Jean Wyllys informa à Câmara que recebeu ameaças de morte

O deputado e ex-BBB Jean Wyllys (PSOL-RJ) informou nesta quarta-feira à Comissão de Direitos Humanos da Câmara ter recebido ameaças de morte.

"Desde que comecei o trabalho de reestruturar a frente parlamentar pela cidadania LGBT e comecei a publicar na imprensa que proporia uma PEC que estende o direito do casamento civil aos homossexuais, venho recebendo sistematicamente ameaças de morte pela internet", disse o deputado.

Jean explicou que as ameaças começaram na sexta-feira da semana passada em blogs e sites comandados por religiosos "fundamentalistas".

Depois, ele recebeu um e-mail e mensagens no Twitter de três perfis diferentes com frases como "em nome de Deus você merece morrer", "não saia de casa seu veado nojento" e "não preciso nem ter o trabalho de te matar, pois todo veado morre de Aids".

Jean diz que não pediu proteção policial por querer crer que "cão que ladra não morde". Ele admite, porém, que está temeroso.

"Não posso mentir, estou mais atento sim quando saio na rua", disse.

Hoje, na Comissão de Direitos Humanos ele entregou cópia das mensagens e a identificação do computador de onde teria partido as ameaças para que tudo seja entregue para o presidente da Câmara, Marco Maia (PT-RS). "Espero que ele tome as devidas providências".

A presidente da comissão, deputada Manuela D'Ávila (PCdoB-RS), afirmou que essa é uma questão da Casa, e não pessoal.

"Quando aconteceu comigo na Câmara dos Vereadores, por outros assuntos, eu aprendi que os temas de ameaça a um parlamentar não são individuais, devem ser tratados de maneira coletiva, porque são ameaças ao direito que o povo nos confere de expressar a nossa opinião".

A Comissão aprovou uma moção de solidariedade ao deputado. Folha Online

STF anula validade da Ficha Limpa para eleições de 2010

O STF (Supremo Tribunal Federal) anulou nesta quarta-feira a validade da Lei da Ficha Limpa nas eleições de 2010.

Com o voto do ministro Luiz Fux, o Supremo formou entendimento de que a lei não poderia ter sido aplicada na última eleição por causa do chamado princípio da anualidade.

A decisão altera o resultado das urnas e adia a restrição à candidatura de políticos condenados em segunda instância.

Votaram neste sentido os ministros Gilmar Mendes, Dias Toffoli, Marco Aurélio e Celso de Mello e Cezar Peluso.

Enquanto isso, os ministros Joaquim Barbosa, Carlos Ayres Britto, Ricardo Lewandowski, Carmen Lúcia e Ellen Gracie defenderam que a lei deveria ser aplicada na eleição do ano passado.

Por 6 votos a 5, o tribunal lembrou que, pela Constituição Federal, qualquer mudança no processo eleitoral só pode acontecer se for promulgada um ano antes do pleito.

A Ficha Limpa foi sancionada em junho do ano passado pelo ex-presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

A lei provavelmente valerá a partir das eleições de 2012, mas os ministros ainda irão analisar recursos que questionam se a lei é constitucional.

Os ministros precisam avaliar, por exemplo, se é legal a determinação que torna inelegível candidatos cassados pela Justiça Eleitoral, com condenações por improbidade administrativa ou por um colegiado, mesmo que caiba recurso da decisão.

A partir dessa decisão os ministros poderão analisar individualmente os recursos apresentados pelos candidatos que foram barrados pela Justiça Eleitoral com base na norma.

O julgamento de hoje muda entendimento anterior fixado pelo STF no ano passado, quando estava desfalcado de um ministro.

O Supremo analisou dois recursos que questionavam os efeitos da norma nas eleições de 2010 e também no caso de renúncia para escapar da cassação.

Entre os políticos beneficiados com a decisão estão Jader Barbalho (PMDB-PA), Cássio Cunha Lima (PSDB-PBO), João Capiberibe (PSB-AP), Marcelo Miranda (PMDB-TO), eleitos para o Senado. Folha Online

Nova repartição colonial do mundo

por Mauro Santayana

A Europa e os Estados Unidos, com sua ação contra a Líbia, buscam voltar ao século 19, e promover nova repartição colonial do mundo. Na realidade, não houve  independência efetiva das antigas colônias. Mediante os artifícios do comércio internacional, e, sobretudo, da circulação de capitais, a dependência econômica e política dos paises periféricos permanece. Nos últimos vinte anos, com a globalização neoliberal, o domínio dos paises centrais se tornou ainda maior. Razão teve Disraeli, o controvertido homem de estado britânico, ao dizer que as colônias não deixam de ser colônias  pelo simples fato de se declararem independentes.

