While Zapatero is worried about his sexual health, so much that he actually suffers lapsus linguae in the less appropriate moments, and Moratinos (Spanish FM) says that “not everything is going wrong” (thank God, we still are alive… ), Spanish people have other kind of worries. According to the last official statistics via Twitter, 75.2% of Spanish people are worried about their jobs and the possibility of losing them, while 54.4% are worried about financial difficulties.
Speaking about the divorce between the political elites and citizens…
Zapatero was at the press conference with Medvedev during the latter’s official visit to Spain. He was asked about about the relationship between Spain and Russia, specially regarding tourism. He said that this agreement was necessary because of the number of Spanish tourists who go to Russia, this year 500.000. And that the agreement was to “encourage, to asist, to fuck… ehh, to support that tourism“.
Both Zapatero and Medvedev want Spain and Russia to be strategic partners (well, we can say safely that Putin wants it too) in several areas such as energy (which would mean Spain would buy their energy, as it looks like that Russia has a special plan to monopolise the access of energy to Europe), tourism (more Russian mobsters undoubtedly: the South of Spain, specially Málaga is full of them), infrastructures and transports.
The official meeting between Medvedev and Zapatero will take place tomorrow in Moncloa’s Palace (Official residence of the Spanish PM), where they are going to sign an “Statement of strategic association”. They will also analyse measures to fight economic crisis, possibilities of commercial relations and other bilateral matters, international political situation, energetic situation, UN reform, relationship between NATO and Russia and also between the latter and EU, regarding the next Spanish presidency.
It’s not Spanish King Juan Carlos the only person who asks Chávez to shut up. Now his doctors (via Twitter) have told him the same, though for other reasons. He says that it’s because of “the permanent use of the cannon I have here”.
And in good time, because after winning the referendum, he feels more secure and has ordered the invasion of the rice plantations because some business are ignoring price regulations imposed by the Government (what a photo! ).
He has also menaced US President Obama, cautioning the latter against “messing with him”. The reason? Obama accused him of not fighting against drug trafficking. Chávez has answered that there is only one country that is supporting drug trafficking, and that’s USA, whose President is Obama “although I doubt Obama governs at all”, he has added.
Saudi imam has issued a fatwa or religious edict, banning the use of alcohol as a fuel substitute for petrol. “I warn Saudi students that live abroad not to use alcohol as a cheap substitute for petrol, because the prophet has cursed not only who drinks it but also those who use it for other purposes,” said the Saudi imam Mohammed al-Najimi, quoted by Saudi daily, Shams.
Any consideration about Saudi Arabia being one of the leading exporters of oil but inappropriate for cultivating grapes would not be well received, wouldn’t it? And Khomeini said there was no fun in Islam… well, this is truly funny.
The chancellor has given Muslim leaders private assurances that he wants to create a “level playing field” in the economy, so that more and more “sharia compliant” financial products can be offered to British Muslims.
To comply with sharia law, financial products must not charge or earn interest, which is regarded as usury.
Brown hopes his proposed changes would remove barriers to many British and foreign Muslims participating fully in the financial system. They would help make London the natural home for Islamic funds from around the world, and increase the inflow of investment from oil-rich Middle Eastern countries.
“Making the UK and London a centre for Islamic finance means putting in place the tax and legislative framework that is supportive of Islamic products,” said a senior Treasury official.
“On top of this, we’re also looking at promoting the City abroad as a centre for Islamic finance.”
via Brown to boost Islamic banking – Times Online. This article dates back to March, 2006, but it’s importance has not diminished. Because in the present situation of global economic crisis Western countries are having similar ideas: for exmple the US:
The Risk of Shariah Finance: While Americans are selling their positions in U.S. companies, Middle Easterners flush with petrodollars are aggressively gobbling up these stocks at fire sale prices. Moreover, as American financial institutions report the losses that forced them to deplete their cash reserves, CEOs are begging for loans from oil-rich Middle East nations that have benefited from the rise in oil prices in recent years from $30 to nearly $100 per barrel. As one former Wall Street executive lamented, U.S. business leaders are “lining up to kiss the ring.”. (…) How might this harm America? If any of these investors, or a bloc of investors, gains enough controlling shares of a company, they can exact a dangerous influence. This might include the insistence that a corporation’s activities are halal, which would mean jettisoning business interests that include: banks charging interest; firms that are either based in Israel or are working with the Jewish state; firms developing weaponry used in Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan or other Middle Eastern states; casinos and other gambling companies; businesses that involve pork products; alcohol distillers and bottlers; publishers that release books critical of Islam; and even entertainment companies that could offend Muslim sensibilities or appear incompatible with Muslim values.
Melanie Phillips h/t Shariah Finance Blog was very clear as to the extent of the dangers: [Western leaders] don’t understand that the spread of sharia banking in Britain and America is a significant part of the attempt to Islamise Britain and America. Acceptance of sharia finance furthers the Islamist objective of gradually legitimising Islamic sharia law more generally in the west. (…) The most important point to grasp is that Islam recognises no authority superior to sharia. Sharia banks will therefore not recognise the superior authority of the law of the land. When trillions of pounds and dollars are locked into them, who will argue with them?
The government of Iran is following the lead of new ally Venezuela by taking its anti-American message to Bolivia, an impoverished but strategically positioned country in the heart of South America.
A nemesis to U.S. interests in the Middle East for 30 years, Iran is now pouring millions of dollars of aid into Bolivia — including construction of a milk factory in Achacachi. Its real motive, however, is joining Bolivia and Venezuela to counter U.S. interests in Latin America, analysts said.
