(02-15-2016 02:29 PM)Celtic_Austrian Wrote: (02-14-2016 10:56 PM)Rocha Wrote: I believe you are some years younger than me, so probably you wont feel it that way, but the truth is that you do not feel it because the rhetoric and corruption won, and nowadays Portugal is ruled by Angolan blood money (and the EU), they own the media, the communications and the banking system, hell, even the prime time soap opera is based in Luanda with african actors, there is not a single Portuguese song on the radio (besides from the nostalgic stations who pass 80s or 90s music), or is whites trying to pass by blacks, or is crap Kizomba.
They won, we lost. From badasses who as a small nation maintained the most spread out and the last colonial Empire in history, we passed to the most cucks of europe, sold everything that was ours, first our resources and industry to EU in the 80's, and now our identity to Africans.
The whole paragraph is interesting, in particular the bold part.
I think I actually read about it a few times already, maybe in The Economist or something, but I had no idea it was so noticeable in daily life on the ground. Portugal doesn't get a lot of media coverage even in Europe.
Is it really that bad?
Maybe you can elaborate a bit on that, would be nice to hear more about it.
Sure.
For the ones not so familiar with both of these countries, Angola was a Portuguese colony until 1976, after 15 years of a bloody independence war fought between three sides, the Portuguese army, the MPLA (supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba) and UNITA (supported by USA). The common enemy of the last two was the Portuguese army, yet sometimes they fought each other.
After the Carnation revolution in Lisbon in 1974, and the disastrous decolonization process between 74-76, where many people where abandoned at their luck at the hands of these military organizations, both the natives who fought for the Portuguese (where slaugtered after our army left), and the many europeans left for dead by the leftwing new authorities (many found ways to return, or escape to South Africa). A more bloody civil war ensued until 2002 when MPLA finally defeated UNITA, so this means 50 years of continuous war, where a ruthless elite of Warlords holds the power and fortune of probably Africa's wealthiest nation.
Angola has everything and in big proportions, oil, diamonds, iron, copper, gold, silver, platinum, uranium, rich soils and weather for agriculture and a long coast line. The oil deposits of Cabinda are enough to grant the subsistence of that country.
-During the conflict years many angolans (and from other former Portuguese colonies) came to settle in Portugal, with more or less success, but at least the first wave of migration was made of people really running from a bloody war, and where mostly honest and hard working, values that many times they failed to pass to the new generations that mostly grew up in ghetto style neighbourhoods, still many are well done citizens with families and careers.-
In 2003, the debt to Portugal State and companies of the Angolan government was 2 billion dollars, wich was forgiven (the debt now is again on the 1.5 billion dollar), yet the elite started to invest here, mainly trough the figurehead of Isabel dos Santos, the richest woman in all african continent, and who happens to be the daughter of MPLA leader, Jos茅 Eduardo dos Santos. They started by the communications, holding a monopoly position in the market wich latter spread to the media. Taking advantage of the 2008 financial crisis and mismanagement of many Banking insitutions, now they hold a strong grip in the financial system, beeing majority shareholder in three important institutions (BPI, BIC and BPN), all of this with conivence of the Portuguese Central Bank. This influence is spreading out now to the energy sector, beeing already part of the administration council of Galp Energia, the former state owned refinery, now its heir and leader in the oil and gas markets. All the while, some small Portuguese companies still struggle to get paid by the Angolan state, and nowadays, many of my generation who emigrated there after the 2008 crash (early 30s) are unable to send money back home, it is almost impossible for Portuguese people to trade local currency for dollars.
Back to Portugal, after the thraumatic colonial war and the end of the 50 year old dictatorship in 1974, the EU admission in 1986 was felt with great hope and anxiety in a better future, the EU money was coming in the form of subsidies, roads and much needed infrastructure was built (Portugal is the country with more highway for sq. Km), the world expo 1998 and even the football eurocup in 2004 is a remnant of this era, but everything has a price, and the industries where shut down, and the agricultures and fishermen received money to stay at home not producing. This looked like a fairytale. It was not.
I think it started by 2002, the year when the local currency, the traditionally strong and stable escudo was substituted for the euro, from one day to another the purchasing power seemed to drop to half.
Years on, and corruption scandal by corruption scandal and yet no one ended in jail, failed governments, no jobs, no career and salaries progression, brain leakage to other parts of the world, this started to take its toll on the civil society, and we are becoming each day a more amorphed people and brainwashed, whose youngsters life is just eating, sleeping, watching football, drinking, pot smoking, and pray to god that the current gf do not leave them...
-Long gone are the days that as a whole nation circa 1998-1999, everyone stood up and protested everywhere possibly for the freedom of East-Timor people, that when things got ugly there, the Portuguese army (along with the australians, wich completed the INTERFET force) acting on the other side of the world was the first to act to protect that people from the brutality that was going on (mind that Portugal is a small state and insignificant inside NATO structure).-
So, what we see nowadays is a young generation whithout identity, despising its native culture, and buying into all that is fed upon them, in a multiracial environment, with a Angolan lead media conglomerate.
Of course there is still a lot of old money in Portugal, but try going out in Lisbon and mainly you will see angolans flashing money in expensive champagne bottles in VIP areas and shopping in Michael Kors and Louis Vuitton...We are now their vassals.