tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49984947742081359392024-03-13T13:50:01.697+01:00eraclitoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger53529125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-10704672244988761712020-10-04T12:46:00.001+02:002020-10-04T12:46:19.985+02:00CATALONIA -- The Catalan Crisis Threatens to Reopen a Debate That the EU’s Power Brokers Thought They Had Long Ago Quashed - CounterPunch.org<h2><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/23/the-catalan-crisis-threatens-to-reopen-a-debate-that-the-eus-power-brokers-thought-they-had-long-ago-quashed/?fbclid=IwAR2VYTkfjb4N9aqWFGGNlT39b1ZHvqnnbgki9efUpDXXJb2EjPdBgtGEzoI">The Catalan Crisis Threatens to Reopen a Debate That the EU’s Power Brokers Thought They Had Long Ago Quashed - CounterPunch.org</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> CATALONIA</h2><h3><b>Though it is largely forgotten today, there was during the late 80s <br />
and early 90s a vigorous debate in numerous sectors of European life <br />
about whether the EU would be best structured as a Union of Regions or <br />
as a Union of States.</b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b>Adherents of the first posture hoped and believed that the goal the <br />
then still-emerging Union should be to greatly lessen the importance of <br />
existing national boundaries and governments and to promote, or at least<br />
not stand in the way of, the emergence of new economic and social <br />
regions. For example, since the Galician region of Spain shares much in <br />
the way of language culture and geography with neighboring northern <br />
Portugal, it should, according to this outlook, be free to loosen <br />
existing bonds with far-away Madrid and direct more of its resources and<br />
infrastructural aims toward forging economic and social integration <br />
with nearby and traditionally dynamic Oporto.</b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b>This, of course, frightened the proponents of a Europe of States, who<br />
quite rightly saw such developments as a threat to dramatically <br />
diminish the prerogatives of existing governments.</b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b>For reasons that are too numerous to examine fully here, but that <br />
include bureaucratic inertia, and the desire of an always meddling US to<br />
have the ability to play states off against each other both within a <br />
dramatically-expanded NATO and the EU as a whole, the idea of the Europe<br />
of Regions was eventually bludgeoned into insignificance by the <br />
proponents of a Europe of the States.</b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b>Yet, for all their success in neutering the practical day-to-day <br />
effects of a Europe of Regions, the proponents of the Europe of States <br />
were unable to fully disable certain institutions, such as the European <br />
Parliament and the European Court of Justice, forged and/or strengthened<br />
in the early years of the EU, and whose structure implicitly militated <br />
against the continuing weight and hegemony of state governments within <br />
the overall functioning of the confederation.</b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b>For example, while a candidate for the European Parliament nominally <br />
“comes from” one or another member state, voters from any jurisdiction <br />
in the Union can select him or her on the ballot. He or she is thus not <br />
only a representative of, say, Spain and the Spanish citizens, but of <br />
the European people as a whole.</b></h3><h3><b> </b><img alt="" class="wp-image-118816" height="374" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/dropzone/2020/01/15713782401_bbf3360f5d_c.jpg" width="560" /></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-61434224407008524482020-10-03T12:05:00.001+02:002020-10-03T12:05:02.721+02:00Catalonia in turmoil after Supreme Court removes president – POLITICO<h2><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/catalonia-supreme-court-removes-president-quim-torra/">Catalonia in turmoil after Supreme Court removes president – POLITICO</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2>CATALONIA</h2><h2>Catalonia has been plunged into turmoil again by Spain's removal of <br />
its regional president, Quim Torra, and his separatist party’s refusal <br />
to call a snap election.</h2><h2></h2><h2>The Spanish Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Torra violated <br />
electoral law, paving the way for his immediate removal as the region’s <br />
separatist leader.</h2><div class="story-interrupt format-s pos-alpha predetermined"><div class="dfp-ad dfp-Instory-1" id="div-gpt-ad-Instory-1"><h2></h2><div class="ad-wrapper"><h2> <br />
</h2></div><h2></h2></div><h2></h2></div><h2></h2><h2>The court upheld last year’s <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/court-bars-catalan-president-quim-torra-from-public-office/">regional court ruling</a><br />
that Torra was guilty of disobedience for taking three days to remove <br />
banners and yellow ribbons draped on public buildings in support of <br />
jailed pro-independence leaders during an election campaign in 2019, in <br />
defiance of the election commission.</h2><h2></h2><h2>The lower court had banned him from public office for 18 months and <br />
fined him €30,000 plus the legal costs of the trial. In his appeal, <br />
Torra argued that his decision not to remove the symbols immediately was<br />
“political” rather than “administrative” and should be protected by the<br />
right to freedom of expression.</h2><h2> <img class="img-responsive featured-img" height="266" src="https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1228771474-1160x773.jpg" width="400" /></h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-80004744086145297272020-10-03T11:57:00.001+02:002020-10-03T11:57:36.219+02:00CATALONIA --- Why the fight for Catalan independence isn’t over yet – POLITICO<h2><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-fight-for-catalan-independence-isnt-over-carles-puigdemont/">Why the fight for Catalan independence isn’t over yet – POLITICO</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2>CATALONIA</h2><h2> </h2><h2><b>Three years after Catalonia held a historic referendum on <br />
self-determination, we are still a long way from resolving a conflict <br />
that continues to deny Catalonians the right to determine their future.</b></h2><div class="story-interrupt format-s pos-alpha predetermined"><div class="dfp-ad dfp-Instory-1" id="div-gpt-ad-Instory-1"><h2></h2><div class="ad-wrapper"><h2> <br />
</h2></div><h2></h2></div><h2></h2></div><h2><b><br />
</b></h2><h2><b>The Spanish state, immersed in an institutional crisis of a depth not<br />
seen since the death of dictator Francisco Franco, has been unable to <br />
come up with political proposals to solve the dispute.</b></h2><h2><b><br />
</b></h2><h2><b>Several recent developments are standing in the way of progress.</b></h2><h2><b><br />
</b></h2><h2><b>The country’s highest office, the monarchy, has lost all credibility.<br />
Public support for the institution is at an all-time low following <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/juan-carlos-exile-spanish-politics/">the flight of King Juan Carlos I</a>,<br />
who has sought to escape a corruption investigation. His son Felipe <br />
VI’s decision to align with the right-wing, conservative branch of <br />
politics is another blow to the royal family’s reputation. In Catalonia,<br />
some <a href="https://www.eldiario.es/politica/catalanes-republica-defiende-monarquia-ceo_1_1015671.html" target="_blank">71 percent</a> of people say they would prefer a republic; only 14 percent prefer a monarchy. The fact that dictator Franco was the one to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qozc4xWE55E" target="_blank">appoint</a><br />
Juan Carlos to be his successor as head of state, and thereby restored <br />
the monarchy when he died, no doubt plays a part in people’s growing <br />
rejection of the monarchy.</b></h2><h2><b> </b><img class="img-responsive featured-img" height="283" src="https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/catalan_355x255-1160x823.jpg" width="400" /></h2><h2><b> </b></h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-16025079625583943982020-09-04T13:00:00.002+02:002020-09-04T13:01:40.128+02:00SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION -- The Andorra Hustle review – pulsating exposé of international corruption | Film | The Guardian<h2><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/03/the-andorra-hustle-review">The Andorra Hustle review – pulsating exposé of international corruption | Film | The Guardian</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><div class="css-1nupfq9"><div class="css-krkkhw"><div class="css-rhetjd"><h1 class="css-10d1jpn">The Andorra Hustle review – pulsating exposé of international corruption</h1></div></div></div><div class="css-zjgnrw"><div class="css-1uix35z"><div class="css-cxo7s2"><h2><b>A heist-movie mood propels this rigorous doc about the role of an obscure bank in a US plan to undermine Catalan separatism </b></h2><h2 class="css-38z03z"><b><span class="css-hi9njr"><span class="css-jwwgxz">T</span></span><span class="css-38z03z">he subject of Eric Merola’s film at first seems small: how a private bank in the tiny mountain nation of <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/andorra">Andorra</a><br />
found itself at the centre of a conspiracy. But its real interests are <br />
wide-reaching: the tactics used by the US government to disrupt <br />
Catalonia’s independence movement, and the modern face of American interventionism.</span></b></h2><h2 class="css-38z03z"><b><span class="css-38z03z"> </span></b><img alt="Fast-paced … The Andorra Hustle" height="240" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/268f32cb86b77092433c198f05ffd8aad5bbeb42/361_0_1467_880/master/1467.jpg?width=445&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=aa9aba172278f4b2889c778433c4228f" style="vertical-align: middle;" width="400" /></h2><h2><b> </b></h2></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-54916498578852936342020-08-31T11:59:00.001+02:002020-08-31T11:59:54.815+02:00SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION -- The Andorra Hustle — Full Documentary (English) — by Eric Merola - YouTube<h2><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoFyd9OYHZE">The Andorra Hustle — Full Documentary (English) — by Eric Merola - YouTube</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><div data-contents="true"><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="3sk3i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3sk3i-0-0"><h2><b><span data-offset-key="3sk3i-0-0"><span data-text="true">SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION </span></span></b></h2></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="fa817-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fa817-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fa817-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="9nppj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9nppj-0-0"><h2><b><span data-offset-key="9nppj-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Andorra Hustle — Full Documentary (English) — by Eric Merola</span></span></b></h2></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="1ni7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ni7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ni7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="cvfph-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cvfph-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="cvfph-0-0"><span data-text="true">Synopsis: If you have never heard of the country of Andorra, you will now. </span></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="ffocl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ffocl-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="ffocl-0-0"><span data-text="true">Andorra, a tiny, independent country situated between France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains with a total population of 80,000 people found itself at the center of one of the most convoluted and outrageous bank robberies in modern history: on March 10, 2015, Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA), a private bank in Andorra, was shut down by Spanish, American, and Andorran governments in Spain’s efforts to destroy the Catalonian Independence Movement thus leaving dozens of innocent civilians facing prison for money laundering crimes that never existed, and scores of innocent families have had their entire life savings stolen from them.