terça-feira, 30 de setembro de 2025
"Política de imigração irresponsável terminou." (TSF)
Direita garante
aprovação, esquerda ataca Governo que negociou "às escondidas com
extrema-direita". Chega saúda "maioria de direita que vai regular a imigração e criar mais regras" e sugere a "reimigração"
Odemira, onde ser imigrante pode ser uma "vantagem", vai a votos
Como o ébano da índia, aos 85 anos, Daniel da Luz ainda se levanta todos os dias para dar forma à viola típica do Alentejo — a campaniça. E a 12 de outubro há de levantar-se de novo, mas desta vez para deitar o voto na urna. "Não quero deixar tudo nas mãos dos outros. Quero fazer parte também. Sei que isto está muito renhido. Este ano acho que há para aí pretendentes aos lugares que vão prometer muita coisa que não vão fazer, de certeza. Mas isso nós já estamos habituados", atira. O socialista e recandidato à presidência da câmara, Hélder Guerreiro, não esconde o amargo de boca ao fim do primeiro mandato, mas mostra-se otimista.
"Fizemos só cinco milhões de euros em habitação e tínhamos prontos pelo menos 23 milhões de euros para fazer habitação. Mas não tendo sido possível concretizar por falta de financiamento, esperamos mesmo que o próximo mandato seja de concretização dessa habitação", assume. Também o candidato da CDU, Luis Cardoso, promete investir em habitação púbica, apontando que, quem quer casa em Odemira, não encontra.
"E, quando encontra, é a preços impraticáveis. Ou seja, os rendimentos que a pessoa tem, provavelmente, terá de despender à volta de 60 a 80% só para habitação. Mesmo em São Luís não há habitação e não há nenhuma comunidade imigrante, mas ali também já se nota essa questão do preço: um T2 custa entre a 800 a 900 euros", sublinha. Já havemos de voltar à imigração — ou não estivéssemos em Odemira —, mas, para já, voltemos às casas, e ao candidato da CDU.
"Os últimos loteamentos municipais que foram construídos foram na altura que a CDU estava no executivo. A câmara municipal simplesmente colocou lotes a preços acessíveis para os jovens, só que hoje em dia são poucos os jovens que conseguem construir uma casa", denuncia. Mais habitação camarária é o que pede o candidato do Chega, Rui Campos Silva, que alerta que a crise na habitação tem afastado médicos e professores do concelho.
"Há 20 anos que a câmara não constrói uma casa em Odemira. E, para nós, é fundamental e quase uma medida imediata fazermos casas em Odemira com renda acessível. Os valores da renda estão equiparados a Almada, Vila Nova de Gaia e Loures. E, na verdade, os professores não têm capacidade para ter uma casa e, por isso, não se fixam em Odemira", explica.
Mas esta realidade impede igualmente a presença de enfermeiros e polícias, acrescentou o candidato que quer conseguir para o Chega uma câmara que foi sempre governada à esquerda. O problema da habitação em Odemira não é novo, mas a pandemia expôs as casas sobrelotadas dos imigrantes que trabalham estes campos.
Hélder Guerreiro considera, ainda assim, que o quadro tem melhorado, até pelo tipo de imigração que agora tem sido praticado. "Sobre isso, não tenho dúvidas nenhumas. Não vale a pena dizermos que acabou, porque não acabou. Nos últimos quatro/cinco anos passamos de um fluxo migratório muito só de homens para um fluxo migratório com mulheres e crianças. Essa é uma realidade que tem ajudado também a que a sobrelotação fosse esvanecendo, porque mulheres, crianças e casais já não procuram tanto ou não podem viver tanto assim, em casas onde existem 15 homens", sustenta.
Ram Hari é exemplo disso mesmo: é nepalês, mora em Odemira há dez anos e trabalha no setor da agricultura. Há cinco anos, a mulher e o filho mais velho juntaram-se, e a família alugou a casa onde agora conversa com a TSF. Foi já em território português que nasceu o segundo filho do casal. "Antes eu ficava numa casa da empresa, mas agora, quando a minha família veio para aqui, eu pago sozinho a renda. Mas agora [a casa] está pequena, porque antes estava aqui sozinho. Agora somos mais e quarto só há um. O meu filho mais velho dorme na sala. Isso é difícil", expõe.
