Those warmongering russkies!

Hilarious but very real if you happen to have enough patience to put up with Minitrue's propaganda machinery (aka "free media").

Found at Global Research.

Spain charges against political dissidence online

The so called Spider Operative got 21 citizens, largely Basque but also from other parts of the residual empire, arrested under the anti-terrorist law for allegedly supporting terrorism and attacking ETA victims. The propaganda machinery, alias mass media, quickly spread the government's version without any contrast. The reality? Not much. 

The propaganda centerpiece was what a single individual, whose name has not been made public and whose Twitter account was deleted, posted: such blunt aggressive and clearly illegal comments that he is strongly suspected to be a police agent provocateur. The other 20? Nothing worth mentioning. 

So why were they arrested? The experience of Aitor Martínez (pictured) is very informative: he was never informed of the specific charges and the state-appointed attorney acted as accusation.

First of all Aitor was illegally arrested because the agents did not identify themselves as such. This is common practice but it is blatantly illegal. 

Second, he was accused of generic "computer crimes", with no detail whatsoever. He has gathered information that police already had a political file of his person, reporting him as member of the Basque National Liberation Movement and collaborator with a website, surely Topatu.info.

Worst of all was the attitude of the state-appointed attorney (under the anti-terrorist law you cannot appoint an attorney of your choice). She accused him of "doing something" and when he rejected her suspicions of drawing any ETA icon, she began asking him if he may have used black eagle (ancient Navarrese flag) or icons for prisoner amnesty, all perfectly legal stuff. 

Aitor Martínez also mentions that another girl, who was questioned before him, said that all she had done was to go to a National Day rally. 

In the propaganda video of the Spanish Military Police (Guardia Civil) the names of all the accused except precisely the one who posted the really criminal tweets are publicly revealed. This may not have such major consequences in the Basque Country, sadly used to decades or even centuries of the worst repression, but imagine the stigma that can befall to a youngster from Asturias or other localities of the state where some of the victims of this political raid are from. 

Aitor suspects that the author of the criminal tweets is an agent provocateur of the Guardia Civil itself, who provided single-handedly the propaganda material that has been used to accuse all the rest. 

He thinks that the goal of the operative is to spread fear.

Meanwhile fascist criminals are left at large

Basque MP Sabino Cuadra (pictured) denounced the recent aggression that he suffered in Jaén at the hands of fascist groups rallied precisely by the so-called Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT), as well as other far-right groups, and how these enjoy impunity under the Spanish repressive system. 

Cuadra is considered by many the most outspoken "Spanish" MP,  who is able to call things by their real name.

Also the known criminal torturers Antonio González Pacheco ("Billy the Kid") and Jesús Muñecas, who are persecuted in Argentina under the principle of global jurisdiction for crimes against humankind, have been protected by the Spanish political court Audiencia Nacional (the Inquisition), allowing them to remain at large.

Syria: Islamist rebels and not regime used chemical weapons

Not really new but worth reminding as Russia is providing further evidence that the only use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war corresponds to the Islamist rebels. This was already the conclusion reached by the UN but silenced by the NATO propaganda machinery that hammered us with accusations against the Damascus regime.

According to the Russian ambassador in New York, Vitaly Churkin: sarin gas was clearly used against civilians [in Aleppo province] and there are many reasons to think that it was the opposition who used them. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

When smearing accusations of antisemitism is a pretext for actual antisemitic terrorism

Look well at this guy (left) because he is the chief smearer of the Zionist¹ Hasbara² all around. Marvin Hier is so lowly that he dared to declare the Brazilian champion of Palestinian struggle, cartoonist Carlos Latuff, "antisemitic" for stating the obvious: that Netanyahu bombed the largest concentration camp on Earth (Gaza Strip), massacring hundreds, including dozens of children, just because he hoped to rally support among the rabid colonialists who hold the so-called Israeli citizenship (many of which live in the USA in fact, or arrived to Palestine a few years ago from Russia or wherever, but still hold rights that the natives of Palestine do not in most cases). 

