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Overall, more than 82,000 people were granted amnesty in an announcement marking the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

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Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has pardoned 22,628 people arrested during demonstrations that followed the death in police custody of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini last year. Judiciary head Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei made the announcement in a statement on Monday reported by Iranian state media.  

Ejei clarified that those receiving pardons were not accused of theft or violent crime, spying, or membership of certain groups.  

Overall, Khamenei pardoned a total of 82,656 Iranian prisoners and individuals facing charges in the mass amnesty, which marks the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The announcement also comes a week before the Persian new year celebration of Nowruz and the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.   

The mass amnesty was first announced last month, when the Ayatollah agreed to pardon “tens of thousands” of prisoners. Among these could be any participants in the recent unrest who were not accused of espionage or involvement with foreign intelligence agents, did not damage state property, and did not injure or kill anyone during the riots. 

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Opposition groups and activists that had been calling for the release of incarcerated protesters are demanding that Iranian officials be “held accountable” for what the deputy director of the US-based Center for Human Rights in Iran described as “the arbitrary imprisonments of tens of thousands.”  

Iran accused the US and Israel of fomenting the unrest that erupted in September after Amini, detained by the so-called morality police for wearing an “improper” hijab, reportedly collapsed and died while in custody.

While a medical examination attributed her death to multiple organ failure stemming from a preexisting condition, anti-government NGOs and US-backed groups claimed she was beaten to death by police.  

Amini’s death became a rallying cry for often violent demonstrations which Iran argues were deliberately orchestrated to provoke a police crackdown that the West could use as justification for more sanctions against the Islamic Republic.  

An EU effort to follow the US by declaring the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization was scuttled at the last minute in January. The bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, acknowledged that an EU country would first have to find the Iranian military organization guilty of terrorism.

The French govt skipped voting and Imposed Pension Cuts by Decree.

from thefreeonline on 17 de marzo de 2023 by Editors at MPR21

Immediately numerous protesters gathered in the streets and clashes with the police took place throughout the night in several French cities, such as Nantes, Lyon, Rennes, Marseille and Paris.

In total the number of detainees is 310. Of them 258 in Paris, after the police intervened to evict the Place de la Concorde.

The rally had been called by the Solidaires union and some 6,000 protesters gathered.

The situation became progressively tense until the police decided to evict the demonstrators, who were still numerous after having gathered in the afternoon.

Located in front of the Plaza de la Concordia, the Assembly was specially protected by the police during the day. But they finally started firing tear gas shortly before 8:00 p.m.

The police then used water cannons to disperse the crowd, which was still massive. Shortly after there was a large charge by dozens of policemen.

Continue reading “Night of Rage and Fire in France as dictator Macron cuts Pensions without vote: 310 arrests ..+ shorts”

Resistencia popular

from thefreeonline on 17 de marzo de 2023 by Redacción at mpr21

Ayer el gobierno francés decidió saltarse las votaciones en la Asamblea e imponer el recorte de las pensiones por decreto. Inmediatamente numerosos manifestantes se concentraron en las calles y los enfrentamientos con la policía se sucedieron durante toda la noche en varias ciudades francesas, como Nantes, Lyon, Rennes, Marsella y París.

En total el número de detenidos es de 310. De ellos 258 en París, después de que la policía intervinera para desalojar la Plaza de la Concordia.

La concentración había sido convocada por el sindicato Solidaires y se congregaron unos 6.000 manifestantes. La situación se fue tensando progresivamente hasta que la policía decidió evacuar a los manifestantes, que seguían siendo numerosos tras haberse concentrado por la tarde.

Situada frente a la Plaza de la Concordia, la Asamblea estuvo especialmente protegida por la policía durante el día. Pero finalmente comenzó a disparar gases lacrimógenos poco antes de las 20.00 horas.

Luego la policía utilizó cañones de agua para dispersar a la multitud, que seguía siendo masiva. Poco después se produjo una gran carga de decenas de policías.

Las cargas provocaron importantes movimientos de la multitud en la plaza, que respondió  disparando morteros pirotécnicos contra la policía.

Tras las cargas, los manifestantes abandonaron la plaza para dispersarse por las calles y barrios de los alrededores, donde prendieron fuego a los contenedores en los que desde hace 10 días se apilan montañas de basura, por la huelga de los trabajadores de la limpieza.

Tras los incendios de anoche, esta mañana han comenzado los cortes de carretera en el periférico de París, lo que está provocando grandes atascos de tráfico.

