{"id":26051,"date":"2017-09-24T11:37:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26051"},"modified":"2017-09-24T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:37:44","slug":"catalonia-police-reject-madrid-orders-barring-invasion-the-vote-will-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26051","title":{"rendered":"Catalonia Police Reject Madrid Orders: Barring Invasion, the Vote Will Take\u00a0Place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Catalonia Police Reject Madrid Orders: Barring Invasion, the Vote Will Take\u00a0Place<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Barring a mass invasion by Spanish government troops, it appears the vote in Catalonia will take place.<\/p>\n

Given the importance of the story, Western media is amazingly silent. Stories are few and far between.<\/p>\n

We have not even see Tweet 1 from President Trump. Let\u2019s take a look at the latest news and Tweets that I can find.
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US News reports Catalonia Refuses to Give Police Over to Spain<\/a><\/p>\n

Catalonia\u2019s top security official says the regional government is refusing to hand over control of a regional police force to Spanish central authorities who are trying to stop a referendum on independence.<\/p>\n

The announcement by the Catalan interior chief Joaquim Forn followed a move by Spain\u2019s Interior Ministry to take over coordinating all policing efforts to stop the Oct. 1 Catalan independence vote that the Spanish government considers illegal.<\/p>\n

The measure would mean that Madrid would send direct orders to the regional Mossos d\u2019Esquadra police, who have been criticized for not cracking down hard enough on preparations for the vote.<\/p>\n

Forn said the chief of the Mossos d\u2019Esquadra had expressed his opposition to the measure during a meeting Saturday with the top state prosecutor in Catalonia and chiefs of two other national police forces, the National Police and the Civil Guard.<\/p>\n

Forn says \u201cwe denounce the attempt by the state to intervene in the police forces of Catalonia.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bloomberg reports Spain Rebuffed in Boosting Control Over Catalonia\u2019s Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police in Spain\u2019s rebel region of Catalonia rejected giving more control to the central government in defiance of authorities in Madrid who are trying to suppress an independence referendum on Oct. 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n

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Catalonia Police Reject Madrid Orders: Barring Invasion, the Vote Will Take\u00a0Place Barring a mass invasion by Spanish government troops, it appears the vote in Catalonia will take place. Given the importance of the story, Western media is amazingly silent. Stories are few and far between. We have not even see Tweet 1 from President Trump. […]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[117,968,14648,13390,632,9099,743],"class_list":["post-26051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-independence","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk","tag-police","tag-secession","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26051","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=26051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26052,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26051\/revisions\/26052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}