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Dear Readers: In recent days Ukraine has seen an interesting phenomenon: All over the country people are blowing up the so-called “recruitment centers”.
Posted on February 4, 2025 by yalensis via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FWg
Ukraine the acronym is ТЦК which stands for Територіальний центр комплектування та соціальної підтримки (Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support).
Ukraine War Day #1077: Somebody is blowing up Recruitment Centers
Despite the benign name, these are, basically, the draft centers where Ukrainian men are dragged, against their will, to serve in the army.
I have this piece from the Ukrainian site New Voice nv.ua to describe what is happening.
On February 1 in the city of Rivne (Western Ukraine), there was an explosion at the ТЦК. One man died, 6 were wounded.
On February 2 in the city of Pavlograd (Dnepropetrovk Oblast), there was an explosion outside the building of the ТЦК. One man was wounded, he was said to be a soldier.
On February 1 in the town of Piryatin (Poltava Oblast), a man wearing a gray balaclava and “pixellated” (greenish camo) pants approached a soldier of the Poltava ТЦК waving a hunting rifle and demanding that he hand over his weapon.
This occurred at the exact time when a group of draftees were being escorted to the 199th training center. When the soldier refused to hand over his rifle, the unknown man shot him dead from a distance of 2-3 meters.
Having killed the soldier, the unknown man helped himself to the soldier’s automatic rifle and then fled, along with one of the men who was being drafted. [In other words, the killer basically was there to rescue one of the draftees.]
In an update to the Piryatin story: The shooter and the draftee he rescued were both apprehended on that very same day. Evgeny Rogachov, who is Chief of Police in Poltava announced that they had apprehended the duo just a few hours after the shooting.
He doesn’t give out his names but says that the shooter was a native of Poltava, born in 1984, and the man he took from the ТЦК is also a Poltava native, born in 1988.
[yalensis: what do you want to bet the two men are brothers or cousins?]
These incidents listed are just the tip of the iceberg, there are other such incidents of resistance, either spontaneous or otherwise, happening all over Ukraine.
Also in Russia there have been a series of attacks on recruitment centers, often by anti/war activists, and some brave anarchists have been jailed under accusations of taking part.
The Ukrainians, of course, blame Russia, claiming that the FSB and GRU are organizing these acts of resistance and sabotage. Andrei Kovalenko, who heads Ukraine’s “Center for Countering Russian Disinformation” is convinced that the Russians are behind it.
He also blames the Russians for the media campaign against mobilization, for example all the videos posted online showing men being dragged into draft centers against their will. Bloggers, bots, and social media are all being directed in this endeavor by the Russian GRU, according to 100% State media under Martial Law..
By now there is absolute horrific chaos as Ukraine has run out of volunteers and, as the frontline of the war collapses, “recruits”, often captured in the street” are sent to near certain death as lowly foot soldiers with little or no training. Any man who could bribe their way out, hide or flee the country has long since disappeared and foreign mercenaries are difficult to hire at any price.
Free Louna! News on the case of Louna, an anarchist trans woman imprisoned in the context of the fight against the A69
03/2/2025 by soutienlouna via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FVm
For over 3 months now, Louna, an anarchist trans woman fighting against the A69, has been held in pretrial detention in the Tarbes men’s remand center, in solitary confinement.
Despite this confinement that is starting to last and the conditions of solitary confinement, she remains in good spirits, and we are still angry at knowing that she is locked up.
Louna is accused of setting fire to a construction machine intended for the construction of the A69, a highway project that is both useless and deadly, between Castres and Toulouse, French State.
Requests for release, including under judicial supervision or electronic bracelet, have been refused to date.
Here we return to the reasons for her incarceration, with the elements that we collected following the other GAVs and during a public hearing, or with what we interpret from them, but also on the means to support her.
The next important deadline for Louna’s release arrives in mid-February: the judge of liberties and detention will have to decide whether or not to renew her pretrial detention. Let’s widely disseminate the slogan “Free Louna”, demand her release and let the jails, repression, and state transphobia die!
Elements of the investigation
On the night of May 4 to 5, 2024, a construction machine was set on fire not far from the A69.
According to investigators, CCTV footage on site shows two people setting fire to an excavator, then one of them being the victim of a backfire.
