So Europe has started voting for the European Parliament. The Britons, completely pissed about a scandal will probably vote a useless anti-European party. The Dutch have voted an anti-islamic country: one seat less than the conservatives and one more than the socialists... Yuck... If you didn't remember, the Dutch are like some of the most ( Read more... )

Basically I'd like to make a post speaking about how bad Israel has been doing in Gaza. But I guess it's the same that happened in many other places. You know, killing children and launching fire to civilians because of terrorists from that territory. The same doesn't apply for Saudi Arabia, where the guys who did 9/11 came from ( Read more... )

One of Osama Bin Laden's children, called Omar Osama Bin Laden is now in Barajas airport seeking for political asylum in Spain.

Source: El País

 Spain's Primer Minister (which we call President) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was at the United Nations. I have googled news about him and I didn't get what I think it was one of the most important parts of his speech: He asked for the end of Death Penalty in 2015 and how financial aid for development should be kept at all costs. Of course, ( Read more... )

I once heard that the Man is a political being. While this is not completely true (most people say they don't care about politics), politics rule the way we live in a very important way. Although I think that corporations have more power than actual governments, I still kind of believe that politics are important.

Xavi's 20: I follow politics ( Read more... )

There's a guy in the town of Reus (like 90 km south from Barcelona) who decided that politics was something to laugh at. He's usually an Elvis impersonator as you can see here and his name is Ariel Santamaria.


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1.- We just had a sex scandal like in the US! In this case, a conservative politician has been accused of spending 45,000 EUR from his official cards from the City Council of Palma de Mallorca, where he was a member of the local Council in brothels. Add the fact that they were GAY brothels. Add the fact that he was one of the conservatives that ( Read more... )

I save you the details, because these matters are quite sensitive

These days, one of the big political battles in Spain is the dicussion of the Basque President's latest proposal: He wants to make a referendum to ask Basque citizens if they would like the Autodetermination right (the right of deciding if they want to be independent or not) from  ( Read more... )

It's impressive how your education has impact on your beliefs and political ideas.

We have local elections in Spain in a few weeks. Therefore, my town has started to flourish with banners and posters from the different political parties that run for the council seats. In Spain, you don't vote a candidate but a closed political party list. The seats ( Read more... )