{"id":41475,"date":"2018-12-09T08:33:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T13:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41475"},"modified":"2018-12-09T08:33:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T13:33:51","slug":"trust-is-failing-on-both-sides-of-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41475","title":{"rendered":"Trust Is Failing on Both Sides of the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Trust Is Failing on Both Sides of the Pond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/12\/07\/or-41862.jpg?90820\" alt=\"Trust Is Failing on Both Sides of the Pond\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"date\"><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/12\/07\/trust-is-failing-both-sides-pond.html\">Trust Is Failing on Both Sides of the Pond<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>I\u2019ve been warning for a while now that we are pushing towards an inflection point in history.\u00a0 With each passing week it feels like events are accelerating as change to the status quo is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, the EU leadership and Theresa May are so desperate to stop Brexit they can\u2019t stop lying about everything.\u00a0 In one day we have May\u2019s government found in contempt of Parliament for not releasing the full legal advice of her Brexit deal and the European Court of Justice pronounce that the U.K. can unilaterally cancel Brexit if they want to.<\/p>\n<p>They are this desperate because there is a real probability of May\u2019s horrific deal not getting the thumbs up from parliament. That said, the arm-twisting behind the scenes is likely epic as one by one May\u2019s remaining cabinet members come out in favor of the deal because they see they have no other option.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time France is literally on fire thanks to a good ol\u2019 fashioned tax revolt, which reviled, unprepared and arrogant President Emmanuel Macron cannot fathom.\u00a0 Macron\u2019s handling of these protests has been abysmal, displaying a level of contempt for the French people so profound he may wind up more hated in the end than Theresa May.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these odious people make no bones about their real loyalties and the more they talk, the more they try to sell their latest betrayal of national interests for Brussels\u2019 the more the intensity of the hatred of them increases.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a linear thing.\u00a0 It\u2019s the kind of situation that goes from murmurs and shrugs to outright violence in a matter of days.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when you come out and tell the very nationalistic French people that nationalism is akin to evil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust Is Failing on Both Sides of the Pond I\u2019ve been warning for a while now that we are pushing towards an inflection point in history.\u00a0 With each passing week it feels like events are accelerating as change to the status quo is everywhere. In Europe, the EU leadership and Theresa May are so desperate [&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":[6],"tags":[5582,15342,281,284,333,8203,10479,16963,815,23287],"class_list":["post-41475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-brexit","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-theresa-may","tag-tom-luongo","tag-trust","tag-yellow-vest-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475","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=41475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41476,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475\/revisions\/41476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}