Tom Waits - "Clap Hands"

Sane, sane, they're all insane
Fireman's blind, the conductor's lame
A Cincinnati jacket and a sad luck dame
Hanging out the window with a bottle full of rain

Clap hands, clap hands

NEBLINA \ FOG

 

Stevie Wonder - We Can Work It Out (Lennon-McCartney)

Try to see it my way
Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on
While I see it your way
Run the risk of knowing
That our love may soon be gone

We can work it out
We can work it out

 

Trump serve café e bife para a reeleição de Lula com tarifaço meia bomba

 

 

LEONARDO SAKAMOTO 

O tarifaço de Donald Trump, inspirado pelo clã Bolsonaro, aos produtos brasileiros, que veio em uma versão meia bomba com o decreto assinado nesta quarta (30), pode acabar sendo um presente para o presidente Lula.

Suco, celulose, petróleo e aviões, entre outros, ficaram de fora da sanção, o que reduz o impacto sobre empregos e empresas no Brasil. Mas café e carne serão sobretaxados em 50%. Parte da produção que não for para os EUA será absorvida por outros mercados, mas parte pelo mercado interno, o que fará com que o preço desses alimentos, atuais vilões da inflação, abaixem.

E tempo era o que o governo Lula tentava ganhar nos últimos meses após o pico inflacionário da comida ajudar a corroer a popularidade do petista. Quem acompanha esse espaço sabe que venho repetindo que, para se reeleger, ele precisará entregar picanha e cerveja, mas também arroz e feijão, a um patamar menor do que hoje. Poder de compra é qualidade de vida, e qualidade de vida é voto.

Claro que ninguém aqui está festejando essa desgraça de tarifaço, que ainda vai trazer dor de cabeça, perda de postos de trabalho, diminuição de renda, perda de divisas, além, é claro, mais declarações abjetas do bolsonarismo apoiando a traição do próprio povo para colocar a pátria (EUA), a família (a própria) e a liberdade (de Jair) acima de tudo. E medidas para compensar a perda de mercado terão que ser aplicadas pelo governo, o que pode significar grana do contribuinte.

Mas o pacote de Trump veio, por enquanto, mais suave do que se imaginava, o suficiente para o governo federal fazer do limão uma (meia) limonada. E aqui cabe a análise do impacto político.

O Tio Sam baixou o porrete no Brasil, usando Jair Bolsonaro como justificativa, mas também tentando pressionar o país a garantir condições especiais para as suas big techs e forçar a redução de tarifas. Sim, eles ganham muito conosco e querem ganhar ainda mais.

Mas abriu uma lista longa de exceções a fim de reduzir o risco de inflação para o seu consumidor e de ira por parte de empresários importadores norte-americanos. Tem gente que não quer ser vista como traidor do próprio povo, e gente que não se importa

UOL  

CONNIE FRANCIS ON TV: LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR (1959)

You said it belonged to me, made me stop and think
Then I noticed yours was red, mine was baby pink
Who walked in but mary jane, lipstick all a mess
Were you smoochin' my best friend, if the answer's yes

Lipstick on you collar told a tale on you
Lipstick on you collar said you were untrue

Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza

 

 

"When mass starvation grips a community, something rare and terrible occurs. Starvation is not only the biological phenomenon of the body wasting away. It’s also the death rattle of society. Famine is the sight of people scavenging for food in a garbage heap. It’s a woman cooking in secret, hiding food from her starving cousins. It’s a family selling its grandmother’s jewellery for a single meal, their faces blank and emotionless, their eyes glazed. This is the degradation, the humiliation, the shame – and, yes, the dehumanisation – that happens when human beings scrabble for food like animals.

This is a reality that no statistics can capture. And the methods for measuring food emergencies and assigning them grades – “famine” being the worst – break down when society breaks down in this way.

But just as an experienced physician can diagnose a fever without having to send blood samples to the laboratory, veteran humanitarian workers, who witnessed the depths of human suffering in Biafra in 1969 or in Ethiopia in 1984, recognise these symptoms when they see them.

