shared from Squat!net with thanks! March 29th, 2021
For a year now, the pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people, and in the dystopian world where the huge increase in surveillance and control systems is legitimised by the doctrine of war on the virus, where everything is illegal except going to work, the evictions do not stop.
About the eviction of the Casa Cantoniera
Two and a half years after it opened, the Casa Cantoniera Occupata, the self-managed shelter in Oulx, was evicted. Inside the House was full of people: the pandemic has never stopped those on the move without the privilege of having a place to stay.
Occupied in December 2018, it was a place created to give solidarity to people who wanted to cross the French-Italian border at the Montgenèvre Pass. A place of struggle and self-organisation, against all borders and military and political devices that seek to control and select.
A new mural of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, dubbed Collateral Crucifixion, has been unveiled in Berlin, graphically depicting the whistleblower’s persecution by American and British governments.
WikiLeaks shared an image of the 20-meter-high Berlin mural “drawing attention” to its founder’s plight on Tuesday via Twitter, with the artwork depicting Assange being crucified as a defender of press freedoms against a hostile military-industrial complex under a hybrid US-British flag.
— Defend Assange Campaign (@DefendAssange) March 22, 2021
The journalist, currently imprisoned at Belmarsh Prison in London, faces a prison term of up to 175 years if extradited to the US and convicted of offenses under the Espionage Act.
Washington’s case against Assange consists of 18 charges, including espionage and computer misuse relating to WikiLeaks’ disclosure of more than 250,000 classified documents on US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The mural’s unveiling comes amid an outpouring of international solidarity for the Australian in his legal battle against US extradition. Assange received a message of support from Pope Francis on March 28, Palm Sunday in the Roman Catholic Church.
A week earlier, three Australian MPs met with a high official in the US Embassy in Canberra to argue for Assange’s release. Andrew Wilkie, one of the MPs in the cross-party delegation who sat down with embassy charge d’affaires Michael Goldman, said that Washington’s campaign against Assange is “obviously not in the public interest and must be dropped.”
The feminists appeared shouting “TO FASCISM NEITHER HONOUR NOR GLORY!” and have received disgusting insults from the nazi supporters present By Press Published on Mar 29, 2021
Femen activists break into a Francoist tribute in Madrid
Several Femen activists have stormed this Sunday in an event organized to celebrate the anniversary of the fall of Republican Madrid at the hands of Franco’s coup troops, in Madrid’s ‘Arch of Victory’. (Followed by the mass murder of tens of thousands of supporters of the democratically elected Republic, with Hitler and Mussolinis support, and collusion of Europe)
The demo was allowed by the Madrid Government Delegation, a decision that has been marked by controversy after the expressions of hatred and anti-Semitism registered in a neo-Nazi act of tribute to the ‘blue division’ in February.
nazi hysteria at the legalised demo in Feb
Feminists came to the cry of “to fascism neither honor nor glory”, with the same phrase painted on their chests and Francoist eagles drawn on their backs.
The group, of peaceful resistance, has been received with insults such as “whores”, “foxes” or orders to return “to the brothel” by those present, who also responded by singing the hymn of the Falange fascist party, Face to the Sun.
Agents of the National Police, there to protect the fascists, acted as a shield between both groups and brought clothes to Femen activists, from whom they forced to give their identity data and who then withdrew without arrests.
The event, described by its organizers as a “national affirmation” act, was convened by the ‘ultra’ organizations Spanish Catholic Movement and Spanish Youth Action.
Other fascist revival acts held during the day were a mass in the ”Valley of the Fallen”, a prayer and an offering in the pantheon of the dictator of Mingorrubio and a ‘brotherhood meal’ in the Francoist Chinese rstaurant.
Varias activistas de Femen han irrumpido este domingo en un acto poco concurrido organizado para celebrar el aniversario de la caída del Madrid republicano a manos de las tropas golpistas de Franco, en el Arco de la Victoria de Madrid.