</span></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="b1rkq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b1rkq-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="b1rkq-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="7ksdg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ksdg-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="7ksdg-0-0"><span data-text="true">The incentive for the Spanish government to destroy BPA was part of Spain’s ongoing “Operation Catalonia”—a covert state-sponsored war-like operation to undermine the progress of Catalonia’s efforts to separate from Spain due to generations of humanitarian and economic repression Madrid has inflicted upon Catalonia. America’s incentive was to protect Spain’s interests, as an ally of the United States. Andorra’s incentive appears to be purely economical on behalf of its leadership.</span></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="a3pfh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a3pfh-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="a3pfh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="bot9p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bot9p-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="bot9p-0-0"><span data-text="true">BPA was targeted due to the assumption that members of the top Catalonian leadership (President Jordi Pujol, President Artur Mas, and Vice President Oriol Junqueras) had their money stored at BPA. Spanish Police were of the opinion that destroying the bank accounts of the Catalonian leadership would help win their war against Catalonia.</span></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="7d3ui-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7d3ui-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="7d3ui-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="5n5ji-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5n5ji-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="5n5ji-0-0"><span data-text="true">A little known fact presented in THE ANDORRA HUSTLE: America’s FinCEN (US Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) has the power to shut down any bank in the world with a single press release called a “Section 311” – part of the USA Patriot Act—without requiring any evidence of wrongdoing, under the guise of “protecting the world’s financial system”. Spanish Police presented fake evidence of money laundering to America’s FinCEN, resulting in America issuing a “Section 311” against BPA. In the weeks following, the American private equity firm J.C. Flowers purchased the newly destroyed BPA at an 86% discount—precisely verbatim as Spain warned would happen to BPA.</span></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="etbul-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="etbul-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="etbul-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="kcsh" data-offset-key="3174r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3174r-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="3174r-0-0"><span data-text="true">Most mainstream news reporting on the closing of BPA have reported that BPA was shut down due to money laundering activity concerning the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, the Venezuelan government, and Russian and Chinese mafias. This documentary examines these money laundering charges in a forensic fashion, proving that BPA was categorically innocent of these crimes. THE ANDORRA HUSTLE gives the audience a well-researched narrative that contradicts all mainstream news coverage of these events.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><span data-offset-key="3174r-0-0"><span data-text="true"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoFyd9OYHZE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoFyd9OYHZE</a></span></span></b></h3></div></div></div><br /><br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-31814030566466770692020-08-16T12:20:00.001+02:002020-08-16T12:20:17.209+02:00SPAIN --- Opinion | The Immoral Double Life of the Former King of Spain - The New York Times<h2><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/opinion/king-juan-carlos-exile.html#click=https://t.co/2x0PW9xoE7">Opinion | The Immoral Double Life of the Former King of Spain - The New York Times</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> The Immoral Double Life of the Former King of Spain<br /><br />An outdated culture allowed King Juan Carlos I to become a lobbyist for Arab dictatorships and to hide his fortune for decades.<br /><br />By David Jiménez<br /><br />Mr. Jiménez is a Spanish journalist and nonfiction writer.<br /><br /> Aug. 13, 2020<br /><br /><< <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/opinion/king-juan-carlos-exile.html#click=https://t.co/2x0PW9xoE7">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/opinion/king-juan-carlos-exile.html#click=https://t.co/2x0PW9xoE7</a> <<</h2><h2> </h2><figure class="sizeMedium layoutHorizontal css-1ox9jel" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/08/15/opinion/15jimenez/13jimenez-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" role="group"><div class="css-bsn42l"><img alt="King Juan Carlos of Spain, right, and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2008." class="css-11cwn6f" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/08/15/opinion/15jimenez/13jimenez-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" itemprop="url" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/08/15/opinion/15jimenez/13jimenez-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" style="cursor: pointer;" /></div><h3><figcaption class="css-17ai7jg e18f7pbr0" itemprop="caption description"><b><span class="css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0">King Juan Carlos of Spain, right, and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2008.</span><span class="css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90" itemprop="copyrightHolder"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span>Pierre-Philippe Marcou/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images</span></span></span></b></figcaption><figcaption class="css-17ai7jg e18f7pbr0" itemprop="caption description"><b><span class="css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90" itemprop="copyrightHolder"><span><span> </span></span></span></b></figcaption><figcaption class="css-17ai7jg e18f7pbr0" itemprop="caption description"><b><span class="css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90" itemprop="copyrightHolder"><span><span> </span></span></span></b></figcaption></h3></figure>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-70487319533586833492020-08-12T12:28:00.001+02:002020-08-12T12:28:39.927+02:00CATALONIA -- Catalonia is a colony of Spain -- Catalunya és una colònia d'Espanya | Jaume Sobrequés i Callicó | Articles | El Punt Avui<h2><a href="http://www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/article/8-articles/913544-catalunya-es-una-colonia-despanya.html?fbclid=IwAR3JlKwgWXZx_R4qMCogAAi4k_rdIS_UM1QcdrfOowz1yCDuGMLgVjJweyo">Catalunya és una colònia d'Espanya | Jaume Sobrequés i Callicó | Articles | El Punt Avui</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="3ndve-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ndve-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3ndve-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="85b3c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="85b3c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="85b3c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="4vn8b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4vn8b-0-0"><h2><b><span data-offset-key="4vn8b-0-0"><span data-text="true">CATALONIA</span></span></b></h2></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="d0nef-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d0nef-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d0nef-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="6j60n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j60n-0-0"><h2><b><span data-offset-key="6j60n-0-0"><span data-text="true">Catalonia is a colony of Spain</span></span></b></h2></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="8tpa7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8tpa7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8tpa7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="48gp8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="48gp8-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="48gp8-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jaume Sobrequés i Callicó</span></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="cil4r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cil4r-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="cil4r-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="2n71-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2n71-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="2n71-0-0"><span data-text="true">Affirm that Catalonia is one Colony of Spain seems, even for the most committed nationalists, a dialectical exaggeration. It is a concept that independentism has not assumed in a regular way, as has been shown in the election programs of September 27. The comparative historical analysis of the features that characterized colonialism from the sixteenth to the twentieth century allows the typology of contemporary Catalan reality to be unequivocally colonial. What are these features? For starters, the armies of the metropolis occupy without a right a country that until then was sovereign. Catalonia was occupied by the armies of Castile between 1705 and 1714. The Principality was then an independent state integrated into a confederation, the Crown of Aragon. Let us remember the occupation of America, Africa or Asia in the centuries of colonialism. We note the existence of the Spanish flag on the facade of Capitania, irrefutable testimony of the current presence of the Spanish army in Catalonia. Second, the invasive power destroys the institutions of the occupied country and imposes military control over it. From the Bourbon decree of the New Floor of 1716 is what has happened to Catalonia. The autonomous periods have been nothing more than a lenitarian force of military occupation. Third, the occupying power organizes the economic downturn of the colony. Let us remember the drainage of American gold to Castile after the conquest. This is what has happened with Catalonia. From the Bourbon Tax to the Cadastre in the XVIII century to the Sixteen billion annual fiscal deficits in recent times, Catalonia has been, for three hundred years, a country spoiled by Spain. Fourthly, the colonizing power has found and promoted, within the colony, political, social or economic organizations favorable to the metropolis and, therefore, opposed to the liberation of that one. These sectors have acted as the fifth column to support the power occupying and curbing the aforementioned release movements. In Catalonia, this fifth column has fought against the forces of the metropolis, independentism. In the past 27-S elections, this fifth branch column has personal names and political organizations that are in the minds of everyone. Fifthly, the Settlers have attempted to disrupt the language and culture of the conquered countries. The imposition has also affected, with repressive or inquisitorial actions of great hardness, the religious beliefs of the occupied countries. The attempt to make Catalan language and culture disappear as an identifying element of the first order of the Catalan state has been constant. The repression of Catalan has been manifested permanently since the first Bourbon arrangements after 1714, up to the Wert law. The decrees, laws, regulations and provisions of the Madrid court against Catalan occupy hundreds of pages and have been unalterable throughout the centuries South American countries know what language repression meant for the maintenance of their own languages. When the metropolis has not managed to make these languages disappear, it is wrong to turn them into second category languages. A last factor. The metropolis never allowed the colony to freely decide on its destination through a referendum on self-determination that allowed decolonization. This is the case of Catalonia. History teaches that colonizing processes have only been defeated when the countries victims of the destructive action of the metropolis have achieved independence. Catalonia is one of the few countries on the planet that has not yet been liberated from colonizing oppression, and if we look only for Europe, we will see that Catalonia continues to be, based on the features I have mentioned, the only colony that still exists in the Old Continent From this there is a broad collective consciousness, that which must allow the liberation National of Catalonia that is already seen on a horizon that is closer to each day.