Hoje, o jantar é caril de frango, mas podia nem ser: "Quando vou restaurante, eu como bacalhau." E, no entanto, a integração podia estar a correr melhor, reconhece
"Eu falo português mais ou menos. Às 19h00, quando eu saio [do trabalho], eu vou para a escola ler e escrever. Agora eu falo um bocadinho, mas no campo não há portugueses. Os trabalhadores são nepaleses, indianos, bengalis", explica.
Por isso mesmo, Ram Hari, que vai votar nestas autárquicas, pede mais aulas de português para estrangeiros. Este é também o conselho que deixa a todos que cá chegam. "Eu digo sempre que precisam de ir para a escola. Primeiro, [precisas de saber] falar português", conta. Um conselho que parece ser seguido por muitos, revela Hélder Guerreiro.
"Neste último mandato, em vez de, como nos outros territórios todos do Alentejo, fechar escolas, fomos obrigados a abrir cerca de 15 escolas é porque, de facto, o fluxo migratório mudou e trouxe novos desafios ao território", evidencia. Prova disso mesmo são as longas filas nas finanças e na segurança social, um problema que se vê em Odemira, mas que é agravado por um fator não tão visível: o fecho da conservatória.
"É caricato. Uma pessoa que queira fazer um bilhete de identidade ou um cartão de cidadão, ou um passaporte tem de ir ao concelho vizinho de Sines, ou então Ourique. E neste momento até os autarcas já se queixam que 60% do atendimento é do concelho de Odemira", alerta o comunista Luís Cardoso. Mas o socialista Hélder Guerreiro garante que a Câmara faz o que pode.
"Temos feito imensa pressão e, além disso, temo-nos disponibilizado com recursos humanos, ou seja, que pudesse haver uma mobilidade da câmara municipal para esses serviços públicos. Efetivamente, isso não tem sido possível por uma razão bastante simples: no mandato de quatro anos, nós tivemos quatro Governos diferentes. A nossa expectativa agora é que possa haver mais tempo", sustenta. É uma questão de fé, mas, para o Chega, o problema está na imigração.
"Não temos serviços de saúde que comportem a vinda de tanta gente para aqui. Temos problemas de segurança porque a capacidade da polícia é muito pouca para aquilo que nós realmente precisamos. Temos muitas crianças de nacionalidade indostânica e que chocam culturalmente com os alunos cujos pais são aqui de Odemira. São culturas completamente distintas", advoga. Já o candidato da CDU, que nasceu em Cabo Verde, já lá vão 54 anos, vive há 30 em Odemira e acredita, por outro lado, que ser imigrante pode ser uma vantagem. "Será uma vantagem porque não há ninguém melhor do que eu para tentar explicar e demonstrar que esses processos não são justos. Coragem tenho e nunca me faltou. Dou a cara e vou à luta", garante.
Mas a voz também serve para reconhecer que há problemas com alguns imigrantes. "Mas não são esses imigrantes que todos os dias se levantam às 05h00 e depois regressam às 19h00. Não são esses que andam aos tiros. Está uma máfia muito bem instalada. Estes trabalhadores estão cá a ser explorados por essa máfia, já sofrem por essa situação e era muito mau continuarem a sofrer também do outro lado. Como se diz, eles estão a pagar as favas" do preconceito, ressalva.
E com o hospital mais próximo a 70 km, Rui Campos Silva quer dar urgência à saúde. "Temos esta situação geográfica que é completamente anormal a nível nacional e temos de, junto do Ministério da Saúde, perceber se podemos transformar um centro de saúde numa pequena instalação que seja equiparada a um hospital", entende. Já o candidato do PS aposta no turismo — científico e de saúde. "É algo que já começamos a trabalhar com a Universidade Nova de Lisboa: tentar encontrar a certificação para um território que é bom frequentar turisticamente para melhorar as condições de saúde de cada um", considera.
Mas Odemira tem um dos salários médios mais baixos do país. Hélder Guerreiro faz, por isso, da modernização económica a bandeira do próximo mandato, se for reeleito. "Jovens com especialidades nas áreas tecnológicas e inovação, a partir daquilo que é a base de produção do território, é aí onde queremos realmente fomentar a elevação do salário médio no território", adianta.
