Light and darkness
Sun and rain
Portuguese fatum of sadness
Going in airplane or train

The rainbow of Poortuguese Economies
Become from Economic Societies
And her valiant and resilent Families
Not from State and it economic policies

General Government is a heavy burden
Over the Lusitanic and Latin Nation
Don´t have the coarse kindness of a hurden
For support it creation and action

Plunged in vicious circles without harmony
By an incredible Political Society
After Troika intervention
Still in the same negation


We can see how Families and Economic Societies react to adversity: the firsts financing Economy, the seconds decrease them net borrowing and increase them available income. And General Government? Parasite Nation directly and indirectly by giving to a lot of persons income without merit, withhout contribute to the creation of value in the past or in the present.

The Instituto Nacional de Estatística published the Accounts by Institutional Sectors (third quarter of 2013, current prices) and we create this kind of graphics and tables betwwen since the first quarter of 2008: State is worst again without a deep reform and only with detached measures!

For Economy decreased added Value, Consumption and Investment. Saving increased by Families and net borrowing turns net lending despite General Government disaster.

Exports by merit of Economic Societies and Families begun it growing in the firt quarter of 2010 and imports decreased later with austerity and it strong impact over consumption and investment (internal demand) in a strong devaluation of internal market.   

 In Economic Societies Productivity of Employees increased after a lower level in second quarter of 2009. Economic Value created increased until last quarter of 2012 decreased in first quarter of 2013 and regain the same level in the third quarter. Government talks about growing but in fact, level of last quarter of 2012 are not reached, are distant yet.

 Families cut them consumption after the elections of 2011, PSD+CDS+Troika rise (second quarter of 2011)... and after available income begun decreasing in first quarter of 2011. Saving increase since the lowest level of the second quarter of 2008 with a continuous decresing of investment.

UCRÂNIA III - UCRAINA III - UKRAINE III

Tatyana Chornovil is one more journalist victim of her searching of true

«The United States expresses its grave concern over an emerging pattern of targeted violence and intimidation towards activists and journalists who participated in or reported on the EuroMaidan protests. The violent beating of journalist Tatiana Chornovil is particularly disturbing.
The United States, in concert with our European partners, will continue to closely watch the disposition of this and other cases.» State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki

This situation happened after Interior Minister Vitaliy  Zakharchenko is under pressure by oposition linked to the violent crackdown on protesters and implicate more and more pressure over Government.

«If people who defend human rights are attacked ... it means we can no longer speak of any democracy. The line has been crossed.» Oleksandra Matveichuk (head of the Centre for Civic Freedom)




«Now it’s very clear, and it was clear for my mother much before that, that he will not sign the agreement (...) mixed up the cards for Yanukovich (...) Really what he was doing was just playing poker, trying to bluff, bargain and betray people without caring.» Evgenia Tymoshenko daughter of former prime minister.

Persons in Europe must have the possibility of triggered a referendum to limit the delegated power of them. The vote of crucial decisions is crucial for Europeans.   

INCOMPATIBILIDADE - REPUGNANTIA - INCOMPATIBILITY

Como não há ainda ser,
Nem sequer dever ser
Para limitar o ter e o poder,
Seria bom haver
Uma lei muito clara e efectiva de delimitação
Da futura intervenção
Da anterior representação
Que evite incompatibilidades com os interesses da Nação.

Mas como segundo a Constituição
São os interessados na imobilização
Que poderiam legislar sobre a sua negação
A tendência é nada acontecer
Nada suceder
E tudo permanecer
Porque não parece haver capacidade
Nem tão pouco vontade
De de auto reformar a política sociedade
Teria de nascer na sociedade civil
Um movimento que torne legalmente vil
A promiscuidade servil

Não há período de repugnância
Que permita qualquer tolerância
Perante tamanhos prejuízos
Que por Portugal são muito sentidos

RUSSIA III - RUTHENIA III - RUSSIA III

«The border between being free and not free is very thin in Russia, a totalitarian state» Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (words after freed from prison in 23-12-2013)

