What I see in different shades of gray, from behind my reading glasses
A reminder to be thankful that you can view this link, because in Spain, website owners can now get six years in prison for linking to copyrighted material.
The country enacted the law as a response to pressure from the US, where ironically the law is not as strict. Spain is in danger of being added to a list of countries that Washington considers to be the most egregious violators of copyright law, meaning it could be subject to trade sanctions from the US.
Paco buys Marisol, his hairdresser wife, a new wedding ring. Marisol goes to New York with her sisters and stands in Times Square, an unimaginable dream, which is when it occurs to her that she’s really won. At home, Paco and Marisol buy a bigger tank “for pig pee and excrement,” to make fertilizer. “When you have 2,500 pigs and you go from 600- to 800-liter tanks, it saves a lot of time,” says Paco. “And your quality of life gets a little better.”
Is life good since then? Read on to find out.
Banco Sabadell – a street musician plays Beethoven’s Ode to Joy – and then something magical happens.
US economic threat to Spain
The information that Wikileaks leaked shed more light on the corruption behind the “security” facade, & probably is the reason for the vendetta sought against Assange.. lock him up in the hope no others will follow his lead..
In a leaked letter sent to Spain’s outgoing President, the US ambassador to the country warned that as punishment for not passing a SOPA-style file-sharing site blocking law, Spain risked being put on a United States trade blacklist . Inclusion would have left Spain open to a range of “retaliatory options” but already the US was working with the incoming government to reach its goals.
Britain, France, Spain, …all have laws supporting a dying business model of the entertainment industry that are pushed through an ignorant political leadership.
Just the support the USA needs to push through SOPA????