{"id":27363,"date":"2017-10-28T08:43:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27363"},"modified":"2017-10-28T08:43:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:43:36","slug":"spain-demonstrates-to-the-world-democracy-means-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27363","title":{"rendered":"Spain Demonstrates to the World Democracy Means Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>The Madrid government sacked Catalonia\u2019s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday, hours after the region declared itself an independent nation in Spain\u2019s gravest political crisis since the return of democracy four decades ago. The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy,\u00a0who seems to think he has the power of Franco, called for new elections and fired the Catalan police chief. The crisis in Spain is a reflection of the crisis in the EU as a whole. This unprecedented dictatorial\u00a0array of measures to seize control of the administration in Barcelona is so undemocratic, it is guaranteed to send warning signals to many other regions of the EU especially Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spain Demonstrates to the World Democracy Means Nothing The Madrid government sacked Catalonia\u2019s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday, hours after the region declared itself an independent nation in Spain\u2019s gravest political crisis since the return of democracy four decades ago. The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy,\u00a0who seems to think he has the power […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[5496,117,204,968,5479,743],"class_list":["post-27363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-catalonia","tag-democracy","tag-independence","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363","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=27363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27364,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363\/revisions\/27364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}