The "antisemitic" cartoon is at the right. The meaning is obvious and there's nothing "antisemitic" in it other than Netanyahu and his truly antisemitic (anti-Palestinian, who are not just Arab-speakers, a Semitic language, but are the most direct descendants of ancient Jews) many crimes. 

I normally do not care if racism, apartheid and war crimes are antisemitic or of any other kind. Ethics are the same for all ethnicities... unless you happen to be a racist and your ethics are racist themselves. But in this case I must emphasize that there is hardly anything more antisemitic than the crimes against Palestinians, who are doubly semitic: Arab (by language) and Jewish (by ancestry).

Of course Latuff, who already warned years ago against the petty abuse by the Zionazis of the term "antisemitism" to mean not anymore hatred of Semitic Peoples in general or Jews in particular but to arbitrarily include all opposition to Israel, i.e. Antizionism, has taken it with a good laugh, even with some pride - not for being antisemitic but for being inevitably smeared by the true antisemites of the Zionist International, the hypocrytes! His answer was this other cartoon, showing his pride for pissing off the Zionazis:

Notice please the subtle detail of the "SS" ensign by which Latuff honors Hier as the Nazi he is. 

If you still have any doubt, I'll ask you a question: who would you trust: an angry rabbi who is buddy of genocidal criminals like Netanyahu (never mind the banksters who fund them both) or Jane Fonda?

Of course the company whom he was entitled with was not in most cases something to be proud of: three European Nazi parties and another ghostly entity (football hooligans) and the less clear cases of Islamist leaders in Iran, Egypt and the USA (see the original SWC pamphlet).

But there was at least another person smeared as well by Hier's venom. This one is a German journalist Jakob Augstein, who has been strongly critical of Israel. What did he say to piss off the Zionazi rabbi? Unlike with Latuff, where the merits are rather dissimulated, with Augstein they bothered quoting him in length:

JAKOB AUGSTEIN
OWNER / EDITOR, DER FREITAG WEEKLY
CONTRIBUTOR, SPIEGEL ONLINE

“With backing from the US, where the president must secure the support of Jewish lobby groups, and in Germany, where coping with history, in the meantime, has a military component, the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash with an ever-swelling war chant.”

“Israel’s nuclear power is a danger to the already fragile peace of the world. This statement has triggered an outcry. Because it’s true. And because it was made by a German, Guenter Grass, author and Nobel Prize winner. That is the key point. One must, therefore, thank him for taking it upon himself to speak for us all.”

“Israel is threatened by Islamic fundalmentalists in its neighborhood. But the Jews also have their fundamentalists, the ultra-orthodox Hareidim. They are not a small splinter group. They make up 10% of the Israeli population. They are cut from the same cloth as their Islamic fundamentalist opponents. They follow the law of revenge.”

“The fire burns in Libya, Sudan, Yemen, in countries which are among the poorest on earth. But those who set the fires live elsewhere. Furious young people burn the American, and recently, the German flag. They, too, are victims, just like the dead at Benghazi and Sanaa. Whom does this all this violence benefit? Always the insane and unscrupulous. And this time it’s the U.S. Republicans and Israeli government.”

“Gaza is a place out of the end of times….1.7 million people live there on 360 sq. kilometers. Israel incubates its own opponents there.”

Don't we agree with everything he wrote? I do. I proudly share the merits of Latuff and Augstein. And neither them nor I can be accused of racism (of which antisemitism would be a particular subset or expression) we can be accused of something very different: of defending Human Rights for everyone regardless of whether they are American, European, African or Asian. Regardless of whether they are Arab or Jewish or both. 

The only ones who should be accused here are the Zionists who aim to devaluate and degrade the meaning of the term antisemitism (of such sad memory) just because they want to use it as tool of their own racism, of their own antisemitism, of their own genocidal frenzy. 

They must be stopped.

Another related cartoon by Carlos Latuff (2009)

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¹ Zionism: imperialist colonialist European movement that aims to carve a homeland for Jews in Palestine (and maybe other ill-defined lands of West Asia and North Africa) on the mythical pretext that Jews originated there. To achieve this they must perform a massive genocide because, obviously, the natives of Palestine (who are surely more truly Jewish than modern Jews by deep ancestry) are not going to leave just because, much less after living there, generation after generation, from probably Neolithic times or even before. 

