The Spanish PARADOX: the Spainistani REALITY

The Spanish paradox - from this Blog's perspective, the Spainistani reality - is that of a country that is shocked, gets passionate, suffers, enjoys with the victory of the Spanish Soccer National Team - from this Blog's perspective, the Spainistan Homo Soccer-Sapiens National Team - whilst at the same time is able to forget matters of enormous importance for their inhabitants.

First, the National Team players have won as extra bonus for being the Eurocup's Champions, more than 300.000 Euros each. Would you guess where this money will be taxed?: actually NOT in Spainistan, BUT in Ucraine and Poland, as a financial strategy to reduce the taxes, as they already did in Viena in 2008. Isn't this amazing?: these are the "heroes" that today and during the next weeks and years the Spainistanis will be adoring. The initiative in www.change.org to donate these bonuses to social needs seems not being very successful so far...

Second, did you realise about who was invited in the VIP tribune, who's not losing any opportunity to go?. Well, together, with Felipito, "the Little Prince", son of our elephant-killer king, Mr. Rajoy was there. This person is not only sassy/cheeky enough to go paid by the Spainistanis, but he does so at the same time that Spainistan is LITERALLY BURNING; the most serious fires in the last 20 years are right now massacrating the Comunidad Valenciana; this is taking place whilst several newspapers published that the PP Government CUT in 15 milion Euros and more than 200 employees the resources allocated for... FIRE PREVENTION!. And all of this whilst public events so important as the Formula 1 in Valencia City are still being payed (hundreds of milions of dollars) by this same government... PURE SPAINISTAN!.

Third, in parallel to the party that Felipito, "the Little Prince" and Mr. Cut-Rajoy are having, half of Spainistan is at war due to the recent measure adopted by the government, forcing even the pensioners to co-pay and re-pay drugs and even some basic health assistance. It goes without saying that these persons already paid for this, as they were taxed during the whole life for it. Today, tomorrow, this and the nex month, the Spainistanies will also forget that the direct re-capitalization of the spanish banking system, presented as a big success by our government, will not bring but more cut and dismantlement of the Social Welfare State. You only need to take a look to this video to understand till which point the people is pissed off with the banks…

We could just continue with the fourth, the fifth, the sixth... New and systematic tax increases are announced, including electricity, gas, VAT and, WARNING!, taxes so far with the hyper-reduced 4% will increase to the 18% in few days time!.

We don't want to spoil anybody's party or enjoyment. We just would like to say that this financial and values' crisis in Spainistan is serious ill enough as for this year not giving so much importance to a group of soccer-players, politicians and bankers that are not only destroying this country, but also enjoying by doing and laughing at those most vulnerable.

Thieves-politicians steeling to the Third World

Somebody recently said that the Comunidad Valenciana (the paella’s region in Spain) could be considered the “the Banana Republic of Spainistán”, considering its lack of gobernance, the levels of corruption, the media manipulation, the use of force vs demonstrators, etc. Ok, we do really think that this statement wouldn’t be fair at all for the Banana Republics: comparing them with what’s going on in this corrupted, tacky-pimp and rancid part of Spainistan would just be an insult to their dignity.

The most recent example is the scandal around the plundering of funds assigned to International Cooperation (basically, charity). 27 people have been impeached, although just only one still remains in jail, the Valencian businessman Mr. Augusto César Tauroni. According to the information published so far, more than 6 million Euros originally assigned to charity mainly in Centralamerica, were actually used in order to arbitrarly allocate constructions (to enterprises closed to him) and to directly buying real state (houses and offices) in the middle of Valencia City. This was possible with the support of Mr. Rafael Blasco, Regional Councelor of Solidarity and Citizenship and currently Spokesperson of the PP in the Regional Congress of Valencia.

All of this dirty and pathetic issue was discovered, among others, by Ms. Mireia Mollà, MP of Compromís, a minor independent political party; she pushed already in 2010 for the opening of an Inquiring Commission at the Valencian Parliament. This weekend, ElPais revealed an intercepted conversation between Mr. Tauroni and his lawyer, that we literally quote hereinafter:

Tauroni: “… and now we must meditate about what we do with “the Mireia”, whether we denounce her or what we do with her”

Lawyer (Gómez Tejedor): “We can rape her or doing her any other barbaric thing, what do you think?”

Tauroni: “Yes, whatever, but…”

Lawyer: “She’d like it so much, poor her, ok…”

The celebration of the goal and of the bailout that doesn’t exist

See Mr. Rajoy's picture celebrating the Spain's goal one day after the intervention. These days I’ve had the Blog abandoned, I’ve been around in Paris, London and Hamburg. Honestly, I came back depressed to see how Europe is making fun at us. From the Puppets of Canal+ in France (Gignoles), to the front-pages of German newspapers, fun is always going the same direction: Mr. Rajoy and his little servant Guindos (the Minister of Economy) deny speaking of “bailout” after the 100.000 milion Euros injection done past Saturday. Actually, exactly the same that happened to Mr. Zapatero, former President of Spainistán, with the word “crisis” when it was starting and he systematically rejected it; amazing!.