Before at prison in 13-08-2012 she said:
«By and large, the three members of Pussy Riot are not the ones on trial here. If we were, this event would hardly be so significant. This is a trial of the entire political system of the Russian Federation, which, to its great misfortune, enjoys quoting its own cruelty toward the individual, its indifference toward human honor and dignity, repeating all of the worst moments of Russian history. To my deep regret, this poor excuse for a judicial process approaches Stalin’s “troikas.”  We too have only an interrogator, a judge, and a prosecutor. Furthermore, this repressive act is executed based on political orders from above that completely dictate the words, deeds, and decisions of these three judicial figures.
What was behind our performance at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the subsequent trial? Nothing other than the autocratic political system. Pussy Riot’s performances can either be called dissident art or political action that engages art forms. Either way, our performances are a kind of civic activity amidst the repressions of a corporate political system that directs its power against basic human rights and civil and political liberties. The young people who have been flayed by the systematic eradication of freedoms perpetrated through the aughts have now risen against the state. We were searching for real sincerity and simplicity, and we found these qualities in the yurodstvo [the holy foolishness] of punk.
Passion, total honesty, and naïveté are superior to the hypocrisy, mendacity, and false modesty that are used to disguise crime. The so-called leading figures of our state stand in the Cathedral with righteous faces on, but, in their cunning, their sin is greater than our own.
We put on political punk performances in response to a government that is rife with rigidity, reticence, and caste-like hierarchal structures. It is so clearly invested in serving only narrow corporate interests, it makes us sick just to breathe the Russian air. We categorically oppose the following, which forces us to act and live politically:
—the use of coercive and forceful methods for regulating social processes; a situation when the most important political institutions are the disciplinary structures of the state: the security agencies (the army, police, and secret services), and their corresponding means of ensuring political “stability” (prisons, pre-emptive detention, all the mechanisms of strict control over the citizenry);
—imposed civic passivity among the majority of the population,
—the complete dominance of the executive branch over the legislative and judicial.
Moreover, we are deeply frustrated by the scandalous dearth of political culture, which comes as the result of fear and that is kept down through the conscious efforts of the government and its servants (Patriarch Kirill: “Orthodox Christians do not attend rallies”); the scandalous weakness of the horizontal ties within society.
We do not like that the state so easily manipulates public opinion by means of its strict control over the majority of medial outlets (a particularly vivid example of this manipulation is the unprecedentedly insolent and distorted campaign against Pussy Riot appearing in practically every Russian media outlet).
Despite the fact that we find ourselves in an essentially authoritarian situation, living under authoritarian rule, I see this system crumbling in the face of three members of Pussy Riot. What the system anticipated did not occur; Russia does not condemn us, and with each passing day, more and more people believe in us and that we should be free, and not behind bars.
I see this in the people I meet. I meet people who work for the system, in its institutions, I see people who are incarcerated. Every day, I meet our supporters who wish us luck and, above all, freedom. They say what we did was justified. More and more people tell us that although they had doubts about whether we had the right to do what we did, with each passing day, more and more people tell us that time has shown that our political gesture was correct—that we opened the wounds of this political system, and struck directly at the hornet’s nest, so they came after us, but we. . . .
These people try to relieve our suffering as much they can, and we are very grateful to them. We are also grateful to everyone who speaks out in support of us on the outside. There are many supporters, and I know it. I know that a great number of Orthodox Christians speak out on our behalf, the ones who gather near the court in particular. They pray for us; they pray for the imprisoned members of Pussy Riot. We’ve seen the little booklets the Orthodox pass out containing prayers for the imprisoned. This fact alone demonstrates that there is no single, unified group of Orthodox believers, as the prosecutor would like to prove. This unified group does not exist. Today, more and more believers have come to the defense of Pussy Riot. They don’t think that what we did warrants a five-month term in a pretrial detention center, let alone three years in prison, as the prosecutor has called for.
Every day, more people understand that if the system is attacking three young women who performed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior for thirty seconds with such vehemence, it only means that this system fears the truth, sincerity, and straightforwardness we represent. We have never used cunning during these proceedings. Meanwhile, our opponents are too often cunning, and people sense this. Indeed, the truth has an ontological, existential superiority over deception, and this is described in the Bible, particularly the Old Testament.