² Hasbara: Hebrew term that means Propaganda.

Japan's Minister of Defense confesses: nuclear power is not about energy but about bombs

I know, you know, maybe everybody with a forehead knows... but it's seldom admitted. Nuclear energy enthusiasts pretend (some of them may even truly believe) that it's truly a promising energy generation method... but the unspoken truth is that it's all about being able to build up the bomb as soon as needed.

Finally, pressured by a growing anti-nuclear tide after large swathes of the country (at the very least) were devastated by the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the Japanese Minister of Defense, Satoshi Morimoto, confessed to a conference of energy businesspeople.

Having nuclear plants is not only the issue of power supply. It’s playing the significant role of deterrent force for neighbor countries.

Source: Fukushima Diary (where you can read the original words in Japanese as well).

Back in July, Prime Minister Noda admitted to the same truth.

This of course does not apply only to Japan but also to any other state with nuclear reactors, but actually to many different states (categories marked in red bold type in the legend):

Legend:

   Operating reactors, building new reactors

   Operating reactors, planning new build

   No reactors, building new reactors

   No reactors, new in planning

   Operating reactors, stable

   Operating reactors, decided on phase-out

   Civil nuclear power is illegal

   No reactors

>>> Larger size and legend in many languages <<<

(CC by Ichabod Paleogene & Krzysztof Kori)

All those states have and/or want the absolute destructive power of total annihilation to wave it against their neighbors in case they deem necessary. 

Or even to use it, preventively or for whatever other reason. 

That is the true reason behind nuclear energy development. All the rest is just propaganda. 

Problem? That it leaves the Earth so contaminated, even if no bomb is ever exploded, that in the long run a state like France, full of nuclear reactors, is destroying itself.

13 die by tuberculosis in Florida

However three cholera deaths in Cuba are more interesting for the media (in some cases totally distorting the reality).

The epidemic in Florida is caused by the budgetary cuts of a far-right governor, Rick Scott, who is owner of private hospitals and hence an speculator with the citizens' health and lives. 

It is notable that it was the Cuban solidarity medical team who stopped the cholera outbreak in Haiti months ago, unprecedented cholera outbreak caused by the imperialist invasion. It is highly suspicious that an illness that did not exist in America at all is now being found here and there, and biological warfare should not be discarded at all.

Source: Tercera Información[es].

Cuban "exiles" go home on vacation

I just stumbled upon this article[es] where it's explained that Cuban migrants in the USA are dubbed "exiles" or "refugees" but nevertheless go on vacation without problem to the country that allegedly "persecutes" them. 

This has sparkled legal debate in the North American giant on the many privileges that these "refugees" (economic migrants) enjoy and how they are actually a source of hard currency for Caribbean socialist country, something that the USA and the gusano* mafiosos of Miami strongly dislike.

Reminds also of the once much cheered dissident Cuban blogger who returned to La Habana as soon as the injection of Capitalist money stopped and stuff like that. As Basque cartoonist Tasio puts it:

Cuban "exiles": only ones on Earth who go on vacation to the country that "persecutes" them. 

Do you really want to travel to Cuba?

Yes... let me explain... I love to be jailed, beaten, abused...

Ours is a clear case of Masochism.

Beats us!

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Note: gusano: Spanish for worm, in Cuba pejorative for Capitalist traitors, most of which are believed to have left the island and live nowadays in Miami and Spain.

Lies more lies and what to believe in Syria (if anything)

You may have noticed that I'm keeping a prudent silence in the case of Syria. Of course part of the problem is that the most militant activists are fundamentalist fascists paid by Saudi Arabia and the CIA (there's also a legitimate non-fascist opposition I have been told but it's hard to discern). But the main problem is that much of what we are told may not be true. 

For example, Random Pottings denounces the following manipulation by a "reputed" (ha!) Zionist Imperialist medium as the BBC:

This image has been presented in today May 27 BBC (it seems already removed and replaced by a similar one) as illustrating the massacre that happen in Houla, Syria. 

