Today I have this piece by war reporter Alexander Kots. He set out to find human interest stories among the over 10,000 refugees who have crossed over from the Donbass region into Russia, just in the past couple of days.
Roughly half of these refugees are technically Russian citizens already, holding Russian passports. The other half being Ukrainian citizens who are resident in the Separatist-controlled Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) and Luhansk Peoples Republic (LPR).
The order (issued by the leaders of those republics) to evacuate women, children, and elderly was given this past Thursday, after the Ukrainian army opened massive artillery barrages on the line of demarcation, threatening massive damage and loss of life to the residential communities.
War correspondent Alexander Kotz
Kots: “How many of you are Russian citizens?” I asked, of the people in one of the 30 buses…
Direct Action protesters reportedly caused millions in damages and evicted workers at the -illegal- pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. With no arrests police suspect either local indigenous to the pipeline on their land, or outside climate extinction activists, or even a professional
AFP / Coastal GasLink
Violent protesters reportedly left a Coastal GasLink pipeline worksite in Houston, British Columbia in ruins, causing millions of dollars in damages in what the company claimed was a “highly planned” and “unprovoked” assault on its property.
The controversial pipeline has come under attack before, facing multiple blockades last year. Authorities have attempted to enforce court injunctions, arresting demonstrators in 2019 and 2020. A more recent blockade by one of the local Wet’suwet’en Nation, who have never ceded their lands to anyone, stranded 500 workers near the site, leaving a bridge partially destroyed.
About 20 vandals cut the lock off a gate late Wednesday night, before entering the worksite and surrounding Coastal GasLink employees, according to a statement issued by the company on Thursday. Some of the demonstrators allegedly wielded axes, destroying trucks, sheds, and other property. “Flare guns were also fired at workers,” the statement claimed.
Gabriel Pombo da Silva is a well-known Galician anarchist militant who has spent more than 30 years in prison. Always at the crossroads of repression, both Spanish and from other European States, for his commitment to the anti-capitalist struggle, he wrote a book during his stay in jail – Diario e ideario de un delincuente -, as well as different booklets – gathered in the book Parte de un appido— and other writings
Gabriel Pombo remains kidnapped in prison after serving 33 years, even though his sentence expired for more than 6 years ago, according to the rules of a fallacious and criminal “rule of law”.After finally getting 3 and a half years of freedom, he has been illegally detained again, and we are campaigning still for his release
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The court no. 2 of Girona uses bureaucracy and cynicism as an instrument to prolong the incarceration of the anarchist prisoner, to whom the 1973 Penal Code applies, which is not in force Legal subterfuge has also managed to delay the response of the Supreme Court for five months regarding the possibility of recasting 20 years of the sentence, which would leave him free.
(Statement/Last update on the legal situation of Gabriel Pombo da Silva)
With this statement we want to report on the current legal situation that continues to prevent the release of our anarchist comrade, despite the fact that 2 years have passed since his arrest (we remember illegal).
..”I am not a theoretician, but one of the oppressed, enamored with the freedom (and liberty) that infects the oppressed with the passion for a worthy life…” Gabriel Pombo da Silva,
The will of the executioners in toga to continue kidnapping Gabriel becomes evident. By whatever means their (almost) limitless powers allow, they abuse it by demonstrating their will to continue weaponizing time.
Now unavailable… 2022
The sadness of the legal message (which we use in a synthetic and cold way) becomes strength knowing that our colleague is in very good health and spirits, despite this situation, and despite the discriminatory treatment he has been suffering for months after having refused the anti-Covid “vaccine” (they do not allow you to have vis-a-vis and you can receive visits exclusively through the visiting room).
As always, he is investing his time (in his hands as well as in ours, time can also become a weapon) reading books, receiving and writing letters, dedicating himself to translations and physical exercises and freedom projects that we hope can materialize as soon as possible.
-The interception of communications has been retroactively annulled (before last summer the Provincial Court, with a final judgment, established the “non-dangerousness of the inmate”).
