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A Very Special Customer Albert Adrià Acosta I'd just taken a two-week break in London, the first paid holiday of my professional career as a chef ... Barrenechea's The Basque Table, Wayne Gisslen's Professional Cooking and L'Atelier of Alain Ducasse [suite...]

Date: 2008-07-03 23:42:52

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Steyn the Man

As S. Weasel informs us in her post “Free Mark Steyn! (Relatively inexpensive Mark Steyn, anyhow)” Today starts the trial of Mark Steyn for offending Muslims. He did this by publishing a book, America Alone. The suit also is against the Canadian magazine Maclean’s for publishing an excerpt of the book and for not allowing Islamists to hijack the [suite...]

Date: 2008-06-02 16:03:31

MUST READ: Planet of the Apes Has Arrived, and It Is Spain

Learn more and see some great photos of Copito de Nieve (a.k.a. Snowflake) at mongabay.com An editorial by Nikolas Kozloff, special to mongabay.com Visiting Spain’s Barcelona zoo as a child, I was greeted to a memorable sight. In one of the cages sat a gorilla, but not just any primate [suite...]

Date: 2008-07-04 12:22:09

Irish police raid Dublin house of republican

Giles Tremlett in Madrid Guardian Thursday November 13 2008 The paths of several of the world's best-known armed groups, ... on Tuesday. The arrests came on the same day that a Spanish judge issued a European arrest warrant for a former member of the Basque armed separatist group Eta, Iñaki de Juana Chaos, who is also believed [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-14 00:19:46

European Destination of the Week – Bilbao

Since budget airlines have opened up new areas of Europe to holiday makers, people are daring to venture further from the usual tourist hotspots. So what would be the perfect unusual Spanish city for an autumn getaway? Madrid, Seville and Barcelona are the normal choices, but why not look to the Basque country for your next Spanish [suite...]

Date: 2008-09-22 11:31:25

VeganMoFo Survey #2: A Sweet Survey

I first saw this vegan sweet food survey on VeggieGirl's blog.  It's a Sweet 100 List designed by Peabody.  By the way, I love Peabody's blog ... that is not bold or crossed out your “To Do” List. *Singing Horse's Sweet 100 List* 1. Red Velvet Cake ... 23. Girl Scout cookies 24. Moon cake - I had too many of these, both vegan and non-vegan. 25. Candy [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-12 19:02:03

INORA International Newsletter On Rock Art - Issue # 51, 2008 - review

INORA International Newsletter On Rock ArtThe latest edition of INORA is online, and in it are several articles which discuss a variety of sites across the world, and to that effect, this is a brief review of the contents, which are freely available for download as a pdf, [suite...]

Date: 2008-08-12 06:08:00

What’s It Like From Allá

Interview with Gary Garay *** Decades ago Harry Gamboa, Jr., a forefather of Chicano conceptual art, wrote about the “phantom” culture of America, condemning the conspicuous absence of Mexican-Americans. Then, in 1972, the Chicano art collective Asco executed the guerrilla “Spray Paint LACMA” performance that mocked the museum’s blatant [suite...]

Date: 2008-08-26 06:17:46

What’s It Like From Allá

Interview with Gary Garay *** Decades ago Harry Gamboa, Jr., a forefather of Chicano conceptual art, wrote about the “phantom” culture of America, condemning the conspicuous absence of Mexican-Americans. Then, in 1972, the Chicano art collective Asco executed the guerrilla “Spray Paint LACMA” performance that mocked the museum’s blatant [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-18 22:17:46

Thousands demonstrate in support of ETA in Bilbao as bomb shatters court building in Tolosa

Excerpt:  There was a phone warning ahead of the expolosion at the courts in Tolosa, Guipúzcoa. Thousands of people took to the streets of Bilbao on Saturday evening in support of ETA ... have declared many other groups as illegal, given their support for the Basque terrorists. They carried [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-05 17:54:03

Eta terrorist de Juana Chaos given Social Security after coming to Belfast

Eta terrorist de Juana Chaos given Social Security after coming to Belfast Filed under: an príomhbhóthar David Sharrock, ... . A spokesman for the Northern Irish police force said: “At the request of the Spanish authorities ... to have been made by de Juana was a Basque saying meaning “kick it up the field”, a footballing allusion [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-18 03:04:08

Madrid

Madrid may be lacking in architectural beauty compared with other major Spanish cities, but it makes up for this with its boundless energy, blue skies, art, culture and some of the most exhilarating and exhausting nightlife in Europe [suite...]

