ANGOLA RECORDA OS HERÓIS DO 4 DE FEVEREIRO - início da Luta Armada de Libertação Nacional

Angola recorda e presta hoje homenagem aos heróis do 4 de Fevereiro, no dia em que se assinala o 51º aniversário do início da Luta Armada de Libertação Nacional. A data constitui, por isso, um marco indelével na história da resistência angolana em prol da independência nacional.

A efeméride comemora o histórico  ataque à Casa de Reclusão e à Cadeia de São Paulo, em Luanda, no dia 4 de Fevereiro de 1961, com o objetivo de libertar os presos políticos e, assim, pôr fim à ocupação colonial portuguesa.

O acto central das comemorações teve lugar no Município do Porto Amboim, na província do Kwanza Sul, com a presença do Ministro dos Antigos Combatentes e Veteranos da Pátria, Kundi Paihama, em representação oficial do Chefe de Estado José Eduardo dos Santos.

Kundi Paihama exortou os precursores da Luta Armada de Libertação Nacional a persistirem “com a mesma determinação, rumo à reconciliação, reconstrução nacional e união” de Angola.
O Ministro apelou, por isso, à conjugação de esforços no sentido de se prosseguir com o trabalho que está a ser desenvolvido pelo Executivo de José Eduardo dos Santos, com vista a  uma maior inclusão social de toda a população.

Apesar da difícil conjuntura internacional, o governante destaca a implementação dos projetos de impacto social, traduzidos num acrescido número de escolas, hospitais, centros médicos, vias de comunicação, redes de transporte, repartições administrativas e habitações, com o intuito de permitir que toda a população possa usufruir de melhores condições de vida e bem-estar.

Mark Zuckerberg, o nascimento de um jovem multi-bilionário

Nesta vida a sorte não é tudo, mas tem o seu valor. Acabo de ler que o jovem ebreo Mark Zuckerberg, fundador do Facebook, poderá em breve transformar-se no mais jovem bilionário na história da humanidade.

O mérito é seu, antes de tudo, por ter dado ao mundo este serviço que hoje mantém ligados mais de 900.000.000 milhões de pessoas. Outro mérito é do mundo especulativo financeiro das várias bolsas de valores ocidentais, a  New York Stock Exchange, vulgo Wall Street, em particular. De facto, segundo informações de fontes fidedignas, dentre as quais o semanal The Economist, entre a primavera de 2012, a criatura de Zuckerberg será quotada na Bolsa de valores de americana (NYSE), com um valor acionário avaliado em 100 bilhões de dólares. É muito dinheiro junto, mas considerando as potencialidades deste instrumento todas as previsões de crescimento são dadas como positivas.

Nos últimos tempos foram objecto de especulação as entradas em bolsas do Google, com ofertas públicas iniciais - (Initial public offering - Ipo) - no valor de 1,92 biliões de dólares em 2004, com posterior avaliação complessiva em em 23 biliões. Actualmente as ações do Google custam 600Usd por cada uma. Outra empresa tecnológica de grande impacto bolsistico foi a Zynga com uma Ipo no valor de 1 bilião de dólares em 2011, segue-se aGroupon com 805 milhões e a Linkedin com 406 milhões.

Actualmente Zuckerberg detém o 28% das ações totais do social network, que uma vez em Borsa se traduzirão em 28 bilhões de dólares na sua conta bancária. Estas informações foram giradas por alguns analistas que seguem tim por tim, ou seja a longa caminhada do Facebook verso Wall Street. Assim nasce o mais jovem multi-bilionário que a história da humanidade ja viu e já contou.

Kingamba Mwenho
Por Angola, hoje e sempre!

PALANCAS NEGRAS 2012–A Seleção nacional angolana no Can 2012.

Acabou o sonho, lutamos mal, sofremos bem, que girem as cabeças!

Sanctions dodge: India to pay gold for Iran oil, China may follow

India has reportedly agreed to pay Tehran in gold for the oil it buys, in a move aimed at protecting Delhi from US-sanctions targeting countries who trade with Iran. China, another buyer of Iranian oil, may follow Delhi’s lead.

The report, by the Israeli-based news website DEBKAfile, states that Iran and India are negotiating backup alternatives with China and Russia, should the US and EU find a way to block the gold payment mechanism.

Delhi’s move is seen as surprising, as earlier India and Iran said they would switch to yen and rupees. China, another major importer of Iranian oil, may follow Delhi’s lead, the report adds.

India and China need to switch from the dollar in bilateral trade, since the US and EU have issued unilateral sanctions against the Iranian oil industry and financial institutions. The sanctions would ban any bank involved in oil trade with Iran from dealing with American and European counterparts.

Both India and China, two major buyers of Iranian oil accounting for 22 and 13 percent of its total export respectively, have refused to join such sanctions. This means they have to establish a reliable way of paying for crude, independently of the parts of the global financial system controlled by New York and London.

Delhi’s current plan is to effect payments through two state-owned banks, India’s UCO Bank and Turkey’s Halk Bankasi, Turkey being another country refusing to join the sanction spree.

