Próximo destino em carteira depois da aventura deste ano: Gwlad yr Iâ (Welsh), Ijsland (Dutch), Innis Tìle (Scots Gaelic), an Íoslainn (Irish), Island (Czech, Danish, Estonian, German, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish), Island - איסלאַנד (Yiddish), Islanda (Italian, Maltese, Romansh), Islande (French), Islandë (Albanian), Islandia (Bahasa Indonesia, Basque, Latin, Polish, Spanish), Islàndia (Catalan), Islandija - Иcлaндия (Russian), Islandhía - Ισλανδία (Greek), Islândia (Portuguese), Islandija (Lithuanian), Islandska (Lower Sorbian), Islanti (Finnish), Izland (Hungarian), İzlanda (Turkish)

David Icke, o caça-reptilóides

Icke returned to the limelight in the late 1990s with a book, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World. In it he claimed to have discovered that the world was being run by a New World Order, controlled by a race of reptilian humanoids or reptiloid aliens (he does not state what exactly they are, only giving possible explanations

"My own resaerch [sic] suggests that it is from another dimension, the lower fourth dimension, that the reptilian control and manipulation is primarily orchestrated. ...
Other people know this as the lower astral dimension, the legendary home of demons and malevolent antities [sic] in their black magic rituals.... ").
According to Icke, their 'hybrid reptilian-human DNA' allows some of these aliens to change from reptilian to human form if they can consume human blood, and he has even drawn parallels with the 1980s science fiction series V, in which Earth is taken over by reptiloid aliens disguised as humans.

Michael Barkun, in his 2003 study of conspiracy theory subculture, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, writes that Icke is "the most fluent of conspiracy authors, which gives his writings a clarity rarely found in the genre."

The group, known as the Babylonian Brotherhood, implicates practically every world leader from Britain's late Queen Mother to Bill Clinton as either a reptilian, or working for them (he suggests that they are slave-like victims of multiple personality disorder).

"The Rothschilds, Rockefellers, the British royal family, and the ruling political and economic families of the US and the rest of the world come from these SAME bloodlines.
...
It is not because of snobbery, it is to hold as best they can a genetic structure - the reptilian-mammalian DNA combination which allows them to "shape-shift".
You will also see references on the site to "shape-shifting", the phenomena in which witnesses have reported seeing people (most often those in positions of power), transform before their eyes, from a human form to a reptilian one and then back again.
...
Former US president, President George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting."
The evidence for this is often considered absurd by non-adherents; for instance, his apparent claim that the car-rental company Avis is a front for the Brotherhood because Avis spelled backwards is Siva, a member of the Hindu pantheon. However, his supporters tend to concentrate on the volume of other evidence he presents, such as the recurrence of the reptilian archetype in myths worldwide.

For example, the Ancient Sumerians worshipped apparently reptilian gods called the Anunnaki, and the Ancient Maya of Mexico claim that all their knowledge of the heavens came from their god of wisdom and astrology, Kukulcan, sometimes depicted in Maya art as a reptilian humanoid with a crest of feathers on his head (this god later became the Aztec god, the Plumed Serpent, Quetzalcoatl). The ancient Egyptians believed that the sun was swallowed by a snake in the evening and traveled through its bowels at night to return the next morning. Dragons played significant roles in both European and Asian culture. Judeo-Christian religion contains the concept of the 'serpent' introducing an innocent Adam and Eve to original sin and causing their fall from Paradise, and snake handling is part of some Christian sects' worship.

Icke links all of his data, both from mainstream sources, and from speculation, together into a set of grand conspiracy theories. The sheer volume of his writings, and the interconnectedness of his ideas, are enough to convince many of his supporters that "something must be going on". They regard skeptics as being either ill-informed or as stooges of the conspiracy.

He has since published a number of additional books following this theme at various levels of detail, the first being too large to be read by most casual readers. His latest work continues in this thread, an attempt to explain the September 11, 2001 attacks as being a part of this reptile-led conspiracy, with the reptiloid George W. Bush playing the key role.

