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	<title>Periodismo Independiente &#187; Dean Swift</title>
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		<title>The real Transylvania</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Swift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Most of us know that Transylvania was the home of the invented literary character Count Dracula. The word itself is a perfect example of thought transference, as when someone says “Transylvania!” the brain immediately provides images of a gentleman with fangs who might, thanks to the art of the cinema, resemble Los Chaney, or Christopher Lee. The sounds we think we hear are the howls of wolves. (“Listen to them; the children of the night!”) Most of us also know that the Irish writer (and wrestler) Bram Stoker was inspired by tales of Vlad the Impaler, an early fifteenth century noble whose strategy and army twice drove ambitious Turks out of his country. The Turks driven out were the lucky ones, because Vlad was not called ‘the Impaler’ in vain. Lots of us do not know that Transylvania was and is a country, which has been both Hungarian and Romanian, which may sound complicated but isn’t. Transylvania is a mountainous region in Europe, more east than west. It has always been disputed territory, both Romania and Hungary at various times claiming Vlad’s fiefdom as their own. It actually became a Habsburg posssesion officially towards the end of the seventeenth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Prestige inquiry publishes its opinion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Swift</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Everyone in Europe knows what happened; now, six years after the super-tanker Prestige sunk off the coast of Galicia, leaving hundreds of miles of oil slick to slime the region’s rocky coast, costing millions of euros in a tremendous cleaning-up operation, the official Inquiry into causes and effect of the accident has published the results of practically six years of arduous investigation. The tragedy that (temporarily) ruined Galicia’s beaches and left hundreds of thousands of seabirds and sea fauna dead took place on 13 November, 2002. The Inquiry exonerates from all blame the ex-naval director of La Coruña, Ángel del Real, the then Delegado del Gobierno, Arsenio Fernández de Mesa, and the then Minister of Fomento, Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, who agreed with the professionals’ decision to tow the already stricken tanker as far out to sea as possible, avoiding entrance to any Galician port. Court No. 1 at Corcubión considers the investigation concluded, and has withdrawn the accusation of negligence against the principal actors in the drama. The same Court dissociates the then government of José María Aznar of any blame for the incident, or culpability in its aftermath. It will be remembered that a special ‘anguished protest’ group called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOLLYWOOD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Swift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Louis B. Mayer was one of the original founders of MGM; here are one or two things said about Mr Mayer, and by whom: “They say Louis B. Mayer is his own worst enemy. Not while I’m still alive”. Jack Warner, one of the original founders of Warner Bros. “A bastard’s bastard”. Garson Kanin, famed screenwriter. “He charms the birds out of the trees – then shoots ’em”. Herman Mankiewitz, another famed screenwriter. “Louis B. Mayer’s arm round your shoulder meant his hand was nearer your throat”. Jules Dassin, French director/producer. “The only reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted to make sure he was dead”. Sam Goldwyn, another original founder of MGM, and later owner of his own studio. Email this to a friend? Submit this to Meneame Blog this on Blogger Submit this to Bitacoras Subscribe to the comments for this post? Email this via Gmail Share this on del.icio.us Add this to Google Reader Share this on Technorati Share this on Tumblr]]></description>
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		<title>The Port at Granadilla; an alternative view</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Swift</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet (Photo: Playa de El Médano. Tenerife. Canary Islands) My personal objection to the building of a second port in Tenerife (on the coast in the municipality of Granadilla) is that it it can only be seen as ‘necessary’ by those who imagine that a second port for Tenerife will ‘open up the island to more business with African nations etc.’ and ‘provide employment during construction and after for Tinerfeños’. The first earnest dream might well be true, the second might need to be proved. When the mayor and council of Granadilla mooted the idea of building a megaport on the coast just one kilometre from the popular seaside resort of El Médano, the first two meaningful complains came, of all things, from two retired Directors of the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. One assumes these two professionals know what they are talking about. Both said, in different documents addressed to the Canary Island Government, the Cabildo, and Brussels, that the port at Santa Cruz already runs at HALF its capacity. Certain improvements could and should be made, and ‘trade with African nations’ can be carried on just as well in Santa Cruz as at Granadilla. The problem is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Swift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet During the German occupation of tiny Norway in the II World War, Scandinavia&#8217;s greatest classical actor was appearing in an important play in Oslo&#8217;s biggest theatre. One snowy evening the front eight rows of the auditorium were filled with German officers in full uniform, among them plenty of SS. Everyone applauded when Norway&#8217;s greatest actor made his first appearance in the play, alone on stage. He advanced towards the proscenium arch, his right hand held high and straight, in the traditional Nazi salute. Everyone in the front eight rows of the stalls immediately stood up and shouted &#8216;Heil Hitler&#8217;. Norway&#8217;s greatest actor waited for silence, with his right hand still elevated upwards. Then he said, &#8216;Do you know, when I woke up this morning, the snow was up to HERE!&#8221; Email this to a friend? Submit this to Meneame Blog this on Blogger Submit this to Bitacoras Subscribe to the comments for this post? Email this via Gmail Share this on del.icio.us Add this to Google Reader Share this on Technorati Share this on Tumblr]]></description>