”Is Iran in Bolivia a nuisance to the United States? Of course it is,” said Abbas Milani, the co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. “Iran will try to shore up support for Bolivia’s president and help the anti-American message of its regime. And being in Bolivia will give Iran more pawns to play in its dealings with the Europeans and the United States.”
1. Last January 27th, the Shoah’s anniversary, an Iranian official speaker made a communiqué in which they declared the Shoah “a great lie invented by Israel”. That communiqué is related to the repeated statements of the Iranian President who denies repeatedly the Shoah and even organised a congress of deniers of the Shoah.
2. The visitor who arrives in Madrid this Sunday is representing a country who has as a declared objetive to wipe Israel off the map as the President and some other high officials have menaced on several occasions. In this context, Israel sees deeply worried Iranian attempts to acquire nuclear technology for military uses.
3. Iran is the main supplier of weapons and financier of terrorist groups Hamas and Hizbullah, whose objetive is the destruction of Israel. The attacks of both Hamas and Hizbullah against the civil population of Israel have been the motive of the military operations of Israel in Lebanon (2006) and Gaza (2008-2009).
4. Argentinian Judges resolved (october 2006) that Iranian high officials were the responsible of the attack (july 1994) against the building of the Argentinian Jewish Community (AMIA) in which nearly 900 people were killed, and presented an international “search and arrest” order against several high officials and diplomats who were in charge of important posts back in 1994.
5. Finally, according to the last statistics published by Spanish Foreign Business Office, the volumen of weapons’ sales and double use equipments from Spain to Iran has been growing significantly and is now 30 times bigger than the sales of Spain to Israel.
Israel considers that an Iran with nuclear capacity is also a menace for the international stability in general. We can detain the Iranian nuclear program, but it’s only possible with a firm international action, without appeasement, concessions or short time commercial calculations.
2008 (only in the 1st semester): amount: 1.551.933 €
So, If those data are not wrong and Israel knows how to read Spanish statisics (of both conditions I am pretty sure), that means that Spain has sold, under our cosmic leader of the Alliance of Civilizations president Zapatero, 30 times those amounts in weapons and materials of double use (civil and military) to Iran. Hmm, and he said he was a pacifist… What would have happened if he had been a warmonger?
Larijani was cornered. In his answer he talked about an “overreaction” to the Holocaust. In any case, he said, “That’s a historical matter,” which has “nothing to do with us.” He was “neither for, nor against” the idea that the Holocaust had really occurred, saying it was an “open question.”
He thus delicately danced around a straight denial of the Holocaust, which is illegal in Germany. If Larijani had voiced the well-known opinion of his own president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he could have been arrested.
He also said that democracy can “be different from country to country”. Yeah, sure… the problem is that stupid people tend to be similar from country to country.
Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani on Sunday met International Olive Council secretary-general and planted Iran’s olive tree seedling in Madrid.
The Spanish official briefed Larijani on Spain’s olive export and then the two sides exchanged views on Iran-Spain economic ties.
If they do not embrace Islam, we should invite them to pay the jeziya tax and become dhimmis or to make a peace treaty with the Muslims, and we should again call a one-day truce for them to think over our proposal. If after one day they decide to pay the jeziya tax and become dhimmis or to make a peace treaty with the Muslims, we should accept their decision, and again war has been averted.
Hmm, so we are averting war selling them hugh amounts of weapons…
The curious thing of this “new” movement is precisely that it is not only aimed at people coming from countries outside Europe but also from other parts of Europe.
Sometimes it is just ridiculous. Italian city Lucca has ordered that all restaurants should have an Italian decoration, waiters should wear elegant clothes and speak English and (the important thing) they should serve Italian food. While the first requirements weren’t very much disputed, the latter has caused a lot of criticism. The opposition has even considered this as “meal racism”, or “racism considering that the restaurants that are going to be closed serve non-Italian meals”. Of course, the mere consideration from a etimological point of view of “meals/cooking’s racism” is just a total absurd. But the real thing is that the opposition is worried mainly about the Turkish döner kebabs but not about French, Spanish or Hindu restaurants, which normally tend to be owned by Italians, or about McDonalds or Burger King’s which are also included in the measure
Meanwhile, in Great Britain the situation is not as “ridiculous” but rather is much more worrying. Expat Yank points out the real problem:
Absolutely disgraceful reporting on the part of the Beeb. For as of that 11:10 report, nowhere in that piece is it made clear that those “overseas” and “foreign” workers are Italian EU nationals. Nor was it mentioned in yesterday’s initial piece. Nor is it gently pointed out that the protesting British workers themselves clearly don’t understand that those Italians have as much right to those jobs as do Britons.
What happens? A part of an oil refinery was being constructed, work which was won by IREM, an Italian-based contractor, which brought in its own workforce. So the workers from the Oil Refinery, even if no redundacy was going to be caused by those Italians, went on an unofficial strike. They can’t understand that, under European Union regulations, European citizens, can move throughout the territory of the EU, without restraint, to work.
Brown Warns Global Economy Is Slipping into Financial Protectionism
to afterwards saying:
what we’ve got to do over time, as I’ve always said, is that where there are jobs in this country, we need people with the skills, developed in this country”…
In Spain, we have a similar problem. Spanish Industry Minister, Miguel Sebastian, said that we should buy “Spanish products”, to help Spanish producers. So a journalist asked Zapatero if he supported that. As he was in a press conference with Portuguese Primer Minister, our cosmic leader from the Alliance of Civlizations President answered “I chose the ibéricos“, referring to both Spanish and Portuguese products, but not taking into account that in Spain that expression refers to this.
So the question is: are we really for a globalised economy with the natural competitiveness that it brings or rather are we going to go back to old protectionism? The economical crisis is going to point out which direction we are taking. But seeing President Obama calling for “Buy American products” is not a really good sign.
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