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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
See that's getting bogged down in the state/country thing I was talking about.
It's not bogged down at all. Catalonia is a separate nation that is under Spanish rule only by conquest. The people there are not Spanish, don't speak Spanish, and have their own international borders (with France primarily.)
They also have one of the biggest port cities in Spain.
Yup, number three. And they are the core of the overall Spanish economy (hence why Spain wants to keep them.)
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
More like Puerto Rico. It is a fully self governing autonomous nation with its own language and culture.
How long ago did Spain annex it?
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
More like Puerto Rico. It is a fully self governing autonomous nation with its own language and culture.
How long ago did Spain annex it?
It's a complicated history, but the important date was the seizure of the region by Franco in 1939.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
More like Puerto Rico. It is a fully self governing autonomous nation with its own language and culture.
How long ago did Spain annex it?
It's a complicated history, but the important date was the seizure of the region by Franco in 1939.
IIRC they've had a "peaceful" rebellion since the 1980s. So this was just a matter of time.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
More like Puerto Rico. It is a fully self governing autonomous nation with its own language and culture.
How long ago did Spain annex it?
It's a complicated history, but the important date was the seizure of the region by Franco in 1939.
IIRC they've had a "peaceful" rebellion since the 1980s. So this was just a matter of time.
They were happy from the fall of Franco until 2005 when Spain revoked their nationhood status.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
More like Puerto Rico. It is a fully self governing autonomous nation with its own language and culture.
How long ago did Spain annex it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marca_Hispanica#/media/File:Marca_Hispanica_Longnon_806.png
The Spanish March was a French territory, not a Spanish one, historically, which is why their language is shared with France, not Spain. They were their own country, but primarily French influence.
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This map is also useful so that you can see how Barcelona (the capital of Catalonia) was part of France, not Spain. Spain is labeled Castile on the map. The rest of the Moorish kingdom. Catalonia is an old "peer" of Spain, both existed prior to the conquering of the Iberian peninsula and the creation of the modern state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus#/media/File:Al_Andalus_%26_Christian_Kingdoms.png
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Spain just claimed direct rule and seizure of Catalonia. This puts them firmly on the path of civil war as that declaration, given the independence an hour ago, would be a declaration of war.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Spain just claimed direct rule and seizure of Catalonia. This puts them firmly on the path of civil war as that declaration, given the independence an hour ago, would be a declaration of war.
Are you pulling this from the BBC or something?
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Spain just claimed direct rule and seizure of Catalonia. This puts them firmly on the path of civil war as that declaration, given the independence an hour ago, would be a declaration of war.
Are you pulling this from the BBC or something?
Nevermind, I found it up top.
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I always have BBC and DW alerts going on on my phone.
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DW tends to get teh news out a good five minutes ahead of the BBC. German efficiency, I guess.
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Spain's Senate is still to vote on whether for the first time to enact Article 155 of the Spanish constitution, which empowers the government to take "all measures necessary to compel" a region in case of a crisis.
It would enable Madrid to fire Catalan leaders, and take control of the region's finances, police and public media.Sounds like Spain wants to attempt at enacting marshall law in Catalonia. I think the UN needs to step in and address this issue. If Catalonia meets all of the standards to be a sovereign nation (which I think they do), then Spain needs to respect that, bid them good wishes and farewell.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sounds like Spain wants to attempt at enacting marshall law in Catalonia. I think the UN needs to step in and address this issue.
It should be an EU matter, but the EU is leaving their citizens in Catalonia out in the cold. This, far more than the Brexit, is making people question if the EU is a good idea.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sounds like Spain wants to attempt at enacting marshall law in Catalonia. I think the UN needs to step in and address this issue.
It should be an EU matter, but the EU is leaving their citizens in Catalonia out in the cold. This, far more than the Brexit, is making people question if the EU is a good idea.
As it should. Most of the officials in the EU are appointed by elected officials, but are not elected themselves. There is no recourse to the public if an EU official or the EU in general does something wrong. Each member nation of the EU should have the right to fully soveriegnly govern themselves.
The EU was a good experiment that we learned a lot from, but it has failed and I think they need to move on from it. Each nation in Europe needs to mange their own issues their own way.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
As it should. Most of the officials in the EU are appointed by elected officials, but are not elected themselves. There is no recourse to the public if an EU official or the EU in general does something wrong. Each member nation of the EU should have the right to fully soveriegnly govern themselves.
That's the very problem. EU is refusing to help its citizens because it says that since Spain, not Catalonia, is the member state, that Spain has totally authority over any member nation inside of itself and that the EU only represents the parent nation, not the member nations.
The very thing you mention, is the very reason the EU is failing here. It's about the sovereign states instead of about the citizens.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
The EU was a good experiment that we learned a lot from, but it has failed and I think they need to move on from it. Each nation in Europe needs to mange their own issues their own way.
I agree but with the opposite answer. It's shown that letting each fully manage themselves as they do now is a huge problem and that the EU isn't addressing the real issues because of that.
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It's weird to me that you would expect the EU to get involved in what appears to be an internal conflict, at least as it pertains to currently understood country borders.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
It's weird to me that you would expect the EU to get involved in what appears to be an internal conflict, at least as it pertains to currently understood country borders.
What makes something an internal conflict to you? Catalonia has declared independence but its residents are EU citizens. That makes it an external conflict, one that directly affects the EU. The EU has a duty to its citizens. And matters of independence are, by definition, not internal. Claiming that it is internal and that they should not protect all of their citizens is exactly why the EU is failing here.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
It's weird to me that you would expect the EU to get involved in what appears to be an internal conflict, at least as it pertains to currently understood country borders.
They declared independence. It's now an international conflict that the EU should get involved in. Especially to ensure no human rights violations occur.
