tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37872124521194404612024-02-01T18:50:09.732-08:00My life in the wild wild west (of Europe)Short excerpts and thoughts during my life in western Europe: the wildest jungle and beasts I have ever seen. Strange Ideas and paranoias have been registered here. I am not responsible for any of them. / Algunos apartes y episodios de mi vida en Europa occidental, Ideas, paranoias, pensamientos y otras cosas locas que veo a mi alrededor y se me pasan por la cabeza y de las cuales no me siento responsable.Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-33103403658173977602013-10-20T11:52:00.001-07:002013-10-20T11:52:15.714-07:00History of Europe (3000 BC - 2013 AD)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/l53bmKYXliA" width="480"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-54168148405008438662013-10-20T03:30:00.001-07:002013-10-20T03:30:05.558-07:00Some empires in the world seen from an European point of view<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MOrD8eOdRxU" width="459"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-1880487295426646612012-06-30T06:46:00.003-07:002012-08-31T03:05:09.404-07:00The ¨EasyJet Experience¨ : Never Again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you are looking for the thrill of paying an average price for regular services, being <span style="color: red;">charged for any added value</span> the service may offer and being humiliated and/or diminished in the process you need to become a fan of the Easy Group in Europe. (Easy Jet, Easy Hotel and Easy Money at the end) a UK based business idea, being awfully successful with the easyeverything internet cafes in the 90´s.<br />
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Last week I went to Amsterdam for a work trip of on week and tried <span style="color: red;">the EasyJet experience / nightmare</span>.<br />
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We booked a flight for two people that was 270€ with a 20kg suitcase, no food included and only one piece of hand luggage. We checked ourselves in online and arrived to the Airport 2 hours in advance for checking the luggage after a 20 minute line. One the passenger beside us had a problem because she had her <span style="background-color: white; color: red;">passport</span> but did not bring her other <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">ID</span></span>, so she lost her ticket, no refund and could not fly to her destination even having her passport, that was her problem the Easyjet employee claimed.<br />
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We go to the gate and find that all the drunks, party weekenders, noisy cheap tourists, and eurotrash available in town gathered there to flight with us and with some other terrified first timers. Waiting in the gate we noticed that our boarding pass had <span style="color: red;">no seat number</span>, so we would have to fight with other passengers to get a decent seat or even be seated together with your travel companion. quite awful but as we are supposed to pay low, then I guess we need to suffer a bit, you pay either with money or with dignity.<br />
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During the boarding announcement the flight attendant specified that no more than one piece could be carried, no personal computers, no handbangs, no shopping, no purses, no nothing or a charge of 50€ (do not know if this is legal) would apply. Most passengers managed to put their purse, computer and handbag in one bigger bag and even a couple got a trash bin bag to put it all together and squeeze it to fit the maximum size. Ok passport and ID check again, justin case we could charge or leave someone else, but wait! there is <span style="color: red;">Speedy Boarding! </span>Some smart passengers have paid 20€ extra to their ticket price for jumping th line and having 1 or 2 extra minutes to enter the plane first and get a decent seat, now we know why there are no seat numbers...to be able to sell them!<br />
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No problem, but the next thing: the plane has to ¨<span style="color: red;">taxi</span>¨ from the lsat end of the airport for around 20 minutes to able to tae off. In the meantime <span style="color: red;">advertisements in our seats</span>, sell us the sandwich and try to make us obey on buying an awful menu. How could I get to enjoy anything at those ridiculous prices? These people never heard about value for money.<br />
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Next Post: the real nightmares: of course at Easy Hotel.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-51881562254736012482012-05-01T00:00:00.000-07:002012-05-13T05:29:15.404-07:00The Illusion of Independence in the 21st Century<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Tales about superheroes and political oppression</i></h4>
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Freedom in the 21st century has taken a complex meaning . The notion of power at all levels has become a matter of money and capacity of manipulation, causing a distortion in our minds and changing the meaning of justice, security and wellbeing.</div>
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Citizens still believe in the possibility of a fair system that will provide and protect shelter, education and security for the people of a country while the system itself changes the other way around being ruled by the logic of markets and consumption. The notion of nation has changed drastically since the fall of ideologies and the end of cold war in the 80´s. Corporate and business mindsets set the logic of governments and states.<br />
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Some interesting facts to understand this logic may be<br />
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<li>The creation of new countries during the 90´s in the balkans as a result of the war for the drug dealing industry entering Europe from Asia.</li>
<li>Local multimillionaires and family dynasties looking for absolute power in their regions, controlling companies, politics, foundations, law and banks.</li>
<li>New absolutism / nationalism and cultural segregation as a tool to make the masses create new political orders via ¨democracy¨.</li>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjthiDgPHJb7QaNVry2yRVP2z2k2VatT0o5nKl6cm9U4V6yr4_jYrA8lOju2VHbJGcVPlCtv6c8wbVn4SwfKz4xRtNqa4uHZ7Ntr1WtD96QBivGBVIA1sSCT7FZEJfT2O6lJllCjxae18g/s1600/090219_kosovo.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjthiDgPHJb7QaNVry2yRVP2z2k2VatT0o5nKl6cm9U4V6yr4_jYrA8lOju2VHbJGcVPlCtv6c8wbVn4SwfKz4xRtNqa4uHZ7Ntr1WtD96QBivGBVIA1sSCT7FZEJfT2O6lJllCjxae18g/s200/090219_kosovo.jpeg" width="200" /></a>Nationalistic movements have been seen in the future with catastrophic results, when pushing the limits of cultural identity into cultural exclusion and segregation. Perhaps a way of developing a strong identity and being mentally independent is being more open to the internal diversity and understanding our own culture is not a set of rules imposed by a government or a group, but the recognition of internal common interests, purposes and talents.<br />
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Independence may not have anything to do with those we think of as our enemies or what they have done to us in the past, but with building a future and a culture that are inclusive and organic inside.<br />
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Here is a list of regions and communities currently claiming independence across Europe my big question is what is their approach to the notion of independence?<br />
