You're cut off!

The luxury escorts of Madrid, Spain have had enough. In a country where prostitution exists in a gray area between not being legal and not being illegal, the most expensive women have told their banker clients to get human. (Machine translation. Live with it. I don't speak Spanish)

The largest trade association of luxury escorts in Madrid announced yesterday the beginning of a total strike and indefinite suspension of sexual services to employees of banks until they return to providing credit to households, SMEs and Spanish companies.

They've cut off the Spanish 1 percenters.

The idea of ​​this strike arose from the experience of CP Lucia one of the association's members, who during the press conference told how one of her regular customers told him that, for many months, his only activity was to borrow hundreds of millions of euros of liquidity window at 1% from the ECB, and immediately spend the money on European government debt and highly specialized products such as CDS (credit default swaps) and commodity hedge funds, with returns of between 3 and 7% , pocketing the difference. "One day I got fed up and said: Enough is enough no?  Forget my pussy until you fulfill your responsibility to society. My client at first grumbled and threatened to cut off the maintenance fees and transfers, but eventually backed off and three days later returned with a notarized certificate of having granted a line of credit to SMEs and a loan to buy a Citroen van a self-contained.  This is how I realized that we could help the credit flowing again "

It gets better. How? The bankers want someone to legislate an end to the strike.

The Confederation of Banking has formally requested the establishment of minimum services and government mediation to unlock the conflict as soon as possible. But from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness headed by Luis de Guindos, recognize that the lack of legislation around the area makes it very difficult for the government to intercede in the conflict.  "In fact, not even been a formal strike communication, but escorts are making use of its right of admission to deny entry to, well, you know.  So no one can negotiate "

This was posted to give you a break from scandal and the vile politics of Stephen Harper. 

A Spanish inquisition . . .

WIKILEAKS: according to Carol Rosenberg's article in the Miami Herald, "WikiLeaks: How U.S. tried to stop Spain's torture probe", there's a fly in the gazpacho. It seems there are five Gitmo prisoners that are of concern to the Spanish, and there's an on-going investigation to see how American neo-con Bushite government lawyers might be prosecuted for abusing human rights. Click on the link to get the details from Carol. This could blossom just in time for the US elections.

MIAMI — It was three months into Barack Obama's presidency, and the administration -- under pressure to do something about alleged abuses in Bush-era interrogation policies -- turned to a Florida senator to deliver a sensitive message to Spain:

Don't indict former President George W. Bush's legal brain trust for alleged torture in the treatment of war on terror detainees, warned Mel Martinez on one of his frequent trips to Madrid. Doing so would chill U.S.-Spanish relations.

Rather than a resolution, though, a senior Spanish diplomat gave the former GOP chairman and housing secretary a lesson in Spain's separation of powers. "The independence of the judiciary and the process must be respected,'' then-acting Foreign Minister Angel Lossada replied on April 15, 2009. Then for emphasis, "Lossada reiterated to Martinez that the executive branch of government could not close any judicial investigation and urged that this case not affect the overall relationship.''

The case is still open, on the desk of a Spanish magistrate, awaiting a reply from the Obama administration on whether it will pursue a probe of its own.

But the episode, revealed in a raft of WikiLeaks cables, was part of a secret concerted U.S. effort to stop a crusading Spanish judge from investigating a torture complaint against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five other senior Bush lawyers.