It was the year 2024, with 2025 just around the corner. Between the truth of the lie and the lie of the truth, TV images vied with those on social media. According to reports, the \u2018Blue November\u2019 campaigns were overshadowed by the \u2018Spilled Red\u2019 campaigns. Over the course of twenty springs, \u2018the one who calls the shots\u2019 showed that he was not concerned about his prostate, but rather about his wallet. Popular sovereignty \u2013 whether at its zenith or in its twilight, it is hard to say \u2013 gave rise to new solstices in the State of Maringauta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the news reports stated that, after the secret service\u2019s server had been hacked, the report on decarbonisation was discredited. A local newspaper soon leaked its contents, and the world learnt that the territory of that state harbours, beneath its surface, the largest quantities of precious stones, earth and sand in the entire Gulf of Gladiators. According to the presenter of \u201cNewsTV<\/em>\u2018NewsTV\u2019, being highly coveted by tycoons from beyond the borders, the golf courses covering the vast area of the burial grounds were soon taken over by Calvin, President Ast\u00facias\u2019s eldest son. In order to maintain a precarious peace \u2013 one that nevertheless suited the power he held in his hands \u2013 he would take the hands of the queens of hearts from emerging nations and, in return, offer some training equipment to the target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whilst the tycoons amused themselves by shooting at birds of prey, Ast\u00facias celebrated and fired at the altars of Venus. With the advent of artificial intelligence, all the calculators were thrown onto the rubbish heaps, and so the accounts of the heirs of the President of Maringauta were lost. In this way, he thought he had managed to establish Calvin as the \u2018chief of police\u2019 of the universal county and thus be able to shuffle the cards and all the checkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the awards for Best Film and Best Actress went to other stars. As midnight struck, and across the entire width of the television screen, my eyes were still fixed on the image of the Queen of Hearts, Joana Descansada, in the Oscars ceremony hall, still holding the Golden Globe in her hands. Thanks to the high-speed network of \u201cEstrela\u201d Link<\/em>\u2018Link\u2019, the live broadcast of the awards ceremony, starting at Hollywood<\/em>, it was broadcast in real time, uncut and uncensored. With the embroidery\u2019s stitching highlighting the beauty of her neckline, the award-winner was so stunned that she could not even deliver her speech, such was the intensity of President Ast\u00facias\u2019s seductive gaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Invited by him to visit the Palace of Gold, and before she could manage even a timid or joyful smile, the woman who would be the penultimate lady to be accosted muttered a curse at the President under her breath. In his haste, he took the gesture as an insult, and his charm led the lady and the Globe into a tiny, dimly lit wooden corridor. Meanwhile, someone had forgotten to switch off the CCTV cameras. Minutes later, just as deft hands were extracting a bullet from its casing, President Ast\u00facias fell to his knees in a pool of tomato sauce. The evidence of what had happened was overwhelming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Less than 20 and 4 hours after the fateful incident, the funeral of Calvin\u2019s father\u2014for whom he had mourned for 75 days\u2014took place. 