The paths of truth always triumph over the paths of cunning, guile, and deception. Every day, truth grows more victorious, despite the fact that we remain behind bars and will probably be here for a long time.
Yesterday, Madonna performed in Moscow with “Pussy Riot” written on her back. More and more people see that we are held here illegally, on false pretences. This amazes me. I am amazed that truth really does triumph over deception. Despite the fact that we are physically here, we are freer than everyone sitting across from us on the side of the prosecution. We can say anything we want and we say everything we want. The prosecution can only say what they are permitted to by political censorship. They can’t say “punk prayer,” “Our Lady, Chase Putin Out,” they can’t utter a single line of our punk prayer that deals with the political system.
Perhaps they think that it would be good to put us in prison because we speak out against Putin and his regime. They don’t say so, because they aren’t allowed to. Their mouths are sewn shut. Unfortunately, they are only here as dummies. But I hope they realize this and ultimately pursue the path of freedom, truth, and sincerity, because this path is superior to the path of complete stagnation, false modesty, and hypocrisy. Stagnation and the search for truth are always opposites, and in this case, in the course of this trial, we see on the one side people who attempt to know the truth, and on the other side people who are trying to fetter them.
A human being is a creature that is always in error, never perfect. She quests for wisdom, but cannot possess it; this is why philosophy was born. This is why the philosopher is the one who loves wisdom and yearns for it, but does not possess it. This is what ultimately calls a human being to action, to think and live in a certain way. It was our search for truth that led us to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. I think that Christianity, as I understood it while studying the Old and especially the New Testament, supports the search for truth and a constant overcoming of oneself, the overcoming of what you were earlier. It was not in vain that when Christ was among the prostitutes, he said that those who falter should be helped; “I forgive them,” He said. I do not see this in our trial, which takes place under the banner of Christianity. Instead, it seems to me that the prosecution is trampling on religion.
The lawyers for the [official] “injured parties” are abandoning them—that is how I interpret it. Two days ago, [one of the “injured party”‘s lawyers] Alexei Taratukhin made a speech in which he insisted that it should be clear that under no circumstances should anyone assume that the lawyer agrees with the parties he represents. In other words, the lawyer finds himself in an ethically uncomfortable position and does not want to stand for the people who seek to imprison Pussy Riot. I don’t know why they want to put us in prison. Maybe they have the right to, but I want to emphasize that their lawyer seems to be ashamed. Perhaps he was affected by people shouting “Executioners! Shame on you!” I want to point out that truth and goodness always triumph over deception and malice. It also seems to me that prosecution attorneys are being influenced by some higher power, because time after time, they slip up and call us “the injured party.” Almost all of the lawyers have accidentally said this, and even prosecution attorney Larisa Pavlova, who is very negatively disposed toward us, nonetheless appears to be moved by some higher power when she refers to us as “the injured party.” She does not say this about those she represents, but about us.
I don’t want to label anyone. It seems to me that there are no winners, losers, victims, or defendants here. We all simply need to reach each other, connect, and establish a dialogue in order to seek out the truth together. Together, we can seek wisdom and be philosophers, instead of stigmatizing people and labeling them. That is the last thing a person should do. Christ condemned it. With this trial, the system is abusing us. Who would have thought that man and the state he rules could, again and again, perpetrate absolutely unmotivated evil?  Who could have imagined that history, especially Stalin’s still-recent Great Terror, could fail to teach us anything? The medieval Inquisition methods that reign in the law enforcement and judicial systems of our country, the Russian Federation, are enough to make you weep. But from the moment of our arrest, we have stopped weeping. We have lost our ability to cry. We had desperately shouted at our punk concerts. With all our might, we decried the lawlessness of the authorities, the governing bodies.  But now, our voices have been taken away. They were taken from us on March 3, 2012, when we were arrested. The following day, our voices and our votes were stolen from the millions at the so-called elections.
