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From now on we are back in our normal daily live. Spend three incredible weeks in Portugal. And we noticed that not much changed. At least not much in the good directions. Still Shoot-outs in area's where you better not be born. Assaults in bank's and ATM's, with an average of 4 each day.Back to the country of the barrigas cheias. Where people complain even more, but without reason.

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It seems that there are ghosts working for the Portuguese Government. They 'work' in a building that doesn't exist. But as photo's show it is there. More info .... Tribunal de Guimarães funciona em edifício fantasma

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In the shadow of the tension around the European championship 26 referees where penalised in the process of Apito Dourado. And Porto goes to appeal for there suspension of the champions league. Let’s wait and see how this goes. Will apito dourado ever be finished? Or will there always be smoke and possible fires.About fires: Already 169 in this short summer season.

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It's been very quite on this blog. Mean reason. Left Portugal behind me.Why leaving. Aiaiaiai, so much reasons. No serious. Found a job opportunity in the Netherlands.Mas tenho muito saudades de Portugal.I am planning to start putting messages again based on things I read in Portuguese news media.

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According to a report of the European Union (mentioned in a earlier post) Portugal stays 20 years behind on the rest in innovation. In case Portugal keeps the rhythm, what is according the report very weak, the stay 20 years behind and will be passed by other new states. The report continues by saying that:Portugal has a series of problems, specially in coordination, it is all to fragmented, to

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Here in Portugal a polemica is started around a player of Benfica. This Russian player who is now on the bench and suspended because of the interview he gave, to a russian newspaper. In this interview he said that:Lisboa is like a big country village. Where the children can't play on the street. And that Portugal is 20 years behind, even on Rusland.Important to notice that the way he said it (

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What is all the confuse about Iberdrola buying shares of EDP. Iberdrola wants as shareholder a piece of the action. Meaning a post in the board of advice, like all other shareholders with more then 2%. The problem is that they are Spanish. Every Portuguese now thinks that they are bought by the Spanish and that highly valuable secret information comes in the hands of those 'awfully' neighbors.EDP

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Iberdrola is Spanish. And Spanish means bad. Spanish companies make the Portugueses their slaves, like the dutch do also. But hey, what are we choosing from.A portugues boss uses their employers more as slave. He pays officialy 350 euro each month, and yes he gives 150 euro black. But he and you pay taxes on the 350 euro. So when something happenes the benefits is measured from the 350, the

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Pela terceira vez em três dias, a terra voltou a tremer. Portugal is shaken for the third time in three days. Three earthquake almost all with the same altitude shaked the mainland of Portugal. Btw they where all for in the sea. But while Portugal also be shaken next Sunday when we have the first round for the presidential elections. Lets wait and see.All signs give a victory to Cavaco Silva with

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In Portugal, the current Government, made during the election a promise of creating a 'Choque Tecnológico'. The get a start a board of wise was created. They finished last week their work. A paper (sintese) of 400 pages with means to realize this choque. The only choque that came was that the minister didn't like what he saw/read/heard and fired the chief of this board (he resigned himself, yeah,

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According to a study from Eurostat the students in Portugal indeed use Internet for pleasure and hopefully research and knowledge sharing (although this studies doesn't reveil this information). The oldery or less educated uses rarely the benefits of Internet. Knowing that a lot of those students leave portugal (see earlier notice) after finishing their study, the gap will keep on existing. No

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A deduction from the latest figures shown by Eurobarometer indicates that Portuguese are afraid or at least not enthusiast about innovating products or services. The media in Europe of people how says to buy frequent innovating products is around 57%. Portugal stays far behind with only 20%. This shows a lot of work for the government but especially for empresas. A inovação e rapidez como ligadas

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Ministro da Ciência e Tecnologia diz que a banda larga é muito cara em Portugal. He said this at conferention about Communication. The prices of Internet access through ADSL or Cable are to high. Way above avarage in Europe. There is a lack of competition. But Portugal had also to deal with the geografical obstackles. Let's see how it all will develop.