20 and 4 hours later, he took the crown for himself. Upon returning from the wake, he ordered the publication of a mandatory notice inviting expressions of interest in all the basins and gulfs in the immediate vicinity of Maringauta. Just as swiftly as the news spread, so too did the reaction of Calvin\u2019s so-called blood brothers. At the behest of the deceased, they had been spilling the blood of the innocent who, naively, had given shelter to those who ripped out souls and minds. Upon taking into their own hands the death certificate of the man their mother had told them was their father, many of these tormentors approached Calvin to claim their rights. However, on the very day of his father\u2019s funeral, Calvin had already ordered a raid on the central registry office and had all the documents destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, 20 and 4 hours after Calvin had taken his seat on the throne, three men armed to the teeth burst into the room containing the golden eggs. Still signing orders for excursions, Calvin\u2019s wry smile made his two ears speak out, and they made themselves heard \u2018loud and clear\u2019: \u2013 \u201cA very warm welcome, my blood brothers; my father always spoke of the three of you. I was actually expecting you. Make yourselves at home.\u201d Burgo, Yannick and Joshua then took their seats. \u2013 \u201cMay the imposed peace reign amongst us!\u201d declared the three men, all dressed in black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Burgo took the floor to express his conviction that a new galactic order was approaching planet Earth and that he feared a third world war. For his part, Yannick appeared deeply concerned at the possibility of being attacked by weapons of mass destruction and of no longer being able to continue his adventure of discovering concrete and rubble-covered sites. Joshua, though seemingly shy, was in fact the most feared of the brothers, as he was regarded as a madman swept up in the wake of nuclear warheads; he could barely express his convictions as his emotions became entangled in tears of excitement and gratitude. Even so, he reminded those present that they must honour the memory of Uncle Sam and also bear in mind the smiles of Uncle Sushi. Calvin calmed everyone down and asked the brothers to return peacefully and of their own free will to their respective countries, because everything would be all right in 20 and 4 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the first GMS-4 meeting had concluded, in the post-Ast\u00facias era, Calvin immediately sent oxygen bombs to the state led by Yannick, as he had begun to suffer from hydrogen syndrome and the lungs of his heart were already showing signs of disintegration, with the rupture of some valves on the far right. The rot of peace sown by Calvin\u2019s father had allowed Yannick to dig trenches, build cemeteries beneath the rubble and bury shoulderless bodies there. After exterminating several of the ruthless exterminators, the exchange of bodies was merely a pretext to quell the riots and colonise new hives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Burgo also returned to his homeland, from which his true self had never left. His double, who had eliminated his dangerous nephew, was engaged in truce talks to thwart a plan by the \u201cAleat\u00f3ria\u2019s Secret\u201d,<\/em>selling drones shaped like knickers and bras, in the hope of deceiving the hallucinatory vision of the bourgeois imperialist. With the year 2025 well underway and time standing still to observe the events, the 20 and 4 were still on the road; Burgo and Yannick continued their devastating saga, as they had the unconditional support of Joshua, Calvin\u2019s undisputed friend. However, the deck of cards was beginning to show signs of atmospheric pollution, and some arsonists from both the present and the former continent began to tremble with anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nervousness touches the brilliant mind of a flamboyant being, who begins to extend his tentacles to the far reaches of his right cheek. Calvin feels even more at ease, for a delirious dream whispers in his right ear that the rocket will never fall apart, and he then begins the process of integrating these alluring frontiers. He began in the North with the sugar cane and continued southwards with the fabric of the sea. At that moment, another