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The New York TimesWASHINGTON Vice President Omar Suleiman of Egypt says he does not think it is time to lift the 30-year-old emergency law that has been used to suppress and imprison opposition leaders. He does not think President Hosni Mubarak needs to resign before his term ends in September. And he does not think his country is yet ready for democracy. But, considering it lacks better options, the United States has strongly backed him to play the pivotal role in a still uncertain transition process in Egypt. In doing so, it is relying on the existing government to make changes that it has steadfastly resisted for years, and even now does not seem impatient to carry out. After two weeks of recalibrated messages and efforts to keep up with a rapidly evolving situation, the Obama administration is still trying to balance support for some of the basic aspirations for change in Egypt with its concern that the pro-democracy movement could be hijacked, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton put it, if change were to come too quickly. The result has been to feed a perception, on the streets of Cairo and elsewhere, that the United States, for now at least, is putting stability ahead of democratic ideals, and leaving hopes of nurturing peaceful, gradual change in large part in the hands of Egyptian officials starting with Mr. Suleiman who have every reason to slow the process. Faced with questions about Mr. Suleimans views, expressed in a series of interviews in recent days, the White House on Monday called them unacceptable. The notion that Egypt isnt ready for democracy I think runs quite counter to what we see happening in Tahrir Square and on the streets in cities throughout the country, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said. Its clear that statements like that are not going to be met with any agreement by the people of Egypt because they dont address the very legitimate grievances that weve seen expressed as a result of these protests, Mr. Gibbs said. But it remains unclear how much leverage President Obama has to keep Mr. Suleiman, a Mubarak loyalist, moving toward fundamental change, especially as the authorities begin to reassert control in Egypt. The United States has certainly had long ties with Mr. Suleiman, 74, who headed Egyptian intelligence from 1993 until he was named vice president last month. For years he has been an important contact for the Central Intelligence Agency and a regular briefer for visiting American officials, who appear to have valued his analysis of Egypts relations with neighbors and domestic challenges, as diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks make clear. The cables describe Mr. Suleiman as Mr. Mubaraks consigliere and having an extremely sharp analytical mind and serving as the de facto national security adviser with direct responsibility for the Israeli-Palestinian account. One 2009 cable mentions him as a possible successor to Mr. Mubarak, to whom he has long been extremely close. Mr. Suleiman also frequently assured American officials that the Mubarak government was working to keep terrorism at bay.
Egypt is circled by radicalism, he told Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a 2009 visit to Cairo. In 2006, he told the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, that inside Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood posed a serious threat, saying the principal danger was the groups exploitation of religion to influence and mobilize the public. Administration officials say that in recent days, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. who has a long relationship with Mr. Suleiman from his days on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been pressing Mr. Suleiman for a clear road map of democratic reforms, linked to a timetable. But among the protesters and opposition groups in Egypt, there is deep skepticism that Washington is demanding enough of Mr. Suleiman. The administration sought amendments to the Egyptian Constitution to legalize political parties, termination of one-party rule, and the end of extralegal efforts to lock up government opponents and regulate the media. But much of the opposition considers the Constitution fatally flawed, and is calling for an entirely new document on which to base a more democratic Egypt. Similarly, a meeting with opposition groups on Sunday led by Mr. Suleiman was seen by many Egyptian activists as nothing more than political theater that yielded no concrete steps toward reform. In a statement afterward characterized by opposition figures as propaganda Mr. Suleiman offered some of what the administration sought, but left himself a lot of wiggle room. In the statement, he said a committee will be formed from members of the judicial authority and a number of political figures to study and recommend constitutional amendments and related laws. The work is supposed to be completed by the first week of March. But the recommendations do not appear to be binding on the government; in the end, they would have to be approved by a Parliament that took office after an election last year that American officials say was clearly fixed to benefit Mr. Mubaraks party. The document promised that the state of emergency will be lifted based on the security situation and an end to the threats to the security of society. This is similar to what Mr. Mubarak has said for decades. The state of emergency has never been lifted. The statement also says that media and communications will be liberalized and no extralegal constraints will be imposed on them. But liberalized is never defined, nor is it clear that Egypt is willing to allow the free flow of information over the Internet. The White House took no issue with Mr. Suleimans statement; administration officials said it looked like the setting of some clear goals. On Monday, Mr. Obama said Mr. Suleimans talks with opposition leaders the day before were making progress. Andrew McGregor, author of a 2006 military history of Egypt, said mixed messages coming from the Obama administration are not a surprise. It was predictable that the U.S. response would be confusing at first, said Mr. McGregor, of the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington research center. The Obama administration obviously wants to support democracy.
