The Occupy Wall Street movement, despite the efforts of the mass media to belittle it and the efforts of brutal police officers to scare it away, is growing and growing fast. There are a lot of stories from the past few days that we haven’t been able to cover. Check these out:
After a wave of raids across the country in which police in riot gear broke up Occupy Wall Street encampments and arrested protesters, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan acknowledged in an interview with the BBC that she participated in a conference call with officials from 18 cities about how to deal with the Occupy movement.
As police forces violently crack down on protests across the United States and Europe, we look at the increasing influence of military technology on domestic police forces. Stephen Graham is professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University in the U.K. His book is “Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism.” “What the Occupy movement is so powerful at is demonstrating that by occupying public spaces around the world, and particularly these extremely symbolic public spaces, it’s reasserting that the city is the foundation space for democracy,” Graham says. [includes rush transcript]
El Tribunal Supremo ha anulado hoy la sentencia que condenó por torturas a cuatro guardias civiles y ha decretado su absolución,
Spanish court pardons with ridiculous arguments almost the only police ever condemned for torture, giving the green light to all future police crimes and showing once more that the High Court is still controlled by the fascist right-
¿Se acuerdan de aquellos dos etarras detenidos que acabaron en el hospital, uno de los cuales casi se muere? Un tribunal de Gipuzkoa juzgó y condenó por torturas a varios de los Guardias Civiles que les habían detenido e interrogado. Además de las evidencias palpables en sus propios cuerpos, hasta tres testigos presenciales diferentes tiraron por tierra la versión de los policías.
Pues para una vez que se consigue sentar en un banquillo a policías presuntamente torturadores y se les condena, la historia ha de terminar como ha de terminar. Con una absolución en el Tribunal Supremo. Si uds. entienden algo de Derecho, por la mera crónica del periódico que viene abajo podrán darse cuenta de la ridiculez de los argumentos invocados por el tribunal para tirar por tierra la sentencia condenatoria.
Y es que a partir de unos ciertos niveles hay un círculo rojo de impunidad y los agentes de la ley deben tener más que claro que el estado va a estar ahí para garantizar todas y cada una de sus actuaciones en defensa del poder, sean cuales sean éstas. Nota de Tortuga. LEER MÁS http://www.grupotortuga.com/Nueva-sentencia-de-tebeo-del
Once again the brutal criminal 1% set out to DESTROY anything they can’t control.. Starting with Free Speech and Occupy Wall Street
Police in New York have launched a pre-dawn operation to clear the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park.
The city mayor’s office said on Twitter that the protesters should “temporarily leave and remove tents and tarps” but could return once the park was clear.
Occupy Wall Street was set up in September to protests against economic inequality and had been followed by dozens of protests around the world.
A camp in Oakland, California was cleared overnight on Monday.
The New York Times said that as the operation in Zuccotti Park began at about 01:00 (06:00 GMT), police gave an announcement, saying: “The city has determined that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park poses an increasing health and fire safety hazard.”
Leaflets were also handed out saying protesters would be allowed to return once the clearance had taken place, but not to bring camping equipment.
This means NO CAMPING and its impossible to stay on the NY streets in winter with no protection
The Eviction is similar to what happened in Barcelona 3 months ago when the Occupy Camp was cleared by brutal police by surprise at night, with the excuse of ‘cleaning’. On that occasion thousands of people took back the square the same day, and videos of police violence caused a surge in popular support.
Miles de personas se congratulan por la salida de Berlusconi, pese a que no ha sido relevado por la presión popular sino por la presion de los mercados.
Wild Celebrations for the EXIT or Burlesconi
En medio de tanto agobio, las personas han buscado un motivo por el cual alegrarse aunque sea por unas horas.
Ante la inminente renuncia de Silvio Berlusconi, se multiplican a esta hora en Roma los carteles, eslóganes e ironías contra el premier: “12 de noviembre, fiesta de la Liberación”, afirma una de las pancartas exhibidas por los manifestantes frente a Palazzo Grazioli, residencia privada del jefe del gobierno.
No muy lejos de allí, frente al Palacio del Quirinal -sede de la presidencia de la República-, una muchedumbre canta coros de “aleluya” acompañada por una pequeña orquesta, mientras se ven flamear banderas con el tricolor italiano.
Mientras la gente comenzaba a acercarse al lugar, un grupo de militantes “anti-Silvio” llamado grupo de “Resistencia musical permanente” distribuyó pancartas en las que invitaba “a todo quien quiera a acercarse al Quirinale para cantar y sonar el Aleluya”.
Tariq , 16, was murdered from Virginia by remote control.
Last Friday, I met a boy, just before he was assassinated by the CIA. Tariq Aziz was 16, a quiet young man from North Waziristan, who, like most teenagers, enjoyed soccer.
Seventy-two hours later, a Hellfire missile is believed to have killed him as he was travelling in a car to meet his aunt in Miran Shah, to take her home after her wedding. Killed with him was his 12-year-old cousin, Waheed Khan.
Over 2,300 people in Pakistan have been killed by such missiles carried by drone aircraft such as the Predator and the Reaper, and launched by remote control from Langley, Virginia.
The final order to kill is signed allegedly by Stephen Preston, the general counsel at the CIA headquarters. What evidence, I would like to know, does Mr Preston have against Tariq and Waheed? What right does he have to act as judge, jury and executioner of two teenage boys neither he nor his staff have ever met, let alone cross-examined, or given the opportunity to present witnesses?
It is not too late to call for a prosecution and trial of whoever pushed the button and the US government officials who gave the order: that is, Mr Preston and his boss, President Barack Obama.
Iran has never attacked another country, the US, dozens.
Iran is obviously getting the bomb, but it has never yet attacked another country.(Unlike the US which has dozens of times). Right now Iran is controlled by religious nutters, just like Israel and the partly the US, who are threatening to BOMB its 78 million diverse and innocent people ‘into the stone age’. The people of Iran, Israel and the US should get together to smash the religious, capitalist and State institutions that threaten to burn them alive and blow their children to bits.
Pressured by the US, the UN’s atomic watchdog will say this week that Iran is developing nuclear arms .
The maniacs who control Israeli have said again they want to bomb Iran, which is surrounded by aggressive and psychotic Nuclear States..Israel, Pakistan, India and the good old USA.
The media is packed with commercial glorification of WAR.
WHY WHY WHY?? this is MADNESS.
It seems the US financial empire is tottering, despite its efforts to boost its ‘military industry’ with multiple wars, causing
up to a million dead bodies, just in Iraq. When I googled images with the tag ‘insane war industry’ I came up instead with 1000’s of photos publicizing
wonderful electronic war games and films. THIS is just OBSCENE MANIPULATION
War is the Logic of Capital, it seems, the modern State will stop at nothing to hold onto power, and the religious state is just a horror story.
The 1% need a new war, the infiltration, assassinations and black ops have already begun.. It remains to be seen if Obama can stop them, or if a horrific incident can be blamed on the Iranis, sweeping the way clear on a tide of nationalist hysteria.
WAR POSTPONED??
Reading lots of articles it seems to me that no country dares yet to start the Irani war. All are playing a criminally dangerous game of ‘Chicken’ to satisfy their nationalist, capitalist and religious supporters, but not really desperate enough to take that crazy step, unless some sector jumps the gun…. LET’S HOPE That’s True..
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