Church attacks gays,and defends child molesting priests

Cardinal compares gay pride to KKK. Isn’t Catholic hierarchy more Klan-like?

When Catholic Cardinal Francis George of Chicago compared the city’s gay pride parade to a Ku Klux Klan rally intentionally disrupting church services, he obviously pissed off more than a few people. Some are demanding his resignation.

But what concerns me more than the comparison is that George fails to see the obvious similarities between Catholicism and the Klan. Indeed, the Catholic Church’s legacy is one of genocide and mass murder.

The church was instrumental in the violent colonization of Native Nations in the Americas. The church’s complicit silence and lack of political perspective aided the Nazi party. Indeed, the current pope was a Nazi.

The church’s ongoing denial of the value of condoms promotes the widespread death and sickness of people whose sexual proclivities fall outside of the narrow scope of what the church deems moral.

Ultimately, which is more disruptive—genocide in the Americas, tacitly supporting the holocaust, appointing a former Nazi as your leader and directly aiding the AIDS epidemic for nearly 20 years; or a bunch of singing gays, passing a church and by their presence, somehow disrupting the service?

The hypocrisy the Cardinal demonstrates, to compare a hate mongering group that wills genocide–not unlike the historical Catholic Church—with the LGBTQ community, a fundamentally oppressed group (indeed oppressed by the church itself), demonstrates the ongoing commitment Catholic leadership has to denying their roots, their privilege and the power they secured through mass murder.

Until the Catholic Church atones for its sins and quits committing political violence against oppressed communities, the biggest disruption to its spiritual practice comes from within the church hierarchy.

George’s careless comment pales in comparison to the horror of the church casting a former Nazi in the role of most infallible living person on earth. The institution is rotten.

article from QUEER RADICAL with thanks.  http://queerradical.com/?p=2770  . Graphic Tinta Negra

2011: bad weather or Runaway Climate Chaos?

climate chaos..five hundred million dead trees in Texas

      We can’t say just one weather disaster is Climate change. But when there are dozens of disasters, way over the norm, with 5 of the hottest years ever in the last decade…  that’s runaway uncontrolled climate chaos.

   So it’s tempting to say  it serves Texas right, when they suffer the worst droughts in their history. Greedy predator Texas politicians and corporations have led the campaign  that’s put back Climate Change control by decades, till it’s almost too late to save 1000′s of species, including even the human race.

Over 1200 people died in last week’s typhoon in Mindanao, and we can’t say that’s just climate change, but Christmas  isn’t even in the typhoon season, only that the sea is hotter than ever before.

    So it must be tempting for the Philipinos, who hardly produce CO2, to blame the Texans in their tank like 4X4′s for their dead relatives, and rejoice that Texas is becoming a desert.

But this would be a mistake, only a tiny minority, the 1%, of the Texans are

1250 dead: climate criminals blamed for xmas typhoon

responsible for maintaining the suicidal capitalist system, the rest have little choice and of course the decimated natural world is entirely blameless.

Every week we hear about a new climate disaster, and it will get worse. Excess CO2 takes decades to work through the system, and this year was yet another record high in emissions.

Very soon it will be time to put the 1% of Climate Criminals on trial for their atrocities against the planet.

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Drought and wildfires: Welcome to climate change in Texas

By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 29, 2011

AUSTIN — If this is not climate change, then this is exactly what climate change will be in as little as a decade. What has been happening in Texas, with these unprecedented (in time frames that matter) droughts and wildfires, is exactly what the climate scientists have been warning us about for over 20 years. We have been building up to this point since about the turn of the century, and now ecosystems have tipped over the edge. Climate feedbacks have kicked in hard.

The Texas Forest Services tells us that a half billion trees have died. Many more will die in the next five to 10 years from disease and insect infestation allowed by the damage that has already been done. These are the trees that have died in the drought, not the fires.

The first of this series of drought in 2005/6 was just classified as extreme. The last two have been one category worse than extreme — the exceptional category. The last 12 months were drier than the worst 12 months of the great drought of the 1950s. This has been a $10 billion drought, with another $1 billion in damages from the fires.

Worse, it’s hotter now. This summer was 4.9 degrees warmer than average. This may not seem like a lot, but think how sick you have been in the past if you have ever had a 102.9 degree temperature. The reason that increased heat makes such a big difference is that extra heat greatly increases evaporation intensifying the effects of drought. In other words, the same drought is much worse if it is only a little hotter…….

READ MUCH MORE HERE.. Courtesy The Rag Blog Tambien en ESPAÑOL  http://cinabrio.over-blog.es/article-hecatombe-climatica-

In Moscow demo: anarchists,feminists, LGBT activists

An open microphone assembly was held within the giant Moscow demonstrations

Almost all the speakers at a makeshift assembly were unanimous that the opposition status, consider themselves the ideologues of the protest movement, just want to get into power and do not intend to defend the interests of ordinary people. It is unlikely that peace, even thousands, meetings will lead to some radical changes. Defend the rights people can only do by fighting against the state and capital, and building around libertarian attitude.

When podium held by the free “opposition” oligarch Prokhorov, in black and red series he shouted, “Get in your Courchevel” and “The Power of millions, not the millionaires.” Anarchists and other participants in the meeting tried to block billionaire. Unfortunately, its passage further provided personal protection, but after Prokhorov flying snowballs.

After 16 hours, when some protesters began to disperse, and on the prospect of Sakharov became freer, and the column of anarchists and anti-fascists have joined together with her group of feminists, LGBT activists and individual representatives of the organized left-wing organizations has moved closer to the stage. The anarchists chanted “Freedom, equality, anarcho-communism,” “Higher, higher, black flag, the state chief enemy,” “Fascism shall not pass!”, “Our country – all of humanity!”(During a speech to the main podium speakers Nazi views), “All politics – crooks and thieves,” “Our candidate – self-government”, “Come on out, bring us a city,” “Down with fascism and capitalism,” “Path to Freedom – a revolution! “And other slogans.

After the meeting a column of anarchists, along with other protesters managed to arrange a procession from the expanded attributes and lit fireworks in the alley and Orlikova Kalanchevskaia street. Standing in a cordon police decided not to detain demonstrators.

About 18 hours, even at the metro station “Red Gate”, the ultra-right attacked a group of anarchists, who were returning from the rally. Police arrested along with neo-Nazis three anarchists, but they were soon released.

• working class self organisation’s blog
• READ ALL HERE..Reproduced courtesy of, http://avtonom.org/news/moskovskie-anarkhisty-24-dekabrya-blokada-prokhorova-svobodnaya-tribuna-shestvie-po-tsentru-sto

Crimenes fascistas en España serán investigados

Argentina investiga crímenes de la dictadura de Franco
Por Marcela Valente

	Exhumación de restos de víctimas del franquismo en Zaragoza, España Crédito: Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica

BUENOS AIRES, 27 dic (IPS) – Cobró impulso en Argentina una causa judicial sobre graves delitos cometidos durante la Guerra Civil Española y la posterior dictadura de Francisco Franco (1936-1975).

La jueza federal argentina María Servini de Cubría abrió este mes una investigación a raíz de la querella presentada en abril de 2010 por abogados humanitarios de Argentina en nombre de familiares de víctimas del régimen franquista……….

……..El objetivo no es cuestionar la vigencia de la ley de amnistía española, ratificada recientemente ante un intento de derogarla, sino ejercer la jurisdicción argentina respecto de crímenes “que ofenden y lesionan a la humanidad y que permanecen impunes”, remarcaron los abogados.

Organizaciones de derechos humanos estiman en 113.000 la cantidad de personas desaparecidas en la guerra civil y el régimen de Franco, muchas supuestamente enterradas en unas 2.500 fosas comunes. Pero habría además unos 30.000 casos de menores supuestamente sustraídos de sus familias y apropiados ilegalmente…..
“En el caso de España, cuando presentamos la querella había al menos 13 militares vivos, y además están los casos de 30.000 personas que desconocen su verdadera identidad”, dijo el abogado.

“Queremos una investigación a fondo, que se determine la verdad y se establezcan las responsabilidades. Si no lo hace España, lo haremos acá. Ojalá que haya colaboración”, agregó. (FIN/2011)…

Todos los detralles AQUÍ  http://www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=99875

Fascist Crimes crimes in Spain to be investigated

Argentina Investigates Human Rights Crimes of Spain’s Franco Era – IPS ipsnews.net

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Argentina Investigates Human Rights Crimes of Spain’s Franco Era – IPS ipsnews.net: BUENOS AIRES, Dec 28, 2011 (IPS) – A judge in Argentina has begun to investigate human rights crimes committed during Spain’s civil war and the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1936-1975).

This month, federal judge Mar�a Servini asked Spain for information on Spanish military officials, as part of a new investigation based on a lawsuit filed in April 2010 by human rights lawyers in Argentina in the name of relatives of victims of the Franco dictatorship.

The judge requested the names of military officers involved in the Franco regime; lists of victims of forced disappearance and summary execution; lists of children who were stolen from their parents during the dictatorship; and the names of companies that allegedly benefited from the forced labour of political prisoners.

