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JESÚS BASTANTE MADRID 09/05/2011 06:00 Actualizado: 09/05/2011 06:03

Spain tightens borders to stem ECB protests

Visa-free travel suspended ahead of European Central Bank meeting, overriding Schengen Protocol.

 

Spain has suspended visa-free travel and re-instituted border checks ahead of a meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Barcelona next week.It is an unprecedented move that overrides the Schengen Protocol that was first instituted in 1985. The agreement means there are no int

Community police remove a dangerous terrorist

ernal border controls for the 26 European

countries and their combined population of more than 400 million people.

Spain says it needs to regulate its borders to prevent foreign protesters disrupting the ECB meeting .

It is not the first time Schengen Protocol has been called into question. Germany and France also want new rules to make it easier to suspend passport-free travel.

Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego reports from Madrid.

 

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A las 0.00 horas del jueves se paró el metro de Lisboa. La interrupción del servicio es uno de los primeros efectos de la huelga general que hoy vivirá Portugal y que durante la madrugada ya se ha dejado sentir en la recogida de basuras, la suspensión del servicio de bomberos y cierre de actividades
Portugal, paralizado por una huelga contra el ajuste del FMI

At 0.00 hours on Thursday the Lisbon Metro stopped. Interruption of service is one of the first effects of the general strike today live in Portugal and am already making itself felt in the collection of refuse, the suspension of the fire service and the close of business
Portugal, paralyzed by a strike against IMF adjustment
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The eviction of the Occupy Dame Street camp

A large force of Garda and council workers were deployed at 3.30am today, International Women’s Day, to clear Occupy Dame Street (ODS) camp. The camp was completely demolished in the course of the eviction, campers intimidated and their personal property stolen.

This was a level of force way out of proportion with the numbers in the camp (about 15 people) and stands in contrast with the lack of resources put into investigating what happened at Anglo, the collapse of which has left a debt of 26,000 Euro on every single person in the country.

The small Garda team ‘investigating’ what happened at Anglo only includes one forensic accountant. As far as anyone can tell they have yet to get into the computers that were encrypted and which the bank has refused to hand over the passwords for. This certainly tells us whose interests those in power protect and that the Garda will ‘just follow orders’ even if they are individually included amongst the 99% of us who have been screwed over.

Media coverage of the eviction suggests that it was a fairly low key affair with an overwhelming number of Garda (around 100) compared to campers (about 15) but commentary from the campers and a video interview published by the Irish Times suggests that a significant level of physical intimidation & force was used by Garda. Campers talked of pick axes being used to break into structures while they were still inside and of the seizure of mobile phones, lap tops, clothes, minutes & contact books and even bicycles that were chained on the square. This happened without warning, while people were sleeping. One of the campers said of the police that “they came like volatile bullies & terrorists .. they behaved like animals”

Updated 14.30: In a second video interview from this morning two women from ODS talked about how the Garda had arrived wearing balaclava’s, didn’t poduce the court order until they had dragged everyone off the site and had twisted their arms and stamped on their hands when they attempted to sit on the street.  Just before lunch a small group were forcibly prevented from putting up tents.  A number of witnesses have said that last night some of the Garda appeared to be carrying guns.

  Latest UPDATE
GARDAÍ IN DUBLIN city centre are preventing the protest group who had camped outside the Central Bank’s headquarters from 8 October until this morning from erecting any more tents at the property.

The camp was dismantled by dozens of gardaí at around 3.30am today and the area was subsequently cleaned by Dublin City Council workers.

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Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-day Outlaws (2011)

INFO:
Emily James, UK, english, 2011, 90 min.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1941569/
http://justdoitfilm.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/JustDoItFilm

(en) The world of environmental direct action has remained a secretive one, until now. Emily James spent over a year embedded in activist groups such as Climate Camp and Plane Stupid to document their clandestine activities. With unprecedented access, Just do It takes you on an astonishing journey behind the scenes of a community of people who refuse to sit back and allow the destruction of their world. Torpedoing the tired clichés of the environmental movement, Just Do It introduces you to a powerful cast of mischievous and inspiring characters who put their bodies in the way; they super-glue themselves to bank trading floors, blockade factories and attack coal power stations en-masse, despite the very real threat of arrest. Their adventures will entertain, illuminate and inspire.

