WALKING

A well-known chain of sale devices (these often buy when we're bored or depressed and then not do to much) has released a statement that has flourished, "I'm not stupid."

I think I'm not, but I'm sure I take too silly sometimes. Many times a day and repeatedly. Being silly, being stupid or being stupid, it is usually not anyone's fault, it is just one of the many fatalities that we play in life we ​​can not change. It's like being born ugly, tall, humpbacked, healthy or sick. But there are other times when we can do something to not be so stupid. A friend of mine sent me a few days ago I wrote down a sentence that is very true. Read: "Never argue with an idiot.'ll Make you lose a step back and to gain experience."

Take me to jerk when I want to commune with millstones, I want to think with your head and I want to believe that we have no right to change the "status quo" where we ingratament installed. I want to believe that the ruling of the International Court of Justice on the independence of Kosovë has nothing to do with us. Have been quick to say it aloud, because the Catalans believed-and we would hear some members of the Central Government and anyone else here very close to us.

But since not all Catalans are silly, some we do not and we believe we have seen that this ruling does has a lot to do with us and that makes it clear that nothing in international law can not prevent an independence process . Also makes it clear that independence is well Kosovë notice.

I also left with tail between legs some saying that it could never ever places like Spain and, moreover, gives wings and hope to many who think that if something like that can happen to you if Catalonia know how to work, and together we seek some necessary and indispensable complicity ..

And finally, another good news:

New London MPs have tabled a motion in the House in favor of a referendum for the independence of Catalonia.
- Paragraph 509 of the site indicated at the end of the article
- "That this House notes that more than a million people took part in the demonstration on July 10, 2010 in Barcelona in favor of the real of Catalonia, welcomes the ongoing debate on the Constitution of Catalonia, Catalonia is a nation that believes , recognizes that voting organized independently show a majority in favor of independence, expressed concern that the democratic will of the people of Catalonia shown by the 2006 referendum on the Statute of Autonomy was raped by the justice of his failure in Madrid in June 2010, expresses concern for future constitutional developments suffer additional cuts to legal organizations that are not neutral or independent in this matter, and called for the 2006 Statute as applied to the polls and voted was because Catalonia residents can freely determine their own future democratically. " Signed by Hywel Williams, Elfyn Llwyd, Jonathan Edwards, Pete Wishart, Angus Brendan MacNeil, Mike Weir, Caroline Lucas, Stewart Hosie, Eilidh Whiteford, Members of Parliament, London.
(Catalan Statute of Autonomy, Early Day Motion, Parliament UK 14 July 2010)
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmedm/100714e01.htm

I remember the phrase: Do not go down there any step that fools us to gain experience!

Nolasco is Acarín neurologist and has published a book on the Alzaimer who wants to be a practical manual of instructions for the same patients and for those who have to care. The book is titled "Alzheimer's. Instruction Manual", RBA (column in Catalan).

Mental illness and mental disabilities who are currently competing realities very different-and much better-that years ago. But little is known of some of these diseases and doctors sometimes do not help enough to give guidelines to caregivers. Care because these people can be hard, very hard, and books like this help very helpful in every way.

In an interview he makes Dr. Nuria sweeps. Acarín I found a few tips, ideas and concepts of what I keep in order to share them here. Here are some:

"The doctor must accompany the patient on their disease without invading privacy, you can choose respecting the conditions under which you want to live and die, respecting who wants to know a lot or prefer not to know," he writes after the experience of many years communicating to patients and their families what is happening and what might happen. After all, the teacher says, life is a story that always ends badly.

Better to know or not to know?
Know. But in any case, never have to explain things over which the patient pregunta.S 'request for information.

Warning signs
Do not accept the condition first. It is what it is called anosognosia. Sometimes we have a patient who gets up at 3am to go to work and retires or leaves the street naked. The second is to forget the names of the children, parents or spouse. The third disoriented. Time is not as important ("we have already eaten?"), But then comes lost in space.

Alzheimer's disease is sometimes more cruel relatives. Any tips essential?
A: the patient must be loving. Two: Do ​​not fight against their inconsistency, not discussed. And if you want to visit a friend who died years ago? He says yes, "it will call." But never punish him, saying, "Do not you see that dead? Do not see that this is just your imagination?" This terrifies the patient and not just rely on one another. Isolated. Is it a hallucination and sees people in the room? Answer: "Mom, do not worry, now I say it ... go."

What is recreation?
All family or caregiver must necessarily take their 3 or 4 free hours a day to it. Replacing another person. Or just victims of stress, sickening them. Day and night care of someone not receiving anything in return, nor you, nor look, it is very hard.

