“The players take the place of soldiers to throw out a hungry tyran/dictator who varies the supply of Venezuelan oil, unleashing an invasion that makes the country a war place“. The simulated mission is began by a Marines’ commando to take it by a military assault.

This happens when Caracas has reinforced its alliance with Iran about the nuclear crisis. Ahmadinejah said:

“We hace a lot of common ideals and aims that unites us profoundly. And our common enemies’ position are each day less strong”.

Their common interests are so great they lack the same thing: oil refineries. As a result they are just making a new one jointly.

This came afterwards Bush said he was worried about an important erosion in democracy both in Bolivia and Venezuela.

Newsweek comments also about Chávez:

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is the new rock star of world politics. His impassioned rants against globalization, with animated poses to match, make front-page headlines almost daily. The commentariat-particularly in Europe-seems to buy Chávez’s line that Latin Americans are so disenchanted by their short tryst with liberalism that they now prefer a strongman to spread the benefits of a commodity boom. The recent moves by a Chávez soulmate, Evo Morales, to renationalize the energy resources of Bolivia reinforce a growing perception that Latin America is lurching to the radical left.

Read it all.

US had made arrangements to consider Lybia is fighting against terrorism. I was not the least happy about it. And at the same time Gadaffi says he is going to receive Chávez. As a result, Washington is going to suspend the selling of weapons to Caracas because of its lack of collaboration with the fighting of terrorism.

So Chávez is going to ask Oliver Stone to make a film about the failed coup d’état that took place in April 2002. “I am sure that there are a lot of people that are not willing the truth to come out because this people is going to investigate to have the truth and is going to tell both the good and the bad that happened then”, Chávez said. What? The same man who said that Castro is one of the wisest man on Earth is going to find the truth?

Of course the Bolivian election has made him think himself he can conquer all South America as Alan García has said (HT Babalu Blog). This can be based on the possible presence of “Cuban and Vanezuelan infiltrates” that would be sending weapons to Peru for desestabilization’s purposes. From last December there has been a very important growth in the number of Venezuelan who are entering Peru.

As a result of the nationalization about the gas companies by Evo’s Government, Chavez’s ally, Enron and Shell have offered to sell all the shares of their Bolivian company, Transredes (Transporatadora de Hidrocarburos). The reason for this are the hard conditions the Bolivian Government was asking of theis firms.

Eike Batista is also going from Bolivia. In his case, he is going to dismount all the inversions he has done there. The total amount of the promised inversion was $330 million to build a siderurgical plant to produce 400 tons of steel.

Spanish CEOE (Firms Union) has said the nationalization decree is a very grave violation of the law security principle.

Anyway, Evo is very happy of the help Chávez is giving him: Bolivian oppostion is not. They are asking him once and again why there are so many Venezuelan militars in Bolivia. Nevertheless, he keeps on smiling at Chávez and this last one is going to sent two helicopters “Superpuma” as the first step for a “Hispanic-American force”.

The Indian communities are going to press for Evo to become Peace Nobel Prize. It would another shameful record for the Nobel Peace award.

Of course, our President Zapatero -another one who thinks that giving the country to ETA terrorists is going to grant him that Prize- has been (again) kicked in the ass by that cavalier français, Chirac. He has supported Evo’s movement of nationalization, even when one of the most hurt firms of all has being the Spanish-Argentinian Repsol YPF (see here, here for past posts on these subject). So the questions El Iberoamericano makes cannot be more accurate:

Would Zapatero support France in the EU negotiation hurting Spanish interests as he did when he gave away Spanish position, easing the de-bloquage in the making of the new EU Constitution?

I think honestly that he prefers Castro, Chávez and Mohamed VI than to be a modern and European leader. But of course, I am no fan of Zapatero.

