tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78815827935617512432024-03-17T10:12:10.227+01:00Lenox NapierBusiness over TapasLenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.comBlogger362125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-85427768491350079262024-03-17T10:11:00.003+01:002024-03-17T10:11:21.850+01:0011M<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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were placed in four trains in the Atocha and two other stations in Madrid. 193
people died and around 2,000 were injured, making it the largest terrorist
outrage in Europe in modern times (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings">Wiki</a>). </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">This
was just three days before the general elections and the ruling PP insisted
that the outrage had been caused by ETA, despite evidence that the attack came
from Arab terrorists opposed to the Spanish presence in the war in Iraq. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">This
week, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4L-LhwGPtM">a full interview</a>
made at the time with President George W Bush has surfaced. The tape was
doctored by the Spanish TV (in it, Bush had blamed the Arab terrorists). </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Despite the insistence by the government that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ETA</i> were the villains, the events brought the PSOE with Rodríguez
Zapatero to power. </span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-59896934139454980122024-03-01T12:16:00.000+01:002024-03-01T12:16:03.926+01:00The Valencia Apartment-block Fire<p> <span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Last week’s main story was
the tragic fire that burned two connected 14- and 10-storey blocks of flats in
Valencia on Thursday February 22nd in just a couple of hours. 138 apartments were gutted. That it
happened during the day meant that only ten people were killed. Another <a href="https://www.elcorreo.com/sociedad/sucesos/historias-supervivientes-incendio-valencia-vecinos-20240223185017-nt.html">500
or so</a> (the estimate of the total inhabitants in the two blocks) are reported
safe. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">The fire started on the
seventh floor <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.es/sociedad/un-cortocircuito-toldo-apartamento-posible-causa-incendio-valenciabr.html">following</a>
a spark from a short-circuit inside an electric window-awning. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">The façade of the building –
which began construction in 2006 – was covered by an innovative material called
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alucobond</i>, an aluminium composite
that includes synthetic material.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">The manufacturer’s website <a href="https://alucobond.com/products">insists on its product</a>: ‘High-quality,
resilient and unique in appearance – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alucobond®</i>
stands for sustainable construction quality and the highest creative standards.
The façade material is distinguished by its outstanding product attributes such
as precise flatness, variety of surfaces and colours as well as excellent
formability’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">The <a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5221342/0/incendio-valencia-colegio-arquitectos-madrid-lana-roca-ignifugo-peligroso-fachadas/">suggestion
is</a> that the inner core was highly flammable. The cladding ‘<a href="https://www.thelocal.es/20240223/how-safe-are-spanish-buildings-when-it-comes-to-fire-standards">was
made</a> from polyurethane, Says <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
Local</b>, which is a versatile plastic material, which exists in various
forms. It is used in everything from shoe soles to sportswear fabrics and
mattresses. It’s also often found in building construction, particularly for
cladding and insulation. The material is highly flammable, and "when
heated, it catches fire" said a fireman. The fact-checking site <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maldita</b> <a href="https://maldita.es/malditateexplica/20240226/preguntas-respuestas-incendio-edificio-valencia/">expressed</a>
caution over the claim, saying that the cladding was more likely to be a
rock-wool composite. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">A friend who lives close-by sent me the photograph he took the next morning. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrBcx1ZQmaLHZNj8QklVdhCYBH7N3YptaIGtRPapH2fv0b9p5l2tmOMuG1YHCIjX3uq_VoqcrF0L59rw7l2QCuWHTVhr9JTBMjGCye5ybZIJxDEnx-l3XI06V1yRNtcXkzbd6pDQ4ih7gYCKyYStcqUHtXFR2r-Yzwtgjb_JxtEAneI530cpga0VwPdPs/s701/409000127_1058656588707058_3075604454535578317_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrBcx1ZQmaLHZNj8QklVdhCYBH7N3YptaIGtRPapH2fv0b9p5l2tmOMuG1YHCIjX3uq_VoqcrF0L59rw7l2QCuWHTVhr9JTBMjGCye5ybZIJxDEnx-l3XI06V1yRNtcXkzbd6pDQ4ih7gYCKyYStcqUHtXFR2r-Yzwtgjb_JxtEAneI530cpga0VwPdPs/s320/409000127_1058656588707058_3075604454535578317_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">We are reminded of the
Grenfell tragedy in North Kensington, London, which burnt down in June 2017
with 70 deaths. The fire ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire">was accelerated</a> by
a dangerously combustible aluminium composite cladding and external insulation,
with an air gap between them enabling the stack effect’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="https://english.elpais.com/spain/2024-02-23/high-rise-complex-consumed-by-fire-in-spain-was-made-in-2008-with-innovative-materials-by-a-developer-that-went-bankrupt.html">Back
in 2008</a>, when the buildings were completed, similar to the entire
real-estate sector in Spain, the developer behind the project and an even
larger sister block nearby, a firm called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fbex,</i>
went into crisis. Two years later it filed for bankruptcy for 640 million euros
and the entity passed into the control of its lending bank <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Banesto</i>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Many of the owners (or
perhaps mortgage holders) were left with nothing more than the clothes they
were wearing. The city hall of Valencia has <a href="https://twitter.com/AjuntamentVLC/status/1760986626484736187">given
shelter</a> to those affected. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mapfre</i>
insurance nevertheless has <a href="https://www.laopiniondemurcia.es/sucesos/2024/02/25/edificio-incendiado-valencia-asegurado-mapfre-98642347.html">an
obligation</a> for 26.5 million euros on the buildings. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">There are an untold number of
high-rise buildings in Spain using <a href="https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/colegio-arquitectos-alerta-incendio-valencia-miles-edificios-mismo-revestimiento.html">a
similar kind</a> of cladding with polyurethane built before the regulations were
changed in 2006. How would the owners (or, again, the mortgage-paying tenants)
feel to discover that their building is potentially a fire-hazard? The tenants
in the second <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fbex</i> project, in nearby
Mislata (162 apartments) are understandably <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/comunitat-valenciana/vecinos-edificio-levantado-valencia-promotora-fbex-miedo_1_10952762.html">very
concerned</a>. </span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-18733668760502539172024-02-26T13:53:00.004+01:002024-02-26T13:56:25.126+01:00Far-Right Leaders at CPAC<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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political conference attended by conservative activists and elected officials
from across the United States. The CPAC is hosted by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the American Conservative Union</i>…’ (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Wiki</span></a>). A toxic mixture of fundamentalist religion and
authoritarianism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Besides the usual suspects, some
big names from abroad were at the CPAC last week (held outside Washington DC
last Wednesday through Saturday), including Christine Anderson from the AfD;
Hungary’s Miklos Szantho; the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anarcho-capitalist’</i>
Javier Milei from Argentina; Japan’s Hiroaki “Jay” Aeba; Liz Truss from the UK
and Spain’s Santiago Abascal, the leader of Vox (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Media Matters</b> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/justice-civil-liberties/global-far-right-comes-cpac"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">here</span></a>). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3PLjV2Q85CtqzOGSbLviX6_nOUvJKa0H7Y2IUaKoMv76P9zrnpohIsqIzM8HJvJYXiOZU0kJOUNdNtIO7PciKR6qAyq8k0iAEZqTmavTTDkAwq21mjGlatelRZroRhZOuyD8SB_AJ61zVIR-e4K3p-W4cR-qrTnTZL2WTwZhcuP3rfqZloIA3wyJNKyz/s640/abascal-y-trump.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3PLjV2Q85CtqzOGSbLviX6_nOUvJKa0H7Y2IUaKoMv76P9zrnpohIsqIzM8HJvJYXiOZU0kJOUNdNtIO7PciKR6qAyq8k0iAEZqTmavTTDkAwq21mjGlatelRZroRhZOuyD8SB_AJ61zVIR-e4K3p-W4cR-qrTnTZL2WTwZhcuP3rfqZloIA3wyJNKyz/s320/abascal-y-trump.webp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">A picture of Donald Trump and Abascal made the Spanish
news (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they look like they are sharing a
lift</i>) – and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Europa Press</b> <a href="https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-abascal-reune-donald-trump-washington-marco-cpap-principal-cita-conservadores-eeuu-20240224203954.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">quotes</span></a> Trump as saying ‘‘From what I read, I think you will soon
be number one’, at the same time ensuring that he was "delighted" to
have met Abascal and </span><span style="font-size: medium;">congratulating him on the "great job" that Vox is
doing’. The far-right Spanish press was, if possible, even more enthusiastic: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">El Debate</b> (owned by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'the Catholic Association of Propagandists'</i>)
<a href="https://www.eldebate.com/espana/20240224/abascal-trump-reunen-washington-hablar-inmigracion-ilegal-globalismo-familia-vida_177215.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">quotes</span></a> Abascal in his speech saying ‘Only from strong nations
can we defend the culture and values that unite us: the homeland, freedom,
reason, the faith of our parents, family, property, sovereignty, democracy and
the limitation of power. And above all, life, from its beginning to its natural
end’. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Público</b> (on the far-left) <a href="https://www.publico.es/politica/abascal-despliega-discurso-ultra-washington-carga-socialismo-ecologismo-agenda-2030.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">says</span></a>: ‘Abascal deploys his ultra remarks in Washington and
charges against socialism, environmentalism and the 2030 Agenda’. </span><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">(‘The Global Goals and the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seek to end poverty and hunger, realise
the human rights of all, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls, and ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its
natural resources’, we read <a href="https://www.government.se/government-policy/the-global-goals-and-the-2030-Agenda-for-sustainable-development/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">here</span></a>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">‘Brexit boss Nigel Farage — a
veteran of more than a decade of CPACs — was received warmly by the CPAC
audience and proved even more popular at evening cocktail parties. We “need
strong leaders,” Farage railed during his speech, adding “we need Trump back in
the White House”…’ says the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NY Post</b> <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/24/us-news/foreign-guests-and-world-leaders-flock-to-cpac/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">here</span></a>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">All of these leaders would no
doubt agree with the opening speaker and right-wing activist Jack Posobiec, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/posobiec-democracy-cpac-january-6-b2501566.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">who said</span></a>: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to
overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we
will endeavour to get rid of it and replace it with this right here.” He held
up a cross necklace and continued: “After we burn that swamp to the ground, we
will establish the new American republic on its ashes, and our first order of
business will be righteous retribution for those who betrayed America”. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> ...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">While on the subject…)</i> Trump on Putin – a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urW-LzeTpS8"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">short video</span></a>
at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YouTube</b>. ‘More and more
Republican lawmakers are siding with Russia, seemingly at the behest of former
President Trump, who has a long history of fawning over Vladimir Putin’ says <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MSNBC</b>.</span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-38063356040566936652024-02-16T21:39:00.000+01:002024-02-16T21:39:03.547+01:00The Bar Indalo<p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the old days - the sixties through the early eighties - the Hotel Indalo, located in the Mojácar Square, housed the Bar Indalo: the focal centre of the pueblo.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was an ugly bar, dark and scruffy. They rarely managed any tapas and the decoration was bleak. There were a couple of tables and a black and white TV, switched on whenever there was a football game.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As somebody says, the toilets were pretty grim as well.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Outside, there were a few tin tables and chairs.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was where we all met to catch up on the day's gossip.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I think it was a terrible shame when the hotel and its bar were demolished, along with the Aquelarre theatre, to make room for the 'multicentro' - three stories of grim souvenir shops.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the picture, Antonio and Diego were for many years the two barmen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkT6IydcOMym0aP0RR34FPLH29RIyRE2rvleGaDifue7JnZS5hQi2mAT5XZmNWjefvSHb6u91S298ZewtYfklhdRf60TChMHhSC_NPobPvuYbfh4W0Pw5MBv9NexWmOvMWjdoXAzMwrwmF15FI_LY9Iu1JhMDeR2A0Hw0C_EDLAXtZdd8lPoUJdoysE1ge/s1711/diego.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="1711" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkT6IydcOMym0aP0RR34FPLH29RIyRE2rvleGaDifue7JnZS5hQi2mAT5XZmNWjefvSHb6u91S298ZewtYfklhdRf60TChMHhSC_NPobPvuYbfh4W0Pw5MBv9NexWmOvMWjdoXAzMwrwmF15FI_LY9Iu1JhMDeR2A0Hw0C_EDLAXtZdd8lPoUJdoysE1ge/w640-h362/diego.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-80835864955982760772024-02-05T18:06:00.003+01:002024-02-05T18:22:01.270+01:00Drought and the Patchwork Solutions <p> <span style="font-size: 13pt;">It’s not looking very good in