Its author Marco di Lauro knows better. This is the true description:

Al Musayyib, Iraq - May 27, 2003
An Iraqi child jumps over a line of hundreds of bodies, in a school where they have been transported from a mass grave, to be identified. They were discovered in the desert in the outskirts of Al Musayyib, 40 km south of Baghdad. It has been estimated that between 10,000 and 15,000 Iraqis had been reported missing in the region south of Baghdad. People have been searching for days for identity cards or other clues among the skeletons to try to find the remains of brothers, fathers, mothers, sisters and even children who disappeared when Saddam's government crushed a Shi'ite uprising following the 1991 Gulf War.

How ironic! 

But also how many lies we are fed each day by the "free media" which are, I must realize, anything but free. For example I find myself dispelling every other day misconceptions about the Greek welfare system (what welfare system and what the hell?!) fed by the Anglosaxon and German propaganda machinery under apparent command of the Goldman Sachs puppetmasters. 

It's as easy as going to Eurostat and checking the facts but many people just believe what that shitty "free media" says at face value. 

Pathetic! But also extremely dangerous...

International Atomic Energy Agency controls and censors World Health Organization

Very interesting and scary (albeit rather long) videos today at Energy News, denouncing how the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an entity designed to promote nuclear energy (of interest for the Industrial-Military Complex mostly), has the power to block the publication of any World Health Organization report. This power is reciprocal but it's hard to imagine why the WHO would want to censor IAEA.

This means that in practical terms, the pro-nuclear camp controls absolutely all health information coming out from the United Nations, what explains all the lies about Chernobyl, the worst nuclear catastrophe before Fukushima.

I include here only one of the two videos but the other one is also very dramatic and interesting (and different point of view as well):

No cold shutdown: corium will be there forever

EneNews has other interesting info today (and often). For example, Dr. Caldicott (from the reputed International Physicians Against Nuclear War) denounces what is obvious for all of us following the Fukushima catastrophe with due care and healthy skepticism: that the cold shutdown claim is a blunt lie: the corium (uranium-plutonium lava) is still there and will be forever emitting radiation, penetrating across the Earth's crust and potentially reacting at any moment with further catastrophic results.

··> LINK


Reactor no. 3 explosion sent radiation right away to Tokyo

Again from EneNews: a US government (NARAC) map shows how the radioactive particles after the fated day of the second explosion (March 13 2011) went right to Tokyo

··> NARAC paper (PDF), including several other maps of interest illustrating how the particles probably arrived to US territory (and Eastern Siberia).

The ABC of things... or why we should never yield to fear.

Yesterday, the Spanish far right newspaper ABC published an article of totally false lies, and the worst of all lies: half truths, about a blog that I happen to follow: Borroka garaia da! (It's time of struggle!) This blog, whose name the fascists do not even know and whose sentences are all misquoted and horribly deformed, is written by a single person but is full of sincerity and sharp critical analysis, and has suddenly grown (in the imaginary of those who read such Spanish fascist pamphlet pretending to be a newspaper) to be a pro-ETA political current, always according to the Spanish fascist liars I. Reyero and J. Pagola. 

It may be just inconsequential nonsense but it may well be part of a campaign of criminalization. As I wrote in the comments: ABC sets the target, Marlaska [Spanish Inquisitor] shoots and the Guardia Civil [Spanish police] tortures.

Whatever the case it is not just a manipulation and brutal lie but it is scary. For much less they have closed blogs and even full fledged newspapers and radio stations in this country, so tired of putting up with the boot of the invaders. And for much less people has gone to jail for years and years and are still awaiting to be set free.

Whatever the case, today Borrokagaraia replies again with a new entry full of poetical bravery and penetrating truth. I am translating some fragments here:

 

If you were not afraid, what would you do?

(...)

Repression has a function: to scare and set example. Such an old tactic as detached heads on pikes placed at strategical points for the people to see them in awe.

Fear knocked at the door, trust opened and there was nobody.

Repression has another function: to suppress someone or something.

