Un número desproporcionado de represores persiguió, apaleó, requisó el material e identificó a vendedores, mientras la gente denunciaba la actuación policial
Decenas de agentes de la Policía Municipal y de la Ertzaintza cargaron ayer por la tarde contra personas que estaban ejerciendo la venta ambulante en las inmediaciones de la Gran Vía de Bilbo.
Como se aprecia en los vídeos que han circulado en redes sociales, los vendedores, asustados, salieron huyendo —alguno incluso cayó en una fuente—, pero los policías les persiguieron, les requisaron el material e identificaron a cuatro de ellos.
En las imágenes se ve un claro empleo de la violencia por parte del operativo policial, con el uso de las porras, de la unidad canina y con agentes encapuchados, generando una situación de mucha tensión en pleno centro de la ciudad que llegó a provocar cortes en el tráfico y que suscitó un gran rechazo por parte de las personas viandantes que asistieron a los hechos.
Algunos de ellos, grabaron los vídeos que hoy dejan constancia de la desproporcionalidad de la actuación policial.
Al menos 57.000 millones de euros de gasto militar en 2024 –
El compromiso adquirido por el presidente Pedro Sánchez de alcanzar el 2% del PIB en gasto militar en 2029 en la Cumbre que tuvo lugar en Madrid en junio de 2022, se ha traducido en un gran aumento del armamentismo hasta alcanzar cifras nunca vistas en 45 años de democracia en España.
En el período de cuatro años (2020-2023) de la legislatura de Gobierno entre PSOE y Unidas Podemos, se han llevado a cabo unas inversiones de 24.139,7 millones de euros en Programas Especiales de Modernización (PEM, antes llamados PEA), que totalizan 21 nuevos programas y cuatro modificaciones de los ya existentes. Estos compromisos hipotecan el gasto de futuros gobiernos hasta el año 2035 y previsiblemente aumentarán la deuda
El presupuesto del Ministerio de Defensa aumentó en 2023 un 23,4% con respecto a 2022 y, debido a los compromisos adquiridos en inversiones de nuevos PEM, el próximo año 2024 volverá a subir en un porcentaje no menor, sobrepasando de nuevo el tan manido 2% del PIB en gasto militar que exige la OTAN.
Por otro lado, están las inversiones en I+D militar para desarrollar los PEM. En este año 2023 el Gobierno ha destinado 1.833 millones, un 11,2% sobre el total de la I+D en ayudas públicas a la I+D militar para el desarrollo de nuevas armas. Esta cuantía aumentó un 95% con respecto al año anterior, pasando de 938,5 M€ en 2022 a 1.833,3 M€ en 2023, contribuyendo en los últimos diez años a un crecimiento del 361,7%.
El pasado 13 de marzo se anunció que no se presentará para su aprobación en el parlamento del proyecto de ley de presupuestos generales del estado que estaba en negociación y que, por tanto, continuará la vigencia de la prórroga de los presupuestos aprobados en 2023.
En lo que respecta al gasto militar la prórroga es engañosa y no supone, en modo alguno, que el gasto militar de 2024 sea el mismo que el previsto en 2023 y, mucho menos, que el efectivamente ejecutado (muy superior al aprobado) para dicho año.
En el presente informe intentaremos acercarnos a una estimación del que podría ser (dado que la falta de presupuesto lo que hace es convertir en más opaco si cabe nuestro gasto militar) el gasto militar 2024.
También propondremos algunos puntos sobre los que habrá que estar vigilantes a lo largo del año para detectar las partidas y autorizaciones de gasto militar que se irán haciendo para provocar el aumento del gasto militar por encima del prorrogado.
Para ello, en un primer momento, recordaremos la cifra de gasto militar que en 2023 se presupuestó y los componentes ocultos en los que se distribuía. También veremos en un momento el crecimiento extrapresupuestario de este gasto militar “reconocido” según la intervención general de la Administración del Estado (IGAE), órgano público de fiscalización del gasto público.
La IGAE, sin embargo, no controla específicamente el gasto militar, ni desagrega el gasto por los distintos programas y partidas que disfrazan gasto militar en otros ministerios ajenos a Defensa, por lo que los datos obtenidos sólo nos darán una aproximación al gasto efectivamente ejecutado durante 2023 y a la cifra total de gasto militar español.
