Civic movement requires the government to fight piracy

The Civic Movement Anti-Internet Piracy (MAPiNET), presented this week, it delivered Wednesday to Prime Minister, the chairman of the Assembly of the Republic and the parliamentary groups a manifesto calling on the government to take a position in the fight against piracy .

"The cultural industries felt that it was time to create a civil movement that could find solutions to this scourge", told the Lusa Paulo Santos, one of the representatives of MAPiNET.

Representatives from various industries were joined in front of the Assembly of the Republic to show its displeasure with the problem of illegal discharges on the Internet, without respecting the copyright, and strengthen the position recorded in the manifest given to the groups.

"Losses in the house of six million euros'

"We are talking about 50 million illegal discharges per year, we are talking about losses in the home of the six million for the cultural industries, only in Portugal, Paulo Santos further explained, adding that it affects businesses in the area of audiovisual of various sizes, jeopardizing jobs and families.

The representatives of this movement believe that there are solutions "resourceful and dynamic" to this problem, said Paulo Santos, who did not pass the "total and absolute criminalization of illegal downloads, because the Internet should co-exist" with other forms of distribution .

"We were efficient solutions, as the case of Olivennes, the French president's proposal on this matter. Only the discussion and adoption of the law in the first chamber have reduced by about 30 to 35 percent, 'said Paulo Santos, who argues that users should be aware of the illegalities that are being committed and only the percentage of final' downloaders "should be subject to a fine.

"The Internet can be used to a new dynamic market, but it is necessary that the new forms of marketing are regulated and are not used by default, 'said Anthony Carrasco, a participant in the concentration of MAPiNET and owner of a video clubs.

According to the manifest, the solutions are not only the accountability of Internet access providers (ISPs), who are also guilty for this situation to allow the sharing of files, but also by new rules this scenario, bound by the changes to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which makes any kind of legal action on the offenders.

Weather: Five districts in yellow alert due to cold

The districts of Vila Real, Bragança, Guarda, Leiria and Evora are today with yellow warning due to cold, according to the Institute of Meteorology.

In Portugal, the thermometers will vary between the four grades negative and the seven degrees in Zamboanga and the temperatures will vary between a negative grade and seven degrees.

The Institute for Meteorology provides for the Guard four degrees of negative and three minimum temperature of maximum, in Leiria will vary between negative and 13 and at Evora between zero and 14 degrees.

The archipelago of Madeira is also with yellow warning but due to strong winds with gusts that could reach to 90 kilometers per hour.

The IM today provides for the continuation of cold weather with generally clear skies, giving periods of mostly cloudy in the Algarve until the early morning.

The weak-northeast wind blowing in the southern Cape coast Carvoeiro by the end of the morning, is also expected to formation of frost.

The maximum temperatures are planned for Lisbon from 15 degrees to the port 11 and Faro 16 degrees.

The yellow warning is the second of a scale that goes up to four.

