December 19, 2019 by actforfreedom, shared with thanks
Athens, Greece: It’s ironic. The greek government has been terrorizing the neighborhood of Exarcheia since the summer with squat evictions, attacks on people inside coffee shops and bars and brutal beatings and arrests for no reason -especially following the protests on 17 November and 6 December, where an atypical martial was imposed in the area.
A few days ago they made an attempt to cover up the riot police crimes against the people in the area, by decorating Square with Christmas lights and a Christmas Tree!
[You can find links to videos documenting some of the police crimes in the area during the last few months r at the end of this]
To get an idea of what is happening in Athens at the moment a few things have to be noted: The greek government has gone to war with anarchists and anti authoritarians, following the end of a 15 days ultimatum issued by the Ministry of “Public Order”, against the dozens of political and refugee squats across Greece (some of them more than 30 years old), threatening them with violent evictions by the riot police and police special forces, if they did not evacuate within the deadline.
The deadline ended on Thursday night on the 5th of December 2019, a political decision by the Greek State aiming to agitate and create an “explosive atmosphere”.
Following the first wave of attacks and evictions, mainly against squats housing refugees during the fall, the second wave of attacks has just begun, this time against political squats and social centers.
To all those who realize capitalism must be dismantled to save the planet. Every day, every minute the world wealth concentrates in fewer and fewer hands. Billionaires and Corporations hire armies of lawyers to hide their wealth offshore, tax free, milking the population dry.
Already the offshore trillions are bigger than the wealth of blocks of nations, and the process seems impossible to stop, (while scientists suggest that with only 400 billion they could finance reforestation campaigns that could stop runaway climate catastrophe, at least for now).
Impossible to stop? Wikileaks and the transparency collective ‘Distributed Denial of Secrets‘ , among other voluntary heroes are risking their lives to publish online the filthy secrets of the corporate billionaires. Secrets uncovered by anonymous leaks, brave journalists and intrepid anarchist hackers. Then its up to the public to search the material, publish the proof, and pursue the ecocidal criminals.
Below we publish a report, shared by the Unicorn Riot Collective, of a massive new leak published online by the Transparency Collective.
Global Offshore Corporate Networks Exposed in Massive Data Leak
By Dan Feidt, Unicorn Riot December 3, 2019
LONDON, UK – Hundreds of thousands of documents from inside Formations House, a posh British finance firm located in central London, have been released online tonight. Formations House created thousands of companies for ultra-wealthy business-people for offshore banking and international transactions.
The transparency collective ‘Distributed Denial of Secrets‘ obtained these documents from a source dubbed “Babylon” and is publishing them online. More than 100,000 recorded phone calls between Formations House, its customers, and related figures, are included. Full archives of the phone calls are expected to be released in coming days.
Massive Hack Strikes Offshore Cayman National Bank And Trust .Capitalism concentrates wealth in fewer and fewer hands. By now it’s ridiculous and totally immoral .. and an opportunity for hackers who want to save the planet to STRIKE A POWERFUL BLOW. Phineas Fisher ( she, he or they) has shown how insanely rich and powerful criminals who are leading the destruction of the planet can be exposed and held responsible.
A Spanish judge will question Julian Assange on a Spain-based security firm thought to have spied on him in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. His lawyer hopes it may help thwart the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition to the US.
Set for next week, the questioning is part of a criminal inquiry the Spanish High Court is carrying out into UC Global, a private security company suspected of gathering surveillance on Assange and passing it further to US intelligence services.
“December 20 is an important day,” Aitor Martinez, a lawyer in charge of defending Assange in Spain, told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency. The Spanish judge will go to Westminster Magistrates Court “to receive a video conference testimony from Mr Assange as a victim of the alleged spy plot,” he revealed.
The firm’s name surfaced this summer when El Pais newspaper reported that it was eavesdropping on Assange during his exile at the Ecuadorian diplomatic mission in London. Citing recordings it has had access to, the paper alleged that the firm – tasked to guard the embassy – specifically focused on Assange’s legal matters discussions.
Bolivia, December 2019, three weeks after the fascist coup. It is devilishly cold. My comrade’s car is carefully navigating through the deep mud tracks. Enormous snow-covered mountain peaks are clearly visible in the distance.
The Bolivian Altiplano; beloved, yet always somehow hostile, silent, impenetrable.
So many times, in the past I came close to death here. In Peru as well as in Bolivia. More often in Peru.
Now, what I do is totally mad. Being a supporter of President Evo Morales from the beginning until this very moment, I am not supposed to be here; in Bolivia, in the Altiplano. But I am, because these mud huts on the left and right, are so familiar and so dear to me.
My comrade is a Bolivian farmer, an indigenous man. His hands are red, rough. He usually does not talk much, but after…
Caracol urbano propone Cuerpos parlantes como un espacio para el encuentro, la puesta en común y el aprendizaje colectivo en torno a los feminismos y aquellas formas de conocimiento que incrementen nuestro potencial de organización y de vida. También para la celebración.
Urban Caracol proposes Talking bodies as a space for meeting, sharing and collective learning around feminisms and those forms of knowledge that increase our potential for organization and life. Also for the celebration.
