The Empire Burden

THE CANARY ISLANDS THE LAST OF COLONIES (II)
Jose I.Diaz

The medium mentality of the islander people changed by the spanish colonialist politicians which ones said to us that we can't survive without Spain; LIES. All this happened before in all colonies, till they got the independence and then they saw that now can live much better then to colonized. The spanish government know very well how to steal and lie.The Canary Islands is one of the first country in Africa in production of bananas, tomatoes, cucumbers, avocados and flowers also fishing and tourism. We are the fifth in the world refinery of oil and the first of Africa. For the strategy situation of our islands we are better condition then many countries in Africa. In the islands we have a lot of technicians to develop our industry and export articles to our continent, Europe and South America, who prefer to buy from us. The spanish colonialism has stolen many millions of euros each year from harbours, airports, tourism etc. Another things that many people don't know is that we pay more to Madrid(Spain) than what we receive, and the mayority of the spanish enterprises in the islands are taxpaying direct to Madrid. We have more than 300.000 peoples most of them professionals without work and discriminated by spanish authority. The islanders only have the jobs as waiters, cleaners, the jobs that the spanish peoples don't want. We have a big future when our people get the descolonization and independence from Spain. We need the help and support of every country in the world to obligate Spain to obey in conformity with the Resolution 1514 of the United Nations, and descolonization of these african archipelago.

THE CANARY ISLANDS THE LAST OF COLONIES (II)


The medium mentality of the islander people changed by the spanish colonialist politicians which ones said to us that we can't survive without Spain; LIES. All this happened before in all colonies, till they got the independence and then they saw that now can live much better then to colonized. The spanish government know very well how to steal and lie.The Canary Islands is one of the first country in Africa in production of bananas, tomatoes, cucumbers, avocados and flowers also fishing and tourism. We are the fifth in the world refinery of oil and the first of Africa. For the strategy situation of our islands we are better condition then many countries in Africa. In the islands we have a lot of technicians to develop our industry and export articles to our continent, Europe and South America, who prefer to buy from us. The spanish colonialism has stolen many millions of euros each year from harbours, airports, tourism etc. Another things that many people don't know is that we pay more to Madrid(Spain) than what we receive, and the mayority of the spanish enterprises in the islands are taxpaying direct to Madrid. We have more than 300.000 peoples most of them professionals without work and discriminated by spanish authority. The islanders only have the jobs as waiters, cleaners, the jobs that the spanish peoples don't want. We have a big future when our people get the descolonization and independence from Spain. We need the help and support of every country in the world to obligate Spain to obey in conformity with the Resolution 1514 of the United Nations, and descolonization of these african archipelago.
Jose I.Diaz

THE CANARY ISLANDS THE LAST OF COLONIES

Jose I. Diaz

If the Canary Islands were conquered with arms, after 94 years of fighting the spanish with our ancestors the Guanches, who were forced to be babtised and changer their names and their culture and language were destroyed and the spanish intended to eliminate through genocide and sold as slavers. How is it that the spanish deny that the Canary Islands are a colony and are fooling everybody and trying to convince that our islands are another province of Spain. The ex-spanish Sahara was it another spanish province before and what happened to its people who asked for their liberty? It was sold miserably to its enemies in the sad and very famous tripartite agreement in 1975 in Madrid. How is it possible that they discuss 2.000 kms. away from Madrid and 95 kms. off shore to Africa the africanity of the Canary Islands?. When the spanish government come to their senses?, their will realize that the Canary Islands are the last of the colonies of the great empire. Till when?. The 500 years of spanish colonialism in the Canary Islands, only meaning; misery in the working class, dyslexia and emigrations on a large scale.Five century of LIES and promises from the spanish authority, and expropiation of our wealth.They controlled everything in the islands through monopoly of the press, radio, and television colonialist, they tell us lies as our original root Guanches disappeared, when famous anthropologists like Berneau, Wolfer,Weninger and the spanish Manuel Fuste, demostrate and confirmate the existence of the great mayority of the people of Canary Islands are ancentors of the original Guanches race.More examples of confirmation of our ethnic, we can put the fundamental factor which are duplicate of our nacionality; the psychic factor and the geographic.

This is a terrible article.
An empire is a group of people who subjugate another group and take money/materials from them for free under the threat of force.
This distinction is never mentioned in the article. I think the parameters of what is the main theme of an article should at least be mentioned.