Trailer:
http://youtu.be/zavTd31qxho


Watch online:
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Subtitles:
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You might also like:
If a Tree Falls (2011)
Cultures of Resistance (2010)
Banksy Presents: The Antics Roadshow (2011)
These Streets Are Watching (2005)

http://fuckcopyright.blogspot.com/2012/01/just-do-it-tale-of-modern-day-outlaws.html

 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.

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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_

Long abandoned in 2000 the castle  returned to build life as a squatted social center, soon evicted  and left alone again into oblivion. Today we have liberated it..we  have taken back the castle, and now open to create a meeting space, creation, culture, policy debate and dissent against speculation, and capitalism. We open call to come to build with us your passionate projects…

Desde hace un siglo el castillo encima de la montañas de les planes ha permanecido en desuso, abandonado y detoriorandose, pasando de propietario en propietario sin ninguna intencion visible ya que se inicio como sanatorio nunca llego a ser completado. Durante la guerra civil fue utilizado por la resistencia antifascista como hospital, donde tambien estubo internado George Orwell.

For a century the castle above the mountains of Les Planes has been in disuse, abandoned and detoriorating, from one owner to another without any visible intention as it was started as a sanatorium never to become complete. During the Civil Warit  was used by the anti-fascist resistance as a hospital, where George Orwell was also interned.

Luego en el 2000 volvió tender vida como centro social okupado y desalojado para solo volver ser dejado en el olvido. Hoy dia lo hemos vuelto a liberar! hemos tomado el castillo, y ahora lo abrimos para crear un espacio de encuentro, de creacion, de cultura, de debate y politica de disidencia contra la especulacion, y el capitalismo. Hacemos un llamamiento abierto para venir a construir junto a nosotros; tus projectos, ven a pasiar, a conocer.

FROM Indymedia Barcelona..Google Transalation

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/433756/index.php

 

Dedicado a toda la gente que vive en el bloque de St. Pau con Paral·lel en Karcelona que resistió a la orden de deshauci.
Un saludo muy especial a tod@s l@s vecin@s y a l@s compas de CNT-AIT, CNT Catalunya, CGT e IAC que aparecimos justo a tiempo con la pedazo de caravana que montamos entre autocar, coches, motos y bicis solidarias, muy wapa la fiesta improvisada del final jejejeej.

ver MÁS AKÍ..SEE MORE HERE   (with thanks..Gracias)

http://accionarteando.blogspot.com/

On Saturday 22 October at 1pm in London, the general assembly is geared up to receive a swell of visitors, as many who work are inspired by the camp and plan to come and visit and see what it’s all about. It will be an important test for the assembly facilitators, to hold the camp together as more voices enter the equation…Posted by Jamie Kelsey-Fry

Saturday will mark a week since OccupyLondon claimed its space at the feet of St Paul’s Cathedral. It has been a difficult but utterly uplifting experience for all.

IMF predicts collapse of Capitalism!

People are gravitating to the camp constantly, drawn by what is really still an idea taking shape, but an idea that is already inspiring.

The camp is determined and committed to channelling peoples voices through general assembly and consensus. The aims of the London assembly and others around the world are cut from the same cloth.  We all want to challenge the fundamental assumptions that underlie the world’s political and financial systems, which are failing us at all levels.

It’s an easy criticism to make that the assembly ‘offers no solutions’. Of course not, not yet. But the process of building a movement that asks the right questions, and considers that another world is possible, has begun. The systems of general assembly and consensus can be painstaking but they do mean that all those people involved have their voices heard.

The camp came up with their first statement in 48 hours. It’s now only six days in. I would suggest that if this process of forming a concrete vision of a fairer, safer more just world is anything as erudite as the way the London camp has organised itself, then we are in for something of great value. Perhaps an idea whose time has come.

