Biggest wave ever surfed is portuguese

Well this is an old new (from 8th novembre 2011), but I've been delaying to post it because I wanted to see the documentary first but I already didn't. Anyway I've been a bit busy specially reading stuffs about economy and politics and so I forgot to write this here, but it'a about time.
Months ago I bought a newspaper talking about the Euro Crisis that it was suspected that Germany and France wanted to throw away poor countries (as Poortugal and Greece out of Euro and make a stronger Euro), like a new Berlin Wall. Moving on, I only knew about this thing of the big wave from that newspaper, as I don't use to see news on TV, and nobody talked about this with me (like never) I really didn't pay that much attention. Anyway there wasn't that fuss about this, it was a 2minute new on TV...and I think we should pay more attention to amazing news like this.
This one was a big, big wave! The biggest ever surfed with about 30 metres...the height of a 30 floor flat!!! Can you imagine that?

Who surfed that wave was the north-american surfer Garret McNamara, 44 years old, famous for surfing giant waves (Surfer-rides-biggest-wave-McNamara).
To be honest, I was unaware of the surfing power of the portuguese coast but in fact, Portugal has the only surfing reserve in Europe and the few surfing reserves in the World: there's only Santa Cruz and Malibu, in California USA.
The surf natural reserves were elected by organization Save the Waves that have the purpose of creating world wide surf reserves preserving the environment. There were nominated 126 wave zones from 34 different countries!
Garret McNamara surfed the giant wave in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal by chance when he was just surfing along being filmed for his documentary and the giant wave appeared suddenly...like a gift from mother-Earth, fortunatelly he could surf safe the dangerous wave and he was being filmed (if he wouldn't nobody would believe in such a thing).
I not even was aware that Portugal had giant waves, specially with astonishing 30 metres!!! But there's the scientific explanation: the beach Praia do Norte is under an effect known as "Nazaré Cannon",  that makes possible the generation of waves this big. It's a rare geomorphological accident, the biggest of Europe and one of the biggest of the World, that consists in a tectonic continental fault with about 170 km of length and 5km depth that channels ripple of the Atlantic Ocean to this beach.
This is what Garret said before surfing the wave: "It was amazing!Probably the biggest wave I ever surfed. Very powerful. None of the previous waves I surfed were this big and strong!"
Confronted with the possibility of disappear forever in that moment, Garret, married, with 3 sons, assumes consciously the risk that he's under: "if I had fall into that wave, probably I would have died. the wave was so powerful that could have killed me easily", he expalined. However, this time, he didn't had fear."Everything fell into place. I felt very well", he described.
And what does Garret think during that seconds on the top of that huge mass of water? " I always think positive, or that I'm gonna be ok and I'm gonna make it!".
Garret said: "after surfing that wave I didn't feel full of adrenaline. I was calm and relaxed, it was a zen experience very good. Everything was perfect!". To describe an experience near to suicide with esoteric language it's really needed to be in a very high level of communionwith nature...and that's the essence of surfing!
Portugal is really a small place of Heaven by seaside, you should come here to visit and do surfing...we have the plus of having no sharks in the area :)

"I feel so blessed and honoured to have been invited to explore this canyon and its special town. The waves here [Nazaré, Portugal] are such a mystery", says Garrett (in surfertoday).

Portugal, itself, is a mystery :)

The Invention of Hugo

Yesterday I went to the movie theatre to watch the movie: "The Invention of Hugo" in 3D from Martin Scorsese, a movie that is nomenated for 11 Oscars!
(Yes it only debuted in Portugal in Frebruary...)
The story of the movie is based in the book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" from Brian Selznick, and tell us the story of a 12 years old boy named Hugo Cabret that lives secretly in the walls of a train station of Paris, in 1930.
After the death of his father (a watchmaker that taught the kid how to fix the clocks), the young boy goes to live with his drunk uncle who makes him doing his work fixing the clocks of the train station, when his uncle disappears he still doing that in order to undercover his existence and so, avoid to go to an orphanage.
Then the adventure begins when the little boy fixes a mysterious object called automato and tries to discover a secret message.
I loved the movie, I was missing to watch something classic in the movies and Scorse managed a really beautiful way to combined the classic with the tecnology of 3D.
I just think it would be better to have that movie spoke in french and not english since it was in Paris, France and sometimes in the movies they combine english speaking with "monsieur" and "madame".
But that was asking a lot from american movies and american audience that is said to only know how to speak english (and  maybe they are very lazy and don't like reading the legends).
Anyway it was a brillant movie, I'm convinced that cinema needs more magic like that.