En un segundo momento analizaremos diversos parámetros que nos permiten estimar el crecimiento del gasto militar español para 2024 y ofrecer una cifra aproximada que sirva de referencia.
También analizaremos, desde una perspectiva antimilitarista, las principales tendencias y objetivos que dicho gasto pretende cubrir y algunos de los movimientos políticos a los que habremos de estar vigilantes para denunciar el crecimiento de dicho gasto.
A little more than a month that has passed since the release of the “Assembly” winter interview and this info fully confirms its thesis about the approaching revolutionary situation in the country.
This yellow Niva has become in Ukraine a truly popular meme of resistance to state terror
The people vote against the state, which wants to see them as dumb cannon fodder, not only with their legs but also with their wallets.
The Ukrainian parliament is on the verge of a crisis: few deputies want to take political responsibility for the bill on strengthening mobilization, the adoption of which has been postponed to April.
Parliamentarians promise that the bill will not include online summonses or blocking of bank cards for evasion. From the calculations of the National Bank of Ukraine, in January 2024 alone, the population withdrew 27.4 billion hryvnias from Ukrainian banks.
Why is this not a nationwide spontaneous strike? Moreover, according to a NBU report published on March 11, the volume of foreign remittances from people to the country has been falling for the second year in a row. Over the past year, the amount decreased by 7.8%, in 2022 – by 10.5% (that is, from $14 billion in 2021 to $12.5 in 2022 and $11.6 billion in 2023).
Obviously, those who left the “country of dreams” before the full-scale invasion take their families with them instead of returning to them even after the war.
At the same time, according to the deputy chairman of the same NBU, Sergiy Nikolaychuk, the expenses of Ukrainians abroad are much greater than the transfer of funds to Ukraine: the outflow from the cards of the population in the “travel” category amounted to $20 billion in 2022 and $18 billion in 2023.
The people vote against the state, which wants to see them as dumb cannon fodder, not only with their legs but also with their wallets.
Another example of how unannounced quiet sabotage can force the state to unclench its jaws may be the plans voiced by the new commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi to dismiss those who refuse to fight from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and using the money saved to double combat payments, to 200 thousand hryvnias per month.
The only question is, why then are they going to mobilize hundreds of thousands of recruits if they are preparing to purge the army of unmotivated personnel?
One way or another, no one knows what will be in the final voted version of the bill. All we can say with certainty is that even if they manage to bend the people by adapting the initial draconian version, the critical mass of those who are not going to die for the money of the IMF, BlackRock and Ukrainian respected citizens will not disappear anywhere – moreover, this public can only become more dangerous.
Europe: soldiers and young people flee armies By Pierre Duval – Continental Observer – 26.03.2024 The populations from immigration are not interested in the military uniform to lead the wars of the Occident, nor are the other young people of these countries. Most migrants support Russia. Calls by NATO leaders to recruit soldiers in a crusade against Russia are shunned by recruits […]
Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, the new commander of the AFU Land Forces, posted on March 24 the follow alarm about his subordinates:
«”How will I surrender without a fight”: why the enemy can defeat us with the help of the Ukrainians themselves
The highest pilotage of the art of war is to destroy the plans of the enemy and defeat him without using his troops in battle. And judging by the last months, the Russians are very skillful in using ancient Chinese stratagems of warfare. And some of our fellow citizens, unfortunately, have lost the understanding that their acts and public statements have turned into a powerful weapon in the hands of the enemy. Who did not leave, does not leave and will never leave his desire to destroy Ukraine. Let’s recall what was written and distributed in our social networks two years ago and compare it with what is happening now. From queues to the enlistment centers and memes “if to serve – everyone is sick, but if to fight – everyone is healthy”, we reached the harassment of the military from the enlistment centers and moral support for evading the defense of Ukraine. Two years ago (not having even a tenth of today’s air defense equipment, weapons and experience of a full-scale war!) we, with all that, perfectly understood how important it was to disrupt the mobilization in Russia. They rejoiced at every military commissariat set on fire there, rejoiced at the queues of their evaders, who fled in panic to Georgia and Kazakhstan. From the unity and cohesion of that time, our space of news and discussion has slipped (or rather, ossified!) not without the help of our wonderful bloggers and free media. In the news channels, there are many reports about “unfortunate drowning people in the Tisa” or “combat Hutsul” squads. But there are almost no materials related to the work of the enlistment centers, the specifics of military service, the need to perform military duty. Publications are not interested in such topics. Appeals from the media for clarification of these issues are individual. Can’t make a flashy headline? Will the target audience hide their eyes? A separate topic is the attitude towards military personnel of the enlistment centers Today, the enlistment centers and their guard companies are mostly staffed by servicemen who lost their health in the war and were deemed unfit to serve in combat units. How did it become acceptable to treat these people who went through hell as enemies and call them “man hunters”? Why is it that in all the materials about “illegal acts of the enlistment centers” the most important emphasis is deliberately omitted: first of all, illegal is the refusal of men from their constitutional duty to defend Ukraine? Not to mention the fact that all shots like “packing into a bus” fundamentally (!) do not contain what exactly led to such consequences in the behavior of the heroes of the material.