The US issued sanctions against Iran in December, aiming to put pressure on the Islamic Republic and make its controversial nuclear program more transparent. The EU joined the initiative on Monday, banning new oil contracts with Iran, but allowing current ones to be fulfilled.

Australia on Tuesday became the latest country to voice plans for such an embargo, although the move would be more symbolic than practical, considering the country’s small share in Iran’s oil export.

Japan and South Korea, two other major buyers of Iranian crude, are in talks with Washington over the issue, although both Seoul and Tokyo are worried that stopping their imports could hurt their economies.

Iran, which is highly dependent on its sales of oil, is reacting to the sanction campaign nervously. Tehran says it will not yield to pressure, and threatens to block the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil tanker route in the Persian Gulf.

A presto

Haki

Via | flipsideoftheeconomy

A importancia do futuro, a beleza dos sonhos, o trabalho para crescer na vida!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Você vê coisas e diz: Por que?; mas eu sonho coisas que nunca existiram e digo: Por que não?” *
(George Bernard Shaw)

SAVE THE INTERNET– About PIPA, the Protect-IP Act - Learn about these destructive bills.

Thanks to action by a broad and bipartisan coalition of Internet users, companies, and organizations, the U.S. House of Representatives has now put the brakes on SOPA, a well-intentioned but deeply flawed bill that would use Internet censorship to combat overseas copyright infringement. Even President Obama's White House has joined the opposition.

But nevertheless, the Senate is continuing to move forward — and fast — with its equally dangerous version of the bill, called PIPA, the Protect-IP Act. As written, PIPA would import censorship and surveillance techniques pioneered by countries like China and Iran, reversing longstanding U.S. policy on Internet freedom, betraying U.S. First Amendment values, damaging our standing around the world, threatening our job-creating innovators, and undermining Internet security for everyone.

Today is a day for action across the Internet. Learn about these destructive bills. Tell your Senator what you think. Congress needs to hear from you.

Read More: EFF, CDT, Future of Music Coalition, Heritage Foundation, Stop American Censorship, ReadWriteWeb

Barack Obama Calls for Tax Breaks to Return Jobs From Abroad By MARK LANDLER

WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Wednesday that he would propose tax incentives for companies to bring home manufacturing jobs they had moved overseas, and curtail tax breaks for those that keep relocating jobs abroad.

Flanked by executives from the aerospace, chemical and furniture industries — all of whom are building or expanding factories in the United States — Mr. Obama declared that the nation was beginning to see the reversal of a long-term trend toward outsourcing. He called the new trend, perhaps inevitably, “insourcing.”

“We’re at a unique moment, an inflection point, a period where we’ve got the opportunity for those jobs to come back,” Mr. Obama said in the White House, after meeting with the executives. The American economy, he noted, has added manufacturing jobs for two years in a row, after more than a decade of losses.

The president did not offer details of the tax proposals, which presumably would be subject to approval by Congress, though he renewed his call on lawmakers to approve a one-year extension of the payroll tax cut that will expire at the end of February.

Mr. Obama said an increase in labor costs in China was eroding its advantage over the United States as a manufacturing base, a message the White House sought to buttress by circulating a research report from the Boston Consulting Group, a prominent management consulting organization. The president also said recent trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama would open markets for American exports.

Economists said small changes in tax policy would play only a marginal role in deciding where companies build factories. But with labor costs rising overseas, such changes could help reinforce a fledgling trend, they said. “There’s been a little bit of momentum on ‘insourcing’ because a lot of firms overdid it,” said Jared Bernstein, the former chief economic adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. “So it could help a bit at the margin.”

Mr. Obama cited examples from companies represented in the room: Ford Motor, which the president said had moved 2,000 jobs back to the United States; Master Lock, which relocated manufacturing to Milwaukee from China; and Lincolnton Furniture, a specialty manufacturer, which set up shop in North Carolina after its owner, Bruce Cochran, closed a family-owned furniture company in 1996 and spent time consulting with companies about moving operations to China and Vietnam.

“I don’t want America to be a nation that’s primarily known for financial speculation, and racking up debt and buying stuff from other nations,” the president said. “I want us to be known for making and selling products all over the world stamped with three proud words, ‘Made in America.’ ”

Mr. Obama’s message served as a riposte to the Republican front-runner, Mitt Romney, who repeated his charge Tuesday, in his speech after the New Hampshire primary, that the president was hostile to free enterprise.

One of the executives at the meeting, James M. Guyette of Rolls-Royce North America, said his company was making investments in Indiana, where it builds aircraft engines, and in Virginia, where it opened an advanced manufacturing and research campus last year that will eventually employ 500 people.

In an interview, Mr. Guyette said Rolls-Royce was not actually moving operations back to the United States. But he said it was pouring money into American operations, like a factory in Indianapolis that once had the company’s highest labor costs and lowest productivity. Negotiations with the United Automobile Workers union had cut those costs, he said, and made the factory competitive again. “Everyone could see where this road was going to end, if we didn’t do it differently,” he said.

Via | Nyt