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Day 129 Spanish News Its weird that no mention of the Barcelona Human rights protests that turned into riots appeared in the news. Sit back while I punch you from the left, then the right! Then an uppercut!

VALENCIA MAY CLOSE ITS BORDERS Puig will close the Valencian Community before the weekend "if necessary". The president of the Generalitat has clarified that at the moment they still do not consider it because they want to see how the pandemic evolves. The president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, stressed this Tuesday that "of course" that the Valencian Community will be closed before the All Saints bridge "if necessary", but has clarified that at this time they have not yet raised it because First, it is necessary to study how the pandemic evolves and the effects of the implementation of the restriction of night mobility and the limitation of meetings to six people. Puig, in an interview in 'Espejo Público', has stressed in this regard: "the measures must be taken at the time when they are as effective as possible and today we are seeing how the monitoring of restrictive measures evolves, we will permanently analyse the situation and appropriate measures will be adopted ", he has guaranteed. In this regard, he recalled that the Valencian Community "made progress" by applying restrictive measures to mobility between 0.00 and 6.00 hours because although the epidemiological data are "good compared to others, they are very bad because we have an index of 171 cases per 100,000 inhabitants of accumulated incidence in the last 14 days ". "It is clear that these data are out of the desirable target of reaching less than 50", has shown. In addition, he has warned that the data on hospital pressure in the Community are "very worrying" because they have grown 50% in a week. Puig has stressed that "from the perspective of the direct action of basic containment, more than a thousand trackers were hired at the beginning of summer and now there are 1,500 available." However, "the massive spread causes traceability to be lost in many areas." Therefore, it will be necessary to adopt "new restrictive decisions if we are not able to control the situation".

DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE Doctors strike in Spain since yesterday Tuesday in the middle of the second wave of Covid. The Government authorizes up to 10,000 contracts for MIR doctors without a position and non-community health workers. 42% of nurses are "less prepared" for a second wave, according to a study A woman holds a banner that reads 'I've been working 24 hours, am I operating on you?' during a demonstration of resident intern doctors . Doctors from all over Spain are called to a general strike from this Tuesday and every last Tuesday of each month until the authorities respond to their demands. The protest, which comes during the second wave of coronavirus, has been called by the State Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM) due to the current situation that professionals are going through, which drag years of cuts caused by financial insufficiency and serious planning defects and management that negatively affect the viability of the National Health System, undermine the quality of care that must be provided to patients and, in a very special way, have deteriorated the working and professional conditions of physicians. The last straw for this group's patience has been the publication of Royal Decree Law 29/2020, of September 29, which, in the opinion of the unions, causes the "dismantling of the public health system, laminating the regime of medical specialties, legalizing professional intrusion and fatally degrading the quality of health care for the population ". Doctors oppose the decree to hire non-EU citizens without MIR for being "a public health risk" Professionals believe that in the face of a second wave of coronavirus that threatens to overwhelm health care, "the only solution offered by the State is to hire nurses to act as doctors, to hire non-specialists to perform their tasks, express recognition of specialist qualifications obtained in non-EU countries and oblige specialists to perform functions of specialties that are not their own. "