But the U.S. has been backing the military regime in Egypt for 30 years. Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council, said that the administration was responding to a rapidly changing situation in Egypt. The facts on the ground are changing every day, Mr. Vietor said. When you have a situation like this, all you can do is articulate your core principles, like universal rights for all people, and free and fair elections.
Les gouverneurs et maires elus peuvent etre partiellement ou totalement depouilles de leurs attributions, transferables au "peuple souverain" dans des "communes socialistes". La menace vise les ediles appartenant a l'opposition.Cet arsenal de lois, adopte a la va-vite, reprend des dispositions contenues dans un projet de Constitution socialiste rejete par referendum en decembre 2007. Ce dont le peuple n'a pas voulu, Hugo Chavez l'a fait approuver trois ans plus tard par ses representants. Le president a de la suite dans les idees.Il n'a concede qu'un seul recul tactique en renoncant - provisoirement ? - a la loi qui devait abolir l'autonomie des universites, face a la levee de boucliers des etudiants et des enseignants. Il n'a rien a craindre du cote de la justice : la Cour supreme a ete inopinement renouvelee. Ses 41 nouveaux juges sont des "sympathisants" de la Revolution, dont d'anciens deputes du parti au pouvoir.Le "plan de route" d'Hugo Chavez est tout trace. Dix-huit mois de gouvernement par decret lui ouvriront la voie de la prochaine campagne presidentielle. "Ce soldat sera candidat en 2012", dit-il de lui-meme. Qui en doutait ?Sur le ton mi-agressif, mi-hableur qu'il affectionne, le chef de l'Etat previent ses opposants qu'ils "n'auront plus jamais la majorite au Parlement", et qu'"ils ne retourneront plus au palais (presidentiel) de Miraflores". Il laisse le chef d'etat-major de l'armee marteler que celle-ci ne tolerera pas une victoire electorale de l'opposition.Hugo Chavez est deja en campagne. Et l'intendance suivra. En 2010, le budget de la presidence a sextuple par rapport a 2009. Ce gros milliard d'euros finance notamment la securite, les voyages, la communication et les depenses domestiques du president. Un seul exemple : le renouvellement et l'entretien de sa garde-robe, civile et militaire, coutent au contribuable venezuelien 325 000 euros par an. Mais, comme chacun sait, la revolution n'a pas de prix.
The EconomistCURFEW hours are getting shorter in Cairo. As of Monday they were only between 8pm and 6am. But the night still belongs to the men who proudly defend their neighbourhood as part of neighbourhood-watch type committees, even though the looting and violence of last week has largely subsided. Banks are re-opening, but with restrictions on how much cash can be withdrawn and shorter working hours. Cairos traffic is being re-directed around its barricaded hub in Tahrir Square, where lots of protesters remain, slowed down by many checkpoints, but this is a city long-used to traffic jams. Most schools remain closed, but even so something close to normalcy is beginning to return. Egypt is stuck in a not-quite-revolutionary limbo, and a fog has set over its political horizon.Some things are clear: Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president, has now been relegated, in the publics eye at least, to a secondary role. His new vice president, Omar Suleiman, now looks like the regimes strongman. It was Mr Suleiman who announced that Mr Mubaraks son, Gamal, would not be running for president. It is Mr Suleiman who is holding court with various opposition groups to prepare for the process of transition many Egyptians demand. And it is Mr Suleiman that outsiders, particularly the Obama administration, appear to be backing in the name of restoring stability to Egypt.Beyond this, however, Egyptian politics remain as chaotic as Cairos central square, now a tent city that is gaining permanency with every passing day. There, thousands continue to chant that they demand the end of the regime. For them, the negotiations are largely irrelevant as long as Mr Mubarak remains in place. The youth movements that organised the protests have still not forgiven more established opposition groups for rallying to them late, and then only hesitantly. Legal parties such as the Wafd party and Tagammu, long part of a loyal opposition to Mr Mubarak, have agreed to negotiate. Members of the National Association for Change, an umbrella group advocating for reform, have met with Mr Suleiman. But the group's leader, Mohammed ElBaradei, has refused to negotiate while Mr Mubarak remains in power, as do other parties. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group which has provided the most substantive opposition to Mr Mubarak's regime for many years, in what may be a historic first, was invited to take part in negotiations. But the Brothers remain ambivalent about how to proceed.Egypts opposition may have lost the initiative, successfully driven apart by the regimes invitation, but perhaps even more hampered by its inability to speak for both the revolutionaries in Tahrir Square and for the wider Egyptian public. Like the country itself, it finds itself torn between a desire for change and the understandable urge by a population unused to such upheaval to return to normalcy.The government has capitalised on this national divide. It has orchestrated the relaunch of the National Democratic Party (NDP), whose headquarters burned for three days last week. A new steering committee has been put in charge, made up of supposed "reformist" personalitiesalthough some are the same individuals who
