Independent views in freedom
Ten or twelve years ago I had a long lunch with the representative that Al Gore had sent to Spain, who would later work as a high rank official in the Obama Administration. In those years I had had the opportunity to personally meet President Clinton but not Gore, although I had seen his documentary …
Due to the unexpected success of my last article and to the interest expressed by some readers from both sides of the Atlantic, please find below an update of its sources: On the global warming “hiatus”: please see the temperature graph below with satellite data since they began (1979) and, further below, quotes from …
READ MORE >>Annex to Hurricanes and other lies of environmentalism: sources
Today’s environmentalism has degenerated into an ideology as totalitarian as communism, with which it shares not only adherents, but also the massive use of lies. The hysterical superstition of the theory of anthropogenic global warming, blind to the scientific method and to data (and to the absence of reliable data!), is perhaps the greatest example …
READ MORE >>Hurricanes and other lies of environmentalism (and journalism)
In a recent speech, Spain’s acting Finance Minister advocated for an increase in the size of the government and announced a brutal tax hike while criticizing the idea that “taxpayers’ money is better in their own pockets,” a concept she dismissed as a “mantra”. The whole sentence, copied word for word from an article published …
READ MORE >>Vampire States, the killers of prosperity and freedom
The power-seekers who flatter the people or those who view democracy as a goddess to be idolized and not as a simple political system that is only a means to an end (liberty) and not an end in itself, consider it blasphemous to criticize the outcome of an election (“vox populi, vox Dei,” they say, …
Dear reader, The upcoming Spanish general elections to be held next Sunday will have all to do with the attitude the future government will have towards the Catalonian separatists who attempted a true coup d’Etat in the illegal referendum that took place on October 1st 2017 (and who are currently in prison and under trial, …
READ MORE >>Spain’s commonsensical political options in the next elections
Dear reader, For the sake of keeping in power, Socialist President Sánchez has made agreements with Catalonian separatist parties (whose leaders are currently in prison and under trial for holding an illegal referendum in October 2017) and even with the Basque radical nationalists who have usually supported Basque terrorist group ETA, responsible for the cold-blooded …
Dear reader, If the adult citizen in adult democracies must always take with a grain of salt whatever politicians and their cohort of friendly media say, in pre-election periods the manipulations from all these power-junkies are so aggressive that he’d rather protect himself with body armor and a huge dose of skepticism. With general elections …
Dear reader, In representative democracies, the people vote for their (supposed) representatives but the final result depends decisively on the small details hidden in the electoral law of the day, the wording of which is never accidental. In this article we will briefly explain the intricacies of the Spanish electoral law (which is usually misunderstood) …
Since 1978, Spain is politically divided into 17 regions called “Autonomous Communities”, each enjoying an enormous degree of independence: they have their own legislative body, government and judiciary, decide on regional taxation, control the public health and education systems and some even have their own police forces. All this makes Spain one of the most …
READ MORE >>Spain’s regional Administrations, the cancer that devours us