For the xenophobic Plataforma per Catalunya (PxC), Badalona is a really interesting place. The extremist party has infiltrated in the districts, where the immigrant population is greater, to have some more votes. They are trying to exploit the neighbourhood’s dissatisfaction with the problems that are endemic there, giving speeches in which they attack foreigners and Islam. Although it’s not very visible yet, the party leadered by ex-leader of Fuerza Nueva (NOTE: Franco’s nostalgic guys) Josep Anglada has proposed polemic measures such as abrogating subsidies for immigrants, retiring any scholarships for immigrants’ sons and that Moroccan and Pakistani consulates pay for the expenses that, according to PxC, are costing to the city people from those nationalities in Badalona. The Platform opened in the city, Barcelona and L’Hospitalet on March. The first goal of this party is to take part in the Autonomic Community’s elections on 2010 and then in the local elections on 2011. Anyway, the party is watching a good climate for their radical message in Badalona’s outskirts. “Immigration is suffered in those areas and those places are so devastated that we can have losts of votes“, says the delegate of PxC in Badalona, Carles Francisoud. The most important places where they are working are Sant Roc, Artigues, La Salut and Llefià, outskirts where the 34,000 foreigners that live there make up to 20% or 30% of the population. “If there is a problem here between the Pakistanis and the gypsy community, we are going to have a war because the illegals have entered here massively“, says Francisoud, who was sentenced in the mid-80s for several terrorist attacks made by ultra-far-right organization Milicia Catalana. The Platform, who has now 17 councilmen in cities like Vic, Manlleu or Manresa, is not hiding that they want to take the votes that were won by PP (center-right) in 2007 local elections, in which PP introduced a very hard-line discourse against illegals. The City’s Fellowship’s Councilman, the Convergencia i Unió (Catalan Nationalists – Conservatives) Josep Pera, considers the PP’s politians are responsible of this party having arrived there: “They have attracted them with their campaigns, who are giving a bad name to Badalona“. On the other hand, Badalona PP’s President, Xavier García Albiol, opines that PxC are no more than a “residual and folk group” and doesn’t think they are going to have a very great impact on the local elections, where the PP is seeing a continued growth: “We know that our only rival here is the Catalonian Socialist Party, who has been governing this town for the last 30 years, and that Badalona’s first problem is the degradation of some districts after the uncontrolled immigration“. The Platform is planning to organize a protest next September or October, against the next opening of a Muslim prayer room in the Artigues’ district. They are announcing it as “the more important anti-mosque demonstration held in Catalonia” and they are pretending to have more than 1,000 people, a number they have already reached in the demonstration against other prayer room in Premià de Mar held on 2002, in which some riots and security problems took place. The party’s supporters and the board of directors will attend it. This possible demonstration, which has maintained meetings with the entity which collected some signatures against a prayer room against which PP was also positioned, has not been well-received in the area. The President of the Neighbours’ Association Ángel Vendrell explained “It’s going to benefit no one. They can heat up the suspicions, which were already nearly forgotten“. Around 1,800 Muslims live in Artigues. They pray in the Camarón de San Roc Square. Although the second prayer room in Badalon will open soon, the hundreds of believers will continue to prostate themselves in the street on the sacred day for Islam to prevent the overpopulation in the ground floor from Santiago St., which is waiting for the license that will permit the conditioning of the rooms, with a total capacity of 50 people. According to the Major’s office, this Ramadan (which begins next Aug 22nd) will be used. The official opening with all the licenses will be held in October. Artigues’ Pakistani community, who had already protested against PP’s campaign opposed to this same prayer room, has denied that this will deteriorate the relations within the neighbourhood. Their speaker, Saidullah Khan, said “racism isn’t suddently born, they are not going to find any answer to their demonstrations“. Umair Dar, a young social worker who is fighting the effects that the economic crisis has in his fellow countrymen, told us that he never has seen any PxC’s supporters in the area: “They are possessed by Islamophobia. Before building a war camp, they should come here and we’ll find a solution“. Francisoud warns that the party he is representing, will prevent that “more immigrants get registered in the city and more mosques are built”. He adds that, if more mosques are to be built, they “should be in industrial estates”. “They aren’t asking that for schools or churches. Why? This is barbarity”, protests Muhammad Nawaz, a member of the Camí de la Pau (Path of Peace -Cat-), the Islamic organization settled in Barcelona’s Raval and owner of the new prayer room in Badalona. Their anti-immigration rethoric that is supported by PxC since it was born in 2002 has driven the party to form alliances with other European far-right parties, such as French National Front, Italian North League or German Neo-Nazi NDP. Till this day, the more known event of this party has been Anglada’s participation in a neighbours’ one against insecurity and the lack of social benefits in the La Salut’s district, an event in which Albiol also took part. In the end of the demonstration, in which some quarrel took place between a PP supporter and the members of PxC, Anglada stated to this newspaper that he felt as a foreigner himself, when he took a walk by Badalona and added that he wants his party to obtain between “two and four town councillors” in the local elections.
A job, a better life, live with their relatives… The reasons that brought to Vitoria the 5,000 Muslims that live nowadays in the city are now part of their past. Some of the obstacles that they met when they arrived at the city exist till today. One of those obstacles is the non-existence in Vitoria of a mkbara, or Arab cemetery adapted to the rituals of this community, an space reclaimed for some years now and about what the Major’s office didn’t reach any agreement some years ago. But this autumn its construction will be considered again.
The recent inauguration of a Muslim cemetery in Derio (opened in Oct, 2008 inside the Christian cemetery already built) seems to have given this project the support it needed. “As we suceeded in Bilbao, Vitoria’s Major’s office contacted us to see what we could do here”, the President of the Islamic Communities Union in the Basque Country, Ahmed El Hanafy explains. It seems that some members of this association (they want one person per mosque –the city has five- to attend each meeting) and city representatives will meet again to begin the negotiations related to the new cemetery.
«Very grateful»
The next meeting could end a debate whose last chapter began in 2004. The proposal of setting an area for Islamist (islamistas in the original) burials, was made then by the city’s Basque Nationalist Party group. They picked up a demand made by the Islamic community in the city who were asking for an specific area near El Salvador. “It could be an exclusive area or being located inside the cementery”, explains now El Hanafy. That first petition seemed to have all the support it needed to succeed because Basque Government just had passed a regulation that had removed all the requirements of burial requirements, regarding health and enviromental related issues, that allowed to build the cemetery. All the political parties, except PP (center-right) supported the idea, but it wasn’t built in the end.
The first conversations regarding this cemetery were held in the late 90’s, when the Vitorian Major’s office destined 1,000 square meters in El Salvador for this use. Two years later the debate was again held, but again the cemetery wasn’t built. “We are very grateful to see that the Major’s office had again shown interest in this project”, says the responsible of the Islamic Communities’ Union of the Basque Country,although he adds that there are things to discuss about, like “how, where, how much and when”.
“We would like to have more land than in Bilbao“, where around 300 corpses can be buried in around 450 square meters. The new cemetery would allow the believers to save the huge costs of sending the corpses back to their countries of origin (around €4,000 if they have to send it to Morocco or more than 6,000 if they have to send to, for example, Senegal. “We are not speaking about immigrants, but of the new generations, of Vitorian Muslims who want to be buried according to Islamic rituals“, says El Hanafy.
Comentario breve: Rajoy sale reforzado por el resultado en Galicia -no me alegra nada, aunque había que elegir entre el bipartito o esto-, ZP ha perdido por primera vez unas elecciones -esto sí me alegra-.
Galicia: mayoría absoluta del PP pero no por lo que han dicho (campaña buenísima, trabajo maravilloso, nos besamos, nos abrazamos somos maravillosos y blablabla), si no por a) los excesos de Touriño (coche, sillas de lujo y demás) y b) la foto de Anxo Quintana con el constructor Rey. Por cierto, muy divertido lo de Espartaco Quintana. Y lo de Touriño que va a devolver el coche: si no es para mí, no será para nadie, habrá pensado.
País Vasco: Se acaba la era Ibarreche, comienza la era “Pachi”. Ahora bien, ya veremos con quién es esa era porque no tengo muy claro que el PSOE sea constitucionalista. Después tenemos Navarra y los terroristas de ETA de fondo. Interesante sin embargo, será averiguar a dónde han ido los votos de estos, además de a los votos nulos. Aralar, sin duda. Un escaño para Rosa Díez. Y descalabro de IU (se queda con sólo un diputado de los 3 que tenía), que va camino de desaparecer. Así que no extraña la cara de Madrazo:
Cursilería al máximo. El premio es para González Pons: “hay mucha alegría que dar al País Vasco, muchas ventanas y muchas puertas que abrir”. Imagino que se había leído durante la campaña electoral, todos los libros de Corín Tellado. Espero que si llegan a algún pacto, no imiten este estilo, porque me imagino a la gente llorando como cuando en su momento la gente vio Titanic.
Tras una campaña calentada por las diligencias abiertas por el juez Garzón, en persecución de una presunta corrupción en el seno de los populares madrileños, pero enrevesada después para el PSOE por la dimisión del ministro Bermejo y por el empeño de Pérez Touriño de no dar respuesta a las denuncias de despilfarro desveladas por ABC, el PP vuelve a obtener la mayoría absoluta en Galicia, con 39 escaños. Pero, además, la ruleta rusa del nuevo escenario vasco, pese a que otorga la victoria de Ibarretxe, otorga a socialistas y populares una mayoría inopinada, siempre que Zapatero y Patxi López se atrevan a desalojar a los peneuvistas y decantarse por el primer gobierno no nacionalista de la democracia.
“Hemos vivido una doble jornada eleztoral… El Partido Popular ha otenido… El PSE ha tuvido una subida electoral de 8 puntos (en País Vasco)“.
Dice que los socialistas “han contribuido decisivamente al progreso y a la modernización de Galicia”. Como no sea a la modernización y progreso de la flota de coches oficiales y de los sillones para conferencias…
Antes de comentar, tened en cuenta este post. Gracias.
So, Spanish Government is going to ask Venezuelan Ambassador about the expulsion, but Elena Valenciano, Socialist responsible for Foreign Affairs has already said that “he did not fulfill the code of behaviour for international observers, because they are only charged with making a report after the elections but not prior to them“. So they can’t caution if there is a real danger to the impartiality of the elections, they can only speak when everything is done and nothing can be done about it.
Luis Herrero has stated after his expulsion that he was not as an “observer” but as an invited guest from the opposition, and, as such, with full capacity to give an opinion about what is happening there. He also added that no one from Spanish Embassy has gone to support Carlos Iturgáiz and the rest of PP’s MEPs who are also in Venezuela.
Meanwhile, López Istúriz, another PP’s MEP, considers that the statements made by Elena Valenciano “belongs really to a political komissar”, and that the measure they should have taken was “to write a protest note, not the expulsion, if they felt offended by his words”.
Zapatero’s Government (again) places itself with tyrants…
Los eurodiputados del PP se han visto en la obligación de dar explicaciones, después de que La Razón publicara este jueves que la mayoría de su grupo apoyó una resolución del Parlamento Europeo a favor del aborto, la eutanasia y el matrimonio gay.
