Spanish Confidential

State of Alert in Spain. Zapatero´s de facto Coup D´Etat

2010-12-04T13:36:00.005+01:00

This morning in Spain the government has passed an urgent law establishing the state of alert in all the country.

The excuse found to do so is no other than the wild cat strike announced yesterday December 3rd by the air traffic controllers.

The reason for the controllers to go on strike was the law passed yesterday evening by the government regulating these collectivity work frame.

The government knew with no doubt that by passing this law the eve of a 5 day holiday in Spain they would get the controllers really upset and most likely going on strike (as they finally did biting the government bait) and also hundreds of thousands stuck at the airports and a really.

There is no doubt this was a well planned plot to decrete the state of alert for the first time in Spanish democracy. Under the state of alert the government can seize property, arrest civil workers and force anyone to do a number of things.

This is, let us talk clear, a major COUP D´ETAT planned by Mr. Zapatero, the same so called leader that won the elections three days after a terrorist attack in Madrid in March 11th 2004.

Zapatero is lately in the brim of having to resign due to his total lack of sense of state and leadership and also due to his mistaken economic policy that has led Spain to have twice the unemployment rate of the EU.

Also he is constantly on his knees before tyrant king Mohamed of Morocco and many people are suspicious of Morocco´s involvement in March 11th 2004 attacks.

Many Spaniards believe that Zapatero knows that king Mohamed can disclose some information that could result devastating for Zapatero and the Spanish Socialist Party regarding the march 11th terrorist attack. King Mohamed is pushing hard on Spain and claiming the two Spanish cities in Northern Africa (Ceuta and Melilla) and Zapatero does nothing or maybe cannot do anything as he is being black mailed.

Be all on your guard because this man is a coward when it comes to face Spain´s enemies but rather tyrant when it comes to smash the Spanish civil society.

The air traffic controllers is the perfec smoke curtain to hide the truth: Zapatero is seizing our future and our freedom.

No planes flying in Spain. A very striking strike. Spanish government playing the smokescreen game

2010-12-04T05:20:00.007+01:00

Yesterday (friday, December 3rd) the air traffic controllers went on strike without previous notice in Spain.

One of the few things in Spain that the general public hates as much as our useless and lazy government is the air traffic controllers when they go on strike. Yesterday was the beginning of a 5 days holidays in Spain (monday and wednesday are holidays in all the country) and those who still can afford to take a plane for a holiday break ended up stuck at the Spanish airports when the air traffic controllers announced they went all sick simultaneously...

The air traffic controllers claim that the new law that was passed yesterday evening ruling their working legal frame was a frontal attack to their claims and thus they all became so upset that they were not able to perform their duties safely.

Some passengers were disembarked from the very plane when they were about to run the lane for take off.

The situation now is of over two hundred thousand people stuck in the airports, all pissed, waiting to take their planes to begin their already spoilt holidays.

The air traffic controllers are one of those groups that traditionally have the "muscle" to stop the country at their will. They enjoy salaries of over 200.000 euros per year and there are only 2400 of them.

Despite the fact that yesterday was the worst day to pass this law and knowing that the controllers have been continuously claiming that the government has not comply with what they agreed months ago the government did pass this controversial law in the worst possible moment.

The worst moment? Perhaps not if the purpose is to make others the target of hatred and complaints. These last months the government has had the monopoly of being the cause of social unrest and at least for some days the air traffic controllers will be sharing this unwanted position.

The worst moment? Perhaps not if what the government seeks is to divert the focus of media attention when in Morocco are sounding war drums and today the Moroccan authorities backed by their muppet parliament are organizing a protest march to the Spanish city of Ceuta in northern Africa.

The worst moment to pass this law? Perhaps not if the government is aiming to find something that would replace their obviously inadequate and random anti-crisis laws from the spotlight. Two out of the 5 million unemployed people in spain live in a household where not a single person has any income and the 426 euros aid to long term unemployed will disappear next february.

Our country needs urgent structural changes such as an employment legal frame that could oil the hiring market or to put our huge central and regional administrations on a severe budget diet but instead our government cuts the only support given to those who cannot, and will possibly not be able for years, get hired condemning them to poverty if not to committing illegal actions.

We could save twice or more that money our government is denying to those in bigger need by cutting central and regional governments expenditures on silly things such as beginning with firing those thousands of useless advisors, the hundreds of para-administrative organizations, by cutting salaries and by firing the enormous amount of administration workers that work from 9 to 2 and take a 2 hour break for "breakfast".

The government was urged to pass this air control law months ago and they could have waited another week or even a month instead of passing it in the worst possible moment, on the eve of a holiday, but they chose to do it in the worst possible moment for a reason: Zapatero needs to divert the social attention.

Now the air traffic controllers will be under military authority and Zapatero will let all that built in social tension he is responsible of flow against them bringing us this "piñata" so that we get exhausted hitting this new rag doll and giving him (Zapatero) a break.

But more and more people is aware of this maneuver and although we are all pissed with the air traffic controllers most of us will also claim the government for this and this morning we shall see the Moroccan king henchmen marching against Spain and after some few days we shall again be suffering the ineptitude of this curse named Zapatero.

Yet another thing. It seems that our king´s health is not as good as they said and succession may be closer than we expected. I do not like our king at all (you can surf this blog and read about it) but neither do I like our lazy prince and I am sure many will take advantage of the succession should this occur in short. So watch out for what Moroccan king is about to do and how will Zapatero manages that knowing that Morocco (maybe) keeps a secret that affects many and that has kept Zapatero completely silent about Moroccan insults.

The story of a (possible) betrayal. Chirac, Mohamed and Zapatero together against Spain?

2010-11-29T13:30:00.010+01:00

In 2001 Spain was becoming stronger in the Gibraltar Strait scenario, Spain did not let dictator Mohamed Sixth play with Spain the usual menace game of "you do this or things will happen..."; our country had its own foreign policy and was defending its strategical interests.

Traditionally France and Morocco have shared a common interest in keeping Spain relatively weak. France has always had a big interest in keeping some control in the area of the Strait of Gibraltar through its Moroccan ally and the allience Mr. José María Aznar had established with the US and Britain was a matter of concern in Paris.

France had important oil businesses going on with Sadam Hussein at the time of the US British military intervention in Irak, and french authorities did all they could to refrain other countries from intervening.

Mr. Zapatero paid a visit to tyrant king Mohamed Sixth in December 2001 at the time when the Moroccan ambassador to Madrid had been withdrawn and Morocco was using its traditional methods of putting pressure: allowing illegal immigrants cross the border to Spain and letting the drug flow into Europe (if you wonder if the Moroccan king has some share in these two "businesses" just remeber that nothing goes on there without some kind of royal consent).

Since one of Zapatero´s main points was what he called to return to the "heart of Europe" (meaning France and Germany) instead of building the transatlantic bond with the US, Zapatero was an easy prey for the Moroccan dictator who knew he could use this power thirsty maniac to his benefit. Mohammed promised Zapatero his support if Zapatero gave him in exchange the guarantees of changing the Spanish foreign policy once he was in office. France of course was more than happy if Mohammed could help them get rid of the audacious José María Aznar.

And there he was sitting by Mohammed in a room presided by a map of Morocco that included non Moroccan territories like Ceuta, Melilla, the Canary Islands or the Western Sahara.

Morocco was very concerned about the facts that Spain was supporting the implementation of the UN resolution on conducting a referendum of self-determination in Western Sahara (something Morocco totally opposes) and was building a good relation with Morocco traditional foe: Algeria.

All these things infuriated the Sultan and his French ally. Some months later Morocco put to test the Spanish government determination by invading a small Spanish island (Perejil). Moroccan authorities wanted to see if Spain was going to back up in its will to mantain a strong position and defending the Spanish strategical interest and the answer came in July 2002 when this island was liberated.

The day after this bloodless Spanish intervention King Mohammed VI sent her sister, Princess Lalla Mariam, to Paris with an urgent message for Jacques Chirac. Mohamed VI urged Chirac to act together to rein Spain in. The response from Paris to Mohamed VI was this: "It's now or never when we must act to oppose the Spanish penetration in Morocco." (source Ignacio Cembrero, journalist in "El País" newspaper)

It must also be said that during the Perejil island crisis France never showed its support to Spain even though these two countries are allies within the European Union and the NATO, which is very revealing.

France and Morocco knew then that Aznar was not going to change his policy and they also knew that Zapatero was going to "return" to the "heart of Europe" (whatever the hell that is) and also to let Mohammed do and undo at his royal will in the Western Sahara. Also, and very important, Zapatero must have promised in those days to give a lower profile to the Spanish-Algerian relations and the facts are that Algeria is really pissed with Zapatero after the Spanish government paid a ramson to the same terrorist that Algeria is continuously fighting. Of course now Algeria is threatening to increase gas prices to Spain.

Then in March 11th 2004, 3 days before the General Elections in Spain the attack took place and Zapatero achieved an unexpected victory. Those who planned the attacks new very well what the reaction would be among Spanish voters. The attack was performed to make Zapatero become President in Spain. Almost all the attackers were Moroccans and the first thing they asked after being able to speak to their lawyers was : "who has won the elections?"

Al Qaeda knows very little aout the complexities of Spanish idiosyncrasy and they would never have come up with such a sociological attack. This attack was perpetrated in the precise date and in the precise manner so as to change the will of the voters and achieve its goals.

The interesting part is that these goals were pretty much consistent with the interests of both Moocco and France. Striking, isn´t it?

Pd. Morocco is beating, raping, sacking and torturing the Western Sahara population these days but do not look for a note of protest from the Spanish government...you will not find that...Striking isn´t it?

Tales of a Traitor blackmailed by a Tyrant. Is President Zapatero paying King Mohamed´s silence over a coup d´etat disguised as a terrorist attack?

2010-11-21T09:07:00.021+01:00

Sometimes the worst possible scenario is the only one that makes sense.

Did Moroccan secret services and thus omnipresent King Mohammed have something to do with the 11th of March 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid?

If the answer is yes: Why were the Moroccan authorities interested in helping these attacks take place just 3 days before the Spanish General Elections?

If the answer to the above question is that the final outcome of those General Elections, Mr. Zapatero unexpected victory, was what Moroccan services were seeking then the third question would be if Zapatero or the Spanish Socialist Party at any level knew about the Moroccan plotting.

If the answer to the last question is yes then there is a final set of questions with very disturbing answers whatever these may be :

Did the Spanish Socialist Party cooperate at any level with this plot?

Did they know the proportions of this undercover coup d´etat, that is 192 killed persons?

What did Moroccan services and the king ask for in return for their "assistance"?

Let us go over what has been going on in the last 9 years.

Year 2001, Mr. José María Aznar, Popular Party, is leading the Spanish government. The Spanish foreign policy is aligned with the USA and Great Britain and there is a solid support to the war on terrorism. In Northern Africa Mr. Aznar is aligned with Algeria, Morocco´s first enemy in the area and Spain´s main natural gas supplier.

The Spanish pro-Algerian position infuriates King Mohammed of Morocco. Algeria has several disputes with Morocco including the Western Sahara. The Saharaui cause has historically been supported by Algeria, who was excluded of the Madrid Treaty, after Spain cowardly handed the control of the territory to satisfy Moroccan imperial will.

Spain is pushing forward the creation of a census in Western Sahara in order to comply with UN resolutions for the referendum of self-determination of the inhabitants of this occupied territory. Spain is also strengthening its military might in both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, saying no to Moroccan exorbitant economic claims to allow Spainish ships to fish in what only Morocco considers its own waters (Western Sahara waters in fact). Also discussions have not progressed on a comprehensive maritime delimitation, setting limits on resource exploration and refugee interdiction, leading Spain to unilaterally designate a median line from the Canary Islands.

Morocco´s answers to this unspected strong position from Spain is to foster illegal inmigration and to withdraw its ambassador to Madrid. Never since the 1960´s had Spain showed this determination to Moroccan tyrants.

In December 2001 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, leader of the Spanish Socialist Party since 2000, visited King Mohammed and accepted to be photographed sitting by the king with a big map of Morocco, that included Spanish territories, presiding the scene. Why did the tyrant invited Zapatero and why was Zapatero providing political support to this tyrant in a very tense moment, only 2 months after Morocco decided to withdraw its ambassador to Madrid? Why on Earth was Zapatero acting as if he was a loyal subject of Mohammed? Why was Zapatero in need of the tyrant´s support and at the time when this tyrant was acting undisguised as a true enemy of Spain?

What could have made the leader of a party that has historically supported the Saharaui people go kotowing the tyrant that has succeeded his bloody father in torturing and harassing those Saharaui men and women?

Imagine the Republican Party leader paying a visit to the leader of a country that has withdrawn its ambassador in Washington and that declares Obama a traitor!!

In July 2002 Moroccan troops occupied the Island of Perejil, a tiny Spanish uninhabited island in the Strait of Gibraltar claimed by Morocco. The purpose of this action was no other than to test the Spanish answer and to acquire an advantageous position to negotiate with the hated Aznar´s government. Some weeks later Spanish elite troops expelled the Moroccan military with no blood shed sending a very strong response to King Mohammed.

Spain was determined to go on supporting the Sahara Referendum, to strengthen its military control of its waters and to build up a friendly relationship with Algeria and it was Morocco´s problem to send a new ambassador to Madrid, and most important was not going to allow king Mohammed to goof around with sovereignity matters.

Then in March 11th 2004 several bombs killed 192 persons in Madrid and 3 days later Zapatero unexpected victory was a fact.

"Evidence" were "found" in 24 hours leading to determine it had been an Islamic act of terror. Such as a conveniently handy-dandy Q´aram cassete tape in a van, a hand bag with a type of explosive that is not the one used by ETA (funny that this bomb had no igniting device...)

The attack has never been claimed by Al Qaeda, the modus operandi was completely different to the attacks in New York and London, no suicide attack was committed. All the evidences from the train debris, unclaimed clothes and objects were destroyed or put to fire in less than a week.

All the suppoused authors of the attack died some weeks later in a flat surrounded by the police after an alleged shooting. The only ones who escaped either ran to Morocco and ended up vanishing or allegedly died in Irak or Afghanistan.

No intellectual mastermind of these attacks was ever determined to be behind the whole plot or was ever found.

Years later it has been scientifically proven that the explosive blasted in those trains was not the alleged Goma 2 ECO nor Goma 2 EC...the same found in the phony evidence conveniently "found" in the hand bag the police used to determined the type of explosive...Six Police, Guardia Civil and independent specialists came to that same conclusion: The explosive found in the scarce evidence that was not destroyed was NOT the explosive determined to have been during the trial.