Los sindicatos Tras los incendios de anoche, esta mañana han comenzado los cortes de carretera en el periférico de París, lo que está provocando atascos de tráfico.

Los sindicatos han convocado una novena jornada de huelgas y manifestaciones para el jueves de la semana que viene.

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Del ocultamiento a la supresión: Google comienza a eliminar contenidos del espejo de MPR21 con temáticas de la pandemia y la guerra en Siria

Diego Herchhoren17 de marzo de 2023

En el día de ayer, los administradores de Blogger, donde se almacenaban los contenidos «espejo» (réplica) de MPR21.info, notificaron a los administradores de esta web la eliminación de varios artículos por ser «contenidos no permitidos» de acuerdo a la política del servidor, pero que se han podido preservar.

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Economía

El accidente ferroviario de Grecia: la privatización se paga con vidas humanas

Redacción17 de marzo de 2023

El 28 de febrero se produjo un choque frontal entre dos trenes en Grecia, cerca de la ciudad de Larissa. Murieron 57 pasajeros y hay, además, cientos de heridos, lo que ha desatado una ola de indignación popular que se ha prolongado a lo largo del mes de marzo. Se han convocado manifestaciones masivas en […]

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Economía

Hacia un corralito de alta tecnología

Juan Manuel Olarieta17 de marzo de 2023

Durante los tres años de pandemia los gobiernos paralizaron deliberadamente la actividad económica. Generaron una cantidad gigantesca de deudas y, para pagarlas, liberaron dinero fiduciario a espuertas. Esa gran masa de moneda circulante (dólares, euros, libras) aumentó aún más con la Guerra de Ucrania, desatando una inflación galopante. El coste de la energía y los […]

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Represión

El documento europeo de identidad digital se aprobará sin pasar por el Parlamento

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Es más barato entregar armas obsoletas a Ucrania que reciclarlas

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from thefreeonline on 16 Mar, 2023 by HomeWorld News

The prime minister’s proposed reforms have triggered a “constitutional and social crisis,” Isaac Herzog warned

Mounted policementry to block a protest march in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 16, 2023 ©  AP / Oded Balilty

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has warned that the Jewish state stands on the brink of civil war over proposed judicial reforms by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

Amid nationwide protests, Herzog presented a set of alternate reforms, which were rejected by Netanyahu.

“Those who think that a real civil war, with human lives, is a border we won’t cross, have no idea,” Herzog said in a video address on Wednesday. “The abyss is within touching distance,” he continued, adding that “at any price, and by any means, I won’t let it happen.”

Israel has been rocked by continuous protests since Netanyahu announced his proposed reforms in January.

These legal changes would allow Israel’s parliament to override Supreme Court rulings with a simple majority vote, would grant the government more power in appointing judges, and would limit the ability of the court to review legislation it deems “unreasonable.”

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Parliament on Tuesday voted to advance a bill that would allow lawmakers to override rulings. The vote came after hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, and other Israeli cities over the weekend to oppose its passage.

Herzog, whose role is largely a ceremonial one, responded by proposing an alternate package of reforms. Herzog’s plan would still forbid the court from reviewing legislation it considers “unreasonable” but would allow it to strike down parliamentary decisions with a two-thirds majority of justices.

Among other compromises, it would also allow parliament to override rulings, but only with the agreement of at least one other branch of government.

Netanyahu rejected Herzog’s plan, telling reporters that it “would only perpetuate the existing situation.”

His rejection triggered renewed protests on Wednesday evening, as demonstrators gathered at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv in a bid to disrupt a planned trip by the PM to Berlin.

Critics of the prime minister argue that the legal change would allow Netanyahu to rule as an authoritarian, and to pass legislation shielding him from ongoing corruption investigations.

Herog sided with these critics last week, calling the reforms “oppressive” and anti-democratic.

In an appeal before Tuesday’s vote, he declared that the reforms had triggered a “constitutional and social crisis,” and should be abandoned before Israel suffers “diplomatic, economic, social and security repercussions.”

from thefreeonline on 17th March 2023 By Rhoda Wilson at The Exposé ( 27 Comments )

The discovery of a contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense to Labyrinth Global Health for “COVID-19 Research” in November 2019 has raised questions about the permanent U.S. Government’s knowledge of the novel coronavirus.