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Huelga de Hambre contra el Sistema/ Hunger Strike vs. the System,

Huelga de Hambre contra el sistema/Hunger strike against the system  (in English below)

 La situación económica que prercariza a los más desfavorecidos, no es fruto de una “crisis” sino de una ESTAFA producida por el sistema financiero y respaldada por los poderes públicos de todo el Estado español. A su vez, estos poderes públicos están respaldados por todos los políticos institucionalizados del país, desde la derecha, pasando por los nacionalistas, hasta la “izquierda”, con su muda política de “quien calla, otorga”, quienes, en vez de tener la más mínima decencia de abandonar todos los parlamentos para dejar gobernar a los ladrones en solitario, participan democráticamente del latrocinio institucionalizado.

Los ricos, cada vez son más ricos y cada vez pagan menos impuestos.  Los pobres, cada vez somos más pobres y cada vez pagamos más impuestos.  Los esfuerzos de nuestra supervivencia, sólo están destinados al enriquecimiento de los ladrones institucionalizados.

Por tanto, yo Francisco Javier Cañadas Gascón –Xavi para los amigos- nacido y residente en la ciudad de Barcelona, en plenas facultades mentales decido unilateralmente declararme en “Huelga de Hambre y Sed, indefinida” a partir de 31 de diciembre de 2011, a las 12,00h ante la puerta principal de la Generalitat de Catalunya, situada en Pl. Sant Jaume. Y exijo, porque en esta ocasión no es de recibo pedir a los políticos ladrones institucionalizados, los siguientes puntos, para deponer mi actitud:

1.- Eliminación por Decreto Ley del Copago sanitario.

2.- Absolución sin cargos de los 20 compañeros y compañeras acusados de terrorismo por el juez Eloy Velasco de la Audiencia Nacional, por el “Cas Parlament” del 15 de junio de 2011, porque considero que la disidencia no es terrorismo y sí lo es el “latrocinio político institucionalizado”.

3.- Abolición inmediata de todos los desahucios, con carácter retroactivo desde 2008.

4.- Abolición inmediata de la Monarquía.

5.- Eliminación, por decreto ley de la cámara del senado.

6.- Nacionalización de toda la Banca-Usura.

7.- Reducción del 75% de las retribuciones de todos los “Políticos Institucionalizados” de España.

8.- Reducción en un 200% de los presupuestos de Defensa e Interior.

9.- Requisación de todas las cuentas situadas en paraísos fiscales y expulsión permanente del país de todos sus propietarios.

10.- Aumento en un 200% de las partidas presupuestarias de Sanidad, Educación, Cultura y Servicios Sociales.

¿Cómo puedes colaborar?

Traduciendo el texto al catalán perfecto y enviándolo a esta dirección de mail, para poder fotocopiar el Comunicado en Castellano y en Catalán.Haciendo difusión masiva del comunicado, vía internet y redes sociales, nacionales e internacionales.Fotocopiar el documento en las cantidades que a cada cual le sea posible y llevar las hojas a Pça. Sant Jaume a partir del 31 de diciembre de 2011 a las 12,00h.

Y sobre todo compañía, aunque sea una o dos personas, alternativamente, durante todas las horas del día.

AVISO: Sólo haré declaraciones ante los medios alternativos de información, por tanto, abstenerse mercenarios de los “mass-media”.

¡¡ SEMBRANDO ANARQUÍA, PARA RECOGER KAOS ¡!  En Barcelona, a 22 de diciembre de 2011

http://soliobrera.cnt.es/secciones/social/

 

 

Hunger strike against the system / Hunger Strike Against the system

The economic situation prercariza the disadvantaged, not the result of a “crisis” but a SCAM produced by the financial system and supported by governments around the Spanish State. In turn, these public authorities are supported by all political institutionalized in the country, from the right, to the nationalists, to the “left” with its policy change “who remains silent, gives” who, instead of having the slightest decency to leave all parliaments to stop thieves govern alone, participate democratically in the institutionalized theft.

The rich are becoming richer and more and pay less taxes. The poor, we are increasingly poor and increasingly pay more taxes. The efforts of our survival, are only intended to enrich the institutionalized thieves.

Therefore I Cañadas Francisco Javier Gascón, Xavi for friends, born and residing in the city of Barcelona, ​​in sound mind decided unilaterally declared an indefinite “Hunger and Thirst Strike, undefined” from December 31, 2011, to the 12.00 h at the front door of the Generalitat de Catalunya, located in Plaça Sant Jaume. And I demand, because this time is not acceptable to ask politicians institutionalized thieves, the following points, to depose my attitude:

1 .- Elimination of Copayment health Decree.

2 .- Absolution without charge of 20 colleagues accused of terrorism by Judge Eloy Velasco of the National Court, on the “Cas Parlament” of June 15, 2011, because I think that dissent is not terrorism, and yes it is the “institutionalized political thievery.”

3 .- immediate abolition of all foreclosures, retroactively from 2008.

4 .- immediate abolition of the monarchy.

5 .- Disposal, by decree of the senate chamber.

6 .- Nationalization of the entire Banking and Usury.

7 .- 75% reduction of the salaries of all the “Political Institutionalized” from Spain.

8 .- Reduced to 200% of the budgets of Defense and Interior.

9 .- requisition of all accounts located in tax havens and permanent expulsion from the country of all its owners.

10 .- Increase by 200% of the budget of Health, Education, Culture and Social Services.

How can you help?
 Photocopy the  in Castilian and massive dissemination Catalán.  Statement via the Internet and social networks, national and internacionales.Fotocopiar the document in the amounts that each where possible and bring the sheets to PCA. Sant Jaume Sq, from December 31, 2011 at 12:00 pm

And most of all company, even one or two people, alternatively, during all hours of the day.

NOTICE: I will only statements to the alternative media, therefore, refrain mercenaries of the “mass media”.

 In Barcelona, ​​on December 22, 2011

http://soliobrera.cnt.es/secciones/social/

 

28D..Hemos perdido la inocencia! LOST INNOCENCE ACTION DAY

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Miércoles 28/12 19:00

Incluimos a continuación la convocatoria de la Coordinadora de barrios:

Políticos, banqueros y otra gente de mal vivir piensan que pueden engañarnos, pero …

Hemos perdido la inocencia!

Por ello, el 28D, desde asambleas y grupos realizaremos acciones autónomas por la mañana para evidenciar lo evidente, denunciando sus mentiras.

Here we include the convening of the Coordinator of districts:

 Politicians, bankers and other unsavory characters think they can fool us, but ...

 We have lost our innocence!

 Therefore, the 28D, from assemblies and autonomous action groups performed in the morning to highlight the obvious, exposing his lies.

Utilizaremos los medios de transporte público para colgar mazas y hacer performances, transmitiendo nuestra pérdida de la inocencia y convocando a la acción conjunta en las plazas.

Nos reuniremos por la tarde a las plazas para llevar y realizar mazas de todos los tamaños, haciendo entre todos una hermosa instalación. Porque no somos inocentes y ya no creemos sus mentiras!

• 28D: Hemos perdido la inocencia: Convocatoria Barcelona Ciudad,

 

19h. Plaza Catalunya, junto al Monumento a Macià-Vergara.

El 28 de diciembre os convocamos a todas ya todos a celebrar que hemos perdido la inocencia.

A partir de las 7 de la tarde cada asamblea montará un taller de muñecos gigantes (llevar materiales para construir su), arma el pesebre y cantaremos villancicos indignadas.Luego, recorreremos el centro de la ciudad para mostrar que hay vida en este planeta más allá del consumo y la sumisión. Para acabar la fiesta, liberaremos a Helio, el gran muñeco indignado.

Lleve instrumentos (panderetas, zambombas …) para hacer sentir que ya no creemos sus mentiras, que nuestros derechos son pisoteados cotidianamente y que vivimos una broma pesada 365 días al año.

28 de diciembre, Hemos perdido la inocencia, todas y todos a las 19h. en las plazas.

Adhesiones: Asamblea Social Guinardó-Can Baró, Asamblea Barrio Arrabal, Asamblea Gótico, Asamblea Les Corts, ADSEixample Derecha, Barrio San Antonio, Asamblea Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Asamblea Montaña, Asamblea Carmelo, Acampada Santos, Asamblea San Andrés, Asamblea Masquefa, Asamblea Izquierda Ensanche , UniversitatIndignada15M, PremsaIndignada, Teatro sobre la marcha PAH_Barcelona  Más información en:http:// 28d.espaicoordinacio.cz.cc /

 

 

anonymous: Robin Hoods steal and give Millions!

 Anonymous hacks thousands of credit card numbers from security firm and cyphers money to charity.

Doing whatever it takes to bring some perceived justice back in the world…

Looks like the hacking group ‘Anonymous‘ has been back at it with its latest disclosure that it has stolen thousands of credit card numbers belonging to clients of US based security think tank Stratfor with as much a million dollars to date being donated to charity.

