{"id":12708,"date":"2015-09-28T06:09:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2015-09-28T06:09:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:09:21","slug":"the-ecm-turning-point-2015-75-the-start-of-a-trend-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12708","title":{"rendered":"The ECM Turning Point 2015.75 \u2013 The Start of a Trend is Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/archives\/37527\" target=\"_blank\">The ECM Turning Point 2015.75 \u2013 The Start of a Trend is Now<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ecm-wave-2011-2020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2983x2313xecm-wave-2011-2020.jpg.pagespeed.ic.bzLH051oJS.jpg\" alt=\"ECM-Wave-2011-2020\" width=\"2983\" height=\"2313\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">I was in Barcelona and was asked by many did I think the pro-independence parties in Spain\u2019s Catalonia region would actually win. I told them it was inevitable for this is the global trend in motion. The vote for Catalonia is in \u2013 the separatists have won an absolute majority in regional elections. It looks as though the\u00a0separatist alliance and a smaller party won 72 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament. They have declared that this will now\u00a0allow them to declare independence from Spain unilaterally within 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish central government in Madrid has pledged to block any unilateral independence moves in court. Why? Politicians are no different than kings, dictators, or emperors. This is not about what the people want, it is all about maintaining power.<\/p>\n<p>This vote is just the\u00a0<strong>BEGINNING<\/strong>\u00a0of the separatist movement around the world. Centralized government is dying. Society has always swung back and forth between centralized government and regional government. Once a centralized government grabs power, it will always expand until it consumes all power.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I say that\u00a0<strong>TAXES ARE NO LONGER NECESSARY<\/strong>. Money is no longer a commodity and the value of any currency depends entirely upon faith. Even gold has no value unless you believe someone else will accept it from you at some mutual agreed value. This is also why money cannot be a store of value for it requires ending the business cycle and life itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ECM Turning Point 2015.75 \u2013 The Start of a Trend is Now I was in Barcelona and was asked by many did I think the pro-independence parties in Spain\u2019s Catalonia region would actually win. I told them it was inevitable for this is the global trend in motion. The vote for Catalonia is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1989,5496,117,9329,237,5479,9328,743],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-1989","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-catalonia","tag-centralized-government","tag-economic-confidence-model","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-separatist-movements","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12709,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/12709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}