Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
While I’ve touched on the Catalan independence movement in several recent posts, I want to make one thing clear from the start. I don’t have a strong opinion on whether or not independence is the right move for the region and its people. It would be completely inappropriate for me, a U.S. citizen living in Colorado, to lecture people 5,000 miles away on how they should organize their political lives.
Global markets traded near all-time highs on Tuesday, with S&P futures, Asian shares and European stocks all flat this morning, while oil continued to gain on Kurdish geopolitical concerns while most industrial metals fell. The euro extended its recent slide and stocks drifted as Spain’s escalating hard-line response to the Catalonian secession threat fueled concern the crisis may intensify.
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times,
Puigdemont's political twist could invoke a lethal response from Madrid: suspension of Catalonia's government
A military plane has crashed Thursday near the Llanos Air Base in Albacete south of Madrid and the pilot has died, according to the Spanish Ministry of Defense.
The First Minister of Castilla La Mancha, Emiliano García Page, confirmed on Twitter that the pilot had died "in Albacete, serving Spain".
Acaban de comunicar la triste noticia.Mi pesar y el de toda CLM por el fallecimiento del piloto en Albacete sirviendo a España #12deOctubre
With Spain’s prime minister having opened earlier in the day the path for Madrid to use a constitutional “nuclear option” to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy, demanding that the regional government makes clear whether it considers itself independent, moments ago Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy gave Catalan President Carles Puigdemont a five day ultimatum to clarify whether he actually declared the region's independence in his speech devoted to the highly controversial referendum, and another 3 to "rectify it."