At present Anonymous is boasting that it has stolen Stratfor’s confidential client list, which includes outlets like Apple, the US Air Force and mined it for more than 4000 credit card numbers, passwords and home addresses.

To date ‘Anonymous’ has posted a small slice of the 200 gigabytes worth of sensitive client information, going so far as to go on twitter to taunt that more outlets have been earmarked in days to come.

Strike at the Heart of the Beast!

According to ‘Anonymous’ it was able to attain access to client credit card information because Stratfor failed to encrypt the codes, an embarrassing snafu for an outlet that’s in the business of security.

Hours after publishing what it claimed was Stratfor’s client list, Anonymous tweeted a link to encrypted files online with names, phone numbers, emails, addresses and credit card account details.

‘Not as many as you expected? Worry not, fellow pirates and robin hoods. These are just the ‘A’s,’ read a message posted online that encouraged readers to download a file of the hacked information.

What is particularly distressing to clients at present is the extent of information that ‘Anonymous’ has been able to steal and what some of the notes on various emails may have to say. Something that could prove to be very embarrassing as well as incriminatory given the sensitive information that an outlet like the US Airforce would be privy to.

This evening ‘Anonymous’ went online with images of receipts of charitable donations it already has begun to administer.

Hours after publishing what it claimed was Stratfor’s client list, Anonymous tweeted a link to encrypted files online with names, phone numbers, emails, addresses and credit card account details.

‘Not as many as you expected? Worry not, fellow pirates and robin hoods. These are just the ‘A’s,’ read a message posted online that encouraged readers to download a file of the hacked information.

One member of ‘anonymous’ went so far as to go on twitter using the handlebar, AnonymousAbu alleging that more than 90,000 credit cards from law enforcement, the intelligence community and journalists — ‘corporate/exec accounts of people like Fox’ News — had been hacked and used to make more than one million dollars worth of Christimas donations to entities that include for instance the Red Cross, CARE, Save the Children.Wishing everyone a “Merry LulzXMas” – a nod to its spin-off hacking group Lulz Security – Anonymous also posted a link on Twitter to a site containing the email, phone number and credit number of a US Homeland Security employee.

telegraph

Kazakhstán Kicks off.. Smash the criminal State!

  kazakhstan kicks off

Kazakh resistance to State massacres

On December 16th (Kazakhstan’s Independence Day) more than 3,000 people met up for a demonstration at the main square of Zhanaozen, a town situated in the oil-rich Mangystau Province in the west of the country.

The people who took part in action were the ex-workers of local oil companies, fired after a bitter seven month strike. Their main demands were the payment of all outstanding salaries and improvement of work conditions.

As expected the oil workers and other town folk announced their intentions to hold a peaceful protest to the authorities of Kazakhstan. However, during the demo, a police Jeep was deliberately driven into the crowd of protesters and ‘peaceful’ went out of fashion from there on in. Angry people turned a police car upside down and set it on fire. A nearby police bus and a yurt (placed on the square “for the celebrations”) were

oil strikers camp Kazakhstan

also torched. Following this, the people, armed with sticks, pipes and molotov cocktails occupied the office of the local gas company and burned rooms on the ground floor of its office building. The local council building and a hotel were also burned. The oil workers surrounded the building and would not let the firemen get to the building. As an encore, they looted the houses of the rich in the exclusive, private area of town.

The state’s answer was to send army divisions, armoured transport and more police. The town’s population defended the strikers and, as a result of the attempt to bring it to ‘order’ more than ninety people (civilians and security) are said to have been killed, with eight hundred injured (these numbers are constantly growing).

Unsurprisingly, official media channels tell of much lower numbers. Many workers across the region have stopped work in support of the demonstrators. First oil workers of Mangystau Province started a sympathy strike, then workers of non-oil industries in the region also stopped their work in solidarity. The protests have become a general strike.

In what will probably become a 21st century standard ‘state-under-threat’ response, mobile phones in affected areas cannot be accessed, landlines do not work, Internet social networks and media are being blocked.

Of course, no mention has been made of punishing any police officers for firing on unarmed and peaceful people.The vast majority of the profits from the sale of the country’s resources are not shared with the nation’s poor, and the Kazakh government has a terrible human rights record. Time and time again members of the security forces, torture, beat, and mistreat detainees. The government continues to use arbitrary arrest and detention, and selectively prosecutes political opponents, often detaining them for long periods.

One might say that the spirit of the Arab spring has been taken up by Central Asians, but with the current low media interest (apart from a few newspapers here and there), there isn’t the same pressure on president Nazarbayev that there has been on Middle-Eastern leaders this past year (and they weren’t exactly exactly keen to fold up that pressure in any event).

However, Kazakhs don’t need to look as far away as the Arab world for inspiration. Another ex-Soviet Central Asian country, Kyrgystan, chucked out their despotic president Bakiyev in April 2010, following riots and demonstrations that led to Bakiyev’s ousting and the formation of a transitional government, headed by former philosophy lecturer Roza Otunbayeva. And what country did Bakiyev flee to? Kazakhstan.

No doubt president Nazarbaev has double checked his private jets are full of fuel and that his Swiss bank cashcard is still valid. Just in case.

Read full article HERE http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/BOLLOCKS-TO-BORAT/

Campaign Kazakhstan demonstrates in Berlin and Cologne
Campaign Kazakhstan activists, Germany

Berlin solidarity Kazakh oil strikers

Berlin

Yesterday, around 50 people protested in the centre of Berlin, criticising torture, repression and murder in Kazakhstan. Trade unionists including, metalworkers, teachers and health workers were joined by activists from the international “CampaignKazakhstan”, as well as members of the German LINKE (LEFT) party, SAV (CWI in Germany) and other left organisations, informing passers-by and tourists at Brandenburg gate of the events since last friday around the oil workers’ strike in western Kazakhstan.

The protesters shouted, “stop the slaughter in Kazakhstan!”

Occupy Seattle: Rent is Theft !

    Squatting has become more and more common (or more conspicuous) as part of the Occupy movement. An unfinished duplex at 23rd and Alder has been occupied by a collective of people since mid November. That group of unnamed defendants have been summoned to court for eviction. The court date has been set for December 28.

occupy Seattle

2:44PM – UPDATE – Slog says they spokewith some of the former residents who told a slightly different story about the house occupation:

They held up the house key. An anonymous “elf” had come by the Occupy Seattle encampment at SCCC a few weeks ago and handed them the key and the address, they said. (A different anonymous donor also gave them a sailboat that they’ll begin using and painting in the spring.) Inside, they’d begun painting a forest landscape, and planned a waterfall down the staircase; they titled the house “Water.” They denied doing damage or being a haven for any kind of destructive activity and said they didn’t know of any complaints from neighbors. Instead, they saw the house as a home base for adding art to the immediate neighborhood. To that end, they’d completed a mural nearby yesterday, on Fir Street between 14th and 15th, on a garage wall offered to them by a resident. Also yesterday, another donor gave them furniture: a futon, bookcases.

Two of their fellow occupiers are still in jail, set to be released on bail this afternoon. The third person arrested was not part of the occupation and never had lived in the house, they say. He, along with about 50 other protesters against the raid, had come to show his support, and when he stepped onto the grass, he was arrested, the occupiers say. He is the one charged with weapons violations, they say: He had a pocket knife in his pants pocket, which he then offered to the police, for which they booked him on the weapons charge.

2011: New Earth NOT FOUND.. hunt goes on

Despite the hype New Earth was NOT FOUND.

The best Nasa could come up with  was ‘Kepler 22b’, a gassy  lump  800 light years away,  I mean… Meanwhile their blog complained that future missions have been cancelled for lack of funds, and after months of silence took a lot of planets off their ‘possibles’ list, saying that ‘starlight is much more variable than expected’..

2011. Kepler fails to find New Earth

Finally on Dec 20th ‘Kepler 20′ system was announced.. earth sized, okay, but orbiting their sun in a few days at 1000s of degrees C.

What we expected were earth sized planets in the habitable zone, at a few light years distance, with a magnetic field, etc…  Statistically these planets must exist in the 1000s of planets discovered.

Nasa can’t find them because: a)The Kepler telescope is too small and the next ones (TPF and SIM) are cancelled. b) Planets in the habitable zone are likely to cross in front of their suns only once or twice an earth year, and  so take years to confirm by that method. They can spot ‘Jupiter’ gas giants and ‘Mercury’ hells okay. c) The ‘unreliable starlight’ problem.

The Kepler mission does release  huge amounts of raw data, after a long delay, so teams of scientists and individuals are searching like crazy, combining with data from other telescopes, exciting new methods and instruments, in the continuing hunt for New Earth.

http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/newsaboutplanetfinding/

It’s still  possible some genius kid could find New Earth in this big pile of numbers

The Free, 2012 edition, a free solstice gift.

free download HERE  http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/

  Out today, the beautifully done 2012 edition of The Free.