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<span class="s1"><b>Azerbaijan</b> Nagorno-Karabakh De facto state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Republic"><span class="s2">Nagorno-Karabakh Republic</span></a>, Government-in-exile: Azerbaijan — <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_Community_of_Nagorno-Karabakh"><span class="s2">Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh</span></a> <b>Belgium</b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_Region"><span class="s2">Flemish Region</span></a> Proposed state: Wallonia France Bosnia and Herzegovina ; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republika_Srpska"><span class="s2">Republika Srpska</span></a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republika_Srpska"><span class="s2">Republika Srpska</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Republic_of_Herzeg-Bosnia"><span class="s2">Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia</span></a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Republic_of_Herzeg-Bosnia"><span class="s2">Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Province_of_Western_Bosnia"><span class="s2">AP Western Bosnia</span></a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Province_of_Western_Bosnia"><span class="s2">AP Western Bosnia</span></a> <b>Croatia</b> Secessionist movements <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Serbian_Krajina"><span class="s2">Republic of Serbian Krajina</span></a> Proposed autonomous county/region: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istria_County"><span class="s2">Istria County</span></a> <b>Cyprus </b>De facto state with partial de jure recognition: TRNC Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus <b>Czech Republic</b> Moravia Political parties: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravan%C3%A9"><span class="s2">Moravané</span></a> (EFA member) <b>Denmark </b>Faroe Islands Proposed state: Faroe Islands <b>Finland</b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85land_Islands"><span class="s2">Åland</span></a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85land_Islands"><span class="s2">Åland</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people"><span class="s2">Sami</span></a> Proposed autonomous region: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1pmi_(area)"><span class="s2">Sápmi</span></a> <b>France</b> Secessionist movements <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Basque_Country"><span class="s2">Basque Country</span></a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Country_(greater_region)"><span class="s2">Euskadi</span></a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euskal_Herria"><span class="s2">Euskal Herria</span></a> (Basque Country), Brittany Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany"><span class="s2">Brittany</span></a>, Corsica Proposed state: Corsica or Italy, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Nice"><span class="s2">County of Nice</span></a>, Gradual and eventual secession, Brittany Political party: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_Breton"><span class="s2">Breton Party</span></a> <b>Georgia </b> Abkhazia (member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrepresented_Nations_and_Peoples_Organization"><span class="s3">Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization</span></a>), De facto state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia"><span class="s3">Republic of Abkhazia</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians_in_Samtskhe-Javakheti"><span class="s3">Armenians in Samtskhe-Javakheti</span></a>, Proposed autonomous area: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Javakhk_autonomous_region&action=edit&redlink=1"><span class="s3">Javakhk autonomous region</span></a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Ossetia"><span class="s3">South Ossetia</span></a> De facto state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Ossetia"><span class="s3">Republic of South Ossetia</span></a> <b>Germany </b>Bavaria <b>Italy </b> Padania Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padania"><span class="s3">Padania</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aosta_Valley"><span class="s3">Aosta Valley</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont"><span class="s3">Piedmont</span></a> , <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombardy"><span class="s3">Lombardy</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insubria"><span class="s3">Insubria</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trentino"><span class="s3">Trentino</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Tyrol"><span class="s3">South Tyrol</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneto"><span class="s3">Veneto</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friuli-Venezia_Giulia"><span class="s3">Friuli-Venezia Giulia</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liguria"><span class="s3">Liguria</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_(region_of_Italy)"><span class="s3">Emilia</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romagna"><span class="s3">Romagna</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscany"><span class="s3">Tuscany</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marche"><span class="s3">Marche</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbria"><span class="s3">Umbria</span></a>, Sardinia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Italy"><span class="s3">Southern Italy</span></a> <b>Lithuania</b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samogitia"><span class="s2">Samogitia</span></a> <b>Macedonia</b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanians_in_the_Republic_of_Macedonia"><span class="s2">Illyrida</span></a> <b>Moldova</b>: Transnistria and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauzia"><span class="s2">Gagauzia</span></a> <b>Montenegro </b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%C5%BEak"><span class="s3">Sandžak</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Kotor"><span class="s3">Bay of Kotor</span></a> — <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotor"><span class="s3">Kotor</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulcinj"><span class="s3">Ulcinj</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbs_of_Montenegro"><span class="s3">Serbs of Montenegro</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herceg_Novi"><span class="s3">Herceg Novi</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pljevlja"><span class="s3">Pljevlja</span></a>. <b>Netherlands</b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisia"><span class="s2">Frisia</span></a> <b>Norway </b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people">Sami</a> Proposed autonomous region: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1pmi_(area)">Sápmi</a> <b>Poland </b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Silesia"><span class="s2">Upper Silesia</span></a> <b>Portugal </b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira"><span class="s2">Madeira</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores"><span class="s2">Azores</span></a> <b>Romania </b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%A9kely_Land"><span class="s2">Székely Land</span></a>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%A9kely_autonomy_initiatives"><span class="s2">Székely autonomy initiatives</span></a> <b>Russia</b> North Caucasus: Adygea</span><span class="s4"><sup> </sup></span><span class="s1"> Chechnyan Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_Republic"><span class="s3">Chechen Republic</span></a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_Republic_of_Ichkeria"><span class="s3">Ichkeria</span></a>, Dagestan, Ingushetia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabardino-Balkaria"><span class="s3">Kabardino-Balkaria</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachay-Cherkessia"><span class="s3">Karachay-Cherkessia</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ossetia%E2%80%93Alania"><span class="s3">North Ossetia-Alania</span></a></span><span class="s4"><sup>[, </sup></span><span class="s1"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya"><span class="s3">Chechnya</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagestan"><span class="s3">Dagestan</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingushetia"><span class="s3">Ingushetia</span></a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_Emirate"><span class="s3">Caucasian Emirate</span></a> (claimed successor to Ichkeria), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassia"><span class="s3">Circassia</span></a> Proposed state: Circassia, including all regions historically included in Circassia and/or inhabited by Circassians (note: this includes Adygea as well as large parts of Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachey-Cherkessia, Krasnodar Krai, and Stavropol' Krai), Balkar and Karachay peoples. <b>Other regions in Russia</b> : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatarstan">Tatarstan</a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatarstan">Tatarstan</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idel-Ural">Idel-Ural</a>, Kalmykia, Udmurtia Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udmurtia">Udmurtia</a>, Siberia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia">Karelia</a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelia">East Karelia</a> or reunification with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Karelia">North Karelia</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Karelia">South Karelia</a> and the formation of united <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia">Karelia</a>, Ingria Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingria">Ingria</a> (comprises <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Oblast">Leningrad Oblast</a>), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuvashia">Chuvashia</a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuvashia">Chuvashia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komi_Republic">Komi