Date: 2008-06-24 09:00:00

Cables, dispatches and memoranda

A brief world news roundup for 22 September 2008. United States & the Americas US House - Foreign Assistance in the Americas; Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere IRNA - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a telephone conversation with his Venezuelan [suite...]

Date: 2008-09-22 05:38:03

The Irresolute Spanish Immigration Policy

The article below was posted by AMDG earlier this month at La Yijad en Eurabia. Visit the original article for links to Spanish-language sources. The irresolute Spanish immigration policy: Between repatriation and straight-off naturalisation The shocking and unsustainable trend of Spanish immigration Spanish immigration policy is probably the [suite...]

Date: 2008-05-30 01:39:22

The Ainu Language

Introduction Every year many tourists visit Hokkaido, located on the northern island of Japan, for skiing, sight seeing and bathing in hot springs. When tourists participate in bus tours in Hokkaido, a tour guide often tells of the folk story of the Ainu people [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-01 21:00:03

Irish police raid Dublin house of republican James Monaghan

Irish police raid Dublin house of republican James Monaghan The paths of several of the world’s best-known armed groups, ... on Tuesday. The arrests came on the same day that a Spanish judge issued a European arrest warrant for a former member of the Basque armed separatist group Eta, Iñaki de Juana Chaos, who is also believed [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-13 06:30:13

Summit day on Everest, Lhotse and Makalu - Himalaya 2008 climbing season - 3th report.

I Recommend … MountEverest.net - http://www.mounteverest.net/ Project-Himalaya Jamie McGuinness called ExWeb from the summit of Everest, reporting plenty of climbers enroute or on top. More are expected up tomorrow and Friday. Meanwhile, also Lhotse has been topped out and more summit reports keep arriving from Makalu [suite...]

Date: 2008-05-22 10:45:48

RCI Cyberjournal

Bank of Canada cuts interest rate in emergency move Canada's mortgage rules to be held up as example for G-7 Economic woes put damper on ... for consumers whose mortgages and other floating-rate loans are tied to the rates set by central banks [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-09 05:51:41

Cheap Shot

Cheap Shot I first learned about this issue through two blogs published by English speaking fellows living in the Spanish State ... history. Navarre is not just a part of the Basque Country, Navarre is THE Basque Country. For years ... in the town of Villava in Navarre. Because Basque separatist councillors insist on hanging the Basque flag [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-17 17:52:45

Countering International Terrorism

Countering International Terrorism “We are today a Nation at risk to a new and changing threat. The terrorist threat to America takes many forms, has many places to hide, and is often invisible” - President George W. Bush, 16 July 2002 (reprinted in Baird, 2006:415) [suite...]

Date: 2008-06-14 23:19:27

Questionable Morality: Examining the Vulgar Scope of American and Israeli Moral Revisionism The Angryindian 05.21.2008 "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Sir Winston Churchill The galvanizing incident that led me to put pen to paper for this commentary ostensibly occurred on May 14th 1948, [suite...]

Date: 2008-05-21 22:17:07

Silverdocs Competition Films Announced

It’s with a mix of joy and sadness that I post the slate of competition films from Silverdocs, running from June 16 to 23 in Silver Spring, MD. As my old stomping ground, I’m totally bummed to not be able to attend, and it looks like a great line-up of new films. Throw Down Your Heart is amazing and I’ve heard great things about Life. Support [suite...]

Date: 2008-05-20 20:28:49

Four Stone Hearth #41 - Remote Redux Edition

Welcome once again to the anthropology blog carnival Four Stone Hearth, and specifically to this 41st edition - although I also hosted the previous edition, this week's slated hosts, 'Our Cultural World' are no longer online, and it is to be hoped their site returns at some point in the future [suite...]