Catalonia with the water issue at the moment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The BBC</span></i><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68167942"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">says</span></a> ‘A state
of emergency is declared as the region faces worst ever drought’. The fact is
that the reservoirs are all but empty and there’s what the British would call a
hosepipe-ban come into effect in 102 municipalities affecting six million
residents including the people of the city of Barcelona. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">While the Generalitat has
concentrated on draconian reductions for agriculture, ranchers and industry
(-80, -50 and -25% cuts), the subject of tourism has been left in the hands of the
town halls. <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/catalunya/agua-mar-piscinas-baneras-tapon-turismo-ensaya-medidas-restricciones-claras-sequia_1_10889065.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">A headline</span></a> on Sunday says that some of these local authorities
are insisting on sea-water filled swimming-pools and no plugs to be provided in
hotel baths. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAoZ5V8xdb8kCobkkco35-ibwRYM89e8etRrzfQiT53JS68bcVKKXarnM0FkWKG4HqZu5kzR8oYPzdddUiSIeNfeqOZvNOlUZz9Bkf2Ec4zo6QEk7G_Tw_xoLlY6uhj10PPgftReF7AsD0cmDxowCbFHtg-CHl49rr1Md9x8bJ9TnhA1TydCDn3fyWqlVC/s600/20368898_1972744969605335_1810634913868966410_o.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="600" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAoZ5V8xdb8kCobkkco35-ibwRYM89e8etRrzfQiT53JS68bcVKKXarnM0FkWKG4HqZu5kzR8oYPzdddUiSIeNfeqOZvNOlUZz9Bkf2Ec4zo6QEk7G_Tw_xoLlY6uhj10PPgftReF7AsD0cmDxowCbFHtg-CHl49rr1Md9x8bJ9TnhA1TydCDn3fyWqlVC/s320/20368898_1972744969605335_1810634913868966410_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">We learn that tourists
apparently like to use more water than residents.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Not enough rain (or
snow-melt) is the culprit. But the effect is a drought – in the tail-end of
winter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">One plan is to <a href="https://www.lavanguardia.com/natural/sequia/20240203/9512267/gobierno-trasladara-agua-catalunya-desaladora-sagunto.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">bring water up</span></a> from Sagunto (Valencia) to the Catalonian capital
by sea. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">It’s been a warm and dry few
months in Spain, with other areas equally worried about water shortage –
particularly Andalucía. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">All right, they <a href="https://www.elplural.com/autonomias/andalucia/moreno-bonilla-pide-dinero-bruselas-emergencia-climatica-mientras-campos-golf-continuan-regandose_323949102"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">aren’t cutting</span></a> the water to the golf-courses on the Costa del
Sol, but the larger <a href="https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/reassurance-for-local-tourism-industry-following-andalucias-20240202124911-nt.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">plan there</span></a> ‘will focus on using disused wells and boreholes,
more desalination projects to make seawater usable and pushing local councils
into fixing existing leaks in their water supply networks’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In both regions – the fear is
more that the tourist-industry will suffer than any apparent concern for the
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are <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/andalucia-aprobara-29-enero-cuarto-decreto-sequia-200-millones-preve-cortes-generalizados-verano_1_10847326.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">programmed</span></a> for Seville, Córdoba and Málaga.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Andalucía is also looking at
cistern-ships, maybe <a href="https://www.lavanguardia.com/natural/sequia/20240203/9512267/gobierno-trasladara-agua-catalunya-desaladora-sagunto.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">hauling water</span></a> ‘from Portugal or even Asia’. Didn’t some place in
Malaga <a href="https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/malaga-city/this-why-an-iceberg-heading-towards-malagas-20230728183524-nt.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">bring</span></a> a petite ice-burg down from Greenland last year?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">A <a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5214445/0/cataluna-entra-emergencia-por-sequia-pone-aviso-resto-espana-diez-consejos-utiles-que-ayudan-ahorrar-agua/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">useful list</span></a> of household water-economies includes showering
rather than taking a bath – but the most effective break on domestic water-use would
no doubt be the local water company <a href="https://facua.org/noticias/la-factura-del-suministro-de-agua-varia-hasta-un-435-segun-un-estudio-de-facua-en-57-ciudades/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">putting up</span></a> its prices. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Judging by the last few years
of steadily increasing temperatures, the tourist bonanza may begin to falter,
particularly in the south – although, <a href="https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/reassurance-for-local-tourism-industry-following-andalucias-20240202124911-nt.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">here</span></a>’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sur in English</i>:
‘Reassurance for Malaga and Costa del Sol tourism sectors following Andalucía's
fresh drought decree. The regional government is to spend a further 217 million
euros on measures to shore up water supply as the much-needed rain still fails
to arrive’. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">One answer is <a href="https://cadenaser.com/nacional/2024/02/02/las-770-desaladoras-espanolas-podrian-suministrar-agua-a-34-millones-de-personas-pero-a-un-precio-mas-alto-y-con-impacto-ecologico-cadena-ser/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">to build</span></a> new desalination plants, but they are expensive and, as
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Greenpeace</i> says, "This
technology is essential to alleviate a period of extreme drought, like the one
we are suffering now, but they are the last option". In Spain, there are
currently an astonishing 770 of them – mostly used for domestic consumption. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Thus, we prepare for the summer season - with another 85 million or so international tourists joining us for a drink, a swim and a shower. <br /></span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-65843755386849337432024-01-30T17:02:00.001+01:002024-01-30T17:02:14.402+01:00More, No Wait, Less Tourists (but More Money) <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Following another successful session at the <em>Fitur Madrid</em> tourist fair this past weekend, Spain is preparing itself for the 2024 season.</span>
</p><div style="overflow: auto; padding-right: 10px; width: 620px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="200" src="https://www.eyeonspain.com/userfiles/image/lenox/SXO3CCB33ZFQHO6RZRXWUZAXRM.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="355" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Costa Blanca tourist councillors and mayors at Fitur.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;">With numbers of visitors beginning to reach uncomfortable highs,
there are plans to try and resolve the problems. After all, as we know,
it’s not really the crowds of foreigners, so much as the amount they
spend. <em>The Express</em> <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1858684/spain-high-class-tourists-travel" rel="nofollow">brings us</a>:
‘Spain only wants to attract 'high-class tourists' as the country
becomes overwhelmed. Spain is set to focus on 'high value visitors'
including those with significant 'spending power' as the country battles high visitor numbers’.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Plans to spread the visitors around won’t work – after a cold and dull winter, the truth is that nobody wants to go and visit <a href="https://www.diariodealmeria.es/provincia/huercal_overa/FITUR-huercal-overa-turismo_0_1870014521.html" rel="nofollow">Huercal Overa</a> (a market town in Northern Almería present – inexplicably – at <em>Fitur</em>) for their hols. They want Benidorm.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Tourist apartments are a low-hanging target. ‘Town councils may
establish limitations regarding the maximum number of homes for tourist
purposes, per building or sector’. There are, <a href="https://cordopolis.eldiario.es/cordoba-hoy/sociedad/andalucia-aprueba-lunes-decreto-pisos-turisticos-permitira-ciudades-limitarlos_1_10872046.html" rel="nofollow">we read</a>, 80,000 of these just in Andalucía. <a href="https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2024/01/24/120665/mallorca-tourism-holiday-lets-blame-for-tourist-overcrowding.html" rel="nofollow">In Mallorca</a>, ‘Holiday lets are to blame for Mallorca tourist overcrowding’. Controls are evidently overdue.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is for the comfort and safety of the customer, peace of mind for the neighbours, and a more ready income for the hoteliers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even though tourist-rentals work out as being usually more expensive than hotel stays. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Then <a href="https://www.preferente.com/noticias-de-hoteles/alarma-por-el-boom-del-alquiler-turistico-ilegal-en-espana-333842.html" rel="nofollow">we read of</a> the ‘alarm at the boom in the number of tourist homes in Spain’. <em>Exeltur</em>
considers this as the worst problem facing the tourist industry in 2004
‘ahead even of concerns regarding the Government cutting short-range
domestic flights’.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Some hotels are still yet to recover from the Covid crisis, as we see in <a href="https://www.infobae.com/espana/2024/01/24/el-turismo-sigue-sin-ser-rentable-la-mitad-de-los-hoteles-de-malaga-madrid-y-barcelona-se-encuentra-en-elevado-riesgo-de-impago/" rel="nofollow">an article</a> at <em>Infobae</em>:
‘Tourism is still not profitable: half of the hotels in Málaga, Madrid
and Barcelona are at high risk of defaulting on the banks’.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>The Bank of Spain</em> weighs in, <a href="https://thecorner.eu/news-spain/spain-economy/bank-of-spain-warns-of-risks-to-tourism-sector-and-conditions-necessary-to-maintain-competitiveness/112746/" rel="nofollow">concerned</a>
about the ‘increases in the minimum wage, difficulties in finding staff
and adapting to new technologies’ (none of which are particularly a
problem for tourist lets).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">But, while the high numbers of tourists staying in the downtown
apartments is certainly a problem (with their little wheelie-suitcases
trundling noisily across the cobble-stones) and one should always feel
sorry for the grand hotels with their assembly-line business model, the
long-term threat comes from elsewhere.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The looming climate-crisis. </span></p>
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Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-63537068927096944622024-01-07T18:26:00.003+01:002024-01-07T18:26:44.291+01:00Why do Hackers always Wear Hoodies?<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Hackers <a href="https://www.20minutos.es/tecnologia/actualidad/caida-internet-orange-toda-espana-ciberataque-4946065/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">got into</span></a> the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Orange</i>
telephone last week, disrupting the service for a few hours. Later, the same
hackers <a href="https://www.genbeta.com/seguridad/hacker-que-tumbo-a-orange-espana-explica-como-dejo-conexion-a-miles-clientes"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">put out a statement</span></a> saying how they did it and accusing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Orange</i> of using ‘weak’ passwords. A
hacker, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">says</span></a> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wiki</b>, ‘is someone with knowledge of
bugs or software who can break into computer systems and access data which
would otherwise be inaccessible to them’. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Usually for profit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Several big names have been
attacked in Spain this autumn – with big names like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.20minutos.es/tecnologia/ciberseguridad/claves-sobre-ciberataque-ayuntamiento-sevilla-como-se-ha-producido-quien-esta-detras-que-datos-han-obtenido-5170188/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Telefónica</span></a> </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.larazon.es/economia/vodafone-alerta-hackeo-que-dejado-expuestos-datos-bancarios-personales-sus-clientes_20231122655e065c1b48c3000156dbc7.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Vodafone</span></a></i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://elpais.com/espana/madrid/2023-10-06/telemadrid-sufre-un-ciberataque-desconocido-y-la-emision-se-cae-durante-tres-horas-con-todos-los-ordenadores-afectados.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">TeleMadrid</span></a></i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://cadenaser.com/andalucia/2023/10/03/ptv-telecom-sufre-un-ciberataque-que-afecta-a-los-datos-de-mas-de-100000-clientes-en-toda-espana-radio-cordoba/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">PTV Telecom</span></a>; <a href="https://elchapuzasinformatico.com/?p=531151"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Endesa</span></a></i>,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>the City Hall of <a href="https://www.20minutos.es/tecnologia/ciberseguridad/claves-sobre-ciberataque-ayuntamiento-sevilla-como-se-ha-producido-quien-esta-detras-que-datos-han-obtenido-5170188/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Seville</span></a> and even a number <a href="https://www.elconfidencial.com/empresas/2023-07-21/grupo-hacker-bloquea-horas-paginas-web-bancos-espanoles_3704704/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">of leading banks</span></a>. All of these companies employ professional IT
(information technology) people to keep their accounts safe. Spain is third in
the world after the USA and Russia for the number of cyber-attacks suffered. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">All we have, here in our
homes, is a mild distrust of anything that looks fishy and maybe an old
dog-eared copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Computers for Dummies</i>.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">And as for ‘weak’ passwords:
if they ain’t weak, then I’m not going to remember them; and if they are
strong, then I will need to have them written down somewhere, probably on a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Post-it</i> stuck to the wall behind the PC.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">I suppose being hacked on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facebook</i> is easy enough, and probably
reasonably painless. You see those posts sometimes about a terrible accident with
someone you might know – click here! These are evidently for the gullible, but
sooner or later, you’ll be caught out. This type involves you clicking on the
link – the same as when your favourite bank sends you a slightly improbable message
or your ‘daughter’ posts to say she’s lost her phone and can you send her some
money (this is known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">phishing</i>).
