Paquetaenses

 

ZIAD IN GAZA

 
With our friends and family members living outside Gaza, we exchange long messages and detailed phone calls. However, for friends in Gaza, most of communication is limited to a word or two:

“OK?” – “Yes.”

“Updates plz.” – “We’re fine. You?”

And so on.

In a way, I feel that all we need to know is whether the other person is still alive or not.

 

 

Arab Strap // Compersion Pt.1

I have seen all the ways your shrinking body works
The successes and the failures, all its kinks and quirks
I've smelled its every scent, I've heard its every sound
Now open up your heart if there's enough to go around

Argentina se divide entre o 'louco' Milei e peronista oportunista

 

 

 

 " Eleição presidencial argentina, no próximo dia 19, em meio a mais uma crise econômica, espelha o impasse do país nos 40 anos de sua redemocratização. De um lado, o ultraliberal Javier Milei, de comportamento instável e esotérico, dado a insultos e ataques de ira após a morte de seu cão, como conta biógrafo em entrevista. De outro, o ministro Sergio Massa, que comanda uma economia com inflação de três dígitos e levanta desconfiança no próprio meio peronista."

LEIA ANALISE DE SYLVIA COLOMBO

 

Os reinos perdidos da África

 

 

"Não é de hoje que uma vasta parcela do pensamento ocidental trata a África como se ela existisse fora da história e do progresso, incluindo-se aí  tanto pensadores do maior prestígio quanto o entretenimento oferecido a várias gerações de crianças. Desenhos da Disney mostram entusiasmados canibais africanos seminus cozinhando as suas vítimas em caldeirões suspensos sobre enormes fogueiras.  

Pode ser um fato ainda pouco conhecido, mas, ao contrário do que virou rotina afirmar, nunca faltaram civilizações na África, e o continente jamais se manteve alheio aos fatos da história mundial. Excelentes livros reforçam essa noção com profundidade acadêmica, mas em termos acessíveis, e felizmente tornam bem mais complexa a nossa compreensão do passado e do presente da África."

leia resenha de Howard French

Quatro Cinco Um: a revista dos livros:

 

ZIAD IN GAZA

 

The youngest child (not grandchild) is 16 years younger than his oldest brother (the father of the three kids). He is a very nice kid. When we first arrived, he heard me talking about reading and started asking me about the books I love to read and whether I could recommend some writers to him.

 

Earlier today, I noticed that he was anxious and was fully dressed. Usually, in times like these, women wear praying clothes because they are easier to move in, and men stay in their pyjamas. His middle brother was dressed up, too. I asked where they were going and he said: “His school friend is at the hospital. His parents and one of his sisters are dead. My brother is terrified, and he wants to visit his friend.”

 

When they come back, hours later, the teenager comes and sits quietly in the room. My sister and I try to open a conversation and ask how his friend is feeling. He says: “He is doing very well. He has several wounds but the doctor says that everything will be OK.” I want him to express his feelings, so I share with him that he looks worried. He says: “There is something. He does not know that his parents and sister are dead. The doctor asked us not to share the news with him in order for his medical state not to worsen.”

 

 

Roberto Carlos - Negro Gato

Eu sou um negro gato de arrepiar
E essa minha vida é mesmo de amargar
Só mesmo de um telhado aos outros desacato
Eu sou um Negro Gato! Eu sou um Negro Gato!

Antonio Vivaldi - Nulla in mundo pax sincera (RV 630) -

Bowen: Ceasefire demands will grow without proof of Hamas HQ at Al-Shifa

 

 "Anything that Israel does there, in a place that has experienced huge levels of killing and destruction, will see them having to deal with more than two million people who will hate them. They could possibly face an insurgency, depending on how long they stay. "

read analysis by Jeremy Bowen 

Bowen: Ceasefire demands will grow without proof of Hamas HQ at Al-Shifa - BBC News

‘BBC Verify’ displays its analysis refuting Israeli claims against Al-Shifa hospital

 

 

"Having raided Al-Shifa Hospital almost 3 days ago, the Israeli forces seem to lack evidence supporting their claims against Al-Shifa Hospital. Throughout the ongoing war, Israel Justified their attacks on the hospitals, especially Al-Shifa, with the claim they were command centres for Hamas. In this video, ‘BBC Verify’ analyses the Israeli footage and that of the BBC and concludes that ‘Israel is either lacking evidence or not sharing it.’"

‘BBC Verify’ displays its analysis refuting Israeli claims against Al-Shifa hospital – Middle East Monitor:

ZIAD IN GAZA

 
I read the messages from Rola and Ayham, two of my friends abroad. If I miss a text, they panic. I keep reminding them that we don’t have access to the internet all the time.