movie from Méliès: Le Voyage dans la Lune

For those who already watched the movie maybe can understand this: the movies by Georges Méliès showed in the movie reminded me the "Tonight" song from Smashing Pumpkins (who I saw last year performing :D): I mean it's totally similiar from the mermaids to the moon in shape of a cookie from the movie "le voyage dans la lune" (the trip to the moon).
 Smashing Pumpkins must have inspired in Méliès and made this fantastic song and video clip in his honor:

Gerges Méliès is a character of the movie too and doing researches I found out that he was a pioneer in the cinema combining photo effects in order to create fantastic worlds.
After all this is all it's all about lost dreams.
Happy endings sure only happens in the movies...

Is Demi Moore a vegetarian?

going naked heartless bitch? so just wear your own skin!

I was just watching videos on youtube about famous vegetarians and vegans when I see (in several of that videos) that the actress Demi Moore is said to be a vegetarian! Really? is that true? How can someone be a vegetarian and use real fur? that makes no sense at all!
If she is really a vegetarian so it's just because she is on a diet to mantain her elegancy (yes meat is grease and makes people win weight), the part of using fur anyway I don't know it must have something to do with being cruel and like to show everyone how filthy rich she is.
 So Demi Moore is a cruel bitch that loves wearing fur and don't care about the suffering of animals...in fact she looks like she is proud of wearing murdered animals skinned alive...otherwise she wouldn't wear that!

(I found the most stupid site about Demi Moore and its pro-fur in fashion it's called furinsider! take a look and see that there are a lot of sick persons around the world:
http://www.furinsider.com/demi-moore-divas-we-love-series-fur-fashion/)

Vegetarian

So I am a vegetarin half way to become a vegan. Why? because eating murdered animals that even lived a life full of horrors with no freedom is unethical and disgusting! Meat is murder and animals are friends, not food!
The production of meat is one of the main causes of emissions of green house gases and so, global warming, the production of meat means implies the devastation of large forest area (like what's happening in Amazonia: the soybean plantings are used to feed the animals and only then to feed people...we could feed so much more persons if we just eat the soy instead os making this whole process) and requires lots of water and energy.
Meat is full of crap and chemical substances harmful to health and it is the main cause of several cancers, obesity, cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes.
Concluding: being a vegetarian is good for your health, is good for the animals and is good for the environment.
About 58 billion animals are killed every year by the industry of meat, milk and eggs...this is a mass murder! a blood bath!!
This means that it's about 8 more times the actual global human population on Earth (we are 7 billion humans by now), which means if we all would eat meat we would be partners in the crime of 8 animals per year...but as we all know day by day several people die of hunger and many others are undernourished. Think about this: if we really all eat meat it would be catastrophe for the environment...and by know specially the chineses become admirers of the brazilian meat from cattle raised in Amazonia...
My story of becoming a vegetarian started when I was only 12 years old and I said to my family I wanted to become vegetarian.My parents didn't accept my decision they even beat me up for a while and slap me several times to make me change my mind (how stupid they were!!), and I don't have any shame to tell this I think that who  should have shame is people that eat meat and don't respect vegetarians...so I totally could become vegetarian when I was 15 (they quit beating me and the struggle finally paid off), and now I am 22!
During these 10 years I never got sick (I cannot even remember the last time I got sick), I'm a sportive person and I do swimming and I go to the gym and even lift weights there, I'm a tall person (1,74 m) and I'm not skinny in fact I have an athletic physiognomy so many times people doubt that I am a vegetarian because of that: they think vegetarians don't eat anything and are short and weack...but I do eat a lot, and a lot of different things, the only thing that vegetarians don't eat is any kind of animals (no meat, no fish, no shellfish). Is it too hard to understand? animals are friends not food! For God sake it even gets me shivers when in a regular restaurant the menu is : cow with chips, pork with rice, rabbit with salad, fried pig, grilled chicken, etc. Needless to say too I almost throw up when I pass by smelly food chains like KFC, McDonalds or Burguer King...even the smell makes me sick I don't even go in there to buy ice creams or juices.