Republic</a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komi_Republic">Komi Republic</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_El">Mari El</a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_El">Mari El</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordovia">Mordovia</a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordovia">Mordovia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan">Bashkortostan</a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan">Bashkortostan</a> <b>Serbia </b> Northern Vojvodina; proposed autonomous region: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Regional_Autonomy"><span class="s3">Hungarian Regional Autonomy</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%C5%BEak"><span class="s3">Sandžak</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_movements_in_Europe#cite_note-novosti.rs-11"><span class="s3">[12]</span></a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%C5%BEak"><span class="s3">Sandžak</span></a> , <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre%C5%A1evo_Valley"><span class="s3">Preševo Valley</span></a>, Kosovo De facto state: Republic of Kosovo. <b>Spain </b>Areas in Spain with separatist movements: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Country_(autonomous_community)">Basque Country (autonomous community)</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarre">Navarre</a> (Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_nationalism">Basque nationalism</a>) Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Country_(greater_region)">Basque Country (greater region) – Euskal Herria</a>, Catalonia, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balearic_Islands">Balearic Islands</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencian_Community">Valencian Community</a>, known alternatively as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencian_Country">Valencian Country</a>(Main articles: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independentism">Catalan independentism</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_nationalism">Catalan nationalism</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencian_nationalism">Valencian nationalism</a>), Civil Organization: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblea_Nacional_Catalana">Assemblea Nacional Catalana</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sobirania_i_Progr%C3%A9s&action=edit&redlink=1">Sobirania i Progrés</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plataforma_pel_Dret_de_Decidir&action=edit&redlink=1">Plataforma pel Dret de Decidir</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cercle_d%27Estudis_Sobiranistes&action=edit&redlink=1">Cercle d'Estudis Sobiranistes</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deu_Mil_en_Xarxa_per_l%27Autodeterminaci%C3%B3&action=edit&redlink=1">Deu Mil en Xarxa per l'Autodeterminació</a>, Advocacy groups: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catalunya_Acci%C3%B3&action=edit&redlink=1">Catalunya Acció</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free_Catalonia&action=edit&redlink=1">Free Catalonia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moviment_de_Defensa_de_la_Terra&action=edit&redlink=1">Moviment de Defensa de la Terra</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cercle_Catal%C3%A0_de_Negocis&action=edit&redlink=1">Cercle Català de Negocis</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Spain)">Galicia</a> Proposed state: Galician Republic, Andalusia (Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusian_nationalism">Andalusian nationalism</a>), Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusia">Andalusia</a>, Aragon, Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragon">Aragon</a>, Asturias (Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asturian_nationalism">Asturian nationalism</a>), Proposed state: Socialist Republic of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asturias">Asturias</a>, Cantabria Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantabria">Cantabria</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands">Canary Islands</a> ), Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands">Canary Islands</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_(historical_region)">Castile</a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_(historical_region)">Castile</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_(province)">León</a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C3%ADs_LL%C3%AFon%C3%A9s">País Llïonés – Leonese Country</a> (Conceyu Xoven) Civil organisations: Ciudadanos del Reino de Leon (CCRRLL), Ciudadanos Zamoranos (CCZZ) <b>Sweden </b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people">Sami</a> Proposed autonomous region: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1pmi_(area)">Sápmi</a> , <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sk%C3%A5neland">Scania</a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Jamtland">Republic of Jamtland</a> Liberation movement: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jamtish_Republican_Army&action=edit&redlink=1">Jamtish Republican Army</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRA">JRA</a> <b>Switzerland</b> Internal secessionism Jura <b>Turkey </b>Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan"><span class="s2">Kurdistan</span></a> <b>Ukraine </b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea"><span class="s2">Crimea</span></a> <b> United Kingdom</b> Cornwall Proposed state: Cornwall, England Proposed state: England Proposed autonomous area: England, Gibraltar Proposed state: Gibraltar, Guernsey Proposed state: Guernsey, Isle of Man Proposed state: Isle of Man Advocacy groups: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_League_(political_organisation)"><span class="s3">Celtic League</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland"><span class="s3">Northern Ireland</span></a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland"><span class="s3">Ulster</span></a> Proposed state: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ireland"><span class="s3">Ireland</span></a> Militant organisations: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisations_known_as_the_Irish_Republican_Army"><span class="s3">Irish Republican Armies</span></a> Advocacy group: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_League_(political_organisation)"><span class="s3">Celtic League</span></a>, Scotland Proposed state: Scotland De facto state: Sealand, Wales Proposed state: Wales, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_League_(political_organisation)"><span class="s3">Celtic League</span></a>, Wessex Proposed autonomous area: Wessex Advocacy group: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex_Constitutional_Convention"><span class="s3">Wessex Constitutional Convention</span></a>, Yorkshire Proposed autonomous area: Yorkshire Advocacy group: <span class="s3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Ridings_Society">Yorkshire Ridings Society</a></span></span><br />
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This is the dark side of Spain's " democracy" <br />
How is democracy and monarchy compatible if they are opposite?</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-91804244364721781072012-03-01T14:48:00.001-08:002012-03-01T14:48:57.421-08:00I did everything to survive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I did everything to survive<br />
but my voice was never heard.<br />
I tried<br />
I loved, l helped, I cared and spelled my name to everyone<br />
but it did not work<br />
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I listened, I prayed, I wished, I worked very hard<br />
but none showed up around.<br />
it just did not happen <br />
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I did everything I could<br />
I gave my heart, my blood, my brain my sex and my guts<br />
but I died<br />
once and twice and three times<br />
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did everything, but nothing stops death from coming<br />
because you are alive<br />
I am not<br />
anymore.<br />
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just did not make it, sorry<br />
I wish I could </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-81920059403697912262012-01-04T04:28:00.001-08:002012-01-04T04:28:40.758-08:00Modern slavery in the XX century<div><p>It becoming more and more often to find news headlines like this about the wealthiest economies in the world. Same rumors run in arab countries, China, India an Europe. </p>
<p>Are we going back to the old schemes of power? </p>
<p>Is globalisation the new version of old empires? </p>
<p>Has something really changed in 2000 years?</p>