If you plan to visit, I have no doubt that you will find the camp to be, at the very least, a source of hope. At best, you may find yourself deciding that you belong here, and the next thing you know, you’ll be collecting a sleeping bag and joining a working group. See you soon.

welcome to ‘Can Fart’ restaurant

'Can Fart' diner, for fat flatulent tourists..

Can Fart – (Home of the Full) …restaurant

In Catalan, one of the two official languages here in Catalunya (the other one being Castellean),

the word “Can” is an old word for home, and “Fart” means full (stomach, or ‘fed up’)

…this sign is on our way to La Garriga, where my partner’s parents live.

We pulled over to get this photo. The perfect attraction for fat flatulent tourists.

..ironically enough, every time we go to his parents´ place, after we stuff ourselves to death, we drive by ´Can Fart´…

 

US Day of Rage’s Tactical Plan for Sept 17th

Published 2011-09-09 01:41:36 UTC by OccupyWallSt

US Day of Rage, a group participating in the September 17th occupation of wall street, has just released a tactical plan and “HowTo” for holding a legal and nonviolent demonstration in New York City. Their plan clarifies many legal concerns that have been raised and offers a viable strategy for holding a prolonged occupation. This information can be found on their website:

NYC & Nationwide Official Occupation and Tactical Plan for #horizontal #mesh-protest #Sept17 #occupywallstreet #usdor

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  Saturday 17th #OCCUPYWALLSTREET

Published 2011-09-08 02:53:49 UTC by OccupyWallSt

http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet-less-two-weeks-away.html

Hey you jammers, dreamers, patriots and revolutionaries out there,

Our occupation of Wall Street is less than two weeks away … do we have it together?

The perpetrators of the massive financial fraud have been allowed to slip quietly from the scene and continue business as usual. Our elected representatives in Washington have become so tightly intertwined with the financiers and bankers that public accountability has all but vanished.

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is all about breaking up that cosy relationship between money and politics and bringing the perpetrators of the financial crash of 2008 to justice.

On September 17, 20,000 of us will descend on Wall Street, the iconic financial center of America, set up a peaceful encampment, hold a people’s assembly to decide what our one demand will be, and carry out an agenda of full-spectrum, absolutely nonviolent civil disobedience the likes of which the country has not seen since the freedom marches of the 1960s.

From our encampment we will launch daily smart mob forays all over lower Manhattan … peaceful, creative happenings in front of Goldman Sachs; the SEC; the Federal Reserve; the New York Stock Exchange … and maybe even, if we can figure out where they’re being held, at the sites of Obama’s private $38,500 per person fundraising events happening somewhere in Manhattan on Sept. 19 and 20.

Our strategy will be that of the master strategist Sun Tzu: “appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.”

With a bit of luck, and if fate is on our side, we may be able to turn all of lower Manhattan into a site of passionate democratic contestation – an American Tahrir Square.

We will do all this with peace in our hearts. Our unshakable commitment to nonviolence will give us the spiritual strength we need to inspire the nation and to ultimately triumph in the weeks and maybe months of struggle that will unfold after September 17.

for the wild, Culture Jammers HQ

occupywallstreet.org / occupywallst.org / Reddit / Facebook

PS. Last week Anonymous endorsed #OCCUPYWALLSTREET with a video that attracted over 70,000 views. The Department of Homeland Security has warned the nation’s bankers to be prepared. Corporate owned media is taking notice. Yesterday, a columnist for MarketWatch.com posted a rousing portrait of what may now unfold:

“Listen closely. This is not another internecine political squabble. These revolutionaries are pushing America back to its roots. You sense they’re drafting a new Declaration of Independence, driven by the same powerful motivations as the 57 original signers who wrote: ‘Whenever any form of government becomes destructive … it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.’ Back in 1776 King George III was the destructive force far away. Today greed is the corruptor, from within.”

S17 occupations of financial districts are also being planned in Milan, Madrid, Valencia, London, Lisbon, Athens, San Francisco and hopefully many other cities still to be announced. S17 could well be the catalyst that ushers in a new global economic order.

favourite from 50 competition entries

Finaliza el concurso gráfico de la CNT Madrileña.

