De Juana goes home

If yesterday, we knew that the Government wants to sanction Foro Ermua for convoking some demonstrations -when he didn’t-, today we have known that the bloodiest of all ETA terrorists is going home, with an electronic device in his wrist, as had been announced. The decision comes after the elections and has provoked a real uproar [...]

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As UN approves the creation of a special tribunal to try suspects, Hezbulah and Syria take positions

The United Nations Security Council has approved the creation of a special tribunal to try suspects in the killing of Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon’s former prime minister.
UN sets up tribunal over Hariri killing
Reuters – Syria could spark trouble in Lebanon in response to a U.N. Security Council vote to set up a tribunal to try [...]

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In the case of the Britons’ kidnapping

about which I blogged yesterday, look who is being investigated. And just not to waste the time, also threatens women who do not wear the veil…

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PSOE considers as "administrative" the decision to close Radio Caracas Televisión

European Parliament passed a resolution on May 24th in which they considered as an “alarming precedent” the decision by Chávez to shut Radio Caracas Televisión, because of their critics to Chávez. But the Venezuelan President, as Castro, has a very good defensor in Europe: PSOE (Spanish Socialists). The Spanish Socialists voted against the resolution and their secretary for [...]

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Where is the international community

 when it’s needed??
Lina Joy is a Malaysian woman who converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Christian man. Before she was a Christian she was a Muslim. As we all know, it is not allowed, according to the Sharia, to leave Islam.
Source: Stone Her! « Michael P.F. van der Galiën
Go over to read [...]

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Government sanctions Foro de Ermua for protesting against anti-terrorist policy

I have just now received this:
12.000 € OF SANCTION TO FORO ERMUA FOR PROTESTING AGAINST THE EXCARCERATION OF ETA TERRORIST IGNACIO DE JUANA AND THE PROSECUTOR’S DECISION OF NOT ACCUSING OTEGI
The sanctions were proposed more than 2 months ago, but have been notified today, May 29th, only after the elections.
Bilbao, May 30th 2007
The excarceration of De Juana [...]

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Pizarro asks for transparence to the Civil Guard after being followed by two agents on feb 20th

 If you haven’t heard about the turnout bid of Spanish electric firm Endesa, you should. By now, there have been three: by Spanish firm Gas Natural (who did not pay enough at all), by German E.On (which was ended after a Zapatero-Prodi summit in Ibiza) and by Italian Enel and Spanish Acciona -which the laic [...]

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Britons kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad-News-World-Iraq-TimesOnline

 
Five Britons were abducted from a government building in Baghdad today in a brazen kidnapping by gunmen dressed in police uniforms.
The victims were four bodyguards and a British technology adviser working at the Finance Ministry for BearingPoint, a US consultancy firm.
This evening the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London confirmed that the five missing people [...]

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Spanish elections Watch 2007: Reflections on Spanish elections

 
I honestly don’t know how I feel about the elections on Sunday…..
Spain has a  tradition: whoever wins the municipal elections, wins the generals. This would mean that by next year PSOE and Zapatero could be out. Nice.
On the other hand, there are three things that worry me, a lot:

The difference between PP and PSOE hasn’t [...]

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Bolivia: Evo Morales imitates Chávez

Evo Morales has said that his main enemies are the media who are opposing the process of change the country needs, except “my friend journalists who most of them belong to the MAS [Movement to Socialism, Morales' party]“. He also has told the intelectuals their mission is to create a popular conscience about the “importance of the [...]

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Venezuela: students protest because of RCTV closing

Here is the video. It’s in Spanish but you can get an overview of what has been going on.
UPDATE: Italian blogger Paolo di Lautreamont has more videos for you to see.
Chávez closes RCTV: CNN – Reuters (Venezuela TV station says troops seized equipment) –

Workers of RCTV station cry while singing the national anthem after [...]

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The real face of Communism

 
h/t: The last Ditch.
 

Technorati tags: Communism, a tribute to communism video, lack of freedom, violation of Human Rights, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, China, Russia, Cambodia, North Korea, Kim Il Jon

 
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The Muslim vote in yesterday’s elections

The Muslim minority in Spain will be very little involved in these Local and Autonomous Communities’ elections, because only 10% of the total amount of Muslims living in Spain have the right to vote: the Spanish converted to Islam and the foreigners who have acquired Spanish nationality.
But they all will vote for the left.
So it’s said in a [...]

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Informative blog on Islamic issues, "EUROPENEWS" eliminated by force from Internet by German Provider BLOGG.DE because of alleged xenophobia

Luis, Spanish blogger, from Desde el Exilio (From Exile) -he writes on Spanish, dudes- wrote about what Islam should do to get rid of a supposed Islamophobia. Well, apart from not abuse physically, its supporters could begin by support rational criticism and not asking for the erase/crackdown on private blogs that fight against Islam. Spanish [...]

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Spanish Elections Watch: Autonomous Communities’ results

La Razón.es:

This time it’s false that there is no winers and losers, even if it is only for the psicological charge of the results of the electoral night. The autonomic and local elections held yesterday leave a political panorama with some important data for next year’s general elections and related to the constitucional change, the possible change in [...]

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