Earth Day still focused on immoral climate crusade

Today is Earth Day, an event that has been almost entirely hijacked by the ridiculous and dangerous climate change movement. "Climate" appears a total of 10 times on the earthday.org home page and 15 time on the subpage for this year's event. The first action item on the Greenpeace USA home page is a link to a new report, "How Social Media Companies are failing to Tackle Climate Information." The United Nations International Mother Earth Day home page starts with the childish statements "Mother...
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Post Corona Blues

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

Like many husbands I have a pretty small suitcase. Well, small, anyway. All the better in this day and age, I hear you say, it will take up less space in the imminent era of permanent distance-awareness. The near future might usher in more legroom on planes, fewer flight attendants (could that mean fewer drinks?), no crowd control in sports stadia, breakneck hairdressers (so to speak) on roller skates and slowcoach postmen labouring under sacks of invitations to RSVP. Social life may revert to...

El rollo of Albert Royo

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM


The former secretary-general of Diplocat, Albert Royo, has been cut off. He is no longer this wizard of Catalan diplomacy in the world. From when Europe was watching us and the organization paid trips to Puigdemont and his court to promote independence. Now he looks distressed. He looks like a boy whose pet has died.
In recent days Albert Royo has been combining grief with persecutory delirium. At times he seems like one of those who believe he is being watched by satellites. He says he doesn't...

The end of one alarm. The beginning of another?

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

This moment was desired for so long that I am not in a position to understand whether or not we are ready for the next level. How are our phobic circuits doing? Are they degreased enough to bond with each other? Can the aura of self-defense that each of us has built up to keep the other out be broken? What will our hygiene pawns say when faced with a cough or a sneeze nearby? Will they let it pass like when we were happy non-incubators of viruses or will they go on the attack with all their...

Barcelona, a step backward

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

I could start with the pandemic parenthesis that is hitting us at the moment. I could unleash indignation in the face of the precariousness of the labour market that is currently affecting the city of Barcelona and a large part of Spain, with its low wages, its eternal poorly paid working hours, its unfair competition, its lack of legislation for workers, the increasing appearance of the self-employed doing the impossible to make ends meet, the horribly misnamed aid to the unemployed and...

Fly little pigeon - The migrant generation

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

Immigration, a key element in the 20th-century working-class context of an underdeveloped world, persists to this day with the added attraction that today´s work is virtual and remote, which makes moving an opportunity rather than an obligation. Gone are those young dreams of young people getting off ships, after weeks and weeks of travel, to start a new life in unknown and even cruel lands. Today, a hundred years later, the so-called millennials travel the world looking for broadband in...

The forgotten ones

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

I saw her through the glass. It's true that I passed by very quickly, engrossed in my thoughts, but her simple and sincere smile pierced my heart as nothing had done for a long time. She only smiled at me, but in that smile were trapped thousands of stories, thousands of moments that perhaps she wanted to tell even once more. I stood still, petrified in her and she in me. For an instant, I forgot everything, and when I say everything, it was really like that, I only had the reflex to enter and...

The new Parlament

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

This week the bankrupt investiture of Pere Aragones brought the new Catalan Parliament to the fore. I refer to this mixture of aesthetics, symbolism, and hackneyed speeches that reached peaks of extreme sordidness and vulgar operetta. It is not a question of nostalgia for tragic Parliaments like the one presided over by Forcadell, but the new Parliament promises new heaps of magical realism and tragicomedy.
The image helped. For the Covidien measures, the Parliament looks like an evicted bank...

Searching the perspective of a future

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

"Speaking without perspective is like looking through a keyhole. You see the other side, but only halfway". One year on from the pandemic, we have learned interesting things. We have learned that solidarity and empathy are adjectives that are too big for many. That paranoia and misinformation have been and continue to be co-authors of a film that never seems to end and that is wearing down the psyche of many, if not all. Human beings imprisoned by fear can behave irrationally, placing...

Do androids dream with electric sheeps?

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

It is not so disturbing that robots resemble human beings; the scary thing is that it is the other way around. Perfect technology and its global networks have pushed us to falsify ourselves as people, to chase filters of reality, forgetting about it and masking an unattainable peak. We have trivialized feelings and automated the way we express them. We have let a screen separate what used to be separated by miles or oceans. Romance for each other has become an indefinite postponement for...

The art of discrimination

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

In spite of the times we live in, it is not difficult to find a society, and all those that fit within each of them, groups of people, people, and even nations that discriminate. It seems to be in our animal, primitive, ancestral DNA to discriminate. But then I wonder how bad it is if that gives us the security of the herd, the preservation of the species, and the acceptance of the group of belonging .... and although shocking I am not talking about humans but about animals that are preserved...

EU faces uncertainty as Brexit and pandemic hit hard

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

As 2020 draws to a close, the EU unknowingly teeters on the brink. After a year of disastrous political posturing and protectionism, inadvertently leading to the decimation of many industries, the EU says goodbye to a jubilant UK. Now more than ever, the EU needs to stand united against the fallout from the pandemic mishandling and the threat from China. Yet instead, an old ally departs with jingoistic flags waving, leaving an embarassingly insightful expose of EU inner workings accessible to...

Environmentalists should hope for quick economic rebound

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

We are seeing significant pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions as a result of the economic slowdown caused by the world's response to the COVID-19 virus. For example, Carbon Brief reported that GHG emissions in China had dropped at least 25% in February in comparison with the same period last year. Marshall Burke, Assistant Professor and Deputy Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University, tweeted on March 9 that "Reductions in air pollution...

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