Reno/Portman/Besson

Léon

Vermeer, "A Lição de Música"

Dust in the wind.

(Saggitarius star cloud)

Thanks for all you've done
I've missed you for so long
I can't believe you're gone
You still live in me
I feel you in the wind
You guide me constantly

I've never knew what it was to be alone, no
Cause you were always there for me
You were always home waiting
And now I come home and I miss your face so
Smiling down on me
I close my eyes to see

And I know, you're a part of me
And it's your song that sets me free
I sing it while I feel I can't hold on
I sing tonight cause it comforts me

I carry the things that remind me of you
In loving memory of
The one that was so true
You were as kind as you could be
And even though you're gone
You still mean the world to me

I've never knew what it was to be alone, no
Cause you were always there for me
You were always home waiting
But now I come home and it's not the same, no
It feels empty and alone
I can't believe you're gone

And I know, you're a part of me
And it's your song that sets me free
I sing it while I feel I can't hold on
I sing tonight cause it comforts me

I'm glad he set you free from sorrow
I'll still love you more tomorrow
And you will be here with me still

All you did you did with feeling
And You always found the meaning
And you always will
And you always will
And you always will

And I know, you're a part of me
And it's your song that sets me free
I sing it while I feel I can't hold on
I sing tonight cause it comforts me

- Alter Bridge

Mark Tremonti

Forgetfulness

Forgetfulness is like a song
That, freed from beat and measure, wanders.
Forgetfulness is like a bird whose wings are reconciled,
Outspread and motionless, --
A bird that coasts the wind unwearyingly.

Forgetfulness is rain at night,
Or an old house in a forest, -- or a child.
Forgetfulness is white, -- white as a blasted tree,
And it may stun the sybil into prophecy,
Or bury the Gods.

I can remember much forgetfulness.

- Hart Crane

Sétima Instância, Livro Segundo

João César das Neves,

a prova acabada em como devemos separar os diversos aspectos de um indivíduo.


- Qual é critério que utiliza para comprar os livros para os seus filhos?

Conversamos muito...neste momento há muitos livros que nós já lemos quando tínhamos a idade deles e que é importante eles lerem. Também conversamos muito com eles sobre os temas que lhes interessam. Às vezes vamos lendo os livros que eles querem ler para ver se são boas escolhas, para depois conversámos com eles. Tem que ser muito da decisão deles, não podemos ser nós a impor...

- Respeita o interesse deles, é isso?

Tem que ser muito do interesse deles, mas não podemos deixá-los à solta a ler “qualquer coisa”.

- Concorda que a quantidade de livros publicados, dificulta um bocadinho a escolha dos pais?

Sim. Isso implica que haja muito trabalho e acompanhamento da parte dos pais. Por isso é que uma iniciativa como a vossa é importante, até para os pais saberem o que vai aparecendo. Falando de coisas concretas. Por exemplo, «O senhor dos anéis» e o «Harry Potter» são livros que todos os miúdos andam a ler. Mas são duas realidades diferentes. «O senhor dos anéis» é uma obra clássica da literatura, aí não temos problemas nenhuns; já o «Harry Potter» quando apareceu tivemos que fazer algum trabalho para ver como é que aquilo era. No final das leituras tivemos que conversar com eles, já que claramente este é um livro mais comercial, com muito menos interesse cultural. Há uma grande atracção, proibir não dá o melhor resultado , mas tem que se acompanhar.


- Essencialmente defende um trabalho de acompanhamento que os pais devem fazer às leituras dos mais novos?

Sim, tem que ser com muito acompanhamento. Depois de vez em quando falamos de assuntos, sugerimos este ou outro livro que seja assim mais engraçado. Oferecemos os livros dos Santos patronímicos deles. Para lerem as vidas dos santos...às vezes tentamos puxá-los para outros tipos de leituras. Mas também não podemos estar muito pressionados com isso. E depois é preciso saber ceder porque os jogos de computador e a televisão são muito atraentes e resistir nessas coisas é capaz de não ser lá muito boa ideia. Tem que ser mais pelo exemplo do que pela proibição.