Call for an Online Assembly against the War and its Logic (24-02-2024)An internationalist statement received by our editorial team yesterday. Despite disagreeing with some details (like confusing draft avoidance with desertion), we are glad to share this invitation with everyone!
In various social networks: YouTube, Facebook or TikTok, there are many videos with content taken out of context. We are often reproached: “it’s your own fault, you don’t change!” It does not. We change, we see our shortcomings and work every day to become better, more understandable! There is a lot of work ahead, and it will be much more difficult without your help! After all, only together we will be able to withstand this influx and ultimately Victory! Break the alliances of the enemy, divide his battle formations – the ancient Chinese war strategy teaches. Contrasting the army with civilians is one of its points. So before sharing the “flagrant story of rights violations” and the plight of the “poor evaders”, it’s worth asking yourself: who is this really helping to win the war? Definitely not to Ukraine»
There have been so many examples of passers-by fighting off people kidnapped by camouflage catchers in recent months that there is no point in listing them here. Let’s limit ourselves to more vivid stories.
In particular, on February 6, enlistment agents visited the Hutsul village of Kosmach in the Ivano-Frankivsk region (the birthplace of the legendary rebel leader Oleksa Dovbush). The residents did not greet them very friendly. They were surrounded by a female group exclaiming that “war has not been declared in the country” and that the visitors “will be beaten.”
Subsequently, the women went out to an improvised protest in the center of this village. Rumors began to spread throughout the settlement that a raid of the enlistment office was planned, so women came out to stop it and also demand “fair mobilization.”
When states are preparing for confrontation with the enemy outside their borders, they begin to mobilize their populations: it has been reported in recent months that Denmark has extended military conscription to women as well, France wants to raise the age limit for reservists from 65 to 72 years, and Germany, after investing €100 billion in rearmament, is considering reintroducing compulsory military service.
In the center of the village they began to stop cars, including the car of Ivanna Grepinyak, who was traveling with her 6-year-old daughter. Protesters said the woman was filming their gathering on her phone.
They started pulling her out of the car, tearing out her hair, taking away the car keys, and hitting the child. Ivanna claims that the protesters accused her of being an “information leaker” and coming to “hand over” local men to the military commissars.
The protesters moved away from Ivanna’s car only after someone exclaimed that this was not the vehicle they were waiting for. Most of the protesters ran to the car that had approached from behind, at which time Ivanna was able to leave Kosmach.
The woman went to the hospital complaining of injuries inflicted on her and her daughter by protesters. Doctors diagnosed the girl with a contusion of the soft tissues of the nose, and the 24 y/o with a probable closed head injury. She was hospitalized.
In turn, women in Kosmach say that communication with the driver was polite. From their point of view, it was Grepinyak who began to insult the residents, swore obscenely, provoked, and subsequently ran over one of the protesters’ feet. The next day, a village meeting was held in Kosmach, where enlistment officers tried to explain why and how the mobilization was taking place. However, people reacted emotionally to these arguments, demanding to know from whom Ukraine needs to be defended.
After fruitless discussions, people began chanting “Shame!” It was barely possible to avoid a physical clash between the military and the community – but that was only the first bell. (Meanwhile, the regional enlistment center of Ivano-Frankivsk this week reported that 39 thousand people are wanted in the region for ignoring summonses.)
