{"id":21132,"date":"2016-06-20T19:31:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T00:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21132"},"modified":"2016-06-20T19:31:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T00:31:02","slug":"murder-lifeboats-an-iceberg-and-an-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21132","title":{"rendered":"Murder, Lifeboats, an Iceberg and an Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header title-container fix\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Murder, Lifeboats, an Iceberg and an Orchestra\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2016\/06\/murder-lifeboats-an-iceberg-and-an-orchestra\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Murder, Lifeboats, an Iceberg and an Orchestra<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-container fix\">\n<div class=\"entry fix\"><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/node\/13249?size=_original#caption\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SSOlympic1911.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDPC\u00a0<b>White Star liner S.S. Olympic, sister ship of Titanic, NY\u00a0<\/b>1911<\/center><b>The reason the Brexit debate has gotten so out of hand is nobody understands what it\u2019s about.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Brexit campaigns have started anew in the UK, and from what I\u2019ve seen here from left field barely a thing has changed since the murder of MP Jo Cox. Neither side has any qualms about using her death to make their respective points. The main, and perhaps only real, point is that nobody understands what the vote is about. Jo Cox, bless her soul, didn\u2019t either.<\/p>\n<p>This lack of understanding is also, at the same time, the reason why the debate has gotten so out of hand. Nobody seems to understand it\u2019s not about Cameron or Nigel Farage, or Michael Gove vs Boris Johnson, it\u2019s about voting for or against the EU, for or against Juncker and Tusk and five other unelected presidents having a say in one\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not all either. It\u2019s about voting to leave, or remain in, a Union that is already dead and preserved only in a zombie state. Brexit is just one vote and many more will inevitably follow. Brexit is not the first, Grexit had that \u2018honor\u2019 last year. Later this month, elections in Italy and Spain have the potential to turn into preliminary Italix and Spexit votes. And then there will be more.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why these things are taking place, and will be, going forward, is that the economies of all these countries are fast deteriorating. The sole reason why people have accepted the rule of Brussels coming from far away over their daily lives, is the promise that it would make those lives better and more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murder, Lifeboats, an Iceberg and an Orchestra DPC\u00a0White Star liner S.S. Olympic, sister ship of Titanic, NY\u00a01911The reason the Brexit debate has gotten so out of hand is nobody understands what it\u2019s about. The Brexit campaigns have started anew in the UK, and from what I\u2019ve seen here from left field barely a thing has [&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":[2,5,6],"tags":[5582,93,13927,150,246,279,1167,14058,13924,3814],"class_list":["post-21132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-cameron","tag-collapse","tag-economy","tag-eu","tag-greece","tag-jo-cox","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21132","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=21132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21133,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21132\/revisions\/21133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}