Esse domínio indireto por si só não lhes basta: querem retornar ao estatuto colonial escancarado. Ao perceberem os sinais de insurreição geral dos povos contra a opressão de seus prepostos, tomam a iniciativa da repressão preventiva. A doutrina da preemptive war de Bush continua vigendo, e é agora aplicada pela França e pela Grã Bretanha,  sob solerte delegação de Washington. Os norte-americanos bem intencionados, que votaram em Obama, descobrem que não podem mudar o sistema mediante o processo eleitoral. Como o grande presidente republicano – e o mais importante militar do século passado – Eisenhower denunciara e previra, quem domina o sistema é o “complexo industrial-militar”, hoje com o mando repartido entre o Pentágono e Wall Street.

O presidente Obama se assemelha, a cada dia mais, aos Bush. Embora seu objetivo final seja o mesmo, ele cuida de falar macio na América Latina, enquanto açula  seus aliados contra a Líbia, no movimento da reconquista imperial do Norte da África. Tal como Tony Blair, no caso do Iraque, Cameron se dispõe ao dirt job. Conforme o semanário alemão Focus, comandos britânicos já operavam na Líbia  semanas antes da oficialização da aliança.

O movimento pela re-colonização, por parte das antigas metrópoles, se desenvolve pari-passu com a globalização. E obedece ao  discurso hipócrita de que, fora dos padrões católicos e protestantes da civilização ocidental, todos os povos são bárbaros e incapazes de autogoverno. A realidade é bem outra: a fim de manter o nível de conforto e de consumo dos países centrais, é necessário usar todos os recursos naturais e humanos da periferia. O espaço asiático de saqueio, no entanto, se estreita com o aumento da população e de consumo conforme os padrões ocidentais – e o crescimento da China. Mas há ainda o gás e o petróleo do Cáspio, pelos quais os americanos buscam controlar o Afeganistão e ameaçam o Irã. Manter os mananciais petrolíferos do Oriente Médio e do Norte da África é, em sua visão, essencial – apesar de seu discurso hipócrita sobre o meio-ambiente. A mesma hipocrisia se revela na declaração de que não querem atingir Kadafi: seu complexo residencial foi atacado pelos mísseis de Obama, da mesma forma que Reagan o fez, em 1986, matando uma filha do dirigente líbio.

Ao mesmo tempo, é-lhes conveniente assegurar o suprimento de minerais e de alimentos, da América Latina e da África Negra. Ameaçados pela penetração dos chineses no continente africano, eles estão dispostos a jogar tudo, para a restauração de seu antigo domínio. E não faltam os sócios menores, os sub-empreiteiros do  colonialismo, como os espanhóis e os italianos. Os espanhóis, nessa nostalgia de Carlos V e Felipe II, se unem a Obama, a Cameron e a Sarkozy. Não há diferença entre Zapatero e Aznar: os dois são o mesmo, no esforço pela Reconquista da América do Sul. Os italianos são menos insistentes: sabem que com a queda de Kadafi, a Líbia não lhes será devolvida.

Os neocolonialistas tentam aproveitar-se de uma rebelião sem idéias, embora justa, contra a corrupção e o poder ditatorial nos países árabes. Mas seu êxito não é certo. JB Online Blog Conversa Afiada

Aposentado do INSS será convocado para provar que está vivo

Os aposentados e pensionistas do INSS (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social) serão convocados pelos bancos onde recebem o benefício a fazer a comprovação de que estão vivos. O Ministério da Previdência divulgou comunicado nesta quarta-feira para informar que os segurados não precisam se apressar e comparecer às agências bancárias sem serem chamados.

No comunicado, a pasta ressalta que a convocação tem como objetivo "evitar aglomerações e outros problemas no atendimento", causada pela ida desordenada. A finalidade da apresentação do beneficiário é evitar pagamentos indevidos, melhorar o controle pelas instituições bancárias e atualizar o cadastro do INSS.

Na apresentação, o segurado tem ainda de estar munido de documentos que comprovem que é beneficiário do INSS -- que inclui também a atualização de endereço, deverá ser feita pelo próprio aposentado ou pensionista ou por um representante legal ou por procurador cadastrado no INSS.

As agências terão anúncios informando e a convocação também será feita por meio do comprovante de pagamento, saldo ou extrato impresso no terminal da agência bancária.

