There is a necessity for a liberatory politics in the Archipelago known as the Philippines and as anarchists we think Anarchism has the framework to fill this need. The dominant forms of politics we have now are insufficient for developing a liberatory politics in the archipelago. This liberatory politics becomes a necessity because politics in…
Towards an #Anarchism in the Philippine Archipelago — Enough 14 –
Bank of England secret bail out of big business – over £100bn committed in 3 weeks As part of their activities to combat the economic fallout of Covid-19, the Bank of England has created a new scheme called the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF), to specifically support the UK’s biggest companies impacted by the crisis. The […]
Big Businesses are still being bailed out — Govt Newspeak
by C.N.A. on May 13th, 2020.. From → Noticias
Our comrade Gabriel has been handed over to the Spanish State this morning (May 13) and is currently in the Badajoz prison (Extremadura). He is well and strong as always. He will certainly have to stay 14 days in a mandatory quarantine and then, supposedly, be transferred to another prison. In that sense, more information will follow.
After about a year and a half in hiding, on January 25, 2020, Gabriel Pombo Da Silva was arrested in Portuguese territory. Gabriel previously spent more than 30 years in prison
With an international arrest warrant for a residual theoretical sentence of over ten years (a personal vendetta converted into a “legal detail”), Gabriel continued to contribute to the anarchist struggle with his writings.
This 28 page collection of writings by Gabriel Pombo da Silva is available here to download..
The zine is written in Gabriel’s amazingly raw, imaginative style and shows why the German and Spanish authorities tried to suppress him forever – Read his words, be inspired and take action!!
Although we do not have guarantees that the mail will work regularly, it is obvious that it will not be a virus that is responsible for the letters from your loved ones and solidarity individuals not being able to arrive!
Continue reading “Gabriel extradited back to Spain for 16 yrs more .. he already did 30 yrs!”
Bioweapon Labs Must Be Shut Down and Scientists Prosecuted
By Joseph Mercola Mercola.com
May 13, 2020
The idea that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a bioweapons laboratory is gaining traction. May 3, 2020, The New York Times reported1 that during an ABC “This Week” interview Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had stated “the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan.” Pompeo also accused China of covering up the leak.
“Mr. Pompeo, the former C.I.A. chief and one of the senior administration officials who is most hawkish on dealing with China, said that ‘there’s enormous evidence’ that the coronavirus came from the lab, though he agreed with the intelligence assessment that there was no indication that the virus was man-made or genetically modified,” The New York Times writes.2
Now, if you’ve been following this newsletter, you’ve likely seen my interviews with bioweapons expert Francis Boyle and molecular biologist Judy Mikovits, both of whom have cited evidence that strongly points toward SARS-CoV-2 being a laboratory creation. So, the assessment that there’s “no indication” that the virus has been modified seems dubious at best. Most likely, we’re not just dealing with scientific interpretations here, but with political games as well.
Bioweapon Labs Must Be Shut Down and Scientists Prosecuted
As noted by Boyle — professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law and author of the book, “Biowarfare and Terrorism,”3 who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 — what’s needed is a ban on biosafety level (BSL) 3 and 4 labs.
Time and again, serious safety breaches have been identified at laboratories working with the most lethal and dangerous pathogens in the world.4,5,6,7,8,9,10 For example, in 2014, six glass vials of smallpox virus were accidentally found in a storeroom in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s lab at the National Institutes of Health.11
It was the second time in one month mishandling of potential deadly infectious agents was exposed. One month before this shocking discovery, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention12 realized as many as 84, and possibly 86, of its scientists had been exposed to live anthrax.13,14
United States biological weapons program – Wikipedia The United States biological weapons program began in 1943 and was discontinued in 1969.. The program officially began in spring 1943 on orders from U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.Research continued following World War II as the U.S. built up a large stockpile of biological agents and weapons.Over the course of its 27-year history, the program weaponized and stockpiled the following seven …
The live pathogen had been sent from another, higher-security facility, which failed to follow biosafety protocols. The anthrax sample was supposed to have been inactivated prior to transfer, but for a variety of reasons it wasn’t dead on arrival.
The next year, in 2015, the Pentagon realized a Dugway Proving Ground laboratory had been sending incompletely inactivated anthrax (meaning it was still live) to 200 laboratories around the world for the past 12 years. According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report15 issued in August 2016, incompletely inactivated anthrax was sent out on at least 21 occasions between 2003 and 2015.
Asia Times16 lists several other examples as well, as does a May 28, 2015, article in USA Today17 and an April 11, 2014, article in Slate magazine.18 In 2017, the BSL 4 lab on Galveston Island was hit by a massive storm and severe flooding, raising questions about what might happen were some of the pathogens kept there to get out.19 As recently as 2019, the BSL 4 lab in Fort Detrick was temporarily shut down after several protocol violations were noted.20
In October 2014, a U.S. moratorium on experiments on coronaviruses that might make the viruses more pathogenic and/or easy to spread among humans took effect.21
The ban came on the heels of “high-profile lab mishaps” at the CDC and “extremely controversial flu experiments” in which the bird flu virus was engineered to become more lethal and contagious between ferrets. The goal was to see if it could mutate and become more lethal and contagious between humans, causing future pandemics. However, the federal moratorium on lethal virus experiments in the U.S. was lifted at the end of December 2017.22
In Brazil a tiny far-right minority owns nearly all the arable land, due to the history of slavery and colonization. . Now with neo fascist Bolsonaro in power a law is going through to let them usurp vast areas of publicly owned forest and indigenous land they have already seized, giving them legal rights to ‘develop’ a world heritage, an ecological miracle and a key to saving the planet. But the legalization needs to be voted through before May 19th 2020 or they will have to start again.