Las feministas han llegado al grito de «al fascismo ni honor ni gloria», con la misma frase pintada en el pecho y con águilas franquistas dibujadas en la espalda.
proud nazis salute under the pre-constitution flag
El colectivo, de resistencia pacífica, ha sido recibido con insultos como «putas», «zorras» u órdenes de que volvieran «al prostíbulo» por parte de los presentes, que también han contestado cantando el himno de la Falange Cara al Sol.
Agentes de la Policía Nacional han hecho de escudo entre ambos grupos y han llevado ropa a las activistas de Femen, a las que han tomado los datos y que se han retirado sin crear disturbios.
El evento, calificado por sus organizadores de acto de «afirmación nacional», fue convocado por las organizaciones ultras Movimiento Católico Español y Acción Juvenil Española.
Otros de los actos que se celebrarán durante la jornada será una misa en el Valle de los Caídos, una oración y una ofrenda en el panteón del dictador de Mingorrubio y una ‘comida de hermandad’ en el Chino Franquista.
the nazi march in Feb
El acto está permitido por la Delegación del Gobierno de Madrid, una decisión que ha estado marcada por la polémica tras las expresiones de odio y antisemitismo registradas en un acto neonazi de homenaje a la división azul en febrero.
The UK signed a huge £18.6bn trade deal with Turkey 2 days after Brexit. Germany turns a blind eye to the latest outrages and promotes arms sales. France, the EU and NATO cave in to blackmail, suddenly praising ”positive developments on the part of Turkey”.
Despite jailing tens of thousands, including Deputies, journalists, and especially Kurdish people, despite invading neighbours, promoting Islamic terrorists as paid mercenaries, enslaving Syrian refugees while blackmailing the EU over refugee payouts.. and now abolishing a human rights law by executive order, the Turkish president Erdogan is suddenly popular in Europe.
If the European Union can describe Turkey as showing “positive tendencies”, what would a country have to do to merit EU censure?
In the words of Human Rights Watch, “The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is dismantling human rights protections and democratic norms in Turkey on a scale unprecedented in the 18 years he has been in office.”
A liquified natural gas tanker.(Chuck Kennedy/ZUMA)
On October 20 last year, French oil giant Total docked a tanker loaded with Australian liquefied natural gas at the port of Dapeng in southern China.
The company boasted that the LNG was “carbon neutral” because the emissions from burning it had been neutralized by carbon credits purchased from a 10-year-old wind farm in northern China.
Environmentalists cried foul. “Handing out money to a decade-old project that will run anyway does nothing to neutralize pollution from continued use of fossil fuels,” tweeted Sam Van den plas, policy director of Carbon Market Watch, a Brussels-based nonprofit.
The great American war machine has been destroying millions of lives in Afghanistan for 20 years. We never knew why. But to them and all the arms industry, mercenary private contractors, layers of bureaucracy and hangers on it makes good sense to keep their gravy train war flowing forever. To give him credit Trump made an executive order, and May 1st 2021 was fixed as an exit date. So now the US media must justify its caring, inclusive, woke, democratic and truly wonderful desire to keep the slaughter going.
US intelligence agencies have warned the Biden administration that if the United States withdraws its military presence from Afghanistan under current circumstances, the nation would be at severe risk of falling under the control of the people who live there.
A New York Times article titled “Officials Try to Sway Biden Using Intelligence on Potential for Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan” warns that an intelligence assessment has predicted that if “U.S. troops leave before any deal between the Taliban and the Afghan government, the militant group will take over much of the country.”
Just one short snippet for this Sunday morning, for I am both exhausted and discouraged and most anything I write is going to come out surly at best.
Mr. Greg Gianforte first popped onto my radar in May 2017 when he beat up a reporter … yes, physically beat up Ben Jacobs, a reporter from The Guardian during a campaign event. The fools in Montana elected him to the U.S. House of Representatives anyway, and last year they went one better and elected him as the governor of Montana.
Beating up a reporter who was simply trying to ask a question is a serious crime, one worthy of some prison time and certainly not one to be taken lightly, as the people of Montana have apparently done. Gianforte had a history of abusing and damning the press even before the 2017 event, and he does not, obviously, have the temperament…
The Free 