Dicen que este apoyo se debió a la ambigüedad y a la falta de claridad en la definición de los conceptos más polémicos, así como a la ausencia de una directriz común como delegación. El Grupo optó por “libertad de voto” en esta resolución para que “cada uno con su conciencia” votara lo que creyera. Según el popular Díaz de Mera, “los contenidos no resultaban problemáticos”.
Luego si en parte se debió a que cada uno votó en conciencia, quiere decir que están a favor de la eutanasia, el aborto y el matrimonio gay en su mayoría. Y entonces, ¿por qué demonios apoyó el PP la manifestación pro-familia en la pasada legislatura? Ah, no, espera, que ahora ya son de centro…
Ayyy, Diosssss, qué cruz. Pero, ¿piensan realmente que alguien con medio cerebro (ya no digo entero) después de leer (y ver) la cantidad de sandeces que están haciendo les va a votar? Excluyo claro a los “interesados” por A, por B y por C en que salga el PP… que estamos en crisis y no hay que hacerse enemigos así sin pensar…
País…
Antes de comentar, tened en cuenta este post. Gracias.
Espera que me troncho de la risa. Esto es como si dicen: quería sexo pero no con quién practicarlo. Se necesita ser …. inteligente, muy inteligente.
Pero es que cuando luego se lee la noticia es aún más divertido: resulta que los autorizó para casos de emergencia, o sea, el avión no tiene suficiente combustible, se ha roto un ala, hay turbulencias… ¿Qué pasa, Moratinos? ¿Quieres que los presos “talibanes y de Al-Qaeda” (esos chicos tannnn pacíficos) tengan un “accidente” porque no pueden aterrizar en España?
A ver si ahora resulta que Moratinos es más duro que Bush…
PS: Como sabéis, cambié la plantilla y en el proceso, se me perdieron algunos enlaces. Así que si veis que el vuestro no está o si queréis que lo añada, me dejáis un comentario en la entrada. Ya sé que esto no es la BBC pero a lo mejor os hace ilusión tener un enlace en el blog… XDDDDD
Resulta que ahora son Fraga (Ministro de Franco… y más viejo ya que Matusalén) y los nacionalistas los que van a acabar gobernando en el PP. El primero, porque parece ser que llamó a Gallardón el 10 de marzo para ofrecerle el puesto de sucesor de Rajoy. Los segundos porque la nueva “estrategia” de Mariano es hacer la pelota a los nacionalistas que tan penosobuen resultado ha dado en Cataluña (como todos sabemos Piqué tuvo muchos más votos que Vidal Cuadras…). Vamos que quieren aliarse o hacer la pelota a unos nacionalistas tan cuerdos como estos que nos cuenta Elentir… que es para considerar si va a ser del riego.
Je, luego se soprenderán cuando vean los números y encuentren que han bajado las afiliaciones: no, no sólo que no hay quien se afilie, si no que los que ya lo hicieron se piran ahora al ver la inutilidad de esta caterva con lo peor del funcionariado -un sueldo para toda la vida, como si esto fuera el Nescafé y encima sin dar ni golpe, como con el sorteo del Nescafé, y pudiendo pasar del Nescafé (esto es, de los votantes) porque uff, ya nos dieron el voto, pa ná sirven y pa tó estorban, ¿no?- y el engaño a que hemos sido sometidos los votantes de las pasadas elecciones. ¿Verdad, Mariano?
Pues eso, que nos perdone Dios a todos por tratar tannnnn mal a Mariano…
Ahora bien, El Pais, como ya nos tiene acostumbrados dice: Gallardón dice que Rajoy no le ha ofrecido ningún puesto en el partido. En primer lugar, que Gallardón puede decir misa que yo no me creo nada de este buen señor. Ahora bien, lo más que se ha publicado es que Rajoy quiere que Gallardón sea el nuevo secretario general (NO que se lo haya ofrecido) o que, como se ve más arriba, ha sido Fraga (ese hombre tan malo del franquismo, ¿no era eso?) el que le ha ofrecido ser candidato. Así que esa información no informa (jejeje, es el País… ). Otra cosa es que yo defienda a Rajoy, que no, que de eso nada, que ese tiempo se acabó.
Veremos a ver qué sale de esto… Ahora, si antes nos quejábamos de la política de comunicación del PP, ahora me quejo del objeto de las comunicaciones: es que no pueden ser más inútiles… , parece que el guión se lo ha escrito su peor enemigo y ellos van y lo siguen…
Mientras hay algunos en el Gobierno (de Aragón, en este caso) que no saben lo que es un hectómetro cúbico de agua (se maravillarán de que haya medidores de litros y todo…). Y Aído ha presentado el equipo con el que “eliminar la desigualdad“, por supuesto, entre hombres y mujeres (no hay ninguna otra desigualdad, por ejemplo, en relación a los pensionistas que cobran cuotas de miseria mientras otros se gastan una pasta en coche oficial y divertimentos varios) pero sin quitar la famosa cuota. Eso sí, Pepiñocritica a Esperanza Aguirre, por el acuerdo a que ha llegado en la Comunidad de Madrid sobre el cuidado de los enfermos terminales o graves.
Me maravillo de que algo funcione en este país… Conclusión ineludible ante tanta inutilidad.
Y no, no es porque se declare socialista en el vídeo, cosa que no hace. Si no porque no tiene ni idea de por qué ha defendido esos principios. Y encima contradiciéndose a sí mismo:
El líder del PP y candidato a la Presidencia del Gobierno, Mariano Rajoy, reivindicó hoy el espíritu de la Constitución de 1812, conocida como “La Pepa” y que se aprobó en Cádiz, porque, según dijo, es la “cuna de los grandes valores” de libertad, igualdad y soberanía popular sobre los que se han construido las sociedades modernas”.
¿Debemos concluir pues que Rajoy piensa que la Constitución de Cádiz era socialista? Según estas declaraciones, sí.
Menuda vergüenza. El anterior vídeo sobre “no le pediré a Zapatero que deje de negociar” ya fue suficiente para que no le votara más que porque ZP me parece un mentiroso, hipócrita, inculto, con mala fe e inútil como para ser capaz de gobernar.
Con estas nuevas declaraciones, me acaba de demostrar que usted es igual. Además de mentiroso (esas declaraciones “sobre los valores de la Constitución de Cádiz” las hizo en campaña, cuando tenía que hacer la pelota a los gilipollas de los conservadores y liberales, de esos que sólo se acuerdan cuando truena y las encuestas les dicen que el sillón presidencial queda lejos), inculto y sin saber dónde tiene la mano derecha -dicho sin intención-. Y, si no se lo permito a Pepiño, que no sabe ni leer casi, imagínese a usted que es Registrador de la Propiedad y se le presupone una cultura más que aceptable.
Pero eso no es todo: según informa El Mundo, Rajoy ha añadido:
El líder del PP, Mariano Rajoy, ha advertido de que se presenta a la reelección en su partido porque se lo han pedido sus compañeros, no porque lo haya hecho “ningún periódico ni ninguna radio”, y ha subrayado que “si alguien se quiere ir al partido liberal o al conservador, que se vaya“.
Y aquí el vídeo (en el que se ve que todo el mundo aplaude… a pesar de la barbaridad que ha dicho…):
No tiene que insistir mucho para eso, Mariano. No voy donde no soy bienvenida: sólo doy gracias de no haberme afiliado ni haber pagado un duro a su organización. También las doy por no haber recibido nada del PP ni de ningún otro alguien por escribir en el blog. Lo que hice lo hice por conciencia. Pero como comprenderá en conciencia tampoco puedo apoyarle ahora: no se preocupe, sólo soy una blogger, pero ahí tiene a PRISA tan contenta. Ellos son más importantes que los demás, tienen muchos medios que los harán la pelota, pero nosotros tenemos principios, ustedes ya se ve que no.
Asimismo:
Las declaraciones de Rajoy se producen apenas unos días después de que la presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, afirmara no sentirse sorprendida de que en los sectores socialdemócratas se sientan más cómodos con el presidente del Partido Popular, Mariano Rajoy, que con ella, y aseguró que en “un periodo precongresual”, como el actual, no hay que “rehuir los debates ideológicos”. Sus palabras llevaron al portavoz del PP en el Senado, Pío García-Escudero, a pedir públicamente explicaciones a Aguirre.
No voy a apoyarla tampoco, pero, al menos, no se avergüenza de lo que es. Es una magnífica presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, que ha tenido que reinventarse con todos los medios poniéndola de imbécil porque era rubia, tenía dinero y era de buena familia. Y no hay nada peor para mí en este mundo que avergonzarse, sr. Rajoy, de lo que uno es, piensa o siente. Y mucho peor si se hace sólo por obtener votos. Porque indica una inmadurez que está bien con el desarrollo hormonal pero no cuando uno es un maduro con familia y experiencia profesional.
Güemes, secretario de Comunicación del PP de Madrid, ha añadido que el PP andaluz no debe esperar a saber si la presidenta del PP de Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, se presenta o no a la Presidencia del PP en el congreso que se celebrará en junio en Valencia, sino que debe “comenzar a trabajar”, porque lo cierto es que “llevan treinta años acomodados en la oposición perdiendo elecciones una y otra vez”. Güemes no ha tenido en cuenta los buenos resultados electorales de Javier Arenas, candidato del PP en las últimas elecciones autonómicas, en las que logró 47 representantes por 56 del PSOE.
Lo que claro, no le ha gustado nada a El País… así que pobrecito Arenas que no le tienen en cuenta lo que ha subido en las encuestas… Y ohh, que no, que no trabaje el PP, no vaya a ser que Arriquitau cabezón de melón pierda alguna elección en los próximos 100 años.
Así que “buenas noches y buena suerte“, sr. Rajoy. Tengo mucha paciencia, hasta que me hartan. Tengo como máxima el que “mi buena opinión una vez perdida, está perdida para siempre“. Se puede perdonar, pero la confianza no se puede seguir depositando de igual modo en alguien que manifiestamente ha engañado. Así que ya sabe: acaba de perderla y de hacer que se me hinchen las narices por última vez.
El vicepresidente de la Comunidad de Madrid ha respondido a la sorprendente declaración de Mariano Rajoy invitando a liberales y conservadores a abandonar el partido, al tiempo que abogaba por un PP en el que quepan “los socialdemócratas”. Ignacio González se ha preguntado “qué sería entonces ideológicamente del Partido Popular”, y ha recordado que fue Pío García Escudero quien sólo hace dos día dijo que en el PP “no había socialdemócratas, sino liberales y conservadores”. También ha tenido que recordar a Rajoy que Aguirre sí ha ganado dos elecciones y por mayoría absoluta.
asociado a ese “pretty large” silencio se han producido otras catástrofes. La convocatoria de un congreso “yo me lo guiso yo me lo como”, las amenazas gorilescas a quien ose romper la unidad de las filas prietas (¿o de los culos prietos?), los nombramientos de mediocres burócratas que no hagan sombra al líder bienamado, el exílio de los pesos pesados, el medrar de los barones “propietarios” de su taifa, la alegría de la izquierda, la vuelta a los medios a los que no iba a ir si no se disculpaban…
So after being since March 9th, without even speaking about the news which have been going on these past days, Rajoy emerges from the shadows and points out to Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, a young prepared woman, as PP speaker in Congress. But you know, for me this is not a question of being a woman or a man, of being old or young. It’s a question of being convinced of what you do and being tough defending it. It’s not easy, but nobody is going to defend it for you.
