anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun
Geen neo-Nazis, helaas, tenzij de twee dronken Italianen (?) die meededen met de Columbus-groet iets te verbergen hadden. Hier lopen de vier deelnemers om het standbeeld heen, gevolgd door minstens vier camera’s, terwijl de stadspolitie een mooie vrouw ernaast in de gaten houdt.
MSNBC has a good short piece from AP’s Mort Rosenblum on the water crisis that many people in this bit of the Mediterranean would like to ignore. Put very simply, we have no moral right to lecture the Bush administration on sustainability so long as we ourselves continue to elect politicians - and I’m including [...]
En un article de Megan Rowling per a la BBC sobre El Portús, el industrial rossellonès Raymond Mitjavila diu:
França té massa regles socials restrictives, massa sindicats, i els treballadors són menys motivats. La introducció de l’euro ha afavorit als països en els quals és més barat produir, com Espanya. Accentua la diferència entre ells i [...]
… is een riskante onderneming. Ik werd twee keer aangereden binnen mijn eerste paar maanden hier, eerst door een kleine boze man op een brommer die mij links half-inhaalde en vervolgens door mij heen probeerde te rijden. Ik voelde hem al aankomen, duwde de brommer omver, en kreeg brandwonden van de uitlaatpijp. De tweede was [...]
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Barcelona. Shop no 1 is closed at 11:30, well within its normal opening hours. The iron street blinds are down and there’s no message posted, so I walk across town to shop no 2. Yes, no problem, pay now and we’ll confirm the delivery date in a moment. The call comes a couple of hours later:
- That model isn’t available right now.
- When will it be?
- We may be able to tell you later this month, so to save trouble why don’t you just buy this more expensive model?
- No thanks. I’ll be over later to get my money.
- Oh, we’ll have to see about that.
I tend to try to buy through foreign suppliers and I pray for the day when the Chinese will be running everything. Call me a racist, but it keeps me out of the loony bin.
It now seems that Iceland has defaulted, apparently believing Russia will be foolish enough to attempt to protect what’s left of its cod against ETA trawlers from Bilbao. Spain is not going down that road, at least not yet, but one of the more-quoted papers on the subject (De Paoli, Hoggarth & Saporta, Cost of sovereign debt) informs us that it did so thirteen times between 1500 and 1900. I rather liked this Punch item on steps towards a more united Europe, dated September 1 1860:
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SPAIN, put up by France and Austria, as a candidate for admission to the United European, has been blackballed by England, who declines to associate with an Uncertificated Insolvent. Spain is so frantic that she is half inclined to pay her debts, but will probably think twice over so rash an act.
The Dutch haven’t got any genuine armed forces, so they’re sending in the bailiffs to repossess office furniture from the Dutch Icesave, which has also done a runner.
Classic nimbyism, enabled by Spain’s lack of effective central government: Castilla y León has lots of wolves, but other communities which, according to ecologists, should in historical and biological terms have some, don’t want to take the overproduction. So they’re being shot. I don’t suppose we could airlift them to the outskirts of Reykjavik.
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