<p>More employers in Brazil accused of slave-like conditions : http://usat.ly/yuRtDw</p>
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If you walk the commercial street of a city like Barcelona you´ll find many attractive images in advertising, promotional materials and events that encourage you to buy goods and services, many of them developed by international and local campaigns. Fresh food, fancy clothes, luxury experiences do not usually comply to WYSWYG policies. Let´s explore a bit further.<br />
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Under the slogan of <i>Spain is Different</i> Manuel Fraga, a dictator Franco´s advisor promoted a country where because of "being different" tourist were forced to accept all kinds of outstandards, scams, and abuse in products and services, offered to them while visiting.<br />
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From this point many businesses have been inventing their own rules about prices, customer service, and product standards for years, when it comes to complying with quality and service, based on the belief, that people would buy anywy and they may not see them again.<br />
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Shopping for goods at departments stores can give you surprises like sales people affirming that products you know and use, simply do not exist in the market or things they just do not know, have apparenty never been built. These type of answers usually followed by "<i>es lo que hay</i>" (sort of "that is all you´ll get" ) leave you breathless and discourage to buy again or even try to buy.<br />
Trying to find someone to give you information on options, colours, sizes, materials, functions or specifications will be useless unless you are lucky and find that the salesperson from abroad (usually Latinamerica, USA or Canary Islands), then you´ll have a smile and some assistance. Double priced products are found in most big stores, meaning that you may find the exact same item with two different prices at the same store or finding the same item at different prices in different shops located in different areas of the city. Be cautious with this.<br />
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I do have to admit, shop designers and marketeers do their job right, storefronts, ads, displays, shop-windows, catalogues and most websites are very seductive and get us into the shops, but once you are inside, another story is being told.<br />
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Overrated, overpriced and often crappy is the feeling of many visitors about their shopping and gastronomic experiences. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYf6V1plIMu0y7Lbr1ULB6ew8NaHFdCI8DuwzZZBZiXcrC9T-45GmkpfZ-7xn1li5kAy-CI5g3lqdKeCQj3q4eh7w5A9-TiXVTsIdoIWh6JUNKsWOF1YFSRvmFpymTvJqFautcQJIZQ4/s1600/china-zara-mala-calidad.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYf6V1plIMu0y7Lbr1ULB6ew8NaHFdCI8DuwzZZBZiXcrC9T-45GmkpfZ-7xn1li5kAy-CI5g3lqdKeCQj3q4eh7w5A9-TiXVTsIdoIWh6JUNKsWOF1YFSRvmFpymTvJqFautcQJIZQ4/s320/china-zara-mala-calidad.JPG" width="159" /></a>I guess the Spanish fashion industry is a vivid example of what I am trying to expres here. Inditex found its way to global business, selling very low quality clothes, copied from real designers to be sold in pretencious shops that look like real fashion stores, located in big malls or fancy avenues.<br />
Clothes from Zara, Mango, Oysho, Stradivarious or any of the brands from Inditex will luckily survive three time in the washing machine, even the Beijing Consumer Association has legally confronted Zara about bad quality in their products. Prices are good, but what about value for money? Has anyone ever heard about that here?<br />
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Why are Spaniards always trying to <i>"Vender la Moto"</i>? ( a very common expression when people suspect something is not as much as it is being described as). These things permanently intrigue me and make wonder about how much of is cultural, just a national attitude, or a trace of collective identity.<br />
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I hope times change and a new generation of Spaniards will not repeat these traditions when making business, working with customers or developing a slogan that sells this country. It may be time for a change of mind, style and behaviour.<br />
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In a future post I´ll write about HQ Spanish products and companies, I promise. For the time being, check out a couple of references on the current topic:<br />
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http://www.trendenciashombre.com/business/china-cuestiona-calidad-de-zara<br />
http://www.terra.mx/mujer/articulo/1096703/ZARA+encabeza+lista+negra+de+ropa+de+mala+calidad+en+China.htm<br />
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Spain/Catalunya/Barcelona-274654/Tourist_Traps-Barcelona-TG-C-1.html<br />
http://www.solchannel.com/andalucia/expat-life/expat-survival-guide/customer-service-in-spain-vi234.html<br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-33245900007658910692011-12-11T21:46:00.000-08:002011-12-11T21:46:09.423-08:00Who gives back to their provider?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Providers are those who provide.<br />
Parents, government, husbands, teachers, caretakers and all those institutions an people that permanently create theresources for other people to fill their needs and enjoy wellbeing. But gives back to them?<br />
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In Europe, it is quite frequent to see people complain about everything they wish and do not have permanently unsatisfied with the things and services the welfare state provides them with.<br />
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Most people blame politicians, the system and the government about any small detail or circumstance they do not feel fulfilled or compleatly pleased with ignoring everything they receive and thier own resposibility and implication with society. Completely eluding their own responsibility as part of the community and the system and denying they can also make a change, contribute to other people´s lives and make the world a better place.<br />
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Years and years of State paternalism has made citizens think they have to have everything for granted and make no effort to build anything, or work to make a change beyond their small region. regionalism pride and egocentrism make the differences bolder rather than creating a real union in Europe.<br />
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Demanding is a thing most people know how to do. Asking for things, criticizing everything and complaining about everything making almost everything impossible is an easy task. But who is willing to give?<br />
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Who willing to compromise or get involved? Who sees beyond their own needs?<br />
Providers do.<br />
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So here is the question again?<br />
Where does the energy and commitment of providers come from?<br />
How can they go on and on making efforts to provide unless others give back to them or they can fill their own needs?<br />
Who cares about them?<br />
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.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-22243174384562227052011-08-15T03:09:00.000-07:002011-08-23T22:15:25.419-07:001€ for using the elevator<div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It sounds like a strange cocktail of provincialism, speculation and greed.<br />