Click, and you are caught. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Few of us are computer
experts – and we often only know a few routes through the maze without having
the least idea of how the maze is built. Easy enough – who wants to design a
jet-engine or an apartment block? Then, when a new update (or worse still, a
full operating system) comes along – we throw our hands in the air: ‘I just got
it working to my satisfaction, and now they’ve gone and fooled with it again’. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">That’s probably all done to
keep up with both the competition (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Windows</i>…
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Android</i>… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apple</i>…), to keep the shareholders happy and the programmers rich –
or is it the other way around? – as well as potentially staying one step ahead
of the hackers. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXVC1GnLym24OS6-xPuzF_vAzDarzbl7BUsk5hw8smjdwxr32iAyl0QIkC2FrPrMgxCB8bm8i-fgQBWX9wrloikrAVqTjIHCxzbofQRmNQxBF4zb3bZWK6NQBOSnIRGnYugQKQFDbE4fproF2Kya7-ibOxzQoUFsroXKOYV8CNZvkqDtTZbZ9sxG4rQX11/s656/10488311_1513787378834432_6596742099551945757_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="656" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXVC1GnLym24OS6-xPuzF_vAzDarzbl7BUsk5hw8smjdwxr32iAyl0QIkC2FrPrMgxCB8bm8i-fgQBWX9wrloikrAVqTjIHCxzbofQRmNQxBF4zb3bZWK6NQBOSnIRGnYugQKQFDbE4fproF2Kya7-ibOxzQoUFsroXKOYV8CNZvkqDtTZbZ9sxG4rQX11/s320/10488311_1513787378834432_6596742099551945757_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">In the end, it may be for the
best not to keep a link to your bank account on your mobile phone, just in case
someone gets into the system. Or for that matter, keep your money under the
mattress rather than in the bank – although this presents an opportunity for
another kind of criminal. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Maybe – like my friend Alicia
– not keep a credit card at all (usually meaning that I have to pay for lunch),
although the banks will have insurance for this. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wiki</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">again</span></a>: ‘Cardholders' money is usually protected from scammers
with regulations that make the card provider and bank accountable. The
technology and security measures behind credit cards are continuously
advancing, adding barriers for fraudsters attempting to steal money’. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">So we do the best we can,
keeping suspicious and full of mistrust as we answer or ignore the stuff we
find on our computers and phones (in the hope that they won’t hack the banks,
phone or insurance companies or anyone else who has our details).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">It’s a war which we can only
watch from the side-lines, hoping that the good guys win. </span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-48990096027849772822024-01-02T20:29:00.004+01:002024-01-03T09:36:33.466+01:00Drill, Baby, Drill<p> <span style="font-size: 13pt;">The question we might ask at
the beginning of this year is ‘What is in Store for Twenty Twenty Four?’ </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Nothing good by the looks of things. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKFMj-gDyhgXB_541RZGpoqXWu6vaF7irb2A01cn9ohh41UeI0hcFmeYAaDs15HiRqeMqM_Ac7u8D86_ZQTN0GCqaF37RoUUdDRgL9qVoyIdYz-74tZ-xSpUnzvdrtyp49ud_l0jlNI-QwgzH9FY5YURfk9OY8moBsb1XbZ09UXVf5gIONwSCDHiaoJtO/s552/134004997_2835841389962351_6443103640652307950_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="552" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKFMj-gDyhgXB_541RZGpoqXWu6vaF7irb2A01cn9ohh41UeI0hcFmeYAaDs15HiRqeMqM_Ac7u8D86_ZQTN0GCqaF37RoUUdDRgL9qVoyIdYz-74tZ-xSpUnzvdrtyp49ud_l0jlNI-QwgzH9FY5YURfk9OY8moBsb1XbZ09UXVf5gIONwSCDHiaoJtO/s320/134004997_2835841389962351_6443103640652307950_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Government seems to be
limping onwards, with sustained attacks from the right-wing, the media and the
other usual suspects (including, unfortunately, some dark corners of the
military), but it is sustained by a hodgepodge of small parties who all want
one thing or another and – if it wasn’t for their dislike of the rightist
Partido Popular with its sinister ally Vox – then any fracture could take
place, followed by a triumphant motion of censure from the PP (thankfully, Vox
doesn’t have enough seats to call for one). </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">So, we have lefties and
commies and regionalists on the one side… and the conservatives and the far-right, often joined at the hip, on the other. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">This would be manageable, but
the social media, <a href="https://spanishrevolution.net/por-que-la-extrema-derecha-esta-ganando-la-batalla-en-tiktok-y-por-que-deberia-preocuparnos/">particularly</a> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">TikTok,</i>
is doing all it can to raise the temperature.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">With the ever-growing and
largely unsolvable issue of the illegal migrants coming to Europe, the
elections coming up (Galicia’s has been brought forward to February apparently to
help the image of Núñez Feijóo the PP leader who urgently needs a victory) then
the Basque Country to follow probably in June (no chance for the PP there),
along with the European elections, there will likely be fresh gains for the
authoritarian parties. Later, in the second half of 2024, Orban’s Hungary takes
over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">There are <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/01/what-to-watch-global-elections-2024-00133027"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">elections elsewhere</span></a> in 2024 – presidential elections in Russia
in March (oh, the suspense – who could be the winner: the dictator or that
fellow in the Gulag?), a General Election <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/uk-heading-for-a-may-general-election-is-the-worst-kept-secret-in-parliament-labour-13038533"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">probably in the UK</span></a> in May (where despite the Brexit being shown
to be a disaster, there’s barely any pro-EU politicians with a look-in) and then
later, Gor love us, Donald Trump <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/yes-trump-can-win-2024-election-here-are-four-reasons-why-2023-12-12/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">might take</span></a> the USA again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Then there’s the invasion of
Ukraine, which ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">is estimated</a>
to have caused tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties and hundreds
of thousands of military casualties’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">And Gaza with over <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/death-toll-in-gaza-from-ongoing-israeli-war-surges-to-21-978/3097579">22,000
deaths</a> in three short months. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Many more migrants, or refugees,
or asylum seekers will <a href="https://www.fairplanet.org/dossier/escape/escaping-from-conflicts-and-oppression/">be
looking for</a> our protection this year. The choice is stark: either tend to
them or turn them away. Left or right solutions?<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">We have another worry as the
summer rolls around: will it <a href="https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/cambio-climatico-problemas-2024-mirador-mundial-tv/">be
even hotter</a> this year? How much hotter can it get? It’s one thing living on
the coast, or in the north of Spain, but what about those who live inland,
where temperatures last year <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_European_heatwaves"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">were as high</span></a> as 47ºC and stayed that way for weeks on end.
Indeed, this past year of 2023 has <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1221827923/2023-hottest-year-record-climate-change">been
the hottest</a> since records began say the weather-folk gloomily.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Inflation worries us, as the
prices are always on the rise. Maybe the wealthy suppliers are getting just <a href="https://www.eleconomista.es/empleo/noticias/12584910/12/23/que-es-la-greedflation-un-estudio-analiza-si-los-precios-estan-subiendo-de-forma-justificada-o-no.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">a bit too greedy</span></a>. Perhaps we shall post something on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facebook</i> about them, although Spain’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amancio_Ortega">wealthiest man</a>, Amancio
Ortega, gets a huge number of ‘likes’ and ‘hearts’ each time his name comes up
on that platform. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Spain’s second wealthiest
person, by the way, is his daughter Sandra.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Some good news might be the
repeal of the 90/180 day rule for foreign home-owners (as they adapt to the new
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entry/Exit_System">EES enter/exit IT
system</a> at all Schengen border crossings).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Maybe things will sort
themselves out, with sensible people being returned to government, the world’s
various wars being resolved and a cooler summer season than we either expect or
deserve. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Anyway, and sorry for the
above. Personally, I’m quite cheerful: I have a new house to live in with a
nice view and a garden to potter about in. It's about a hundred metres above sea-level, you know, in case the poles suddenly melt...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-50989655988801889642023-12-21T09:24:00.004+01:002023-12-23T05:32:16.310+01:00Inconvenience for Both British Visitors and Residents<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Spain has certainly taken a dive since the Brexit debacle. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh42KLBtWoUPIXS3CgDZYPysyLbL0HSFp2lOGZgLO89likEjmzOQOXuQSYBTonrgbvY246ukV8Sm1c3v3s6N3tQ4L_YGOcORzpozx6DBAJSXT8LDWs-ZVH8NOrStKYlhahtOvCRTwTVngxhDRHtJtX8ok6mTsABuoIVDOaiXc3FSRSchv4BySv6MVzGVl-X/s659/images-with-a-lot-of-stuff-going-on-62bd70b231309__700.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="659" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh42KLBtWoUPIXS3CgDZYPysyLbL0HSFp2lOGZgLO89likEjmzOQOXuQSYBTonrgbvY246ukV8Sm1c3v3s6N3tQ4L_YGOcORzpozx6DBAJSXT8LDWs-ZVH8NOrStKYlhahtOvCRTwTVngxhDRHtJtX8ok6mTsABuoIVDOaiXc3FSRSchv4BySv6MVzGVl-X/s320/images-with-a-lot-of-stuff-going-on-62bd70b231309__700.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: 13pt;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">We could blame the Schengen
rules, or the misleading propaganda leading up to the referendum, or maybe the
British sense of entitlement – whichever it is, the result for many of us comes
down to inconvenience, bother and frustration.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Tourists will sooner or later
have to get a permit to visit Europe. They will of course still be coming for
their hols, and it’s only seven euros (good for three years) each. We read that
the scheduled 2024 introduction of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ETIAS</i>,
a special travel authorization <a href="https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/who-should-apply_en#ETIAS-countries">covering</a>
most of Europe, will now begin sometime in 2025, so next season’s summer stay
is saved… </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">However, another formality
called the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">EES Entry/exit scheme</i> has
now <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/eu-ees-launch-date-2024-b2465741.html">been
agreed</a> to start from October 6th next year, with the extra obligation to
provide fingerprints and facial biometrics at the border (plus the implied aggravation). Big Brother will be watching. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Visitors who hope for longer
stays, but don’t have either special visas or their residence papers, must face
the 90/180 rule. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Those bothered by this will
likely be the people who own a house here – which, in essence – they can’t
fully use. Most of these unfortunates had bought their properties when they
were still able to stay here as long as they wanted: that’s to say, pre-Brexit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The 90/180 rule is
frustrating for non-Schengen Area (particularly British) home-owners in Spain.
The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/travel-to-eu-schengen-area">rule states</a>
that (non-EU) foreigners from outside the partnership may only remain anywhere
in the borderless zone for ninety days in any 180 days stretch. In short, only
European citizens from the <a href="https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/system/files_en?file=2020-09/schengen_brochure_dr3111126_en.pdf">26
Schengen nations</a> (22 within the EU plus Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
and Iceland) <a href="https://www.visahq.com/spain/how-long-can-you-stay-in-spain-without-visa">can
enter Spain</a> or another member state freely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">It’s not just the Brits,
Americans and any other foreigner who suffer with the Schengen rules: Spain
loses out as well – on house-sales, business and job creation. Most legal
foreigners, at least, spend here with money brought from outside: they buy – or
have bought – houses, cars and goods. Those who work here, either in an
air-conditioned office or behind a bar (or indeed those poor souls who are in
the plastic farms of the South) are bringing wealth to at least someone, along
with their taxes and social security paid. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Understandably, there is an
active resistance to the 90/180 day problem. A <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facebook</i>
page called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">180 Days in Spain</b> is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/180daysinspain/">worth a look</a>. With
enough lobbying, maybe <a href="https://www.timeout.com/uk/news/good-news-brits-could-soon-be-granted-longer-visas-for-spain-and-france-112723">things
will change</a>. Indeed, late news from France <a href="https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2023/12/21/119779/mallorca-britons-green-light-for-france-ease-the-day-problem-for-british-home-owners-spain-expected-follow-suit.html">appears to show</a> that the rule is already being eased there - so keep up the pressure! Maybe we shall hear something positive at the <b>FITUR</b> international travel fair to be held in late January in Madrid.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Those of us who are second-class
residents can stay as long as we like; but we are, of course, only resident in the
one country – in our case, Spain. Move somewhere else for an extended visit
(even if there’s no border control) and we face the same 90/180 issue. Thus – I
might fancy moving from Spain to Portugal to live – but what if they catch me?
Could I become <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">persona non grata</i>?