And they see it in Gaza today."

 read report by ALEX DE WAAL 

Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal | The Guardian

The polls look bad for Trump – but tyrants don’t depend on approval ratings

 

"Trump may feel insulted, which he does most of the time; he may temporarily lose his footing. But he’s not relinquishing power without a fight.

Tyrants don’t need high approval ratings. They intimidate voters, rig elections, or stop holding them altogether; suppress protest and jail, deport or assassinate their critics"

 REaD ARTICLE BY JUFITH LEVINE >

The polls look bad for Trump – but tyrants don’t depend on approval rread artice by JUDITH LEVINE atings | Judith Levine | The Guardian

Fossil Fool - How Europe took Trump for a ride

 

 

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PAUL KRUGMAN 

Like many U.S. institutions, the European Union has abysmally failed the Trump test. The EU is an economic superpower and could have retaliated effectively against Trump’s illegal tariffs — illegal under both U.S. and international law. Instead, Europe did nothing and even made some apparent concessions.

But notice my wording: apparent concessions. The optics of the Trump-EU deal were humiliating, and optics matter. If you examine the substance, however, it starts to look as if Europe played Trump for a fool. Specifically, a fossil fool.

The EU made two sort-of pledges to Trump. First, that it would invest $600 billion in the United States. Second, that it would buy $750 billion worth of U.S. energy, mainly oil and gas, over the next three years. The first promise was empty, while the second was nonsense.

About those investments: European governments aren’t like China, which can tell companies where to put their money. And the European Commission, which made the trade deal, isn’t even a government — it can negotiate tariffs but otherwise has little power. On Sunday Politico spoke with Commission officials, who effectively confirmed that the investment pledge was meaningless:

[S]peaking Monday, two senior European Commission officials clarified that money would come exclusively from private European companies, with public investment contributing nothing.

“It is not something that the EU as a public authority can guarantee. It is something which is based on the intentions of the private companies,” said one of the senior Commission officials. The Commission has not said it will introduce any incentives to ensure the private sector meets that $600 billion target, nor given a precise timeframe for the investment.

So what the EU actually promised on investment was nothing, Nichts, rien.

The pledge to increase U.S. energy exports was a lot more specific and gave a timeframe. But it’s not going to happen. In fact, it’s going to not happen on three levels.

First, the European Commission, which can’t tell the private sector where to invest, is equally unable to tell the private sector where to buy oil and gas. How would that even work?

Second, the promised level of EU imports is probably physically impossible. Shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG), in particular, requires specialized infrastructure at both ends. On the US side, LNG terminals are already operating at capacity, while Europe’s LNG facilities are “stretched to their limits.” The EU just promised to vastly increase energy imports from America over the next three years, but it’s doubtful whether Europe could build any of the infrastructure needed before the end of that period, even with a crash investment program.

And why would anyone undertake such an investment program in a continent that is rapidly shifting toward renewable energy? As one energy analyst told the Financial Times,

European gas demand is soft and energy prices are falling. In any case, it is private companies not states that contract for energy imports. Like it or not, in Europe the windmills are winning.

Emphasis added because as everyone knows, Trump has a blind, irrational hatred for wind power.

Finally, even if Europe somehow managed to overcome the legal and physical obstacles to buying a lot more fossil fuels from America, both oil and LNG are fungible commodities traded on global markets. This means that any increase in purchases from Europe would reroute U.S. exports rather than increasing them: We’d sell more to Europe but less to, say, Japan and China.

So a big increase in U.S. energy exports driven by demand from Europe is not going to happen. But how will Europe explain its failure to follow through?

It might not have to. Back during Trump’s first term, China promised to buy a lot of U.S. agricultural goods but never did. As far as I know, Trump never made an issue of it. He got to announce a big deal, then lost interest.

And if the issue does come up, if there’s one thing officials at the European Commission are really good at — maybe better than anyone else on earth — it’s bureaucratic delay and obfuscation. Maybe at some point big, strong European men with tears in their eyes will meet with Trump and say, “Sir, we have a temporary hangup over clause #14159 of the 1986 Single European Act. But we’ll get it cleared up any day now.”