Anyway, Chávez is not only manoevring to put his allies in Venezuela. But he is also intending the oil barrel to grow even more. When he came to power in 1999, oil barrel costed $10, now $70. His Energy Minister has said next meeting of OPC in Caracas is no more that the realisation of their policies. They are again calling for curtail oil production, supported by Iran. BUT as Publius Pundit reports, the rest of Arab countries are not willing to curtail production and in fact have said they are going to keep like it is, at max.

And he actually praised Carlos the Jackal (The Bosun says he is the uncle of Venezuelan Engergy Minister…). Now in French prison, Carlos was fined not long ago, because he said that terrorist attacks sometimes were necessary (at the end of the post) and that USA, the Great Satan, merited 9/11. Would he also think Spain merited March 11th? Would that change the vision Zapatero has of Venezuela? Let me doubt it.

And Zapatero is intending to sell more airplanes to Venezuela, as he did last year, when Bono, then Defense Minister said that the warships and planes (mostly to transport troops) they were selling to Venezuela, were for defense, and that they were not selling them with weapons (HT Prevost). Of course, Venezuela does not have any possibility to buy the weapon or, at least, to build it themselves. My goodness, they are not more idiots because in the night they sleep and cannot practise it… What a marvellous Government…

Some of the news here are collected from NUEVO DIGITAL.

Tags: Bolivia, Chávez, Cuba, Evo Morales, France, Iran, Spain, Venezuela, Zapatero

Of course, the second day it was considered, but just because the PP had no possibility of contradicting and critisize the Zapatero Administration.

ETA terrorists have been appearing in TV in an Ossama bin Laden style. But the PM said he wanted, nevertheless, to begin talks with them.

He said: “Just as I announced, next month I will communicate to the political forces the start of the process of dialogue to achieve the end of violence with Eta.”

BBC is biased as ever: they titled a special about ETA “The end of an era”. That is curious: there is no end, really. There are a lot of people, ETA victims, which are there, suffering the pain of having lost parents, wifes, husbands, sons, daughters, etc. Or being themselves severely wounded.

With ETA terrorists happens just the same as with Islamic terrorists. If I criticize the terrorists, I am only critisizing people who are using terror and force to achieve political gains. But there are people who are confounding both the Islamic terrorists with all Muslims and Eta terrorists with all Basques, just as Barcepundit says here.

Of course, ETA victims have been organising peaceful demonstrations to show their reject to Zapatero’s program. This photo is from the one of June 4th 2005:

Anyway the Government has made everything posisble to diminish the importance of these protests. Here you can read what one of the victims’ association thoght about Zapatero in May 3rd 2005, just three months before this demonstration.

Another photo from Times On Line:

In this stage Rajoy asked in Parliament: are you going to negotiate the autodetermination right with Basque Country? And Zapatero said: No, what happens? don’t you listen to the PM? See this video:

(video in Spanish). Found here.

So, now the President of PSE (Basque Socialists) Patxi López, has said they are going to have talks with Batasuna, the political wing of the terrorist organization. Then José Blanco, the Secretary of Organization from PSOE, also said they were supporting that, but only “if Batasuna respects the law”. Well, it’s curious but the Antiterrorist Agreement between PSOE and PP, and the subsequent Political Parties Law, said political parties who were interested in violence or defended it were going to be illegalised. This is the case of Batasuna, which has not condemned any of the terrorist attacks ETA has made along these years. Zapatero has also added he will negotiate even if there is no peace, even if ETA is not for an end of violence. What people here believe is that they are going to be legalised again without any consideration to those Agreement and Law. PP has just said that any possible meeting will be illegal.

It is in this context that we have to consider the lack of willingness to prosecute Otegi, the president of Batasuna, and one of the people that was named to take part in the negotiatory commission.

So Mariano Rajoy has answered in very hard terms to the Zapatero’s process. He has declared he only gave support to the Government for ETA talks but not for these developments. The President has “lied, he is telling Spanish people just the opposite to what he has said now, and in these conditions I cannot support him”. This meeting with Zapatero is “just the confirmation of the death of the Antiterrorist Agreement”. He has also said he is not bond any more by any Agreement if the meeting between PSOE and Batasuna takes place.

