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A little more than a year ago I posted here about this master cartographer, or rather, social analyst: The Geography of Prejudice indeed! Here's an update from Yanko's website. Click and go! And I want a t-shirt  :-Þ Now, Yanko did not do this one, nor do I know who created it,  but here it goes, Europe according to the Portuguese: Let's honor here those I find priceless :) Madonnaland for Malawi?

E ven though I hadn’t read a word of it, I grew up hating  Moby-Dick.  My father was an English professor at the University of Pittsburgh with a specialty in American maritime literature, and that big, battle-scarred book came to represent everything I resented about his job: all the hours he spent in his attic study, relentlessly reading and writing, more often than not with  Moby-Dick  spread out before him. Sometimes he even dared talk about the novel, inevitably in an excited, reverential tone that only exasperated me all the more. It wasn’t until my senior year in high school, when my English teacher made it clear that I had no choice in the matter, that I finally read  Moby-Dick  . I soon found myself in the worst position an adolescent male can ever know: having to admit that maybe, just maybe, his father had been right all along. The voice of Ishmael, the novel’s narrator, caught me completely by surprise. I had expected to be bored to ...

Na província angolana da Lunda­‑Norte, onde se concentram as principais áreas de exploração aluvial diamantífera, grande parte dos habitantes vive em regime de quase escravatura. São impedidos de manter actividades de auto­‑subsistência, roubados, torturados, assassinados. As forças armadas e as empresas privadas de segurança protagonizam os crimes com total impunidade. As autoridades e o governo ignoram esses crimes. Jornalista de investigação, Rafael Marques é um dos principais responsáveis por denunciar e divulgar os esquemas de corrupção que envolvem as mais altas esferas do poder em Angola, bem como as empresas e entidades estrangeiras que com ele negoceiam. «Diamantes de Sangue» é uma investigação sobre personalidades, instituições e empresas envolvidas no negócio dos diamantes e inclui o testemunho de centenas de vítimas. Rafael Marques é jornalista de profissão. Nos últimos anos tem-se dedicado à pesquisa sobre a economia política angolana, em especial sobre o sistema de co...

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I have recently seen the silliest film. I do not believe it would be possible to make one sillier. It is called “Metropolis,” it comes from the great Ufa studios in Germany, and the public is given to understand that it has been produced at enormous cost. It gives in one eddying concentration almost every possible foolishness, cliché, platitude, and muddlement about mechanical progress and progress in general, served up with a sauce of sentimentality that is all its own. It is a German film and there have been some amazingly good German films before they began to cultivate bad work under cover of a protective quota. And this film has been adapted to the Anglo-Saxon taste, and quite possibly it has suffered in the process, but even when every allowance has been made for that, there remains enough to convince an intelligent observer that most of its silliness must be fundamental. Capek's Robots have been lifted without apology, and that soulless mechanical monster of  Mary Sh...