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Walking across Barcelona I recently found that the brand new Arenas Shopping Mall has taken the opportunity to charge its visitors for using the lift (1€ per ride). Locals, tourists and families gathered on a long line to use the elevator and the reach the upper terrace. Two guys from Arenas Staff charge and provide instructions of use to excited visitors willing to pay for this exciting adventure..<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwRNBvtzIZdFWEfPewALipTUyASaS5UCzMh3GRQpE4HvGBs3PGntcYuU0EZGmQy8-shYmF80OJEOI5Dn9e-6Rm7vAk9Zd8umVyDHnfqzD7Cv1stnzds0aKgm82w_JbRJCt9-uFJGCj0I/s1600/2011-08-14+20.50.59.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwRNBvtzIZdFWEfPewALipTUyASaS5UCzMh3GRQpE4HvGBs3PGntcYuU0EZGmQy8-shYmF80OJEOI5Dn9e-6Rm7vAk9Zd8umVyDHnfqzD7Cv1stnzds0aKgm82w_JbRJCt9-uFJGCj0I/s200/2011-08-14+20.50.59.jpg" width="200" /> </a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then I wonder why could this be successfully happening in the first world( Europe) in the 21st century when elevators, lifts, and all other transportation devices are so common. I found out that it is because people is bored, ignorant and willing to pay for thing they already have. Buying the lift ride makes it exciting, because in our minds only those things we pay for are good and worthy. Free things like the air, water, nature and our own life and thoughts are just not so good enough as to charge for them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sadly, we live our lives convinced that only things we can buy are important and valuable. That is why speculation and scam are so successful these days. We feel we need to pay for things we already are entitled to.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-35315513258208125242011-08-13T12:16:00.000-07:002011-08-13T12:16:42.944-07:00Entender de donde viene y hacia donde va la crisis mundial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-4_xVJniHInpJbEItocGdo5VxAFgax1DvKoOBEUSqeNXMo00TnOySfQhyl60Mzy-fr8Rkm1ZYLsuubkAzKTks_2ASjXcfhcdmhSot2kJvXuVmkMrIf2D4SsITmyhyphenhyphenxju_VIw7-f8lG7Y/s1600/Picture+44.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-4_xVJniHInpJbEItocGdo5VxAFgax1DvKoOBEUSqeNXMo00TnOySfQhyl60Mzy-fr8Rkm1ZYLsuubkAzKTks_2ASjXcfhcdmhSot2kJvXuVmkMrIf2D4SsITmyhyphenhyphenxju_VIw7-f8lG7Y/s200/Picture+44.png" width="135" /></a></div>Inside Job es el documental dirigido por Charles Ferguson, que presenta de manera muy simple y con muy buena documentacion los orígenes de la crisis económica mundial, la corrupción de wall street y el gobierno norteamericano que ha devastado la economía global y las terribles consecuencias a futuro.<br />
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La crisis no acaba. Al parecer está apenas comenzando.<br />
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Los culpables de la crisis mundial siguen sin juicio, sin castigo y cada vez mas millonarios, ocupando cargos como asesores de gobiernos y evaluadores de riesgo en inversión. Una cadena infinita de corrupción e impunidad alrededor del mundo.<br />
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Premiada en los más importantes festivales de cine, presenta entrevistas con empleados, ejecutivos y funcionarios responsables e implicados en el desplome de la economía mundial y muestra el drama de los miles de personas que perdieron sus trabajos, ahorros y hogares como consecuencia de la insaciable sed de dinero y poder de las multinacionales financieras.<br />
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Moving away from the idealization of perfect love and perfect sex, what I find more often in current media and culture is a strange mix of sex and show business that seems to invade people´s private lives.<br />
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I know we learn all we know from media these days, but where did the instinct go? Where are the movies about love making? sexualities of the world or expressing love trough sex? It all seems to be set, made up and decorated to be broadcasted and uploaded.<br />
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Either it has become more marketable when became more public or either we do everything the way movies tell.<br />
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Running away from staged sex in tv and movies I started exploring sexual social networks, where people and also companies upload all kind of visuals around sex, from intimate, personal videos to fake amateur movies. I guess diversity in content is one big plus for the internet.<br />
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After the show I guess real sexuality is almost never seen in media and I guess it is because it won´t sell. May be perceived as boring, may seem too long and uninteresting to audience makers.<br />
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Real sexuality (or the sexuality people practice at home) may be a mix of our instinct and the mandate of media we have learned for years. Sometimes fitting Hollywood standards and sometimes just connecting people´s feelings and emotions.<br />
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I still personally find much more, moving, interesting, eye catching and arousing those pictures and videos people do in the privacy of their homes with their couples (both legal or illegal) that express love, passion and connection, than all the porn industry paraphernalia that tries to fill stereotypical fantasies, that are supposed to be collective and desirable. (big cocks, big boops, hard fucker, multiple orgasms, etc.)<br />
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What do you feel when you go to bed?<br />
Hollywood standard of personal connection?<br />
Is porn really sex?<br />
is our sexuality just conservative porn?</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-27854148483693938552011-07-23T06:43:00.000-07:002011-07-23T07:31:58.481-07:00Anders Behring Breivik · A souvenir from the Jungle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sneaking about the Oslo murderer Anders Behring Breivik, I am amazed on how his popularity grows as media tell his name. A new media strategy for the right winged christian extremists? A rare Phenomenon from "perfect societies"? A sign of the times? A truth revealed from the Norwegian society?</span><br />
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Recently , local newspapers have been publishing ¨news¨ about fighting street vendors, that sell ¨illegal¨ copies of designer bags, fake sunglasses, ¨illegal¨ cds and dvds and that kind of good, getting to the point to make them look like very dangerous and aggressive criminals society must be afraid of and in consequence exterminate.<br />
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But, if you look at them closely, you can discover most of them are just teenager that ran away from their our countries, many of them risking their life in a deadly trip to get the the promised land of the first world, where they are treated worse that we treat our street dogs or cats. When I make them visible to my eyes I see young men trying to make a living from whatever they can to be able to earn some euros they have to send back to their homes or pay a big percent to someone else.<br />
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Usually under terrible human conditions, they are hunted, questioned, captured, beaten, humiliated by everyone around them. It is ok to donate for Africa from our savings accounts but none cares a bit about the when they are around the corner,They will have to run every time the police is around and be afraid of being around everyday, while we pretend they do not exist.<br />
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Why can they get some opportunities, education or jobs or social assistance when they are already here? because they are black? foreign?, speak other languages and believe in other gods?<br />
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In the meantime, European companies and governments exploit their natural resources back in their countries, to provide the first world market with nice jewelery, mobile phones, gadgets and fuel.<br />
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Hunting the vulnerable and making the population hate them seems to be the rule number one, to be part of the first world and a welfare state.<br />
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Welcome to the real jungle.<br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-7232849419861850652011-07-16T18:05:00.000-07:002011-07-16T18:05:49.266-07:00A water and Pony Talethis story happened every summer. When my mother reached certain age, every summer she would trnasform in a different animal if touched deep currrent water.<br />
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Our job was to help return home safely without her getting lost, hunt or stolen by anyone in the region.<br />
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it happened several times. In the first tiem she became a dog and wonderdered in the streets, not being able to tell us what happened and who was trying to make her dissapear. as soon as she turned vack, we not everyone wanted to help get back home safe.<br />
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In the second year, we were walking by the river when she received a call. my sister who was 7 months pregnant was about to have her baby. She run son fast to help her that fell deep in the river.<br />
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One of our employees and me had to dive into his river full of fish to find her. she had become a pony this time, with same color she was wearing black an white, a strong beautiful pony would run so much to be safe.<br />
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But this year I suddenly knew some of our employees trying to make her disappear the year before. she never told us but I could know by the way this guy run into her. he wasn´t helping. He was hunting her.<br />