television channel showed that one side of Uncle Sushi\u2019s enigmatic smile was beginning to shrink. A clash of smiles with Calvin thus seemed inevitable. Regarded as a staunch opponent of the knowledge of the angels\u2019 sex and a regular practitioner of forced sex, the TV images did not seem Fake News,<\/em>when the world watched as the stroke of the pen ordered the release from the dungeons of those \u2018wronged by the justice system\u2019. With courage lodged in their throats, a glint of allure in the corners of their eyes and their hands laden with dynamite, Calvin and the cabin crew took to the skies in search of new fossilised paradises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under the sleepy gaze of the hexagon and with Ontario\u2019s radars switched off, the landing at the \u201c\"Green and Land\u201d<\/em>It was like putting sweets in a child\u2019s mouth. Not even the most gullible of brilliant minds could muster the clarity of thought to argue their case and stay put. The exodus of the islanders was total, and the invasion by the miners laid bare the triumphant trenches, even without the presence of the shackled and chained prisoners from Minas Gerais. In\"Green and Land\u201d<\/em>there was a great deal of ice and no vegetation, neither thick nor sparse, and the midnight sun remained silent, saying nothing about the invasion of the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, fearing that the Northern Lights might fail during the winter due to the disruption of the gaseous aurora, the naturalists and elders of the ancient continent set their contingency plan in motion. Kitted out in uniforms and military equipment of the highest technological standard, both the beauties and the playboys were authorised to join the marine platoon. Indeed, a large-scale, universal attack was imminent, launched by elite forces from an adversarial triathlon of operations. The stage had been set long before 20:00, and it took just four hours for the pendrive<\/em> that the secret information might be discovered by one of the employees closest to Calvin. However, the secret got out and found its way to the Atoms\u2019 house to deliver the cyanide to them. But the housewife had run out of cream, and the whipped cream turned into a collection of blackmail material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Entrementes, o contrabando de informa\u00e7\u00f5es fazia aquecer os neur\u00f3nios das fibras \u00f3ticas enquanto a \u201cEstrela Link\u201d<\/em> ordenava a liberaliza\u00e7\u00e3o de utiliza\u00e7\u00e3o massiva do \u201cTokTick\u201d<\/em> e mandava para as calendas gregas os Check-Fact<\/em>. Concomitantemente, o sabor do \u201cTic Tac\u201d estava j\u00e1 bastante amargo e azedo, que as agulhas do rel\u00f3gio no P\u00f3lo Norte pendulavam desorientadas. Aproveitando do desacerto na ponta da l\u00edngua dos anti ortodoxos, Burgo e Yannick continuavam a abrir mais valas de triunfo e a instalar novas colmeias. Este \u00faltimo, motivado pelas bombas de oxig\u00e9nio que recebera, seu peito encheu de hidrog\u00e9nio e, da ponta da l\u00edngua, disparou um m\u00edssil em dire\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 zona vizinha de Atalaia. O pal\u00e1cio do Aiatola foi atingido e a Xaria n\u00e3o p\u00f4de fazer milagre algum. O Xeque-Mate foi mortal e v\u00e1rias cabe\u00e7as de Sheiks<\/em> rolaram em dire\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0s valas descomunais. O colapso estava iminente e o colossal parecia estar a definhar-se. Os hor\u00e1rios desencontraram-se e o tio Sushi encurtou os dois lados do sorriso e mandou entrar em cena os iscariotes. Os ateus ainda ansiavam por um di\u00e1logo Norte-Norte, por\u00e9m, os deslocados do Sul Global j\u00e1 estavam com demasiado sal na ponta da l\u00edngua e nada os faria mover das faixas do areal das praias de mar. Ao menos ali podiam morrer afogados e n\u00e3o carbonizados.