Anti Pope Art Competition concludes

Por fin se fue su ridícula santidad, y con él las hordas de devotos, pijos, fascistas y demás ralea que inundó Madrid durante la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud (y de la represión policial). La CNT madrileña da, por razones evidentes, por concluida su campaña que, por desgracia, se ha quedado corta: ni los 1500 carteles, ni los 4000 comunicados, ni las 5000 pegatinas editadas para la ocasión han sido suficientes para satisfacer a los muchos simpatizantes de esta campaña que se han acercado a nuestros locales en la última semana para llevarse unos pocos y se han encontrado que ya se habían gastado.

another entry in the CNT anti pope competition

ver todas aquí  ..See all entries HERE

http://peligroquevieneelpapa.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/participa-en-la-eleccion-del-concurso-de-disenos-ateos/

En otro orden de cosas, no nos cansamos de felicitar a todos los participantes en el concurso de diseños ateos que nos han enviado cerca de 50, y que han conseguido la simpatía de miles de visitantes a nuestro blog. A todos ellos/as trasladamos la invitación de Tinta Negra anARTchist blog a unirse a este proyecto. De las propuestas enviadas, habéis mostrado vuestras preferencias por el diseño “Noconmisimpuestos” enviado por Ángel desde Murcia, al quele llegará ese obsequio pobre en lo material pero rico en lo espiritual que le tenemos reservado.
Desde aquí debemos dar las gracias a los participantes y colaboradores en esta campaña que han contribuido a difundir carteles, pegatinas, comunicados, el blog, proponer iniciativas o que han acudido a la Semana de Cine Ateo, etc. y que han hecho posible que tome forma un mensaje humanista integral, la de aquellos que no queremos que nos gobierne ni un Dios, ni un viejo disfrazado, ni nadie, porque queremos gobernar todos los ámbitos de nuestra vida en sus vertientes tanto individuales como colectivas, y no nos cansamos de repetir:
“La religión dejará de ser necesaria cuando el hombre sea lo suficientemente inteligente como para gobernarse a sí mismo”.
Francisco Ferrer Guardia

mad politicians ban everything

La nueva Ordenanza de Convivencia Ciudadana obliga a pedir autorización previa para dibujar en el suelo, cantar, bailar, tocar instrumentos, sacudir el mantel desde el balcón o regar los tiestos. No solo el PP pero también el PSOE votaron en favor. Hasta sacudir el mantel o la alfombra desde el balcón o regar los tiestos si el alcalde lo considera “molesto para los vecinos”. Asimismo, no se puede tomar vino en un parque, pelearse, gritar, “ni darse un masaje, jugar a las cartas o tumbarse en un banco

El municipio madrileño de Guadalix de la Sierra, de 2.500 habitantes y gobernado por el PP, se ha convertido en el primero del que se tenga noticia en España en cambiar sus ordenanzas para impedir la celebración de asambleas populares y acampadas de protesta en la calle tras la irrupción del Movimiento 15-M. No solo ambas actividades están desde hoy prohibidas en este pueblo de la sierra, famoso por acoger el rodaje de Bienvenido, Mister Marshall y la casa de Gran Hermano, sino que se invita a los vecinos a denunciar a quienes lo hagan. El texto contempla un amplio régimen de sanciones desde los 750 euros para infracciones leves, 1.500 para las graves y hasta 3.000 para las muy graves.

-”se prohíbe la práctica de juegos en el espacio público que por su naturaleza puedan causar molestias”, reza el texto, que en concreto pone fin a “acrobacias y juegos de habilidad con motos, bicicletas, patines o monopatines fuera de las áreas destinadas a tal efecto”-, dibujar en el suelo -”por tanto, se prohíbe la rayuela”-, hacer graffitis, colocar carteles o pegatinas, lanzar octavillas, cantar, bailar, tocar instrumentos… “.