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As soon as I stepped out of the water saw the fear in this pony´s eyes. I called her several times, asking her to be visible to me while she ran into the woods protecting herself from us.<br />
Suddenly she appeared to me and stared asking me to run with her, but this time instead of jumping into the river again we followed the river path.<br />
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When we arrived to our home, people from the town admired the pony, tried to buy it and steal it, tried to tie it and seduce it, but it keep walking beside me all day, non stop, til it fell exhausted when entering a shopping mall. there in the middle of the crown the transformation began from horse to woman again.<br />
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A big celebration took place in my family that day. we know knew we would all become animals for a day, every year in the summer. We had to take care of each other, because we were different and everyone knew.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-12757922092062280012010-10-13T20:39:00.000-07:002010-10-13T20:39:44.286-07:00Como reconocer y combatir a los Vampiros Profesionales?<h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Published on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 3:52am</span></h2>Todos nos hemos encontrado alguna vez con estos personajes en nuestras vidas.<br />
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Cuando estábamos en la escuela, existía aquella niña, supersimpática que siempre buscaba estar contigo en los trabajos de grupo, pero que nunca hacia su parte. O el gran amigo que al que siempre teníamos que anotar en el informe final de curso a ultima hora porque no había aparecido en ninguna sesión de estudio. Ahí nace todo.<br />
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Los vampiros profesional son una raza ampliamente extendida por el planeta, que se dedican a chupar los esfuerzos profesionales, contactos, clientes, recursos y proveedores que puedas tener. O por lo menos, lo intentan.<br />
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Sacar un proyecto adelante, lograr hacer una propuesta o conseguir que un cliente se interese en tus ideas es una labor larga y compleja, sin embargo los vampiros profesionales son expertos en tomar el camino corto, muchas veces apareciendo espectacularmente en el momento y lugar apropiados.<br />
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Pero como reconocer a un vampiro profesional?<br />
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·Están encantados con tu proyecto y constantemente alaban tus actividades, pero nunca participan de ellas.<br />
·Nunca te invitan a su casa o despacho (siempre te visitan en casa o en tu despacho o te proponen reuniones en cafés, restaurantes o eventos.)<br />
·Tienen mucha ansiedad por ¨colaborar¨contigo en proyectos y siempre quieren saber mas acerca de lo que haces.<br />
·Nunca te envían un cliente o un referido.<br />
·Siempre te piden links, ppts, pdfs, están pendientes de tu blog y siguen todo lo que haces en facebook.<br />
·Quieren conocer a tus amigos, empleados y colaboradores.<br />
·Te los encuentras ¨de sorpresa¨ en sitios que frecuentas o eventos sectoriales.<br />
·Silenciosamente intentan contactar con tus proveedores, clientes y colaboradores a tus espaldas.<br />
·Constantemente te piden trabajo, pero nunca te lo ofrecen.<br />
·Quieren conocer tu biblioteca, Videoteca, Musiteca, y que les prestes libros y películas, pero no ofrecen los suyos.<br />
·Nunca hablan de sus clientes o Proyectos (posiblemente no los tienen)<br />
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Como Combatirlos?<br />
·Ante todo no los confundas con amigos porque no lo son.<br />
·Si has cometido el error de proporcionarles información, añade información falsa.<br />
·No comentes nunca idea si no esta ya contratada o vendida.<br />
·Nunca des referencias de ellos a menos que realmente hayas colaborado.<br />
·No dejes que te exijan o te hagan sentir culpable por llegar tarde, dejar de llamar o cancelar una cita.<br />
·No les recibas en casa o en despacho si después de un par de meses no has visitado el suyo.<br />
·Nunca les prestes tu pendrive o les des acceso a tu ordenador<br />
·Nunca uses sus ordenadores.<br />
·Nunca compartas proveedores.<br />
·No te comprometas por ellos ante terceros.<br />
·Limited profile en todas las redes sociales o directamente bloquearlos.<br />
·No te centres en ellos en los networkings o los cocteles, explora tus clientes potenciales o contactos reales.<br />
·Pídeles referencias, bases de datos, información, contactos y referencias.<br />
·Pídeles trabajo y participación en sus proyectos.<br />
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Una vez veas el equilibrio entre lo que te piden y lo que te ofrecen te darás cuenta si tu colaborador o contacto es un vampiro profesional o realmente una posible sinergia.<br />
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El equilibrio en las relaciones profesionales es muy importante y un buen colaborador consciente de la importancia del dar y el recibir y que tenga en su mentalidad el famoso win/win es muy importante y puede llegar a convertirse en un excelente socio. Encontrar contactos y colaboradores verdaderos por los cuales valga la pena hacer cosas y que realmente están interesados en compartir profesionalmente es maravilloso y supremamente enriquecedor y debe producir un vinculo interesante a nivel profesional y muchas veces personal.<br />
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Sinembargo, muchos ¨colabradores¨ y contactos solo vienen por tu sangre y hay que tener siempre a mano una estaca o un diente de ajo que nos permita auyentarles.<br />
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En los último años ha desfilado por mi escenario por lo menos 25 vampiros profesionales, que asi como han llegado se han ido, casi casi sin dejar rastro ni aportar nada. de algunos casi ni nos acordamos ya.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-10229785803723716742010-09-05T05:43:00.000-07:002011-01-30T03:05:17.119-08:00Suddenly, Violence and Cruelty are Fun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I guess it is a way of protecting ourselves from psychological shock and pain.<br />
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When I was a little kid, I remember being very scared of dolls in the dark. I would imagine their eyes moved stared at me and blinked. I imagined their mouth moving whispering strange words and singing. I imagined their head moving. All that produced by my mind and mostly by my fear of being alone in the dark. I used to freeze, cry, run, hide and finally not sleep at all.<br />
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But I got tired of it. and decided to face them. Si I waited for the night and surrounded myself with dolls, ready to fight, but nothing happened, they didn´t even blink. Then I supposed it was inside me and not in them.<br />
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Some years after that, I started dreaming about the dolls. Every night a doll would attack me in my dreams, followed me and tried to chase me. They would have knives and monster faces. This was worse because in my dreams I wouldn't feel ready to fight, anything could happen and they would be super powerful.So I decided to make them real and fight them in my arena. That fear had to be beaten, either in my mind in reality or in both.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH65KDUIGPub4qRBiaFUt0io8_ZUBGw_GlcpOJ8yDVBj681cCGl2qe_YoKHkDHzdwLggvkK3Ym1c6Oczj3n-LsM4doBcap6pREzm6YYyjwz1OXULkGL8zgbOGPnsgbXzJS4NHJvKmRZW8/s1600/chucky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH65KDUIGPub4qRBiaFUt0io8_ZUBGw_GlcpOJ8yDVBj681cCGl2qe_YoKHkDHzdwLggvkK3Ym1c6Oczj3n-LsM4doBcap6pREzm6YYyjwz1OXULkGL8zgbOGPnsgbXzJS4NHJvKmRZW8/s200/chucky.jpg" width="200" /></a>I got about 20 used baby dolls, found, stole and bought them and with make up, fire and resin disfigured their faces and hands and made monsters of them. They would live in my room, sleep with me and be part of my world until the fear was gone. That was my decision. I saw them everyday, every night and every morning when I woke up. I kept them beside me at home. After a month, there was nothing they could do to me any more, I wouldn´t even notice them, they became irrelevant to me.<br />
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Then the movie showed up. the Chucky series was on screens for years. That was my hardest test. Images and situations that were not controlled by me. The game of public fear. I saw them again and again. Until I understood its purpose, its mechanisms and the way people would massively and automatically respond of this kind of images an stories.<br />