McCruelty: I'm hatin eat!

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Well I don't eat animals but do I have something to do with the meat production anyway?
Unfortunatelly maybe!  Well I'm not a total vegan 'cause I eat chocolates sometimes (and the regular good chocolates aren't made of soy milk, actually I never saw vegan chocolates being sold), and some pastry products (made with cow milk), and cheese and eggs sometimes.
About the eggs what I have to say is that I don't like easting eggs and those who my parents buy is from free range chicken, about the eggs used in the pastry products...well that I don't know.
About the milk I drink specially with cereals is soy milk and the butter in my toasts is vegetal butter.
So being a vegetarian is much more easier than a vegan (they don't eat anything from animal sources), we've got more restaurants to go and products to eat but it might not be 100% ethical!
I mean it will be ok to drink cow milk, eat cheese and eggs if those animals weren't produced for the meat industry and live in free in the fields not in tiny dark caves!
I'm doing my best to minimize animal pain and really wish not being feeding the meat industry that mistreat animals so badly.
Being a vegetarian is tough, being a vegan is even more no doubt about that.
To me is inconceivable to eat animals, I think it's murder I just can't. And I'm not really the kind of vegetarian that respects people that eat meat: I have lunch alone at college when people don't eat in the macrobiotic section of the canteen 'cause I really don't feel like smelling the smell of dead animals and see people cutting meat with knives or even gnaw its bones. Also at home I eat alone because of that: I can't be at the same table with people eating meat, I refuse lots of invitations to have diner out (this when I used to receive invitations of course) 'cause they go to places with no vegetarian option...so they want me to go but they didn't found a place where I could actually go!
Fortunatelly in Portugal people eat simple things for breakfast like just cereals and cakes, but when I went to England and Denmark and smelled the smell of meat in the morning...I got really disgusted!
Vegetarians and vegans obtain proteins from vegetable sources like beans, soy, tofu and seitan...and it's nutritious and delicious!There's no need to eat animals!
I just wish slaughter houses and butchers to close and that the animals are treated with respect and love at all the open field farms where it would ethically ok for me to trade milk, eggs and cheese...like it was like years ago in the time of our grandparents.
My biggest wish is the kill to eat would never take place on Earth: humans can decide it, unfortunatelly some beatutiful creatures (like lions, tigers, bears,seals, etc) can't. And this is why I can't see documentaries I always cry 'cause they are always showing the hunting time and I wish lions and tigers to eat and live 'cause but I also wish the gazelles to survive. One of the last wildlife documentaries that I saw I brusted into tears: a gazelle gave birth to a bay gazelle...and the baby as soon as started walking was hunted and eated by a lion: the baby gazelle life was so short and before she could understand even what is like to being alive and know what the world is she just was killed. It was one of the sadness days of my life, I was a child and that scene never left my subconscious. So I love wildlife but can't see the documentaries.
I think that's when I started hating the world 'cause this world is full of blood and it's a massacre for surviving...
God, if he really exists, He must be a sadist: this natural order is a massacre, doesn't make any sense to me.
So if I have the choice to not finance the cruelty that's what I try to do, everyday: you may not have courage to kill the animals but someone killed it for you to eat so you're a partner in crime.
But we all defintely should stop eating meat and end forever with the fur industry and animal testing.
A more human society that cares for animal welfare is possible and we're more and more as time goes by.

activism agaisnt meat industry

MEAT IS MURDER! GO VEG AND SAVE ANIMALS, YOURSELF AND THE PLANET!

Stop the Murder in Syria!

Communication from Care2 petition site:

The Assad regime has killed over 7000 people since March of 2011. Every country on the UN Security Council, with the exception of China and Russia, supports the Syrian people's struggle for freedom and democracy. In the short time that it took for the UN to count the votes, the Assad death squads killed another 200 more people in the city of Homs.

Each year, people from every country around the planet leave billions of dollars/euros/yuan when they travel to China. China needs to know that these tourists have strong global ethical convictions and that they consider these convictions when planning their travels. As well, China also needs to know that these same people care from whom they buy - and if "Made in China" equates to allowing death squads kill more Syrians, then global citizens can put their strong global ethical convictions into play.