Indeed I could. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The only thing that hasn’t
changed <a href="https://administracion.gob.es/pag_Home/en/Tu-espacio-europeo/derechos-obligaciones/ciudadanos/residencia/obtencion-nacionalidad.html">is
taking out</a> Spanish nationality. It’s still as long and as tiresome a
process as ever it was. </span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-70410203778314118232023-12-12T07:15:00.004+01:002023-12-12T07:15:58.359+01:00Podemos (no podemos)<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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been! From nowhere to greatness and apparently back to nowhere in just ten
years! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Founded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Iglesias_Turri%C3%B3n"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Pablo Iglesias</span></a> – the university professor with the pony-tail and
a Masters in both Arts and Humanities – together with some like-minded
companions back in January 2014, the party won an astounding 71 seats in the
2015 general election. Later joining with Izquierda Unida and other far-left
groups, Podemos soon became the particular target of far-right politicians, together
with part of the Judiciary, the Church, the Establishment, and the majority of
the Media. Whenever a reasonably plausible story could be fabricated against
the party, it would receive major attention from all sides: both the concepts
of fake-news (‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulo"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">bulo</span></a></i>’) and
judicial manipulation (‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawfare"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">lawfare</span></a></i>’)
became mainstream instruments of attack thanks to the group. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Many of the early members of
Podemos were to fall out with Iglesias – some starting their own parties and
movements (it’s perhaps a common problem with the far-left) – and Iglesias’
popularity began to wane after he and his wife bought <a href="https://www.elconfidencialdigital.com/articulo/politica/Pablo-Iglesias-Irene-Montero-periodistas/20180712190802113865.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">an expensive house</span></a> in Galapagar – a smart area of Madrid. The
perception being that long-haired lefties should live in a draughty garret
somewhere in a working-class neighbourhood. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgla5jRX9GZGJa-1vQ3PQvXqqReTkvbs0XkHWkj6YQJy5Cpd2RTYtdzIrsovPGQxggo0l6sa0aSwfQ9tnOCXG9oadQnHDD95OIIXJX13INafnGvH0kf5VhXqrtc620bpXEfHCoKNJPd4hXBdBqpTlaaWDsTxJ8rvWHbUY1u_22fnIvaB_Ds_TMmUIRSOr/s1200/EuropaPress_5230548_ministra_igualdad_secretaria_accion_gobierno_podemos_irene_montero-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgla5jRX9GZGJa-1vQ3PQvXqqReTkvbs0XkHWkj6YQJy5Cpd2RTYtdzIrsovPGQxggo0l6sa0aSwfQ9tnOCXG9oadQnHDD95OIIXJX13INafnGvH0kf5VhXqrtc620bpXEfHCoKNJPd4hXBdBqpTlaaWDsTxJ8rvWHbUY1u_22fnIvaB_Ds_TMmUIRSOr/s320/EuropaPress_5230548_ministra_igualdad_secretaria_accion_gobierno_podemos_irene_montero-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Pablo Iglesias with his wife Irene Montero<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Following the April 2019
elections, Podemos (67 deputies) failed to join the PSOE in a government, which
meant fresh elections for November of that year, where a weakened Iglesias (now
with 42 deputies) finally agreed to support Pedro Sánchez. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Iglesias himself left his
post as vice-president in the Spanish government in March 2021 to run for the
Madrid regional elections (May 2021) where Podemos fared badly. He left the
party to work as a broadcaster, leaving things to his wife Irene Montero and the
current party leader Ione Belarra. In the July 2023 elections, the party ran
within the Sumar movement, polling just five deputies, and in early December they
subsequently quit their affiliation with the left-wing alliance and moved – <a href="https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-alberto-rodriguez-tilda-caso-transfugismo-flagrante-podemos-abandone-sumar-pasar-grupo-mixto-20231205213109.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">possibly</span></a> as renegades (‘<a href="https://www.infobae.com/espana/2023/12/06/podemos-se-desquebraja-desde-dentro-me-he-enterado-por-canal-red-de-que-nos-vamos-al-grupo-mixto/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">transfugas</span></a>’) – to the non-aligned Grupo Mixto instead. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">The third strike against the
party came from the flawed ‘only yes means yes’ law of Irene Montero – Minister
of Equality in the last government. Neither the PSOE nor Sumar wanted her to
return as minister, and their offer to give a ministerial position to another
Podemos member was rebuffed (the member in question, <a href="https://www.epe.es/es/politica/20231117/oferta-ministerio-sumar-nacho-alvarez-94762611"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">feeling humiliated</span></a> by his own partners, promptly quit the group,
as have <a href="https://www.infobae.com/espana/2023/12/06/podemos-se-desquebraja-desde-dentro-me-he-enterado-por-canal-red-de-que-nos-vamos-al-grupo-mixto/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">several</span></a> <a href="https://www.elmundo.es/espana/2023/12/11/6576dbc6fdddff2a588b457c.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">other</span></a> leading Podemos members in the past week).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Podemos today, ten years
after it bounded onto the political scene, appears to be close to the end of
its time in the frontline of Spanish politics. An <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/opinion/zona-critica/vive-deprisa-muere-joven-deja-bonito-cadaver_129_10750925.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">editorial</span></a> in the left-wing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">elDiario.es</i>
says gloomily: ‘Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse’. As for
Pedro Sánchez, he now has another minority group to appease during this
political cycle. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-51607581236777408102023-11-30T15:01:00.005+01:002023-12-12T07:19:35.320+01:00Advert Blue<p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Why do we dislike adverts so much in our daily encounter with the computer? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s one thing, I suppose, to be bombarded with commercial messages when the service we use is free - like </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> - but even there, the main product which that company - and don’t forget its grasping shareholders - lives from, is us chickens. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">We are the ones, we and our information, likes, dislikes, gender, age and location, which is sold to the companies who wish to better direct their products. The fact that a proportion of those advertisers (or ‘sponsors’) are attempting to sell us a dodgy product with ‘last few days’ discounts should warn us: but no - we fall for all these scams and traps. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Right now, a targeted advert from some obscure company which probably started business a week ago arrives every tenth post or so, telling me of the virtues of some household product which can cure everything, please read on… It's just a form of </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">clickbait,</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> a bit like the one you see in downmarket newspaper headlines. If you turn to it, the new page will offer a wordy article about the hundred different uses for salt, for example, interspaced with endless adverts. Yes, the client company pays young Mark Z to place its advert, which is in turn, full of adverts.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the moderators really there for - to stop some delightful girl from Denver writing to me out of the blue proposing a relationship if I only send her five thousand dollars?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">If we expect it with Facebook (or the other social media pages which I must admit I’ve not sampled), then what of the ordinary news-sites? As Elon Musk</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7881582793561751243/5160758123677740810%23&source=gmail&ust=1701439730041000&usg=AOvVaw2f2N_Dab9Dr0iFjoyjVIsf" href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7881582793561751243/5160758123677740810#" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">says</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> - 'Fuck the advertisers'</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Once again, if you don’t know what the product is, then it’s you. Which is why advertisers advertise.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">This is particularly unarguable with a free newspaper. The blurb is just space that wasn’t sold by the sales-reps or the ad-manager. ‘We need some filler for page eight’ calls Layout from its bunker in the back. Then perhaps, there’ll be some advertorial (that’s to say, paid-for copy) on page nine. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Adverts: so long as they aren’t too much of an irritation, then fine. But what about - and we return to the computer or the television screen - the pop-up advert that suddenly interrupts one’s reading?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Of course, the medium needs an income. There are staffers, writers, printers, photographers, distributors, lawyers, owners and shareholders to pay. But we have pay-walls, subscribers and a wealthy parent-company putting out its own angled-copy. So yes, advertisers too, but we don’t have to like them (sorry!).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFEgBK5xObi71KKILLm_xnIdS8MDM8cRiGFKlXacPS3Rowiw-9hyyzLFRFVkn-lA-tcWVU29fhd0GKKRyW13YL2cHRrjq_v3zukOCU0JGbQVhJHjKEXAAMpl-1n1pHF-zxqahx9R0UXhP0KhsEdJs2Ogm333eZRzae59ND7hbOUwjJeLntw4sfeI0f4zG4/s373/rrHJbj.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="337" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFEgBK5xObi71KKILLm_xnIdS8MDM8cRiGFKlXacPS3Rowiw-9hyyzLFRFVkn-lA-tcWVU29fhd0GKKRyW13YL2cHRrjq_v3zukOCU0JGbQVhJHjKEXAAMpl-1n1pHF-zxqahx9R0UXhP0KhsEdJs2Ogm333eZRzae59ND7hbOUwjJeLntw4sfeI0f4zG4/s320/rrHJbj.webp" width="289" /></a></span></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">As for the media-sites with pay-walls - do they expect us to get our news from a single source and shouldn't they be, in consequence, advert free? How many annual ransoms should one be paying to get the full range of reporting? Mostly, one can get around them anyway with a simple paywall-bypass.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Then we have the war between the useful ad-block extension (a practical tool for the consumer) and the ad-block blockers, increasingly used by the media. It’s a struggle which will never end.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">And so we come to </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">YouTube,</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> which will drop an ad-bomb half-way through a spoken sentence. In the same spirit of disorder, Spanish TV - which I rarely watch - will think nothing of interrupting a film with adverts, which understandably irritates the viewer while the mood is irretrievably lost.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">But what of subscription TV? How about when one has paid to be rid of those pesky plugs that ruin our viewing? What have we learned here? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Simply this: that advertisements, or commercial interruptions, are a nuisance and a pest. If you pay enough as a subscriber and a streamer, you might be relieved of them. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">At least in the novel I’m currently reading, which I got from the library, there aren’t any endorsements. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">And then there’s the cinema - at least no one would dare stop the film to promote a fruit-drop. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Which brings us to this question - do we ignore the advertisers buzzing around like flies at the stables, or actively decide to avoid their products? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s easy enough when it’s a BMW, but what about - and it’s coming up to Christmas - a certain f</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">ragrance pour l’homme</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, or maybe a message about the many uses for potato-peel?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">One thing’s for sure - this article will never appear anywhere outside of my blog… </span></p><div><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-78897064001112094812023-11-14T16:02:00.003+01:002023-11-14T16:04:48.727+01:00The Investiture<p> The debate and probable approval of Pedro Sanchez as president is upon us. I'm in the USA right now, but the wonders of the Internet put me as close to the action as if I were sitting in the public gallery of the parliamentary chamber. </p><p>It's been a long road to get this far. The local and regional elections of last May were disappointing for the Government and consequently, national elections were called with what turned out to be ambiguous results. The PP won the most seats, but not enough - even with their far-right Vox allies - to take the house. The PP leader Feijoo tried in the two-day debate in late September, but fell short by a tiny margin. Now comes the chance for Pedro Sanchez (sorry, there are no accents on this keyboard). </p><p>To get this far, Sanchez had to court a number of small parties - including the regionalist ones. One of these is the Junts per Catalunya, with its erstwhile leader Carles Puigdemont living in exile in Belgium, fearful of capture and imprisonment (like some of his associates) after the illegal referendum for independence in 2017. Sanchez needed the Junts, and the price, now agreed, was an amnesty (it will affect around 400 people in all). Some consider this as a coup d'etat, but it is better to think of it as a solution to the Catalonian unrest, which has lasted over a number of years.</p><p>The PP (which could have avoided this if it considered the interests of the country over its own) called for massive protests across Spain during the ten days running up to the investiture. This naturally attracted the Vox and other unsavoury groups - sundry fascists, the Desokupa folk, Fake-news experts, the right-wing media, anti-abortionists and other religious nutters and, for some reason, the appalling American broadcaster Tucker Carlson (tipped in some circles as Trump's running mate). Then there are the Youtubers and other keyboard warriors working their nefarious magic from home. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZGt4bmusk6T0MwcDbvczJXXEOvt_qN9xVjKmrkRAoSGmQv2edTYCF9oLYQUC-UPVxMEIgL89TeS0Ra5ZRg8hyJC7m8N5CvRngHgrTi69iCjVsHiGj89g-0l6b7yJdDQDEkYEZhSiWYnd-RS8e8pDtp0qs63oHqjBijZbi7rAfUa_GjFrgWfBd-puByEr/s1200/youtubers.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZGt4bmusk6T0MwcDbvczJXXEOvt_qN9xVjKmrkRAoSGmQv2edTYCF9oLYQUC-UPVxMEIgL89TeS0Ra5ZRg8hyJC7m8N5CvRngHgrTi69iCjVsHiGj89g-0l6b7yJdDQDEkYEZhSiWYnd-RS8e8pDtp0qs63oHqjBijZbi7rAfUa_GjFrgWfBd-puByEr/w361-h203/youtubers.webp" width="361" /></a></div><p></p><p>Outside the PSOE offices in Calle Ferraz in Madrid, the protests have been particularly colourful. Signs such as 'Sanchez: Spain isn't for Sale'. </p><p>We should remember the number of public companies sold to private interests (or even vulture funds) by the PP in past times (such as Telefonica, Antena3, Repsol, Endesa, Aena, Gas Natural, Iberia...). Of course, as we see these protesters wrapped in their Spanish flags, or singing Cara al Sol, we are reminded that there's more to patriotism than just hating the Catalonians.</p><p>The point is, that the PSOE and its allies have the majority and are thus equipped to run the country. Spain has been without a government since the elections this August. It's time this was resolved. Feijoo can't continue to call for fresh elections over and again until his alliance wins enough seats. </p>Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-49975626668439934862023-10-23T09:26:00.002+02:002023-10-23T09:27:34.638+02:00Another Fine Mess<p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Although Israel was
officially born on 14th May 1948, Spain and Israel <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaciones_Espa%C3%B1a-Israel"><span>only signed</span></a> diplomatic relations on the 17th January 1986. The forty-year
lacuna might have been, in part, because Spain didn’t want to sour its relationship
with Arab countries. Spain, however, still <a href="https://www.eleconomista.es/actualidad/noticias/12483294/10/23/estos-son-los-paises-que-reconocen-a-palestina-y-la-posicion-de-espana.html"><span>doesn’t recognise</span></a> Palestine as a state, despite efforts from the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, although it ‘enjoys excellent relations with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority"><span>Palestinian National Authority’</span></a> – the Fatah agency in partial
control of the region.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Today, and <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/lideres-europeos-escenifican-casa-blanca-unidad-biden-defensa-israel-ucrania_1_10616910.html"><span>in contrast</span></a> to most of the western world, the Spanish media
could be described as being lukewarm towards its support of Israel in the
current conflagration. The politics here are more concerned with trading blows
between the left and the right than what might be Spain’s <a href="https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/presidente/news/Paginas/2023/20231017_institutional-declaration.aspx"><span>official position</span></a> in the Middle East (which is, more or less,
spreading criticism equally between Hamas and Netanyahu). <span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Spain, having been largely
under Moorish domination for seven hundred years, and being the closest point
in Western Europe to North Africa, is more sensitive to the Arabs than –
perhaps – to a regime which is located far away at the other end of the
Mediterranean. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>But here, we shall only talk
of the Israel/Palestine struggle (for land) as it affects Spain. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Thus, the right wing must
confront the left – if the Basque EH Bildu party <a href="https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/nacional/2023/10/20/otegi-pide-la-liberacion-de-illarramendi-no-somos-partidarios-de-utilizar-rehenes-civiles-1685467.html"><span>asks</span></a> for the release of the Spanish hostage Iván Illarramendi (he’s
a Basque) held by Hamas, then naturally <i>El
Español</i> <a href="https://www.elespanol.com/espana/politica/20231020/otegi-exige-hamas-liberar-ivan-illarramendi-no-partidarios-usar-rehenes-civiles-canje/803419709_0.html"><span>will write</span></a> that ETA used to hold hostages too.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMY74v0-E8amCLvfXM95-c2T75NxIn7ZjDi46eZmsY_dU5-WmzJA9inlitGTxRjjq7t90t0ovjs3GEOzMtRbNayjS6Fy5P-e6Q6nBDdhobEAbHXebHZpQIp03-UaNEfLJQExWKHTHsOaichVYwSfcdJI7Rr0rMpQi__StppZBkq0WokyphEBINU06-18wY/s1200/e93c4728-79bd-4183-9a53-d43112094394_16-9-discover-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMY74v0-E8amCLvfXM95-c2T75NxIn7ZjDi46eZmsY_dU5-WmzJA9inlitGTxRjjq7t90t0ovjs3GEOzMtRbNayjS6Fy5P-e6Q6nBDdhobEAbHXebHZpQIp03-UaNEfLJQExWKHTHsOaichVYwSfcdJI7Rr0rMpQi__StppZBkq0WokyphEBINU06-18wY/s320/e93c4728-79bd-4183-9a53-d43112094394_16-9-discover-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Alberto Núñez Feijóo, <a href="https://www.pp.es/actualidad-noticia/feijoo-reprocha-sanchez-que-si-habria-ido-israel-como-presidente-gobierno-turno"><span>says</span></a> the <i>official PP
website</i>, would have gone – as president of both Spain and the European
Union – to both Israel and Palestine for talks, since as things stand today, “nobody
expects or can rely upon Spanish participation’’ (Pedro Sánchez was in Egypt at
the same time as Feijóo made his remarks – <a href="https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/internacional/2023/10/21/pedro-sanchez-cumbre-el-cairo-guerra-israel-hamas-palestina-a-proteger-a-todos-los-civiles-1685745.html">preaching
<span>for restraint</span></a> at the ‘Cairo For Peace’ meeting held on Saturday.