No Estado de São Paulo, existem 6,4 milhões de beneficiários da Previdência e todos deverão ser chamados pelos bancos para apresentar prova de vida.

Dos 6,4 milhões de beneficiários no Estado, 2,8 milhões que recebem por cartão magnético já tinham de se dirigir anualmente ao banco para renovar a senha de acesso ao sistema bancário. A partir de agora, todos aposentados e pensionistas terão de comparecer a sua agência bancária, independentemente de receberem o valor da aposentadoria por cartão magnético, em conta corrente ou conta poupança.

Com isso, mais 3,6 milhões de beneficiários no Estado passarão este ano a atualizar seus dados anualmente na rede bancária. Folha Online

Elizabeth Taylor: A filmography

Elizabeth Taylor, who has died aged 79, built her fame upon a movie career that lasted more than half a century.

Playing everything from horse racer to sexually frustrated wife to the queen of Egypt, Taylor won a string of acting awards including two Oscars.

These came for Butterfield 8 in 1961 and for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? six years later. She received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award in 1993.

By the time Taylor retired from acting in 2003, she had successfully made the transition from sprightly child actress to respected Hollywood veteran.

CHILD STAR

Elizabeth Taylor won her first film contract aged 10, after taking a Universal Pictures screen test while living in Los Angeles.

She made her screen debut in comedy There's One Born Every Minute in 1942, playing the daughter of a pudding inventor.

MGM then gave her the role of Priscilla, the grand-daughter of an English lord, in hit movie Lassie Come Home.

Its success led to small parts in The White Cliffs of Dover and Jane Eyre, before Taylor's breakthrough role in 1944's National Velvet.

Co-starring with Mickey Rooney, Taylor played budding horse rider Velvet Brown and the heart-warming movie became a smash hit, taking more than $4m (£2.5m) at the US box office.

Now MGM's top child star, Taylor appeared in a series of solid but unremarkable films in the late 1940s, including the 1946 film Courage of Lassie.

SEX SYMBOL

Unlike many child stars, Elizabeth Taylor made a smooth transition to mature roles.

Playing an invalid in 1947's Cynthia, she received her first screen kiss from actor Jimmy Lydon, with whom she starred again in Life With Father.

However, Taylor's first fully-fledged adult roles came in 1950, when she played the wife of a Soviet spy in The Conspirator and an amateur psychiatrist in The Big Hangover.

She later said that the first film in which she was "asked to do any acting" was 1951's A Place in the Sun, in which she played a rich girl whose love for George Eastman, played by Montgomery Clift, had tragic consequences.

Taylor's busiest year was in 1954, with roles in Rhapsody, Beau Brummell, The Last Time I Saw Paris and Elephant Walk. Aged 22, Taylor was already considered one of the world's great beauties.

In 1955 she co-starred with the equally-admired James Dean in Texas epic Giant. Dean never witnessed the movie's success, however, as he died in a car accident soon after completing the film.

OSCAR WINNER

Taylor earned her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Southern belle Susanna Drake in 1957's Raintree County, an overblown epic that failed to secure her an Oscar.

In Cat On a Hot Tin Roof she emerged as the quintessential Tennessee Williams heroine, smouldering opposite Paul Newman in the role of Maggie the Cat.

Taylor described the film as "a big high point" in her career, but she failed to win the best actress Oscar for which she was nominated.

She also missed out on an Oscar for 1959's Suddenly, Last Summer, in which she starred opposite Katharine Hepburn.

It was her portrayal of call girl Gloria Wandrous in the 1960 movie Butterfield 8 that finally secured Taylor the best actress Oscar, on her fourth attempt.

After a three-year break, she starred in the four-hour epic Cleopatra. One of the most expensive productions at that time, it earned Taylor a reported $1m (£620,000) salary.

She fell in love with her co-star and future husband Richard Burton, with whom she would appear again in The VIPs, The Sandpiper and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This fraught 1966 drama saw Taylor gain weight to look suitably unattractive as the "fat, foul-mouthed" Martha, and earned her a second best actress Oscar.

LATER CAREER

While Taylor remained prolific and popular, her film roles never recaptured the intensity of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Subsequent pictures with Burton - Doctor Faustus, The Comedians, Boom!, Under Milk Wood and Hammersmith is Out - did not match the success of their earlier joint efforts.

The box office takings of Taylor's films without Burton hardly seemed to justify her fees, which reached a peak of $1.25m (£777,000) per movie in 1970.

Yet Taylor won critical acclaim for her continued willingness to play unglamorous parts, such as in the 1972 love triangle drama X, Y and Zee.