There are millions of compassionate, concerned and democratic-loving people both in and outside of China. Let's make China hear us all! Let China know that we do not support the Syrian Assad regime nor can we support the governments that turn a blind eye to the atrocities being committed in the name of the Assad regime! 

Sign here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/10/stop-the-murder-in-syria/

So sick...

I don't know why anything in my life goes the way it should be, specially when I think that I do all I can do to reach my goals that isn't that difficult to reach...I'm tired of failing in exams and seeing that stupid diploma of my degree even more far to get, there are those subjects I really don't know what to study more and how to study them, 'cause I tried all the different methods. It doesn't even matter if I studied enough or if I'm optimistic...even those exams I really hope to pass and believe I passed turns out I didn't...today I found out another subject I failed again, and I really studied hard for that one...I have those subject for several years. I'm really disappointed with myself and the way my life is going. Nothing is doing right! NOTHING! I thought it was enough pain to lose all my friends last year...I don't know if I can bare another lousy semestre...I'm losing grips and I can't find any more motivation to keep going on with this and dealing with my usual frustration...I just want this to be over and I'm not making any progress.
I'm so disenchated with everything, after all my degree isn't interesting as it shoul be, the name of subjects are interesting but not what they teach us, and even less what appears in exams...teachers are not there to help, and even less the colleagues...I feel so alone and lost right now. The worst thing is when I get home and my parents get mad about me about my school lame performance and say that I'm just playing around making waste their money when I do anything more than study, go to classes, spend all days in libraries without even talk to anyone...even because I have no friends anymore...where do I waste my time? I have no kind of social life and I only spend two mornings for week at gym and swiming pool (this when I get the time and I'm not doing this for a while).
It seems that it doesn't matter how hard I try or if I believe in myself or not, I must have the failure sign printed in my soul...I wish I had luck with this just for once 'cause I'm tired of falling to rise up again...to fall again...I just wish I never went to that college, all I feel is that I'm wasting my time and not learning anything: all those hours I spent studying for nothing, all those lousy books I read for nothing, all those books I bought and were hopeless in the subjects, all those useless social connections I made for nothing...all those time wasted, I just want the final stupid diploma...it was all wasted time I'm almost done I can't give up now, it would be even more wasted time...it would be a painful defeat and I doubt if I could do anything more in life than consume myself in self pitty and eternal frustration.
My rage against college is so big that I avoid everyone from there, I decided I don't want friends from there even because most part of all that people is doing well easily and I'm in this lousy situation...sticking around them  makes me feel even worse about myself...even because they don't spare me to be all the time asking about my lousy situation...does this makes them feel better? I'm about believing it does!
I'm done with this, no matter who I don't want to hang with college people anymore even if it means being alone all the time.
All I can think is that college to me was a waste of time, hope, money and feelings I just wish to put an end to all this...ten more subjects to go...but it's not going!
Tomorrow I'll have a meeting with lecturers to see my exam...if things stay this way I'll probably just cry in front of them I don't even know if I have courage to go there and ask their questions...
I was going to study to next exam (which will be repeated because professor only put the exams from the 1st season on the day of the exam of the 2nd season and people decided to reclaim)..but then I saw another failure and for 3 hours I've done anything less than whimper for my lousy performance...and it's not just at college, it's a social failure, a personal failure...a whole lot of failures.
I wish I could go back in time, I would never went to that college...or I would have quit in the first year...I wish I could erase all those previous 5 years.
I'm sick of making a fool of myself believing life can  get better when it's getting worse all the time and I'm having serious issues about how to deal with such failure.
I don't know what's like to accomplish any goal for a long long time...and I never felt so miserable, I always did great at school before I got in that college I can't recognise myself!

Sick of this life, sick of pretending I'm fine when I'm not, sick people think that I have to justify mysel in front of them for crying, for seem depressed or sad...'cause it's all I am...not a damn simple thing goes right!!! NOTHING! The frustrating part is that I don't know what more should I do...I'm feeling destroyed inside and sick of everyone around...neverthless I feel this stupid  need of unburden.

