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A Polícia Federal apurou desvio de cerca de R$ 700 milhões em 303 obras públicas no Brasil. A denúncia é de extrema gravidade

por João Doria Jr.

A denúncia do jornal “Folha de S. Paulo” é de extrema gravidade. A cada R$ 10 periciados pela PF, R$ 3 foram desviados para a propinagem. Rodovias, aeroportos, saneamento, pavimentação e portos. Obras deste quilate garantiram aos corruptos e corruptores quase R$ 1 bilhão de superfaturamento. Só no aeroporto de Goiânia, o relatório da PF registrou desvio de R$ 48 milhões. Triste o país que convive com tanta corrupção. Desviar recursos, afrontar o contribuinte e desafiar a opinião pública virou o esporte preferido de muitos políticos. Mas todo roubo acaba sendo flagrado algum dia. Não é mesmo, governador José Roberto Arruda? Os que acreditam na impunidade, não perdem por esperar.
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Video- David Cameron: ‘Conservatives are tolerant, compassionate and modern’

Conservative Party leader David Cameron has delivered a key note speech at the party’s spring forum in Brighton. Although he made no direct reference to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgenered) issues, he did attempt to portray the party as modern, tolerant and compassionate.

Mr Cameron’s speech came on the same day that a poll for the Sunday Times showed that the Tories have the slimmest lead over Labour for two years. The YouGov research places the Conservatives on 37% and Labour at 35%. A quirk in the first past the post system means that the Conservatives need to have a nine per cent lead over Labour in order to form a majority in the House of Commons. However, Tory polling indicates that progress in the key marginal constituencies are not reflected in national polls.

Mr Cameron told delegates: “What sort of party are we? You decided that four-and-a-half years ago when you elected me as your leader.

“We decided then that we wanted to modernise our party to get back in touch with the country that we wanted to govern.

“I didn’t do that on my own, you did it.”

He added: “We can now look the British people in the eye and say this country, our country, this tolerant, compassionate, brilliant multi-racial country, we are like you, we are for you and we are ready to serve you. This modern Conservative party has made its choice and it is never going back.”

Over the years of Mr Cameron’s leadership, the Conservative party has been at great pains to improve its perception among the gay community as well as with other minority groups. There is one gay member of the shadow cabinet, Nick Herbert and a number of other high profile gay Tories including shadow prisons minister, Alan Duncan.

Mr Cameron added: “We have got to inspire people with the potential of what we can be in this country and how optimistic we are that if we take the country on this journey we can achieve it.”

“We need to give people a sense that if we make these difficult decisions we will say ‘Yes we did these
difficult things but we came through it together.’

“We need to give people a sense that being a citizen is not just about paying your taxes and obeying the law – it is about being part of something bigger than yourself.

“A sense that when you are growing up in your country you really are part of a big and rich and vibrant society.

“I want us to be a country that fells like a community – that is what our optimistic ambitions should be all about.”

Mr Cameron labeled anti-gay British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin as a “ghastly piece of filth ”

The party leader warned his members: “They don’t hand general election victories and governments on a plate to people in this country, and quite right too.

“This election was always going to be close, this election was always going to be a real choice – Labour or Conservative, Gordon Brown or me.

“And this election was always going to be a real fight for our party, a fight to make sure we serve the country we love and that is the fight that we are going to have.”

In a speech delivered without an auto-cue, Mr Cameron said: “It is an election that we have to win because our country is in a complete mess and it is our patriotic duty to turn it around and give this country a better future.

“I think everyone in this country knows that another five years of Gordon Brown would be a disaster for our country.

“Another five years of spending and bloat and waste and debt and taxes. Another five years of failing to get to grips with our big social problems, another five years and the politics of that big top-down, bossy ‘I know best’ sort of approach and another five years of a Government that is so dysfunctional, so divided, so weak.

“You have got a bunch of ministers that can’t work with him but can’t get rid of him, you have got a Prime Minister who can’t work with them and can’t make his Government work.

“They are just locked in this dangerous dance of death that is dragging our whole country down and it is only the Conservative Party that can give people the hope of a different future.

“As we leave this conference today we must resolve: ‘We will not let you down.”‘



The economy
Mr Cameron turned to the economy and questioned whether Prime minister Gordon Brown is really an economic “genius.”