During the entire trial, people have refused to hear us. Hearing us would mean being receptive to what we say, being thoughtful, striving toward wisdom, being philosophers. I believe that every person should strive for this, and not only those who have studied in some philosophy department. A formal education means nothing, although prosecution attorney Pavlova constantly attempts to reproach us for our lack of education. We believe the most important thing is to strive, to strive towards knowledge and understanding. This is what a person can achieve independently, outside the walls of an educational institution. Regalia and scholarly degrees mean nothing. A person can possess a great deal of knowledge, but not be a human being. Pythagoras said extensive knowledge does not breed wisdom.  Unfortunately, we are here to affirm that. We are here only as decorations, inanimate elements, mere bodies that have been delivered into the courtroom. When our motions, after many days of requests, negotiations and struggles are not given any consideration, they are always denied. Unfortunately for us and for our country, the court hears a prosecutor who constantly distorts our words and statements with impunity, neutering them.  The foundational adversarial principle of the legal system is openly and demonstratively violated.
On July 30th, the first day of the trial, we presented our reaction to the prosecutors’ indictments.  At that time, the court categorically refused us the right to speak, and our written texts were read aloud by our defense lawyer, Violetta Volkova. For us, this was the first opportunity we had to express ourselves after five months of incarceration. Until then we had been incarcerated, confined; we can’t do anything from there, we can’t write appeals, we can’t film what is happening around us, we have no Internet, our lawyer can’t even bring us papers because even that is forbidden. On July 30th, we spoke openly for the first time; we called for making contact and facilitating dialogue, not for battle and confrontation. We reached our hands out to the people who, for some reason, consider us their enemies, and they spat into our open hands. “You are not sincere,” they said to us. Too bad. Do not judge us according to your behavior. We spoke sincerely, as we always do—we said what we thought. We were unbelievably childlike, naïve in our truth, but nonetheless we are not sorry for our words, and this includes our words on that day. And having been maligned, we do not want to malign others in response. We are in desperate circumstances, but we do not despair. We are persecuted, but we have not been abandoned. It is easy to degrade and destroy people who are open, but “When I am weak, then I am strong.”
Listen to our words and not to what [pro-Putin television journalist] Arkady Mamontov says about us. Do not distort and falsify what we say. Allow us to enter into a dialogue, into contact with this country, which is also ours and not only the land of Putin and the Patriarch. Just like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end the word will break cement. Solzhenitsyn wrote: “Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.” [Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle]
Katya, Masha and I may be in prison, but I do not consider us defeated. Just as the dissidents were not defeated; although they disappeared into mental institutions and prisons, they pronounced their verdict upon the regime. The art of creating the image of an epoch does not know winners or losers. It was the same with the OBERIU poets, who remained artists until the end, inexplicable and incomprehensible. Purged in 1937, Alexander Vvedensky wrote, “The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.”  According to the official death certificate, Aleksandr Vvedensky died on December 20th, 1941. No one knows the cause of death. It could have been dysentery on the train on the way to the camps; it could have been the bullet of a guard. It occurred somewhere on the railroad between Voronezh and Kazan.
Pussy Riot are Vvedensky’s students and heirs. His principle of the bad rhyme is dear to us. He wrote, “Occasionally, I think of two different rhymes, a good one and a bad one, and I always choose the bad one because it is always the right one.”
“The inexplicable is our friend”: the highbrow and refined works of the OBERIU poets and their search for thought on the edge of meaning were finally embodied when they paid with their lives, which were taken by the senseless and inexplicable Great Terror. Paying with their lives, these poets unintentionally proved that they were right to consider irrationality and senselessness the nerves of their era. Thus, the artistic became an historical fact. The price of participation in the creation of history is immeasurably great for the individual. But the essence of human existence lies precisely in this participation. To be a beggar, and yet to enrich others. To have nothing, but to possess all. One considers the OBERIU dissidents dead, but they are alive. They are punished, but they do not die.
Do you remember why young Dostoyevsky was sentenced to death? His entire guilt lay in the fact that he was fascinated by socialist theories, and during meetings of freethinkers and friends—which met on Fridays in the apartment of [Mikhail] Petrashevsky—he discussed the writings of Fourier and George Sand. On one of the last Fridays, he read Belinsky’s letter to Gogol aloud, a letter that was filled, according to the court that tried Dostoevsky (listen!) “with impudent statements against the Orthodox Church and the State government.”  After all the preparations for execution and “ten agonizing, infinitely terrifying minutes awaiting death” (Dostoyevsky), it was announced that the sentence was changed to four years of hard labor in Siberia followed by military service.
