Brian Cutts
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South Yorkshire to Catalonia. ELO fan. Once a physicist. Permanently perplexed. Uhtceare. Frantumaglia. Memorial Device ANT. Woke AF. Rants on Tannu Tuva blog
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In the Spanish elections, apart from what degree of Catalan-bashing you prefer, you'll also be able to choose between a 40-year-old white man, a 40-year-old white man, a 40-year-old white man, a 40-year-old white man, or a 40-year-old white man without a tie.
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A una botiga avui, m'ha dit (per primer cop que recordo) que no entenia el català. He provat una frase més, però res. Així que he canviat a l'anglès. Quan he vist que li anava a explotar el cap, he tornat a demanar el que volia en català i, voilà, al final ens hem entès.
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"Gibraltar is Spanish" sings one of Spain's team. Might be good at football, but not so up on history😅 The Spanish signed Gibraltar over to the Brits in exchange for the Brits betraying Catalonia about 300 years ago.
[footnote: I couldn't care less either way]
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Hola Miquel
@miqueliceta
, pots ajudar a difondre aquest statement del Director de l'Institut MLK que desmenteix el fake news que ahir es va escampar sobre l'institut i Catalonia? Gràcies
L'Institut Luther King exigeix a Torra que deixi d'utilitzar la figura del líder nord-americà, El Periódico de Catalunya vía
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Journalist explaining that last Thursday people in high places already knew about the judge's 'decision' to imprison indy leaders today...
En recepción Fiesta Nacional escucho en distintos corros q las 2 primeras órdenes d prisión serán el lunes Audiencia Nnal. La 3a, más dudosa
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Quan aneu a la maquina d'agafar número d'espera a l'oficina de Correus, o a la pantalla de demanar a MacDonalds, etc., també canvieu la llengua al català abans de començar?
#petitescoses
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Can anyone imagine UK govt imprisoning leaders/members of
@YesScotland
or
@WeAreNational
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No. The Spanish police in BCN today aren't protesting "against independence"; they're celebrating their (violent) actions during last year's vote. And the local citizens aren't protesting "for indy"; they're protesting the presence of these thugs.
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Hi ha un premi especial per a la gent que dissenya places així en un país on fa sol i calor 400 dies a l'any (i cada cop més)?
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Ex-police chief Trapero also needs the international attention and/or support that has been given to the jailed/exiled Catalan politicians.
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Tema bous. Em considero ebrenc. He viscut 34 anys de vida adulta al Baix Ebre, més anys que molta de la gent que em diu que calli perquè no soc d’aquí o em proposen que torni al meu país. 1/n [va per llarg i per a tothom, em toca posar el casc antibales]
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Spanish police literally punching peaceful citizens trying to vote during the Catalan referendum.
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So, the guy who sent the police to beat up innocent voters in Catalonia has gone, to be replaced by the guy who gave him his full backing. I'll leave the cava in the fridge.
#spanishpolitics
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@eucopresident
@andrewiconnell
@KRLS
Spain rejects dialogue and mediation over and over again. It's Rajoy you need to speak to.
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What? 'Spain' played a crucial role in liberating Paris in WW2 thanks to 'Spanish soldiers'?! Rewriting history, guys? [It was in fact Republican exiles who fought against Nazis; Franco was, of course, a buddy of Hitler]
España tuvo un papel crucial en la liberación de
@Paris
hace 75 años. Los soldados españoles de
#LaNueve
fueron los primeros en entrar en
#Par
ís y su contribución a este hecho histórico fue fundamental
#LiberationdeParis
🇫🇷
@MAECgob
@EspanaGlobal
@EmbEspFrancia
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@hansvanbaalen
@ALDEParty
Right-wing Ciudadanos told you he's a racist, did they? I'd check your facts, speak to Mr Torra, and maybe even investigate some of the policies and opinons held by Ciudadanos themselves. You could have an unpleasant surprise.
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Spain wanted silence of Baltic states. They stationed airforce there as a favour.
Spain wants Switzerland to extradite Catalans. Will extradite Falciani to Switz.
Spain wants Puigdemont from Germany. Will buy German fighter planes.
What next, offer UK Menorca for Carla Ponsati?
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Can anyone imagine a campaign in England collecting signatures against the current Scottish education system? This is Spain, whipping up hysteria against Catalonia as usual.