Exam season

Really there's nothing more frustrating than study boring stuff that have no interest...with a memory card I would spare time.
Most part o my sujects I don't understand a damn thing, but so it looks to be to the lectures sometimes.
Tomorrow I have an exam of meteorology, but it's not cool it's a boring subject with lots of equations, greek letters and values that came from nowhere...concluding I'm studying meteorology but nobody taught me what are really a fog, a thunder, a hurricaine, monsoon, typhoon, snowfall, a heat wave, a cold wave...just for not mention the global climate change and air pollution...what matters never appears in exams...
I always thought I would love this subject but it's awful!
My degree is a RIP OFF!

stop ACTA

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, was signed by the European Union and 22 of its member states recently. Eight countries, including the United States, signed this last fall.
Called "SOPA light", it is a global treaty that authorizes the policing of the internet and its users, and ultimately, the censorship of it. This would hurt the freedom of expression, civil and digital rights, fair use rights, and the right to privacy.
Strict penalties would be enforced, even prison sentences, for violating ACTA.
Please sign the petition and tell ACTA supporters to keep the internet free for everyone!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/STOP-ACTA/

Wilkommen im neunen Europa! (Welcome to the new Europe)

Owkay now it's official: Greeks's sovereignity has already been hypothecated in exchange for a foreign loan but now Germany hopes it will be offered by greek's free will and then probably make this a wicked plan to facilitate the german occupation by several europena countries with no resistance.
The german motion is to put Greece under the supervision of an european commissary for greek's budget control with the condition to receive the 2nd help programme of 130 billion euros, which in turn will withdraw to the greeks' democratic government its legitimate essential functions in carrying out its governmental function. This document that defends the Athens occupation was disclosed by the "Financial Times" where it's written that to receive the monetary help Greece has to agree to waive their budgetary sovereignty and there's more: Athens must write a newpermanent law to guarantee that the greeks's State Revenues would be diverted to debt servicing in first place! The greek's government and greek people are, of course, in shock, and we all should be too...this is really a chantage and an attack to democracy iself: if Greece doesn't agree with this, will not receive the monetary help...and will bankrrupt.
Yesterday, the answer of the Greek Minister of Finance, Evangelos Venizelos was: "who puts a country the dilemma of chosing between economic assistenace  and national dignity is surely forgetting some basic lessons of History". We should remind ourselves than Nazi Germany occupied Greece during the 2nd World War, and killed several greek citizens and destroyed part of their country with the militar invasion, therefore it's absolutely astonishing that Germany Whom Europe forgave their huge debt after the 2nd War (a huge debt not only in terms in money but also in terms of millions of lost of human lifes and national heritage like historical buildings and inclusively their devastade landscape) comes now and wake up all the dormant ghosts from the past.!!!
John Adams said that there's only two ways to conquer and enslave a nation: by war or by debt. Now it seems like Germany has chosen the debt way...
History warns us that if we don't learn from the errors from the past, the History tends to be repeated...we all have seen this film (twice) before...let's not see that again!

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The Canadian Seal Hunt is Dead! Long Live the Seals!

 Fantastic new: Canada stopped the seal slaughter! After 37 years os struggling to end this bloody massacre it finnally came to an end!
There's a lot more work to be done but this means we're getting near to a more fair and human society, this means progress!
I hope people stop using fur, specially celebrities that unfortunatelly use them and are a fashion icon what can inspire other people to wear fur too.
But this is a clear signal o progress.
Thanks to all of the animal lovers that made this victory a reality!



Here's an excert from a commentary done  by captain Paul Watson:

"The Canadian seal slaughter is commercial-dead and it will have no place in the 21st Century. This anachronistic barbaric enterprise is being tossed into the dustbin of history where it belongs, and finally after a lifetime of struggle to end it, this obscene embarrassment is for all intents and purposes – dead.

Thanks to the fact that seal products are banned in the USA, Europe and Russia, the worldwide market has crashed.

Through visuals, through drama and through the media we made the world aware of this atrocity against marine wildlife and we kept them aware, reminding the international public that our passion for the cause never died. Year after year we were in the face of the killers and year after year we grew stronger as the killers grew weaker.

We have won. The seals have won. The Canadian seal hunt is dead!

Long live the seals.