TRE free elected mayor of Recife threat of cassation

The elected mayor of Recife, Joao da Costa (PT), is free of cassation and ineligibility for three years that had been condemned in the first instance, on September 23, for alleged abuse of political and economic power. The decision of the judge of the 8th electoral zone, Nilson Nery, in response to actions brought by state prosecutors, was retired in the second instance, the Regional Electoral Court's full of Pernambuco, that the innocent PT, unanimously last night. CANCELLATIONS The vote followed the rapporteur's Margaret Cantarelli, who turned in the penalty of a fine recovery. The amount proposed by Cantarelli - U.S. $ 58525.50 - has generated some disagreements, but prevailed. In a session that lasted four and a half hours, the rapporteur said that the then candidate John da Costa received is to canvass extemporaneous, with the launch of the magazine of the Participatory Budget, when he was secretary of Participatory Planning in March. Not complied, but the thesis that the fact characterize abuse of economic power. For CANCELLATIONS, the magazine, whose production cost U.S. $ 110 thousand, brought subliminal propaganda in favor of the then pre-candidate, without, however, have the power to influence the election of Costa, who won the first round with 51 % Of the votes and more of 200 thousand votes of advantage over the second placed. In the first instance, Costa was also convicted of use as a beneficiary of the structure of city hall by officials of commissioned positions, which used computers from the Municipal Department of Education to coopt servers to participate in their election campaign. Cantarelli noted that in the case, it was not possible to identify a large structure of servers engaged in the campaign and that the elected mayor could not be punished so severely, as the judge ruled in first instance, "for acts irresponsibly charged by local servers." "Implementing the penalty so severe violate constitutional principles," she said, it proposed a fine of 50 thousand UFIRs (U.S. $ 53205.00) reviewed by the propaganda of extemporaneous and 5 thousand UFIRs (U.S. $ 5320.00) for the benefit of propaganda servers, totaling U.S. $ 58525.50. The rapporteur relieve the mayor Joao Paulo (PT) of any liability in the case for lack of evidence in the case, which was also accompanied by voting unanimously by the full court. Of the legal team of John da Costa, a Virginia lawyer Pimentel said that has always believed that the elected mayor would be acquitted. She said that the team will discuss whether or not draw the fine.

New Volvo S60 starts to take shape

Volvo is going to present in world debut, the S60 Concept, the next edition of the Detroit Auto Salon in January. The final version comes only to dealers in the spring of 2010, but it is likely that in October 2009, at the Hall of Frankfurt, has already know the final aspect.

After the first show a picture of the interior, the Swedish brand is now a picture of the exterior of the prototype to be displayed in just over a month. The lines are more aggressive and dynamic in comparison with the current model, assuming a silhouette of the four-door coupe, a trend these days.

Until now little more is known. However, to expect that in the coming weeks, the Swedish brand will reveal the dropper details of the new S60

Concentration anti online piracy in the 25th Amoreiras

The Civic Movement Anti-Internet Piracy (MAPiNET) will hold a press conference against illegal discharges on November 25 by 11:00 hours, in cinemas ZON Lusomundo of the Amoreiras Shopping Center.

The press conference will report that the merger will take place on Wednesday, November 26, by 15:00 hours in front of the Assembly of the Republic, which will be submitted to the President of the Assembly a manifesto on the issue.

Then, the movement which has the motto "For an Internet free of digital piracy and a more just society 'will move to the residence of the Prime Minister to deliver the document.

The organization calls upon all concerned (and / or harmed by illegal downloads) to integrate the body of the merger.

Claude Lévi-Strauss: last giant of French thought is 100 years

Known worldwide with the founder of modern anthropology, the ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who's 100th birthday on November 28, is the last giant of French thought.

Philosopher and pioneer of the formation of structuralism that traveled around the world to understand it better and study their myths, Levi-Strauss worked for rehabilitation of primitive thought, sometimes with the look of a moralist.

"His work is inseparable from a reflection on our society and its functioning. It has an environmental focus, advance, the world and individuals," writes his biographer, Denis Bertholet.

Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Brussels on November 28 of 1908, parents of Jewish and French. In his youth, military in SFIO (French Section of the International Workers). In 1931 obtained the title of professor in philosophy.

Appointed professor at the University of São Paulo, in 1935 traveled to Brazil, where he led several missions in ethnological and Mato Grosso in the Amazon. Said that experience in his intellectual autobiography, "Tristes Tropics" (1955), one of the great books of the twentieth century.

Back in Paris on the eve of World War II, was convened in 1939 and then gave low on their Jewish origin. In 1941 took refuge in the United States, taught in New York and met there the linguist Roman Jakobson, who had a great influence on him.

In 1949 assumed the post of vice director of the Museum of Man in Paris.

In 1959, he held the chair in social anthropology of the College of France, where he worked until his retirement in 1982. Doctor honoris causa by several prestigious universities in (Oxford, Yale, Harvard, etc.). Ethnologist was the first elected member of the French Academy in 1973.