All evidence lead to believe that the same sewer systems of the Police loyal to the Socialist Party during the dirty war against ETA had fooled the still in office Spanish government to make it first believe that it was ETA and then "solving" the case by finding the appropriate evidences in a record time.

Basically they had 48 hours to do that so everyone would go to vote thinking that the government had lied to the people and that the attacks were the consequence of the Spanish support to the USA in the Irak war.

Over 90% of the arrested and convicted criminals were police informers, and mostly Moroccans and they made their living by dealing with drugs

During those days someone named Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba dared to say: "Spain deserves a government that will not lie".(This man is now Minister of the Interior and has an unbeatable track record of lies and humbugs. In 1995 he said that there would never be any evidence of the suppoused support given by the Socialist Government to illegal counter terrorists group GAL and months later the Minister of Interior was imprisoned for that support together with the Chief of Police.)

You can read more about the March 11th 2004 attacks in Madrid in this blog but going back to the consequences that this terrorist attack had for the Moroccan-Spanish ralations let us go over what has happened in recent years, months and days:

-Spain has quited supporting the Sahara´s Referendum. Now the Spanish position is that both parties must come to an agreement (regardless of what the agreement is like)

-Spain has abandoned its position regarding the territorial waters between Canary Islands and the coast of Morocco.

-The Artillery Command deployed in the Strait of Gibraltar has been dismantled and raplaced by a simple regiment

-Morocco is building its biggest naval base 20 kilometers away from the Spanish town of Ceuta.

-During the King´s supported "spontaneous" demonstrations in the border between Spain and Morocco in Melilla where Spanish police women were insulted and threatened and the demosntrators accused of racism to our police with no evidences the minister of Foreign Affairs did not end his holidays in France and there was no protest note from the Spanish Government.

-These days the Moroccan Army has stormed in a civilian saharaui camp, arresting, shooting and killing, looting and plundering and they have expelled all Spanish journalists covering this massacre. The Moroccan Foreign Affairs minister in a join press conference with his colleague Trinidad Jiménez has accused the Spanish media of being anti-Moroccan, biassed and even racists and our minister Mrs. Jiménez said that she respects but does not share her colleague opinion. No condemn about the murder of civilians, a Spanish citizen among these. President Zapatero has not yet said a word about this.

No matter what Morocco does, Spain´s official answer is that Morocco is one of our dearest friends and that we shall ask the Moroccan authorities about their opinion on what has happened, no official condemnation or a hint of criticism that could annoy King Mohammed.

Perhaps the criminal attacks on March 11th 2004 are not the reason for it, but the facts prove that after these attacks and since Zapatero has been running the Spanish Government (also since March 2004) the Moroccan authorities have achieved all they wanted with respect to Spain.

Unfortunately there is no other explanation more reasonable to understand Spain´s current position with respect to Morocco and the submissive behaviour of our President and all his cabinet when dealing with the non democratic government of Morocco than to acknowledge that Moroccan services know something that could destroy Zapatero´s political future and plunge the Spanish Socialist Party into the depths of hatred of all Spaniards...for centuries.

Sometimes the worst possible scenario is the only one that makes sense...and sometimes I wish I had no common sense or at least I DO wish I my common sense is fooling me. However traitors exist and so do tyrants and sometimes they meet in December.

What can Zapatero expect after being the worst curse Spain has had to suffer in the last 35 years? A lifetime salary! Part 1

2010-10-11T11:46:00.016+02:00

The man you see in the picture will soon be swept from office in the forecoming general elections 2012 unless we get lucky and he ends up admiting we need elections sooner and admiting he has been a curse to our country.

Dissenting voices are being heard these days in Zapatero´s Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) calling for a "change" of policies and not hiding that the best change would be to lose sight of Zapatero for the next 4 or 50 years.

Critics are springing up like mushrooms in autumn after Zapatero´s chosen one to run as candidate to the Madrid regional elections (Trinidad Jiménez) was defeated in the primary elections held this last October 3rd and after the polls published in 3 important newspapers show a gap of almost 14 points between PP and PSOE.

PSOE´s regional leaders are not being critic after realizing that Zapatero is a damnation for our country, that they knew long ago and did not care when they did not feel their "thrones" at risk, they are being critic now that they are really scared of losing their priviledges and status.

In some regions like Andalucía PSOE has been the ruling party for the last 35 years and losing that position is a nightmare for the thousands of PSOE politicians and tens of thousands of friends and relatives of these that have been digitally (using the finger) appointed. Not to mention all the rubbish that a rotten regional administration and an accomplice judicial system have been hiding for decades

In terms of national economy Zapatero´s legacy is a total tragedy for all of us. A soaring foreign debt skirocketing in the last three years, some 5 million real unemployed workers (22% of the total workforce) coming from 2 million in 2004 (11%), 2 out of 3 new unemployed workers in the EU live in Spain, our unemployment rate doubles that of the Eurozone and it is 2.5 times OCDE´s average unemployment.

Zapatero has weaken the Spain´s unity by irresponsibly supporting divising laws and by granting nazionalist parties political and economical support. He has divided the civil society by passing laws allowing 16 year old girls to abort without parental consent.

It is really odd that while Zapatero allows underage girls to kill their babies on their own he does not allow them to go to the cinema to watch a movie (Blood Money) about the thriving abortion industry, its killing methods and the psycological consequences of abortion. This movie is rated +18...

Zapatero´s cabinet is crowded with either unskilled socialist demagogues heading useless ministries or professional liers such as our Vice President María Teresa Fernández de la Vega or ministry of interior Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba. Zapatero has always removed from his side independent thinkers and intelligent people who rather serve Spain than our maniac President.

Soon part two. More figures and some interesting information about Zapatero´s boys and girls

General Strike in Spain, the big masquerade.

2010-10-06T15:52:00.005+02:00

The call from the two main Spanish sindicates for a General Strike on this last September 29th resulted in a big fiasco for these two state budget parasites organizations: UGT and CCOO.

With some 2 million affiliates out of some 19 million active workers they claim to represent the interests of Spanish workers.

This "general" strike was followed and supported by less than 10 per cent among civil servants in the administration and almost ignored by all the small and medium size companies and their employees specially those involved in the services activity. The only real impact was in the industrial sector where the so called "information pickets" could easily "convince" their colleagues of the need to second this strike.

In Madrid all shops were opened and they only shut when these pickets showed up to immediately re-open when the pickets moved away.

The bus transport in Madrid was sabotaged early in the morning in the garages but once the pickets were forced not to "inform" so intensively buses operated as usual as so did the subway all day long.

In Barcelona it was rather different. The anti-system elements that the Catalan regional government has pampered for so many years (the guy in charge of the police there is an anti-system communist-ecologist himself and so is the elder son of the President Montilla) roamed the streets of downtown Barcelona defying police and setting urban cashiers and waste bins in fire, ending in a police car on fire.

Power comsumption diminished only by some 11% compared to what it was expected if the strike would have not taken place (in other general strikes it was over 20% less) and people all accross the country showed their contempt for these trade unionists that so "kindly" asked them to follow their slogans.

Spain has some real 5 million unemployed persons, this accounts for 21% of the active population and is over twice the average of the European Union.

When Mr. Zapatero came to power back in 2004 we had roughly 10% of unemployment rate and an state budget surplus. during these last 6 years Mr Zapatero´s policies have put Spain to the brim of ruin and bankruptcy...With the approval of the two main sindicates!!!

When forced by the European Union, the USA and China (Chinese Prime Minister and President Obama called President Zapatero almost the same day in May to tell him that he either shifted his economic policy and changed or he would be in serious trouble) Mr. Zapatero announced, some 5 months ago, budget and salary (for the administration workers) cuts. This change of policy has finally triggered this strike when the two sindicates exploded with calculated rage.

A very well calculated rage we must say because the strike was against the entrepreneurs and the Popular Party more than against Mr. Zapatero who they know is not acting on his on will but remotely directed by Brussels and Washington.

It is really odd and striking (yes this word goes realy well in here!) that these trade unions which supported Zapatero on his way to the present ruinous situation and that said nothing when Zapatero denied the very existence of an upcoming crisis two years ago or when the unemployment rate grew rapidly due to that policy that they supported and are therefore co-responsible of the present situation, have called for a general strike against the budget cuts that Spain has had to implement.

It is as if someone who has been trying to put a fire out by pouring gasoline goes completely crazy when the chief fireman decides to give it a chance to using water...

This sindicates get hundreds of million in state and regional grants, have thousands of wht they call liberates (basically they get paid and do not work so as to suppousedly have time to look after their colleagues labor problems), earn fortunes by monopolize the training courses that unemployed people do and that are useless.

They have behaved like leeches always sucking from the state budget and always willing to plunder tax payers and they are still doing that. They have put on stage a soft strike so as not to offend too much Mr. Zapatero for they are very well awared of the fact that they cannot exist on their own strength funding their expenses only from their affiliates dues.

The main Trade Union leaders earn fortunes and have exquisite tastes when choosing their holidays or restaurants and the mere idea of having to work scares them to death.

This last sunday shortly after this masquerade strike (Oct. 3rd) newspaper "El País" has published a poll showing almost 15 points of difference between PP (Popular Party) and PSOE (Socialist Party): 43% versus 28%. El País is by the way a traditional ally to the PSOE.

Somehow people is fed up with all the lies Zapatero keeps repeating and this strike that was not intended to impact in the President´s image too much devastated his already weak position.

Stay tuned for Zapatero´s next moves, he is now desperate and he is very dangerous. Do not forget what happened shortly before he came to power in 2004...

One more on reciprocity and Islam

2010-09-26T05:17:00.004+02:00

La Meca disco was founded in 1989 in the city of Águilas in the south east province of Murcia (Spain) with the only intention of establishing an entertainment business with some arab glamour.

This month of June "La Meca" was re-opened and this has exacerbated the wrath of several muslim groups accross the Islamic world.

If we were to believe that always repeated mantra most Western politicians want to tattoo in our brains that proclaims that only fundamentalistic muslims are evil, we would expect that only those fundamentalists have had a negative reaction regarding the fact that a disco has the name of an Arab city.

Well, contrary to what we could expect if we were to believe the bunch of naive and silly politicians that rule our Western countries the reaction accross the Umma (Islam countries and peoples) has been negative and threatening.

The same "spontaneous" group that led the demonstrations which took place at the Moroccan-Spanish border by the city of Melilla ("The Platform of Northern Morocco Civil Society") accusing the Spanish police to be racist without any evidence has urged the Moroccan Ulema Council to rule on the relations that the Spanish Popular Party (PP) has with muslim organizations in the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla and they have added:

"...Especially when the party that promoted and gave approval to the name of Mecca to a nightclub in the coastal town of Murcia which governs this extremist party"

This Moroccan civil society organization that insulted and denigrated Spanish policewomen without presenting any evidence and that did not mention that some of those policewomen they yielded at had been spitted on, threatened and even slapped in their faces by Moroccan men entering Spain only for the fact of being women and doing their duties as policewomen.

In Morocco there is no "civil" society; the country is completely controlled by the dictatorship system former king Hassan II established and that his son Mohamed VI has improved and consolidated. No one does anything without the system´s approval, no one has profitable business without the king´s consent, newspapers can and are seized for whatever reason, etc. It is really funny how the Moroccan authoritarian regime has come with the "civil society" term to name this remote controlled organization that was created ad hoc for the occasion.

The re-opening of this disco has been featured in Al Jazeera Television, as well as in many other allegedly moderate muslim TV stations accross the world, also arab press, radio, web pages and all the media and the unanimous conclusion is that the fact that a disco is named after the city of Mecca is an insult. Then the official integrists muslim organizations have called to the holy war against Spanish crusaders, the demolition of our nuclear plants, the need for retaliation and all their usual crappy and sicky slogans and threats.

Meanwhile the moderate muslim community in Murcia has, while proclaiming how modarate and nice people they are, asked for the change of name for this disco as well as for some architectural remodeling.

The owners of this business have agreed to change the name and to undertake the appropriate changes of the building so as to become a more muslim friendly business.

Did these entrepreneurs accept these suggested changes out of an special sensitivity towards religion and not to offend muslims or were they scared to death of what they knew was behind the suggestions these muslim community representatives made?

Maybe the answer can be found in the endless number of businesses named "La Catedral" (The Cathedral) or La Iglesia (The Church) accross Spain. I have no news about The Vatican issuing a protest note or about Christian media calling for war.

At the end this is very much the same as the unanimous condemn that came out of the muslim world after those cartoons depicting Mohammed where published in Denmark.

Islam does not tolerate freedom of speech and has no room for sense of humor when who they claim to be a prophet is involved and that same applies to whatever they may think is holy and thus us infidels must refrain from even comment.

The same people who do not let us proselytize in the muslim countries, do not only proselytize in ours but also tell us how we must deal with whatever they consider sacred. The same people who have a highway in Saudi Arabia with a large highway sign (see picture above) that forbids non muslims to continue towards Mecca is telling us that we must rename a discotheque, build a mosque where muslims terrorist killed thousands of people or change our laws to adpt them to their lovely Sharia.

I would say it is about time to wake up and become aware of a fact that is as real as the sun rising in the east: Regardless of what we think Islam seeks, and means, submission not only from muslims, but also from us infidels and in a larger degree.

President Obama or our bewitched President zapatero can come up with their bollocks any time but that will not change the cold facts. We may not be at war with Islam but Islam is at a constant war with anything that is not Isam.

The problem is not the people but the ideology behind Islam and its compulsory mandates for supremacy. Scary? Yes, as scary as true; if someone wants your house and family the fact that you pretend to be his friend will not deter him from those objectives, furthermore it will encourage him to go on. It is about time to open a dabate on the need Islam has for a big change, or else we shall all be soon praying towards Mecca...

Obama´s speeches or don´t letting the truth spoil your false fantasies

2010-09-13T10:12:00.004+02:00

In his famous speech at Cairo university President Obama said among other naiveness things:

"Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition."

Let us analyze that sentence.

Definition of tradition by the Merriam-Webster dictionary:

"An inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action or behaviour."