Bottom line: Whatever Trump may think, Europe is not going to provide a big boost to U.S. fossil fuel production. He won’t like that, if anyone tells him. But the rest of us should be glad. As I’ve written before, renewables are clearly the energy technology of the future. Trump and his allies are Luddites, trying to stand in the way of progress and keep us burning fossil fuels. Their “burn, baby, burn” obsession is very bad for America and the world. But at least we can be reasonably sure that Europe won’t help, um, fuel that obsession.

 

 

Charles Bradley "You Think I Don't Know (But I Know)

You think i don't know, but i know
What you're doing (What you're doing to me)
Took me a while
But now I see
What you been pushing (What you pushing on me)

 

NEBLINA | FOG

 

Ozzy Osbourne, the people’s Prince of Darkness, took heavy metal into the light

"The creation myth of Black Sabbath – and therefore of heavy metal, the genre they more or less invented singlehanded – is that it was a brilliantly canny piece of branding on the part of drummer Bill Ward: if people queued up to see horror films, why not create a rock equivalent? Black Sabbath certainly arrived fully formed – every one of the musical elements that made them legendary is perfectly in place on the eponymous opening track of their eponymous 1970 debut album – but the music they came up with in response to Ward’s idea felt organic, not calculated. Black Sabbath sounded like a product of their environment: a grim, provincial, industrial world, where the drugs associated with the hippy counterculture had arrived, but not the freedoms or opportunities enjoyed by London’s bohemian elite. And they sounded like a product of their era. If one response to the end of the 60s party was to be found in the wistful, delicate morning-after melancholy of 1970’s biggest-selling album, Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water, then Black Sabbath provided another: music that seemed as if it was lumbering angrily around with the kind of monstrous hangover that feels more like a nervous breakdown, suffused with dark thoughts, alienation, self-hatred and paranoia."

read article by ALEXIS PETRIDIS 

Ozzy Osbourne, the people’s Prince of Darkness, took heavy metal into the light | Ozzy Osbourne | The Guardian

Sorry, Dean Cain – of course Superman is woke, he fights injustice

"James Gunn’s latest Man of Steel has copped flak from some predictable quarters, but the truth is, superheroes have been subverting the powerful, sticking up for the underdogs, and punching moral cowardice since the 1930s"

read more>

Sorry, Dean Cain – of course Superman is woke, he fights injustice | Film | The Guardian

Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza

"“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, this report shows why Israel’s genocide continues: because it is lucrative for many,” the report says."

read more>

Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza, says UN rapporteur | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

PINK

 

NEBLINA | FOG

 

"Brasil virou pedra no sapato de Trump na América do Sul"

 

 "O tarifaço é o começo de um processo sistemático de agressão, que só termina quando Trump alcançar seu objetivo: instalar no Brasil um governo que sirva aos seus interesses — seja por meio de eleição, seja por golpe. Para isso, ele precisa ajudar a extrema direita brasileira a desmontar nossa democracia, neutralizar o STF e remover Lula do poder."

leia entrevista com Christian Edward Cyril Lynch
feita por Lucas Froes

"Brasil virou pedra no sapato de Trump na América do Sul" – DW – 28/07/2025

 

Um computador, um rádio, um drone e uma espingarda: como missionários estão alcançando os povos isolados na Amazônia

   

 "A principal organização missionária operando no território Javari é a Missão Novas Tribos do Brasil (MNTB), um braço da New Tribes Mission nos EUA, renomeada como Ethnos360 em 2017. Estabelecida em 1942, a organização se referia aos povos indígenas ainda não alcançados por missionários como "ouro moreno". A expressão também era utilizada no boletim informativo da organização. O orçamento anual da Ethnos360 é de cerca de US$ 80 milhões (R$ 445 milhões) . "

LEIA REPORTAGEM DE DANIEL BUIASETTO & JOHN REID  

  

Aracy de Almeida - "Cansei de Pedir" (Noel Rosa)

Já cansei de pedir
Pra você me deixar
Dizendo que não posso mais
Continuar amando
Sem querer amar
Meu Deus, estou pecando
Amando sem querer...
Me sacrificando sem você merecer!