In response, the prison took revenge by denying the second permit for “belonging to armed gangs” (the appeal has been dismissed with the excuse of the “remoteness of the compliance date” -November 2030-, without going into the matter of the unjustified and false accusation of “armed gangs”…look at the plural! Until that compliance date is modified, it is not possible to request another permit.
– The Supreme Court’s response regarding the possibility of a 20-year recast should have arrived last fall, but the attorney responsible for processing the appeal did not process it, making us lose 6 months (state legal sewers part 1). The same court admitted the appeal again and another 5 or 6 minimum waiting months must be recomputed.
Tagesspiegel on the Berlinale win: ‘Sanchez congratulated the success of the ‘Spanish film’, not mentioning it was in Catalan. Spain has systematically since forever nullified the successes of Catalans’
(Photo: Carla Simon wins the Berlinale’s Golden Bear with Alcarras)/
TAGESSPIEGEL SOBRE EL TRIOMF A LA BERLINALE: ‘SÁNCHEZ HA FELICITAT L’ÈXIT DE LA ‘PEL.LÍCULA ESPANYOLA’, SENSE CITAR QUE ERA EN CATALÀ. ESPANYA SISTEMÀTICAMENT DES DE SEMPRE HA ANUL.LAT ELS ÈXITS DELS CATALANS’
(Photo: Carla Simón guanya l’ós d’or de la Berlinale amb Alcarràs)
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1. The Munich Security Conference 2022 and the future global government
Bill Gates is still really unsettling Not exactly news, but with his Covid grand plan fragmenting in his hands, it might be time to check in on Bill and see what’s going on with him.
Here he is, for example, on a panel at this years Munich Security Conference:
Now, I’m not sadistic enough to suggest you spend your Sunday evening subjecting yourself to the whole hour-plus of shills spouting nonsense, so I’ve taken the liberty of pointing out a choice quote.
Starting at 6:47 [emphasis added]:
With vaccines it took us two years to be at oversupply. Today there are more vaccines than there is demand for vaccines […] Next time, instead of two years, we should make it six months.“
I find this interesting, not just because of his uncontested assumption that there will be a “next time”, but because willingly or unwillingly he has identified one problem with the Covid narrative: It was too slow.
By the time the “vaccines” were ready the initial waves of fear were dying down and enough people were waking up to form a solid band of resistance. “Next time” they will move faster.
He is joined on the panel by Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly who talks up the multi-lateral efforts to beat the virus, and repeats Bill in stating that new developments in technology means that “next time” we’ll be able to get a vaccine produces in six months rather than two years. (She also spends several minutes talking up the “foreign interference” and “overseas funding” of the Freedom Convoy).
It’s interesting that both Bill and Joly mention the improved technology making vaccine production faster because, in an odd coincidence, The Guardian’s got a long article about just that which was published today.
Clearly laying the groundwork for explaining even faster vaccine production “next time”.
To go along with this, Anne Linde – a third member of the panel and Sweden’s Foreign Minister – discusses how Covid was solved by multi-lateralism eventually, that the organizations like the EU, UN and WHO were not empowered enough to act swiftly to solve the situation, and that Covid has “exposed holes” in the international system.
To translate all of this: This “pandemic” might be waning, but “next time” the vaccines will be faster, and the international governmental organisations will be more empowered.
Ukraine has received a plane load of machine guns, surveillance gear and rifles as part of a Canadian military assistance package, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Saturday.
“We received military aid in the form of rifles, machine guns with optical sights, night vision & surveillance devices & military equipment. Thank you for this important & timely decision,” Reznikov wrote in a tweet.
Canada’s lethal military aid for Ukraine has arrived. In the face of unwarranted Russian aggression, we stand with Ukraine.
For years, we have provided comprehensive aid to support Ukraine, and we will continue to assist our Ukrainian partners as they defend their sovereignty. https://t.co/Xm5BCeT4h5
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