When therapeutic resources such as Parkinson?
There is no consensus on the so-called "memory pills", whether slow progression in the first five years. But resources are very effective to prevent the patient sleeplessness, anxiety, depression, aggression. This is what they need.

We are the only animal species that suffers?
No animal-free with schizophrenia or Alzheimer's.

Drawing by Balasch

Today the Parliament of Catalonia has decided to ban bullfighting from 2012.Des in my humble opinion, it's about time! Something at least a little sensible are our politicians, although they now have to listen to all kinds of insults, especially the media cave Madrid, who have already put away.

Coping can have two lines, according to the dictionary: 1. Fighting the bull dodging their attacks and trying to kill him. | 2. Fig. Make fun of someone cleverly deceived him.

Speaking of first sense not to say too much because it is all clear enough: The "maestro" bullfighter tries to dodge the bull at all times, but what is between the eyes and his ultimate goal is to kill him, after having holes all over it and it had suffered a fun fact.

The second sen tit is even more interesting fights mean trick, making fun of someone with skill. This sound familiar? The Catalonian bullfights have felt so many times today we heard some great inner joy. Someone said that you should not mix politics with bulls .... Watch the newspapers locals and see if they do or not.

The big "maestros" of deception, the mockery and lies now feel mistreated in his honor to the Parliament of Catalonia has had the audacity to play the "national party". It is seen that there have not right ... I wonder what we are entitled to the Catalans. I know someone said?

I must say that for a good many years I believed that Spain would be able, perhaps one day distant understand Catalonia. Alas! I've been too gullible and I have been too long. Now is a good season I stopped believing while watching things going.

I remember reading a few months ago that Ambler Moss, who was the U.S. vice consul in Barcelona during the difficult years of the dictatorship, he said "I see no impediment to the Catalans do not want you in their country. Limitations are self-imposed. ".

Among the phrases that made me think there was the following: "I watch Catalonia sixties and now, and the story is the same. Gaziel As I said, the debate remains: What kind of people we are." Moss says that Catalonia continues in "a permanent way of decision." "Forty years later the debate is the same. What we want to do, where to go, what kind of people we are.'s Not a hesitation, the opposite is true, too different policy decisions are intertwined."

Therefore, if not done in many years and way not understood anything, it means that it was never ever understand. Neither dictatorship nor democracy. Nothing. positions are the same in both the right and the left.
Moss, who lived two years in Barcelona, ​​expressed in a very good right Catalan and confesses he loves the country and its people, and for proselytism. In this interview I read on the 'Today I saw that he had a much less pessimistic than is often from within: "Catalonia is a universal, internationalist, with a very specific mood, trade and cultural ties with all the world. Catalonia was doing and was doing very well. "

People will not look much better Spanish than Spanish people who have always been suspicious of us do not really know for what reason. We know therefore that we must look for allies in the long road to independence ... In Spain we find them, sure. Of those leftist intellectuals who seemed to understand it all and that could be our allies none of that tweet. Almost all have been hiding under rocks and out Santiago Carrillo defend ourselves. We are well groomed!

Moss goes on to say in this interview that the Constitutional Court (which had not been given time) on the Statute can mark a turning point and forced the Catalan people to decide. "These are interesting questions of independence these days because they involve a spirit will grow to decide."
Believes that if the Catalans opts for independence clearly at the polls would not be going back. I would have to assume Europe and the United States would support it: "In a few years the new states were born in Europe. Slovenia is a very interesting case. Catalonia which is much smaller, has 2 million inhabitants. Never in history was not an independent country as usual. now a sovereign state and a member of the EU. market with one currency and one with European unity, any small country can be independent. Financially it is impossible. before it was, but not now. "

And now we might add Kosovo ...

This man you see here to your flower greenhouses, is Pepe Mujica, current President of Uruguay.

He had laughed about it because they said that as a farmer he would look bad in the country and do not represent well. We told him almost everything that could wrong. His detractors have been well cared ... But good things have been said many, especially those who know him closely.

May be politically controversial and I do not know if it will be a good president or not. You have to give some time and wait a bit, do not you think?

I would now be happy that my President-Presidents, and many others say and believe the things he says in this text that I put in continuació.Són things that are not understood and empty words. Quite the opposite: make a good road if you could follow, could transform a country.

José Mujica (Uruguay Presidente)

Nobody knows you better than you in Knowledge and culture not only hay but Esfuerzo There is also pleasure.

Dicen the gente afraid that jogs the boulevard, read something in what goes into a kind of ecstasy donde ya no existe the Cansancio and le is the only pleasure.

I think that with the Knowledge and culture pasa lo mismo. Read a punto donde study or research, or learn ya Esfuerzo and is not a pure enjoyment.

What a good thing would be that these delicacies available at Estuvio of mucha gente!