SPAIN PUTS TAXES UP Sánchez and Iglesias propose Budgets with massive tax increases to finance social spending. The new project of public accounts will raise the taxes to the patrimony, companies and the personal income tax in the sections for the highest incomes. Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias presented early this Tuesday the master lines of the new General State Budgets (PGE) that will be sent to Brussels and that will arrive in the Congress of Deputies in the next few days. The main agreements closed between the PSOE and United We Can include strong increases in much of the taxes. In this way, as announced by the second vice president Pablo Iglesias, the next PGE will include an increase in practically all tax figures. The first to be affected will be corporate tax, limiting exemptions for dividends to capital gains generated in subsidiaries. One point will also be raised for assets of more than 10 million euros and the personal income tax for capital income will be raised three points for more than 200,000 euros and two points the personal income tax for work income of more than 300,000 euros. Similarly, taxation for Socimis will be raised to 15% and deductions for private pension plans will be reduced. At the press conference this Monday, an IPREM increase of 5% was also announced, the first since 2016 and the highest since its creation in 2004. This is the reference index for the granting of aid, subsidies or the subsidy of unemployment in Spain, so its rise is key to updating these benefits. Minimum Vital Income The pact also includes an agreement to regulate the price of rents over a time horizon of four months and facilitate access to the Minimum Living Income (IMV) and establish it well beyond the time horizon of the coronavirus pandemic. Employment policies will be strengthened with an additional 2,000 million euros. According to Iglesias, the first axis of "social justice" of this PGE project will be the reinforcement of dependency care. In this sense, the contribution of the dependency system will be increased by 46%, more than 600 million and more than 700 million European funds will be included to better care for the elderly. The objective is to migrate towards a model based on home care. Similarly, the conciliation system will be strengthened. 200 million will be earmarked for early childhood education, 300 million to equal maternity leave and 200 million to support conciliation through the hiring of professional caregivers. Also, a reinforcement of equality in access to Higher Education has been announced with 250 million for university scholarships. Both the second vice president and Pedro Sánchez justified these increases in their objective of improving tax justice and moving towards a profound reform of the tax system. PSOE and Podemos believe that they are unavoidable and indispensable budgets for the modernization of the economy.

DIGITAL ID FOR ALL Twenty municipalities join the digital transformation with the first three CENID projects. Checking the state of digitization of municipalities and expanding it according to needs, detecting and combating local "fake news" and a data protection observatory are the first actions. A total of twenty Alicante municipalities are already joining the digital transformation by the Digital Intelligence Center of the Province of Alicante (CENID), which focuses as the first areas of action the analysis and observation of the state and digital situation of local administrations , the detection and denial of "fake news" and the Privacy Observatory to check if the municipalities comply with the Data Protection Law. Twelve technicians from the twenty city councils that start their journey in these projects attended a meeting at the University of Alicante in which the three researchers from each field explained the objectives and deadlines of each project. The deputy for Innovation and Digital Agenda, Adrián Ballester, chaired the meeting and stressed that CENID «aims to transfer the innovation and research work carried out at the universities of Alicante and Miguel Hernández to the municipalities of the province with the aim of take advantage of talent in a practical way and that translates into a boost to digitization in all sectors ". The completion of a report that analyzes the situation in which the different municipal entities find themselves in terms of digitization, privacy or how they are affected by false news that is dumped on the Internet will be the first thing and the researchers foresee that it may be ready by the end of the year . The research groups plan to establish an observatory that follows the entire process of digital transformation, hoaxes and privacy and finally a report of recommendations with an action plan with everything that must be put in place to cover the needs of the municipalities, phase which will start in 2021.

SPAIN POLITICS Spanish singer Miguel Bosé explodes against Pedro Sánchez! Miguel Bosé accuses the government of wanting to "kill all Spaniards" Miguel Bosé has returned to the charge. If the singer had to talk last June for his statements about the coronavirus, qualifying it as "the great lie of the Governments", last Sunday he spoke again on Twitter. “They want to kill us!” The musician wrote, sharing a post by another user that shows a graph with the relationship between those vaccinated by the flu and those killed by coronavirus in several countries. Miguel Bosé dismisses Pedro Sánchez as "macabre" and "supremacist" and rejects the coronavirus vaccine. In this way, Bosé has shown, once again, that he does not give up in his fight to show that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has allied himself with Bill Gates and his foundation to insert chips into the population through the coronavirus vaccine. The artist's tweet has generated a wave of reactions and outrage on Twitter. Among the responses, the user Mar del Valle stands out. “What kills is the flu. I am a doctor, and after 2 years in a row with seasonal flu, I have been vaccinated for 20 years and I plan to continue doing so. And I believe in Evidence-Based Medicine as others can believe in their God or their saints or whatever they want ”.