July 2010, Pakistan. Let us see how that inherited and established pattern applies today:

Recently more Christians are facing charges under the controversial blasphemy laws in Pakistan. Christian families in Lahore were forced to flee for their safety as thousands of Muslim protesters demanded death for Christians in Faisalabad who are alleged to have blasphemed against Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

Muslim mobs marched July 10-11 in Faisalabad City, in the province of Punjab, demanding the death penalty for two Christians, brothers Rashid Emmanuel, 32, an Evangelical pastor, and Sajid Emmanuel, a graduate business student of Daud Nagar, Faisalabad. They were arrested on July 2 on the charges of writing a pamphlet with blasphemous remarks about Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). They were detained at the Civil Lines Police Station Faisalabad.

Does that sound like a customary pattern of tolerance? Let us see what Mohamed, founder of Islam had to say to establish the beginning of that tradition of tolerance that Islam has according to barack Mohamed Obama:

"The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter" (Qur´an 5:33)

Very tolerant, isn´t it?

Qur’an9:123 “Fight the unbelievers around you, and let them find harshness in you.”

And the list goes on and on proving the origings of that customary pattern of tolerance Islam has for Obama.

But let us go back to President Obama´s sentences during that amazing speech full of lies and wishful thinking adressed to the Cairo University students:

"Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition."

The second of these sentences says that Islam proved to be tolerant in Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. It is hard to say so many lies all together with such few words.

Obama claims himself as a historian sometimes, then how can he read this total fiction sentence without blushing?

During the Inquisition (it would be more appropriate to say in the time of...) Cordoba was no longer under Islam´s fist. It had been reconquest by Ferdinand the Third in 1236 and all the lives of the inhabitants respected.

Lie number 1:

The Inquisition was enforced in Spain in 1478. An Islam ruled Cordoba NEVER coexisted with the Inquisition in Spain.

By the way President Obama forgets the fact that muslims were INVASORS that our ancestors fought for 800 years.

Lie number 2:

President Obama, the historian, forgets or does not know that Andalusia is the name of a region in Spain and in the times when we were INVADED by those "tolerant" muslims they named all Spain Al Andalus. The name of Andalusia comes from this name given to ALL Spain and Portugal so if Obama would have been more precise he would have used the term Al Andalus and not Andalusia.

Lie number 3:

Muslims in Spain were by no means tolerant. Non muslims were forced to pay the "Jizya" and and other special taxes for non muslims. You can imagine how many christians converted to Islam to be exented from these taxes!! Bells were not allowed to toll, non muslims were forbidden in certain jobs, muslims were told not to greet non muslims, muslims applied a total separation and granted not muslims the worst jobs and a third class citizens status.

Averroes translated the work of Aristotle for Sultan Jusuf I. As he died, his successor, Jakub Al-Mansur issued a decree in 1195 proclaiming that Greek philosophy was banned, burned the books of Aristotle and Averroes's work. Averroes was whipped before the Cordoba Mosque (built after demolishing a church in that very same spot) and was sent to the exile.

Tolerant Islam in Al Andalus Mr. Obama? Bullshit! Seems like some Imman who wants to build a mosque in NYC ground zero with funds from "tolerant" Persian Gulf states, wrote your speech since it lacks any credibility and it is nothing but fairy tales and a bunch of malicious lies.

Now Obama has said that the US is at war with Al Qaeda and not with Islam. Whatever Mr. President but you should know that Islam was, is, and will be, at war with what the West represents.

Ground Zero Mosque. Only muslims have got rights. Non muslims cannot complaint

2010-09-10T10:31:00.010+02:00

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf the man promoting the building of the Ground Zero Mosque talks about serving the community, about love and understanding between faiths and about not politicizing religion and on the other hand he says that if the mosque is finally not built in the sorroundings of Ground Zero the muslim world will take this as an offence to Islam and the muslim world will understand that Islam is under attack.

Jolly good Mr. Rauf !! All your bollocks about that peace and understanding that you pretend us to believe that Islam fosters vanish the very moment you say that if you don´t get what you want then the muslim world will be very upset and see it as an offence and as an attack on Islam. Then you go on with that bullshit of yours saying that the mosque must be built on the grounds of national security being preserved. Yes we understand what you mean, if you don´t get what you want maybe the "bad guys" will do evil things, and of course no one wants these bad boys doing such things, don´t we Mr. Rauf?

Thank you Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf for acting like some kind of mafia godfather henchman that kindly warns us of what could happen if we do not do as we are being told!!

What will be next thing the West will have to do so as not to offend the peace and loving followers of Mohamed? why not a mosque in St. Peter´s Cathedral or why not teaching the Koran in all western schools?

Don´t we remember Palestinian children rejoicing at the terrorist attack on 9-11 and their parents cellebrating in the streets, I bet some of them were muslims...

Let´s imagine a bishop on Aljazeera television complaining about not being allowed to build a church in Mecca, shall we? Well only imagine it because it will never happen. The same people Mr. Rauf goes to visit in the Persian Gulf States that tell him how disappointed all muslims will be if a mosque is not built near the place where 4000 people died because some muslims in the name of Allah crashed two airplanes, they will by no means allow any church being built in Saudi Arabia and no bibles or new testaments being in their bookshops.

These people who argue and complaint about how bad Islam and muslims are treated do not EVER demonstrate to protest for the killing of priests in Turkey or the burning of bibles and churches accross the muslim Umma.

These people who ask for equal rights in the West for their religion followers do not allow other religions to proselytize in their countries. Morocco has recently expelled American Christians that were taking care of orphans. Morocco law as well as all other muslim countries legislation forbid to proselytize their nationals.

These Saudi king and princes build huge mosques all accross the Western countries and demand respect for their faith and in their country they beat Philippins servants that are caught praying or have a rosary or a bible. They do not allow to build churches or to worship and they claim for their rights abroad?

I think that Islam and muslims treat us as what they think we are (and I am afraid they are close to be right): idiots.

Muslims in all Western Europe are plundering the welfare state using the public free services such as medical care, education, integration income support, etc in a much larger scale than the rest of the population. They demand everything and collapse our services on and on and they complaint on everything here in Spain. Back in their country they kick anyone that they may think is preaching the Word of God (the Christian God, the merciful) to their citizens.

Do they claim for equal rights? It is a deal!! But they abuse the freedom we enjoy in the West to take advantage of our idiocy while they ban, forbid and prosecute christians, buddists or anyone that is not muslim.

In many muslim countries there are even specific taxes only for non muslims, in Egypt they burn Copt churches and in Indonesia they kill christians and I do not see those so called moderate muslims demonstrating against these muslim crimes.

Moderate muslims are just like UFOs, many people claim to have seen one or two but there are no actual evidences of their existence.

Now let us go back to that fictitious priest demanding in Aljazeera the building of a church in Mecca. Imagine this bishop that has come from a tour to different christian countries telling the interviewer "If this church cannot be built in Mecca the national security of muslim countries will be at risk". Odd isn´t it? What would the reaction from muslims be? Now imagine that that church is going to be built in the same spot where some fictitious christian fundamentalists blasted some bombs. Would muslim countries like the idea? Would they allow this church to be built for the sake of the freedom of cult that they of course don´t have?

If anyone can come up with an answer to those questions please leave a reply.

American flags are burnt in several muslim countries on a regular basis, it is almost a national sport in Iran and now there is a pastor in Florida who tells he will burn one or two Korans and that is a horrid sin and a matter of national security. I don´t like to burn books and I think the Koran is a good book for those who enjoy terror novels but it seems that here the only ones who have sensibility are muslims. I find ablation a much worse thing, I find stoning a much worse thing, I find burning churches and killing christians a much worse thing and yet in muslim countries those practices are usual.

In other words. Imagine dear reader that you like wine and I like beer and in my house wine is forbidden. I go to your house and I protest because you dont want to give me a fourth beer and another day you come over to my place and you ask me for some wine and I go nuts and tell you that that is an insult and that of course I will not give you wine and that you must respect my traditions.

It is as simple as that. Some reciprocity and some respect from the Islamic world is not only a need, it should be a MUST.

Some people here in Spain talk about something they call the Civilizacions Alliance, what I claim is an allience of civilized people to stop these abuses and lack of respect that us western people suffer in silence from the muslim world.

Mr. Rauf wants to name his mosque "The house of Cordoba" we shall have time to dedicate a post about why did he chose that name and what does Barack Obama have to do with that name as well.

Al Qaeda praises and congratulates Zapatero. ETA wants his share too

2010-09-09T13:37:00.006+02:00

In Spain the Ministry of Foreign affairs should be renamed as the Ministry for the Affairs of Foreigners.

Some months ago (see the post dedicated to it here http://thespanishview.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-paying-ramson-best-choice-zapatero.html ) two Spanish citizens were liberated by suppousedly Al Qaeda terrorist in North West Africa. The ransom payed was of some 5 to 8 million euros.

Spanish government made no comments on the money issue but Al Qaeda praised the behaviour of the Spanish government as opposed to that of the French. A French citizen who was also held captive by alqaeda in the same area was killed after a commando strike failed to rescue him. This man, like the two Spanish, was also in some humanitarian aid mission in the area but the French did not pay, thus Al Qaeda congratulated the Spanish Government for the way in which they had handle the issue and the French man was killed...

For God sake, why do we have to pay a ramson for these people on the first place? They knew where they were going and what goes on there. Now this non governmental organization is announcing a new aid trail for next season!!! Do they expect us all to pay again?

If we pay for grown people who take the decission to travel to a high risk area why on earth do not we pay for all kidnapped children? do we only pay to muslim terrorists or for those kidnapings that have a media coverage?

Zapatero, if YOU pay terrorist to save 2 lives this is what you get:

Terrorist will not use that money to buy food or medicines for starved children, they will not buy toys or candy. They will buy guns and ammunition to go with their killing and plundering business
Terrorist will take good note that a Spanish citizen is worth some 3 to 4 million euros whereas a French can cost the lives of the terrorists. Great news for Spaniards travelling the world: we are the most sought after by any "smart" terrorist
the Algerian government is really upset with this Spanish attitude because they suffer the impact that this money have in their country. We have funded terrorists, terrorist do kill, therefore we have funded murder. Algeria is really very upset with the Spanish government for this matter and also for the fact that Morocco is Algeria´s first enemy (they have a territorial dispute of more than 150,000 sq kilometers in the north-central border and the Western Saharan pro independence and anti-Maroccan forces´headquarters and the logistical support are in Algeria). Algeria is Spain´s most important natural gas supplier until now. As anyone can imagine the Algerian government is not in a romance with spain nowadays.

As icing on the cake we gave away a sea surveillance airplane for free to Mauritanian authorities to thank them for the liberation of a terrorist (these terrorist do not just wanted money...)

Our chancellor Moratinos seems to be under some spell and behaves as he was to defend all dictators in the world instead of Spain´s interests. Who pays for your salary Miguel Ángel? Why don´t you have the guts to catch a plane and fly to Algiers to explain your boss´conduct?

Moroccan King Mohamed´s henchmen spit and insult Spanish policewomen in the border booths and where is Mr. Moratinos? he is out on holidays in France, please do not disturb him. Moratinos comes back from his holidays and his first statement is "no incident occured". Fourteen Spaniards are beaten by Moroccan police and he say that we must comply with other countries laws when we are in those countries regardless of the fact that the penalty for non authorized peaceful demonstration is not being kicked and punched in the public square, not even in countries like Morocco.

It seems like he has his phone only available to listen to what Hamas, Hugo Chávez or who ever wears a turbant have to say instead of defending our country interests. For some reason Moratinos reminds me of those women who write love letters to imprisoned bloody criminals or even rapers; these women are often nice and caring but they do believe what their jailed lovers tell them and end up thinking that their loved ones are not as bad as the society think and that maybe it was not their fault to have murdered or rape.

Moratinos is the perfect foreign affairs ministry for President Zapatero, a man who began his first years in office strutting his good mood ("talante") whatever the heck that was suppouse to be and that is on his way to have his name written in the Guinness Book of Records under the epigraph "Biggest political liers in recent History"

At the beginning of this year a man who knows a lot about ETA terrorism Mr Jaime Mayor Oreja was warning that an ETA truce was on its way and he was warning that this cease fire was going to be as the other previous three, just a trick.

Mr. Mayor Oreja former minister of interior in the Popular Party administration is well known for his accurate predictions about ETA terrorists, however most media and all the socialist flock of idiots discredited his words as usual...Now ETa is offering a truce again with the sole intention of negotiating with our weak government that their political branch can run in the forecoming local elections. Mayor Oreja was also right, as he is also right when he says that this offer is a poisoned one, again.

Our government knows a lot about ETa and they know quite a lot about our government too and it is going to be very difficult for Zapatero to tell our home terrorist that he will not give ETA anything when ETa is watching how their colleagues in Somalia get millions for liberating a fishing ship and their Al Qaeda (by the way i doubt these were from Al Qaeda but anyway) pals get 3 to 4 million ramson for each captive they held.

Now ETA using some low budget spy movie manners contacts the BBC and handles this journalist their videotape where we can watch this typical ETA´s cumbersome staging of three hooded idiots sitting on a table with some flags on the background telling their old bollocks about invented oppresion and so on. They want money too!! They want to keep their way of life and they must be jallous of their turbanted colleagues.

Meanwhile some foreign media lioke the Finatial Times or the BBC still call ETA "basque separatist group" like if they were a band of rock and roll instead of a mafia gang of murderers and extortionists.

Wild, wild WEST...

CNI Spanish secret service. A kings business? Part 5

2010-09-07T10:31:00.006+02:00

We have repeatedly said that the king has a preference for the PSOE. This may sound odd taking into account PSOE´s history and its republican tradition. But it is that very same tradition of republicanism and the long history of betrayals, coups d´etat, murders and intrigue that the PSOE has that makes this party the King´s favourite.

The king has had no fears about the conservative party (PP) same as he did not fear Adolfo Suárez party (UCD) so he has allowed himself to act as a despotic king (it is in his genes) imposing appointments in the defense minister or in the secret service (among many other things). He knows that usually PP leaders and officials are less likely to protest or to air his royal sins.

On the other hand Juan Carlos does fear PSOE a lot, he specially did in the early years of our very deficient democracy.

Between 1975 and 1982 he contemplated how the conjunction of a savage terrorsit activity, a raging economic crisis, an increase upsetting in the military, and the annoying demands of nationalistic and separatist parties, were undermining the control of circumstances that an increasingly weaker Adolfo Suárez Administration had.

All these things were endangering the success of the political process Spain was undergoing, and worst of all it was putting at risk his king business. The king knew that the PSOE was anxious to govern the country before things would get any worse. Adolfo Suárez was forced to resign and when he wanted to change his decision (during the theatrical coup d´etat in february 1981 Suárez tried to undo his resignation and he was not allowed by someone) he was stopped and Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo (a good manager but with no charisma) managed the months before PSOE overwhelming triumph in the 1982 elections.