- Tem preocupações sociais na sua forma de ver o mundo?

Se tenho uma preocupação é a de olhar o mundo à nossa volta de maneira diferente. Da maneira como Cristo olha, e que é essencialmente isto: mudar o assunto do mundo. Nós hoje somos muito chamados a fazer aquilo que o mundo faz, mas de maneira diferente. Mas não é essa a nossa função! Nós não somos iguais aos outros nem melhores. Não! Nós somos outra coisa, nós pertencemos a um “Homem Novo”. Não é fazer aquilo que o mundo quer que a gente faça, (também é, claro!), mas antes pensar essencialmente num outro mundo. Estamos aqui mas não somos daqui! É isso que eu tento basicamente apresentar quando escrevo: formas de olhar para o mundo que façam ver aquela face que o dia-a-dia não permite contemplar! E depois não é para fazermos coisas diferentes. É para continuarmos a andar nos autocarros como toda a gente, almoçar como os outros, e trabalhar como todas as pessoas...




Holy fuck.

2, 6

Newt Gingrich is Chairman of the Gingrich Group, a communications and consulting firm that specializes in transformational change, with offices in Atlanta and Washington, DC. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and is an Honorary Chairman of the NanoBusiness Alliance. Newt is also a news and political analyst for the Fox News Channel.

Newt Gingrich is a leading advocate of increased Federal funding for basic science research. In 2001, he was the recipient of the Science Coalition's first Science Pioneer award, given to him for his outstanding contributions to educating the public about science and its benefits to society.



Este deixo à vossa boa vontade. Creepy as they come. De fugir. Horrivelmente viável entre nós.

2.5 TDi 24v

John Wayne Bobbit.

Porra, "John Wayne", like the fuckin' Duke. Marion, that is.

Este gajo teve o xoriço arrancado à má-fila pela esposa, chacal fêmea, criatura ululante. Não obstante, ganhou uns trocos numa pornocena em que fazia papel de si próprio, go figure.

Immediate section 8.

2.4

Graciano Saga (first right-to-left).

Go go Danbury United go!

O que torna Portugal uma Nação Global. Um globo nacional. A cena mundial.

Muhaha!

2.3

Suleiman Abu Ghaith. Autoexplicativo!!!

LOVERS

Oh miserable patrons of the concert hall,
I watch you as you listen to a piano piece
Ostensibly playing it on the arms of your seat
With fingers twisted, aching and arthritic,
Aping, poor wretches, the distinguished soloist
On stage or, further back, the famous composer,
Ostensibly playing the tune, beating the rhythm
Conducting it for all the world with head or foot.

Truth to tell, what frustrated composers or soloists we all are;
And indeed what frustrated lovers
– In spite of all the loves we may have known – ;
Frustrated yes, but not resigned, playing as we do
Into our ripe old age on the arms of our seat
Or even on the wood of our last bed, the same old tune
Like an answer to a dream long unfulfilled
And on matter that fails to respond to our fingers.

- Nikos Fokas

Cromo 2, II Série

João Cravinho

Este homem pronunciou um dia a seguinte enormidade (a propósito da detecção de uma turista alemã supostamente carregadinha de Ebola, num vôo da Lufthansa com escala em Portugal):

"Portugal é um país do 1º Mundo, essas coisas não constituem ameaça directa para nós."

Imagino a carga viral toda a encolher-se de medo, os RNAzinhos a sussurrar uns para os outros, "pá, bute, aqui não, bora comer antes uns kiribatenses que estes aqui são do 1º mundo".