Available as a free download, it’s made lighter for faster online working.

plus you can send it easily as a present in an ordinary Email

 This book is a gas, terrific writing a wonderful and likely  prophetic story for the near  future ..  Jim Mac.

It creates poetry out the strange internal rhythms and logic of the main character, full of off-beat rhythms and lyrical leitmotifs...Rob Stewart

“The Free. An unbelievably exciting book, not because of its stupendous pace  and action filled plot, but because of the depth of character holding us breathless as we explore one after another of these amazing people.’’ Gerry McCullough-

 Yahoo! It is in acts, has skin and is feminist, what more can one want .Truly supported.  A Zoomer

 This book is truly unique. The characters and plot flow like water, and are tasty like chocolate. A.A.

 It’s sexy and wonderful and just pure joy… a breathless celebration of life.. Gold in its purest literary form. Bec

‘History of ‘The Free’

 The first version came out in 1986 in Brixton, by the class-less Hooligan Press from the gang who ran 121 Anarchist Bookshop, Brixton Squatters Aid, with its revolting paper The Crowbar, and Sth London Stress etc, linked to both Black Flag and Class War. It sold out and was reprinted in 1992 by Attack International, and in German by Killroy Press.

In 2007 I began to update it and realised it needed a rewrite. Inspired by the Barcelona anarcho-squatting scene, where I live, this new edition is 3 times as long and 10 times better, with lots more humour, sex and triumphing alternatives. It does have some following, a huge number of Fiends on Farcebook, plus the Wordmess blog for free downloads (http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com). Also available on Scribd, Authonomy, Google, Issuu and the Anarchist Library,etc.) but still needs piles of word of mouth publicity to be more widely read…

That’s where you could help..

 About The Writer

  ‘Here I play around with gardens and mechanics and look after children and horses. I can cook a deadly vegetarian paella, and my hobbies include solar powered Internet and, um, rooting in bins… we have a wizard windmill and dispose of excellent compost toilets..’

(continued page 334)

 Glossary

 

CoOp Pool*

  A combined consumers and producers cooperative, including a voluntary pooling of resources

and skill sharing. Typically the CoOp Pools provide a ration of goods and services Money Free, …

Free Credit Cards*

 

Introduced before the uprising, popular everywhere,You don’t have to pay for Pools goods or services

 but the Wurt Value is recorded, ..

Gay Rescue*

..See ‘Women’s Rescue’. If you’re oppressed  for being gay you can get and give help discreetly online..

Shit-Ons*

A Shit-On is an attempt to control or intimidate using unfair authority or power, usually sexist or racist..

CLAN Fashions*

  We include here the prevalent hot climate body art. Stick-Ons are removable tattoos which tend to replace clothes in CLAN crazes and belonging symbolism. Various fashions include; Functioning Air-Tails and Crests that mimic birds and animals. Peek-suits and pants,are….

 

(Continued page 330)

Friends of ‘The Free’..ways you could help

 

We think the book is great and the illustration of ideas an important inspiration, but till now it’s reached a tiny fraction of those who would enjoy and use it.. If you agree please help distribute

Now at last you can also read this edition on paper. It’s a rare book! So please pass it round your friends if you like it

On Mayday, 2011 ‘The Free’ came out as a free download, relying on its friends to distribute.

By year’s end it had over 1700 friends on its Facebook page,

plus over 50,000 visits to its blogsite, and can be read and downloaded online……

 (cont. page 340)

  free download HERE  http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/

Mumia moved to new prison. Free Mumia!

Mumia Has Been Transferred to SCI Mahanoy!

Mumia Abu-Jamal is being held in Administrative Custody at SCI Mahanoy, Frackville, PA until he is cleared to enter general population.  Mumia’s death sentence has been dropped and he will begin serving his life sentence (with no parole opportunity). 

We need phone calls to the institution to let them know that the WORLD is watching Mumia’s movements and ask general questions so that they know that nothing they are doing is happening under cover of darkness.

Please also send cards and letters to Mumia at the new address so that he begins receiving mail immediately and it is known to all of the people there that we are with him!

Prison Phone Number: 570-773-2158

MAILING ADDRESS:
Mumia Abu-Jamal, #AM8335
SCI Mahanoy
301 Morea Road
Frackville, PA 17932

Obama praises US mass murderers in Iraq

A totally unprovoked

and illegal war on a defenceless people, causing years of horrific massacres, up to one million dead, countless families destroyed, 4000 US army deaths, a bill of $801BN for the US taxpayer, a campaign of torture with nearly 100% impunity… etc etc etc…

President Obama has sunk to a new low in praising all this, becoming an accessory to brutal mass carnage. All this to secure oil contracts for America??  To stop Saddam Hussein selling oil in Euros?? To get military bases to attack Iran?? To use up stocks of weapons and boost the military economy??

Maybe all these things, but none are any excuse . Meanwhile the tame US media has gone almost silent, American withdrawal, it seems, is hardly worth talking about

The Elusive Declaration of Peace

Ken Butigan     Friday 9 December 2011    Nation of Change

“Except for the occasional newsflash about sporadic violence—and the recent spate of stories about the sheer tonnage of materiel that the US is shipping stateside as it readies its departure—we don’t hear much about Iraq these days.”

The re­main­ing US troops in Iraq are sched­uled to leave by the end of this month. While there had been some talk about ex­tend­ing the De­cem­ber 31, 2011 dead­line Pres­i­dent Obama set early in his term, this was scut­tled in Oc­to­ber when the Iraqi gov­ern­ment re­buffed the ad­min­is­tra­tion on two de­mands: that US troops be guar­an­teed im­mu­nity from pros­e­cu­tion and that the Pen­ta­gon be al­lowed to main­tain bases in the coun­try going for­ward.

While the US will re­tain a large em­bassy and two con­sulates in the coun­try, with 4,000 to 5,000 con­trac­tors (down from a high of 180,000), this is a dif­fer­ent out­come from the US gov­ern­ment’s orig­i­nal ex­pec­ta­tion of per­ma­nently main­tain­ing scores of mil­i­tary bases, in­clud­ing su­per­bases, in the coun­try de­signed to in­def­i­nitely an­chor the US geo-po­lit­i­cal pres­ence in the Mid­dle East. While we may learn later that this long-term strat­egy, against all po­lit­i­cal ob­sta­cles, re­mains on track (in­clud­ing a plan for all that oil), the nearly nine-year-old oc­cu­pa­tion of Iraq is ap­par­ently com­ing to an end.

US soldiers examine another victim

 The ac­tion has moved on to Afghanistan, Pak­istan and Yemen. But five years ago, things were very dif­fer­ent. The mil­i­tary, po­lit­i­cal, and eco­nomic shock­waves from the US in­va­sion in 2003 were roil­ing the coun­try, the sec­tar­ian vi­o­lence was mount­ing, and Iraq was awash in blood and in­con­solable sor­row. The human wreck­age—as well as the huge eco­nomic toll—de­fied com­pre­hen­sion (and the blood­less num­ber-crunch­ing that sur­faced now and then).

Read full long article HERE  http://wammtoday.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/the-elusive-declaration-of-peace/

Save the Amazon, veto the new Forest Code

    Dear friends,
The Amazon rainforest is facing its biggest threat ever. Damaging changes to Brazil’s Forest Code – the main laws protecting the rainforest – were just approved by Brazil’s Senate. These changes open up the Amazon to rampant deforestation and we now stand to lose more of this amazing ecosystem to destruction. Soon the only thing standing between the Amazon and the chainsaws will be Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who can veto these changes. We all have a stake in protecting this irreplacable resource.

You can urge President Dilma to protect the Amazon and veto the new Forest Code. clic HERE http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/forests/amazon

We are edging closer to an “ecological calamity” in the Amazon rainforest and a vote in the Brazilian Senate has pushed us closer to the brink. It voted to approve destructive changes to the laws governing forest protection – called the Forest Code – that would open up the Amazon rainforest to rampant destruction. But it is not too late. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will have the opportunity to veto the changes – you can ask her to protect the Amazon and veto the new Forest Code.

Losing the Amazon rainforest to further deforestation would be an unimaginable loss for our planet and life on it, and the approval of this new Forest Code in Brazil would bring us one step closer to this terrible reality.

Not only is the Amazon home to one out of every ten species on the planet and important to the livelihoods of local communities, but it also functions as a carbon storage system, which can help us avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change. If deforestation and degradation of the Amazon continues increasing at the current pace the damage could actually transform the Amazon into part of the problem instead of part of the solution. The emissions from Amazon destruction contribute to a feedback cycle that will not only make climate change worse, by increasing warming trends, but cause further damage to the remaining forest, as forest fires in the region would intensify. The new Forest Code would bring us closer to this vicious cycle. Some scientists are already discussing the potential of losing the Amazon completely – imagine a world with no Amazon rainforest.

It won’t happen, because we will all keep demanding real protection for the rainforest until we get it. We know that a future free from destruction is possible, and we’ll condemn any attempts to destroy that future for the short-term profit of a few – the new Forest Code is one such attempt.