Keep your friends close to you and your enemies even closer the saying goes. With PSOE in office the king did all it was in his royal hand to please the newcomers in every aspect being always well awared of the fact that PSOE was not as easy to manipulate as other more liberal or conservative parties. During the 14 years that Felipe gonzález was in office the King forged a real tight alliance with the party apparatus and the government and same as the PSOE leaders did he also became a really wealthy man.

During these years (1982-1996) PSOE placed its members and sympathizers by thousands in the public administrations, public companies, the secret services, the police, and shamelessly benefited those entrepreneurs and business men that where on the PSOE side. Felipe González helped media giant PRISA that was managed by Mr. Jesús de Polanco (who became rich during Franco regime by selling text books for school children) by granting this company licences for radio stations and tv channels and by laminating those media that were not so supportive with the PSOE.

But lets go back to the kings business. Jesús Cacho a well reputed journalist says in his book "El negocio de la libertad" (The freedom business):

"...One of the earliest forms known was oil, oil commissions coming from the oil imports Spain needed to meet its energy needs. As soon as Juan Carlos I occupied the throne after the death of the dictator, Manuel Prado y Colón de Carvajal, was devoted to send several royal letters to many reigning monarchs, especially the Arab world, asking for money on behalf of the King of Spain".
There is documentary evidence of a letter signed by Juan Carlos I and addressed to the Shah of Persia, on July 4, 1977, where the monarch following a description of the political situation said: "I take the liberty, with all respect, to subject to your generous consideration the possibility of granting 10 million dollars as your personal contribution to strengthening the Spanish monarchy. "

Manuel Prado y Colón de Carvajal who recently died in 2009 was a close friend of king Juan Carlos, he was appointed as senator in 1977 (the King used to have a quota of senators he could freely appoint), was also President of Iberia Airlines when this company was public and the list goes on and on (Saudi Arabia Abdul Aziz Order, France´s Legion of Honor...).

With respect to the book we have quoted above Mr Prado y Colón de Carvajal said about journalist Jesús Cacho:

"We must get rid of what you represent"

Such a gentleman!

Prado y Colón de Carvajal was imprisoned on April 26, 2004 in the Seville prison serving a sentence of two years for the "Wardbase" case. For humanitarian reasons he was awarded the second grade prison two months later.

As head of "Grand Tibidabo", he was convicted in 2008 for misappropriation: three months' imprisonment by the High Court.

The Supreme Court had already sentenced him to one year in prison for misappropriation in September 2007 by a diversion of money from Grupo Torras.

The royal scandals finally reached France, where during the preliminary investigation about Elf (2003) for misappropriation, its former chairman Le Floch-Prigent said about buying ERTOIL:

"...having delivered 55 million francs in Spain to many politicians, in particularly those close to Felipe Gonzalez and King Juan Carlos environment ", with who Le Floch-Prigent claimed to have met in multiple occasions.

According to Jose Garcia Abad, author of the book "la Soledad del Rey"(The Solitude of the King):

"Felipe Gonzalez turned a blind eye to the royal businesses and trips and even got to make some important negotiation for the benefit of the royal family: he sent his righ-hand man, Julio Feo , to negotiate with the Greek government about the return of the assets of the family of Mrs. Sophia, which had been confiscated when King Constantine was deposed"

The list is endless and all the royal family has been benefited with important positions and lucrative businesses: daughters, son, sons in law, daughter in law.

Then we could list the list of lets call them venial sins like promoting brands in the annual yacht race named after him, subliminal advertising and so on.

How much money does the king have?
The cost item of the General State Budget for the expenses of the royal family by law is not subject to review by the Court of Auditors. The 1978 Constitution allows the monarch to dispose of it without further explanation. In 1980 the government assigned 200 million pesetas (1,2 million euros of that time would be like 6 to 8 million currently). Until then, the king just collected a salary of captain general. Currently the General State Budget assigns some 7.78 million euros for the king and his family.
Due to the opacity of the royal house, the fortune of the king is difficult to quantify. Forbes Magazine (April 2003) includes Juan Carlos I in the sixth place among Europe´s monarchs and with a fortune of 1,790 million euros the king is the 134th among the richest in the world.

The advent of the socialist party was a blessing for the King´s financials and his pro-PSOE attitude has paid well off. But being King and serving so much is a non stop job and the king must look after his family and his wealth and to do so he needs to keep all mouths shut and it is of key importance to keep the secret services under the control of trustworthy people that will not leak information whatsoever.

In this context when Aznar´s PP won the general elections in 1996 it was of utmost importance for both the King and the PSOE to keep the secret service under the "right" control, thus both the minister of defense and the director of the CNI were imposed to the new President José María Aznar.

By doing so the PSOE could be sure that all the information regarding the corruption and the crimes of state would be under lock and the King could nothing but agree. The saying goes: "you scratch my back and I scratch yours" and it seems to have worked out fine for this singular alliance.

Now you can believe in Santa Claus and the eastern bunny or in the Reyes Magos (the three wise men that bring presents in the night of january 5th to children in the Spanish speaking world) if that makes you happy, same as you can go on thinking as most people do that the King of Spain is a goody fellow, kindhearted and always friendly. Maybe he is like that sometimes, we are all humans, specially with his family but he is also a powerful individual with a huge interest in keeping his way of life.

End of the series.

CNI Spanish secret service. A kings business? Part 4

2010-09-06T18:00:00.010+02:00

The evening of the 23rd February 1981 the Spanish Parliament was voting on second round the Adolfo Suárez successor appointment to the Presidency of the Government.

Suárez had resigned a few days before, and announced such decission with a really serious expression on the television. Suárez had cracked down under the pressure of the economic crisis, the demands from the PSOE, the urge from the always selfish nationalistic parties, the pressure from his own party that was self collapsing, the demands and fears from some of the military establishment, and the continuous ETA terrorists murders that had the Armed Forces about to explode in wrath.

Felipe González was really in a hurry to access to power because he also knew from various sources (CIA probably included) that something could happen in those days of the eary 80´s. Besides he did not precisely threw flowers at Mr. Suárez (while Suárez was tackling the terrorist problem the PSOE opposition was being ruthless) and he had his share in the collapse of Adolfo Suárez´s government as we have explained before.

He knew that with the Suárez party (UCD) dissolving and the increasing social unrest he was going to win the next elections (as he did in 1982) easily.

For some elements a marxist in Moncloa was something unbearable and for some others the PSOE was a better alternative than the feared Communist Party (PCE) thus they thought that winning over Mr. González for the cause of a government of national unity with ministers from different ideologies could be somehow a good thing to do.

The idea was not really bad at all in the sense that it would have been a good way for the new PSOE to win experience and for those reluctant to see a marxist as President it would have been a way to prove them that González could change.

(And, oh boy did he chain!! Between 1982 to 1986 he held three different positions with respect of the adhesion of Spain to the NATO: First he was completely against, then he was not too convinced and finally he ended begging all Spaniards to vote yes in the referendum to that effect)

In February 1981 a group of over a dozen Guardias Civiles broke into the Parliament carrying weapons and told the congressmen that they were there to hold everyone inside until the "competent authority" would show up. Meanwhile that very same night of february 23rd 1981, in Valencia, general Milans del Bosch took his tanks for a walk (stopping in each and every traffic light by the way) down the streets of Valencia. One of the biggest masquerades in Spain´s History was on stage.

The first minutes of the assault were broadcasted life so everyone in Spain could witness what was going on in the congress. After some few hours of confusion King Juan Carlos in his Capitan General uniform addressed a speech to the citizenship condemning the coup d´etat attempt and defending the constitutional legitimacy.

It was very celebrated the courage of the King as well as the fact always highlight by the brown nosers courtiers that the King was wearing his pajamas under the uniform...a funny touch of drama to stress that the King was by no means expecting such thing to happen.

At 5 am in the morning of the 24th Milans del Bosch withdrew his tank parade and by noon February 24th the coup was completely deactivated.

Let me add it was completely deactivated from the very beginning and it was nothing but a performance orchestrated..., ok ok lets say maybe orchestrated, by the secret service, the King and the socialist party.

Let´s go back some days before the 23rd of February 1981.

Suárez made his resignation public on the 29th of January. On the 3rd of february the minister of Defense, Mr. Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún appointed General Alfonso Armada as number two in the military rank. This appointment was made not only against all Suárez recommendations but without his knowledge. Mr. Sahagún signed the appointment after being pressured by King Juan Carlos.

Alfonso Armada ended up in jail on the charges of being one of the leaders of the coup d´etat that took place some weeks after being appointed by a minister whose boss had resigned.

Luis Herrero a well known Spanish Journalist that has also been EU MP tells in his book "Los que le llamábamos Adolfo" (Those of us who called him Adolfo):

that on February 3, 1981, Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, then Minister of Defense, "signed the ministerial order appointing Alfonso Armada as deputy commander in chief of the Army." "It was the appointment Adolfo had tried to avoid at all costs and whose veto had cost him several formidable fights with the King in the past" he says.

He adds that with Suarez and ministers resigned the monarch had bridged the President and had demanded the defense minister to sign the appointment. The appointment prompted an angry response from Suárez and he called the minister and told him "you have just signed the authorization that will allow a coupe in Spain and when you see Armada leading the whole thing you will know it was all your fault"

According to this the King wanted at any cost that his close friend general Alfonso Armada would be appoited deputy commander in chief and he took advantage of Suárez´s situation to force the defense minister to do something. Sounds so "Borbón" to me, it reminds me of Alfonso XIII playing war games back in the 1920s before General Primo de Rivera lead his "soft" coup d´etat.

Because let us be logical and apply the common sense. If a coup is going to take place and you think that the Head of State is not going to support it or back you up, then the first thing you do is to capture the King himself (sounds like chess but its basic common sense) and not allow him to put on his uniform under his pajama in such a hurry...

But the majority of the Spanish people took the bate and believed that the night of the 23rd the King saved the democracy from his comfortable living room in the Zarzuela Palace.

Whoever pretends me to buy that the leaders of the coup were all complete idiots that did not think of the possibility that maybe if they did not take the royal premises and the King himself His Majesty would have something to say, will make me laugh.

Alfonso Armada had been number two in the "Casa Real" as Secretary General of the Royal House he was also a support teacher for Juan Carlos in the different military academies that he attended in his younger years, and on top of that the King took advantage of a politically weak Suárez to appoint Armada to a key position in the military shortly before the big masquerade began.

Who on earth has the guts to come and tell that the King knew nothing about the whole thing and that he was completely off his guard the very day the new President of Government was to be elected??

Let us venture a hypothesis, only a hypothesis:

In fear of a real and more hardliner coup d´etat the secret services needed some one loyal to the king like Alfonso Armada in a high position in the military in order to guarantee the success of the masquerade.

If other elements in the military saw that a close friend of the king was appointed contrary to the President Suárez opinion (Suárez came from the Franco Regime and was perceived as a traitor among some elements) they would be more likely to join this remote controlled coup d´etat thus they would come under arrest and be neutralized. Most of the took the bait

Probably king Juan Carlos told Armada that the idea was to perform a "soft" coup that would bring a government of national unity that would include ministers from all the different ideologies. A government presided by Armada with Felipe González (PSOE) as vicepresident.

Armada would have been said that this coup was the best for Spain and after being appointed deputy chief of command with the king´s assistance he would have no doubt that it was something that would really come to term.

The elements deployed in the congress were waiting for some authority (Armada) and that authority was probably waiting for the king to announce that a salvation unitarian government was on its way. So there was no reason to keep neutralize the king since the elements in the coup were simply waiting for him to "bless" the whole enchilada...

Alfonso Armada, Milans del Bosch, Antonio Tejero and the rest of the military that were prosecuted for this coup attempt were shocked the night of the 23rd when they found out that the king instead of backing them up, as they expected after Armada was designated deputy commander in chief with the king´s help, was comdemning their acts on the television.

As I said its only an hypothesis but it does really make more, much more, sense than that of a coup d´etat that would simply had forgotten to take care of the king...

What it is sure is that the hypothesis of a masquerade is the most borbonic of the two, but no one knows.

King Juan Carlos is not a very intelligent person, his wife Queen Sofia is in my believe far more intelligent than him but Juan Carlos has an instinctive intelligence to cling to power, it is almost like a genetic intelligence coming from the evolution of the Borbon dinasty. The king is not an avid reader or a person fond of fine arts, he enjoys fast cars and sailing and he does not want his family to end up like his grandfather´s family back in 1931 and if that ever occurs he has made sure that he will be really well off in a golden exile unlike "grandpa" did.

end of part 4

CNI Spanish Secret Service. A King business? Part 3

2010-09-06T09:16:00.015+02:00

Before going on with the Kings affairs in Spain´s recent History let us review a little the "glorious" history of the party that holds the reins of our country nowadays to have a broader skope so as to understand what can the King´s favourite political party be able to do.

No other political party has such a long record in Spain´s History of intrigues and coups d´etat like the PSOE (Spanish Worker Socialist Party) that currently governs our country.

In 1909 PSOE was involved in the "Barcelona Tragic Week" a time of revolt and indiscriminate crime that forced the government to declare the state of war. Thousands were killed and the main motto was "long life to dynamite", among other crimes several members of the clergy were killed and graves were desecrated. Pablo Iglesias first condemned this revolt and years after he admitted that the PSOE was also in the plot.

It is something really striking how many people do still see this party as a champion of freedom and democracy bearing in mind its totally rotten history. PSOE´s founder Mr. Pablo Iglesias who has several streets accross Spain named after him said in the parliament in 1910:

"We must, in view of the the tendency caused by Your Lordship to the present political system, commit to overthrow this regime. Such has been the outrage over Mr. Maura Government's policy in the proletarian elements that we've come as far as to consider that before Your Lordship rises to power again we must go to the personal attack"(p. 439-443 Parliament Daily Record 07/07/1910).

This is what the founder of PSOE had to say in the Parliament to the President of the Government. He was urged by the President of the Parliament to withdraw those words 3 times and he refused to do so.

Fifteen days later Manuel Posa shot Mr. Antonio Maura who was seriously injured, the next day a protest was formulated in the Congress, a protest Mr. Pablo Iglesias did not subscribe.