Hoje li um gajo qualquer, p'raí com carta há 4 ou 5 anos, que se mostrava indignado por não poder ir sossegado a 160 no AX dele, porque tinha um monovolume a cheirar-lhe a traseira. Alguém lhe há-de explicar que travar, bater, curvar, guinar, reagir, e até ver, ouvir e cheirar para quem conduz um monovolume novo, não é a mesma coisa que para quem se deixa levar num AX. E que 15 ou 20 anos de carta não são 4 ou 5. E ainda que a estupidez sai cara.

História da Medicina Legal pelo magnífico JE Pinto da Costa.

Primus inter Pares

By popular demand, a caderneta da Caverna segue para a segunda época!



Sun Myung Moon (born January 6, 1920)

is the founder of the Unification Church (established on May 1, 1954, in Seoul, South Korea). With his wife Hak Ja Han, he is co-leader of the Unification Movement.

Moon's followers see him as a new Messiah, the second coming of Christ, commissioned by Jesus to complete the divine mission of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth. Opponents regard him as a cult leader convicted of tax crimes.

In 2003, Rev. Moon announced that the representatives of the five major religions — as well as several dozen dead U.S. presidents communicating from the Spirit World — declared him to be "the savior and messiah of humanity".

In March 2004, at an awards banquet attended by US congressmen, a top Moon aide called Mr. and Mrs. Moon "the King and the Queen of Peace!"


E dizia o animal:

"In the final fulfillment of human history, therefore, God's work of restoration is the restoration of True Parents first, liberating humanity from its orphan status. Today this is the central dispensational work of God — to bestow True Parents upon mankind, to create the original family of man centering on God and true love."

Eh cum caraças!!! Muhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

O 12º Cromo

General Idi Amin Dada Oumee (May 17, 1928? - August 16, 2003) was the military dictator of Uganda from January 25, 1971, to April 13, 1979.

Idi Amin was born in the Kakwa tribe, near Koboko in the West Nile Arua district. The year is not known, due to a lack of birth records (sources suggest anything from 1923 to 1928). Some sources suggest he may have celebrated his birthday on January 1. He was brought up by his mother, who was thought to be a witch doctor, and received little formal education.

Amin took tribalism, a long-standing problem in Uganda, to its extreme by ordering the persecution of Acholi, Lango, and other tribes. There are reports of the tortures and murders of 100,000 to 300,000 Ugandans during Amin's presidency.

Amin fled to exile, first in Libya, where sources are divided on whether he remained until December 1979, or 1989, before finding final asylum in Saudi Arabia. He opened a bank account in Jeddah in 1979, and resided there with his four wives until his death, subsisting on a government stipend. The new Ugandan government chose to keep him exiled, saying that Amin would face war crimes charges if he ever returned.

On July 20, 2003, his favorite wife reported that he was near death in a coma at the King Faisal specialist hospital in Jeddah. She pleaded with Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni that he might return to die in Uganda. The reply was that if he returned, he would have to "answer for his sins". Idi Amin died in Saudi Arabia on August 16, 2003, and was buried in Jeddah.

On August 17, 2003 David Owen told an interviewer for BBC Radio 4 that while he was British Foreign Secretary (1977-1979) he had suggested to have Amin assassinated to end his regime of terror. His idea was directly rejected. Owen said "Amin's regime was the worst of all. It's a shame that we allowed him to keep in power for so long".

Sigam os cromos, tomo XI

Tomás de Torquemada

entra en la Historia por haber sido el primer Inquisidor General del Tribunal del Santo Oficio y el que puso a la firma de los Reyes Católicos el decreto de expulsión de los judíos, pero no sabemos bien quién fue. Las referencias sobre su vida provienen de la crónica de los dominicos que Fray Juan de la Cruz escribió en 1567 y cuya credibilidad es limitada. Como a casi toda persona conocida del siglo XV, se le atribuye linaje judaico pero no sabemos si el regidor Don Pedro Fernández de Torquemada o su señora Doña Mencía Ortega, sus padres, eran cristianos nuevos. Hay tanto empeño en afirmarlo hoy como en borrarlo ayer. Y de linaje converso encontramos personajes con tanta variedad de conductas como en el resto de la sociedad española de la época. El origen no hace la trayectoria.