This is a job of the utmost responsibility that implies you must have enough experience to cope with it, without doubting or feeling sorry for what you are. What happens? That she is not perceived as tough, only as “prepared” and “very inclined to dialogue”, two things that opposition these days should be very cautious to consider: the Government is formed in general by stupid unprepared people who have left us glorious phrases over the last term. And to dialogue you must be first convinced about what you defend, something Ms. Soraya is not: she wants PP to be a center party, something a lot of us do not agree with.
If you are known by your antagonists, then it’s curious that the people who should be hers are so happy with her appointment. From LD:
El Pais’s main opinion article considers that the appointment of Soraya is the proof of a “prudente aggiornamento”. It also adds that she is “an expert in Autonomic matters, not only belongs to a new political generation, but only has the support of her good knowledge of law and a easy attitude which are recognised by all the people which negotiate with her the reforms of the Statutes of Autonomy pased in the last term”.
The main page of the Zapatero’s friend, Público, can’t be more meaningful. Over a photo of Alonso and Soraya, there is the title: “First target: bury the confrontation”. This newspaper identifies the confrontation with the work in defense of the principles of PP made by the last speaker, Zaplana, in the last term. They see a gesture of moderation and define Soraya as “diplomatic but firm, having a great memory and as an expert in bypassing the difficult problems using argumentos”.
Also Socialists are very happy with her appointment. Their new Congress speaker, José Antonio Alonso thinks that they are going to “get on well” and that they are going to “create the necessary conditions to arrive to consensus on counter-terrorism policy, foreign policy, security and common defense”.
Even the Catalan Government has celebrated the news. Catalan Republican Left’s speaker in Congress, Joan Ridao, and the elected MP of Catalan Left-Greens, Joan Herrera, celebrated as a “good news”that the new speaker of Congress has that “more inclined to dialogue profile” that the last one, Eduardo Zaplana.
The problem with her is that, not only all the undersigners of the Tinell Pact (that pact that excluded Popular Party nearly from all parlamentary life) are very happy about her, but that I don’t think she has the courage or the tough ways to confront what we have ahead. I don’t think Spain needs someone we have to wait to see if she does it OK. Spain needs someone who has the guts to confront the rest of the parties, because in most subjects (censorship in Internet, SGAE’s canon on digital devices, terrorism, justice, immigration…) PP is alone. Spain doesn’t have time.
And since the first time, she has not confronted people who has spoken to her in a very unrespectful way. It’s known here that important journalists Pedro J. Ramírez (El Mundo) and Federico Jiménez Losantos (COPE) want to influence PP, just as mainly PRISA has done with PSOE. And they are not happy with the appointment. Me neither. But what you cannot ask in the first interview with someone is “Have you reproduced yourself yet?”. That is not only a very bad taste question, it’s clearly a question he wouldn’t have asked a man or a middle-aged woman.
And she just answered the question. No, that’s not a way to treat such people. You should defend yourself and show you have the qualities for the job.
The same happens with the ideology: there are several “ideologues” who want to convince people that in Spain there are only far-rightists or centered people. That right-wingers, that is, conservative or moderate conservative don’t exist. Well, this is going to disappoint you but WE exist (I am more or less a wild-born conservative, that is, do you want me to change my views? Well, give me rational reasons for that or just get off to bore in another place). And no, people like me don’t want Franco (or his ideological sons) to come back. We don’t want Catholicism to be the official religion. And we don’t eat little children. We support freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of criticism against power and separation of Church and State, although considering that the work that the Catholic Church does regarding security services is very important and must be considered by the State, who saves lots of money with it. But hey, that does not mean people should worship the Church, just consider it as another NGO with much less costs for society and State. In my case, I’m for the self-financed Church, but its earnings would go first for Catholics and supporters, rest of it for charity. Because we are brothers but not idiots.
Well, most conservatives have voted PP as there is no other party with reasonable ideas (no, please, AES or similar are NOT reasonable for me…) to vote for. I voted as I wrote here, mainly because I didn’t like Zapatero and was fearing the consequences for freedom of expression his new term was going to bring.
In fact it has already brought them: a supposedly anti-racist NGO Movement against intolerance has asked the Government to see if they can shut several webs and blogs because they were listed in an anti-immigration website deemed as “racist and far-right”. The problem is that the authors of those blogs listed weren’t even aware their blogs were listed there and the NGO didn’t even take the time to read all the blogs they were -and are- asking to shut. Now they have even erased some of them –also here-, while keeping others listed, and menacing them with legal actions because of the “Statements that are made against the NGO and its president”. Of course, what are the bloggers going to say about them? And what would PP say against this kind of censorship without even having read the contents of the web? Just give them time: they have to learn (both: PP and the NGO) what the blogosphere is about first…
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No me había pronunciado sobre el PP hasta ahora porque a) estaba esperando a ver qué decían o hacían, además de intentar que nadie les mueva el sillón que tienen debajo de las posaderas y b) y porque estaba esperando que los chicos de Blogs Pro Rajoy se dignasen de una vez quitar este blog de su listado. Pero ni la a) ni la b) son prometedores así que, respondiendo a lo que dije antes de las elecciones, voy a hacer un breve análisis de lo que, en mi modesto saber y entener ocurre.
El primer problema como siempre en el PP es tener las cosas claras sobre la base social que les vota. El segundo es saber decirlas sin miedo a lo que dirá el “inteletual” de Pepiño y otros semejantes. Y creo que no tienen claro ni una ni la otra. Como mejor ejemplo, la nueva portavoz del PP, Soraya.
Cayo hizo un magnífico post de crítica a su nombramiento, en el que además hace un análisis al resto de las personas que ella ha elegido. Coincido totalmente con su crítica, es más, creo que como he dicho antes en inglés, ni tiene la experiencia ni el carácter como para ser portavoz en las circunstancias actuales.
Es curioso pero la forma más práctica de saber si una persona puede enfrentarse a un clima adverso es precisamente ponerla en esa clima adverso. Y ese clima adverso fue la entrevista de la COPE, hecha por Pedro J y Jiménez Losantos. A mí me pareció particularmente asquerosa, con unas preguntas que no se le hubiera ocurrido hacer a un hombre o a una mujer de mediana edad. ¿Le hubiera preguntado a un señor recién elegido si “se ha reproducido”? A mí me lo pregunta y le quedo en ridículo en ese mismo momento: “Querido Federico, ¿ha afectado hasta ahora a mi trayectoria profesional si me he reproducido o no? ¿Le importa a los españoles cuál sea mi estado civil? Y sobre todo, ¿le hace esa pregunta y en esos términos a todos los políticos que entrevista? ¿O me la hace a mí por alguna razón en concreto?“.
Pero el tema no está en si esa pregunta (y otras, pero esa lo fue especialmente) está bien o mal hecha, si no en si la persona a la que se dirige realmente se defiende de ella o, por el contrario, pasa olímpicamente, como si con ella no fuera. Es decir, aquí de lo que se trata es de comentar si el nombramiento es el adecuado. Y me parece que alguien que no se sabe defender personalmente ante un comentario evidentemente malintencionado y despreciativo de forma clara y contundente, no puede desde luego ser portavoz de nada. Y mucho menos de un partido político en la situación tan “especial” que tiene el PP ahora. Porque que no espere Soraya que María Teresa Fernández de la Vega vaya a ser más “simpática” con ella.
La imagen que dio Soraya es muy clara de lo que le pasa a una buena parte del PP y que además ha confirmado posteriormente en otras noticias, como la de que “la postura del PNV sobre ANV puede ser razonable” (la de los que dijeron que unos mueven el árbol y otros recogen las nueves, ¿de verdad, puede parecer a alguien razonable considerando que ANV es el nuevo brazo político de ETA?) o que “el PP además de ser de centro, debe parecerlo“. Curiosamente Pepiño, alias “El Lumbrera”, considera que “Rajoy siempre ha sido el más conservador y el más radical del PSOE”. Si lo dice Pepiño, sitúense justo en lo contrario y acertarán.
Lo peor es que, considerando que los del PP están acostumbrados a que sean otros los que les digan quiénes son, sin pensar por una santa vez, que son ellos quienes PRIMERO tienen que definirse, ahora pedirán perdón por ser los más conservadores del mundo mundial.
Y así no se solucionan sus problemas internos, ni pueden de verdad convertirse en una alternativa fiable, que realmente haga una oposición creíble. Si cada vez que empiezas hablar, pides perdón por hacerlo, estás concediendo YA a tu interlocutor una posición de superioridad sobre tí, que no es desde luego la que le debes hacer sentir que tiene.
De modo que el problema no es tanto qué piensan sobre cada cosa, si no que la digan con convencimiento, que muchas veces la dicen mirando con un ojo al interlocutor y otra a la encuesta de turno. Y en esto, sr. Rajoy tiene la culpa usted también. Porque parece que debe estar pidiendo perdón por haberse metido en la guerra de Irak hasta el Juicio Final. Me acuerdo de que usted ni siquiera salió a defenderla nunca. Bien, si piensa que estuvo mal llevar un barco hospital a Basora, dígalo y acabe con ello. Y si es porque Aznar le eligió a usted a dedo, no cometa el mismo error.
Presentar una serie de chikilicuatres al uso, no por su cualificación pero sí por su blandenguería y por su habitual centrismo es bastante poco inteligente. Precisamente una de las cosas por las que se nos criticó fue por defender que había que votarle a usted porque para la derecha (ojooooooooo) no había otra solución si se quería derrotar a ZP.
En mi caso, nunca he sido particularmente partidaria de las “etiquetitas” y creo que las divisiones entre izquierda y derecha están bastante pasadas de moda. Si me tengo que definir, soy más conservadora que otra cosa (como digo arriba en inglés), pero voy a mi aire y no me gusta que me digan qué tengo que pensar “porque queda bien”, “lo dice Fulanito que es muy listo” o “Menganito que está muy bien situado”. Es más, creo que más que etiquetas, estarían por un lado aquellos que defienden una serie de valores (igualdad de los seres humanos con independencia de su religión, raza, opinión, seXo (no género), libertad de expresión, libertad de creencias, independencia de la religión respecto del Estado -que no sometimiento de la religión al Estado-, aplicación de las reglas jurídicas con independencia de las circunstancias políticas o de la posición religiosa, ideológica o social del individuo…) y otros que NO lo hacen.
Y esa va a ser la verdadera distinción a partir de ahora. Hasta ahora y salvo contadas excepciones, el PP ha estado muerto de miedo para defender ese tipo de principios, porque son los que se califican por el PSOE como de “derechas”, para a continuación decir que “ohhh, yo soy Patriota de la Libertad” o “ellos son de derecha-extrema”. Lo que pasa es que con estos nombramientos, las perspectivas son aún peores.