In the same session of the Congress where he threatened to kill the President of the Government Mr. Iglesias also said:

"...we are in (subjected to) the law while the law allows us to acquire what we need, outside the law when the law will not allow us to realize our aspirations"

In the light of events in which the PSOE has been involved that went on in the years after this statement was spitted, Mr. Iglesias could be considered a really sharp prophet.

In 1917 the PSOE supported the Revolutionary General Strike, an attempt of revolution inspired in the Soviet 1917 revolution in Russia.

In 1923 they took part in the Primo de Rivera dictatorship despite the huge political differences between PSOE and the general and in the next years the PSOE was in charge of the State Council and they also were part of various other councils and other government agencies. King Alfonso was kindly asked to remain seated and not mess in politics which he obediently did...

In 1929-1930 they abandoned Primo de Rivera and began to work against the establishment of a parliamentary republic proposing the establishment of a revolutionary republic instead.

In 1931 after April´s municipal elections where the monarchist forces obtained more councillors than the republicans, but that the republicans won in the larger cities, the PSOE was among those who urged the King to go before 7 pm on April 14th on the grounds that if he did not do so they would not be able to guarantee his safety and that of his family.

Those elections were intended to vote over the townships representatives not to change the political regime, however it became yet another de facto coup d´etat and Juan Carlos´ grandfather packed every thing quick and left for Rome...always serving Spain.

Interesting to highlight that all leftist parties in Spain consider nowadays this coup d´etat as an example of legitimacy as opposed to General Franco insurrection against that same republic offsetting the fact that the advent of that idealized republic was a completely illegal change of regime that was not voted by the Spaniards.

In 1934 the PSOE organized yet another coup d´etat. The reason for doing so was no other than the fact that the conservative party (CEDA) won the general elections in 1933. The left wing parties told the CEDA leaders that they would not accept a government ran by this party (CEDA). Sounds incredible, doesn´t it? Incredible but true. CEDA conceded and the centre radical party led by Mr. Lerroux conformed a government, when finally CEDA got to enter in the government holding only three ministries the revolt broke.

The coup included the kidnapping of the President of the Republic and establishment of a Government of People's Commissars. By that time, Luis Companys declared the Catalan State within the Spanish Federal Republic.

The coup collapsed throughout the country except in Asturias, where 30,000 men, socialists and other groups were picking on priests, guardia civil and some civilians. The Socialist deputy Ramón González Peña blew the safes of the Bank of Spain. The government managed to maintain control by sending the army, but still nearly 3,000 lives were lost. Largo Caballero (PSOE leader) was several months in prison.

During this revolt in Asturias among other military that were sent by the government to fight down this revolution there was a young officer named Juan Rodríguez Lozano to the orders of a young general named Francico Franco. The first happens to be Zapatero´s grandfather. A man our president prides himself on being his grandson fought under Franco military command against those socialists that were killing and revolting.

Mr Lozano ended up being murdered by Franco military as Zapatero has told several times but although he went to Asturias to shoot PSOE militants down under Franco´s command his grandson seems not to remember those events although as Secretary General of PSOE nowadays he should have something to say.

In 1936 a PSOE militant murdered Calvo Sotelo (leader of the opposition), and this event was the stroke that broke the camel and the already on its way military uprising took place shortly after.

During the Spanish Civil War Largo Caballero (PSOE) who was President of the Government for several months answered in this way to Stalin´s recommendation to keep some form of parliamentary activity in order to gain the sympathy of Western democracies for his cause:

"Whatever the fate the future preserves to the parliamentary institution, it (parliaments) has not among us, even among Republicans, enthusiastic advocates" Sounds so democratic!!

A statue of Largo Caballero was built in Moscow and a huge one of Stalin presided the "Puerta de Alcalá" in Madrid not far from the torture center installed in "Círculo de Bellas Artes" (The Circle of Fine Arts) where red commissars interrogated suspects that were arrested on the grounds of wearing a hat or going to church.

When Franco won the war in 1939 the PSOE practically vanished into the air and the exile government and the scarce resistance (mostly operating in France and Spanish America) was almost completly carried out by the Spanish Communist Party (PCE)

In 1975 Felipe González (now one of the wealthiest Spanish persons) who had been elected Secretary General two years before in Suresnes (France) walked freely accross Spain shortly after Franco´s death. Police had instructions not to arrest him under any circumstances and he was already in talks with King Juan Carlos who was, family traditions, intriguing as usual.

It is said that either Mr. González contacted the CIA or it was this agency that got in contact with him but the reason for these talks would be that by supporting PSOE the CIA would prevent the Communist Party to have a more relevant role in the transition to a parliamentary democracy. This does make sense specilally given the cold war scenario and the strategic importance that Spain has for the US for geographical and obvious reasons.

Furthermore, in those years Spain could either become a rear front enemy allied with the Soviets or the strategic second line of defense in the case of a Soviet successful "blitzkrieg" assaulting Western Europe.

First general elections were won by the Adolfo Suárez lead UCD (Democratic Center Union) and in the 5 following years Mr. González and the PSOE opposition was ruthless and mercyless with bawdy insults spitted on and on and the constant threat of a revolutionary general strike.

Anyone can imagine that King Juan Carlos was contemplating how his grandfather story could repeat again on himself making him run away same as King Alfonso did in 1931. He wanted the socialist to be in office as soon as possible so that after having a grip of Power they would become less revolutionary and somehow more easy-going.

In part 4 we shall see how tight they (PSOE) squeezed the udders of democracy and how they became factical allies to the King in the building up of what we can call the Spanish Establishment although it would be more precise to call the Ruling Club or the Wise Guys Lodge...Yet another couple of coupes d´etat for the long record of PSOE "epic" history.

Soon part 4

CNI Spanish Secret Service. A King business? Part 2

2010-09-05T20:48:00.016+02:00

In this second part we shall go through the main mailstones of King Juan Carlos de Borbón´s political history and we shall see that he is far from being the friendly and affable good-humored person that all the brown-nosers courtiers that butter the King up want to make us believe he is.

Juan Carlos de Borbón is no newcomer to the politics arena.

He was born in Rome in 1938 in the exile, a year before the end of Spain´s disastrous Civil War. His grandfather Alfonso XIII left Spain in 1931 shortly before the proclamation of the 2nd Spanish Republic (disastrous as well) and in his childhood years in Rome although his family was not poor, he did not enjoy the luxury and the glamour that he later achieved and that he is so fond of.

Francisco Franco´s intention was to perpetuate his Regime ("El Movimiento Nacional" "The National Movement) under the figure of a authoritarian monarchy and he chose Juan Carlos instead of his father who was the direct successor of dethroned King Alfonso XIII. In 1969 Juan Carlos was appointed Franco´s Successor and he acknowledge the political legitimacy of the Franco Regime (first video) and swore loyalty and fidelity to the principles of the "National Movement" and to Franco, and in 1975 after Franco´s death he became King and chief of state (second video)

In 1969 immediately after being proclaimed Franco´s successor he wrote a letter to his Father Don Juan saying that he had to accept this decision for the sake of Spain.

Of course nobody in their right mind can believe such story knowing the firm determination that Juan Carlos father had to become King.

In his inauguration speech right after Franco´s death Juan Carlos de Borbón praised the figure of Francisco Franco:

"An exceptional figure comes in history. The name of Francisco Franco is now a landmark of Spanish History and a milestone event that will be impossible to stop referring to understand the key to our contemporary political life. With respect and gratitude I recall the figure who for many years assumed the heavy responsibility of leading the government of the State. His memory will be for me a demand for performance and loyalty to the duties I assume for the service of this country. It is of great and noble peoples to remember those who dedicated their lives to the service of an ideal. Spain will never forget who, as soldier and statesman, has devoted his whole life to service.

I know that the Spanish people will understand my feelings at this time. But the line of duty is above any other circumstance. My father taught me this from childhood, and has been a constant in my family, who always wanted to serve Spain with all its (family) might."

This last part is incredibly funny if we consider that out of ten "Borbones" only one can be considered an above average statesman. The Borbón family has always been noted for caring about their family businesses and their particular interests rather than caring about Spain´s fate. King Juan Carlos great-grandfather Ferdinand VII was probably the worst of kings spain has suffered in the last 500 years. He betrayed his father, another useless lazy fellow, Charles IV, and allowed Napoleon to ravish Spain for years while he was living safe in France. After Napoleon was defeated he again betrayed Spain for he did not like the liberal ideas flourishing in our country after the Constitution of 1812 was proclaimed and he brought an army sponsored by absolute monarchs (popularly known as the 100.000 sons of Saint Louis) to reinforce the king´s authority. Ferdinand betrayed his father, brought two wars and betrayed the confidence of thousands of people who shed their blood for the cause of his throne. What a life dedicated to serve Spain!!

Elizabeth II was a scatty lady who was fond of appointing her lovers as ministers or relevant politics. Alfonso XIII (Juan Carlos´grandfather) was responsible of the biggest massacre during the Moroccan war when in a place called "Annual" (El desastre de Annual) thousands of Spanish soldiers were killed after being ambushed by the enemy. Alfonso XIII was fond of playing as a brilliant general being no more than a "lounge" general and he interfered in the strategic guidelines of the high command which ended in the coup d´etat led by General Primo de Rivera who put an end to the war with a victory in Alhucemas and an end in Alfonso´s hobby of playing strategist games that costed Spain so much blood and pain. Of course he did not set a foot in Spain during the Civil War which he followed from Rome on the radio...We could go on and on reviewing this eagerness the Borbones have had to serve...

Going back to the recent past we can say that in less than ten years Juan Carlos de Borbón betrayed his father Don Juan by accepting something his father wanted for himself with the ridiculous excuse of doing it to serve Spain (always serving!)(1969), swore loyalty to Franco and his regime (1969), again swore loyalty to Franco in 1975 and then betrayed his own oaths in 1978 when he became the King of a regime completely different of that he swore to be loyal to 3 years before.

Would you buy this man a second hand car?

Being Head of State for 35 years, enjoying complete and official criminal immunity by law, having an undisguised taste for wealth and luxury, showing a proven capacity to let´s say "change his mind" when he finds it convenient, being a reputed flirt, and having such a tendency for intrigue make King Juan Carlos a coveted target for all secret services in the world and very specially to those of enemy countries like Morocco (let us call things by their real names).

Spanish secret services cannot lack behind and must be also in the loop of what goes on around the Spanish royals in order to try to be a step ahead of their colleagues and also to try to neutralize their (other service´s) strategies, not forgetting that regardless of the monarchy´s fate there will always be secret services with one name or another, and a well structured and documented information in the right hands becomes a precious piece of intelligence when needed.

In Spain criticizing the King can result in up to 2 years of inprisonment and some times people are afraid that the most innocent of critics can be interpreted as an insult by the thousands of suckers that populate Spain´s ruling class.

It is also a very interesting fact the appreciation of the king for those who have never supported him and his contempt for those who he assumes as loyals as we shall see later on in this series of posts.

Soon part 3!

CNI Spanish Secret Service. A King business? Part 1

2010-09-05T09:42:00.011+02:00

In 1996 Spanish Popular Party (PP) won that year´s General Elections by a narrow margin after 14 years of socialist rule.

One of the main messages that the PP consistently sent to the public opinion was that a political regeneration was necessary. This need for regenaration was indeed understood and supported by most well informed Spaniards and apparently was something that José María Aznar was going to tackle at the beginning of the PP´s first time in history political term.

Aznar was willing to wipe the sewers of the secret service and the Ministry of the Interior and shed some lights in the dark events that occurred during the 14 years of Socialist governments.

He never did so and that was the cause of what has gone on with the PP ever since then, with a very spacial significance in the terrorists attacks of March 11th 2004 that paved the way for a new Socialist era in the elections that took place only three days after (March 14th 2004).

We shall go through some of the most relevant of those dark events mentioned avobe but first we shall see how Aznar´s first attempts to cleanse the rotten core of the security services where immediately headed off by King Juan Carlos.

It is a well known fact the disaffection that King Juan Carlos has always had towards José María Aznar which it is in my believe corresponded by Mr. Aznar, and that in my opinion is something that honors him.

Aznar intended to designate Rafael Arias-Salgado as minister of defense. In Spain the Ministry of Defense is in charge of the secret service (CESID in those years, now known as CNI).

Arias-Salgado was convinced of the need to assist the judiciary by handing the requested classified documents to the courts that were instructing cases of corruption and murder involving the 1982-1996 Socialist Party administration.

Ex-president Felipe González who had just lost against his most hated adversary could be brought to trial before a court to face charges of state terrorism. Mr. Gozález, nowadays a really wealthy man that works for tycoons such as Carlos Slim or tyrants as King Mohamed VI of Morocco among others, could not tolarate such humiliation and talked to his good mate and friend King Juan Carlos to convice his Majesty of the need to stop the little moustache guy (Aznar) from designating Rafael Arias-Salgado and to appoint someone more docile in the Defense Ministry.

No doubt King Juan Carlos was easily convinced of the need to stop Aznar in this one since he knew that the secret service had abundant information about some not too clear royal deeds and despite of enjoying full immunity meaning that he cannot be judged under any circumstances, airing out some of Juan Carlos deeds could damage the Kings unrealistic image of a matey and hartey fellow that still most Spaniards have about the King.

The pressure applied on Aznar had to be really big and probably the conversation turned to the "raison d´etat" to convince Aznar that prosecuting an ex-President could end up being bad for the democracy and the country in general and of course could become a precedent to prosecute other Presidents...

Aznar gave up and appointed Mr. Eduardo Serra as head of the Ministry of Defense and thus as top responsible of the secret service. Eduardo Serra had already been number two in the Defense Ministry under González socialist administrations and was and is considered one of the Kings´men. No single paper was sent to any court from the CESID headquarters.

Mr. Jorge Dezcallar was also imposed as Director of the CESID to make sure that all was "under the right" control.

The secret services must be under control of course, but under the control of the government and the parliament not under the control of an "establishment" that wants to thrive and keep its "businesses" unknown to the public opinion as much as possible.

To know the skope of the things that this "establishment" wanted, and wants, to keep under lock simply highlight some facts: a minister of Interior during the Gonzalez administrations, Mr José Barrionuevo, was convicted and jailed on charges of supporting and funding state terrorism and a General Director of Guardia Civil, Mr. Luis Roldán, ran away after plundering huge amounts of money intended for the security of this prestigious police force (barracks, equipment, etc).

Luis Roldán was later captured in a yet unexplained operation in Laos (it was not Laos at the end) that we may try to explain some day in this blog.