The contract was part of a larger project for a “Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine,” suggesting the permanent U.S. Government was at the very least aware of the alleged virus before it spread through Wuhan, China in December 2019.

see ALSO.. The Pentagon and CIA were behind the COVID-19 Pandemic

But the findings also suggest the permanent U.S. Government may have had a hand in the creation of this alleged virus in Biolabs through Gain of Function Research overseen by Dr Anthony Fauci.

This would explain why they knew the name of the novel coronavirus disease three months prior to the World Health Organization officially naming it Covid-19 in February 2020.

And it may also explain why Moderna and Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had a confidentiality agreement for an mRNA Coronavirus vaccine candidate in early December 2019, which was developed and jointly owned by Moderna and Fauci’s NIAID

The U.S. Government’s “USA Spending” website reveals that it had spent a staggering $4.04 trillion “in response to COVID-19”. A deeper look at the website’s “Award Search” feature uncovers a contract awarded by the Department of Defense to Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp. for “Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services” on September 20, 2012.

A closer examination of the contract’s “Sub-Awards” tab reveals 115 transactions with recipients and brief descriptions, the majority of which are mundane items like “laboratory equipment for Kyiv” and “office furniture for Kyiv.”

There is, however, among the 115 transactions listed in the “Sub-Awards” tab of a contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense to Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp. one transaction that stands out:

An award to Labyrinth Global Health INC for “SME Manuscript Documentation and COVID-19 Research.”

While it is not surprising to see an award for Covid-19 research during a pandemic, the fact that the contract was awarded on November 12, 2019, at least one month before the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus and three months before it was officially named Covid-19, raises questions about the government’s knowledge of the virus.

Furthermore, the contract was instructed to take place in Ukraine, as was the entire contract awarded to Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp. These findings suggest potential U.S. Government involvement in the creation and spread of the virus.

In September 2012, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) within the US Department of Defense awarded a contract to a global engineering, procurement, and construction company specializing in infrastructure development.

The contract was for a Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine, and concluded in October 2020. While the details are unclear, it is known that $21.7 million of the $116.6 million contract was spent on this program.

It is puzzling why the DOD would contract a company specializing in infrastructure development for a biological threat reduction program.

Furthermore, it is intriguing that both the DOD and the contracting company subsequently paid Labyrinth Global Health INC to conduct COVID-19 research in Ukraine prior to the emergence of the novel coronavirus and before it was officially named Covid-19.

Continue reading “Moderna, Bill Gates, Dr Fauci and the Pentagon are responsible for Covid-19 Pandemic”

THE POSSIBILITY OF SELF-EXTINCTION

from thefreeonline on March 15, 2023 by Peter Abrams at Internationalist 360°

During much of the last century, Ernst Mayr, at Harvard, was among the world’s most influential evolutionary biologists. One of his interests was whether intelligent life was present elsewhere in the universe.

Mayr argued that intelligence at or above the level of humans was not likely to increase the lifespan of a species, so the existence of similarly intelligent species on other planets was far from assured.

This would be true even if there were many planets in other solar systems with conditions allowing for life over the long time period required for such a species to evolve. Twenty years ago Noam Chomsky discussed Mayr’s work on the first page of his 2003 book, Hegemony or Survival.

Chomsky feared that the United States’ attempt to assert global dominance could easily end the existence of the human species, providing an example of self-extinction of a highly intelligent species. Self-extinction is clearly non-adaptive, and an intelligent species should avoid it at all costs.

Continue reading “The War in Ukraine: A Biologist’s Perspective”

15 Mar, 2023 01:21

from thefreeonline on 15 March 2023 via World News

The latest artificial intelligence model follows a multibillion-dollar partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft

FILE PHOTO: The logo for OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, appears on a mobile phone. ©  AP / Richard Drew

A new artificial intelligence program can keep up with human beings on a number of professional and academic tests, according to its creator, which said the model scored among the top 10% of test-takers on a simulated bar exam.

Technology firm OpenAI unveiled its latest language model on Tuesday, dubbed GPT-4, saying the program is “more reliable, creative, and able to handle much more nuanced instructions” than its predecessor, GPT-3.5.

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“GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” it said. “For example, it passes a simulated bar exam with a score around the top 10% of test takers; in contrast, GPT-3.5’s score was around the bottom 10%.”

The AI model also performed at the 93rd percentile on a SAT reading exam and at the 89th percentile on a SAT math test, the company added.