</span></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="btmgk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="btmgk-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="btmgk-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8b8tq" data-offset-key="61d4o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="61d4o-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="61d4o-0-0"><span data-text="true"><<< <a href="http://www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/article/8-articles/913544-catalunya-es-una-colonia-despanya.html">http://www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/article/8-articles/913544-catalunya-es-una-colonia-despanya.html </a>>> </span></span></b></h3><h3><b><span data-offset-key="61d4o-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></b></h3></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-78163566814040466862020-08-09T11:30:00.001+02:002020-08-09T11:30:41.216+02:00SPAIN -- Hero to pariah: Juan Carlos’ exile sparks anger in Spain | Financial Times<h2><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4f98d495-ab08-4bc3-8e8c-d843e02e5044">Hero to pariah: Juan Carlos’ exile sparks anger in Spain | Financial Times</a>: </h2><h2> </h2><h2> <span><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="2ld4f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ld4f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2ld4f-0-0"><span data-text="true">Hero to pariah: Juan Carlos’ exile sparks anger in Spain</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="bdvel-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bdvel-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bdvel-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="4m8cp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4m8cp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4m8cp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Legal woes have forced former king into exile and tarnished the monarchy in crisis-stricken country</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="62prm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="62prm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="62prm-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="en5kt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en5kt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="en5kt-0-0"><span data-text="true"> " Juan Carlos’ downfall started one morning in April 2012 in a hunting camp in Botswana, when he tripped on a stair and broke his hip.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="a3429-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a3429-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a3429-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="3kt28-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3kt28-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3kt28-0-0"><span data-text="true">Details of the previously undisclosed €40,000 trip — paid for by a Saudi businessman and shared with a former lover and her child — sparked anger at a time when Spaniards were suffering through the global financial crisis. Within days, the then Spanish king emitted an apology: “I am sorry. I made a mistake.”</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="a90k1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a90k1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a90k1-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="7eg5g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7eg5g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7eg5g-0-0"><span data-text="true">This week, after more controversy and allegations, Juan Carlos formulated another apology in the form of exile. The royal was to “leave Spain” after “public repercussions that certain past events in my private life are generating”, he wrote in a statement.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="d7n9i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d7n9i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d7n9i-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="a5t3b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a5t3b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a5t3b-0-0"><span data-text="true">It has been a rapid fall from grace for the man once feted as both the architect and saviour of Spain’s democracy. The past decade has witnessed cracks in a phenomenon author Javier Cercas called the “taboo of the king” — whereby Spain’s major media outlets long omitted negative stories about the monarchy.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="d52i4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d52i4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d52i4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dqpl3" data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><span data-text="true">“We’ve gone from not saying anything bad about the king to convicting him without a trial,” Mr Cercas said. [ ... ] ".</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4f98d495-ab08-4bc3-8e8c-d843e02e5044">https://www.ft.com/content/4f98d495-ab08-4bc3-8e8c-d843e02e5044</a></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><br /><span data-offset-key="b8e8-0-0"><span data-text="true"><img alt="A woman walks past graffiti in Valencia depicting the country’s former king Juan Carlos, who announced this week he was to ‘leave Spain’" data-image-type="image" data-original-image-height="1350" data-original-image-width="2400" height="360" src="https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F9aeda756-beeb-4512-a655-e6aad7e44c7a.jpg?fit=scale-down&source=next&width=700" width="640" /></span></span><br />
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A woman walks past graffiti in Valencia depicting the country’s <br />
former king Juan Carlos, who announced this week he was to ‘leave Spain’<br />
© Rober Solsona/EUROPA PRESS/dpa<br />
</figcaption></figure></div></div></span></h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-14572230939878438192020-08-08T11:24:00.001+02:002020-08-08T11:24:21.697+02:00Voting Fraud Is Real: The U.S. Electoral System Is Vulnerable - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization<h2><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/voting-fraud-real-electoral-system-vulnerable/5720435?fbclid=IwAR2pFf72-FJkmCtG67H1jnqCmMJqvmWJBx26munuKmz6khE_tMLvy2Rfhsc">Voting Fraud Is Real: The U.S. Electoral System Is Vulnerable - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> The United States national election is now only three months away and it<br />
should be expected that the out-and-out lies emanating from both <br />
parties will increase <span class="text_exposed_show">geometrically as <br />
the polling date nears. One of the more interesting claims regarding the<br />
election itself is the White House assertion that large scale voting by<br />
mail will permit fraud, so much so that the result of the voting will <br />
be unreliable or challenged. To be sure, it is not as if voter fraud is <br />
unknown in the United States. The victory of John F. Kennedy 1960 <br />
presidential election has often been credited to all the graveyards in <br />
Mayor Richard Daley’s Chicago voting to swing Illinois into the <br />
Democratic camp.</span></h2><h2><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><img alt="" class="attachment-single-post-thumbnail size-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="338" src="https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/29-States-Refuse-To-Give-Data-To-Voter.jpg" width="640" /></h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-20046192322356533932020-08-08T11:18:00.001+02:002020-08-08T11:18:33.065+02:00CATALONIA --- Belgian Court Rejects Move to Extradite Ex-Catalan Minister | World News | US News<h2><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-08-07/belgian-court-rejects-move-to-extradite-ex-catalan-minister?fbclid=IwAR1TvRcpNId45MWBEDcuw17BmLRqXDO51wnhz2w2bJdQqUSqqY6p9z8Os-M">Belgian Court Rejects Move to Extradite Ex-Catalan Minister | World News | US News</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2>CATALONIA </h2><h2><b><span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t69/1/16/25fc.png"); font-size: 16px; height: 16px; width: 16px;">◼️</span></span><span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/te8/1/16/25fb.png"); font-size: 16px; height: 16px; width: 16px;">◻️</span></span><span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td6/1/16/1f4f0.png"); font-size: 16px; height: 16px; width: 16px;">📰</span></span> Another slap in the face lto the Spanish court prosecuting the exiled Catalan leaders. </b></h2><h2> <b><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/belgium?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBwo8F3ths6CgQgB_WWak-6lZxo_8cE-Ei3unLhgollilpgucH7Uykucgvt-AHizr9G84vLRudw2mYP5pXJ9Teh0U7kFHyeM3EPICYiVeyHnMRsvEB0D_mRxpvX8JCspyUxZEwSe5Ye5EX3765HhpTVrgPuXQic5Nfiv-7LHgix8aPdkfLoYE5T3OA3rjpet_gS5zVDPFEH1yiLToSLpIVLxSkJaQsOVMm-j2O8SW76fiQaIGIJ2k4zJ8KFVVaZkRZ2_NGUY9G5XQxRnegZmsqlU_G31xADnhELHYQKpX2iI56Z6Jbg9SQRWEXCgrv9DIon5XhJZADuMaTRtap-bFK1kA&__tn__=%2ANK-R"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">Belgium</span></span></a> justice denies <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/spain?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBwo8F3ths6CgQgB_WWak-6lZxo_8cE-Ei3unLhgollilpgucH7Uykucgvt-AHizr9G84vLRudw2mYP5pXJ9Teh0U7kFHyeM3EPICYiVeyHnMRsvEB0D_mRxpvX8JCspyUxZEwSe5Ye5EX3765HhpTVrgPuXQic5Nfiv-7LHgix8aPdkfLoYE5T3OA3rjpet_gS5zVDPFEH1yiLToSLpIVLxSkJaQsOVMm-j2O8SW76fiQaIGIJ2k4zJ8KFVVaZkRZ2_NGUY9G5XQxRnegZmsqlU_G31xADnhELHYQKpX2iI56Z6Jbg9SQRWEXCgrv9DIon5XhJZADuMaTRtap-bFK1kA&__tn__=%2ANK-R"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">Spain</span></span></a><br />
extradition of @LluisPuigGordi because it is not incumbent upon the <br />
Supreme Court to request it. Yet again, Spanish justice finds itself in <br />
trouble when dealing with truly independent European courts.</b></h2><h2><b> By <br />
considering it not incumbent upon the Supreme Court to judge the former <br />
Catalan government, the trial against the Catalan political prisoners <br />