  Leer MuuCho MÁs…http://www.grupotortuga.com/Guadalix-de-la-Sierra-prohibe-las

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Hurricane Irene attacks Sir Richard Branson, Fantastic natural revenge!

Branson is responsible for pumping billions of tons of CO2 into the upper atmosphere.

 

Climate Chaos and worse hurricanes are a direct result, as the world climate nears the dreaded

 

tipping point of no return, with CO2 emissions totally out of control.

 

Branson was luxuriating on his private island with bis jet set guests,

 

savouring the rewards of destroying the future of the planet for us all…

 

WHAMMO   good old Irene totally destroyed the main mansion!!!!!

 

Smouldering remains of Branson’s £60m paradise home:

 

Irene’s revenge on mega Climate Criminal Branson

 

Scene the day after Kate Winslet rescued Virgin boss’s mother from inferno

 

  • Branson thanks Winslet for helping carry his 90-year-old mother to safety
  • Sir Richard calls for ‘Dunkirk spirit’ after island battered by Hurricane Iren

 

This smouldering wreckage is all that remains today of Sir Richard Branson’s luxury Caribbean home after it was razed to the ground by fire.

 

The multi-million-pound Great House on Necker, the Virgin tycoon’s £60million private island, caught fire after it was struck by lightning in the early hours of Monday when the region was battered by Hurricane Irene.

 

And the tycoon revealed that as his family and guests fled for their lives the Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet carried his 90-year-old mother Eve to safety.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028865/Kate-Winslet-rescues-Richard-Bransons-mother-90-house-Hurricane-Irene.html#ixzz1VrH0BNNY


Tintin the responsible Rioter

Freedom Press is in the process of re-printing The Adventures of Tintin: Breaking Free that perennial anarchist classic.

It features our hero, a ordinary working class lad from the inner cities, at the centre of political demonstrations, wildcat strikes, street riots, and eventually a revolutionary uprising.

It graphically depicts scenes of social unrest, workers solidarity and people looting the local Tescos.

» Introduction by the original authors
» Available for this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair: http://anarchistbookfair.org.uk/

Gay and Lesbian birds are just as attached and faithful to each other as those paired with a member of the opposite sex.

lesbian albatrosses mate with any male and raise the chicks together

The insight comes from a study of zebra finches – highly vocal, colourful birds that sing to their mates, a performance thought to strengthen the pair’s bond.

Scientists found that same-sex pairs of finches sang to and preened each other just like heterosexual pairs.

Bonded birds, Dr Elie explained, perch side by side, nestled together. They also greet each other by “nuzzling” beaks.

There are many other examples of same-sex pairing in the avian world.

In monogamous gulls and albatrosses, it gives females the chance to breed without a male partner.

“Female partners copulate with a paired male then rear the young together,” Dr Elie explained.

Gay Emperors flirt with other males.

In captivity, there have been at least two cases of male penguins forming long-term bonds when there are females available.

Perhaps the most famous of these was two male chinstrap penguins in Manhattan’s Central Park Zoo, named Roy and Silo. They bonded and paid no attention to females in their enclosure for at least a year. They even built a nest together and incubated and hatched a fertilised egg donated to them by one of the keepers.

¡Peligro, que viene el Papa! Campaña de CNT-AIT Madrid contra la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud 2011

The POPE is coming to Madrid. The CNT union announces an anti religious sticker/design competition

Concurso de viñetas/diseños ateos o anticlericales

by cn

Anti Religious sticker/design Competition.

Desde la Federación Local de CNT-AIT Madrid queremos dar por iniciado con este comunicado el concurso de viñetas ateas contra la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud. A través de este concurso pretendemos estimular la creatividad de todos los simpatizantes de la Campaña ¡Peligro que viene el Papa!. La convocatoria es sencilla:
1. Al concurso se podrá presentar cualquier trabajo gráfico de tema religioso, clerical, sobre la JMJ, o relacionado. Los trabajos deben ser originales del autor y remitidos al correo peligroquevieneelpapa@gmail.com.
2. Los trabajos serán valorados por su ingenio y su mensaje crítico y simpático, siendo la habilidad técnica un elemento secundario a tener en cuenta. En caso de ser una obra dibujada y no un fotomontaje o un diseño gráfico, pedimos que nos