“What sort of genius is it that doubles the national debt? What sort of genius is it that takes one of the best pension systems in the world and wrecks it?” he said

“That’s not genius, that’s incompetence and at this coming election we are going to out your (Mr Brown’s) record and tear it apart piece by piece.”

“I want a really clear message to go out that Britain is under new economic management and we are open for business again,” he said.

Mr Cameron went on to say: “People I think really understand that the economic changes we are going to have to make to deal with our deficit will be tough and will be hard and they don’t want that hidden from them.

“I think people know that the changes we need to make in our society will be difficult and we will have to confront some really deep vested interests and frankly the same goes for turning round our politics.

“When I say we need to be frank about Britain’s problems, I mean all of them.

“We have got an energy crisis looming and we need to tell people that if we don’t invest in some extra capacity now the lights are going to go out.

Immigration
“People want us to be frank about the issue of immigration. It has been too high for too long and it needs to be cut and I will cut it,” Mr Cameron said.

“We have set out reasonably, sensibly, calmly how that will be done.

“As well as frankness I think people are right to expect radicalism. Let’s be frank about it.

Schools
“We are not going to turn around the performance of our schools and our education system unless we are radical from day one. We are not going to sort the welfare system and make sure it genuinely helps people, that doesn’t allow you to live an idle life through choice unless we are radical.

“People want to hear that from us.”

“With all our difficulties and the deficit and the debt and the social problems and the political system that has gone so wrong, it can feel like we are looking down some dark tunnel.

“But there is a bright light at the end of it.”

“Imagine what it would be like that instead of having so many sink schools we have got the best state schools in Europe that people will really want to send their children to.

“Imagine if instead of a country where we have got a closed sign over our economy it is the best place again to do business, to invest, to set up, to get things moving again.

Gordon Brown
“Every day Gordon Brown is running this country is a grey day for Britain.

“Every day he is in charge is another day we are not gripping our problems, another day of wasted opportunities, another day when this country is not being all it could be.

“And while you do it I want you to think of the incredible dark depression of another five years of Gordon Brown and say ‘No. No we are not going to do that.

“So come on then – let’s get out there and win it for Britain.”

Liberal Democrat response
Lib Dem ome affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said: “I thought he was surprisingly nervous. Clearly the party has been shocked, and perhaps he and his team have been shocked, by the fall in the poll ratings.
“Perhaps they had started to take that a bit for granted.”

Labour response
Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper told the BBC: “I found it wanting. People aren’t going to be fooled by some platitudes or spin.
“They want to know what the substance is behind it.”

Source by Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk

G1: ‘Alexandre, o Grande, era homossexual e a tropa obedecia’, diz ex-sargento gay

O ex-sargento do Exército Fernando de Alcântara Figueiredo, envolvido no primeiro caso assumido de um casal gay na história das Forças Armadas brasileiras, afirmou que o general Raymundo Nonato de Cerqueira Filho, indicado ao Superior Tribunal Militar, fez uma declaração “retrógrada e infeliz” sobre os homossexuais e que “está muito mal informado” – confira ao lado entrevista concedida por Figueiredo à Globo News



Ao G1, Fernando de Alcântara Figueiredo rebateu: “Isso mostra que ele desconhece a história. Alexandre, o Grande, era homossexual e a tropa obedecia. Trabalhei 15 anos nas Forças Armadas e nunca fui desrespeitado”, afirmou. Alexandre, o Grande, foi rei da Macedônia há mais de 2.300 anos e é lembrado por sua habilidade em estratégias militares por ter comandado uma das maiores expansões territoriais do mundo antigo. Algumas fontes históricas e filmes sobre a época relatam a homossexualidade de Alexandre.

O ex-sargento Figueiredo , que chegou a ser preso e responde a processo após assumir sua sexualidade enquanto atuava no Exército, disse que enviará manifestação ao presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e à Comissão de Constituição de Justiça do Senado para evitar que o general seja nomeado para o tribunal.

