valldoreix, gedecentraliseerde stedelijke entiteit

Dat is echt hoe dit stukje suburban sprawl heet, maar het ligt in Catalunya, niet Flevoland. Trouwens, kan iemand mij uitleggen waarom Turbotaz als een gek Kaleboel aandelen aan het kopen is? Als ze Rafael Ramos eruit schoppen, zal de prijs inderdaad omhoog gaan, of heeft-ie een andere strategie? Hij gaat me toch niet dumpen?!…

Ooh I really hate that Tony Blair, by Rafael Ramos

Those of you with a memory longer than those interesting socks your boss is wearing this morning may remember that I pointed out in May that Rafael Ramos, La Vanguardia’s correspondent in London, appeared to be semi-literate, prone to invention, and a plagiarist. When I complained to the paper’s ombudsman, Josep Maria Casasús, he emailed…

La Vanguardia’s WTC lies

John Chappell picks up on the Vanguardia “exclusive” from June/July re alleged mysterious shadows on the fuselage of the second WTC plane (English version here). Unlike professional conspiracy theorists, La Vanguardia make no attempt to appear credible: Where are the images on which their conclusions are based? Who is the nameless digital imaging expert at…

Rafael Ramos update

Still no reaction from La Vanguardia re my query of last Wednesday, documented here. Are ethics something of a sore point for them? When John Chappell exposed plagiarism by Màrius Serra, another of their writers, the paper’s ombudsman basically told him to go away and do penance for being a bellicose Anglo-Saxon. I was initially…