What good news it, if the basket of the quality of life for its people on tourist attractions Uruguay wishes, I would buena abounds in a consumos intellectuals.

Not elegant but porque porque sea is pleasant.

Because to enjoy, with the routed with the Intensidad you would enjoy a bowl of noodles.

¡No hay a list of the things that mandatory rate facilities make us happy!

Algunos I can think of that perfect world is a place of crowded shopping centers.

Ese in the world gente feliz porque todos I can leave it llenos of bolsas de ropa nueva y Caja de electrodomésticos.

No tengo nada against esa Vision digo not the only one possible.

I say that also We can think of a country where the gente SELECT fix the things in place to tirarlas, a self SELECT in place of a self chico grande, SELECT abrigarse subir in place of the heating.

Wasted no more what rate facilities las maduras Societies. Vayan in Holland and the cities Vean repletas Bicycles. There is going to dar cuenta of consumerism that is not the choice of the true aristocracy of humanity has. It 'Choice noveleros and frívolos them.

Los platform Dutch cycling, para ir a trabajar las Usan but There is also para ir a los conciertos them or parkas.

Because they have bequeathed to a level in which your everyday felicidad be nurtured for so consumos materiales as intellectual.

Well that friends, and spread the vayan conocimiento por el placer.

In parallel, I will be modest, Contribution them that trafficking of Uruguayan Anden bicicleteada in bicicleteada.

EDUCATION IS THE ROAD

And friends, the bridge between east and hoy tiene ese WANT morning that number and be llama education.

And I look to be a difficult and long-bridge crossing.

Because one thing is the rhetoric of education and otra thing is that we decidamos to steel them Sacrificios involving a large Lanza Esfuerzo educativo and hold it in tiempo.

Las investments in education are of rendimiento slow, not le Lucena Geen gobierno, movilizan resistencias y otras demandas obligan to procrastinate.
But hay that hacerlo.

It is a nuestros hijos y debemos it Nietos.

And that hacerlo ahora hay, long as it already is fresh miracle of Internet Technology and Opportunities in abren nunca vistas of access to Knowledge.

Yo I grew up with the radio, the TV came Nacer, after the color TV, satellite después las Transmisiones.

After that result in me aparecian forty television channels, which trasmitían incluidos them in directly from USA, España e Italia.

After them and cellular After the computer, which in principle for Process Server only numbers.

Each esas veces, I remain with the mouth abierta.

Now with the Internet but the capacity to surprise me outs.

Me siento como aquellos humanos that vieron a rueda UP NOW.

Or as vieron them that the first fuego por vez.

Feel that you are one play at a vivir Hito Luck in history.

They are Abriendo las puertas de todas de todos los libraries and museums, they will be available, todas las Revistas Científicas y todos los libros del mundo.

And probablemente todas las todas las Músicas movies and the world.

It is overwhelming.

Por eso todos los NECESITAMOS that Uruguayan and on ALL uruguayitos sepan swim in torrente ese.

Hay that subirse esa corriente and navigate to it as pez in the water.

Conseguiremos if it is esa solid matrix of intellectual hablábamos that before.

If nuestros Chiquilina know Razon know in orden y las hacerse Questions worthwhile.

We as a race in two pistas, here comes the ocean in the world of information ACA preparándonos down for the transatlantic navigation.

Schools tiempo completo, empowered the interior masificada tertiary education institutions.


And probablemente, English from preschool in public education institutions.

Because the English language is not the Yankees hablan them is the language with which to entienden Chinos them with the world.

We can not be outdoors. We can not quit a nuestros Chiquilina outdoors.

Esas son las habilitan us tools that interact with the Explosión Universal Knowledge.

Este nuevo mundo it simplifies our life, us complicated ..

We r requires more and more away hondo in education. Task No hay más grande In front of Us.

Do you feel alone? You have no one to go to the pub? Then you need a rental friends. This is what is fashionable in the U.S., according to the Guardian.

But what it feels like to spend a day with someone who is paid to be your friend? It would be interesting to analyze both sides of the issue: First, why we have reached this point of hiring a friend. Whether we become unable to not be able to do? Both have little time for human relationships that make us need to hire someone to chat or company? And then what must feel "friend" doing this kind of work?. What kind of preparation should be? What kind of psychology is to study to make it well done?

The mark of the newspaper itself is probably not more than a curiosity. But if we get down to analyzing it in depth it can do. In a rapidly changing society, where everything is bought, rented or sold, it is not surprising that these things go for now seem so strange and so far our schemes. But it will come. Before we were looking for friends among fellow schoolmates, neighborhood or work. Now we will rent for a few hours or a few days. Just like to rent a car or an apartment. And if it serves the friend dismiss and seek a more sympathetic, blond and tall. I like most is that those who have light eyes and speak football ...