Por cierto, ¿para cuándo renovar a Arriola? Esto es, expulsión inmediata del equipo de comunicación del partido. Y en esto sí que coincido con Pedro J. Y eso que, todo el mundo que me conoce sabe que el súper-mega-hiper-progre-chachi director del Mundo NO es santo de mi devoción (sí, me acuerdo de sus críticas a Aznar por Irak como si aquello fuera el acabóse, pero no le veo yo tan inclinado a criticar a otros como ZP en Haití, Kosovo, Congo o Afganistán, guerras de las que su periódico tampoco informa mucho que se diga, mientras sigue informando a diario de Irak… ohh, pero es que queda de bien criticar a Bush…. que no digo que no sea criticable pero… España ya NO está en Irak, mientras que SÍ está en las demás por obra y gracia del pacificador alianzador de civilizaciones).
Los partidos políticos expresan el pluralismo político, concurren a la formación y manifestación de la voluntad popular y son instrumento fundamental para la participación política. Su creación y el ejercicio de su actividad son libres dentro del respeto a la Constitución y a la Ley. Su estructura interna y funcionamiento deberán ser democráticos.
Sí, ya sé las mayorías no siempre tienen razón, blablablabla… pero es que encima de no cumplir la ley, no eligen bien.
(Pedro J., no es por molestar, pero José Antonio Alonso, ¿por qué procedimiento fue elegido como portavoz del PSOE? Ahh, ya que no… que ese no interesa porque ya influye PRISA… Bien, bien…).
Any time I found someone writing in English about what I want to write it’s a pleasure… even if the subject is so disagreeable and dispicable as is the Mari Luz case. John, the editor of Iberian Notes, has written about it in his blog: I wouldn’t have said this better.
“The big news in Spain is the Mari Luz case. Down in Huelva some sex pervert kidnapped and murdered a little girl named Mari Luz back in January, and they just found her body a few days ago. The perv has been arrested, and here’s the fun part: he had two prior convictions for child sexual abuse, once on his own daughter, and they never bothered actually putting him in jail.
The judiciary is being seriously questioned over this one, since the pervert never should have been anywhere near this child. Jail is made for sick bastards who go around sexually abusing kids, not for people who smoke pot or write bad checks. Spain, by the way, does not have a register of sex offenders, though it does have one of woman-beaters, and there is no law requiring that people be informed if a sex offender is living in their neighborhood, either.
Mari Luz was from a gypsy family that is integrated into society, while the perv seems to be a lower-class payo. The Huelva gypsies are understandably very angry, and they’ve tried to lynch both the perv and one of his brothers (who is almost certainly innocent, though the perv’s wife might have helped him cover up the crime).
This guy would be a clear death penalty candidate in the US, and I’d have no problem voting for it if I were on the jury.”
Really the people here are very angry about this, as you can imagine. But above all, as John points out before, of course, the most angry of all is the father of the little girl, who has announced legal actions against the responsibles and has asked “for responsibilities, specially political ones”. He has also asked the Minister of Justice, Bermejo, to give his opinion about the case. And understandably, he has asked for the Penal Code to be changed and the pedophiles be in prison for life. Even if that’s something that a lot of people here would support (the pedophiles are not in most cases reinserted or resocialized), I don’t think it would even get to parliament as political correctness is a value here.
Popular Party has asked the Government to accept the responsibility of the people in charge of the case and has announced some measures. I am anxious to see what measures are they considering for this case, specially because this is the first time they open their mouths after losing the elections and being more worried about the seat under their asses than about Spanish future.
Things are getting even more complicated after the so-depedent from Socialist Government newspaper, El País, has published that the Judge’s office responsible of the process, was investigated last November without detecting any irregularities. As the investigating office depends directly from the General Council of the Judicial Power, the investigation will also have to say if that service wasn’t working fine and where its error was.
Anyway, El Mundo has published that in that same investigation there were detected some “little” unjustified delays in the Judge’s way of handling the cases. And that the same Judge was fined in 1995 for unjustified delays in another case of another minor’s mistreatment.
AS I wrote on Sunday, Socialists won because of the vote of leftist radicals, both from United Left (communists, they lose 3 out of 5 seats in Congress) and the Nationalists from both Catalan Republican Left (lose 5 out of 8 seats) and Basque Nationalist Party (lose one which is summed up by the Basque Socialists). In general they have not increased their votes apart from that change. This can boost to extraordinary heights the radicalization of a Government, in nearly all issues.
Brief prospect for Socialist policy in the next term:
Judicial Power: the control over judiciary is going to be increased badly, leading to an accused partiality for the already partial Supreme Court Judges and the members of the General Council of the Judicial Power. We have seen this specially with the gay marriage issue: sanctions for judges who deemed it to be unconstitutional or for the ones who were not convinced of the constitutionality of the gay couples’ adopting children (it is a right for the minor to be adopted, not the other way round). But it can be seen also in the fact of the actual disparition of the popular action, a last resource to control legality for citizens when no one was left. This popular action has been deemed out of order if the Official Prosecutor does not maintain the accusation or if the private accusation is not personally damaged by the crime. Very used to pursue justice in anti-ETA processes, it has been deemed not contemplated for those cases, even when neither the Constitucion or the Criminal Process Law state that exemption.
Constitucional Tribunal: this is going to be another REAL issue. The awaited modification of its members is going to be done after an election where socialist radicalization is going to be the main issue considering the results. So you see the partitiality of the Tribunal is going to grow in an institution whose impartiality is not only a need of its own existence but a requirement to really ensure its “non-political/only juridical” real essence.
Religion: the attacks on the Catholic Church and the support of Islam (whose leaders asked expressely to vote for Socialism) are probably going to grow. For example, these last days we have come to know that Socialists and Al-Fatah made an agreement to mutually assess themselves in several issues. Also, the Socialist Government is going to pay with our taxes, a film named “Al Andalus” which tells a “story” between Reza, a Persian Muslim boy, Mirian, a Jewish girl and and an ex-guardsman of the Caliphate. The film has been called by the Spanish stupidest between stupidest FM Moratinos, a “project of enourmous importance for the Civilizations’ Alliance and a “very efficient tool” for it. Note there is no Christian as main role in the film: so where are the three cultures’ representatives if one of them -Christian- is substituted by an “ex-guardsman of the Caliphate”?
Abortion: the abortion is only non-punishable in Spain in three cases: rape, very grave genetic defects of the foetus and danger for physical and psychical health of the mother. It’s general knowledge that the last of the three causes is abused and perverted by doctors, who instead of considering the cases in which the mother IS really on these cases, they consider in it included every pregnant woman who is not on the other two cases and who arrives to the clinic to ask for an abortion. The scandals over abortion clinics have shown that even 8-month-old foetuses were being aborted and thrown into grinding machines to eliminate proofs. But high quantites of money were being paid to these clinics without, on the other hand, having ANY kind of post-abortion care for the mother of any pre-abortion information about other methods to avoid abortion. The support the Government has given to the clinics, instead of giving it to the pregnant women, is not a good sign, aggravated by the votes’ transfer from United Left, which has been supporting free abortion during the first three months, to the Socialists. Meanwhile the number of abortions in Spain has boosted, and the Government has released the figures later than other years for avoiding a lot of criticism just before the elections. Last news are, that the same clinics who were practising abortions to 8-month pregnant women, also practised abortions to 13-year-old girls.
Euthanasia: nowadays it’s totally forbidden in Spain. Anyway, the minister of Sciences, Bernat Soria, who has allegedly forged his CV including in it several non-existent aspects of his carreer life, has made it clear that he wants to discuss this matter (The euthanasia is a “failed subject” of Spanish society”). After receiving all the radical votes, I’m sure this is going to be one of the main issues in the next term, under the chapter of “social rights” that Zapatero mentioned on his first statement after winning the elections.
Internet: with all the considerations made (specially the control over the judiciary), it’s easy to see the highly bad influence the victory is going to have over freedom in Internet, the real Anti-Zapatero bastion. As being a blogger means you are not subjected to an editor, or to publicity or censorship issues and considering the practical inexistence of right-wing MSM, the right side of the blogosphere proved from the beginning that it was alive, was powerful and had clear ideas. Sites like Red Liberal, Red Anti-ZP, Red Popular or Red Blogs pro Rajoy and Internet forums like the dead GrupoRisa.com or Monclovitas proved that there were a lot of people with similar ideas and a common reject of Zapatero’s policy. And that is not convenient for Zapatero who knows that we are not easily influenced by Government’s propaganda.
Digital canon: This is another MAIN issue for the next term. Socialists have already imposed (though it can be even worse…) this tax in almost ALL digital memory devices JUST IN CASE you copied protected material (such as films, songs…), to pay for the “alleged” loss of benefits authors and creators have because of pirate copies. There are a lot of young people totally enraged by this mesaure because it considers any citizen as a culprit of piracy, while it’s not proved he has actually committed that crime. Secondy, because the tax is going to be payed to a private institution (SGAE – General Society of Authors and Editors), institution which has even been accused of illicit enrichment of public money (no, instead of showing all their benefits and possessions, it has criminally accused the people who was asking them to clarify certain aspects of them). Thirdly because the distribution of the benefits obtained by this tax are not going to be controlled even by Parliament. No presumption of innocence, no transparency and control: magnificent prospect.
Terrorism: this has been the most important issue in the last term. It is positive that Zapatero lied to Spanish people about the negotiation process with ETA. He said it himself in an interview that “he continued the negotiation with the terrorist group after the T4 Barajas terminal“, after denying in repeated occassions he had, and his Government had called “fascists” to all the people who did not agree with him. It is probable that the negotiation continues after the elections, even after the killing of PSOE ex-councilman Isaías Carrasco. The growth of the Socialists in the Basque country with the votes of the Basque Nationalists is sufficient to consider that as a REAL possibility. A referendum about Basque independence will take place in october, at the same time as the Basque Autonomous Community’s elections.
Independentism: not only Basque Country has a problem with hard-line independentists. In Catalonia,the socialists have obtained more votes thanks to the fall of Catalan Republican Left, a hardline independentist party, built upon the ashes of the terrorist group Terra Lliure, similar to ETA but which dissolved itself in the 1980s. This means the Socialists have radicalised their own positions so much that the hardline independentists are now voting for them, seeing them as much more useful for that purpose. The unilateral independence of Kosovo can be seen as a magnificent precedent for those purposes, even if the causes and the real situation of both of them differ.
Economy: the crisis is near, just ahead. The building sector has already collapsed and the elections’ result can even get the people to feel more fear about the future, stopping consumption in the near future. As families consumption is the main motor of Spanish economy, the crisis can be deepened. But the oil market pushes the prices up, so instead of lowering the prices, they get higher every day, with inflation reaching heights not known in several years. The crisis has also grow the unemployment rate, even if the way to count the number of unemployed was modified in order to lower it. We have also to consider the Socialist catastrophic energy policy which considers that nuclear power MUST be ended for “ecological” reasons, making Spain even more dependant from the oil and derived products’ market. But Zapatero, instead of fighting against the worsened economic numbers, has said that “people who questioned the economy were not patriots”, a stupid statement considering he once said that “his country was Freedom”.
