{"id":183701,"date":"2012-12-13T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/13\/thanks-merkel\/"},"modified":"2012-12-13T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:29:00","slug":"thanks-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/13\/thanks-merkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is Angela Merkel&#8217;s hard money policies impoverishing much of the Euro Zone, which might cause the currency zone to break up, but it looks like it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/elpais.com\/elpais\/2012\/12\/12\/inenglish\/1355341763_404278.html\">going to lead to the dissolution of Spain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The center-right Catalan nationalist bloc CiU and the Catalan Republican Left (ERC) on Wednesday reached an agreement to call for a referendum on independence for Catalonia within two years.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The deal paves the way for Artur Mas to remain premier of the region. The CiU emerged as the biggest party in regional elections held last month but fell short of the absolute majority it was seeking. ERC was the second most voted party. The two sides still have to agree on the budget for next year. The accord on the referendum states that it must be held before the end of 2014 but does not give a specific date.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a parallel development, the CiU, the ERC and other Catalan parties \u2014 with the exception of the local branch of the ruling Popular Party \u2014 reached an agreement not to implement the reform of the education system put forward by Education Minister Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Wert, which restores Castilian Spanish to the same level in the classroom as co-official regional languages such as Basque or Catalan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The accord says the parties will adhere to the Catalan Education Law, which promotes immersion in the Catalan language. The parties described Wert\u2019s proposals as \u201cunacceptable\u201d as they \u201cprevent linguistic immersion by segregating pupils on the basis of language.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, the pain caucus in the Euro Zone (Angela is their most senior member) is laying waste to everything that they touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is Angela Merkel&#8217;s hard money policies impoverishing much of the Euro Zone, which might cause the currency zone to break up, but it looks like it&#8217;s going to lead to the dissolution of Spain: The center-right Catalan nationalist bloc CiU and the Catalan Republican Left (ERC) on Wednesday reached an agreement to call &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1080,984,1003,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currency","category-europe","category-philosophy","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}