must be <span class="text_exposed_show">declared null.<br /> <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-08-07/belgian-court-rejects-move-to-extradite-ex-catalan-minister" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.usnews.com/…/belgian-court-rejects-move-to-extr…</a></span></b></h2><h2><b> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/standupforcatalonia?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBwo8F3ths6CgQgB_WWak-6lZxo_8cE-Ei3unLhgollilpgucH7Uykucgvt-AHizr9G84vLRudw2mYP5pXJ9Teh0U7kFHyeM3EPICYiVeyHnMRsvEB0D_mRxpvX8JCspyUxZEwSe5Ye5EX3765HhpTVrgPuXQic5Nfiv-7LHgix8aPdkfLoYE5T3OA3rjpet_gS5zVDPFEH1yiLToSLpIVLxSkJaQsOVMm-j2O8SW76fiQaIGIJ2k4zJ8KFVVaZkRZ2_NGUY9G5XQxRnegZmsqlU_G31xADnhELHYQKpX2iI56Z6Jbg9SQRWEXCgrv9DIon5XhJZADuMaTRtap-bFK1kA&__tn__=%2ANK-R"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">StandUpForCatalonia</span></span></a></b></h2><h2><b><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cm"> </span></span></b></h2><h2><b><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cm"> </span></span></b></h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-30837035800032015812020-08-06T12:02:00.001+02:002020-08-06T12:02:36.397+02:00SPAIN -- Juan Carlos, ancien monarque espagnol soupçonné de corruption, s’exile<h2><a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/08/03/juan-carlos-ancien-monarque-espagnol-soupconne-de-corruption-s-exile_6048057_3210.html">Juan Carlos, ancien monarque espagnol soupçonné de corruption, s’exile</a>: </h2><h2> </h2><h2> Juan Carlos, ancien monarque espagnol soupçonné de corruption, s’exile<br /><br />Aucune précision n’a été faite concernant le pays où l’ancien roi, qui avait abdiqué en 2014 sur fond de scandales, s’installera.<br /><br /> " Soupçonné de corruption et sous le coup d’une enquête de la Cour suprême, l’ex-roi d’Espagne Juan Carlos a annoncé sa décision de quitter le pays dans une lettre adressée à son fils, le souverain Felipe VI, rendue publique par la maison royale lundi 3 août. Aucune précision n’a été faite concernant le pays où il s’installera.<br /><br />« Guidé à présent par la conviction de rendre le meilleur service aux Espagnols, à leurs institutions, et à toi en tant que roi, je t’informe de ma décision réfléchie de m’exiler, en cette période, en dehors de l’Espagne », a écrit l’ancien souverain, estimant devoir prendre cette décision sur fond de « répercussions publiques de certains épisodes de [sa] vie privée passée ». Il s’assure ainsi de ne pas rendre la tâche plus difficile à son fils, ajoute-il. Dans un communiqué de la maison royale, son fils fait savoir qu’il accepte sa décision et l’en remercie. [ ... ] "</h2><h2> <img alt="Juan Carlos et son épouse, Sophie de Grèce, à Ceuta, le 5 novembre 2007." class="initial loaded" data-was-processed="true" height="261" src="https://img.lemde.fr/2020/08/03/0/0/3071/2009/688/0/60/0/a2128c5_5079350-01-06.jpg" width="400" />Juan Carlos et son épouse, Sophie de Grèce, à Ceuta, le 5 novembre 2007. JOSE LUIS ROCA / AFP</h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-10917547447656391922020-08-04T11:25:00.001+02:002020-08-04T11:25:44.147+02:00SPAIN -- THE KING RUN AWAY -- Spain's scandal-hit former king Juan Carlos to go into exile | World news | The Guardian<h2><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/03/spains-scandal-hit-former-king-juan-carlos-to-move-abroad?CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium#Echobox=1596476004">Spain's scandal-hit former king Juan Carlos to go into exile | World news | The Guardian</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> SPAIN -- THE KING RUN AWAY <br /><br />Spain's scandal-hit former king Juan Carlos to go into exile<br /><br />The 82-year-old says he is moving abroad to help son ‘exercise his responsibilities’ as king</h2><h2> </h2><h2> <img alt="King Felipe and his father, Juan Carlos, in 2014" class="maxed responsive-img" height="240" itemprop="contentUrl" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/11209e81fcb92a9bb9740ef04cbc5fe3105b15cb/0_117_4590_2754/master/4590.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=708a3bf00185c1273a61071766afdabc" width="400" />Spain’s King Felipe and his father, Juan Carlos, in 2014.<br />
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-82474476305364225432020-08-04T10:28:00.001+02:002020-08-04T10:28:21.502+02:00SPAIN -- The King run away --- Former king Juan Carlos decides to leave Spain amid corruption allegations - Reuters<h2><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-royals-idUSKCN24Z2B5?fbclid=IwAR2aaHrhOhaPFZPciorl7Lni56gK7l5V_RRWCEzfMHjkhYeOqTRlhT1WhOs">Former king Juan Carlos decides to leave Spain amid corruption allegations - Reuters</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> <span data-offset-key="5dv2n-0-0"><span data-text="true">The King run away</span></span></h2><h2><span data-offset-key="5dv2n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span>MADRID (Reuters) - Spain’s former king Juan Carlos has decided to leave <br />
his country, a dramatic exit designed to protect the monarchy after a <br />
barrage of corruption allegations surfaced against him. </h2><h2> </h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-50924771992088174042020-07-29T18:03:00.001+02:002020-07-29T18:03:24.048+02:00CATALONIA -- Paluzie: "In October 2017, the force of the citizenry was prepared to go a long way"<h2><a href="https://www.elnacional.cat/en/politics/paluzie-interview-anc-unilateral_519150_102.html?fbclid=IwAR0BnROHtdSBwgUA43-b-OkPYhzrnw041ZIyhdoLVkTZ8XkvbQBFxcyQJdM">Paluzie: "In October 2017, the force of the citizenry was prepared to go a long way"</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> CATALONIA<br /><br />Paluzie: "In October 2017, the force of the citizenry was prepared to go a long way"<br /><br />Elisenda Paluzie (Barcelona, 1969) is to be president of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) for two more years after being re-elected in June 2020 by the new secretariat of this key pro-independence organization in Catalonia. At a time when the organization she leads is further away than ever from the Catalan political parties and the independence issue has been pushed into the background by the health crisis, Paluzie speaks in this interview with ElNacional.cat about what has been learned from 2017 and how the ANC sees the issue of independence - and a unilateral strategy to reach it - as returning to the centre stage of the Catalan political debate.</h2><h2> </h2><h2> <img alt="Elisenda Paluzie ANC Sergi Alcazar 05" data-id="11277672" data-resize="12" height="814" src="https://www.elnacional.cat/uploads/s1/11/27/77/08/elisenda-paluzie-anc-sergi-alcazar-05_12_543x814.jpeg" title="Elisenda Paluzie ANC Sergi Alcazar 05" width="543" /></h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-82538427264473688352020-07-26T12:11:00.001+02:002020-07-26T12:11:08.907+02:00WikiLeaks - CIA espionage orders for the 2012 French presidential election<h2><a href="https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/">WikiLeaks - CIA espionage orders for the 2012 French presidential election</a>: </h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h3><b>Press Release (English)<br /> 16 February, 2017<br /> CIA espionage orders for the last French presidential election</b></h3><h3><b><br />
All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by <br />
the CIA's human ("HUMINT") and electronic ("SIGINT") spies in the seven <br />
months leading up to France's 2012 presidential election. The <br />
revelations are contained within three CIA tasking orders published <br />
today by WikiLeaks as context for its forth coming CIA Vault 7 series. <br />
Named specifically as targets are<span class="text_exposed_show"> the <br />
French Socialist Party (PS), the National Front (FN) and Union for a <br />
Popular Movement (UMP) together with current President Francois <br />
Hollande, then President Nicolas Sarkozy, current round one presidential<br />
front runner Marine Le Pen, and former presidential candidates Martine <br />
Aubry and Dominique Strauss-Khan.</span></b></h3><div class="text_exposed_show"><h3><b><br />
The CIA assessed that President Sarkozy's party was not assured <br />
re-election. Specific tasking concerning his party included obtaining <br />
the "Strategic Election Plans" of the Union for a Popular Movement <br />
(UMP); schisms or alliances developing in the UMP elite; private UMP <br />
reactions to Sarkozy's campaign stratagies; discussions within the UMP <br />
on any "perceived vulnerabilities to maintaining power" after the <br />
election; efforts to change the party's ideological mission; and <br />
discussions about Sarkozy's support for the UMP and "the value he places<br />
on the continuation of the party's dominance". Specific instructions <br />
tasked CIA officers to discover Sarkozy's private deliberations "on the <br />
other candidates" as well as how he interacted with his advisors. <br />
Sarkozy's earlier self-identification as "Sarkozy the American" did not <br />
protect him from US espionage in the 2012 election or during his <br />
presidency.</b></h3><h3><b> The espionage order for "Non Ruling Political Parties<br />
and Candidates Strategic Election Plans" which targeted Francois <br />
Holland, Marine Le Pen and other opposition figures requires obtaining <br />
opposition parties' strategies for the election; information on internal<br />
party dynamics and rising leaders; efforts to influence and implement <br />
political decisions; support from local government officials, government<br />
elites or business elites; views of the United States; efforts to reach<br />
out to other countries, including Germany, U.K., Libya, Israel, <br />
Palestine, Syria & Cote d'Ivoire; as well as information about party<br />
and candidate funding.</b></h3><h3> <b><<< <a href="https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/</a> <<</b></h3><h3><b> </b><img src="https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/logo@400.png" /></h3></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-20532746577193063562020-07-22T11:09:00.001+02:002020-07-22T11:09:37.647+02:00 SPAIN AGAINST THE CATOLONIA NATION -- Parlamentarianism sits in the dock (Carme Forcadell Lluís)<h2><a href="https://www.ara.cat/en/Parlamentarianism-sits-in-the-dock_0_2493950646.html">Parlamentarianism sits in the dock (Carme Forcadell Lluís)</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> SPAIN AGAINST THE CATOLONIA NATION<br /><br /> CARME FORCADELL LLUÍS<br />Former Speaker of the Catalan Parliament<br /><br />Parlamentarianism sits in the dock<br /><br />We have seen how some courts are looking to turn the Parliamentary Board into a censoring body and we can’t allow that<br /><br /> " On Tuesday this week another case that should have never made it this far will actually go to court. The MPs who served with me on the Board of the Catalan Parliament [in 2017] will be tried in a court of law. The Board —the body tasked with preserving the sovereignty of the chamber, upholding the right of MPs to table initiatives, protecting the free exercise of political thought and the freedom of expression— will sit in the dock with them. It will be an unfair trial that will expose, once again, how basic rights, such as free speech and the right to political representation, are trampled on in Spain. We have seen judges decide what may and may not be debated and what the Catalan Parliament may and may not vote on. We have even seen them decide who gets to take up a seat in parliament and who doesn’t. We have seen how some courts are looking to turn the Parliamentary Board into a censoring body and we can’t allow that. As democratic citizens, we cannot allow censorship to enter the Catalan Parliament. [ ... ] "</h2><h2> <img alt="Parlamentarianism sits in the dock" height="224" src="https://www.ara.cat/2020/07/20/opinio/Parlament-Catalunya_2493360824_73265667_987x555.jpg" width="400" /></h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-85367033167489054532020-07-20T12:21:00.001+02:002020-07-20T12:21:25.399+02:00SPAIN -- Former Spanish king rules out dropping title as tension grows over corruption scandal<h2><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/19/former-spanish-king-rules-dropping-title-tension-grows-corruption/?fbclid=IwAR2pWbkTTPRPuAoWdrKHkEAWDrl6yhNN7hvpbpOCEYtLglLNSWD-pZNjIsM">Former Spanish king rules out dropping title as tension grows over corruption scandal</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2>CATALONIA</h2><h2> <b>We have lost any expectations about changing this corrupt kingdom whose Head of State was imposed by Franco. <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/wewantdemocracy?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAIMwmZbthECLjCg_DuZhVVUSRjS23maESEYk06DLCt_o0Jwt2GckpRfKu0jXPUG7pqgOYCbU3rVaMChdPp-c0UHP_WDm2V-E600BQArnmxt0bROCCsAIrZQq_r-E6xlZXnaJ2XJevk-kAfHr1XFGu0P9p4G-OupdzlIz9_UaFkY2-l5HOO_OCaIiI82emugtPZ9yvIinxhJljeRGfsl4rsEg8d_UFUeEBQ52O8sMK3p1MP6bplfiRZEB4vqifGDQT1rS8UIwWtAEL6pWpfDazcYeA2hnXPjQJfXcgCRufslCpaFTXGUJciT4UaSkFD5Zxh6xrLN6S38whqaivacqrt8w&__tn__=%2ANK-R"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">WeWantDemocracy</span></span></a> and we'll build the Republic of Catalonia.</b></h2><h2><b> -------</b></h2><h2><b> </b></h2><header class="grid-col
