Some more news about yesterday

After the announcement of the “beginning” of the dialogue -the socialists have been having contacts with ETA since 5 years ago, when Aznar was President and the Anti-Terrorist and for Freedoms Agreement was signed-, I read this morning that Mr. Zapatero is following very carefully the timing given by ETA terrorist Mikel Antza. In it, [...]

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Chinese mother forced to have an abortion because she is not married

Thanks to Vox galliae and I Like your Style I have known of Wang Liping , a Chinese aged 25, who was forced to have an abortion when he was 7-month pregnant because she is not married! The Police of Familiar Planning has caught and driven her to a hospital to make her have an [...]

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Catalan nationalists reject some bottles of water

because their label was in Spanish.
This great success of the Catalan nationalist folly took place in an extraordianry reunion of the Executive Council of Catalan Republican Left (ERC, in Spanish). When they noticed the bottles of water the hotel had served them had the labels in Spanish, they rejected it and asked to be served [...]

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Quick links

From Le Monde:

Slovak left (SMER), winner of last elections, forms a coalition with far-right extremists (SNS) and with nationalistic party (HZDS). They are excluding the Christian-democrats and the SMK (center-right) and they are going to fulfill a “leftist agenda”. SMER, affiliated to European Socialist Party, won thanks to a campaign against liberal reforms: its leader, [...]

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Zapatero has announced the “official” start of ETA talks

We will maintain the principle of resolving political decisions with the legitmate representants of the popular sovereignty.
The Government will respect the decisions that the Basque citizens adopt freely, respecting the democratic methods, the rights and freedoms of the citizens in a climate of absence of violence and coaction”.
The future of Euskadi demands a great agreement [...]

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Light blogging

I am going to be somewhat busy these days, so I apologise in advance for the lack of posting. If I have some free time, though I would post something.
Yesterday, Mr. Zapatero did not announce the “beginning” of the conversations ETA-Government because Spain lose on soccer with France. BUt he will announce them today.
 
Tags: AVT, [...]

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Carrillo, a moderate?

Spain has had a very turbulent history specially in the last centuries. Now, we were having the first 30 years with freedom and yet with peace. Are those two terms so impossible to stay compatible in Spain? Looks like that they are.
When the transition -so praised abroad- was made every man and woman were consciuos [...]

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China’s calendar sponsors

I have found through Spanish blog El Cerrajero that there are some huge Western Comparies who are sposoring a calendar in which “members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, government departments and leaders” are shown.

The firms are

Marvellous eh?
The author of the blog asks:

what are now doing these famous [...]

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North Korea: their real aim (UPDATED)

I wrote yesterday about US giving misile to North Korea. Noisy Room.Net has a link to Captain’s Quarters Blog about the same topic:

The Japanese have spent the post-war period trying to live down their militaristic past. That past includes some quite a history on the Korean Peninsula, where their actions still reverberate to this day. [...]

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Global Warming

The other day I saw this video in Ajopringue:

I have founded this post -marvellous one- about Global Warming from Darwin Catholic. Enjoy.
 
Tags: Al Gore, Global warming

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“Bombs with mobiles”

ONe of the things that stroke more the investigators of the March 11th bombings in Madrid was how they were carried out. The fact that the bombs were detonated with mobiles was a “new” way of causing death. EL MUNDO has been making a very important journalist investigation about the “black holes” of the political [...]

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Aznar, Batasuna-ETA and the negotiations

Yesterday, Aznar was given the prize Jesús María Pedrosa (with video), who remembers the PP Councilman of that name murdered by ETA in June 4th 2000. The reason for it is “his support and compromise with terrorism’s victims in all his political life“.
He was insulted by some “abertzale” youths who were at the entrance of [...]

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Forum Filatélico- Afinsa: a financial scandal?

Forum offered credits to their clients to buy the stamps, although the plans also served for paying the mortgages -in Spain most people have mortgages-. Finance Minister, Pedro Solbes denied on March 17th, that these kind of credits had a “financial nature”, what would have risen the supervision from both Spanish Central Bank and the [...]

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More on North-Korean Crisis (UPDATE)

ABC News:

Japan and the United States have agreed to deploy advanced Patriot interceptor missiles on U.S. bases in Japan for the first time, officials said Monday.
The agreement earlier this month came amid concerns that North Korea may be about to test-fire a long-range ballistic missile.
The U.S. plans to deploy the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles designed [...]

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ETA asks Zapatero for money to continue existing

According to on-line newspaper El Confidencial Digital, the last operation of Spanish Judge Grande-Marlaska and French Judge Le Vert, against the extortion net of ETA, is going to provoke dificulties to ETA and its “surroundings” -I should say this is good-. ETA needs a lot of money, because it has to pay the leaders, the [...]

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