SPAIN NOTES, Jan 10: plastic pellets + problems with Junts already
A Complex, Global 21st Century
1/ AI image manipulation can now fill in miniscule details on images of historical events….that were never really there.
2/ The SEC posted it had accepted all the Bitcoin ETFs…then SEC Chairman Gary Gensler said not, the account had been hacked…which X confirmed.
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3/ The Pentagon is pressuring Spain to take part in the naval mission in the Gulf of Aden.
4/ The millions of plastic pellets turning up on the beaches of Galicia and Asturias have now already reached as far across as the Basque Country.
5/ Portgual notified Spain of the loss of the six containers from the Toconao on December 8, the same night as the ship radioed the loss in.
6/ BBC: millions of plastic pellets wash up on Spanish coast.
7/ El País blames the regional government in Galicia (PP) for not activating its alert over Christmas: “The national response system for maritime pollution events, put in place in 2012, establishes that the regions must determine the extent of the damage and decide on the required alert phase to be applied”.
8/ In politics today, Junts (Puigdemont’s party) is already threatening not to support a new economic support measures bill.
9/ The government wants to raise unemployment benefits from €480 to €570: “Put the interests of the country first. We’re talking about the lives of real people”.
10/ ABC: “What was sold as a deal for the whole parliament was nothing more than blackmail to get reappointed as Prime Minister”.
11/ El Mundo writes that the government is now “trapped” by Junts and its new demand to fine companies that left Catalonia during the separatist crisis in 2017: “it’s a lethal message for economic activity, for the freedom to do business and for legal security”.
12/ The PP said it would repeal the amnesty law when it gets back into power.
13/ UPyD founder Rosa Díez will denounce the amnesty law before a European Parliament commission on January 23.
14/ Reuters: Grifols is to sue Gotham City Research over its new report.
15/ Sky: Spain to reintroduce face masks in hospitals today.
16/ Guardian: Mar Galcerán becomes Spain’s first Down’s syndrome MP
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