Religion OUT of Schools!

enviéis una copia escaneada.
3. El fallo del concurso se hará público durante la visita del Papa.
4. Las aportaciones mejor valoradas que realicéis al concurso serán publicadas cada semana (aproximadamente) para escarnio de las instituciones religiosas y de Dios.
5. Dado que la CNT es pobre y se niega a recibir subvenciones públicas o privadas, el premio será un humilde pero apreciado recuerdo de la JMJ 2011.

Salud, ateísmo y anarquía!

Publicado por TINTA NEGRA, anARTchist blog

http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/take-the-streets/

LOOT NOW WHILE SHOPS LAST!

The SHOPPING WITHOUT MONEY craze swept across London overnight – Enfield,Edmonton,Brixton, Islington. Walthamstow,Oxford Circus – and likely to spread to thhe rest of FIRESALE UK over the next few days. While the Tory toffs holiday in Tuscany effective wealth redistribution takes place on our streets in a way the TUC could never imagine.

OH NO – THE GAME’S UP – THERESA MAY IS FLYING HOME!

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200 YOUTHS ATTACKING COPS IN BRIXTON – 11.50PM

REPORT from daily telegraph reporter:

At least 200 youths pelting stones + bottles @ police. Businesses told to shut up shop. 2 different cordons #Brixton #riots #London
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WESTFIELD SHOPPING CENTRE IN WEST LONDON UNDER ATTACK

Early reports – westfield shopping centre in shepherds Bush under attack from stone throwing mobs – what a loot that would be! reports of rioting spreading from enfield to Ponders end with shopping centre looted

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BULLET THAT HIT COP RADIO WAS POLICE ISSUE

This is the truth – BULLET THAT HIT COPPER ON POLICE RADIO WAS POLICE ISSUE – therefore all the bollocks on here about Duggan shooting first is bollocks…….cop was shot by copper as was duggan……..early police lies exposed again……….nothing they say is EVER fucking true!

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TROUBLE SPREADS TO ENFIELD

I only have a few details – loads of cops, arrests for just being on the streets, HMV looted………..anyone know more let me know. extra cops out all over london….lots of untrue reports on twitter……..jewellry shop looted… police car  attacked…….small numbers involved maybe 40-50 people…COP VAN TORCHED..

much more in this vein from the BONE himself.  http://ianbone.wordpress.com/

Tottenham last month..where it all began. Though we can't claim direct credit for starting the Rebellion, Tottenham has had a strong community anarchist voice for generations''.

 

Who killed Sean Hoare?

Not me, said the drink, though his liver I did shrink

Not I..said the press, though we made him a mess

Not us said the coppers, though he wanted to shop us

Not me said Murdoch, though he mired me in muck

Not  us said Cameron and Coolson  though that would be fun

It was I, said MI5.. Would I tell a lie!

Who killed Sean Hoare?

               ……………………. apologies for the doggerell

Chief suspect so far  is not Murdoch’s mafia, but MI5, the huge secretive control apparatus dedicated to protecting the criminal British State and ruling class.

from..death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”

By Chris Marsden 20 July 2011   The morning after Hoare’s body was found, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and his former deputy, John Yates, were to give evidence before a home affairs select committee. Stephenson had tendered his resignation Sunday and Yates Monday. They were to be quizzed by MPs on their failure to pursue any serious investigation into phone hacking or on the bribing of police officers. This was to be followed by the quizzing of News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch, his son James, chairman of News International, and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks.

The death of Hoare means that his testimony will never be heard by any such inquiry or, more importantly, by any criminal investigation that may arise.

His public statements to date—coming from within News International, News Corp’s UK arm—are highly damaging. Last year, Hoare gave interviews to the New York Times and the BBC in which he said Coulson knew about hacking that was “endemic” and part of the “culture at News International.”