Furthermore, Sánchez <a href="https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20231022/9319974/sanchez-dice-netanyahu-hay-evitar-conflicto-extienda.html"><span>also phoned</span></a> Netanyahu on Sunday asking for an immediate
humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza). </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>After the Podemos leader and
acting Minister of Social Security Ione Belarra <a href="https://www.elespanol.com/espana/politica/20231019/belarra-exige-valentia-sanchez-denuncia-unanimidad-absoluta-prensa-favor-israel/803169699_0.html"><span>called for</span></a> Spanish support of Palestine and for Pedro Sánchez to
‘condemn Israel’, Núñez Feijóo reacted <a href="https://www.elespanol.com/espana/politica/20231020/feijoo-critica-sanchez-no-cese-belarra-postura-israel-necesita-votos/803419692_0.html"><span>by saying that</span></a> Sánchez must instantly relieve her of her
position but, alas, the socialist leader needs their approval (Podemos has five
votes within the Sumar alliance) to make the looming investiture work. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Vox says it <a href="https://www.elindependiente.com/espana/2023/10/20/vox-copia-la-propuesta-de-sus-socios-suecos-para-suspender-las-ayudas-de-espana-a-palestina/"><span>wants to cut</span></a> all official Spanish aid to Palestine. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Sumar <a href="https://elpais.com/espana/2023-10-16/sumar-busca-incluir-en-el-acuerdo-de-gobierno-con-el-psoe-el-reconocimiento-del-estado-palestino.html"><span>wants</span></a> the Government to recognise the Palestinian state as soon
as possible.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The situation would appear to
be getting worse, while the terrible ongoing events in Ukraine are pushed to
the inside pages. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>How will things progress and
will Pedro Sánchez be able to return to power in the upcoming debate and vote
for the presidency? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>With poor timing, I shall be
taking a vacation for November – to stay with my son in far-off Oklahoma: where
the talk is all of Trump, abortion and guns. I look forward to enjoying a
Thanksgiving turkey and my seventieth birthday over there before returning home
at the beginning of December.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Maybe by then, things will
have settled down. <span> </span></span></span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-87800373649797725332023-10-18T18:21:00.003+02:002023-10-18T18:22:41.251+02:00Reasons for the Traffic Police to Fine You<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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mighty organisation at the <i>DGT</i> are
unceasing in their efforts to make the roads safer. In 2022, the traffic police
handed out 5,542,005 fines (<b>El País</b> <a href="https://motor.elpais.com/conducir/las-multas-que-la-dgt-puede-poner-a-los-pasajeros-del-coche/"><span>here</span></a>). </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Speeding is the main offence, or driving in the left lane on the motorway while not overtaking, or crossing a double white line or using the phone or parking where you shouldn't or going the wrong way down a one way street, or driving drunk or stoned. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Or not having a spare pair of spectacles in the glove box...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>But there are other, less known reasons to help readjust the size of one's wallet...<br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Thus, noise-radars are
arriving on the roads to control our output, with fines of up to 280€ (<b>Autopista</b> <a href="https://www.autopista.es/noticias-motor/mas-radares-ruido-comienzan-ya-multar-con-hasta-280-euros-sancion_281362_102.html"><span>here</span></a>), while wearing the wrong kind of sunglasses can cost us
200€ (<b>ECD</b> <a href="https://www.elconfidencialdigital.com/articulo/actualidad/dgt-multas-200-euros-conducir-gafas-sol-homologadas/20231013084751651464.html"><span>here</span></a>). </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>A fine of 200€ may be issued to drivers leaving the
shopping on the back seat (<b>La Opinión</b>
<a href="https://www.laopinioncoruna.es/sociedad/2023/10/17/disparada-curiosa-multa-dgt-dura-dv-93404208.html"><span>here</span></a>) and of course for entering a <i>ZBE</i> (low emission zone) with the wrong sort of car or sticker (<b>Autofácil</b> <a href="https://www.autofacil.es/movilidad/multa-zona-de-bajas-emisiones/468488.html"><span>here</span></a>). </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Running out of petrol is a no-no (<b>OKDiario</b> <a href="https://okdiario.com/motor/deja-hacer-esto-gasolina-porque-dgt-te-va-poner-multa-200-euros-11751262"><span>here</span></a>) and <b>ThinkSpain</b>
has a list of other ‘driver distractions’ <a href="https://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/33647/driver-distractions-with-automatic-fines-new-traffic-authority-campaign"><span>here</span></a>. <span> </span></span></span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-15771138250949194162023-09-27T18:56:00.002+02:002023-09-29T16:17:58.612+02:00The Protest and its Aftermath<p> <span style="font-size: 13pt;">On Sunday, a large protest
was held in the Barrio de Salamanca in Madrid led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo and
joined by his two predecessors Mariano Rajoy and José María Aznar. How many
people were there? <a href="https://www.elconfidencialdigital.com/articulo/el_chivato/pp-respira-aliviado-haber-llamado-manifestacion-acto-anti-amnistia/20230925171349641277.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Sixty thousand</span></a> says the right-wing press; <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.es/videos/la-manifestacion-pp-1-minutoan-barroso.html">maybe
30,000</a> says the left-wing sites. This despite organising free buses from
the provinces (plus a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bocadillo</i>), and
<a href="https://www.elplural.com/politica/espana/pincha-rebelion-nacional-de-feijoo-pp-no-consigue-juntar-madrid-200000-personas-ayuso-prometio-feijoo_317376102">assurances</a>
from the Madrid regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso to expect a crowd of 200,000. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLIbYbHvM3ZQU4V3SwrimL590WN2d2BaKu1nFRLIjfIRWHyyUP7V9i5CRgnvRp_PmTTd2GLeL0HynuBH502WqcqIwW7vs4Bid2iiyCNWgHxqkedVRUH2EmhP1lS1I4kccT6Kp5zZLPPyfyIQ6XeSdahhVGfjWjUsVgTVAUqd_4qrE8y0tD569fDzWnBRkt/s473/16955538295189.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="473" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLIbYbHvM3ZQU4V3SwrimL590WN2d2BaKu1nFRLIjfIRWHyyUP7V9i5CRgnvRp_PmTTd2GLeL0HynuBH502WqcqIwW7vs4Bid2iiyCNWgHxqkedVRUH2EmhP1lS1I4kccT6Kp5zZLPPyfyIQ6XeSdahhVGfjWjUsVgTVAUqd_4qrE8y0tD569fDzWnBRkt/s320/16955538295189.webp" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The subject (so dear to the
PP) was <a href="https://www.elmundo.es/espana/2023/09/24/65100a40fdddffa5048b458d.html">nothing
less than</a>: ‘that there is no room for both first and second class citizens’.
Feijóo stood in front of the crowd like Bruce Springsteen (says an article
unkindly – he has trouble <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud8gOk8VggA">pronouncing
the name</a> of the singer). ‘I’ll defend the equality for all Spaniards’ (he’s
referring to the Catalonian issue) ‘even if it costs me the presidency’ <a href="https://www.larazon.es/espana/feijoo-advierte-voy-negociar-fraudes-defendere-igualdad-aunque-cueste-presidencia_20230924651022f698383a00019973af.html">he
told his supporters</a>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The demonstration was, in a
sense, a <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/politica/pp-mete-chute-adrenalina-cuerpo-castigado-urnas_129_10540751.html">giant
group hug</a> – plus a reminder of the common enemy and the hope for another
election soon... </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">And maybe too – a message
from the top, that Ayuso’s time is ‘<a href="https://www.elespanol.com/valencia/20230925/catala-primera-vez-democracia-presidente-prioriza-sillon-marco-constitucional/796420615_0.html">not
yet’</a>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">From Barcelona, Pedro Sánchez
had <a href="https://elpais.com/espana/catalunya/2023-09-24/pedro-sanchez-se-estan-manifestando-contra-un-gobierno-socialista-pero-lo-siento-va-a-haber-uno.html">this
to say</a> about the event: “They are demonstrating against a socialist
government, but I'm sorry to tell them, there is going to be one”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">While it was a Partido
Popular protest, other fellow-travellers were welcome to join in, and one
news-site at least found an entrepreneur <a href="https://www.elplural.com/politica/iconografia-franquista-desesperado-acto-feijoo-antes-fracaso-investidura_317374102">selling</a>
Francoist items (flags, mugs and caps).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The protest was against the
supposed deals that Pedro Sánchez would be making to gather enough votes to be
returned as president later in October assuming that Feijóo were to lose the
vote for an absolute majority on Wednesday.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Which <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/politica/mayoria-absoluta-congreso-rechaza-primer-investidura-feijoo_1_10548710.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">he duly did</span></a> (172 for – 178 against).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The numbers <a href="https://www.lasexta.com/elecciones/generales/fracaso-definitivo-feijoo-perder-segunda-votacion-investidura-congreso_202309296516bd8e98383a0001a71303.html">didn't change</a> for the second 'simple majority vote' held on Friday. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">So that's that for Núñez Feijóo for the time being. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">That recent Madrid protest was a bit
disorganised, maybe a little pointless, but it reminded Spaniards across the
country that Madrid for the conservatives is not only the capital city of
Spain, but also the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only city</i> of
Spain. There’s a comic map of SW Europe I saw somewhere that shows the borders
but only features three names: Portugal, France and, er, Madrid. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Maybe they should have a major re-think. <br /></span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-33614088578231649392023-08-26T14:15:00.004+02:002023-08-27T21:29:36.946+02:00The Humiliator<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">It’s certainly odd that the
23 players in the Women’s team, La Roja, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/20/football/spain-womens-world-cup-2023-victory-reaction-spt-intl/index.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">that won</span></a> the football World Cup in Sydney, beating the English
Lionesses in the finals, shouldn’t be the protagonists of this story, but rather
it’s the fellow who kissed the unwilling Jennifer Hermoso during the
presentation of the gold trophy who has taken over the entire news networks,
becoming <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inter alia</i> the turd in the
punch-bowl of women’s pride. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">This week, even Donald Trump’s
angry mug-shot was relegated to the inside pages.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">We have found a balance in
the classroom; a parity in politics; harmony in the workplace and even equality
in the army; but the sports-ground remains the preserve of the alpha male: the Spanish
macho. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">The 2010 world champion Iker
Casillas <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/25/my-ears-bleed-reaction-to-spain-football-chiefs-unsolicited-kiss"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">said</span></a>, “We should have spent these five days talking about our girls!
