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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Of wars, games and stuff</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Destruction of old Peking</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/05/destruction-of-old-peking/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/05/destruction-of-old-peking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of cities and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, but how long before it is rebuilt as a theme park? Plaza de San Felipe Neri is one of the most interesting examples of the latter in Barcelona. Only in the demolition of marginal and shanty towns have Spanish planners approached the rigour of the Chinese authorities. Half of the valley of Torre del [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laporta/Hitler</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/laportahitler/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/laportahitler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of ball games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7914</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This seems a bit harsh on the Barça president but the comparison is a standard feature of any Spanish debate:

People I know are voting for the motion of censure on Sunday to fack this one off rather than in the expectation that the next one will be less of a mafioso. Some of the family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video of interesting aural and visual stroboscopic effects on the Renfe train from Barcelona to Vich</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/video-of-interesting-aural-and-visual-stroboscopic-effects-on-the-renfe-train-from-barcelona-to-vich/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/video-of-interesting-aural-and-visual-stroboscopic-effects-on-the-renfe-train-from-barcelona-to-vich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the chariot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A malfunction of the public address system produces a rather pleasing strobe:
 
At the end of this clip, a crude example of the wagon wheel effect, caused by what the brain, fooled by the camera, takes to be a succession of evenly spaced, identical Quercus ilex:
 
More educational train journeys here.
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		<title>Poppy</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/poppy/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/poppy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of small animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The May monsoon endowed plants with a Made-In-China verisimilitude:


Knee-scratching thistles are now several metres high, and Karik and Valya could have told you all about the monstrous dragonflies:
In the spot where just a moment or two ago there had lain a tiny dragonfly, there now moved a thick, long, log-like, jointed body with a huge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Siege of Barcelona by the French in 1697</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/03/siege-of-barcelona-by-the-french-in-1697/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/03/siege-of-barcelona-by-the-french-in-1697/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Decline]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Swedish Military Archive, this purports to show Vendôme at the head of some 32,000 troops bombarding Barcelona in the final stages of the Nine Years War:
Wikipedia: &#8220;The garrison capitulated on 10 August, but it had been a hard fought contest; French casualties amounted to about 9,000, and the Spanish had suffered some 12,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Butterflies</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/butterflies/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/butterflies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of small animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Huge numbers yesterday on this walk, on some very quiet meadows at between 400 and 600m. First Gonepteryx rhamni, our Brimstone:

Next is I think a Clouded Yellow, Colias croceus:

Then Papilio machaon, macaón in Spanish, Common swallowtail and a host of other names in English. We saw a couple of dozen:

A swallowtail story from The child&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basque Hell</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/basque-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/basque-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the trailer (currently unsubtitled) for El infierno vasco, about the ethnic cleansing conducted by the nationalist government and the terrorists with a view to reducing the non-nationalist vote and thus achieving a pro-independence majority. The process, of which the latest episode is the removal of the constitutional right to use Spanish in schools, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird shit guarantee</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/29/weird-shit-guarantee/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/29/weird-shit-guarantee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of the marketplace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr Wu has added our Weird Shit Guarantee™ to the Baldie Tours FAQs in response to a suggestion from some New Jersey clients following a conversation with a rather unusual street-organ performer. It may deter as many as it attracts, but what the hell.
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		<title>Video of sheep near the Bielsa tunnel</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/27/video-of-sheep-near-the-bielsa-tunnel/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/27/video-of-sheep-near-the-bielsa-tunnel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of flocks and work animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo 7 on this page shows a lamb being carried by refugees from villages on the Spanish side of the central Pyrenees as the Stalinist-led 43rd Division prepared its famous last stand&#8211;the Bielsa Pocket/la Bolsa de Bielsa&#8211;against Franco&#8217;s advancing Navarrans in spring 1938. Bielsa was completely shattered by the latter&#8217;s artillery, but the scorched earth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sblood Spaniard you get no wall here</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/19/sblood-spaniard-you-get-no-wall-here/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/19/sblood-spaniard-you-get-no-wall-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Samuel Johnson reports on making acquaintance with London in 1737 that
In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. When I returned to Lichfield, after having been in London, my mother asked me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>die tageszeitung compares Spanish regional nationalists to Franco</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/17/die-tageszeitung-compares-spanish-regional-nationalists-to-franco/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/17/die-tageszeitung-compares-spanish-regional-nationalists-to-franco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the marketplace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The taz has been obligatory reading for the thoughtful German green-left for the last 30 years. It has no particular sympathy for airline companies or Joachim Hunold. Highlights from a piece published June 14 (via MM): 
It is true [actually it isn't--but Tobias Büscher isn't the only one to make this error]: Franco prohibited regional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amando de Miguel: &#8220;Badly translated English is threatening the structure of the Spanish language&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/17/amando-de-miguel-badly-translated-english-is-threatening-the-structure-of-the-spanish-language/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/17/amando-de-miguel-badly-translated-english-is-threatening-the-structure-of-the-spanish-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I tend to concentrate on the Catalanist language nuts because they&#8217;re closer to hand, but Madrid has its own share of nationalist loons. For example, Amando de Miguel over at Libertad Digital is given to making unfounded claims about the dangers of English. I showed a while back that there&#8217;s no statistical basis for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ceci n&#8217;est pas un bar, or hostelry Spanish-style</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/14/ceci-nest-pas-un-bar-or-hostelry-spanish-style/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/14/ceci-nest-pas-un-bar-or-hostelry-spanish-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of drink]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our entrance is barred by a little man with a beret and a moustache:
&#8211;You know this isn&#8217;t a bar?
&#8211;Of course!
&#8211;No problem then, I&#8217;ll get the landlady.
Later, in conversation with the landlady:
&#8211;Aren&#8217;t you worried by the EU ban on making your own vermouth?
&#8211;If this isn&#8217;t a bar then why the fuck would we be making our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuck Bicing</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/09/fuck-bicing/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/09/fuck-bicing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the chariot]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being Barcelona Council&#8217;s corporativist scheme to marginalise private bike ownership and bike shops:



59euros is going round chaining random stuff to lampposts in protest at the council&#8217;s policy minimising facilities for non-council bikes and then removing perfectly roadworthy examples from the streets to make way for yet more council bikes and illegally parked motorbikes. Saltada Popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josef Fritzl supports Catalan nationalist boycott of Air Berlin</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/06/josef-fritzl-supports-catalan-nationalist-boycott-of-air-berlin/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/06/josef-fritzl-supports-catalan-nationalist-boycott-of-air-berlin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here (thanks MM). So are you with Joe or against him? Does the Guernica page header mean the author identifies Air Berlin with the Luftwaffe? I thought only racists indulged in that kind of generalisation.
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