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Extremamente irritado com tantas \u201cprovoca\u00e7\u00f5es e atrevimento\u201d, Calvin enviou todos os seus avi\u00f5es port\u00e1teis para os teatros das opera\u00e7\u00f5es. Como n\u00e3o havia natas suficientes do lado da cara-metade, o fervor das conquistas, das vit\u00f3rias e dos triunfos se esbarraram com a intelig\u00eancia facial do \u201cKeepSleek\u201d. <\/em>A magreza da fome, estampada na face dos deslocados que ainda resistiam ao exterm\u00ednio, contrastava com o sorriso belicista de Yannick. A tens\u00e3o arterial aumentava e o fluxo de material b\u00e9lico tamb\u00e9m. O tempo foi-se embora, juntamente com as 20 e 4 horas. O sol e a lua tamb\u00e9m fugiram, ante a imin\u00eancia de uma guerra nuclear. As retinas das altera\u00e7\u00f5es clim\u00e1ticas, de t\u00e3o emba\u00e7adas com a emiss\u00e3o de gases, j\u00e1 n\u00e3o conseguiam distinguir o joio do trigo e todas as planta\u00e7\u00f5es eram fustigadas pela f\u00faria da natureza. Ainda assim, no meio \u00e0s tempestades, inc\u00eandios, inunda\u00e7\u00f5es e derrocadas, os navios de guerra enfrentavam os furac\u00f5es, os drones tentavam fintar os rel\u00e2mpagos e os soldados tentavam escapar ao lama\u00e7al de minas e \u00e0s amea\u00e7as de tortura e morte. Tudo para fazer valer as \u201cValas de Triunfo\u201d, as \u201cOpera\u00e7\u00f5es Especiais\u201d e n\u00e3o deixar morrer os \u201cPlanos de Vit\u00f3ria\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Na sala oval, as galinhas de ovos de ouro foram todas colocadas num bunker<\/em>. Ao lado, na sala de controle operacional, tentava-se, atrav\u00e9s de sess\u00f5es intensas de videoconfer\u00eancia, uma solu\u00e7\u00e3o para o conflito, antes que algum louco varrido pelo bafejo das ogivas carregasse no bot\u00e3o vermelho. A expuls\u00e3o da Cruz Vermelha e dos capacetes azuis n\u00e3o era um bom sinal para a paz. Por outro lado, reinava uma desconfian\u00e7a total nas linhas a\u00e9reas por causa da psicologia das cores, que andava a baralhar os c\u00e1lculos dos controladores do tr\u00e1fego a\u00e9reo, segundo a an\u00e1lise cient\u00edfica de Calvin. Ademais, o epis\u00f3dio com o sobrinho perigoso de Burgo acentuava ainda mais a desconfian\u00e7a entre os p\u00e1rias do jogo \u201cValas de Triunfo\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As confer\u00eancias de paz duraram o tempo que foi poss\u00edvel. Chegaram ao fim e nenhum acordo foi alcan\u00e7ado. A guerra de nervos, de palavras e de intimida\u00e7\u00f5es prevaleceu. As amea\u00e7as de pesadelos entraram nos navios, para testar os canais e os portos todos. Novas artilharias e arsenais foram enviados \u00e0 terra santa, para dar sinais ao Monte Sinai: a narrativa do \u201ca jeito ou \u00e0 for\u00e7a militar\u201d n\u00e3o deve ser encarado como piada de palha\u00e7o. J\u00e1 com a madrugada a despedir-se da noite dos \u00d3scares, a esperan\u00e7a ia abra\u00e7ando todos os artistas e pedir-lhes que trespassassem esse abra\u00e7o \u00e0 humanidade, atrav\u00e9s das suas artes. O desejo da esperan\u00e7a \u00e9 impedir que a abertura de valas descomunais, seja para esconder os raptados ou os raptores, seja para enterrar os exterminados, continue a avan\u00e7ar faixa adentro; que o discurso com a cicuta na ponta da l\u00edngua n\u00e3o tenha mais reedi\u00e7\u00f5es; que a sensatez da responsabilidade saiba escolher os termos para um acordo que vise a paz pela paz; que o medo e o sofrimento deixassem de ser as armas de destrui\u00e7\u00e3o maci\u00e7a, pois os loucos b\u00e9licos podem s\u00ea\u2010lo fora do controlo emocional e algum bot\u00e3o pode mesmo ser apertado. Aquilo que o abra\u00e7o da esperan\u00e7a alerta \u00e9 para o facto do bot\u00e3o vermelho com que o mundo \u00e9 amea\u00e7ado, \u00e9 um pretexto para semear o caos, a divis\u00e3o e a invas\u00e3o impune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A imposi\u00e7\u00e3o de fitas em formas de taxas aduaneiras \u00e9 apenas um mecanismo de distra\u00e7\u00e3o para com os crimes contra a humanidade. A promo\u00e7\u00e3o