The victims have also spoken: Foro de Ermua’s leader, Mikel Buesa (whose brother was a socialist killed by ETA) has said that this will only open a new terrorist cycle in the future. His colleague, Antonio Aguirre has added this means the lose of all dignity the Socialist have.

Anytime I read foreign blogs (A Tangled Web, Michelle Malkin here, here, and here, for example, Gateway Pundit here and here, or Robinik), I just smile when I see how much they “love” moonbats such as Susan Sarandon or similar. At least there are people who have the guts to go after these kind of new priests of their new love-me-and-think-like-me-I-am-more-intelligent-than-you-but-in-case-you-do-not-you-are-a-….-fascist religion: Michael Moore has been sued by a veteran, because of not asking for his permission to use his image in Farenheit 911 (HT: Generación-X).

Well, in Spain we have our own share. The international Film director Pedro Almodóvar said, after the terrorists attacks of March 11th, in front of international MSM, that he knew that PP was giving a coup d’état, but later it was discovered he had read it in an Internet forum and everything was a hoax. He really did not asked for forgiveness but afterwards he thought he was going to be sued for moral damages and not in front of that same international MSM.

We have the actresses giving white flowers to MPs to remind them the need of peace in Basque country, to which a PP MP said “In which tomb must I put this flower?“. The same as Baglietto’s widow and other victims. One of them, Pilar Bardem, the mother of Javier Barden, has also given a prize to the lawyer of Otegi.

Boris Izaguirre, a Venezuelan homosexual who has made a carreer in the leftist TV shows -just by being homosexual, not because his opinions are worth hearing-, said PP was more antidemocratic than the terrorist group. And yesterday, Miguel Bosé said that PP was in politics to “achieve its goals of dynamiting democracy“. Afterwards, he also said PP should be divided and far-right left alone, while giving born to a center party, leadered by Gallardon, Madrid’s major.

As José Carlos Rodríguez says “These intelectuals without any kind of cultural knowledge are trying to discredit PP as democratic right. At least, they are speaking clear“. HT: DOCE DOCE.

It is very curious, but EVERY ONE OF THESE PEOPLE WERE ALSO AGAINST AZNAR AND IRAQI WAR GAVE THEM THE EXCUSE TO CRITISIZE HIM. These actresses are members of an group called “Culture against the War”, who organised several demonstrations against Aznar Adminsitration (even they have denounced him before the International Criminal Court) and were the ones who agitated the situation in the days after the March 11th bombings, telling that Aznar was lying. PSOE’s site had a link to “Culture against the War” site.

Boris Izaguirre was one of the leading anchors of one of the most important TV leftist program: Crónicas marcianas (Chronicles from Mars). The leading anchor of this program, Catalan Javier Sardá, called son of bitch to Bush in direct. The leading anchor and several others were condemned also because of laughing of a psychical diminished guy also in direct.

And lastly Bosé. Well, when Aznar was Spanish President, he had a program in Spanish public TV titled el “Séptimo de Caballería”. Of course, nowadays there is no PP-anchor in TVE, even if they have said they were for a new public TV, in which all ideas would be presented. Anyway, he was one of the leading people in assuring Aznar was nearly the Antichrist by his alliance with Bush, even booing another leftist (environmentalist) because his votes where going to diminish Socialists and be a reinforcement of PP.

Anyway, how would you interpret that the one who is not a nationalist does not have even right to live? This was said by Javier Maqueda, Basque Nationalist Party in a meeting with Ballearic socialist, who applauded cheerfully his words.

And all of this is made when a new demonstration is going to be held in Madrid next Saturday June 10th.

NOTE: I should say I was not very favourable to Iraqi war, BUT I was totally against the troops’ retirement. I think that if you have begin an intervention, you have to finish it. Things which are not completed in these cases are very dangerous. And lastly, the critics of the war have just acted in a very selfish way, for their own interests. It’s being said once and again that Bush was interested in oil. But what about France and Russia for example? were they really for peace or simply for their own economical interests.