However, that same night, a person was admitted to the emergency room in one of the hospitals closest to the scene of the fire, with injuries that could be compatible with the accident filmed.
This is Louna, who was actually hospitalized that night.
According to the hospital’s video surveillance images, three people appeared to be accompanying her. Investigators spotted the car in which Louna allegedly arrived with these three people, they noted its license plate and therefore the identity of its owner.
In addition, Louna indicated a relative’s phone number on an emergency form, a number that the cops seem to have assigned to one of the escorts.
Cops also came to seize her clothes during her hospitalization, and found DNA on a pair of shorts as well as on a covid mask contained in a pocket. This DNA was attributed to one of the people suspected of having accompanied Louna to the hospital.
During their visit, the cops also took photos of the escorts, of better quality than the CCTV images because they were taken with a smartphone.
This was probably to try to do facial recognition, for example by comparing them with the TAJ¹ photos or the photos of A69 activists from their incessant profiling.
After two days in hospital, Louna decided to leave on her own.
Based on this evidence, four people were arrested in mid-October: Louna, two people suspected of being among the escorts, and the owner of the car.
The police custody lasted up to 94 hours, and the interrogations continued.
The investigators also took advantage of this police custody to recover Louna’s DNA from a cup she had used, in addition to having probably already picked it up on her clothes at the hospital.
They state that this same DNA was found on a covid mask left at the scene of the fire.
Following this, Louna was indicted as part of this investigation and the three other people were released.
The charges are the destruction of an excavator by an explosive substance and participation in a criminal conspiracy with a view to destruction by dangerous means.
In mid-November, investigators carried out a new search and arrest at the home of an activist, still looking for at least one of the hospital escorts.
They searched his apartment for a watering can, because the hospital’s video surveillance allegedly shows a person getting out of the car with a watering can (hide your watering cans haha).
Apparently, the cops targeted this person using facial recognition, because she was known to the police for her activism in the green circles of her city. She too was released without further action to date.
Among the other techniques that the cops said they used or that are assumed to have been used, they allegedly tapped one or more of the suspects for calls and text messages in clear text and tracked the movements of one or more people by tracking their cell phones.
Continue reading “Free Louna! News on the case of Louna, an anarchist trans woman imprisoned in the context of the fight against the A69”Para lo que no falta el dinero es para gasto militar. Esta es la “democracia plena” de la que tanto se vanagloria el presidente del gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez.
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El gasto militar real del Estado español supera el 5% del PIB en 2024. Pero decir 5% es un engaño. El presupuesto social del Estado es solo una fracción pequeña del PIB total. Calcularlo!
Nos referimos a su secretario general, Mark Rutte, el mismo que pedía a los gobiernos de los países miembros que aumentaran sus presupuestos, ya desorbitados, de defensa.
Sin sonrojarse ni un ápice, dijo hace no tantos días: “De media, los países europeos gastan fácilmente hasta una cuarta parte de la renta inicial en pensiones, sanidad y sistemas de seguridad social, y solo necesitamos una pequeña fracción de ese dinero para reforzar mucho más la defensa”.
Este deshumanizado individuo pasó ayer por La Moncloa para mantener una conversación con el presidente del gobierno español, el “socialista” Pedro Sánchez. Hablaron de cuestiones clave como la inversión militar, el apoyo a Ucrania y la cooperación con la Unión Europea, mientras desde Moncloa se enfatizó que el Estado español es un “aliado serio y responsable”.
Rutte insistió en “la necesidad urgente” de aumentar considerablemente el gasto militar, planteando incluso la posibilidad de elevarlo al 4% si no se optimizan las inversiones.
Continue reading “El capo de la Organización Terrorista OTAN se reunió con el “socialista” Sánchez para Traicionar el Pueblo”por Lyumon1834. de Expolio y masacre 3 de febrero 25 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FRp Tgram.. https://t.me/thefreeonline/2135
«El descubrimiento de los yacimientos de oro y plata de América, el exterminio, la esclavización y el sepultamiento en las minas de la población aborigen, el comienzo de la conquista y el saqueo de las Indias Orientales, la conversión del continente africano en cazadero de seres humanos para ser esclavizados: tales son los hechos que señalan los albores de la era de producción capitalista. Estos procesos representan factores fundamentales en el movimiento de la acumulación originaria».