VALENCIA DEMANDS MONEY Puig claims 1,640 million of European funds to start the reconstruction plan. The Government allows the autonomous communities to manage half of the aid granted by the EU - The Generalitat expects the money to start arriving in the second half of 2021. The Consell continues to focus on Europe as the main source of resources to face the reconstruction of the Valencian Community after the crisis generated by the coronavirus. If the economic reactivation plans agreed this past summer were already inexcusably due to the money that could come from the European institutions, now it is possible to specify a little more what is the amount that the Generalitat manages to take the first steps of reconstruction . The president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig took advantage of the celebration of the Conference of Autonomous Presidents yesterday to demand that the Valencian Government can manage 10% of the regional funds for projects included in the Next Generation EU plan. This percentage, comparable to the population criterion that the Consell defends so many times when it demands "adequate and fair" financing, represents at least some 1,640 million euros of the 16,400 million in which the central government has already accounted for the first projects that will have with European funds. Gathered electronically, under the presidency of the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, and with the assistance of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the Generalitat caught the "good news" announced by Pedro Sánchez on the fly, based on the fact that the autonomous communities will execute half of the projects that will be financed by the Recovery Plan, where the Government is incorporating the projects in matters that are within its competence.

CHEAP HOLIDAYS NOW CANCELLATIONS The state of alarm causes the first cancellations in the hotels of the province. The employer warns that it is not the best strategy to transfer the idea that the covid will not be controlled in six months - Tourism proposes to the Government that tourists be supervised from when they arrive until they leave. The Government's intention to extend the state of alarm until May 2021 threatens to paralyze the entry of tourist reservations in hotels on the Costa Blanca for next spring, which, although slow, was working until now. Many are reservations from last summer that had been carried over to spring and summer of 2021, and the rest are new. President Pedro Sánchez's announcement was already noticed yesterday in the market, and the first cancellations were made in the hotels in Benidorm and the rest of the Costa Blanca, both in the open and in the closed ones, but which keep their commercial departments operating. A new setback that, according to the Hosbec employers' association and the Alicante Provincial Hotel Association, can also have catastrophic effects if mobility between the Spanish autonomous communities is reduced. “Of course, it is not the best strategy for tourism to send the message to Europe that in Spain there is a state of alarm until May 9, 2021, because that generates concern and insecurity. It is clear that the evolution of the covid has gotten out of control, and nobody can assure that restrictions on mobility between the autonomous regions will end up being decreed, but there are other formulas

NEIGHBOURS DO IT FOR THEMSELVES Neighbours of Alicante Old Town assure that the street is not swept frequently enough by the council. Residents in houses of the Housing Trust demand the usual cleaning that was carried out on San Pedro street until March continues. Neighbours of several houses of the Housing Board on Calle San Pedro, in the Old Town, demand that the City Council include this road again in the routes of the street sweepers due to the fear that their houses will be flooded in case it rains with intensity. This fear is due to its proximity to the Ereta park: «since they made those tremendous walls that it has, they cut off the natural outlet of the water and previously water has entered our houses. The Board of Trustees placed some grids but they are tiny and every time it rains we are waiting to see if they swallow ”, explain the neighbours, upset because before the pandemic they stopped receiving this service. Several of them sweep up the remains of vegetation that falls from the park every morning and pile it up. Until the beginning of the year the street sweeper took it, they explain. This summer it accumulated so much that they told a neighbourhood cop. "He went to the Plaza del Puente, took a container and with his hands, and the help of a neighbour, took everything and took it away." From the cleaning company, UTE Alicante, they explain that there is a fence on Calle San Pedro and you cannot access to clean. “The neighbours use the street as a terrace, and sometimes they open the fence, but we have it as a private area. The City Council is the one who plans which areas are public and we clean.