Immigration: uncontrolled immigration is one of the worst problems here by now. An issue in which Socialists’ policy has been disastrous, after the policy of “papers for all”, which means residence papers for all, and which has consisted in the legalization of nearly 700.000 immigrants during the last term. This has produced a huge “calling effect” for immigrants, that every day arrive at Spanish coastal regions. Zapatero said that they were going to send back to his country in an interview by El Mundo newspaper this last Christmas. But this is extremelly difficult as they haven’t got any identification papers and normally the only country Spanish authorities know they have been before their arrival is Morocco. The latter denies any entry to illegal immigrants who have arrived to Spain, even if they have entered Spain from Moroccan coasts. But when Spanish authorities know where they have come from, the results are just the same disaster as ever. They have even been paid to return to their countries of origin.
Education: the first bad data in Spain about education is that it has been transferred to the Autonomous Communities, which have done a real bad work, choosing instead a modern, reflexive and cultivated education to build a paradise for ideological instruction to the major glory of leftism and “progressiveness”. But the sucessive Governements have failed to provide a permanent education system, which in general terms should apply to all Autonomous Communities. Instead of that, each change of Government means another change in education laws. The worst came with Zapatero and his “Education for Citizenship” which wants students to be formed in a Zapatero’s way of Franco “National spirit”.
Homosexualism: there are rumours that Zapatero wants the Parliament to pass a law against “homophobia”. As Aquiles wrote some weeks ago: This can be easily used as a clear menace for freedom of expression in Spain, and as a true weapon of Zapatero’s new police of thought to submit everyone which could not accept his idea of politics. He also would achieve to create the social desestabilization he is searching for.
I maybe forget some other things but these are the main internal problems. The international policy is inexistent, except the Alliance of Civilizations and other “imaginative” ideas, which serve only to spend huge quantities of money with no real good results.
But, considering the difficulty, there are some things we can say about the PP’s oposition. Voters want politicians who are active in thedefence of their ideas, people who are convinced about what they defend and people who are not afraid of acting as they believe it’s right.
The problem is that PP politicians are not tough enough when defending their ideas: they are absolutely linked to what “social analysts“, very bad “experts on communication” and other busybodies tell them to do. For example, a lot of young people were against the digital canon (more than a million) with a true revolution under the socialists’ noises who are firm supporters of it as they are paying the services of artists/singers and other pseudo-intelectuals, specialised in shameful and boring works of “art”, which systematically lose money which is paid by Spanish Public Budget. Well, PP has not even excluded the shameful MP Ms. Salmones from its lists who is a very stunt supporter of it, position which confronts the general of the party. And Mariano Rajoy mentioned this issue a little on the first debate and nothing on the second one.
The opposition must not only speak about ETA terrorism, an important issue but not the only one. There are a lot of issues in which it can attack Government’s decisions. But it seems they are afraid to do it, because of the pressure of the MSM and of the busibodies I referred to earkier, What they don’t get is that they are going to be hardly critisized whatever they do. Aznar precisely was not considering what the press told about him or what the polls suggested. This people are just the opposite.
But the situation can even get worse. Rajoy’s loss of the elections can mean than the most “progre”/leftist/stupid people can get to power in the PP. With all his defects, Rajoy has been someone not supportive of the most dangerous of that group: the Madrid’s Major Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón. Absolutely proud of himself and in love with power, he is very well perceived by the leftist establishment and voters (who would never vote for him anyway) as he has adopted some of the basic tenets of their commandments (for example, he was with Zapatero in the closing session of the I Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations).
I begin here the live-blogging of the General Spanish Elections 2008. We will have to wait for around two hours to reach the final results.
The preliminary polls indicate that Socialists are very near an absolute majority so they could get to the Government with no need to pact with any other political force… But those haven’t any basis on real data so we must wait till the first results.
20:48: First results will be available around 22:30 (Spanish time).
21:11: With 9% of the vote examined: 164 Socialists, 136 Popular Party according to the Interior Ministry’s website.
21:27: 172 PSOE, 144 PP.
21:31: 170: PSOE, 150: PP (33% considered).
21:44: 171: PSOE, 150:PP (38,70% of the vote considered).
21:57: 171: PSOE; 150:PP (56,9% of the vote considered).
There is a tendency of PSOE lowering its percentage of vote (at first it was 48%, now it’s 44,83%). And PP going up: at first it was 35%, now it’s 39,26%. But we can say that the Socialists have AGAIN won the elections…
22:06: 169: PSOE; 152: PP. (64,58% of the vote considered).
22:08: 168 PSOE (44,55%); 154: PP (39,53%) (67,08% of the vote considered).
22:11: 169 PSOE (44,47%) PP: 153 (39,57%) (69% of the vote considered).
22:14: 168 PSOE (44,41%) PP: 154 (39,65%) (71,45% of the vote considered).
22:19: 168 PSOE (44,34%); PP: 154 (39,69%) (73,33% of the vote considered).
Basically, Socialists are concentrating the votes from both Nationalists and Communists which have nearly disappeared from Parliament. This can boost the extremism of the Government: Zapatero can even get harder in next term…
22:23: 168 PSOE (44,22%); 154 PP (39,82%) (76,66% of the vote considered).
22:25: 168 PSOE (44,17%); 154 (39,88%) (78,27% of the vote considered).
22:28: 167 PSOE (44,11%); 155 (39,93%) (79,73% of the vote considered).
22:36: 168 PSOE (44,05%); 154 (40,00%) (82,15% of the vote considered).
22:42: 167 PSOE (43,96%); 155 (40,15%) (84,30% of the vote considered).
Zapatero wants to speak but he cannot do it because there are a lot of supporters who are delighted with the results… He has begun, at last, remembering the victims murdered by ETA and by the terrorism.. He says “they live in our memory”. High participation, which is a motive of happiness… And thanks to the citizens who have contributed to a clear victory of teh Socialist party. “Four years ago you asked me not to fail you… so I have made all the efforts not to fail you.
I will lead this country for all but thinking before all in those people that haven’t all.
I will lead to make reality the Women’s aspirations, the Youth’s hopes.
I will lead to make sure that Spain is compromised with peace.
Llamazares is asking the supporters to consider if he can continue or not. But he is not going to opt for re-election in United Left (communists).
23:01: 167 PSOE (43,84%); 155 PP (40,15%) (89,69% of the vote considered).
23:17: 168 PSOE (43,79%); 154 PP (40,14%) (92,36% of the vote considered).
0:06: 169 PSOE (43,72%) 154 PP (40,13%) (96,34% of the vote considered).
SO THE ANTI-ZAPATERO RESISTENCE CONTINUES…. IF HE DOES NOT INSTALL CENSORSHIP FOR ANTI-SOCIALISTS…
Una nota sobre esta “amable” frase que se ha pronunciado en el programa de Gemma Nierga en la Cadena Ser. Entre otras cosas, en el mismo, el mismo sujeto fotógrafo llamó a Rajoy “el Milosevic español”. Bueno, a Rajoy no, a su “discurso”. Consuelo Rumí, Secretaria de Estado de Inmigración, mientras, ha dicho que “Rajoy intenta imitar a Sarkozy pero se acerca más a Le Pen”.
¿Por qué todos estos ataques? Por el famoso contrato para los inmigrantes mediante el que se quiere que cumplan la ley en su totalidad y porque ha dicho que será “implacable y contundente” contra la violencia de género y la inmigración ilegal. A ello se ha unido la contundencia en el debate del otro día. Curiosamente el plan de Rajoy es más coincidente con otros países europeos que el del PSOE. Y es curioso que se insulte de esta forma a alguien por querer que se cumpla la Ley.
La medida, que ha sido criticada, precisamente por considerarse que es algo inservible (la gente debe cumplir la Ley, sin necesidad de firmar ningún contrato adicional) puede ser criticada también por hacerse en víspera electoral. Esto mismo podía haberlo dicho hace tiempo, porque el problema no es nuevo. Todo ello es cierto y sería necesario insistir en ello. Ahora bien, el hecho es que Rajoy ha sido valiente al plantearlo y eso es algo que es de agradecer. El otro día en un periódico gratuito que cogí en el Metro titulaba la noticia “Los inmigrantes no quieren el contrato de Rajoy, los vecinos sí” y dentro decía:
“La declaración ha indignado a la comunidad musulmana, claramente perjudicada en detrimento de la latinoamericana. Mohammed El Afifi, portavoz del Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid, considera “indignante y absurdo” el contrato de Rajoy: “¿Qué es eso del contrato? Que nos digan qué costumbres tenemos que respetar. Lo que hay que respetar es la Ley, que es el marco en el que nos movemos todos. El primer punto del visado es aprender español. El primer necesitado en hablar el idioma es el inmigrante. ¿Cómo va a conseguir un empleo o a relacionarse si no es hablando español? Uso del velo en la escuela, poligamia y mutilación genital son hábitos que se asocian categóricamente a la población árabe. Rajoy insiste en la necesidad de prohibir la ablación del clítoris, olvidando que esa práctica ya se castiga en el Código Penal. “La mutilación genital es delito en España y también en mi país Egipto”.
Ya, pero también está penado en Gran Bretaña y el Instituto Nacional de Salud calcula que son más de 66.000 niñas las que han sido sometidas allí a la ablación. Y en Egipto está prohibido pero se sigue practicando porque es una costumbre. Así que no vengais con milongas de tres al cuarto que no cuelan… Los vecinos sin embargo son de otra opinión:
San Cristóbal de los Ángeles [es] el barrio de Madrid en el que vive más inmigración, un 42%. Y en el que algunos de los españoles dicen estar contenidos: “Falta muy poco para que estalle y cuando estalle, no sabemos cómo va a acabar”, refunfuña Lola, dueña de un bar de la parte menos “ocupada” -dice- por los inmigrantes. Lola acepta todas y cada una de las propuestas que se hagan de “que ellos se adapten a nosotros y no a la inversa. Ha llegado un punto en el que parece que estamos de prestado. No pedimos tanto, únicamente que respeten”.El hijo de Lola, Ismael, intenta quitar hierro a las palabras de su madre”. “No somos racistas. Los racistas son ellos. Ellos sí quieren imponer. Yo sólo pido que no me degüellen el cordero en medio de la calle, que no quiero verlo, o que no sean cerdos y no ensucien como si nada. […] Aquí hay una especie de ghetto donde mejor ni entrar. Se mezclan todo tipo de nacionalidades y dicen que conviven pero es la guerra”.
¿Es racista pedir que se cumpla la Ley con independencia de la raza del julay que la incumple? ¿Es xenófobo exigir que se controle al que entra y al que sale por nuestras fronteras? ¿Implica querer un genocidio el exigir el cumplimiento íntegro de la Ley tanto para el español como para el extranjero?
