{"id":27705,"date":"2017-11-07T07:49:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27705"},"modified":"2017-11-07T07:49:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:49:27","slug":"direct-rule-the-latest-weapon-for-crumbling-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27705","title":{"rendered":"Direct Rule: the Latest Weapon for Crumbling Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Direct Rule: the Latest Weapon for Crumbling Governments\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2017\/11\/06\/or-39876.jpg\" alt=\"Direct Rule: the Latest Weapon for Crumbling Governments\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/11\/06\/direst-rule-latest-weapon-crumbling-governments.html\">Direct Rule: the Latest Weapon for Crumbling Government<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>The recent imposition of direct rule by the Spanish government on the autonomous region of Catalonia is having a ripple effect across Europe and around the world. Spain\u2019s neo-fascist prime minister, Mariano Rajoy of the Popular Party \u2013 the ideological heirs of Caudillo Francisco Franco\u2019s Falangist Movement \u2013 plunged a dagger into the cause of democracy in Catalonia by suspending the region\u2019s pro-independence government and imprisoning eight members of the Catalonian \u201cGeneralitat\u201d government.<\/p>\n<p>The imposition of direct rule on Catalonia was a longtime goal of the Madrid regime for years. Catalonia sought the same autonomous powers afforded to Spain\u2019s Basque region, most notably, the power of taxation. However, Castilians of Madrid and other \u201ctaker\u201d regions that rely on Spain\u2019s national budget for their benefits, have grown comfortable with the fact that Catalonia provides much of Spain\u2019s budget. Catalonia\u2019s wish to keep more of its tax money in the region and not have it distributed to \u201ctaker\u201d regions of Spain, led the Rajoy regime and Spain\u2019s Supreme Court to reject expanded autonomy powers for Catalonia. Catalonia\u2019s independence referendum grew directly out of Madrid\u2019s rejection of a negotiated agreement with the Barcelona government.<\/p>\n<p>As the Madrid regime was hauling members of the Catalonian government before kangaroo courts in Madrid, the British government was moving to impose direct rule on autonomous Northern Ireland. The reason for London\u2019s actions was officially stated as providing Northern Ireland with a Westminster-dictated budget. However, the move by London essentially stripped the Stormont Assembly in Belfast of all financial powers, a move that reversed the devolution of powers to Northern Ireland\u2019s coalition government of the Protestant Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the mainly Catholic Sinn Fein party.<\/p>\n<p>The reversal of devolution of powers in Northern Ireland and the de facto imposition of direct rule by London served as a backdrop to calls for more Northern Ireland sovereignty with Britain\u2019s exit from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct Rule: the Latest Weapon for Crumbling Government The recent imposition of direct rule by the Spanish government on the autonomous region of Catalonia is having a ripple effect across Europe and around the world. Spain\u2019s neo-fascist prime minister, Mariano Rajoy of the Popular Party \u2013 the ideological heirs of Caudillo Francisco Franco\u2019s Falangist Movement [&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":[117,16909,379,968,743,8203,14524],"class_list":["post-27705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-direct-rule","tag-government","tag-independence","tag-spain","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-wayne-madsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27705","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=27705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27706,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27705\/revisions\/27706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}