were close to Gamal Mubaraks wing of the NDP. Ministers and senior officials have adopted a take-charge attitude on state television and are using it to dampen the calls for reform from Tahrir Square with doom-laden warnings over the countrys security. On every channel, an Egyptian flag flutters, imprinted with the words "Protect Egypt" as presenters aired allegations of conspiracies by Israel, Iran and Hamasan unlikely trio to join forces against the land of the Nile.
The EconomistIslam is growing. But ageing and slowing. That will change the world Jan 27th 2011 | from PRINT EDITION ARE Muslims taking over the world, or at a minimum, transforming Europe into Eurabia? Whatever your hopes or fears for the future of the worlds religions, a report published this week has plenty to stoke them. The Future of the Global Muslim Population, produced by the Pew Research Centre, a non-profit outfit based in Washington, DC, reckons Muslim numbers will soar from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030. In other words, from 23.4% to 26.4% of the global total. At the heart of its analysis is the ongoing effect of a youth bulge which peaked in 2000. In 1990 Islams share of the worlds youth was 20%; in 2010, 26%. In 2030 it will be 29% (of 15-to-29-year-olds). But the Muslim world is slowly heading towards paunchiness: the median age in Muslim-majority countries was 19 in 1990. It is 24 now, and will be 30 by 2030. (For French, Germans and Japanese the figure is 40 or over.) This suggests Muslim numbers will ultimately stop climbing, but later than the rest of the world population. The authors call their calculations demographic, not political. Drawing on earlier Pew research, they say conversion is not a big factor in the global contest between Islam, Christianity and other faiths; the converts balance out. Nor do they assess piety; via the imperfect data of the United Nations, the European Union and national statistics, they aim simply to measure how many people call themselves Muslim, at least culturally, if asked.New numbers, they say, will change the world map. As Indonesia prospers, its birth rate is falling; South Asias remains very high. By 2030, 80m extra mouths in Pakistan will boost its Muslim numbers to 256m, ousting Indonesia (with 239m) as the most populous Islamic land. Indias Muslim minority will be nearly as large at 236mthough growth is slowing there too. And in 2030 Indias Muslims will still constitute only a modest 15.9% of that countrys swelling total, against 14.6% now. The report asserts no causal link between Islamic teaching and high fertility rates, although it notes that poverty and poor education are a problem in many Muslim lands. In Muslim countries such as Bangladesh and Turkey, it observes, the lay and religious authorities encourage birth control. Better medical care and lower mortality boost poor-country population numbers too. Some bleak findings concern Nigeria, where Muslim numbers are seen rising to 117m in 2030 from 76m now, edging up from 47.9% to 51.5% of the population. Illiteracy among Nigerian women of child-bearing age is three times as high among Muslims (71.9%) as among others (23.9%). Two-thirds of Nigerian Muslim women lack any formal education; that goes for just over a tenth of their non-Muslim sisters. The fertility rate is between six and seven children per Muslim woman, versus five for non-Muslims. It is hard to prove that these factors are related, but they do seem to form a pattern.Eurabian nightsThe total Muslim share of Europes population
is predicted to grow from 6% now to 8% in 2030: hardly the stuff of nightmares. But amid that are some sharp rises. The report assumes Britain has 2.9m Muslims now (far higher than the usual estimates, which suggest 2.4m at most), rising to 5.6m by 2030. As poor migrants start families in Spain and Italy, numbers there will rocket; in France and Germany, where some Muslims are middle-class, rises will be more modestthough from a higher base. Russias Muslims will increase to 14.4% or 18.6m, up from 11.7% now (partly because non-Muslims are declining). The report takes a cautious baseline of 2.6m American Muslims in 2010, but predicts the number will surge by 2030 to 6.2m, or 1.7% of the populationabout the same size as Jews or Episcopalians. In Canada the Muslim share will surge from 2.8% to 6.6%. How will liberal democracies accommodate such variety? The clarity of a written constitution may give America an advantage over many European countries, where unwritten custom has more sway. Jonathan Laurence, an Islam-watcher and professor at Boston College, thinks Europe could rise to the challenge, but failure is also easy to imagine. Europes Muslims should, by 2030, have become articulate and effective political bargainers. But with nativism on the march, it is also highly possible that Muslims will come to feel they have less in common with their fellow citizens than with their growing band of co-religionists elsewhere.