Now we need to stop the slaughter of the South African fur seals in Namibia. "

source:
www.seashepherd.org

a failure on my behalf

It's hard to me to understand and accept but my life is a complete mess: I never get anything, or almost anything, that I want to achieve, and that's small things like do some subjects at college since I spend most part of my time studying...doesn't matter it can be a 10 (from 0 to 20 scale) I just want to end this damn stupid degree I'm in and get out of that freak damn college! Really I'm tired of that all!
It's my 5th year there and all I feel is that I've just being wasted my time: some of my closest coleagues quit college and then didn't care about me anymore, like they not even answer when I talk to them through facebook chats or mesenger or even answer my e-mails...nevertheless I got their "Happy Birthday", and "Merry Christmas" text messages...How strange that people are! So they're gone, but not totally although they remind me twice a year they don't invite me out...so do I, I'm tired of following that persons and care about who don't care about me at all...I'm through with this and terrible disappointed: okay it's true I don't need that persons 'cause I don't need anyone who despise me but I lost a lot of time with them and they made me believe we were friends...but there's those who didn't quit college but didn't care about me anymore simply because I decided to stop bothering them all the time making them notice I'm alive...the moved on and got some other persons, I just got so disenchanted that I never was able to trust anyone again.
I read several positive books about the power of being positive like the secret book, the power, the exotropic mind and read a lot about the attraction law...it's hard to believe that crap but somethings made some sense. Anyway I think that African children that starve to death are not in that situation because they don't think all the time in food and so they could attract food right? And the fact 1% of people have much more fortune than the 99% isn't not because they people attract money with their thoughts as it's told in the book...it's just unfairness.
Anyway thinking of your problems over and over again all that can do is make them seem much more complictaed and important than they actually are.
So my simplest wishes don't come true and I don't know what it's like being succeed in life for a long time...although I still can't deal well with my failure.
I'm not a jealous person, I think envy is the most destructive feeling of them all, I'm never happy with other's failure but neither I am happy with their success, in the books like secret it's told that we should feel as happy as other people to atract their success to us, and envy will let success go away.
I look at most part of people I know and damn they're doing well, they're moving on on the degree and I'm not...this doesn't make me feel jealous about them, my common feeling is just to be sad of things go so wrong with me 'cause I do all I can do to move on but things don't go that fine.
I never admitted before but one of the most powerful reasons to close myself and to like being alone is the fact I feel worse when successful people surround me.
I just don't feel like having lunch with people that all can talk about is that stupid damn degree, that they're almost finishing the degree and ask me mine miserable classifications.
I never was a bad student, before I got in college I was great, but before passing all my life reading science magazines and watching documentaries I got in a Science College in an engeneering degree that is not that kind of science and where I feel like I'm not learning anything...that's frustrating. Besides the teachers do a lot of stupid evaluation criteria...
So I'm the anti-social college girl 'cause I don't identify myself with anyone, I think everybody's conversations are boring and stupid and because they make me feel worse about myself and my college performance. Also I'm so sick about college that now I insist not to hang out with them out of college.
Oh I just wish college to be over and then immigrate somewhere far and north like in Scandinavia and start all over again since here in Portugal I never was happy and it's more likely I never got a job here...I know I won't be happy elsewhere just because I moved to a different place but changing the scenario of my life might bring different things...and the fact I feel so miserable here, doesn't imply it's this place fault, but that will make me have more courage to move out and never miss my life here.
I thought I could make it all this year but I already failed one subject, I mean teacher don't even allows me to go to exam...my will is just quit all this shity life here and just go, go now 'cause by now things are so messed up that I cry in exams and while I study: why in the exam only appears stuff we almost didn't talk about?
I'm tired of trying, failing, repeating, failing and start all over again...I'm on the edge and I just want to put an end to this...I never felt so frustrating in my whole life like I'm feeling now in college.

