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El gobierno blinda Madrid para la cumbre de la OTAN: 37 millones para organización y gasto armamentístico

11 de mayo de 2022 La Izquierda Diario por Carlos Rubio

Exteriores e Interior no reparan en gastos a la hora de fortalecer la cumbre de la Alianza Atlántica, prevista para los días 29 y 30 de junio. Dentro del aumento presupuestario de 1,95 millones de euros para las Fuerzas de Seguridad del Estado, se incluye la compra de 6000 cargadores Táser, a la espera de protestas convocadas.

El pasado 8 de octubre de 2021 se anunció oficialmente la celebración de la próxima cumbre de la OTAN en Madrid, donde Sánchez anunció que “contarían con todas las capacidades” para “garantizar la seguridad”, en un “momento histórico” clave para la organización.

A 2 meses de la fecha oficial, Marlaska y Albares ya anticipan algunas de las medidas que se van a tomar para la preparación de la cumbre. 37 millones será el límite presupuestario, donde se incluirá el gasto en montaje y adecuación de Ifema, el cátering y la seguridad del encuentro.

Más concretamente, las Fuerzas de Seguridad del Estado contarán con casi 2 millones de euros para el refuerzo de sus equipos, donde se incluye la compra de 6000 cargadores para pistolas Táser, para garantizar “un entorno seguro ante una eventual amenaza”, según afirmaba el propio Marlaska.

Junto a esta adquisición, se prevé la compra de arcos detectores de metales, escáneres de inspección de paquetería, videocámaras personales digitales y equipamiento de infografía para la elaboración de planos tridimensionales de edificios completos.

La Policía Nacional será el cuerpo desplegado para esta cumbre, la cual se implicará en “establecer un dispositivo de seguridad integral para la misma que abarcará, además del lugar de celebración de las reuniones, los desplazamientos y todos aquellos lugares donde se alojen las delegaciones de distintos países que tienen prevista su asistencia”.

Desde Gobierno, todas estas medidas son prioritarias puesto que “varias organizaciones y grupos sociales ya anuncian protestas”.

El tema protagonista en esta cumbre dado el contexto es la guerra de Ucrania y la posición que debe jugar la OTAN frente a la invasión reaccionaria de Putin. Esta vez, habrá 50 delegaciones, algunas de ellas invitadas fuera de la OTAN pero con acercamientos a ésta, como es el caso de Ucrania, Suecia o Finlandia.

En dicha cumbre, es previsible que se potenciará la principal tendencia que ya lleva dándose los últimos meses y se ha justificado con la guerra entre Kiev y Moscú: el rearme imperialista.

Ukraine’s Spending On War And Difficult Situation On Front Lines

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Ukraine’s Spending On War And Difficult Situation On Front Lines

On May 12, Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said in an interview with Reuters that Ukraine had already spent 245.1 billion hryvnias (about $8.3 billion) on the war with Russia. According to Marchenko, the budget funds provided for development were spent on the military needs from the purchase and repair of weapons to emergency aid for internally displaced persons. The Ukrainian government collected only 60% of the planned tax revenues in April. In May and June this figure may fall down to 45-50%.

“Kiev needs foreign financial support as Ukraine is forced to allocate billions of dollars for emergency expenses. The Finance Ministry estimates that it needs $5 billion a month to finance the state budget,” the minister claimed.

Meanwhile, the situation on the front lines remains tense. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are facing a strong onslaught of the Russian troops in the Donbass region.

In the Izyum region, after the Russian Armed Forces took control over the village of Dolgenkoe, they are advancing in the direction of Bogorodichnoye and Krasnopolye to the west of Sviatogorsk, according to the AFU General Staff.

In the Luhansk People’s Republic, units of the Russian and LPR armies are surrounding the AFU grouping in Lysychansk and Severodonetsk. The Russian army is regrouping troops in the Liman and Severodonetsk directions. A battalion tactical group deployed in the area of the Novy Aidar railway station has been reinforced.

Russian and LPR troops completed the mop up operation in the major chemical plant Zarya in Rubizhne, LPR. Russian, Chechen, and Luhansk flags were raised over the industrial facilities.

Anarchism and Spycops by Dave Morris

via Libcom.org by Dave Morris Submitted by Fozzie on May 12, 2022

An excerpt from the transcript of the UK’s Undercover Policing Inquiry in which anarchism is explained to its Chair, Sir John Mitting.

Taken from the transcript of the hearing on 11th May 2022.

On Monday, you, as the Chair of the Inquiry, indicated you had welcomed Tariq Ali when he gave evidence in 2020 in helpfully explaining Trotskyist ideas to you.

In the light of police misconceptions about anarchists in various disclosed documents, including annual reports, I will try to explain the predominant motivations, aims and activities of anarchists and the anarchist movement as I see it.

Standing up for the public interest against the rich and powerful.

As already outlined in my previous statements, I have been involved since 1974 in a range of groups and campaigns trying to encourage the public to support one another and empower themselves where they live and work to challenge injustice, oppression and damage to the environment, and to make the world a better place for everyone.

The various groups I have been involved in over the decades have been open and collectively run, and engaged in the kind of public activities which the public are invited to join in or to replicate for themselves, and which are essential if humanity is to progress and survive in the future.

Such groups, as we all should, question and challenge those institutions which wield power over people’s lives and control the world’s resources and decision-making.

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These include governments, transnational corporations, military organisations and financial institutions.

Such powerful institutions are generally tightly controlled by a small, self-serving elite, continually obsessed with power and profit, and are ruthless and unaccountable.

A Monetary Reset Where the Rich Don’t Own Everything

from Human Wrongs Watch By Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service*

We have a serious debt problem, but solutions such as the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” are not the future we want. It’s time to think outside the box for some new solutions.

In ancient Mesopotamia, it was called a Jubilee. When debts at interest grew too high to be repaid, the slate was wiped clean. Debts were forgiven, the debtors’ prisons were opened, and the serfs returned to work their plots of land.

This could be done because the king was the representative of the gods who were said to own the land, and thus was the creditor to whom the debts were owed. The same policy was advocated in the Book of Leviticus, though it is unclear to what extent this biblical Jubilee was implemented.

That sort of across-the-board debt forgiveness can’t be done today because most of the creditors are private lenders. Banks, landlords and pension fund investors would go bankrupt if their contractual rights to repayment were simply wiped out. But we do have a serious debt problem, and it is largely structural.

Governments have delegated the power to create money to private banks, which create most of the circulating money supply as debt at interest.

They create the principal but not the interest, so more money must be repaid than was created in the original loan. Debt thus grows faster than the money supply, as seen in the chart from Workable Economics.com below.

Debt grows until it cannot be repaid, when the board is cleared by some form of market crash such as the 2008 financial crisis, typically widening the wealth gap on the way down.