But looks like there are also bad news from Colombia: from HazteOir.org:

La Corte Constitucional de Colombia ha determinado que “no se incurre en delito de aborto, cuando con la voluntad de la mujer, la interrupción del embarazo se produzca en los siguientes casos : a) Cuando la continuación del embarazo constituya peligro para la vida o la salud de la mujer, certificado por un médico; b) cuando exista grave malformación del feto que haga inviable su vida, certificada por un médico; c) cuando el embarazo sea resultado de una conducta, debidamente denunciada, constitutiva de acceso carnal o acto sexual sin consentimiento, abusivo, o de inseminación artificial o de transferencia de óvulo fecundado no consentidas, o de incesto”.

So the Colombian Constitutional Court has determined that “it is not abortion and therefore not a crime when with the woman’s consentment, the pregnancy interruption is produced in any of these cases: a) when the continuation of the pregnancy is a danger for the mother’s life or health, certificated by a doctor; b) when there is a grave malforming of the foetus that makes makes him/her impossible to die; c) when the pregnancy is the result of a conduct that rightly denounced, constitutes the result of a sexual act without consentment, abusive, or of artificial insemination or fertilized ovule with no consentment or derived from incest.

Those are the same -nearly a copy- of the 3 causes for abortion we have in Spain (link in Spanish). -And, unluckily, we are the country in which abortions grow quicker -.

Hazteoir.org brings everyone the possibility to sign a petition who will be sent to UN, Human Pro-Life International, and several Latin-American and European pro-life associations that are fighting for this cause. If you read this and you are a pro-lifer, please sign the petition, it’s free and it’s written in English and in Spanish.

This cames after the UN has declared they are supporters of abortion for Latin-America (link in Spanish).

Tags: Colombia, Pro-Life issues

There are sometimes in which blogging has been very good both to read different point of views and also to get to some conclusions about the subjects in which I have been reading and writing.

In Spain, though the right-wing blogosphere is somewhat developed, I cannot say that we have had so much importance as in US. Internet is not used in such proportions, although I really think the number of Internet reading and users is growing.

Anyway, whatever our importance is -at least, some are very important- we are not journalists. That is why I was so surprised when I read so much controversy about some news which were very shocking: the Iranian Dress Code. The news were that Iran was going to impose Badges on Non-Muslim people and it resulted in a hoax. As a result the Canadian National Post, the paper which published it, suffered severe critics.

I think it’s fine to be critical to journalists who are a bit impulssive and do not control the news they publish. But the criticism over the bloggers that simply linked the news was nothing but excessive. One of the bloggers, I admire most, Alexandra, was even called a Nazi because she considered that, whatever the story was or not really true, she felt Ahmadinejad was enterily capable of doing something like that.

The problem was that, even if the part about the non-Muslim was true, the Iranian Dress Code was true for other sector of the population: women. It’s curious that the people who were so eager to call her a Nazi, were not really seeing the bad consequences this fact is carrying for women, as I said in the post linked above. It looks like it’s very bad to put badges on Non-Muslims (well it’s disgusting in fact), but it’s not so bad if we are considering that the affected population would be only women. And, in fact, the main part of the Iranian Dress Code was, yes, the Muslim outfit imposed on women.

Today I was just reading some links I had in my computer, and I was totally surprised to see another reflections about this same issue:

I hope that readers don’t come to this blog looking for journalism. I am a blogger, not a journalist. This distinction has clear implications in my own mind. I am not a professional writer nor do I derive my income from this activity. Blogging for me is an act of will: I blog because I want to blog.

[…]When I commented on the NP news about Iran, I received comments that I had “fallen for it.” The implication being that those who didn’t write about it knew that the report was false. Such knowledge would have required writing about the falsehood, which the mockers did not do. Call me naïve, but the headline made sense to me because the question had been debated in the Iranian parliament before. Most of the triumphalist lefty posting on the subject had more to do with ideological partisanship “rubbing right-wingers’ nose in it” than it did with the nature of blogging. It contributed nothing to make blogging less vulnerable to such things.

