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Anarchist Black Cross / ABC Iberian Federation Posted on 2022/02/11 by Cruz Negra Anarquista

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

in English..here: Gabriel Pombo da Silva   -some writings ..  the anarchist library

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.

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.

from OffGuardian.. shared with thanks.. 20th Feb 2022

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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.

Like I said, still very unsettling.

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Protests have been held in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture against the government’s controversial plan to release contaminated water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

Dozens of local residents gatheredin front of the Fukushima prefectural government office building on Tuesday, calling for the cancellation of the move, while also demanding protection for the ocean, as they waved banners with slogans written in several languages in a bid to bring international attention to their concerns.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, located on Japan’s northeast coast, was crippled after going into meltdown following an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Around 1.25 million tons of water, used to cool the reactors after the meltdown, are currently stored in tanks in and around the plant.

Local polls have shown that more than 70 percent of non-governmental organizations in Fukushima object to the plan of releasing the radioactive water into the ocean. Many people worry the plan will cause great harm to their health.

“If nuclear contaminated water is discharged into the sea, people may be affected by eating fish or other sea food. This may bring sustained harm to people’s health. Since the release plan will take a long time to complete, I am worried the harm will increase day by day,” said a local resident.

“I want to protect the health and future of younger generations, so I oppose dumping the contaminated water into the ocean,” said another local resident.

The protesters also voiced concern that Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the nuclear power plant, had failed to fully disclose information about the Fukushima nuclear disaster or verify the data about the nuclear contaminated water.

see also Legal action on Fukushima nuclear disaster’s impact on health

“Although the release plan says the radioactive water will be diluted before being discharged into the sea, the total amount of nuclear elements in the water will not change at all. So I think it’s not right to dump the wastewater into the ocean and spread contamination,” said a local resident.

Tuesday’s protest took place as a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was slated to conduct safety reviews at the plant.

Scientists trace the path of radioactive cesium in the ecosystem of Fukushima

The 15-member team arrived in Japan on Monday to review the government’s plan to release the treated radioactive water into the ocean from the  destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant — a review that Tokyo hopes will instill confidence in the plan, which is opposed by neighboring countries.

The task force, headed by Gustavo Caruso, director of the IAEA’s Office of Safety and Security Coordination, is due to stay in Japan through Friday.

Japan and the IAEA have agreed to compile an interim report on the review later this year.

Last April, the then-Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said TEPCO would be allowed to release nuclear contaminated water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean starting in 2023, leading to a massive outcry from both local residents and the international community.

Local fishing communities expressed opposition as well, saying that the water discharge would undermine years of work to restore confidence in seafood from the region.

The radioactive water, which increases in quantity by about 140 tons a day, is now being stored in more than 1,000 tanks, and space at the site is expected to run out around next autumn.

To meet international standards before disposal, the nuclear wastewater, however, needs to be filtered to remove harmful isotopes. The process, however, cannot remove tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that experts say will be harmful to human health in large doses.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/02/16/676938/Fukushima-residents-rally-against-plan-to-discharge-nuclear-contaminated-water-into-sea

Doubts grow on water-release schedule at Fukushima plant

Doubts grow on water-release schedule at Fukushima plant  cTHE ASAHI SHIMBUN, January 31, 2022  ………

February 20, 2022 by yalensis at awfulavalanche

Dear Readers:

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.

Kots: “How many of you are Russian citizens?” I asked, of the people in one of the 30 buses, parked on the side of the road in the village of Red Landing, near Taganrog.

A full half of the people (in the bus) raise their hands. The other half admit that they are in the process of obtaining Russian passports. I see merry toddlers wearing bright outfits, who manage to find ways to have fun even in these circumstances. And here are their mamas, who worry their babies will freeze on the way to Russia.

And they have been waiting here for quite a long time, and nobody knows what is going to happen next, in regard to their resettlement. I see grandmothers who pop into the village store to buy sweets for their grandchildren.