A week ago, Hoare told the New York Times about journalists making payments to the police, and about the use of “pinging”—locating people via their mobile phone signals, a technology supposedly to be used only for anti-terror purposes. He alleged that News of the World executive Greg Miskiw had used such techniques. He said journalists were able to purchase the mobile phone tracking data from police for £300.

A Guardian report also notes that Hoare’s body was found at 10:40 am, but “It was not until after 9 pm, two hours after news broke that the phone hacking whistleblower had been found dead, that more uniformed and plainclothes police arrived at the scene. At about 9:15 pm, a police van marked Scientific Services Unit pulled up at the address, where a police car was already parked.”

The immediate response of the Hertfordshire police was to issue a public statement declaring his death to be “unexplained but not thought to be suspicious.” The statement is at the very least extraordinary, and at worst sinister in its implications.

read more here  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jul2011/hoar-j20.shtml

The British establishment have been quick to close ranks in attacking Sean.. a mere ‘Arsenal and Labour supporter’ and ‘drunken hack’. The police persecuted him from the start, treating him as a criminal suspect. The newspaper NOWS paid him to mix with celebrity coke addicts then fired him for complaining .

 

 

Anonymous, the international cyberactivist network, has announced the release of 90,000 military email logins which its members obtained in one of the biggest-ever hacking operations. The group promised that the publication of the documents on several websites on Monday is only the first in a series of leaks intended to show the intelligence community’s vulnerability.

Cyberactivist sub-group “AntiSec” penetrates database maintained by military consultancy firm Booz Allen Hamilton

Anonymous, the international cyberactivist network, has announced the release of 90,000 military email logins which its members obtained in one of the biggest-ever hacking operations.

There were hints that other similar military or intelligence contractors may be next to catch attention in the emerging “Antisec” movement.

With its support for the Arab uprisings, it went from being largely based in Western countries to gaining popularity among like-minded activists in North Africa and the Middle East.

In recent months, the movement has come under growing international pressure. Its members have been arrested in Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom, while in the US, its members have been targeted by subpoenas.

Yet, as Monday’s operation demonstrated, the Anons are growing bolder than ever. A defiant press release followed the crackdown in Italy, reiterating that the groups’ lack of leadership or structure made it impossible to dismantle.

“All Anonymous members operate at the same level. Those arrested are not ‘dangerous hackers’ as the media calls them, but people like you. They have been arrested while peacefully protesting for their and your rights. Our protest will continue louder than ever.”

Read more here

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WAKE UP!! IT’S YER COULDN’T HELP OVERHEARING…

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IT’S ALL OVER….GREED ALL ABOUT IT AS LAST EDITION OF SCHNEWS OF THE WORLD GOES TO PRINT…

Yes the world of alternative jounalism was rocked to it’s core this week as SchNEWS International’s mogul boss Rupert Makepeace announced the sudden closure of the paper. Britain’s most well-loved anarcho-newsheet has been serving up it’s unpopular brand of poorly researched facts, corporate and political sleaze, eco-terror propaganda and non-gender specific titillation for 168 months, and commentators are still in shock that it will be no more.

Making the announcement Rupert didn’t say, “It’s a minor shame that I have to do this, but the hacking scandal [where rogue employees were found to have been hacking together articles stealing bits of  Indymedia articles] has engulfed and tainted the whole SOTW brand.

When big important activists start saying they’ll boycott the listings pages – and people are calling for the head of my flame-haired right-hand man, Jo Makepeace [under whose stewardship the whole scandal began] – well I’d rather just close the whole thing down… and open up a near identical SchUN on Sunday from next week, with fewer staff on worse contracts with reduced biscuit supplies.

Right, now can I get on with my takeover bid for Reel News?

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news778.php

Are members of the ‘hacktivist group’ Anonymous defenders of truth and seekers of knowledge, or simply a bunch of cyber terrorists? Jana Herwig investigates

 Jana Herwig

Researcher Jana Herwig dons the mask of Anonymous

When Anonymous first made big headlines in early 2008 with its protests against the Church of Scientology, dubbed Project Chanology, it was not yet apparent that Anonymous would be here to stay.