Yes, this blogger is right. A blogger is someone who is worried, happy, desperate, stressed, etc, about reality. And, instead of writing a diary in a sheet of paper or phoning his/her friends, turns on the computer and writes about the things that make him be worried, happy, desperate, stressed, etc.

This is why I think we cannot be considered journalists. A journalist has to do it because it his/her work, not because of being a hobby. If the content of one-of-his-posts’ link is proved wrong, he just have to tell it and everything is fine. Nothing to quarrel -or to insult- about.

Anyway, having said we are not journalists -at least in general- there are some who are just continously publishing exclusives about this or that issue. Those people are in fact journalists, or al least do what the journalists should do: bring into the public news that normally would not be printed because they are unpolitically correct most times. In Internet there are a lot of platforms to publish blogs for free and others in which you can have a blog in minutes for a very little fee.

As a result,

US judges have stablished that bloggers do not have any obligation to speak about their sources and are protected by the Amendments that protect normal journalist, the First Amendment and California’s Shield Law.

In Spain we will have to wait some time before something like that is said.

Tags: blogging, blogosphere, journalism

UPDATE:

Others posting about this: Daimnation:

The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public

Do they really think this is very modern? Our ancestors in Pre-historic times were naked, till they understood that weather were against this practice.

and Sigmund, Carl and Freud.

Sex with animals should be allowed although abuse of animals should remain illegal, the NVD said.

This sounds to me like PETA asking Yasir Arafat not to kill donkeys!!!

UPDATE 2: From CNN:

Right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders said he had asked the government to investigate whether a party with such “sick ideas” could really be established, ANP news agency reported.

Kees van deer Staaij, a member of the Christian SGP party, also demanded action: “Pedophilia and child pornography should be taboo in every constitutional state. Breaking that will just create more victims and more serious ones.”

The party wants private possession of child pornography to be allowed although it supports the ban on the trade of such materials. It also supports allowing pornography to be broadcast on daytime television, with only violent pornography limited to the late evening.

I think no comments are needed…

France and Morocco have agreed to work together to combat terrorism, drug trafficking and illegal immigration.

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy agreed the deal with his Moroccan counterpart, Chakib Benmoussa.

Mr Sarkozy was in Morocco as part of an African tour, widely seen as a prelude to his presidential bid next year.

He has already visited Benin and Mali, where there were street protests over his tough immigration policy, designed to keep out “unskilled” foreigners.

French MPs have already backed Mr Sarkozy’s immigration bill but it can only become law after it has been passed by the Senate.

Wow! This is marvellous. I am very confident in them working together. They are just going to send more inmigrants to Spain, that’s all. From Spain Herald:

Saharan human rights activist Aminetu Haidar said yesterday in Seville that prime minister Zapatero’s support for his own Alliance of Civilizations project is “incompatible with permitting the tortures that the Moroccan government inflicts on the Saharan people.” After speaking before the Andalusian regional parliament, Haidar said that if the Spanish government does not act in favor of self-determination for the Western Sahara, “it will be responsible for the genocide and massacres that are going to begin, if they have not already…Spain and France are the two governments that support Morocco’s state terrorism against the Saharan people.”

She called Zapatero’s proposed Alliance of Civilizations “a makeup job that the administration applies to its face while it turns its back on the Saharan people, who have not received any support from this government, despite the strong support that the Spanish people have given us.” Haidar added, “Morocco does not respect the Saharans.”

Aminetu Haidar also called on Spain to accept “its historical and legal responsibility with respect to the Sahara, and recognize the crimes committed against the Saharan people.” Therefore, she said, “Spain should take a clear position on self-determination.”

I think that we are more indebted with this people that with American indigene population. While our American domination was ended because of an independence war, Saharan people were left alone after Franco’s death and Morocco, with international support or at least not much critisizing of their position, invaded their territory.

