Royal Navy and Gibraltar police try to obstruct Spanish police from arresting drug traffickers

The Guardia Civil patrol were chasing a suspect vessel at high speeds. The vessel had come from Morocco and was trying to make for Gibraltar, where no doubt they had paid off the police and the Navy, when they were intercepted by the Guardia Civil fast patrol boat. The occupants of the unknown vessel started desperately to throw bales overboard but were apprehended 3 kms from the Rock by the Guardia Civil.

Suddenly they were surrounded by 5 or 6 vessels from the Gibraltar Customs, Gibraltar Police and the Royal Navy and subjected to threats and insults. The Guardia Civil finally managed to extricate themselves and their capture and returned to Algeciras port with the 2 occupants under arrest and over 100 kgs of hashish confiscated.

Gibraltar and Britain are trying to claim that Gibraltar has territorial waters, however, the Treaty of Utrecht gives no territorial waters to Gibraltar apart from the waters of its port. And in their efforts to claim these waters it appears the Gibraltarians don't give a fuck whether drug gangs, criminals get away.

Let's face it, Gibraltar is and always has been a safe haven for pirates, thieves, and crooks.

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Letter to the Daily Telegraph - Reply to Robin Yapp

Sir,

In his article "Israel 'supplied arms to Argentina during Falklands War", Robin Yapp describes Irgun as "the Zionist underground paramilitary movement which Begin commanded before the state of Israel was established."

Irgun was considered a terrorist organisation not only by the British authorities at the time (& Winston Churchill & the NYT) but also by the brand new Israeli government itself, which passed the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance in 1948 with the specific purpose of eliminating Irgun (& the other Zionist terrorist organisation, Lehi aka the Stern Gang). If one examines the list of Irgun attacks from 1937 on, one can see that they include indiscriminate attacks on civilians: bombs planted on trains, buses, and in cafés and cinemas, thrown into crowded markets - there is even record of a donkey-bomb killing 20 civilians in Haifa market - not to mention the truck bombs, shootings and assassinations of British officials and the bombing of the King David Hotel. Let us also not forget the Deir Yassin massacre carried out by Irgun and the assassination of the UN Mediator and President of the Swedish Red Cross: Count Folke Bernadotte which lead directly to the passing of the 1948 Israel Terrorism Act..

Further, considering that all these crimes constitute 'terrorism' under the definitions in the UK Terrorism Act 2000, one wonders exactly why Robin Yapp prefers to call the Irgun an 'underground paramilitary movement'. And in order to maintain impartiality will he and the Telegraph now be referring to Hamas as a 'Palestinian underground paramilitary movement'?

Yours Sincerely

Nuevo Radar de la DGT en España

Esta maquinita de fotos, aparentemente un inocente indicador de desvío por obras, es realmente un radar encubierto que lo están poniendo precisamente en esas zonas de obras de mantenimiento donde hay limitaciones de 20 Km/h o de 30 Km/h y cazan como moscas a los que van a la deslumbrante y peligrosa velocidad de 40 ó 50 Km/h y le atizan 200,00 Euretes y un par de puntos. No te digo si pasas, por no haber coches delante, a 80 ó 90 Km/h .
Se está utilizando incluso en carreteras sin obras a las que le ponen una limitación, un par de conos y a esperar 300 m más adelante a los pardillos.
Las están poniendo en todas las carreteras españolas y las cifras de recaudación son mareantes.

Do you like African music? I do. Try this one:

Yuri da Cunha kuma directed by dj marcell

Los Desayunos de TVE 16 Fevrero 2011: Respuesta a Joaquín Estefanía y Eduardo San Martín

Hablando de Berlusconi y Camps y todos los demás, Sr Estefania preguntó ¿qué hemos hecho mal?

En primer lugar, no hay ningún control psicológico sobre los que entran en la política. Por eso hay tantos y tantos psicópatas y/o sociópatas - solo hay que mirar al Sr. Tony Blair o Berlusconi mismo para ver el ejemplo perfecto en la política internacional, y los Srs. Camps, Fabra, Matas, Aznar, Zapatero, Chaves, etc., etc., etc., los ejemplos nacionales. Para la propia seguridad mundial deberían someterse a pruebas psicológicas todos que ocupen un cargo político, a nivel local, regional, nacional o internacional.