No, eso no es racista, ni xenófobo ni implica ser partidario de un genocidio. Eso es simplemente lo que implica el Estado de Derecho (artículo 1.1 de la Constitución) y el principio de universalidad de la ley que lleva consigo, que fundamenta además la igualdad de los españoles y la situación de los extranjeros de acuerdo con lo que determine la legislación española e internacional al respecto. Así que no me sean demagogos y prolijos y como dirían los sudamericanos, güevones.
Por cierto, ¿por qué siempre que se habla de inmigración lo primero que se dice es “no soy racista”? Que el culo y las témporas tienen poco que ver. Da igual de dónde sea el inmigrante que no cumple la Ley y cuál sea su raza, el color del pelo, qué música le gusta o el número de pie que use. Da igual si se corta las uñas cada dos días o cada semana, si lleva gafas, tiene una prótesis en la cadera o es zurdo o diestro o ambidextro. Da igual si le gusta comer pasta o boquerones en vinagre, arroz basmati brajma y dormir en una cama de pinchos o le gustan las camas de agua. Da igual si le gusta el Windows Vista, escribir en un cuaderno del todo a 100 o mandar mensajes de humo.
Lo que sería de agradecer es que se diferenciara sólo entre los que cumplen la Ley y los que no lo hacen. Lo demás son milongas y pretextos al viernes para no ayunar. Se confirma pues, el pánico en la izquierda española por la medida propuesta, a pesar de las carencias que de hecho tiene.
***** Mariano Rajoy announced some days ago that, if he won 2008 elections here in Spain, he is going to oblige immigrants to sign a contract to fulfill Spanish laws and customs. The critics were huge in its momment. But today he has being accused in a leftist radio, Cadena Ser, from the same holding as world-known moonbat newspaper El Pais, of being the “Spanish Milosevic” and of “making statements as venomous as the Nazis’ gas”. As I said the other day, toughness has not being one of his characteristics… but he is considered a Nazi for asking to fulfill the law.
The measure has been critisized (reasonably indeed) because the Law should be fulfilled without any kind of other measures. But I believe it was needed that someone speaks out on immigration fully and without any fear of critics. Of course, he has not done that, but seeing the critics that his measure has arisen, I’m totally sure this is a good beginning. Now, they should continue by this path and not be distracted off it…
Last Thursday the electoral campaign officialy begun in Spain. And last night it was the first debate between Socialists’ candidate, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and PP’s candidate, Mariano Rajoy.
The first thing I am going to critisize of this debate is that it is only of the two main candidates. I really believe it would be a better idea to see all the candidates together debating. Of course, the PP (center-right) would have lots of critics there as, according to the Tinell Pact, the rest of the parties were to present a common opposition, not against the Government -Zapatero’s one- but against the PP, which was in the opposition. But the contrast would have been much interesting between the proposals of all the candidates.
What is the problem? That, considering the disenchantment of a very important part of Spanish society with the political parties, there are new parties which will be present at these elections. But these parties are having huge financial and MSM problems as there is a not-recognised boycott over them. Among them, we can actually name Unión de Progreso y Democracia (or Union of Progress and Democracy), leftist but with a strong Spanish nationalistic sentiment, which could be a real threat to Socialists in the next term.
So the MSM supporting the socialists are not even considering their existence. For example, Spanish blogger Maya discovered that world-known leftist newspaper EL Pais had censored both UPyD and Ciudadanos, another well-known recent born though older than UPyD, political party. Neither of those political parties appeared in its list about the ones who will be present at 9th March elections. Curiously, UPyD leader, Rosa Díez, was attacked some days ago when she was going to a conference in Madrid’s university, and his attackers, though known, had not been even questioned by the police. UPyD has only one problem: it is too much against the Catholic Church, specially another of its leaders, a moonbat called Fernando Savater. And I consider him a moonbat because while we have a real problem with Islamism, he continues to attack the Catholic Church as one of the two main problems Spain has now. The other is ETA.
ETA sent three letters to Spanish Government before announcing the ceasefire (truce) in March 2006 in which it told Zapatero they wanted to begin a “political negotiation” to resolve “the conflict between Spain and Euskal Herria”. The Government answered to all those letters without changing anything. Probably considering the importance of the opportunity, Zapatero did not inform them there could be no dialogue over political matters (Yeah, of course, and I am Muhamad Ali). The answers of the Government were made by writing or, sometimes, also verbally, but they were all sent to the Executive commitee of the terrorist gang, which was the signing partner.
Of course, this has not been very much on TV news… The Socialist propaganda is so important that there are people who consider Zapatero a hero for his caving in into ETA, and blames people like me, who are totally opposed to this negotiation, of “wanting that ETA kills more”, something utterly false, of course. I just don’t think that a terrorist gang can be defeated by doing what they want. They must see you are stronger and that you are more convinced that they are, about your values of justice and peace.
The treatment to women which Zapatero has made is, at least, disputable. Among other measures, Spanish parliament, after a Socialist proposal, passed a law, which supposedly was going to “support women”, but which in reality is an insult to women’s intelligence. The law intended to assure women-men’s equality by obliging all collegial institutions to ensure at least in a 40% of the seats there were women. So from the Parliament to the Board of Directors of Spanish firms, every institution should fulfill the famous “quota“. Of course, in a chauvinist country like Spain is, this ensures that, even the most brilliant woman, is under suspicion, if she is elected to such places: has she got there because she is brilliant enough or has she taken a much more brilliant man’s seat?
Last measure proposed is to “modify the traditional use of masculine forms in Spanish language, to represent women in educational, legal texts, communications and publications”. In Spanish, the words indicate the sex of the person which they are referred to (hermoso -masculine-, hermosa -femenine-, etc). But in plural, the masculine is preferred, and so, if you want to say “Your sons daughters are clever”, you would say “Tus hijos son listos”, considering that the masculine plural includes also the femenin form. Seeing something as that, as more important than fighting mistreatment at home (including the foreign women), illiteracy and female genital mutilation for example, gives you the measure of the intelligence of these feminists.
This has revived the debate between men-women antagonism, producing that mysogynists types have once more a reason to attack women (even if you are not for this measure, but you know, you’re nothing more than a woman… and so you must stay at home, raise your kids and not interfere in such macho-men labours) and feminist stupid types have a reason to consider that “the influence of women is growing” (you know, that brutes of men who treat us ever as a sexual object, well, now they are going to discover their “feminist side” blablabla). In both cases, there is the same error: the consideration of the other sex as an enemy, and not as a group of people with some differences but necessary to human interaction and relations, in yet another type of “classes clashes” which are so interesting to leftists in general.
On the other hand there is Mariano Rajoy, PP representative and, as most of you would know, the Aznar’s heir. The idea of the right here is that he is not fit to be a politician in the opposition while he would be a right Minister or even President if that possibility could happen. The reason for this is that he is not aggresive enough and doesn’t have the sufficient foul mood to kick in Zapatero’s ass with decission to kick in the target. He has, in general, not made great mistakes, except the horrible statement on the last Constitution day (last Dec 6th) when he assured Zapatero that he was not going to ask him to end ETA-Government’s negotiation. His support (at times) of the climate change foolish agenda can also be counted as another great mistake. And it’s that kind of indecission the one that can be, by large, the most damaging for his positions, specially after all the attacks against PP members –1, 2– (the last has been against some Councilmen of Madrid’s Autonomous Community’s Government, made by, among others, some Socialist councilmen and another one from United Left-communists-).
The situation is so stressed that the Government, using the SGAE -that’s one of the subjects I have to blog about in English-, has even censored a video in which some unknown citizens sing a song critisizing Zapatero and praising Rajoy:
And now, about yesterday’s debate: I couldn’t see it while it was happening, as in the end of each month I’m having exams and I am really stressed with them. But I have seen it afterwards and have also read the reactions. If you understand Spanish, Elentir has posted the video in its entirety.
El líder del PSOE, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (centro), y el del PP, Mariano Rajoy (dcha), entran en el estudio televisivo donde se celebró el primer debate electoral, precedidos por el moderador, el periodista Manuel Campo Vidal, el lunes por la noche en Madrid.
El primer ministro español, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (I), se da la mano con su rival del Partido Popular (PP), Mariano Rajoy (D), a su llegada al estudio de televisión donde ambos políticos se disponían a debatir, el 25 de febrero de 2008 en Madrid. Rajoy acusó a Rodríguez Zapatero de tener como aliados en el exterior a Hugo Chávez y Fidel Castro, mientras que él -dijo- se alinea con los líderes de Francia y Alemania.
The reactions have been basically, that if you are a right-winger, Mariano won because he was much more agressive (in fact, he even was able to give hope back to some bloggers, precisely because he was really tough in the debate) and if you are a left-winger, Zapatero won. The MSM, which are in an important number pro-Socialists, agree that Zapatero won just by a very little difference. The reason for this is that the propaganda machine of the Government has minimised the huge errors of Zapatero and has exaggerated the defects of Rajoy. What is more, La Vanguardia (Catalan pro-nationalist newspaper) reports that the debate was won by Rajoy but that Zapatero will get the benefit of it, as the “supposedly moderate” voters are not going to vote for Rajoy, only the extremists. But what I have seen these last months is that the real extremists are really campaigning heavily against PP and Rajoy, much heavier than against Zapatero, because Rajoy is accused of being “very soft” and of being a traitor to the real right. He has a really difficult position nowadays: nearly no favourable MSM and with aides sufficiently divided to give him advices which are nearly contradicting one another. It is curious then that all parties, except PP, for obvious reasons, instead of critizicing the Government, are critizicing the opposition (as if they would have also signed the Tinell Pact), something curious. But you know, Zapatero is much more threatening than Rajoy… and likes vengeance much more, so just play the punching ball, with the one who is not going to play it with you…
Is this legitimate? Yes, it is, of course it is. But in the present circumstances, the first target is to end the Zapatero’s era, and the only political party which happens to be positioned for that is PP. Does it mean I’m enchanted with them? No, I’m not: in politics, you must be tough, with very clear ideas and with a very thick skin to resist the critics. And for that you must be convinced of your ideas; if not, you’re not going to be convincing enough to convince others. But here, the toughness is considered equal to extremism, terms which have nothing to do with each other.
If the situation would be different, I would vote en blanco, that is, you vote but to no candidate to protest against the failure of our political parties’ system, which de facto, is a partitocracy, considering the huge power (and nearly total lack of control) of the political parties here. Although to be sincere this is a possibility which I haven’t discarded out completely. At home, by the way, they have decided already to vote PP as they don’t want to take part in having another term Zapatero in the Moncloa. Five out of my six life-time friends have decided to do the same. The other one is sympathetic with Catalan nationalism so I figure he is not voting for PP… As you see, my entourage is enchanted with Zapatero.
But more than this debate, I’m worried by the next one: according to political blog Escaño 351, there could be some news about ETA’s negotiation before it, to knock down PP’s position on the subject, six days before the elections:
Aníbal González writes for El Confidencial, that in the French Police -that works together with the Spanish Civil Guard- a new operation is rumoured against the chief of ETA commandos, Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, alias Txeroqui.