We see that in the U.S. there is a company that makes the first shell with it. It's called "rentafriend.com" and is studying how to expand the business as well as him. Pretty soon too see here at home some clever copy the idea and will start. And surely you will be fine!

WIDE IS SPANISH

Wide is Castile, as a palm
has to lift the sword calloused.
The arm is not the kind las brain;
my throat is dry and thirst it happens.

Third law of the land petjadors
law that imposed their bloody strange
Castile is broad, tomb kings,
Brand malavirança in Spain.

Under the shade poplars have withered
the evil he has done with his tune;
noises of fires and spurs, and far
with the horses stay buried.

Wide is Castile, its echo a groan,
deafness has heard too.
The voice is hoarse choking the Iberian
and it will not be: just want to wallow.

Joan Salvat Papasseit

('The Conspiracions'-1922)

The futility coated verbiage of positions of trust or seat in Parliament is more common than we can imagine in many areas of political life. But if one is useless in this area emphasizes the politicians of our country, people doing jobs which do not have a clue that most times there have been more reasons to trust preparation. They are people who have expertise in a particular profession, you should be all good faith the world, but suddenly have responsibility for things that are never seen far from.

Often tend to blame in Madrid (and sometimes rightly) certain inutilitats are our own well, well house. Improper work, lack of response, short-sighted tactics, caste spirit and much more defects is felt every day in our politicians.

An example of what I say is the death of five firemen, one year ago today, in Horta de Sant Joan. The sister of one of the dead firefighters Espinet, Ramon has just written a book titled "The Truth cream", exposing all these miseries. It explains a lot of things that are hidden, you have to be silent and entangled, so that a year after unfortunately no clear explanations of the authorities, and there are no resignations the only person I trust is the judge who was in charge of the matter and it seems that it has been taken very seriously.

In memory and tribute acts that have been made today to Horta there was coolness between the mayor and the authorities. There has been away long faces and words, words and more words of the authorities. Or talks that lead nowhere, explain nothing and no one satisfied. We do not need more than empty words!

The sample of this dissatisfaction is that there are no family wanted to do this and there have been all the same pineapple seen by authorities last year as if nothing had happened, none of them have even thought a time resign. Shame, I feel embarrassed of our politicians and leaders of my country.

The friend James Obradors includes an article on his blog the renowned linguist, Joan Solà. . The friend James describes as interesting and convincing. I call it too hard, necessary and essential and should be mandatory reading. Therefore, we reproduce the below:

With your stubborn attitude reflects the worst misery moral, political, economic and linguistic fundamentalism Spanish. For centuries have imposed the law and the army, which you have called the "common home" in Spanish and is nothing more than an assembly strictly following your obtuse mind, your quixotic totalitarianism, and, Ultimately, only convenient for some of us who live in this space, at the price of being obnoxious and unbearable for others.

Very specifically, the Catalans have stirred up against the rest of the peoples of the bull's hide. We've stopped breathing for a fact that the people have contributed more to the political and economic welfare of the country. I have evil to destroy our language in every way imaginable. You are the weapon of terrorism a reason of state applicable to those you left and right, unilaterally, rate of terrorists and those who just have always tried to move to peaceful ways. Seeding constantly this poisonous seed, have created a perfect breeding ground for your voters. And you call this democracy!

For the umpteenth time in my town has tried to fit this in your Spanish impossible. For the umpteenth time you've thrown the door in his face. Do not wait more options: try to live in freedom once out of this stifling space.

Catalan politicians! From the prophetic voices Maragall to all current political observers have been repeated in countless ways that had nothing to do, that Spain has despised and rejected and continues to do so now perhaps more violence ever, politics and media. Now you will point to the outcry, not all willingly all but hopeless to try to save a personal power that is increasingly more ridiculous and mostly ridiculed, befat more. And yesterday suplicàveu (!) Do not know what the TC reform: a reform of an organization for four years has degraded with infinite arrogance to think that limits you to literally intolerable rate of many Catalans do not want or We want to wish you fool, now, that removes the entrails of those who do not tolerate the free nations be deleted. Now is not the time to give an unequivocal example to your people, you had to do, so if believed at the time that the TC just started to grope the Statute.

Joan Solà

The Uruguayan weekly SEARCH published last week in a very interesting article comparing the two Diegos famous: Diego Forlan and Diego Maradona. (SEARCH - July 8, 2010 "What's that on the other by a Diego" by Kid pill).

I say that article is interesting because it is made with a great sense of humor and yet says things very clear. Things that many Argentines do not want to hear, but it should.