Basically the Aznar Administrations from 1996 to 2004 were infiltrated with the royal acknowledgment by numerous elements loyal to the socialists and willing to keep all the accumulated dirt under lock as well as to provide the PSOE (socialist party) constant and relevant information on inteligence matters while they were in the opposition. These elements always kept the PSOE socialist aparatchick on the loop and according to many people in Spain were responsible by act or by omission of the terrorist attack in Madrid in March 2004

Jorge Dezcallar played a very important role and paid a very important service to his mentors in the clue days between the 11th and the 14th of March of 2004. After the terrorist attack he spoke 7 times to Mrs. Ana Palacio (Foreign Affairs Minister in those days) who was in talks with the UN Security Council in order to issue a statement against the terrorist group ETA.

According to Mrs Ana Palacios, Mr Dezcallar told her the night of the 12th of March:

"In these attacks there is what we call noise in the system. [...] I can assure you that I have spoken to all the major intelligence services and no one has heard any noise on this particular attack." assuming that what he had told her 7 times before (that the attack came from ETA non controlled elements and not islamic terrorist) was right.

By doing this Mr. Dezcallar paid a very important service to his mentors by misinforming the government and providing, as many people suspect, intelligence to the PSOE that they used in the 3 days after the attack and before the general elections.

Dezcallar services were praised by the socialist Zapatero administration and he was appointed ambassador to the Holy See and is currently Spain´s ambassador to the USA. Not too bad for the person who apparently knew nothing of what was going on...only apparently.

Also Dezcallar name´s appears as a candidate to become the new Chief of the "Royal House". This position is obviously only for those most trusted by the King. Isn´t it amusing?

End of part 1

Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Iran and the Caspian Oil and Gas. Some strategical clues on what goes on there

2010-09-02T15:51:00.012+02:00

Caspian Sea accounts for some estimated potential reserves of 200 to 300 billion barrels of oil (Saudi Arabia has some 260 billion) and in terms of natural gas its reserves could be among the 3 most important in the world.

Basically the Caspian Sea countries have a potential to produce 15% of the world total oil output and a bigger share of the total gas.

Compared to Saudi Arabian rigs the extraction costs are much higher and the quality of the crude and of the gas (specially this latter) is also lower.

Although the Caspian oil has been extracted from the Czars times this immense wealth is yet to be exploited since the current actual production for the area is still very low when compared to the total reserves.

The reason for this gap between the potential and the actual current production is no other than the significant effort required in terms of technology and economic investment to drill for and to extract this oil which makes it less attractive than that of the Persian Gulf . However the oil is there and it should not be more difficult to extract it that the oil from the North Sea or the the crude Russia plans to extract from Artic Siberia.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union five countries share this 371.000 sq kilometers sea (aprox. the surface of Germany) Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan. The first issue was to determine if the Caspian was a sea or a lake.

That was not a silly question to debate over since if it was considered a lake the 5 countries would have shared its natural resources on a 20% basis (that is 1/5th) whereas if it was considered a sean then it had to be divided into economical sectors as it has been done "de facto" (see second map).

To refrain the US from meddling in this big business and from getting some share of these strategic assets was impossible. The ever oil thirsty US need to have a foot in the Caspian and also need to guarantee a safe and own controlled gateway for the crude.

China has obviously also a great interest in this business. But the Chinese have a much easier way to guarantee its stake in this business and they have funded an oil pipe line from Kazakhstan and pretend this country to become its ally in the region.

In order to help understand the general picture I shall briefly describe the interest, strengths and weaknesses of the 5 coastal countries and the 2 super powers (US and China) with respect to the Caspian treasure.

Russia:

Russia has a great interest in becoming the main player for the oil and gas distribution in the area since it enhances its control over Western European countries (specially with the gas) supplied by Russia. Adding this gas and oil to those distributed from Western Siberia puts Russia in a very strong position when negotiating almost anything with the EU.

Russia has also a great interest in blocking any attempt to threaten its strong position, meaning that will always be interested in the failure of any alternative routes for the oil and gas distribution.

Last but not least Russia sees a big business opportunity in assisting other Caspian coastal countries providing them with the extraction technology and the know how.

Russia counts with an already existing pipe-line network and also with the only navigable exit off the Caspian Sea: The Volga.

A ship can only leave the Caspian using the Volga and can access the Baltic and Black seas through Russia´s immense water canal network.

On the cons side, a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline that could get the Caspian oil in the Indian Ocean harbours is not an attractive scenario for the Kremlin. Neither does Russia like the idea of an US friendly Iran teaming up with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to drill and prospect and then getting the oil in the Gulf through a Persian pipeline bypassing Russia´s present predominance in both fields.

Russia is well awared of the fact that US military bases in Turkmenistan and the fact that this country is practically outside the Russian sponsored Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) mean a challange from the US.

Chechenia is also a major problem for its territory is crossed by one of the main pipelines that gets the Caspian oil to the Russian Black sea harbour of Novorossiysk. No wonder why the US have always made a big fuss anytime Russia punishes Chechen terrorist (yes, that is what they are)

We shall presumably see an artificial buid up of tension in Daghestan and Chechenia secretly fostered by the US in order to weaken Russian position in the area and to make their existing and forecoming pipelines less safe

Kazakhstan:

Kazakhstan has an easy position if compared to other of the Caspian players. They have a large border with China and good relations with Russia. They settled with Russia the maritime borders fast and have since 2005 there is a pipeline in place since 2006 that has supplied China this last six months with 5 million tons of Caspian Oil.

Of course Russia is not terribly happy about Kazakhstan independence in terms of oil distribution but it is not as much a concern as it is the US involvement in the area.

Turkmenistan:

This country is a personalist dictatorship. In 2006 after Saparmyrat Nyýazow died his son Gurbangulí Berdimujammédov became the Turkmen ruler. Although it is formally a democracy under the 1993 constitucion, Turkmenistan is a presidencial republic with only one political party. Nyýazow was an eccentric individual who enforced laws to make everyone in his country read his book. Turkmenistan is considered by the UN one of the most repressive countries in the world and although it formally belongs to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) it is not a trustful member.

The US has two military bases in Turkmenistan and has closer ties with this dictatorship in its effort to have a stronghold in the area and to consolidate its first stage for its longed project to construct and control a pipeline Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan.

Turkmenistan has always held a very opaque position in the talks about the Caspian Sea with the other four neighbours, and given its trend towards fundamentalism and its border with Iran it is a major concern for both Russia and the US.

Russian and Uzbek minorities as well as non muslims, Islam is the official religion, are closely controlled by the authorities. My opinion is that Turkmenistan will be entering a period of revolution. For Iran it is a threat to have US troops and fighter planes in its north east borders and for Russia it is important to keep Iran´s fundamentalistic hands off Turkmenistan while defending Russian citizens living in this country and at the same time trying to induce a more pro Russian regime that could shake off the US military presence.

Iran:

The Ayatollahs regime is the least benefited in the partition of the Caspian waters for its stake is the smallest and has always tried to push Russia to recognize the Caspian as a lake instead of as a sea.

Their main interests under the present situation are to construct a pipeline to deliver Caspian oil in the Iranian ports of the Persian Gulf and to gain for its cause both Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. Iran is probably the biggest US adversary in this scenario. For the US an Iran-Turkey pipeline is not a secure gateway for the Caspian Oil and the construction of a trans Iranian pipeline is also among the US biggest fears. The US will use the nuclear controversy with respect to Iran to take any military action in this country should they believe that pipeline is about to be constructed.

Iran has a friendly relation with Russia that is nothing but a tactical maneuver to try to shield its interests against US interference. Russia is considered an enemy by the Iranian regime but they need each other to sweep their patio before they start their own game.

Azerbaijan:

This country has a big, and old too, oil and gas industry. It is the biggest oil producer (in the region, obviously Russia and Iran produce more in total) and is the only one sharing borders with both Russia and Iran. It is of key importance for Russian projected new pipeline that will go start in Baku and will pass through Daghestan instead of Chechenia.

Neither Russia or Iran want to, at present time, confront interests in Azerbaijan.

The US military presence in a ruthless dictatorship such as Turkmenistan, the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and the incredible support to Pakistan as well as the inexplicable understanding given to the double game the Islamabad regime plays suporting both the US and the Taliban depending on their tactical interests, are different aspects of a huge effort to guarantee the US a controlled supply of oil.

Of course there is a war on terrorism going on but if the US has to undertake a war project against terrorism it will always be more likely that they do it in Afghanistan than in Sudan or Mali, or Morocco.

In this conflict Spain has troops deployed in a couple of places in Afghanistan, same as other western countries, and our president Zapatero wants us to believe it is for humanitarian reasons. Bullshitting as ever.

We are in a war against terrorism and it was really handy that this terrorists had their headquarters in one of the key countries the US and maybe the rest of the Western world needs for its plans to get the Caspian oil fueling our way of life.

I don´t forget I have on assignement to go through the Zapatero alliances with so called democratic parties such as PNV...do not miss it!

Zapatero´s struggle to keep his political office can end in disaster for all Spaniards

2010-09-01T20:40:00.006+02:00

Spain´s Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, known also as ZP by the general public is facing what almost all political analysts consider his worst political year.

ZP has denied the mere existence of an economic crisis and of a credit crunch. When other Western administrations were on their guard getting ready and passing contingency economic laws in order to face the worst part of the recession, ZP was still living, or trying to make us all live, in his particular socialist wonderland, only concerned about such "important" needs for Spaniards as the homosexual marriage or adapting Spain´s 20th Century History to what he would have liked it to be; trying to make sure that we all share his points of views and not giving a damn about the truth if that truth was not "his" truth.

Zapatero is not a clown, although he really looks and sometimes even acts as one, is not a dumb and it is not a fool. Zapatero is the worst among the Spanish political breed. He has never worked for any private company and he began his political career in the university and then in the PSOE in León (North West Spain) where he was famous for his ability to convince and for his ruthless eagerness to climb in the "aparatchik"

He was a dark and silent member of the parliament for several years and in year 2000 he became Secretary General in a very tied vote pushed by the fears and concerns that some Felipe González (Prime Minister from 1982 to 1996) supporters had about the other main candidate (José Bono).

In 2004 he won against all odds the General Elections, just three days after the worst terrorist attack in Western Europe (March 11th 2004) and soon after he became Prime Minister.

The terrorist attack that took place three days before he was elected remains unsolved, the explosive ended up being other different than the one the official version claimed it to be, yet in the three days right after the attack the PSOE mobilized all its terminals and supporters to siege the Partido Popular offices accross Spain and to call former Prime Minister (José María Aznar) a murderer.

For the PSOE and of course for Zapatero, March 11th 2004 must disappear from the political arena same as all the hundreds of tons of train wreckage and passengers personal belongings vanished with no reasonable explanation in less than 3 days.

Now this man, with a very complex mind and a Napoleonioc ego is realizing that his time as Prime Minister is over, and the problem is that he is smart and able to jeopardize Spain´s future to remain one or two more years in office. His good social democrat boy mask has fallen and his smile becomes even more artificial.

The cold facts are devastating. Zapatero has impoverish Spaniards at a fast rate destroying over a million employments when he postulated in his campaign in 2008 "Por el pleno empleo" (Towards the full employment), has increased indirect taxes that hit those lower classes he has always claimed to have defended, has fostered the believe outside Spain that our government is not a trustworthy one when he began saying in Tunez that he recommended other countries to do as he did, that is to pull out of Irak without consulting any ally.

Zapatero has always backed down when confronting dictators such as the ones in Morocco or in Venezuela, has looked to another side when police women were spitted and insulted and threatened by Mohamed VI henchmen (he said that he was some kind of "avenger for women", that may sound odd but is true).

He has taken care of details such as having as many women as men in his cabinet instead of being concerned about having the best of cabinets no matter if that means all women, all men or anything. He has been selling air and not a very good one and now he is about to leave not only empty handed but leaving us all divided, confronted and empty pocketed.

He has lied on and on and deep in his mind he knows that you can lie to someone several times, you can lie to some people some times but you cannot lie to everyone all the time.

I hope his wife Sonsoles can convince this man of getting some 20 or 30 years of holidays.

Tomorrow I shall talk about the alliances that Zapatero will be forced to do to remain in "La Moncloa" Palace another 14 to 18 months and why this alliances can mean even worst news for us all.

I look forward to hearing from you all readers and do not hesitate to comment and to send me articles that I promise I shall post in this blog provided they are correctly argued.

Islam and reciprocity two words that don´t combine. Gadhafi preaches while Mohamed VI´s police beats 14 Spaniards

2010-08-31T08:56:00.014+02:00

Lybia´s dictator Moammar Gadhafi "met" with 500 women this Sunday and yet another 200 females yesterday (monday 30th 2010) in Italy.

Shortly after his landing in Italy Mr Gadhafi addressed a speech to 500 mostly Italian women between the ages of 20 and 35 to convicen them of the advantages of being muslim and to try to lure them into converting to Islam. On the next day he did the same to an audience of another 200 females.

According to some of the attendees many of these women were "hired" by a model agency that paid them some 80 euros to listen to what Mr Gadhafi had to say. Three of these women announced that they have converted to Islam after listening to what this man told them. It seems that these 3 women have been paid 4500 euros plus a trip to Lybia to reward their "true" conversion to "peaceful and loving" Islam.

We have written here about that fact that Islam does not tolerate conversion of its followers into any other religion and that the penalty for this action is no other than death. We have also written about the fact that so called moderate muslim countries such as Morocco do not allow proselytism to other religions in their country and the cold facts are that they have expelled American citizens, among other countries citizens, on the grounds of taking care of orphan abandoned children and them being Christians http://thespanishview.blogspot.com/2010/08/mosque-in-nyc-ground-zero-yes-but-right.html

Of course Lybian corrupt and tyrant government would never allow a Christian priest or pastor to address a speech to Lybian women telling them that Christianity must rule all Northern Africa, but us, tolerant and naive Europeans allow this fellow to come here and say that Islam must reign over the whole of Europe because it is the best and only true religion.

This man flies with dozens of pure breed horses and his king size bedouine camp composed by several large tents. In this occasion Mr Gadhafi has camped in the Lybian embassy "back yard".

While this man was telling western women that they must convert (first picture above) some thousand miles south west 14 Spanish citizens were being savagely beaten by "spontaneous" Moroccans that happened to be waiting for them with their Moroccan flags and their fists and shoes ready for the action.