At the same time, we have the Dívar scandal; the President of the CGPJ, the main Judiciary Power institution, has for the last 4 years been traveling to the South of Spain to the most luxury hotels, 31 times, with an estimated cost of 70.000+ Euros. He’s been unable to justify the expenses. At the same time that he was arguing that the cost was not so high “as the hotels were only 4 stars”, a 80 y.o. lady has had to pay more than 400 Euros of the taxi she had to use in order to give witness in Madrid of the killing of her husband by the fascist Franco regime during the Spanish Civil War…

Yet, in Spainistan everybody swallows this shit up!. Why?, very easy!, because the Spanistan Football (Soccer) team, “La Roja”, “The Reds”, is playing the Eurocup!. This is the most important right now, together with Nadal in Tennis or Fernando Alonso for F1.

Spainistán is a de facto intervened State. It is governed by an ultra-liberal right party, with a provincial mindset, that doesn’t speak languages and doesn’t have any weight in Europ; a State that cuts drastically on Health, Education and Pensions whilst at the same time gives dozens of thousands of millions of Euros to banks managed and bankrupted by themselves… But Spainistanies vote them.

Panem et Circenses. Spainistán has what it deserves. This country is not worth, Europe does not merits this load. See Mr. Rajoy's picture celebrating the Spain's goal one day after the intervention. Better Greece than Spainistán!.

Ultra-fascism, soccer, monarchy and politics

This is just another post whereby you realize till which extent all the elements mentioned in the title are actually linked up in Spainistan and feedback each other till the more absolute stupidity.

The polemic is installed in Spainistan some days since, focused in the statement done by Ms. Esperanza Aguirre (“Esperanza” in Spanish means “hope”) on the soccer final of the Kings’ Cup, with Barcelona team Vs. Bilbao, a Vasc team. Yes, yes, you are not dreaming: in Spainistan is perfectly possible that the President of the Madrid Regional State makes statements about soccer!. Ms. “Hope” said that if the fans of Barcelona and Bilbao make fun again during the national Spainistani hymn, by whistling or any other means, the camp should be immediately closed, fans expelled and the match if so, be played “closed doors”, as making fun of the National Spainistani Hymn is indeed an offence punished by criminal law.

My foreign readers should know that during the 2008-09 Kings’ Cup final, that was also played by Barça and Bilbao, it came to happen that at the beginning of the match and during the national hymn, both fans and supporters (around 80.000 people!) started to whistle with a loud crash and showed clearly against the monarchy as an institution (the King, his son and other members of the Spainistani monarchy symbolically “chair” this match, as it was also done for decades by Franco, the Spanish dictator). The commotion in Spainistan was even greater when TVE (the Spanish TV) censored these images (this reality!), and it could only be seen through the Catalan and Basc Country TVs. You can see all of this in these videos:

A more detailed video can be found here.

Political reactions, including some of the same party of Ms. Esperanza Aguirre (the PP), took place immediately, qualifying them as “unacceptables” and of “politizising a sportive event”, but the key thing isn’t here. What Mr. Hope actually was trying to do was to divert attention from a political news that came to light some days before: it was publicly known that the Madrid Regional State (that she is the President of) had doubled its deficit, jumping from the announced 1.1% to the 2.2%. This is particularly shameful in Spainistan at the moment because (1) the PP had repeated that the deficit in Spainistan was the only responsibility (and heritage) of Mr. Zapatero, the former socialist president; and (2) that the Region of Madrid, together with Valencia and Castilla La Mancha, where the perfect, good models of excellence as they all are managed by the PP (all of the 3 regions account for almost 35% of Spainistan deficit!!!).

Conclusion: in Spainistan we have politicians able of (trying to) transform a sport event in a ultra-liberal fascist manipulation of a political scandal of corruption and mismanagement, making it up of an act of support to an institution heir of a dictatorship as it is the Spainistani current monarchy.

The Politian, the Soccer Player, the Monarchy and the Corrupted

… the good and incredible thing in Spainistan is that you can find all of them in or around just one and the same person!. The guy in the picture is called Fernando Roig. He is the President of the Villareal Futbol Club, a first Spanish Soccer League team that even played the Champions League recently.

This guy was yesterday cited at Valencia tribunals as a witness. He is a key witness in the Iñaqui de Urdangarín case. Iñaqui de Urdangarían is Duke of Palma and the son-in-law of Juan Carlos I, the KillerKing of Spain. As you may  probably know, Iñaqui is now impeached in Spain accused of several charges, among them embezzlement of founds and traffic of influences, together with fraud to the public Treasury in what is supposed to be millions of Euros.