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</h1><h3 class="e-standfirst u-heading-4 " data-test="standfirst" itemprop="description"><b>Spain;s former monarch has been embroiled in scandal over his finances </b></h3><h3 class="e-standfirst u-heading-4 " data-test="standfirst" itemprop="description"><b> </b></h3><h3><b>Juan Carlos will not give up his title of King Emeritus in order to<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/20/revealed-king-spains-half-a-million-dollar-secret-honeymoon/"> salvage the royal family's reputation</a>, according to sources close to the disgraced former king of Spain.</b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b>King Felipe VI of Spain is facing growing calls from within the <br />
government to distance his father from the monarchy after a mounting <br />
scandal about Juan Carlos' financial affairs.</b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b>The sources say he is willing to make a gesture of goodwill, but wants to retain his title.</b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b>In 2018 a Swiss prosecutor opened an investigation into Juan Carlos’s<br />
ex-lover and the former king’s lawyer and financial advisor, both based<br />
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two other pro-independence activists were targeted using spyware that <br />
experts say is only sold to governments to track criminals and <br />
terrorists, as revealed by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/13/phone-of-top-catalan-politician-targeted-by-government-grade-spyware" target="_blank">The Guardian</a> and <a href="https://elpais.com/espana/2020-07-13/el-movil-del-presidente-del-parlament-fue-objetivo-de-un-programa-espia-que-solo-pueden-comprar-gobiernos.html" target="_blank">El País</a>.</b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3 dir="ltr"><b><span>According to the joint investigation, the spyware <br />
exploited a vulnerability in Whatsapp software that would give potential<br />
access to everything on the targeted mobile phone, from emails and text<br />
messages to the camera and recorder—thus opening the possibility of <br />
turning the phone into a spying device. </span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3 dir="ltr"><b><span>A member of the left-wing Esquerra (ERC) party and <br />
one of the most senior politicians in Catalonia, Torrent believes Spain <br />
is behind the attack and says he will take "legal and political action" <br />
to make sure this case serves to put an end to the "dirty war against <br />
the independence movement".</span></b></h3><h3 dir="ltr"><b><span> </span></b><img alt="Catalan parliament speaker Roger Torrent wearing a face mask and using his mobile phone (by Bernat Vilaró)" height="322" src="https://www.catalannews.com/cache/com_zoo/images/foto_3661875_804ce48b45e76a31df2bd38122d287dc.jpg" width="483" /></h3><div class="cnafeed"><div class="element element-image element-imagepro first last"> <div class="size-auto"></div></div></div><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2><span data-offset-key="ba5mh-0-0"><span data-text="true">CBC: WhatsApp Attributes Hack of 1,400 Users to NSO Group Technology</span></span></h2><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f9sr" data-offset-key="du2mp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="du2mp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="du2mp-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f9sr" data-offset-key="6glma-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6glma-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="6glma-0-0"><span data-text="true">Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton discusses why WhatsApp is suing NSO Group after discovering their spyware was used to target 1,400 users—100 of whom were members of civil society—and why this is a significant bellwether.</span></span></b></h3></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f9sr" data-offset-key="87a41-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="87a41-0-0"><h3><b><span data-offset-key="87a41-0-0"><span data-text="true"><<<< <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T8TcVt9db4&feature=emb_logo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T8TcVt9db4&feature=emb_logo</a><<</span></span></b></h3></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-6442612284579128672020-07-14T11:17:00.001+02:002020-07-14T11:17:13.692+02:00SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION --- Phone of top Catalan politician 'targeted by government-grade spyware' | World news | The Guardian<h2><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/13/phone-of-top-catalan-politician-targeted-by-government-grade-spyware">Phone of top Catalan politician 'targeted by government-grade spyware' | World news | The Guardian</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION </h2><h2> Phone of top Catalan politician 'targeted by government-grade spyware'<br /><br />Exclusive: Guardian and El País find regional speaker was targeted in ‘possible domestic political espionage’<br /><br />One of Catalonia’s most senior politicians has been warned his mobile phone was targeted using spyware its makers say is only sold to governments to track criminals and terrorists.<br /><br />A joint investigation by the Guardian and El País has revealed that the speaker of the Catalan regional parliament, Roger Torrent and at least two other pro-independence supporters were told they were targeted last year in what experts said was a “possible case of domestic political espionage” in Europe.<br /><br />According to a US lawsuit, the spyware exploited a previous vulnerability in WhatsApp software that would have given the operator potential access to everything on the target’s mobile phone – including emails, text messages and photographs. It could also have turned on the phone’s recorder and camera, turning it into a listening device.<br /><br />Torrent, who was warned about the targeting by researchers working with WhatsApp, said it seemed clear the “Spanish state” was behind the alleged attack on his phone, and that he believed it had most likely occurred without any judicial authority.</h2><h2> <img alt="Roger Torrent" class="maxed responsive-img" height="240" itemprop="contentUrl" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c979cd1e8f761c8c0e6b38bc64b6791806eef185/1387_1224_2360_1416/master/2360.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c216a98246849727d4b2623c48d63ccc" width="400" /> </h2><h2>Roger Torrent said ‘any democrat should feel very uncomfortable’ over the alleged attack.<br />
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</h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-4522481489672046662020-07-08T12:40:00.001+02:002020-07-08T12:40:50.164+02:00 CATALONIA -- Il caso catalano: la deriva "ungherese" della Spagna - Strisciarossa<h2><a href="http://www.strisciarossa.it/prigionieri-politici-in-catalogna/?fbclid=IwAR0J5A_Trd2n1V2swh1vNcCUWCAjyB_PDlX0dzGyxiGt5AZFlre7HGHU8Y8">Il caso catalano: la deriva "ungherese" della Spagna - Strisciarossa</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><div class="post-title-wrapper"><h1 class="post-title"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;">The Catalan case: </span></span><br /><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;">the "Hungarian" drift of Spain</span></span></h1><div class="post-info"><div class="author-info"><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">July 5, 2020</span></span><span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">| </span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">By </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://www.strisciarossa.it/author/robert-doinel/&usg=ALkJrhji8R9V8P_H7IJSth5nYmizFOCs_g"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Robert Doinel</span></span></a></b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></b></h3><h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;">Jose Lluis Trapero</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;"> is the leader of the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalan police, the oldest in Europe. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Hero<br />
after the attack on the Ramblas in Barcelona, but accused of sedition<br />
for not having used violence against those who celebrated the <br />
Referendum of 1 October 2017 for independence. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">He faces 15 years in prison. </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Perez de los Cobos</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> is a colonel in the Guardia Civil, accused of torture and beatings. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">For these crimes he received the pardon. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The first of October was he who gave the order to his men to use violence against demonstrators. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In these two figures there are the two faces of today's Spain.</span></span></strong></h3><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-40011 alignleft" height="200" src="http://www.strisciarossa.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/catalogna-300x200.jpg" width="300" /><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span><br /><br />
<h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">On<br />
the one hand Trapero, who is inspired by the Chief of Police of Paris <br />
Maurice Grimaud who, in the hot days of the French May, decided to stop <br />
the police violence against the students because "... With the excess in<br />
the use of force ... maybe we will win the battle in the streets, but <br />
we will lose something much more precious: our reputation ... "thus <br />
saving France from a bloodbath, after 72 hours of wild manhunt in the <br />
streets of Paris.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">On the other, Perez de los Cobos, a man suspected of involvement in </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Tejero's</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> attempted coup </span><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">,</span></strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br />
which at a crucial moment in Spanish history, orders to attack unarmed <br />
citizens in line to vote in the improvised but functioning Catalan <br />
seats. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">A gesture that dramatized the already difficult situation of the Iberian country.</span></span></strong></h3><h3><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Political prisoners</span></span></h3><h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Today in Catalonia there are </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">11 people</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br />
in prison accused of sedition and embezzlement (embezzlement for having<br />
carried out the Referendum ...), with penalties ranging between 9 and <br />
13 years. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Among them two <br />
leaders of civil society, imprisoned for organizing non-violent <br />
demonstrations (attended by one million people), the president of the <br />
Catalan Parliament </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Carme Forcadell,</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> for having convened the plenary of the parliament on the referendum and </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Oriol Junqueras,</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br />
vice president of the Catalan government , elected to the European <br />
Parliament but where, due to a legal artifice of the Spanish Courts that<br />
made him fall and above all because he is detained, he has never been <br />
able to exercise his function. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Together with them other men and women who peacefully participated in the demonstrations and the Referendum.</span></span></strong></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">It is worth dwelling for a moment on the crime of </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">sedition</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> . </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">For example in Italy there is the crime of "seditious gathering" foreseen by article 655 of the Penal Code. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">It<br />