Diego Forlan is an example of balance, modesty, joy, wisdom and quality, both human and sports. He was voted player of the World.
It is a type located, friendly, model, example and respect for children and young people. I even named ambassador for UNICEF. A luxury to have him. Champion in life, where it is harder and deserved to win. Play in a small country that has fought to the end and left a good impression for the fight and showed modestly.

And if we take the boat and cross the Rio de la Plata, we find another Diego: Diego Maradona, one of the most abominable kind that exist and that made ​​a lot of people were glad that "their" choice eliminated.

Just remember statements "sexoràliques" made after the triumph of his selection on Celeste in the playoffs, which toured the world and cost him two months of suspension of FIFA. Now, the extraordinary phenomenon of this revolting world of sport is that the rest of the world "Diego" is being despicable, rude, arrogant, rude, and from location. But Argentina is God. It is difficult to understand, right? Instead of removing it from coach and put someone more worthy and more people have not done more to thank you laugh, make you keep doing ridiculous and make a whole country look bad.

And the article ends with a touch of humor, "said an American psychologist that the child must persuade a rebellious attitude change by passing a soft bristle brush on his little head, and if the procedure is not work, we use the other side of the brush on the other side of the child. Might the children - and men - have two distinct parts on both ends. Maradona was magic in the bottom and a short impressive the top. would have been better had it been so, leaving the memory of their "gambetas" of his "mona" and its golassos, without trying to be then it can not be! " . Because you can not be, can not be. And if you can not, it's impossible! It is impossible that such a person can again be worthy to cabalment has shown that it knows how to make the lot of chances and opportunities that life has given him.

The article says almost everything it says and what it suggests. Most people think differently than all those Argentineans think that exalt and placed on the altars. And the Uruguayans be glad to have Diego and have not had another.

A marriage of Uruguay wanted to register her daughter, who was born world these days, as Maria Vuvuzela, in honor of this cloying instrument that had to endure that followed the partitsl and in honor of the great role that the Uruguayan team (the "Celeste") has in the championship.

After 8 years of living in Uruguay I can guarantee very few places in the world there must be so weird and wacky names. I was so surprised to hear some names that I could not nearly future and I could not believe it.

I in Uruguay, and I can well assure you, I have seen names like Rodriguez or Atinencia Enero Valiente. I find this style a lot because it seems that there was a certain tradition of naming something strange and stuffy.

Julio Barrenengoa Sañudo explains that at the cemetery in Montevideo once saw a plaque with the cute name: Santiago Santiago Santiago. There is a famous article about Leonardo Haberkom quirky names he found in Uruguay. An example of strange names he mentions could be the following:

Flash-

Fillet-

-Democratic

Amada-England

Cute-Feo

Free-Albedrío

-Registered Trademark

Trademark-

Desdichado-

-Preciosísima del Campo

Groundwater-Gadea

Caricias-of Quintana

Sanchez-Slavery

Heroic-America

Delirio-Lucas (political Known)

-Flower a Day

Napoleon-Beethoven Javier

Explain Amílcar Urrutuzú, director of the Registry of Civil Status, changing identity is not a procedure that is usually done because the official in charge of registration has the power to reject names that could cause future hilarity, jokes or teasing . But in fact, this power is up to the officer, because there is a list of names prohibited. And we know that the criteria can be highly divergent and very arbitrary.

This has fixed a little Decree Law 15462 which reads: "The Official National Directorate Registros not signed up numbers stack sean outlandish, ridiculous, immoral or raise equívocos sexo respect to the person." Urrutuzú explains that "prior to the validity of this law, the names that were put a real nonsense" and he gives a few examples on what he has seen during the dry run:

Viva-National (Football team)

Viva-Peñarol (football team)

-Hitler

Gaucho-punteadora

Milonguero-

José-Ramón del Corazón de Jesús.

The Deputy Director of the Registro Civil Leader De Los Santos says it used to when choosing a name, make it according to the fashion of the trendy TV series or an important event. Remember De Los Santos as happened in the 50s, when many children were named Maracana (won the championship at this stage) or Obdulio (the player Obdulio Varela, hero of that game).

Therefore, it is no wonder that parents now want to put his daughter Maria Vuvuzela those born to the glory days of "blue." It is strange, but I still think it is quite tacky ...

A joke in FORGES.

Sometimes in life, you are so eager to do something, or say it, or achieve it ... that one is denied the opportunity to even dream about it.

This happens, for example, when we are upset at work and we dare not leave it, even if we die in the trying. When we are upset in a situation we want to leave it, leave it greatly-wish-wish to flee and leave it but do not dare.

Personally, and as a people, need to have the dream to take flight, while remaining chicken pen and began to be eagles or vultures flying high, very high, and need not stay with the miserable reality day after day, we smeared on the TV and newspapers: corrupt politicians, human rights trampled, dirty and brutalizing human relations, countries subject, injustice and poverty, endless boredom ...

