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2017-09-25 Europe

Thousands take to streets of Majorca as protests sweep Europe

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Posted by Fred 2017-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Factories? Sure. Run a spur from the railroad.... No. Wait. Fishing? Yeah, that's the ticket. No prob converting tour boats to fishing boats. Fish processing plants aren't annoying....

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2017-09-25 06:23|| 2017-09-25 06:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Ask the citizens of the island of Vieques how that all worked out.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-25 08:09|| 2017-09-25 08:09|| Front Page Top

#3 and when tourism stops, maybe ~~political hack~~ Community Organizer™ Margalida Ramis should be held responsible for the unemployment and declining quality of life

Posted by Frank G 2017-09-25 08:59|| 2017-09-25 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 ....and "tourists go home".

Somewhere Che smiles broadly.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-25 09:47|| 2017-09-25 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 and when tourism stops, maybe political hack Community Organizer™ Margalida Ramis should be held responsible for the unemployment and declining quality of life

Neh, it will be bad luck, american imperialism, and Zionism.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-25 10:26|| 2017-09-25 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 They could always go back to farming, tending goats, and fishing -- after they depopulate over 50% of the existing population. NeoBarbarism is seductive, isn't it?

Posted by magpie 2017-09-25 12:32|| 2017-09-25 12:32|| Front Page Top

#7 From a brief foray in Spanish waters a decade back, good luck finding any living fish near the shore.

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-25 12:42|| 2017-09-25 12:42|| Front Page Top

#8 I feel sympathetic to both parties...
Both sides have good points.
I feel migration has been subsidized and these are its inevitable effects.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-09-25 15:16|| 2017-09-25 15:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe it's time for Mallorca to secede; then, they can make up there own [stupid] rules. Of course, Madrid would have no part of it (a la Catalan). You know, "democracy" in action.

But, be careful what you ask for, you mallorcanyos. Like the fools in the NFL right now, don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Posted by Clem 2017-09-25 15:22|| 2017-09-25 15:22|| Front Page Top

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