do namoro entre os anjos \u00e9 e ser\u00e1 uma mera abstra\u00e7\u00e3o para fomentar o narcisismo dos santos. E o fomento de not\u00edcias falsas bem como a censura \u00e0 liberdade de express\u00e3o ser\u00e3o as novas disciplinas nas escolas que tiverem ficado em p\u00e9. E as pessoas que n\u00e3o morreram, mas perderam os seus p\u00e9s, sequer ter\u00e3o um hospital de p\u00e9 para curar as suas feridas. Aqueles seres humanos que conseguirem ver-se livres das algemas e das correntes, certamente passar\u00e3o a ter uma ideia b\u00e1sica do que foi a escravatura. Por\u00e9m, aqueles que resolverem abra\u00e7ar a desperan\u00e7a ter\u00e3o a companhia da escravid\u00e3o mental, at\u00e9 que o sonho se transforme em realidade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do achado no pendrive<\/em>, o que n\u00e3o foi revelado \u00e9 se a \u201cEstrela Link\u201d<\/em> ter\u00e1 capacidade de apagar todas as mem\u00f3rias sobre valas comuns e substitu\u00ed-las por mem\u00f3rias de valas de triunfo. Dos documentos desclassificados, n\u00e3o se consegue extrair informa\u00e7\u00f5es relacionados com o planeta onde passar\u00e3o a viver Calvin e os seus irm\u00e3os. O Alcor\u00e3o n\u00e3o revela se o tio Sam ser\u00e1 ressuscitado, t\u00e3o pouco a B\u00edblia revela se os Aiatolas o ser\u00e3o tamb\u00e9m. O que se sabe \u00e9 que os bra\u00e7os do oceano continuar\u00e3o a abra\u00e7ar o sonho dos povos, que os s\u00f3is do meio-dia e da meia noite continuar\u00e3o a iluminar a mente da coragem e o luar noturno e diurno continuar\u00e1 a alimentar o est\u00f4mago da esperan\u00e7a daqueles que acreditam na paz pela paz. O que se sabe \u00e9 que a pobreza n\u00e3o existe, mas sim, que \u00e9 uma inven\u00e7\u00e3o para ludibriar os menos atentos, para os entreter em corridas atr\u00e1s de cami\u00f5es e os afastar das salas de aprendizagem e de forma\u00e7\u00e3o. O que se sabe \u00e9 que a fome foi criada para alimentar as carteiras de investimento dos senhores da guerra. E o que se finge n\u00e3o saber \u00e9 que quem doa alimentos numa m\u00e3o corta a outra m\u00e3o. \u00c9 o jogo da incapacita\u00e7\u00e3o f\u00edsica e psicol\u00f3gica, visando a explora\u00e7\u00e3o humana, de forma permanente e continuada no tempo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Na madrugada dentro e ao final dos notici\u00e1rios televisivos, os softwares<\/em> de intelig\u00eancia artificial entraram num novo palco de confronta\u00e7\u00e3o. A produ\u00e7\u00e3o de informa\u00e7\u00e3o ultrapassou a velocidade da luz e a mente humana se anestesia com os efeitos das altera\u00e7\u00f5es clim\u00e1ticas. As cores do arco-\u00edris come\u00e7aram a desvanecer-se do ecr\u00e3 televisivo. As minhas retinas acusaram o cansa\u00e7o e a minha mente se retraiu completamente, atingido por uma das balas perdidas da hipocrisia. O piv\u00f4 de um dos canais televisivos anunciou o fecho de emiss\u00f5es, por ordens executivas de Calvin, informando que em 20 e 4 horas todos os canais de sinal aberto seriam classificados. O jogo das Valas de Triunfo s\u00f3 poderia ser acompanhado, a partir de ent\u00e3o, nas redes XKM, mediante compra de direitos. Por bem ou por mal, informou o corretor que h\u00e1 verbas suficientes para qualquer cidad\u00e3o do espa\u00e7o comunit\u00e1rio aceder a mecanismos de financiamento. N\u00e3o tendo eu for\u00e7a an\u00edmica para confrontar esta narrativa, resta-me, por ora, despedir-me deste conto, sem acrescentar mais nenhum ponto. At\u00e9 porque sinto um barulho no meu quintal e o meu c\u00e3o parou de latir. Este \u00e9 o \u00faltimo click<\/em>, para salvar nas nuvens esta hist\u00f3ria.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Corria o ano de 2024, com 2025 \u00e0 porta. Entre a verdade da mentira e a mentira da verdade, as imagens da TV competiam com as das redes sociais. Pelo que foi noticiado, as campanhas de novembro azul foram sobrepostas pelas campanhas de vermelho derramado. 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