El Congrés dona oxigen a la recollida de signatures contra la immersió lingüística
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Spanish govt officials and police chiefs still testifying in the 'trial' that there was no police violence during the Catalan vote. They must think we don't have internet, TVs, or even memory.
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Com saber si tens un adolescent vivint a casa, pista no. 23: la setra d'aigua fresca que teniu a la nevera, sempre està buida - i dins la nevera. També es poden trobar briks de llet o suc buits a la nevera.
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Spanish Interior Minister (yep, the one condemned by ECHR for allowing police torture) says that in a state of law "the State has a monopoly on violence" which kind of explains his mindset and how his police operate.
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Spanish politics for dummies. If a Spanish politician wants to gain popularity effortlessly, the options include: 1. Take a selfie with a cup-winning Spanish footballer. 2. Insult (or jail) a Catalan. 3. Play the Gibraltar card.
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@PippaCrerar
Kids have worn masks at school all along here in Catalonia with no problems. They don't have the political baggage of misunderstood concepts of 'freedom' that many English adults seem to carry.
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@SlyLR
@eucopresident
@andrewiconnell
@KRLS
Catalonia has asked to negotiate a referendum 20 times in recent years (as 80% of citizens want).
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Hi ha una manera ràpida per acabar amb el tema dels llaços grocs. Es diu 'independéncia'.
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Tot això de si volem una Catalunya d'esquerres, anti-feixista, capitalista, neo-liberal, happy-flowers, republica, monarquia.... és un debat inútil si no aconseguim la independ��ncia. Un cop assolit, ja podrem votar cada 4 anys quina Catalunya volem.
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When a government has to make a video explaining, insisting, to the world that it is a democracy, really, believe us... then, you start to think something is fishy.
Esta es la
#Espa
ña 🇪🇸 de verdad. Una democracia consolidada y a la vanguardia. Un país abierto, solidario, innovador e igualitario. Personalidades nacionales e internacionales destacan su progreso, desarrollo y compromiso con el futuro.
#40A
ñosDeConstitución
#ThisIsTheRealSpain
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@BBCWorld
It was NOT a pro-independence symbol. It was a banner requesting the freedom of political prisoners, a view many non-independentists share, not to mention human rights groups. Can you correct the story please?
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Hello
@amnesty
Two Catalans are in a foreign prison on trumped up charges for political reasons. Can you help?
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Fascist salutes from members of her 'fan club' as the Spanish PP candidate enters an event at Barcelona University (amongst strong student protests). And nothing happens. Casual fascism accepted on a daily basis now in Spain.
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Spanish police union 'subtly' threatening Catalans. Yet more reasons to leave.
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Pels fans dels paisatges britànics: un passeig pels voltants de casa mons pares a South Yorkshire... 1/4
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As the Spanish socialist party claims Catalans should forget independence and support them against the rise of the far-right in Spain, have they forgotten that they (the socialists) demostrate alongside the same far-right against the legitimate rights of Catalans?
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The classic lie, that Catalan kids don't learn Spanish at school. Bullshit. All kids leave school perfectly fluent in Cat + Sp (+ some Eng).
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The Catalan indy drive has seen years of huge, imaginative, peaceful (and well-documented) protests. But, in a twisted attempt to give credibility to their imprisoning Catalan politicians, Spain is now trying to sell the story that it's a violent movement.
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Si no volem que torni el feixisme, ni volem aquesta tolerancia del feixisme preocupant que es viu a moltes parts de la societat o als mitjans, potser hauriem de començar a tenir les coses clares. Fa 44 anys que va morir Franco i encara tenim aquest cicatriu al riu Ebre.
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Weird. Spanish govt official declares he saw police with broken fingers and fractured legs after the Catalan referendum (implying violence by voters), but strangely not a single one of them had a day off work nor have they provided medical evidence of these injuries.
Enric Millo explica que va visitar policies ferits l’1-O: “Vaig sentir testimonis esfereïdors. Vaig poder veure dits trencats, fractures de cama, una armilla antibales estripada. Em van explicar que havien caigut en la trampa del Fairy”
#JudiciTV3CatR
àdio
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@dlacalle
@Mireiavam
@XSalaimartin
For me, it's more than obvious what it means - it's hardly quantum physics! But, hey, I'm just an English language teacher and translator.
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The President of largest cultural association in Catalonia has been in jail on remand for 170 days - in Madrid, 500km from Barcelona. His baby son has travelled over 34,000km so far on prison visits. In Europe, 2018.