To be proud of winning a title we didn’t have in women’s football, but, no…” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">The losing English team meanwhile
<a href="https://www.elnacional.cat/es/deportes/contundente-comunicado-seleccion-inglesa-rfef-organizacion-sexista-patriarcal_1082904_102.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">put out a message</span></a> on Saturday, describing the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Real Federación Española de Fútbol</i> as ‘a
sexist and patriarchal organisation’. Luis Rubiales is a football chauvinist,
but he’s certainly not alone. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">With this humiliation doled
out (once again) to half of the Spanish population. Rubiales and <a href="https://www.20minutos.es/deportes/noticia/5167108/0/los-polemicos-aplausos-vilda-luis-fuente-discurso-rubiales/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">his mates</span></a> show that parity and respect for women in sports is as
far away as ever. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">So, we shall leave him and
his 700,000€ <a href="https://www.publico.es/deportes/sueldo-rubiales-negaba-perder-700000-euros-brutos-ano-3000-mes-vivienda.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">annual income</span></a> (plus his 3,000€ monthly housing support from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">RFEF</i>) for now. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">He doesn’t really need
anything more to be said about him here. </span></p>
<p> </p>Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-82210666084204092482023-08-24T10:49:00.006+02:002023-08-24T10:56:13.201+02:00Political News for the Summer: Nothing Much until Late September<p><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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hurdle</a> was to choose the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Presidente
del Congreso de los Diputados</i> (Speaker of the House) with a third dark-horse
candidate, Ignacio Gil Lázaro from Vox, helping the vote towards the
PSOE-backed candidate Francina Armengol (ex-president of the Balearic Islands) to
<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.es/politica/no-deja-compartirse-cara-cuca-gamarra-recuento-poema-queda-corto.html">the
angry detriment</a> of the PP’s own Cuca Gamarra. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The PP’s strategy was in
tatters, after Vox <a href="https://www.publico.es/politica/ruptura-pp-vox-marca-inicio-legislatura-deja-feijoo.html">had
surprised them</a> at the last moment with their particular candidate in
retaliation for a slight from Feijóo. Indeed, the PSOE candidate would have won
anyway, by a short head, with the backing of the rest of the House, including
Junts. The choice remained the same: progressive or regressive. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Or fresh elections. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNlOK0J-PYsrxXnM1IS6KKX4YG8l6Nug9igXn_Hvs26XDXBOIYwM89TvaFRLX3eUrpJxvW3Go-DQ4CBm8pzBiwK-bUbkqedYJewnkUvDtZ5MT9gJTkq2Kk0YBk1O-Q1cXsk29T-a8jYk4YLrW7Ewr04bxDKtvG5dlO0SYQ4KsQfCJyGIPDqv9HPN5I74gB/s557/f.elconfidencial.com_original_d61_d61_458_d61d6145888b1385922d896b362d4f10.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="557" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNlOK0J-PYsrxXnM1IS6KKX4YG8l6Nug9igXn_Hvs26XDXBOIYwM89TvaFRLX3eUrpJxvW3Go-DQ4CBm8pzBiwK-bUbkqedYJewnkUvDtZ5MT9gJTkq2Kk0YBk1O-Q1cXsk29T-a8jYk4YLrW7Ewr04bxDKtvG5dlO0SYQ4KsQfCJyGIPDqv9HPN5I74gB/s320/f.elconfidencial.com_original_d61_d61_458_d61d6145888b1385922d896b362d4f10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Since the probable PP
candidature of Isabel Díaz Ayuso would be popular with the electorate (although
she is closer to Vox than Feijóo ever was), a supposed election might not be
the best thing at this juncture – as the <a href="https://elpais.com/espana/2023-08-23/ultimas-noticias-de-la-investidura-pactos-de-gobierno-y-legislatura-en-directo.html">date
for one</a> – if it were to come to this – has now been fixed for Sunday,
January 14th 2024. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The King duly met with party
leaders on Monday and Tuesday – starting with the smaller groups – to <a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5166013/0/feijoo-sanchez-aspiran-que-rey-les-designe-este-martes-como-candidatos-presidente-para-tratar-formar-gobierno/">try
and find</a> a presidential candidate he could propose for a parliamentary
debate. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Tricky, since the two sides
are running neck and neck.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">On Tuesday night, following
the consultations, Felipe VI <a href="https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/12415096/08/23/feijoo-agradece-a-vox-su-apoyo-sin-exigencias-y-acatara-la-decision-que-tome-felipe-vi.html">proposed</a>
a parliamentary investiture session with Alberto Núñez Feijóo as the candidate
(he has the support of Vox, Coalición Canaria and UPN to bring him 172
deputies. Just four short of the 176 needed as a majority). The debate <a href="https://elpais.com/espana/2023-08-23/ultimas-noticias-de-la-investidura-pactos-de-gobierno-y-legislatura-en-directo.html">will
take place</a> in late September. If Feijóo fails to win a majority, then the
King will propose that Pedro Sánchez makes the attempt. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">......</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Until
a new government is chosen, Pedro Sánchez remains as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">presidente en funciones</i>. Following a possible/probable failure by
Núñez Feijóo to bring home a conservative government in late September (<b>El
País</b> <a href="https://elpais.com/espana/2023-08-23/ultimas-noticias-de-la-investidura-pactos-de-gobierno-y-legislatura-en-directo.html">here</a>),
Pedro Sánchez will have two months leeway to negotiate with the smaller groups
to find enough backing to form a government. The complication being Junts per
Catalunya. The story is at <b>Público</b> <a href="https://www.publico.es/politica/sanchez-meses-negociar-junts-contemplar-eventual-fracaso-feijoo.html">here</a>.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sometimes,
a deputy switches sides and gives his vote to The Other Guys. He may do this
through conviction, or more likely, for some other reason not unconnected to
his finances. This is popularly called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamayazo">un tamayazo</a></i> (in honour of
Eduardo Tamayo) or<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A1nsfuga">transfuguismo</a></i>. We
hope that this kind of activity won’t be finding its way to the current front
pages…</span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-54394140961211176672023-08-12T17:32:00.008+02:002023-08-13T18:38:16.791+02:00A Murder in Thailand<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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looking chap with long hair, a big physique and a winning smile. He looks like
our idea of Tarzan. His parents are both noted Spanish actors and Daniel works
as a cook doing podcasts and videos from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xf1T7A2N8I"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">his kitchen</span></a>
in Thailand.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">When not cooking up a storm,
the twenty-nine-year-old appears to have other pastimes, <a href="https://www.elperiodico.com/es/gente/20230811/daniel-sancho-cronologia-claves-asesinato-edwin-arrieta-tailandia-dv-90719496"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">including</span></a> the apparent murder and dismemberment of a Colombian
friend called Edwin Arrieta, a plastic surgeon, on August 1st. Bits of Edwin
were later found by the police is his kitchen, with other parts scattered
between a rubbish dump and the sea. ‘It took me three hours to dismember him’, <a href="https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20230808/daniel-sancho-vinculo-sexual-edwin-arrieta-descuartizo-tres-horas-dv-90762534"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">says</span></a> the accused. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8V8Sg5EufGxEBNt-Pc-ooyAAOn9kx1bcUCN1jiZb5LXh92xrI5snYiz8QOdb7BjtuR5KNzRnLMrMItIHX0HKlVpW_jXvlCV212v4ISS62Pw7Czi5Ua7kbl3hYK-yUOOMSuv5IdfRAY64iuVELhHc0qBpP3yuALHEgXOuVJUTjWh7Ten_lNkUSiXkCleco/s1200/3209af64-cd14-4c66-a4e1-a14aa02b0612_alta-libre-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1200" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8V8Sg5EufGxEBNt-Pc-ooyAAOn9kx1bcUCN1jiZb5LXh92xrI5snYiz8QOdb7BjtuR5KNzRnLMrMItIHX0HKlVpW_jXvlCV212v4ISS62Pw7Czi5Ua7kbl3hYK-yUOOMSuv5IdfRAY64iuVELhHc0qBpP3yuALHEgXOuVJUTjWh7Ten_lNkUSiXkCleco/s320/3209af64-cd14-4c66-a4e1-a14aa02b0612_alta-libre-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Daniel (with his handcuffed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HInGuOloo2k"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">hands blurred</span></a>
in one video) <a href="https://www.marca.com/tiramillas/actualidad/2023/08/07/64d09051268e3eef658b4574.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">has confessed</span></a>, says <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marca</i>
(and a hundred other news-sources): ‘I’m guilty, but I was held by Edwin like a
hostage’, and he was duly hauled off by the police (after a dinner and night in
a fancy hotel, paid for by the cops) and is now cooling his heels in a Thai
jail. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Messages in Daniel’s phone <a href="https://www.elcomercio.es/hablamos-de/mensajes-daniel-sancho-novia-familiares-tras-crimen-20230811010702-nt.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">apparently show</span></a> Edwin threatening to kill him if he broke off a
relationship between them. A mess. Daniel says ‘I did it, but I was trapped by
Edwin’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘I’m sorry this all happened’
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy7x0Hdmxn4"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">says Daniel</span></a>
to a cameraman (and no doubt a clutch of reporters). ‘Don’t forget me’, Daniel <a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5164204/0/dura-despedida-daniel-sancho-antes-entrar-prision-no-olvideis/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">tells his friends</span></a> before passing the prison gates. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Premeditated murder is
frowned upon in Thailand, and Daniel <a href="https://www.siam-legal.com/thailand-law/types-of-criminal-punishments-in-thailand/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">could end up</span></a> with life imprisonment or even a lethal injection
at the Bang Kwang Prison in Bangkok. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Of course, there’s a thing out there called ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense">the Gay Panic Defence</a>’, where, um, a <i>normal person</i> loses his cool when trapped in a homosexual relationship. Maybe that’ll fly…</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The sordid item has been reported and discussed endlessly in Spain
during this past few weeks, with much sympathy for Daniel; and there are
<a href="https://archive.ph/RLK6W" rel="nofollow">those that consider</a>, like a stringer from the <em>ABC </em>newspaper<em>, </em>that Daniel is a victim<em> </em>rather than anything else and that he should be returned home as quickly as possible. </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Spanish naturalist Frank
Cuesta, whose wife spent over six years in a Thai prison (for possession of 0.005g
of cocaine) <a href="https://www.marca.com/tiramillas/actualidad/2023/08/12/64d7724c22601dc3658b4599.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">says</span></a> that prison there ‘is very hard – and very expensive’. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The reason this is the lead
story in every newspaper in Spain is that there’s not much else going on at the moment (besides
global melting, the Ukrainian War, Donald Trump being threatened with jail,
Brexit fallout and the current Spanish political crisis).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, in Poland, another
Spaniard, a war-correspondent for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Público</i>
called Pablo González, <a href="https://www.elconfidencialdigital.com/articulo/medios/familia-periodista-encarcelado-polonia-acusa-exteriores-trato-favor-daniel-sancho/20230810174759621867.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">has been held</span></a> for the past eighteen months accused (but not
charged) of spying. There’s nothing much in the media about his situation, nor
any apparent effort from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to resolve his
case. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">He’s not as pretty as Daniel
though. There’s that. </span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-81025566930510265042023-08-05T19:27:00.006+02:002023-08-05T20:03:03.904+02:00Plastic Meltdown<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I was wandering around the
Internet and came across this: ‘Recycling is a lie. Plastic manufacturers spent
$1B to make you think it’s working’. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The article <a href="https://aninjusticemag.com/recycling-is-a-lie-plastic-manufacturers-spent-1b-to-make-you-think-its-working-e07c8fbbd454"><span>says that</span></a> recycling campaigns are designed purely to sell more
plastic. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>To solve the problem of the
plastic trash, a dilemma we all accept is nothing short of dreadful, why, we
just sort our trash into different containers, and voilà, the plastic trash is
taken to a special place, where – we hope – it will be recycled into another
bottle, plate, packaging material or (if its lucky), maybe a ball-point pen. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>Nat Geo</span></b><span> <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/medio-ambiente/20-datos-sobre-problema-plastico-mundo_15282"><span>says</span></a> that a million plastic bottles are sold every minute in the
entire world. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>Wikipedia</span></b><span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_recycling"><span>says</span></a> that ‘plastic
recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. Recycling can
reduce dependence on landfill, conserve resources and protect the environment
from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions’. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Plastic is used in 50,000 <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/consumoclaro/plasticos-reciclar-reciclando_1_9816698.html"><span>different products</span></a>, says <b>Consumo
Claro</b>,<b> </b>and it’s usually made to
be sturdy – after all, no one wants their shampoo bottle suddenly melting on
the shelf.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>However, most of it, the sources above agree, simply isn’t recycled. We are fed a fantasy about how the
manufacturers are working to clean the planet (and only the irresponsible
consumers are failing by not putting their emptied water bottles into the big
yellow bell). In short, around 9% of single-use plastic is recycled worldwide –
the rest isn’t. The first thing to know is that recycling isn’t easy (there are
many different types of plastic which need different processes), and secondly –
it’s a lot cheaper just to <a href="https://plasticseurope.org/plastics-explained/how-plastics-are-made/"><span>make some more</span></a> out of its base materials: crude oil, cellulose,
coal, salt and natural gas. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Here in Spain, according to <b>El País</b>, we’ve been bucking the
numbers, with 51.5% <a href="https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2022/07/20/companias/1658319006_441649.html"><span>recycled</span></a>. This may be, reading between the lines, that just over
half of all of our plastic waste finds its way into recycling bins, although
that too seems unlikely. Or perhaps the figure comes from the <i>plastic recovered</i> from the bins. Then it
<a href="https://www.xataka.com/ecologia-y-naturaleza/reciclaje-plasticos-tiene-muchos-problemas-no-sabemos-podra-solucionarlos"><span>would be sorted</span></a> into its different base components? <b>Greenpeace</b> is less sanguine, and
reckons <a href="https://es.greenpeace.org/es/trabajamos-en/consumismo/plasticos/"><span>it’s nearer</span></a> 30% recycled. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I wonder, do we care that our
bottle of pop is made from recycled plastic – and do we wonder for what purpose
exactly did the recycled plastic fulfill in its earlier incarnation?</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHcGtw7NOmu-wWH4weBmKBM3DqC7KkFJ-lrrN0zZA5N2zrmAq55tFEcj0gen2xcZIdBGFZ8uwxoXV7FzEoGWO0hOpjPSi96HhMpHmdsAwxiK7FNFUABSVd15tEpOZ0j6T2hZNvkG18p5SxfB8P1PfAEtEN2Pj0uY60PtS7iG9IkEhnRhMDVGoSLjXOAilR/s1023/01d90000-0aff-0242-7715-08d9fd04feaf_w1023_r1_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="1023" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHcGtw7NOmu-wWH4weBmKBM3DqC7KkFJ-lrrN0zZA5N2zrmAq55tFEcj0gen2xcZIdBGFZ8uwxoXV7FzEoGWO0hOpjPSi96HhMpHmdsAwxiK7FNFUABSVd15tEpOZ0j6T2hZNvkG18p5SxfB8P1PfAEtEN2Pj0uY60PtS7iG9IkEhnRhMDVGoSLjXOAilR/s320/01d90000-0aff-0242-7715-08d9fd04feaf_w1023_r1_s.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Those tiny grains of plastic in
the sea; those rotting sheets of it hanging from the frames of discarded <i>invernaderos</i>; the endless number of
plastic bags, juice cartons and water bottles in the countryside; the huge
piles of plastic waste in the dumps – which often end up as <a href="https://www.unep.org/interactives/beat-plastic-pollution/"><span>landfill</span></a> or (in some terrible and completely unforeseen accident)
<a href="https://www.laverdad.es/murcia/caravaca/aparatoso-incendio-fabrica-corcho-caravaca-20230717191608-nt.html"><span>on fire</span></a>. </span></span></p>
<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>We could ease our dependence
on plastic, with paper, cardboard, metal or glass (all easily recycled), but
the plastic industry has other ideas; and we know that money talks – Hell, even when it’s plastic.