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News - Massive Brain Drain From Some of the World’s Poorest Countries. Based on the figures Portugal can be placed under the poor countries and faces the same problems. A massive braindrain. One of the conclusions of the study is in my opinion wishfull thinking, namely that succes abroad from Portuguese or.. can lead to more better education in the origin country. In poor countries it is still

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On a website in Portugal Palavras mais pesquisadas you find a top 500 of most search words. Nuas is the first one. But why look only for nude. Probably you have to combine the first five words, but strange enough, there is a list so meaning there are more seached word then others. Ok, i think the men (must be men) have this in mind. «free nude pictures or fotos from portuguese women in a

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Vince, the latest tropical storm is heading towards Portugal. Yes, you did read it good. Follow his path. Tomorrow it is predicted to land in Portugal, with heavy rains. Lets see what this will bring in this little country, where the latest discussion was the dry weather the last years. How do they deal with this, can they hold the water that is falling, or goes it just down the drains...Update

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There will be more posts probably about the elections in Portugal. But I leave you know with this. Sometimes it make me think: If people leave their garbage on the street, the beaches, spit on the floor, insult and beat their wives, hide for the taxes, why then not vote for AvelinoAnd I would like to ad myself:Sometimes it make me think: If people leave their garbage on the street, the beaches,

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Just in front of my lovely apartamento a huge accident happened. Huge, no, not really. Funny yes, in a certain way. A black car, droven by a blonde women (and that means nothing) is hit by another grey car. The other, the grey, is gone, maybe didn't hear the hit, strange, but with the radio very hard or during heavy rain, it is possible. The strange thing is that, even if he (the grey car) hit

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Chuva: Bombeiros de Lisboa acorrem a cem chamadas por inundações e entupimentos. Finally, it is raining in Portugal. But again there is a problem, why are there always problems. The rain can't go anywhere, because there is no decent sewing system. Al the water goes immediate to places where it can go the quickest (we al learned that in school, isn't it). But it needed to rain, it was to dry. But

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Especial Eleições Autárquicas 2005. The elections has gone by yesterday. Apart from a few incidents it seems to be gone very well. But the incidents are likely and typical for the state where Portugal is now, or maybe where it has ever been. Not far away from a country, they admire so much, the united states. Also here we have incidents with candidates going with buses to oldery homes to pick up

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Especial Eleições Autárquicas 2005. On this page you can follow actual news about this elections, considering you understand Portugues. There is a lot happening in this country around this elections, a lot of lies are spread (but where not). But also more Republica Banana like activities. More follows in new stories.

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Setúbal: Nasceu um golfinho-roaz no estuário do rio Sado. In this last month there are three newborn dolphins in the rio Sado. They are part of a group that has there home in this river in Portugal. The group is around 30 members big and being protected within the measurments that Portugal uses. Meaning not to much, as long as they are not in our way. But in this river a Marina (a port for the

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Avenida da Liberdade é suja. Portugal made it to be on top of a list of statitics in Europe. Pity it is again a list for negative things. This time a busy (who does you describe busy, it is busy but not overwhelming) street in Lisboa the owner to be the most polluted street in Europe. What a triumphf, what a glory, marvelous victory.

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Portugal is the worst member of the OCDE. Despite all the hope people still have and mayors who say that there municipal has the best school system in Portugal (and maybe outside also) Portuguese children hardly go to school. They are not only, according a study by the OCDE, less hours on school, the dropout rate is scaring high (different sources talk about 50% and more). And even those who

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Minister of Foreign affairs denies rejecting Government. A rumor spread by a portuguese tabloid (newspaper with highest amount of readers) that the minister of FA is going to leave to government is denied by spokesmen from the minister. But we all know that it doesn't mean that the rumor is false. It will be the second minister that leaves the government of Socrates in only a half year of

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