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Spanish Government Uses Hate Speech Law To Arrest Critic Of The Spanish Government
Spanish Government Uses Hate Speech Law To Arrest Critic Of The Spanish Government from the shocked-SHOCKED-to-find-such-a-predictable-use-of-a-bad-law dept Spain’s government has gotten into the business of regulating speech with predictably awful results. An early adopter of Blues Lives Matter-esque policies, Spain went full police state, passing a law making it a crime to show “disrespect” to […]
Rajoy Slapped in the Face: Catalonia Elects Pro-Independence Speaker
Rajoy Slapped in the Face: Catalonia Elects Pro-Independence Speaker Spain’s prime minister Mariano Rajoy received a well-deserved slap in the face today. Independents again rule Catalonia. In October, prime minister Mariano Rajoy took direct control of Catalonia, jailing its leaders and dissolving its parliament after Catalan president Carles Puigdemont declared independence in October. Puigdemont is […]
“This is Groundhog Day”: Spanish Stocks Battered By Catalan Vote, Bitcoin Crashes
“This is Groundhog Day”: Spanish Stocks Battered By Catalan Vote, Bitcoin Crashes Spanish stocks and the euro fell, while Spanish government bond yields hit their highest levels in over a month after Catalan secessionists delivered an unexpected blow to the government of Spanish PM Rajoy by winning the Catalan regional election. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, […]
Stressful Year Ahead for Spanish Banks
Stressful Year Ahead for Spanish Banks The “spillover effects.” Just how much more stress Europe’s banking system can bear will be one of the big questions of 2018. This year was already a pretty stressful year, what with two major Italian banks being put out of their misery while, another, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, […]
Spain’s Third Biggest Bank Just Made it Harder to Get Cash
Spain’s Third Biggest Bank Just Made it Harder to Get Cash War on Cash bogs down, despite best efforts of government, banks, and credit card companies. Spain’s third biggest lender, CaixaBank, has just launched a pilot project in Madrid aimed at limiting cash services in their branches to less than three hours a day, from […]
Spanish Government Blames Russian “Dezinformatsiya” Campaign For Catalan Uprising
Spanish Government Blames Russian “Dezinformatsiya” Campaign For Catalan Uprising No, not The Onion… In what is perhaps the least surprising tactic from the Spanish establishment, a government-backed research institute in Madrid has stated that Spain’s struggle to quash separatism in its Catalonia region was disrupted by Russian hackers agitating for a break-up, in a hallmark […]
Direct Rule: the Latest Weapon for Crumbling Governments
Direct Rule: the Latest Weapon for Crumbling Government The recent imposition of direct rule by the Spanish government on the autonomous region of Catalonia is having a ripple effect across Europe and around the world. Spain’s neo-fascist prime minister, Mariano Rajoy of the Popular Party – the ideological heirs of Caudillo Francisco Franco’s Falangist Movement […]
100+ Respected Academics Slam EU in Letter to Juncker Citing “Rule of Law”
100+ Respected Academics Slam EU in Letter to Juncker Citing “Rule of Law” On Thursday, over 100 well-respected academics slammed the EU in a letter sent a letter to European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council president Donald Tusk. The academics cited the rule of law. The open letter , signed by highly-respected academics […]
Spain Just Lit a Fuse Under Catalonia — its Richest Region
Spain Just Lit a Fuse Under Catalonia — its Richest Region Acute uncertainty is like sand in the gears of the local economy. It’s amazing how fast the wheels of the Spanish justice system go round when the establishment wants them to, and how slowly they revolve when it doesn’t, which is usually when members […]
Eight Catalonia Ministers Jailed, Madrid Seeks European Arrest Warrant for Catalan Leader
Eight Catalonia Ministers Jailed, Madrid Seeks European Arrest Warrant for Catalan Leader Spain, a country that supports a two-state solution in Palestine, detained eight Catalan ministers on trumped up charges of sedition. Prosecutors also seek an arrest warrant for ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont. We all knew it would come down to this: Sacked Catalonia […]
You Against the Government’s Tools
You Against the Government’s Tools Our father’s generation fought the Cold War with spies, our grandfather’s generation fought the Vietnam War with soldiers, but the internet war must be won by well-trained hackers. Julian Assange calls the events in Catalonia an “internet war.” The Spanish government has raided Catalonian government offices, arrested government officials, frozen […]