Must dream and make dreams reality. Must transform reality to dream that we can make it new. Both things happen to us in our lives and make us both a little scared ...

Dreams

I do not want, no ...

Nor do I think not ...

I even want to imagine ...

But on the other hand, I know I can get on the planet happy

I am a hunter and perfectly attainable dreams.

I want the storm, rain, cold or sunshine will not let me leave the house

and at the same time, I want to take the steep and difficult path

I know I will glory.

I tie my hands and feet, find thousands arguments

Search thousands of excuses not to have to say yes

and at the same time, I'm really looking forward

detach myself with teeth, nails and start with the road.

I say no, it is not necessary, it is not necessary that we need to dream

I'm already as well, perhaps dangerous,

and at the same time, I feel that inner desire to beat me to improve,

that desire indecipherable

to find what one wants and the desired lifetime.

In times of crisis like the present in which we tend to see everything a little dark there is one thing very well say it: a good hug!

A hug can not deny ever because it is always an expression of some kind of love that exist. Several authors, among which we find Walter Riso say that love can be of various types: "eros", "agape" or "filios." The "eros" is passionate love, the "agape" is selfless love towards people and "filios" love is "family."

A hug to whoever-it-is always pleasant and therapeutic. In fact I see a whole discipline called "Abraçadateràpia." Some of the benefits that can be achieved are:

-We rescue of loneliness and isolation. We are not alone. We are not the center of the universe. We are the Universe.
They guide the self-esteem-enhancing knowledge.
-Facilitate unblock the physical and emotional.
-We allow experiencing the integration of body, mind and emotions.
-We exercise in empathy.
-We are located entirely in the Here and Now.
Favor-affective communication with us and with each other.
Stimulus gratitude.
-Wake up creativity.
-Driven pro-active attitude in life.
-Connect with intuition.
Favor-training assertive responses.
Returned-delusion, joy and good humor, because laughter is his faithful companion.
-It provides recognition and protection to our "inner child."
Power-resilience.
-If you are afraid to give a hug, you analyze because of your fears.

And one last very important thing: It's Free! Embrace us?

Eduardo Galeano is one of the best writers currently in Uruguay and all over Latin America. Writer and intellectual of the left, committed to his country and the universal causes he believes fair and that sometimes people think too lost causes. He still believes in and fight to defend them.

It loves the game and is hidden. I always say that being intellectual and being a lover of football are not only contradictory things but they can be perfectly complementary. That's right: after football sometimes there are other things. He explains ...

He has a book that is a delight. It's called "Soccer in sun and shadow." Today I want to leave a piece.

The pelota as flag

In the summer of 1916, during World War I, an English Captain Lanz is kicking Assault on a pelota. Captain Nevill leap from parapet to protect it, and the pelota encabezó corriendo tras las Trincheras alemanas against the Assault. His regiment, which vacilaba, it SIGUIER. Muri captain of a cannon shot, but that conquered England and Hedo tierra de nadie como battle celebrate the first victory of English football in the front of war.

Muchos años después, ya los fine century in the dueño club Milan Gano las elecciones italianas with a slogan, Forza Italia!, Coming from las Tribunais estadios of them. Silvio Berlusconi promised to save Italy as the Salvadoran habitat Milan, the superequipo campeón all, and them that voters olvidaron Some of sus empresas estaban the edge of ruin.

The football and the nation are always atados, y con frecuencia los Political and con esos vínculos them especulan dictator of identity. The Italian squad Gano them the '38 and '34 World number in the nation and Mussolini, and its players and empezaban terminaban each game Vivanda saludando in Italy and the public with the palm of the hand extendida.

There is also for those Nazis, football was Heartbeat of State. Spellbound A monument in Ukraine, for the players of Dynamo Kiev, 1942. At full occupancy German, ellos cometieron the locura defeating Hitler in a selection of local, stage. Le habian warned:
-If Gañán Muer.

Entraron resigned to lose temblando to miedo y of hunger, but not pudieron aguantarse las ganas be dignos. Los condom once fusilados con las camisetas puestas, on top of a ravine, cuando term partido.

Football and homeland, and village football: in 1934, whilst Bolivia and Paraguay are mutually aniquilaban the Chaco War, Desert pedazo disputando a map of the Red Cross Paraguaya formed a football team, who play in varias cities of Argentina and Uruguay republished bastante dinero for them to attend heridos of Ambos bandos on the battlefield.