sua maestria em manipular o jogo politico em causa propria gargalha as custas do eleitor. Dilma, que mais uma vez se mostrou uma verdadeira MENTIROSA, humilha a todos os seus eleitores que votaram nela confiando em sua palavra e da um passo determinante para a supressao do Direito a Vida a todos os brasileiros que estao para nascer, violando a Convencao Americana de Direitos Humanos, da qual o Brasil e signatario e tem forca vinculante a Constituicao, e que garante o Direito a Vida desde o inicio da concepcao. Ate quando o brasileiro - maioritariamente contrario ao aborto - vai ficar sentado olhando esse governo tiranico destruir as nossas criancas? Manifestacao ja!
Entenda em 5 minutos porque o PLC 03/2013 deve ser integralmente vetado.O PLC 03/2013 qualifica como violencia sexual qualquer forma de atividade sexual nao consentida (artigo 3) e da a qualquer mulher que alegue ser vitima, atendimento emergencial - ou seja, imediato - independente da comprovacao do fato, do tempo em que o fato ocorreu e garante (artigo 1) atendimento integral incluindo o aborto.Para essa lei nao e necessario que a mulher apresente qualquer sinal, qualquer evidencia, por menor que seja, de violencia, de violacao, de exploracao sexual. A tal "atividade sexual nao consentida" e uma expressao vaga e intencionalmente criada para ser aplicada com facilidade em uma imensidao de casos. Ela pode tanto significar um triste estupro de fato, ate um ato sexual feito num dia em que a mulher nao estava disposta a se relacionar com seu marido mas mesmo assim resolveu agrada-lo, ou um ato sexual feito num momento aonde um casal se relaciona sob algum efeito de alcool irresponsavel etc. Como a lei nao preve objecao de consciencia ao hospital, e nao e funcao de um hospital averiguar a veracidade da alegacao, qualquer mulher que simplesmente invente uma historia, tera acesso garantido ao aborto. Isso mesmo.Ou seja, uma mulher que com 2, 3, 8 meses de gestacao, va ate um hospital alegando que sua gravidez foi fruto de uma atividade sexual nao consentida - ja que a lei nao diz o prazo para se apresentar no hospital apos o ato, nao pede nenhuma prova ou exame para comprovar um estupro, deixando aberto a interpretacao da sua definicao de violencia sexual - deve ter atendimento emergencial com plenos direitos de abortar o proprio filho. Aqueles que pensam que esse projeto de lei visa apenas ajudar as mulheres vitimas de estupro sao na realidade vitimas de engodo intelectual e certamente nao leram o conteudo dos termos do PLC 03/2013 e tampouco acompanham as estrategias internacionais de legalizacao do aborto, que sempre sao feitas atraves da criacao de brechas legais, como uma das proprias mentoras da industria abortista internacional - Adrienne Germain - confessa:"Assegurar ao maximo a prestacao de servicos previstos pelas leis existentes que permitem o aborto em certas circunstancias possibilita abrir caminho para um acesso cada vez mais amplo...Deste modo os provedores de aborto poderao fazer uso de uma definicao mais ampla do que constitui um perigo para a vida da mulher e tambem poderao considerar o estupro conjugal como uma razao justificavel para interromper uma gravidez dentro da excecao referente ao estupro" (Germain, A & Kim, T. Incrementando el acceso al aborto seguro: estrategias para la accion. New York: International Womens Health Coalition; 1998. p.8)Quer saber o que fazer? Acesse ja http://vida.infsite.org O acaso nao produz ordem. Essa premissa, basica no pensamento de Santo Tomas de Aquino, tem sobrevivido a todas as epocas e culturas porque se baseia numa analise da realidade que nao pode ser refutada. Nunca se ouviu dizer que um bolo de cenoura com calda de chocolate tivesse sido produzido sem que uma pessoa, dotada de inteligencia, nao seguisse a risca uma receita, organizando ingredientes