Sometimes, they send me audio messages crying, telling me that they feel useless for not being able to take me out of this situation; sometimes they send me jokes and hopeful notes. One time, they started sending messages, back to back, about what we will do together when all of this is over.

Ayham: “We will travel together. I will take you to Italy.”

Rola: “I will invite you to our house to eat my mother’s delicious food.”

Ayham: “We will go bowling, and just like the last time, I will win.”

Rola: “We will go together to all the bookshops in the world.”

I read their messages, smiling and crying. I prepare for another dark night.

 

 

Paquetaenses

 

Bob Dylan - I Contain Multitudes

Got a tell-tale heart like Mr. Poe

Got skeletons in the walls of people you know
I’ll drink to the truth and the things we said
I’ll drink to the man that shares your bed
I paint landscapes, and I paint nudes
I contain multitudes

Polícia Civil da Bahia diz que chefe do tráfico de drogas ordenou morte de Mãe Bernadete

 

 

"Alisson, fiquei sabendo aqui dentro do quilombo que Bernadete falou que no dia da festa vai cercar tudo de polícia, vai pegar todo mundo aí. Ela tá mandando um carro preto aí cheio de polícia pra tirar fotos das barracas. Tudo é policial civil, diz que vai pegar vocês tudo de surpresa. Ela disse que vai dar risada quando todo mundo estiver na cadeia. Você fique ligado aí, ó

leia reportagem de Natally Acioli, Eric Luis Carvalho, Eder Luis Santana

Polícia Civil da Bahia diz que chefe do tráfico de drogas ordenou morte de Mãe Bernadete | Bahia | G1:

ZIAD IN GAZA

Someone says: “It is better that your mother did not witness these horrible days we are going through.” I believe this. I am grateful that my mother did not have to go through another escalation, to feel the fear and to be evacuated from her home.

My mother’s safety used to be my big worry. She was an elderly, overweight woman who could barely walk. One time there was bombing and everyone in the building evacuated, but we used to live on the fourth floor so there was no time to go down the stairs at her pace. I remember her, sitting on her couch, with me covering her body with mine, telling her that she will be safe.

Is my mother safe now? In the past, a graveyard in Gaza was bombed. Will the graveyard where my mother is buried be bombed? Will I be able to go and cover her grave with my body and tell her she will be safe?

I miss my mother a lot.

 

Nunca É Tarde - Elizeth Cardoso

Há tantas coisas guardadas Recordações tão marcadas Há entre as brasas dormidas Chamas de amor escondidas Vamos viver outra vez Nossas vidas Queixas são cinzas E ficam esquecidas

VEM VERÃO

MONTANARO 

 

 

 

KLEBER ]

 

 

JORGE O MAU 

 

 

Ventos Do Norte - LUCIANA SOUZA & TRIO CORRENTE

É como se eu tivesse
Toda a força de uma prece a me rodear

Paquetaenses

 

ZIAD IN GAZA

 

ZIAD IN GAZA

Every inch of my body aches, but I am irritated. I have this urge to scream yet I am too exhausted.

“Would you like to shower?” my friend asks me.

Oh my God! I haven’t showered in four days. Another reason I’m irritated. Usually, when you go to other people’s homes for refuge, taking a shower is off the table. It is enough that they are hosting you, feeding you and keeping you “safe”.

The second family we are staying with is an extended one. One lot lives on the second floor, where we are, and the others on the fifth. We all gather on the second floor at night because it is easier to flee if we have to, and – I’m never sure if this is accurate or not – it’s supposedly safer than upstairs.

The bombing has broken the bathroom on the second floor. So I need to shower on the fifth floor. The others are worried – taking a shower at night could be risky.

They all looked at me while I gathered my stuff as if I was an astronaut preparing his equipment to go to outer space (in my case it was boxers, undershirt and a shirt – I wasn’t going to change my shorts because I have only one pair with me). I had lots of advice.

“Stay close to the stairs and avoid the windows.”

“Do it fast, no more than five minutes.”

“Keep your clothes next to you so you can grab them fast if a bombing happens.”

I was less afraid and more excited; a shower!

I took my shower very quickly, dried my body with the towel that smelled of coconut freshener. After finishing, I vowed that I would never, ever buy a coconut freshener so I wouldn’t remember these days.

I go down, feeling better, and despite all the chaos around, I lay my body over a couch and sleep for a couple of hours … it was great.

 

 

 

O genocídio palestino, a mídia e o papagaio

JOTA CAMELO 

 

GILMAR  

 

 

 

CAU GOMEZ  

 

 

Eve - Love Is Blind ft. Faith Evans

Love is blind, and it will take over your mind
What you think is love, is truly not
You need to elevate and find

Édith Piaf’s voice re-created using AI so she can narrate own biopic

 

  "julie Veille, director of French documentaries on Diana Ross, Sting and Stevie Wonder, conceived it. “When creating the film, we kept asking ourselves, ‘If Édith were still with us, what messages would she want to convey to the younger generations?’”, she said in a statement. “Her story is one of incredible resilience, of overcoming struggles and defying social norms to achieve greatness – and is as relevant now as it was then. Our goal is to utilise the latest advancements in animation and technology to bring the timeless story to audiences of all ages.”"