«Bajo el sistema colonial, prosperaban como planta de estufa el comercio y la navegación. Las “Sociedades Monopolias” (Lutero) eran poderosas palancas de concentración de capitales. Las colonias brindaban a las nuevas manufacturas, que brotaban de todas partes, mercado para sus productos y una acumulación de capital intensificada gracias al régimen de monopolio. El botín conquistado fuera de Europa mediante el saqueo descarado, la esclavización y la matanza, refluía a la metrópoli para convertirse aquí en capital”.
«… Irlanda era el proveedor de mano de obra barata para el imperio inglés, una mano de obra que además permitía dividir a la clase obrera de Inglaterra sobre criterios raciales y, por tanto, bajar los salarios de los trabajadores, era también un mercado de productos lecheros y de patatas para Inglaterra. Sin hablar de que durante siglos fue la proveedora de madera para la construcción de los barcos de la Royal Navy y del carbón vegetal inglés, base de la primera fase de su industrialización… hasta el punto de que los bosques irlandeses han desaparecido por completo. Irlanda fue pues el terreno de prácticas del colonialismo inglés exportado después a ultramar”.
Fuente: presos.org.es
África. Esclavizada, colonizada, esquilmada y resistente.
Agenda
La Colonización
-I de II-
El rápido desarrollo industrial en Europa y su creciente expansión económica, acentuó la necesidad de disponer de más materias primas. El abundante descubrimiento de estas en los territorios africanos, al tiempo de disponer de la mano de obra necesaria sin necesidad de transportarla, una suerte de esclavitud in situ, inició la carrera por la colonización del interior del continente y finalmente del reparto de la casi totalidad de África entre las potencias europeas del momento. Por ello, y no por razones humanitarias, a principios del s. XIX surgieron las primeras leyes contra el tráfico de esclavos, pese a lo cual la esclavitud perduró de múltiples formas hasta finales de ese siglo a uno y otro lado del Atlántico.
Por espacio de más de trescientos años la presencia europea en África había quedado limitada a las zonas costeras. Los intentos de penetrar hacia el interior eran impedidos por las dificultades en las vías de acceso, los estragos de la malaria entre los invasores y la resistencia de las poblaciones locales. Adueñarse del control de las rutas del comercio interior fue posible solo en el último cuarto del siglo XIX, merced a la posesión de barcos de vapor capaces de navegar por los ríos y a la superioridad de las armas, así como del empleo de la recién descubierta quinina para combatir la malaria o el paludismo.
La penetración europea, tanto comercial como armada, utilizó la instigación y creación de conflictos de todo tipo, imponiendo variados sistemas de dominación y subordinación. Como forma de dominio emplearon una mezcla de ocupación militar, imposición de sistemas de tributación coercitivos, confiscación de tierras y obligación de proporcionar fuerza de trabajo para construir infraestructuras y en la producción agrícola para la exportación.
Cada potencia colonial impuso estructuras administrativas de su elección, según la naturaleza de las sociedades que se querían someter, realizando divisiones territoriales sin respetar etnias y tribus, a las que arbitrariamente se les asignaron nombres y subordinaciones jerárquicas ordenadas según la voluntad y el interés colonial. Hasta los conocimientos que les proporcionaba la antropología sobre las sociedades africanas fueron empleados para manipular sus creencias animistas, mitos y supersticiones. Esta división administrativa y política impuesta por los colonialistas europeos creó un África hasta entonces inexistente, moldeada para ser sometida a su total dominación.
La voracidad sin freno entre las potencias colonizadoras que competían entre si acabaron imponiendo en sus territorios impuestos aduaneros a sus rivales. A fin de tratar de poner cierto orden en esa rapiña … /…
Cómo era África antes de ser Colonizada. Y África como coto de caza de Esclavos.
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by Antinuclear.net 3rd Feb 25 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FV4
We learned at Climate Summits Cop 28 and Cop 29 that our shares in oil, gas, coal are going to continue OK. And now, the world’s leader, the USA is going to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, so we can forget all that silly reductions emissions nonsense. And no more of our money to be grabbed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Gee, America has just been saved from a “national energy emergency,” by President Trump’s foresight, with an executive order with its promise to “drill, baby, drill.” Saved in several other ways, such as removing incentives for electric cars.
The Free 