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The dualism of good and evil. Catharism was one of several religious movements that emerged during the Middle Ages becoming deeply rooted in Occitania and threatening the foundations of Roman Catholicism. The guiding ideal of the Cathars was to return Christianity to its primitive origins and, seeking to counter the opulent worldliness of the Catholic […]
Welcome to the Monkey House! An underground report of the street drugs in Barcelona. All of us who live in Barcelona know that there are a lot of drugs on the streets. Spaniards consume the most cocaine in the EU (EU drugs report from 2012) and for a teenager it’s easier to get drugs from the […]
¿Es España un país democrático? Han pasado más de 40 años desde que el General Francisco Franco muriese tranquilamente en su cama el 20 de noviembre de 1975. Sin embargo, parece que su sombra sigue proyectándose todavía en España a juzgar por la crisis democrática que se vive en Cataluña casi medio siglo después. La […]
I asked from my Facebook entourage about the best band name ever invented. The result was quite as I expected. The Classic Names. Oh, the good old times! In the past, naming the bands was so easy, because names weren’t taken. Today… Take a word or two, write those to Google and add “the band” to […]
Which newspapers received the most of Catalan taxpayer’s Money? The officially published figures show that last year the Government of Catalonia or Generalitat de Catalunya spent more than 12.3 million euros for institutional advertising in the Catalan newspapers. According to the government spokesman, Neus Munté, there are 26 media outlets that received institutional aid through […]
48 Crystal Moments: Two Converging Views. [avatar user=”Gustavo Vega” size=”thumbnail” align=”right” /] 7 th part of a collection of 48 poetic compositions, haiku style or close to such form of Japanese tradition, performed by Gustavo Vega. Not all of them conform strictly to the traditional Japanese way… The author prefers to call them, instead of […]
48 Crystal Moments: Two Converging Views. [avatar user=”Gustavo Vega” size=”thumbnail” align=”right” /] 6 th part of a collection of 48 poetic compositions, haiku style or close to such form of Japanese tradition, performed by Gustavo Vega. Not all of them conform strictly to the traditional Japanese way… The author prefers to call them, instead of […]
48 Crystal Moments: Two Converging Views. [avatar user=”Gustavo Vega” size=”thumbnail” align=”right” /] 5 th part of a collection of 48 poetic compositions, haiku style or close to such form of Japanese tradition, performed by Gustavo Vega. Not all of them conform strictly to the traditional Japanese way… The author prefers to call them, instead of […]
Today is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica. During the Spanish Civil War, 26 April 1937 at 16.30, the Nazi German Luftwaffe’s Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name Operation Rügen, bombed without any warning the Basque town of Guernica. Gernika in Basque; officially Gernika-Lumo, in the Basque […]
Why does the French Presidential Election matter to the Occitania? Now, when we know the results from the French presidential elections, maybe it came as a surprise that Marine Le Pen got elected to the second round. But it is not a surprise to find out that 40 villages in Occitania (south France) did not […]