The capture of Txeroki will be the zenit of an operation of pursuit whose last step has been the detention of Mikel San Sebastián and Joseba Itrubide, ETA terrorists who, together with Igor Portu y Martin Sarasola, blow the T4 terminal of Madrid’s Barajas’ airport, which killed two Ecuatorians, who were working in Spain.
With this detention, Zapatero would achieve himself a magnificent goal in anti-terrorist policy, very critizised after the ETA-Government’s negotiations, and would end the critics of those who think he has not been tough enough in the fight against ETA.
Why do I say that I am worried? The detention of such a terrorist as Txeroki is, is so important that should be praised but the praise should not go at all to Zapatero, but to the Police Forces who are the ones who have been searching for him. But of course, everyone would shout “follow the leader, leader, leader, follow the leader” even if there is only a precipice ahead…
Ayer, día 21 de febrero, fue el Día Internacional de la Lengua Materna, un día destinado a concienciar de la necesidad de respetar, por parte del poder político, la lengua materna de los ciudadanos en general en toda su vida, pero en especial en la educación de los hijos. Si hay que criticar al texto escrito en la imagen, es porque lía la cuestión: ni País Vasco ni Cataluña pueden ser considerados el lugar donde habitan etnias distintas. Lo que existe es precisamente una imposición de la lengua cooficial especial del territorio sobre todos los ciudadanos, con independencia de cuál sea su lengua materna. La cultura no determina la existencia de una etnia distinta… ni viceversa… Y no creo que sea necesario explicarlo…
The text says:
February 21st: International Day for the Mother Tongue by UNESCO:
Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, General Director of UNESCO:
For several millions of Spanish-speaking people in Spain, this is an unhappy and hurtful day, it’s a day of mourning because of the exclusion and cultural cleansing the Spanish tongue is submitted to, because of the language and cultural imposition, named “language immersion”, that the policies of the Regional Nationalists are practising with the final goal of secession. [This happens ] in the regions of Catalonia, Basque Country, Galicia, Balearis Islands and Valencia, with the aggravating factor that in these last two regions they posses the “Valencian” and the “Balearic”, both old and idiosincratic languages in their territories and which are being “homogeneized” with the Catalan, which is a different language, with the goal of spreading the fictional “Catalan Countries. In these Spanish regions, the parents aren’t able to choose our mother tongue (and the one which is more spread in those areas) for the education of our children, being institutionally excluded and our Spanish culture gravely discriminated.
Is UNESCO an accomplice of the cultural-tongue cleansing that the parents are suffering for the nationalistic oppresion and discrimination??
Para los que estais en Facebook, estamos en este grupo, creado por Minneconjou, el autor de Pahasapa.
Ciudadanos en la Red también se ha hecho eco de esta denuncia. A leer de este blog Lingüística para Nacionalistas (III): De la “Normalización” y de la “Inmersión” Lingüísticas. En él se hace referencia al “cortar y pegar” que han hecho los nacionalistas de otros sistemas jurídicos. Con dos características: lo han copiado mal y de realidades que no tenían nada que ver con lo que sucede en España… El post se refiere a Cataluña pero si analizamos otras Comunidades seguro que no se diferencia mucho la situación…
En el mismo día en que nos hemos enterado que la SGAE no permite hacer parodias o exigen que se quite el vídeo que la contiene de Youtube (por cierto, ya lo han vuelto a quitar otra vez…) y que los cantantes se sienten muy mal por las críticas recibidas (después de habernos llamado una y otra vez de todo lo peor que se les pasaba por la cabeza) he recibido
Esto lo escribió un currante indignado… con razones:
Dada la mierda que nos escupe diariamente la tele, radio, prensa y demás medios de comunicación, un grupo de disidentes hemos elaborado este manifiesto a favor (sí, A FAVOR) de la piratería. Si te mola, pásalo. Si prefieres creerte las mentiras de la industria, haz con él lo que te salga del arco del triunfo.
De: El currante medio, aplastado por la hipoteca, la precariedad laboral, los horarios DE MIERDA y otros abusos sociales, como la caña de cerveza a 2 putos Euros.
A: Ese músico mediático que se duele detrás de unas gafas de sol en la Moncloa, forrado de pasta hasta los pendientes. Tiene cojones ir de rebelde por la vida y terminar en las escaleras del centro del Estado (por si no captáis las sutilezas, el ejemplo se refiere a Alejandro Sanz, aunque es extensible a todos los membrillos/impresentables que le acompañaban). Mira, chavalote, en la gira que te vas a marcar este verano vas a ganar más pasta -haciendo algo que te gusta y que en teoría te llena- de lo que ganaré yo en toda mi puta vida de currito, cargando, además, con una actividad que no me aporta nada personalmente y con la que, si no fuera por el sueldo adicional de mi pareja, ni siquiera me daría para pagar el piso donde vivo. ‘
La música está muy mal’ -gimes. Tú, chavalote, no sabes lo que es estar mal. ¿Qué sabes tú de hipotecas, de rebotar de un contrato a otro, de currar a turnos o de 7 a 7? ¿Qué sabes tú de llegar a fin de mes, o de lo que me cuesta a mí plantearme tener hijos con lo que piden en una guardería? Porque te recuerdo que aquí, en el mundo real, curramos dos para pagarnos 70 metros cuadrados.
‘La gente que compra en el top manta no ama la música’ -escupe otro. ¿Con qué validez moral exigís vosotros, que vivís a todo trapo de camino entre Madrid y Miami, sin saber ni el dinero que tenéis, al currante que os pague los vicios y haga multimillonaria a la multinacional de turno ¿Cómo se puede tener la cara de plantarse en plan víctima sobre una vida de lujo?
La industria ha abusado -y abusa con los precios y las calidades.Sólo ahora que se ve con el rabo en el culo ofrece lo que no pueden dar los piratas: DVD’s con vídeos, extras y demás. Todo, curiosamente, al mismo precio que antes. ¿No llorabais que no se podían bajar los precios? Cómo vale ahora un álbum que lleva 12 canciones en el CD y 16 en un DVD (verídico) lo mismo que antes el mismo álbum con el CD a pelo? ¿Cómo puede valer un mismo álbum en España 18 euros y en Alemania 20 (contrastado) cuando los alemanes ganan más del doble que un español?
Ahora que las mafias e Internet os revientan, ahora, que ya no tenéis la sartén por el mango, pasáis de la posición dominante y abusiva a la apelación más rastrera de sentimientos.
Pues yo, y muchos como yo respondemos:AHORA, QUE OS DEN POR CULO.
NADIE puede pedirme que le pague la colección de coches de lujo, el yate y las cuatro casonas en Miami, la Sierra o Marbella.
NADIE puede pedir moral desde la inmoralidad.
Ejemplo: Bustamante se acaba de comprar una casa de 500 kilos de las antiguas pesetas en solo CUATRO AÑOS DE CARRERA MUSICAL, claro ejemplo de lo mal que está el panorama musical.
Firma: Cualquier anónimo hasta los güevos de sandeces.
PD: Cópialo, pégalo y pásalo. Si haces Reenvio se llena de molestos
PD 2: Si alguien sabe el correo de Ramoncín que haga el favor de pasárselo.
Creo que lo que está cabreando realmente al personal es que se ve claramente que nos quieren tomar el pelo a todos… A nadie se le escapa que los de la ceja ganan muchísimo dinero por sus afinidades políticas. Pero es no es lo fundamental: si tuvieran derecho legítimo a ello perfecto, habría que pagárselo.
Lo importante, yo creo, no es que sean ricos, si no que pretendan que sin probar que se ha cometido una falta, debamos pagarles algo a ellos, cuando no han probado por tanto que YO (persona individual) les haya robado. Además, todo este dinero va a ir a una entidad privada (SGAE), que no determina cómo va a repartirlo y que ni siquiera va a publicar cómo lo ha repartido, porque no está obligada a ello… Ni siquiera se ha previsto que las Cortes Generales supervisen el proceso…
Y no, yo no quiero que la gente piratee, pero con el canon de mierda de los de la cejaalegre, todo el mundo acaba diciendo lo mismo: es que ya me han cobrado el canon, ahora ya puedo comprar música en el top manta. Pero como lo que se tiene es un afán recaudatorio, sin considerar quién es el culpable del acto que supuestamente está dañado los derechos de la tribu de la “paz”, eso ya no interesa, ¿no?
Para colmo, Bruselas ha abierto hoy una consulta a España por el canon digital. Según ABC, la Comisión Europea va a poner límites al canon digital para acabar con las diferencias entre los 27 países. ¿Considerarán a la hora de la armonzación, el distinto nivel de vida que unos y otros tenemos? ¿O el canon será igual en Alemania que aquí?
Por cierto, que si yo fuera el PP, ya habría salido pidiendo que buscar maneras de indemnizar por copia privada al artista (en proporción a lo que cada uno pierde), vale. Pero instaurar un canon comunitario obligatorio, NO. Que, según el Comisario de Mercado Interior, McGreevy, está reconocido en la legislación comunitaria que no “se va a cuestionar”:
No es mi intención cuestionar el derecho de los titulares de derechos de autor a recibir compensaciones por las pérdidas ocasionadas por las copias privadas. Está consagrado en la legislación comunitaria y no tengo intención de proponer un cambio a esta legislación“, ha asegurado el comisario de Mercado Interior.
McCreevy ha señalado que cada Estado miembro es libre para decidir cómo aplica en su territorio la compensación por copia privada y destacó que la mayoría de países imponen un canon en artículos como impresoras, discos duros, reproductores de mp3 o teléfonos móviles. En España, se modificó hace apenas dos meses.
[…] El comisario de Mercado Interior ha asegurado que “no se puede cuestionar” la aspiración de los propietarios de los derechos a ser compensados por las copias privadas, el comisario señaló que es necesario revisar cómo se aplican los cánones en la práctica.
“Debería ser posible encontrar una solución que asegure a los propietarios de los derechos la compensación y al mismo tiempo aplicar los cánones de forma proporcional a las pérdidas que causan las copias privadas”, ha asegurado McCreevy.
Y otra vez los Uropedos imponiendo legislaciones NOCIVAS para los consumidores.
If yesterday I wrote about the attack on María San Gil, today another PP candidate, Dolors Nadal, has been harrased (video inside) when she was going to give a conference at the Pompeu Fabra’s University. She has been unable to even begin with it. The independentists have shouted “No fascists in the university” and “Catalan Countries are not Spain“.
When Nadal was going to enter the room, some of those youths have tried to block it not to let her enter. There were several people pushed and slapped in that moment. Then when she was going to speak, some youths, who were out of the room, have begun to shout “fascist” to her, while the Mossos (Catalan Autonomous Police) were trying to save her from the pushes.
One of the men who was with Nadal has taken a fire extinctor, just in case the demonstrators were going to use it against the candidate. Then dozens of youths, inside the room, have insulted her.
In the end, the Mossos, considering the situation was out of control, have taken her out of the room and have driven her out of the compound in a secret police car.
No association has announced their responsibility for the boycott. But they were carrying propaganda from one of the associations of Catalan Independentist Youths. ERC (Catalan Republican Left) has stated they are not the responsible.
