Demonstration in support of heroic Chechen fighters

If the annual ceremony bemoaning the arrival of liberal centralism in Catalonia is beginning to seem kind of boring, here‘s one you’ll surely enjoy, organised by The Popular Front for Solidarity with the Chechen People and his increasingly nervous dog: 11:00 Political ceremony on the Passeig del Born. With the participation of Alij Masteiev, representative…

Reduction in free public transport

Andreu@Raïms notes moves by the local train companies to crack down on the 60% (source?) of travellers who under-declare the number of zones crossed, to say nothing of the large number who don’t pay anything at all. What surprises me is that I haven’t yet heard anyone use the words “fascist aggression”.

Biodiesel

These Canadians have just started out to drive from Barcelona to Beijing and they need your prayers: not because their van is powered by cooking oil or because of potential difficulties during the Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-China stretch of the journey, but because they appear to have taken six weeks to get from Barcelona to the French border,…

Armless?

Our present troubles may seem like extremely dark shadows in what I am convinced is otherwise a remarkably beautiful picture, but I wish AP had put this slightly differently: A deadly car bombing outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta left bloody corpses and severed human remains strewn across the busy commercial street. [snip] “I can’t…