@txellbonet
Actualització del nostre comptador personal: en els 170 dies que
@jcuixart
és a la presó el nostre fill que encara no té un any ja acumula 34.000 km per poder veure el seu pare. Dispersió de presos l'Europa Occidental del SXXI. Espanya: Estat de Dret? Violació Drets dels infants!
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Over 100,000 people on the streets of Barcelona demanding the political prisonsers and exiled politicians be free to come home. Spain, you may have a new govt but this ain't over by a long shot.
💪🏼 HO HEM TORNAR A FER. Hem tornat a omplir Barcelona per cridar multitudinàriament que no els volem a prop, els volem a casa!
#LlibertatPresosPol
ítics!
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Llarena, the judge in the Catalan political prisoners case, defends the right of judges to use their "political ideology" when "interpreting" the law. Hello Europe!
@eucopresident
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@la_marato
@EuforiaTV3
Feu un programa exitos de música per a promoure el català (i TV3) entre els jovens (i grans), i desprès els feu cantar en castellà? Un desproposit total.
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No s'ha de negociar fins que tenim els politics, exiliats, Jordis a casa (i totes les altres causes anul·lats). A partir de llavors, negociem si accepten
#1O
o referendum nou. Això de "si Sanchez no se mueve" respecte presos és una condició massa flexible, per no dir altra cosa.
Respondiendo, una vez más, a quienes continúan preguntándonos qué haremos con los presupuestos: no se negociará nada si antes
@sanchezcastejon
no se ”mueve”respecto a los presos políticos (Fiscalía) y se avanza en un diálogo que incluya el debate autonomía vs autodeterminación.
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Britain "got" Gibraltar for betraying Catalonia in 1714. If UK govt is worried about rights of Gibraltarians, what about rights of Catalans?
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@elperiodico
An urgent problem in Andalusia, that people 500 miles away in Catalonia learn two languages instead of one...
@jpfbadcock
@Hedgecoe
#duh
#catalanophobiaaliveandwell
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Spanish and Catalan 'socialists' played along with the right and far-right to exercise repression in Catalonia. Now they moan that the right's overtaking them in today's Andalusia elections. It's what you get if you play with fire.
El PSOE, i molt més encara el PSC, el darrer any s'ha dedicat a blanquejar el feixisme, blanquejant així el nacionalisme espanyol. A Andalusia tenen el resultat del seu enorme error. Bon profit
@miqueliceta
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Catalan firefighters form a line to protect peaceful protesters from riot police (and to keep an eye out for agent provocateurs aiming to cause trouble). They did this during the referendum last year too, protecting voters from police violence.
#thankyou
#21D
| Els Bombers arriben a la via Laietana entre aplaudiments dels manifestants. Se situen estratègicament entre els activistes i el cordó policial per intentar evitar nous incidents
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Not an expert, but if you declare a State of Emergency to begin tomorrow, you're gonna have hundreds of thousands of Madrid inhabitants leaving the Madrid virus hotspot today. Not sure it's the best plan.
🔴 Pedro Sánchez: "Decretem l'estat d'alarma a tot el país a partir de demà."
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Thousands of Catalans marching to blockade Barcelona airport.
Spain, you just made a Big Problem even Bigger.
Això és BRUTAL, joder. Pèls de punta. AIXÍ, AIXÍ. Que l'1 d'octubre quedi petit. Quin orgull de poble, hòstia puta.
NI UN PAS ENRERE, TOTS ELS PASSOS ENDAVANT. TOTHOM A L'AEROPORT.
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The Catalan minister who dealt with the August terrorist attack in Barcelona is now in jail awaiting trial on trumped-up accusations regarding indy process. The police chief has been demoted to an office job. Curiouser and curiouser... 1/2
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Catalans to demonstrate in Brussels on 7 December; a reminder to EU that Spain has jailed Catalan politicians, tried to end Catalan autonomy, and imposed (possibly dodgy) elections 2 weeks later. Wake up Europe!
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'Democratic' Spain arrests a singer facing years in jail over his lyrics while everyone's watching the election results. Nice.
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Spanish socialist govt gives top jobs in Madrid to Catalan socialists and wants the the world to think this 'helps' the Catalan question. How? If they are all against not only independence but even the right to a vote on independence, where's the change?
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So, Catalonia can't have the President we voted for, nor can we have the Ministers we want. No wonder Spain has to pay for a marketing campaign to 'explain' that Spain is a democracy!