Canarias es un territorio que está a 2000 kilometros de las costas españolas y que ni siquiera pertenece al mismo continente, en donde hace 500 años hubo una atroz conquista, idéntica a la que se produjo en América en forma y tiempo. Su pueblo fue esclavizado y "convertido" al cristianismo a la fuerza. Fueron colonizadas después de la conquista por multitud de nacionalidades. Españoles, portugueses, franceses, ingleses, flamencos, etc, etc. ¿Por qué entonces están los españoles tan seguros que la mayoría de los canarios actuales tenemos una gran parte de ascendencia castellana, si incluso está demostrado que no fueron mayoría en la colonización de las Islas Canarias? . Por poner un ejemplo, dentro del español que se habla en Canarias hay multitud de "portuguesismos" o incluso hay muchos apellidos entre los Canarios que no son castellanos.
Siendo realistas y sensatos, Canarias cumple todos los requisitos para ser considerada una colonia como en su día lo eran Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba o Cabo Verde, por poner unos ejemplos.

This is a good article on the issue. It gives good advice for when a country should stay or leave a colony.

http://rorabaughsblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/neo-colonialism.html

Norge som kolonimakt: Hvor er avisene?
Ingen norske medier later hittil til å ha plukket opp Newsweeks sak denne uken "The Empire Burden", hvor Norge figurerer som en av ni av samtidens kolonimakter. "Det siste århundrets historie", skriver Newsweek, "burde ha bevist hevet over enhver tvil at imperier er feller, som tapper enorme ressurser og til syvende og sist enorm prestisje fra de som bygde dem."

For Norges del er følgende besittelser omtalt:
1 Svalbard
2 Jan Mayen
3 Bouvet Island
4 Peter Island
5 Queen Maud Land

Til forskjell fra de fleste andre koloniale besittelsene som er nevnt i artikkelen er tre av disse uten permanente beboere (skjønt, kan man egentlig tale om permanente beboere selv på Svalbard?). Territoriale besittelser av en kolonial (imperialistisk) karakter er de okke som. Men det er vel fordi vi ikke har måttet forholde oss til "innfødte" at vi har maktet å komme fra dette - i egne øyne, om ikke verdens - som noe annet enn en "kolonimakt".

"Det er faktisk sjelden at imperiske makter på egen hånd bestemmer seg for å gi opp så mye som en flik av sine fremmede territorier eller sin innflytelse utenlands," skriver Newsweek. Her kunne Norge sette et godt eksempel: Overlat de ovennevnte besittelsene til FN! Særlig Dronning Mauds land står sentralt her, gitt Antarktikas langsiktige betydning i klimasammenheng og ellers. Som tidligere "besitter" ville vi selvsagt fortsatt være velkomne til å ha et nærvær av forskere osv. I arktiske farvann er det heller ingen tvil om at det kunne virke konfliktdempende (i det nye kappløpet mot Nordpolen, nå i ressursøyemed) å gi offisielt avkall på Svalbard.

"Ideen om imperiet er ikke lenger plausibel", skriver Newsweek, "imperiets virkelighet er ikke lenger troverdig."

Harri poter're a pallet, in the Canaries Spanish settlers never had to see if we look over history books and look over the chronicles of the conquest, where it says very clear that the Guanches were Christianise all and stayed in the Canaries, including Guanche slaves were freed after the Treaty of Calatayud.

Is more in the Canary Islands there are more descendants of Portuguese who castellanos, former Canaries took the surnames of their godfathers to be baptized.

Anyway, people here are right when they say it makes more sense to call Texas a colony than to use the name for the Canary Islands.

I see. The theory about the Canary Island being a Guanche colony of Spain comes from one of those crazy Basque nationalists who will accept or even invent any theory as long as it makes Spaniards look bad. A bunch of xenophobes they are!

Guanches in the Canary Islands today? LOL. Sorry, but no matter what fairly tales nationalists like to tell themselves over there they're just the descendants of the Castillians who exterminated the Guanches.

This guy is as much a Canarian as I am from Nunctucket.

(it must be unusually amusing to see this sort of thing in Newsweek...Some islands nobody is heard of, two guys arguing about them....)

This is what happens to a normal person when they have been brainwashed by a bunch of neo-fascist nationalist radicals into thinking they belong to some "higher mystical race" from long ago. Look, they even try to speak in Amazigh, which is a language spoke in the highlands of Tunisia and Morocco. You have no idea how immensely idiotic looks when youu watch a buch of grown up men stand around mumbling some foreign language that was supposedly similar to the one spoken in the islands 500+ years ago. (Once again, barely any records of what that language was and all theories are simply that... theories) They want to be taken seriously. They had a better chance if they spoke Esperanto.

That is the problem in Europe in general. Just like in the US you have radical right wing nut bags that use all kinds of bizarre conspiracy theories and quasi-religious devotion to a "glorious past", in Europe every region has this sort of "nationalist loonies" that use similar ideals to motivate their ranks, though they often are left-leaning radicals and a less than 1% of the political votes. (the moderate nationalists about 12%) Thanks God in Spain they have gun control, so unlike their American counterpart about all they can do is scream, lie and act like foolish clowns. Txomin being a great example of it.