Date: 2008-05-21 07:00:03

Berber and Arab DNA in Europe from the Moorish occupation

North African Berber and Arab Influences in the Western Mediterranean Revealed by Y-Chromosome DNA Haplotypes We have analyzed Y-chromosome ... the 7th century A.D., Muslim people coming from the Arabian peninsula and the Middle East invaded [suite...]

Date: 2008-07-16 09:50:42

! Olé, Olé, Olé¡

by Pete Brown in Spain So we all know by now Spain, with very consistent performances throughout the tournament, ... on anything that might smack of the disunity of Spain. Likewise the Basque, Catalan and to some extent ... . Spain is steeped in its recent history just over thirty years on and there are many who yearn [suite...]

Date: 2008-07-01 15:49:31

Some Interesting Facts :

Timeline of Wicca and Witchcraft 2000 BC Babylon's Code of Hammurabi instructs, "If a man has laid a charge of witchcraft and has not justified it, he upon whom the witchcraft is laid shall go to the holy river; [suite...]

Date: 2008-09-30 18:00:10

Basque Country: right to decide

Basque Country: right to decide efayouth — 2008-10-29 GTM 1 @ 08:44 lizarra1.jpg ... against a Spanish Constituional Court decision to stop a referendum taking place in the Basque ... The President of the EFAy offered his support at a series of protests organised by Basque [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-29 07:44:32

ENG: What Catalans Commemorate on September 11

To most of the western world, the 11th of September is a day when we recall how, in 2001, our civilization was attacked by islamic terrorists ... Spanish as the only official language and centralized all administration. The Basque Country [suite...]

Date: 2008-09-11 00:11:02

British Government Response to EU Cost Benefit petition

A few months ago I started a petition on the 10 Downing Street website calling on the British government to commission an independent cost-benefit ... with a Single Market of over 490 million people. Half the UK’s trade is now within the EU ... . This really isn’t good enough, is it?  What they’re basically saying is “other people have done [suite...]

Date: 2008-08-21 16:02:50

Irish police raid Dublin house of republican

Irish police raid Dublin house of republican Filed under: ... in Dublin two months ago raided the house on Tuesday. The arrests came on the same day that a Spanish judge issued a European arrest warrant for a former member of the Basque armed separatist group Eta [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-14 00:07:27

Is Palestine a Province of the Monstrosity called Israel?

WRITTEN BY JORGE ALDAO  Translated by Ernesto Paramo and revised by Machetera In a recent piece titled “The Hottentots Morality” Uri Avnery makes ... in the world to return, in this case, not to the Basque country, but anywhere in the Iberian [suite...]

Date: 2008-09-14 20:51:50

Eta terrorist Inaki de Juana Chaos ‘to give himself up’ at Belfast court

Eta terrorist Inaki de Juana Chaos ‘to give himself up’ at Belfast court Filed under: an príomhbhóthar Graham Keeley, ... urged Basque separatists to continue ETA’s 40-year campaign of violence. A Spanish judge, Eloy ... court. The British lawyers for De Juana, Kevin R Winters & Co, told the Spanish news agency EFE [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-14 00:01:23

A Few Things to Consider Before Choosing Online Spanish Lessons

A Few Things to Consider Before Choosing Online Spanish Lessons Reasons You Can’t Refute Spanish lessons online, especially the beginner course, are usually offered for free. Fluency in Spanish extends your horizon and opportunities. ? Pronunciation coaching that enables you to speak Spanish the way a native speaker does, [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-23 12:00:12

islamic Jihad Centuries Of War!