Talvez algum se possa qualificar com o mestre Daniel da Luz. "Para deixar isto entregue a alguém, agora tenho ali um americano que tem um curso de maestro, que apareceu aqui em São Teotónio para fazer uma viola campaniça", remata.
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Muslims live like people used to live in Middle Ages - Danish Minister for Immigration, Integration, and Housing, Inger Støjberg,
The former Danish Minister for Immigration, Integration, and Housing, Inger Støjberg, succinctly expressed her point of view—shared by all those present, who responded with prolonged applause—during a meeting with right-wing party members:
"If you live according to the text of the Qur'an, it is difficult to live in the Western world. Because living according to the Qur'an is like living in the Middle Ages."
When questioned by the journalist, she rejected any accusation that the party was racist. "This party is fighting for Danish values," she stated.
Denmark's immigration policy has changed, leading to a reduction in the number of immigrants and their concentration in camps, which currently house around 40,000 immigrants.
60 Minutes Quietly Stopped Posting on X Days After Elon Musk Tweeted Their Reporters Should Get a ‘Long Prison Sentence’
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) was on 60 Minutes Sunday evening — a timely guest in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination in his state — but you’d never know it from the program’s X feed. The weekly Sunday show has not tweeted since February. 60 Minutes’ sudden silence on Elon Musk’s social media platform was reported by Awful Announcing’s Sam Neumann, who noted “the most-watched newsmagazine in America, a show that’s been appointment television for 57 years — just stopped tweeting.”
The show’s official account last posted for its 1.2 million followers on February 19, sharing clips of interviews with Bob Dylan, Timothée Chalamet (who played Dylan in the film A Complete Unknown), and Harry Shifman, one of Chalamet’s high school drama teacher. But it does not seem to be anything related to Chalamet’s film or Dylan’s music that drove 60 Minutes off The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter, wrote Neumann.
Instead, he wrote, it looks like it was a 60 Minutes story a few days earlier about USAID being defunded — a story that expressly commented on Musk’s role in ending the funding that supporters have credited with saving millions of lives and maintaining American soft power around the world world. “It was Musk who called USAID employees worms,” said host Scott Pelley in the clip below. “In a post, he gloated about feeding the agency into the ‘wood chipper.’ The world’s richest man cut off aid for the world’s poorest families. Musk spent nearly $250 million to get Trump and other Republicans elected.”
Shortly after the show posted a link to the story, Musk tweeted, “60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election. They deserve a long prison sentence.”
Musk’s tweeted attacks and the program’s quiet exit from his platform came amidst months of upheaval for 60 Minutes, including vociferous criticism by President Donald Trump and a lawsuit he filed complaining about how the program’s interview of then-Vice President Kamala Harris was edited, friction over the merger between CBS parent company Paramount and Skydance Media, 60 Minutes’ longtime executive producer Bill Owens resigning in protest over the anticipated caving to Trump, other 60 Minutes reporters publicly lambasting their employer, a new executive producer in July, and Paramount agreeing to settle Trump’s lawsuit for $16 million — despite many legal experts viewing the president’s case as weak and unable to survive a First Amendment defense.
CBS News and other CBS programs continue to post on X, and 60 Minutes is still posting on numerous other social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, and TikTok, as Neumann pointed out.
“When government officials can threaten to jail journalists for editorial decisions, and news organizations feel compelled to limit their distribution in response, that’s a democracy story, not just a media story,” wrote Neumann, and “it says a great deal about the modern political and media environment” that 60 Minutes’ exodus from Musk’s X went so long without being noticed.
“What’s clear is that we’re looking at a situation where a major news organization stopped using a significant distribution platform immediately after its owner called for their imprisonment,” Neumann concluded. “The timing alone makes this worth going further under the hood, even if we might already know the answer.”
Mediaite reached out to CBS for comment but did not receive a response.