Among his major works include "Elementary Structures of Kinship", "Structural Anthropology I and II", which applies to all the facts of human nature a symbolic method, the structuralism, which allows discern ways unchanged in content variables, and "The wild thought. "

This latest work, published in 1962 shows that there is no real difference between the primitive and modern thought. "This is not the thought of the wild, but the wild thought. It is a form that is given to all humanity and that we can find in ourselves but we would, in general, get it in exotic societies," he explained.

It is also the author of "mythology", where the first of his four volumes ( "The raw and the cooked") illustrates the opposition between nature and culture. Levi-Strauss sounded out deep relations between the kitchen and culture.

With its slender silhouette, his gray hair and eyes acute, Claude Lévi-Strauss is intimidating shy, but has an imposing presence and a great ability to listen.

Little concerned with posterity, not written memoirs, but spoke of them with Didier Eribon in a book-review entitled "From near and far."

"Each one of his books is a manual of thought that the intelligence force to open, and a kind of secular gospel that helps to move forward in life," wrote his friend and expert in his work, the philosopher Catherine Clément.

In one of the few entrevitas which has in recent years (in 2005), after mentioning his "debt to Brazil," stated: "are we going to a civilization on a global scale. In what will probably differences, at least we must wait for it (...). We're in a world which no longer belong. What I know, what I loved, had 1.5 billion inhabitants. The world has 6 billion people. It is no longer my world " .

Afghanistan: Taliban are gaining and losing Nato - Pakistani writer

The neighboring countries of Afghanistan realize that the Taliban are gaining and NATO is losing, said today in Madrid, the Pakistani journalist and writer Ahmed Rashid, who advocates a change "serious" in Western strategy in this Asian country.

"The tragedy is that the perception among the Taliban and the region, is that the Taliban are gaining and NATO is losing," said Ahmed Rashid, one of the world's leading experts on Afghanistan and which now receive in the Spanish capital Casa Asia Award 2008 by his knowledge of Central Asia.

"The perceptions are sometimes more important than the reality. If the people believe that you lose, you will not support," he added.

In an interview with AFP, the expert argued that the real situation is "very close" and held perception that needed a major shift of strategy in Afghanistan, including a greater commitment on the part of States military presence in this Asian country.

In that sense, emphasized that the United States, which want to send 20,000 new troops to Afghanistan in the spring, also ask their partners a larger war effort.

Rashid argued that the "main message" of the vice president-elect of the U.S., Joseph Biden, who plans to travel Europe carried out after assuming the office will ask for more troops to Afghanistan.

In addition to the troops, the reorientation of strategy in this country is to negotiate with neighboring states such as Pakistan or Iran, establish better coordination of aid and greater demands for the government of Hamid Karzai on issues such as combating corruption or the drug trafficking, he stressed.

Such a strategy should, in his opinion, be carried out in a joint fashion by the United States and Europe and should have a regional focus, because "the Taliban are an Afghan phenomenon, but regional" since has become "a model of extremism throughout the region "and a danger" enormous ".

Faced with this demand for a greater military effort in Afghanistan from the North American elected president, Barack Obama, Spain "can not afford to" say no ", according to Pakistani journalist and writer.

The Nato Force who directs the International Security Assistance (ISAF) in Afghanistan demanded an expansion of multinational troops in the Asian country in the face of increased Taliban attacks.

Since the early presence Spain in Afghanistan, 87 soldiers died, including 62 who died in a plane crash in Turkey to return to their mission.

For Rashid, this is an issue "critical" and crucial for Spain in its foreign relations.

In his view, the Spanish government has several options: one, you can remove the current restrictions so that its troops participating in combat operations, and the other, send more equipment for troops, out that what is required is "equipment for the fight, not to keep the peace."

The third option would send more troops, although Ahmed Rashid insist that what is needed are troops for the fight.