Para Figueiredo, a declaração do general mostra que ele “não tem qualificação para ser juiz”. “A primeira coisa para esse cargo é a imparcialidade e o respeito à pessoa humana e outra qualificação é não ser preconceituoso. Isso poderia ter sido voltado contra negros, ou pessoas com deficiência.”

Figueiredo pediu para sair do Exército em julho de 2008. Atualmente, é integrante da ONG Tortura Nunca Mais e do Instituto Ser, que visa defender os direitos do homossexual.

Ele afirmou que há diversos casos de homossexualismo nas Forças Armadas, mas os militares temem assumir. “Meu caso e o de Laci não é específico e isolado, tem várias demandas desse tipo e precisamos trazer isso para a sociedade, que a intransigência é coisa comum nas Forças Armadas. (…) Numa situação de batalha, o meu sangue como homossexual é tão importante quanto o de um heterossexual. O que dita o caráter não é a vida íntima. É muita hipocrisia. Eu mesmo conheço generais que são homossexuais.”

Figueiredo apareceu ao lado de seu companheiro, Laci de Araújo, na Revista “Época” em 2008, quando os dois assumiram que mantinham um relacionamento homossexual . Laci foi acusado de deserção por ter ficado mais de uma semana longe do trabalho e foi preso, mas atualmente está trabalhando no Exército.

Declaração
O general Cerqueira Filho, autor da declaração polêmica, foi indicado para ocupar uma vaga de ministro do Superior Tribunal Militar (STM). Na terça, ele participou de audiência na Comissão de Constituição e Justiça do Senado. Cerqueira Filho e o almirante Álvaro Luiz Pinto, também indicado a uma vaga no STM, participavam da audiência quando foram questionados pelo senador Demóstenes Torres (DEM-GO) e Eduardo Suplicy (PT-SP) sobre o tema.



“Vossas excelências são favoráveis ao ingresso de homossexuais em qualquer das forças e acham que essa polêmica tem razão de ser?”, indagou Demóstenes. Suplicy quis saber se os dois militares defendiam a exclusão de homossexuais das Forças Armadas.

Em sua resposta, o general Cerqueira Filho disse que iria responder “de uma maneira sincera”. “Não é que eu seja contra o homossexual, cada um tem que viver sua vida. Entretanto, a vida militar se reveste de determinadas características que, em meu entender, tipos de atividades que, inclusive em combate, pode não se ajustar ao comportamento desse tipo de indivíduo”, afirmou.

Estados Unidos
A polêmica sobre homossexuais nas Forças Armadas não é exclusividade brasileira. Nos Estados Unidos, o tema está em discussão no governo. O secretário de Defesa do país, Robert Gates, disse nesta terça-feira diante do Senado que um grupo de trabalho vai estudar a possível anulação de uma lei de 1993 que proíbe o ingresso de homossexuais nas Forças Armadas do país.

via G1

Source by http://gay.com.br, Kobakobamaru (youtube)

Gordon Brown promises gay people they 'will not have to walk alone'

Gordon Brown hosted an LGBT reception












Prime minister Gordon Brown paid tribute last night to gay and lesbian members of the armed forces at a reception to mark the contribution of the LGBT community for Britain.

He told guests at 10 Downing Street, including a number of gay servicemembers, that there was a "debt of gratitude we can never fully repay".

He said that the pride they felt was "nothing compared to the pride we feel in them".

Mr Brown cited the current struggle in the US to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, which bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, saying he knew debate on the issue continued.

In 2009, for the first LGBT reception at Downing Street, Mr Brown said that the ban on gay marriage in California was "unacceptable".

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the British military allowing out gay soldiers.

Mr Brown said: "I promise you that no one need walk the road to equality alone again."

He also listed the achievements made for gay equality in the last ten years, such as gay adoption and fertility rights for lesbians, saying people had warned these things could not be done.

In the short speech, Mr Brown mentioned Liverpool policeman James Parkes, who was seriously injured last year in a homophobic attack.

Mr Parkes, who has recovered, was at the event with his new husband Tom.

Mr Brown's wife Sarah spent several hours speaking to guests.

Others there included Paul O'Grady, Dr Christian Jessen and artist Maggi Hambling.

Author Jeanette Winterson also turned up with partner Susie Orbach.