has recently been applied to neo-fascist militants who in the <br />
Casalbruciato neighborhood in Rome staged a protest against the nomads <br />
with violent acts and attacks. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Penalties envisaged: from the fine to one year in prison. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">That<br />
is, the penalties (infinitely less than those provided for by Spanish <br />
legislation), apply when sedition is associated with the use of <br />
violence. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">And so it is in almost all of Europe. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">So much so that, so far, no EU country has applied the </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">international </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">arrest warrant</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> issued by Spain for Catalan exiles. </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">There was no violence</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> in Catalonia by the referendum organizers and by the citizens. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The only violence was that of the Guardia Civil.</span></span></strong></h3><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-4459 alignright" height="143" src="http://www.strisciarossa.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/catalogna-1-300x143.jpg" width="300" /><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span><br /><br />
<h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">That's why for years </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Amnesty International has</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> denounced the presence of political prisoners in Spain, referring to the Catalans. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">They<br />
denounce the disproportion of the penalties and the non-existence of <br />
legally correct reasons for keeping the "Catalanist" leaders and <br />
citizens in prison. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">And that's why even the </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">UN</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> Working Group on Arbitrary Detention </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">has asked Spain for the </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">release of</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> Catalan </span><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">political prisoners</span></strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br />
and their compensation for the time spent in pre-trial detention <br />
having: "exercised their fundamental right to protest peacefully with <br />
the means of civil disobedience ".</span></span></strong></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The<br />
Emeritus Judge of the Spanish Supreme Tribunal, José Antonio Martin <br />
Pallin wrote in La Vanguardia: “I have read and seen on TV a lot of news<br />
about civil wars and rebel groups armed like real armies. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I<br />
have never seen news of criminal charges against a President of <br />
Parliament or against members of a government accused of performing <br />
their political function. "</span></span></b></h3><h3><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Continuity with Francoism</span></span></h3><h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Spain that comes out exhausted from Covid has not yet solved its problem with the management of a rule of law. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The Catalan affair is the latest example. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">A story that could be closed by </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Rajoy</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br />
(the then popular Prime Minister, the number one head of the <br />
precipitate of events) with a simple annulment of the referendum and <br />
with the political will to bring all the actors to a </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">negotiating</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> table </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">, has been transformed in a prison and persecution drama.</span></span></strong></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In Italy we have told this story with a good dose of laziness, with very few exceptions. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">'Catalan independence movement</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> made us reminded Bossi's secessionist and </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">pre-Salvini League. </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The<br />
Italian Left has shown a certain laziness of thought and has not <br />
understood that the Catalan Movement was exactly at the antipodes of the<br />
Bossi League, for its roots on the left, for its transversal ability to<br />
parties and social classes, for the history that bring back. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">So<br />
within the Catalan drive there is no aspiration for a rich region that <br />
wants to detach itself from the rest of the nation to "finally do it <br />
yourself". </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">But the aspiration to a </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">more complete democracy</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> that is intertwined with the legitimate request for defense of one's </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">republican identity</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> and language.</span></span></strong></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In<br />
addition, Catalonia has never questioned interregional solidarity and <br />
has always fulfilled its tax obligations towards Spain without ever <br />
batting an eyelid, enjoying less privileges even compared to other <br />
autonomous regions such as the Basque Country. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Not to mention Madrid, which enjoys a special tax regime which makes it a sort of "Holland" in the Spanish state.</span></span></b></h3><figure class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_3989" style="width: 300px;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-3989" height="200" src="http://www.strisciarossa.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DSC9837-300x200.jpg" width="300" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3989"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Referendum for the independence of Catalonia Photo Roberto Mastroluca</span></span></b></figcaption></figure><br />
<h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">At<br />
the basis of this civil and non-violent rebellion there is a people, <br />
disappointed by the long democratic transition, who wants to <br />
definitively overcome </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">the continuity with the old Franco regime</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> and who can not stand a country that experiences its diversity as a problem and not as a wealth for all.</span></span></strong></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">There<br />
are certainly historical reasons for this perverse continuity between <br />
Francoism and democracy: in Italy Benito Mussolini was executed by the <br />
partisans. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Francisco Franco died in his bed. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">It is no small difference. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">But there were also conveniences: it was convenient for the parties that had just emerged from illegality to accept the </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">compromise with the oligarchies,</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br />
nestled in the state and in the company, to overcome the fear of a <br />
return to the dictatorship of the fragile emerging democracy. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In this way, however, there was no justice. </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Nobody paid</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br />
for the crimes of the Civil War, nobody paid for the tens of thousands <br />
of innocent people imprisoned, tortured, shot or "garroted" by Franco. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">And today the bitter fruits are paid for.</span></span></strong></h3><h3><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">A European issue</span></span></h3><h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">And that's why Catalonia becomes </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">a European issue</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> . </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Because Europe was born precisely from the break with fascism, Nazism and war. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">And<br />
Europe which today tries to review the light by imagining a <br />
reconstruction on a basis other than the neoliberal dictate, cannot <br />
afford or allow the existence of an à la carte rule of law. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Spain like Hungary or Poland? </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> You have to have the courage to say: yes.</span></span></strong></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Spain risks becoming like the two eastern countries. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">But there are at least two conditions that can prevent this drift. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The first already exists and is called </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">European law</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> . </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">On<br />
December 19, 2019, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ended <br />
the obtuse claim of the Supreme Tribunal to prevent the regularly <br />
elected Catalan deputies from being proclaimed to European <br />
parliamentarians. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">And the <br />
European Court does so by affirming a simple but powerful principle: <br />
sovereignty belongs to the people, no other institutional or legal body <br />
can prevent the expression of the popular will.</span></span></strong></h3><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-42021 alignleft" height="217" src="http://www.strisciarossa.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sanchez-iglesias-300x217.png" width="300" /><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span><br /><br />
<h3><strong><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">That<br />
same day, the European Parliament, with exemplary rapidity and beating <br />
the resistance of some Parliamentary Groups over time, accepted the <br />
judgment of the Court of Luxembourg and opened the doors to Puidgemont, <br />
Comin and Ponsai, legitimate representatives of the Catalan people in <br />
Strasbourg. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The second condition is, above all, a hope. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">He resides in the current government led by </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Pedro Sanchez,</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> in coalition with Pablo Iglesias and with the autonomist parties, including the Catalans. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">If Sanchez and Iglesias have the courage to seek a </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">democratic way out</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> of the Catalan affair, they must demonstrate it concretely, starting with </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">an amnesty</span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> for political prisoners, going through a reform of the judicial system and reopening dialogue with Barcelona.</span></span></strong></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Only<br />