Socrates was accused of corrupting the youth with his philosophical discussions and refusing to accept the Athenian gods. He had a living connection with the divine voice, and he was not, as he insisted many times, by any account an enemy of the gods. But what did that matter when Socrates irritated the influential citizens of his city with his critical, dialectical thought, free of prejudice?  Socrates was sentenced to death and, having refused to escape Athens (as his students proposed), he courageously emptied a cup of hemlock and died. Have you forgotten under what circumstances Stephen, the disciple of the Apostles, concluded his earthly life?  “Then they secretly induced men to say, ‘We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.’ And they stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes, and they came up to him and dragged him away and brought him before the Council. They put forward false witnesses who said, ‘This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law.” [Acts 6:11-13] He was found guilty and stoned to death. I also hope that you all remember well how the Jews answered Christ: “It is not for good works that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy.” [John 10:33] And finally we would do well to keep in mind the following characterization of Christ: “He is demon-possessed and raving mad.” [John 10:20]
If the authorities, tsars, presidents, prime ministers, the people, and judges understood what “I desire mercy, not sacrifice” meant [Matthew 9:13], they would not put the innocent on trial.
Our authorities, however, still rush with condemnations, and never reprieves. To this point, I would like to thank Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev for providing us with the following excellent aphorism. He summarized his presidential term with the statement: “Liberty is better than non-liberty.” Thus in line with Medvedev’s apt words, Putin’s third term can well  be characterized by the aphorism “Prison is better than stoning.” I ask that you consider carefully the following from Montaigne’s Essays, which were written in the 16th century, preaching tolerance and the skeptical rejection of any unilateral system or doctrine: “It is putting a very high value on one’s conjectures, to have a man roasted alive because of them.”
Is it worth it to pass judgment on living people and put them in prison based on conjectures not substantiated by the prosecution? Since we truly have never harbored any religious hatred or animosity, our accusers have to rely on false witnesses. One of them, Matilda Ivashchenko, became ashamed of herself and did not appear in court. Then there were the false testimonies of Mr. Troitsky and Mr. Ponkin, as well as Mrs. Abramenkova. There is no other proof of our hatred and animosity except for the so-called “expert evaluation,” which the court, if it is honest and fair, must consider unacceptable as factual proof, as it is not a rigorous and objective text but a dirty and false little paper reminiscent of the Inquisition. There is no other evidence that can confirm the existence of a motive. The prosecutors have refused to voice excerpts from Pussy Riot interviews, since these excerpts would only further prove the absence of any motive. Why wasn’t the following text by us—which, incidentally, appeared in the affidavit—presented by the prosecution? “We respect religion in general and the Orthodox faith in particular. This is why we are especially infuriated when Christian philosophy, which is full of light, is used in such a dirty fashion. It makes us sick to see such beautiful ideas forced to their knees.” This quote appeared in an interview that The Russian Reporter conducted with Pussy Riot the day after our performance. We still feel sick, and it causes us real pain to look at all this. Finally, the lack of any hatred or animosity toward religion and the religious is affirmed by all character witnesses called in to testify by our lawyers. Apart from all these character references, I ask you to consider the results of the psychological and psychiatric evaluations in jail number 6, ordered by the prison authorities. The report revealed the following: the values that I embrace are justice, mutual respect, humaneness, equality, and freedom.
This was written by a court expert, a person who does not know me personally, though it is possible that Ranchenko, the interrogator, desired a different conclusion. But it seems that there are more people in our world who love and value truth than those who don’t. The Bible is correct in this. In conclusion I would like to read the words of a Pussy Riot song, that, strange as they may be, proved prophetic. We foresaw that “the Head of the KGB and the Chief Saint of the land place the protesters under guard and take them to prison.” This was about us.
Neither myself, nor Alyokhina, nor Samutsevich were found to have powerful and stable affects or other psychological values that could be interpreted as hatred toward anything or anyone.
So:
“Open all the doors, tear off your epaulets
Come, taste freedom with us.” [Pussy Riot]
That is all.» Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Translated by Maria Corrigan and Elena Glazov-Corrigan, n+1, 13-08-2013 (http://nplusonemag.com/pussy-riot-closing-statements )

