A importação da violência política do Bangladesh para Portugal

 

The three major parties in Bangladesh are the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Bangladesh Awami League and Jatiya Party. The BNP finds its allies among some Islamist parties like Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh while the Awami League aligns itself traditionally with leftist and secularist parties such as Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal.

Another important player is the Jatiya Party, headed by late Hussain Muhammad Ershad's brother GM Quader. The Awami League-BNP rivalry has been bitter and punctuated by protests, violence and murder. Student politics is particularly strong in Bangladesh, a legacy from the liberation movement era. Almost all parties have highly active student wings, and students have been elected to the parliament.

Three radical Islamist parties, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB) and Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Harkatul Jihad were banned in February 2004 on grounds of militancy and terrorism.[4] Following the first series of bans, a series of bomb attacks took place in the country in August 2005.

The evidence of staging these attacks by these extremist groups have been found in the investigation, and hundreds of suspected members were detained in numerous security operations in 2006, including the two chiefs of the JMB, Shaykh Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai, who were executed with other top leaders in March 2007, bringing the radical parties to an end.[5] 

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Soon, we will have more and more of these conflicts between 

different bangladeshi parties, in Portugal

 

Setor privado representa mais de metade da oferta hospitalar em Portugal

 

No âmbito da operação por privados, 35% do total das camas estão nas mãos de cinco operadores: Trofa Saúde, Luz Saúde, José de Mello, Lusíadas e Grupo HPA Saúde, segundo estudo da CBRE sobre o setor das residências sénior e cuidados de saúde. O setor privado representa 54% da oferta hospitalar em Portugal, dispondo de 131 hospitais com aproximadamente 11.700 camas, revela um estudo divulgado, esta quinta-feira, pela CBRE Portugal que nota um dinamismo crescente no mercado português.

Em comunicado, a consultora imobiliária nota que "o mercado português tem vindo a registar um dinamismo crescente oferecendo diversas oportunidades de investimento", considerando que em 2050 mais de um terço da população portuguesa será idosa e Portugal o terceiro país mais envelhecido da União Europeia. Em 2020, 23% da população portuguesa tinha mais de 65 anos comparando com 21% na UE, mas como refere "é expectável que até 2026 esta percentagem em Portugal cresça para 34%. 

Além disso, enfatiza, citando dados oficiais, o montante gasto pelos portugueses em cuidados de saúde tem vindo a aumentar ano após ano, atingindo 26,5 mil milhões de euros em 2023, o que representa 10% do PIB português, e traduz um crescimento de 50% em relação a 2016. O montante alocado a cuidados em ambulatório (ou seja, sem internamento dos pacientes) representou 46% do valor gasto pelas famílias, totalizando 1.074 euros "per capita".

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Donald Trump: “Vamos começar a cobrar àqueles que lucram às nossas custas”.

 

Trump anuncia que vai criar organismo para cobrar impostos a outros países

O Serviço de Receitas Externas (ERS, na sigla em inglês), como se designará, será lançado a 20 de janeiro, dia da tomada de posse do republicano como 47.º Presidente dos Estados Unidos, em que se espera que tome as primeiras decisões do seu segundo mandato na Casa Branca (2025-2029).

Donald Trump criticou também os “acordos comerciais suaves e pateticamente fracos” até agora em vigor. “A economia norte-americana proporcionou crescimento e prosperidade ao mundo, enquanto nos tributava a nós mesmos”, afiançou.

O tema das tarifas aduaneiras – “tarifa”, assumiu Trump, é “a palavra mais bonita do dicionário” – tem sido recorrente nos seus discursos nos meses. O presidente eleito anunciou que imporá uma taxa aduaneira de 25% ao México e ao Canadá sobre todos os produtos que entrem no país e tenciona aplicar outra, de 10%, a todos os produtos chineses, até que Pequim trave a entrada de fentanil em território norte-americano.

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A nice cartoon...

 

‘Built extremely quickly’: New China pics making experts sweat

 

 

It’s long been considered the final “red flag” for Beijing’s plans to invade Taiwan. Now, satellite photos have revealed a scary development.

Now, satellite photos have revealed the construction of a new fleet of D-Day-style landing barges needed to surge troops and tanks over a beach.

Naval analyst H I Sutton has published a report in Naval News highlighting the appearance of between three and five new “special and unusual” barges at Guangzhou Shipyard in southern China.

Such barges should not be “special” or “unusual”.

In fact, they are a relatively ordinary sight at riverside and coastal construction projects.

But these particular barges at the Chinese dual-use civilian-military construction facility don’t fit that profile.

“The barges are reminiscent of the Mulberry Harbours built for the allied invasion of Normandy during World War II,” Sutton observes.

“Like those, these have been built extremely quickly and to novel designs.”

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Zorba the Greek

 

"Sweet Banana", 2nd African Rifle, Rhodesian Armed Forces

 

Biden administration removes Cuba from state sponsors of terrorism list

The Catholic Church had been negotiating with Cuba to free hundreds of political prisoners, many of whom were jailed following unprecedented protests in July 2021.

Cuba said it will release 553 political prisoners after the Biden administration announced Tuesday it is removing Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and taking other “goodwill” actions.

The Catholic Church had been negotiating with the communist-run government over the release of the prisoners. Most of them were jailed following unprecedented islandwide protests in July 2021. A brutal crackdown initially led to the arrests of more than 1,000 people. Many faced prison sentences of up to 30 years.

"I thank all those who contributed to the decision announced today by the United States to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, where it should never have been," Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel wrote on X. "Together with two other measures adopted, they have had a high cost for the country and Cuban families."

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