This past year the agricultural lobby pushed hard inside Brazil to weaken forest protection, many of the people pushing for these changes have been fined themselves for illegal deforestation. The result is the new Forest Code – it reduces the size of areas under protection, pardons people who deforested illegally and weakens enforcement of protection laws.

The text that has now been approved by the Senate is really bad; after the vote, Greenpeace Amazon campaign director Paulo Adario reemphasized that it opens up the rainforest to further deforestation. He also pointed out that scientists and the public prosecutors office have already said that the new Forest Code is not good for the environment and will be challenged.

There is still time to turn this situation around. You can send President Dilma an email right now and make it clear that she has a duty to protect the Amazon rainforest and veto the new Forest Code. All of us, including President Dilma, have a stake in the survival of this amazing ecosystem.

We’d like to keep you updated on this situation as it develops, so please keep in touch and make sure you are following us on Facebook and Twitter.

Sparks Massive Wildcat Strike

  Sparks Defy Anti-Union Laws With Massive Wildcat Strike

Hundreds of electricians took wildcat strike action on Wednesday, defying the bosses who want to slash their wages, the anti-union laws which the bosses use to pick holes in strike mandates, and the union bureacracy which had to be dragged kicking and screaming to holding a ballot at all. The country’s biggest ‘unofficial’ walkout in decades represents a new stage in the UK class war – a stage in which workers recognise the limitations of their own leaderships, and consciously move beyond them. By cutting out the utterly compromised middle men and women in this way, working people come face to face with their ultimate enemy – huge corporations and the capitalist state………..

………But despite yesterday’s burning of ‘sign or be sacked’ Balfour contracts, the company will soon want to make good on their threats. In this, they will have the assistance of Unite fat cats. If Wednesday 7th December is to be the high water mark of the rank and file resistance, Sparks will lose this historic battle. If they are to win, they must now organise completely independently of both Unite and the anti-union laws, and immediately make an appeal to the wider working class for support.

Click here for my analysis of why workers and union bosses are enemies.

READ MUCH MORE here.. WITH THANKS

http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/12/sparks-defy-anti-union-laws-with.html

Dia Acción Global / World Action Sat. Dec 11

  Llamamiento a un día de Acción Global en el Día de los Derechos Humanos, el    ENGLISH CLICK HERE..:http://dec10.takethesquare.net/

El éxito del 15 de Octubre ha generado un impulso sin precedentes para  la acción global. La humanidad se ha unido a través de las fronteras en  la lucha por la democracia real y los derechos individuales. Es  esencial en esta lucha el respeto por la vida humana y las condiciones  de vida, incluido el medio ambiente.

La sociedad civil global está siendo amenazada por un sistema basado  en el poder y no en los valores humanos. Día tras día reprime libertades  básicas y favorece sistemáticamente la avaricia de unos pocos en  detrimento de las necesidades de la mayoría. El poder financia guerras,  monopolios alimentarios y farmacéuticos, apoya regímenes dictatoriales  en todo el mundo, destruye el medio ambiente, manipula y censura los  flujos de información e impide la transparencia.

Convocatoria de Ágorabcn

Desde la asamblea permanente de AgoraBcn, en Plaça Catalunya,   convocamos a toda la ciudadanía a una concentración por los Derechos  Humanos.

Con  todos estos ataques que sufre la ciudadanía lamentablemente, lo  único que hacen es pisotear cada vez más unos Derechos que son  irrenunciables. Cada vez más gente lo pasa muy mal a costa de la felicidad de una clase que de derechos tiene muchos pero de humanos poco.

Convocamos para que el día de los Derechos Humanos sea de reivindicación por lo que nos corresponde.

http://www.facebook.com/notes/agorabcn/los-derechos-humanos-no-son-recortables-concentraci%C3%B3n-sabado-10122011-12hs-p%C3%A7-ca/316993911651660

Más información:

• 10Dec.:http://dec10.takethesquare.net/
• Propuestas sobre derechos humanos: http://takethesquare.uservoice.com/forums/140896-10diciembre-dia-de-los-derechos-humanos-/filters/new
• Pad de discusión sobre los Derechos Humanos: http://titanpad.com/humanrights
• Vídeo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3KBgneO_yQ
• Convocatoria de Adbusters: http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/future-occupy.html
• People’s Assemblies: http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2011/05/global-day-of-action-for-real-democracy/

Repsol gana 5% con ‘Fracking’ Argentina

Repsol YPF amenaza con el ‘fracking’ una región argentina.

Con el truco de declarar ‘nuevos’ depósitos que podrían ser explotados con la nueva técnica de ‘fracking’ Repsol ha ganado 5% en valor, no sé cuantos milion. No les importa que ‘fracking’ envenena permanentement el acuífer.

Pero los depositos de hydrocarburos ya conocidas son más que suficientes para llevar el Cambio Climático al límite absoluto de +2·C , así que

las prospecciones de Repsol son crimenes masivos contra el futuro de la tierra, denegando una vida a nuestros hij*s y condenando miles o miliones de especies maravilosas a la extinción.

| LA MULTINACIONAL ASEGURA QUE ES LA MAYOR RESERVA DE PETRÓLEO Y GAS EXISTENTE

 Repsol-YPF ha anunciado que ha encontrado las mayores reservas halladas hasta ahora de petróleo y gas situadas en la Patagonia argentina. La noticia ha sido recibida con preocupación entre las organizaciones ecologistas y sociales del país porque para la extracción se va a emplear la técnica del ‘fracking’ (fractura hidráulica), que genera contaminación de tierras y acuíferos.

Diego Pérez Roig / Observatorio Petrolero Sur. Buenos Aires (Argentina)

A principios de noviembre Repsol- YPF anunció el que podría ser el mayor “hallazgo” de petróleo y gas de su historia. Según estimaciones de la empresa, en los 428 kilómetros cuadrados de Loma de la Lata –Patagonia argentina–, habría recursos de petróleo y gas, técnica y económicamente explotables, equivalentes a 927 millones de barriles de petróleo.

De acuerdo a diversos medios de comunicación, en la zona ya se encuentran trabajando 15 equipos de perforación, y los pozos de shale oil realizados alcanzan niveles de extracción que rondan los 5.000 barriles por día. La explotación de este yacimiento de petróleo y gas se va a llevar a cabo con la técnica del fracking, (fractura de roca por presión hidráulica) que cuenta con importantes denuncias por las consecuencias ecológicas que genera.

El “descubrimiento” tiene vinculación directa con el hecho de que en diciembre de 2010 Repsol-YPF y la presidenta Cristina Fernández presentaron el hallazgo de 4,5 trillones de pies cúbicos de gas no convencional, y en líneas generales, con un listado de rimbombantes anuncios que se inscriben en un proceso generalizado de expansión territorial de la frontera hidrocarburífera.

Voces críticas han puntualizado el hecho de que en Loma de la Lata –como en otras áreas– se conoce desde hace años la existencia de estructuras geológicas con recursos no convencionales, gracias a las inversiones de riesgo hechas por la YPF estatal durante décadas. Por lo tanto, más que de un “descubrimiento”, tendríamos que hablar de una recategorización de reservas “posibles” a “probadas”, cuyo propósito sería revalorizar a la compañía –en estos días sus acciones subieron más de un 5%–, para una posterior venta.

LEER TODO AKÍ  http://www.grupotortuga.com/Repsol-YPF-amenaza-con-el-fracking

Ya Existe carburante ‘Zero-CO2′ (NH3). Boicoteado por el Capitalismo.

Funciona como gasolina pero más barato y emite ZERO CO2. Hecho de solo aire, agua y electricidad
Hace 100 años que se sabe producirlo, con el método de hacer fertilizante.
Hoy se hace con Gas Natural, pero se puede producir muy bien con electricidad de fuentes renovables y aún más barato con una nueva sistema (SSAS).
El ‘Gas Verde ha sido usado durante 100 años ya. Está ignorado hoy solo para proteger el petroleo y las corporaciones capitalistas que controlan el mercado.
 De hecho se puede producir el Gas Verde NH3 muy bien de forma decentralizado, o con el molino de viento del barrio
 Se cambia en liquido a poco presión, no explota y es poco peligroso. Huele fatal, eso si, pero se mantiene tapado. Es ideal para guardar energía de sistemas solares para usar cuando no hay.
No hay dinero para comercializar el GAS VERDE, mientras se da todavía subsidios bilionarios a la industria petrolera

Que crimen que tenemos que destruir el planeta cuando siempre ha existido la opción de carburante sin CO2!

 falta traducir más…ayuda!Ya Existe carburante ‘Zero-CO2′ (NH3). Boicoteado por el Capitalismo.