<span> </span></span></span></p>
Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-11322089974259245132023-07-24T13:16:00.006+02:002023-07-24T17:47:06.613+02:00A Deep Sigh of Relief, Although Nobody Won<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The General Election brought
a strange and frustrating result from the voters: in short, no one won.
Briefly, the PP got the most seats, but even with the support of Vox, it wasn’t
enough. If anyone could be said to have triumphed, perhaps, it was those who
didn’t want a far-right presence in the government. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The PP won 136 seats (176
needed to win). They increased their vote handsomely from 89 deputies in 2019.
Their potential partner – Vox – fell from last time’s 52 to just 33 seats –
giving a combination for the right-wing of 169. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Not. Quite. There. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFhkUteTCJ2dFGCKBZIs3x67ZKcYXew1hQ0AY5EDRNo1iCiyVr2_wiUctj9zUib-h_sOgNIs5BEMEWTN8ugOq8u2lznr9ZMGgDASiXhbuqXCWCtMvekkHlkZaj4gURGCCbeIbBBJDgjmsUDEl--yqxA-nDrtYZCM9DaZiZs75Hnnsmie0Iruq-841VmIbG/s557/f.elconfidencial.com_original_d61_d61_458_d61d6145888b1385922d896b362d4f10.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="557" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFhkUteTCJ2dFGCKBZIs3x67ZKcYXew1hQ0AY5EDRNo1iCiyVr2_wiUctj9zUib-h_sOgNIs5BEMEWTN8ugOq8u2lznr9ZMGgDASiXhbuqXCWCtMvekkHlkZaj4gURGCCbeIbBBJDgjmsUDEl--yqxA-nDrtYZCM9DaZiZs75Hnnsmie0Iruq-841VmIbG/s320/f.elconfidencial.com_original_d61_d61_458_d61d6145888b1385922d896b362d4f10.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Maybe, says Feijóo, the PSOE
will abstain, and let us govern. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>What, without Vox, you mean?
With just 136 seats out of 350?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The PSOE also increased its
number of parliamentarians, if only by two. Their numbers now stand at 122.
Their natural ally – they’re joined at the hip – is Sumar, bringing them a
further 31. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Looked at one way, PSOE/Sumar
is 153. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Also. Not. Enough.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Thus, one must rely on the
‘independents’. Again. That’s to say, ERC, Junts, EH Bildu, PNV, BNG, CCa and
UPN. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The percentage of votes on
Sunday was 70.4%. Of the sum of votes, the PP took 33% and the PSOE took 31.7%
(the large disparity in deputies – 136 versus 122 – is down to the peculiar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method">system used</a> to
adjudicate seats). </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>So now what? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Will the various regional
minnows try to charge too high a price to allow Pedro Sánchez to return as
president? Will there be fresh elections this autumn? Will Pedro Sánchez
unaccountably allow Alberto Núñez Feijóo to be president with a minority
government? Will the army take over (<i>just
kidding</i>)?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The key to Pedro Sánchez
returning to power is <a href="https://www.publico.es/politica/puigdemont-llave-del-gobierno-espana.html"><span>the necessary support</span></a> (or at least, abstention) of Junts Per Catalunya, the party of exiled
Carles Puigdemont now led by Míriam Nogueras. How expensive is that going to
be? The most likely answer to that question is: another referendum for
Catalonian independence. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>One final detail will be published on Friday - the Spaniards living abroad who voted. Will this change things? <a href="https://maldita.es/malditodato/20230724/voto-cera-generales-23j-madrid/">Possibly</a>. <br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The count-down begins, with
the King inviting the parliamentary spokespeople to forward a <a href="https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/elecciones-generales/2023-07-24/fecha-en-que-se-podria-investir-sanchez-o-feijoo_3706442/"><span>candidate</span></a> for president on August 21st, with the investiture in
early September. Maybe. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>No one wants another
election, but what else is there? Maybe someone will blink first.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>At the <a href="https://www.elplural.com/politica/desolacion-pp-fracaso-feijoo-voto-ajustado-sanchez-sin-absoluta-vox_314554102"><span>tepid victory party</span></a> of the Partido Popular in their headquarters
in Madrid, some voices were heard <a href="http://menea.me/2a9e3"><span>calling</span></a> ‘Ayuso, Ayuso, Ayuso…’. How long can Feijóo last with
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Meanwhile, the Presidency of the
Council of the European Union remains in Pedro Sánchez’ safe hands (no doubt,
for the duration). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p> </p>Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-83997605970598724462023-07-17T12:50:00.005+02:002023-07-17T12:50:59.784+02:00Foreign Residents Bring Wealth to Spain Too<p> </p><div style="overflow: auto; padding-right: 10px; width: 620px;">
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Tourism is doing
well again – with around 12% of Spain’s GDP coming from that business.
It provides jobs, and income and perhaps some pride for Spaniards in the
many cultural, culinary and geographical offers this wonderful country
can boast.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Mind you, most of them are here for the sun-burn, the evening boozing and the odd summer romance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">And the endless <em>selfies</em> which are then uploaded to <em>Facebook</em>.<img alt="" height="273" src="https://www.eyeonspain.com/userfiles/image/lenox/turistas-en-España.jpg" style="float: right;" width="437" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s not that we particularly like tourists: the queues, the
jibber-jabber, the crowded restaurant, the full parking-lot, the
foreigner in the supermarket who is not wearing a tee-shirt and the
other one being sick in the municipal gardens – it’s the knowledge that
they’re spending lavishly and, better still, that they’ll be gone in a
week or two.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Not that all of them spend wisely – some don’t even use our hotels,
preferring to doss down with friends or family. Others come along in
their camper-vans or maybe rent an apartment from a family who doesn’t <em>even own</em> a hotel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Contrast this with Residential Tourism – with no promotion, no
agency, no ministry, no budget and no wealthy hoteliers to defend it.
This form of tourism (of course, it’s not tourism at all, it’s really
homesteading) also has a high – if largely unknown – value for Spain.