But the aggressions to Saharan people continue: you can see photos here. The problem is that most of the documents are in Spanish. Anyway,there has been arbitrary detentions made to Saharan activists since the Moroccan invasion. The problem is that with the new antiterrorist measures, they are detained as Islamists or terrorists, being none of that (someone has heard of a Saharan terrorist? ehh, … NOPE).

Socialists at first were very much interested in defending Saharan cause as they thought that it was so good to oppose right-wingers. But everything changed with Mr. Zapatero new political approach. As Perejil conflict showed, Mr. Aznar’s relationship with Morocco was not the best. And so Mr Zapatero had to change this policy as well, not taking into account that most of the accused in March 11th bombings were Moroccans. He has not said anything about Saharan situation before Moroccan king, Mohammed VI, -in fact, he has not said it at any time- and several Socialists have praised them openly. Even when international opinion was critical with Spanish handling of inmigrants in Ceuta and Melilla last year and it was proved that Moroccan police killed two inmigrants and the rest were obliged to walk thrpugh Moroccan desert, where 24 -at least- were dead of thurst.

Moroccan authorities have been denying pass to foreign delegations that intended to defend Saharan Human Rights. For example, from Norway, Spain. Spanish journalists have also been expelled (example).

By the wat, there are also connections with the Oil-for-Food scandal, coming from Morocco.

That is why when I read this kind of news, I just burst out laughing… just for not crying. I know Islamism is a threat -that is why I keep TAJP- but at the same time, I do think these decissions are nothing more than an international pose just to appease foreign critics and as such to diminish the importance of democracy and opposition movements inside it.

UPDATE: I am even more concerned now that I have read this: France and Morocco will help Spain with inmigration problem. According to Sarkozy and Benmoussa joint communiqué, “taking into account the situation of the arrival of inmigrants to the Canary Islands coasts, the ministers have decided to take the necessary measures without waiting, (…) mainly the related with technical and financial support to benefit the countries that need it“.

Related posts:

• Spanish Inmigration Problem.
• New EU Directive on free Movement.

Tags: Aznar, Human Rights, Inmigration, Moratinos, Morocco, religious freedom, Sahara, UN Security Council, Zapatero

A senior United Nations official has met Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, sources close to the military rulers say.

The talks between Ms Suu Kyi and UN Under Secretary General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari lasted for about an hour, the sources say.

Ms Suu Kyi has been in prison or under house arrest since 2003.

The last foreigner to see the Nobel Peace laureate was UN special envoy Razali Ismail in 2004.

Ms Suu Kyi and Mr Gambari met in a government guesthouse, the sources say.

A spokesman for Ms San Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) later confirmed that the meeting took place, according to the AFP news agency.

In Burma:

Military-run enterprises control key industries, and corruption and severe mismanagement are the hallmarks of a black-market-riven economy.

The armed forces - and former rebels co-opted by the government - have been accused of large-scale trafficking in heroin, of which Burma is a major exporter. Prostitution and HIV/Aids are major problems.

US wants the Burmese Government to be referred to the Un Security Council. I agree with US this time: they have even tried three youths for writing a poem and:

have been tried behind closed doors inside the local prison, without having access to legal representatives. The three, Aung Aung Oo of A20 Computing Business, Zeya Aung of King Star teashop and Aung Than, are currently detained in Pegu Prison.

Related information in Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), Burma Net News,

Tags: Burma, UN Security Council

It appeared in an Italian television…

Tags: Italy, Spain, Zapatero

Police union spokesman Rodrigo Gavilan said yesterday that the administration canceled a flight that would have carried 90 officers to Grand Canary island in order to proceed to the deportation of 180 illegal immigrants to Mauritania and Guinea. However, those two countries were not willing to accept the deportees. Gavilan added that, as it is not possible to deport the immigrants, “all those that arrive are transported to mainland Spain, five thousand so far.”
Deputy prime minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega said that due to the mass arrival of open boats carrying illegals to the Canary coasts, that all illegal immigrants would be repatriated. She also announced agreements with the illegals’ countries of origin to return them. According to Gavilan, however, reality is very different.

