quarta-feira, 18 de outubro de 2017

Elis

Resultado de imagem para elis regina
Elis: bigger than language
Elis Regina is great. Bigger than herself. I heard yesterday: "Don't speak portuguese, but understand everything she sings."

terça-feira, 17 de outubro de 2017

Two margins

1
Brazilian artists censored. Art galleries and museums boycotted by people who do not go to art galleries and museums. A crusade of morality is led by politicians, religious and people of dubious history.

2
Flames destroy the country while politicians swap accusations of which party is most responsible for environmental chaos and deaths. The Pinhal de Leiria, one of the oldest national forests in the world, was almost completely devastated. But while the country is shocked, emotionally unstable and politically divided, a big business that enriches investors and creates unemployment and wealth concentration is about to happen.

1.1
An uncertain contingent of venezuelans, bolivians, haitians, paraguayans, and other nationalities works in a situation analogous to slavery in Brazil. They are exploited in the textile industry, crops, domestic service, prostitution and drug traffic. In addition to foreigners, thousands of brazilian rural workers live in situations analogous to slavery (abolished 11 years before the 20th century) on cattle ranches, sugar cane and other degrading services, generation after generation.

2.1
Altice is a multinational corporation from the Netherlands with business in eight countries (mobile telephony, internet and entertainment). Altice plans to take over the portuguese Media Capital, which includes the open channel TVI, radios, internet providers and video production, among other businesses. Altice already produces owns the operators MEO and Nowo.

1.2
The brazilian coup government officially abandons the alignment with the guidelines of the International Labor Organization and softens the law that penalizes slave labor. A law whose penalties are already mild: 2 to 8 years. It has now become more difficult for workers to prove they were abused. From now on, to apply the classification of slave labor, only with images of private prisons and shackles.

2.2
By acquiring open TV channels, operators and audiovisual production clusters, Altice violates all possible ethical standards, but who can stop a lobby giant? The subject is discussed at the moment in the Regulatory Entity of Social Communication.

Conclusion
The cases have in common the fact that predominant subjects in media and social networks (trending) are useless. Thus, any changes in laws for the benefit of the 1% go unnoticed.

Guerra fria