After three years, during the war in Spain, two pilgrims equipos condom symbols of democratic resistance. Sleep General Franco, Hitler and Mussolini's brazo, bombardeaba the Spanish republic, across Europe and a selection Basque club Barcelona disputaba partidos in USA and in Mexico. The Basque Government sent the team to France ya Euzkadi Others Countries with the Mission of propaganda steel bowls and collects money for the defense. Simultaneously, the Barcelona club to embark towards America. The current year, 1937, and already the presidente club Barcelona habitat caído bajo las balas pro-Franco. Ambos equipos encarnaron in football los campos y fuera de ellos There is also, in acosada democracy.

Only four players regresaron Catalan in Spain during the war. Vascos of them, hardly one. When the Republic fue vencida, FIFA declared rebellion Exiliados players in them, and threaten them with the withdrawals of short, but unos cuantos consiguieron incorporarse the Latin American football. Con varios vascos formed in Mexico, Spain club, which is unbeaten in sus primeros tiempos. The Forward's team Euzkadi, Isidro Lángara, Wrestling debut in 1939. In the first four Métis partido throats. He was in the club San Lorenzo, where Angel Zubieta There is also shine that habitat Media Player in the line of Euzkadi. Afterwards, in Mexico, the tabla Lángara encabezó scorer of the 1945 Campeonato local.

The club model of Franco's Spain, Real Madrid, queen in the world between 1956 and 1960. This dazzling team Gano piped to four Spanish League Cup, five European Cup and an Intercontinental. Real Madrid andaba fear everywhere and always dejaba to gente con la boca abierta. Franco's dictatorship habitat encontrado unsurpassed Ambulante embassy. Los throats that transmit radio eran clarinadas Triumph of the most effective HIMNO face the sun. In 1959, one of the bosses of the regime, Jose Solis, delivered a discourse of gratitude ante los players, "gente porque odiaba that before us, Now thanks to our realization vosotros". How the Cid, Real Madrid meets the qualities of the Raza, Though its famous line seemed to hit back well to more a Foreign Legion. It brillaba a Frenchman, Kopa, two argentinos, Di Stefano and Rial, Santamaría and the Uruguayan húngaro the Puskas.

In Ferenk Puskas it llamaban Cañoncito Pum fear of their devastating Virtudes Skillful left, they also knew how to be a glove. Others Hungarians, Ladislao Kubala, Sandor Kocsis and Zoltan Czibor, Luciano is in the club in Barcelona esos años. In 1954 the first stone of buzz in Camp Nou, Estadio great nation that Kubala: IBA to the crowd that Verlo play, steps in millimeters, following deadly, did not fit in the estadio above. Czibor, mientras tanto, sacaba chispas de los zapatos. El otro húngaro Barcelona, ​​Kocsis was a great cabeceadores. Cabeza de oro, it llamaban, and a sea of pañuelos celebraba sus throats. Kocsis Dicen that the fue mejor de cabeza Europe, after Churchill.

In 1950, a integrated team húngaro Kubala habitat in exile, giving you a temporary Valiant two years, decreed by FIFA. After the FIFA sanctioned with more of a year of suspensions Puskas, Czibor, Kocsis y otros Hungarians who played in habian otro equipo in exile since 1956 fine, long as the Soviet invasion to crush the popular Resurrection.

In 1958, during the war of independence, Algeria formed a selection of football that first vez por los colores vistió native. Integraban its establishment Makhlouf, Ben Tifour and Others argelinos that jugaban profesionalmente in French football.

Bloqueada by the colonial power, only Algeria consiguio play with Morocco, a country fue por Pecado semejante desafiliado during the FIFA algunos años, y unos few partidos additionally disputes without transcendence, organizados Trade Unions fear them deportivos Arab country in ciertos and eastern Europe . FIFA todas las puertas Cerro selection in the Algerian and French soccer players punished onths decretando su muerte civil. Taken by contrato, ellos nunca más volver to actividad WOULD professional.

After independence but conquered Algeria, the French football that no tuvo más remedio volver a llamar a los players who sus Tribunais añoraban.

FAREWELL

Definitely I say goodbye
Spain empires: I decided calmly.
Time is perhaps an accumulation of history embabaiats
and nothing of what we should know
What-our-well, or maybe spellbound
with an agreement or understanding
false, we still sat resigned.
It is, however, a lot of centuries
Are sixty-six of the twenty first century
extending the long tentacles and we drown
you fight with the great empires of energy,
because you are an empire, I have no doubt is, without regard to anything, and now against the current.

Definitely I say goodbye!
I say goodbye to you. There is too much blood spilled,
There is too much injustice and grievance,
much suffering and ultimately sterile.
Because you, nor knight of Castile
with cross and dagger, or us together
Flock of sheep-shorn-
we can not go together. I am away from you!
I'd rather fight for peace
and the men who love and peace.
I prefer to create the future of a country
and leave you. Come on, goodbye!
Now think about your,
in those who, fed up with it, were wandering lost
in who died fighting, they gnaw cuffs;
These are your children,
the only ones who love you. Stop fighting
Free them and at once. I'm going!
I want to live in peace at home, I die exhausted
building Catalonia. And nothing more!
Perhaps one day we will see God keep you,
I'll tell you: how you? But in the meantime: at home!
We fought too long to landing
and everything is full of dust and cobwebs.
Definitely I say goodbye!
We say without rancor, smiling
behind the gate while I put the latch.