First we will kill all the subversives, then their collaborators, then... their sympathizers, soon after that... those who remained indifferent, and finally we will kill the shy ones.

Repression needs criminals. And these must be constructed.

Nobody is innocent when his rival is the judge.

In the Basque Country repression is the law and is older than any acronym.

(...)

Choose 1, 2 or 3:

1. There is no police force nor repressive system on Earth, no matter how powerful, that can stop a rising popular mass.

2. There is no police force nor repressive system on Earth, no matter how powerful, that can stop a rising popular mass.

3. There is no police force nor repressive system on Earth, no matter how powerful, that can stop a rising popular mass.

(...)

Yes, the video of La Polla Records titled And what are you going to do me now? is part of the response.

That's how things are in the Basque Country under the reign of terror of the Spanish Inquisition and the legal blurriness of "all is ETA".  Scary, uncertain, oppressive... but hopefully all that will not be enough to shut us up. 

Because shutting up and giving up hope and struggle would be like surrendering to fascism, and I know already the sad stinking cowardice of those who surrendered to fascist terror without even a fight. Survival is not worth it.

External article: 'Review of “The Working Poor: Invisible in America”' at The Red Phoenix

In capitalism’s mythology, society functions according to merit. Wealth and decadence are the tell-tale signs of hard work and brilliance paying off, while poverty is a sign of laziness, irresponsibility and a disposition or work-ethic undeserving of the products of society.

...

Yet there is one facet of our social reality that is missed in this chauvinist analysis — a facet which, by its very existence, defeats this perception. There are those in our society who, despite working long hours under stressful (even dangerous) conditions and laboring in positions which are essential for the success of our overall economy, live well below the poverty line and must combine their long hours of work with public assistance programs to survive.

... read the full article at The Red Phoenix. 

 

Dissecting the 'Breivik doctrine' (1)

While the Breivik doctrine is not really new, the Norwegian terrorist has made a true blood sacrifice, a hecatomb, to make sure his ideas are known to the World. Every fascist with pretenses of certain intellectualism is right now reading Breivik's manifesto or has already read it in full. So it is only fair that we at the Left have an idea of what this terrorist hero of the Zionists and Atlantists is saying. None the less because we are his main enemies, ranking no.1 in all his lists under the name of Cultural Marxists.

I am still on the process of reading Breivik's manifesto and I am not sure if I will be able to finish it. Life is too short to waste on lengthy fascist rantings admittedly. But this may well be the Mein Kampf of our time and, the same that one could not afford to ignore Hitler in the 1930s, we cannot ignore Breivik in the 2010s either.

By the moment I have read the introduction, which I found oddly interesting, in a twisted sense. The first thing you understand reading it is that the Butcher of Utöya is by no means a mere madman but quite lucid in the limited understanding that right wing fanaticism and religious faith allows. 

Cultural Marxism

A. Gramsci

The introduction is about Marxism, about what he calls Cultural Marxism (CM hereafter), which is what most people would call Humanism, including human rights, equality regardless of gender, race, faith or sexual preferences, etc. This he calls CM but also political correctness, etc. Essentially Breivik's seems to be a reactionary rebellion against the Humanist advancements of the late 20th century. As such reactionary rebellion it has nowhere to go (swimming against the current)... but it may cause much pain in the meantime. 

He makes a huge effort on blaming Marxists and quasi-Marxists for these advances. He names the following: Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukács specially, but also Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno. These last three belong to the so-called Frankfurt School of philosophy, which he also mentions by name.

Particularly obsessed with Lukács

G. Lukács

There are some lies and contradictions, specially regarding Lukács. According to the Butcher of Utöya, Georg Lukács began his political life as agent of the Kremlin (sic) but he managed to be Deputy Commissary for Culture in Revolutionary Hungary as early as 1919. How come?! There was not even a consolidated Soviet government in 1919!

Yet he is proclaimed by Breivik as the father of the sexual revolution, never mind Wilhelm Reich, who was expelled from the German Communist Party for holding such radical ideas. He's also, oddly enough, make to be the father of Feminism. Never mind he had a penis... and never mind that modern Feminism arose first of all in a largely Anglosaxon context, not a Hungarian one, and many decades before Lukács.