TRIBUTAÇÃO III - TRIBUTUM III - TAXATION III

«Eu vi que o acordo foi muito bem recebido, não me quero juntar a esse coro de aplausos por esta razão, porque acho que do ponto de vista da justiça (...) não se deve baixar os impostos das empresas quando se pretende baixar salários e pensões, devíamos começar pelo segundo e não pelo primeiro (...) eu tenho as maiores dúvidas que esse acordo tenha um impacto significativo na nossa economia.» José Sócrates em entrevista com a jornalista Cristina Esteves (RTP, 22-12-2012)

«Eu não acho normal por exemplo, não acho normal por exemplo [o pavão repete], que haja um acordo sobre esta matéria e que não haja acordo sobre o IRS ou sobre a redução do IVA, que não haja sobre o IVA e sobre o IRC e que não exista algo sobre o rendimento, sobre o salário mínimo». António Costa (http://sicnoticias.sapo.pt/pais/2013/12/20/antonio-costa-demarca-se-do-acordo-entre-ps-e-psd-sobre-irc)

Os senhores feudais do Partido Socialista (PS), José Sócrates (JS) e António Costa (AC) não podem minimizar o facto que acordo estabelecido entre o PS, o PSD e o CDS relativo ao Imposto sobre o Rendimento de Pessoas Colectivas (IRC) permitiu melhorar muito a alteração de taxas que estava prevista pelo PSD e CDS, com benefício para as empresas de menor dimensão. A diminuição da carga fiscal sobre as empresas, bem como sobre as famílias é fundamental. O PS ligou o IRC ao IRS e ao IVA. Consideramos demagógicas e irrealistas as posições de JS e de AC, que não sustentam a redução da carga fiscal numa profunda reforma da Sociedade Política e do Estado.

Entretanto a DGO publicou a sua «Síntese de Execução Orçamental referente a Novembro de 2013 (http://www.dgo.pt/execucaoorcamental/Paginas/Sintese-da-Execucao-Orcamental-Mensal.aspx?Ano=2013&Mes=Dezembro) e criámos os seguinres quadros:

Após os ajustamentos de situações não recorrentes de 2012 e de 2013 pode-se observar na conta consolidada da Administração Central e da Segurança Social um aumento da despesa pública corrente de 4.843 M€ (+8,1%), com a aquisição de bens e serviços a representarem 323 M€ e as despesas com o pessoal com um contributo de 1.208 M€ (+11,4%) influenciado pela reposição dos subsídios, e com as transferências a terem um aumento de 2.750 M€ (+8.8%), influenciado essencialmente pela reposição do 13.º e 14.º meses das pensões (regime geral +10,1%, CGA +15,8%), bem como de aumentos dos subsídios de desemprego e apoio ao emprego (+6,5%). São estas as consequências de não se ter realizado uma integrada e profunda reforma do Estado e da acção protectora das carreiras públicas por parte do Tribunal Constitucional (Presidente da República) extravasando largamente a sua esfera de competência (Governo+Tribunal Constitucional+Presidente da República=desastre).
Criámos outros quadros a partir do documento da DGO:
A despesa corrente na Administração local aumentou 343 M€ até Novembro de 2013 (+8,1%), com a aquisição de bens e serviços a aumentar 188 M€ (+11,7%)!!! O saldo global passou a ser negativo (-184 M€), apesar do aumento das receitas em transferências correntes (+267 M€, +14,1%), determinadas pela «Lei das Finanças Locais» (+288 M€, +19,7%, fundamentalmente por via do Fundo de Equilíbrio Financeiro de +268 M€, +27,5%, mas também pela participação no IRS de +20 M€, +5,8%), que compensaram a quebra de receitas fiscais (impostos municipais, derramas) e das taxas, multas e outras penalidades (-279 M€, -12%).
A Região Autónoma da Madeira manteve o seu cacique e o seu desperdício de dinheiros públicos com aumento da despesa primária em 967 M€ por via das despesas de capital, que determinaram um défice de -795 M€, apesar do forte aumento dos impostos directos (+124 M€, +62,8%) e das transferências do Estado (+63 M€, +48,9%).
Saliente-se pela negativa ainda, o aumento da dívida a fornecedores de bens e serviços por parte da Administração Central em 119 M€, duplicando o total da dívida não remunerada de 328 M€ no final de 2012 para 598 M€ no final de Novembro de 2013 (+271 M€). Com a redução das dívidas regionais e locais, a dívida total passou de 5.413 M€ para 4.453 M€.
Referência ainda para o aumento de pensionistas públicos de 592.502 em 31 de Janeiro de 2012 para 612.334 em 30 de Novembro de 2013 e da quebra de subscritores de 556.738 para 511.640. Como afirmam as pessoas mais isentas das quais salientámos aqui Vital Moreira e na linha do que já tinhamos afirmado, existe um grande desfasamento entre as gerações beneficiárias dos oportunismos «revolucionários e integracionistas europeus» de cerca de 35 anos (1974-2009), sem mérito e com forte endividamento, e as outras gerações que não vão usufruir das mesmas condições e que vão ter de pagar a dívida acumulada, que tem incluída parte dessas pensões com sobre emprego e sobrevalorização de carreiras, artificialmente empoladas por via política numa total leviandade em relação aos interesses da Nação!  

  

PODER - POTESTATEM - POWER

The football game give to us an image of power in human societies
A Romanian team of referee:
Carmen NeaguGabrielei DananaeMonica Rigo

Yolanda Parga Rodriguez, women football assistant referee (Spain) 

Gyoengyi Gaal, women football referee (Hungary)

The referee have to much power, decide all without any control along the play. Her (him) report is absolutist despite all errors. She (he) could lost her (him) career but the manipulator still without penalty ... perhaps with women, referee could be a respected person in the football game, with support of audiovisual means ...

 
Cristina Cini, men and women football assistant referee  (Italy)
The assistant referee can´t decide, only can put over pressure the wrong decision of a referee.

Quando o poder de decisão está concentrado numa só pessoa sem controlo, a arbitrariedade, os erros, as manipulações têm espaço objectivo-subjectivo, seja numa ditadura que oprime uma Nação, seja numa licença de construção, seja num simples jogo de futebol: no jogo de 21-12-2013 o avançado do Sporting marca um golo claramente regular (basta ver as imagens) e o árbitro decide que houve uma falta inexistente e por essa via se compromete a verdade desportiva.

Não foi a primeira vez nem será a última, seja qual for o clube prejudicado. Não se aplicar a divisão de poderes como a que se existe no Andebol ou Basquetebol ("mesa"), ainda por cima com todos os meios audiovisuais disponíveis,  interessa a certos grupos, mas não interessa às pessoas que pagam para ver um jogo.

A Sociedade Política e o Estado, mais uma vez, não defendem as pessoas, não regulam verdadeiramente essa situação vergonhosa. Isto no caso de um jogo sem importância, mas noutros casos tratam-se de jogos de elevada importância e que nos levaram à situação de vulnerabilidade em que Portugal se encontra!