Jornades de Okupacion, Jueves 15 Diciembre

El próximo jueves día 15 se realizarán unas jornadas sobre okupación con las siguientes ACTIVIDADES:
12:30 Proyección del documental “OKUPA,CRÓNICA DE UNA LUCHA SOCIAL”.
14:00 Comedor vegano.
16:00 Talleres prácticos sobre okupación.
19:00 Charla-debate a cargo de una compañera de la OFICINA DE OKUPACIÓN DE BARCELONA, los temas a tratar serán:
-”EL ABC DE LA OKUPACIÓN”(paso a paso para iniciarse en la okupacion de espacios abandonados).
-”AUTOGESTION DE LA DEFENSA LEGAL” (conocer las leyes para defenderse).
A continuación se proyectará el video “OKUPACIÓN EN BARCELONA Y ALREDEDORES”.
22:00 Cenador vegano
+KAFETA Y DISTRIS!

Publicado por CSOA15Gatxs en 08:31

 

Parlament aprova la mort de 60.000 ocells

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El Parlament de Catalunya ratifica un Decret Llei per a la captura d’ocells fringíl·lids encara que va ser informat en repetides ocasions de la il·legalitat de la norma aprovada. SEO/BirdLife va enviar a tots els membres de la cambra un contundent informe en què es demostra que el DECRET LLEI 2/2011 aprovat, contravé la Directiva d’Aus (92/43/CEE) i la Llei 42/2007 de Patrimoni Natural i Biodiversitat. Tots els parlamentaris estaven informats de la il·legalitat de la pràctica que autoritza aquest Decret Llei, fins i tot alguns d’ells van presentar els informes enviats per SEO/BirdLife posant de manifest les sentències del Tribunal de Justícia de les Comunitats Europees contra aquesta pràctica i els informes dels propis tècnics de caça de la Generalitat i de la Secretaria General Tècnica del Ministeri de Medi Ambient i Medi Rural i Marí (MARM), però el Parlament de Catalunya ha ratificat, amb els vots a favor de CiU, PP i el PSC, aquest Decret i s’autoritzarà la captura de 60.000 ocells al territori autonòmic. Actualment, SEO/BirdLife realitza una campanya contra la caça il·legal d’ocells a Espanya, que intenta acabar amb aquest tipus de pràctiques mitjançant la sensibilització dels ciutadans i el compliment de la legislació vigent. La documentació remesa a tots els parlamentaris pot descarregar del següent enllaç: http://www.seo.org/programa_seccion_ficha.cfm?idPrograma=24&idArticulo=6 Per a més informació: Cristina Sánchez. Delegada de SEO/BirdLife en Catalunya;

Politicos hide as US `occupy` jobless get Wild

image David Sachs with thanks

After visiting 94 offices on Capitol Hill Tuesday, unemployed demonstrators targeted a Newt Gingrich fundraising event on Wednesday night. The hotel, like many of the representatives’ offices, locked its doors to the demonstrators, who are in D.C. with a group called “Take Back the Capitol.” Wednesday night the demonstrators called for Gingrich to discuss his jobs plans with the “99% outside” protesting, rather than the “1% who are contributing thousands to his campaign,” according to a press release sent out by organizers. Gingrich never came out.

“Take Back the Capitol” is made up of “unemployed and underemployed people from every state, students, community activists, union members, healthcare advocates, and travelers from Occupy sites from coast to coast,” according to the group’s website. Organized labor has helped coordinate three days’ worth of Capitol Hill protests under that banner.

The protesters are in D.C. as Congress is expected to vote on extending unemployment insurance to 2.2 million unemployed workers who face losing their benefits if the legislation is not passed.

Today, Senate Republicans blocked a vote on President Obama’s nomination to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Congress created the bureau, which was the brain child of Massachussets Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, during last year’s financial reforms. But Republicans have worked to strip its authority ever since, and have vowed not to confirm a director for it. Obama is weighing a recess appointment, which would circumvent the Senate vote.

Meanwhile, many of the demonstrators are using cameras on their mobile phones to upload images of members of Congress ignoring them. In the video below, Congressman Joe Walsh, who represents Illinois’ 8th District, was caught on video fleeing from his constituents. “We’ve been waiting a few hours to speak with you congressman,” a woman is heard saying as Walsh races down a set of stair. “You can at least acknowledge us,” the woman says once she realizes the congressman is fleeing.

California Rep. Elton Gallegly, a Republican who represents most of Ventura County and inland Santa Barbara Couny, at least acknowledged the demonstrators with a “Merry Christmas,” but he then ran quickly behind locked doors.

“Even when one of his constituents presented herself and tried to talk to him, he just kept saying ‘Merry Christmas,’” Esperanza Arrizon, a youth leader with Good Jobs LA, wrote about the event. According to her, before the congressman ran behind closed doors he did have one question for demonstrators, “I just donated 750 gifts to needy children, how many of you can say you did that?”

The event is being organized by several community groups by the American Dream Movement, a partnership between several groups including MoveOn.org, SEIU and other progressive, labor, and faith-based organizations.

Read more HERE  with thanks  http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/12/elected_officials_

Release Mumia Abu-Jamal NOW NOW NOW

“Because Mumia has for thirty years been subjected to torture on death row and because he is innocent, justice for Mumia will not be served by life imprisonment, but by his release from prison.”

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced Wednesday this office has called off their 30-year battle to execute former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal for allegedly murdering a white police officer, the Associated Press reports. The decision comes just two days short of the 30th anniversary of the killing.

Supporters and advocates who argue Abu-Jamal is not guilty say Williams’ decision shouldn’t be a surprise.

“Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence. Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia must now be released,” South African activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in a statement sent out by FreeMumia.com.

“I therefore join the call, and ask others to follow, asking District Attorney Seth Williams to rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice: drop this case now, and allow Mumia Abu-Jamal to be immediately released, with full time served,” Tutu continued.

“The news that the DA’s Office of Philadelphia is no longer seeking the death penalty for Mumia is no news to supporters of the nearly 30 year Pennsylvania Death Row prisoner,” Dr. Johanna Fernandez wrote in a statement to the Loop21.com. Fernandez is a U.S. History professor at Baruch College and an advocate who’s been working on Abu-Jamal’s case for several years.

“Because Mumia has for thirty years been subjected to torture on death row and because he is innocent, justice for Mumia will not be served by life imprisonment, but by his release from prison.”

Fernandez, who produced a documentary on Abu-Jamal, explains the conditions today of the Pennsylvania courts that found Abu-Jamal guilty and describes his prison cell. From Loop21.com:

We must remember that the same Pennsylvania courts that are being denounced today for the mass incarceration of juveniles are the same courts that framed Mumia. Pennsylvania has more juveniles serving life than any other state in the nation. The backdrop of constitutional violations in Mumia’s case include: routine corruption, evidence tampering, prosecutorial misconduct, judicial racism, discrimination in jury selection, and the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans and Latinos. The issue of mass incarceration of black and Latino males is one of the gravest civil rights crises of our time.

We’re sobered by the realization that for 30 years an international movement kept Abu-Jamal alive long enough for the appeals process to run its course. But what if the movement hadn’t kept him alive? For 30 years Abu-Jamal has been forced to withstand tortured isolation in a windowless cell the size of a small bathroom. For thirty years the threat of execution has hung over his head, and he’s not been allowed to touch his children or his grandchildren, or his wife and siblings, or his friends.

Supporters of Abu-Jamal, including Princeton professor Cornel West and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have a symposium planned for Friday at the National Constitution Center for the man they call an “innocent revolutionary and celebrated journalist.”

Chimeras..human hybrids tomorrow..

ChimerasAnimal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy

Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that’s part human, part animal.

Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.

In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies.

And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.

Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing “spare parts,” such as livers, to transplant into humans.

Watching how human cells mature and interact in a living creature may also lead to the discoveries of new medical treatments.

But creating human-animal chimeras—named after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion’s head, goat’s body, and serpent’s tail—has raised troubling questions, this is even worse than experimenting on normal animals: What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human and have human rights?

There are currently no U.S. federal laws that address these issues.

http://first-news.blogspot.com/2011_01_28_archive.html

 

OCCUPYing evicted homes in 20 Cities

‘Occupy’ protesters reclaiming foreclosed homes in 20 cities

#OccupyOurHomes, By David Edwards. The 99 percent movement, which has been evicted from many of their encampments across the country, is finding common cause with thousands of homeowners who are also being evicted from their homes.

Even though the movement has often been criticized for a lack of defined goals, Tuesday’s “Occupy Our Homes” action in at least 20 cities makes it clear that they are standing up to banks to reverse foreclosures.

“We’re in the neighborhood in New York City that had the highest number of foreclosure filings in 2010 to send a message that the economy is failing the 99 percent,” Vocal New York organizer Sean Barry told Raw Story from a Brooklyn neighborhood as about 200 protesters chanted in the background.

“We’re here because [there are] a lot of empty buildings owned by Wall Street banks and we’re going to liberate them.”

Tasha Glasgow, the single mother of a 9-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son, was expected to be one of the first occupants of a reclaimed home. Barry said that Glasgow, who had been in and out of the shelter system in New York City, had been slated to get a Section 8 voucher before budget cuts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg put an end to that promise.