in this way will we find ourselves facing a democratic turn of <br />
substance in Spanish society, capable of finally showing itself capable <br />
of being able to resolve internal conflicts with politics and no longer <br />
with repression. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Will they be capable of it? </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">We all ask and hope for it. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">But<br />
a more attentive, less distracted, European public opinion that will <br />
become a real "European democratic escort" to this process will also be <br />
needed. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">If this is not the case, there will be trouble for Spain and Europe.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></b></h3></div></div></div><h2> </h2><h2> </h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-50073235179544696042020-07-08T12:14:00.001+02:002020-07-08T12:14:59.712+02:00CATALONIA -- Spanien: Ist der Kopf islamistischer Terrorzelle wirklich in die Luft geflogen? | Telepolis<h2><b><a href="https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Spanien-Ist-der-Kopf-islamistischer-Terrorzelle-wirklich-in-die-Luft-geflogen-4789034.html">Spanien: Ist der Kopf islamistischer Terrorzelle wirklich in die Luft geflogen? | Telepolis</a></b></h2><h2><b> </b></h2><h2><b> </b></h2><header class="article-header"><br />
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Spain: Did the head of an Islamist terrorist cell really blow up?<br />
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</span></span></h1><div class="publish-info"><h3> <b><time class="publish-info__date" datetime="2020-06-19T15:00:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">June 19, 2020<br />
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<a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.heise.de/tp/autoren/Ralf-Streck-3458975.html&usg=ALkJrhhtk8dLEb6vTXwN8q9OG6ksPNAt9g" itemprop="url" rel="author" title="Additional items from Ralf Streck"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;">Ralf Streck</span></span></a></b></span></h3><h3><span class="publish-info__author" itemprop="author"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></b></span></h3><h3><span class="publish-info__author" itemprop="author"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></b></span></h3><h3 class="lead beitraganriss"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;">Ever<br />
stranger circumstances come to light, statements have been hidden, the <br />
imam was an agent of the secret service, the surviving terrorists were <br />
not charged with murder</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
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</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">It is no longer a secret that the head of the </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Auto-Anschlag-im-Zentrum-Barcelonas-3806600.html&usg=ALkJrhiDdVA-u6yBI76GYqJHY8b36fMdoQ" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">terrorist attacks in the summer three years ago</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> in Barcelona and </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Spanien-Weiterer-Terror-Anschlagsversuch-in-Cambrils-3806734.html&usg=ALkJrhhzV0CtRTmYZDqiIPaOodgtzG5rpw" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Cambrils was</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> an </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Terrorchef-aus-Katalonien-war-Geheimdienst-Spitzel-3893222.html&usg=ALkJrhh5eNUdrbTpog5g3850aXwpo1228Q" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">agent of the Spanish secret service</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> .</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
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</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The<br />
Público newspaper revealed a year ago that the intelligence agency and <br />
other Spanish security forces had been in contact with the Imam <br />
Abdelbaki Es Satty until the attacks in August 2017, which Telepolis <br />
reported in detail ( </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Spanischer-Geheimdienst-kontrollierte-Terrorzelle-bis-zu-Anschlag-in-Barcelona-4473382.html&usg=ALkJrhi-ZQqR1nQtHvcb3n_B7fKzMeIB3Q" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Spanish intelligence agency controlled terror cell</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> .</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Público has now added and </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.publico.es/politica/iman-ripoll-guardia-civil-fiscalia-pasaron-alto-testimonio-clave-relacion-iman-ripoll-cni-sumario-17.html&usg=ALkJrhjjBPvHGZe6eeD6uxSc-T35p9IyEg" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">published</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br />
that a key statement on Es Satty’s work for Spanish intelligence in the<br />
mountain of investigation files has been hidden by 100,000 pages and <br />
has been ignored by the Public Prosecutor and the Civil Guard. The <br />
newspaper does not consider it to be a coincidence, after all, it was a <br />
main witness, the questioning of which was expressly requested by the <br />
Belgian authorities from Spain.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Público<br />
rather assumes that the statement should remain hidden. It is therefore<br />
not mentioned in a summary of the investigation as part of a request <br />
for legal assistance and it does not appear in the table of contents of a<br />
CD on which it is stored. Neither the judge nor the lawyers knew about <br />
the existence of the statement. And no translation of the statement was <br />
sent to the judge responsible.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;">It<br />
is the five-page testimony of Soliman Akaychouh, the director of a <br />
mosque in Diegem near Brussels, where Es Satty wanted to preach. <br />
Akaychouh was questioned just three days after the attacks and in the <br />
statement published by Público stated that Es Satty said she was in <br />
contact with the Spanish secret service over the phone. "He told me that<br />
he spoke to the Spanish secret service, who among other things wanted <br />
to know where he was," </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.publico.es/politica/defensa-pide-investigar-nuevas-pruebas-relacion-cni-iman-ripoll-2016.html&usg=ALkJrhgqxrCbf8n0DcTx122SBAA3N7_mLQ" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;">said</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;"> the head of the mosque.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
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</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The<br />
imam was suspicious of the head of the mosque because of his radicalism<br />
and extremism. That is why he contacted the Belgian police. She then <br />
started an inquiry to the Catalan police. However, this did not result <br />
in anything, since the Mossos d'Esquadra, as is known, had not been <br />
informed by the Spanish colleagues about the activities of the <br />
well-known radical Islamist and former drug dealer. As </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Maerchen-und-Schuldzuweisungen-zu-Anschlaegen-in-Katalonien-3808023.html%3Fseite%3Dall&usg=ALkJrhj7iTg7ZmBk6DyeZ7Fu1X6kzdaufw" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">reported by</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> Telepolis </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">,<br />
the Mossos were also dependent on access to key data and resources at <br />
the Center for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO).</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Behind this was an incredible process in which Spanish national </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.ara.cat/en/Charon-Mossos-anti-terror-sabotaged-Spanish_0_1858014326.html&usg=ALkJrhjUUI6Y4JnF-ZX_X4LEStFrMrwVtg" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">police officers warned</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> radical Islamists </span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.ara.cat/en/Charon-Mossos-anti-terror-sabotaged-Spanish_0_1858014326.html&usg=ALkJrhjUUI6Y4JnF-ZX_X4LEStFrMrwVtg" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">in</span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> 2015 of </span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.ara.cat/en/Charon-Mossos-anti-terror-sabotaged-Spanish_0_1858014326.html&usg=ALkJrhjUUI6Y4JnF-ZX_X4LEStFrMrwVtg" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">the investigation by the Catalan police</span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> . </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The<br />
troop was raised with the "Operación Caronte" and wanted to carry out <br />
attacks on Jewish institutions in Barcelona and the Parliament. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The Islamists were also </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.publico.es/politica/terrorismo-catalunya-policias-nacionales-alertaron-yihadistas-2015-mossos-investigaban.html&usg=ALkJrhhT5-hW4pBSRD093MMky-oF3xmkxQ" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">in contact with a neo-Nazi, friend of the chief of the troops</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> , to get weapons and explosives. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">And surprisingly, he was not accused of "supporting terrorism".</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
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</b></h3><h3 class="subheading"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The major parties prevent the imam from being involved with the security forces</span></span></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">These<br />
events are part of a series of curiosities about Islamist activities in<br />
Catalonia and Es Satty. Because since 2003 he was known to Spanish <br />
security forces as a radical Islamist. He was in </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.heise.de/tp/news/Barcelona-hat-keine-Angst-3813505.html&usg=ALkJrhi70hHwIoZ6QeHk6C14xppKwYMz9A" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">contact with radical Islamists</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> and was friends with one of those who caused the </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Blutiger-Wahlkampf-in-Spanien-3433717.html&usg=ALkJrhiVhEACOtfOlokDbGycyCl0W5FvvQ" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">2004 massacre in Madrid with 191 deaths</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br />
. Strangely enough, Es Satty was released early from jail, where he was<br />
sitting for drug trafficking. And his deportation to Morocco, which had<br />
been expressly stated in the sentence after the sentence, was </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2017-08/anschlag-barcelona-richter-stoppt-abschiebung-imam-es-satty-2015&usg=ALkJrhjwFE8voBk9FyUVpNQSALr7XzTigQ" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">also not implemented because he did not assume any "danger"</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> .</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">There are still many oddities. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">There<br />
is the fact that all major parties in the Spanish parliament also <br />
refuse to investigate the imam's involvement with the security forces. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Then there is the fact that </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Barcelona-Terroranschlaege-2017-Islamisten-nicht-wegen-Mordes-angeklagt-4631621.html&usg=ALkJrhhV3TRDFM1jrzVOGYhnE1kMZy9Rtg" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">the surviving members of the terrorist cell are not charged with murder</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> even though they killed 17 people - including a German woman - and were planning huge attacks. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">They were prevented because part of the force blew up in the bombing the night before.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3 class="subheading"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">"We doubt that Ripoll's Imám is dead"</span></span></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The<br />