Dividir mais os poderes, ter mais meios de controlo e de regulação são condições necessárias mas não suficientes para melhores e mais justas decisões: não basta o dever ser é fundamental a cultura, o ser das pessoas é determinante ...

A quick voyage to power dimensions:
  The lion (force) and the fox (astuteness) of Machiavel:

«In che modo i Principi debbino osservare la fede.
Quanto sia laudabile in un Principe mantenere la fede, e vivere con integrità, e non con astuzia, ciascuno lo intende. Nondimeno si vede per esperienzia, ne’ nostri tempi, quelli Principi aver fatto gran cose, che della fede hanno tenuto poco conto, e che hanno saputo con astuzia aggirare i cervelli degli uomini, ed alla fine hanno superato quelli che si sono fondati in su la lealtà. Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni di combattere: l’una con le leggi, l’altra con le forze. Quel primo è degli uomini; quel secondo è delle bestie; ma perchè il primo spesse volte non basta, bisogna ricorrere al secondo. Pertanto ad un Principe è necessario sasaper ben usare la bestia e l’uomo. Questa parte è stata insegnata a’ Principi copertamente dagli antichi scrittori, i quali scrivono come Achile e molti altri di quelli Principi antichi furono dati a nutrire a Chirone Centauro, che sotto la sua disciplina gli custodisse; il che non vuol dire altro l’avere per precettore un mezzo bestia e mezzo uomo, se non che bisogna a un Principe sapere usare l’una e l’altra natura, e l’una senza l’altra non è durabile. Essendo adunque un Principe necessitato sapere bene usare la bestia, debbe di quella pigliare la volpe e il lione; perchè il lione non si defende da’ lacci, la volpe non si defende da’ lupi. Bisogna adunque essere volpe a cognoscere i lacci, e lione a sbigottire i lupi. Coloro che stanno semplicemente in sul lione, non se ne intendono. Non può pertanto un Signore prudente, nè debbe osservare la fede, quando tale osservanzia gli torni contro, e che sono spente le cagioni che la feciono promettere. E se gli uomini fussero tutti buoni, questo precetto non saria buono; ma perchè sono tristi, e non l’osserverebbono a te, tu ancora non l’hai da osservare a loro. Nè mai a un Principe mancheranno cagioni legittime di colorare l’inosservanza.» Niccolò Machiavelli - «Il Principe» (1513) http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII
Force and consensus by Gramsci:

«Altro punto da fissare e da svolgere è quello della «doppia prospettiva» nell’azione politica e nella vita statale. Vari gradi in cui può presentarsi la doppia prospettiva, dai più elementari ai più complessi, ma che possono ridursi teoricamente a due gradi fondamentali, corrispondenti alla doppia natura del Centauro machiavellico, ferina ed umana, della forza e del consenso, dell’autorità e dell’egemonia, della violenza e della civiltà, del momento individuale e di quello universale (della «Chiesa» e dello «Stato»), dell’agitazione e della propaganda, della tattica e della strategia ecc. Alcuni hanno ridotto la teoria della «doppia prospettiva» a qualcosa di meschino e di banale, a niente altro cioè che a due forme di «immediatezza» che si succedono meccanicamente nel tempo con maggiore o minore «prossimità». Può invece avvenire che quanto più la prima «prospettiva» è «immediatissima», elementarissima, tanto più la seconda debba essere «lontana» (non nel tempo, ma come rapporto dialettico) complessa, elevata, cioè può avvenire come nella vita umana, che quanto più un individuo è costretto a difendere la propria esistenza fisica immediata, tanto più sostiene e si pone dal punto di vista di tutti i complessi e più elevati valori della civiltà e dell’umanità.» Antonio Gramsci «Notarelle sulla politica del Machiavelli - Quaderno del Carcere 13» (http://www.nilalienum.com/Gramsci/Q13.html)

Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), Dilma Rousseff and Luís Lula (Brazil): force and consensus?