“We’ve gained access to the home, and we’ve got the support of the neighbors,” Barry explained. “They’re going to start occupying it. … And then, there’s going to be 24/7 eviction defense by Occupy Wall Street.”

There were over 40 events planned in more than 20 cities Tuesday, but that is just the beginning.

“When it comes to Wall Street’s control over our economy, our democracy and our lives, there’s few better examples than the housing crisis,” Barry noted. “Occupy Wall Street is going to continue to support this national Occupy Our Homes campaign, and both defend homeowners who are being threatened with eviction due to foreclosure, and to move families that need homes into vacant buildings that banks are just sitting on.”

David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006.  Follow him on Twitter at @DavidEdwards.

Related: Occupy protesters take over foreclosed homes

http://incorporealcommittee.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/occupy-protesters-reclaiming-foreclosed-homes-in-20-cities/

Repsol se enriquece Matando

¡ Encontraron el Dorado!

Repsol se enriquece con los lotes y mercados cautivos de América Latina

Domingo 4 de diciembre de 2011, por repsolmemata

Las pasadas semanas Repsol sorprendió a los accionistas con la noticia del descubrimiento histórico de 927 millones de barriles equivalentes de petróleo en el yacimiento de Vaca Muerta, Neuquén, Argentina. La noticia coló y los inversores premiaron a la compañía con un aumento del 6% de la cotización bursátil a las pocas horas de su difusión. Aunque exagerada por su contenido (pues según los analistas, ni son reservas probadas, ni el shale oil es todavía petróleo ya que necesita de costosos procesos de refinación)[1] pareciera que la crisis mundial no afecta a la compañía petrolera, que sigue amasando altísimos beneficios. Pero si ellos ganan, quién pierde?

En el último lustro la estampa de Antoni Brufau, presidente de Repsol-YPF, abrazado a presidentes de diferentes países de América Latina se ha hecho familiar . No en vano, la compañía petrolera ha apostado millonarias inversiones en la exploración de nuevas áreas y el desarrollo de campos productivos que han engrosado unas reservas muy cotizadas en los mercados bursátiles. Otra estrategia ha sido formar sociedades mixtas con las empresas nacionales, para conseguir áreas prioritarias y superar las resistencias gubernamentales. De este modo, los países productores, que a la vez son consumidores, abren sus puertas a la compañía, entregando unos combustibles para que la compañía los exporte, o los venda al propio país con un gran margen de ganancias.

Mientras la compañía anuncia en las bolsas sus fabulosos hallazgos en zonas no tradicionales, los habitantes de estas regiones sufren los pasivos ambientales del avance de la frontera extractiva. Y los conflictos afloran con el petróleo.

Petróleo bajo el mar

En Brasil, Repsol materializó a finales del pasado año un acuerdo con la empresa china Sinopec para desarrollar conjuntamente los proyectos de exploración y producción que posee en las Cuencas de Santos, Campos y Espírito Santo, donde participa en 14 bloques, de los cuales opera siete.

En las últimas semanas, el consorcio Repsol Sinopec Brasil anunció descubrimientos de importantes reservas en varios pozos en la costa de Vitoria y Sao Paolo a profundidades entre 2 y 5 kilómetros. Estos hallazgos se añaden a otros mega-yacimientos que Repsol ya contabilizó en los pasados años y que le posicionaron en una de las empresas líderes en descubrimientos en aguas profundas.

Pero entre la detección de reservas ubicadas a kilómetros bajo la superficie y su posterior extracción, existen riesgos e impedimentos tecnológicos que – sirva el desastre del golfo de México de 2010 como precedente- conviene no subestimar.

En aguas colombianas, Repsol se propone realizar exploración y explotación petrolera en las Cayos del Norte, parte del archipiólago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina. El proyecto ha levantado la oposición del pueblo indígena raizal y de organizaciones ambientalistas por poner en peligro los sistemas coralinos del conocido Mar de los Siete Colores.

Gas guaraní para la exportación

En Bolivia, Repsol se asoció a YPFB para formar la empresa PetroAndina SAM y conseguir nuevas áreas de exploración en la Amazonía.

Más al sur, en el Chaco, la compañía sigue perforando pozos exitosos en el interior de territorios indígenas. El Bloque Caipipendi, de 123.000 hectáreas que se superponen a los Territorios Comunitarios de Orígen Itika Guasu, Tentayapi, y al Parque Nacional Aguaragüe, ya se han puesto en marcha 5 pozos a profundidades de hasta 6.000 metros. En 2010 Cristina Fernandez y Evo Morales inauguraron un nuevo gasoducto de 40 kilómetros para unir este bloque con la red de gasoductos argentinos y asegurar mayores flujos de exportación hacia el mercado argentino, deficitario de este combustible – a pesar de que este país permite a las empresas exportar el gas a chile y otros países.

El pasado octubre, Repsol anunció la inversión, junto a su socia Pan American Energy de 1.400 millones de dólares para seguir perforando nuevos pozos con el horizonte de aumentar la producción de 3 a 14 millones de metros cúbicos diarios de gas en los próximos tres años. Con este repunte productivo “se garantizará los contratos de exportación a Argentina y por supuesto satisfacer el mercado interno”, el cual, valga decirlo, todavía es mínimo por no contar con una red de suministro domiciliario.

Amenazada por el bloque Caipipendi, la comunidad guaraní de Tentayape, declarada como Patrimonio Historico Cultural de los Guaranís en 2006, ha defendido a ultranza una posición de determinante rechazo a cualquier entrada de la compañía en su territorio. La empresa, a sabiendas de las reservas gasíferas que aguardan bajo el suelo de la comunidad, acorrala su territorio implantando cada vez más infraestructuras en la zona.

Amenazas a los pueblos amazónicos

Repsol opera en varios lotes en la Amazonía del Perú. Al norte, en el controvertido Lote 39, se discute la existencia o invención de pueblos en aislamiento voluntario. Mientras las organizaciones indígenas piden la creación de una reserva territorial que los proteja, Repsol niega su existencia en base a la colocación de trampas fotográficas. Mientrastanto, la francesa Perenco, ha obtenido la licencia para la construcción de un oleoducto en el vecino Lote 67, también en territorios de posible presencia de pueblos aislados.

Al sur del país, Repsol es socia del consorcio Camisea, que opera al interior de la Reserva Territorial Nahua Kugakapori Nantis. Pluspetrol, la operadora del Lote 88, ha iniciado hace unos meses cuestionados movimientos no previstos al interior de la reserva, contratando a comunarios del pueblo Nahua, en situación de contacto inicial, para actividades de vigía ante posibles encuentros con grupos aislados.

A parte, el descubrimiento de enormes bolsas de gas en el vecino Lote 57 ha empujado a Repsol a iniciar un ambicioso proyecto de industrialización de la selva. Para este año, peinará sus bosques con un proyecto de sísmica 3D que afectará 2.360 Km de la Reserva Comunitaria Machiguenga, así como su área de amortiguamiento y la del Parque Nacional Otuqui. También proyecta la contrucción de 22 pozos más que se añadirán al pozo ya perforado Kinteroni I y una conexión de gasoductos entre los pozos de los lotes 57, 56 y 88.[2]

En la región del Madre de Dios, el lote 76 operado por Repsol y Hunt, genera conflictos por la invasión con la Reserva Comunal Amarakaeri, pues se superpone a casi todo el territorio de la reserva y sin que se les haya efectuado la consulta previa a sus habitantes.

Repsol obtuvo un beneficio neto de 1.901 millones de euros en los nueve primeros meses de 2011, un 6,4% superior al año anterior. Buenas noticias para la bolsa, malas para los pueblos que cobijan el filón hidrocarburífero.

[1] Aleardo F. Laría , El misterio de Loma de la Lata, Diario Río Negro, Neuquen, 24/11/2011

[2] Agunos artículos sobre el tema: “ El desembarco de la modernidad, la sobmra de Repsol en Nuevo Mundo” http://servindi.org/actualidad/50232, “Repsol barrerá 5.000 km2 en reservas comunales” http://servindi.org/actualidad/48268, “La historia se repite para los pueblos aislados de la Reserva del Estado Nahua Kugakapori” http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/…

por  repsolmemata

Occupy our Homes Action..latest news

• National Day of Action to Stop and Reverse Foreclosures

• December, 06 2011 1 Comment

  Today is the Occupy Our Homes National Day of Action to Stop and Reverse Foreclosures. Actions are taking place in over twenty-five cities around America, as the Occupy movement joins with homeowners and people fighting for a place to live. Our system has been serving Wall Street, big banks, and the one percent. Clearly this has not worked. We are the 99% and we are reclaiming our homes.

  Follow this post for updates from around the country today. Go below to see videos from the day of action.

  4:49 PM: Report on Twitter says Occupy action in Alameda shut down a foreclosure auction at the court. Picture from the action.

  4:17 PM: Dozens of Portlanders vow not to leave foreclosed neighbors’ homes.

  4:00 PM: VIDEO: Debbie Henry talks about why she and her husband are occupying their home.

