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Beatlemania, half a century later
This is a great article, well worth the 5′ read; not only for the sake of nostalgia, but also as a valuable reference for many social (not just musical) events nowadays: . . Who was to say, barely a week … Continue reading
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Repression in Ukraine: languacide of Russian
These are some facts: A) According to annual surveys by the Ukrainian Institute of Sociology (of the National Academy of Sciences) throughout 1994 to 2005: 1.- Average 36% of the Ukrainian population are native Russian speakers. 2.- Average 34% of … Continue reading
Bethlehem of Galilee, Jesus’ birthplace?
While yahooing “Bethlehem” on the internet, a couple of results stating a curious theory caught my eye: namely, that Jesus’ birthplace might not have been the famous Bethlehem of Judea, but a much smaller–and closer to Nazareth–Bethlehem of Galilee (Beit … Continue reading
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The disarmament of ETA
Since Le Tribunal d’Estrasburg declared illegal the polemic Parot doctrine used by Spain for impeding the early redemption of terrorists and other dangerous criminals, and the Spanish National Court started to promptly and suspiciously release ETA murderers -along with anoother scum as a … Continue reading
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Two birds with one shot
‘This took place in the bar Venecia. Go and ask anyone; ask around what happened in that bar; they’ll tell you. Those were the times when everything was unsettled here, and we had a bomb warning every week somewhere. You … Continue reading
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Honouring Torrente Ballester
Un reciente y por completo innecesario artículo de Ángel Vivas, publicado en el diario El Mundo el pasado diez de octubre, ha tenido el malaje de hacerme saltar de indignación en el asiento. En él, el periodista Ángel Vivas, en … Continue reading
The big lie
It would be a pity if one of the most telling and meaningful pieces of information published in the last few days passed unnoticed among the noise of other news, certainly more sexually attractive but surely less important from the … Continue reading
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Unions and academies, hand on hand with fraud
For as long as one or two decades, Spanish unions have been commiting a continuing fraud with public funds and training courses; an undeniable practice, one of those vox populi realities which, because of their continuous impunity, has ended being … Continue reading
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