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Fear is a powerful tool to rule. It is a weapon inside our adversary, inside or slave. If you let your fears be started up or controlled by outsiders, you are done. they will be inside your mind until you sleep with you fear and face it. Say insurance, banks, health services, grandma, government, mom, girlfriend, boss, wife, husband, anyone or anything that detonates those fears inside you.<br />
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A recent wave of tv shows and series insist on showing direct violence, blood, tragedy and cruelty (from xfiles to niptuck, true blood or even dexter). Fear is constantly communicated to widespread stories in television, cinema and books. Feeding audiences with fear and uncertainty make softer audiences that do not think clearly, do not make smart decision, and do not show any criticism or opinion to other kinds of messages.<br />
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Fear and uncertainty are the best allies for insurance companies, low return investments, bad credit conditions, medical policies, retirement plans, and even the beauty and food industry, etc. All these companies develop messages based in people´s fears , fill us with uncertainty and then come to rescue us with services that do not exist.<br />
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Corporate and state terrorism work in a similar way. Fear of the economic crisis for example, makes us consume, work and pay taxes in a different way, Fear of losing our job, homes and comfort makes us obey whatever law or action the government may take in favor or banks and corpora tons to raising taxes or diminishing citizens rights. When we are afraid we do not think clearly.<br />
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So if you are afraid of something, just face it , analyze it, think why you fear that, what symbols are behind it and what does it move inside you. Then control it, see it, hear it, live with it and make it afraid of you. Don´t just let yourself go and enjoy it.<br />
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Fear is just a form of control today.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-15633777738721382062010-09-04T21:39:00.000-07:002010-09-05T05:56:56.690-07:00Una nación virtual: maniplaciones politicas y engaño masivoEs un tema sobre el cual no se por donde comenzar. Es difícil ver como la gente de Cataluña cree ciegamente en sus dirigente y darse cuenta que estan siendo manipulados políticamente por una burguesía millonaria, corrupta y avariciosa; que mas que trabajar por la construcción de una nación y su cultura, como lo creen la mayoria de quienes les siguen, ven un negocio redondo en la creación de su propio país.<br />
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No es un secreto para nadie que Cataluña es una región próspera que gracias a la industria el turismo y los negocios ha logrado promocionarse a nivel mundial como destino turístico, tierra mágica y libertaria y lugar de negocios. Desde épocas antiguas el comercio y el intercambio han hecho de la zona un lugar propicio para la riqueza. Sin embargo también hay que decir que esta riqueza se encuentra concentrada en una élite de familias que permanentemente se preocupan de mantener y aumentar su poder económico, político y cultural.<br />
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En pocas palabras me atrevo a decir que el nacionalismo surgido después de la caída de franco es una fabricación de una élite para crear hegemonía disfrazado de patriotismo y liberación.<br />
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Es muy fuerte ver dia a dia como gente del común esta convencida que el independentismo de catalunña es fruto de una necesidad social o cultural y no ven el negocio que implica para quienes en realidad se benefician de ello.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixgYEpD3tyw-OQPNMDAijrTTtbn35m2t-XlZJCl89CQlK5aq4ueFn9wRZBDjHpv4PDr5pC57_zhtO_v_juFxF297j2K1VAYssGEJnnGuEhBZ59VnRifx-lz6SQcCby0HIptGDxCQThum8/s1600/cabecera_manifestacion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixgYEpD3tyw-OQPNMDAijrTTtbn35m2t-XlZJCl89CQlK5aq4ueFn9wRZBDjHpv4PDr5pC57_zhtO_v_juFxF297j2K1VAYssGEJnnGuEhBZ59VnRifx-lz6SQcCby0HIptGDxCQThum8/s400/cabecera_manifestacion.jpg" width="400" /></a>Una vida diaria y servicios sociales totalmente politizados cumplen la función de fabricar una sociedad endogámica que se cierra a si misma de tal manera que roza los bordes de la intolerancia y la radicalización. Contratos públicos y subvenciones adjudicados por apellido, partido político o promesa electoral. Derechos humanos y sociales que se respetan o ignoran dependendiendo de la raza, credo, orientación sexual, apellido, código de identificación o lengua materna del implicado.<br />
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Cada día vemos más adolescentes que se niegan a hablar otra cosa que catalán, racistas, machistas y llenos de sentimientos de rencor que han aprendido a través de los medios. la escuela y los programas sociales. Jóvenes que se quedarán en su barrio o pueblo, nunca accederán a un erasmus, a interrelacionarse con otras culturas o a entender el mundo y que abiertamente expresan que los inmigrantes son una escoria, la diversidad un estorbo y el nacionalismo lo mejor que le puede pasar a Catalunya.<br />
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Vemos ademas una Catalunya totamente institucionalizada, creativamente infertil, regulada por el dictamen de estamentos oficiales, con un poer de censura a traves de la financion publica rotundo, con una fuerza represiva y policial impresionante, un estado de vigilancia permanente y una aparente libertad de ideologia y credo que no existen. Todo ello ejercido sobre una población historicamente sometida, ingenua y ansiosa de una ilusión de libertad y nación.<br />
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Me pregunto yo si estos jóvenes son los que construirán la nueva y tercera dictadura, mas violenta, mas invasiva y mas invisible que la actual..<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-58624954180560421312010-09-04T20:14:00.000-07:002010-09-05T05:50:01.089-07:00blood lost its meaningIn recent years television series, news, art, fashion, books, music, and even children´s toys an games involve blood in the form of joke, vampire, surgery, decoration and even food. Blood stood for year in mind as an intimate, special and private matter frequently an emergency symbol.<br />
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Blood should mean, should put us in alert, should make us care and it shoulnd´t be a joke.<br />
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In the animal kingom, blood does have a meaning, means danger, food and survival, means death, means pain an means lack of protection.<br />
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Maybe we are getting dumb and letting our natural instincts die, we are forgetting about us being alive, we are slowly becoming neutral, gray, flat.<br />
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WHY IS THIS?<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-88137820141804811032010-09-04T19:33:00.000-07:002010-09-04T21:09:08.400-07:00Keeping my mind clearAnd now as if it wasn´t enough in my mind I have to worry abuout keeping it clear from hidden media messages, staying center in a sea o disturbing information that drives me away from the thing I dream and want to achieve.<br />
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Observing daily life around me I seee things change and become more complex everytime. I see media putting on my face things I normaly refuse or avoid.<br />
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<ul><li>Blood as an irrelevant presence. </li>
<li>Violence and cruelty as fun.</li>
<li>Porn instead of sexuality. </li>
<li>Conspiracies instead of government.</li>
<li>A fake ecology.</li>
<li>Clothes as uniforms.</li>
<li>Food as poison.</li>
<li>Poverty and misery instead of progress.</li>
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All of them things that put me apart from my real connection with the world and stand between my mind and the universe, like trying to distract me from what is inside me and real.<br />
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I ask myself why all this things suddenly appear. Why so many similar things at the same time. Why everything so standard? Has my vision broaden? has my brain woken up from some anaesthesic state?<br />