Oh and no condemnation from the PSOE’s representatives… 😦 Even if they should worry about the polls: PP is nearer PSOE each day (according to latest data: PP would have only 2 seats in Parliament less than PSOE). So El Pais is going to publish a special report on Zapatero, considering him as the best candidate: with satisfaction and tranquility, sure of himself, reasonably happy, with a smile, “Bishop-proofed“. 🙄 Yeah… so subtle and clever as ever… Today it has been published that Zapatero accepted a written proposition from ETA to begin the political negotiation.
And the ETA terrorists have said that Zapatero promised them Navarra:
Los presos etarras han emitido un comunicado, publicado en Gara, en el que señalan que durante la negociación del Gobierno con ETA “nunca antes habíamos llegado tan lejos en el reconocimiento de los derechos”, en alusión a la independencia. Y es que según los terroristas, “si se abrió la puerta de la solución al conflicto” fue porque Zapatero “dio su visto bueno a ese estatuto de autonomía a cuatro”, es decir, que uniera Navarra, Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa y Álava.
ETA imprisoned terrorists have stated officially, in Gara, than during the negotiation of the Government with ETA “they were farther than in any other negotiation in the acknowledgement of out rights”, referring to the independence. According to the terrorists, “if a door was opened to achieve a solution to this conflict” was because Zapatero “agreed with that Autonomy Statute in which the four parts were involved”, that is, that Navarra, Vizcaya, Guipuzcoa y Álava were united.
Against the will of the people, without any kind of announcement. If this the Zapatero’s definition of democracy, I really do not like that democracy for sure…
Aleón me alertó el viernes de la campaña contra Rajoy como consecuencia del nombramiento de Pizarro:
Las “amenazas” más repetidas son que no votarán al PP (Guau, qué mieeedoooooo, pues ale a chantajear a PRISA… 😉 ). Algunos incluso piden la creación de un nuevo partido: “Gallardos por España” (deberían intentarlo, de verdad). Los argumentos son inexistentes, salvo un furibundo culto a la personalidad del alcalde madrileño. Ni rastros de un fundamento jurídico o político convincentes. Sólo una muestra rancia de adhesión al “fulanismo” más puro y más duro.
Olvidan algunos que Gallardón asumió un compromiso con la ciudadanía madrileña hace menos de un año, para ser su alcalde hasta 2011. Debe honrar ese compromiso en vez de ir detrás de sus ambiciones personales, haciendo abandono de las promesas que realizó entonces. Si tiene un resto de dignidad, debería mostrarlo y salir a desautorizar estos intentos, y aceptar la decisión de su partido.
Me dijo también que deberíamos mandar una carta al PP en relación al affaire Gallardón, ese que tan bien resumió Aquiles como “Pues ahora me enfado y no respiro“… 😆
Lo siento por publicarlo hoy, pero tengo un gripazo desde el viernes que no me tengo y he preferido descansar estos dos días… Hoy en un descanso bloguearé algunas alertas y ya a lo largo de la semana iré retomando el ritmo normal de publicación.
Últimas noticias sobre la cuestión:
Aguire cree que Gallardón no dejará la política ni dejará de ser alcalde @ Publico.es. Yo tampoco, ¿para qué vamos a engañarnos? A Gallardón le gusta más el poder que a un tonto un lápiz, aunque si recibe una oferta mejor de otro partido, léase PSOE, a lo mejor nos deja. Eso sí, je, que ni se imagine que le van a consentir la miríada de @#€@# que le ha hecho al PP. Ya lo dijo Guerra: el que se mueva, no sale en la foto.
Fraga: “He venido a decirle a Esperanza que estoy con Gallardón” @ ABC.es. Pero ¡¡¡cómo le gusta a Fraga el pelotilleo!!! Tres lagrimitas de Gallardón y hale, declaración de Fraga. A mí en estos momentos como si quiere hacerse drag-queen o ponerse a tocar las castañuelas. Joroba que Espe sea mujer, ¿eh, Fraga? De verdad…. lo que hay que oír…
Inoportunidad popular @ Ático Derecha. El presidente del PP vizcaíno, Antonio Basagoiti, ha dicho que la hoguera de vanidades que arde en Madrid puede costarnos unas elecciones en las que nos jugamos muchísimo más que el gobierno, pues es la misma idea de España la que está en el tablero, y porque han sido nuestras convicciones más básicas las que han sido atacadas por la acción de gobierno socialista. Sí, sí, pero Gallardón, antes de las elecciones, ya veía caer a Rajoy y, siendo él, el número 2, se veía de cabeza del partido… Esto ha sido mejor. Me parece sienes y sienes de veses mejor Pizarro que Gallardón: mucho más coherente, sin tanto lloriqueo innecesario y directo al grano.
De la derecha al integrismo @ El Gorrión. Lo dice ZP, alias la mirada positiva: el PP es un partido integrista. Que sí, que lo que vuesa mercé diga, ZP. Sí, bueno, es que en este mundo es mejor caer en gracia que ser gracioso. Y Gallardón les cae en gracia a los Psoes, aunque no le votarían ni jartos de vino…
Gallardón derrotado por Gallardón @ Batiburrillo. Quienes critican la exclusión del alcalde de las mencionadas listas, ocultan que Esperanza Aguirre, presidenta del PP en la comunidad madrileña y por lo tanto situada orgánicamente por encima de Ruiz-Gallardón, tampoco ha sido presentada para diputada por Madrid. Naturalmente que para estos críticos Aguirre representa la “derecha extrema”, básicamente porque, a diferencia de Gallardón, suele ejercer la crítica al Gobierno de José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Y es que, cuando uno repasa las manifestaciones de Gallardón de los últimos años, cuesta mucho encontrar alguna crítica al PSOE, razón por la cual suele ser jaleado en los medios de comunicación afines a los socialistas. El trabajo “sucio”, por lo visto, queda reservado para otros.
La exclusión de Gallardón obliga a Rajoy a revalidar su apuesta por el centrismo @ Escaño 351. Alucinad lo que escribe Ignacio Camacho en ABC.es (bueno, no: es lo esperado): Gallardón no es en modo alguno el único depositario de ese estilo, que a Rajoy le cuadra de un modo casi biológico, pero desde luego ha demostrado ser uno de sus más eficaces valedores, por lo que su humillante alejamiento ha consternado a quienes esperan del PP una oferta de apertura convencida hacia el reformismo moderado. Al cortarle de manera tan abrupta las alas, ante el regocijo manifiesto de los extremistas, el líder del centro-derecha español se ha dejado también unas cuantas plumas de su propio ropaje y ha decepcionado a los que, más allá de forcejeos fulanistas, esperaban de él una oferta integradora.
El minijjtro al ataqueeee @ En un lugar de la Manchaaa: Es increíble la humillación pública a la que han sometido a Gallardón’, como si a Gallardón alguien le hubiera prometido algo y no se lo hubieran dado. Aquí los únicos que somos humillados públicamente somos los castellanomanchegos por usted y su partido con su vuelta. Por ustedes que recurren a su figura, para arañar los votos de todos aquellos que aún recuerdan sus besos. Hmm, increíble es que usted se siga postulando después del ejjjcándalo de lajjj medallajjjj, sí la que se puso usted por huir de Irak y luego nadie sabe si devolvió o no…
Listas abiertas ya @ Valea. En relación a esta cuestión, Luis posteó el otro día un aviso en relación a que Cordobeses por la libertad van a hacer campaña por esta posibilidad.
Mención aparte merece la censura de El Pais sobre los blogs de su Comunidad: La censura progresista de un blog en El País por apoyar a Rajoy @ Nacionalismos, cáncer de la democracia. El propietario escribió: A la vista de quienes protestan por lo de Gallardón y de quienes despotrican por lo de Pizarro, parece que Rajoy está acertando. No hubiera sido normal que después de cuatro años con la cantinela constante de la crítica contra la oposición -como si fuese ésta la que gobernase-, que el PSOE aplaudiera decisiones de Rajoy que beneficiaran al PP. Por ello digo lo anterior desde el punto de vista de quien se considere afín a dicho partido. Y le han cerrado el blog. ¡¡¡Ni siquiera posteó las caricaturas de Mahoma!!! Más comentarios sobre la cuestión en El Cerrajero y en Elentir. También en Internet Política., quien añade que: “El post lo pongo en cuarentena porque parece ser que ese blog se suspendió por otras razones: publicar fotos de otros y amenazar. Cuando sepa algo en firme, rectifico o me ratifico“. Estaremos pendientes…
Ahh se me olvidaba: ahora resulta que Pizarro no puede estar en política porque es rico y porque su abuelo fue un general en los años 40 “represor de maquis“. Vale: ¿entonces la mirada positiva? Además, Pizarro luchó con la Constitución en la mano contra la OPA de Endesa. ¿Podemos decir lo mismo de Zapatero?
A heated debate is taking place in Spain over the meaning of the family. In the wake of a massive pro-family march on December 30 in Madrid, the secretary of the Socialist Party (PSOE), Jose Blanco, has raised the debate’s temperature by asking Pope Benedict XVI to explain to him “just what exactly is the Christian family” and by recommending that “some members” of the Catholic Church “re-read the gospel.”
“As a Christian, I would like the Pope to explain to me just exactly what is the Christian family; maybe by traditional family he means that the woman just stays at home and does housework,” he told Antena 3 TV.
Blanco also called on “some members” of the Church hierarchy to “re-read the gospel,” since in his judgment one cannot “nourish inequality and injustice in the morning, and resolve them by the praying the rosary in the afternoon.”
Some Spanish bishops need to “evolve” in the same way that “Spanish and world society has evolved” in the recognition of rights for greater equality.
In fact he also added that “the majority of the measures Zapatero has taken could be found in the Gospel”. The debate now is what measures was referring himself to: gay marriage? adoption by homosexuals? Maybe the negotiation with the terrorists?
Popular Party leader, Mariano Rajoy, has announced he will create a Ministery of the Family and Social Well-being. I don’t want more bureaucracy, Mr. Rajoy: I like to hear concrete measures you are going to implement if you are elected.
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Hmm, Pepiño va directamente al estrellato…
En cuanto a la propuesta de Mariano Rajoy de que va a crear un Ministerio de la Familia y del Bienestar Social, simplemente una apreciación: no quiero más ministerios, ni más burocracia. Lo que quiero son políticas que apoyen realmente a la familia. No quiero más gastos innecesarios, que ya hay muchos….
Thanks to some friends in Valencia we have known that the Majorship of the city, of (center-right) Popular Party has blockes the access to this blog from its internal net, which includes the popular libraries. When this site is visited, the user gets the following message: “ACCESS DENIED”.
This is not the first time a Popular Party’s major blocks a blog. My friend Aquiles, a right-wing gay blogger, was also blocked by Madrid’s Major, from Popular Party, too. In this case, it is much more idiot, as Aquiles has been (and still is) a supporter of Popular Party. The reasons? As ever: you are inciting hatred and racism.
Popular Party is failing to fight for freedoms, just the same way Socialists did. Specially, bloggers are not very well seen by the direction of the Popular Party as we are very critical with everything that we consider is not rightly done. Are we falling definitely to a dark age?
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