Source By Jessica Geen • Pink News

Brazil's ruling party endorses female sucessor to Lula

Brazil's ruling left-wing party has endorsed chief minister Dilma Rousseff as its candidate for presidential elections in October. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva cannot run for a third term under the country's constitution.
REUTERS - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's chief of staff on Saturday vowed to continue Brazil's investor-friendly economic policies if she won the Oct. 3 presidential race as the ruling Workers' Party candidate.

Speaking to the party's national convention in Brasilia after it formally endorsed her candidacy, Dilma Rousseff, 62, said she would maintain fiscal discipline, a free-floating exchange rate, and inflation targets -- the pillars of Lula's economic strategy.

"We will ensure macro-economic stability," Rousseff, a trained economist, told the party's delegates in the capital Brasilia. She added that she felt "totally prepared" to govern the country.

She would become the country's first female president, though two opinion polls released this month show her trailing conservative Sao Paulo state Governor Jose Serra of the opposition PSDB party by between 5 percent and 11 percent.

Lula, the most popular president in Brazil's recent history but prevented by law from running for a third consecutive term, said Rousseff's candidacy was not designed to hold his place for a possible return in 2014.

"I want her to win a second mandate," said Lula, a former union leader who virtually imposed Rousseff's candidacy on the Workers' Party that he founded 30 years ago. He said he chose her for her rigor, ethics and determination.

Brazil has during Lula's rule consolidated its position as one of the world's leading economies. It bounced back quickly from a brief recession last year and its economy is expected to grow by more than 5 percent this year.

The Workers' Party on Friday approved a campaign platform that proposes extending Lula's economic policies. But it also included proposals to expand the role of state enterprises, tax big wealth and expand social welfare programs.

Rousseff told chanting supporters that, as president, she would continue to expand the civil service despite warnings by opposition parties of the rising costs of maintaining a bloated and inefficient state bureaucracy.

Women vote

Lula, a union leader who rose from humble, working-class roots to the presidency, urged Brazilian women to support Rousseff in the election in an effort to battle deep-seated gender inequality in a country where few women have risen to high political office.

"Women are still treated like second-class citizens," Lula said.

His appeal resonated with some of the 3,000 delegates and others in attendance at the convention.

"It's high time for a woman president," said Cibele Figuereido, a 50-year old teacher and Rousseff supporter.

While an all-female percussion group gyrated its way through the flag-waving audience after Rousseff's speech, a small group of tattooed natives in traditional headdress protested against the government's Indian policy.

Rousseff must step down from her current post by April 3 in compliance with electoral law and will then have to negotiate with as many as 10 potential allied parties to forge a common campaign platform.

She said she wanted to continue working with Lula's current coalition, a group of 11 parties ranging from the far left to the political center.

"I want to form a government coalition," said Rousseff, who was a left-wing guerrilla militant during the country's 1964-85 military dictatorship.

Some analysts, however, say she lacks Lula's political savvy to manage often volatile party interests.

Unlike the folksy Lula, Rousseff is generally seen as uncharismatic and prone to technocratic speech, which pollsters say could lose her votes in a country where a candidate's personality may outweigh campaign issues.

"I think the biggest obstacle Dilma will face is that she lacks the ability to communicate with the people," said Romulo Carneiro, town mayor in the northeastern Ceara state.

Source by News Wires (text)/France24-News

Congresso do PT oficializa Dilma como pré-candidata à Presidência

Filiados e delegações do Partido dos Trabalhadores de todo país confirmaram neste sábado (20) a indicação da ministra-chefe da Casa Civil, Dilma Roussef, como pré-candidata única do PT ao Planalto nas eleições deste ano. O referendo aconteceu no terceiro dia do 4º Congresso do Partido dos Trabalhadores, que acontece em Brasília.



A chegada da ministra foi aplaudida de pé pelos mais de 1.300 pessoas. Na cerimônia, antes de Dilma ser convidada a subir no palco, foi realizada uma rápida apresentação musical, enquanto um grupo de mulheres montava um arranjo com flores do Cerrado, no estilo japonês, ikebana.

O presidente da Câmara dos Deputados e do PMDB, Michel Temer, participou do encontro. Ele chegou ao lado do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e da primeira-dama, Marisa Letícia. O presidente do PCdoB, Renato Rabelo, também estava presente.