The Eppstein Files

SPACCA

 

Pedido de investigação dos EUA contra Brasil foi criado por advogada que atuou em escritório ligado a big techs

"“Tanto a carta quanto a investigação revelam um completo desrespeito dos Estados Unidos com decisões soberanas, democráticas e legítimas de instituições brasileiras sobre plataformas e empresas de tecnologia e nos colocam nesse momento onde os Estados Unidos praticamente chantageiam o Brasil para flexibilizar ou rever essas decisões”, disse Bruna Martins dos Santos, gerente de policy e advocacy na Witness, uma organização global que atua em defesa de direitos online."

leia reportagem de

Laís Martins e Tatiana Dias

Pedido de investigação dos EUA contra Brasil foi criado por advogada que atuou em escritório ligado a big techs

Crimes contra a soberania nacional: uma reforma necessária

 

 

"Indo além, em um mundo onde big techs controlam cada vez mais a infraestrutura e os serviços digitais que usamos no cotidiano, não será surpresa se, no futuro próximo, ameaças de interrupção de fornecimento de internet em áreas remotas, e de corte de acesso a repositórios de arquivos em nuvem utilizados por órgãos públicos, a sistemas digitais de pagamento etc., forem mobilizadas para subjugar nosso país a grandes potências onde essas empresas estão sediadas —e com quem elas mantém uma relação cada vez mais simbiótica."

 

leia artigo de YURI CORREA DA LUZ

Opinião - Yuri Corrêa da Luz | Darkread

Marquis de Sade by Lalo Schifrin (in memoriam)

Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal

 "

"This industrial working-class environment fed into the sound of Osbourne’s defining musical project, Black Sabbath, whose heavy sound revolutionised British rock music. “We wanted to put how we thought about the world at the time,” the band’s bassist, Geezer Butler, said in 2017. “We didn’t want to write happy pop songs. We gave that industrial feeling to it.”

Named after a Boris Karloff horror movie, the band, also featuring Tony Iommi on guitar and Bill Ward on drums, released their self-titled debut in 1970, followed by further albums regarded as foundation stones of the heavy-metal genre. Paranoid (1970) featured the strutting anthems Iron Man and War Pigs and topped the UK album chart, while the cacophonous, psychedelic sound of Master of Reality (1971) remains a huge influence on the slower sound of doom metal."

 

read more>   

Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal, dies aged 76 | Ozzy Osbourne | The Guardian

Superman is super woke? How politics play into the new man of steel

 

 

"Superman Woke! Variations on that headline splashed across all manner of non-Daily Planet websites this week in advance of a new Superman movie reboot, specifically the comments of writer-director James Gunn, who casually characterized the character as an immigrant and, as such, telling the “story of America” in an interview. This rankled rightwingers including the former TV Superman Dean Cain, who acknowledged Superman as an immigrant but blanched at the idea of actively associating that as an American value, noting that “there have to be limits”."

read more>

 Superman is super woke? How politics play into the new man of steel | Superman | The Guardian

‘Hungry aid staff fainting’ as starvation spreads in Gaza and truce hopes fade

 "Israel says the global media is exaggerating the scale of the hunger crisis, even though aid groups and pictures coming from Gaza show clear evidence of starvation and doctors who treat malnourished children say they are unable to get enough to eat themselves."

 read more>> 

‘Hungry aid staff fainting’ as starvation spreads in Gaza and truce hopes fade | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys

 "While condemnation of Israel’s actions has increased in recent months, the media still often presents what is happening as a response to 7 October 2023, rather than looking at the broader historical context. Israel weaponized food long before 7 October. In 2008, for example, Israeli authorities calculated the minimum caloric intake necessary for Palestinians to avoid malnutrition so they could limit the amount of food into Gaza without causing a famine. For decades Israel has controlled almost every aspect of Palestinian lives and stripped them of every facet of human dignity; today, people in Gaza are not even allowed to dip their feet in the sea."

read article by ARWA MAHDAWI 

As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Massive Attack - Karmacoma

Karmacoma, jamaica' aroma