14 Spanish citizens and members of SaharAccion, a group that claims the independence of the Saharaui people demonstrated in El Aaiun (Western Sahara capital) supporting the Saharaui people cause. Shortly after they arrived to the meeting spot and began to deploy their banners they were beaten and kicked before the eyes of uniformed police agents. Of course these people were not merely spontaneous and angry Moroccans but police agents in civilian clothes together with some other people that knew when and where the Spaniards were going to demonstrate.

The demonstrators were finally arrested by Moroccan Police and beaten in their way to the Police Station. We can see the results of this "welcome" reception in the above picture.

What has the Spanish Government reaction been? An official note of protest? Hahahaha!! No way!!

The reaction from Zapatero and his gang of cowards and useless ministers has been to say that we shall wait for the explanation that the Moroccan authorities give about this "event" and to stress the friendship and the excellent relations that link Spain and Morocco!!! Adding that Spanish citizens must comply with the laws and rules of the country they are at.

To begin with Western Sahara is NOT Morocco Mr. President Zapatero, and secondly the laws of Morocco do not state that the penalty for illegal foreign demonstrator is being lynched in the public square. Do you, Mr. Zapatero, believe it is a proportional punishment? Have these Spaniards attacked any Moroccan?

Do not be a coward again Mr Zapatero, although it seems to be in your nature to bend before anyone who shows determination and will, and give a proper response and protest for the lack of proportion and the violence used by these "spontaneous" bunch of bastards!

Our police women have been spitten on, denigrated, threaten, and insulted in the Melilla border a week ago Mr. "I shall always defend women", we all have paid a ransom of around 8 million euros to liberate the Spaniards held captive by terrorist and doing that means to encourage

terrorist to kidnap Spaniards thus YOU Mr. Zapatero have put us all at risk and on the top of the list of the most profitable hostages in the world, we now have to hear again that shitty kind of statement that comes out of your mouth when your countrymen and countrywomen are savagely beaten.

But maybe is not that you have that innate cowardice when facing a tyrant, maybe is that you know that King Mohamed has the information needed to erase you from the political map for centuries.

Is it normal that a country, Morocco, whose citizens participated in a large degree in that Madrid 2004 terrorist attack treat us like we were San Marino and not a country that can beat them in a war conflict? Does that make any sense Mr President?

By the way Morocco accused our police of being racist and of beating some of them...we are waiting for the pictures. What would have happened if 14 Moroccans demosntrating in Seville were beaten? Would the Moroccan Government have reacted the way we have? Easy answer: NO!

Most of the suppousedly participants in the Madrid 2004 terrorist attack were Moroccans and yet Morocco does not show any consideration whatsoever towards Spain.

Maybe that meeting Zapatero had with King Mohamed before being elected and inmediantely after the successful liberation of the Perejil Island by Spanish elite troops led by the Popular Party Administration was the beginning of this Zapatero´s postration before Mohamed VI.

What it is 100% proved is that for Islamic kidnappers, muslim pirates off the somalian coast, and tyrant muslim rulers the election of Zapatero three days after Europe´s worst terrorist attack was good news.

I know that any clever reader of this article needs to know no more to come up with their own conclusions about why is Zapatero so scared and what can the Moroccan King know about the worst terrorsit attack in Europe (Madrid 2004) that makes Zapatero act as if he was Mohamed´s subject.

Afghan War is a Humanitarian Mission and other Zapatero´s lies

2010-08-26T06:31:00.007+02:00

Yesterday 2 Spanish "Guardia Civiles" (a police force with military status) and an Afghan translator were murdered by the driver they had been assigned inside the Spanish militar base at Qala-i-Now (Afghanistan).

The criminal was an Afghan police agent that was serving as official driver within the Spanish base. He was shot by a Guardia Civil patrol inside the base right after he shot these three persons.

Shortly after these things happened hundreds of those Afghans that the Spanish troops are suppoused to aid in this "humanitarian" mission, sieged the base throwing stones and trying to set the premises on fire in an extremely violent turmoil demanding the corpse of the criminal.

Finally Afghan soldiers took control of the situation and the protestors dispersed.

These things have happened 24 hours after other muslim terrorists liberated the two Spaniards they held captive somewhere in the Sahel (Sahara) after the Spanish government paid (we all paid to be more precise) some 5 to 8 million euros.

After this attack a total of 95 Spaniards have been killed in this so called "humanitarian" mission...That is 47 times more than those killed in the Irak war during Jose María Aznar´s Administration were 2 agents from the CNI (secret service) were killed.

Spanish troops were deployed in Irak after the main combats were over and in a reconstruction mission that according to PSOE (Spain´s Socialist Party) was nothing but a war mission and an illegal mission as well. None of the military were killed in this "illegal" war, 95 have been killed or died in the Afghan "candy delivery friendly mission".

In the above pictures we can see how friendly and peaceful these Qala-i-Now citizens are and how they appreciate the reconstruction work performed by our troops.

In less than a week we have bent over before King-dictator Mohamed VI of Morocco (who as we have said here, knows too much about certain facts that could ruin Zapatero´s career maybe regarding the big lie PSOE has told the public opinion with respect to March 11th 2004 terrorist attack) after he sent us demonstrators to spit on and harash our police women in the border booths in Melilla, we have paid some 5-8 million euros to terrorist that have praised us for our generosity as compared to France using the force to try to rescue a French citizen (who was later killed), and we have felt the "love" of Afghan people in return for our generosity.

War, President, the word is W A R. We are in the middle of a world war. Against terrorism? Not only against terrorism Mr. Zapatero, although for the general public that is what has to be said.

We are in a war against something you call a Civilization (Islam) and that you are willing to appease offering Islam our rear ends to quench their thirst for invasion, and calling that "Civilization Alliance".

What civilizationand what Allience can you offer people who see you and anyone that is not muslim as infidels? What kind of agreement can you sign with people who in the bottom of their hearts dream of reconstructing another Al-Andalus in Spain?

What can you offer them to prevent them from thinking that Spain is their promise land and us infidels are someones to deal with on a tactical base while they proceed with their strategical plans?

Everyone in the West claims that we all must help "moderate" muslims to prevent that their countries are taken over by wild intergrism fanatics. Does anyone sleep better after repeating this false mantra on and on?

What on Earth is "moderate" Islam? Is Egipt a moderate muslim country? If so why do they chase Copt Christians and every now and then burn their churches and of course dont let them rebuild them? If they are "moderate" why do they forbid the proselytism of other religions? Why do they inprision homosexuals on the grounds of being homosexuals? Why do they forbid a Christian man from marrying a muslim woman?

Is Morocco a "moderate" muslim country? The punishments they apply to Wetern Sahara resistance are not that moderate, they forbid proselytism of other religions, they have a feudal system, etc.

We are in a war against Islam even though that may sound too big for the Western public opinion who tend to make things relative and who interpret other cultures with our western approach to things. It is hard to swallow indeed but it is a fact.

Only two countries that were under Islam rule in the Middle Ages were able to expel them: Spain and Russia, in the rest they stayed and for any muslim (moderate, less moderate, so so moderate and fanatics) the concept of Umma (a Muslim world) is as valid as it was in Mecca at the end of the seventh century.

Humanitarian mission Zapatero? We shall talk about those soldiers who the Spanish government said that died in afghanistan after the Cougar helicopter crashed due to some "wind factor" and why some of their relatives claim that their sons, husbands, parents did not crash because of some winds but were shot from the ground while they flew low.

With respect to these 2 Guardia Civiles and their translator: Rest in PEACE heros!

"Guardia Civil: El honor es mi divisa"

Is paying a ramson the best choice? Zapatero once again makes us all pay.

2010-08-24T09:36:00.006+02:00

These are the facts:

Yesterday night 2 Spanish citizens, Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta, that were kept hostages, suppousedly by Al Qaeda (its Magrheb branch) returned in an special flight to Spain.
When they were kidnapped they were participating in a humanitarian trail in one of the most unsecure areas of Northwest Africa. They were deprived of their freedom for as long as 9 months.
Previous to their liberation a female colleague, Alicia Gámez, was liberated on the grounds that she had converted to Islam.
During Zapatero´s press conference yesterday no questions were allowed. He simply congratulated himself for the liberation of the two Spaniards. His minister of the Interior when asked about the information pointing to the payment of a 5 to 10 million euros ramson simply quoted that "it was no time to address that subject"

It is very interesting to find out that while Zapatero disappeared during the Melilla crisis and so did his Foreign Affairs minister, in this case he was before the flashes in less than 24 hours.

Yet another interesting "coincidence" is that these two Spaniards gained back their freedom inmediately after minister Rubalcaba (Interior) had an out of the agenda meeting with King Mohamed VI of Morocco. Mr Rubalcaba was in Morocco to solve a crisis that the Foreign Affairs ministry had denied its mere existence 24 hours before. Instead of sending the Foreign Affairs top authority as it corresponds when there is a crisis between two countries Mr Zapatero sent his expert in negotiating within the dirtiest sewer systems of politics and secret services.

We have stated here that we do suspect that Zapatero is scared to death of what Mohamed VI may have to say with respect to the terrorist attack in Madrid, March 11th 2004, and Mr. Moratinos (Foreign Affairs) is not as hard a negotiator as Mr Rubalcaba who knows at least as much as Zapatero does.

Regardless of the connections between Mohamed VI and Rubalcaba surprise meeting yesterday and the liberation of the 2 hostages some hours later the fact is that most high net worth politicians, news executives and most Spanish public opinion suspect that a ramson has been paid.

And not a cheap tip to these criminals, but some amount around 5 to 10 million euros. Le us be straight forward on this: Criminals will use that ransom to commit crimes and among pirates, desert abductors of all kinds and international criminals kidnapping Spanish citizens means big money.

It is more than very likely that we have paid more than once to Somalian pirates to liberate 2 Spanish fishing ships, whereas France shot them shells from navy vessels and arrested the criminals.

But for Zapatero, and his gang of useless bloodsuckers paying criminals is more "humanitarian". According to a press release from the abductors these two Spaniards were liberated due to Spanish humanitarian approach (in comparison to France attacking them and them murdering a French citizen).

In the international "market" of terrorism attacking Spain or its citizens does pay off well. And in the mid and long term we shall pay the consequences and no one will remember that those troubles originated in a weak and scared coward´s mind.

A President like Mr Zapatero who became President in 2004 three days right after the worst (and oddest in terms of who, how) terrorist attack, and that did nothing to help the justice and police clarify what really happened, can be a muppet that any secret service can manipulate.

Zapatero is a danger not only for Spain, but for the Western world as a whole. Do not forget we are the borderline between the Western Civilization and Islam.

Meanwhile we can´t afford to pay ramsons for people who put their lifes at risk by wondering around the desert´s most unsecure areas. The Spanish government does not pay millions in ramsons to "domestic" kidnappers, why should we all pay terrorist who kidnap people who know the risks they are running?

Almunia wants more taxes in Europe. How much do we pay you to say that?

2010-08-23T11:02:00.011+02:00

In the 1970s Spain was a country with a very small tax pressure with a really low international debt and public expenditure. We had a very affordable public administration: a Central Administration plus the municipalities. In 1975 the public sector accounted for some 24% of the GDP and we had no deficit; now we are in some 50% of the total Domestic Product being spent by the public sector (if not more) and a deficit rocketing up fast.

But of course, our fixation with being like, becoming same as, and imitating other European countries led us to this situation.

We have a mayor in Madrid, Alberto Ruíz Gallardón, with around 1000 advisors!! He is known as the pharaoh, always up to spend our money in some really expensive infrastructure.

We have 17 Autonomous Communities (regions) with their correspondent parliaments, ministries, and in some cases a parallel police. The regional expenditure has grown sharp since the 1980´s and doesn´t seem to slow its frantic path towards bankruptcy except for some regional administrations such as Madrid. On top of these parvenu crazy vagaries we have to stand the rounds for some Orwellian ministries such as the Ministry of Equality.

In this context EU Commissioner Joaquín Almunia (he was the Socialist Party candidate to the Presidency in Spain in 2000 and was completely defeated by José María Aznar) has declared during an interview "Of course taxes must be raised in those countries where deficit is high"

No words about cutting expenses in some oversized administrations, no word about fostering investment by reducing fiscal pressure on small and medium sized companies. The word is always more: more deficit, then more taxes. More nationalistic demands from separatist parties in Spain, more money to appease their "nationalist" concerns.

Meanwhile there are people in Spain, like Mr. José Blanco (minister of infrastructures) who says that to sustain the welfare society we must...Yes, pay more taxes.

But we are so "lucky" to pay for these smart guys in Brussels and all their assistants, chauffeurs, and red tape maniacs orbiting around them. That "handy" Strasbourg Parliament with "only" 736 members that barely can subsist with their average yearly salary of some 85.000 euros.

Let´s have a look at this chart:

We can see (sorry about the blury picture) that the income tax as per GDP per capita that Spain has is 37,2% for an average income of 31.774 USD, a higher tax rate than Luxembourg (with an average income of 105.000USD), Ireland (51.000USD), the US (46.400), Germany, Japan, Canada and the UK (all OCDE members and all with higher income per capita than Spain). So all those richer countries, in terms of GDP per capita, have lower income tax levels, do not please compare us to them Mr. Almunia.

Anoter fact: We have a similar Income tax percentage (as per GDP per capita) than The Netherlands and Dutch citizens have 50% more income per capita(47.000 vs 31.000). ¿Are you there Mr. Almunia? We would be more than happy to pay 40 or 45% if our income was similar to that of Dutch citizens.

And even the silliest among human kind would prefer to pay 60% in taxes if given an income of 100.000 than to pay 25% given an income of 30.000USD.

But everytime a socialist government runs this country we end up owing more and paying more, and of course expending a lot more...But no one wants to talk about cuts.

There is a joke going around that says:

"Crisis is when your neighbour loses his job, recession is when you lose your job and recovery is when Zapatero loses his job" And some of us can´t honestly wait any longer!! Please, please Almunia, save us no more!

And finally one last thought and question:

Why do our governments always compare us to those countries with higher percentage of taxes?

Why do not compare us to those countries with higher GDP per inhabitant and lower income tax percentage? If the rest of the European countries would do the same (and I know some do) then this would become a race to increase fiscal confiscation in order not to be the one at the back of the list.

Spain´s Foreign Affair Minister: "There has not been any crisis or conflict"

2010-08-20T13:10:00.009+02:00

Right after his return from summer holidays, Spain´s Foreign Affairs ministry (in the picture) stated that there had not been any conflict between Morocco and Spain these days despite of the merchandise blockade carried out by suppousedly "spontaneous" Moroccan demonstrators.