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		<title>Those Celluloid Bonds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Swift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Cinema is history too, and hace muchos días two pushy American film producers called Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli persuaded author Ian Fleming to sell them the rights to the titles of his highly successful James Bond thrillers. They couldn’t make their movies directly from the original stories, but they could use all names of characters. The films would be made in England, not Hollywood. Fleming’s James Bond is in his late thirties, suave, Old Etonian, Scottish ancestry of the very upper class, more dangerous than a crocodile but better looking. How were Saltzman and Broccoli to cast Bond for their first film? From a very long list of possibles (including some names that would put you in shock) they chose a plasterer’s mate from Edinburgh, parttime amateur boxer, competitor in the Mr Universe nonsense, called Sean Connery. He made the first film, and quite a lot of succeeding Bond films, with enormous success – but Connery was never Fleming’s Bond, though the author golfed with the star, and they liked each other. The second Bond, From Russia with Love, was darker, more realistic. Connery had to work with Robert Shaw, a notorious scene-stealer and perfectionist, also competitive and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chesterton and Churchill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Swift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[G.K. Chesterton was an internationally famous historian, journalist, novelist and wit. At the peak of his powers around 1906, his novels about the Catholic priest/private detective Father Brown sold in thousands. He was an enormously fat man, given to sitting in his London club by himself, and not encouraging any other member to approach.]]></description>
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		<title>Diana Clunt!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Swift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Diana Fluck was born in Swindon in 1931. When she became England&#8217;s answer to France&#8217;s Brigitte Bardot and America&#8217;s Marilyn Monroe, as a sex bomb on the cinema screen, her agents thought her name was in such obvious danger of mispronunciation that they changed it to Diana Dors. After she had become super-famous in Britain, the vicar of Swindon asked her to open a church fête and bazaar in her home town. The cleric, in desperation to avoid such a mispronunciation when he presented her over the microphone, was guided (obviously by the Devil) to avoid the wrong obscenity. Introducing Diana, he said: &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is with great pleasure that I introduce you to our star guest today! We all love her, as she is a local girl. I therefore feel it right to present her by her real name: &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the very lovely Diana Clunt&#8221;. Email this to a friend? Submit this to Meneame Blog this on Blogger Submit this to Bitacoras Subscribe to the comments for this post? Email this via Gmail Share this on del.icio.us Add this to Google Reader Share this on Technorati Share this on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expensive wheels hit the headlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet The President of the Catalan Parliament is an independist, communist republican (ERC) called Ernest Benach. The Spanish, Catalan and European papers have been having a field day with Mr Benach, who seems unmoved by the fuss. Every official in political office throughout the EU has a car at his disposal, usually with chauffeur thrown in for good measure. Using a motor you do not drive (or have to park) is one of the perks. Mr Benach is probably guilty of one major fault; bad timing. In the throes of the beginning of a deep and lasting recession, in Cataluña and all other regions of Spain (and Europe), the President of the Catalan Parliament had had some ‘tuning’ done on his official motorcar that has caused a serious breach between ERC and ICV, two of the fiercely independist political parties in Cataluña. The Councillor for Institutional and Interior Relations (where do they fabricate these wonderful working titles?) Joan Saura, has demanded an immediate investigation into the bit of tuning ordered by Benach on his Audi A8 Limousine. The tuning seems to have consisted in new extras placed in the car at a cost of 9,276 euros. These extras include a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France, Sarkozy and the &#8216;neglected one&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Swift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Quite recently the big guns in the European economy, France, Germany, Britain, Italy etc., held a summit meeting to discuss what the administrations of each could do to simmer down emotions over the imminent ‘catastrophe’ of a Grand Recession (awaited not exactly with bated breath, but a certain weary acceptance) by financial experts for at least a decade. The only problem, if it was a problem, was that Spain, in the person of her President of the Government was not invited. The world’s press was aghast. Everyone knows that relations between the USA, President Bush, and the present incumbent of the Moncloa are shaky, sometimes rather rude, but Spain is an integral and important part of Europe, and there was no seat for Mr Rodríguez Zapatero. Some columnists asked why. One of the answers came from a senior member of the European Parliament, who suggested that there was no point in inviting Zapatero to a high-level conference about An Impending Crisis, when Zapatero refuses even to use the word ‘crisis’ in any speech. The world must assume therefore that as there is no crisis, Mr Zapatero would not be required to put his position. This may be cynical, but [...]]]></description>
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