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I see people behaving like automats that don't think for themselves but act a stereotyped dolls, afraid of having an identity and willing to fit in a classification. just following a very predictable path a very obvious life, without expectation, just programmed surprises and fake excitement during their holidays, predictable answers, predictable jokes, predictable reactions,all inside a <i>safezone</i> that lets them stay comfortable and grow their fear of being themselves.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-54576334176319943052010-08-07T12:51:00.000-07:002010-09-04T21:13:05.914-07:00El Precio de la Nostalgia<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9tvB-s7t2f3TGYwzG_P4G9ZqskS6eDx5nbTChzoqJyTwN6Is8fAgUeNxiEaoYXePffVCTK1zyTDENgR87nPyh9T_9kNz_aq7x6rKO2lUp1zIpxWb9bBYosOtm4XOH9eraamM5uvI2POs/s200/IMG_0110.JPG" style="clear: both; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0pt;" width="200" /></div><br />
Ha sido extraño encontrarme con esta imaagen un par de veces en Berlín. Es algo que detona sentimientos, ideas y me dirige a comprender la fuerza existente en la nostalgia y el desarraigo.<br />
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Estar atado al pasado es una condena fuerte, nos ata por un lado a miedos, esquemas, sistemas y limitaciones que deberiamos superar con la madurez pero a la vez nos recuerda valores, raices y origenes que forman parte de nuestra escencia.<br />
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Superar el pasado implica en un ejercicio de voluntad y comprensión muy fuerte y elaborado de los hechos que suceden en nuestra vida y del momento actual que vivimos. pocas veces nos detenemos a entender nuestra propia vida y generalmente actuamos instintiva y circunstancialmente. Sin embargo y de repente aparecen ante nosotros imágenes como esta, que nos revuelcan la existencia.<br />
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Ospaket es una tienda ubicada en Berlín (que yo sepa) en la cual los antiguos habitantes de la Alemania del este pueden encontrar todos aquellos productos, comida y memorabilia de una cultura que ya no existe tras la unión de las dos alemanias.. Al recorrer la tienda uno puede ver claramente la estética socialista en los productos, libros, autores, objetos del hogar, musica et. Todo respira un tiempo pasado y una manera de pensar que aunque quienes alli vivieran lo primero que hicieron fue huir de ello hoy lo añoran y lo compran a precios desorbitados.<br />
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Esto es como un túnel del tiempo que trae al presente a través de la compra, memorias, recuerdos y sobre todo objetos que detonan las emociones y un pasado que si no fue mejor que el presente hoy claramente ya no existe. El ícono del automóvil de Europa oriental con la caja a cuestas atravesando la frontera hacia un nuevo futuro hoy recorre permanentemente las calles de Berlin como si nunca fuera a desaparecer.<br />
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Un confort, un placebo y finalmente una realidad virtual que solo está en la añoranza de quienes vivieron esa transición.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-207929500923778842010-08-04T13:38:00.000-07:002010-09-04T21:11:25.547-07:00Looking forward for a changeafter six years of working hard and advancing very slowly I think I have seen the real face of this city and may even the general face of the country. And I don´t like it.<br />
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being 41 now, with my dreams and projects on hold is a very difficult situation. Should I give up and stay here trying to survive and forgetting about being constantly tormented by expectations and impossible ideas or should I start again in a new environment and give it a try for the third...maybe fourth time?<br />
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I now wish to run away from mediocrity, laziness, lack of interest and rudeness, but am I going in the right direction?<br />
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leaving this Virtual country and virtual city, where everything is a lie, just a facade may be a good a idea, but on the other side I don´t really know the place where I am going, don´t know the language and dont´t know their way.<br />
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this is not my place and know know but where is it, once I thought my place would be anywhere I was. I thought I would adapt and survive and I´ve done it. Now I feel I just belong, don´t agree and don´t want to get used to the way it is here.<br />
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I am definitively needing a change, a fresh start, an opportunity to try my best again and still try to make before I get too disappointed about myself in this world.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-53056557651497761292010-02-08T18:08:00.000-08:002010-09-04T21:11:25.548-07:00Muro mental de piedraNo supe en que momento perdi la medida de mis responsabilidades y convertí mis dias en un cumplir sin parar?<br />
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la verdad es que no me di cuenta.<br />
me llené de angustia y de preocupaciones.<br />
eliminé mis oportunidades de placer y disfrute y me dediqué a sobrevivir .<br />
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Al principio parecía un reto interesante y una nueva etapa en la vida, hoy es una rutina insoportable que no me da descanso, ni me permite parar de pensar o de sentir miedo als 24 horas del día.<br />
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A veces casi no duermo sintiendo ansiedad y miedo de un futuro que ni siquiera puedo imaginar.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibLVCu2AKFKQeVLyhtve2hYjhP6lNsaydYQjFXZMFp_RgRtpqOZi2oJsSqVpmgeUL4CKot738HoFdJekbvUyBlyxXimsXJlnv0NZqyYXe8zgKjVRq1XQUo2FygUp4jleVlGCDMgRiudHA/s1600-h/7warlispiral.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibLVCu2AKFKQeVLyhtve2hYjhP6lNsaydYQjFXZMFp_RgRtpqOZi2oJsSqVpmgeUL4CKot738HoFdJekbvUyBlyxXimsXJlnv0NZqyYXe8zgKjVRq1XQUo2FygUp4jleVlGCDMgRiudHA/s200/7warlispiral.jpg" width="161" /></a>Mientras tanto,<br />
todo a mi alrededor está quieto.<br />
Como un muro de piedra que me rodea<br />
y que no logro derrumbar desde adentro.<br />
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Fué asombroso mirar a la calle por la ventana<br />
y darme cuenta que no conozco mi calle, ni las tiendas que hay en ella<br />
no habito mi entorno, ni mi presente<br />
solo pienso, pienso y pienso,<br />
en todo lo que podría pasar.<br />
Todo lo terrible y como combatirlo.<br />
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Y mientras tanto afuera, simplemente llueve como cualquier otro día y la gente solo se preocupa de llegar a casa para no pasar tanto frio.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787212452119440461.post-69430273028078063542010-01-17T19:37:00.000-08:002010-09-04T21:11:25.549-07:00bubblesParado en un momento en el que no sé que hacer con mi vida, a donde dirigirme o ni siquiera aún qué pensar, siento que me elevo y floto. Sin un plan o una oportunidad clara y sin muchos deseos de emprender nada, pienso que el tiempo pasa mas rápido de lo que sabemos y al final nunca somos capaces de llegar a donde queríamos.<br />
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Miro a mi alrededor y siento la necesidad de despegarme de todo lo que me rodea, como si fuera un globo de aire caliente al que le cortan el anclaje a tierra. creo que me he equivocado tanta veces y tan repetidamente, que simplemente no hacer nada y dejar que lleve el río puede ser mas coherente que mis incesantes e irracionales iniciativas.<br />
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</div>Nunca antes sentí que había sido tan ingenuo y soñador. Ahora me doy cuenta que he vivido en una burbuja de fantasía, que fabriqué yo mismo para no enfrentarme al mundo real, sino verlo desde lejos y finjir que o conocía.<br />
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Tal vez me fabriqué esa burbuja porque desde siempre me sentí indefenso, porque no hubo nadie que me respaldara, porque nadie me dijo como responder, relacionarme o defenderme, o porque siempre fuí un niño delicado, enfermizo y frágil.<br />
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Disfracé mi burbuja de conocimiento y simpatía y la inflé a punta de deseos de aceptación y lástima. He logrado que sea totalmente invisible y que a través de ella la gente ya no vea un niño indefenso sino a un adulto exitoso, amable, inteligente y admirable.<br />
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Sinembargo, yo que estoy adentro a pesar de frecuentemente engañarme con el reflejo que proyecta la burbuja, sé que adentro de la burbuja nada cambia. Sigo sintiéndome frágil, sigo protegiéndome con ramitas, palitos y hojas de un mundo que cada vez me gusta menos, me decepciona más y me llena de desesperanza.<br />
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Ahora ya no sé si salir de mi burbuja y ser finalmente devorado o ocultarme en ella, dormido para siempre sin que nadie pueda verla.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Eurpean Jungles By Robbie Dempsey</div>Robbie Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402245221882436818noreply@blogger.com0