After starring as Desiree in 1977's A Little Night Music, based on Stephen Sondheim's stage musical, Taylor only made sporadic film appearances.

After cameo parts in US TV series such as General Hospital and All My Children, Taylor's final movie role was in the 1994 live action version of The Flintstones, playing mother-in-law Pearl Slaghoople.

In 2003 Taylor declared that she had given up on showbusiness to dedicate herself to Aids activism, ending an on-screen life that had brought many highlights among more than 70 roles.

But she returned to the Los Angeles stage in 2007 to give a one-off performance in AR Gurney's Love Letters, to benefit her Aids charity. BBC News

Tributes paid to 'beautiful' Taylor

A host of stars have paid tribute to Dame Elizabeth Taylor following her death in Los Angeles at the age of 79.

Her passing was announced at Wednesday around 1300 GMT, prompting a slew of reactions from famous fans, friends and former associates.

Her eldest son, Michael Wilding led the tributes in the following statement:

"My Mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humour and love.

"Though her loss is devastating to those of us who held her so close and so dear, we will always be inspired by her enduring contribution to our world.

"Her remarkable body of work in film, her ongoing success as a businesswoman, and her brave and relentless advocacy in the fight against HIV/Aids, all make us all incredibly proud of what she accomplished.

"We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts".

Sir Michael Caine, actor

So sad to hear about my beautiful friend Elizabeth Taylor.

We made a movie together many years ago and became friends. I got to know a beautiful woman, a wonderful actress and a great human being.

Like so many others i will miss her very much.

Michael Caine appeared with Taylor in the 1972 film X, Y and Zee.

Angela Lansbury, actress

I am deeply saddened that Elizabeth has passed away and send my love and sympathy to her family.

Elizabeth and I began our careers about the same time at MGM.

Throughout her tumultuous life, she will be remembered for some unique and memorable work.

And she will be ever remembered and appreciated for her forthright support of Amfar (American Foundation for Aids Research).

Angela Lansbury appeared with Taylor in 1980 film The Mirror Crack'd.

Steve Martin, actor

I met Elizabeth Taylor several times. She was witty and self-deprecating, which I found surprising and delightful. She loved to laugh.

Mike Nichols, director

The shock of Elizabeth was not only her beauty, it was her generosity.

Her giant laugh, her vitality, whether tackling a complex scene on film or where we would all have dinner until dawn.

She is singular and indelible on film and in our hearts.

Mike Nichols directed Taylor's 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Sir Elton John, singer

We have just lost a Hollywood giant. More importantly, we have lost an incredible human being.

Michael Winner, director

Elizabeth Taylor was the last of the great glamour stars. She was the longest-running soap opera in history, and represented all the allure and tragedy that attracts people to Hollywood.

In her day, if you were on the screen and glamorous, you did not let your fans down, and you looked good even when you went to the shops. She will be dreadfully missed.

Joan Collins, actress

I am so terribly sad about the death of Elizabeth Taylor. Although everyone here in Hollywood knew that her end was near we are all shocked.

She was the last of the true Hollywood icons, a great beauty, a great actress and continually fascinating to the world throughout her tumultuous life and career.

There will never be another star who will come close to her luminosity and generosity, particularly in her fight against Aids.

She will be missed.

Joan Collins appeared with Taylor in the 2001 TV film These Old Broads.

Larry King, broadcaster

Elizabeth Taylor was a great friend, a great star and one gutsy woman.

She was so special. You won't see the likes of her again.

Barry Norman, film critic

She was an extremely nice woman and wore her great fame very lightly. She certainly did not swagger about.

She was actually not at all a bad actress. In films like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? she was extremely good.

Dame Diana Rigg, actress

Elizabeth Taylor was the most beautiful woman I have ever clapped eyes on. A really sweet woman - utterly unmalign.

Diana Rigg appeared with Taylor in the 1997 film A Little Night Music.

George Michael, singer

Such a sad day, Elizabeth Taylor was the last of the Hollywood greats, and a fantastically charming woman.

She was also the only person I've ever met that had violet eyes. They were genuinely violet. So beautiful.

She also did a great deal in the last 25 yrs [sic] to help the world deal with the HIV epidemic. I am proud to have known her if only a little.

Kirstie Alley, actress

Elizabeth... thank you for the lessons you taught me about life... suffering and joy... you are the brightest star in the universe... Eternal love.

Kirstie Alley appeared with Taylor in the 1985 TV mini-series North and South.

