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Spain Falls to Pieces, as Predicted
Be Very Careful, Beloved Spain ... Two weeks ago I was interviewed by the Catalan newspaper El Punt Avui. I said it would be unthinkable for the Spanish state to stop Catalan secession by military force. Such action would violate EU Treaties and lead to Spain's suspension from the European Union. You do not do such things in the early 21st Century. "No pots ser membre de la UE si utilitzes la força" was the headline. I may have underestimated the vigour of the Spanish officer corps. First we have the robust comments of Colonel Francisco Alaman comparing the crisis to 1936 and vowing to crush Catalan nationalists, described as "vultures". "Independence for Catalonia? Over my dead body. Spain is not Yugoslavia or Belgium. Even if the lion is sleeping, don't provoke the lion, because he will show the ferocity proven over centuries," he said. – UK Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: The riots have begun again. What a surprise.
Free-Market Analysis: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports on Spain and what he provides us with is a look at the underbelly of Spanish despair that you won't read about in other similar mainstream reporting.
What Evans-Pritchard provides us with, in fact, is the bloody sociopathic grin that lurks under the current, escalating social tension. The grin is that of one collectively plastered across the faces of the armed forces. It is the same in Britain and soon will be, no doubt, in France and Germany.
As the "planned" – there is no other word for it except perhaps "directed" – demolition of Europe continues to bulldoze its way across the south of this great continent, the lurking violence of the organized military reveals itself once more.
There is increased talk about the "honor" of armed forces in Western mainstream media and this is probably no accident. Here, from the Associated Press:
Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, began a four-month combat tour Friday in Afghanistan as a gunner on an Apache attack helicopter ..."Prince Harry, like any soldier, considers it a great honor to represent his country in her majesty's armed forces wherever it chooses to deploy him," St James's Palace said in a statement.
You see? This is a deliberate statement. The Afghan war has been subject to contentious debate in Britain, with former Prime Minister Tony Blair coming under attack as a war criminal by some for his role in involving Britain in that quagmire in the first place. But there is no context here: Harry is merely honored.
We used to read a lot about the "sacred honor of the German Reich," etc. in the history books and would wonder how people could use such rhetoric. Now we know.
The world is being whipped up by the hard military men waiting in the proverbial wings. Soon they will surge to the fore and the reality of modern capitalism will be revealed for what it really is, a thin veneer. Here's some more from Evans-Pritchard's article:
Spain now has a Right-wing nationalist government with Opus Dei links, the Partido Popular ... The mood is becoming dangerous ... Former army chief Lt-Gen Pedro Pitarch said his views reflect "deeply-rooted thinking in large parts of the armed forces".
Gen Pitarch said Catalan independence is out of the question, though he also said Madrid had bungled the crisis of the regions disastrously. "Are we looking at a failed state?" he asked.
Now we have an explicit threat from the Asociación de Militares Españoles (AME), an organisation of retired army officers, warning that anybody promoting the break-up of Spain ("fractura de España") will face treason trials in military courts.
This from El Mundo: The attitude of the Catalan government and members of its parliament is inadmissible. The Armed Forces are guardians of the Spanish state and its territorial integrity under Article 8 of the Constitution.
They will carry out this role "scrupulously and strictly" to defend the sovereignty and Carta Magna of the Spanish nation. AME said any flicker of secession "must be suppressed". Violators must bear in mind that they "will have to respond with all rigour to the grave accusation of high treason under the jurisdiction of military tribunals".
Do they speak for the Armed Forces? One assumes not. One awaits a categorical denial from King Juan Carlos, from premier Mariano Rajoy, and from the cupula of the Armed Forces that such a course action is being considered.
The use of military courts to try civilians is forbidden in democracies (pace Guantanamo). The alleged conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln were tried and hanged by a US military court, setting off a long legal battle. In the end, the US Supreme Court ruled that such practice was unconstitutional. Never again must this happen, it ruled.
Be that as it may, what we have in Spain is a disturbing turn of events. It is not of course for a Pirata Ingles to suggest how a great nation like Spain should organise its affairs ... Events in Europe are now moving fast. Portugal has been in havoc for the last week. Spain is in ever greater havoc. Much of southern Europe has become unpredictable.
