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Spain: a papier-mâché democracy facing a storm Eng /Esp

Info via KaosEn La Red adapted from a post in Spanish by ‘Raised Fist’ Puño en alto Posted on Mar 15, 2021

The Amnesty and ‘pact of forgetting’ that followed the Dictatorship in Spain was designed to create a new democracy. Passing over monstrous crimes to break the cycle of violence. But the catholic far right still has large control over the courts, army and police and inherits the stolen wealth of 40 years in absolute power. Now with a new fascist party rising and heavy police repression many see the ‘pact of forgetting’ to be a broken mistake, and Spain to be a papier-mâché democracy.

Exhumación en las inmediaciones del penal de Valdenoceda ( Burgos), donde asesinaron a represaliados durante el régimen franquista

Exhumation in the vicinity of the Valdenoceda prison (Burgos), where ‘revenge victims’ were murdered during the Franco regime

In his time as the Spanish Minister of Commerce, Alberto Garzón was attacked from all sides for stating the obvious, that in Spain tourism is an industry with little added value and job insecurity.

The vice president, Pablo Iglesias,now resigning, has been pilloried for stating another obvious point, that in Spain there is a democratic abnormality.

His remark broke the taboo. The pact of forgetting. Speaking the obvious in Spain is a high-risk exercise.

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The Rights of the Naturally Immune to not Mask up or be Vaccinated

By Thomas Harrington | AIER |

There is an important issue that, in the midst of all the talk of vaccines, has not gotten nearly the attention it deserves: the civil rights of those who have already developed natural immunity to the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is said to cause Covid.

Yesterday, I got the results of the test I took to detect whether I had developed a T-Cell response to the virus.

Like the antibody test I took almost 2 months ago, it was positive.

These two things would appear to demonstrate that for all intents and purposes my body knew exactly what to do with this virus and that it probably has the equipment to dispose of it again were it, or one of its cousins, to revisit me in the near-to-medium term.

And even if one or another related strain were to visit me in that future, studies suggest strongly that the attack would be considerably less virulent than the one I overcame without excessive trouble in December.

In a halfway rational world, what to do going forward in regard to getting a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 virus would be something I’d discuss with my doctor in the discreet quarters of the examination room. Were it to be offered, I would politely refuse it. And he, seeing the test evidence in my file, would raise no objection.

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