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And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 10:17:41 AM EST
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I like the new diary title better.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 10:41:42 AM EST
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Gara: Solution prcesses and international support(My emphasis)
With the Basque Homeland [standing] at the gates of a new political process, the role to be played by the international community is again under consideration. This is the backdrop of the media maelstrom unleashed by a written [document] attributed to ETA in which the armed organization challenges, in particular the European institutions, to not detach themselves from the situation that our country is living. Both the conduits through which that text has flowed until it was presented to the public opinion as well as the tumult unleashed after its release lead [one] to think that there exists a reasonable fear among certain state instances that the international community might make itself present in the Basque process, what will undoubtedly happen..
I think either Gara is being really subtle, or you (MfM) are reading too much between the lines.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 10:58:14 AM EST
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This whole thing  feels questionable.  Why did no one recieve this letter. I undestand it was  captured by the Guardia Civil, but ETA usually releases letters to Gara first.  The Gara article isn't much, but I wonder what this bit from El Pais about doubts from the antiterrorist police was about.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 11:04:08 AM EST
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I was asking for a link to where Gara "notes untypical language,  seals and stamps differing from the established pattern".

On the other hand, has anyone published an image of the document? Maybe it will be as crude a forgery as the Niger one?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 11:00:11 AM EST
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I found this tiny image through Google news. Can you find any others?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 11:15:09 AM EST
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Yet again, I am forced to look to El Mundo for large scale pictures of the document.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 11:25:38 AM EST
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Now we need to find images of previous communiqués for comparison.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 11:26:52 AM EST
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It's not an image, but the text of this ETA statement from 1998 shows something else that's odd.

Note in this document the seal is in Basque but the last sentence is in Castillian, not Basque.  Normally the end of a document issued by ETA or even Batasuna would be in Basque using language like this from the 1998 document

GORA EUSKADI ASKATUTA!
GORA EUSKADI SOZIALISTA!
JO TA KE INDEPENDENTZIA LORTU ARTE

The use of Castillian for the end is extremely suspicous.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 11:53:20 AM EST
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Yep, I noticed that too, it stuck out like a sore thumb.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 11:55:46 AM EST
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That's just about as bad as getting the name of the wrong friggin minister from Niger. My fingers on the AVT for this, and if true that's going to destroy that gains that the PP has made in the polls.

There's somehing deeply wrong with a group of victims of terrorism playing the dead for poltical gain, and the stuff with Pilar Manjon, the cabrones

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 12:10:37 PM EST
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The document over at El Mundo ends with
Viva Euskal Herria Libre
Viva Euskal Herria Socialista
Derecho de Autodeterminación para el Pueblo Vasco

The traditional last sentence means "keep at it until independence is achieved". Jo Ta Ke (translated in Spanish as dale que te pego) was the name of a policy document issued by one of the incarnations of Batasuna.

It is very, very strange that they would drop the Jo Ta Ke and that they would water down their demand from "independence" to "self-determination".

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 12:03:02 PM EST
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Doesn't ETA usually write their communiqués in Basque anyway? (Which Gara translates?) When they sent that letter to foreign governments earlier this year (supposedly de Villepin received it), was it in Basque? If this message was supposed to go to the BBC, why was it in Spanish, and not either in Basque or Euglish?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 12:08:05 PM EST
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Down the rabbit hole you go my friend.

Somebody concocted this.

It's the work of the slightly above average intelligence who think that they are a genius, it's the hallmark of a conservatice mind. They get the little details wrong.

All is not as it appears.......

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 12:19:16 PM EST
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Here's the red pill. I am appalled.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 12:23:57 PM EST
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Admit it Migeru, you thought I was wrong on this one.

This just might give Sr. Zapatero the breathing space needed to finish what he's started, and might make the PP transform like Gonzalez did to the right, leading to the PP.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 12:38:13 PM EST
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I admit it, you sounded to me like you had slept wrapped in tinfoil last night.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 29th, 2005 at 01:02:04 PM EST
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