BOOKWORMING: FROM THE GUTS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO MUNEBREGA (ARAGON, SPAIN)

The European Parluament. Source: Deltares.

By Gundhramns Hammer
October 1, 2015

Today we will start a series of posts on books, as found in the original language or via translations if available. We call this series Bookworming, for obvious reasons.

It will be about the kind of books that people should read, ponder about and if required, finally, perhaps, do something about the issue based on them. The idea is to make people open their eyes or perhaps wake up.

About those books that are important but get little or never get the media attention but nevertheless are worth it.

Of course, we will not neglect those fiction and nonfiction books that are witty, entertaining and deal with mystery including extraterrestrials, devils, paranormal phenomena, etc.

There will be room for anything worth reading.

We will keep it short, getting to the grain. It will not be a long review of books to make you kick the bucket of boredom but rather some highlighting with a few remarks here and there about them.

Remember, our purpose and intentions are not commercial at all.

Here is the first book. It is about the European Parliament (EUP): Babilonia y Babel: el Parlamento Europeo desde adentro [Babylonia and Babel: the European Parliament from the inside], by Jesús Bueno (1999).

Figure 1. Front cover of Babilonia y Babel: el Parlamento Europeo desde adentro, by Jesús Bueno.

Figure 2. Inside title of Babilonia y Babel: el Parlamento Europeo desde adentro, by Jesús Bueno.

Figure 3. Back cover of Babilonia y Babel: el Parlamento Europeo desde adentro, by Jesús Bueno.

On the back cover of this book, the author summarises that "each day that the European Parliament opens ist doors costs 700 million pesetas (4.207.084 euros) to the taxpayers. The majority of the 626 deputies and 4.093 officials enjoy generous salaries and high compensations and little work. Moreover, in occasions, they make use of picaresque to collect for trips that they will not take or receive compensations for days off."

As you read this book, you will find out that there are some euro-deputies who are politically active whereas others have never said a single word in any of the EUP sessions, behaving there more like lifeless empty bottles. 

In short, in the 430 pages his book contains, the author is basically telling you, sometimes being repetitive, that these parlamentarians are sort of leeches, feeding off the European taxpayers.

This is why this book is important to read. 

After all, this is what doing politics for people´s blood suckers is all about, to live off the work of others, i.e. the masses, send out hundreds of laws and decrees that will soon be obsolete to start all over again as they need it or the elite´s needs it, pump out big quantities of paperwork, be there not for the public when you need them but mostly to further the fortunes of the elites that support them.

End of that. 

Now a few more notes about the notes on the notes.

Jesús Bueno Bernal, born in 1954, studied Political Sciences. He worked for Zaragoza´s town hall as chief of Press from 1984 to 1993. Then in 1994, he got a job to work as a Parliament secretary for Antonio González Triviño, a former Mayor of Zaragoza (Aragon, Spain), who had been elected a EUP deputy at that time.

The usual stuff.

He admits that as a secretary, he had a lot of spare time. Enough to keep notes which later became his present book.

Years have gone by since then. Bueno Bernal is now retired, living in a small Spanish village, Munebrega, in Aragon.

Being a lawyer, Jesús Bueno Bernal still has a small business named "Alto Potala SL", a rental real estate company registered in Zaragoza, according to the Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil, Núm. 57, Jueves 25 de marzo de 2010, Pág. 15700.

Munebrega is famous for being the birthplace of Juan Fernández de Heredia (c.1310 - 1396), who was the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 24 September 1377 to his death.

Back in those days, Munebrega was a frontier town, located near the border of Castille. It had a customs office and officials to control the trading going to or coming from Calatayud.

And as you would expect, there was a lot of contraband. 

Today, Munebrega is a quiet town like any other place in the Aragonese countryside. 

But do not be misled by the appearance of the peacefulness in the charming Spanish countryside, for upon scratching, if you know where to look for and keep your eyes wide open, always watching your back, you can find some narco-dirt here and there.

After all, narco-dirt feeds the world´s economics.

And considering its strategic position in the world, some experts consider Spain to be one of the main strongholds of the Hidden Hand in the world. 

And this gang controls almost everything on this planet, including the webs of the upper- and underground mafias and para-mafias which are overflowing with peoples´s lesses and fewmishings.

Well, folks, this is as far as we will go. We have taken you on a short trip from the guts of the EUP to Munebrega in Aragon (Spain).

The rest is up to you.

Till next time!

Acknowledgements

We thank Señor D. J. Gormedino V., of Madrid (Spain), who kindly has let us read his copy of Bueno´s book.

See you later, alligators!

Source: Jessica´s Health Blog.