READ MORE>>

Édith Piaf’s voice re-created using AI so she can narrate own biopic | Édith Piaf | The Guardian

ZIAD IN GAZA

 

Our friends are a family of nine – husband, wife, six children and the grandmother. They are sleep-deprived, you can see how tired and afraid they all are. They welcomed us with weak smiles. They offer us coffee and cookies stuffed with dates.

 

We all sit there, coffee and sweets untouched, and face the long night ahead.

The mother calls her brother, who lives on our street, where we had just evacuated from. He is heading to another sibling’s house for refuge. She worries that he and his family haven’t arrived there yet, she asks him to call her the minute they do.

 

Sitting between her youngest children, a boy of four and a girl of six, I wonder about the sad life ahead of them, the many escalations they will witness – if they are lucky enough to survive this one. I ask her: “How are your children doing?”

 

“They are coping well and they don’t feel afraid when there is bombing, especially Nour.” She says the word especially in a way that I could tell she wasn’t being honest. She asks the children to go inside and then she tells me, in a lowered voice, that her daughter is terrified.

 

The bombs start; evacuating our block means that we are out of the extreme danger of a targeted area, it does not mean that we are safe.

 

With the first airstrike the building shakes, the pressure outside is so strong that wind pushes out the curtains. Nour starts screaming, she goes to her mother and holds tight. A series of strikes follow and all of us sit holding on tight to our seats, flinching with every hit. The mother is patting Nour’s shoulder, saying: “Everything is going to be OK.”

 

Once the bombs stop, she asks her middle daughter to take the children and prepare sandwiches for them. When they disappear, she says: “I am so worried about her, she is very afraid.”

 

I tell her that I think expressing fear is the healthy thing. The fact that the rest of us, including the four-year-old, remained silent, is unhealthy and shows our trauma. The other children are focused on their phones, checking on their friends.

 

A couple of hours later, the eldest son comes and says that his uncle’s building, the one who lives near to us, was destroyed. We are in shock. The mother starts calling friends of her brother to find out if he knows or not. She starts crying, while asking them to support him and never leave him alone. She speaks about how hard he worked to buy his apartment and on renovating it.

 

I feel extremely sorry for his loss and terrified that my building is next. Her husband and the children are sitting around her, all quiet. Then I see Nour pat her mother’s shoulder and tell her: “Everything is going to be OK Mama, everything is going to be OK.”

  

 

Desoriente Médio

DANIEL LAFAYETTE

 

CAU GOMEZ  

 

 

 

AROEIRA  

 

 

 

Edu Lobo, Monica Salmaso & Cristovao Bastos - Beatriz (Edu Lobo / Chico Buarque)

Será que ela é moça

Será que ela é triste

Será que é o contrário

Será que é pintura

O rosto da atriz

Se ela dança no sétimo céu

Se ela acredita que é outro país

E se ela só decora o seu papel

E se eu pudesse entrar na sua vida

Lucy Dacus - "Hot & Heavy"

Being back here makes me hot in the face

Hot blood in my pulsing veins

Heavy memories weighing on my brain

Hot and heavy in the basement of your parents' place

You used to be so sweet

Now you're a firecracker on a crowded street

Couldn't look away even if I wanted

Try to walk away but I come back to the start

Moçad

JOTA CAMELO

 

The whole point of Star Wars

 Jeffrey St. Clair :

+ James Cameron: “In Star Wars the good guys are the rebels, they’re using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire, I think we call those guys terrorists today.”

George Lucas: “When I did it they were Vietcong. That was the whole point.”

ZIAD IN GAZA

 

A message from a friend abroad asking if I had enough sleep. I tell her that the bombing keeps us awake. She says how sorry she is, and then shares an idea. I am 100% sure she thinks it is helpful. “Why don’t you wear earpieces? You can sleep then.”

People sympathise, but they cannot relate to what you are going through. My friend does not understand that bombing is not about the noises, it is about the possibility of sudden death. Without saying goodbye to our loved ones, before completing the projects we started, before hugging those we care about and asking for their forgiveness. She knows, but definitely doesn’t realise, the severity of the situation. I choose not to respond to the text.

