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		<title>Responsibility?   Not in Spain</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2010/02/25/responsibility-spain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drunk driving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are tired (here in Spain) of seeing multiple cases of politicians in office declining any responsibility for their wrong acts, or also cases of them assuming their responsibility while staying in office to continue their wrong (unlawful even) behaviour.
But today I read in the news that here in Spain a local politician of the [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/09/27/subsidies-produce-lazy-individuals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[private initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subsidies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.megaspora.net/en/?p=145</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weak democracies</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/08/25/weak-democracies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/08/25/weak-democracies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Braindead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanitarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lockerbie]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.megaspora.net/en/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scotland freed one of the Lockerbie bombing terrorists a couple of days ago, on &#8216;humanitarian&#8217; grounds.  The Scottish authorities are dumb.   If the guy was jailed for killing over 200 people, he wasn&#8217;t very &#8216;humanitarian&#8217; to others, was he?.   Then, why free him on &#8216;humanitarian&#8217; grounds?   Why treat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Censored Spanish anthem?</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/07/26/censored-spanish-anthem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/07/26/censored-spanish-anthem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.megaspora.net/en/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alberto Contador (from Pinto, in Spain) won the Tour de France today, but when he climbed up to the podium, the Danish anthem was played instead of the Spanish one.   Mistake?  I doubt it&#8230; it was pretty clear that Contador would win the Tour.  How can the organizers make a mistake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to pretend doing something without committing to anything</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/07/05/how-to-pretend-doing-something-without-committing-to-anything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/07/05/how-to-pretend-doing-something-without-committing-to-anything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garoña]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.megaspora.net/en/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A nuclear energy plant in Spain, in the town of Santa María de Garoña, is the focus of controversy in recent weeks, thanks to the Government&#8217;s determination to close it down in spite of favourable reports that call for its continuation beyond its design lifetime of 40 years.
Spanish government president Rodríguez Zapatero&#8217;s motivation to close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language choice in Galicia</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/06/28/language-choice-in-galicia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/06/28/language-choice-in-galicia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Braindead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[galicia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[galician]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[positive discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spanish]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.megaspora.net/en/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The regional government of Galicia distributed a questionnaire among parents of schooled children.  The goal is to find out parents&#8217; preferences about which language (Spanish or Galician, or a mix) to use for teaching in school, to later design the &#8220;future language policies for elementary and secondary education in Galicia.&#8221;
The questionnaire had to reach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why does Rodríguez Zapatero need the special congress permission?</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/06/21/why-does-rodriguez-zapatero-need-the-special-congress-permission/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/06/21/why-does-rodriguez-zapatero-need-the-special-congress-permission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[negotiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.megaspora.net/en/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week ETA has killed police inspector Eduardo Puelles, and the Government and the main opposition party (PP) have given an image of unity in their response to this new assassination, calling for the defeat of ETA.  It seems that the PP backs the Government&#8217;s current counter-terrorism policy.
However, it is hard to believe that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New financing,  &#8230;new programming?</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/06/12/new-financing-new-programming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/06/12/new-financing-new-programming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spanish television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TVE]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.megaspora.net/en/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Televisión Española (&#8220;TVE&#8221;, the Spanish public TV station) is faced with a new financing plan, put forward by the current government, the &#8220;Draft bill for financing of Spanish Radio and Television Corporation&#8221;.  According to this bill, TVE would no longer display TV commercials.  Advertisement income will be replaced by income from a tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13-week monsters</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/05/20/13-week-monsters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/05/20/13-week-monsters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 21:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Braindead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.megaspora.net/en/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the context of the abortion debate, agitated by the government of Rodríguez Zapatero with its new &#8220;Law of Reproductive and Sexual Health and of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancies&#8221;, the Minister of Equality (yes&#8230; we have such a idiotic Ministry in Spain), Bibiana Aído, has marked the age limit for the human fetus to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum of Communism</title>
		<link>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/05/18/museum-of-communism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.megaspora.net/en/2009/05/18/museum-of-communism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 20:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.megaspora.net/en/?p=124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While walking around Prague last week, I ran into the following banner on a street wall:

Very nice.
       More&#160;&#187;]]></description>
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