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		<title>Air traffic management monopoly in Spain</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2010/08/07/air-traffic-management-monopoly-in-spain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then in Spain we have to suffer threats from this or that small group of workers from different sectors of paralyzing the country (or a given city). Transporters, workers in Metro de Madrid, the Madrid subway cleaners, pilots and air traffic controllers are examples of such elements. These small groups manage to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfounded european protectionism against Google</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2010/04/04/unfounded-european-protectionism-against-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several European states and European companies seem to be planning a host of measures to curb the business of Google. The excuse is that Google makes too much money. Not a bad excuse, as lame excuses go. Governments and companies around Europe are “unhappy” that Google is here to compete. Publishers in Germany complain that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subsidies produce lazy individuals</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/09/27/subsidies-produce-lazy-individuals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish daily newspaper &#8216;El País&#8217; published an interview with surgeon Pedro Cavadas, using a sentence by him as the title: &#8216;Subsidies produce lazy individuals&#8216;. Gladly, El País is publishing something like this in big letters. Dr. Cavadas is just saying one of those paramount truths very few people date to admit. Subsidies produce lazy individuals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False privacy protection</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/03/18/false-privacy-protection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finland&#8217;s Parliament passed a law allowing companies to track workers&#8217; e-mail messages, but not to read the messages themselves. With this law in effect, companies will be able to retain information about the e-mails, such as the sender, recipient, the sent and received time and date, and whether the email contained attachments [ref]. Even with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intellectual Property and liberties</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/02/21/intellectual-property-and-liberties/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/02/21/intellectual-property-and-liberties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.megaspora.net/en/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a friend&#8217;s blog I see a critic of a statement by a representative of the Spanish Ministry of Culture: &#8220;Without intellectual property, there is no free thought&#8221;. Well&#8230; this sentence is not untrue: Let us imagine a world without intellectual property. Anything created by an individual would be nobody&#8217;s, not even the individual&#8217;s own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disreputable business practices go unpunished</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/01/25/disreputable-business-practices-go-unpunished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryanair lost a court battle in Spain against an intermediary travel agency (Atrapalo) that was selling Ryanair flight tickets irregularly. Ryanair has no agreements with this travel agency. Ryanair sells its own flights through its own web page, directly to its customers. The Ryanair website usage policy states that their website may be used exclusively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public demonstration to denounce public stealing</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2008/11/18/public-demonstration-to-denounce-public-stealing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2008/11/18/public-demonstration-to-denounce-public-stealing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state budget (public money of the Spanish people) is plagued with items destined for subsidies of all kinds. There are public subsidies to finance private economic activities which do not benefit society nor the country as a whole. There are public subsidies for deficitary businesses that cannot stand on their own. There are public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable corruption</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2008/10/26/renewable-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2008/10/26/renewable-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The October 24, 2008 edition of Spanish financial newspaper &#8220;Expansión&#8221; reports that the Ministry of Industry is investigating fraudulent practices in renewable energy subsidies. What a surprise. How naive can the Ministry be? The desire to promote renewable energy at all cost, almost obsessively, has drawn governments to offer juicy subsidies on any attempt to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let it all fall down</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2008/10/14/let-it-all-fall-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2008/10/14/let-it-all-fall-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governments around the world are trying out different formulae to tackle the financial crisis. They claim they are trying to reactivate the financial sector, to encourage banks to offer loans to small businesses and people, and to other banks. Other cases of government intervention are focused on preventing banks from going bankrupt. This is all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spain&#8217;s fake unemployment rates</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2008/09/07/spains-fake-unemployment-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2008/09/07/spains-fake-unemployment-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent unemployment rate hike in Spain in the last month of August led the Minister of Labour to announce that Spain would end the recruitment of foreigners, to have jobs filled with Spanish manpower, and thus reduce unemployment. The solution proposed by the Minister is action on jobs demand. In order to reduce unemployment, [...]]]></description>
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