En segundo lugar, y haciendo eco del Sr. San Martin, las democracias occidentales están podridas, y la mayoría de la gente no ve ninguna salida y desconectan de la política. La culpa tienen la clase política - los psicópatas, los ladrones y mafiosos, y los que 'trabajan' (por decirlo así) para las grandes corpraciones (la mayoría)y para quienes hay una puerta giratoria entre la política y esas corporaciones (su sueldo se paga al final de la vida política).

También la culpa tiene algo que ver con 'Panem et circenses'. Las corporaciones han creado un sinfín de circos para mantener al pueblo distraído de la política: deportes por todas partes (hasta la misma TVE en la publicidad para la Champions viste las estrellas de futbol como gladiadores), los reality y las series de TV, los videojuegos. Y último pero no menos importante, no hay tiempo para la gran mayoría de estar bien informada, especialmente cuando los periodistas y los medios están en manos de las mismas corporaciones, y as veces ocultan deliberadamente o directamente censuran información importante.

Solo cuando toda esta gentuza empiezan a tomer demasiado el pelo al pueblo y comienza a faltar el pan, verremos escenas como Tunez, Egipto, Yemen, aquí, en Occidente.

Reagan Celebration Hides Brutal History

Wilkerson and Parry on Reagan Centennial: Many of today's catastrophes traced to Reagan's presidency

Where are the US riots?

While the Arab world seems to finally be waking up, the people of the US are still fast asleep.

Inspired by the Tunisian revolution against its dictatorial president and government, protestors in Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Jordan and Albania have taken to the streets, and up to 4 Moroccans have set themselves on fire. Reports are even coming in of an Egyptian stock market crash.

One just has to look at what the majority of people have been demonstrating against in these countries to wonder why these revolutions haven't yet hit the US: chronic unemployment and government corruption, something in abundance in the US.


I person in 7 - that's 15% of the population, or 45 million Americans - are poor according to Associated Press. There are well over 15 million officially unemployed. But the US considers the labour force the number of people employed plus the number unemployed but seeking work, while it considers the non-labour force tincludes those who are not looking for work, those who are institutionalised (eg prison) and those serving in the military. And its the shrinking numbers of the actual labour force that keeps the unemployment rate from going through the roof.

One must ask if they're brain dead too, as one wonders why they aren't all out in the streets...

Amnesty International: Inhumane Treatment of WikiLeaks Soldier Bradley Manning

Amnesty International has finally written a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates objecting to the conditions of Bradley Manning's detention:
Inhumane Treatment of WikiLeaks Soldier Bradley Manning | Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog

Both Glenn Greenwald and Prof. Juan Cole both have pieces on this:

Glenn Greenwald: "America's treatment of detainees"

Prof. Juan Cole: "Bradley Manning and Mohamed Bouazizi"

But why haven't they declared him to be a Prisoner of Conscience?

The UK's most senior civil servant, Sir Gus O'Donnell, covering up crimes against peace.

The UK's most senior civil servant, Sir Gus O'Donnell, is covering up crimes against peace. According to the Guardian:

"Britain's top civil servant, Sir Gus O'Donnell, is preventing the official inquiry into the Iraq invasion from publishing notes sent by Tony Blair to George W Bush - evidence described by the inquiry as of "central importance" in establishing the circumstances that led to war.

O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, consulted Blair before suppressing the documents, it emerged tonight."

What has the UK country become? How is it possible that in this day and age, unelected officials can have so much power? It's completely anti-democratic. Someone somewhere should take this man to court for covering up evidence of a crime.

Chilcott has written to this unelected, anti-democratic official at least 3 times and has received the same fobbing off each time: 'The Cabinet Office said: "There is an established convention covering papers of a previous administration whereby former ministers would normally be consulted before release of papers from their time in government."'

So what the Cabinet Office is really saying is that if Hitler had been British, it would have been impossible to release any papers without his consent, a full two fingers, basically telling the British electorate to fuck off.

It's high time that 'conventions' like this were made illegal by law. Or that there be a higher law that makes these conventions non-binding in cases of possible criminal conduct.

Somebody ought to have a serious word in O'Donnell's ear and tell him that if he doesn't release these papers it's off to the Hague with him. These fucking civil servants, they think they're so civilised yet they're nothing more than common criminals...

Kiko Veneno - La rama de barcelona (both versions)

Listen/watch Version 1 first then Version 2. Love it!

Kiko Veneno - La rama de barcelona (Version 1)



Kiko Veneno - La rama de barcelona (Version 2)