Mystery fleet of US Air Force tankers crossing Atlantic stirs echoes of Iran strike ahead of secret military meeting
By ELINA SHIRAZI, US SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER Daily Mail)
Published: 18:25 BST, 29 September 2025 | Updated: 05:25 BST, 30 September 2025
Flight trackers have spotted a fleet of US air tankers crossing the Atlantic just as Donald Trump prepares to meet with generals and admirals on Tuesday. Around a dozen KC-135R/T Stratotankers were making the journey on Sunday night, with several en route to RAF Mildenhall - a major Air Force base in England, open-source intelligence (OSINT) accounts reported on X. The presence of air tankers can indicate that the US or Nato is addressing an urgent military requirement for fighter jet refueling capacity.
The deployment carries ominous weight, according to three Defense Department sources - two former, one current - who spoke to the Daily Mail on condition of anonymity. The last time the US moved tankers in comparable numbers was five days before American warplanes struck Iran's nuclear facilities. Trump is meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.
The movement of the Stratotankers comes as Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are preparing to hold a shadowy meeting of the nation's top military leaders at Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday. The unprecedented meeting, first reported by the Washington Post last week, has raised alarm. Hundreds of generals and admirals, including those in active conflict zones, have been summoned from around the world - with no details of what will be discussed at the summit.
Behnam Taleblu, senior director of the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, tells the Daily Mail, while 'correlation is not causation', he can't help but think of the last time there was a mass tanker deployment by the United States.
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) X accounts reported that 'roughly a dozen' US Air Force KC-135R/T Stratotankers were flying making the journey on Sunday night, with several en route to RAF Mildenhall - a major USAF base in England
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) X accounts reported that 'roughly a dozen' US Air Force KC-135R/T Stratotankers were flying making the journey on Sunday night, with several en route to RAF Mildenhall - a major USAF base in England
Trump greets Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrives at the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday
'Soon after that something went boom in the Middle East. Critically, in Operation Midnight Hammer, the Trump administration executed a decoy or deception effort to mask the flight of the B-2 bombers to Iran,' Taleblu said, emphasizing that he is the only US president in two decades to deploy over military force against Iranian nuclear facilities. 'Big military movements on his watch are something to keep an eye on,' Taleblu added.
A former State Department diplomacy consultant tells the Daily Mail one explanation could be the US responding to Russian aerial and drone probes in the Baltic Sea, especially against Denmark, just days after they had to close their largest airport. 'Denmark's inability to defend its own airspace underscores White House concerns that it is unable to protect and defend its far larger and distant Greenland territory from increasing Chinese & Russian joint air and naval patrols in the emerging Arctic theater of strategic competition,' said John Sitilides, national security senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
The ongoing US military movements may also be linked to Exercise Cobra Warrior 25-2, a large-scale Nato training event running from September 12 to October 2 over the North Sea. This biannual operation could explain the visible surge in aerial activity as allied forces train for integrated military operations. Ultimately, the timing of the deployments are raising eyebrows, aligning with Hegseth's unexpected meeting in Quantico with top military officials in northern Virginia tomorrow.
A source close to Hegseth says that even the generals and admirals involved in the meeting still do not know the agenda details, entering the meeting blind just a day before they are expected to have their roundtable discussions.
An F-35A Lightning II receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 28th Expeditionary Aerial Refueling Squadron, at an undisclosed location (USAF file photo)
The former Pentagon official assessed it 'could be anything from a push–up contest to a meeting on national security.' Trump announced Sunday that he will attend the quickly organized global summit of the nation's top military commanders. This decision sets the stage for a rare and potentially consequential interaction between the president and senior US military leadership, even though Trump framed it as a 'nice meeting' with a 'good message.'
Sweden must have a restrictive immigration
"(...) Today, Sweden has fallen into a situation where the public joins conflicting values. Extremely high tolerance for immigration is combined with the fact that many do not socialize with non-European immigrants. In addition, there is widespread pessimism about the possibility to achieve integration. Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet (2016a) discusses this and Sweden’s often paradoxical culture in an interview with Associate Professor Bi Puranen at the Institute for Future Studies:
Three-quarters of the population believe that integration isn’t working well. Meanwhile, four out of ten Swedes don’t know any immigrants from a non- European country, according to new figures from SvD/Sifo. Yet Sweden is seen as a moral superpower. In a series of articles, Svenska Dagbladet investigates integration in Sweden, the world’s most different country. We see a new Sweden emerge, where “we” and “them” are becoming clearer. The resistance to accepting refugees continues to increase and integration is limping.