WWW=World War Web

Seems that instead of the acronym www means world wide web it's more suitable to be called world war web now because of the cyber attacks lots of hacktivists are doing now in governmental american sites, specially causing their blocking overloading the informatic serevers with too many connections to the target sites...and that needs too many angry people...
This operation was called "Operation Megaupload" and was an insurrectionist answer for the shutdown by the FBI of the Megaupload site which is said to allow the change of contents as musics and movies, specially americans. I said it is said to be 'cause I never went there but I read some comments in the internet of people very upset for not be allowed to make free movie sessions in megaupload anymore.
This is an insurrection against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act).
Well I agree that this kind of share is bad for the movie industry and music industry...for example lots of DVD's rent shops closed (I mean I think they all closed in Portugal), and when I go to the cinema it's almost empty (this year when I went to the movie theatre to watch the Black Swan, a movie that won an oscar, I was the only one in a large cinema room)...and I have no company to go to the cinema, not just because I'm an anti-social but too because my friends say that they will download it and see at home and sometimes they even see TV series and movies before they get here in Portugal....and lot's of people do that too!
Well I know those sites and go on and arrest me I have downloaded a few movies and musics but I go a lot to concerts and cinemas, instead of downloading from the internet I rent movies from the movie box in TV and they come with legends in portuguese, I have downloaded music from internet too but I still buying CD's when I am fan of a band or singer and most part of the time I hear radio stations and hear music from youtube channels. But most part of people simply stopped this cultural consumption...and that's bad because one day maybe there will be no new movies done, and the few who will be produced might be poor and boring...after all why bother producing movies that are worth millions if then everybody will do free downloads then?
I mean it's okay you borrow your DVD's to a friend of yours, but putting it in the internet and share with the whole world might not be a good deed to do...
After all why do I go to the movie theatre if I can see free movies at home?
The illegal share of contents cause a loss of 100 thousands of million of dollars to the USA north american industries that are responsable for 19 million jobs and represent about 60% US exports.
So I understand that piracy must be controlled or ended...and damn that will be tough 'cause everybody does that!
We have to find a way to do that but without jeopardize other contents in the internet like wikipedia, wikileaks, independant blogues and even the access to youtube and social networks like twitter and facebook (a good tool to start riots and revolutions against tyrants as we saw in the arabic spring last year...and that's not covenient to the governments right?).
So what it's to be feared is that this can actually be used to censor the internet and limit the access of information by governments and even end the freedom of speech in the world WIDE web...because the TV is a suitable media to be controlled and some newspapers too...they only show us what it's more suitable to be showed...some information is filtered and that's why it's important to have blogues and independant sites of organizations that try to show the truth to the world like wikileaks.
Media is a great tool to control and deceive the masses,but internet is a different kind of media...it's free until now although it's censored in 40 countries worldwide. But until now everybody can say their opinion in the internet! And this must remain this way!
End piracy, not liberty!
So if you live in USA and are against this sign this petition: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
Also I have written a post about this before: american-congress-want-to-censore www

Adios, Arrivederci, bye bye to outdated animal tests in Europe

This is very good new: Human Society International is celebrating the largest victory in History against animal tests! Now thousands of dogs, cats, rabbits and other animals will be spared  to cruel chemical tests in Europe!
Way to go! Now I know that we are approaching to a more equal, fair, kind and real human society!
As Gandhi said once:

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way which its animal are treated!.