Three years later, Anonymous has not only gained a sizeable collection of adversaries and critics – including government agencies, IT security companies and digital rights advocacies who criticise its methods – it has also won scores of secret and not so secret admirers, especially among the highly social media literate, digital creative class.

The reputation of its members as defenders of truth and seekers of knowledge, digital avengers who cannot be lied to because they will hijack the emails of those who try, seems to strike a chord with many.

What has remained unclear is just who or what Anonymous is.

read more here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/11/anonymous-behind-the-mask

….Macho men Die Young

That’s the logical corollary of this shock study

Obviously more urgent research is needed, but this is excellent news. In just a few generations we can expect a die off of  fascist idiots, imbecile Republican climate deniers, rabid would-be rapists, anal retentive religious fanatics, and testerical macho morons. We must encourage these guys, gift them steroids testosterone tablets– Real Men don’t see sissy Doctors!!   Muscles NOT Medicines!

Springer and Mouzen report data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Health Study, which has been compiling data on a group of about 1,000 men who graduated from high school in Wisconsin in 1957. Their study divides men into four groups (“quartiles”) based on their self-perceptions of the masculine ideal.

Men with the most “macho” opinions of the masculine ideal (“Women like men with big muscles,” “Men go to work; women look after the home”) were found to be 46 percent less likely than men with less “macho” perceptions to have done three things in the prior year: get a physical exam, get a flu shot, and get a PSA test.

However, the most interesting thing about this study is that the educational achievement level of the men in question had absolutely no impact on the results…

continued…

http://prostatecancerinfolink.net/2011/04/27/do-macho-men-risk-dying-young/

This blog promotes ‘The Free’, an adventure novel set in the collapse of Capitalism.  free DOWNLOAD page, click HERE 

(this is the ending)

.….But in the streets of London, during the Royal Wedding Day grand

Thousands of police are on patrol, and protests have been banned.

But the dissenters are there and their voice will be heard.

Enough of this class system and monarchy absurd!

While the wedding guests sit cosy in the Abbey on their butts

The poor people of Britain suffer from vicious Conservative cuts.

While the British Prime Minister bows low to the Queen

The public observe the class system obscene.

Take heed of the rumblings, William and Kate,

The time has come to abdicate!

Abolish the monarchy, and let there not be a sequel!

Instead, from now on let’s all be equal!

Michael Dickinson lives in Istanbul. He can be contacted at his website -

http://yabanji.tripod.com/

read it all here  Michael Dickinson: A Poem for the Royal Wedding.

           “My life is controlled by the robber state and corporations, who seem all powerful and impossible to defeat.

             But in reality all their power is fragile.. because we are MILLIONS.

             Every time we subvert their authority, even by clowning about, we bring closer that moment they fear most..

..that moment when we all wake up..

……when the forces of repression are just  tossed aside, as happened partly in Egypt… and a new world can begin…”

Whaling Ailing

revenge at last

JAPAN
Whaling Policy in Choppy Waters
By Suvendrini Kakuchi

TOKYO, Feb 27, 2011 (IPS) – After years of stiff resistance, the Japanese government has announced a temporary halt to its controversial research whaling programme in the Antarctic Ocean, a decision that will finally stir the debate to promote sustainable fishing, say conservationists here.

“We welcome the decision to halt whaling this season as a step towards preserving whales which are an endangered species. The message is that whales have to be protected which is all the more valuable since it comes from a nation that is a leader in the consumption of seafood stocks,” Junichi Sato, expert on whaling at Greenpeace Japan told IPS.

Since 1982, the world has followed global moratorium against commercial whaling by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) but only Japan was allocated an annual quota for scientific whaling that is aimed at determining available stocks.

Greenpeace International spearheads a global campaign against Japanese whaling that has led to bitter clashes and lawsuits against each other.

Several fisheries experts express support for the unprecedented move by the Japanese government, pointing out it is a vital landmark in dealing with the growing consumption of fish in the world that has lead to alarming depletion of stocks.

 

 

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