Sweden and the Swedes, who are we today and what do we represent? The current self-image, that we salute the Jante Law, bow down to Luther and are somewhat shy and introverted, is probably quite exaggerated. The Swede is rather a loner who celebrates privacy, with great trust in the state, and who continues to have relatively great respect for what’s different. This is shown by, among other things, Bi Puranen’s research.
She has also mapped out “culture and values collisions” – issues or opinions that stand out in comparison to other countries’ perceptions and which could be said to capture Swedishness in the year 2016: gender equality, religion, nationalism, views on premarital sex, abortion, parenting, divorce, LGBTQ issues, and domestic violence. Here, the Nordic countries – and mostly Sweden – differ from the international norm.
“This tolerance risks making us intolerant of other views and ideas and that we see ourselves as a moral superpower,” says Bi Puranen. Professor Assar Lindbeck has often been described as the doyen of Swedish economics, and expressed some unequivocally illustrious thoughts a few years back on an economics seminar (Lindbeck 2013):
Now, one should realize that these problems cannot be solved through a more flexible job market and increased wage distribution. It is, therefore, naive to believe that the employment difficulties of immigration can be solved by, during unrestricted immigration, allowing wages to fall to the level where low- skilled workers who can’t speak Swedish also get jobs.
A wealthy country like Sweden, with nine million inhabitants in a world of billions of poor people, could not possibly have unrestricted immigration. It must have a restrictive immigration. And it must be very restrictive if one is to protect the wages and welfare systems in wealthy nations.
This is absolutely inevitable. Even Gunnar Myrdal realized this many years ago when he wrote that the welfare state is a national project. With that, he believes that the benefits a nation manages to gain by successful economic development over a century cannot be offered the rest of the world without our system failing. "
Nearly 1 MILLION people in Britain can’t speak English,
ALMOST one million people in England speak little to no English — causing concerns over migrants’ integration. Official statistics show that ten per cent of residents born overseas struggle with the language.
The majority of migrants aged over 16 are able to speak English, with 51.6 per cent stating it as their main language, and 38.4 per cent saying they can speak it well.
But 8.6 per cent — equal to 794,332 people — “cannot speak English well”
And 1.4 per — equal to 137,876 — cannot speak it at all.
The startling figures have fuelled demands for stricter integration requirements. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “It beggars belief that so many people in the country can’t speak English. It shows Labour needs to get a grip on immigration, and fast.”
The data was disclosed to the Tories by the UK Statistics Authority last month using figures from the 2021 Census when the party was still in power. Party leader Kemi Badenoch has previously criticised the record of successive governments on integration.
Some visas require proof of English language proficiency, including those coming on skilled worker or study tickets. It was recently revealed the Department for Work and Pensions spent £27million on translators in the past five years.
PM Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to slash net migration by requiring bosses to train more home-grown workers rather than hiring from abroad. He is due to unveil his blueprint to cut arrival numbers in the coming months.
A Government spokesperson said: "The government engages regularly with faith communities to help foster strong working relationships. "We are working in partnership with local authorities to understand the housing and integration needs of new arrivals and how we can work together to ensure positive outcomes in communities.”
"The Sun"
Welcome to the road with the fewest English speakers: Residents reveal what they really think of their neighbours
The long rows of tiny Victorian terraced houses are like hundreds of others around the Midlands, the North and any of the towns and cities whose occupants powered Britain's industrial past.
But Mornington Street, in St Matthew's, Leicester, can 'boast' something the others cannot.
It is, according to official statistics, the road with the lowest proportion of English speakers in the UK. It's hardly a surprise to find that dubious title is claimed by a street in Leicester.
After all, according to the 2021 Census, only 57 per cent of the city's residents were born in England, down from 65 per cent in 2011.
Over the decades, Leicester has been the destination of choice for generations of incoming Bengali, Indian, Pakistani and Somalian migrants, along with many others, each finding groups of their own people, already settled in particular areas of the city.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer rattled many of his own Labour MPs this week with his 'Island of Strangers' speech, compared by many to Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' oratory, delivered in Birmingham in 1968.
And although he refused to put a cap on the number of migrants coming to Britain, the PM was adamant about the need for those who do come to assimilate.
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