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Final Aftermath ‘Health Day’ - 5 April 2025 - ACSC-Quintãs - Aveiro

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  Final Aftermath ‘Health Day’ - 5 April 2025 In an era of change and uncertainty, we are all trying to adjust and adapt to the new, which is as pleasant as it is unpleasant, and perhaps even more the latter, on various levels, especially when it comes to our minds, which are full of worries, pressures, various responsibilities, immense social, economic, family, political and I would even say spiritual pressure.   Every day we are confronted by polarised choices: they want us to be yes or no, left or right, good or bad, wrong or right, extremes that touch each other, that make us feel that no choice is truly the right one, because no matter how much we choose we always seem to lose.   Faced with a polarised, fragmented, ruined social situation, devoid of values, principles and laws that truly protect and organise the various sectors of society, evil reigns freely through the gaps that are immense everywhere, from the simplest to the most advanced and complex lev...

"The central issue is not penguins or Trump's IQ" - Joana Amaral Dias

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  The central issue is not penguins or Trump's IQ. The issue is uncertainty, whether we are leaving a nightmare to enter a night terror or a paradise.   "Wow! So many people are mourning the announced end of globalization in the wake of Trump's tariffs. It seems that this model of development was so generous and beneficial.   The European elites and commentators are apoplectic and predicting a major recession in the US and/or a destructive inflationary process. Others simply declare that Trump is crazy, as if with this easy adjective they could produce the finest geopolitical analysis.   But this globalization that they defend tooth and nail was great for American hegemony after the collapse of the USSR, magnificent for China and the white sharks of international finance, but devastating for public finances, medium/small businesses and families who are now living much worse than at the end of the last century.   In fact, unlike Universalism, ...