 

Um terrorista no Brasil

 

"Vocês lembram do caso do professor Adlène Hicheur? Ele é um renomado físico de partículas argelino que atuou como pesquisador no CERN. Em 2013, ele veio pro Brasil e passou a lecionar na UFRJ. Até ter sua carreira destruída por uma matéria da revista Época, da Editora Globo"

Thread by @historia_pensar on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

 

The Cure - Lullaby

On candy stripe legs the spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed

Under bombardment, Gaza medics fight to save patients with no power, water or food

 

 "Inside a darkened operating theatre in Gaza’s largest hospital complex, staff swaddled dozens of tiny premature babies seven or eight to a bed, in a desperate effort to keep the infants warm – and alive.

With no oxygen supplies or power for incubators, nurses attempted to provide what care they could for 39 babies who were transferred from the neonatal unit in another part of the sprawling complex after a strike on Dar al-Shifa’s intensive care unit.

Just getting them to the theatre was a potentially deadly mission after staff reported attacks on anyone moving inside the hospital compound.

Thirty-nine infants managed to survive the transfer, but their conditions worsened over the weekend. “We lost the life of one baby today. Yesterday we lost two and I am afraid that all of the babies will lose their lives,” said Abu Sada."

morE in the report by RUTH MICHAELSON

Under bombardment, Gaza medics fight to save patients with no power, water or food | Israel-Hamas war | The Guardian

‘I could never dream such a nightmare’: Gaza in grip of humanitarian disaster

 

 

 ""“It is a terrible, terrible situation. There is no room even to sleep on the floor. There is one toilet for 700 or 800 people. No bread, no stoves for cooking. We are drinking irrigation water,”

read report by Jason Burke"

‘I could never dream such a nightmare’: Gaza in grip of humanitarian disaster | Israel-Hamas war | The Guardian

ian & lunga

 

Hank Mobley - Soul Station

Comerciante em SP, motorista de aplicativo e rosto grafitado pelo artista Kobra: quem são os repatriados de Gaza

 

 

"Algumas famílias viveram no Brasil por alguns anos. É o caso de Ahmad El Ajrami, que trabalhou como motorista de aplicativo e atendente de papelaria no Mato Grosso. No grupo também há um rosto conhecido na cidade de São Paulo grafitado pelo artista Kobra em um mural em frente ao Museu do Imigrante, na Zona Leste: a palestina Noura Bader, que teve filho no Brasil. "

confira a reportagem de ISABELA LEITE

Comerciante em SP, motorista de aplicativo e rosto grafitado pelo artista Kobra: quem são os repatriados de Gaza | Mundo | G1:

Derretimento de geleiras da Groenlândia é risco 'dramático' para o planeta, aponta estudo

 

 

 "Cientistas acreditavam que as geleiras do norte da Groenlândia estavam estáveis, mas um novo estudo, publicado nesta terça-feira, mostrou que as plataformas de gelo da região perderam mais de um terço do seu volume, nos últimos 50 anos. A área tem gelo suficiente para elevar o nível do mar em mais de dois metros.

O derretimento do gelo por baixo também pode “desempenhar um papel complexo e crucial no afinamento da plataforma". Quando a camada se torna muito fina, a estrutura fica mais propensa a sofrer um fraturamento.

"Isto torna-os extremamente vulneráveis ​​ao recuo instável e ao colapso da plataforma de gelo. Se a força térmica oceânica continuar a aumentar, o que provavelmente será o caso no próximo século, as consequências em termos de aumento do nível do mar serão dramáticas","

 

LEIA MAIS CLICANDO AQUI

 

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What I Believe as Historian of Genocide

  

"It is clear that the daily violence being unleashed on Gaza is both unbearable and untenable. Since the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas — itself a war crime and a crime against humanity — Israel’s military air and ground assault on Gaza has killed more than 10,500 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, a number that includes thousands of children. That’s well over five times as many people as the more than 1,400 people in Israel murdered by Hamas. In justifying the assault, Israeli leaders and generals have made terrifying pronouncements that indicate a genocidal intent.

Still, the collective horror of what we are watching does not mean that a genocide, according to the international legal definition of the term, is already underway. Because genocide, sometimes called “the crime of all crimes,” is perceived by many to be the most extreme of all crimes, there is often an impulse to describe any instance of mass murder and massacre as genocide. But this urge to label all atrocious events as genocide tends to obfuscate reality rather than explain it."

 mor in the post by Omer Bartov

What I Believe as Historian of Genocide | Thinkers' Forum USA

Pedro Luís, Yuri Queiroga - Miséria S.A.

Senhoras e senhores estamos aqui
Pedindo uma ajuda por necessidade
Pois tenho irmão doente em casa
Qualquer trocadinho é bem recebido

Vou agradecendo antes de mais nada
Aqueles que não puderem contribuir
Deixamos também o nosso muito obrigado
Pela boa vontade e atenção dispensada
Vou agradecendo antes de mais nada

Charbel Kassab - Summertime Rag