{"id":27155,"date":"2017-10-23T17:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T22:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27155"},"modified":"2017-10-23T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T22:56:51","slug":"catalonia-is-not-just-about-spain-it-is-about-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27155","title":{"rendered":"Catalonia is not Just About Spain \u2013 it is About Brussels!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/international-news\/europes-current-economy\/catalonia-is-not-just-about-spain-it-is-about-brussels\/\">Catalonia is not Just About Spain \u2013 it is About Brussels!!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"contentMeta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rajoy-Mariano-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68540 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rajoy-Mariano-.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rajoy-Mariano-.jpg 500w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rajoy-Mariano--300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rajoy-Mariano--180x138.jpg 180w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"xbf0d962630c341b\">\n<div class=\"gmail_extra\">\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\">There are of course those in Spain who side against Catalonia. Others write who are in Catalonia yet disagree with the separatists. Let me make this very clear. It is the government of Rajoy who has acted abusively, and this is all about protecting Brussels and federalizing Europe behind everyone\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\">Rajoy should have allowed a fair referendum and then negotiate if they won. Canada allowed two refferendums in Quebec and Britain allowed the Scottish referendum. This nonsense that the Constitution does not allow any democratic process is pure <strong>TYRANNY<\/strong>. That was the same argument in America by England and in France that led to revolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\">Had Rajoy <strong>NOT<\/strong> played the hardline tactics, allowed the referendum to take place, then many who voted for independence may have not done so.\u00a0 This is about political power \u2013 not the dignity, right, or freedom of the people. This is basically stating the people mean nothing and you will obey or else.<\/p>\n<p>This is a political power play that centers around the EU\u00a0not just Spain.<\/p>\n<p>If Texas or California want a referendum\u00a0to separate from the USA, it is a human right to take such a vote. There can be no exceptions!!!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalonia is not Just About Spain \u2013 it is About Brussels!! There are of course those in Spain who side against Catalonia. Others write who are in Catalonia yet disagree with the separatists. Let me make this very clear. It is the government of Rajoy who has acted abusively, and this is all about protecting [&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":[5,6],"tags":[5496,95,117,284,968,8641,5479,1379,706,743,1492],"class_list":["post-27155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-brussels","tag-catalonia","tag-european-union","tag-independence","tag-mariano-rajoy","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-quebec","tag-scotland","tag-spain","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27155","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=27155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27156,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27155\/revisions\/27156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}