Torquemada, hombre de religión más que fe, es en realidad un producto típico de la endiablada sociedad española de la segunda mitad del siglo XV. Pero por muy decidido que fuese, nunca resultó decisivo, aunque a veces pareciera decisorio. Desde el nacimiento, en 1420, hasta la muerte en el convento abulense de Santo Tomás, en 1498 -otro aniversario para el zurrón noventayochista: quinientos años de la muerte de Torquemada-, su vida se parece a la de muchos hombres de aquella Castilla con tanta fuerza en su gente como indefinición en sus caminos. Isabel la Católica es el imán de los cambios y realizaciones trascendentales de ese final del Cuatrocientos y no es casualidad que Torquemada sea uno de los tres confesores importantes de su vida: un dominico, un jerónimo y un franciscano; el duro Torquemada, el santo Talavera, el severo Cisneros. Para llegar al nivel de Cisneros le faltaba a Torquemada categoría intelecutal -sólo era bachiller en Teología, mientras don Francisco Jiménez era amigo de Nebrija y trató de fichar a Erasmo para su Universidad Complutense-, pero le sobraban, como al futuro cardenal regente, ambición, seguridad en sí mismo y una austeridad que rondaba el exhibicionismo. Más que una ética, el rigor de esta minoría de la iglesia castellana, reformista antes del protestantismo, era casi una estética. Torquemada representaba una línea dura con respecto a los conversos sospechosos de judaizar -es decir, de mezclar la fe de Moisés con la de Cristo mediante dobles ritos o síntesis heréticas-, mietnras Talavera representaba la línea moderada, tradicional y mayoritaria en el alto clero, la naciente burguesía ciudadana y la nobleza. Fueron los disturbios creados a propósito de los conversos los que hicieron cambiar lentamente y siempre detrás de los acontecimientos esta política. Y fue Fernando, de linaje converso por su madre, Juana Enríquez, el que más decididamente encabezó el movimiento cuando lo consideró irreversible, aunque para ello tuviera que recurrir al Papa -que detestaba- y al antiguo confesor de su esposa, amén de pelearse con todo el reino de Aragón.

Eso es indudable, pese a todas las leyendas negras acumuladas. También es cierto que los católicos franceses mataron más protestantes en una sola noche, la de San Bartolomé, que el Santo Oficio en tres siglos y que los alemanes quemaron más brujas en un año que la Inquisición en toda su historia. Pero la máquina de intolerancia, sospecha, terror y delación accionada por Torquemada entorpeció la vida intelectual española de forma trágica. Duró más en la memoria que en el tiempo. Nos marcó. Torquemada no murió arrepentido ni de quemar herejes ni de expulsar judíos, como se ha dicho, pero sí viejo, paranoico, avariento y miserable Tras lograr la expulsión de los judíos, perdió la salud y volvió a Avila. Negó su hacienda al convento de San Pablo y tuvo que desenterrar a sus padres para llevárselos a Santo Tomás. Consiguió del Papa Alejandro VI una bula para que allí rigieran estatutos de limpieza de sangre y pasó sus últimos años rapaceando fondos para la que fue su tumba. Durante la guerra de la Independencia ésta fue profanada y aventadas sus cenizas. No se averiguó la identidad de los autores del hecho. Demasiados sospechosos.

Irra, irra, irra, xiça, cruzes, %$"$#$&, PÁ!

Porra que agora tá mesmo frio!

Passou-me a branca.



Ode ao Catorze Que Vem

Pra mim
Valentim
rima com Halloween

Normalmente
Penso em gente
Que já não sente

Tal e qual
Como no Natal
Não me vou sentir mal.



(isto está a assumir um contorno estranho)