His allegedly decisive influential action, conceiving something known as cultural pessimism, is said to have happened in a secret meeting... go figure! Never mind that Lukacs is not at all associated with this nihilistic current, as is no Marxist because Marxism is a positive constructive philosophy.

Not a single mention of Lukács' role in the 1956-58 revolutionary process in Hungary and how he was deported after the Soviet invasion. It was precisely his role in the anti-Stalinist Hungarian revolution of 1956-58 what made Lukács popular in the West. Nothing of this is discussed by Breivik, who just wants to blame it for being a somewhat influential thinker in the context of European and Western Humanism.

Like so many fascists, he is obsessed with political correctness

The fact that fascist ideas are normally snubbed by the mainstream society, he considers (twistedly enough) a danger for freedom (freedom for fascists only?) Another form of political correctness he denounces is the opening from a parochial Eurocentric conception of the World, culture and history to a more balanced one. All that he hates just like a Taliban would from a perspective only slightly changed. 

In other words: he hates the consensus that exists in his social reality, which has emerged through the struggles of the 19th and 20th century. He hates Humanism. 

Frustrated anti-feminist macho

Feminism is deeply rooted in European culture

We know that Breivik spent his last night with two prostitutes. This alone tells a lot about the mentality of someone who thinks that women are mere objects to serve men.

Because Feminism is another of his bête noirs. Never mind that Europe may have a deeper tradition of proto-feminism than other parts of the World, for the Butcher this is an anti-European value. But what he sees as the pinnacle of feminization is metrosexualism, i.e. the fact that the decadent males of today are on occasion attracted to feminine elements such as perfumes or depilation.

Never mind that the men of the Ancient Regime, which he misses so much, were much more effeminate, fashioning elaborate and fancy clothes that the revolutionary forces took out of fashion (sans culottes' main identity element was precisely not wearing those fancy culottes of the aristocrats, never mind the wigs and perfumes). 

Authoritarianism and missing the whole point

Directly related to both Feminism and the Frankfort School is another obsession of the terrorist: the Authoritarian Personality, which Breivik equates to the male gender role. Never mind that this trait belongs to a disciplinary mode of production (Fordism) that is no longer viable in the social worker era (Toyotism). There is a big blank in Breivik's understanding of Marxism and Western cultural evolution and this is Situationism and Autonomism, which are probably too modern (60s, 70s) for his reactionary mind.

Capitalism corrupts all values

What you notice when you read Breivik's rantings is that, while he has some culture, it is very specific and fragmentary and that he is obsessed with finding an antagonist historical subject which to blame and destroy, in his case the Frankfurt School and what he so insistently calls CM. He does not understand that all that is just parts of the dialectics of Capitalism, which, like a cursed Midas, destroys all it touches by means of corruption. As Capitalism destroys all ancient values by means of internal rot, someone has to come to try to save society, this actor is of course the Working Class (rather than just a bunch of intellectuals), which is always building and maintaining the machines of Capital. And not just the material machines but also the social and cultural machines. Where Capitalist predation causes a vacuum, workers come to fill it with their sans culotte ideology of equality and freedom, which is nothing but the natural human way of being: the hunter-gatherer essence never fully destroyed in each of us. 

In brief, Breivik's thought (at least in what regards to the introduction) even if displaying a patina of education and an element of certain intelligence (and indeed lucidity of the paranoid-conservative kind) is just too obsolete and does not understand how societal and cultural dialectics really work.

No wonder. I must say that it is not easy and (because of their own psychological barriers) conservatives and reactionaries (and maybe even reformists) cannot really understand what is going on. They are blinded by categories that have lost their substance long ago, like religion or gender roles, and that cannot be restored after being touched by the Capitalist Midas of Rot. And even to Capitalism itself, when they dare to look at it, they attribute more power than it actually has (it is 100% dependent on the subservience of the Working Class). 