BANKS TO RETURN MONEY UNHEARD OF! A judge urges banks to return interest on credit cards for usury. The magistrate criticizes the "bad faith" of an entity by forcing customers to go to court to reimburse them for the amounts improperly charged despite the fact that the Supreme Court established the bases for declaring these charges null. The Court of First Instance 7 of Elche has sentenced a well-known bank based in the province to return the interest charged on a credit card for "usury." The magistrate, Francisco Cabrera, goes further in the ruling of the sentence and criticizes these banking practices and the "bad faith" of the entity, which accepted the lawsuit, recognizing that the client had the right to demand the nullity of the contract for usury and the consequent reimbursement of the interest charged, the plaintiff having to return only the capital borrowed. The criticism happens precisely because the bank has not recognized this usury until the client, defended by the lawyer from Elche Manuel Navarro, of the Defence office, filed the lawsuit. The magistrate recalls that the “Supreme Court has already established its position in this regard with the ruling 11/25/2015 (...), a situation that is well known to financial institutions, which, far from taking the necessary extrajudicial steps, advising their clients in order to balance the situation between both parties, avoiding the application of clearly usurious remunerative interest, force them to have to go to court, with the usual expenses that this entails, and then react by agreeing to the demands », Reads the sentence. These practices, reiterates the magistrate, denote "an evident bad faith that makes them worthy of the cost sentence, and this in order to dissuade them from such behaviour and that the consumer is not affected by such behaviour." Thus, the judgment condemns the bank to return all interest, to pay the costs "plus the interest on the undue amount at the legal rate of the money since its collection, increased by two points from the issuance of the judgment."

WAITERS FIND SNAKE Staff find a python inside a restaurant in Valencia. The animal has been transferred to the Natzaret exotic animal center. Agents of the Environmental Unit (UMA) of the Local Police of València have recovered this Monday a snake of the royal python variety from inside a restaurant on Ermita de València street. As reported by the Department of Citizen Protection of the Valencia City Council, the origin of the snake is unknown, which has been found inside the premises. Subsequently, the agents of the Environmental Unit have transferred the species to the center of urban Avifauna and exotic animals of Natzaret.

FINES FOR BEING OUT AT NIGHT Can I circulate at night? One of the measures included in the new Decree on the state of alarm is the restriction of night mobility. To do this, the "curfew" has been implemented throughout Spain, except in the Canary Islands, which prohibits the mobility of people after 11 pm (some even an hour before, as in Catalonia, others an hour later, as in Madrid, Valencia) and until 6 o'clock in the morning. Therefore, driving during those hours is prohibited without proof of reason. If you do not carry it, the fine can range between 300 and 6,000 euros.

BREAKING NEWS STATE OF ALARM TO BE LIFTED SOONER THAN WE THINK. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez – EP. The Government makes the imposition of the curfew voluntary as of November 9. In the request for an extension, the night confinement will be established, becoming optional and decision of the autonomies. It does not give in to the extension despite the suspicion of its partners and maintains its intention to carry the state of alarm until May 9. The Council of Ministers today formally requested the extension of the state of alarm approved last Sunday. And despite criticism from a large part of the parliamentary arch regarding its extension, the Government does not give in in its ambition for the extension to be six months. Yes, there is a change: the Government makes the curfew voluntary as of November 9. The autonomous communities will make the decision. The Executive had planned this scenario since last Sunday.. The Royal Decree approved last Sunday is valid until November 9. With the Executive's proposal, this state of alarm would last until May 9. This extension does not like in the opposition parties. ERC and Ciudadanos, who are open to agreeing with the Government, question that term and especially that it be approved at once, since with this the Government would avoid greater accountability that would be more guaranteed if the Executive had to periodically negotiate the extension of the state of alarm.

RECAP Valencia probably will close its borders as it coming un to the long weekend of “The day of the Dead” Dear Doctors, this is not the time but probably the best time to get a reation from Dickhead Sanchez! Heres an idea, lets do away with income tax completely, lets reduce social security payments to 80 euros a month and watch the country flourish! Continue with Vat on items that you purchase except food. Digital ID are real, its happening right now, you will see it will take over your life but not in a good way! Come on Miguel Bose, here an Idea for a song “Sanchez is trying to kill us all” President of Valencia tries to get money only to be told the second part of 2021 when the reset has already happened or? First advertise cheap holidays then cause fear and panic so no one will go! It takes old ladies to clean the streets , we should all take a leaf and clean in front or behind our own properties. The Judge sets a president for the future with his ruling about the banks so it was an important case. Any snake with you lunch today, we have a Python of around 50cms in the menu today! Oh Yes up to a 6000 euro fine for driving after 12 pm! Don’t go out, do go out, sounds like Boris, Piss up , brewery springs to mind.

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