Five really strong official notes from the Moroccan authorities backing what "their" demonstrators were protesting about (they protested about racist behaviours by Spanish Police), all the female police agents have been insulted and some beaten and spitted on.

These demonstrators acted with the full consent of King Mohamed VI and once his majesty decided that the pressure was enough they vanished as fast as they popped up from who knows where.

Instead of protesting before the Maroccan authorities the Spanish government decided to withdraw all female agents from the border control booths. Instead of forcing the demonstrators and their royal mentors to prove that their accusations were fundamented in a court they simply pulled all female police for the sake of that sick and rotten Zapatero´s idea of a Civilization Allience.

Several hundreds of Moroccan women earn their family´s living by carrying big bags on their heads with merchandise that they sell in Melilla (Spain) after crossing the border. These women were forbidden to do so by their fellow countrymen.

The problem is, as police organizations like SUP (sindicato unificado de policía) have said, that for a vast majority of male Moroccans it is something shameful and very non-muslim that a woman asks you to open your car´s trunk or tells you to hand her your identification.

So to have these muslim male chauvinist happy our "brave" government lead by Zapatero decides that the best thing to do is to make the problem (women) disappear.

Perhaps, Mohamed VI knows something about the terrorist attack in Madrid on March 11th 2004 that resulted in Zapatero´s unexpected victory three days later. Perhaps that something Moroccan king knows can be too hard for Zapatero to allow the public opinion to know it.

If we want Morocco king happy we should then give up our sovereignity over half our country and maybe provide the King with some hundreds of virgins every year to appease his wrath.

No incident Moratinos? No conflict? No crisis? What do you need to react like a human being? Maybe the only thing this pro-muslim, pro-dictator Moratinos and his boss would consider a crisis would be Morocco declaring war on us!! But just maybe. Anyway Zapatero has few time left, thank God, after his ridiculous speech in Sitges. Remember it President?

What will happen after we retire you, Mr Zapatero, in the polls? Will someone leak that information that Rubalcaba tries so hard to prevent from being made public?

We shall see.

Spain´s President Zapatero on his knees before Morocco imperial dreams

2010-08-18T18:05:00.013+02:00

In this picture taken in 2003 we can see on the right King Mohamed of Morocco and on the left (where else?) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero when he was leader of the opposition.

In between these two "freedom fighters" we can see a map of what Morocco considers its territories. Theses territories include Morocco, Western Sahara, half Mauritania, and the Canary Islands (Spanish Islands even before Morocco did exist)

This picture was taken a few months after Spanish troops liberated the isle of "Perejil" in a commando strike performed with no blood shedding. This military action carried during the Popular Party administration took place several weeks after Moroccan troops invaded this Spanish sovereignity small island.

A year later a terrorist attack in Madrid (March 11th 2004) three days before the general elections caused a convulsion in the Spanish society and an unexpected victory of Zapatero´s Socialist Party.

Regardless of all the efforts from Zapatero and his gang to bury this issue that terrorist attack remains unsolved, the explosive remains undetermined, and all the wreckage from the trains and unclaimed personal belongings vanished in less than a week after the explosions (see some of my other posts in this blog).

You don´t need to have Einstein´s IQ to figure out that Zapatero was and is tyrant King Mohamed´s favorite candidate to run Spain and the main reasons for this support is clear. Zapatero means weaker Spain.

A candidate to the Presidency of a nation that allows himself to be part of a picture like this don´t deserve to be president, but he owes a lot to King Mohamed. What is it? Why does he remain silent while demonstrators insult Spanish policewomen in the border? Why does he remain silent when Spanish citizens are expelled from Morocco on the grounds of proselytizing?? Why Zapatero? What if one day the Spanish people find out what you owe to Mohamed and what is that that he knows that can destroy Zapatero reputation for centuries...Find out, it´s basic common sense but it is scary too!

More about Islam and reciprocity

2010-08-18T16:25:00.004+02:00

I live in Spain and I am christian. Now imagine that for some reason after talking to some Mullah here in my country I decide to convert to Islam.

Now imagine the Spanish Interior Ministry dictating the inmediate expelling of that mullah for proselytizing in Spain, no trial and no arrest just putting him on board a ship on his way to Morocco.

Yo can bet that the Moroccan authorities would be complaining and calling all Spaniards racist and intolerant.

Moroccan authorities expel christian missionaries (from the US, Spain, New Zealand, Holland, etc.) and any christian they suspect is proselytizing. No reaction from our Spanish government.

Imagine the US government forbidding the building of any mosque in America. What would the Saudis have to say?

Proselytism is forbidden in Morocco. Churches can´t exist in Saudi Arabia. Morocco actively support proselytism in Spain, Saudio Arabia funds the building of Mosques in the US.

Muslims men can marry non muslim women, muslims can build mosques in non muslim countries, muslims can proselytize in non muslim countries.

In reciprocity:

Non muslim men can´t marry muslim women (unless they convert), non muslims can´t build churches (sinagogues or any non muslim temple) in muslim countries, non muslims can´t proselytize in muslim countries.

Do I need to say more?

A mosque in NYC ground zero? Yes, but right after a cathedral is built in Mecca

2010-08-18T10:11:00.008+02:00

Building or not a mosque in NYC ground zero it is an issue in the USA, but building a church near Kaaba in Mecca (Saudi Arabia) is far from being an issue, it is simply fiction!

Imagine a country that wants to sell its good and services in the USA and in return they ban the imports of American products. Good business? Yes indeed, but not for the US!

Now imagine that country arguing that the US is a free market and that everyone has the right to sell anything there under American laws. Sounds a bit hypocritical, doesnt it?

All muslims in Europe and in the Americas want to benefit from the freedom of cult and do take advantage of the fact that proselytism is allowed and defended in the Western world. Despite my opinion about Islam after having read the Koran a couple of times and after discussing with some muslim acquaintances about the fact that, among other things, according to the Koran saying that Jesus is God must be consider blasphemous and puts me in the black list together with the worst infidels and idolaters, building a mosque in NYC should be something relatively normal.

I said "should be realatively normal" in a world were the reciproty principle applies. But according to Islam reciprocity is a word that it only applies to the punishment that must be applied to those leaving Islam (death) or to women that missbehave or to infidels that preach other religions.

In the vast majority of muslim countries proselytism of any religion other than Islam is forbidden and actively prosecuted. Let us bring some examples of what goes on aout there:

From the web http://www.boiseweekly.com/

Solana Pyne, GlobalPost

RABAT, Morocco — For 10 years, foreign Christians ran an orphanage called Village of Hope on the slopes of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, taking in abandoned Moroccan children and raising them in their homes.

But it took just a few hours Monday evening for Moroccan authorities to dissolve those foster families. Police gathered the 16 foreign volunteers and their biological children in a conference room and told them they had to leave the country immediately. Across the parking lot, 33 Moroccan children learned they would stay behind.

“It will be burned in my memory forever,” said Chris Broadbent, a New Zealander who worked as an administrator at the orphanage. “These kids just screamed across the car park to their parents to ask them if it was true. It was just chaos and so distressing, so terrible. I’ve never seen or experienced anything like it.”

Broadbent said Moroccan authorities took over the Village of Hope facility on Monday, but it is not yet clear whether the children will stay there or be sent somewhere else.

Morocco’s Interior Ministry claims the group “exploited some families' poverty and targeted their minor children,” violating rules on guardianship and breaking Morocco’s laws against proselytizing to Muslims.

Foreign Christian leaders in Morocco say the deportations are part of a country-wide campaign that signals a tough new stance against foreign evangelists who had been tolerated here for years.

Broadbent said the staff never tried to convert anyone, and maintained the orphanage had followed the same policies since it opened a decade ago: The children learned the Quran in school, but were raised by Christian parents.

“We were we looking after them, because nobody else would,” Broadbent said. “For 10 years they have openly, knowingly allowed us to do that and they never said we were breaking the law.”

They are not the only foreign evangelists to suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the Moroccan government. A western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said authorities placed several dozen or more on a list for deportation.

In addition to orphanage volunteers approximately 10 other foreign Christians accused of proselytizing were deported over the weekend from cities across the country, pastors and Christian aid groups said.

Those expelled come from the Netherlands, Britain, the Congo, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and the United States.

“We were disheartened and distressed to learn of the recent expulsion by the Moroccan Government of a number of foreigners, including numerous Americans, who had been legally residing in Morocco,” U.S. Ambassador Samuel Kaplan said in a statement. “While we expect all American citizens in Morocco to respect Moroccan law, we hope to see meaningful improvements in the application of due process in such cases.”

U.S. embassy officials declined to confirm who or how many people would be expelled but said the number is likely to rise. Pastors who have lived in Morocco for years say the sheer quantity of deportations is unprecedented in recent years.

“It’s like going to sleep and waking up and all of the sudden you’re in a different country,” said Jack Wald, who has spent 10 years as pastor of Rabat International Church, a protestant congregation in the capital. “This is a change in policy from the top of the government.”

“In my nine years in Morocco, never,” said Pastor Jean-Luc Blanc, authorized by the government to preach to foreigners at the Evangelical Church of Morocco. “Each year there are one or two expulsions like this, but never so many at one time.”

But Moroccan Communication Minister Khalid Naciri maintains that the expulsions are neither new, nor limited to Christian missionaries.

“The Moroccan government today deals harshly with whoever allows themselves to manipulate the religion of the people,” Naciri said. He cited government crackdowns on radical Islamist groups and expulsions of Shi’a Muslims proselytizing in this largely Sunni country.

Still, many in the expatriate Christian community here are wondering who’s next. Police have interviewed children at another older orphanage, also run by Christian evangelists, a few miles from The Village of Hope.

“They asked 'Do you know the Quran?' and they quoted the Quran to them,” said Jim Pitts, a native Virginian, has worked at the orphanage for 51 years.

Pitts says his staff members have come only to do charitable work and have never tried to convert anyone. But he’s still unsure what the authorities will do.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen with us,” he said. “We’ll see.”

This happens in Morocco a country that pretends to have an image of tolerance and appear as a moderate muslim country...I am a bit sick of those people that still believe, need or want to believe I gess, that there are such things as moderate and radical Islam.

There are muslims who follow Islam and there are others who don´ follow it, period.

Proselytizing is banned in all muslim countries, but proselytizing is a must for muslims according to Koran so as they understand it since Islam is the right choice preaching other religions must be forbidden. So in the minds of Mohamed followers it makes sense to "protect" muslims from the infidels and their "evil" teaching while they carry on spreading their "good news".

Interesting how a Moroccan man that has spent 50 years in the US sees the expelling of US missionaries:

Considering the boiling religious conflicts and how Moderate Islam has been put on the defensive by fatalistic and hateful extremists from the three Abrahamic faiths, Morocco’s action to remove the evangelists is appropriate. Sadly to say, while this action is entirely justifiable from a national security standpoint, it has prompted numerous negative reactions. The call for due process should not serve as an excuse to overlook the dangerous situation the evangelists put themselves in. On balance, the due process interests of the evangelists does not outweigh concerns for their personal safety and the national security interests of Morocco, indeed the global security interests of us all. Few would gain by Morocco’s failure to protect Christians against extremists, thereby ruining Morocco’s foundation as land of religious understanding and tolerance.

And he goes on further down saying:

The subject matter of a trial would have been whether the evangelists were proselytizing in contravention of Moroccan law. The parade of witnesses testifying in such a trial would serve only to enflame the already heated emotions of religious extremists at a time that calls for cool heads, not more fuel. Moreover, fueling religious confrontation is a likely outcome of such a trial. The very creed of evangelical Christianity is proselytizing, or converting others to their faith. The distorted views of Islam on the part of the evangelical leader Reverend Franklin Graham that have recently come to light are not an aberration, but rather reflect evangelical beliefs.

As a Moroccan and Moderate Moslem, I personally do not want to see the diplomatic and security cooperation attained between Morocco, the United States, and the countries in Europe and elsewhere from which the evangelists came to be damaged by a hasty reaction calling for due process while the evangelists are safe in their home countries. Nor do I want to see Morocco, my beloved country, suffer negative consequences, particularly when it has practiced religious tolerance long before such tolerance was popular.

The Moroccan authorities should be supported for their swift action as well as congratulated for their relentless, continuing protection of the tens of thousands of non-Moslems, Christians and Jews, living in Morocco, observing their faiths, and respecting Moroccan laws.

Mr. Motapha Chtaini spent almost 50 years living in the US with frequent return trips to Morocco. He taught Urban Studies and City Planning at the University level for 20 years and served as Washington Bureau Chief of the Moroccan News Agency ( Maghreb Arabe Presse) for 20 years.

What Mr Motapha is transmitting here is:

-He is a moderate moslem.

-Expelling evangelist from Morocco is a good decision

-These evangelist will be better in their home countries because they were at risk.

-Morocco is a tolerant regime towards Christians and Jews

-He reckons that Moroccan laws forbid proselytizing

Yeah!

Such a lovely person this Mr. Motapha! He knows what is best for these American citizens and for those children they were looking after! But of course Moroco is such a tolerant country as long as you dont dare to give any moslim a Bible. He should have added that these things would have never happened if these folks would have not gotten in trouble being missionaries.

I am sure Mr Motapha, like many other "moderate" muslims supports the building of the mosque in NYC ground zero regardless of what most Americans may think of it, all for the sake of tolerance and good will!

I am a bit fed up, honestly, when "moderate" muslims defend things such as:

a.- A muslim male can marry a non muslim female, whereas a non muslim male cannot marry a muslim woman. They argue that since men are stronger and somehow have a larger capacity to influence (those "poor helpless" females) than women it is fine that a muslim man marry a christian woman because she will never be able to change her husband´s faith nor the faith that their children (compulsory) have: Islam.

b.- The penalty for the conversion of a muslim person into another faith is simple: Death. No problem for those who convert to Islam, all are welcome. Now imagine that the Pope would say that death is what christians will face if they become muslims; all muslims would critizice him for that.

Let´s not allow these hypocrites fool us with their boring speech:

"Hey you infidels, watch out because if you do not help us moderate muslims the bad bad guys will take us over and you will be in trouble. Help us Western world, but dont expect reciprocity by any means!"

Mr. Barack Mohamend Obama, please ask the Muslim world for respect, for TRUE respect, ask for reciprocity, true reciprocity and do not support the building of any mosque until churches, pagodas, sinagogues etc can be built in muslim countries. Show strength, the same strength we, unfortunately will never see in our down on her knees before Islam President Zapatero.

Meanwhile, please zero mosques in ground zero!