John Colomines

("Poems cry" -1969)

This photograph was taken on the Ramblas of Barcelona on 24 April 1932. Since then asked "A STATUTE AS approved the people of Catalonia"

History always repeats or is it?

Today, you do not need to ask anything else. Protest must be high, and for sure. Should make us feel, fer.nos respect, but also give us worth. We are a nation, we have to make our own laws and we eventually decided not beg.

300 years ago we ignore each other and we dishonor. Perhaps the time has come to not only look back and look ahead.

The protest today in Barcelona, ​​the great river of people marching and saying enough is to look towards Spain but, above all, should look to Europe and to the world in order to find allies will be necessary help to have a state of their own worth, modern and powerful, connected to the world and respected by the other nations of Europe.

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

People work to live
instead of living to work.

The historians do not believe
love that countries were invaded.

Politicians do not believe
that the poor like food promises.

The world is no longer at war with the poor, but poverty and the military industry will have no choice but to declare bankruptcy.

Street children are not treated like garbage, because there will be no street children.

Justice and freedom, condemned to live separate Siamese twins, are back together.

The desperate are expected and the lost found, because they are so hopeless that they expect and they lose much searching.

In this world every night will be experienced as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.

(Regina M. and Asun.)

What animals are much more intelligent than many people was already known. It is also known that octopuses are very intelligent. What was not known is that the gift had to guess the future as "Felix Mago." In view of the many successes achieved in the German pop when guessing the outcome of the matches of the World Cup, that the rumor will fitxarà Zapatero and Finance Minister, see if your government starts guess some of the predictions in recent times has been done and has not met not one ...

This animal-to-animal forgiveness of others (and now I do not mean the politicians, do not be evil thought) will now be able to predict the stresses of the economy, banks and even the various tensions and everyday marriages. In this way our economy will benefit because there will know a little about where you should go and everything will be more predictable and there will be many shocks. There will benefit the "Government of Ejpaña" (Zapatero not think there has nothing to do with pop or endevinaire) and there also will benefit the economy because we all just pierced invest in securities that are sure to surplus bag ...

And above all, there is a winner Paul the octopus because meanwhile he does not eat and she might even make a good contract or simply as adviser to the Government, whatever, they're all good. The only drawback will be that pop will make an appearance at the office every day (not working). Now we just have to work every 4 years, or when there are World Cup.

Is that true that you can not have everything in life!

We at Sunday, July 11, 2010. We woke up with a hangover the euphoria produced by the crowd screams, unbridled joy, the feeling for a while transported to another world that seems possible because we dreamed too many times, because too often the 'we have built, we have destroyed and we rebuilt.

The demonstration was a success. There were many people. I still have to count all the people who could not go but with the same feeling that human river that crossed the streets of Barcelona. Raimon would say, "we are many more than they want and say." There were even those who are, but they are all that were there.

But today, the big-l'endemà demonstration-which might need more peace we wonder what we need to do? Catalans are like chasing chimeras (chimera, according to the dictionary, is an imaginary creation of the spirit that we take for reality). But to us is that the Catalans, which can not be, the impossible, the unreachable becomes a challenge to us and we like and want to do the impossible possible ... Because it's good to dream and dream impossible things. And better yet, get to chase our dreams to make them reality. Dream dream dream asleep but awake and well awake too, so that we see where we want to go.

Today, the day after the big event, we need to get the clouds and our feet on the ground. I was very realistic because it was realistic to think that means we have to vote in the upcoming elections. Leaving aside those parties and politicians who are not clear. Leaving aside those parties that have too often entangled. Leaving aside those games that take us nowhere and that we will never get off. Let those who are parties sucursalistes. Punish those parties that clearly way-or-sibylline against Catalonia.

Today, 11th July 2010, we note that "we are many more than they want and say" and, therefore, it is clear that the independence movement gaining ground socially. Now is the time to set aside "personalities inevitable clashes sterile harmful fragmentation, struggles-often-pathetic," as John Alcaraz few days ago on "Digital unusual." "It happens everywhere in this country, but sometimes you have the impression that here, probably spends more on our mood," he said.

Therefore, Catalan, now we have to be alert and to whom we can go hefting we trust to represent us with dignity and help us reach some day this chimera, this impossible dream, I'm sure that between- we can.