News24.com:

With the Canary Islands struggling to cope with a stream of would-be immigrants from Africa, the Spanish government has launched a diplomatic offensive to bring the situation under control.

On Thursday, foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said a special ambassador and a team of diplomats would begin “three to six-month” missions in Africa from Sunday. He said the diplomats would operate in Senegal, Gambia, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Niger. Almost 7 000 people have survived the maritime odyssey to reach the Canaries in makeshift vessels so far this year. Moratinos, speaking a day after Madrid called on African governments to help stem the number of arrivals, said the diplomats would “work jointly with the countries to face up to the migratory flux”.

Thursday saw dozens of more arrivals, with 57 immigrants picked up at Los Cristianos port in southern Tenerife.The immigrant hopefuls added to the 278 who landed on the island in “cayucos”, makeshift boats from Senegal and Mauritania, on Wednesday.

6 785 illegal immigrants have arrived so far

Moratinos said the Spanish cabinet would approve the “immediate” sending of an ambassador to Mali on Friday. Malians make up a large proportion of the immigrants coming to Spain. He said: “Spain will set up a bureau for the centralisation of all efforts (to deal with the immigrant issue) in sub-Saharan capitals.”

In fact they are so much that they are overflowing Canarian facilities, whatever Vice-President De La Vega says (By the way, she was proposing that Spanish people should use an “inhabitant solution of only 30 m2 while she has built for herself one of 505 m2. What a good example of equality! Just like the Chinese one I was referring to in this post).

This happens after the unresponsible decision Zapatero Administration took last year, socially codenamed “Papers for all”, as intelestual reminds us. Germany and France said that this measures were not going to take place in their soil. And this last Thursday, France passed a a new inmigration law (read it all here):

The law aims to attract skilled workers while keeping less skilled ones out. Critics say it will stigmatize foreigners, discriminate against the poor and undermine France’s traditional role as a haven for the persecuted.

He, he, this is very good: what this journalists do not take into account is that if inmigrants come here without a job and without perspective of having one, they are going to go directly into crime. This not a consecuence of inmigration itself but of seriously wrong policies and irresponsibility. Because if there is no plan for inmigration the only solution is to beg for money in order to give inmigrants something to live upon. So instead of being collaborating with the country they have arrived to, this makes them only parasites and non-contributing people.

In the end, the French inmigration law can even worsen the problem, because all of the illegal inmigrants they have, are going to rush to come here. Shenghen Treaty has opened interior borders in Europe and as a result there is nothing to detain them moving through it.

UPDATE: From BBC:

The European Parliament is sending a delegation to the Canary Islands early in June to examine the conditions in which the immigrants are being kept and the problems caused by illegal immigration.

This is getting worse each day…

Tags: Inmigration, Spain, Zapatero, De La Vega, Moratinos

Well, at first no one. But Converse’s poster designer, the Polish Andrej Dragan, has infuriated the far-leftists in Spain with this new campaign (poster: right). Because for them Che, is so opposed to Aznar that this is an insult. And they are seeing both united in one photo.

For them, Aznar is the one who caused March 11th terrorist attacks -just forgetting about the real authors of it-. They have just changed his support, more moral than real, for Iraqi intervention, into the leit-motiv of their oposition.

But I really think it is going to be somewhat difficult to make Ché and Aznar the same thing. Che was nothing but a intelectual terrorist and Castro supporter who defended :

hate as a fight factor; intransigent hate against the enemy, who impulses human being to a place far beyond his limitations, and makes him a violent and cold killing machine”.

I really can not imagine someone who made Spain rise above the corruption scandals and the dirty war against ETA, saying or even thinking, something like that.

But that Polish designer, has accomplished what he wanted: that people talk about his campaign.

Note: Trackback sent to Carnival of Trackbacks.

Tags: Aznar, Converse, Publicity