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/ kalebeul / 2004 / 02 / 15 /

Global anti-civilisation network

Away, Mr Cruise, with all your pantomime knife-waving; get thee gone, Rousseau, and take your half-baked chain reform proposals with you: a triumphant return to a noble past undefiled by deracinating globalism requires nothing less than an end to civilisation. And where better to start than in Catalonia:
PEOPLE AGAINST CIVILIZATION’S GATHERING 2004. TOWARD AN ANTICIVILIZATIO [...]

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Nepotism

Brothers are doing it for each other here, where Catalan parliamentary president Ernest Benach has followed the example of his party leader, Josep Lluís Carod-Rovira, and the Catalan president, Pasqual Maragall, and celebrated the appointment of his brother to a cushy job in the administration. And it’s not just the neo-fascists or the socialists: on [...]

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conservas dani implicated in morecambe tragedy

From The Independent, re the death of 19 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay:
The intensification of the industry has been driven by Conservas Dani, based in Vilassar de Mar… Dani’s products are a household name in Spain by virtue of the fact that Espanyol, the club chaired by the company’s wealthy owner, Daniel Sanchez Llibre, [...]

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Apparently immigrants are being denied access to virtually all night bars in Barcelona’s popular Raval district. I’m an immigrant, and I’ve never had any problems getting in (getting out is a different story), so I guess El Periódico is using the same definition as one of my ex mother-in-laws: “You’re not an immigrant, you’re white!” Despite the beatings and the burnings, Spain’s nignogs don’t complain, which is why the Americans and British are clearly racists while it is equally clear that the Spanish were just having a little innocent fun with those damn Chinkies.

Code-swapping, rather than Gibraltar-Andalusian. This week’s instalment comments on the stateless national soap opera, maritime conflicts and confusions with Spain.

Yesterday the state-approved and -subsidised competition to Baldie Galactic was observed claiming that trencadís was yet more proof of the quite extraordinary originality of the Catalan mind, etc etc. Not so: it has been around for centuries, and any connoisseur of English cathedral windows will be familiar with my favourite application of break-it-and-mend-it–the new/non-sense created from jumbled shards of medieval glass at places like Wells and Winchester after the Puritans had smashed things up. Which isn’t in any sense to diminish the marvellous pique assiette undertaken by Josep Maria Jujol for old Mr Gaudy at Park Güell:


Nosferatu in Bremen is essentially a flitting liminality … the German soul instinctively prefers twilight to daylight.” Way too many bloody Teutonic incorporeal materialist graffiteros lurking around on c/ Molist, Barcelona.


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