Comments by Fabio C

There is no surprise here, all the benefits Plano Real could have brought are finished, it has reached its end, and from now on Brazil once again has to face its historic problem of a Jurassic, inefficient and serf-serving state that sees no limit to the amount of money it can take from the productive part of the economy through taxation and spend how it pleases, mainly to ingratiate its ruling elite and their sycophants. Yes, embezzlement together with crass corruption.

Faziomba76, I agree with you that airport security is irritating and most times beyond our comprehension. But I must say that there are many ways to make it easier:

1 – The major airlines have a hold luggage allowance of around 23kg depending on which cabin you are traveling. That allowance is already included in the price of the ticket so, use it! Also remember that all you need inside de aircraft cabin is your passport and your wallet. Nobody needs a cabin bag, NOBODY. The most you will need is a briefcase or a ladies purse.

2 – If you are flying on a budget airline than be rational, considerate and help yourself and all the other travellers. There are small containers of shaving cream, aftershave lotion and deodorant that can easily pass security if you put it in a plastic bag supplied at the counter. Yes, like everything else in life you have to buy them, but you have to buy them even if you weren’t going to travel, isn’t that right? And you can still use them on your way back!

Yes, airport security is a nasty and most probably an unnecessary thing that we must all submit to, but there are also many ways to make it easier on ourselves. The biggest part of the problem is that we have a very large amount of people who don’t know how to travel and also don’t know how to pack.

Travelling is a very pleasant thing. Pack properly, be on time, relax and enjoy yourself. That’s all you need.

Airport security is just one more way to take money from passengers (airport fees) and the fact is that today we have an immense number of people traveling without having a clue about what air traveling is. There is a vast amount of people whose only wish is to go from point A to point B and unfortunately they must take an aircraft, actually, a bus with wings. I have seen people checking in a bag that is lighter then the hand luggage and both combined are less than the allowance.

Why you don’t check-in both bags? I ask. And she says: No, I have my laptop in my hand luggage. Right, a laptop that weights 8kgs…

The fact is that in present times the mission of the airlines is to ferry cheap labour across the globe and so tickets must be very cheap, as a result we have all sorts of villagers, chavs, elderly and fragile people with all the equipment they need to move, crying children and purposeless people traveling about because is very cheap and all of them meet at the security counter…

In order for air travel to become pleasant, charming and romantic again like in the old times it must become selective again like in the old times. Since that’s not going to happen we only have one choice: Queue up and put up!

Why? What one thing has to do with another?

On the last paragraph of this article we can read: "Until now, richer Paulistas have shunned the metro."

Please note: People natural of the city of Sao Paulo are refered to as Paulistanos e NOT Paulistas, even though they are also Paulistas.

Connect The Dots, well done. You are a romantic and you know cinema.

Is it really? What are two dollars/day in Spain and what are two dollars/day in Bangladesh?

Does the cost of living mean anything to you?

It all depends what one can understand for poverty. Gramnci socialists have made what Marx socialist never managed, they have destroied the middle class, at least as it was tradicionaly known. Today anyone who can buy a yougurt is considered middle class.

Matthew 5 comes to mind.

Than god is my mother: She is always there, she never changes and she is an enigma.

You are wrong. My disbelief in god is NOT an empty belief, is the result of education, knowledge and experimentation. That’s what muslins around the world need and have consistently been denied of, education, knowledge and the FREEDOM to experiment.

I am not imposing any faith, I am discrediting a superstition. Religion is FRAUD used to manipulate the useful ignorant and to tranquilise the weak. In today’s day and age one needs to be weak, or ignorant, or a coward to think that there is some sort of omnipotent been capable to interfere in life affairs, change the course of it and resolve his material and emotional problems once he follows some sort of rules or ancient codes. One doesn’t need to be religious to have common sense; he only needs to be sensible and educated.

There is no god, religion is a lie and this is the message that must be brought to the muslim people around the world, Mecca included.

May one day we meet each other eating a nice Jalal pork chop across the street from the mosque in Mecca. With a nice caipirinha! I’m quite sure god will forgive us.