The Spanish government might reconsider ending direct rule of Catalonia if deposed ministers are reappointed
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Brussels is going to run out of mussels and chips tonight! Thousands of hungry Catalans are on their way :)
#roadtobrussels
#OmplimBrussel
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Europe, you watching? Spanish King now giving Catalonia a (verbal) battering too. Big surprise.
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Usually keep my vote secret, but... in the EU elections, my vote is to hit the Spanish deep state where it hurts, let them know their violent repression will not prevent Catalans from wanting to choose their future; i.e. I'm voting for Puigdemont, exiled President of Catalonia.
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Spanish police are literally confiscating yellow shirts from Barça fans at today's Cup Final. Incredible. Wonder what happens if they catch you wearing yellow trousers and pants....?
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Accused of money laundering, the ex-chairman of FC Barça was locked up in prison on remand for 1 year and 9 months before his trial eventually came to court. Today he has been acquitted of all charges. Yet another example of something rotten within the Spanish justice system.
⚠ #ÚltimaHora Sandro Rosell, absolt per l'Audiència Nacional després de gairebé dos anys en presó preventiva
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Not sure how members of the socialist party (giving full support to the right-wing Spanish govt's violent repression of Catalonia's peaceful drive for independence) can sleep tonight.
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@martinvars
Duh. In Barcelona, kids learn Catalan and Spanish to a level of perfection. Plus English to, at least, B2 level. Ask your Silicon V buddies to see what the experts say about the minds and problem-solving capacity of multi-lingual kids. Languages, the more, the better.
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Fa gairebé un mes que hi soc a Anglaterra i ahir em vaig adonar que parlo amb el gos de ma mare en català.
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Spain's confusing tactics to convince Catalans to stay - beat Catalans up for voting, then say it didn't happen but if it did it was the voters' fault, oh, and that's €85 million on your tax bills.
Spanish Interior minister's 10 lies about the Catalan referendum (with videos)
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En quina Fase dieu que poden venir turistes de Bristol a Tortosa? #ésperunamic
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Tema llet. En aquest poble d'Anglaterra, el lleter pot portar-te pintes de llet d'una granja local cada matí, preu 1,45€/l, o pots anar al super i comprar briks per 0,85€/l. Com sempre, el poder el tenim els consumidors (si tenim lo sort de cobrar al final del mes).
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li agrada tant que no s'ha molestat a parlar la seva llengua (si és que l' ha après?) a l'entrevista
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No sé qui va dir això ahir, pero 100% d'accord. Els primers en reconeixer que Catalunya és un estat han de ser els catalans. Ho creiem, oi?
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Still not sure how Madrid's cruel and crude attempts at repressing the activities and representatives of over 2 million Catalans is going to encourage Catalans to want to remain in Spain. But, hey, I'm no Einstein.
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Regarding Gibraltar, remember it's British in exchange for Britain selling out Catalonia in 1714. Maybe the UK could make amends and defend Catalonia's right to self-determination?
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Endevineu a qui he votat......
Correcte, a ningú. Malgrat viure, treballar, i pagar impostos aquí durant 30 anys, no puc votar. Almenys que demani la nacionalitat espanyola - cosa que no faré, ni fart de vi.
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@OwenJones84
Ciudadanos tried to sell the 'centrist' image but anyone who's followed them from their birth in Catalonia and main objectives (crush 'catalanism') knew all along. Far-right. Franco died but his supporters and attitudes survived and came through the 'transition' to 'democracy'
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Fa un moment a
@maticatradio
parlaven d'una llista de pel·lís de Hollywood, i deien els titols en castellà 🤦♀️Podriem discutir si és millor nombrar-les en anglès (VO) o català, però trobo que en castella no té sentit en un mitja català públic i subvencionat.
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Many years ago, before coming here, friends told me to buy El Pais "an excellent, serious, left-wing paper."
2018, it's somehow become a sensationalist manipulative crutch for Spain's right-wing establisment. Sad.
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Amb lo català, passa com amb l'Ebre i el Delta. A cada bugada perdem un llançol. Però als nostres polítics els hi va bé tenir aquests comodins per a fer la foto de "Natros lluitarem fins al final; voteu-nos" cada any. Cap intenció real d'arribar al fons del problema i arreglar-ho
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If Pedro Sanchez thinks Catalans will shut up just because our elected (innocent) political representatives are moved to prisons nearer home and we can wear yellow ribbons, he's wrong. It's the independence issue, stupid!