  3:58 PM: Picture of Robert and Debbie Henry of Southgate, MI as they took action today.

  3:43 PM: Volunteer cleaning crew from Occupy Wall Street arrives at reclaimed and reoccupied home in East New York Brooklyn to begin cleaning and renovating the home for Tasha Glasgow and her two children.

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Fuerzas Policiales..Esquiroles Traidores Enemigos..

Ver muchos más AKÍ http://tintanegraanartchistblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/fuerzas-policiales-psicovicio.html

Revista de prensa de la corrupción policial en España en un solo día
Un guardia civil en la Coruña, un ertzaina en Bizkaia y once policías locales en Sevilla. – Viernes.2 de diciembre de 2011 – 411 visitas

Solo mirando por casualidad en noticias publicadas en diarios de España en el día de hoy hemos encontrado estos casos (quizá haya alguna noticia más de este tipo). En nuestra opinión no es muy común que la policía investigue y detenga a sus propios colegas, así que cabe ver estos casos como una pequeña punta de un gran iceberg. En realidad todo lo que tiene que ver con la administración del estado, siempre según nuestra opinión, supura corrupción por todos sus poros. Nota de Tortuga.

Tres años de cárcel para un guardia destinado en Lavacolla por blanquear dinero de la droga

Try safer Marijuana, not toxic Corporate drugs

 

The utter failure that is the war on drugs seems to have ulterior motives besides protecting society, as evidence by the countless harmful chemicals that are legal to consume.  Marijuana is the most obvious example of a substance that remains illegal not because of health threats or because it’s a danger to society, but rather because its benefits threaten entire industries, especially Big Pharma.

If you need a fix to ease pain, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and a host of other ailments, then a legal drug dealer is happy to sell you a chemical concoction with endless side effects.  Recent studies show huge spikes in psychiatric drug use as well as addiction to prescription pain pills, yet they remain legal and doctors get incentives to push them.

In nearly every case, marijuana is a safer alternative and just as effective.  When eaten or vaporized, cannabis has proven entirely beneficial as a natural alternative. Here are 5 popular but dangerous drugs that could, in most cases, be replaced by all natural

1. Painkillers: Vicodin, Demerol, Oxycontin, or Percodan are used to treat moderate or severe pain.  They’re all highly addictive and come with side effects that vary widely from stomach problems, dizziness, depression, pain and spasms, to even death. Marijuana is a proven pain reliever that takes the edge off even the most severe pain.  It is not physically addictive, has very few side effects by comparison, and has never caused a single death in 5000 years of recorded use.

2. Tranquilizers: Valium, Xanax, and Ambien are examples of popular anti-anxiety drugs.  All Americans will likely know someone close to them who are dependent on these drugs to cope with daily life.  The side effects are similar to anti-depressants and painkillers; stomach and liver problems, depression or suicidal thoughts, dizziness and confusion, etc.  Marijuana is an excellent substitute for these temporary anxiety relievers, again with far fewer negative effects.

3. Alcohol: Alcohol is the most commonly used and accepted substance for self-regulated stress relief.  It’s used by countless Americans to take the edge off a long work day, and also by many soldiers seeking to relieve Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  Alcohol is highly addictive and causes many long-term problems like high blood pressure and liver failure.  Marijuana has proven to be far safer and more effective in reducing stress, especially among PTSD sufferers.

4. Anti-depressants: Prozac, Zoloft, Elavil, or Paxil are popular anti-depressants that a huge portion of the population are now dependent on. Side effects like nausea and sexual dysfunction are common, while suicidal tendencies are also increased tremendously, which seems to negate their very prupose.  These selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) reduce the body’s ability to produce natural serotonin and can be difficult for people to find a healthy balance once they rid the drug from their system.  Marijuana, although a temporary anti-depressant, is far less dangerous and may result in instant happiness bordering on silliness.

5. Aspirin and Tylenol: These commonly-used over-the-counter drugs for minor aches and pains cause stomach problems like ulcers, liver damage, and even death. That’s right, Tylenol causes about 450 deaths a year and Aspirin causes a whopping 13,000 deaths per year from sudden bleeding.  Many natural alternatives can be used for the symptoms that these drugs ease, and marijuana is just one of the safer options — with none of the damaging side effects.

As you can see, marijuana, which can be easily grown in nearly every climate, is a huge threat to these billion-dollar-a-year drugs.  And this list represents a tiny fraction of the harmful pharmaceuticals that can be replaced by cannabis.  To claim that cannabis is more dangerous than any of these popular legal substances is blatantly false, thus there’s no reason for its prohibition other than the threat of competition to Big Pharma.

Thankfully, you’re not a criminal in over a dozen US states if you use marijuana in place of them.

READ MORE..with thanks  http://www.activistpost.com

STOP murderous capitalists preparing Iran War

Editor’s note: Over the past week various elements both in Washington DC and Tel Aviv have been promoting a renewed rhetoric of an Iranian threat. Back in July of this year, Professor Chomsky wrote the following commentary on the issue that resonates even louder today. 

Cambridge, Ma - The dire threat of Iran is widely recognised to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. General Petraeus informed the Senate Committee on Armed Services in March 2010 that “the Iranian regime is the primary state-level threat to stability” in the US Central Command area of responsibility, the Middle East and Central Asia, the primary region of US global concerns. The term “stability” here has its usual technical meaning: firmly under US control. In June 2010 Congress strengthened the sanctions against Iran, with even more severe penalties against foreign companies. The Obama administration has been rapidly expanding US offensive capacity in the African island of Diego Garcia, claimed by Britain, which had expelled the population so that the US could build the massive base it uses for attacks in the Central Command area. The Navy reports sending a submarine tender to the island to service nuclear-powered guided-missile submarines with Tomahawk missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads. Each submarine is reported to have the striking power of a typical carrier battle group. According to a US Navy cargo manifest obtained by

read long convincing evidence HERE  http://wobblygoblin.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/the-iranian-threat/

 

Occupy Patriarchy. Cuts violate and enslave Women

Austerity is violence on the bodies of women

In Rome, activist women responded to the #occupypatriarchy call out initiated by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The group, composed of students, precarious workers and migrants, marched through the city centre’s high streets on November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Recent reports and stats show how in Italy the new “welfare system” feeds on unpaid women’s work: the unpaid work of grandmothers looking after their grandchildren because nursery schools cannot be afforded, daughters supporting their elderly parents, mothers supporting their grown up children. With the cuts to social services the responsibility of that work falls on the women.

In these austere times, gender equality has become a “luxury item”. When the government seems to support policies on work/life balance, what they’re de facto supporting is the principle according to which a woman must undertake several jobs at the same time: all precarious, without the guarantees of the “official” job market, without wages and employment rights. This is violence masked up as austerity!

The crisis attacks every possibility of autonomy, self-determination and freedom of choice. This is, for example, the aim of the Tarzia Law, which wants to turn our formerly independent family planning centres into family and baby protection centres in the hands of non-qualified Catholic “advisers”. This goal has already been achieved in the region of Lazio, in what appears to be an experiment undertaken to legitimise the same savagery on a national scale. Independent family planning centres and abortion rights are an area of conflict on which women in Italy must keep fighting, especially with our new government and its Vatican friends.  

Sources: articles by Collettivo Le Malefiche and Le Ribellule.

From Italy Calling with thanks  https://italycalling.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/austerity-is-violence-on-the-bodies-of-women/

España: Empieza la fiesta de políticos corruptos

 ’Con casi  1000 politicos ya imputados por corrupción, y muchos de ellos reeligidos, ya tienen la luz verde para la carrera de robar todo que se puede.

Antes ni siquiera de tomar posesión el nuevo Gobierno de derechas gasta miliones en armamentos ya declarados obsoletos , mientras desmatela el sistema de salud, etc

‘ Porque tiene guasa gastarse seis millones de eurazos, en pleno plan de recortes, en compras de este tipo. Además tras todo tipo de informes que dicen que se compra armamento que no se puede pagar y que para colmo ni siquiera sirve para nada mucho de lo que se adquiere a precio de oro. Ello unido al proceso de compra que ha sido una adjudicación sin publicidad. Y por último, sacándole las castañas del fuego a una empresa de armas cuyo producto había sido declarado obsoleto por el Instituto de Análisis Estratégico Internacional, criterio compartido, según se cuenta en la noticia de abajo, por expertos de la Armada española. ¿Se les ocurre alguna explicación para este curioso proceder de los políticos que nos gobiernan? Vaya, la misma que se nos ha ocurrido a nosotros/as. Nota de Tortuga.”

Pueden ver las dos noticias, la publicada hoy mismo, y la de hace tan solo una quincena.

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Tierra compra más VAMTAC carrozados a UROVESA por más de 6 millones de euros  2/12/2011

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El AEI se reafirma en la obsolescencia de los VAMTAC al margen de cualquier otro criterio subjetivo10/11/2011

LEER MAS  AKI

http://www.grupotortuga.com/El-gobierno-espanol-en-funciones