SSCPT, you starting from the wrong premise, bottom line is: there is no god and so nothing of it is sacred! It’s all superstition and hocus-pocus to delude the simple and gullible. The only thing valuable in those places is art and culture. The human work guided by devotion and motivated by love that resulted in graphic and literary beauty.

Art and culture that should be appreciated, examined, enjoyed, understood, experimented and studied by all; I’m sorry if in your interpretation this is gawking, the fact is that the Islamic elite keep it from “prying” eyes for fear of been unmasked. Let’s be honest here, if we go deep inside islam and start to open up the practices in the madrassas, the political interests behind militant islam, the financing and promotion of human bombing, the relation between oil, USA, Western Europe and islam, the sectarian war between shia and sunni islam, the misogynist nature of islam, so forth and so on, the list is long, we will find ourselves in a swamp similar if not deeper to the Holly Inquisition, the Crusades and the child abuse committed by Catholic priests!

Now! The great question here is: If we can unmask one, why can’t we unmask the other? Islam is just one more religion among so many and a FRAUD like all the others. We must bring Humanism and Illuminism (REASON!!!) to islamic countries and liberate them like we did to the Western society! We need to put islam in its rightful place which is out of our consciences! We must put an end to the bizarre behaviour of islamic people who live in Western countries and find it too difficult because they are free to go any time they like!
I hope one day everyone will have the opportunity to examine the meteor debris of the Kaaba with the same attention we can contemplate the Sistine Chapel frescoes.

PS I am no bigot but I’m also not stupid.

PS2 I don’t participate in forums expecting to become popular.

There are many psychologists in the world. Stick with yours and I’ll stick with mine. I don’t know where you are drifting to but I’m definitely going to eternity.

And I don’t need a psychologist or a god to tell me that.

The Kaba is a bunch of fragments that have been left out of a meteor, all glued in a silver plate and placed in the middle of a town called Mecca.

That’s all it is.

Cholulua, your note is revelling. It has been almost one year that the PC Western press celebrates the Arab Spring day in and day out, and you come up to justify the fascistic approach muslims have to their religion. To compare the prohibition of visitation of islamic “holy” sites to non-muslims to the American VISA regime is ludicrous and dishonest. One thing has absolutely NOTHING to do with the other, and you know it perfectly well.

I have to understand that either you haven’t been touched by the fresh free breeze from the Arab Spring, or the Arab Spring is not about freedom and democracy for all.

Personally, I think the Arab Spring is about hypocrisy and propaganda. I’m certain that islam will oppress everyone it can get under its prudish covers until the last day of its existence.

TS2912, you are right, what happen is that the leftloonie messure countries by the amount of consumers it has.

Pakistan is a country of 177 million people. As you can see, yes, Pakistan has a lot going for it. 177 million reasons.

@Old Albion, you are so right. The Qatadas are costing us a fortune but if ow4744 is right then this money must be coming from somewhere else, maybe the Gulf? We all know that the cost of living in London is sky high. Is all a matter of putting 2 and 2 together: He doesn’t work, the wife doesn’t work, the children don’t work. Who does? Me!!!!!!

But in my modest opinion he is only the tip of the iceberg. My guess is the Britain has many, but many people who are not as nasty as Qatada but has the same life style.

They both would be the beneficiaries. The US is where they both converge for protection. The US protects Israel for historic political reasons, and protects Saudi Arabia because of the oil. The so-called Arab Spring, a populist pantomime, is bringing Sunni governments to Mediterranean Islamic countries. Syria is the last one to fall. Once it does Iran will be isolated, Israel will be protected and Saudi Arabia will be the Islamic boss in the region.

The US invaded the wrong country after 9/11, it should have been Saudi Arabia.

No, America’s biggest problem is its alliance with Saudi Arabia. Is because of it that we are been Islamized. Saudi Arabia will be the biggest beneficiary of this attack along with Israel.

Lady Ashton is in the position for been exactly who she is: nobody. And everyone expects her to remain like that.

@Michel_Berlin, I totally agree with you but this is a no win situation, and as such is pointless to argue any further because neither you nor I have a monopoly on civility and decency principles and standards. Better to leave it to those who do.

PS “Keep on meddling in other peoples affairs...as long as you can pay for it.”

Precious!