e tempos, a fim de alcancar o ponto certo da massa e a docura exata da calda. Tampouco se ouviu dizer que um livro fosse publicado sem que uma cadeia inteira de inteligencias, desde o escritor, passando pelo editor, diagramador e produtor grafico, nao tivessem se debrucado com afinco para a realizacao de tal obra por um determinado tempo.Nada acontece por acaso. Mas infelizmente, quando adentramos no mundo politico, muitas pessoas realmente acreditam que determinados efeitos de certas leis sao fruto do mero acaso, criadas ao leu por gente muito bem intencionada, como se nada daquilo houvesse sido pacientemente planejado e pensado. Um exemplo disto foi a recente sancao da presidente Dilma ao famigerado PLC03/2013 - agora batizada de Lei No 12.845/2013 - que para imensa maioria das pessoas representa apenas uma lei amiga das pobres mulheres vitimas de estupro, mas que na realidade, tratava de um passo decisivo num longo caminho, iniciado ha 25 anos com a vinda da fundacao MacArthur ao Brasil, para a implementacao do aborto total e irrestrito em nosso pais. Para quem ignora o desenvolvimento da historia, os agentes dos acontecimentos, as fontes primarias nas cadeias dos eventos, tudo se torna Teoria da Conspiracao. Contudo, quando um agente diz que vai conduzir um processo para atingir determinado fim, quando esse mesmo agente diz que esta atingindo suas metas e por fim torna publico sua satisfacao no trabalho concluido, acreditar em Teoria da Conspiracao e agir como um avestruz que enterra a propria cabeca no buraco. Quando afirmamos que a Lei No 12.845/2013 pode tambem ser chamada de Lei Cavalo de Troia, estamos apenas constatando a realidade tal qual ela se apresenta a quem quer que preste atencao ao proprio executor dos eventos. No ano de 2004, a Fundacao MacArthur, publicou um relatorio chamado "Lessons Learned 1990-2002" confessando sua atuacao como agente de legalizacao do aborto no Brasil desde 1988, atraves do financiamento de ONGS que trabalhariam como lobbystas para aprovacao de politicas publicas para o atendimento de mulheres "vitimas de violencia de genero", celebrando a criacao da Norma Tecnica para o aborto e a criacao de uma legislacao mais liberal que incluia outras tantas excecoes para a aplicacao do aborto total e irrestrito no nosso pais. O eixo desse trabalho, anunciado de antemao por essa fundacao seria sempre atraves da capitalizacao das vitimas de violencia sexual, e assim foi feito desde o comeco da decada de 90, sendo o PLC 03/2013, a Lei Cavalo de Troia, apenas mais uma etapa nessa empreitada. Nao por acaso a Lei Cavalo de Troia, aprovada como PLC 03/2013, se tratava de uma alteracao de projeto de lei que tramitava na casa desde 1991, a entao PL 20-1991, criada 3 anos apos a entrada da Fundacao MacArthur no Brasil, e que pretendia a obrigacao de se realizar abortos em todos os hospitais do SUS para casos de violencia segundo as normas internas criadas pelo Hospital do Jabaquara - o primeiro hospital brasileiro com tecnologia e atendimento para o abortamento previsto para os casos de estupro conquistada pela entao prefeita de Sao Paulo,