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Thousands (tens of thousands?) of Catalans on their way to Brussels for huge demonstration on Thursday!
#roadtoBrussels
#OmplimBrussel
·les
#beyellowmyfriend
És dimarts i el centre de
#Brussels
ja és ple de llaços grocs, bufandes i estalades. Això de dijous serà un èxit!
#OmplimBrusselles
#OmplimBru
@OmplimBrux
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Whatever Spain thinks it can offer Catalonia, the only way to move forward is: either (1) Spain accepts and/or Catalonia implements the October referendum results, or (2) there's yet another referendum.
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Ha ha. Quina gracia.
Fer broma amb la situació dels presos politics, molts coneguts d'ell, és lo pitjor que he sentit aquesta setmana.
Montilla somriu dient que els presos polítics estan molt bé a les presons catalanes perquè "les van fer un govern progressista".
Res. Son brometes entre col·legues del tripartit
#xist
#entreamics
#risses
#Mes324
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@CatalunyaRadio
@elsuplement
hi surt un periodista britànic explicant 4 coses de la premsa brit. en castellà. No podeu trobar cap britànic que pugui fer-ho en català ja que sou un mitjà public subvencionat per "promocionar i difondre la llengua catalana"?
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Remember, the story isn't whether Catalans are marching, sitting down in silence, rioting, or striking. The story is WHY.
This is all about violent and judicial repression of the simple and rational desire to allow citizens to vote on their own future.
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... except in Catalonia.
@Europarl_EN
The European Parliament supports human rights: the 2017
#SakharovPrize
winner will be announced on Thursday
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Ehem, remember Spain 'gave' Gibraltar to Britain in exchange for Britain abandoning Catalonia back in 1700s war against Sp. Your move, King.
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Horrendous image. Even now, Franco is glorified - by fascist nostalgists and family on prime-time TV. Is this how the exhumation of a dictator guilty of the death of hundreds of thousands, as well as 40 years of suffering, should be carried out in a modern democracy?
📎 | The coffin with the remains of Spain's former dictator Francisco Franco leaves the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum after more than 40 years
Learn more:
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PP in debate "Spain is wonderful." But not wonderful enough to risk allowing anyone a vote on whether they want to stay in this wonderland.
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Si li surt bé el viatge a Waterloo, l'Arrimadas té previst anar a Sant Esteve de les Roures per a dir-li al Sabi Strubell que no existeix.
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Catalan president visiting political prisoners who've been transferred to Catalan prisons today.
My advice: leave the door open on the way out, President ;)
El president de la Generalitat, Quim Torra, arriba a la presó de Lledoners per visitar Oriol Junqueras, Raül Romeva, Jordi Sànchez i Jordi Cuixart
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Per a mi, fallem molt com a societat si pensem q això és divertit. La falta d’empatia envers els animals és un problema greu i, tal com demostren molts estudis, té conseqüències per a la societat. Especialment si estem ensenyant als xiquets aquest menyspreu envers uns essers 18/n
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@michaelreid52
@FT
Opened their study in Barcelona 27 years ago and now they realize Catalans speak Catalan? Not exactly the Usain Bolts of the art world, are they? Anyway, good luck in France (where they speak French, apparently).
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@guyverhofstadt
Do we need to remind you that politicians and the establishment are using the judicial system in Spain to maintain the sacred unity of this neo-francoist state and punish those fighting for democracy?
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A favor de l'energia eòlica, però sorpres del poc vent que deu fer al nort de Catalunya 🤔
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A friend told me that he'd never thought about the Catalan question and saw no problem with being part of Spain, until he was sent at the age of 18 to do his military service somewhere in central Spain. It only took 24h for him to become the pro-independence Catalan he is today.
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What I still don't get is what makes SPAIN think that state violence, indiscriminate repression, locking up innocent people, etc. is going to make Catalans want to stay in Spain. I must be missing something.
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Two witnesses in the 'trial' of Catalan political prisoners refused to answer questions from the private prosecutor, the far-right fascist party VOX. Well done! Rather than punish these witnesses, Spain should explain just how they haved allowed fascists into their Supreme Court.
Eulàlia Reguant: "Mantindrem la desobediència fins al final"
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Passen els anys i continua sent un dels llibres que més estimo (ne tinc 3 copies!). Ni google ni xorrades, lo Xuriguera és el p*to amo.
#FemDeuresEnDiumenge
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