A bunch of Che Guevera wanna be's that are 30 years late and a political excuse short.

Vasco, por la sombrita tolete.

Luis Lopez, do not lie, not lie, the canaries because we know who works for people like you.

65% of the current population is guanche you like or not like to study science at universities and history books canarias Canarias.

Canary was colonialism culture, Guanche became Christian and this comes in all the chronicles of the conquest, until the King of the Canaries, Fernando Guanarteme, was being baptized the name of their sponsors.

As 100% of the old canaries, the Guanches were Christianise otherwise liar Christian traditions of the islands, most come from ancient traditions of the Canaries, as the branch, for example.

Basque'm not, I'm Canaries canary son, grandson, canary, canary great grandson, great-great-grandson of the Canaries, and so I can shoot for hours, or nickname comes from the diminutive of my name, Sunday.
But neither am Basque, not Spanish like you.

Another thing, look you are ignorant, where do you get that OAU has nothing to do with the Canary Islands? If OAU commanded decolonized Canarias Spain in 1968, that 40 years after decolonization has not been met, Spain, in 1978, and as a last resort to the OAU said that Canary would make an autonomous territory, with the right to self determination.

First, the people will never vote Canarian autonomy statute for the 1982 tax, in violation of agreements with the OAU from Spain, like the right to self determination.

Dear friends, do not make the event, Mr. Lopez was a Spanish settler who was opposed to the native Canarian decide their future.

The Canary Islands are full catholic and there are no hybrid religions or any trace of any prior religion like Voodo. This can be aesily seen in the hundred of Catholic celebrations across the islands equal in form and shape to mainland Europe. From the flower street blankets made in just about every town during Corpus Cristi to the "Romerias" and Patron Saints celebrations during the summer the Canaries are strictly Catholic with a few pinches of Muslim and Protestant outfits. Recently a handful of extremist nationalist have begun an "aboriginal religion" -supossely based on the pre-hispanic religion- that has made them the laughing stock of the place. (Keep in mind there are barely no written records of what the Guanches believed in or even their language)

The Canaries are a very liberal place, so much so it makes California look like a convent by comparison.

So, in closing, basically what have here is a Basque angry separatists taking advantage of the ignorance of the reader and trying to insult people from a land he does not belong to by making he claims he has no right to make simply because his own pathetic rage against Spain.

vete pa tu tierra VASCO!!!

Luis Lopez

Txomin is a your standard-issued pissy Basque separatist who has no business telling ME, A CANARIO BORN IN THE CANARIES WHO I AM. As usual with this type of neo-fascist nationalists, this moron is making up stuff left and right simply for its inherited hate of Spain and the misguided idea (typical of a Basque) that everyone SHOULD feel the same way they do.

The OAU is non-governing body that has NOTHING to do neither with Spain nor with the Canaries. it is the African Union, a miserably failed organization of which neither Spain nor the Canary islans is never even been remotely part of. This particular "meeting" he is talking about was some 3rd level diplomatic event that was of zero importance to anyone except the failed terrorist organization the MPAAC...whose leader, Antonio Cubillo is, ironically enough, of mainland Spain descent and surely not Canarian, if such thing exists.

Token of such viral stupidity is bizarre claims that 65% of the population is of "pure" Canarian descent, something that is not only immensely wrong but purposely thrown into the argument to confuse all those outside this non-issue.

What the estudies DID prove is that the population of the Canaries has about the same amount of genetic descent from Northern Africa as pretty much anywhere in southern Europe, including Spain, parts of France, Italy and Greece. In addition to that this poster also fails to mention that 16% of the population is of German descent, that a large majority of the population also carries genetic descend from South America, that many Canarians are of mixed races as varied as Korean, Nigerians, Saharauis, Japanese and British, and, of coure, Spanish (lots of Basques ironically enough) which makes up entire population of the Canaries. Perhaps some genetic traces can be found in remote villages, but all of them highly mixed with Spanish blood and far from being pure or close to it.

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All who deny Canary Cologne is a lie as a rogue, and fix the pay of the illiterate Spanish colonists, the Guanches did not disappear, became Christian, Canarias Castilla never was, has always been the realm of the Canary Islands, with an army own, with its own currency and own a ranch.

Philip V who was off all treaty rights granted to the Kingdom of Calatayud Canarias.
Otherwise ignorant, 65% of the current population of the Canary Islands are descendants of the ancient inhabitants of the islands, the Guanches, here you can not lie because the studies are published in books and scientific studies of the two universities only.

A greetings

Neither traitors nor Godos