El Laboratorio de Interconectividades propone germinar ecosistemas de experimentación micropolítica que cuestionen, dialoguen y subviertan las maneras en que nos relacionamos y organizamos: cómo nos comunicamos, por qué hacemos redes, de qué formas habitamos las tecnologías y cómo construimos sentidos, conocimientos y afectos. …………………………The Interconnectivity Laboratory proposes to germinate micropolitical experimentation ecosystems that question, dialogue and subvert the ways in which we interact and organize: how we communicate, why we network, how we inhabit technologies and how we build senses, knowledge and affections…..http://laboratoriodeinterconectividades.tk
Porque vivimos en un país y en una ciudad donde los cuerpos están segregados, incomunicados y despolitizados. La misoginia y el racismo marcan los cuerpos como mecanismos de segregación para la producción de clases sociales jerarquizadas.
Because we live in a country and in a city where bodies are segregated, incommunicado and depoliticized. Misogyny and racism mark bodies as segregation mechanisms for the production of hierarchical social classes.
Estimates of more than 500,000 people like you and me have already died in the Syrian Civil War. Here we show that the NATO partner, Turkish neo fascist leader Erdogan armed, funded and proxied a local Syrian rebellion into a bloodbath. The US especially helped to organise the massacre. Turkey’s genocidal wars are partly paid for by NATO, i.e. the western taxpayer. (Of about $800bn cost in 2017 Turkey contributed only just over $12bn). Not content with these crimes against humanity Erdogan has ordered his massive NATO military to invade Afrin and Nth East Syria, expel hundreds of thousands of the local mainly Kurdish people from their homes and territory, in winter, and install paid Islamic terrorists, many from Al Qaeda and ISIS, plus pro Turkish refugees,up to a million plantation settlers in all to ‘Turkify’ his conquests . (Help stop the War Crimes, see #RiseUp4Rojava .)
Turkey deserves the blame for what happened in Syria
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: If he had not intervened Syria would have emerged with a limited number of victims, little damage, few internally displaced and fewer refugees. Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan would also have escaped the negative human, economic and political impacts of the war across their borders.
Syria would have escaped more than eight years of warfare if Turkey had not intervened militarily and politically when Arab Spring anti-government protests erupted in March 2011. Without Turkey’s early involvement, Damascus’s crackdown would have ended the protests and the government would have initiated promised reforms.
see also> Seeing is Believing, Earthworks: Community Empowerment against fracking pollution and climate change. HERE> .https://wp.me/pIJl9-e9f
By Jonah M. Kessel and Hiroko Tabuchi Dec. 12, 2019
Immense amounts of methane are escaping from oil and gas sites nationwide, worsening global warming, even as the Trump administration weakens restrictions on offenders.
Jonah M. Kessel, a New York Times visual journalist, and Hiroko Tabuchi, a Times climate reporter, went to West Texas oilfields with a camera that can photograph methane.
To the naked eye, there is nothing out of the ordinary at the DCP Pegasus gas processing plant in West Texas, one of the thousands of installations in the vast Permian Basin that have transformed America into the largest oil and gas producer in the world.
There is a huge global spike in methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases driving climate change over the last decade, according Harvard University Studies. The U.S. is the biggest culprit, mostly from oil and gas fracking wells, there are over a million of them, with half already abandoned. Obama introduced laws so that the industry would -voluntarily- at least measure the leaks. But even that is being repealed by the Trump administration, a criminal and ecocidal policy in the light of years of concrete scientific proof that the methane emissions are tipping us towards imminent uncontrollable climate chaos..Controlling methane emissions would be a quick way to pause climate change, while CO2 remains in the atmosphere for many decades.
But a highly specialized camera sees what the human eye cannot: a major release of methane, the main component of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas that is helping to warm the planet at an alarming rate.
Two New York Times journalists detected this from a tiny plane, crammed with scientific equipment, circling above the oil and gas sites that dot the Permian, an oil field bigger than Kansas. In just a few hours, the plane’s instruments identified six sites with unusually high methane emissions.
DCP Pegasus Gas Processing PlantNov. 5, 2019Using a powerful infrared camera, The Times identified large-scale releases. Here, methane escapes from a device meant to be burning it off.
Methane is loosely regulated, difficult to detect and rising sharply. The Times’s aerial and on-the-ground research, along with an examination of lobbying activities by the companies that own the sites, shows how the energy industry is seeking and winning looser federal regulations on methane, a major contributor to global warming.
Operators of the sites identified by The Times are among the very companies that have lobbied the Trump administration, either directly or through trade organizations, to weaken regulations on methane, a review of regulatory filings, meeting minutes and attendance logs shows. These local companies, along with oil-industry lobby groups that represent the world’s largest energy companies, are fighting rules that would force them to more aggressively fix emissions like these.
Next year, the administration could move forward with a plan that would effectively eliminate requirements that oil companies install technology to detect and fix methane leaks from oil and gas facilities. By the E.P.A.’s own calculations, the rollback would increase methane emissions by 370,000 tons through 2025, enough to power more than a million homes for a year.