By Caroline Oliveira at BrasilDemocracia representativa via Kaos en La Red.
translation by TheFreeOnline, illustrations added.
‘Provisional Measure 910’, known as the land appropriation or land regularization measure, which seeks to regulate around 600,000 rural properties until the year 2022, can be voted on in the Brazilian National Congress this week, after the sponsor of the Bill, the deputy Zé Silva reached an agreement with the leader of the Congress, Rodrigo Maia.
The measure faces reaction from environmentalists, the opposition, the National Conference of Bishops (CNBB) and even the Federal Public Ministry. If the bill is not approved by both houses of the legislature (Congress and Senate) by May 19, it will expire.
According to the organization for the defense of land rights, T5550erra de Direito, as well as other experts who spoke with Brazil about Fato, the temporary measure dictated by Jair Bolsonaro in December last year, supposedly promotes the regularization of state-owned rural areas. But “it is a clear attempt to regularize public lands that have already been illegally appropriated.”
In reality, the Public Ministry (MPF) published several studies highlighting the irregularities and constitutional issues contained in the draft land regularization law.
Continue reading “Brazilian oligarchy set to get area 7 times greater than Portugal”
Barcelona has crashed. Now its ground zero in the collapse of the Dream. This is an example of what’s happening all around the world.
Hundreds of people who lived in a submerged or very precarious economy linked to tourism have found themselves with absolutely nothing overnight.
The strong neighbourhood mutual aid networks are overwhelmed by the sudden fall of all those who remained invisible, already on the threshold of destitution
by Helena López.. ..translated from elperiodico.com with thanks. Illustrations added..
Behind every unknown phone number that lights up the screen, dozens a day, there lies a story. One of the latest, that of a Filipino girl who lives in a rented room with her four-year-old daughter. A small room with chipped walls that she hasn’t been able to pay for for two months. She worked in the kitchen of a restaurant without a contract.
With the decree of the Spanish ‘State of Alarm’, she lost her income and, by working irregularly, cannot access any aid. “The man who rents the room wanted to kick us out. He has agreed to let us stay until the end of the month because I told him that if he kicked us out in full ‘Confinement Lockdown’ I would report him to the police. But what will happen to us tomorrow?”
Elena’s case is a typical example of the consequences of this crisis in the old city neighborhood. Living in the Lockdown confinement in a rented room with a child was already hard. Losing even that is what is happening these weeks in Raval, a neighborhood where the Covid-19 has caused a multiple collapse.
Continue reading “Mass Destitution and Mutual Aid in Barcelona’s Raval”
A federal court granted a protective order (amparo) to Chiapas indigenous people by means of which it orders that work on the Palenque stretch of the Maya Train is suspended, for the purpose of safeguarding the health of the Ch’ol people, […]
from — Chiapas Support Committee, shared with thanks
By: Elio Henríquez .. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
In a statement, the judge pointed out that when deciding admission of the protective order, the court “determined that it was appropriate to grant the suspension because at this moment it must give preponderant value to the right to health of the complainants as members of the Ch’ol Maya community and inhabitants of the localities, since the work involved in such infrastructure requires the deployment of various activities” that numerous people must carry out who will require essential and non-essential services in the community, thereby increasing activities in their public areas.
The grouping, based in Yucatán, indicated that indigenous Chiapanecos of Palenque, Ocosingo and Salto de Agua presented the request for an amparo on May 7.
They presented the lawsuit against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer, and the director general of the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism, Rogelio Jiménez Pons, for issuance of the April 6 agreement and the April 23 decree, “through which the continuation of the Maya Train, among other administration projects, was determined, despite the Covid-19 pandemic.”
It added that: “complainants pointed out that the continuation of the project, in the context of the pandemic, violated their right to health due to the risk of contagion because of Covid-19, placing the human right to life at risk.
“The inhabitants of those communities argued that maintaining work on the Maya Train during a pandemic prevented them from participating in the environmental and social impact statements to which, as communities, they have a right in the face of any megaproject.
It specified that the court not only prioritized the right to health of the inhabitants of the Ch’ol communities of Ocosingo, Palenque and Salto del Agua, but it also recognized that continuing work on the train in this context could affect other rights of that Native people, like the right to water, environment and natural resources.
It explained that while the suspension decreed is provisional (the definitive suspension will be resolved in a hearing on May 14) it permits making visible the potential damages that the project will cause.
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Originally Published in Spanish by La Jornada
https://www.jornada.com.mx/2020/05/09/politica/017n1pol
Re-Published with English interpretation by the Chiapas Support Committee
However, the residents can’t celebrate fully yet: another hearing will be held on May 14 at which a judge will decide whether to upgrade the provisional suspension order to a definitive one, which would provide an even stronger guarantee that work on the railroad in the three municipalities won’t start while Covid-19 remains a health threat.
The Maya Ch’ol residents ultimately want to stop the train project altogether, arguing that it will cause irreparable damage to the environment, including natural resources such as water.
The suspension order comes two months after a judge in Campeche granted a definitive suspension order against the Maya Train to a group of indigenous people in the municipality of Calakmul.
The Free 