newest and most interesting oddity, however, is that now there are <br />
serious questions as to whether Es Satty, the intelligence agent, <br />
actually blew up when bombing Alcanar, which has always been assumed. <br />
Lawyer Jaume Cuevillas said on Catalan television: </span></span><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/mes-324/jaume-alonso-cuevillas-questionem-que-es-satty-sigui-mort/video/6046825/&usg=ALkJrhjsg9e2yn__wKhNDk_qB1cTNS0c4g" rel="external noopener" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">"We doubt that the Imám of Ripoll is dead."</span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> Cuevillas represents the family of the young Xavier Martínez, who was also murdered during the terrorist voyage on the Ramblas.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">He<br />
found no evidence in the investigation files, such as DNA evidence that<br />
could prove that Es Satty was actually in the house at the time of the <br />
explosion. According to the investigators, four to five terrorists are <br />
said to have been there. However, only remains of two people were found <br />
in the pile of rubble, of whom only one could have been identified. <br />
Witnesses also testified that the imam's car left shortly after the <br />
explosion, which was later found in a neighboring village.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
<span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The cell phone of Es Satty was also not found in the pile of rubble. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The lawyer reports from the investigation files that the phone was still called four days after the explosion. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The<br />
email address that the terror chief used to have contact with the <br />
secret service, as Público had uncovered, was also used after the <br />
explosion. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">It is also <br />
striking for Cuevillas that no one claimed the body of the imam, but the<br />
imam's niece bought two plane tickets the night after the explosion and<br />
hours before the attack in Barcelona. </span><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;">Because of all of this, the lawyer expressed "justified doubts" that Es Satty is dead. </span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br />
( </span></span><em><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Ralf Streck</span></span></em><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> ) </span></span></b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></b><img alt="" class="img-responsive" height="225" src="https://heise.cloudimg.io/width/700/q75.png-lossy-75.webp-lossy-75.foil1/_www-heise-de_/tp/imgs/89/2/9/1/4/2/2/6/bombe_ho-e67f539e4998b80f.png" width="400" /></h3><h3><br />
</h3></div></header>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-32528860533503563372020-06-22T12:47:00.001+02:002020-06-22T12:47:49.054+02:00CATALONIA --- The case of the Catalan political prisoners - VilaWeb<h2><a href="https://english.vilaweb.cat/noticies/the-case-of-the-catalan-political-prisoners/?fbclid=IwAR2Z0oDUO7y2_R7RI3EqMqKPrskJM8LOK7kMPN7uOUYyP5yHAe_SZ_KRnxg">The case of the Catalan political prisoners - VilaWeb</a></h2><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-testid="post_message" id="js_934"><h2><b><span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t69/1/16/25fc.png"); font-size: 16px; height: 16px; width: 16px;">◼️</span></span><span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/teb/1/16/2b1c.png"); font-size: 16px; height: 16px; width: 16px;">⬜️</span></span> Not only has <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/spain?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCC_JZ-v667V4cly1SF_BIz-gc91kxLDTnlJTL5EsdLmEuY3CLxx1c8e-K0Iwcks-bgVSrdzv0GjYkT2CZRrleWpSmxM2NCkz85xU2aKXzi8a1I1hs6EH1xt1I4Ae8cv71gBF2VI_0oG1J5tr4CSu1_ruUDCc4nAnaSZJBsn5kkZDCClE8XVm2kfr1-D4QODiiPSj2jYaqIMry547EXxDN6paIcj1Oe9z-phnjT8P4k5zWafiI_9kJkTJgPwmUJQYiKwMXVs7TJxh17b2KiWi7KPAf9uBPAhTxPf2lhNiNpIOzKiomElSSE4u1goUxAdAfrztV7F_sVlVCQzdcAHQQCqQ&__tn__=%2ANK-R"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">Spain</span></span></a> not complied with the <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=628745460593952&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARA0h3ucNNohxIsuVyI5BV_DIfAoJfp4V5bNLsTVJnnMEDDSMhfQvDK15t4IkK_mlFzSH81MvMKbnT0e%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/UN-Working-Group-on-Arbitrary-Detentention/628745460593952?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARA0h3ucNNohxIsuVyI5BV_DIfAoJfp4V5bNLsTVJnnMEDDSMhfQvDK15t4IkK_mlFzSH81MvMKbnT0e&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCC_JZ-v667V4cly1SF_BIz-gc91kxLDTnlJTL5EsdLmEuY3CLxx1c8e-K0Iwcks-bgVSrdzv0GjYkT2CZRrleWpSmxM2NCkz85xU2aKXzi8a1I1hs6EH1xt1I4Ae8cv71gBF2VI_0oG1J5tr4CSu1_ruUDCc4nAnaSZJBsn5kkZDCClE8XVm2kfr1-D4QODiiPSj2jYaqIMry547EXxDN6paIcj1Oe9z-phnjT8P4k5zWafiI_9kJkTJgPwmUJQYiKwMXVs7TJxh17b2KiWi7KPAf9uBPAhTxPf2lhNiNpIOzKiomElSSE4u1goUxAdAfrztV7F_sVlVCQzdcAHQQCqQ">UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentention</a> calls to release <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/catalonia?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCC_JZ-v667V4cly1SF_BIz-gc91kxLDTnlJTL5EsdLmEuY3CLxx1c8e-K0Iwcks-bgVSrdzv0GjYkT2CZRrleWpSmxM2NCkz85xU2aKXzi8a1I1hs6EH1xt1I4Ae8cv71gBF2VI_0oG1J5tr4CSu1_ruUDCc4nAnaSZJBsn5kkZDCClE8XVm2kfr1-D4QODiiPSj2jYaqIMry547EXxDN6paIcj1Oe9z-phnjT8P4k5zWafiI_9kJkTJgPwmUJQYiKwMXVs7TJxh17b2KiWi7KPAf9uBPAhTxPf2lhNiNpIOzKiomElSSE4u1goUxAdAfrztV7F_sVlVCQzdcAHQQCqQ&__tn__=%2ANK-R"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">Catalonia</span></span></a>'s political prisoners, but it has also attempted to discredit it in order to get away with ignoring international law.</b></h2><h2> <b><span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t8e/1/16/1f5de.png"); font-size: 16px; height: 16px; width: 16px;">🗞</span></span><br />
Read the opinion by Human Rights expert Neus Torbisco-Casals, <br />
International Law professor Nico Krisch and lawyer & Secretary <br />
General of UNPO Ralph Bunche <span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t8a/1/16/1f447_1f3fb.png"); font-size: 16px; height: 16px; width: 16px;">👇🏻</span></span></b></h2><h2> <b><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/standupforcatalonia?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCC_JZ-v667V4cly1SF_BIz-gc91kxLDTnlJTL5EsdLmEuY3CLxx1c8e-K0Iwcks-bgVSrdzv0GjYkT2CZRrleWpSmxM2NCkz85xU2aKXzi8a1I1hs6EH1xt1I4Ae8cv71gBF2VI_0oG1J5tr4CSu1_ruUDCc4nAnaSZJBsn5kkZDCClE8XVm2kfr1-D4QODiiPSj2jYaqIMry547EXxDN6paIcj1Oe9z-phnjT8P4k5zWafiI_9kJkTJgPwmUJQYiKwMXVs7TJxh17b2KiWi7KPAf9uBPAhTxPf2lhNiNpIOzKiomElSSE4u1goUxAdAfrztV7F_sVlVCQzdcAHQQCqQ&__tn__=%2ANK-R"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">StandUpForCatalonia</span></span></a></b></h2><h2><b><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cm"> </span></span></b><img alt="" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="254" src="https://imatges.vilaweb.cat/nacional/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/butlleti-judici-12141421-604x254.jpg" width="604" /></h2></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-60904101659062361022020-06-22T12:11:00.001+02:002020-06-22T12:11:15.849+02:00SPAIN --- Revealed: The King of Spain's half-a-million-dollar secret honeymoon paid for by disgraced father<h2><b><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/20/revealed-king-spains-half-a-million-dollar-secret-honeymoon/">Revealed: The King of Spain's half-a-million-dollar secret honeymoon paid for by disgraced father</a>:</b></h2><h2><b> </b></h2><h2><b> Revealed: The King of Spain's half-a-million-dollar secret honeymoon paid for by disgraced father<br /><br />Revelation that lavish round-the-world trip was funded by father a further embarrassment for King Felipe<br /><br /><br />Call it a dream honeymoon, taking the lucky newlywed royals to the Pacific islands, under Californian sunshine and through wind-carved caves in the Middle East. It cost a cool $500,000, and the details were shrouded in secrecy.<br /><br />Until now.</b></h2><h2><b> </b> </h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998494774208135939.post-29356745082088055192020-06-06T13:16:00.001+02:002020-06-06T13:16:18.239+02:00Comment la finance internationale et l’Allemagne ont détruit la Grèce pour créer une UE totalitaire | Defend Democracy Press<h2><a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.press/comment-la-finance-internationale-et-lallemagne-ont-detruit-la-grece-pour-creer-une-ue-totalitaire/?fbclid=IwAR06e9aA0dCmQSH7N7VLdrV5XeB1h_pbz_Xchg35STRz3R8EOuH1txbW9jQ">Comment la finance internationale et l’Allemagne ont détruit la Grèce pour créer une UE totalitaire | Defend Democracy Press</a></h2><h2> </h2><h1 class="entry-title">Comment la finance internationale et l’Allemagne ont détruit la Grèce pour créer une UE totalitaire</h1><h3 class="entry-title"> </h3><h3><b>Note : les données de l’article suivant prennent en compte l’état de <br />
l’économie et de la société grecque avant la récente crise du coronaire.<br />
Selon le FMI, la Grèce souffrira d’une plus grande dépression que tous <br />
les autres membres de l’UE en raison de la pandémie, mais rien n’est <br />
certain pour le moment. En tout cas, les résultats économiques et <br />
sociaux de la crise rendront les choses en Grèce bien pires que celles <br />
déjà décrites dans notre article.</b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b>En mai 2010, l’UE, la BCE, le FMI et le gouvernement grec ont signé <br />
un accord de prêt décrivant un “programme de sauvetage” sans précédent <br />
pour la Grèce. L’objectif déclaré de ce programme était de “sauver” la <br />
Grèce de la faillite et de l'”aider” à redresser son économie et ses <br />
finances publiques tout en remboursant ses prêts, principalement auprès <br />
des banques européennes.</b></h3><h3><b> </b><img alt="http://www.defenddemocracy.press/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Greece77-218x150.jpg" height="440" src="http://www.defenddemocracy.press/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Greece77-218x150.jpg" width="640" /></h3><h1 class="entry-title"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;">How international finance and Germany destroyed Greece to create a totalitarian EU</span></span></h1><h3 class="entry-title"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Note:<br />
the data in the following article takes into account the state of the <br />
Greek economy and society before the recent coronary crisis. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">According<br />
to the IMF, Greece will suffer from a greater depression than all other<br />
members of the EU due to the pandemic, but nothing is certain for the <br />
moment. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In any case, the <br />
economic and social results of the crisis will make things in Greece <br />
much worse than those already described in our article.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><br />
</b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In<br />
May 2010, the EU, the ECB, the IMF and the Greek government signed a <br />
loan agreement describing an unprecedented “rescue program” for Greece. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The<br />
declared objective of this program was to “save” Greece from bankruptcy<br />
and to “help” it to recover its economy and public finances while <br />
repaying its loans, mainly from European banks.</span></span></b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></b></h3><h3><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> </span></span></b></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com