Is it the fault of the monetary union and the euro? Yes, of course it is. While large parts of the world are in deep economic crisis – including Britain – the damage is concentrated with lethal intensity in the EMU victim states. Spain's unemployment rates is already 25pc, and the full austerity has yet to bite.
It is made much worse by the unpleasant discovery that elected governments can do nothing to escape the trap. They have lost control over their own destinies.
Actually, governments never COULD do anything. Governments and their bought and paid for politicos work for a larger Money Power. It cannot be otherwise. At the heart or spine of all these countries is a force of professional mercenaries that are pledged like Intel agents to work for Money Power. They are extracurricular, like a shadow occupying force.
Once it is clear that the core actors of nation states take orders not from "the people" but from those more shadowy powers trying to build seeming world government, then reality comes into focus. Just today, we read this from the public intelligence analyst Debka:
Jordan on the brink: Muslim Brothers mobilize for King Abdullah's overthrow ... Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood has given King Abdullah II notice that he has until October to bow to their demand to transform the Hashemite Kingdom into a constitutional monarchy or face Arab Spring street pressure for his abdication.
DEBKAfile's Middle East sources report that Israeli and Saudi intelligence watchers are becoming increasingly concerned about the approaching climax of the conflict in Amman between Islamists and the throne.
We've been predicting for over a year now that the CIA controlled Muslim Brotherhood would be used as an agent of change in the Middle East but even we didn't realize how far-reaching the changes would be. Now Money Power attacks its own allies.
We've argued that secular governments were being undermined in the Middle East in order to create a religious monolith in that region that would provoke at least a cold war between Christianity and Islam.
In Europe, austerity is being relentlessly pressed to provoke similar social tension. The idea is to create enough social and military chaos to create yet more pressure for globalist solutions. World government is always the shadowy goal, it seems.
The antidote to all this is what we call the Internet Reformation – the dawning enlightenment pro-offered by a technology not yet controlled by those who own the mainstream media.
The elites are pursuing directed history in the full gaze of electronic monitoring by thousands of engaged bloggers and "citizen journalists." This is a unique moment in history, not seen since the Gutenberg Press.
Conclusion: It is knowledge of one's manipulation that may yet prove a profound element in the struggle between the elites and everyone else. Certainly it will prove a defining contest in the 21st century.
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Posted by borisimo on 10/01/12 12:19 PM
I can't believe it; a site that purportedly is the antidote to propaganda is quoting the Debkafile. I don't know if to cry or laugh. This is what one would expect from an easily duped newbie blog.
In case you missed the memo; the Debkafile is the propaganda arm of the Israeli government's right wing. The Debka File has been propagating unsourced propaganda for years and has been wrong in their predictions most of the time, which makes them an awful source of predictions... way worse than flipping a coin.
The Debka File's jog is to propagandize on behalf of the Mossad and to further their aims. One way that they do this is by spreading MEMEs. (something that the Daily Bell should be familiar with.) One of their favorite memes to spread is"Israel and the USA are JUST about to go to war with Iran... NOW... ok... NOW... ok, now for real this time... ok... no... NOW... on and on and on... )
The only reason I could see the Daily Bell is using the Debkafile as a reference is from ignorance. And if they are ignorant of the most obvious intelligence propaganda arm of the war machine, it makes one wonder if they are not ignorant of most other blatant propaganda outlets.
I have truly cherished the Daily Bell and grown because of some of the great reporting here, but I can truly say that you quoting the Debkafile has been a heartbreaking disappointment. You guys are supposed to have your facts and your sources straight, and quoting from the warmonger's worst propaganda source makes you look like newbies in this 'internet reformation' or worse.
Please get your sources straight and don't let the otherwise wonderful Daily Bell go the way of so many other now irrelevant blogs.
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If you bothered to read us, instead of simply flinging accusations our way, you would know that we have long predicted a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of the Middle East.
What was less clear to us was where it would stop. Debka did us the service of pointing out that CIA/State Dept. plans for the Muslim Brotherhood include "allies" such as Jordan and possibly even Saudi Arabia.
The part of the Debka report that is propaganda is that the Muslim Brotherhood is non-controlled - radical - entity.
We know what the Muslim Brotherhood is and we expect some of our readers do to. But that does not mean that every report issued out of Debka is a false one.
