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The Osborne bull (Spanish: El Toro de Osborne) is a black silhouetted image of a bull in semi-profile. Erected as either 14-meter-tall (46 ft) or seven-meter-tall (23 ft) billboards, as of July 2022 there are 92 of them installed on hilltops and along roadways throughout much of Spain.

Conceived as an advertising vehicle over 66 years ago, the Osborne bull has given its parent company extraordinary brand recognition around the world. With the passage of time, the Osborne bull has become enmeshed in Spain's cultural identity and is now considered an unofficial national emblem.

Rusty, crusty and cobweb-enmeshed ironwork railing by Monceau

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#8 EnMeshed Into Fall Hunt by Ileana Spore

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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2008 ID-4310 by PaRChA project — the Pamphlet Repository for Changing Activism

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CPI(M)'s Opportunist Tactics: Exposed In the Mirror of .

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The CPI(M)'s public stance is that it has withdrawn support from the UPA Government becausE.~ that Government is .

the Nuke Deal Robustly Oppose The Slavish Nuke Deal .

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"bnnging about a nghtward shiftin both foreign and domestic policies" (see a recent CPI(M) Booklet on Left Parties and .

the Nuke Deal)-citing price rise, the Nuke Deal, neoliberal economic policies and numerous surrenders to communal .

mobt!Jses and unites the people ofthe country." By failing to pursue such alternative policies. "it is the Congress-led UPA .

forces as instances of this rightward shift. The question inevitably arises-why did the CPI(M) continue to allow forced the bas1s ofpolt!Jcal manoeuvres. They can only be defeated through the pursuit ofan alternative set ofpolicies that .

such a rightward shift to take place for nearlythe whole of the UPA's tenure? To keep out the communal forces ~fer of.

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perhaps? But the CPI(M) itself says in the same passage of the booklet that "Communalforces cannctbe foughtjust 0~ how the CPI(M). 1n the name offtghtmg both communalism and imperialism. has based its tactics on nothing !Jut 'political '>fthe>ranGovernment whi~h ts paving th~ way for the communal forces."The unfolding events of the nuke deal serve to highlight ·ans J manoeuvres' rather than principles .

Had the CPI(M) pulled out support at a dtfferentJuncture, "vhen it could have still commanded some initiative, it might .

when rendered redundant and left high and dry by the political opportunism oftheir own allies. The CPI(M)'s Coimbatore 'ld have retamed at least some semblance of the cla1m to a moral upper hand As it is, the CPI(M) withdrew support only .

I )Q Front) the CPI(M)'s tactical line has come a cropper, and has proved its utter bankruptcy and ineffectiveness. .

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l Congress had Itsted the party's success in 'forcmg the UPA Govt to drop the agenda of the nuke deaf' as a ma1or JUStification for 1ts contmued suppor1 to the UPA Govt. At the same time, the CP!(M)'s Cotmbatore Congress had .

from the post of Lok Sabha Speaker. In spite ofthe fact that each vote will counton the trust vote on the floor of Parliament Nothtng underlines the CPI(M)'s predicament better than the drama over "resignation" of Somnath Chatterjee .

expressed hopes offorming a 'third front' w1th the Samajwdi Par1y. Today, on both counts (of Nuke Deal and Third .

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The Drama Over Somnath Chatterjee: .

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tried in vain to make tt appear as though the party would leave it to the Speaker to decide so as not to drag that 'neutral'.

~ on 21-22 July, and in sptte of the fact that the CPI(M), entirelyjustifiably, put Somnath's name on the list of MPs who .

' ~ would vote against the Government, Somnath had made no secret of his unwillingness to resign. Prakash Karat .

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post into 'needless controversy' But this fiction could not be kept up for long. A letter to the party from Somnath let the -'tt not to have to vote alongside the BJP' West Bengal Sports Minister Subhas Chakraborty has also expressed similar parttsanshtp' of the Speaker's post Rather, he has expressed his unwillingness to vote alongside the communal BJP It is fairly obvious that Somnath's and Subhas' blatant challenge to party discipline and the party whip '' agatnst the UPA. and has sa1d that if forced to quit his post as Speaker, he would also resign from the post of MP, so as .

does notstem from some crisis of conscience caused byhaving to vote with the 'communal BJP': that plea is .

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Government. The CPI(M)'s tried-and-tested and oft-deployed opportunistic tactic of using the BJP bogey to .

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f justify any extent of opportunist alliance with the Congress, RJD or other 'secular' parties; of branding all .

grab as 'closet communalists'-has come home to roost. Though circumstances have forced the CPI(M) to withdraw .

advocates of independent Left assertion as 'pro-BJP'; branding even opponents ofSEZs and corpo:-ate land .

UPA. The pious cloak of 'we don't want to vote with communal forces' is simply a convenientjustification for their stance. .

support from the UPAgovernment, Somnath and Subhas represent the powerful trend within the CPI(M) which even in .

Howis their position any different from the Samajwadi party's claim that 'Advaniis more dangerous than Bush', tojustify these humiliating conditions, and at the cost ofthe nation's independence, are still unwilling to withdrawsupport from the .

The entire Speaker episode too is a monster ofthe CPI(M)'s own making. The CPI(M) claimed to support the .

therr about-turn and outright betrayal on the Nuke Deal? Wasn't the Speaker post yet another thread weaving the CPM inextricably into the Congress-UPA ruling establishment .

semblance of self-respect, that same Speaker post holds it back and keeps it enmeshed in the ruling establishment-.

UPA Government from the outsida rather than join the Government; why, then, did they take the Speaker post? much to the chagrin and embarrassment of the CPI(M) and the glee of the Congress-UPA. and curtailing its mdependence'J Today as the CPI(M) seeks (out of compulsion, not principle) to extricate itselfwith a .

Interestingly, this opportunistic pro-Congress position is matched inside the CPI(M) by its ml"or /lfJ._ag.: while the likes of Somnath are seeking to remain with the UPA, voices within and close to the CPI(M) have .

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started softening their stand on the BJPI W Bengal State secretary Biman.eose, speaking to a med!!group Jn .

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London on the impending vote alongside the BJP against the UPA, said thatthe CPI(M) hao no allergyto theBJP. The .

mischief." He further elaborated thatthere was nothing intrinsically more dangerousabo~o~t the&li.a$·campar:ed aga CPI(M), he said, objected to the "communal politics of the BJP", but "that does not mean the BJP all tbe time did .

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Enmeshed by Tobers

Have you ever heard the phrase 'Back o' Bourke', well this is what Back o Bourke actually looks like. The phrase is deeply enmeshed in Aussie language Back o Bourks (4) by Ross Shaw

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one of my jalapeno plants has taken in with shooting lettuce... they are now hopelessly enmeshed.

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