They buy an ice cream or a bottle of lotion or a china ornament. We buy a
house and a car and white goods, and we shovel money into the
outstretched hands of the lawyers, insurance agents, <em>gestores</em>, doctors and (above all) barmen – all year long.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">A couple of years ago, there wasn’t much tourism, thanks to the
dreadful pandemic. Maybe next time, it’ll be something as simple as a
cheaper offer elsewhere, or a war, or a cholera outbreak, or new
visa-requirements, or because Vox won the elections in Spain…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">But you know something? We Residential Tourists will remain here and
steadily grow in numbers, bringing Spain a massive and reliable income
each year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps one day somebody will notice. </span></p>
</div>Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-67167061209114768042023-06-24T19:16:00.003+02:002023-06-25T10:46:55.724+02:00Gay Bashing<p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Here’s a tricky one – a piece
on homosexuals: the LGBTQIA+ (I had to look up the complicated acronym on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Google</i>, and got the answer, refreshed with a jolly graphic of
rainbow flags and confetti). As usual, the opposite doesn’t enjoy the same
service. See, I had also looked up: ‘Manly fellow drinks a beer and cleans his
Harley while scratching his balls’ and found it wasn’t bedecked by the American search
engine with a frolic of whistles and belles. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those who belong to or sympathise
with the Gay movement must eternally be aware of the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">hatred, disdain and the politics
of those who wish them ill, broadly increasing as one heads towards the right
end of the political spectrum, and culminating in <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.es/politica/vox-lleva-congreso-alarmante-aumento-homosexuales-transexuales-espana.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">a headline</span></a> regarding Vox, which is ‘concerned about the
"alarming increase" of homosexuals and transsexuals in Spain’. This
from a group which, it would be safe to say, is not partial to the gay
lifestyle at all. They are in little doubt: the Government must be putting something
funny in our tap water. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">It is said, mind you, that
those who are most vocal in their anti-gay rhetoric are sometimes the same ones
who would stay in the closet, or who <a href="https://www.elcomercio.es/sociedad/jozsef-szajer-ultraderecha-20201213210417-ntrc.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">get caught</span></a> in some deeply embarrassing and melodramatic, er, misunderstanding
– like the Hungarian far-right and anti-gay MEP József Szájer who had to abruptly
leave a homosexual orgy back in 2020 through a window, naked, as the police
came through the front door.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Life goes on. Those of us who
think of ourselves as ‘normal’ might look down on the antics of our gay
friends, but there’s probably a bit of jealousy mixed in as well: the jolly mixture
of theatre, camp and adventures (contrasted with the insults, vexations and
sometime violence received). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">They say that it’s one in ten
of us, about the same as the number of left-handers (who used to be known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sinister</i>). Perhaps we just need some
patience; but meanwhile, the silent majority rules.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl9IBMFT1DDV9oE5Oqyq8Z3fc8FOFWRRih97u9agXkPBZtHH3nKOOnnjh8H5WU3WwU-sAMaOMKc840hK9kPRHyx0vDigLXh_jP9ByDa9Yb8IS8ihCwEwFd6ew0D6_NpDmGYgPB7Gb2U0yzrKMrBg6HxLp5wk9wKmO0GYeuy9rAlW0BjJifQu4ykfs75mXp/s750/tumblr_4c9e01adc8a1ab828d2f47c157cf6a03_7b29b5ec_500.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl9IBMFT1DDV9oE5Oqyq8Z3fc8FOFWRRih97u9agXkPBZtHH3nKOOnnjh8H5WU3WwU-sAMaOMKc840hK9kPRHyx0vDigLXh_jP9ByDa9Yb8IS8ihCwEwFd6ew0D6_NpDmGYgPB7Gb2U0yzrKMrBg6HxLp5wk9wKmO0GYeuy9rAlW0BjJifQu4ykfs75mXp/s320/tumblr_4c9e01adc8a1ab828d2f47c157cf6a03_7b29b5ec_500.jpg" width="213" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Encouraged <a href="https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/madrid/vox-lona-madrid-basura-bandera-lgbti-feminista.html">by
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Vox</span></a> (and the <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/republicans-anti-lgbtq-legislation/index.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Republicans</span></a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iran"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Iranians</span></a>, Meloni’s <a href="https://www.lasexta.com/noticias/internacional/efectos-gobierno-ultraderechista-meloni-italia-fiscalia-impide-ninos-tener-dos-madres_202306226494469e44049c0001d74d75.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Italy</span></a>, the <a href="https://opusdei.org/es/tag/homosexualidad/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Opus Dei</span></a>, apparently the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65745850"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Ugandans</span></a> and
a number of other totalitarian governments and organisations), the messages and
comments of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">LGBTIfóbia</i> in the social
media <a href="https://www.epe.es/es/igualdad/20230621/lgtbifobia-discurso-odio-crece-espana-88918780"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">have increased</span></a> in the last few years, at the same time as the
democratic governments have <a href="https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodeministros/resumenes/Paginas/2022/270622-rp-cministros.aspx"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">been working hard</span></a> to remove the traditional opprobrium (particularly
in a macho society like Spain) against the gays. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">One isolated news-item – a mixture
of a student rag and an ill-judged attack on the gays during <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_Internacional_del_Orgullo_LGBT"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Gay Pride Day</span></a> (June 28th) has <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/malaga/20-euros-enfermo-capturado-panfleto-homofobo-indigna-residencia-universitaria-malaga_1_10319005.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">a leaflet</span></a> over at the university students’ residence in Málaga
calling for a small reward of twenty euros to be paid for anyone reported as
suffering from the homosexual epidemic in a ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gay Hunting Month’</i> (this in English). Serious or just some silly
prank? I don’t know, but it’s not quite the same as <a href="https://www.niusdiario.es/espana/euskadi/20230516/pareja-gay-matrimonio-homosexual-denuncia-sufrir-paliza-villabona-gipuzkoa-grupo-jovenes-insultos-racistas-homofobos_18_09527787.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">being beaten up</span></a> for holding hands with one’s boyfriend. </span></p> <br /><p></p>Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-36961609128775844002023-06-16T17:56:00.003+02:002023-06-16T17:57:11.289+02:00The Man with a Cape<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizDEKEakI2biTJKykZhnrrGeURnBZNM1H6I3K7HN9uemyhJPHwD02Uw7e_CkzabuWzmTgqqTWEdnlxxsuSEplDSRJtDcY2boEUPn9mK-Intf8QIbH6-VowNeX8ZTF_ebsdTx5DIhOswjDHkwbufEDZunfHL2tMy105TrHuKlXncYekAp1hzrvvLyj9YQ/s1149/5835_Festival_para_Adri_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1149" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizDEKEakI2biTJKykZhnrrGeURnBZNM1H6I3K7HN9uemyhJPHwD02Uw7e_CkzabuWzmTgqqTWEdnlxxsuSEplDSRJtDcY2boEUPn9mK-Intf8QIbH6-VowNeX8ZTF_ebsdTx5DIhOswjDHkwbufEDZunfHL2tMy105TrHuKlXncYekAp1hzrvvLyj9YQ/s320/5835_Festival_para_Adri_n.jpeg" width="223" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Dah da da Dahh..</span></i><span style="font-size: medium;"> Have you
ever been to a bullfight?</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">It’s the season for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">toros</i> right now, with the Pamplona ‘running
of the bulls’ coming up in July. I was there one year – I would have been
around 25 – and ended up drinking all night with some locals, and then early
the next morning, armed only with rolled-up newspapers, we were chased through
the streets by a dozen angry bulls.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">I’m never doing that again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Bullfights are part of the
culture here. They are something quintessentially Spanish and, what with
anything to do with tradition, flags, the municipal band playing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pasodobles</i>, the crowds waving their
white handkerchiefs and shouting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">¡Olé!</i>
every moment there’s a good-looking pass, the matador being taken out of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Puerta Grande</i> on the shoulders of the fans…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">…it’s really no wonder that the
far-right movement here has taken <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">la
corrida</i> as their own, although, in reality, it has support from various
sectors of society and besides, is <a href="https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/2013/BOE-A-2013-11837-consolidado.pdf"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">protected</span></a> as a ‘cultural patrimony’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">We foreigners erroneously call
it ‘a sport’, but it’s a cultural event really. Sort of. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Let’s just leave that for a
moment and drop by one of Spain’s most beautiful and enlightened regions, to
see what’s happening in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">levante</i>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Right now, as the Partido
Popular cosies up with Vox thanks to the vagaries of the conservative voters,
in Valencia everyone (well, of the right wing persuasion anyway) was shaking
hands and slapping each other on the back as the deal was struck for the region’s
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalitat_Valenciana"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Generalitat</span></a></i>, or parliament, for the next four years. The PP
leader is the new president and the Vox leader, for some reasons to do with his
past, was kicked upstairs to become a candidate for the General Elections next
month. His second-in-command thus takes over from him as regional
vice-president and, why not, secretary for culture. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">This <a href="https://www.lasexta.com/programas/lasexta-clave/barrera-torero-vicepresidente-vox-historial-bulos-racismo-machismo-guinos-caudillo_20230615648b66afe9f5530001b8751b.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">august personage</span></a> is Vicente Barrera, a retired bullfighter. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Putting, as it were, the vox
among the chickens. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">As the debate rages in Spain
about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">la tauromaquia</i> – whether it
should keep its status or be quietly marched off into the pages of history – we
have a senior politician, an ex-bullfighter no less, in charge of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">culture</i> in Spain’s fourth most populous
region which includes the country’s third largest city. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">One <a href="https://www.publico.es/tremending/2023/06/15/torero-consejero-cultura-valencia-realidad-pp-vox/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">wonders if</span></a> the post of education will go to a priest, and that
of health to a faith-healer. </span></p>
<p></p>Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-86157059414220469742023-06-13T09:58:00.004+02:002023-06-13T09:59:48.670+02:00Sumar, the Coming Together of the Left<p><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The far-left, scattered and
feuding, are once again under the same roof: Kudos to Yolanda Díaz and her
Movimiento Sumar. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Opinion from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">El País</b>
<a href="https://elpais.com/opinion/2023-06-11/sumar-arranca.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">here</span></a>, ‘Sumar starts. It had never happened before in the more
than 40 years of Spanish democracy that the various territorial, alternative and
environmental lefts found the harmony and the political motivation to concur
jointly in general elections’. Sixteen parties, including Podemos, are in
coalition. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyk8lQnJzCsjM-NMEBnp1vvQO6XxXKAdsbhkAglbz9Lv_jGpXttnBT1RbQ26otuznBfWfcGMqJDBXJRK2qgChKuYdJsXIflVtcz4FGcLi7nmBff_DKeCI4GVmsrD2owBAPKYDiwylqnbl98MgDTtdgI2DOfDxvWH3viHlx9lK4frBSzfrdpS0gnYvGaw/s275/Untitled.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyk8lQnJzCsjM-NMEBnp1vvQO6XxXKAdsbhkAglbz9Lv_jGpXttnBT1RbQ26otuznBfWfcGMqJDBXJRK2qgChKuYdJsXIflVtcz4FGcLi7nmBff_DKeCI4GVmsrD2owBAPKYDiwylqnbl98MgDTtdgI2DOfDxvWH3viHlx9lK4frBSzfrdpS0gnYvGaw/s1600/Untitled.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 13pt;">From <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">20Minutos</b> <a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5136541/0/puestos-podemos-sumar-belarra-quinta-madrid-verstrynge-cuarta-barcelona/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">here</span></a>: The Podemos leader Ione Belarra will be fifth on the list
for Madrid, whereas both Irene Montero (the ‘Only Yes Means Yes’ current Minister
for Equality considered these days to be a liability) and wheelchair-bound Pablo
Echenique are out. Podemos politicians will lead the Sumar lists in Ávila,
Badajoz, Cáceres, Guadalajara, Palencia, Segovia and Teruel. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">elDiario.es</b> <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/politica/no-irene-ultimo-capitulo-serie-interminable_129_10282128.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">notes</span></a> that ‘The deal means that the various parties will have
their candidates appear in province-lists more or less to the satisfaction of
all, while being under the party-brand of Sumar. It is none the less true to
say that coalition negotiation is rarely an admirable spectacle. If people knew
how the sausage was made, they would not consume it with the same enthusiasm.
There are things that it is better not to look closely at… (!)’. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13pt;">From <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">El Español</b> (news-letter): ‘The Sumar
coalition is born mortally wounded when the hard core of Podemos was sacrificed
without ceremonies. Yolanda Díaz will have a hard time smoothing things out in
just over a month, but the humiliation of the bruises has no going back’. Their
<a href="https://archive.ph/wip/HfvRq"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">headline</span></a>: ‘40% of
Podemos voters will not vote for Sumar’. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If
wishes were horses, then beggars would ride</i>: Scottish proverb. </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Two groups seem angry about the
defenestration of Irene Montero. Podemos of course is upset <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/opinion/zona-critica/durmiendo-enemigo_129_10288405.html"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">to lose</span></a> its star (she’s also the wife of Pablo Iglesias, the
founder of the party), and then the media and parties to the right: the golden opportunities
lost in the coming weeks to attack Sumar through the unpopular ex-minister! </span></p>
<p></p>Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881582793561751243.post-90162040130836478072023-06-06T10:48:00.004+02:002023-06-06T10:49:04.808+02:00Manipulation in the Media (again)<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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learned anything from the postal-vote scandal made nationally famous by Mojácar
and Melilla, but which also occurred in several other municipalities. </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Apparently, one needs one’s
ID card to ask for a postal vote – they’ll give you an envelope and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">papeletas</i> from all the different
parties. However, when you post your vote with your one chosen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">papeleta</i>, you don’t need to show any
documents, and of course, a friend could post it for you following the modest
consideration of a 100€ (or perhaps a little more).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfo1QeezLzC_nq1lm59TZ7GYWF_jGkDlvzZrHh2UPJrrhgnX9VxvzTxm-AchNId9DyINkmOCNRJkYQde-7l8WhQY30JyJK5jG5dcFVWUZCivl5NE7I5VqWfvWG8M7Nqg5HUBdn6HL7Ejy4ehpw68FdB9IOtO9SpaKRG7GKeR9MNmU9Kvshnb85mRWfmA/s640/350519238_976527226684986_8523287405778812150_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfo1QeezLzC_nq1lm59TZ7GYWF_jGkDlvzZrHh2UPJrrhgnX9VxvzTxm-AchNId9DyINkmOCNRJkYQde-7l8WhQY30JyJK5jG5dcFVWUZCivl5NE7I5VqWfvWG8M7Nqg5HUBdn6HL7Ejy4ehpw68FdB9IOtO9SpaKRG7GKeR9MNmU9Kvshnb85mRWfmA/s320/350519238_976527226684986_8523287405778812150_n.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Now maybe in local elections,
it’s about the personal advantage; whereas, in the general elections, things
are different. Yes, we cynics might want Señor X to win, but we aren’t going to
go around buying millions of votes off impoverished or immoral people we may
have picked up in a bar.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Not when it’s cheaper to use
our friends in the media: Giménez Losantos, Ana Rosa, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Razón</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">OKDiario</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canal Sur</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El Mundo</i>, Alvise Pérez, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El
Hormiguero</i> and a host of others who are all working hard on helping the
citizens decide between right or, uh, wrong. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Like the slogan ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Comunísmo o libertad’</i>
(Ayuso) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Or maybe ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sánchez o España’</i> (Vox)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Voting in the middle of the
summer causes problems – everyone is on their hols; except, and sorry for them,
those who have to be present across Spain to manage the polling stations.
They’ll be disappointed. For everyone else who might be away, we return to the
always trusty postal vote. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Thus, we read that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Correos</i> <a href="https://www.lasprovincias.es/economia/trabajo/correos-contratos-elecciones-20230601135538-nt.html">is
hiring</a> an extra 5,500 sorters this summer to handle the extra work caused
by the sudden election. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">As for the dodgy votes
scandal – well, they’re <a href="https://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2023/06/02/6478e889e4d4d8025f8b45be.html">asking</a>
for fresh elections in Mojácar. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Not that this is at all
likely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Maybe, if they do, then I’ll
stand this time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">See, I have a cunning plan.</span></p>
<p></p>Lenoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12933569673776013122noreply@blogger.com0