In this case, we believe the Debka report to be accurate so far as it goes. What the report left out, of course, as ALL mainstream reports leave out, is that the Brotherhood is controlled, that the war on terror is phony and that Money Power is driving Middle East chaos forward as it has for a century or more.
Is it incumbant on us every time we cite a source to identify every one of its prevalent and possible falsehoods? Do we have to preface each cite of every mainstream publication in the West with a specific nomenclature as a cigarette pack warns users each and every time that they are one puff away from the end of their days?
We cited Debka to make a point. Point made. You seem to believe that everything Debka reports is absurdly false. Nothing could be further from the truth. Good promotions are mostly TRUTHFUL and much of what Debka reports is fairly accurate.
You have to learn to separate the proverbial wheat from the chaff. We try. Do you?
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Posted by obsvr_1 on 09/28/12 11:12 AM
@Daily Bell
There are two responses to this statement.
1. You do not read DB.
**** Have been out of touch for a while ... so am not up to speed on DB w.r.t. Arub Spring events.
I will search the links for more stories, thanks. But, also would like to see reports from outside the DB domain.
2. You do not pay attention to the "news."
*** I hope this is not a referral to MSM ...
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"But, also would like to see reports from outside the DB domain."
OK! We're not stopping you ...
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Posted by samson on 09/28/12 01:17 AM
Get ready for the fireworks. These secessionist attempts have a bad history of repetition. Compounded now by unemployment of over 30% in Spain. This reverts back to the original tribes who have always warred when times were difficult. Blood will flow.As in the time of Franco, in the 1930's, the Army will violate the aspirations of the minority tribal states. Shame, history repeats.
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Posted by Danny B on 09/27/12 08:22 PM
@Siegfried, that is quite a good article. They mention the "calamar vampiro".
Vampire squid,,, some ideas translate well to another culture. Here is a vid from Spain that I believe is analogous to the situation in Spain.
Click to view link
@ runderwo. Here is an interesting quote from your article;MERS has been besieged by litigation from state attorneys general, local government officials a
"MERS has been besieged by litigation from state attorneys general, local government officials"
YUP, the banks formed MERS partly to avoid transfer fees. California figures that the banks owe them $ 80 million in avoided fees. We will probably have a national database for home transfers some day. GOV will make damn sure that they collect every cent that they feel is due.
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Posted by hbalfour on 09/27/12 08:16 PM
The Internet Reformation will, I hope, allow sufficient immediacy to perspective that the following epithet can be true:
"I free myself not by struggling to free myself, but be recognising how I imprison myself in the moment that I imprison myself."
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Posted by Siegfried on 09/27/12 07:34 PM
The secessionist momentum of Catalonia is rather preoccupying. On one hand I prefer that decisions are taken the as close as possible to the people affected by them. Who else but the Catalans know what is best for them? (let's clarify that by Catalans I do not mean Catalan government). I prefer small government to big government, but bigness is not a matter of geograpical extension, but a matter of "density" so to speak. And in this case I am afraid it would get terribly dense, so as to measure it in tons per square cm. On one hand competing overlapping regulations (state vs regional) would disappear (there would be only one set of regulations besides the european ones), only to be replaced by an expansion of the "state facilities". Blind hubris and a certain spirit of revenge would lead to the creation of countless offices to show off the new magnificent state. Spain has a chronic desease with politics. There was an article published in El País called "A Theory of the Spanish Political Class" by César Molinas Click to view link (sorry, no English translation) in which he points out the pernicious habit of favouring relatives and friends, breeding a whole class of favored subdits in an ever expanding swarm of clientelism. A "democratic" system of closed lists promotes politicians who are good for the party, which means usually politicians who attract more funds by favoring certain contractors in an incestuous relationship. In this environment, and with no money left (only debts), secession is dangerous. One: the current political class is by its very nature and because of the current electoral procedures, utterly incapable (and unwilling) to steer the "nation" to anywhere except where they get more power. Power in politcs is just stock to resell. More so in Spain. Two: Since resources are depleted both in Catalunya and Spain, the only path left is to agitate and confront ideologies, nationalisms and masses. Those kinds of conflicts are religious in nature and thus impossible to solve by reason - only by violence or the threat of violence. Plus they hide the real nature of the problem, namely, the existance of a set of privileged functions (legislative, judicial, penal) which are resold to interest groups which use the coercive powers of the state to favor themselves against the competition. And then again, will they question the real thing, the Euro? Will they push for a Catalan Peseta, or even better, a healthy competition of currencies? No current party as it is will ever push for anything that transfers power to the people. Not that I expect or demand them to do so. Solutions will not come from them. But nationalisms of any kind are extremely pernicious death traps.