Piers Morgan, broadcaster

One of the great movie stars of all time, on and off screen. BBC News

Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor

With her timeless beauty, on-screen dramas and off-screen theatrics, Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of Hollywood excess.

Her glamour made her the most highly paid actress of her day and for a long time the most publicised.

Her film career lasted for more than half a century but her private life was more complicated than any storyline, and her romances kept her in the headlines.

She had seven husbands and was married twice to the Welsh actor Richard Burton.

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in London on 27 February 1932, the daughter of an American art dealer and his actress wife.

She held dual British and American nationality by virtue of having been born on British soil to American parents.

She was taken to Los Angeles as a child and began her film career at the age of nine.

She appeared alongside Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home in 1943 and a year later achieved her first great success in National Velvet.

In 1951 she played her first adult lead role in the film Conspirator, in which she co-starred with Robert Taylor.

The film was a flop but Taylor received critical acclaim for her mature portrayal of her 21-year-old character. She was just 16 at the time.

Her great breakthrough as an adult actress came when she starred opposite Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun. Her beauty from then on became the popular standard for a decade.

Her dramatic range was limited at this early stage of her career, but her performances gained authority and never lacked style as she grew older.

She was nominated for Oscars in 1958, 1959 and 1960 for Raintree County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly, Last Summer respectively.

By 1961 she was in her element and received an Oscar for her part in Butterfield 8, playing call-girl Gloria Wandrous, who has an affair with a married man and dies in a car crash.

Her private life was also never dull. She was first wed at 18 to Conrad Hilton, the heir to the luxury hotel chain.

Four years later she married actor Michael Wilding and they had two children, Chris and Michael.

However, she moved on three years later to film producer Mike Todd, with whom she had a daughter, Liza. When he was killed in an air crash soon afterwards, Taylor was devastated.

Singer Eddie Fisher did his best to comfort her, and soon became husband number four in 1959, in a marriage that lasted five years.

In 1963 she completed work on a lavish production of Cleopatra. It did not enhance her reputation as an actress and her diva behaviour helped push the film's budget past the £12m mark, a colossal sum at the time.

Nevertheless, the press had a field day when news leaked of her new romance with co-star Richard Burton.

Poor reviews

They worked together on several films including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, for which she won an Oscar in 1967, and Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew. They married in 1964 and later adopted a child, Maria.

Their tempestuous relationship kept the gossip columnists busy. A diamond ring he bought her was said to have cost almost £500,000. She joked later that, for a while, she became "very left handed".

In 1973 they divorced in a Swiss court. Two years later, they were again in front of a judge, this time to re-marry in a remote Botswana village.

Their reunion lasted five months, and they were divorced for the second time in 1976.

Then, in Washington, she met and married a former US naval secretary, John Warner, who became a Republican senator.

Her career had reached a plateau, although she insisted she was content growing older and being a politician's wife.

The marriage lasted until 1982.

Clinic romance

The actress suffered poor reviews the following year, when she toured the United States in a production of Private Lives with Richard Burton.

For the first time, she entered the Betty Ford Clinic for drug and alcohol addiction. Her condition was not helped by Burton's death the following year.

Taylor made several follow-up trips to the clinic, where she encountered builder Larry Fortensky. He was 20 years her junior and had been jailed several times for drink-driving and drug-related offences.

The couple got engaged and, at their private wedding, paparazzi in helicopters dodged barrage balloons to take pictures. It was held on Michael Jackson's ranch in California.

Five years later, her eighth divorce cost her £1m.

In 1997, she added to a list of operations that already rivalled her film credits and marriage certificates.

Following two hip replacements, compressed discs and near fatal pneumonia, she survived surgery for a benign brain tumour.

Although she made several forgettable films during the 80s and 90s, her most valuable work came when she took up the cause of Aids research.

This was inspired by her friend Rock Hudson, who died of an Aids-related illness in 1985.

The new millennium saw her honoured in the land of her birth, becoming a Dame of the British Empire.

Her health took a turn for the worse in 2004 when she developed congestive heart failure and scoliosis, which further affected her spinal condition leaving her unable to walk.

But in true Elizabeth Taylor style, she ordered a gold-plated, jewel-encrusted wheelchair.

One of her last public appearances was at the funeral of her friend Michael Jackson, whom she offered her support during his sex abuse trial in 2005.

Dame Elizabeth knew herself that, in terms of looks, fame and wealth, she had been dealt a golden hand.

But with her illness, addictions and broken marriages, she paid a price for her life of excess in the Hollywood Hills.

Nevertheless, she once said: "I've had enough to fill four lifetimes. I feel damn lucky, I've had a ball". BBC News