"Foi me dada uma tarefa extremamente difícil: vir aqui para convencer vocês a votar na Dilma", disse Lula, irônico.

A mesa do evento foi composta pelo vice-presidente, José Alencar, ministros, senadores, governadores, representantes da Une (União Nacional dos Estudantes), Contag (Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura), CUT (Central Única dos Trabalhadores) e a Central dos Movimentos Populares.

A apresentação da candidatura sem concorrência interna repete a receita de 2006, quando não havia dúvidas de que o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sairia novamente pela legenda para apostar na reeleição.

No que se refere à rejeição do eleitorado à ideia de Dilma como candidata, a última pesquisa da CNT/Sensus identificou que este índice caiu: em novembro passado era de 34,4%, e em janeiro apontava 28,4%. Segundo o levantamento, houve uma redução pela metade na diferença entre ela e o possível pré-candidato do PSDB, o governador de São Paulo, José Serra: de 10,1% em novembro para 5,4% em janeiro. O tucano registrou 33,2% e a ministra teve 27,8% das intenções de votos na última pesquisa.

A candidata escolhida por Lula não terá de passar pelo mesmo que Lula viveu em 2002. Ele teve de ser submetido a uma prévia dentro do partido, em que concorreu com o senador por São Paulo, Eduardo Suplicy – que angariou cerca 15% dos votos.

Suplicy, que tem se envolvido em polêmicas nos últimos anos, foca no momento em uma outra briga: sair como pré-candidato ao governo de São Paulo. Podem fazer frente a ele nomes como o da ex-mulher e ex-prefeita de São Paulo, Marta Suplicy, do senador Aloizio Mercadante e do ex-ministro da Fazenda e deputado federal, Antônio Palocci. Também não estão descartados o ex-presidente da Câmara dos Deputados, Arlindo Chinaglia, o prefeito de Osasco, Emídio de Souza, e o ministro da Educação, Fernando Haddad.

Uma possibilidade ainda não rejeitada para ter apoio do partido em São Paulo é a do deputado da base aliada, Ciro Gomes (PSB-CE) que, em caso de apoiar a candidatura de Dilma em nível nacional, poderia ser o candidato do PSB para o governo paulista.
“Todos aceitaram a Dilma em consenso e, eu, em especial”, revelou o senador Eduardo Suplicy (SP). “Da minha parte, eu disse a Dilma Rousseff que compreendo os méritos que a fizeram ser a escolhida. E ela compreendeu a minha parte e o meu programa renda cidadã foi aprovado como emenda de aperfeiçoamento ao programa Bolsa-Família, pelo programa do PT”, completou.

O deputado federal José Genoíno, no entanto, ressaltou que “o programa do PT não é o programa de Dilma”, e sim parte dele.

Sobre a candidatura única, o deputado federal Ricardo Berzoini alegou que não houve inscritos e o consenso do partido fechou com o nome da ministra.

"Ela [Dilma] tem histórico de militância de esquerda, participou dos principais feitos do governo Lula. A candidatura única é uma mostra expressiva da unidade do PT”, defendeu Genoino.

Biografia
Mineira de Belo Horizonte, Dilma Vana Rousseff, ocupou a cadeira de ministra-chefe da Casa Civil desde a demissão de José Dirceu, em 2005, acusado de envolvimento no suposto mensalão pago por dirigentes do PT a parlamentares da base aliada do governo.

Ainda no governo Lula, foi ministra de Minas e Energia de 2003 a junho de 2005. Antes de filiar-se ao Partido dos Trabalhadores, em 2001, Dilma era do PDT. Nas décadas de 1980 e 1990 atuou no governo do Rio Grande do Sul, nas secretarias da Fazenda e de Energia, Minas e Comunicações, e nos governos de Alceu Collares (PDT) e Olívio Dutra (PT).

Na juventude, participou da luta armada contra a ditadura militar. Teve atuações como militante no Polop (Política Operária), no Colina (Comando de Libertação Nacional), e no VAR-Palmares (Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares). Foi torturada e ficou presa por quase três anos.

Source by Camila Campanerut Do UOL Notícias Em Brasíli