The European Union, the Council of Europe and numerous Islamic organizations are working hard to rewrite European school textbooks in order to ... Spanish kingdoms to the north, the Basque regions, or France and the Rhone valley, bringing back booty [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-21 10:04:34

Basque Mythology

The following was translated from an article originally in Spanish at the Encyclopedia Auñamendi ... , hierofanías(???) and the forces of Nature. Among the best-known in the Basque Country [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-27 22:07:29

ETA leader ‘Txeroki’ caught in dawn raid

ETA leader ‘Txeroki’ caught in dawn raid Filed under: ... , a convicted Basque terrorist wanted by the Spanish authorities went to a Belfast court today ... an príomhbhóthar Scotsman 17 November 2008 THE suspected head of the Basque militant group [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-17 12:07:30

Eta terrorist leader caught in dawn raid

Eta terrorist leader caught in dawn raid Filed under: ... , a convicted Basque terrorist wanted by the Spanish authorities went to a Belfast court today ... an príomhbhóthar Scotsman 17 November 2008 THE suspected head of the Basque militant group [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-17 12:05:15

The academy strikes back

Those who are following the attempts to give English legal status as the official language of the U.S ... , although in 2001, the Ministry of Education decided that education in Occitan, Corsican, Breton, Basque [suite...]

Date: 2008-07-09 09:26:03

Paris dining, September 2008 update

Paris dining, September 2008 update Using Clotilde Dusoulier’s wonderful guidebook to the culinary and gastronomic world, ... location with one of the better outdoor seating locations I have seen in Paris (another favorite [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-04 15:19:05

ETA cell disbanded in Navarra

Spain's Interior Minister said the cell was ready to act In a coordinated police operation which began at 3 am this morning in various places ... that there was no evidence to suggest that ETA had set up a terrorist cell in this part of Spain. Aurken Sola [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-28 14:57:23

Refuting God’s Crucible

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3344 This text is written in response to God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis, an American historian and two-time winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. In my opinion the book is largely a waste of money [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-02 18:38:45

My Blogroll

I’m a naturally crabby person, sullen, argumentative and prone to paranoid conspiracy fantasies, ... Gasna means sheep cheese in Basque. I met Rebecca’s mother at one of our “U-Pick” days at our field [suite...]

Date: 2008-11-12 06:45:37

Iron Maiden flag rocks Spanish town hall

Iron Maiden flag rocks Spanish town hall | World news | The Guardian Basque separatist councillors insist on hanging the Basque flag on their desks during debates, upsetting other politicians at the town hall. Most dislike the idea of the Navarre region being treated as part of the Basque country. The Socialists have responded by hanging [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-14 23:37:16

Cables, dispatches and memoranda

A brief world news roundup for 21 May 2008. United States & the Americas NY Times - Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the longtime Massachusetts Democrat and patriarch of the Kennedy family, has a malignant brain tumor, his doctors said on Tuesday [suite...]

Date: 2008-05-21 10:16:26

Day 2: Who Da Ho? IDAHO

153,124 miles on the ole Carolla to start the day. gas $4 ... for today is Basque. After being denied Basque food last night, I was encouraged to seek out Basque [suite...]

Date: 2008-08-30 00:00:00

RECESSION DINING: HÉLÈNE DARROZE

OUTGROWING DUCASSE | August 1st 2008 Maybourne Hotel Group From the wood-panelled dining room at the Connaught, ... to afford their annual holiday to Tuscany or the Cote d'Azur. By this standard, we're [suite...]

Date: 2008-07-31 21:49:10

Basque Youth Visit Armagh and Newry

A delegation of Basque youth is touring Ireland this week ... the current political situation, with the parallels between Basque Country and the North of Ireland ... , with the removal of watch towers being the most evident sign of this. One of the Basque youth said [suite...]

Date: 2008-08-21 12:34:23

Learning Spanish by Yourself, With Other People, With the World

Learning Spanish by Yourself, With Other People, With the World Filed under: Spanish World — ralexig @ 1:00 am Learning Spanish by Yourself, With Other People, With the World When learning by yourself it is wise to make use of all the technologies available [suite...]

Date: 2008-10-13 01:00:19

“All the dishes got broken, and the car kept driving…”

“All the dishes got broken, and the car kept driving…” The weekend approacheth. Here’s some neat new stuff from around the Web ... , the one thing the people of Iraq will need most critically in the years to come is a clientele, and not only [suite...]

Date: 2008-07-11 04:01:44

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