Laine Windisch
| Name | Laine Windsich Vieira Gomes |
| Country | Brazil |
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I believe every person has the right and the obligation to be HAPPY! That is what I look for myself and wish for others. I believe in a world where everybody has something to eat everyday, where education is not something that is obtained with money, but it is a BASIC human right! Yes I am one of those people that believe that the world WILL be a better place. A place where people will live in peace, will respect each other and will be free to come, go and say what ever than want in the process. Am I asking for much? Maybe, but who said it would be easy?
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Sometimes it is Hard to Belive...
posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 02:34 PM
I watched "The Last King of Scotland" last Friday, and kept thinking about it this entire week!
I was not prepare for what I saw...
Not just the blood and the killings, but also the charismatic personality of Idi Amin, his "bi-polar" personality and his very up to date political personality.
I am a new member of i-genius, and I don´t know how many Latin Americans and more specifically Brazilians are here. I was very shocked, to feel like all that I saw in the movie was very close to me! All the politicians "crazy" talk all the justifications that have no justification!
It may seam that I am crazy, since we haven’t seen a dictatorship in Brazil or South America for a long time. Yes nobody is being tortured or killed by the government because they have a different way of thinking. Actually, we live in an ignorant bliss that is a dictatorship in disguise! How so?
Now a days there is a WAR going on in Rio! Drug dealers fighting for their spaces, unprepared, underpaid and (“consequently”) dirties cops trying to fight them! While all that is going on, Rio is about to be the Host of the Pan American Games. How is that going to happen? I REALLY don’t know! What do our politicians say about it? They say that we a very prosperous nation! A hard working nation that deserves to have the Pan American games being held in one of its cities once again. What does the majority of the population think about it? Who knows! Remember the ignorant bliss?
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Timothy Ogene
Monday, July 02, 2007 07:16 PM
"ignorant bliss" what a wonderful expression.It really captures what obtains in most third world nation that seem to be making progress.You are very correct. Great post there..
Servane Mouazan
Wednesday, July 04, 2007 01:14 PM
Hi Laine! Recently heard about the massacre in the Alemao, one of many frequent massacres held in the favellas.. There are more casualties some days in Rio that in Iraq. This is an economic war, a consumption war, a food war, a drug war, a war of influence and power. This is a country that has one of the most vibrant and richest cultures in the world and yet has to fight against the hegemony, ignorance and non-sense of the US administration. But Brazil is much more than carnival and narcotics. Brazil has so much more to give! OXALA Laine! Vamos batalhar!
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