In any case it is interesting to see how this kind of thought, in spite of being anti-Islam, is almost identical to the kind of reactionary thought that a Taliban may embrace. We are before a Norwegian Zionist-Crusader Taliban able to make massive satanic blood sacrifices of sorts in the name of Christianity and Yaveh. 

Note:  I am not sure if I wish to continue reading the Butcher's propaganda and dissecting it but doing it with the introduction only at least, has been quite reassuring, admittedly.

Spanish taxpayers pay a "biographic dictionary" that claims that Franco was a brave general who fought for democracy

When bondholders come asking for their money back, Spaniards can pay them in Monopoly notes, which are as truthful and valuable as what their loans were used for. The infamous biographical dictionary, presented by the equally worthless monarch Juan Carlos Bourbon and Bourbon (also known as Double Bourbon and not just because of the inbreeding), cost the Spanish taxpayers 6.4 million euros.

The dictionary was commissioned to another quite worthless institution: the Royal Academy of History, also paid with public money. 

The entry on Francisco Franco, who waged war to the democratic government of Spain for three years and then to the peoples under this state for 36 years more, establishing a fascist government copied almost to the detail from that of Mussolini but with even greater emphasis in licking the boots of the Pope, being a truly fundamentalist tyranny, is described as a brave, intelligent and moderate general, who established a regime that was authoritarian, not totalitarian, and who took part in a coup against a chaotic government in order to restore democratic monarchy.

The entry on former ultra-conservative Prime Minister José María Aznar is also quite controversial. The disaster of the Prestige oil tanker is described merely as an incident used by the opposition to erode his popularity, while the crude manipulation of the truth before the elections that got him kicked off power in 2004, blaming ETA for a Salafist attack, causing the killing of a Basque baker and triggering massive spontaneous demonstrations in the eve of elections is totally skipped. 

It seems that it was Aznar who ordered this collection of 25 books, getting some historian friends of him living off the People's money for almost a decade (€600,000 for each of eight years). 

I would tell bondholders to go get Aznar to pay them from his pocket.  

Source: Público[es].


Update (Jun 1): terrorist Maquis also.

The Maquis were not antifascist guerrillas, the resistance or freedom fighters... Not anymore: according this new neofascist biographic dictionary paid by all Spaniards (but commissioned by Aznar) but terrorist and bandits, exactly the terms that would have used Franco.

This jewel is found in the entry of Camilo Alonso Vega, appointed General Director of the military police corps Guardia Civil, upon the Fascist coup. According to this entry, Alonso carried a most important activity against the terrorist-bandit gangs commonly known as maquis.

Source: Sare Antifaxista[es].

Bin Laden dead? Is there a May Fools' Day?

Credibility to US announcement of Bin Laden's death is already shattering the Internet. 

The image to the left has been circulating as that of Bin Laden's corpse but, after due comparison with that of the right it is obvious that we are before a photo-montage:

According to the source (Gara), AFP has already confirmed that we are before such a fake photo, one that was already circulating even before yesterday's announcement. The Guardian also confirms it is fake.

Buried at sea

More nonsense: according to the New York Times, quoting American officials (sic), Bin Laden was "buried at sea". 

Uh? 

Why would they bury that most wanted corpse everyone would love to see, wouldn't it be better to have it frozen? 

Why would it be buried (sic) at sea of all places? When it was supposedly killed far inland, near Kashmir?

It is such an obvious distraction maneuver that one wonders why are they even making the claim at all. Who are they wanting to fool? The US and World public? With such a poor story they won't fool us for long. Why all this nonsense? 

May Fools Day?

It would seem that someone has not enough with April's Fools Day and wants to extend the prankster usage to further days along the year: April 1st, May 2nd and so on? I can barely find another explanation.

How can anybody, and that goes for you Mr. Obama (and all ministers, tsars and generals), pretend to rule an Empire such as the USA based on pranks and lies? Do you like to be taken as a fool and a liar like your predecessor Mr. Bush?

What the heck? What's the purpose of all this nonsense?


Update: why does the media not question the White House version even if no evidence whatsoever is provided and everything stinks to lies and more lies? What kind of lackey journalism is this?