Why is Fernando as key witness?. According to the information available, his enterprise, the Villareal Futbol Club, payed almost 700.000 Euros for a report of 12 pages done by the Instituto Noos, an enterprise of Iñaqui Urdangarin. Yes, yes, you read adequately: 700.000 Euros for a report of 12 pages… Apparently, this was common practice in Iñaqui’s institute, who was dedicated just to do bullshit for several people (among them, many Politians in Valencia,including the ex president Paco Camps and the mayor, Rita Barberá). Obviously what they were in fact buying was the “name” and the "reputation" of the Monarchy…

The surrealist, absurd, and Spanistan momentum came when Mr. Roig was inquired by the journalist after his declaration in the tribunals. This person answered, literally:

“I kindly ask you to respect my mourning day”, referring to what happened on Sunday, the day before, when Villareal lost his match and had to be descended to the Second Division of the Spanistan League, a drama for many people that seems to be more important than any other thing... 

So, this is Spainistan: a country where people cries because their team is descended, without bothering by the fact that his “President” is clearly connected to a bunch of corrupted polititians who, in turn, are connected to a corrupted, old-fashion institution such as the Monarchy.

Somebody can offer something better?. Shame on Spanistan,

A hurt former Spaniard  

Bankers, Politians and Corruption

Very few times we will do something like referring to other's articles in this Blog; but the majority of those, it would be about pieces that clearly reflect a "relationship" between two or more of the factical powers that govern Spainistan and that we try to denounce here (see the Objectives of this Blog for further information).


This Elpais article tells a tale (in English) about the relationships between the Spanish Banking system, the political gobernance (or better, how does the Partido Popular "understand" and "interpret" it) and corruption with impunity. It says it all, so I will just shut up...

What the Spainistanies deserve

We are seriously starting to believe that the Spainistanies have what they do actually deserve. Since the right-side Partido Popular took over the government in Spain 5 months ago, they have taken all necessary measures to (1) dismantle the welfare state in Spainistan (previously known as “Spain”); (2) break up their own electoral promises; (3) contradict their own political program; (4) and blindly serve the Merkel-European dictatorship based on the austerity narrative coming from the European Union and the financial markets.

Despite of the above, the recently published poll on social research done by the Centre for Sociological Research (a public institute), shows that whilst the Partido Popular has only lost 4 points in the voting intention, the PSOE (the socialist alternative) has only gained 1, hence keeping the distance between the two in more than 10 points!.

This is absolutely unveliebable and clearly shows what are the priorities of Spainistanies, what is the social and political support of the right and extreme right in Spainistan, and how Spainistanies prefer not to look at the reality, but to “enjoy” with stupid entertainments such as soccer (fútbol), TV realities, and going to the church or supporting the monarchy.

Spainistan and Spainistanies have what they do deserve: a sinking country, with almost 6 milion unemployed people, with almost 50% unemployment rate of those under 25 years old, with public and health education being dismantled and with anachronic, oldfashion, hyper conservative and extreme right institutions such as the catholic church, the army, or the monarchy in place. All of this at the same time that the government is injecting public money to the financial and banking system.

King Juan Carlos the Killer

This is the King of Spainistan: a killer King. As you can see in the picture, he has been killing elephants. The issue became a massive scandal  as this only was known because this person suffered an accident that brought to a hip-rupture. Now, a traditionally "untouchable" institution such as the Monarchy has come widely critizised, even questioned, all over Spainistan.


His name is (I of course avoid to include the nobility titles, such as "excellency" or other medieval stuff) Juan Carlos I de Borbón, and it belongs to the allegedly "noble" saga of the Borbones (and, allegedly also, "Royal House" in Europe). You can find more information here. 


OK, so, this person, widely supported by the poor Spaniards, extremely (to the extreme of the extreme right) supported by the conservatives in Spainistan, came public due to a hunting race that took place in Botswana, within an extremely pathetic context in this Banana Republic that is Spainistan. I do promise to you this is worth the reading...

Introducing Spanish mafia politicians

Whether you beleive it or not, these two guys are, following exactly this order and as a matter of fact: 

• active regional PP (Partido Popular) politians in the Comunidad Valenciana, a region in Spain; 
• they have been impeached in different judiciary causes, some of them still opened; despite this public shame, they have not resigned from their positions!
• they are nevertheless still the heads of two sub-regional provinces in Spain, Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia (the guy in your left, Franciso "Paco" Camps) and the other one in your right, Carlos Fabra, Castellón;
• Although being famous all over Spain for corruption, as I was saying above they are still ACTIVE in their respective political positions; yes, Paco Camps was forced to dismiss following a national shame that I will related in a different post, but he still holds a seat in the Regional Parliament!;
• The other guy, Carlos Fabra, is widely known for deviation of public founds; the most striking example being the construction of an Airport without planes, that I will also relate to you 'cos is so... UNVELIEVABLE!. He still holds his position in the sub-regional government. He is also widely know because he's able to do press conferences whilst holding SUNGLASSES and not accepting questions from the journalists...

These are the kind of people that reigns in SPAINISTAN. More to come...
A Hurt Former Spaniard