READ MORE: Will humans become an extension of their machines? ChatGPT may have irrevocable consequences for learning and decision-making

The GPT software has been embedded in a number of other apps, such as the language-learning program Duolingo, which is aiming to create conversational bots, as well as automated tutors for the online education company Khan Academy.

The model’s previous iteration, GPT-3.5, gained popularity in the form of the ChatGPT chatbot program, which is capable of holding complex, human-like conversations with users.

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According to OpenAI, GPT-4 is its “most advanced system yet,” and unlike GPT-3.5 is able to process image prompts in addition to text. However, despite its improved capabilities, the company warned the new model is “not fully reliable” and still suffers from some glitches, including what it calls “hallucinations,” in which the AI simply fabricates information or generates erroneous answers.

READ MORE: AI ‘stresses me out’ – Musk 

The company partnered with Microsoft earlier this year, receiving a multibillion-dollar investment from the tech giant to further develop its AI models. The new GPT-4 program will play a major role in Microsoft’s Bing chatbot, which was unveiled on a limited basis earlier this year, and the company is expected to announce integration into other consumer products sometime in the coming weeks, according to the Financial Times.

Oaxaca suma 27 feminicidios

On March 4^th, four days before International Women’s Day, two women were found dead in the community of Piedra Ancha, Jamiltepec.

Another woman was found on March 6^th in Santa Maria Atzompa and only a few hours later a young woman was murdered in Santa Maria Petapa.

The Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, placed Oaxaca in its January 2023 report as the state that ranks first in Mexico with 12 femicides.

As of March 6^th, Oaxaca has 28 femicides (between femicides and intentional homicides) so far in 2023, reported the Rosario Castellanos Women’s Studies Group (GESMujer).

In contrast, this year will be the fourth anniversary of the Gender Violence Alert Declaration against Women; that is to say that the violence not only has not decreased, it has worsened.

So far in 2023, there are 33 missing women according to the Search Unit for Missing and Unlocated Persons of the Oaxaca Attorney General’s Office.

Among them, , who disappeared on March 7^th in the capital of Oaxaca.

“It is unfortunate that, more than three years after the issuance of the Alert for Gender Violence, the government of Oaxaca continues without mechanisms with immediate and coordinated measures between the various powers and levels of government to face the seriousness of the situation of violence. against women”, the Consortium for Parliamentary Dialogue and Equity stated.

For the feminist Angelica Ayala Ortiz, president of GESMujer, Oaxaca is at “a critical moment” by having this first place for femicides nationwide in a country where more than ten women are murdered every day between femicides and intentional homicides.

“Disgraceful, pitiful and outrageous first place. Unfortunately, Oaxaca has 98% to 100% impunity in cases of femicide, this sends a bad sign that the attacker is not punished”, she lamented.

This March 8^th, International Women’s Day, a green and purple tide spread through the streets of communities and cities in Oaxaca, to demand an end to femicides, disappearances of women, gender violence and to demand justice and security given the state of impunity.

“We are tired and fed up with what they want to impose on us, that they curtail our freedoms, rights and our lives, we all come together today because fear and impotence become small in the face of courage”, said a woman at the demonstration in the capital of Oaxaca.

They also accused the complicity that has existed between the last three prosecutors of the entity, Ruben Vasconcelos, Arturo Peimbert and the newcomer Bernardo Rodriguez Alamilla, which has left the victims of femicide violence in impunity.

For more information in Spanish:

En víspera del 8M, cuatro mujeres víctimas de feminicidio en Oaxaca(Cimacnoticias, 7 de marzo de 2023)

En Oaxaca, los feminicidios y las desapariciones son constantes (Aristegui Noticias, 8 de marzo de 2023)

Ola de feminicidioes en Oaxaca enciende las alertas en el sur de México(Swissinfo, 7 de marzo de 2023)

Encuentran a otra mujer sin vida en Oaxaca (Aristegui Noticias, 6 de marzo de 2023)

8M, mujeres protestan de formas diversas pero con un grito común contra la violencia machista (EDUCA, 9 de marzo de 2023)

For more information from SIPAZ:

Chiapas: El 8 de marzo las calles se llenaron de mujeres luchando por sus derechos y justicia (March 9, 2023)

Oaxaca: Over 100 Women Murdered since Start of Year (September 9, 2022)

Oaxaca: Murder, Violence and Feminist Protests in Framework of Guelaguetza (August 7, 2022)

Oaxaca: Un indignante panorama de violencia para las mujeres y niñas oaxaqueñas (June 30, 2022)