read more: HSI

My Happy New Year

So it's 30 December 2011 and I'm thinking of what I'm going to do to celebrate the New Year Bash...until now (and certainly until the end of 2011) I haven't received any invitation to a party or just to get out. I used to have a very full contact list in my cell phone but I decided to delete some useless contacts of the persons that never said anything to me...the tough part is that most part of those contacts were from persons who said they were my friends but especially this year simply forgot me ignoring me.
I wonder why I still have a cell phone, really 'cause nobody calls me and I don't call anybody, although I have free calls and free text messages from most part of them and vice versa.
So they just don't call me because they forgot me, they don't need me and so they don't like me.
I found out that the worst way, it was a simple test I did to make sure it was a real friendship: I just stop bothering them making notice of my existence: no text messages, no facebook likes or comments, no internet conversations...and this year I never asked anybody to go out...and I haven't got any invitations to go out too. I just can't find anybody to invite to go out to celebrate the New Year because I just don't feel like ask them out after their months of disregard: it's clear they will party and they all forgot me.
I knew persons who said they were my friends (and some of them who I used to hang out since I was a kid: we are neighbors and we were school mates since we were 5 years old!) that make New Year Parties since ever and always count me off the list.
It's okay, in a way, now I'm sure of who I can't definitelly count with, I'll just forget them and move on, there will be no chance of reconciliation for us because they're not interested on it and because I don't want waste anymore time with them too.
I just don't get it: why I took so much time to see they were worthless and why the hell they wanted me as their friend if they weren't my friends?
You know, true friends do things together and enjoy each other's company...don't disregard them! So they don't need me, funny fact is, I didn't miss them too...but sometimes, times like this, I want to get out and celebrate, to drink champagne under the firework and ask for wishes with friends laughing along...even the anti-socials need to socialize sometimes, especially when the entire world is having a blast out there!
I'm too a very suspicious person about the others, I don't let anyone getting close to me...so when people I thought they were my friends let me down at this point, it kinda hurts!
I don't wanna be at home getting depressed asking my own questions on and on of: "why does everybody have friends to hang out with and I don't?", "why are my social relationships so disastrous"?
I can stay at home having pitty of myself while my ex-friends do a great New year Party in the building right in front of my flat, but I feel like celebrating it out of my home, even if I have to do it all alone.
In fact this year I did a lot of stuff  alone: I spent for the 2nd time my birthday alone 'cause I couldn't make new friends in 1 year, I went to a manifestation alone for the 1st time 'cause I don't know interesting people who want to change the world, I went to several concerts on my own, I went to the cinema alone...
I'd like to go to a disco club or a nightlife spot but I won't do that alone. Anyway my ex-friends were not the type of getting out at night, in fact they were not the kind of getting out at all, and those who were didn't invite me.
This year, despite of losing all my "friends", it pretty rocked for me, I saw a lot of concerts and my favourite artists of all types of music: my chemical romance (my favourite band), 30 seconds to mars, foo fighters, coldplay, anna calvi, patrick wolf, paramore, kaiser chiefs, white lies, iggy pop, katy perry, britney spears, within tempation, smashing pumpkins (just the best known). I rarely had friends near me at that times, and the ones I had now don't care about me.
So what can I say? I have a quite amusing life just ain't got nobody to spend time with.
So I just wish 2012 brings me good music and new friends because when you lose a fake friend you sure lose nothing at all so there's no need to be sad any longer!
Let's just rock out in 2012! :)

The Protester: The Person of the Year 2011

So we're getting close to the time we change the year from 2011 to 2012, and according to Mayas it is the last one.
I'm not superstitious but I don't exclude the possibility of the world coming to an end near: a simple collision with an asteroid could do the job, but there is too the possibility of nuclear disasters...so we all should become free from nuclear, it is something that will leave toxic waste for millions of years corroding planet Earth and it's dangerous.
What I think about 2012 is a bit like the Maya civilization: the world will end, but not in a way it wil disappear in a way it will change.
I think the world as we know it will change, we could see it in 2011: people are finally waking up and trying to understand what is happening around, they finally are getting along together more than ever, they join to discuss about the world's problems, they go to the streets protesting and they had serious vitories, as we can see in the Middle East, the people revolted against their dictators and demanded the right to have a democracy where they could chose their government and they could have free speech (although I get a bit sad for the way americans and europeans "helped" them doing the revolution like in Lybia, I think it's not destroying the countries making war we can help them!).
Anyway in 2011 people raised their voices all around: from the arabic spring movements that overthrew dictatorships with decades, until the movement Occupy Wall Street and the Movement of Indignants worldwide that gather forces against the bankers dictatorships until the recent protests in Russia against corruption in elections.
So the protesters were for sure the figure of the year 2011, as the magazine Times elected.
People are making the difference by taking responsible individual actions and they started thinking by themselves and took a stand fighting for something.
 People are making the change on their own and that's great!
We all know we make part of a system that doesn't serve our interests, we don't believe in governments anymore and we want to stop corruption...this means that we are involved in a big change, a global change and we no longer will quit...all the people in the world is starting to understand and acting...the governments and bankers are afraid, 'cause they know they won't stop the whole humanity!
People are tired of wars, of the lies of the politians, people are tired of living in an unequal and unfair world...now they wanna change this, and now they believe!
In 2011 the world lost lots of dictators, and right now, in all countries we demand a true democracy in the world even in those countries that say the have democracy and after all don't care about people needs but they obbey to the bankers and the stock market, people just don't agree the way politicians are dealing with the problem because they know they don't want to defend their interests but yes the interests of the powefull ones.
More and more people are becoming more ecological and really want to save Earth, there are more and more nature activists and more and more animal lovers and vegetarians and vegans.
So I'm sure 2012 will be different for better, a lot of revolutions will happen and it will turn the world in a better place.

Happy 2012!