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Posted by dimitri on 09/27/12 07:25 PM
Plainly thinking and speaking... there are too many totally idiotic vegetable heads out there who would never, ever admit to having been manipulated the way DB suggests over and over. Although not unempathic towards him, I have my doubts about my fellow man's perspicacity.
Some time ago I was musing about Jordan's Abdullah, and it occurred to me that he was bound to get the Shah Pahlevi treatment from the elites. Based on the revelations in this article, it looks like it's coming.
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Posted by runderwo on 09/27/12 05:17 PM
Here's a nice 'promotional' piece.
State court ruling deals blow to U.S. bank mortgage system
Click to view link
The highest court in the state of Washington recently ruled that a company that has foreclosed on millions of mortgages nationwide can be sued for fraud, a decision that could cause a new round of trouble for the nation's banks.
The ruling is one of the first to allow consumers to seek damages from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, a company set up by the nation's major banks, if they can prove they were harmed.
[..]
Meanwhile, MERS is attempting to remake itself. The company has a new chief executive and a new branding campaign. In Washington D.C. federal lawmakers have recognized the need to create a national mortgage-recording database that would track all U.S. mortgages. MERS is lobbying to build it.
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Posted by Danny B on 09/27/12 04:36 PM
One should read "Iberia" by Michner for background. 600 years of Moorish occupation has left the Spanish with quite a wild streak. GOV has an equally repressive streak as represented by the "guardia civil". Then, there is the legacy of Franco. Also, the legacy of the Celts. They sacked Rome.
Most of the conquistadores came from Extremadura,,,a very tough place that made very tough men. Some of the conquistadores burned their boats so that there wouldn't be any funny business about giving up.
Then, there are the people of Valencia. They are absolutely enthralled by FIRE in all of it's forms. They have a parade like the "Rose Parade" When it is over, they light all the floats on fire. They are all packed with pyrotechnics and all the buildings have to be hosed down to keep the city from burning.
Search Falles.
There is still a simmering Basque separation movement. You all remember ETA.
Once everybody gets a good head of steam worked up, the Guardia Civil will show just how brutal they can be. A very sad time for Spain.
Reply from The Daily Bell
Agreed.
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Posted by Frank on 09/27/12 02:28 PM
Very good article. Once again, about important things the MSM ignores & without the Internet I would not have been aware of.
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Posted by johnblenkins on 09/27/12 12:18 PM
Great article, RT showed the Catalan street protests a few days ago, along
with a few net news-stories.
Ha Whilst the BBC has shown Madrid protests it as far as I know
not mentioned Catalan. No s**t Sherlock!
This talk and very possible secession by Catalan that produces
20% of Spain's GDP, is very serious in light of AME's
Dictatorial declaration.
Would Catalan want to be allied to the EU or would they
fully cast aside the yoke?
How will the EU act?
Depends on what the Catalan's vote for!
They sure ain't going to let them out of their fold.
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Posted by obsvr_1 on 09/27/12 10:31 AM
We've been predicting for over a year now that the CIA controlled Muslim Brotherhood would be used as an agent of change in the Middle East but even we didn't realize how far-reaching the changes would be.
so, another reference I have yet to see, perhaps not hard to imagine, but any proof or links, references or events that would support such a statement ?
Reply from The Daily Bell
There are two responses to this statement.
1. You do not read DB.
2. You do not pay attention to the "news."
For the first, please search for "Muslim Brotherhood" and "Daily Bell."
For the second search for "Muslim Brotherhood" and "Egypt," "Syria," etc.
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Posted by johnjweaver on 09/27/12 10:08 AM
"It is knowledge of one's manipulation that may yet prove a profound element in the struggle between the elites and everyone else." Thats the money quote.
In these times its the most profound thing a person can come to realise, yet
the hardest thing to get someone to see. Once you get it, everything about your life changes.
Thanks DB
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Thank you ...