On March 7, in the village of Ploska (about 5 km from the Romanian border in the Chernivtsi region), Hutsul cavalerists attacked them with the axes.
According to the cops, those mentioned in the post of Pavliuk came to the enlistment checkpoint and provoked the conflict. The viral video shows two persons in camouflage talking to a man sitting on a horse and holding an ax. Then, a SUV appears in the frame and hits one of the servicemen.
Then, getting out of the car, the driver stopped and hit him in the forearm with the butt of an ax. Another attacker also struck a serviceman in the shoulder with the butt of his ax. The men damaged the windows of the enlistment car and fled. It was 28 y/o and 43 y/o local residents. Both were taken into custody under Part 4 of Art. 296 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism with particularly aggravating circumstances) without right of bail. The article provides up to 7 years of imprisonment. An ax is the Hutsul weapon, including in the fight against mobilization. Like it had Dovbush and his insurgents (in fact, the Western Ukrainian analogue of Robin Hood)
These are two brothers, their sister said that one of them lost a son during the war. He went to the enlistment office, but there he got beaten and threatened. And when they met again, the man decided to take revenge. The second brother served in Donbass from 2015 to 2018. According to the lawyer, he was shell-shocked.
According to the police and the prosecutor’s office, on the evening of the same March 7, in the village of Mala Rogan near Kharkov, a drunken 25-year-old local resident took an RGD-5 grenade from the balcony and, in the presence of people on the street, threw it under the car of some 31-year-old female military living in that village. So he decided to take revenge on her because of a long hostile relationship. Her blue Kia Sorento parked near the house was damaged by the explosion. The woman was at home and there were no injuries.
Based on archives of social networks, we found out that this woman is Maryana Malykhina, she earlier terrorized the community, beating neighbors and locking them in the basement. “This is a generally creepy person, causing a stir throughout Rogan. She’s always yelling that she’s the navel of the Earth because she’s a warrior. She threatens everyone, even children, even her family is afraid of her,” locals characterize her. The guy was detained, he was informed of suspicion on the same Part 4 of Art. 296 of the Criminal Code.
On March 21, in Novovolynsk of the Volyn region, two enlistment employees visited the dormitory of a 50-year-old man due to failure to appear on a summons to dispatch.
He stabbed the visitor twice – the first hit was blocked, and the second hit him in the stomach. After this, he allegedly tried to cut his wrists; an ambulance was called to the scene. The cops opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 121 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (inflicting grievous bodily harm), the desperate man faces imprisonment for a term of 5 to 8 years. “Rambo: First Blood” in the Ukrainian way…
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Human Rights Watch says 54 children among dead in ‘unlawful’ attack on residential building on October 31.
In the rubble of the Engineers’ Building, Karam al-Sharif, an UNRWA employee, holds one of his 18-month-old twin boys killed in the October 31 Israeli airstrike on the building that killed at least 106 civilians, including 5 of his children and 5 other relatives…. thanks to – Mohammed Dahman/AP Photo
An “unlawful” Israeli air attack that killed 106 people in a residential building in central Gaza on October 31, 2023, was an “apparent war crime”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.
The inquiry was based on testimonies from 16 people the group spoke to between January and March, satellite images, dozens of photographs and videos from the site, as well as those shared on social media, the international rights group said on Thursday as it released the findings of its investigation.
It called on governments to suspend weapons transfers to Israel and support the International Criminal Court’s (ICC’s) investigation in Palestine, saying the attack was among the “deadliest single incidents for civilians” since Israel’s war on Gaza started in October.
Palestinians search for survivors in the rubble of a building in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on October 31, 2023, amid relentless Israeli bombardment [Mahmud Hams/AFP]
Witnesses said 350 or more people were staying in the Engineers’ Building, south of the Nuseirat refugee camp, when four aerial munitions struck it that afternoon within about 10 seconds, without warning. At least 150 people were seeking shelter after fleeing their homes elsewhere in Gaza.
The building was demolished.
The New York-based group said it found no evidence of a military target in the vicinity of the building when the attack took place, which according to HRW made the air attack “unlawfully indiscriminate”.
An ax is the Hutsul weapon, including in the fight against mobilization. Like it had Dovbush and his insurgents (in fact, the Western Ukrainian analogue of Robin Hood)
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